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2022 Undergraduate Symposium on Research, Scholarship and Creative Endeavors, Award Winners

The annual Undergraduate Symposium on Research, Scholarship and Creative Endeavors was held April 20, 2022 and was an opportunity for undergraduates to present, to a larger audience, what they have learned through their research.  The symposium also provided a forum for students, faculty, and the community to discuss cutting edge research topics and examine relationships among research, education, and discovery through presentations and poster sessions. 

We are especially proud of the more than 250 student researchers and nearly 100 faculty mentors who found a way to continue to conduct and present research in the face of various pandemic-related obstacles.

See below for the winners of the 2022 Research Symposium. 

Congratulations to all of this year’s Research Symposium participants and mentors. 

See this year's symposium participants and abstracts

ARCHITECTURE       

PLACE

NAME

MENTOR

FIRST Karim Oluwatobi Rui Liu
SECOND Ronn Holmes Rui Liu

ART

PLACE

NAME

MENTOR

FIRST Alena Miskinis Josh Albrecht
SECOND Anna Sommerville Jennifer Johnstone

BIOLOGY

PLACE

NAME

MENTOR

FIRST Sarah Melen Helen Piontkivska
FIRST Jordan Smith, Roman Giacomino and Dinah Walter Colleen Novak
SECOND Zoha Shaikh Jennifer McDonough
SECOND Hannah Lee, Kole Jarzembak and Lana Frankle Robert Clements

BIOLOGY/ECOLOGY

PLACE

NAME

MENTOR

FIRST Lauren Tarver Matthew Lehnert
SECOND Ashley Fink Mik Dale

BIOMEDICAL SCIENCES

PLACE

NAME

MENTOR

FIRST Caden Hearn Devin Mueller
FIRST Eric Takacs Manabu Kurokawa
SECOND Nathan Ritchey Lique Coolen
SECOND Benjamin Wales-McGrath Helen Piontkivska

COMPUTER SCIENCE/MATHEMATICS/AERONAUTICS AND ENGINEERING

PLACE

NAME

MENTOR

FIRST Kyle Redinger Jason Lorenzon
SECOND Cameron Gmitra Aloysius Kasturiarachi

EXERCISE SCIENCE

PLACE

NAME

MENTOR

FIRST Kaileigh Christy Adam Jajtner
FIRST Clara Slusser Adam Jajtner
SECOND Yousuf Abu-Amara Adam Jajtner
SECOND Angela Caruso Angela Ridgel

FASHION DESIGN AND MERCHANDISING

PLACE

NAME

MENTOR

FIRST Amirah Shupe J.R. Campbell
SECOND Angelique Wong Margarita Benitez

GEOLOGY/GEOGRAPHY/HISTORY

PLACE

NAME

MENTOR

FIRST Madison Wood David Singer
SECOND Seth Rainey and Logan Heffelman Aimee Ward

NURSING

PLACE

NAME

MENTOR

FIRST

Madison Pipes, Alexandra Pishkula, Hannah Cochran, Grace Heilmann and Lauren Skidmore

Kimberly Cleveland
SECOND

Jillian Netzel and Sara Peterson

Dana Hansen

PHYSIC/CHEMISTRY/LIQUID CRYSTAL MATERIALS

PLACE

NAME

MENTOR

FIRST Tyler Betters Yao-Rong Zheng
FIRST Garrett Hartley John West
FIRST Holly Matthews Oleg Lavrentovich
SECOND May Cheline Yaorong Zheng
SECOND Victoria Menches Farid Fouad
SECOND Amberly Stevenson Jeffrey Mighion

PROFESSIONAL PRACTICE/OUTREACH/ENGAGEMENT

PLACE

NAME

MENTOR

FIRST

Kevin Bahner, Malina Andamasaris, Lacey Beaghley, Hayden Cruz, Katherine Fry, Katie Glenn, Lauren Korpics, Angel Guinn, Audrey Sargus, Gregory Singleton, Riley Wolfe

Celeste Dawson
SECOND

Meredith Blair, David Dobransky, Abigail McElhaney, Allison Stark, Tessa Moats, Tori Hockenberry, Miranda Hanavan

Celeste Dawson

PSYCHOLOGY

PLACE

NAME

MENTOR

FIRST Morgan Diefenderfer Patricia Tomich
FIRST Tisha Owusua Clarissa Thompson
FIRST Bren’na Woodard Christopher Was
FIRST Lauren Wyatt Clarissa Thompson
SECOND Charlie Coward Daniel Cole
SECOND Kasey Jamison Rachael Blasiman
SECOND Thomas Kornbau Rachael Blasiman
SECOND Kaitlyn Warakomski Jennifer Taber

REMOTE

PLACE

NAME

MENTOR

FIRST Brook Lyn Mercado Robin Shura
FIRST Katerina Wright Kristenne Robison
SECOND Morgan Shingledecker Karigan Capps
SECOND Emily Turkily Arne Weigold

SOCIAL SCIENCE/EDUCATION/PUBLIC HEALTH

PLACE

NAME

MENTOR

FIRST Kiara James Kristina Knight
FIRST Jaela Perkins Maureen Blankemeyer
FIRST

Nicholas Ditz, Vincent Scicchitano, Amber Lewandowski, Evan Coates, ReAnn Santilla, Sophia Michalak, Lennice Bolton

Celeste Dawson
SECOND Eleora Adams Starr Solomon
SECOND Charlotte Lee Susan Fisk
SECOND

Grace Arendt, Justin Beatty, Emma Bushong, Mackinley Coe, Piper Dozier, Margaret Remley, Emma Sandy, Aiden Stought and Molly Acquard

David Brondfield