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2023 Championship Winners
Hayley Knapp"From Poop to Parent: Examining Paternity in Dynamic Atlantic Spotted Dolphin Populations in the Bahamas"FAU Championship Winner and recipient of the Dr. Eric H. Shaw 3MT® Championship Endowment Award (tie)
Charles E. Schmidt College of Science
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Ingrid Santillan Barragan"Corrosion is in the air"FAU Championship Winner and recipient of the Dr. Eric H. Shaw 3MT® Championship Endowment Award (tie)
College of Engineering and Computer Science
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Amish Mishra
FAU 3MT® Championship Runner-Up and People's Choice Award
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Emmanual McNeely
FAU 3MT® Championship Second Runner-up
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2023 Videos
| Student Name | Title | Faculty Advisor(s) | College | Accolade(s) | Video Link |
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| Emmanual McNeely | "'What Does A Surgeon Look Like?': How Stereotypes May Negatively Impact Recruitment Into the Least Diverse Specialty in Medicine" | Jennifer Caceres, Ph.D. | Charles E. Schmidt College of Medicine | Championship 2nd Runner-Up & Heat 4 2nd Runner-Up | VIEW |
| Diana Fedderman | "A Critical Content Analysis of Fountas and Pinnell’s LLI System" | Michelle Vaughan, Ed.D. | College of Education | Heeat 3 Winner and People's Choice Award Winner | VIEW |
| Robin Jimenez-Bean | "Perceptions of Posttraumatic Growth Among Adults with Lived Experience in Foster Care" | Morgan Cooley, Ph.D. | College of Social Work and Criminal Justice | Heat 3 2nd Runner-Up (tie) | VIEW |
| Matthew Patterson | "A Picture of Resiliency: Students Attending College While Homeless" | Danielle Groton, Ph.D. | Dorothy F. Schmidt College of Arts and Letters | Heat 3 Runner-Up (tie) | VIEW |
| Meghan Hanley | "Feeling Flow and Expressing Emotions while Improvising: Music Therapy and Music Professor Perspectives" | Marc Decker, Ph.D. | Dorothy F. Schmidt College of Arts and Letters | Heat 1 Winner | VIEW |
| Marjorie Patterson | "The Influence of Nature, Poetry, and Contemporary Techniques in the Music of John Burge" | Marc Decker, Ph.D. | Dorothy F. Schmidt College of Arts and Letters | Heat 3 Runner-Up (tie) | VIEW |
| Megan Spring | "American Possession: Ghostlore in Toni Morrison's Beloved" | Regis Fox, Ph.D. | Dorothy F. Schmidt College of Arts and Letters | Heat 3 2nd Runner-Up (tie) | VIEW |
| Ingrid Santillan Barragan | "Corrosion is in the air" | Francisco Presuel-Moreno, Ph.D. | College of Engineering and Computer Science | Championship Winner and recipient of the Dr. Eric H. Shaw 3MT® Championship Endowment Award (tie) & Heat 2 Runner-Up | VIEW |
| Dominic Gold | "Homomorphic Encryption Will Save the World (And Your Privacy)" | Francis Motta, Ph.D | Charles E. Schmidt College of Science | Heat 2 2nd Runner-Up | VIEW |
| Amish Mishra | "So, you wanna build a protein?" | Francis Motta, Ph.D. | Charles E. Schmidt College of Science | Championship Runner-Up and People's Choice Award Winner & Heat 4 Winner and People's Choice Award Winner | VIEW |
| Morgan Slevin | "What's up your gut? Solving mysteries of the avian gut microbiome" | Rindy Anderson, Ph.D. | Charles E. Schmidt College of Science | Heat 4 Runner-Up | VIEW |
| Kayla O'Brien | "Microplastics in Mangrove and Beach Sediments on Southeast Florida Barrier Islands" | Tiffany Robert Briggs, Ph.D. | Charles E. Schmidt College of Science | Heat 1 Runner-Up (tie) & People's Choice Award Winner | VIEW |
