2021 Recipients
$300 Award
- Adriann Bechtle and Rheata Kumala "Museum of Stolen Land: Problematizing American Colonialism Through Architectural Design"
$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"
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
- Lily Strobel "How Music Is Used to Preserve Ainu Culture"
2021 Recipients
$300 Award
- Shuxi Wu "Television Adaptation in the Age of Media Convergence in China"
$100 Award
- Mary Green "A Woman's Secret Language of Horror in The Tale of Genji"
- Japeth Panganiban "Rain, Mercury and Corruption: Environmental Issues Portrayed Within Japanese Cinema"
- Manami Uptegrove "Japanese Youth and Irregular Employment During COVID-19: A Quantitative and Qualitative Analysis"
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
- Michelle Hernandez "Longitudinal Characterization of Inflammatory Biomarkers concurrent with the progression of an injury-induced model of Osteoarthritis"
- Jade Kast "A Mutant Microbial Species Alters Interspecies Interactions in the Zebrafish Gut"
2020 Recipients
$300 Award
$100 Award
- Adeline Fecker "Social Behavior is Visually Driven"
- Rennie Kendrick "Memory Representation Contain Conceptual and Perceptual Information"
- Alina Salagean "Defining the roles of conserved DNA repair complexes in maintenance of C. elegans meiotic genome integrity"
2022 Recipients
$150 Award
2021 Recipients
$250 Award
- Emily Duru "The Representation of Black Womanhood in Paul Marshall’s /Daughters/"
- Bailey Adams "Police Killings: An Exploration of Black American Perception of Police"
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
- Carmen Sanchez-Reddick "Differences in the Morphology and Reproduction of Boltenia villosa Across a Latitudinal Gradient"
2021 Recipients
CAS Dean's Award in Humanities
- Rachel Couche "Race-Related Discrimination is Linked to Body Image Concerns in Asian/Asian American Men"
CAS Dean's Award in Social Sciences
- Giovanni Ricci "Adverse Childhood Experiences and Salivary Oxytocin in Mothers with a History of Substance Abuse"
CAS Dean's Award in Natural Sciences
- Amanda Linskens "Molecular Origins of the Pair1 and Moonwalker Descending Neuron's Neural Circuitry in Drosophila"
2020 Recipients
CAS Dean's Award in Humanities
- Zoe Haupt with Tillena Trebon, Maggie Wallace, and Allegra Wesson "The competitive relationship between linguistic perception and production when learning a new sound contrast"
Honorable Mention
- Maya Mackey and Abbey Ward "Language Proficiency and Lexical-Semantic Processing in Bilingual Toddlers"
CAS Dean's Award in Social Sciences
CAS Dean's Award in Natural Sciences
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"
2022 Recipients
- Gabby Wille & Frieda Graumann "Volunteering at GrassRoots Garden: How to Grow Individual and Community Food Literacy"
2020 Recipients
- Kat Sincuir Alvarez "Estrella's Portrait"
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
- Amelia Hamerlynck LOI Presentation "Her body was a new and ancient rite': Contemporary Queer and Woman+ Poets Rewriting Ancient Greece"
- Mia Vance Creative Reading "We Make Magnificence: Original Poems for Page and Stage"
$100 Award
- Andrew Barron Creative Reading "One More Thing"
- Emma Snyder LOI Presentation "Confessional Poetry, and the Liberation of the Invisibly Ill Poet"
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"
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Rosa Taylor "An analysis of the impact of parity on long term health outcomes for Tunisian mothers"
2022 Recipients
$300 Award
- Emily Kraschel "Investigating Variations in Unemployment Between North and South Spain and Associated Implications"
$100 Honorable Mention
- Lily Strobel "How Music Is Used to Preserve Ainu Culture"
- Raimy Khalife-Hamden "Shia-Catholic Coexistence and Cross-Religious Engagement Among Youth in Southern Lebanon"
2021 Recipients
$300 Award
$100 Honorable Mention
- Idil Osman "Rebound and Resurgent Malaria Globally: Explanations and Under-estimations via a Meta-Review"
- Raimy Khalife-Hamden "Burkinabè President Kaboré’s Approach to Counterterrorism: Peace in the Land of Upright People"
2020 Recipients
$300 Award
- Maya Mackey "Ethnolinguistic Vitality of Spanish in Eugene"
$100 Honorable Mention
- Raimy Khalife-Hamdan "Uneven Citizenship: Post-September 11 Immigration Enforcement and Separation of Arab, Middle Eastern, and Muslim Families"
- Emma Zairi, Eloise Navarro, Edwin Guerrero "Impacts of Tourism on Machu Picchu"
2023 Recipients
$300 English Award
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Casper Byrne "Monsters in the Closet: Exploring the Intersections Between Monstrosity and Queer Storytelling"
$150 English Award (Honorable Mention)
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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"
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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)
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Fedi Aniefuna "IMPOSTER SYNDROME IN TECH"
