2018 SUP Symposium Awardees
The 2018 Summer Undergraduate Pipeline (SUP) Research Symposium provided an opportunity for undergraduate students engaging in research
under the direction of UNC Chapel Hill faculty to present their research to a broad audience of faculty, staff, students from across campus and the general public.
There were 135 student presenters from 14 summer undergraduate research programs that participated in the symposium.
WHEN: Wednesday, July 25th, 9:00am-12:30pm
WHERE: George Watts Hill Alumni Center
This Symposium provided opportunities for oral and poster presentations, with awards provided in each category.
2018 SUP Research Symposium AWARDEES:
ORAL Presentations
1st Place: Mark Griffith (CPC Scholar), Dartmouth College
Research Title: “The Association between Birthplace and Wages for Recent Caribbean Migrants to the United States”
Research Mentor: Barbara Entwisle, Department of Sociology
2nd Place: Aleo Pugh (MURAP Scholar), Pitzer College
Research Title: “I was Leery of Being Consumed: Working-Class Black Dissent and the Legacy of Brown v Board of Education”
Research Mentor: Kennetta Perry, Department off History
3rd Place: Ana Sofia Ocegueda (McNair Scholar), University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Research Title: “Depressive Symptoms and Suicide Ideation among Latinx Adolescents: Associations with Connectedness to Parents and Schools”
Research Mentor: Helyne Frederick, School of Education
POSTER Presentations
1st Place: Jason Guo (CSS Scholar), University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Research Title: “Creating a Rad18 Overexpression Virus to Investigate DNA Damage Tolerance”
Research Mentor: Scott Williams, Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine
2nd Place: Da’Jhnae Gambrell-Sanders (CSF Scholar), Clark Atlanta University
Research Title: “Evaluating ERKi sensitivity in HRAS-mutant head and neck squamous cell Carcinoma”
Research Mentor: Adrienne Cox, Department of Pharmacology
3rd Place: William Hamilton (IDEA Scholar), University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Research Title: “Isolating Storm Flow Events to Better Understand Nutrient Transport in the Jordan Lake Watershed”
Research Mentor: Diego Riveros-Iregui, Department of Geography
For more information, contact:
Kathy Wood, Co-Director
Diversity & Student Success Program
kathy_wood@unc.edu or (919) 962-2509