The Graduate Student Union (GSU) hosted Notre Dame’s third annual Graduate Research Symposium on Friday, Feb. 4. The symposium showcased the accomplishments of Notre Dame graduate students in the Graduate School’s four divisions: engineering, humanities, science, and social science. Attended by graduate and undergraduate students, faculty, and community visitors, the goal of the event was to provide a scholarly but informal environment to facilitate conversations between graduate students and symposium guests.
The winners in each category:
Engineering:
- First place: Edit Varga, Electrical Engineering
Experimental Demonstration of New Nanomagnetic Logic Devices - Second place: Punit Bandi, Aerospace and Mechanical Engineering
Design of Crashworthy Structures Using Compliant Mechanism Approach
Humanities:
- First place: Patrick Mello, English
Sir Charles Grandison and the Post-Jacobite Novel - Second place: Brandon Cook, Medieval Studies
Spiritually Sensuous Sojourns: Pilgrimage and the Senses in the Eulogiai of the St. Simeon the Stylite
Science:
- First place: John Engbers, Mathematics
The Typical Structure of Propoer Colorings of the Discrete Hypercube - Second place:. Patrick Shirey, Biological Sciences
An Interdisciplinary Approach to Informing Ecological Restoration and Environmental Management
Social Sciences (two first-place awards):
- Chadwick Curtis, Economics
Economic Reform and Factors of Production in China - Elizabeth Munnich, Economics
The Labor Market Effects of California’s Minimum Nurse Staffing Law
The symposium was supported by the Graduate School, and the colleges of engineering, science, and arts and letters.