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2019 Winners
- 1st Place: Rebecca Andrus, "Can We Reinvent the Toilet" (Civil and Environmental Engineering)
- 2nd Place: Lucas Buccafusca, "The Tragedy of the Wind Turbine" (Industrial and Enterprise Systems Engineering)
- 3rd Place: Mary E. Lyons, "In an Era of Academic Rigor, Play in Kindergarten" (Curriculum and Instruction)
- People's Choice: Sana Saboowala, "Investigating the Biological Effects of Historical Trauma in South Asia" (Integrative Biology)
2019 Finalists
- Mehmet Yalcin Aydin, "Who is Smarter? Tomopology Optimization of Heat Sinks" (Mechanical Science and Engineering)
- Mayank Boob, "Two Ways to Fight Pressure" (Biophysics and Quantitative Biology)
- Abhilasha Gulhane, "Vision of an Eye, Smile on the Face ... Can Telemedicine Help?" (Technology Management)
- Dong Liu, "So Close Yet So Far: A Tale of Public Transit" (Geography and Geographic Information Science)
- Srinivasu Mudalagiriyappa, "Toxoplasma Gondii - A Mind-Altering Parasite" (Pathobiology)
- Gelson Pagan, "Understanding the Brain by Building BRaNEs" (Bioengineering)
- Pranjali Priyadarshini, "Towards a Greener Chemistry: Direct Synthesis of Hydrogen Peroxide" (Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering)
- Swati Rastogi, "Economic Efficacy of Mahila Bazaar (Women Vendors-only Market), Delhi, India" (Urban and Regional Planning)
- Magen Rooney, "Accessibility of Work-Based Learning Experiences for Students with Severe Disabilities" (Special Education)
2018 Winners
- 1st Place: Tim Yang, “On the Road to Self-Driving... Drivers?” (Kinesiology)
- 2nd Place: Gabriel Piqué, “The University of Illinois Saxophone Ensemble: Exploring Old Works in A New Format” (Music)
- 3rd Place: Dhawal Thakare, “Self-Healing Coatings: The Future of Smart Materials” (Mechanical Science & Engineering)
- People's Choice: Kelly Clary, “Reducing Drug Use Among Emerging Adult Veterans” (Social Work)
2018 Finalists
- Parinaz Fathi, “3D-Printed Gastrointestinal Stents” (Bioengineering)
- Hope Holland, “Everyday Experiences of Street Harassment: Death by Paper Cut, or No Big Deal?” (Psychology)
- Belinda Pacheco Johnson, “Lasers, Shockwaves, and the Initiation of Explosives” (Chemistry)
- Collin Kaufman, “Using Cells to Make a Walking Robot” (Neuroscience)
- Junghwan Kim, “Evaluating Public Transit Systems - From a User’s Perspective” (Geography)
- Aditya Kumar, “How Soft Materials Break and Heal: Enabling the Development of Next-generation Materials” (Civil & Environmental Engineering)
- Lee Ann Lyons, “Fighting the Uptick in Tick-Borne Disease” (Pathobiology)
- Jennifer Leigh Sears Scheier, “From Bells to Headsets: The Untold History of the American Stage Manager” (Theatre)
- Whitney Sinclair, “Inhale, Exhale” (Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering)
2017 Winners
- 1st Place: Laura Adamovicz, "Turtles in Trouble: Applications of Health Assessment for Conservation" (Comparative Biosciences)
- 2nd Place: Elizabeth Davis, "Your Brain is Talking Directly to Your Stem Cells" (Neuroscience)
- 3rd Place: Payel Kundu, "Harnessing Plant Compounds to Promote Healthy Aging" (Neuroscience)
- People's Choice: Robby Goldman, "Unearthing the Secrets of Volcanic Eruptions" (Geology)
2017 Finalists
- Adrienne Ertel, "Prehistoric Supernova: Unearthing the Remains of Exploding Stars in Ocean Material" (Astronomy)
