SURE 2025
Award Winners
Award Winners
Lightning Talks
Outstanding Undergraduate Lightning Talk | Individual | Non-Empirical
Taylor Vanaman, Theater Design and Production (Costume emphasis) & Spanish
Outstanding Undergraduate Lightning Talk | Individual | Empirical
Taylor Reynolds, Public Health
Outstanding Undergraduate Lightning Talk | Group | Non-Empirical
Ann Fink, Tyler Dossat, Ryan Casey, VR Design
Outstanding Undergraduate Lightning Talk | Group | Empirical
Samantha Shy, Seamus Patenaude, Exercise Science
Posters
Outstanding Undergraduate Poster | Group
Juliana Bish, Olivia Shores, Environmental Studies
Outstanding Undergraduate Poster (Tie) | Individual
Faria Zafar, Computer Science
Outstanding Undergraduate Poster (Tie) | Individual
Katelynn Clukey, Psychology
Lightning Talks
Outstanding Graduate Lightning Talk | Individual | Pre-Recorded
Madeleine Baum, Performing Arts Leadership & Management
Outstanding Graduate Lightning Talk | Group | Empirical
Michaela Oberholzer, Physical Therapy & Athletic Training
Posters
Outstanding Graduate Poster | Individual
Elizabeth Neiman, Pharmacy
Outstanding Graduate Poster | Group
Jennie Dunnavant, Madison Biggs, Rachel Taylor, Yvette Tebo, Occupational Therapy
More than forty faculty judges helped with adjudication, scoring talks and posters based on criteria that included the speaker's knowledge and engagement with the topic, the visual design of the slides or poster, the logical structure and flow of information, time management, delivery, and scholarly implications of the work.
Awards were assigned across different categories: undergraduate and graduate, lightening talks and posters, individual and group, empirical and non-empirical approaches. Not all combinations of these categories were represented at SURE 2025, but all talks and posters presented at SURE 2025 were considered for awards in at least one of these category combinations.
Thank you to all who presented work at SURE 2025 and to the judges who evaluated their work!