UB RISE

Come and learn of the ingenuity and impact of research and other cross-disciplinary creative endeavors.
Congratulations to the UB RISE 2023 Poster Winners!
High School Category
Award | # | Poster Author(s) School |
Title | Advisor |
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1st Place |
83 |
Grace Kistner BRASTEC |
Utilizing the Nematocysts of Cassiopea xamachana as a Bioactive |
Kirk Shadle, MS ('06) |
2nd Place |
94 |
Lucia Kempton Molly Forker Paige Hochadel Ryan Shoztic Stamford HS |
The Efficacy of Graphene in Preventing Gamma Radiation on Cancer Cells in Microgravity |
Susan Dougherty |
3rd Place |
115 |
Adam Liu Amity HS |
Developing a Deep-Learning Algorithm for the Post-Reconstruction of Dynamic Cardiac PET |
Catherine Piscitelli |
Alumni Choice | 109 |
Luhai Tang Amity HS |
Catherine Piscitelli |
|
Honorable Mention |
89 |
Raymond Stewart Fairchild Wheeler |
Suchith Shantharaj |
|
Honorable Mention |
85 |
Jack Murray BRASTEC |
Disrupting Bacterial Quorum Sensing Systems Through Autoinducer Blocking |
Kirk Shadle, MS ('06) |
Undergraduate Category
Award | # | Poster Author(s) College - School |
Title | Advisor |
---|---|---|---|---|
1st Place |
71 |
Joshua Dykstra John Keating Rich Tran EBE – Engineering |
Utilizing IntellaNest Technology for the Study of Collective Behavior in Ants |
Ausif Mahmood, PhD |
2nd Place |
79 |
Ronelle Robinson Rochaiu Daye CSS – Chemistry |
Abu Gafar Hossion, PhD |
|
3rd Place |
74 |
Aser Docteur Camille Edwin Syed Ghalib EBE – Engineering |
Abhilasha Tibrewal, MS ('01) Ahmed El-Sayed, MS, PhD ('11, '16) |
|
Alumni Choice |
73 |
Karen Garza Eric Silva, Angel Menendez James Poulmas, Tameem Chowdary, Pamela LaJeuness EBE – Engineering |
Drone Design Project in an Undergraduate Research Class using the Affinity Research Group Model |
Junling Hu, PhD |
Honorable Mention |
72 |
Leslie Zeller Arismelba Rosario Osoria Trevor Small, Evelyn Ramirez CHS - Fones School of Dental Hygiene |
Forensic Odontology and the Dental Hygienist: Giving Life to All That Remains |
Sandra Stramoski, MS ('10) |
Master's Category
Award | # | Poster Author(s) College - School |
Title | Advisor |
---|---|---|---|---|
1st Place |
56 |
Andres Alcivar Carmigniani Santiago Ballaz Haidar S. Ziyad EBE - Engineering – BME |
Prabir Patra, PhD |
|
2nd Place |
58 |
Vamsi Sai Sripada A.V. Pratap Reddy EBE - Engineering – EE |
Sarosh Patel, PhD |
|
3rd Place |
50 |
Anass Saoudi EBE - Engineering – EE |
Applications of Heterogeneous Smart Robots in Modern Industry |
Ahmed El-Sayed, PhD |
Alumni Choice |
54 |
Rajiv Bishwokarma Mina Gaber Wahba Ibrahim EBE - Engineering – CE |
Xingguo Xiong, PhD |
|
Honorable Mention |
49 |
Karne Pranav Kumar EBE - Business |
Arthur McAdams, PhD |
Doctoral Category
Award | # | Poster Author(s) College - School |
Title | Advisor |
---|---|---|---|---|
1st Place |
40 |
Hepseeba Kode EBE - Engineering – AI |
Breast Cancer Diagnosis in Histopathology Images Using Convolutional Neural Networks and Knowledge- Based Approaches (Pending Journal Publication) |
Buket Barkana, PhD |
2nd Place |
32 |
