RRS Live
RRS Live showcases real-time, interactive presentations of research projects undertaken by Randall Research Scholars Program students. During these broadcasts, scholars delve into the objectives, results, and broader implications of their work from recent semesters.
Wednesday, December 4th
| Time | Presenter | Title | Director |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1:00 | Lawson McVay | Aranea Debris Interceptor - A Biomimetic Approach to Orbital Debris Mitigation | Dr. Sichen Yuan |
| 1:15 | Ava Concannon | Comparing Cardiovascular and Metabolic Profiles of Morning and Evening Chronotypes | Dr. Hayley MacDonald |
| 2:00 | Madeline Yob | Perception of Direct versus Indirect Personality Associations of Brands and Influencers in Advertising | Dr. Jameson Hayes, Dr. Steven Holiday |
| 2:15 | Parker Stewart | Redefining Buddhism With a Non-linear Interactive Digital Approach | Dr. Steven Ramey |
| 2:30 | Arya Karnik | Building a Small Uncrewed Aircraft System with 6 Degrees of Freedom to Emulate Satellite Dynamics | Dr. Jordan Larson |
| 2:45 | Holland Henderson-Boyer | Weather, Mood, and Climate Change Applications | Dr. Michael Price |
| 3:00 | Hunter Enders | Antenna Array Simulation and Fabrication for UAV-Based Microwave Remote Sensing of Soil Moisture | Dr. Sara Neshani |
| 3:15 | Nicholas Kaple | Laser-Assisted Cold Spray Deposition of Refractory Metals | Dr. Luke Brewer |
| 3:30 | Gibson Jarrell | Digital Literacy Practices of Liberal TikTok Activists | Dr. Amber Buck |
| 3:45 | Zana Norton | Diet-Induced Differences in EAGLEs Accumulation in D. Melanogaster | Dr. Lukasz Ciesla |
| 4:30 | Rebecca Maddox | Design for In-Space Manufacturing of Metallic Components | Dr. Kasra Momeni |
| 4:45 | Katherine Graebner | Papal Politics and Public Opinion in 17th-Century Rome | Dr. Fabio Battista |
| 5:00 | Kaitlin Deans | Neural Correlates of Dissociative States Associated with Trauma Among Former Foster Youth | Dr. Lindamarie Olson |
| 5:15 | Joscelyn Peterson | The Black Belt 2025 Series | Dr. Stephen Katsinas |
| 5:30 | Henry Vlacovsky | A Secondary Analysis of Federal Data Sets, with an Emphasis on the Deep South and Alabama | Dr. Stephen Katsinas |
| 5:45 | Aidan Gesch | Accelerating Microstructural Evolution Using Machine Learning | Dr. Chongze Hu |
| 6:00 | Kinion Fowler | Dynamic Stress Analysis through Taylor Impact Testing | Dr Mark Barkey |
| 6:15 | Morgan Smith | Impact of Monetary Policy on Bank Interest Rate Risk | Mustafa Emin |
| 6:30 | Tyler Posey | Oral Delivery of Paclitaxel Using a Squalene-Ligand Bioconjugate for Receptor-Mediated Targeting | Dr Meenakshi Arora |
| 7:15 | Michelle McCleod | Neural Bases of Information Transfer in Autism Spectrum Disorder | Dr. Evie Malaia |
| 7:30 | Blake Yuenger | Development of Palladium-Acyl Precatalysts for Cross-Coupling Catalysis | Dr. Kevin Shaughnessy |
| 8:00 | Elizabeth Fritz-Kent | Investigation of Salla Disease Gene Involvement using C. elegans Epilepsy Model | Dr. Kim Caldwell |
| 8:15 | William Mulhern | Implementation and testing of advanced control algorithms for robotic and autonomous systems | Dr. Pan Zhao |
Thursday, December 5th
| Time | Presenter | Title | Director |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1:00 | Liam Smith | Adjusting Double Poisson Models to Predict the NCAA Division I Softball Championship | Dr. Brendan Ames |
| 1:15 | John Harris | Challenging Chronic Absenteeism | Dr. Robert Hammond |
| 1:30 | Dexter Gard | Artificial Neural Networks for Predicting Electric Vehicle Adoption | Dr. Mesut Yavuz |
| 1:45 | Arman Dolatabadi | Examining Morphological Processing in a Multilingual Eye-Tracking Corpus | Dr. Luca Campanelli |
| 2:00 | Catherine Martin | Applying Line and Groove Patterns to Nanofiltration Membranes | Dr. Steven Weinman |
| 2:15 | Emily Centamore | Upgrading Detection and Analysis Capabilities of the CMS Detector for the High Luminosity Large Hadron Collider | Dr. Sergei Gleyzer |
| 2:30 | Elizabeth Owens | Rangefinder-Aided Inertial Attitude Determination for Small Uncrewed Aircraft Systems | Dr. Jordan Larson |
| 2:45 | Bailey Berry | Urolithin-A Laden Polymeric Nanoparticles for Improved Bioavailability in Oral Administration | Dr. Meenakshi Arora |
| 3:00 | David Anderson | Combinational Therapy Cyclosporine-A loaded nanoparticles and plain Urolithin-A for the treatment of Lupus in postmenopausal mice model. | Dr. Meenakshi Arora |
| 3:15 | Hannah Gardner | The Implementation of Research PACS for Enhanced Medical Image Archival | Dr. Sharlene Newman |
