Jonny Bouton '27
Major: Biochemistry
Mentor: Assistant Professor Teresa Rapp
Project: "Ru(phen)(tpyCHO)(MPN) as a Photocleavable Scaffold for Controlled Drug Release"
2025 Recipient

Nikita Istratov '28
Major: Economics & Music Performance
Mentor: Professor Alexandre Dossin
Project: "Exploring Sofia Gubaidulina's Piano Music through the Chaconne"
2025 Recipient

Karenna Johnson '28
Major: Economics
Mentor: Associate Professor Dasa Zeithamova Demircan
Project: "Investigating the Role of Encoding and Retrieval in False Memory Generation"
2025 Recipient

Henry Stubbert '27
Major: Multidisciplinary Science
Mentor: Assistant Professor Gabriella Lindberg
Project: "Biofabricating In Vitro Models to Interrogate Osteoarthritis Disease Progression"
2025 Recipient

Avery Suriano '28
Major: Neuroscience
Mentor: Assistant Professor Emily Sylwestrak
Project: "Evaluating the Effects of Chronic Stress on Reward Prediction Error in Mice"
2025 Recipient

Alexander Aghdaei '26
Major: Political Science & Data Science
Mentor: Professor Jane Cramer
Project: "Two Birds with One Stone: Curbing Militarism, Fixing Climate Change"
2023 Recipient

Story Arney '26
Major: Political Science
Mentor: Professor Jane Cramer
Project: "Evaluating U.S. Bilateral Aid to Jordan"
2023 Recipient

Nayantara Arora '24
Major: Neuroscience
Mentor: Professor Ulrich Mayr
Project: "Does the breathing cycle modulate the orientation of our attention?"
2021 Recipient

Kelly Barber '26
Major: Psychology
Mentor: Professor Rachel Weissler
Project: "AAVE and its' Negative Stigmas"
2023 Recipient

Sanjana Basak '24
Major: Biochemistry
Mentor: Professor Balamurali Ambati
Project: "Start codon disruption with CRISPR/Cas9 prevents murine Fuchs' endothelial corneal dystrophy"
2021 Recipient

Sara Biniam '24
Major: Biology
Mentor: Dr. Serge Faumont
Project: "Bacterial Chemotaxis on C. elegans for Value-Based Decision Making"
2023 Recipient

Sue Carney '25
Major: Psychology
Mentor: Professor Melissa Brunkan
Project: "Differences in Therapeutic Effectiveness Between Live, Recorded, and Remote Music in Hospital Settings: A Systematic Review"
2022 Recipient

Chase Crandall '27
Major: Biology
Mentor: Professor Frances White
Project: "Staying Friends: Bonobo Social Network Resilience"
2024 Recipient

Valerie Dagley '25
Major: Computer Science
Mentor: Professor Hank Childs
Project: "Development of a Web Based Data Visualization System"
2023 Recipient

Treydon (Kimo) Emary '26
Major: Exploring
Mentor: Professor Mitchell Block
Project: "The History and Impact of Native Music Through the Years"
2023 Recipient

Olivia Estes '26
Major: Psychology
Mentor: Professor Michael Wehr
Project: "Behavioral and Pathological Sex Differences in Alzheimer's Model Mice"
2023 Recipient

Eunhye Fay '25
Major: Sociology & Asian Studies
Mentor: Professor Jina Kim
Project: "Streaming Racial Categories: Spotify, K-Pop, and Genre"
2022 Recipient

Jeannie Feng '27
Major: Data Science & Neuroscience
Mentor: Professor David McCormick & Research Assistant Kevin Zumwalt
Project: "The Emergence of Discrete Performance States During Sensory Task-training in Mice"
2024 Recipient

Mariam Fischer '26
Major: Anthropology
Mentor: Professor Frances White
Project: "Coalitionary and Non-Coalitionary Interventions in Captive Bonobos"
2023 Recipient

Jazmin Hernandez '24
Major: Exploring | Global Studies
Mentor: Professor Julie Weise
Project: "Inside the Minds and Perspectives of Braceros, 1942-1964"
2021 Recipient

