The Citadel Academy of Science and Mathematics Awards Banquet

CASM Distinguished Alumni Award

• Dr. William H. Porter ‘62
• Dr. Wade H. Sherard, III ‘66

Staff Award

• Col. John Bradham, USAF (Ret.), Physics

Early Career Faculty Award

• Dr. Deepti Joshi, Cyber and Computer Sciences

Non-Tenure Faculty Award Faculty Award

• Mr. Rene Hurka, Physics

Student Abstracts

BIOLOGY

Title: Vitamin 812 Supplementation Impacts Survivability and Growth Rate of IEC-18 Cells in Culture
Author: Edwin Guo
Faculty Advisor: Dr. Kathy Zanin

Title: Temperature Impacts on Feeding Kinematics in the Striped Barnacle
Author: Savannah Fisher
Faculty Advisors: Dr. Clinton Moran and Dr. John Zardus

Title: Low-tech Seed Enhancement Technology Could Improve Germination and Establishment of Longleaf Pine Understory Perennial Forbs
Authors: Michael Disilvestro and Madeline Schmuck
Faculty Advisor: Dr. Danny Gustafson

Title: Shrimp and Grits: Microplastics in Roadway Adjacent Salt Marsh Sediments and Their Potential Effects on Salt Marsh Biota
Author: Dana Norton
Faculty Advisor: Dr. John Weinstein

CHEMISTRY

Title: Green Synthesis of Heterocyclic Molecules
Author: Isaiah Allgeyer
Faculty Advisor: Dr. Dung Do

Title: El Niño Southern Oscillation (ENSO) Variability Changes during Abrupt Climate Event
Author: Kyle Bernier and Jud Partin
Faculty Advisor: Dr. Lisa Zuraw

Title: Effect of Immobilization pH on Adsorbed Cellulose
Author: Angela
Faculty Advisor: Dr. Thad LeVasicek

Title: Preparation of PLGA Drug Delivery and Capture Efficiency
Author: Jessica Bailey
Faculty Advisor: Dr. Thaddeus Le-Vasicek

Title: Comparison of Adsorbed vs. Covalently-Bound Immobilized Cellulose to Magnetic Nanoparticles
Author: Corbin Snavely
Faculty Advisor: Dr. Thaddeus Le-Vasicek

CYBER AND COMPUTER SCIENCES

Title: Ranking Industrial Control Systems (ICS) Vendors Across CVEs
Authors: Matthew Collins and Richard Owens
Faculty Advisors: Dr. Shankar Banik, Dr. Jacob Benjamin, Dr. William Johnson

Title: Characterizing Cyber-attacks in Water & Wastewater Sectors of Critical Infrastructure
Authors: Christian Hines and Elisabeth Southern
Faculty Advisors: Dr. Shankar Banik, Dr. Jacob Benjamin, Dr. William Johnson

Title: Securing OT with Software Defined Networks
Authors: Slateon Frederick and William Hall
Faculty Advisors: Dr. Shankar Banik, Dr. Jacob Benjamin, Dr. William Johnson

Title: EGGIS: Expendable Geospatial Guardian Intelligence Systems
Authors: Jonah Dalton and Matthew Decarlo
Faculty Advisors: Dr. Deepti Joshi and Dr. Farhath Zareen

Title: Discovering Drivers of Unrest using Clustering and XGBoost
Author: Dalton Hazelwood
Faculty Advisor: Dr. Deepti Joshi

Title: Email DNA: Analyzing writing style to detect Spear Phishing
Authors: Joshua McKinley, Brian Mutua and Alexander Tiberghien
Faculty Advisors: Dr. Shankar Banik and Dr. Deepti Joshi

Title: LLMs for Situational Awareness in the Arab World
Author: Jacob Tobias Wood
Faculty Advisor: Dr. Deepti Joshi

Title: Discovering Security Breaches using Deep Packet Inspection
Authors: Chad Dailey and Tyler Furches
Faculty Advisor: Dr. Jacob Benjamin and Dr. Deepti Joshi

HEALTH AND HUMAN PERFORMANCE – EXERCISE SCIENCE

Title: Is a Cup Enough? Levels of Energy Expenditure During Speed Stacking
Authors: Grace Duncan and Samuel Hines
Faculty Advisor: Dr. Ryan Sacko

Title: Correlations of Blink Reflex Parameters with Balance Outcomes after Sport-Related Concussion
Authors: M. N. Haider and Youngho Kim
Faculty Advisor: Dr. Dena Garner