| Margaret Rodrigue | "Ichthyoplankton Recruitment within Mangrove-dominated Mosquito Control Impoundments" | Dennis Hanisak, Ph.D. | Charles E. Schmidt College of Science | Heat 1 Runner-Up (tie) | VIEW |
| Abigail Blackburn | "Bioluminescence of the Ctenophore Mnemiopsis leidyi" | Michael Twardowski, Ph.D. | Charles E. Schmidt College of Science | Heat 1 2nd Runner-Up | VIEW |
| Hayley Knapp | "From Poop to Parent: Examining Paternity in Dynamic Atlantic Spotted Dolphin Populations in the Bahamas" | John Baldwin, Ph.D. | Charles E. Schmidt College of Science | Championship Winner and recipient of the Dr. Eric H. Shaw 3MT® Championship Endowment Award (tie) & Heat 2 Winner and People's Choice Award Winner | VIEW |
| Dawn Raja Somu | "With Every Fiber: Characterizing Biomineral Ultrastructure and Nanomechanical Properties of Shark Vertebrae" | Vivian Merk, Ph.D. | Charles E. Schmidt College of Science | Heat 5 Winner | VIEW |
| Ivana Serra | "Turtle life in and with a boney shield—where biomechanics meets behavior" | Jeannette Wyneken, Ph.D. | Charles E. Schmidt College of Science | Heat 5 People's Choice Award Winner | VIEW |
| Hans Gonzembach | "Disentangling relationships between ornamentation and non-primary vocalizations in near-threatened songbird (Peucaea aestivalis)" | Rindy Anderson, Ph.D. | Charles E. Schmidt College of Science | Heat 5 Runner-Up | VIEW |
2022 Videos
| Student Name | Title | Faculty Advisor(s) | College | Accolade(s) | Video Link |
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| Amish Mishra | "Seeing Data: For now we see dimly, but soon we will see shape to shape" | Francis Motta, Ph.D. | Charles E. Schmidt College of Science | Championship Runner-Up & Heat 2 Winner | VIEW |
| Aubrey Clark | "What do we "nose" about sharks: investigating olfactory morphology of elasmobranchs " | Marianne Porter, Ph.D. & Tricia Meredith, Ph.D. | Charles E. Schmidt College of Science | Heat 3 2nd Runner-Up | VIEW |
| Brian Escobar | "Temporal Dynamics of Positive and Negative Facial Expression Processing" | Sang Wook Hong, Ph.D. | Charles E. Schmidt College of Science | Heat 3 People's Choice Award Winner | VIEW |
| Emily Albrecht | "Examining the Effect of Race on Wrongful Conviction Compensation " | Lisa M. Dario, Ph.D., Jesse Saginor, Ph.D., & Lincoln Sloas, Ph.D. | College of Social Work and Criminal Justice | Heat 1 People's Choice Award Winner | VIEW |
| Haley Davis | "Hyposalinity tolerance of three southeast Florida reef-building corals" | Joshua Voss, Ph. D. | Charles E. Schmidt College of Science | Championship 2nd Runner-Up & Heat 3 Winner | VIEW |
| Heather Wolverton | "Sophisticated Song: Exploring the Evolution and Ontogeny of Large Repertoires and Syntax Usage in the Bachman’s Sparrow (Peucaea aestivalis)" | Rindy Anderson, Ph.D. | Charles E. Schmidt College of Science | Heat 3 Runner-Up | VIEW |
| Ingrid Santillan | "Effect of Corrosion in Florida Bridges " | Francisco Presuel-Moreno, Ph.D. | College of Engineering and Computer Science | Heat 2 Runner-Up | VIEW |
| Jessica Brynes | "Making It Work: Exploring The Balancing Act of Moms Who Earned a Doctoral Degree " | Jennifer Bloom, Ph.D. & Jarrett Warshaw, Ph.D. | College of Education | Championship People's Choice Award Winner & Heat 1 Winner | VIEW |
| Konstancja Szymanska | "Foreign Language Anxiety among International Students in the U.S. University: A Case Study" | Jennifer Bloom, Ph.D. & Patricia Maslin-Ostrowski, Ph.D. | College of Education | Heat 1 2nd Runner-Up | VIEW |
