Thank you to all those that joined us on Wednesday, April 10 for the 2019 competition, and congratulations for all the students that competed this year! You can watch the presentations below.
Winners

First Place
Angelo Cirinelli
Biology
Transmembrane Transport of an Inducible cAMP Early Repressor (ICER) and E6apBD Protein Chimera as a Possible Treatment for Cancers

Second Place
Eshariah Dyson
Chemistry & Biochemistry
Peroxidase Activity of Metal Contaminated Soil at an Urban Brownfield

Third Place
John Walters
Chemistry & Biochemistry
How can we detect heavy metals in solution in an accurate fashion that is cheaper and easier to interpret data from?
All Participants
Biology
- Mohamad Abboud
- How does Acarbose, an alpha glucosidase inhibitor, affect triglyceride hydrolysis in adipocytes?
- Angelo Cirinelli
- Transmembrane Transport of an Inducible cAMP Early Repressor (ICER) and E6apBD Protein Chimera as a Possible Treatment for Cancers
- Justin D Reidy
- Metals vs. Microbes in Urban Soils
Chemistry & Biochemistry
- Eshariah Dyson
- Peroxidase Activity of Metal Contaminated Soil at an Urban Brownfield
- John Walters
- How can we detect heavy metals in solution in an accurate fashion that is cheaper and easier to interpret data from?
Computer Science
- Matthew Kowalski
- A Web Portal for Urban Policy Analysis by Data Mining
- Alexandra Kunkel
- Correction of Anomalies in Object Detection based on Commonsense Knowledge
- Kailin Tang
- Which chemicals in our inventory contain regulated substances?
Earth & Environmental Studies
- Kristen Brennan
- A fully operational GIS Center at Montclair State University will benefit students, faculty, administrators and external companies/municipalities, by facilitating the adoption of GIS in a variety of applications.
- Christine Leonhardt
- Demographic Trends of Walkable Cities
Mathematical Sciences
- Ely Schudrich
- Given a graph G with certain expansion properties depending on integers k and m, find the smallest integer r = r(k,m) such that G contains a collection of k – 1 vertex disjoint cycles which cover all but at most r vertices.
- Jack Tobin
- Semi Automated Techniques for Segmentation of Fetal Ultrasound Images
Physics & Astronomy
- Timothy J Walters
- Endless Possibilities: Metallic Glass Sensors at Cryogenic Temperatures
- Joseph Pateras
- Can entropy production serve as a metric for the equilibrium states of a neutrally buoyant particle in flow and and account for the arising of the phenomenal Segre-Silberberg radius?
Photos from the Competition
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- John Walters presenting
- John Walters showing judges a sample
- Eshariah Dyson presenting
- audience during presentations
- Joseph Pateras presenting
- Angelo Cirinelli presenting
- Angelo Cirinelli presenting
- Matthew Kowalski presenting
- Casabona participants, mentors, and judges
- Mohamad Abboud presenting
- Timothy Walters presenting
- Kristen Brennan presenting
- Alexandra Kunkel presenting
- slide about GIS
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- Mario Casabona with competition winner Angelo Cirinelli
- Eshariah Dyson receiving second place award from Mario Casabona
- John Walters receiving third place award
- Timothy Walters receiving participation award
- Joseph Pateras receiving participation award
- Alexandra Kunkel receiving participation award
- Matthew Kowalski receiving participation award
- Eshariah Dyson receiving participation award
- Kailin Tang receiving participation award
- Christine Leonhardt receiving participation award
- John Walters receiving participation award
- Kristen Brennan receiving participation award
- Ely Schudrich receiving participation award
- Jack Tobin receiving participation award
- Mohamad Abboud receiving participation award
- Angelo Cirinelli receiving participation award
- Justin Reidy receiving participation award
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- Timothy Walters with mentor, Dr. Rodica Martin, and poster
- Kailin Tang with mentor, Dr. Amy Tuininga
- Matthew Kowalski with mentor, Dr. Aparna Varde, and poster
- Alexandra Kunkel with mentor, Dr. Aparna Varde, and poster
- Jack Tobin with mentor, Dr. Amir Golnabi, and poster