University-wide Research and Creative Achievement Day (URCAD)

Welcome to URCAD's 2020 Virtual Poster Session. We are excited to share our student's research accomplishments. Please view the student's narrated posters below.

Name: Milyssa Raboin
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Major: Biology, specialization in environmental science
School: Engineering, Science & Technology

Name: Samantha Bender
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Major: Honors Program/Journalism
School: Carol Ammon College of Liberal Arts & Social Sciences

Name: Andrew Pilkons
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Major: Chemistry and Biochemistry
School: Engineering, Science & Technology

Name: Carina Rosa
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Major: Honors Program / Music Education
School: Carol Ammon College of Liberal Arts & Social Sciences

Name: Alexandra McMahon
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Major: Chemistry
School: Engineering, Science & Technology

Name: Carmine Ventre
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Major: Secondary Education (History)
School: Education

Name: Serena Nadeau
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Major: Hospitality and Tourism
School: Carol Ammon College of Liberal Arts & Social Sciences

Name: Kellie Dattilo
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Major: Exercise Science
School: Education

Name: Denver Hopkins
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Major: ACS Certified Biochemistry
School: Engineering, Science & Technology

Name: Nathan Linklater
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Major: Chemistry
School: Engineering, Science & Technology

Name: Nicholas Keegan
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Major: Biomolecular Sciences
School: Engineering, Science & Technology

Name: Lucas Brown
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Major: Earth Sciences, Geology
School: Engineering, Science & Technology

Name: Deandrea Urizar
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Major: International Studies
School: Carol Ammon College of Liberal Arts & Social Sciences

Name: Logan Durant
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Major: Honors Program
School: Carol Ammon College of Liberal Arts & Social Sciences

Name: Leish Robles
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Major: Psychological Sciences
School: Education

Name: Kristin Ellis
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Major: Biochemistry
School: Engineering, Science & Technology

Name: Caroline Salafia
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Major: MA Psychology: Health Concentration
School: Carol Ammon College of Liberal Arts & Social Sciences

Name: Jahlyssa Blackwin
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Major: Biomolecular Science
School: Engineering, Science & Technology

Name: Olivia Prizzi
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Major: Honors Program/ Biomolecular Science Major
School: Engineering, Science & Technology

Name: Jack St.Georges
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Major: Construction Management
School: Engineering, Science & Technology

Name: Liliana Villar
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Major: Psychological Sciences
School: Carol Ammon College of Liberal Arts & Social Sciences

Name: Colin Savino
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Major: Finance
School: Business

Name: Jordan Swilling
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Major: Physical Education
School: Education

Name: Sara Coombs
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Major: Honors/Criminology
School: Carol Ammon College of Liberal Arts & Social Sciences

Name: Jared Fernandez
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Major: Technology and Engineering Education- Honors program
School: Education

Name: Rhiannya Byrne
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Major: Psychological Science Major
School: Carol Ammon College of Liberal Arts & Social Sciences

Name: Megyn Jasman
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Major: Psychological Science
School: Carol Ammon College of Liberal Arts & Social Sciences

Name: Ashley Leeds
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Major: Chemistry
School: Engineering, Science & Technology

Name: Sara Duprey
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Major: Marketing and Business Management
School: Business

Name: Christabel Akrong
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Major: Biomolecular Science
School: Engineering, Science & Technology

Name: Alicia Farris
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Major: Educational Leadership
Department: Educational Leadership & Instructional Technology
School: Education

Name: Tanner Brault
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Department: Chemistry and Biochemistry
School: Engineering, Science & Technology


2020 URCAD Research Prize Awardees

Undergraduate

Sara Duprey: What鈥檚 Love Got To Do with It: Brand Perceptions of 91精品 before and after the Innovations in Marketing Conference
Advisor: Dr. Beth Ghiloni-Wage

Serena Nadeau: A Changing People in a Changing World: Bohemian Modernism in the Van Life Community
Advisor: Dr. Brian Sommers

Jordan Swilling: Health - Do physical educators value it?
Advisor: Dr. Tan Leng Goh

Tanner Brault: Phase Transfer properties of AMP, ADP and DNA into solvents
Advisor: Dr. Sarah Maurer

Graduate

Doctoral

Alicia Farris: Investigating Response to Intervention (RtI) Implementation Integrity in Elementary Reading Instruction in Connecticut鈥檚 Schools
Advisor: Sally Drew

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Zachary Lane: Selective Breeding of Ferroglobus placidus for Lab Utilization
Advisor: Jess Smith

Elihu Burritt Library Research Awardees

Moriah R. Maresh
Graduate student, English
Paper: A Person Needs Teeth to Eat: Food in Franz Kafka's "The Metamorphosis"

Thomas Vaughn,
Undergraduate, History
Paper: Prosperity of the Children of Connecticut Witches


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Katie Tsitaridis

Katie Tsitaridis presenting, Fall 2016

2019 URCAD Best Poster Awardees

Graduate students

Best Overall Poster: Richard Garuti (Jeffrey Thomas) The Impacts of Socioeconomic Status in Relation to Closing the Achievement Gap in Urban Magnet Schools

College of Liberal Arts and Social Sciences: Sonia Shahid (Joanne DiPlacido) Health Outcomes of Intimate Partner Violence in South Asians: The Mediating Role of Perceived Stress

School Of Education: Megan Hislop (Patrick Foster) STEM-based Service learning projects effects on student STEM Choices

School of Engineering, Science & Technology:Ayse Adams (Barbara Nicholson) Stimulating Hatch of Tobacco Cyst Nematode (TCN), Globodera Tabacum Tabacum, by Hydroponically Obtained Weedy Solanum spp. Root Exudates

Undergraduate Students

Best Overall Poster: Sandra Marcotte (Sadie Marjani) OCT4 Expression in Cloned Bovine Embryos

College of Liberal Arts and Social Sciences: Emily MacVane (Andrea June) Of Monsters and Media: The Potential Dangers of Inaccurate Media Portrayal of Mental Illness

School of Business: Jacob Vincent Goulas (Christopher Lee) What's Causing the Rise of Robotics?

School of Engineering, Science & Technology: Sara Popolizio (Thomas Mione) Soil Moisture and the Andean Nightshade: A Story of Adaptation as Told by Blood-Red Floral Nectar

To see a list of previous winners click here