| Morgan Slevin | "Treating treatment failure: How wild avian microbiomes mediate stress responses, with applications to wildlife rehabilitation" | Rindy C. Anderson, Ph.D. | Charles E. Schmidt College of Science | Championship Winner and recipient of the Dr. Eric H. Shaw 3MT® Championship Endowment Award & Heat 3 2nd Runner-Up (tie) | VIEW |
| Prakash Ankitha Arvan | "Artificial Intelligence (AI) Techniques for Building Stronger and Safer Deep Foundation Systems" | Madasamy Arockiasamy, Ph.D. | College of Engineering and Computer Science | Championship 2nd Runner-Up & Heat 3 People's Choice Award Winner | VIEW |
| Ramya Ayyalasomayajula | "Tumor-associated O-glycans of MUC1 : targets for cancer vaccine design" | Mare Cudic, Ph.D. | Charles E. Schmidt College of Science | Heat 2 2nd Runner-Up | VIEW |
| Shanna Lillis | "Shifting Assessment Metrics in Public Schools for Improved Equity and Civic Engagement" | Melanie Acosta, Ph.D | College of Education | Heat 1 Runner-Up | VIEW |
2021 Videos
| Student Name | Title | Faculty Advisor(s) | College | Accolade(s) | Video Link |
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| Lindsey Marlin | "Playing a PTSD Survivor Onstage: How the Audience Can Further Understand Both Themselves and the Character in a 2-Hour Stretch of Time" | Desmond Gallant, M.F.A. | Dorothy F. Schmidt College of Arts and Letters | Championship People's Choice Award Winner & Heat 1 Winner | VIEW |
| Teodora Kamburov | "What's grit got to do with it?" | Sabrina Sembiante, Ph.D. | College of Education | Heat 1 Runner-Up | VIEW |
| Maimuna Akter | "Death, Destruction, and Manipulation" | Douglas Cumming, Ph.D. | College of Business | Heat 1 2nd Runner-Up | VIEW |
| Cristina Pimenta | "Religion & Politics: Lessons from American History" | Aimee Arias, Ph.D. | Dorothy F. Schmidt College of Arts and Letters | Heat 1 People's Choice Award Winner | VIEW |
| Ishwarya Srikanth | "Better by the Batch: Enhancing Drone Scheduling" | Madasamy Arockiasamy, Ph.D. | College of Engineering and Science | Heat 2 Winner | VIEW |
| Andrew Steinberg | "Better by the Batch: Enhancing Drone Scheduling" | Mihaela Cardei, Ph.D. & Ionut Cardei, Ph.D. | College of Engineering and Science | Championship Winner and recipient of the Dr. Eric H. Shaw 3MT® Championship Endowment Award | VIEW |
| Sandhya Sharma | "Pandemic screening with a low-cost COVID 19 diagnostic chip" | Waseem Asghar, Ph.D. | Charles E. Schmidt College of Science | Heat 2 2nd Runner-Up | VIEW |
| Rahul Dev Raju | "Scour monitoring using green laser" | Madasamy Arockiasamy, Ph.D. | Charles E. Schmidt College of Science | Heat 2 People's Choice Award Winner | VIEW |
| Kate Shlepr | "The problem is global. The solution is to quantify our optimism." | Dale E. Gawlik, Ph.D & Sarah L. Milton, Ph.D. | Charles E. Schmidt College of Science | Heat 3 Winner | VIEW |
| Steven Lombardo | "Resolving habitat gaps for bonefish conservation across Florida and The Bahamas" | Matthew J. Ajemian, Ph.D. | Charles E. Schmidt College of Science | Heat 3 Runner-Up | VIEW |
| Brianna Cahill | "A Comprehensive Diet Description for the Whitespotted Eagle Ray (Aetobatus narinari) in Florida Coastal Waters" | Matthew Ajemian, Ph.D. | Charles E. Schmidt College of Science | Heat 3 2nd Runner Up (tie) | VIEW |
| Morgan Slevin | "Get off my lawn! Testing the impact of social stress on a territorial songbird’s health and gut microbiome" | Rindy C. Anderson, Ph.D | Charles E. Schmidt College of Science | Heat 3 2nd Runner Up (tie) | VIEW |
| Ivan Heerdegen | "Just Keep Swimming" | Marianne E. Porter, Ph.D. | Charles E. Schmidt College of Science | Heat 3 People's Choice Award Winner | VIEW |
