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2014 Creativity in the Arts and Sciences Event (CASE) Winners Announced

The University of Florida (UF) Howard Hughes Medical Institute (HHMI) Science for Life Program and UF’s College of Fine Arts is pleased to announce the winners of the 2014 Creativity in the Arts and Sciences Event (CASE). Held February 1, 2014, CASE brought together more than 125 students with backgrounds in the sciences and arts to rethink the boundaries of creativity.

Now in its eighth year, the CASE features science research posters, 2-D/3-D art exhibits, film, and dance/music/theatre performances. Students from eight UF colleges and approximately 50 different departments and disciplinary programs as well as students from EMBRY-Riddle Aeronautical University, Emory University and Louisiana State University competed this year for prizes in three categories: science, art or science/art collaboration. Here are our 2014 winners:

 Collaboration winners:

• 1^st place ($1,250): Katie Bosley, UF School of Art and Art History, and Weier Liu, UF College of Medicine, for CIPN Symptom Cups
• 1^st place ($1,250): Katelyn Carty, UF School of Music, and Robin Yoon, UF College of Medicine, for Melody and Malady: An Aural Presentation of Pompe Disease
• 2^nd place ($750): Stepfanie Lam, UF College of Medicine, and Virginia Lane, UF School of Music, for Genetics Meets Music
• 2^nd place ($750): Michelle Couret, UF College of Medicine, and David Tonnelier, UF School of Art and Art History, for Neural Network
• 3^rd place ($500): Billy Schap, UF College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, and Zac Thompson, UF School of Art and Art History, for Uncertain Space
• 3^rd place ($500): Katherine Green, UF School of Art and Art History, and Andrew Kolarich, UF College of Medicine, for Lucid Degeneration

 Arts (Visual/Performing) winners:

• 1^st place ($1,250): Shelby Sullivan, UF School of Theatre and Dance, for To blow out a candle, or kindle the fire
• 1^st place ($1,250): Vassiliki Daskalakis, UF School of Art and Art History, for A Cigarette A Day
• 2^nd place ($750): Stefanie Anarumo, UF School of Theatre and Dance, for Organized Chaos: The Search for Arcadia
• 2^nd place ($750): Jennifer Squires, UF School of Theatre and Dance, for Lymphedance
• 3^rd place ($500): Kyle Mosler, UF School of Theatre and Dance, for Pack
• 3^rd place ($500): Alexa Udermann, UF School of Art and Art History, for Other Spaces

 Science winners:

• 1^st place ($1,250): Madeleine Turcotte, UF College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, for Studying the Breakdown and Rebuilding of the Cell’s Skeleton
• 1^st place ($1,250): Zachary Fitzpatrick, LSU College of Science, for Pushing the Boundaries of Gene Therapy Using Enveloped AAV Vectors
• 2^nd place ($750): Juan Serrano, UF College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, for Synthesis and Antimalarial Activities of a Diverse Set of Triazole-Containing Quinine Analogues 
• 2^nd place ($750): Jacob Renuart , UF College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, for Long-Range Electron Transfer in Oxalate Decarboxylase – Hypothetical Enzymatic Mechanism 
• 3^rd place ($250): Benedetto DiCiaccio, UF College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, for Photomediated Growth and Characterization of Plasmonic Nonomaterials
• 3^rd place ($250): Shelby Pursley, LSU Department of Chemical Engineering and LSU Department of Biological and Agricultural Engineering, for Cryoprotectant Loading in a Microchannel
• 3^rd place ($250): Clayton Cozzan, UF College of Engineering, for Non-Invasive Early Detection of Pulmonary Diseases Using Porous Silicon Nanoparticles
• 3^rd place ($250): Alexis Boulter, UF College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, for Interaction of Alu Polymorphisms with Hypertension within the Context of Racism and Social Inequity in African-Americans

This year’s winners will be recognized at the UF-HHMI Science for Life Annual Receptionon April 7, 2014 from 5-7:00 p.m. at the UF President’s House in Gainesville, Fla. 

To learn more, visit sfl.aa.ufl.edu/CASE. Follow the UF-HHMI Science for Life program online @UFSFL and www.facebook.com/UF.HHMI.SFL. Follow the UF College of Fine Arts @UFFineArts and www.facebook.com/uffinearts. Follow all the CASE happenings by using the hashtag #2014CASE.

About the UF-HHMI Science for Life Program

With funding from the Howard Hughes Medical Institute, the Science for Life Program has a mission to strengthen and transform undergraduate research and interdisciplinary laboratory education in the STEM disciplines at the University of Florida and our partnering institutions. To learn more, visit http://sfl.aa.ufl.edu.

About the College of Fine Arts

The College of Fine Arts is one the 16 colleges and more than 150 research centers and institutes at the University of Florida in Gainesville, Fla. The College of Fine Arts offers baccalaureate, master’s and Ph.D. degree programs in its three fully-accredited schools — the School of Art and Art History, School of Music and School of Theatre and Dance. The college is home to the Center for Arts in Medicine, Center for World Arts, Digital Worlds Institute and the New World School of the Arts in Miami. More than 100 faculty members and more than 1,220 students work together daily to engage, inspire and create. The college hosts more than 300 events each year and faculty and students also exhibit and perform at other local, national and international venues. Guests are welcome to attend college events and visit the University Galleries, University Auditorium and Constans Theatre, among other on-campus arts venues. To learn more, visit www.arts.ufl.edu.