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

2024 Recipients

$300 Grand Prize Award

• Rilynn Zarate "How to Tie a Wood Knot"

$200 Architecure Award

• Rigel Wakil "Measuring Human Emotional Response to Architectural Materials in Daylighting Conditions"

$200 Interior Architecure Award

• Blaine Brennan "The Balancing Act"

$100 Honorable Mention Award: Creativity

• Madison Coultrap, Hanna Gibson & Georgia Manning "UNBE-LEAF-ABLE AIR!"

$100 Honorable Mention Award: Design and Science

• Charlotte Kamman "Mycelium Bio-Composite Acoustic Isolation Materials for Mass Timber Floor and Ceiling Assemblies"

$100 Honorable Mention Award: Design Studio Research

• Paige Gordon, Zach Mathews, Michael Colucci & Braden Lawrie "Waste Utilization Panels -An upcycling strategy for high performance point supported timber slabs"

Recognition Award: Design and Science

• Helene Brehl "Tubular Veneer Timber - A high performance, deployable, wood building component"

Recognition Award: Built Work

• Aileen Carrillo "The iLEAN Chair"

Recognition Award: Design Studio Research

• Tiare Cockcroft "Riley Hall Revamp | Returning to the 60's"

2023 Recipients

$150 Awards

• Yash Akhouri "Living Lady Lawrence" 
• Braden Lawrie "Locking Bilayer Assemblies, Self-Shaping Long Span Mass Timber Vaults" 
• Max Weisenbloom "Barriers to Creating and Accessing Affordable Housing in Portland, Oregon"

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"

2024 Recipients

$150 Awards

• Seira Kitagawa "Communicating Struggles and Support for Foreign Workers in Japan"
• Evelyn Woo "Assessing Economic Espionage Allegations Against Huawei and Protecting U.S. Cybersecurity"

$100 Awards

• Benjamin Segars "Comparing Ghosts, Monsters, and Spirits of South East and East Asian Horror Films"
• Jake Shim "Analyzing Cultural Symbolism in North Korean Propaganda"

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"

2024 Recipients

$300 Award

• Hayden Penn "Exploration in the Gulf Pipefish: Charting the Developmental Cellular Atlas"
• Brittney Lee "Roles of TBP1 N-Terminus in 3D Genome Organization and Gene Regulation"

$75 Award

• Alanna Sowles "Identifying candidate temporal transcription factors in Drosophila Type 2 neuroblasts"
• Caleb Farrow "The Story of Rough-Skinned Newts and Garter Snakes: Coexistence in a Coevolutionary Arms Race?"

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

• Annie Weibezahn "Characterizing Cortical Visual Responses Near the Perceptual Threshold"

$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

• Anna Kulawiec "The Contributions of Polycomb Repressive Complex 2 and H3K27me3 in Gene Repression"

$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"

2024 Recipients

$200 Oral Presentation Award

• Junah Calceta & Percy Conrad "Neighborhood Characteristics as Influences on Perceived STEM Opportunities for Underserved Youth"

$200 Poster Presentation Award

• Amya Bradley Woods "Coping with Racialized Realities: Mental Well-being of Black Portland Residents"

$100 Honorable Mention Poster Presentation Award

• Myrihe Rohbock "Pain, Discrimination, & Child Mental Health Among Black Families"

2022 Recipients

$150 Award

• Kobe Anthony "Demystifying the Tracker Workflow: How exactly WAS video game music made?"

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"

2024 Recipients

$400 CAS Dean's Award in Humanities

• Bess Frerichs "The function of um: An analysis of filled pauses in kindergarten-age children"

$400 CAS Dean's Award in Natural Sciences

• Josmarie Graciani "Elucidating the molecular mechanisms underlying the development of neuronal identity in Drosophila"

$400 CAS Dean's Award in Social Sciences

• Ava Minu-Sepehr "Counter-mapping the Coos Bay estuaries: knowing through being, making, and offering."