Haiden Hodges '27
Major: Biochemistry
Mentor: Assistant Professor Carl Brozek
Project: "Intraparticle charge transfer, tuning redox activity and modifying valence in MOFs"
2024 Recipient

Molly Katz '24
Major: Family and Human Services
Mentor: Professor Jennifer Doty
Project: "Cyberbullying in Adolescents and Teenagers"
2023 Recipient

Louisa Krantz '26
Major: Neuroscience
Mentor: Professor Dasa Zeithamova
Project: "Determining the Underlying Cognitive Mechanisms behind Acquired Equivalence"
2023 Recipient

Eliza Lawrence '24
Major: Biochemistry and Journalism
Mentor: Professor Ellen Peters
Project: "Give me a choice or don't tell me about it: The effect of added options on COVID-19 vaccine intentions"
2021 Recipient

Sera Lew '24
Major: Psychology and Global Studies
Mentor: Professor Dare Baldwin
Project: "Maternal Thiamine Supplementation and the Effects on Mother-Infant Joint Interactions"
2021 Recipient

Julia Lo '23
Major: Biology
Mentor: Professor Diana Libuda
Project: "Investigating how different chromatin states affect the mechanism of DNA"
2020 Recipient

Haley Mae Lohf '26
Major: Neuroscience & Computer Science
Mentor: Professor Felix Deku
Project: "Exploration Back into the Future; Neural Interfaces and Accelerated Aging"
2023 Recipient

Jena Miko '25
Major: Educational Foundations/Communication Disorders and Sciences
Mentor: Professor Caitlin Fausey
Project: "Toys and Words in Everyday Spaces"
2022 Recipient

Lily Miller '25
Major: Biochemistry
Mentor: Professor Jim Prell
Project: "Improving Desorption Electrospray Ionization Mass Spectrometry (DESI-MS) Imaging of Tissue Samples"
2022 Recipient

Alexandria Montgomery '23
Major: Biology
Mentor: Professor Stilianos Louca
Project: "Microbial ecology and evolution in hot springs"
2020 Recipient

Finnian Mullally '27
Major: Earth Sciences
Mentor: Professor Samantha Hopkins
Project: "2D morphological analysis of ground squirrel molars"
2024 Recipient

Nicole Mullen '23
Major: General Science | Sociology
Mentor: Professor Caroline Lundquist
Project: "Philosophy for Children: Value, integration and development of philosophical education curriculum"
2020 Recipient

Charlotte Olds '26
Major: Neuroscience & Psychology
Mentor: Professor Brice Kuhl
Project: "Hippocampal Repulsion and Context-Based Memory Organization"
2023 Recipient

Lucinda Roberts '23
Major: Spatial Data Science and Technology
Mentor: Professor Dave Sutherland
Project: "Updating previous quantifications of flow regimes in Greenland’s glacial Sermilik Fjord using iceberg drifters"
2020 Recipient

Gabriella Samaniego '26
Major: General Social Science
Mentor: Associate Professor Erin Beck
Project: "Explaining Wrongful Convictions’ Adverse Effects on People of Color and Barriers to Justice "
2024 Recipient

Kyla Schmitt '25
Major: Environmental Studies
Mentor: Professor Peg Boulay
Project: "Characteristics of Crayfish in the Tryon Creek Watershed"
2022 Recipient

Tharusha Seagoe '26
Major: Human Physiology
Mentor: Professor Emily Sylwestrak
Project: "Role of LHb Tac1 neurons in RPE responses to conditioned reward-predictive stimuli"
2023 Recipient

Jake Shim '26
Major: Political Science & Economics
Mentor: Professor Tuong Vu
Project: "North Korea under Kim Jong Un (2012-present)"
2023 Recipient

Alexandre Smith '27
Major: Biology
Mentor: Professor Josef Dufek
Project: "Estimating Mass Eruption Rate using Satellite Observations of Eruptions "
2024 Recipient

Haley Speed '23
Major: Biology
Mentor: Professor Eric Selker
Project: "Functions of H3K27 Methylation in Neurospora C."
2020 Recipient

Mason Vaughn Brown '26
Major: Biology
Mentor: Professor Damien Callahan
Project: "Effects of acute and prolonged disuse on skeletal muscle structure and function"
2023 Recipient