2024-2025 STUDENT PUBLICATION AWARDEES

Congratulations to everyone on your publications!

Arts and Letters 

Name	Title of your work
Dana Adler	New Scholarship Zionism and the American Jewish Community
Kris Barrios	Crisis in the Classroom: The Rise of Book Bans Threatening American Youth
Kimberly Casey	Florida lawmakers crack down on reading as book bans broaden
	Florida Lawmakers Crack Down on Reading as Book Bans Broaden
	The Verdict is in: Adam Hasner to Become the Next President of Florida Atlantic University
	The alarm is ringing: How long will Palm Beach County schools hit snooze for?
	The Alarm is Ringing: How Long Will Palm Beach County Schools Hit Snooze For?
	Amendment Aimed at Making School Board Seats Partisan Fails
Benny Cauthen	American Disco Ball
	Hunger as a city fox
Sephora Charles	FAU will evict burrowing owls from campus habitats for housing construction
Michael  Cook	FAU has hidden tunnels, but they don’t want you to explore them
	FAU T-Buildings: Where 1942 history and modern learning coexist
Beril Han Celik	Media’s Approach to Artificial Intelligence: Content Analysis of US Newspapers
Reese Handley	Last call for a glimpse of 'Political Circus 2024' at Florida Atlantic
Mashaekh Hassan	Masculinity in Flux: Media Representations and the Shaping of Gender Norms Across Cultural Contexts
	The Privileged Struggle of Writing an Extra Paragraph
	Barbie’s plastic problem with the patriarchy: Where were the nuances?
Lys Hayes	How MarFan syndrome redirected a once-promising basketball star to coaching the FAU basketball team
Megan  Heron	Exploring the antiquity of rheumatoid arthritis: A case study from medieval Transylvania
Stephanie Manzo	Florida’s Amendment 3: Legalizing marijuana and its possible impact on FAU
Ali Md Niamot	The Role of the USA in the Liberation War of Bangladesh and the 1971 Genocide: An Analysis in the Post-Cold War Era
	The Contemporary Rohingya Crisis and Security Concerns for Bangladesh
	Book review: Kudret Bulbul, Md. Nazmul Islam & Md. Sajid Khan (Eds), Rohingya Refugee Crisis in Myanmar: Ethnic Conflict and Resolution
	Habibul Khondker; Olav Muurlink; and Asif Bin Ali (Eds.). The Emergence of Bangladesh: Interdisciplinary Perspectives
	Book Review: Habibul Khondker; Olav Muurlink; and Asif Bin Ali (Eds.). The Emergence of Bangladesh: Interdisciplinary Perspectives
	The Contemporary Rohingya Crisis and Security Concerns for Bangladesh
	Book review (accepted): Rashed Al Mahmud Titumir, Tanjila Afrin and Mohammad Saeed Islam (Eds), Natural Resource Degradation and Human-Nature Wellbeing: Cases of Biodiversity Resources, Water Resources, and Climate Change (Singapore: Springer, 2022) by South Asia Research scheduled for publication on November 2025
Cailey Poirier	Antonio Córdoba and Emily A. Maguire's "Posthumanism and Latin(x) American Science Fiction"
Gabriela Quintero	College life in high school: The experiences of FAUHS students
Morgan  Robinson	Minority Access to Education and Affirmative Action, Beyond the White Coat: the Fight for Equal Healthcare by Minorities
Wilson M. Sims	Nothing to Nine and Back
Stefan Tsapenko	Collaboration against Communism: An Overview of Ukrainian Resistance During the Second World War, UPA
Christian Walden	FAU Dems Make Voting Accessible with Free Transportation
	Florida Amendment 3: Legalizing Marijuana in the Sunshine State
	Misty 'Eyez' Alicea | The Body Issue
	Matt Patterson | The Body Issue
	Justin Flippen Memorial Scholarship Awarded to FAU Student
	Discover Wilton Manors: An LGBTQ+ Oasis Just a Short Drive Away
	Tim Walz: An Ally of LGBTQ+ Rights and Champion of Accessible Higher Education

 

Business

Name	Title of your work
Abdul-Kadir Ameyaw	Advancing Theory Development in Emerging and Frontier Markets: Embracing Indigenous and Historical Perspectives in International Business Scholarship
Sophia Choti	Vaccination Mandates and Civil Liberties
Mireille Colin	"Love" and "New Leaf"
Gabriella Figueiredo Borges	BRAZIL AND THE UNITED STATES: THE HISTORICAL EVOLUTION OF CIVIL VS. COMMON LAW SYSTEMS
Taylor Fray	The Olympic experiences of FAU’s beach volleyball head coach Steve Grotowski
Alexander  Georgiev	Financial Literacy: An Inside Look on American's Investing Habits
Ava Vignola	Fast Fashion: Discovering American Consumers' Opinions

 

Education

Name	Title of your work
Robert Bogle	Bringing STEM to the Table: A Taste of Informal STEM Learning in a Community-Based Literacy Festival
Danielle Brown	Teachers’ Perceptions of the Impact of Digital Game-Based Learning in K-12 Social Studies Students’ Learning
Sheria Kwok	Mutual Storytelling, Cultural Humility, and Broaching: Bridging the Gap When Working with Culturally Diverse Older Adults

