Symposium Presentation Award Recipients

SCHOOL OF ARCHITECTURE AND ENVIRONMENT AWARD  •  ASIAN STUDIES AWARD  •  BIOLOGY POSTER AWARD  •  BLACK CULTURE AND IDENTITY AWARD  •  CAS DEAN'S POSTER AWARDS  •  COLLEGE OF EDUCATION DEAN'S UNDERGRADUATE RESEARCH AWARD  •  UO COMMON READING AWARD  •  CREATIVE WRITING - KIDD PROGRAM AWARD  •  DEPARTMENT OF GLOBAL STUDIES AWARD  •  ENGLISH AND COMPOSITION AWARD  •  FOOD STUDIES AWARD  •  HUMAN PHYSIOLOGY POSTER AWARD  •  INDIGENOUS, RACE AND ETHNIC STUDIES (IRES) AWARD  •  INSTITUTE OF NEUROSCIENCE (ION) POSTER AWARD  •  LANE COMMUNITY COLLEGE POSTER AWARD  •  LATINX STUDIES AWARD  •  MUSEUM OF NATURAL AND CULTURAL HISTORY UNDERGRADUATE RESEARCH POSTER AWARD  •  NATIVE AMERICAN AND INDIGENOUS STUDIES AWARD  •  PHIL AND PENNY KNIGHT CAMPUS FOR ACCELERATING SCIENTIFIC IMPACT POSTER AWARD  •  PSYCHOLOGY POSTER AWARDS  •  RESIDENCE HALL ASSOCIATION (RHA) FIRST-YEAR STUDENT PRESENTER AWARD  •  THEATER ARTS AWARD  •  DIVISION OF UNDERGRADUATE EDUCATION AND STUDENT SUCCESS (UESS) ORAL PRESENTATION AWARD  •  UO LIBRARIES DATA STORIES AWARD  •  UNDERGRADUATE RESEARCH OPPORTUNITIES PROGRAM (UROP) POSTER AWARD

School of architecture and environment award

2021 Recipients

$300 Award

$100 Award

  • Gemma Fucigna & Andrew Newbold "The Laboratory for Architecture and Building - Uniting academics, ecological design, and community
  • Jillian Kellett "Capitol Hill Arts Alliance: A Center for Visual and Performing Artists in the Wake of the Pandemic"
Asian Studies Award

2023 Recipients

$ 300 Award

  • Iman Zarlons "Crazy Indonesia: Examining the Transnational Success of Indonesian Exploitation Film"

$100 Award

  • Madeline Miner-Paul "Filling in the Gaps: Investigating Ancient Ceramics From Cambodia"

$50 Honorable Mention Awards

  • Angela "AJ" Gotera "Cultural Appropriation & Appreciation in Korean, Filipino, and Japanese Popular Music"
  • Laurel O'Brien "A Place to Be: Ibasho and Spaces of Community Comfort in the Television Show Midnight Diner"

2022 Recipients

$200 Award

  • Kelby Beyer "Contextualizing a Collection of Rare Cambodian Glass Ornaments Within Contemporaneous Trade Networks"
  • Eun-Jai Shin "Emasculation of the Other: Meiji ukiyo-e war prints and national identity"

$100 Award

2021 Recipients

$300 Award

  • Shuxi Wu "Television Adaptation in the Age of Media Convergence in China"

$100 Award

Biology Poster Award

2023 Recipients

$300 Award

  • Olivia Hougham "An age-dependent decrease in Syd-1 may be responsible for age-dependent memory decline"

$75 Award

  • Ethan Dinh "Proteomic Signatures of Reinjury in Tibial Bone Stress Injury"
  • Zealon Gentry-Lear & Celine Lopez Padilla "Characterizing and Understanding Synergistic Drug Interactions for Killing in Pseudomonas aeruginosa"
  • Nicole Mullen "The Role of Microbiota in the Development of Insulin-producing Cells in Drosophila melanogaster"
  • Rosa Taylor "An analysis of the impact of parity on long term health outcomes for Tunisian mothers"

2022 Recipients

$300 Award

  • Amanda Linskens "Decreasing Hunchback and Bicoid Levels in Pair1 Neurons Alters the Pair1 Circuit in Drosophila"

$100 Award

  • Hannah Lewack "The Effects of daf-2/IGFR on Healthspan in C. elegans Malesritis"
  • Mikala Capage "Misfolded but not Malicious: Prion Proteins in Budding Yeast"

2021 Recipients

$300 Award

$100 Award

2020 Recipients

$300 Award

$100 Award

Black Culture and Identity Award

2022 Recipients

$150 Award

2021 Recipients

$250 Award

CAS Dean’s Poster Awards

2022 Recipients

$350 Award

CAS Dean's Award in Social Sciences

  • Emily Kraschel "Investigating Variations in Unemployment Between North and South Spain and Associated Implications"

