On May 22nd in the UWM Union Fireside Lounge, the Chemistry & Biochemistry Department hosted its annual Research Symposium, at which over 40 undergraduate and graduate students presented posters.
Before the awards ceremony commenced, Anahit Campbell and Dan Knutson presented their theses in the style of the 3MT competition in which they were both finalists in April 2018. The 3MT competition requires participants to convey their thesis in layman’s terms using at maximum one PowerPoint slide within three minutes.
After Anahit and Dan completed their presentations, the Research Symposium awards were presented to the following:
Undergraduate
1st Place: Emily Salinas Ortega
2nd Place: Mahmoud Al Chamaa and Andrew Geurts
3rd Place: Ryan Majinski
Graduate
1st Place: Tyler Fenske
2nd Place: Nemanja Vuksanovic
3rd Place: Rajwana Jahan
4th Place: Toufiqur Rahman
Faculty of the Year Award:
Dr. Joseph Aldstadt
Congrats! Thank you to everyone who participated!
Judges:
Amy Furreness of Shimadzu
Chris Dockendorff of Marquette University
Chris Witzigmann of Alcami Corp. | UWM Alumnus
Gabriella Kurtz of Carthage College
Hannah Wagie of Wisconsin Lutheran College | UWM Alumna
James Wankowski of Northstar Medical | UWM Alumnus
Jier Huang of Marquette University
John Ejnik of UW-Whitewater
Paul House of UW-Whitewater
Robert Olsson of Milwaukee School of Engineering
Scott Van Ornum of Concordia University of Wisconsin
To the judges, thank you for spending your time with us!
Please enjoy this slideshow of the event:
Anahit Campbell presenting her thesis à la 3MT.
If you were a participant in the Symposium and would like a higher quality photo of you and your poster, please contact the undergraduate coordinator, Goldie Gibbs.