Past Award Winners

2022 Scholarship Winners

1st place awards

  • Rubin Ortiz, Kristofer Hendrickson, and Aleria Krokhmalyuk - My College Consultant: Breaking Down Admissions Barriers for High-Achieving Low Income Students
  • Alex Groff, Olivia Schaefer, Tyshawn Searight, Michael McMaster - ENR 259 Drone Presentation
  • Kay Wilkoff - Vehicle Design Advancement with Solidworks
  • Bronwyn Wallace - Type 2 Diabetes, Inadequate Sleep, and Structural Racism: A Needless Health Crisis for Black and Latino Communities in the South Bronx
  • Daniel Heberle - Individualizing the Objectified: Diego Velazquez's Dwarf and Jester Portraits of Phiip IV's Court

2nd place awards

  • Daniel Heberle - The Spaces and Surfaces of Street Art: The Perception of Graffiti in the Time of Banksy
  • Taylor DuHart - Generation of Models to STudy the Role of H4K20me1-interacting Proteins in Human Erythropoeisis
  • Leanna Smith - Genetic Databases in the Development of Criminal Investigation
  • Abigail Dingman - The Mental Health Gap Action Programme: Aiding the Untreated
  • Martina Silvestre Sales - Have We Forgotten of how to be Social Without Social Media?
  • Ryan Horan - Digitizing Museum Collections for Public Access

3rd place awards

  • Mariama Wiliams - The Reality of Race
  • Lucas Eberhardt - The Genetics of Happiness
  • Jules Moore - Madonna, Mother, Mama: A Cultural and Christological Examination of the Pieta in Christian Art
  • Mia Le and Rasa Barmak - Mitochondrial Replacement Therapy
  • Baren Ritzenthaler - Urban Agriculture: A Sustainable Approach in the Fight Against Hunger

4th place awards

  • Elle Parrotta - Renaming MCC

2021 Scholarship Winners

1st Place Awards

  • Daniel Heberle—"Ave gratia plena Dominus tecum": The Progression of Perspective and Iconography in Italian Annunciation Painting from the Trecento to the Cinquecento
  • Melody Kohut, Abdul Latif, Ryan McVeigh, and Ricardo Ndoole—Modular Design Applied to Aerial and Terrestrial Robotic Systems
  • Ruben Ortiz—The Soft Bigotry of Low Expectations: Black Male Students, Affluent Schools, and Downward Economic Mobility
  • Adrianna Robinson—Five Year Assessment of "Student Self-Tracking for Success in the Classroom"

2nd Place Awards

  • Maris Breaton—Juvenile Offenders and the U.S. Court System: Effects and One Possible Alternative
  • Anthony Burroughs—Optimizing Car Design Using SOLIDWORKS
  • Victoria Kremer—The Mind-Brain Identity Theory and Bats
  • Gillian Moore—Invisible Walls: Segregation in Monroe County

3rd Place Awards

  • Victoria Beach, Kelsi Biondolillo, Thomas Stearns, and Tanner Richardson—Mission: Unmanned Aerial and Ground Vehicle Navigation
  • Sherinne Cauwels, Heonmin Lee, Karen Lewis, Julia Babcock, and Ahilan Guruparan—Bridging the Digital Divide for Middle and High School Students: A Phi Theta Kappa Honors in Action Project
  • Daniel Heberle—Blood and Bayonets: The Third of May 1808 and Transforming the Romanticism of War
  • Sophia Jonasse—Rehabilitation and the Reduction of Prisons: Beginning the Re-Humanization Process

2020 Scholarship Winners

1st Place Awards

  • Justin Payne, Logan Hampton, and Ethan Hilbert—SUAS 2020 Competition
  • Devin Ward—Limiting Factors to Upward Mobility and Their Implications for Meritocracy in the United States
  • Chelsea Davis—Trauma, the Brain, and the Mind-Body Connection
  • Jacob Snell—The Actual Cost of the Dollar Menu: Empathy, Self-Interest, and the Exploitation of Meatpacking Workers

2nd Place Awards

  • Emily Byrnes—Thinking Small to Fight Big: Understanding Evolutionary Biology to Help Us Fight Disease
  • Brenna Chinappi and Nichole Wilkinson—The Impact of Student Government Leadership Positions on the Student Nurse and the Graduate Registered Nurse
  • Sherinne Cauwels—Intervening Based on Carbon Emissions Violating Human Rights
  • Autumn Ornt, Tristan Smathers, Collin Tumbiolo, and Oksana Vysochanska—Drone Capstone Project

3rd Place Awards

  • Misty Yarnall—The Villain Is the Hero of His Own Story
  • Lizette Porter, Michael Bennett, Bradley Pritchard, and Zeba Ellikka—Increasing Retention for Disadvantaged Students Through Peer-to-Peer Mentoring
  • Angelina Rezende—The Effects of Western Ideology on Policies Regarding Minorities
  • Chance Henry—The Importance of African-American Education in W.E.B. DuBois’ The Souls of Black Folk
  • (tie) Chance Henry—Examining Power in Hamlet: The Tragedy of Claudius and the Future of America