CSM Outstanding Community Engagement Award: Gianna Parrish
Goldwater Scholarship and Excellence in Education Foundation: Kate Frederick
Syed Ali-Zaidi Nominee Award: Gianna Parrish
CSM Poster Session Awards
Fall 2025 CSM Undergraduate Poster Session 1st Place Award
Mahum Mahmood: The Effect of Folic Acid on Planarian Motility and Regeneration
Advisor: Dr. Oné Pagán; Department of Biology
Fall 2025 CSM Undergraduate Poster Session 2nd Place Award
Ashley Weber: Balancing Survival and Support: Stress, Work, and Maternal Health.
Advisor: Dr. Megan Nolan; Department of Psychology
Fall 2025 CSM Graduate Poster Session 1st Place Award
Brian Kominick: Generative AI in Undergraduate Computer Science Education: A Structured
Survey and Thematic Synthesis
Advisor: Dr. Linh Ngo; Department of Computer Science
Fall 2025 CSM Graduate Poster Session 2nd Place Award
Ryan Cassidy and Daniel Papa: Health-related quality of life between individuals with
Long COVID with and without mood-related changes.
Advisor: Dr. Erin Hill; Department of Psychology
Spring 2026 CSM Undergraduate Poster Session 1st Place Award
Sakina Zaidi: The Impact of Antibiotic Treatment Regimen on the Development of Antibiotic
Resistance.
Advisor: Dr. Sean Buskirk; Department of Biology
Spring 2026 CSM Undergraduate Poster Session 2nd Place Award
Victoria Zencak, Carley Slavin, Allie Sullivan, & Sophia Weiss: The Effect of Post-Operative
Care Treatments on the Tensile Strength of Surgical Sutures.
Advisor: Dr. Muzzamil Mumtaz; Department of Biomedical Engineering
Spring 2026 CSM Graduate Poster Session 1st Place Award
Romance Albarqawi & Sarah Richter: Investigating the Influence of Parental Nativity
on Social Anxiety, Tolerance of Uncertainty, and Self-Esteem in Grade-School Children.
Advisor: Dr. Stevie Grassetti; Department of Psychology
Spring 2026 CSM Graduate Poster Session 2nd Place Award
Devin Bradley: Impacts of Viruses, Nematodes, and Fungi on Ants (Formicidae).
Advisor: Dr. Manu Ramalho; Department of Biology
CSM Research Grants
Spring 2026 CSM Undergraduate Student Research Grant
Dillon Letherer: Evaluating Impacts of Beech Leaf Disease on Vertical Gradients of
Vapor Pressure Deficit in Deciduous Forest Microclimates
Advisor: Dr. Joby Hilliker; Department of Earth and Space Science
Kate Frederick: Analyzing Ionospheric Dynamics Using Radio Images and GPS-Dual Frequency
Receiver Data
Advisor: Dr. Marc Gagné; Department of Earth and Space Science
Spring 2026 CSM Graduate Student Research Grant
Kristina Curran: Correlating Orbital and In Situ Mineralogy in Gale Crater Through
Laboratory Spectral and XRD Analysis of Proxy Mineral Mixtures
Advisor: Dr. Marc Gagné; Department of Earth and Space Science
Laura Stahlman: Gender incongruence in relation to disordered eating and food and
alcohol disturbance among transgender and nonbinary individuals: Examining body uneasiness
and body surveillance as mediators
Advisor: Dr. Erin Hill; Department of Psychology
Tom Erwin: Changes in Distribution of Emergent Aquatic Insect Taxa Measured by Distance
from the Stream Bank
Advisor: Dr. Megan Fork; Department of Biology
Trokon Macauley: A Feasibility Pilot: A Novel Text Message Intervention to Promote
Ethnic-Racial Socialization in Immigrant-Origin Adolescents and Emerging Adults
Advisor: Dr. Stevie Grassetti;Department of Psychology
