2026 Award Winners

Oral Presentation Co-Winners

Lydia Manchery

Redefining Who Leads: South Asian Parent Leadership and the Boundaries of Educational Authority

Jess Mills

Misogynist Incels and the Construction of Hierarchy Through Cryptolect

Oral Presentation Runner Up

Joshita Manohar

Designing for Productive Failure: Analog and Digital Affordances in Early Childhood Puzzle Play

Poster Presentation Winner

Sara-Lee Ramsawak

Who Speaks? Examining Response Patterns in Course Evaluations Through an Intersectional Lens

Poster Presentation Second Place

Sing-Han Chiu

“The community center just doesn’t suit me.” Exploring older men’s perspectives on social activities: a qualitative study

Poster Presentation Third Place

Gaurav Seth

From Lab to Sidewalk: Cautious Gait in Blindness or Low Vision Under Ecologically Valid Conditions

EDI Poster Presentation Winners

Mackenzie Donovan, Elizabeth Rotter, & Irene Park

Identity-Affirming Mentorship: Exploring the Experiences and Needs of Underrepresented Occupational Therapy Students in U.S. Entry-Level Programs

EDI Poster Presentation Runner Up

Mariam Maqsood

Toward Equitable Pain Assessment: Quantitative Sensory Testing in Racially and Ethnically Diverse Pain-Free Adults

2024 Award Winners

Oral Presentation C0-Winner

Anna Karp

The Real Housewives of New York Season 10: The Depiction of Elite New York Women in a Season without True "Housewives"

Oral Presentation Co-Winner

Josephine Dudzik

Clinical Practice Behaviors of Registered Dietitians in the Intensive Care Unit: A Qualitative Study of Perceptions and Experiences

Poster Presentation Winner

Mridula Anandhakrishnan, Sonja Molfenter, & Brynn Jones-Rastelli

The Impact of Spine Surgery on Swallowing

Poster Presentation runner-up

Jeremy Tsuaye & Yaojia Chen

Relationship Between 3D Background Music and the Players' Perceptual Levels of Immersion in Game and Virtual Environments

Poster Presentation DEI winner

Kanita Tarique

Scripting Nationhood: Pakistani Drama Heroes as Agents of Nation-Building

2023 Award Winners

Best Oral Presentation

Raquel Rose

Gendered Surveillance: A Critical Analysis of Female Legal System Actors' Attributions to Girls' Behaviors

Diversity, Equity, and Belonging

Oral Presentation

Christine Skorupa

Advocating for a Neurodiverse Audience

Best Master's/Advanced Certificate Poster Presentation

Lauren Hart, Collette Aguirre, Milan Johnson & Claudonna Hewitt

Occupational therapist experiences with shared decision-making for upper extremity recovery post stroke: A qualitative study

Best Doctoral Poster Presentation

Brynn Jones-Rastelli

ACDF Surgery and Swallowing: Anatomic and physiologic changes in a prospective cohort

Diversity, Equity, and Belonging

Poster Presentation

Grace Jarrett, Caroline Warner, Megan Hartnett, Molly Breslow & Yasmin Al Khalil

A Systematic Review: Do occupation-related interventions affect young female survivors of sex trafficking return to optimal functions of daily life?

2023 Grant Recipients

Joyce Li Yue

Rhythms and Emotion: A look into the Neuropsychological Approach to how rhythm in music affects and furthers autistic children's cognition and perception

Jonathan Weisbrot

Arch Sessions (MPAP Collaboration)

Martina Novakova

Translating Landscapes

Puanani Brown

Sees of Resistance: Native Hawaiian Food Sovereignty & Water Rights

Peter Traver

The Soundcube & The Sound Maze: Algorithmically Driven Sonic Art

Neda Jahanbani

Iranian American Mobility and Masculinity: Relationships of Fathers and Their Children

Joyce Chung

Do L1 Speakers of a Non-Tone Language Benefit From Real-Time Pitch Biofeedback in Learning Lexical Tones?

Jackie Andresen & Maxin Dybal-Denysenk

Senior Capstone Sample Library

Ivy Yen

The Effects of Talker Variability on Word-Learning in a Blocked Design Paradigm

2022 Award Winners

Best Oral Presentation

Salwa Hoque

Digital Legal Databases: Archives and Epistemologies

Best Undergraduate Poster Presentation

Srinidhi Ananth & Lisa Abe

Primary Caregivers' Barriers to Research

Best Master's/Advanced Certificate Poster Presentation

Jaqui Angulo, Rayvon Daniel, Boruch Wilansky, & Alicia Wong

Examining the Effectiveness of Occupational Therapy and OT-Related Interventions in College-Age Students with Mental Illness: A Systematic Review

Best Doctoral Poster Presentation

Jing Zhang

Predicting Executive Functions in a Learning Game: Accuracy and Reaction Time

Best Overall Poster Presentation

Winnie Qi, Lauren Blose & Franchesca Vidal

Culturally Sensitive Mentoring in Occupational Therapy

Steinhardt Community Choice Poster Presentation

Alex Bollington

Closing Research Investment Gaps for a Global Food Transformation

Essence of Steinhardt Poster Presentation

Suzy Acquisto

Jazz: Roots to Now a Four Year Curriculum

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