2018 Graduate School Poster Competition Winners Announced

May 1, 2018

The competition consisted of 19 categories students could enter.

Texas Tech University's Graduate School hosted its 17th annual poster competition on April 10, and winners were announced at a luncheon on April 30. Students could enter their posters into one of 19 categories. Below are the winners and runners-up for the 2018 competition by category:

Animal and Food Sciences

First place: Alexander Branson
Runner-up: Ilan Arvelo-Yagua

Biological Sciences

First place: Mahsa Servati
Runner-up: Meijun Mail Dong

Chemistry

First place: Yun Zhou
Runner-up: Amal Bouyanfif

Distance Learning

First place: Karen Jensen
Runner-up: Yujiro Fujiwara

Education

First place: Sipra Eko
Runner-up: Hyunchang Moon

Engineering

First place: Saeed Moradi
Runner-up: Osman Okuyucu

Environmental Design

First place: Rafael Quijada and Emily Oliver
Runner-up: Ahmed Gheraba

Environmental Science

First place: Olushola Awoyemi
Runner-up: Ilektra Drygiannaki

Health Sciences

First place and best of conference: Md Jasim Uddin
Runner-up: Shasika Jayarathne

Human Sciences

First place: Kashmiere McGee
Runner-up: Jennifer Rose

Interdisciplinary Studies

First place: Bingbing Zhang
Runner-up: Kelley Anderson

Kinesiology

First place: Ahalee Cathey
Runner-up: Thais Benoit

Natural Resources Management

First place: Niwanthi Dissanayake Ralalage
Runner-up: Katelyn Vedolich

Personal Financial Planning

First place: Hossein Salehi
Runner-up: Yi Liu

Physics

First place: Giammarco Turriziani Colonna
Runner-up: Kamal Lamichhane

Plant and Soil Science

First place: Jaspreet Kaur
Runner-up: Jayan Ukwatta

Political Science

First place: Margaret Vugrin and Danie Vaughn
Runner-up: James Bassett

Psychological Sciences

First place: Leslie Dodson
Runner-up: Yazmine Huizar

Visual and Performing Arts

First place: Oryana Racines-Smakovic
Runner-up: Norah Alqabbaa

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