2021 Symposium Award Winners

The excellent work of Campbell's students and faculty can be witnessed through the fine work presented in the 11th Annual Wiggins Memorial Library Academic Symposium. This event was presented in a virtual format, with over 100 presentations across Campbell’s disciplines.

High Merit Winners scored within the top 10% of their category. Merit Winners scored within the top 25% of their category. All of these winners’ names will be published in the 2020-21 edition of Accolades and all will receive prizes. Join us in congratulating these winners!

Art Exhibits

High Merit

• Squeezed by Bri Herritt (Faculty Mentor: Prof. Maggie Horvath)

Merit

• Scottish Terror by Lee Faison (Faculty Mentor: Prof. Breck Smith)

Undergraduate Oral Presentations

High Merit

• Cloning, Expression, and Purification of Human Carbonic Anhydrase 2 in E. coli by Robert Brown (Faculty Mentor: Dr. Taek You)
• Oblique Meniscal Tear in a Law Enforcement Officer who was Treated Without the use of Evidence Based Practice by Megan Jackson (Faculty Mentor: Dr. Sarah Christie)
• Discovering Yadkinville by Jordan Gentry (Faculty Mentor: Dr. Justin Nelson)

Merit

• Troy, North Carolina: The Town Paved With Gold by Lily Patterson (Faculty Mentor: Dr. Justin Nelson)
• Hidden Hudson by Brianna Berry (Faculty Mentor: Dr. Justin Nelson)
• Microbial Diversity of Campbell University Ants by Caitlyn Vester (Faculty Mentor: Dr. Stephanie Mathews)
• The Correlation Between College Students’ Course Satisfaction and Contributing Factors by Anna Cuddington (Faculty Mentor: Dr. Jutta Street)
• A Correlational Study Between Anxiety and Insomnia by Hannah Toomes (Faculty Mentor: Dr. Jutta Street)

Graduate Oral Presentations

High Merit

• Incidence of Drug Induced Liver Injury (DILI) with Sulfamethoxazole/Trimethoprim by Sarah Wise (Faculty Mentor: Dr. Melissa Holland)

Merit

• Why Measure Patient Experience in Physical Therapy? by Jacob Eversole, Ashton Grimm, Nikita Patel, and Kelly John (Faculty Mentor: Dr. Alessandra Trepte)
• Incidence of Drug Induced Liver Injury (DILI) with Ciprofloxacin by Rebekah Sowers (Faculty Mentor: Dr. Melissa Holland)
• Assurance in Action: An Exegesis of 1 John 3:11-24 by Zachary Parks (Faculty Mentor: Dr. Alicia Myers)

Undergraduate Poster Presentations

High Merit

• Retrospective Study of Thrombosis in Hospitalized COVID-19 Patients by Amanda Brechko (Faculty Mentor: Dr. Bonnie Brenseke)

Merit

• Isolation of Bacterium, Xenorhabdus Nematophila from its Nematode Host through in vivo Passage in Galleria Mellonella Larvae by Elizabeth Wiles (Faculty Mentor: Dr. Michelle Thomas)
• Isolating Antibiotics: Assessing the Antibiotic Potential within Colonies of Solenopsis Invicta by Leeann Stearns (Faculty Mentor: Dr. Stephanie Mathews)
• The Unintended Consequences of the “No Child Left Behind” Act by Cassie Taylor (Faculty Mentor: Dr. Laura Lunsford)

Graduate Poster Presentations

High Merit

• Mono-2-Ethyhexylphthalate (MEHP) Exposure Causes Upregulation of Reactive Oxygen Generation and Disruption of Mitochondrial Membrane Potential by Akhil Adla and Urja Merchant (Faculty Mentor: Dr. Kassim Traore)
• Case Study-Multinodular Goiter & Benefits of Diagnostic Ultrasound by Saher Fatima, Natalia Fongrat, Madison Greco, and Viktoriya Kozlova (Faculty Mentor: Dr. Bruce Newton and Dr. Bonnie Brenseke)

Merit

• Validation of a Rubric for the Assessment of Histological Quality in Embalmed Arteries by Thomas Gignac, Adam Matynowski, and Micheal Spates (Faculty Mentor: Dr. Terence Mitchell)
• Evaluating Fasting Insulin with Standard Glucose Screening Methods to Predict Type 2 Diabetes Risk by Stephanie Everest and Lauren Thomas (Faculty Mentor: Dr. Nicholas Pennings and Dr. Matthew Peterson)
• Patient Knowledge and Perceptions of Osteopathic Manipulative Treatment in a Rural Community by Emily Newton and Brittany Williams (Faculty Mentor: Dr. Thomas Motyka)
• Cadaveric Case Study: Pelvic Kidney with Hydronephrosis by Cullen Farragher, Avery Faucette, Alessandra Martorella, and Victoria Wood (Faculty Mentor: Dr. David Green and Dr. Bonnie Brenseke)
• Pulmonary Manifestations of Heart Failure by Charles Gilley, Matthew Hodgson, Allison Howell, and Adam Hudson (Faculty Mentor: Dr. Bruce Newton and Dr. Bonnie Brenseke)