2023 winners

Siyang Luo (First place) | Pandemic Echoes: Chinese Nationalism and the Transnational Student's Dilemma
Nuo Chen (Second place) | Could Plastic Pollution Impact Natural Marine Tracer System?
Kirsten Bell (Third place) | Challenging the Stereotype of the Witch: Medea in 15th Century Burgundy

Winners of the 2023 Undergraduate Research Initiative Awards

2022 winners

Penelope Sergi ʼ23 (First place) Woman of Letters: The Life of the First Female Printer in America
Samantha Becker ʼ23 (Second place) The Impact of Religion on Bermudian Politics and National Identity
Katie Hurwitz ʼ23 (Third place) A Study of Child-Directed and Child-Created Music in Early Elementary School Pedagogy
Ariel Hirschhorn ʼ23 (T5) (Third place) In Full Color: Race and the Development of Kodak Color Film
 

Photo collage of four people who are the 2022 recipients of the Research Initiative Award at UR

2021 winners

Befikadu Mekonnen (Grand prize); Arianna Taylor, Humanities; Ethan Sawyer, Social Sciences; Anesse Pinpokintr, Natural Sciences; Evelyn Ferwalt, Engineering

Photos of the five winners of the 2021 Research Initiative Award

 

2020

No winners due to COVID-19.

2019 winners

Mackenzie Steen ’21 (Second Place), A Systematic Review of Trauma-Informed Teaching in Medical Education
Jisoo Woo ’20 (First Place), Using LED Light to Enable Asymmetric Olefin Difunctionalization with CO2
Julian Maceren ’20 (Third Place), Investigating Metal-Free Azide-Alkyne “Click” Reactions for Conjugating Peptides to Nanoparticle Carriers

2019 Winners

 

2018 winners

Carrie Heusinkveld ’19 (Second Prize), French Literature; Daria Lynch ’19 (First Prize), History;  Zeen Xiao ’20 (Third Prize), Music History

Research Initiative Award Winners - 2018

 

2017 winners

Eli Rogers (’18), Ahmed Selmi (’19), and Ling Yang (’19)

Research Initiatives Award WInners, 2017

 

2016 winner

Austin Bailey (’16) Left to right: Susan K. Cardinal, STEM Librarian, Austin Bailey, and Todd D. Krauss, Professor of Chemistry and Chair, Professor of Optics.

Research Initiatives Award Winner, 2016

 

2015 winners

Claire Webster (’16) and Amy Eisenstadt (’16)
On left:
 Eileen Daly-Boas, Religion & Classics Librarian, Claire Webster, and Curt Cadorette, Professor of Religion & Classics. 
On right: Blair Tinker, Research Specialist for GIS, Amy Eisenstadt, and Cindy Ebinger, Professor of Earth & Environmental Sciences.

Research Initiatives Award Winner, 2015
Research Initiatives Award Winner, 2015