2025 Award Winners
Award for Artistic Excellence
Matthew Blankley: Bears, Bears, Bears (Advisor: TJ Young)
Sarah Kang: Past Days (Advisor: Carrie Hagan)
Rebecca Kim: Insectevo: Kinetic Sculptures of Insect Evolution in Motion (Advisor: Carrie Hagan)
Sapna Tayal: Creating Furniture-Scale Deployable Objects with a Computer-Controlled Sewing Machine(Advisor: Jim McCann and Scott Hudson)
Lillian van Veen: The Clothes Make the Man (Advisor: Carrie Hagan)
Dietrich Humanities Prize
TBA
Moore Family Fund for Underwriting Creativity, Knowledge, Experimentation, Research and Yumminess
Cassidy Diamond: Love Languages: Reimagining English Syntax as a Turing Complete Language (Advisor: Christina Bjorndahl)
Psychology Award
Sara Christie: Quantifying UncertAInty: Testing the Accuracy of LLMs’ Confidence Judgements Using Private Datasets (Advisors: Trent Cash and Danny Oppenheimer)
Noelia Flores: The Role of Response Confidence in Feedback Uptake in Child and Adult Participants(Advisor: Erik Thiessen)
Evren Konuk: The Role of Staggered Color Perception in Visual Learning (Advisor: Margaret Henderson)
Sigma Xi Poster Competition
First Place: Arini Bhargava: Optimizing Deep Brain Stimulation for Parkinson’s Disease: Enhancing Outcomes with Burst Stimulation and Targeted Electrode Placement (Advisor: Aryn Gittis)
Second Place: Yuktha Vemula: Comparative Analysis of KATRIN Rear Wall Measurements (Advisor: Diana Parno)
Third Place: Michael Rapp: Electric Field Effects on the Thermal Conductivity of Sodium Superoxide (NaO2) (Advisor: Alen McGaughey)
Statistics Competition
Best Oral Presentation: Eric Shau, A Pipeline for Move-Step Analysis (Advisor: Alex Reinhart)
1st Place Poster Presentation: Anahita Hassan, Predictive Modeling for Injury Risk and Recovery Time for WNBA Athletes (Advisor: Ron Yurko)
2nd Place Poster Presentation: Ekin Ozince, Ruonan Sun, Vivian Sui, Trends in Children's Book Reviews: Language and Sentiments (Advisor: Zach Branson)
3rd Place Poster Presentation: Anahita Hassan, Anika Joshi, Elizabeth Szeto, Prina Doshi, Predicting Homicide Rates from Census Tracts in Brazil (Advisor: Gonzalo Mena)
Undergraduate Environmental Award
Winner: Camden Johnson: Aqua Lab Adventures: STEM Education for Environmental Justice (Advisors: Deanna Matthews & Ian Smith of Watersmith Guild)
Runner-Up:
Katie Eisenman: Investigation of Photochemical Properties and Varied Cooling Rates on Eutectic WO3-TiO2 Composite (Advisor: Elizabeth Dickey)