| 3:30 | Nolan McKibben | Cost-Effective Method to Monitor In Vivo Changes in Neonatal Rats with Retinopathy of Prematurity | Dr. Libo Tan |
| 3:45 | Joslyn Bullington | Integration of Ultrasound Hand Gesture Recognition into Robotic Limb Control | Dr. Qiang Zhang |
| 4:00 | Mary Couture | Evaluation of Mitochondrial Variation in Different Breast Cancer Cell Lines | Dr. Yuping Bao |
| 4:30 | Mason Pentes | Bioprinting of Glioblastoma Stem Cell-laden Hydrogel Organoids | Dr John Kim |
| 4:45 | Alexander Guirgues | Cryopreservation of Tumor Stem Cell-Derived Organoids | Dr. Yonghyun (John) Kim |
| 5:00 | Molly Sullivan | The Impact of Inclusion Complexation with Fatty Acid on Pea Starch Digestibility | Dr. Lingyan Kong |
| 5:15 | Sophia Marshall-Pelayo | Enhancing resistant starch content of pea starch through complexation with gallic acid and alkyl gallates. | Dr. Lingyan Kong |
| 5:30 | Freya Cordell | Growth Season Analysis in Saxidomas gigantea as a Paleoclimate Proxy for Sea Ice Flux | Dr. Fred Andrus |
| 5:45 | Ava Brashear | AI use in Geriatric Welfare Simulations | Dr. Nicole Ruggiano |
| 6:00 | Raeed Kabir | Estimating Firm Preferences for Political Candidates in the Face of Policy Uncertainty | Dr Michael Price |
| 6:15 | Andrew Narvaez | Rational Design of Cannabinoid Extraction Co-Solvents | Dr. Pete Ludovice |
| 6:30 | Griffin Beasley | Mechanical Characterization of the resultant elastomer styrene-ethylene-butylene-styrene (SEBS) from specific formulations and novel fabrication methods | Dr. Amanda Koh |
| 7:30 | Joshua Walter | Machine Learning of Grain Boundaries in High-Entropy Alloys | Dr. Chongze Hu |
| 7:45 | Robert Gill | The Roles of TikTok and YouTube as Sources of Partisan Political Content and Drivers of Affective Polarization. | Dr. Elliot Panek |
| 8:00 | Aaron Groff | Effects of Various Catalysts on the Synthesis of Ethyl Acetate via Ethanol Oxidative Self-Coupling Reactions | Dr. James Shogren-Harris |
| 8:15 | Joseph Semler | Modeling Dual Fuel Combustion in a Heavy-Duty Diesel Engine Fueled with Diesel and Natural Gas | Dr. Kalyan Srinivasan, Dr. Sundar Krishnan |
| 8:30 | Chance Jones | Characterizing Battery Performance in Hybrid Electric Aircraft | Dr. Krishna Shah |
Friday, December 6th
| Time | Presenter | Title | Director |
|---|---|---|---|
| 12:00 | Chloe Kaplan | A Community Engaged Approach to Mitigating Maternity Care Deserts in West Alabama | Dr. Holly Horan |
| 12:15 | Lindsey Flondro | Body Position and Eye Contact in Autistic and Neurotypical Infants | Dr. Kelsey West, Ms. Malerie McDowell |
| 12:30 | Izabella Melkonyan | How Choices and Behavior of Others Affect Individual Portfolio Allocation. | Dr. Paan Jindapon |
| 12:45 | Lauren Geisler | The Regional Variation in the Performance and Longevity of Lithium-ion Batteries for EV Use and Federal EV Investment Distortion | Dr. Michael Price, Dr Krishna Shah |
| 1:00 | Cole Seely | Predicting Acid-Base Properties of Halomethanes | Dr. David Dixon |
| 1:15 | Ethan DeLuca | Computational modeling of laser-powder bed fusion additive manufacturing | Dr. Alexey Volkov |
| 1:30 | Madeline Clingaman | Examining microbial glycan degradation | Dr. Melanie Higgins |
| 1:45 | Abbey Wiggins | Annual climatic variation affects biomass allocation in tidal marsh plant communities | Dr. Julia Cherry |
| 2:00 | Emma Cabage | The Everdeen Paradox: When You Have to Conform to Be Independent | Dr. Louis Marino |
| 2:15 | Georgia Herr | Evaluating the Capabilities of Adsorbable Organic Fluorine in a Variety of Sample Matrices | Dr. Leigh Terry |
| 2:45 | Truman Porter | Developing a User Review Classifier for Sex Trafficking Risk | Dr. Nick Freeman |
| 3:00 | Lee Goetzinger | Leveraging the Ethics Bowl Framework for Community-Driven and Inclusive AI Ethics Education in STEM | Dr. Katherine Chiou |
| 3:15 | Helene Renninger | Application of Machine Learning Techniques to Identify Non-Informative Images | Dr. Nick Freeman, Dr. Greg Bott |
| 3;30 | Jesse Park | Parameter Optimization of Tensegrity Structures. | Dr. Keivan Davami |
| 3:45 | Collin Francel | Scalable Methods for Encoding and Comparing Patterns in Commercial Sex Ads | Dr. Nick Freeman |
| 4:00 | Gabrielle Kowkabany | Structural Effects of Various Flavonoids on Ligand-Iron Complex Nanoparticle Formation and Their Applications in Drug Resistant Cancer | Dr. Yuping Bao |
| 4:15 | Bailey Liddle | Data and Text Analytics to Identify Sex Trafficking Victims in Escort Reviews | Dr. Nick Freeman, Dr Gregory Bott |
| 4:30 | Ellie Burton | Enhancing Sex Trafficking Detection through Graph-Based Analysis of Online Sex Advertisements | Dr. Nick Freeman, Dr. Greg Bott |