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Past Award Winners

Chancellor Diermeier presented award certificates to the Spring 2026 VURS poster competition winners.
Chancellor Diermeier presented award certificates to the Spring 2026 VURS poster competition winners.

Spring 2026 Award Winners

  • Basic and Natural Sciences

    Co-winner: Julie Qi

    Title: SLC7A9-dependent stabilization of rBAT provides new insights into therapeutic approaches for type A cystinuria
    Faculty mentor: Matthew Wilson

    Co-winner: Eric Diao

    Title: BET protein inhibition reduces upregulation of inflammation in progerin-expressing vascular smooth muscle cells
    Faculty mentor: Jonathan Brown

    Runner-up: Eldaah Paulraj

    Title: Plasminogen as a driver of innate immune memory
    Faculty mentor: Kasey Vickers

  • Clinical and Translational Research & Public Health

    Winner: Jeffrey Eum

    Title: Music perception abilities, cognition, and auditory function in older adults
    Faculty mentor: Srishti Nayak

    Runners-up: Raghav Pallapothu and Santosh Kudaravalli

    Title: Stroke-related infratentorial microbleeds and accelerated brain aging
    Faculty mentor: Roger Newman-Norlund

    Runners-up: You-hyun Noh and Jamisen Wright

    Title: The effect of active and passive movement on audio-tactile temporal order judgments in development
    Faculty mentor: Mark Wallace

  • Engineering, Computer Science, Data Science, and Mathematics

    Winner: Manish Acharya

    Title: Efficient sliced Wasserstein distance computation via adaptive Bayesian optimization
    Faculty mentor: David Hyde

    Runner-up: Nicholas Oberbroeckling

    Title: Supplementation of NAD+ precursors with overexpression of the nicotinamide riboside kinase 1 and 2 gene in Chinese hampster ovary cells increases monoclonal antibody titer
    Faculty mentor: Jamey Young

  • Social and Behavioral Sciences, Education Studies, and Humanities

    Winner: Olivia Driscoll

    Title: Spelling and segmenting words with blends: What types of errors do children make?
    Faculty mentor: Melanie Schuele

    Runners-up: Lily Grouf and Rowan Bullington

    Title: Characteristics of the friends of students with or at risk for emotional and behavioral disorders
    Faculty mentor: Kristen Granger

Ten undergraduate students received awards for their outstanding research posters at the Fall 2025 VURS. Awards were presented by Tom Withrow, Professor of the Practice of Mechanical Engineering and Associate Dean for Experiential Learning, and Kathy Friedman, Professor and Vice Chair of Biological Sciences and Associate Provost for Undergraduate Research (center).
Ten undergraduate students received awards for their outstanding research posters at the Fall 2025 VURS. Awards were presented by Tom Withrow, Professor of the Practice of Mechanical Engineering and Associate Dean for Experiential Learning, and Kathy Friedman, Professor and Vice Chair of Biological Sciences and Associate Provost for Undergraduate Research (center).

Fall 2025 Award Winners

  • Basic and Natural Sciences

    Co-winner:聽Kalina Stoyanova

    Title: Modality-Specific Serial Dependencies for Auditory and Visual Motion Direction
    Faculty Mentor: Mark Wallace

    颁辞-飞颈苍苍别谤:听Sunny Chen

    Title: Investigating the Non-Neuronal Roles of SHANK3 in Choroid Plexus Endothelia
    Faculty: Neil Dani

    Runner-up:聽Isaac Tamayo-Sarver

    罢颈迟濒别:听Dysplastic Progression in Gastric Precancer is Supported by Stromal Environment and SPON2
    Faculty Mentor: Jim Goldenring

    搁耻苍苍别谤-耻辫:听Eldaah Paulraj

    Title: Plasminogen Drives Innate Immune Training Through DNA Methylation
    Faculty Mentor: Kasey Vickers

  • Clinical and Translational Research & Public Health

    Winner:聽Catherine Wang

    Title: Investigating the Role of Tumor-Expressed Cardiac Antigens鈥� in Immune Checkpoint Inhibitor-Associated Myocarditis
    Faculty Mentor: Justin Balko

    Runner-up:聽Cooper Donovan

    Title: Superposition Allows Embarrassingly Parallel Acoustic Simulations for Multi-Element Arrays in Transcranial Focused Ultrasound
    Faculty Mentor: Charles Caskey

  • Engineering, Computer Science, Data Science, and Mathematics

    Winner:聽Laura Caroline Jung

    Title: Easy Breezy? 鈥� Design and Validation of a Low-Cost Wind Generator for Investigating the Biomechanics of Walking in Wind with an Above-the-Knee Lower-Limb Prosthesis
    Faculty Mentor: Michael Goldfarb

    Runner-up:聽Shansita Sharma

    Title: Segment the Signal: Automated Physiological Quality Assessment
    Faculty Mentor: Catie Chang

  • Social and Behavioral Sciences, Education Studies, and Humanities

    Winner:聽Emily Benfield

    Title: Seats & Status: How Classroom Placement Shapes Peer Reputations for Students with/at-Risk for EBD
    Faculty Mentor: Kristen Granger

    Runner-up:聽Shana Lee

    Title: Naturalistic Augmentative and Alternative Communication (AAC) Intervention
    Faculty Mentor: Elizabeth Biggs