Title: Control of Breathing on Aerobic and Muscular Fitness (C-BAMF)
Author: David Gray, Daniel Groce, and Seth James
Faculty Advisors: Dr. George Grieve and Dr. Kimbo Yee

Title: The Influence of Stress on the Menstrual Cycle in the undergraduate student
Author: Jillian Aylsworth and Eimile Quinn
Faculty Advisor: Dr. Sarah Imam

Title: The Impact of Synthetic and Natural Opioids in South Carolina
Author: Connor Amon
Faculty Advisor: Dr. Sarah Imam

Title: The Influence of Environmental Physical Activity Opportunities on Diabetes
Author: Briggs Rehome
Faculty Advisor: Dr. Sarah Imam

Title: An Analysis of Cardiac Dysrhythmia Disparities
Author: Tyler Blackwell
Faculty Advisor: Dr. Sarah Imam

Title: Novel Methods of Injury Prevention in Baseball
Author: George Floyd
Faculty Advisor: Dr. Sarah Imam

Title: Exploring the Relationship between Grip Strength, Supine to Stand, and the Citadels Physical Fitness Test: A Cross-Sectional Analysis
Authors: Grace Duncan and Will Templeton
Faculty Advisor: Dr. Ryan Sacko

HEALTH AND HUMAN PERFORMANCE – SPORT MANAGEMENT

Title: The impact of turf types on player injuries in the NFL: Astra turf vs. natural turf surfaces
Author: Jay Piontek
Faculty Advisors: Dr. Ju Young (LJ) Lee and Dr. Kwangho Park

Title: The effect of narrative on the process of empathizing with in-game characters in sport video games
Author: Donald Hiers
Faculty Advisors: Dr. Ju Young (LJ) Lee and Dr. Kwangho Park

Title: Exploring the impact of NIL policies on NCAA athletes: Personal, professional, and interpersonal dynamics
Author: Jeffrey Boyd
Faculty Advisors: Dr. Ju Young (LJ) Lee and Dr. Kwangho Park

Title: Analyzing NFL fourth down strategies: Impact on game dynamics
Authors: Alex Dure and Cade Smith
Faculty Advisor: Dr. Ju Young (LJ) Lee and Dr. Kwangho Park

MATHEMATICAL SCIENCES

Title: Prime Progressions
Author: Sadie Gomez
Faculty Advisors: Dr. Antara Mukherjee and Dr. Breeanne Swart

Title: Patterns in a Number Triangle
Author: Zih-Syun Fu
Faculty Advisors: Dr. Antara Mukherjee and Dr. Breeanne Swart

Title: Star Sums and Collatz’s Cousin Challenge
Authors: Stratton Knuth, Manning Hitt, Pat Knuham and Stu Varab
Faculty Advisor: Dr. Antara Mukherjee

Title: Gauss Sum Type for Trigonometric Identities
Authors: Wei- Shan Lu
Faculty Advisor: Dr. Rigoberto Florez

Title: A unique solution for a puzzle board and the perfect nth power problem
Authors: Garner Page, Aiden Raab, Seamus Steves and Matthew Varney
Faculty Advisors: Dr. Antara Mukherjee and Dr. Breeanne Swart

NURSING

Title: Postural Orthostatic Tachycardia Syndrome (POTS): Case Study
Author: Chloe Mckellar
Faculty Advisor: Dr. Ashley Bukay

Title: COVID-19 Correlation to Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder within Critical Care Nurses
Author: Shannon Curtis
Faculty Advisor: Dr. Jody Smith

PHYSICS

Title: A Model for Identifying Secondary Eyewalls in Mature Hurricanes
Author: Mitchell Huott
Faculty Advisor: Dr. Gabriel Williams

Title: Pocket deployable human detection device
Authors: Jonah Charles and Vincent Massaro
Faculty Advisor: Dr. Kaelyn Leake

Title: Portable weather prediction system
Authors: Tristan Eberbach and Sarah Norton
Faculty Advisor: Dr. Kaelyn Leake

Title: Laser Patterning of Electrochromic Layer-by-Layer Polymer Devices
Author: Tristan Eberbach
Faculty Advisors: Dr. Kaelyn Leake and Dr. Hank Yochum

Student Posters

2023 Inductees

Mid-Career Distinguished Alumni Award

Col. Anthony L. Baggiano, USAF, Ret., ‘61
Rev. James R. Lockridge, ‘71

Mid-Career Distinguished Alumni Award

Dr. Matthew N. Thoma, ’98

Early Career Faculty Award

Dr. Antara Mukherjee, Ph.D., Mathematical Sciences