Arkansas Tech University representatives brought home first-place awards from the 2023 Arkansas Academy of Science meeting, which took place March 31 and April 1 at the University of Arkansas-Pine Bluff.
ATU student Musfikur Rahaman earned first place in the graduate oral presentation category. Rahaman is a graduate teaching assistant in the ATU Department of Engineering and Computing Sciences.
A team led by Zurab Sabakhtarishvili collected the first-place prize in the undergraduate poster presentation competition. Hiromi Honda, Clayton Jensen and Sijan Panday also contributed to the poster, which dealt with crime prediction in Little Rock using machine learning.
“This is an incredible achievement that showcases these students’ hard work, dedication and expertise in the field,” said Dr. Robin Ghosh, ATU assistant professor of computer and information science.
ATU student Kohl Kervin received an Arkansas Academy of Sciences undergraduate research award for the 2023-2024 academic year. Kervin captured first place in undergraduate student oral presentation among chemistry, physics, engineering and renewable energy students at the 2023 Arkansas Academy of Science meeting.
Brooke Rainwater and Dalton Wisdom presented posters on their research work at the meeting. Alongside Dr. Subha Pratihar, their ATU faculty mentor, they hope to soon publish two papers reflecting their research.
“These undergraduate students have achieved a remarkable amount of training and research experience, and they have very successfully showcased their research and communicated with the scientific community,” said Pratihar.
According to its website, the Arkansas Academy of Science began meeting in 1917 “as a group of scientists wishing to establish regular avenues of communication with one another and promote science and the dissemination of scientific information in the state.”
The group publishes the Journal of the Arkansas Academy of Science, which is released at the annual meeting.