- Kartik Hegde, "Enabling Real-time Video Understanding Based on Deep Neural Networks" (Computer Science)
- Huancui Hu, "Linking Atmospheric River Hydrological Impacts on the U.S. West Coast to Rossby Wave Breaking" (Atmospheric Sciences)
- Derek Jung, "On the Shoulders of Giants" (Mathematics)
- Elizabeth Maxwell, "Killing Cancer with Chemo-Beads" (Veterinary Science)
- Cassandra Nikolaus, "The Student's Dilemma: Supper, Sleep or Social Life" (Human Nutrition)
- Sree Kalyan Patiballa, "Auxetics: Materials for the Future (?)" (Systems & Entrepreneurial Engineering)
- Jennifer Peruski, "Fetishizing the Foot: Mobility and Meaning in Indian Ocean Sandals" (Art History)
- Sarvagya Sharma, "Diamonds: A Physicist's Best Friends" (Physics)
2016 Winners
- 1st Place: Ritu Raman, "Bio-Bots: Building Beyond Biology" (Mechanical Engineering)
- 2nd Place: Janelle Mapes, "What Makes Breast Cancer Cells Grow?" (Molecular & Integrative Physiology)
- 3rd Place (tie): Christina Bronson-Lowe, "Complexity and oral motor learning: a path to better treatment of swallowing disorders?" (Speech & Hearing Science)
- 3rd Place (tie): S.K. (Kayleigh) Van Poolen, "Started with a Hurricane Named Katrina" (Library & Information Science)
- People's Choice: Vaibhav Karve, "Recognizing patterns in New York traffic" (Mathematics)
2016 Finalists
- Arif Abdullah, "Mimicking Venus Flytrap: Autonomous Structures That Sense and Respond" (Mechanical Engineering)
- Kamalika Chatterjee, "Studying mechanical deformation of aircraft materials : Have a safe flight!" (Mechanical Engineering)
- Kyung Yun Choi, "Impact Resistant Prosthetic Hand: The Soft Overcomes The hard" (Aerospace Engineering)
- William Davies, "Condensation on an Inclination" (Mechanical Engineering)
- Jessica Hekman, "Domestication comes in on little feet -- like, microscopic ones" (Animal Sciences)
- Jamie Pearson, "'You Need to Keep Those Kids Quiet': Autism in African American Communities" (Special Education)
- Widya Aulia Ramadhani, "Please Remove Shoes: The Relation of Shoes Removal Practice, Transitional Space, and Human Health" (Architecture)
- Jessica Saw, "Urinary Stones: A Product of Dynamic Interactions Between the Microbiome and Mineral Precipitation" (Molecular & Integrative Physiology)
- Lisa Schlein, "A Novel Therapeutic Strategy for Brain Cancer" (Pathobiology)
2015 Winners
- 1st Place: Ipek Tasan, “Finding Partners in Crime Causing Colon Cancer” (Biochemistry)
- 2nd Place (tie): Marc R. Gancayco, “Sublancin: An Antibiotic with a Sweet Side” (Chemical Biology)
- 2nd Place (tie): Vahid Mirshafiee, “Targeted Delivery of Anticancer Drugs to Tumors” (Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering)
- People's Choice: Robin Holland, “Taking Down the Powerhouse” (Vet Med Pathobiology)
2015 Finalists
- Himel Dev, “’Don’t Just Post and Regret, Ask Me Instead!!!’ – Cassandra” (Computer Science)
- Ipek Ensari, “Effects of acute exercise on anxiety: Results of a meta-analysis” (Kinesiology)
- Juan Gerardo, “Humanizing Mathematics Teaching” (Curriculum & Instruction)
- Boon Chong Goh, “Solving 3D jigsaw puzzle of a young virus” (Physics)
- Larisa Hussak, “From Wall St. to Planet Wuggy: What 4-year-olds’ Explanations Can Tell Us About Income Inequality in America” (Psychology)
- Ismaeel Muhamed, “Decoding a cell’s body language” (Biochemistry)
- Amir Saberi, “Planarians and their Parasitic Cousins” (Cell and Developmental Biology)