Recent Awards Winners

Here are the 2024-2025 Undergraduate Research Awards winners! To see the work of winners from years past, please see our collection in Deep Blue. 

Outstanding First-Year Research Project

Ruby Lewis
Wild, Noisy, and Fearless: Coquettes in Eighteenth-Century Literature and Media

Global Project Awards

First Place: Qihao Liang
A Tale of Two Shores: Divided Kin-States and Mainland China-Taiwan Migration from 2008 to 2024

Second Place: Shao-Chi Ou
The Canji Body as a Literary Person-Thing: Gender, Disability, and Uselessness in Late Imperial China (1598-1660)

Third Place: Patrick Phang Del Pozo
Huaraypata Archaeo-Historical Project

Blue Award (multi-term projects)

First Place: Lillian Shern
Surviving the Cut: Understanding Emotional Responses and Social Behavior Among Layoff Survivors

Second Place: Baz Crow
The Social Safety Net as Disaster Insurance: Transfer Receipts After Natural Disasters

Third Place: Somin Park
Single vs. Double Materiality in Nonfinancial Disclosure: A Methodological Framework for Measuring Equity Market Reactions

Team Award

Caroline Kegg, Hye-Rin Yoo, Jasmine Barnes, Reese Johnson, and Molly Mitchell
Herman "Kofi" Bailey Website Project