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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
- Ashley Fale-Olsen "Examining the Effect of Fate within "The Secret History" by Donna Tartt"
- Casper Byrne "Exploring Manifestations of Consent in the 19th Century American South"
- Kelly Keith "Legal Reasonability and The 'Gay Panic' Defense"
- Elijah Leutwyler "A Rhetoric of Friendship in the Works of Aristotle and Quintilian"
2022 Recipients (Composition)
$200 Award
- Alexis Stinnett "Undocumented Workers in Agriculture: How States can Protect Them"
$100 Award
- Brooke Beaton "Social Media Use: Worsening Anxiety and Depression"
- Emmi Morton "Stopping Gun Violence Starts with Analyzing the Link Between Victims and Perpetrators"
- Tristan Phillips "Public Speaking Literacy as a Counterstory"
- Claire Putnam "Public Speaking Literacy as a Counterstory"
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
- Cheyenne Bissonnette, Santino Gentile, Eleanor Yi & Alana Hilkey "Impacts of Access to Nutritional Information on College Students"
$100 Honorable Mention
- Frida Graumann & Gabrielle Wille "Volunteering at GrassRoots Garden: How to Grow Individual and Community Food Literacy"
2021 Recipients
$300 Award
- Sasha Kaplow & Alli Powell "Creating Equity - The Food Insecurity Crisis in Eugene, Oregon"
$100 Honorable Mention
- Eloise Parish Mueller, Yalin Li, Will Baldwin, Jennifer Thompson "Promoting Pollinators at Whitewater Ranch"
2020 Recipients
$300 Award
- Momo Wilms-Crowe "Desde Abajo, Como Semilla:" Puerto Rican Food Sovereignty as Embodied Decolonial Resistance"
$100 Honorable Mention
- Emma Fallon "A Qualitative Study of Accessibility, Quality, and Affordability of Healthy Foods Within a Rural Oregon Town"
2022 Recipients
$200 Local Undergraduate Research Awards in Physiology (LURAP) Award
- Shaun Brazelton "Prolonged mild hypohydration reduces handgrip strength in females"
$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
- Hailey Volk "Influence of Prenatal Nutrition and Supplementation on Birth Outcomes and Negative Affectivity in Infants"
$100 Honorable Mention Awards
- Hunter Blaylock "Fetal Programming and the Effects of Maternal Diet on Offspring Cellular Quality Control"
- Michelle Hernandez "Longitudinal Characterization of Inflammatory Biomarkers concurrent with the progression of an injury-induced model of Osteoarthritis"
- Sahana Krishna Kumaran "Old Elastin Haploinsufficient Mice Have Impaired Memory, Motor Coordination, and Endothelial Function"
- Ryan Leriche "Brain oscillations may represent a continuum from healthy to impaired movement speed"
- Karina Shah "Comparing Acute Mountain Sickness Definitions to Examine Differences in Systemic Inflammation"
- Julia Wolf "Effect of Pyridoxamine Treatment on Arterial Stiffness and Cognitive Function in Old Mice "
2020 Recipients
$200 Local Undergraduate Research Awards in Physiology (LURAP) Award
$100 Honorable Mention Awards
- Mohini Bryant-Ekstrand "Cardiopulmonary Differences in Apnea Divers Breathing Isocapnic Normobaric Hypoxia"
- Dominique Denning "Comparison of Stop-Signal and Continuous Movement Reaction Stop Times to Measure Inhibitory Control"
- Vanessa Hufnagel "Electrophysiological Patterns of Skilled Movement"
- Sydney Kobak "Histamine and Cardiovascular Adaptation to Endurance Exercise"
- Karina Shah "Investigating the Relationship between Acute Mountain Sickness, Patent Foramen Ovale, and Systemic Inflammation"
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
- Deanna Plunkett "Neonatal inflammation increases adult vulnerability to subsequent inflammatory stimuli"
$300 ION Diversity and Equity Award
- Angelica Mejia "Neural Basis of Speech Sound Discrimination"
2023 Recipients
$200 Awards
- Emily Kondo "Restructuring Disaster Relief in Puerto Rico: The Impacts of Colonialism and Environmental Racism"
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Kat Sincur "Moving Beyond One Dimension in Hollywood"
$100 Award (Honorable Mention)
-
Tito Flores-Baustista "Spanish Variation In Public Health"
2022 Recipients
$200 Award
- Odalis Aguilar Aguilar "The recent history of PCUN and the victories of farmworkers in Oregon"
- Alexis Stinnett "Undocumented Workers in Agriculture: How States can Protect Them"
$100 Award
- Alvin Lenkong "Cultural Considerations of the Filming Interactions to Nurture Development Intervention"
2021 Recipients
$200 Award
- Bianca Benitez "Incorporating Qualitative Data Into Parent Intervention Clinical Research"
- Anika Graack "Comparison and Analysis of Spanish Translations of COVID-19 Public Health Resources"
$100 Award
- Odalis Aguliar-Aguilar "The Forgotten Stories of Human Rights Violations within the US"
2023 Recipients
$250 Award
-
Skye Grubb "Fluctuating Asymmetry of the Crania and Postcrania in Primates"
2022 Recipients
- Amelia Lawson "Lagomorph Paleoecology of the Middle Cenozoic in Eastern Asia"
2021 Recipients
- Rachel Lisle "Identification and Morphology of Mountain Beaver Fossil from John Day Formation in Central Oregon"