| Claudius Osei | "Embodied Cognition: How cognitive behavior is not solely a construct of the brain but involves the entire body." | Elan Barenholtz, Ph.D. | Charles E. Schmidt College of Science | Championship Runner-Up & Heat 4 Winner | VIEW |
| Alice Wead | "The Mathematics of Relatedness: Healthy Social Aging" | Christine Williams, DNSc, PMHCNS-BC | Christine E. Lynn College of Nursing | Heat 4 Runner-Up | VIEW |
| Nirthieca Suthakaran | "The Effects of STXBP1 in Infant Epilepsy" | Ken Dawson-Scully, Ph.D. | Charles E. Schmidt College of Science | Heat 4 2nd Runner Up (tie) | VIEW |
| Amish Mishra | "The Shape of Data: Inventing Efficient Methods for Topological Data Analysis" | Francis Motta, Ph.D. | Charles E. Schmidt College of Science | Heat 4 2nd Runner Up (tie) | VIEW |
| Sanju Khatri | "Can we predict sinkholes? " | Xavier Comas, Ph.D. | Charles E. Schmidt College of Science | Heat 4 People's Choice Award Winner | VIEW |
2020 Videos
| Student Name | Title | Faculty Advisor(s) | College | Accolade(s) | Video Link |
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| Afrouz Ataei | "A Novel Microfluidic Sperm‐Sorting Device based on Rheotaxis Effect" | Andy W.C. Lau, Ph.D. & Waseem Asghar, Ph.D. | Charles E. Schmidt College of Science | Championship Finalist | VIEW |
| Andrew Steinberg | "Game of Drones" | Mihaela Cardei, Ph.D. | College of Engineering and Computer Science | Championship Finalist | VIEW |
| Aubrey Elson | "Keep Your Enemies Close: The Universal Application of Learning to Play and Think Like a Villain" | Lynn McNutt, M.F.A. | Dorothy F. Schmidt College of Arts and Letters | Championship 2nd Runner-Up | VIEW |
| Cristina Pimenta | "Sincere, Scheming, or Sarcastic?﹣Machiavelli & The Prince" | Aimee Arias, Ph.D. | Dorothy F. Schmidt College of Arts and Letters | Championship Finalist | VIEW |
| Danielle Ingle | "What happens when vertebrae don't bear weight?" | Marianne E. Porter, Ph.D. | Charles E. Schmidt College of Science | Championship Finalist | VIEW |
| Elena Mclaughlin | "A Neglected Skill: Investigating the Effects of "Handwriting without Tears" on Letter Formation by Young Children with Autism" | Peggy Goldstein, Ph.D. & Michael Brady, Ph.D. | College of Education | Championship Finalist | VIEW |
| Ishwarya Srikanth | "Deterioration Modeling for Preventive Maintenance of Aging Fixed Offshore Oil & Gas Platforms" | Madasamy Arockiasamy, Ph.D. | College of Engineering and Computer Science | Championship Finalist | VIEW |
| Ivana Serra | "Toasty Turtles: Too Hot to Think?" | Sarah Milton, Ph.D. | Charles E. Schmidt College of Science | Championship Finalist | VIEW |
| Kevin Moxley | "Making the Audience Feel: Using Neural Plasticity and Somatic Sensation to Inspire Sympathetic Vibration" | Kathryn L. Johnston, M.F.A. | Dorothy F. Schmidt College of Arts and Letters | Championship Finalist | VIEW |
| Kira Xana‐Kai Nash | "Social Media: What Does the Future Hold and How are We Using It?" | Monica Escaleras, Ph.D. | College of Business | Championship Finalist | VIEW |
| Md Alamgir Kabir | "Rapid Diagnosis of Zika Virus at Point of Care to Save Lives" | Waseem Asghar, Ph.D. | College of Engineering and Computer Science | Championship Finalist | VIEW |
| Michelle Edwards | "Exposure to multiple algal toxins among juvenile bull sharks, Carcharhinus leucas, in Florida’s Indian River Lagoon" | Matthew Ajemian, Ph.D. | Charles E. Schmidt College of Science | Championship Runner-Up | VIEW |
