Announcing the RISE:2012 Winners

Prize Winners

Computer and Information Sciences

Undergraduate: Alessandro Calo – Resuscitation of HipA-mediated Persistance

Graduate: Malak Alshawabkeh – A Lightweight Anomaly Intrusion Detection Framework by Combining Data Mining and the Computational Power of GPUs

Engineering and Technology

Undergraduate: Joseph Robinson – Computational Model of Optical Coherence Tomography in Lung Tissue: A Need for Speed!

Graduate: Richard Ranky – 3D Printed Sensors in Wearable Medical Devices using C-SHIP

Health Sciences

Undergraduate: Meaghan Hitt – “Moving On” – A randomized controlled trial for acceptability and feasibility of an early physical therapy education intervention for breast cancer surgical candidates

Graduate: Tao Wang – In Vivo Evaluation of Antitumor Activity and Potential Toxicity of MCF-7-Specific Phage-Doxil Using MCF-7 Tumor-Bearing Xenografted Nude Mice

Humanities and Arts

Undergraduate: Jessica Wilcock – Rethinking Urban Public Housing: A Prototype Promoting Social Sustainability

Graduate: Geri-Ann Quinlivan – Growing the Contaminated City: Using Phytoremediation and Risk Abatement as an Urban Generator

Interdisciplinary Topics, Centers & Institutes

Undergraduate: Adam Morgan – Squid: Exercise Effectiveness and Muscle Activation Tracking

Graduate: Jeffrey Breugelmans – Providing Computer Accessibility for the Physically Disabled

Physical and Life Sciences

Undergraduate: William Johnson – To peek and peer: “Visual” verb meanings are largely unaffected by congenital blindness

Graduate: Chao Chen – Selective Antimicrobials for Treating Clostridium difficile Enterocolitis

Social Sciences, Business and Law

Undergraduate: Jennifer Sturman, Dena Cox, Christina Vergara – Re-offending over the Life Course: A Study on Homicide Offender Recidivism

Graduate: Chris Bridges – Lives Lost to Lynching and the Ongoing Need for Restorative Justice