 

Engineering & Computer Science

Name	Title of your work
Mohammed Al-Jassani	Localization and tracking of beluga whales in aerial video using deep learning
Bader Alsharif	Transfer learning with YOLOV8 for real-time recognition system of American Sign Language Alphabet
Juan Merlos	Enabling Next-Generation Consumer Experience  with Feature Coding for Machines

 

Honors College

Name	Title of your work
Isabel Guevara Blanco	Post-Mortem Family Therapy
Christopher Nguyen	A Drunk and a Fool
Caitlyn Seal	Pollen Falling Like Ash and Eternal Revision
Rebecca Stanley	Who I Am
	Trip to the Beach
Brycelyn Turner	I Believe in Barbie

 

Nursing

Name	Title of your Work
Herlie Bertrand	“If I knew what was going on with me, then I probably wouldn’t feel so sad or scared”: A CBPR Study Addressing Health Disparities for Black Pregnant Women.
Christina DiMeo	DRUG INTOXICATION AMONG LATINO OPIOID USERS IN FLORIDA
Kerry-Ann Dixon	"“If I knew what was going on with me, then I probably wouldn’t feel so sad or scared”: A CBPR Study Addressing Health Disparities for Black Pregnant Women,"
Raquel Panos	DRUG INTOXICATION AMONG LATINO OPIOID USERS IN FLORIDA

 

Medicine

Name	Title of your work
Adedamola Adele	Electronic Vapor Products: Alarming Trends in United States Adolescents
Gurnoor Gill	Evaluation of Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) in Identifying Retinal Conditions Through Classification of Optical Coherence Tomography (OCT) Images
Milayna Kokoska	Bidirectional modulation of negative emotional states by parallel genetically-distinct basolateral amygdala pathways to ventral striatum subregions
Austin Lent	Trends in Childhood Behavioral, Mental, and Developmental Problems (2019–2022) Using the National Survey of Children’s Health
Aslyn Mattson	Endovascular Repair of Ascending Aortic Pseudoaneurysm
Camberly Moriconi	Quantum Computing in the Realm of Neurosurgery
Darian Peters	Winning the Lottery: A Simulation Study Comparing Scarce Resource Allocation Protocols in Crisis Scenarios
	Advance Directives Revisited (2002 vs. 2023): Are We Closer to Uniformity?
	HPV Vaccination Rates in Military Females: The Need for a Multi-Level and Evidence-Based Approach
	Rest in Peace or in Pieces: Post-Mortem Care Options in U.S. Advance Directives
	Is naloxone where it needs to be? Using spatial analytics to examine equitable distribution of community-based naloxone sites
Alejandra Quintero	Correlating Evoked Electromyography and Anatomic Factors During Spinal Cord Stimulation Implantation With Short-Term Outcomes
Annalisa Tran	Modulation of Wnt/Beta-Catenin Pathway by Major Dietary Phytochemicals Against Breast Cancer Development

 

Science

Name	Title of your work
Srigiriraju Abhishikta	The Current and Potential Applications of CRISPR Technology
Ramya Ayyalasomayajula	Spectroscopic and calorimetric study of the interaction between Nile blue and double-stranded RNA
	Preventative Cancer Vaccine-Elicited Human Anti-MUC1 Antibodies Have Multiple Effector Functions
	Amadori and Heyns rearrangement products of bioactive peptides as potential new ligands of galectin-3
	Targeting Siglec–Sialylated MUC1 Immune Axis in Cancer
	Synthesis and Thermodynamic Evaluation of Sialyl-Tn MUC1 Glycopeptides Binding to Macrophage Galactose-Type Lectin
Kerriann Badal	Single-neuron analysis of aging-associated changes in learning reveals impairments in transcriptional plasticity
Tanvi Desai	REIMAGINING JUSTICE WITHOUT EXECUTION: SHOULD THE DEATH PENALTY BE ABOLISHED?
Ryan Eckert	Assesment of nutrient amendments on stony coral tissue loss disease in Southeast Florida
	Recent trends and biases in mesophotic ecosystem research
	Cryptic diversity of shallow and mesophotic Stephanocoenia intersepta corals across Florida Keys National Marine Sanctuary
Safia  Gecaj	Older Adults’ Perceptions of Returning to Exercise Classes During COVID-19
Samantha Gott	Maternal and Infant Oxytocin Are Linked to EEG, Stress, and Temperament in Infants of Depressed and Non-Depressed Mothers
Subhosit Ray	Feature Identification Using Interpretability Machine Learning Predicting Risk Factors for Disease Severity of In-Patients with COVID-19 in South Florida
Jordan Thompson	Registered report protocol: Stress testing predictive models of ideological prejudice
	Registered report: Cognitive ability, but not cognitive reflection, predicts expressing greater political animosity and favouritism

 

 

Social Work & Criminal Justice

Name	Title of your work
Alice Gnesin	SERIAL KILLER TERMINOLOGY AND ITS EFFECT ON CRIMINAL TRIALS