Thank you to everyone for their support in the 2021 David and Lorraine Freed Undergraduate Research Symposium!
Students from Lehigh University and Lafayette College presented their research projects during an online event on Wednesday, April 7, 2021.
Congratulations to this year's winner, Evan Savage!
Evan, a Lafayette College senior studying Civil and Environmental Engineering, won for his research, "Fertilizer from Wastewater: Biological Enhanced Phosphorous Removal and Steps to Commercialization."
UGRS COMPETITORS
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Nora Abbott, Ava Hudson, Ann Foley
Laboratory and Field Methods Developed for Biosand Filter Sand Characterization
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Samuel Agro
Synthesis of Hybrid Outer Membrane Vesicles for Drug Delivery through Cell Membranes
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Alex Ashley
Enhancing Minority Block Crystallization in Asymmetric PEO-b-PCL Copolymers
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Jenna Catalano
Characterizing Human Mesenchymal Stem Cell Motility in Repsonse to the Wound Environment
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Josh Centorcelli
In Silico Modelling of the Energy-Intensive Process to Recover Nitrogen from Agricultural Fertilizer Streams
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Susan Cheng - HONORABLE MENTION
Comparing the Properties of Polyethylene Terephthalate (PET) Plastic Bricks to Conventional Concrete Masonry Units
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Declan Coster
Data Driven Correction of Distored Images
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Ryan Forelli
Real-Time Machine Learning in Scanning Probe
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Zev Granowitz - THIRD PLACE
Diffusion Plate Fuel Injection into Cavity Flame-Holders in Supersonic Cross-Flow
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Alibek Kaliyev
Accelerated Fitting of Band-Excitation Piezorspone Force Microscopy
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Eleni Karyofylli
Unified Automata-based Framework for Planning with Relaxed Specifications
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Hannah Knudsen
Interaction of Human Mesenchymal Stem Cells with Synthetic Scaffolds in the Presence of Cytokines
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Kenny Kwock
Fair Two-sided Spam Detection Using Machine Learning
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Yanzhe Ma
Simulation of a Flexible Tow-State Markov Chain
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Maria Maragkelli
Non-linear Model Predictive Control for High speed Autonomous Racing
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Jack Mills
Increasing the Dynamic Range of Velocity and Temporal Resolution of Particle Image Velocimetry
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Garrison Mueller
Computational Fluid Dynamic Model
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Sasha Neefe - SECOND PLACE
Reevaluating Green Solvent Metrics Using End-of-Life Considerations
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Amanda Rubin, Stephen Gee
The Study of 19 Biological Membrane Types using All-Atom Molecular Simulations
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Evan Savage - WINNER
Fertilizer from Wastewater: Biological Enhanced Phosphorous Removal and Steps to Commercialization
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Khaknazar Shyntassov
Drone-Based Automatic Indoors Firefighting System
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Nathan Yuchimiuk
Developing Techniques to Characterize Solvent-Cast 3D Printed Scaffolds
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Kristen Yusiewicz, Nick Masri
Simulation and Data Analysis of Electric Transit Systems

Zhanfan (Jeremy) Yu
Trends on Predictive Control Schemes for Impedance Source Converters