CAS Dean's Award in Natural Sciences

2021 Recipients

CAS Dean's Award in Humanities

CAS Dean's Award in Social Sciences

CAS Dean's Award in Natural Sciences

2020 Recipients

CAS Dean's Award in Humanities

Honorable Mention

CAS Dean's Award in Social Sciences

CAS Dean's Award in Natural Sciences

College of Education Dean's Undergraduate Research Award

2022 Recipients

$300 Award

  • Madeleine Smith "The Relationship Between Students' Approach to Learning and Future Thinking in a Science Class"

$100 Honorable Mention

  • Julia Rehmann "Gender differences in externalizing and internalizing behaviors for children of incarcerated parents"
UO Common Reading Award

2022 Recipients

  • Gabby Wille & Frieda Graumann "Volunteering at GrassRoots Garden: How to Grow Individual and Community Food Literacy"

2020 Recipients

Creative Writing - Kidd Program Award

2023 Recipients

$150 Award

  • Abigail Punches "The Night of Everything and Nothing.

$100 Award (Honorable Mention)

  • Sarah Stover "Josephine: A Short Story"

$150 Poetry Award

  • Kelly Kleinberg KIDD Workshop Poems

$100 Award (Honorable Mention)

  • Cash Robinson "On Stillness"

2021 Recipients

$150 Award

$100 Award

Department of Global Studies Award

2023 Recipients

$300 Award

  • Rowan Glass "Reweaving the Wáman Lware: Cultural and Territorial Reexistence among the Kamëntsá"

$100 Award

  • Ilse Stackle-Vogt "Challenging Conventional Conceptions of Food Sovereignty: A Case Study of Huerto de la Familia"

$50 Award (Honorable Mention)

  • Micah Warner Carey "Metabolic syndrome, depression, and community structure in Tunisia"
  • Rosa Taylor "An analysis of the impact of parity on long term health outcomes for Tunisian mothers"

2022 Recipients

$300 Award

$100 Honorable Mention

2021 Recipients

$300 Award

$100 Honorable Mention

2020 Recipients

$300 Award

$100 Honorable Mention

English and Composition Award

2023 Recipients 

$300  English Award

  • Casper Byrne "Monsters in the Closet: Exploring the Intersections Between Monstrosity and Queer Storytelling"

$150  English Award (Honorable Mention)

  • Isabella Engblom "A Feminist Analysis of Gone Girl: A Critique of Postfeminism and Neoliberalism"
  • Lauryn Cole "Fat & Fabulous: The Power of Contemporary Romance as a Site of Anti-Oppression Work"
  • Eric Lane "Representations of Destruction, Violence and Creation in 21st Century Asian American Poetry"

$300 Composition Award

  • Luca Berk "Culture in Higher Education: Understanding how Educational Inequality exists"

$150 Composition Award (Honorable Mentions)

  • Fedi Aniefuna "IMPOSTER SYNDROME IN TECH"
  • Jack Hagan "The Changing Perception Around Athlete Protests"

2022 Recipients (English)

$300 Award

  • Matthew Hampton "Data "Counterstory:" Academic Text Accessibility and Open Educational Resources"

$150 Award

2022 Recipients (Composition)

$200 Award

$100 Award

Food Studies Award

2023 Recipients

$300 Award

  • Mar Polvorosa "Indigenous Mexican Food Sovereignty and Celebration"

$150 Award (Honorable Mention)

  • Mattie Lucero "Inaccessibility and Ableism in Food Justice Movements"

2022 Recipients

$300 Award

$100 Honorable Mention

  • Frida Graumann & Gabrielle Wille "Volunteering at GrassRoots Garden: How to Grow Individual and Community Food Literacy

2021 Recipients

$300 Award

$100 Honorable Mention

2020 Recipients

$300 Award

$100 Honorable Mention

Human Physiology Poster Award

2022 Recipients

$200 Local Undergraduate Research Awards in Physiology (LURAP) Award

$100 Honorable Mention Awards

  • Cameron O'Connell "Effect of Mild Hypohydration on Renal Hemodynamics during Exercise Pressor Reflex Activation"
  • Sadie Holt "Renal Hemodynamic Response to Oral Protein Loading during Prolonged Mild Hypohydration"
  • Isaiah Mills "Electromyography Markers of Global Motor Inhibition While Stopping"
  • Ayooluwa Popoola "Skeletal Muscle Compliance and Composition in Young Men and Women"
  • Anna Mare "Comparison of External Load Estimation from Wearable Sensors during a Free Run"

2021 Recipients

$200 Local Undergraduate Research Awards in Physiology (LURAP) Award

$100 Honorable Mention Awards

2020 Recipients

$200  Local Undergraduate Research Awards in Physiology (LURAP) Award

$100 Honorable Mention Awards

Institute of Neuroscience (ION) Poster Award

2023 Recipients

$300 ION Oral/Poster Award

  • Leah Blankenship "Functional and Anatomical Properties of Cck+ Cells in the Medial Habenula"

$300 ION Diversity and Equity Award

  • Dana Zaidan "Exploring the effect of bacterial signaling pathways on zebrafish neuro-immune development"

2022 Recipients

$300 ION Oral/Poster Award

  • Amanda Linskens "Decreasing Hunchback and Bicoid Levels in Pair1 Neurons Alters the Pair1 Circuit in Drosophila

