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.
RRS Live Schedule - 2025
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Wednesday, December 3
| Time | Presenter | Title | Director |
|---|---|---|---|
| 12:00 | Zach Griffith | Microphase Separation Effects on Water Adsorption and Conductivity in Anion Exchange Membranes | Zhongyang Wang |
| 12:15 | Piper Larkin | The impact of hyaluronic acid on Paclitaxel treatment of brain metastatic breast cancer cells | Shreyas Rao |
| 12:30 | Evan Ingmire | Effects of Hyaluronic Acid on Cell Dormancy in Brain Metastatic Breast Cancer | Shreyas Rao |
| 12:45 | Abby Gobbels | Radical-mediated Thiol-Ene Addition to Dehydrochlorinated Poly(vinyl chloride) | Jason Bara |
| 1:00 | Addison Moncelle | Stoichiometric Analysis of UHTCs | Evan Schwind |
| 1:15 | Nicholas Kaple | Synthesis of Eutectic Composites in Transition Metal Carbides | Evan Schwind |
| 1:30 | Cole Seely | Predicting Acid-Base Properties of Halomethanes | David Dixon |
| 1:45 | Emma Cabage | Lights, Camera, Ambition: Understanding Female Entrepreneurship in Cinema | Vishal Gupta |
| 2:00 | Jesse Park | Surface Fracture Toughness of Laser Peened ZrB2 ceramics through Nanoindentation process | Keivan Davami |
| 2:15 | Arya Karnik | Implementing Priority Traffic Light Algorithm in the Real World | Joshua Bittle |
| 2:30 | Emily Centamore | Computational Analysis for the Identification of Exotic Higgs Decays | Sergei Gleyzer |
| 2:45 | Lance Kiesewetter | Characterization of Corrosion Crack Damage in AA7050 Additive Friction Stir Deposition (AFSD) Fastener Hole Repairs | Gregory Kubacki |
| 3:00 | Elizabeth Wiese | Treating and Preventing Risk-Taking Behaviors After Traumatic Brain Injury: A Case for Flavonoids | Ryan Earley |
| 3:15 | Connor McHenry | Fire Performance Assessment of Low-Carbon and High-Performance Concrete | Sriram Aaleti |
| 3:30 | Ava Brashear | Associations Between Habitual Physical Activity and Post Traumatic Stress Disorder Symptomatology | Elroy Aguiar |
| 3:45 | Lawson McVay | Form Finding of Deployable Parabolic Reflectors | Sichen Yuan |
| 4:00 | Sean Anderson | Fabricating a Biocompatible Skin for a Millimeter-Scale Tensegrity Robot | Sichen Yuan |
| 4:30 | Truman Porter | Multimodal Transformers for Detecting Joint Attention in Parent-Child Interactions | Yanyu Xiong |
| 4:45 | Vibu Puvvala | What Shapes Perceptions and Tolerance of Naturally Occurring Events | Michael Price, Tigran Melkonyan |
| 5:00 | Freya Cordell | Growth Analysis of Saxidomus gigantea as a Paleoclimate Proxy for Sea Ice Flux | Fred Andrus |
| 5:15 | William Mulhern | An Investigation into AI-Enhanced Goal Achievement for College Students | Katie Garrison |
| 5:30 | Eleanor Israel | "Even Though We’re What Y’all Call Criminals, We’re Still Human”: AI-Enabled Exploration of (Dis)Trust Practices Shaping HIV Prevention for Black Women in Southern Community Corrections | Karen Johnson |
| 5:45 | Ava Owens | BITE - Building Intentional Thinking and Eating | Linda Knol |
| 6:00 | Arman Dolatabadi | Individual Differences and Task Complexity Factors in L2 Writing Performance and Processes | Bryan Koronkiewicz |
| 6:15 | Georgia Herr | Development and Implementation of the Total Oxidizable Precursor (TOP) Assay for PFAS Analysis | Leigh Terry |
| 6:45 | Alex Jorns | Intersecting Color Spaces: Computational Modeling Of Spectrophotometric Data Of Two 1910s Textile Color Cards | Marcy Koontz |
| 7:00 | Luke Turner | Evaluating the Impact of Pre-IPO ESG Disclosures on Long-Term Firm Success | Theresa Welbourne |
