TAMIU Student Researchers Get Third,
Top Awards at A&M System Conference
In strong evidence of its commitment to student
research as part of its educational mission,TAMIU students
garnered 14 awards and placed third overall in The Texas
A&M University System’s 12th Annual Pathways Student
Research Symposium at Texas A&M University-Corpus
Christi.
Symposium participation offers TAMIU students
important research experiences. The 73 students traveled
by bus. Participation in the Pathways Conference is linked
toTAMIU’s Quality Enhancement Plan, focused on Applied
Critical Thinking as Expressed Through Undergraduate
Research (ACT on IDEAS).
Categories and Awards Received by Students included:
Undergraduate Mathematics
Third: Deyanira Morales – An Investigation of Elementary
Students’ Mathematics Misconceptions.
Undergraduate Environmental Science
Second: Barbara Montoya – Identification of Arsenic
Tolerant Bacteria from Slag-Contaminated Soil Along
Chacon Creek in Laredo,TX, and Third: Martha Chapa–
The Effect of Triclosan on the Growth of a Plant Growth
Promoting Rhizobacterium.
Undergraduate Education
Second: Ana Cruz– Examining the Success
of STEM Students inWriting Intensive
Courses and Second: Victoria Lomas–
Laredo,We Have a Problem.
Masters Mathematics
First: Hongsong Feng– A Finite Difference
Method for the Fitzhugh-Nagumo Equations.
Masters Life Science
Second: AldoVásquez– Designing Genetic
Markers for a Regional Endemic Species of
Edgewater Mussels.
Masters Business/Computer Information
Second: Parvateesh Gutti – Mitigation of Hazardous
Materials Risk Across Cross-Border and Third: Kartheek
Srungaram – Overview of Reliability and Security Issues in
Wireless Sensor Networks.
Masters Social Science / Humanities
First: Jonathan Briseño– Factors Contributing to the
Adjustment of Southeast Asian International Students
Attending a Predominantly Bicultural Border University and
Third: Rebecka English – Exploring Predictors of Cultural
Frame Switching on English-Spanish Bilingual’s Personality.
Doctoral Business/Computer Information
First: Mohammed Hendijani Zadeh – Use of Ensemble
Classifiers for Bankruptcy Prediction Problem; Second:
Efrain Medina – The Effect of Unemployment, Government
Expenditure on Education, and Standard of Living on Crime,
and Third: Zagdbazar Davaadorj – An Integrated-Dynamic
Mode of Entry Model: An Extended Approach.
To visit the Pathways Symposium website, go to:
To learn more about the Quality
Enhancement Plan, ACT on IDEAS, go to:
Pictured above: Some of the Graduate MIS students who participated in the TAMU-CC
Symposium included Mohan Krishna Gangarapu, Bala NachiappanValliappan, Naveen
Kumar Duddala, Nikhitha Ommi, Kartheek Srungaram, Parvateesh Gutti, Navneel
Kuppili, Kumaraguru Neyveli Mahalingam and Shashank Kumar Silveri.
Photo: Kartheek Srungaram
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