$300 ION Diversity and Equity Award

  • Tyler Ramos "A Homeodomain Protein Generates Neuronal Diversity and Connectivity in the Drosophila Lamina"

2021 Recipients

$300 ION Oral/Poster Award

$300 ION Diversity and Equity Award

Latinx Studies Award

2023 Recipients

$200 Awards

  • Emily Kondo "Restructuring Disaster Relief in Puerto Rico: The Impacts of Colonialism and Environmental Racism"
  • Kat Sincur "Moving Beyond One Dimension in Hollywood"

$100 Award (Honorable Mention)

  • Tito Flores-Baustista "Spanish Variation In Public Health"

2022 Recipients

$200 Award

$100 Award

  • Alvin Lenkong "Cultural Considerations of the Filming Interactions to Nurture Development Intervention"

2021 Recipients

$200 Award

$100 Award

  • Odalis Aguliar-Aguilar "The Forgotten Stories of Human Rights Violations within the US"
MNCH Undergraduate Research Poster Award

2023 Recipients

$250 Award

  • Skye Grubb "Fluctuating Asymmetry of the Crania and Postcrania in Primates"

2022 Recipients

2021 Recipients

2020 Recipients

Native American and Indigenous Studies Award

2023 Recipients

$300 Award 

  • Skye Grubb 
  • Quaye Dydasco
  • Lily Gastelum
  • Aaralyn Reed
  • Kat Sincuir Alvarez

"Embodied Indigenous Research: Pocahontas and the Blue Spots"

$100 Award (Honorable Mention)

  • Leyi Shea "Indigenous Sovereignty and c̓abid: Centering Revitalization and Relationality"
  • Ava Minu-Sepehr "Counter-mapping the Coos Bay Estuaries: Amplifying Indigenous and Environmental Histories"

2022 Recipients

$250 Award

2021 Recipients

$200 Award

$100 Award

Knight Campus for Accelerating Scientific Impact Poster Award

2023 Recipients

$500 Award

  • Max Tenenbaum "Polydimethylsiloxane Casting: The Preferred Method for Encapsulating Neural Interface Devices"

2022 Recipients

$500 Award

2021 Recipients

2020 Recipients

Psychology Poster Awards

2023 Recipients

$300 Award: Best Psychology Poster Award

  • Olivia Lashley "Disentangling the Relationship Between Caregiver Stress and Child Executive Function"

$100 Award: Methodological Excellence Award

  • Alexa Wright "The Effect of Ketamine on the Advancement of Alzheimer's Pathology in Mice"

$100 Award: Innovation Award

  • Emily Lashchuk "Variability in Anger Experiences and Justifications Among Men and Women"

2022 Recipients

Best Psychology Poster Award

  • Serena Agterberg "Perceptions of Risky Sexual Behavior"

Methodological Excellence Award

  • Sage Rezner "The Effect of College Attendance on Personality Development Trajectories"

Innovation Award

  • Nayantara Arora "Does the breathing cycle modulate the orientation of our attention?"

Merit Award

  • Madeleine Smith "The Relationship Between Students' Approach to Learning and Future Thinking in a Science Class"

2021 Recipients

Best Psychology Poster Award

$100 Award

2020 Recipients

Best Psychology Poster Award (shared)

$100 Award

RHA First-Year Student Presenter Award

2022 Recipients

First-Year Student Individual Presenter Award 

  • Vithika Goyal "Expression of FGF Signaling Genes during Threespine Stickleback Development"

First-Year Student Group Presenter Award

  • Maya Feldman-Dragich, Emily Kavanagh & Kye Martin "Lesbian Periodicals: Radical Politics and Community Building"

2021 Recipients

$500 Awards 

Theater Arts Award

2023 Recipients

$100 Award

  • Krysten Elkins "Designing for Straightforward Theatre"
  • Quaye Dydasco "Embodied Indigenous Research: Pocahontas and the Blue Spots"
  • Lily Gastelum "Embodied Indigenous Research: Pocahontas and the Blue Spots"
  • Aaralyn Reed "Embodied Indigenous Research: Pocahontas and the Blue Spots"
  • Kat Sincuir Alvarez "Embodied Indigenous Research: Pocahontas and the Blue Spots"

2021 Recipients

$200 Award 

$100 Award

UESS Oral Presentation Award

2022 Recipients

2021 Recipients

2020 Recipients

UO Libraries Data Stories Award

2022 Recipients

$300 Award

  • Idil Osman "Underreporting of Epidemic Rebound and Resurgent Malaria In Nine African Countries "

Honorable Mention ($100 Award)

  • Matthew Hampton and Grace Trammell "Data "Counterstory:" Academic Text Accessibility and Open Educational Resources"
  • Eugene Tan "Visualizations of the IP Address Space with Hilbert Curves to Expose Multifractal Patterns"

2021 Recipients

$300 Award

Honorable Mention ($100 Award)

2020 Recipients

$300 Award

Honorable Mention ($100 Award)

UROP Poster Award

2021 Recipients

2020 Recipients