Past NSM Undergrad Research Winners
2025 Expo Winners
Congratulations to all of the participants and thank you to the volunteer judges!
Oral Presentation Winners:
1st Place - Atticus Destatte, "Temperature Dependent Photoluminescent Properties of CdSe/CdTe Thin Films", Ellingson
Lab.
2nd Place (tie) - Milo Eckhardt, "Globular Star Cluster Populations in Spiral Galaxies", Chandar Lab.
2nd Place (tie) - Abigail Lewis, "Combined Impacts of Heat Stress and Drought on Nutritional Quality of Plants As
Food", Heckathorn Lab.
Poster Presentation Winners:
1st Place - Kartik Nair, "Processing of Phosphorus Doped Cadmium Telluride Photovoltaics", Heben Lab.
2nd Place (tie) - Neha Chenna, Unlocking Nature's Toolbox: Exploring Halogenase Enzymes Using X-Ray Crystallography
for Sustainable Chemical Synthesis", Bellizzi Lab.
2nd Place (tie) - Haroon Lughmani, "Structural Features and Physiological Associations of Human 14-3-3 Pseudogenes",
Chakravarti Lab.
2nd Place (tie) - Pranayini Singh, "A Simplified Nonlinear Mathematical Model for Blood Flow in an Aneurysm", Cheruvu
Lab.