| 7:15 | Naomi Jones | The Potential Role of AI in Supporting Systematic Literature Reviews | Theresa Welbourne |
| 7:30 | Dmitriy Sazonov | Incorporating Non-Manual Features in Automatic Sign Language Translation | Evie Malaia |
| 7:45 | Collin Francel | Developing Novel Triggers for Backdoor Attacks on LLMs | Sayanton Dibbo |
| 8:00 | Alexander Kim | Developing Iron-Oxide Nanoparticles for Biomedical Applications | Yuping Bao |
| 8:15 | Robert Gill | Applying Topic Modeling Strategies in Short Form Video Research | Elliot Panek |
| 8:30 | Benjamin Beggs | Probing the NMR-Active Aggregate Formation of Substituted Benzenes in Water | Silas Blackstock |
Thursday, December 4
| Time | Presenter | Title | Director |
|---|---|---|---|
| 12:30 | Aislinn Hamill | Security Testing of Biometric Authentication Systems for Enhanced Access Control Applications | Travis Atkison |
| 12:45 | John Harris | Evaluating the Impact of Peer Mentoring on Mentors and Mentees | Robert Hammond |
| postponed | Bella Melkonyan | How Choices and Behaviors of Others Affect Individual Portfolio Allocation | Paan Jindapon |
| 1:15 | Ellis Timmer | Determining the Effect of Exposure to Endocrine Disrupting Compounds on Behavioral Phenotype of Mangrove Rivulus Fish | Ryan Earley |
| 1:30 | Randy Graebner | Measuring Risk Attitudes in the Lab | Paan Jindapon |
| 1:45 | Hannah Gardner | Enhancing and Integrating Research PACS for Optimized MRI Data Management | Rishi Deshpande |
| 2:00 | Dexter Gard | ANN-Based Prediction of EV Adoption in Alabama | Mesut Yavuz |
| 2:15 | Mira Kondor | On the Robustness of Government Spending Multipliers to Data Revisions | Gregory Givens |
| 2:30 | Addison Spears | Climbing Up the EV Adoption Curve | Mesut Yavuz |
| 2:45 | Melaina Munson | Oral Polymeric Nanoformulation of Paclitaxel for Cancer Treatment | Meenakshi Arora, Raghu Gangula |
| 3:00 | Bailey Berry | Stereocomplex Hydrogels for the Delivery of Anti-Inflammatory Agents in Dermal Applications | Meenakshi Arora |
| 3:15 | Reagan Baggett | Efficacy Testing of Anti-Inflammatory Agents in Retinal Cell Culture Models | Raghu Ganugula |
| 3:30 | Aidan Gesch | Using Machine Learning to Relate Grain Boundary Properties to SOAP Descriptors | Chongze Hu |
| 3:45 | Jackson Carver | Application of Magnetic Fields in Photoemission Spectroscopy via Halbach Array | Yi Lin |
| 4:00 | Lauren Geisler | The Regional Variation in Electric Vehicle Emissions Under United States Temperature Conditions and Efficiency of in Federal Electric Vehicle Investment. | Michael Price, Krishna Shah |
| 4:30 | Phanuelle Manuel | Examining the Impact of Color and Contrast in Digital Anthropometric Body Composition Estimates | Michael Fedewa |
| 4:45 | Aaron Groff | Catalytic Synthesis of Ethyl Acetate via Oxidative Self-Coupling of Ethanol | James Shogren-Harris |
| 5:00 | Leeza Haddock | The Impact of RNA-editing on pcca-1 Function in an Alzheimer's Model | Guy Caldwell |
| 5:15 | Garrett McNeill | Situational Moderators of Atheist Prejudice as a Function of Identity-Signaling | Will Hart, Braden Hall |
| 5:30 | Cassidy Griffith | Molecular Characterization of Deformation-Induced Signaling Changes in Breast Cancer Cells | John Kim |
| 5:45 | Alexander Guirgues | Cryopreservation of Tumor Stem Cell-Derived Organoids | John (Yonghyun) Kim |
| 6:00 | Mason Pentes | Proteomic Analysis of Decellularized Glioblastoma Organoids | Yonghyun (John) Kim |
| 6:15 | Joscelyn Peterson | The Black Belt 2025 Series | Stephen Katsinas |
| 6:30 | Kameryn Bardwell | The State of Children in Alabama's Black Belt | Stephen Katsinas |
