Poster Exhibition
**Sponsored by the Student Affairs Office and the Student Engineering Council**
Thanks to all those who participated, attended, and volunteered at the 2013 Poster Exhibition!
Cash prizes will be awarded to the top 3 in both the underclassmen (Freshmen/Sophomores) and upperclassmen (Juniors/Seniors) division. 1st place is $300, 2nd place is $200, and 3rd place is $100.
Congratulations to the following participants!
Upperclassmen:
1st place: Brian Wilson, ChE, "Characterization of Rheologically Distinguishable Protein Nanoclusters"
2nd place: Nishant Mehta, BME, "Introducing new effector function to IgG via protein engineering of an IgA-IgG hybrid antibody"
3rd place: Ashvin Bashyam, BME, "Synthetic Aperture Based Image Reconstruction for Photoacoustic Tomography with a Linear Array Transducer"
Underclassmen:
1st place: Austin Batson, BME, "Silver Nanoclusters for DNA & Toposiomerase I Detection"
2nd place: Noor Momin, BME, "Steric Pressure between Unstructured Membrane-Bound Proteins Opposes Lipid Phase Separation"
3rd place: Lylia Benhacine, ASE, "Development of a Receiver Algorithm for the ICESat-2"
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For reference, the guidelines for the 2013 competition are listed below :
A judging panel composed of graduate students, professors, and alumni will grade your presentation on the following criteria:
- Creativity
- Originality
- Articulation of Research
- Visual Appeal of Poster
The rules for the poster exhibition are as follows:
- Posters must be 32" high by 40" wide (or smaller), and in landscape orientation;
- Only research done between January 2012 and April 2013 is eligible to be displayed.
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For poster design assistance, the Office of Undergraduate Research is hosting poster design classes and workshops. http://www.utexas.edu/ugs/our/students/poster-workshops contains the upcoming dates. Register to attend.
Affordable printing can be done through the Natural Sciences Research Department.
If you're in financial need to print your poster, the Student Affairs Office has scholarships available. Contact poster@sec.engr.utexas.edu for more information.
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Please don't hesitate to contact poster@sec.engr.utexas.edu with any questions/comments/concerns.