On Oct 27-28 Tarleton State University held its second annual Student Research Symposium. This year’s symposium included more than 70 research posters, 50 First Year Research Experience, undergraduate and graduate oral presentations with visual art exhibits.

First Year Research Experience Winner: Mayela Morantes; Investigating Green Polymer for Treatment of Wastewater

Creative Activities Winner: Elizabeth Ross; Animation Process

Creative Activities – Performance Art Winner: Danielle Montemayor; “Brave”

Undergraduate Poster Winner: Kassie Marble; Assembling, Cleaning, and Testing a Unique Prototype Open-ended Cylindrical Penning Trap

Graduate Poster Winner:Taylor Hutyra; Mentor: N-Body Simulation of Binary Star Mass Transfer

Undergraduate Oral Winner: Kelton Mote; Factors Influencing Nest Survival in Mourning Doves in Lower Rio Grande Texas.

Graduate Oral Winner: Christina Morgan; Thermally Mediated Variation in Batrachochytrium dendrobatidis Infection in a North Central Texas Population of Acris blanchardi