This year we are recognizing 17 projects with $500 awards and 15 projects in the "Rising Researchers" category with $200 awards. If presented as a group, the amount will be divided equally among presenters.

1. CNS Award for Excellence in Innovation and Design
Presenters: Chibudom Okereke, Holly Nguyen, and Shripriya Rao
Title: Combatting Period Poverty: The Development, Testing, and Sanitization of Biodegradable Menstrual Pads

2. CNS Award for Excellence in Innovation and Design
Presenters: Ryan Hou and Dylan McGuire
Title: Modernizing data collection and organization for improved outcomes of the Army Combat Fitness Test

3. Thermo Fisher Award for Excellence in Biochemistry
Presenter: Catherine Chan
Title: Characterization of the activities of HERC5, a ribosome-associated ISG15 ligase

4. Thermo Fisher Award for Excellence in Biochemistry
Presenter: Karen Zhang
Title: Biochemistry Studies Revealing an Acid-Base Catalysis Mechanism of a Li+ Selective DNAzyme

5. Thermo Fisher Scientific Award for Excellence in Integrative Biology
Presenter: Camille Brown
Title: Multiple paternity in one litter of scalloped hammerhead shark (Sphyrna lewini)

6. Thermo Fisher Scientific Award for Excellence in Integrative Biology
Presenter: Noé Reyna
Title: Coming to one’s sense: Stickleback molecular processing and neuroanatomy vary across sensory environments

7. CNS Award for Excellence in Integrative Biology
Presenter: Wendi Deng
Title: The Screening of Microplastics (MPs) in Soil Samples Using Fluorescent Imaging & MPs Effect on Plant Development

8. Thermo Fisher Award for Excellence in Chemistry
Presenter: Jesus Balderas
Title: Designing a structural model to mimic the active site of the nitrogenase enzyme.

9. CNS Award for Excellence in Computer Sciences and Computer Engineering
Presenter: Maria Larina
Title: Discovering Spatially Coherent Gene Modules in Spatial Transcriptomics Data

10.CNS Award for Excellence in Human Development, Family Sciences and Psychology
Presenter: Janna Cao
Title: Impact of Adult-Oriented Versus Child-Oriented Approaches to Toilet Training on Toileting Accidents in Young Children

11. CNS Award for Excellence in Human Development, Family Sciences and Psychology
Presenter: Madeline van Heukelum
Title: Changes in Pancreas Size and Fat Content During Pregnancy

12.CNS Award for Excellence in Astronomy, Astrophysics, Math, and Physics
Presenter: Isaac Huegel
Title: Characterizing charge state distributions of Si and Fe photoionized plasmas in regimes relevant to black hole accretion disks

13. New England BioLabs Award for Excellence in Molecular Biology
Presenter: Jeffrey You
Title: Interrogating the Senescence Associated Secretory Phenotype (SASP) and its dependence on the ATM Interacting protein (ATMIN)

14. Thermo Fisher Award for Excellence in Molecular Biology
Presenter: Lars Deutz
Title: Single-molecule analysis of membrane proteins in lipid nanodiscs

15. Thermo Fisher Award for Excellence in Neuroscience
Presenter: Nadia Carlos
Title: Contributions of estradiol and progesterone to female risk aversion

16.CNS Award for Excellence in Public Health, Nutrition and Textiles
Presenter: Cara Fonken
Title: Alcohol and the gut microbiome in a mouse model of multiple sclerosis (MS)

17.CNS Award for Excellence in Statistics, Data Sciences and Computational Biology
Presenter: David Yang
Title: Predicting Subcellular Locations of Conserved Eukaryotic Protein Families With Data From Co-Fractionation Mass Spectrometry

Rising Researchers Recognition
These come with a $200 prize. If presented as a group, the amount will be divided equally among presenters.

Jose Martinez
Amanda Yin
Ronak Ramachandran
Akshara Ramasamy
Annmarie Chang
Catherine Watson
Zoe Swisher
Saee Risbud
Emily Pearson
Vibha Annaswamy
Snehal Kumar
Haley Goodwin
Dianne Zhao
Annika Agnihotri
Raymond Lam