Katherine Brittain EBE – Education |
Novice Teacher Self-Efficacy and Reflections on the Student Teaching Experience |
Kat Wallace, EdD ('20) |
3rd Place |
35 |
David Bray CHS - Chiropractic |
Kevin Kelliher, PhD |
|
Alumni Choice |
42 |
Abdulrahman Ali Kariri Ismaiel Albukhari Mohammed Aljamal, MS Jinan AlAridhee Nadine Matondo-Mvula EBE - Engineering – CSE |
Khaled Elleithy, PhD |
|
Honorable Mention |
39 |
Ismaiel Albukhari Abdulrahman Ali Kariri Mohammed Aljamal, MS Abdulaziz Alwehaibi EBE - Engineering – TM |
Khaled Elleithy, PhD Dan Tenney, PhD ('20) |
RISing Education Scholar Prize
(Sponsored by Dr. Joanna Badara)
Award | # | Poster Author(s) College - School |
Title | Advisor |
---|---|---|---|---|
$150 |
32 |
Katherine Brittain Education |
Novice Teacher Self-Efficacy and Reflections on the Student Teaching Experience |
Kat Wallace, EdD |
RISing Engineering Doctoral Student Prize
(Sponsored by Dr. Khaled Elleithy)
Award | # | Poster Author(s) College - School |
Title | Advisor |
---|---|---|---|---|
$500 |
40 |
Hepseeba Kode Engineering - AI |
Breast Cancer Diagnosis in Histopathology Images Using Convolutional Neural Networks and Knowledge-Based Approaches (Pending Journal Publication) |
Buket Barkana, PhD |
Commercial Poster Prize
Sponsored by
Entrepreneurship Foundation, Mike Roer ('08)
Award | # | Poster Author(s) College - School |
Title | Advisor |
---|---|---|---|---|
$5,000 |
74 |
Aser Docteur Camille Edwin Syed Ghalib EBE – Engineering |
Abhilasha Tibrewal ('01) Ahmed El-Sayed, MS, PhD ('11, '16) |
|
$2,500 |
47 |
Scott Goodman EBE – Engineering - AI |
Robotic Acoustic Musical Instruments that Implement AI to Accompany Live Musicians |
Ausif Mahmood, PhD Sarosh Patel, PhD ('12) |
$2,500 |
137 |
John Paul Badara EBE – Engineering - ME |
Jani Macari Pallis, PhD |
Faculty Competitive (Social Sciences)
Award | # | Poster Author(s) College - School |
Title |
---|---|---|---|
$1,000 |
3 |
Kathleen Wallace, EdD ('20) EBE - Education |
|
Finalist |
8 |
Mya Scarlato, EdD CSS – Music EBE – Music Education |
Remixing the National Anthem: Toward 'Plastic' Concepts of American Identity |
Finalist |
5 |
Claude E. P. Mayo Alade S. McKen, PhD Ebonee Mayo-Mitchell, PhD EBE – Education |
|
Honorable Mention |
2 |
Randy Laist, PhD CSS - English |
|
Honorable Mention |
1 |
Eric Lehman, MA CSS - English |
Faculty Competitive (STEM)
Award | # | Poster Author(s) College - School |
Title |
---|---|---|---|
$1,000 |
7 |
Md Khabir Uddin, PhD James C. Fishbein, PhD (University of Maryland) CSS – Chemistry |
Cancer Chemopreventive Action by the Monomethylated Metabolite of Oltipraz |
Finalist |
4 |
Michael Lohle, PhD EBE – Business |
Is Technology Scary? Student Perceptions of Analytics Content in Graduate Core Courses |
Finalist |
6 |
Linda Wagner, EdD, MSN, RN Stacy Christensen, APRN, DNP (CCSU) CHS – Nursing |
Disaster Relief Nurses: Exploring the Impetus to Respond to Multiple Efforts |
Honorable Mention |
9 |
Xingguo Xiong, PhD Prabir Patra, PhD Peiqiao Wu, PhD ('22) Bhushan V. Dharmadhikari, MS, PhD ('09, '15) Minnesota State University, Mankato EBE – Engineering |