David and Lorraine Freed Undergraduate Research Symposium

Thank you to everyone for their support in the 2020 David and Lorraine Freed Undergraduate Research Symposium and to our 13 teams that participated in this year's competition! This year's winners are:

Congratulations to this year's winner, Amanda Ferrante!

Amanda, a Lehigh senior studying Bioengineering, won for her research, "Protease Identification by Combined Fluorescent Zymography and Proteomics."

This year's award winners also included:

Second Place: Madison Gianelle, "A Novel Ceramic Derived Processing Route for Multi-Principal Element Alloys"

Third Place: Ngoc Minh Tri Nguyen, "Learning Image Similarity Manifolds for Materials Microscopy"

Honorable Mention: "Kevin (Dongmin) Kim, Integrating MMP - Cleavable Peptides for Cell - Mediated Degradation of Polymer Scaffolds"


 

UGRS COMPETITORS


Nora Abbott, Sean Brown & Ann Foley

Bios and Filters: Investigation of Sand Size and Distribution of Filter Performance


Sarah Boyer
3D-Printing Metallic Oxides

Ashleigh Crawford & Maria Lancia
A Low- Cost, Point-of-Care Sickle Cell Anemia Screening Device for Use in Low Income and Middle Income Countries

Matthew Fainor
3D printing peptide-functionalized scaffolds for osteochondral regeneration

WINNER: Amanda Ferrante
Protease Identification by Combined Fluorescent Zymography and Proteomics

Andy Fugh
Community approaches for plastics recycling

Jesse Galloway & Matthew West
Smart Traffic

SECOND PLACE: Madison Gianelle
A Novel Ceramic Derived Processing Route for Multi-Principal Element Alloys

Cecile (Jelissa) Kayo Kamguem
Social Media Mining for Understanding Users' Sentiment and Informing Stakeholders

HONORABLE MENTION: Kevin (Dongmin) Kim
Integrating MMP - Cleavable Peptides for Cell - Mediated Degradation of Polymer Scaffolds

Jane Le
Recovering Rare Earth Elements from Municipal Solid Waste Incinerator Ash by Electrochemical and Electrodialysis Methods

THIRD PLACE: Ngoc Minh Tri Nguyen
Learning Image Similarity Manifolds for Materials Microscopy

Nathaniel Alter, Lindsay Slavit & Anna Smith
Nathaniel Alter, Lindsay Slavit & Anna Smith
Quantification of Rish Factors in Ebola Infection