Results of the RMBS Contest 2013
held in Colorado Springs, CO
Students Contest
Best Paper
Arunvel Kailasan
University of Virginia
Second Place
Sarah A. Anderson
Wake Forest University
Third Place
Elham Ghonim
University of Mississippi Medical Center
First Place
Arunvel Kailasan
University of Virginia
Second Place
Elizabeth M. Lillie
Wake Forest University
Third Place
Sarah A. Anderson
Wake Forest University
President's Award
Samantha L. Schoell
Virginia Tech / Wake Forest University
Program Chairman's Award
Matthew L. Davis
Virginia Tech / Wake Forest University
Contest Chairman's Award
Robert W. Streeter
University of Wyoming
Anthony Sances Jr. Award of Merit
Nishant Lakhera
University of Wyoming
21 students participated in the contest. For the written competition, all the papers were reviewed as part of the paper acceptance process: each paper was reviewed by 2 judges. 14 judges expressed their preferences in the written competition and each judge reviewed at least 4 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, 11 presentations and 4 posters were judged. Since the number of student participating in the poster contest was very small, the poster award was combined with the presentations award in one oral award.
13 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.
3 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 their special award.
Professionals Contest
Best Paper
Timothy P. Harrigan
The John Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory
Oral Award
Carolyn E. Hampton
Virginia Tech
8 professionals participated in the contest. For the written competition, the same criteria as the student's written competitions applied.
At the symposium, 5 presentations and 2 posters were judged. Four students expressed their preferences in the professional competition. Not all professionals were evaluated by the same students and not all of them received the same number of votes, but each professional was judged by at least 2 students. The scores were again normalized for each judge and the total score for each professional was the average of the normalized scores. Since the number of professionals participating in the contest was very small, the presentation and poster awards were combined in one oral award.