{"id":212393,"date":"2024-12-02T12:00:38","date_gmt":"2024-12-02T17:00:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/csam\/?p=212393"},"modified":"2024-12-13T13:18:47","modified_gmt":"2024-12-13T18:18:47","slug":"passion-for-science-on-display-at-fall-2024-casabona-competition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/csam\/2024\/12\/02\/passion-for-science-on-display-at-fall-2024-casabona-competition\/","title":{"rendered":"Passion for Science on Display at Fall 2024 Casabona Competition"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <a href=\"\/csam\/programs-and-opportunities\/casabona-future-scientist\/fall-2024-competition\/\">Mario M. Casabona Future Scientists Competition<\/a> returned, now in it&#8217;s tenth year, bringing together a vibrant community of scholars, students, and entrepreneurs to celebrate the innovative and impactful work of the College\u2019s student researchers. This semester seven students representing five of our departments presented posters and talks on their research projects. Awards were presented to recognize outstanding contributions, celebrating both the academic rigor and the innovative spirit of the participants.<\/p>\n<div class=\"prpl-photo-gallery\"><p class=\"a11y-label\">Click on an image below to enlarge photo.<\/p><div class=\"previous-button\"><a href=\"javascript: ;\">Previous<\/a><\/div><div class=\"next-button\"><a href=\"javascript: ;\">Next<\/a><\/div>\n<ul>\n<li><div class=\"gallery-item\"><div class=\"photo-holder\" style=\"background-image: 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alt=\"Stella Obuba and Alexandra Everson discuss their poster at the Fall 2024 Casabona Competition\"\/><\/div><div class='caption'> Stella Obuba and Alexandra Everson discuss their poster at the Fall 2024 Casabona Competition<\/div><div class='close-button'><a href="javascript: ;">Close<\/a><\/div><div class='open-button'><a href="javascript: ;">Zoom In<\/a><\/div><\/div><\/li>\n<li><div class=\"gallery-item\"><div class=\"photo-holder\" style=\"background-image: 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alt=\"Sarah Estupinan-Jimenez presenting at the Fall 2024 Casabona Competition\"\/><\/div><div class='caption'> Sarah Estupinan-Jimenez presenting at the Fall 2024 Casabona Competition<\/div><div class='close-button'><a href="javascript: ;">Close<\/a><\/div><div class='open-button'><a href="javascript: ;">Zoom In<\/a><\/div><\/div><\/li>\n<li><div class=\"gallery-item\"><div class=\"photo-holder\" style=\"background-image: 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alt=\"Garrett Modery and Maxim Lyons presenting at the Fall 2024 Casabona Competition\"\/><\/div><div class='caption'> Garrett Modery and Maxim Lyons presenting at the Fall 2024 Casabona Competition<\/div><div class='close-button'><a href="javascript: ;">Close<\/a><\/div><div class='open-button'><a href="javascript: ;">Zoom In<\/a><\/div><\/div><\/li>\n<li><div class=\"gallery-item\"><div class=\"photo-holder\" style=\"background-image: 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alt=\"Fall 2024 Casabona competition judges\"\/><\/div><div class='caption'> Fall 2024 Casabona competition judges from left: Peter Kestenbaum, Ruth Clements, Mario Casabona, Terry Gunning and Mukesh Patel<\/div><div class='close-button'><a href="javascript: ;">Close<\/a><\/div><div class='open-button'><a href="javascript: ;">Zoom In<\/a><\/div><\/div><\/li>\n<li><div class=\"gallery-item\"><div class=\"photo-holder\" style=\"background-image: 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alt=\"Ava Distaso presenting at the Fall 2024 Casabona Competition\"\/><\/div><div class='caption'> Ava Distaso presenting at the Fall 2024 Casabona Competition<\/div><div class='close-button'><a href="javascript: ;">Close<\/a><\/div><div class='open-button'><a href="javascript: ;">Zoom In<\/a><\/div><\/div><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div><!-- cached result -->\n<p>The presentations reflected not only the depth of academic inquiry but also the students\u2019 ability to connect their work to real-world applications, addressing some of today\u2019s most pressing challenges. Their topics were expansive, and included:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Human computer interactions, using a Multimodal Collaborative Robotic System to ensure safety in areas where robots will cross paths and interact with humans<\/li>\n<li>Gene therapy and the variations that arise between different sexes<\/li>\n<li>Improving detectors for nuclear physics exploration<\/li>\n<li>Carbon loss in tidal salt marshes<\/li>\n<li>A potential new treatment for Tuberculosis<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The competitors maintained the high standard of presentation this event has come to expect, but where this group excelled was in their ability to discuss their work in the Q&amp;A portion with the judges. Their knowledge and passion provided the foundation for them to confidently take on all comments, questions and criticism. Through comments and in their deliberation, the judges expressed how impressed they were with this group and how their passion really came through in the presentations. That was a key component of the winner&#8217;s edge when the rankings were decided. The results were announced as follows:<\/p>\n<div class=\"prpl-row\">\n<div class=\"prpl-column one-half\">\n<figure