2021 Student Symposium Winners
Congratulations to our top presenters of 2021!
UNDERGRADUATE
Pauline Robinson-Stevens
College of Sciences and Humanities | Psychological Science (Honors College)
“The Impact of Social Status on Attributions of Responsibility in Instances of Sexual Assault”
Mentor: Dr. Andy Luttrell, Assistant Professor of Psychological Science
Maia Campbell & Ally Lankford
College of Sciences and Humanities | Biology
“Temperature Controls on Microcystin Degradation”
Mentor: Dr. Allison Rober, Associate Professor of Environmental Biology
Andrew Rattin, Austin Gustin, Cade Clinton, Alison Vielee, & David Mitchell
Miller College of Business | Information Systems and Operations Management
“Indianapolis International Airport Pre-Security"
Mentor: Dr. Fred Kitchens, Associate Professor of Information Systems and Operations Management
GRADUATE
Emily Hayes
College of Sciences and Humanities | Environment, Geology, and Natural Resources
“Peace and Water in the Khumbu—Mitigating Conflict by Integrating Peacebuilding Tools into an Indigenous Water Management Framework”
Mentor: Dr. Joshua Gruver, Associate Professor of Natural Resources and Environmental Management
Ky Bray
College of Sciences and Humanities | Psychological Science
“Computerized Analysis of Linguistic Style Differences Between Offenders of Mass Shootings”
Mentor: Dr. Thomas Holtgraves, Professor of Psychological Science
Briana Halloran
College of Health | Nutrition and Health Science
“Postpartum Depression and Preconception Vitamin Supplementation: An Analysis of the Pregnancy Risk Assessment Monitoring System (PRAMS), 2016–2018”
Mentor: Dr. Mengxi Zhang, Assistant Professor of Health Science
JUDGING PROCESS
Judges are Ball State faculty members and administrators.
Judges will not evaluate student projects that are from their own department.
Each judge is assigned a portion of the poster entries to evaluate and each poster will be evaluated by more than one judge. The scores will then be tallied by Symposium staff to determine award winners.
It is not possible to award every deserving display. There is so much more to the public session than just the competition and awards!
Special Thanks to our Judges
Kwang-Ho Lee
Bryan D. Byers
Tya Arthur
Douglas Roossien
Stephanie Simon-Dack
Stephen Campbell
Jordan Froese
Kelsey Thiem
Joe Court
Sergiy Rosokha
Adam Berland
Brenda Yates-Habich
Tamer Breakah
Sungwon Chung
Robert Turick
Wei Shi
Teresia Mbogori
Brad Fleenor
Doug Bernstein
THE LINDA KEYS, JEFFERY LITTEN AND SANDRA L. SMITH STUDENT SYMPOSIUM AWARDS
The Keys/Litten/Smith Awards were established in memory of Linda Keys, Jeffrey Litten, and Sandra Smith, who all served in research administration at Ball State for a combined total of thirty years. The awards recognize students for their outstanding research or creative endeavors presented during the poster session at the Student Symposium.
Anyone wishing to contribute to the Keys/Litten/Smith Student Symposium Awards fund may do so by sending a check made payable to Ball State University Foundation, notating either Account #9652 or Keys/Litten/Smith Symposium Award in the lower left hand corner. Checks may be sent to the Ball State University Foundation or Sponsored Projects Administration.