2024 1st Place Winners: Alayanna Alderman
Six Children's Books by Theodor "Dr. Seuss" Geisel
2024 2nd Place Winner: Molly Harms
Social Movements and LGBTQ+ Rights: How Illinois Became a Leader in Queer Policy
2024 3rd Place Winner: Rith Scott
Queer Representation in Literature: A Cycle of Digestible Queerness & Violence
2024 4th Place Winner: Elizabeth (Liz) M. Uhl
Why People Confess to Crimes They Did Not Commit
2024 5th Place Winner: Kyla Leones
Intergenerational Trauma and Coping Among Southeast Asian Americans
2023 1st Place Winners: Dhara Patel and Pavani Unnam
Help-Seeking for Mental Health Care among Asian American College Students
2023 2nd Place Winner: Bradley Weishaar
2023 3rd Place Winner: James McKean
The Decline of an Industry and a People
2023 4th Place Winner: Payton Wilkins
Land Barons of the Modern Age: How Inequality in Land Ownership Creates a New Class of Feudal Lords
2023 5th Place Winner: Spencer Mauch
2022 1st Place Winner: Taryn Christy
Our Building is Run by Women”: Women’s Success in the Illinois Public Sector
2022 2nd Place Winner: Abigail High
The Decision to Drop the Atomic Bombs
2022 3rd Place Winners: Briana Rodriguez
2022 4th Place Winner: Blake Bergner
The Significance and Racism of the Lincoln-Douglas Debates
2022 5th Place Winner: Diana Ibarra
The Augmentation of Feminicides in Latin America Through Machismo
2021 1st Place Winner: Alexandra Simpson
Complexity in Nature and Humanity in Red Sorghum
2021 2nd Place Winner: Malavika Mujumdar
Graphic Poetry as Historical Experience in Naoko Fujimoto’s “Thursdays” and “On A Black Hill”
2021 3rd Place Winners: Benjamin Garrett
An Overview of the Life, Extinction, and Possible De-Extinction of Mammuthus Primigenius
2021 4th Place Winner: Rebecca Wheeler
2021 5th Place Winner: Joshua Melnick
Development of DNA Barcoding in Oak Species
2020 1st Place Winner: Anna Kanai
Americanization in Europe: History, Hollywood, and European Perceptions
2020 2nd Place Winner: Hunter Niebrugge
Ouch!: Female Student-Athletes and the Influence of Collegiate Athletics on Injury
2020 3rd Place Winners: Rebecca Wheeler
Decision Vision: Utilizing Mental Simulation to Promote Accuracy During Intuitive Decision Making
2020 4th Place Winner: Jermaine Windham
The “Black Nerd Stereotype” & The African American Representation in the Media
2020 5th Place Winner: Sagun Pandit
Analysis of Sexual Assault in Nepal
2019 1st Place Winners: Conor McKenzie and Payton Raso
2019 2nd Place Winner: Heba Qazi
2019 3rd Place Winners: Alan Huebschen and Robert Stockwell
Computational Exploration of Neural Networks in the Dorsal Cochlear Nucleus
2018 1st Place Winner: Adam Hild
2018 2nd Place Winner: Hannah Nordby
Working Memory Deficits in People with Schizophrenia
2018 3rd Place Winner: Marjorie Carter
Humor in the Face of Injustice
2017 1st Place Winner: Shyleen Frost
Toxicity of E-liquid Flavors and Base Components on the AGS and A549 Cell Lines
2017 2nd Place Winner: Abigail Norville
Prevalence of Hepatitis C among Homeless People in Major Central Illinois Cities
2017 3rd Place Winner: Vanessa Pratt
Drug Courts: The Cure for the American Legal System’s Addiction to Punishment
2016 Winner: David Seidel
2015 Winner: Michael Lotspeich
Adherence to Themes in Rural Local Education Agency Reorganization Research: a Meta-analysis Review