| 7:00 | Josh Walter | Atomistic simulations of interfacial segregation in multicomponent vanadium alloys | Chongze Hu |
| 7:15 | Megan Hansen | Biological Productivity and Foraminifera Microfossils: A Fingerprint of Past Ocean and Glacier Conditions Offshore Antarctica | Rebecca Totten |
| 7:30 | Caroline Cunningham | Original Discrimination: How the Supreme Court Disadvantages Plaintiff States | Heather Elliott |
| 7:45 | Maddie Hahn | Investigating Aggregation of Amyloid Proteins with Spatially Resolved Infrared Spectroscopy | Ayanjeet Ghosh |
| 8:00 | Elizabeth Fritz-Kent | Investigation of Salla Disease Gene Involvement using C. elegans Epilepsy Model | Kim Caldwell |
| 8:15 | Owen Lubic | Post-polymerization Functionalization of Low Molecular Weight Poly(methyl Methacrylate) | Jason Bara |
| 8:30 | Elizabeth Owens | Adapting Multi-Sensor Fusion for sUAS Landing Operations | Jordan Larson |
| 8:45 | William Malerich | Molecular Dynamics Simulation and Characterization of Grain Boundary Segregation in the Al-Cu System | Chongze Hu |
Friday, December 5
| Time | Presenter | Title | Director |
|---|---|---|---|
| 11:45 | Nico Chaney-Martinez | Computational Structural Modeling of RNA-Based Regulatory Molecules | Ryan Summers |
| 12:00 | Sophia Marshall-Pelayo | Biopolymer-stabilized lutein emulsions and their electrospray drying. | Lingyan Kong |
| 12:15 | Kaitlin Deans | Neural Correlates of Dissociative States Associated with Trauma Among Former Foster Youth | Lindamarie Olson |
| 12:30 | Mary Couture | Searching for Patterns in Cluster Scattering Coefficient Sequences | Kyungyong Lee |
| 12:45 | Parker Stewart | Design and Fabrication of Lift Plus Cruise Small Uncrewed Aircraft System | Jordan Larson |
| 1:00 | Ethan DeLuca | Development of GPU-Enabled Codes for Computational Modeling of Laser-Powder Bed Fusion Additive Manufacturing | Alexey Volkov |
| 1:15 | Kathryn Boxmeyer | What are Entrepreneurs of seed and pre-seed companies looking for in Accelerator programs? | Michael Price |
| 1:30 | Jackson McDonald | Computational Analysis of Dust Collisions in Protoplanetary Disks | Chao-Chin Yang |
| 1:45 | Brady Bolding | Integrated Communication and Navigation for Autonomous Underwater Vehicles | Aijun Song |
| 2:00 | Serena O'Brien | Intercomparison of Convolutional Neural Network Architectures for Flood Inundation Mapping from High Resolution Aerial Photography | Sagy Cohen, M.N.V Kumar |
| 2:15 | Rebecca Maddox | Design for In-Space Manufacturing of Metallic Components | Kasra Momeni |
| 2:45 | Aparna Bhooshanan | BlockCrypt: A Block-Based Programming Platform for Modern Cryptography | Ahmad Alsharif |
| 3:00 | Zachary Goldman | The Neurogenetics of Drosophila | Atulya Iyengar |
| 3:15 | Jaxson Liening | Acute Effects of Air Pollution on Investor Behavior | Michael Price |
| 3:30 | Gillian Bangert | Understanding Medical Play in Autistic and Non-Autistic Preschoolers | Kelsey West |
| 4:00 | Saraah Zaheer | Quantifying and Comparing Feeding Efficiencies of Freshwater Pufferfish and Cichlids in Snail Consumption | Edward Burress |
| 4:15 | Sam Barskiy | Wearable Sensors for Detecting Characteristics of Breath | Amanda Koh |
| 4:30 | Cooper Simon | FMCW LIDAR System for Bathymetry | Sara Neshani |
| 4:45 | Samuel Barnes | Numerical Simulations of Plasma Plume Expansion into Low-Density Background Gas | Alexey Volkov |
| 5:00 | Reese Geister | Investigating nucleic acid modifications in the brain of the fly model of epilepsy. | Stanislava Chtarbanova |