Whitney Wenger, Cornell University KAUST-Cornell Center undergraduate researcher, is awarded 1st prize at KAUST’s 2nd Annual Research Poster Competition for Undergraduates
King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST) recently held the 2nd Annual Research Poster Competition for Undergraduates, organized by KAUST Professor Niveen M. Khashab. The winners of the undergraduate as well as graduate and postdoctoral poster competitions were honored at an award ceremony held during KAUST’s Winter Enrichment Program 2013. This year’s undergraduate winners were:
1st place: Whitney Wagner – Cornell University (USA), Chemical Engineering. Poster title: Developing a Novel Transport Layer for Quantum Dot Solar Cells
2nd place: Pierce Maguire – Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland), Physics
Poster title: Physical Characterisations of Nanoparticles Systems for Nanotoxicology Studies
3rd place: Nouf AlZahrani – KAUST (Saudi Arabia), Diagnostic Radiology
Poster title: Value of cardiac magnetic resonance imaging in the evaluation of myocardial viability
Selected from three hundred posters abstracts from around the world, including the U.S., Canada, Europe and Saudi Arabia, the top 32 undergraduate finalists were invited to present their posters at KAUST in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia.
Whitney also won the award for best poster in recognition of her summer research at NREL.
Congratulations Whitney!!!