Behavioral and Social Sciences - Graduate and Undergraduate
- 1st Place –Jacob Richardson ( Sociology)
- Faculty Mentor – Rhonda Dugan
- Project Title – “Affirmative Consent Policy and Conceptualization of Consent for Gay Men”
- 2nd Place – Sarah Winchester & Layla Vasquez (Psychology)
- Faculty Mentor – Isabel Sumaya
- Project Title – “Does Diet Play a Role on Future Sucrose Intake?”
Education - Graduate and Undergraduate
- 1st Place – Chase Gause (Psychology)
- Faculty Mentor – Kyle Susa
- Project Title – “Exploring the Role of Anticipatory Processing on Microdelayed Feedback”
- 2nd Place – Rabia Sohail (E ducation)
- Faculty Mentor – Debra Jackson
- Project Title – “Identifying the Underlying Causes of Academic Probation Through Students' Narratives: A Qualitative Study at CSU Bakersfield”
Humanities and Letters - Graduate and Undergraduate
- 1st Place – Natalie Hernandez ( English)
- Faculty Mentor – Robert Carlisle
- Project Title – “The Life Cycle of a Self-Sacrificial Mother Vampire”
- 2nd Place – Samantha DeLaCruz (Interdisciplinary Studies)
- Faculty Mentor – Tracey Salisbury
- Project Title – “Reclaiming Narratives and Transcending Pain: A Critical Analysis of Queer Representation in Film and Television”
Business, Economics and Public Administration - Graduate and Undergraduate
- 1st Place – Anthony Ponce (Economics) Faculty
- Mentor – Nyakundi Michieka
- Project Title – “Water Quality and Economic Growth: Testing the Environmental Kuznets Curve for US Counties”
- 2nd Place – Megan Matice (Health Care Administration)
- Faculty Mentor – Rabia Sohail
- Project Title – “From Myspace to MyChart: What the Healthcare Industry Can Learn from Social Media to Improve Patient Portals”
Health, Nutrition, and Clinical Services - Undergraduate
- 1st Place – Sumaiya Olia (B iology)
- Faculty Mentor – Paul Smith
- Project Title – “Endostatin Administration Effects on PECAM-1 of the Medial Prefrontal Cortex in Relation to Estrous Phases"
- 2nd Place – Michael Daniel Canlas ( Kinesiology)
- Faculty Mentor – Brian Street
- Project Title – “Patient Health Status is Linked with Fall Incidence after Total Knee Replacement”
Biological and Agriculture Sciences - Graduate
- 1st Place – Jaycie Fickle (Biology)
- Faculty Mentor – Anna Jacobsen
- Project Title – “Xylem structure and hydraulic function in the roots and stems of chaparral shrub species in the Sierra Nevada”
- 2nd Place – Misbah Chaudhry (B iology)
- Faculty Mentor –Isolde Francis
- Project Title – “Exploring the biocontrol potential of Streptomyces isolates against Pythium violae, a dominant carrot pathogen”
Biological and Agriculture Sciences - Undergraduate
- 1st Place – Abigail Klein (Biology)
- Faculty Mentor – Karlo Lopez
- Project Title – “Characterization of Full-Length Lysyl Oxidase”
- 2nd Place – Isaiah Orizaga (Chemistry)
- Faculty Mentor – Isolde Francis
- Project Title – “Effect of Irrigation with Oil Field-Produced Water on the Viability and Survival of Phytophthora and Pythium Species in Soil Samples”
Creative Arts and Design - Undergraduate
- 1st Place – Travis Peterson (Communications) Faculty Mentor – Jeremy Warner
- Project Title – “Ethics and Time Travel in Virtual Reality”
- 2nd Place – Jared Elliott (Art & Art History) Faculty Mentor – Bill Kelley
- Project Title – “Paradox of Preservation”
Engineering and Computer Science - Undergraduate
- 1st Place – Paul Blanco (Computer & Electrical Engineering)
- Faculty Mentor – Nyakundi Michieka
- Project Title – “Wireless Solid Set Canopy Delivery System for Tree-Cooling”
- 2nd Place – Raquel Pimentel Contreras (Engineering)
- Faculty Mentor – Dayanand Saini
- Project Title – “Techno-Economic Analysis of Large-Scale Tree Planting to Reduce Kern County’s CO2 Emissions Associated with Mobile Sources”
Physical and Mathematical Sciences - Graduate
- 1st Place – Cindy Rodriguez (Geology)
- Faculty Mentor – Junhua Guo
- Project Title – “Wildfire Impacts on Soil Physical Properties: 2016 Erskine Fire, CA”
Physical and Mathematical Sciences - Undergraduate
- 1st Place – DeMario Brown (Electrical Engineering)
- Faculty Mentor – Yize Li
- Project Title – “Physical Vapor Deposition”
- 2nd Place – Rishi Shah (C hemistry & Biochemistry)
- Faculty Mentor – Hanoz Santoke
- Project Title – “UV Photodegradation of Moxifloxacin in Water Samples”