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  <title><![CDATA[Celebrating Our 2020 Undergraduate Research Award Recipients]]></title>
  <body><![CDATA[<p>Georgia Tech undergraduates have a unique opportunity when they start studies on campus: They have a chance to engage in the kind of research that other schools might not offer until they are in graduate studies. In <a href="https://cos.gatech.edu">Georgia Tech&rsquo;s College of Sciences</a>, undergraduates can ask questions, use their skills, and test their knowledge to solve problems and explore issues no one has ever addressed before.</p>

<p>Every year, a select group of undergraduates distinguishes itself with meaningful research, guided by faculty members and other mentors who get to watch the development of some of the country&rsquo;s best young scientific minds.</p>

<p>Please join us in congratulating this year&#39;s undergraduate research award recipients:</p>

<h3><strong>Shaun Eisner</strong></h3>

<p><strong>A. Joyce Nickelson and John C. Sutherland Undergraduate Research Award</strong><br />
<em>This endowment gift of Jen Nickelson and John Sutherland is presented to a student studying physics and mathematics.</em></p>

<p>Eisner, a physics major, conducts his research with <a href="https://physics.gatech.edu/user/flavio-fenton">Professor Flavio Fenton</a>. A research study he co-authored, &ldquo;Baseline Wandering Removal in Optical Mapping Measurements With PID Control in Phase Space,&rdquo; was presented via poster session at the 2019 Computing in Cardiology conference in Singapore.</p>

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<strong>Steven Creech</strong></h3>

<p><strong>Georgia Tech College of Sciences Undergraduate Research Award</strong><br />
Creech, a mathematics major, researches under the guidance of <a href="http://people.math.gatech.edu/~mbaker/">Professor Matthew Baker</a>. He studies algebraic number theory and algebraic geometry. Creech is also an undergraduate teaching assistant and the president of <a href="https://math.gatech.edu/about-club-math">Club Math</a>.</p>

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<strong>Amitej Venapally</strong></h3>

<p><strong>Georgia Tech College of Sciences Undergraduate Research Award</strong><br />
A double major in biochemistry and computer science, Venapally researches under the guidance of <a href="https://chemistry.gatech.edu/people/williams/loren">Professor Loren Williams</a>. An undergraduate teaching assistant, his research explores the origin of life, and how peptides stabilize RNA.</p>

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<strong>Sara Brockmeier</strong></h3>

<p><strong>Georgia Tech College of Sciences Undergraduate Research Award</strong><br />
Brockmeier, a psychology major who researches with <a href="https://psychology.gatech.edu/phillip-ackerman">Professor Philip Ackerman</a>, is conducting research that is helping to determine the reliability of aptitude tests used by the U.S. Navy. She is the social chair of the <a href="https://www.facebook.com/PsychClubAtGT/">Psychology Club at Georgia Tech</a> and was a <a href="https://advising.gatech.edu/gt1000">GT 1000</a> first-year seminar leader for the <a href="http://www.explore.cos.gatech.edu/smart">Science and Math Research and Training (SMART) Living and Learning Community</a>.<br />
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<p><em>College of Sciences Undergraduate Research Awards are co-sponsored with the <a href="http://www.undergradresearch.gatech.edu/">Undergraduate Research Opportunities Program</a>.</em></p>
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