Anniversary Poster Session and Reception Photo Gallery

On the evening of Thursday 7 November 2024 we continued our celebration of the fiftieth anniversary of the founding of the College of Sciences with a combined research poster presentation and reception. A large group of alumni, students, faculty, and friends of the college were able to attend this exciting and informative event. Some photos are provided below following the poster photos.

Our undergraduate and graduate students shared information about their research with our visitors. The titles of seventeen of the posters, with lists of their authors, are provided below the following photos of the presenters posing with their posters.

AMS-HD: Acute Mountain Sickness Detection with Hyperdimensional Computing
Abu Kaisar Mohammad Masum, Reeti Pradhananga, Jonas Schmidt, and Sercan Aygun

Mother Tree Resilience: Tracking Plant Stress and Fungal Carbon Assimilation
Izamary M. Lara, Clinton J. Vincent, and Brian Schubert

Dipolar Skyrmions in FE₃Sn₂
Colin Nezat and Michalis Charilaou

Gas Inflated Rigid Starshade
David Silva, Landon Degytaire, and Harly Harding

Analysis of amygdala transcriptome in a Non-Human Primate model of Self-Injurious Behaviors demonstrating astrocyte reactivity and gliosis
Jackie Barua, Ramudhi Kariyawasam, Jackson Young Brooks, Marques Jackson, Brittany Foret, Emily Romero , Dana Hasselschwert, Jane Fontenot, Francois Villinger, and Karen Muller Smith

Rapid Evolutionary Rescue Follows Assisted Gene Flow in Threatened Mimulus Guttatus Populations
Donna M. Hinrichs, Andrea K. Turcu, Simon G. Innes, Courtney M. Patterson, and Nicholas J. Kooyers

The Presence of Microplastics in Tillandsia usneoides
Ethan Adams, Hallie Blondiau, Madison Maier, and Ava Thibodeaux

Studying the Effects of Hurricanes on Chlorophyll a Using Variational Autoencoder (VAE) from Field and Remote Sensing Observations in the Gulf Estuaries
Jiang Li

Computational Studies of the Photodegradation of Organic UV Filters in Marine Relevant Environments
Londyn A. Bardash, Lily M. Guidry, Barbara Marchetti, and Tolga K. Karsili

Speech Emotion Recognition Using ML Models and Audio Features
Tytiana James, T. Maheswara Reddy Yenumala, and Ashok Kumar

Observing Changes in Greenhouse Gas Fluxes in Organic and Mineral Soil Freshwater Wetlands Due to Acute Saltwater Intrusion
Mahpara Mashiyat and Jorge Villa

A derivative-free active subspace-based particle swarm optimization algorithm for computationally intensive functions
Md Mahedi Hasan and Bruce A. Wade

Metal Complexes in Target-Specific Lung Anticancer Therapy
Monotosh Kumar Sarkar and Radhey Srivastava

Bistability in a Model of Hepatitis B Virus Dynamics
Nazia Afrin, Stance Ciupe, Jessica M. Conway, and Hayriye Gulbudak

AMS-HD: Acute Mountain Sickness Detection with Hyperdimensional Computing
Abu Kaisar Mohammad Masum, Reeti Pradhananga, Jonas Schmidt, and Sercan Aygun

Heterocycles containing tellurium as potential building blocks for chalcogen bonded supramolecular assemblies
Samantha R. Ponzo, Alanna K. Turner, Hassan E. Glover, Itunu C Olanrewaju, Frank R. Fronczek, and Thomas Junk

Assessing Ecofriendly Louisiana Waste Products as Potent Adsorbants for Individual Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbons as Models of Oil Spills
Samantha Watson, Abosede Modupe Oje, Sommer Y. Osman, and Febee R. Louka