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Two undergraduate students, Malik Thompson and Michael McLeod, were among the top scoring student presentations at the Kentucky Academy of Science annual meeting in November.

Both presentations received the highest “Thoroughbred” rating. Thompson’s oral presentation in the mathematics category was titled, “Foundations and Applications of Singular Value Decomposition.” McLeod’s poster in the health sciences category was titled, “Specific Drugs Illicit Distinct Pathways in Drug Reaction with Eosinophilia and Systemic Symptoms (DRESS) Syndrome.”

Both students are research assistants at Kentucky State University.

“KSU has helped me by giving me the access to the MATLAB software package and giving me the needed access to a very helpful mentor and advisors who were able to help me put the project in place,” Thompson said.

Many other personnel and students attended the Kentucky Academy of Science annual meeting at Morehead State University from November 10-12. Kentucky State University was a sponsor of the meeting.

The following faculty, staff and students presented or had their work represented at the meeting: Dr. Avinash Tope, Dr. Ken Thompson, Uchechukwu Ohajiudu, Dr. Ken Semmens, Mark Johannemann, Leo Fleckenstein, Dr. Andrew Ray, Dr. George Antonious, Eric Turley, Angel Freeman, Dr. Changzheng Wang, Anjan Nepal, ZaKylah Bryant, McKringle Mhlanga, Zachary Scott, Gyannella Ortega, Oluwaseun Odunfa, Anjan Dhungana, Anthony Osterman, Daniel Woods, Kayla McCalebb, Kimberly Cooper, Dr. Yun Jiang, Dr. Kirk Pomper, Jeremy Lowe, Sheri Crabtree, Abdul Agboola, Dr. Richard Maiti, Anthony Vascotto, Jyotica Batra, Dr. Buddhi Gyawali, Dr. Mahetme Gebremedhin, Donavyn Mosley, Michael McLeod, Cynthia Rice, Jeremy Sandifer, Will Rogers, Cliff Wise, Jerome Walker, Amrit Nepal, Sujeet Acharya, Aaron Harris, Jared Wallace, and Malik Thompson.