Results of the RMBS Contest 2010

held in Laramie, WY

Students Contest

Written Contest
Best Paper

Sherry Davidoff
University of Utah

Second Place

Rongjin Yan
Colorado State University

Third Place

Travis Lairscey
University of Wyoming

Presentation Contest
First Place

Samantha Clark
Bucknell University

Second Place

Brian Dean
University of Wyoming

Third Place

Joseph Ash
University of Virginia Center for Applied Biomechanics

Poster Contest
First Place

Monica Cusenza
Università di Trieste

Second Place

Philip Brown
Biomedical Engineering and Science

Third Place

Travis Lairscey
University of Wyoming

Special Awards
President's Award

Christine Pierce
University of Mississippi Medical Center

Program Chairman's Award

Henry Owegi
Indiana State University

Contest Chairman's Award

Justin Sevy
University of Utah

Anthony Sances Jr. Award of Merit

Samantha Clark
Bucknell University

20 students participated in the contest.

For the written competition, all the papers were reviewed after the paper acceptance process: each paper was reviewed by 3 judges. 12 judges expressed their preferences in the written competition and each judge reviewed at least 7 papers. The written scores were normalized for each judge and the total score for each paper was the average of the normalized scores.

At the symposium, 12 presentations and 8 posters were judged.

15 judges expressed their preferences in the presentation competition. Not all students were evaluated by the same judges and not all of them received the same number of votes, but each presentation was judged by at least 10 judges. The scores were again normalized for each judge and the total score for each presentation was the average of the normalized scores.

4 judges expressed their preferences in the poster competition. As for the presentations, the scores were normalized for each judge and the total score for each poster was the average of the normalized scores.

For the special awards, 4 judges were involved. Each judge subjectively selected and ranked up to 5 students as the possible winners of a special award.

Professionals Contest

Best Paper

Monali Mujumdar
University of Wyoming

Best Presentation

Kotaro Sasaki
Boise State University

Best Poster

Hidekuni Ogawa
Hiroshima Institute of Technology

10 professionals participated in the contest, with two professionals submitting two papers.

For the written competition, the same criteria as the student's written competitions applied.

At the symposium, 4 presentations and 4 posters were judged. Seven students expressed their preferences in the presentation and poster competition. Not all professionals were evaluated by the same students and not all of them received the same number of votes, but each presentation/poster was judged by at least 4 judges. The scores were again normalized for each student and the total score for each presentation/poster was the average of the normalized scores.