Author: CECAS

Hundreds of Clemson students gathered at the Watt Family Innovation Center to share their research at the 18^th annual Focus on Creative Inquiry (FoCI) Poster Forum on April 5-7. The event allows students to showcase their work and gain skills to help communicate their work to the general public. The three-day event featured 240 student projects.

FoCI Printed Poster Award

3^rd place: “AI Prediction of Novel Autism Risk Genes by Genomic Data Mining”
Mentor: Liangjiang Wang, genetics and biochemistry
Students: Dany Rizkalla and Baylie Sisk, biochemistry; Snehal Shah, nursing; Tanner Street, chemical engineering

Clemson Student Research Forum

1^st place: “Peptide Based Nanoplatform for Cas9/gRNA Ribonucleoprotein Cellular Delivery and Gene Editing?”
Mentors: Angela Alexander, bioengineering; Jessica Larsen, chemical and biomolecular engineering
Students: Joey Lavalla and Alyson Schwartz, bioengineering

For more information about any of the projects presented at FoCI and the Clemson Student Research Forum, visit the digital program.

Ana C. Alba-Rubio specializes in designing and synthesizing catalysts, which are materials that speed chemical reactions. Some of her more recent work has focused on turning carbon dioxide into alcohol that could be used as fuel. The idea is to create a closed system so that carbon dioxide can be recycled instead of being released into the atmosphere, which would contribute to climate change.

* Early Career Fellow for the class of 2023 by the Industrial & Engineering Chemistry Division of the American Chemical Society (ACS). 

* A 2022 Emerging Investigator by the Royal Society of Chemistry’s Journal of Catalysis Science & Technology. 

* A 2022 Energy and Fuels Rising Star by Energy & Fuels, a publication of ACS.