A total of 89 students from St. Cloud State University’s College of Science and Engineering (COSE) presented their research at COSE’s first Research Colloquium since 2018 on April 18.
Students showcased their current research and other various projects through poster or oral presentations. The event gave students a unique opportunity to showcase their academic and co-curricular projects such as significant service-learning exercises, original hypothesis-driven lab research projects, results from consulting projects, and much more.
The natural sciences were the best represented with medical studies on CBD and diabetes, while other students looked into counting bright celestial bodies with MATLAB and rehabilitating COSE’s weather station to name a few.
Engineering students further shared prototypes such as an automatic pill dispenser and a warning system to prevent people from leaving children in overheated cars. Many STEM Education students also showed their learning studies in K-12 classrooms. For example, one study looked at the efficacy of teaching science in English to students who were still learning the language. In the end students submitted 59 unique abstracts on different research topics.
Behind all this student research were 31 faculty members acting as advisors and mentors, while a further 16 faculty members volunteered as judges. COSE faculty and staff collaborated on a planning committee to make the event happen in just one month.
List of winners
Poster Presentations:
- Best Undergraduate Poster Presentation
- Cole Wunderlich, Amy Thompson, Jenny Wang, Katie Fredin, Irene Sunny Thakidiyel; The Effects of Water-Soluble Cannabidiol (CBD) on Type 1 Diabetes Development in Mouse Experimental Models
- Honorable Mention Undergraduate Poster Presentation
- Samantha Corrigan, Hunteria Umbellata aqueous extract ameliorates the polycystic ovarian morphology in Sprague-Dawley rats
- Honorable Mention Undergraduate Poster Presentation
- Jordan Smith, Machine Learning-Based Identifications of COVID-19 Fake News Using Biomedical Information Extraction
- Honorable Mention Undergraduate Poster Presentation
- Natalie Swearingen, Evolutionary Patterns of Body-Size and Bioluminescence in Sharks (Selachii)
Oral Presentations:
- Best Graduate Oral Presentation
- Amaya Bruner, Study on Water-Soluble Cannabidiol (CBD) on Type 1 Diabetes
- Honorable Mention Graduate Oral Presentation
- Alex Maile, Habitat Transitions and the Evolution of Lures in the Anglerfishes (Lophoidei)
- Best Undergraduate Oral Presentation
- Ava DeMars, Improving the SCSU Insect Collection