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

• Abby Keep "Peace Canal: Conflict, Cooperation, and the Red Sea-Dead Sea Water Conveyance"

CAS Dean's Award in Natural Sciences

• Faith Collins "Valence modulates self/other neural recapitulation during interpersonal perception"

2024 Recipients

$300 Award

• Molly Katz & Olivia Nicholson "Cyber Spillover: Youth, Parent, and School Administrators' Report on Youth Technology and Effects"

$100 Honorable Mention

• Rachel Rinelli "Socioecological State Solutions to Minimize Further Youth Harm Amid Rise in Oregon Addiction Crisis"

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"

2024 Recipients

$150 Poetry Award

• Danielle Richard "Poetry Collection: Florida Refrain"

$150 Fiction Award

• Zoe Schneider "Poolside" 

$100 Honorable Mention Fiction Awards

• Savannah Johnson "Sneakers"
• Liam Serwin "A Girl's World"

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"

2024 Recipients

$300 Grand Prize Award

• Yazzie Chee & Christina Thomas "Honoring Indigenous Perspectives: Reimagining Resources and Programs at the University of Oregon"

$100 Honorable Mention Awards

• Audrey Bunce "Same Ingredients, Different Dish: Identity and Belonging in the Local Food Movement"
• Gideon Dean "Footing the Bill: investing in gender equity in women's football in Latin America"

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

• 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

• Cassie Cole "A Culture to Call Home: Cultural Gatekeeping in the Vietnamese Community"

$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"

2024 Recipients 

$300  English Award

• Beatrice Kahn "Like a prisoner': Confinement and the Carceral State in Jean Rhys' After Leaving Mr. Mackenzie""

$200  English Award (Honorable Mention)

• Megan Brennan "Time and Loss in Joan Didion's Writing: Syntax as Style"
• Ashley Fale-Olsen "L'Homme Fatal: Redefining Gendered Archetypes in Noir Cinema and Writing"
• Natalie Garcia "A Framework in Panels: How Julio's Day Offers Latine Readers Scaffolding to Unpack Trauma"
• Yazzie Chee & Christina Thomas "Honoring Indigenous Perspectives: Reimagining Resources and Programs at the University of Oregon"

$250 Composition Award

• Ciara Gates "From Subculture to Subgenre: How Zines have Evolved over the Last Century"

$150 Composition Award (Honorable Mentions)

• AJ Jernigan "The Irish Potato Famine: A Video Essay"

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

• 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" 

2024 Recipients

$300 Grand Prize Award

• Eden McCall "Documenting Environmental Histories & Enhancing Environmental Consciousness through LandTalk"

$100 Honorable Mention

• Daniela Cortes-Montesinos "Growing Roots"

$50 Audience Pick

• Claire Aspeitia "La Chicana Académica: Dr. Yvette Saavedra"

2024 Recipients

$300 Award

• Theodore Clayton "Planning for a Meal on the Table: Using Planning and Policy to Support Community-Led Groceries"

$100 Honorable Mention Award

• Audrey Bunce "Same Ingredients, Different Dishes: Identity and Belonging in the Local Food Movement."

2023 Recipients

$300 Award

• Mar Polvorosa "Planning for a Meal on the Table: Using Planning and Policy to Support Community-Led Groceries"

$150 Honorable Mention Award

• 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"

2024 Recipients

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

• Lazar Isakharov "The effect of zinc status on cognitive and vascular function in a mouse model of Alzheimer’s disease"

$100 Honorable Mention Awards

• Hope Cursetjee "Recovery of Heart Rate Variability Following Exercise: Impact of Exercise Performance and Preference"
• Ainsley Hogan "Large Artery Stiffness Effects on Neuroinflammation and Cognitive Function"
• Tharusha Seagoe "Role of LHbTac1 neurons in RPE responses to conditioned reward-predictive stimuli"
• Madi Serrano "Effects of Exercise & Heat Therapy on the Blood Pressure of Adults with Untreated Hypertension"
• Colleen Uzoekwe "Far-infrared to the muscle bed: muscle temperature during sauna bathing"
• Bella Yannello "Semi-Automatic Cell Quantification Methods in Hematoxylin and Eosin-Stained Rat Achilles Tendons"

2023 Recipients

$200 Local Undergraduate Research Awards in Physiological Society (LURAP) Award

• Jaslena Gill and Noah Lovgren "Effect of Essential Amino Acid Supplementation and Blood Flow Restriction on Muscle Structure"

$100 Honorable Mention Awards

• Natasha Castaneda "Acute Central Hemodynamic Responses To Three Different Heating Modalities"
• Margaret Grivette "Power Spectral Analysis During Sleep and Development of Spaceflight Associated Neuro-Ocular Syndrome"
• Sadie Holt "Prolonged Mild Hypohydration Increases Acute Kidney Injury Biomarkers in Young Males and Females"
• Helia Megowan "Essential Amino Acids and Blood Flow Restriction on Myonuclear Accretion in Single Muscle Fibers"
• Alara Wayne "Prolonged Mild Hypohydration Differentially Alters Handgrip Strength Between Sexes"

