Poster Presentation Winners
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Utkarsh Chaudhari, 1st place
PhD Student in Chemical Engineering
Presentation: “Systems Analysis Approach to PET and Olefin Plastics Supply Chains in the Circular Economy”

Katherine Schneider, 2nd place
PhD Student in the College of Forest Resources & Environmental Science
Presentation: “Revealing Silphid Stomach Contents Using Novel iDNA Methods”

Seth Kriz, 2nd place
PhD Student in Chemical Engineering
Presentation: “Purifying viral vaccines by two-stage aqueous extraction”

Betsy Lehman, 3rd place
MS Student in Cognitive and Learning Sciences
Presentation: “What’s Going On? Sensemaking in Informational and Social Situations”
Oral Presentation Winners
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Neerav Kaushal, 1st place
PhD Student in Physics
Presentation: “Simulating the Universe with Convolutional Neural Networks”

Ninad Mohale, 2nd place
PhD Student in Materials Science & Engineering
Presentation: “Effects of Eta Phase on the High Temperature Creep Behavior of Nimonic 263”

Priyanka Dipak Kadav, 3rd place
PhD Student in Chemistry
Presentation: “Capture and Release (CaRe): A novel protein purification technique”













