{"id":350,"date":"2025-10-29T12:24:36","date_gmt":"2025-10-29T16:24:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.utc.edu\/urace\/?p=350"},"modified":"2025-10-29T12:26:06","modified_gmt":"2025-10-29T16:26:06","slug":"student-pitch-competition-winners-announced","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.utc.edu\/urace\/2025\/10\/29\/student-pitch-competition-winners-announced\/","title":{"rendered":"Student Pitch Competition Winners Announced!"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>On Tuesday, October 28, 2025, The Office for URaCE and the UTC Graduate School hosted the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.utc.edu\/research\/undergraduate-research-and-creative-endeavor\/events\/conferences-and-events\/fall-research-conference\/student-pitch-competition\">Graduate Student Three Minute Thesis Pitch and Undergraduate Student Research Elevator Pitch Competitions<\/a> at McKenzie Arena. 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Walawwe<\/td><td>Invasive Species Management<\/td><td>Dr. Lakmali Weerasena<\/td><td>Computational Science<\/td><\/tr><tr><td><strong>2nd place<\/strong><\/td><td>Ali Abuelgasim<\/td><td>Adaptive Insole Design to Prevent Foot Ulcers in Diabetic Neuropathy Patients<\/td><td>Dr. Erkan Kaplanoglu<\/td><td>Engineering Management &amp; Technology<\/td><\/tr><tr><td><strong>3rd place<\/strong><\/td><td>Hannah Daugherty<\/td><td>Decoding Belief: Neural Mechanisms of Conspiracy Message Evaluation<\/td><td>Dr. Ricardo Wilhelm<\/td><td><br>Psychology<\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Undergraduate Student Research Elevator Pitch Competition Winners<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-table\"><table class=\"has-fixed-layout\"><tbody><tr><td><\/td><td><strong>Name<\/strong><\/td><td><strong>Pitch Title<\/strong><\/td><td><strong>Mentor<\/strong><\/td><td><strong>Department<\/strong><\/td><\/tr><tr><td><strong>1st place<\/strong><\/td><td>Noah Wyatt<\/td><td>A Low-Cost Portable Cosmic Ray Detector for Exploration and Education<\/td><td>Dr. Josh Hamblen<\/td><td>Physics<\/td><\/tr><tr><td><strong>2nd place<\/strong><\/td><td>Waltkia Clay<\/td><td>When Silence Speaks The Loudest: Safety Tap<\/td><td>Hannah Hartman<\/td><td>Social, Cultural, &amp; Justice Studies<\/td><\/tr><tr><td><strong>3rd place<\/strong><\/td><td>Joshua Kilgore<\/td><td>Automatic and Controlled Processes in the Pathway from Drug Abuse to Addiction: E-Cigarettes<\/td><td>Dr. Michael Overton<\/td><td>Psychology<\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On Tuesday, October 28, 2025, The Office for URaCE and the UTC Graduate School hosted the Graduate Student Three Minute Thesis Pitch and Undergraduate Student Research Elevator Pitch Competitions at McKenzie Arena. 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