| Morgan Slevin | "Smarts and symbiosis: how a bird's gut microbiome influences its cognitive performance" | Rindy Anderson, Ph.D. | Charles E. Schmidt College of Science | Championship Winner and recipient of the Dr. Eric H. Shaw 3MT® Championship Endowment Award | VIEW |
| Olumide Adenmosun | "Genotypic Sperm Sorting: A less invasive “ART” to prevent Genetic Disorders in Newborns." | James Kumi‐Diaka, Ph.D. & Waseem Asghar, Ph.D. | Charles E. Schmidt College of Science | Championship Finalist | VIEW |
| Panagiota Galanakou | "Monitoring prompt gamma emission for reducing range uncertainties of carbon ion radiation for cancer treatments" | Wazir Muhammad, Ph.D. | Charles E. Schmidt College of Science | Championship Finalist | VIEW |
| Sarah Rabinowitz | "Spleen Injuries: Outcome Analysis between Transfers and Non‐Transfers" | Alexander Fokin, M.D., Ph.D. | Charles E. Schmidt College of Medicine | Championship Finalist | VIEW |
| Stephanie Insalaco | "The Influence of the Kennedy Space Center on Land Use/Land Cover and Population Dynamics in Brevard County, Florida" | Zhixiao Xie, Ph.D. | Charles E. Schmidt College of Science | Championship Finalist | VIEW |
| Sushmitha Satyanarayana Gandur | "Gender Equality" | Ting Levy, Ph.D. | College of Business | Championship Finalist | VIEW |
| Taraneh Ardalan | "Development of Guidelines for Implementation of Freight and Transit Signal Priorities to Enhance Road Traffic Sustainability" | Evangelos Kaisar, Ph.D. | College of Engineering and Computer Science | Championship Finalist Championship 2nd Runner-Up | VIEW |
| Tiffany Cox | "Band Directors Don't Wear Heels: The Lived Experiences of Female High School Band Directors in Florida" | Susannah Brown, Ph.D. | College of Education | Championship People's Choice Award Winner | VIEW |
2018 Videos
| Student Name | Title | Faculty Advisor(s) | College | Accolade(s) | Video Link |
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| Sarah Hoffmann | "Sharks in 3D: The Diversity of Form and Function Among Varied Environments" | Marianne Porter, Ph.D. | Charles E. Schmidt College of Science | Heat 1 Winner and People's Choice Winner | VIEW |
| Ian Combs | "Eulogy for the St. Lucie Reef" | Joshua Voss, Ph.D. | Charles E. Schmidt College of Science | Heat 7 Runner-Up | VIEW |
| Kelley Jackson | "How Much Protein is Required to Prevent Sarcopenia?" | Sareen Gropper, Ph.D. & David Newman, Ph.D. | Christine E. Lynn College of Nursing | Championship Winner & Heat 2 Winner | VIEW |
| Felicia Cooper | "Risk Factors for Post-Tonsillectomy Complications in Children Under 3" | Charles E. Schmidt College of Medicine | Championship 2nd Runner-Up & Heat 2 2nd Runner-Up | VIEW | |
| Caralin Branscum | "Voluntary Victim Intoxication in Sexual Assault: A Summary of Legal Standings" | Seth Fallik, Ph.D. | College for Design and Social Inquiry | Heat 4 Runner-Up | VIEW |
| David Giguere | "Early Exposure is Only a Start: Bilingual Outcomes at 6 Years and Young Adulthood in Second Generation Immigrants" | Erika Hoff, Ph.D. | Charles E. Schmidt College of Science | Heat 5 2nd Runner-Up | VIEW |
| Beth Brady | "Using Manatee Vocalizations to Conserve Related Species" | Edmund Gerstein, Ph.D. | Charles E. Schmidt College of Science | Heat 1 Runner-Up | VIEW |
| Sandhya Sharma | "Point of Care Diagnostic - Zika Detection" | Waseem Asghar, Ph.D. | College of Engineering and Computer Science | Heat 3 Winner | VIEW |
| Kate Briner | "Loanwords in Comanche: Implications for Language Revitalization" | Adam Bradford, Ph.D. | Dorothy F. Schmidt College of Arts and Letters | Heat 6 2nd Runner-Up | VIEW |