2020 Recipients
2023 Recipients
$300 Award
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Skye Grubb
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Quaye Dydasco
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Lily Gastelum
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Aaralyn Reed
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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"
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Ava Minu-Sepehr "Counter-mapping the Coos Bay Estuaries: Amplifying Indigenous and Environmental Histories"
2022 Recipients
$250 Award
- Catelynn Henion - “The Confederated Tribes of Grand Ronde’s Relationship with and Reclamation of Tumwata”
- Jess Gladis - “Value Pluralism & Environmental Justice in the Cascades: The Nisqually River Watershed”
2021 Recipients
$200 Award
- Lofanitani Aisea "lwelek honk sa (Let's Kill It): Revitalizing Indigenous language & Exploding Settler Cows"
- Adriann Bechtle and Rheata Kumala "Museum of Stolen Land: Problematizing American Colonialism Through Architectural Design"
$100 Award
- Emma Glaunert "The Alaska Mental Health Enabling Act: The Treatment of Alaskan Natives in Mental Health Policy"
2023 Recipients
$500 Award
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Max Tenenbaum "Polydimethylsiloxane Casting: The Preferred Method for Encapsulating Neural Interface Devices"
2022 Recipients
$500 Award
2021 Recipients
- Faith Longnight "Using Kinetics to Study the Stabilization of Reactive Hydrosulfide by Supramolecular Receptors"
2020 Recipients
2023 Recipients
$300 Award: Best Psychology Poster Award
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Olivia Lashley "Disentangling the Relationship Between Caregiver Stress and Child Executive Function"
$100 Award: Methodological Excellence Award
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Alexa Wright "The Effect of Ketamine on the Advancement of Alzheimer's Pathology in Mice"
$100 Award: Innovation Award
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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
- Youri Benadjaoud "Disentangling neural activation to self and others using structural connectivity"
- Bridgette Bammann "Who are these Virtue Signalers Anyway?: Answers from a Sustainable Transportation Survey"
- Anastasia Browning "Leveraging Evidence-Based Messaging to Prevent the Spread of COVID-19"
2020 Recipients
Best Psychology Poster Award (shared)
- Alex Boxberger "The effect of maternal borderline personality disorder symptoms on child externalizing problems, as mediated by parenting stress and maternal warmth"
- Amy Chen "Individual differences in memory self-efficacy and learning ability"
$100 Award
- Clare Brinkman "Naturalistic Perspective Taking: Themes Found in People's Naturalistic Accounts "
- Joshua Pearman "What Parts of Status Matter? Comparing Respect and Admiration to Social Influence"
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
- Sasha Kaplow & Alli Powell "Creating Equity - The Food Insecurity Crisis in Eugene, Oregon"
- Alissa Richbourg "Ecological Design: Designing a Native Pollinator-Supportive Garden on the UO Campus"
2023 Recipients
$100 Award
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Krysten Elkins "Designing for Straightforward Theatre"
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Quaye Dydasco "Embodied Indigenous Research: Pocahontas and the Blue Spots"
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Lily Gastelum "Embodied Indigenous Research: Pocahontas and the Blue Spots"
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Aaralyn Reed "Embodied Indigenous Research: Pocahontas and the Blue Spots"
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Kat Sincuir Alvarez "Embodied Indigenous Research: Pocahontas and the Blue Spots"
2021 Recipients
$200 Award
- Julianne Bodner & Amanda Henney "Stories & Spaces: Updating Classic Plays for Modern Audiences Through Research-Based Ideas in Scenic"
$100 Award
- Alisha Davison "The Research Behind Costume Design"
2022 Recipients
- Jenna Travers "Stories of Decline: Narratives and Risk Framing of Glacier Retreat and Salmon in Washington, USA"
2021 Recipients
2020 Recipients
- Cal Penkauskas "Hogs and Hazelnuts: resolving conflict between oak conservation and organic agriculture"
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
- Rachel Conner "100 Years of Malaria Prevalence in Zanzibar, East Africa"
Honorable Mention ($100 Award)
- Lucinda Roberts "Quantifying Glacial Melt and Movement Using Remote Sensing in Greenland's Sermilik Fjord"
- Olivia Farnham "Compounding Precarity: COVID-19 and the New Hazards of Low-Wage Work"
2020 Recipients
$300 Award
Honorable Mention ($100 Award)
- Caryassa Dieni "The Transmission of Ecological Knowledge Through Star Myths"
- Ryan Leriche "Learning to learn: Making sense of electrophysiology data"
2021 Recipients
- Noah Pettinari " Bacterial ranged expansion and the Fisher speed: a discrepancy in nutrient-rich media"