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