| René Miller-Xavier | "Biosynthesis of Marine Natural Products" | Nicholas Dickens, Ph.D. | Charles E. Schmidt College of Science | Heat 7 People's Choice Award Winner | VIEW |
| Travis Moscicki | "Guidance, Navigation, and Control of Unmanned Marine Vehicles" | Karl von Ellenrieder, Ph.D. | College of Engineering and Computer Science | Heat 3 People's Choice Award Winner | VIEW |
| Joseph Niederhauser | "Of Fire and Sparrows" | Rindy Anderson, Ph.D. | Charles E. Schmidt College of Science | Heat 1 2nd Runner-Up | VIEW |
| Joshua Disatham | "Hypoxia Regulation of Lens Structure and Function" | Marc Kantorow, Ph.D. | Charles E. Schmidt College of Science | Heat 5 Winner | VIEW |
| Scott Karasick | "Gorgeous Gold Peacocks: The Construction of Masculine Femininity in American Professional Wrestling" | Mark Harvey, Ph.D. | Dorothy F. Schmidt College of Arts and Letters | Heat 6 Winner | VIEW |
| Indhira Piquion | "Tele-to-Me: Promoting Assessment and Management of Depression in Rural Communities through Telehealth" | Beth King, Ph.D. | Christine E. Lynn College of Nursing | Heat 2 Runner-Up & People's Choice Award Winner | VIEW |
| Alexis Sturm | "Six Degrees of SepaREEFtion: Using Molecular Tools to Assess Coral Genetic Connectivity in Cuba and the Tropical Western Atlantic" | Joshua Voss, Ph.D. | Charles E. Schmidt College of Science | Heat 7 2nd Runner-Up | VIEW |
| Eric Nieves | "Underwater Multi-Vehicle Collaboration" | Pierre-Philippe Beaujean, Ph.D. | College of Engineering and Computer Science | Heat 3 2nd Runner-Up | VIEW |
| Wilson Mclean | "The 'What is' and 'How to' of Creating Healthy Public Organizations: Development and Testing of the Public Organization Wellness Quotient (WQ)"" | Arthur Sementelli, Ph.D. | College for Design and Social Inquiry | Championship Runner-Up & Heat 4 Winner | VIEW |
| Lucas Wilson | "Gay Reparative Therapy at Liberty University" | Alan L. Berger, Ph.D., Andrew Furman, Ph.D., & Eric Berlatsky, Ph.D. | Dorothy F. Schmidt College of Arts and Letters | Heat 6 People's Choice Award Winner | VIEW |
| Mohammad Irfan Uddin | "Undulating Fin Propulsion – The Future of Underwater Maneuvering" | Oscar Curet, Ph.D. | College of Engineering and Computer Science | Heat 3 Runner-Up | VIEW |
| Darius Haber | "Kosher Soul: The Emerging Conflict of Judaic Identity" | Stephen Charbonneau, Ph.D. | Dorothy F. Schmidt College of Arts and Letters | Championship People's Choice & Heat 6 Runner-Up | VIEW |
2017 Videos
| Student Name | Title | Faculty Advisor(s) | College | Accolade(s) | Video Link |
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| Emily Stark | "The Nose Knows: Applications in Machine Olfaction" | Elan Barenholtz, Ph.D. | Charles E. Schmidt College of Science | Heat 7 Winner | VIEW |
| Cristina Pimenta | "Democracy in China: Paradox or Possibility?" | Mehmet Gurses, Ph.D. | Dorothy F. Schmidt College of Arts and Letters | Heat 3 Winner and People's Choice Award Winner | VIEW |
| Julia Roblyer | "Smell‐O‐Vision: Using Human Odorant Binding Protein to Measure Landfill Odors" | Daniel Meeroff, Ph.D. | College of Engineering and Computer Science | Heat 2 Runner-Up | VIEW |
| Brian McMahon | "Early Warning Systems: Predicting Student Success" | Sabrina Sembiante, Ph.D. | College of Education | Heat 5 Runner-Up | VIEW |
| Natalie Bermudez | "Exploring Moral Comfort in Nurses" | Joy Longo, Ph.D. | Christine E. Lynn College of Nursing | Heat 6 Runner-Up | VIEW |
| Marisa Martinez | "Forecasting the Future of Coastal Ecosystems: A Bird's Eye View" | Dale Gawlik, Ph.D. | Charles E. Schmidt College of Science | Heat 1 Runner-Up | VIEW |
