2026 Award Winners and Mentors for Undergraduate Symposium on Research, Scholarship and Creative Endeavors
The annual Undergraduate Symposium on Research, Scholarship and Creative Endeavors was held April 13th, 2026 during Undergraduate Research Week, and was an opportunity for undergraduates to present to a larger audience what they have learned through their research. The symposium also provided a forum for students, faculty, and the community to discuss cutting edge research topics and examine relationships among research, education, and discovery through presentations and poster sessions.
We are especially proud of the 264 student researchers and more than 100 faculty mentors who found a way to continue to conduct and present research in the face of various pandemic-related obstacles.
See below for the winners of the 2026 Research Symposium.
Congratulations to all of this year’s Research Symposium participants and mentors.
AERONAUTICS and ENGINEERING | ||
PLACE | NAME | MENTOR |
| FIRST | Mateus Holovaty | John Sankovic |
| FIRST | Lucky Sah | Jong-Hoon Kim |
| SECOND | Richard Marsico | Hossein Mirinejad |
| SECOND | Aaron Morris | Jeffrey Balcerski |
ARCHITECTURE AND ART | ||
PLACE | NAME | MENTOR |
| FIRST | Tiffany Nowinski | John-Michael Warner |
| SECOND | Ashmita Vijayanand | Tina Patel |
| SECOND | Madilyn Ward | Tina Patel |
BIOLOGY-CELL | ||
PLACE | NAME | MENTOR |
| FIRST | Cooper DeFrange | Jennifer McDonough |
| FIRST | Giovanni Tripi | Helen Piontkivska |
| SECOND | Crawford Barnett | Joseph Bedont |
| SECOND | Reece Turner | Joseph Bedont |
| SECOND | Anna Dalton | Richard Piet |
BIOLOGY - ECOLOGY | ||
PLACE | NAME | MENTOR |
| FIRST | Ruth Morara | Dave Costello |
| FIRST | Lauren Sigrist | Greg Smith |
| SECOND | Helen McLellan | Sarah Eichler |
| SECOND | Kendall Myers | Matthew Lehnert |
BIOMEDICAL SCIENCES | ||
PLACE | NAME | MENTOR |
| FIRST | Rishi Ahuja | Robert Clements |
| SECOND | Madelynn Spicuzza | Colleen Novak |
| SECOND | Ray Maynard | Dinah Qutub |
| SECOND | William Maynard | Dinah Qutub |
BUSINESS | ||
PLACE | NAME | MENTOR |
| FIRST | Fatemeh Mahmoodzadeh Bayghara | Philip Wang |
| SECOND | Rowan Oliphant | Haithem Zourrig |
CHEMISTRY | ||
PLACE | NAME | MENTOR |
| FIRST | Micah Lockhart | Sanjaya Abeysirigunawardena |
| FIRST | Dominick Nero | Sanjaya Abeysirigunawardena |
| SECOND | Abdulmuqeet Mohammed | Farid Fouad |
COMPUTER SCIENCE AND MATHEMATICS | ||
PLACE | NAME | MENTOR |
| FIRST | Harpreet Kaur | Maha Allouzi |
| SECOND | Cody Sherman | Johnathan Maletic |
EDUCATION AND ENGLISH | ||
PLACE | NAME | MENTOR |
| FIRST | Sofia Stamati | Sonia Karkare |
| SECOND | Isabella Emerick | Mahli Mechenbier |
EXERCISE SCIENCE, NURSING AND ALLIED HEALTH | ||
PLACE | NAME | MENTOR |
| FIRST | Punarjai Pratap | Adam Jajtner |
| SECOND | Allison Wood | Meghan Magee |
FASHION DESIGN AND MERCHANDISING | ||
PLACE | NAME | MENTOR |
| FIRST | Emily Cranston | Krissi Riewe |
| FIRST | Andrea Sudia | Ja Young Hwang |
| FIRST | Julian Weber | Krissi Riewe |
| SECOND | Allison Byron | Ja-Young Hwang |
| SECOND | Eduarda Candeo | Ja-Young Hwang |
| SECOND | Aeris Hernandez-Diaz | Ja-young Hwang |
FASHION MERCHANDISING | ||
PLACE | NAME | MENTOR |
| FIRST | Jordan Meadows | Narmin Nasibli |
| SECOND | Natalya Carroll | Xingqiu Lou |
GEOLOGY, GEOGRAPHY, HORTICULTURE | ||
PLACE | NAME | MENTOR |
| FIRST | Andrew Shenal | Patrick Bitterman |
| SECOND | Jaynie Pulaski | Kuldeep Singh |
PHYSICS | ||
PLACE | NAME | MENTOR |
| FIRST | Mila Spike | Veronica Dexheimer |
| SECOND | Hannah Zelina | Hamza Balci |
POLITICAL SCIENCE/PHILOSOPHY/HISTORY/PROFESSIONAL PRACTICE | ||
PLACE | NAME | MENTOR |
| FIRST | Alice Fox | Lindsey Starkey |
| SECOND | Marissa Lane Anderson | Sarah Sisson |
| SECOND | Camille Rose Clark | Sarah Sisson |
| SECOND | Valen Earles | Sarah Sisson |
| SECOND | Brooklyn Heller-Correa | Sarah Sisson |
PSYCHOLOGY | ||
PLACE | NAME | MENTOR |
| FIRST | Emily Bishop | Phillip Hamrick |
| FIRST | Alayna Kasper | Jeanne Smith |
| FIRST | Abbey Madasz | Kathleen Casto |
| FIRST | Kaya Parker | Christopher Was |
| FIRST | Ally Sahay | Joel Hughes |
| SECOND | Madison Bernard | Trevor Williams |
| SECOND | Maryam Bonchu | Brittany Baugher |
| SECOND | William Doering | Kayla Scamaldo |
| SECOND | Amelia Pecic | John Gunstad |
| SECOND | Elise Simmons | Lee Gilman |
| SECOND | Predrag Tolmachev | Jocelyn Folk |
| SECOND | Tanushree Ujjineni | Kayla Scamaldo |
SOCIAL SCIENCE/EDUCATION/PUBLIC HEALTH | ||
PLACE | NAME | MENTOR |
| FIRST | Madison Jackson | Tiffany Taylor |
| FIRST | Annie Fink | David Kaplan |
| SECOND | Mallory Turnbull | Elaine Hsiao |
| SECOND | Noah Zollinger | Metin Eren |
