PLEASE NOTE: This archive recognizes students from previous years who received Undergraduate Research Symposium awards that are no longer part of the current award offerings.
Center for Environmental Futures Award | UO Common Reading Award | Data Stories Presentation Award | Phil and Penny Knight Campus for Accelerating Scientific Impact Poster Award | UESS Oral Presentation Award | UO Libraries Poster Design Award | UROP Poster Award
Alexandra Acosta-Torres '23 & Jaemie Bynum '23
Major: Earth Science (Acosta-Torres) | Environmental Studies (Bynum)
Project: "COVID-19, Climate Change, and Collages - A creative analysis disguised as an educational approach to inform about the connection between climate change and COVID-19"
2020 Recipients
Lofanitani Aisea '21
Major: Asian Studies | Indigenous, Race & Ethnic Studies
Project: "lwelek honk sa (Let's Kill It): Revitalizing Indigenous language & Exploding Settler Cows"
2021 Recipient
Sydney Balderston '21
Major: Sociology
Project: "Student Responses to Climate Change: Determinants of Participation in Collective Action"
2021 Recipient
Michaela Fishback '20
Major: Environmental Science
Project: "Population Dynamics in Endemic Serpentine Grassland Plant Communities Amid Anthropogenic Environmental Change"
2020 Recipient
Abby Keep '20
Major: International Studies | History
Project: "Peace Canal: Conflict, Cooperation, and the Red Sea-Dead Sea Water Conveyance"
2020 Recipient
Abby Kellems '21
Major: Music Composition
Project: "American Women Driving Classical Music and Environmentalism Forward in the Twenty-First Century"
2021 Recipient
Cal Penkauskas '20
Major: Environmental Science
Project: "Hogs and Hazelnuts: Resolving conflict between oak conservation and organic agriculture"
2020 Recipient
Amy Shannon '20
Major: Anthropology
Project: "Alutiiq Use of Birds at Rice Ridge (49-KOD-363), Kodiak Island"
2020 Recipient
Frida Graumann '22 & Gabby Wille '23
Major: English (Graumann) | English (Wille)
Project: "Volunteering at GrassRoots Garden: How to Grow Individual and Community Food Literacy"
2022 Recipient
Kat Sincuir Alvarez '23
Major: Anthropology | Cinema Studies
Project: "Estrella's Portrait"
2020 Recipient
Maya Auld '20
Major: Family and Human Services
Project: “What does being Latino/Latina/Latinx mean to you?”: A Thematic Analysis of Oregon Latinx Students and Their Ethnic Identity"
2020 Recipient
Rachel Conner '21
Major: Human Physiology
Project: "100 Years of Malaria Prevalence in Zanzibar, East Africa"
2021 Recipient
Caryassa Dieni '20
Major: Anthropology
Project: "The Transmission of Ecological Knowledge Through Star Myths"
2020 Honorable Mention
Olivia Farnham '21
Major: Sociology
Project: "Compounding Precarity: COVID-19 and the New Hazards of Low-Wage Work"
2021 Honorable Mention
Matthew Hampton '22 & Grace Trammell '23
Major: Planning, Public Policy and Management | Political Science (Hampton) & English (Trammell)
Project: "Data "Counterstory:" Academic Text Accessibility and Open Educational Resources"
2022 Honorable Mention
Ryan Leriche '21
Major: Biology
Project: "Learning to learn: Making sense of electrophysiology data"
2020 Honorable Mention
Idil Osman '22
Major: Planning, Public Policy and Management
Project: "Underreporting of Epidemic Rebound and Resurgent Malaria In Nine African Countries "
2022 Recipient
Lucinda Roberts '23
Major: Spatial Data Science and Technology
Project: "Quantifying Glacial Melt and Movement Using Remote Sensing in Greenland's Sermilik Fjord"
2021 Honorable Mention
Eugene Tan '22
Major: Computer and Information Science
Project: "Visualizations of the IP Address Space with Hilbert Curves to Expose Multifractal Patterns"
2022 Honorable Mention
Anna Burger '24
Major: Human Physiology
Project: "Rehabilitative Assessment of Cyclic Tensile Strain on Angiogenesis In Vitro"
2024 Recipient
Yun Craddock '28
Major: Neuroscience
Project: "Crosstalk Effects of Trace Size and Pitch in Thin-Film Neural Interface Devices "
2025 Recipient
Eliza Lawrence '24
Major: Spatial Data Sciences and Technology | Earth Sciences
Project: "Excluding numeric side-effect information produces lower vaccine intentions"
2022 Recipient
Faith Longnight '22
Major: Chemistry | Sociology
Project: "Using Kinetics to Study the Stabilization of Reactive Hydrosulfide by Supramolecular Receptors"
2021 Recipient
Max Tenenbaum '24
Major: Human Physiology | Neuroscience
Project: "Polydimethylsiloxane Casting: The Preferred Method for Encapsulating Neural Interface Devices"
2023 Recipient
Lillian Payne '22
Major: Chemistry
Project: "Inducing Photo-accessible Metal States in Zirconium Metal-Organic Frameworks"
2021 Recipient
Cal Penkauskas '20
Major: Environmental Science
Project: "Hogs and Hazelnuts: Resolving conflict between oak conservation and organic agriculture"
2020 Recipient
Jenna Travers '23
Major: Marine Biology
Project: "Stories of Decline: Narratives and Risk Framing of Glacier Retreat and Salmon in Washington, USA"
2022 Recipient
Mia Lauder '25
Major: Neuroscience
Project: "Exploring the Proteomic Findings of the Electrical Synapse Density in Zebrafish"
2025 Recipient
Abby Lewis '25
Major: Cinema Studies | Mathematics
Project: "Math On TV: Edutainment, Power, & National Fitness"
2025 Recipient
Theemeshni Govender '20
Major: Psychology
Project: "Interactive Effects of Social Support and Self-Complexity on Depressive Symptoms in Adolescent Girls"
2020 Recipient
Noah Pettinari '22
Major: Physics
Project: "Bacterial ranged expansion and the Fisher speed: a discrepancy in nutrient-rich media"
2021 Recipient