2023 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 17, 2023 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 286 student researchers and nearly 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 2023 Research Symposium.
Congratulations to all of this year’s Research Symposium participants and mentors.
See this year's symposium participants and abstracts
AERONAUTICS/ENGINEERING/COMPUTER SCIENCE/MATHEMATICS |
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PLACE |
NAME |
MENTOR |
| FIRST | Kyle Rediger | Jason Lorenzon |
| SECOND | Julian Leff, Maya Saba, Anni Anderson, Essence Holloway, Kyle Bartlett, Lily Strenroos, Azzure Alexander, Jocelyn Dickerson, Kiki Kiskadden, Jerimiah Lockett | Kevin Bahner |
ARCHITECTURE |
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PLACE |
NAME |
MENTOR |
| FIRST | Megan Porter | Rui Liu |
| SECOND | Olivia Mansier, Serene Hawes | Tina Patel |
ART/FASHION DESIGN & MERCHANDISING |
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PLACE |
NAME |
MENTOR |
| FIRST | Katarina Guenther | Linda Ohrn |
| FIRST | Alena Miskinis | Joshua Albrecht |
| SECOND | Cameron Genet | Medicus Gustav |
| SECOND | Alexandra Baxter | Fabio Polanco |
BIOLOGY - CELL |
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PLACE |
NAME |
MENTOR |
| FIRST | Nathaniel Ritchey | Bokai Zhu |
| FIRST | Thai Nguyen | Diana Schmidt |
| SECOND | Alaya Kiser | Lique Coolen |
| SECOND | Autumn Redd | Lique Coolen |
BIOLOGY - ECOLOGY |
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PLACE |
NAME |
MENTOR |
| FIRST | Kendall Ewert | David Ward |
| FIRST | Maya Niesz Kutsch | Chris Blackwood |
| SECOND | Ryan Fitzpatrick, Miranda Kissel | David Ward |
| SECOND | Lucas Capatosto | Sangeet Lamichhaney |
BIOMEDICAL SCIENCES |
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PLACE |
NAME |
MENTOR |
| FIRST | Kayleigh Bucci | Manabu Kurokawa |
| SECOND | Kendra Dillon | Aleisha Moore |
CHEMISTRY/PHYSICS |
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PLACE |
NAME |
MENTOR |
| FIRST | Holly Matthews | Thorsten Schmidt |
| SECOND | Victoria Menches, Julia Sterbenz | Farid Fouad |
ENGLISH/LANGUAGES/COMMUNICATION/GEOLOGY/GEOGRAPHY/POLITICAL SCIENCE/HISTORY |
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PLACE |
NAME |
MENTOR |
| FIRST | Annika Dudik | Anne Jefferson |
| SECOND | Anastasia Simms | Jeanne Smith |
EXERCISE SCIENCE/NURSING & ALLIED HEALTH |
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PLACE |
NAME |
MENTOR |
| FIRST | Wayne Nieh | Amy Petrinec & Cindy Wilk |
| SECOND | Ashley Simmons | J. Derek Kingsley |
PROFESSIONAL PRACTICE/OUTREACH/ENGAGEMENT |
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PLACE |
NAME |
MENTOR |
| FIRST | Elizabeth Marhefka | L. Austin Frederickson |
| SECOND | Mackenzie Blake | Cindy Widuck |
PSYCHOLOGY |
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PLACE |
NAME |
MENTOR |
| FIRST | Lauren Scrimshaw, Marissa Nicodemus, Alliana Hite, Isabella Spaulding, Sarah Kassis | Lee Gilman |
| FIRST | Tiffany Byrne | Patricia Tomich |
| FIRST | Lindsay Scott | Amy Sato |
| FIRST | Cameron Wittschen | Christopher Was |
| SECOND | Charlie Coward | Jennifer Taber & Abagail O'Brien |
| SECOND | Marissa Nicodemus, Alliana Hite, Cameron Russell | Lee Gilman |
| SECOND | Hannah Johnson | Jennifer Taber & Jeremy Foust |
| SECOND | Dakota Smith | Patricia Tomich |
SOCIAL SCIENCE/EDUCATION/PUBLIC HEALTH |
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PLACE |
NAME |
MENTOR |
| FIRST | Shiah Kleinman | Tiffany Taylor |
| FIRST | Christabel Akhigbe | Jooyoun Park |
| SECOND | Jade Northover | Kelly Cichy |
| SECOND | Kyote Youst | David Kaplan |