Best Poster Presentations in STEM

1st Place 
Student: Julia Torres
Title: The Impact of Maternal Fat and Sugar Consumption on Offspring Neurochemistry and Feeding Decisions
Faculty Mentor: Dr. Veronica Flores
  Furman University

2nd Place (tie)
Cadet: Lance Peterson
Title: Greener Synthesis of Potentially Pharmacologically Relevant Nitrogen-Containing Cyclic Compounds
Faculty Mentor: Dr. Dung Do
 The Citadel 

2nd Place (tie)
Students: Ethan Allison and Will Keppler
Title: Rats Genetically Modified to have Alzheimer’s do not have Significantly Fewer Taste Buds or Innervated Taste Buds Relative to their Wild Type Control Litter-mate Rats
Faculty Mentors: Dr. Clare Mathes and Dr. Lindsey Schier (University of Southern California) 
  Wofford College

Best Poster Presentations in Arts/Humanities/Social Sciences

1st Place
Student: Daijah Elliott 
Title: The Burden of Being the “Only One”: Hyper-Visibility and Invisibility in the Career Trajectories of Black Women Physician Assistants with Doctoral Degrees
Faculty Mentor: Dr. Andrea Lewis
  UNC Greensboro 

2nd Place (tie) 
Student: Suraiya Toni
Title: A Gamified Approach to Teaching African Politics
Faculty Mentor: Dr. Buket Oztas
  Furman University

2nd Place (tie) 
Student: Jessica Peña
Title: The Music of Auschwitz
Faculty Mentor: Dr. Christina Reitz
  Western Carolina University 



Best Oral Presentations in STEM

1st Place
Student: Santiago Arroyave Granados
Title: Biochar-Enhanced Concrete for Sustainable Infrastructure
Faculty Mentor: Dr. Natalia Cardelino
  Mercer University 

2nd Place (tie)
Student: Misbah Pathan 
Title: Gold Nanoparticle – DNA – Silver Nanocluster Catalyst: Synthesis and Results
Faculty Mentor: Dr. Jeffrey Petty
  Furman University
 
2nd Place (tie)
Students: Natasha Kendall, Hannah Kermicle, and Syndey Stapelton 
Title: Beyond Biocrude: Turning HTL-Derived Biochar into a Soil Amendment
Faculty Mentor: Dr. Sarah Bauer
  Mercer University 
 

Best Oral Presentations in Arts/Humanities/Social Sciences

1st Place
Student: Hadley Throckmorton
Title: Purse Strings and Principles: Rebel Financing and Ideological Change in the Syrian Civil War
Faculty Mentor: Dr. Victoria Gilbert 
  Wofford College

2nd Place 
Students: Armala Miller and Anna Kerr Reavis
Title: Prompting Generative AI to Provide Proficiency - Appropriate Feedback to Assist Chinese L2 Writers
Faculty Mentor: Dr. Yongfang Zhang
  Wofford College