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Nine Students Earn Recognition at Florida Academy of Sciences

March 9, 2017

Nine º£½Ç³Ô¹ÏÍø students took home awards for their presentations at the 81st Annual Meeting of the Florida Academy of Sciences (FAS).

The annual meeting brings together students and industry professionals from across the state to present their research in a wide variety of disciplines. This year’s meeting was held from March 10-11 at º£½Ç³Ô¹ÏÍø.

º£½Ç³Ô¹ÏÍø students were recognized for “outstanding oral presentationâ€� in the following categories: Computer and Mathematical Sciences; Engineering Sciences; Physics and Space Sciences; and Social Sciences. Additionally, student Dieff Vital won the Al Hall Memorial Award for his presentation: “Global Particulate Matter Characterization for Gasoline and Diesel Filters.â€� Here is the full list of winners:

COMPUTER AND MATHEMATICAL SCIENCES

Outstanding Oral Presentation, Undergraduate—Joshua Rentrope, º£½Ç³Ô¹ÏÍø, “Optimizing Molecular Geometry Based Positioning Applications for UAV Networksâ€�

Outstanding Poster Presentation, Undergraduate—Kyle Cook, º£½Ç³Ô¹ÏÍø, “Introduction to Singular Value Decomposition and Image Compressionâ€�

Outstanding Poster Presentation, Undergraduate—Alex Durante, º£½Ç³Ô¹ÏÍø, “MIMIC-III: A Use Caseâ€�

ENGINEERING SCIENCES

Outstanding Oral Presentation, Graduate—Langley Payton, º£½Ç³Ô¹ÏÍø, “Maximizing Donor Conversions: A QGIV Case Studyâ€�

Outstanding Oral Presentation, Undergraduate—Michael Sanchez, º£½Ç³Ô¹ÏÍø, “Pulse Oximetryâ€�

Outstanding Poster Presentation, Undergraduate—Laura Wemple, º£½Ç³Ô¹ÏÍø, “Effectiveness of doping agents on the photocatalytic oxidation of organic pollutantsâ€�

Al Hall Memorial Award—Dieff Vital, º£½Ç³Ô¹ÏÍø, “Global Particulate Matter Characterization for Gasoline and Diesel Filtersâ€�

PHYSICS AND SPACE SCIENCES

Outstanding Oral Presentation, Undergraduate—Marshall Smith, º£½Ç³Ô¹ÏÍø, “Going with the Proton Flow – Generating Fusion Power in the Van Allen Beltâ€�

SOCIAL SCIENCES

Outstanding Oral Presentation, Graduate—Kristopher Kindle, º£½Ç³Ô¹ÏÍø, “State Liberalization of Cannabis Restrictions and Traffic Fatalities: Two Decades of Evidenceâ€