2024 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 5th, 2024 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 2024 Research Symposium.
Congratulations to all of this year’s Research Symposium participants and mentors.
See this year's symposium participants and abstracts
AERONAUTICS and ENGINEERING | ||
PLACE | NAME | MENTOR |
FIRST | Andrew Pertz | Ye Lu |
SECOND | David Dreyer | Ali Abdul-Aziz |
ARCHITECTURE | ||
PLACE | NAME | MENTOR |
FIRST | Nic Miller | Riu Liu |
FIRST | Samuel Clemente | Jeanne Smith |
SECOND | Elena Varner Waltz | Melanie Renee Roll |
SECOND | Lillianna Aliberti | Tina Patel |
BIOLOGY-CELL | ||
PLACE | NAME | MENTOR |
FIRST | Marcus Amador | Joseph McCormick |
FIRST | Teresa Raba | Sangeet Lamichhaney |
FIRST | Isabella Oliver | Richard Piet |
SECOND | Autumn Redd | Lique Coolen |
SECOND | David Cecconi Borges Massa Checan | Robert Clements |
SECOND | Andrew Whitfield | Manabu Kurokawa |
BIOLOGY - ECOLOGY | ||
PLACE | NAME | MENTOR |
FIRST | Jada Howard | Matthew Lehnert |
FIRST | Samuel Large | Jennifer Mapes |
FIRST | Stephanie Petrycki | Christie Bahlai |
SECOND | Augustin Holman | Sarah Eichler |
SECOND | Ruth Morara | David Costello |
SECOND | Erin Kelly | Gregory Smith |
BIOMEDICAL SCIENCES | ||
PLACE | NAME | MENTOR |
FIRST | Kayleigh Bucci | Manabu Kurokawa |
FIRST | Christopher Blank | Colleen Novak |
SECOND | Elli Marhefka | Lique Coolen |
SECOND | Autumn Reed | Heather Caldwell |
CHEMISTRY | ||
PLACE | NAME | MENTOR |
FIRST | Max Ciarlariello, Micah Lockhart | Sanjaya Abeysirigunawardena |
SECOND | Justin Wagner | Elda Hegmann |
COMPUTER SCIENCE AND MATHEMATICS | ||
PLACE | NAME | MENTOR |
FIRST | Anna Anello | Kwantaek Kim |
SECOND | Eva Powlison | Qiang Guang |
ENGLISH/COMMUNICATION/ART/HISTORY | ||
PLACE | NAME | MENTOR |
FIRST | Korren Cullom | Rekha Sharma |
SECOND | Megan Porter | Jessica Barnes |
EXERCISE SCIENCE | ||
PLACE | NAME | MENTOR |
FIRST | Clarice Farley | Angela Ridgel |
SECOND | Elise Gambol | Meghan Magee |
FASHION DESIGN AND MAERCHANDINSING | ||
PLACE | NAME | MENTOR |
FIRST | Henry Becker | Linda Ohrn-McDaniel |
FIRST | Nadia Modjrian | J.R. Campell |
SECOND | Tamara Marono Garza | Linda Ohrn-McDaniel |
SECOND | Frances Brunner | Archana Mehta |
PHYSICS | ||
PLACE | NAME | MENTOR |
FIRST | Tuqa Al Hajri | Hamza Balci |
SECOND | Marceline Thornton | Marianne Prevot |
POLITICAL SCIENCE/PHILOSOPHY/GEOLOGY/GEOGRAPHY/BUSINESS | ||
PLACE | NAME | MENTOR |
FIRST | Maggie Cook | Mark Whitmore |
SECOND | Jillian Findling | Carrie Schweitzer |
PSYCHOLOGY | ||
PLACE | NAME | MENTOR |
FIRST | Semma Dhaher | Karin Coifman |
FIRST | Laurren Parrish | Dana Miller-Cotto |
FIRST | Kaiya Caraboolad, Izzy Niedermier, Alexia Rouch, Megan Montoney | John Gunstad, Karin Coifman |
SECOND | Hannah Fender | Philip Hamrick |
SECOND | Joshua Daniel | Angela Neal-Barnett |
SECOND | Samantha Wehr | Rachel Blaisman |
SOCIAL SCIENCE/EDUCATION/PUBLIC HEALTH/NURSING | ||
PLACE | NAME | MENTOR |
FIRST | Wayne Nieh | Amy Petrinec |
FIRST | Niko Magda | Clare Stacey |
FIRST | Jaelin Apple, Toby Gbloguidi, Ry Bennet, Anna Graves, Bennet Thyren, Mallory Cunion | Demarie Fairbanks |
SECOND | Khang Nguyen | Curtis Lockwood |
SECOND | Sara Evelyne | Jessica Leveto |
SECOND | Kaniyah Edward, Fennick Carlin, Morgan Bungar, Em DeLoach, Molly Majikas, James Evans, Jenna McIntyre | Annika Anderson |
PROFESSIONAL PRACTICE/OUTREACH/ENGAGEMENT | ||
PLACE | NAME | MENTOR |
FIRST | Sarah Sisson, Alexandria Portman, Lindsey Nottingham, Bella Rudy, Madeleine Frutos | Allison Remick |
SECOND | Marissa Ziemer, Sam Cowger, Emma Pry, Lars Klocek, Kai Turner, Mac Myers | Lauren Korpics |