National Awards for Two UT Tyler Students

TYLER – Two honors students at the University of Texas at Tyler have won top awards for research presentations at the 2018 National Collegiate Honors Council Conference. Biochemistry senior Savannah Seely of Fort Worth and civil engineering senior Arthur Oenning Fagundes of Curitiba, Brazil, received Best Research Poster awards at the Boston, Massachusetts, event. Seely was awarded in the health sciences division for her poster titled “Investigating Programming of a Virus-Like Particle for Cell Specific Chemotherapy,’’ which was based on her research with Dr. Dustin Patterson, assistant professor of biochemistry. Fagundes was awarded in the business, engineering and computer science division for his poster titled “City of Tyler Hub-and-Spoke Bicycle Lane Network,’’ which was based on his work with Dr. Mena Souliman, assistant professor of civil engineering.