The best presentations from the 2024 Arkansas Tech University Student Research Symposium have been selected by judges and announced by the ATU Office of Research and Sponsored Programs.

The symposium included 85 in-person poster presentations, 30 in-person oral presentations and 11 virtual poster presentations. Dr. Robert Charles Brown and Jill Lestage Brown Hall served as headquarters for the event, which took place on Thursday, April 18.

A program with information about each of the presentations is available at https://bit.ly/atustudentresearchsymposium2024.

Winning entries are listed below:

Best Graduate Presentation

First Place: Andrew Rafferty and William Sappington, “Social Media Risk Messaging During the March 2023 Arkansas Tornadoes: A Qualitative Approach.”

Second Place: Musfikur Rahaman, “League of Learning: Deep Learning for Soccer Action Video Classification.”

Third Place: Andrew Rafferty and William Sappington, “2024 Total Solar Eclipse: Examining the Preparedness and Risk Communication Strategies of Emergency Management Stakeholders.”

Best Undergraduate Presentation

First Place: Felicity West, “The Examination of the Relationship Between Algorithmic Social Media Use and Self-Diagnosis of Mental Disorders.”

Second Place: Rebecca Morse, “Alleviating Environmental Stresses in Native Arkansas Plants by Arbuscular Mycorrhizal Fungi Inoculation.”

Third Place: Caleb McClure, Corey Naegle, Holden O’Neal and Chase Tallon, “Spot On.”

Best Online/Virtual Presentation

Tanner Broyles, Dalton Greene and Dillon Pearson, “Would It Be More Cost Effective for Arkansas Tech to Plant Winter Crop to Extend Grazing Periods Using No-Till Practices?”