University of Arkansas at Pine Bluff students brought home awards, including first place, at the Arkansas IDeA Network of Biomedical Research Excellence (INBRE) Conference in Fayetteville.
Three UAPB undergraduate students won INBRE poster presentation awards at the conference, according to a news release.
Joel Ruzindana earned the First Place Poster Presentation Award in Physics with UAPB mentors Mansour Moratzavi and Manoj Shah. The award is based on abstract 209: Modeling of III-V-on-Sapphire Waveguides for Sapphire-based Photonic Integrated Circuits Platform.
Kennedy Abanihe received an Honorable Mention Poster Presentation Award in Physics with UAPB mentors Moratzavi and Shah. The award is based on abstract 200: Ordering-Disordering of GeSn films using RAMAN Spectroscopy.
Fidaus Razak received an Honorable Mention Poster Presentation Award in Chemistry and Biochemistry with UAPB mentor Qinglong Jiang. The award is based on abstract 117B: 3D Hollow Nanobeads and Drug Delivery.
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UAPB undergraduate Sharae Gipson was one of six students invited to give an oral presentation based on her Chemistry abstract.
The recent two-day conference involved participation from colleges and universities in Arkansas and surrounding states in biological sciences, physics and chemistry, and biochemistry. The 2023 Conference booklet referenced 25 participating institutions from Arkansas, Missouri, and Tennessee.
The student involvement included hundreds of undergraduate oral and poster presentations based on their submitted and accepted biology, chemistry, and physics abstracts. Presentations included a 12-minute talk followed by a three-minute Q&A.
Faculty and students participated in biology, chemistry, and physics platform sessions, faculty plenary talks, networking, and a keynote seminar speaker presentation from Kim Orth, Ph.D., of the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center on “Black Spot, Black Death, Black Pearl: Tales of Bacterial Pathogens.”
Mortazavi, Vice Chancellor and Professor of Quantum Optics Office of Research, Innovation, and Economic Development, also thanks the UAPB team, which included Qinglong Jiang, professor of Chemistry; Joseph Onyilagha, Interim Director of Undergraduate Research; and postdocs Manoj Shah, Rabindra Basnet, Azarin Yazdani, and Genevia Thomas for working and facilitating students’ work and conference accommodations.
The Arkansas INBRE conference is hosted by the Biological Sciences, Physics and Chemistry, and Biochemistry departments at the Fulbright College of Arts and Sciences at the University of Arkansas.
To learn more about Biology and the Chemistry and Physics departments, visit http://www.UAPB.edu.