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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       

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

PLACE

NAME

MENTOR

FIRST Megan Porter Rui Liu
SECOND Olivia Mansier, Serene Hawes Tina Patel

ART/FASHION DESIGN & MERCHANDISING

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

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

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

PLACE

NAME

MENTOR

FIRST Kayleigh Bucci Manabu Kurokawa
SECOND Kendra Dillon Aleisha Moore

CHEMISTRY/PHYSICS

PLACE

NAME

MENTOR

FIRST Holly Matthews Thorsten Schmidt
SECOND Victoria Menches, Julia Sterbenz Farid Fouad

ENGLISH/LANGUAGES/COMMUNICATION/GEOLOGY/GEOGRAPHY/POLITICAL SCIENCE/HISTORY

PLACE

NAME

MENTOR

FIRST Annika Dudik Anne Jefferson
SECOND Anastasia Simms Jeanne Smith

EXERCISE SCIENCE/NURSING & ALLIED HEALTH

PLACE

NAME

MENTOR

FIRST Wayne Nieh Amy Petrinec & Cindy Wilk
SECOND Ashley Simmons J. Derek Kingsley

PROFESSIONAL PRACTICE/OUTREACH/ENGAGEMENT

PLACE

NAME

MENTOR

FIRST Elizabeth Marhefka L. Austin Frederickson
SECOND Mackenzie Blake Cindy Widuck

PSYCHOLOGY

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

PLACE

NAME

MENTOR

FIRST Shiah Kleinman Tiffany Taylor
FIRST Christabel Akhigbe Jooyoun Park
SECOND Jade Northover Kelly Cichy
SECOND Kyote Youst David Kaplan