By PAULINA MATA/Staff Writer
The eighth annual Lyceum was hosted by the Honors College on April 14. The research showcase featured over 130 students’s scholarly projects.
“The Lyceum is one of my favorite days of the year,” said Paul Streufert, Dean of the Honors College. “It gives all of our students a chance to talk about the great work they’re doing at UT Tyler.”
The showcase consisted of three oral presentation sessions and one fine arts session, each session lasting an hour. There were multiple panels of students for every session. Judges and guests were the audience to the students’ presentations.
In the afternoon, the third floor of the University Center was occupied by the poster session, where guests could view and converse with presenters. Of the 130 students, 91 presented posters.
“We’re so proud to see our young scholars talking about ideas and sharing their work with people,” said Streufert. “For me, it’s one of the most inspiring days of the year.”
Graduate and undergraduate students alike shared their work across a variety of disciplines. The number of total presenters was “split evenly between graduate and undergraduates,” says Honors Coordinator Laura Dykes, making for a diverse showcase.
The showcase closed with an awards assembly. A first, second and third place award was given in four categories:
Graduate Oral Presentation
1st Place: Mayokun Oke “Effects of Catalysts and Operating Conditions on the Hydrothermal Liquefaction of Saccharina Latissima for the Production of Biofuel”
2nd Place: Md Fahim Shahriar “Visualization and Investigation of CO2 Density-Driven Convective Transport in Vertical Hele-Shaw Cell: Implications for Long-Term CO2 Sequestration”
3rd Place: Megan Gray ” Exploring the Ideas of Emotion Through Different Materials and Processes”
Undergraduate Oral Presentation
1st Place: Luis E. Perez “Exploring the Power and Ephemerality of Intimacy in the Ordinary”
2nd Place: Lezley Hart “Correlation Between Snake Fungal Disease and Predation by Avian Predators”
3rd Place: Suzannah Bozarth “The Divide: Examining Tyler’s Racial History and Demography”
Graduate Poster
1st Place: Liaquat Ali “Synthesis and teh Controlled Self-Assembly of Coiled Oligopeptides”
2nd Place: Rahma Aly, Shoukath Sulthana, Robert Beaudoin, and Ayman Hamouda “CMPI nanoparticle formulation to enhance its delivery to intracellular targets”
2nd Place: Matthew S. Fontanese, Joseph J. Muraira, Christian Lopez, Lance Barela, Alex Garcia, Jeanne M. Dube, Kailee Prentice, and Allison M. Coldiron “General Absorption Mediates Narcissism’s Effect on Private but Not Public Self-Absorption”
3rd Place: Md Irfan Khan “Parametric Study of CO2 Sequestration in Deep Saline Aquifers using data-driven models”
Undergraduate Poster
1st Place: Eric Burnett, Clay Woodcock, Jose Valdez, and Uriel Vela “Drone Arm Optimization”
2nd Place: Olinda Zusinas “Does Corticotropin Releasing Hormone Induce miRNA-200b Gene Expression from Exosomes of Triple Negative Breast Cancer”
3rd Place: Israel Joshua Santhosh, Shoukath Sulthana, Ayaan Khan, and Farah Deba “Maximizing tumor targeting using engineered extracellular vesicles derived from activated macrophages”
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