AJAS Winners Announced!

From Mark Jones, Ph.D. Director, Alabama Junior Academy of Science

Finalists by ranking

  • 1  Ashu Anand (life)
  • 2 Yiwen Wang (Phys Sci)
  • 3 Aanchal Behara (Med)
  • 4 Bellamy Williams (Env)
  • 5 Edwin Wu (Eng)

Stem mentor (StemM) officers (see attached photo): Abby Gobbels, Lilly Vilardi, John Belew, Will Bao and Ashu Anand

  • Science alternates per category: 
  • Lilly Vilardi (Env)
  • Noah Lowry (Eng)
  • Annie Bao (Life)
  • Rishi Yellamraju (Med)
  • Varsha Vinoy (Phys Sci)

Abstracts (papers or posters) may be submitted to these sections or in one of the original permanent sections listed above (I – X). The section names and chairs/contact emails are listed below. In the abstract portal the special sections are listed. 

Special Section: Alabama Honors Scholars – Doug Marshall (USA) dougmarshall@southalabama.edu and Michael Sloane (UAB) sloane@uab.edu

Special Section: Material Science and Engineering Graduate Students Symposium – Vinoy Thomas (UAB) vthomas@uab.edu

Special Section: Interdisciplinary Health Literacy Perspectives – Lakesha Kinnerson (Samford) lkinners@samford.edu

Special Section: Neuroscience – Betsy Dobbins (Samford) egdobbins@samford.edu and Katelynn Corder-Grier (Samford) kcorder@samford.edu

Special Section: Society of Physics Students — R. Mel Blake (UNA) rmblake@una.edu