class=\"responsive-image-holder wp-caption alignnone\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"mlt-responsive-image\" data-original-image=\"\/csam\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/202\/2024\/12\/casabona-2024-first-eaes.jpg\" src=\"\/responsive-media\/cache\/csam\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/202\/2024\/12\/casabona-2024-first-eaes.jpg.0.1x.generic.jpg\" alt=\"Casabona Fall 2024 competition first place and best mentor awards\"\/><\/figure>\n<div class='inset red'>\n<p><strong>First Place<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Ava Distaso, representing the Earth and Environmental Studies Department, mentored by Dr. Jorge Lorenzo-Trueba (award accepted by Chair, Dr. Clement Alo)<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><div class=\"prpl-row\">\n<div class=\"prpl-column one-third\">\n<figure class=\"responsive-image-holder wp-caption alignnone\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"mlt-responsive-image\" data-original-image=\"\/csam\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/202\/2024\/12\/casabona-2024-second-biol.jpg\" src=\"\/responsive-media\/cache\/csam\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/202\/2024\/12\/casabona-2024-second-biol.jpg.0.1x.generic.jpg\" alt=\"Casabona Fall 2024 competition second place award\"\/><\/figure>\n<div class='inset lt-gray'>\n<p><strong>Second Place<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Nour Shalash<br \/>\nBiology Department<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"prpl-column one-third\">\n<figure class=\"responsive-image-holder wp-caption alignnone\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"mlt-responsive-image\" data-original-image=\"\/csam\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/202\/2024\/12\/casabona-2024-third-scpt.jpg\" src=\"\/responsive-media\/cache\/csam\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/202\/2024\/12\/casabona-2024-third-scpt.jpg.0.1x.generic.jpg\" alt=\"Casabona Fall 2024 competition third place award\"\/><\/figure>\n<div class='inset lt-gray'>\n<p><strong>Third Place<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Maxim Lyons &amp; Garrett Modery<br \/>\nSchool of Computing<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"prpl-column one-third\">\n<figure class=\"responsive-image-holder wp-caption alignnone\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"mlt-responsive-image\" data-original-image=\"\/csam\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/202\/2024\/12\/casabona-2024-audience-fav-phys.jpg\" src=\"\/responsive-media\/cache\/csam\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/202\/2024\/12\/casabona-2024-audience-fav-phys.jpg.0.1x.generic.jpg\" alt=\"Casabona Fall 2024 competition Audience Favorite award\"\/><\/figure>\n<div class='inset lt-gray'>\n<p><strong>Audience Favorite<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Sarah Estupinan-Jimenez<br \/>\nPhysics Department<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>We thank our judges for their time and insight providing invaluable feedback and guidance to the competing students. To all the competitors this semester, your work and efforts were unquestionably impressive, congratulations on representing yourselves, your Departments and the College with such professionalism! Providing students with opportunities to present their work in a supportive and dynamic environment, the event not only highlights the academic excellence within the College but also inspires a broader conversation about the critical role of research in shaping our collective future.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The biannual competition continues to showcase our students and their deep knowledge of their respective scientific areas<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":34,"featured_media":212407,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[54],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-212393","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-csam-students"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/csam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/212393","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/csam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/csam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/csam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/34"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/csam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=212393"}],"version-history":[{"count":15,"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/csam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/212393\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":212427,"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/csam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/212393\/revisions\/212427"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/csam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/212407"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/csam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=212393"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/csam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=212393"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/csam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=212393"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}