The Indiana LSAMP annual conference was held in-person in IU Bloomington on Friday September 30th and Saturday October 1st, 2022. The conference was attended by higher education administrators, Indiana LSAMP leaders, staff, faculty mentors, and undergraduate student researchers across the state to build partnerships and interact in engaging sessions celebrating this year’s conference theme Celebrating Curiosity: LSAMP Scholars’ Journeys through Connection, Purpose, and Change.
IU South Bend was well presented by eight student researchers from the past year. Six of them participated in the LSAMP summer research program funded by NSF through the IN LSAMP grant awarded in 2016. Most are pictured above with our faculty and administrators. A total of 38 posters were presented by student researchers across the Indiana LSAMP alliance. There were five competitive student poster winners, and four of them were IU South Bend students:
Second-place tie: Precious-Gold Akpadija and Hiba Majeed
Honorable mention: Marcus Bailey and Emily Barrera
The students who presented are listed below with their mentor and the title of their presentation. You can read their abstracts here: 2022 IN LSAMP Annual Research Conference - IN LSAMP
Effect of Guanidinium Content on the Anion Binding Capacity of Polyallyamine-Based Polymer Networks
Marcus Bailey (Biology) with Dr. Deborah Marr
Effects of the understory shrub Lindera benzoin (Spicebush) on maple and beech tree seeding abundance in an Old Growth Indiana Forest.
Amanda Feder (Biology) with Dr. Grace Muna
Developing a Sensitive Electrochemical Method to Determine Cortisol in Biological Samples
Antonio Garcilazo (Informatics) with Dr. Hossein Hakimzadeh
iScheduler – Intelligent Academic Scheduling
Melyse Ishimwe (Biology) with Dr. Shahir Rizk
Structure- Based Design of PhuZ Mutants for Polymerization Analysis
Hiba Majeed (Biology) with Dr. Grace Muna
Investigating the Electroanalytical Performance of Bismuth-Antimony Film on Glassy Carbon Electrode in Detecting Lead and Cadmium
Lucas Robinson (Chemistry) with Dr. Shawn R. Campagna (U. Tennessee)
Synthesis and Computational Evaluation of Glucocorticoid Analogues for Elucidation of Structure Activity Relationships
Ashley Schoen (Clinical Lab Science) with Jordan Roach (U. Notre Dame)
Characterization and Thermal Decomposition of Aqueous Uranyl-Acac Compounds