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

• Byron Lee "Robo4 and its relationship to Alzheimer's Disease"

$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"

2024 Recipients

$300 Award 

• Yazzie Chee & Christina Thomas "Honoring Indigenous Perspectives: Reimagining Resources and Programs at the University of Oregon"

$200 Honorable Mention Award

• Amya Bradley Woods "Coping with Racialized Realities: Mental Well-being of Black Portland Residents"

2024 Recipients

$500 ION Presenter Awards

• Sophie Fisher "PROPERTIES OF REISSNER FIBER ASSEMBLY AND SIGNALING DURING BODY AXIS STRAIGHTENING"
• Rishi Sastry "Validating RNA-Seq Data with HCR in Drosophila Lamina Neurons"
• Alanna Sowles "Identifying candidate temporal transcription factors in Drosophila Type 2 neuroblasts"

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"

2024 Recipients

$200 Awards

• Gene Garcia "Recollections on the Historical and Current State of Mexican Ballet Folklórico in Oregon"
• Claire Aspeitia "La Chicana Académica: Dr. Yvette Saavedra"

$100 Award (Honorable Mention)

• Adrian Cervantes "Pineros y Campesinos Unidos del Noroeste and Music in the Oregon Labor Movement"

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

• 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"

2024 Recipients

$250 Award

• Kai Schoettler "Using Mortality Profiles to Interpret the Cause of Death for Dromomeryx in Red Basin, OR"

2023 Recipients

$250 Award

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

2022 Recipients

$250 Award

• Amelia Lawson "Lagomorph Paleoecology of the Middle Cenozoic in Eastern Asia"

2021 Recipients

$250 Award

• Rachel Lisle "Identification and Morphology of Mountain Beaver Fossil from John Day Formation in Central Oregon"

2020 Recipients

$250 Award

• Shelby Saper "Assessing Typology of Pre-Mazama Corner-notched Points in the Northern Great Basin"

2024 Recipients

$400 Award 

• Yazzie Chee & Christina Thomas "Honoring Indigenous Perspectives: Reimagining Resources and Programs at the University of Oregon"

$100 Honorable Mention Award

• Ava Minu-Sepehr "Counter-mapping the Coos Bay Estuaries: knowing through being, making, and offering"

2023 Recipients

$300 Award 

• 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

• 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"

2024 Recipient

$500 Award

• Anna Burger "Rehabilitative Assessment of Cyclic Tensile Strain on Angiogenesis In Vitro"

2023 Recipient

$500 Award

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

2022 Recipient

$500 Award

• Eliza Lawrence "Excluding numeric side-effect information produces lower vaccine intentions"

2021 Recipient

• Faith Longnight "Using Kinetics to Study the Stabilization of Reactive Hydrosulfide by Supramolecular Receptors"

2020 Recipient

• Jacob Evarts "Propogating Putative Prion States in RNA Modifying Proteins in Budding Yeast"

2024 Recipients

$300 Award: Best Psychology Poster Award

• Lainey Costa "Memory Effect of Event Boundaries Caused by Spatial Change"

$100 Award: Methodological Excellence Award

• Leo Bordeaux "Examining the Inclusivity of Gender Diversity in Online Mental Health Resources"

$100 Award: Innovation Award

• Alexa Wright "Ketamine does not alter correlated plaque load and gap detection in Alzheimer's model mice."

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

• Trevor Bissert "Differential Functional Connectivity of Anterior and Posterior Hippocampus"

$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"

2024 Recipients

$500 First-Year Student Individual Presenter Awards 

• Tharusha Seagoe "Role of LHbTac1 neurons in RPE responses to conditioned reward-predictive stimuli"
• Jake Shim "Analyzing Cultural Symbolism in North Korean Propaganda"

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"

2024 Recipients

$200 Award

• Abigail Punches "“Priam”: A Dramatic Reading"
• Karlie Guilliot "Radium Girls: A Dramaturgical Analysis"

$100 Award

• Daniel Au "An Art Song for Soprano & Piano: The Rainbow by Daniel Au"

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 

• 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

• Lillian Payne "Inducing Photo-accessible Metal States in Zirconium Metal-Organic Frameworks"

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

• Maya Auld “What does being Latino/Latina/Latinx mean to you?”: A Thematic Analysis of Oregon Latinx Students and Their Ethnic Identity"

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"

2020 Recipients

• Theemeshni Govender "Interactive Effects of Social Support and Self-Complexity on Depressive Symptoms in Adolescent Girls"