| Nicole Reid | "Game Time" | Michelle Vaughan, Ph.D. | College of Education | Heat 5 Winner | VIEW |
| Joseph Niederhauser | "The Secret Lives of Sparrows" | Rindy Anderson, Ph.D. | Charles E. Schmidt College of Science | Heat 4 Runner-Up | VIEW |
| Kirstie Tandberg | "Marine Natural Products as Cancer Therapies: Screening for Survivin Inhibitors" | Amy Wright, Ph.D. | Charles E. Schmidt College of Science | Heat 8 2nd Runner-Up | VIEW |
| Nandini Singh | "Transformers of the Sugar Code" | Mare Cudic, Ph.D. | Charles E. Schmidt College of Science | Heat 1 Winner and People's Choice Award Winner | VIEW |
| Breanna DeGroot | "Movement and Habitat use of Spotted Eagle Rays Throughout Florida" | Matthew Ajemian, Ph.D. | Charles E. Schmidt College of Science | Heat 8 Runner-Up (tie) | VIEW |
| Mikhail Guseynov | "Correlation Between Positive Mentality and Academic Success" | Elizabeth Joy Gillespie, M.B.A. | College of Business | Heat 6 Winner and People's Choice Award Winner | VIEW |
| Rachel Bladow | "Sea Turtle Development in a Changing Climate: Goldilocks Temperatures are Hard to Find" | Sarah Milton, Ph.D. | Charles E. Schmidt College of Science | Heat 2 Winner and People's Choice Award Winner | VIEW |
| Bryan Conklin | "Designing a Brain‐Computer‐Interface that Improves Memory" | Steven Bressler, Ph.D. | Charles E. Schmidt College of Science | Championship 2nd Runner-Up and Heat 7 2nd Runner‐Up | VIEW |
| Bob Halstead | "Connecting the Dots in the Circle of Life: A Fish Story" | Paul Wills, Ph.D. | Charles E. Schmidt College of Science | Heat 8 Runner-Up (tie) | VIEW |
| Nicholas Davenport | "Mind Body 1: Training the Brain by Training the Body" | Michael Hall, Ph.D. | College of Education | Heat 5 2nd Runner-Up | VIEW |
| Rachel Saless | "Singing Behavior in the Northern Cardinal" | Rindy Anderson, Ph.D. | Charles E. Schmidt College of Science | Heat 4 2nd Runner-Up | VIEW |
| Malissa Sanon | "Who’s Your Cody?" | Jennifer Bloom, Ph.D. | College of Education | Heat 5 People's Choice Award Winner | VIEW |
| Eric Nieves | "Multiple‐Vehicle Based Underwater Sensing" | Pierre‐Philippe Beaujean, Ph.D. | College of Engineering and Computer Science | Heat 2 Winner and People's Choice Award Winner | VIEW |
| Felicia Cooper | "Sudden Death Due to Pulmonary Embolism Arising from Occult Ovarian Cancer" | Minda Neimark, Ph.D. | Charles E. Schmidt College of Medicine | Heat 7 Runner-Up | VIEW |
| Gabriela Tortoledo | "Marianne from the Tropics: Finding the Feminist Between the Lines" | Desmond Gallant, M.F.A. | Dorothy F. Schmidt College of Arts and Letters | Heat 3 Runner-Up | VIEW |
| Boris Tezak | "Sea Turtle Sex Ratios in a Changing Climate" | Jeanette Wyneken, Ph.D. | Charles E. Schmidt College of Science | Championship Winner and People's Choice Award Winner & Heat 7 People's Choice Award Winner | VIEW |
| Michael Miller | "Diffusion of Mission‐Related Investing by University and Foundation Endowments" | Clifford McCue, Ph.D. | College for Design and Social Inquiry | Heat 6 2nd Runner-Up | VIEW |
| Keith Murphy | "Using Light to Control Meal Size" | Ken Dawson‐Scully & William Ja, Ph.D. | Charles E. Schmidt College of Science | Championship Runner-Up and Heat 1 2nd Runner‐Up | VIEW |
| Daniel Creed | "You Are What You...Read" | Thomas Martin, Ph.D. | Dorothy F. Schmidt College of Arts and Letters | Heat 3 2nd Runner-Up | VIEW |
| Brandon McHenry | "Zombie Bacteria: Understanding the Viable but Nonculturable State of Vibrio vulnificus" | Peter McCarthy, Ph.D. | Charles E. Schmidt College of Science | Heat 8 Winner and People's Choice Award Winner | VIEW |
