2019 Undergraduate Symposium Winners
1st Place
Alex Villavicencio
Coding with Beats
CS - David Shepherd, Ph.D.
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2nd Place
Kyla Bosh
Growth Factors Produced by MSCs on Titanium-Aluminum-Vanadium Implant Surfaces Mediate Osteogenesis through Paracrine Signaling
BME - Barbara Boyan, Ph.D. & Zvi Schwartz, Ph.D.
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3rd Place
Madison Bates
Lysyl Oxidase-Induced Hierarchical Collagen Crosslinking for Functional Musculoskeletal Engineering
BME - Jennifer Puetzer, Ph.D.
Jimmy Nguyen
Cholesterol Liquid Crystals Characterization with Polarized Light Microscopy
CLSE - Christina Tang, Ph.D.
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