Home Department: Bioengineering
Faculty Advisor: Kim Butts Pauly
Talk Title: Frequency dependence of ultrasound neuromodulation
Event: 13th International Symposium for Therapeutic Ultrasound - Patrick received the Nadine Barrie Smith Student Award for best student presentation at the conference for his work.

Home Department: Electrical Engineering
Faculty Advisor: Edward Graves
Talk Titles: The potential of positron emission tomography (PET) for intra-treatment dynamic tumor tracking during radiotherapy: A phantom study and The impact of audiovisual (AV) biofeedback respiratory training on 4D-PET image quality
Event: 55th Annual Meeting of the American Association of Physicists in Medicine

Home Department: Bioengineering
Faculty Advisor: KC Huang
Talk Title: From cell wall structure to morphogenesis
Event: 2013 American Society for Microbiology General Meeting

Awarded in 2010
Talk Title: The role of spatial asymmetries in the development of the bacterium Caulobacter crescentus
Event: American Physical Society Meeting 2010

Awarded in 2009
Talk Title: The beginning of the ends: A curvature-mediated mechanism for localization of lipids to bacterial poles
Event: Joint FEBS – EMBO advanced lecture course 2009

Home Department: Infectious Diseases
Faculty Advisor: Catherine Blish
Talk Title: Quantifying the unanticipated diversity of the human NK cell repertoire
Event: 2013 American Association of Immunologists Annual Meeting - Dara received an AAI Trainee Abstract Award for her work.

Home Department: Computer Science
Faculty Advisor: Leonidas Guibas
Talk Title: Wasserstein propagation for semi-supervised learning
Event: 2014 International Conference on Machine Learning

Awarded in 2013
Talk Title: Dirichlet energy for analysis and synthesis of soft maps
Event: 2013 Symposium on Geometry Processing

Awarded in 2012
Talk Titles: Introduction to shape analysis and correspondence and Flexible developable surfaces
Event: 2012 Symposium on Geometry Processing

Awarded in 2011
Talk Title: Discovery of intrinsic primitives on triangle meshes
Event: Eurographics 2011: 32nd Annual Conference of the European Association for Computer Graphics

Home Department: Mechanical Engineering
Faculty Advisor: Rebecca Fahrig
Talk Title: Instrument design to measure the optical properties of reflectance and transmittance
Event: 55th Annual Meeting of the American Association of Physicists in Medicine

Awarded in 2012
Talk Titles: Resonant frequency of rotating anode x-ray tubes
Event: American Association of Physicists in Medicine Annual Meeting 2012

Home Department: Mechanical Engineering
Faculty Advisor: Juan G. Santiago
Talk Title: A high fidelity, validated model of temperature effects for electrophoresis
Event: 29th International Symposium on MicroScale Bioseparations

Home Department: Chemical Engineering
Faculty Advisor: Elizabeth Sattely
Talk Title: Gene-centric discovery of a novel coumarin biosynthetic pathway in higher plants
Event: 2015 AIChE Annual Meeting (VSS)

Awarded in 2013
Talk Title: Transcriptomics- and metabolomics-driven discovery of a novel indolic secondary metabolite pathway in Arabidopsis
Event: 2013 Gordon Research Seminar in Plant Metabolic Engineering

Home Department: Mechanical Engineering
Faculty Advisor: Xiaolin Zheng
Talk Title: Reducing minimum flash ignition energy of Al microparticles by addition of WO3 nanoparticles
Event: The 8th US National Combustion Meeting

Awarded in 2011
Talk Title: Flash ignition of Al nanoparticles and oxidation mechanism
Event: Materials Research Society Fall Meeting 2011

Awarded in 2010
Talk Title: Synthesis and ignition of energetic CuO/AI core/shell nanowires
Event: 33rd International Symposium on Combustion

Home Department: Mechanical Engineering
Faculty Advisor: Marc E. Levenston
Talk Title: Extracellular matrix turnover in cartilage and meniscus tissues in response to adipokines
Event: 2013 Annual Meeting of the Orthopaedic Research Society - James's talk was particularly relevant in context of the current obesity epidemic; as a result, the ORS contacted him prior to the meeting to prepare a press release.