2016 Videos
| Student Name | Title | Faculty Advisor(s) | College | Accolade(s) | Video Link |
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| Alberto Padilla | "Fatal Millenary Malady" | James Hartmann, Ph.D. | Charles E. Schmidt College of Medicine | Heat 1 Runner-Up | VIEW |
| Betsy Evans | "The Times They are A-Changin': Wood Stork Response to Human Development" | Dale Gawlik, Ph.D. | Charles E. Schmidt College of Science | Heat 6 Runner-Up | VIEW |
| Vassilia Binensztok | "Reflective Practice and Student Counselors' Case Conceptualization Skills" | Len Sperry, Ph.D. | College of Education | Heat 3 Runner-Up | VIEW |
| Catalina Aranzazu-Suescun | "Event-based Clustering for Composite Event Detection in Wireless Sensors Networks" | Mihaela Cardei, Ph.D. | College of Engineering and Computer Science | Heat 4 Winner | VIEW |
| Douglas Holmes | "Making Pathogen Detection Safe with Synthetic Biology" | Nwadiuto Esiobu, Ph.D. | Charles E. Schmidt College of Science | Heat 6 Winner | VIEW |
| Rachel Finley | "The Lie that Tells the Truth" | Dawn Shamburger, M.F.A. | Dorothy F. Schmidt College of Arts and Letters | Heat 5 Winner & People's Choice Award Winner | VIEW |
| Carlie Perricone | "Assessment of Fecal Pollution in Recreational Waters" | Peter McCarthy, Ph.D. | Charles E. Schmidt College of Science | Heat 8 Winner People's Choice Award Winner | VIEW |
| Eric Nieves | "Magnetic Fields Created by Underwater Waves" | Pierre-Philippe Beaujean & Manhar Dhanak, Ph.D. | College of Engineering and Computer Science | Heat 3 Winner & People's Choice Award Winner | VIEW |
| Keith Murphy | "Postprandial Sleep Mechanics in Drosophila" | Ken Dawson-Scully & William Ja, Ph.D. | Charles E. Schmidt College of Science | Championship 2nd Runner-Up Heat 2 Winner and People's Choice Award Winner | VIEW |
| Shannon Ouellette | "Finding Empathy Through the Secondary Consciousness of Acting" | Des Gallant, M.F.A. | Dorothy F. Schmidt College of Arts and Letters | Heat 5 2nd Runner-Up | VIEW |
| Kyle Newton | "Magnetoreception: How the Stingrays Know Where to Go" | Stephen Kajiura, Ph.D. | Charles E. Schmidt College of Science | Heat 6 2nd Runner-Up & People's Choice Award Winner | VIEW |
| Michael Miller | "With and Open Mouth and Open Mind: Approaches to Group Problem Solving" | Authur Sementelli, Ph.D. | College for Design and Social Inquiry | Heat 2 Runner-Up | VIEW |
| Mickelene Hoggard | "Snail Spit to Medicine" | Mare Cudic, Ph.D. | Charles E. Schmidt College of Science | Championship Winner & Heat 7 Runner-Up and People's Choice Award Winner | VIEW |
| Victoria Erb | "Nest to Surf Mortality of Loggerhead (Caretta caretta) Sea Turtle Hatchlings on Florida’s East Coast" | Jeanette Wyneken, Ph.D. | Charles E. Schmidt College of Science | Heat 7 Winner | VIEW |
| Mikhail Guseynov | "Understanding Public Speaking" | Michelle Williams, M.Ed. | College of Business | Championship People's Choice Award Winner & Heat 4 Runner-Up and People's Choice Award Winner | VIEW |
| Nirthieca Suthakaran | "The Roles of MsrA and MsrB in Anoxia Tolerance in Aging Drosophila melanogaster" | David Binninger, Ph.D. | Charles E. Schmidt College of Medicine | Heat 1 Winer and People's Choice Award Winner | VIEW |
| Stephanie Kelly | "Of Flies and Men: Insights from an Age-Related Stress Tolerance Assay" | Ken Dawson-Scully, Ph.D. | Charles E. Schmidt College of Science | Championship Runner-Up Heat 8 Runner-Up | VIEW |
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