Past Research Day Awards

The Phi Beta Kappa Scholarship Awards for Excellence in the Liberal Arts are presented each year starting in 2016. Each year, the members of the University of Wyoming Chapter are honored to be able to recognize undergraduate researchers who expertly weave together physical, intellectual, ethical and social issues in their research.

Undergraduate Research Day

Past research day awards

2024

  • A Memoir on Being Out and LGBTQ+ in the Rural Mountain West
    Karter Dunham, English
  • Athlete Management System Software Program
    Rae Gerking

 

2023

  • Equilibria
    Ema Kurbos-Cooper, Environmental Systems Science
  • Evaluating the Impacts of Water Scarcity on the People of Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan
    Maeve Knepper, Economics and International Studies

 

2022

  • The Final Blackout
    Abigail Blesi, Secondary Education
  • Detecting Cars in Bad Weather Using Thermal Imagery
    Oreoluwa Babatunde, Christian Bitzas, Brady Wagstaff, Computer Engineering

 

2019

  • Ethical Understandings and Approaches to Autonomous Vehicles
    Kathryn McVicker, Political Science
  • A Geologic Companion to John McPhee’s Rising from the Plains
    Logan Fox, Henry Hoes, Jiwei Kang, Lou Mallon, Hollis Marriott, Patrick Megown, Alex Sivitskis, Blaire Voss, Geology

 

2018

  • CWC’s Interdisciplinary Climate Change Expedition (ICCE): Measuring Black Carbon, Water Quantity, and Water Quality in the Dinwoody Cirque
    Grace Hartman & Marten Baur, Environment and Natural Resources
  • “I’d Strike the Son if He Insulted Me”: Milton and Melville’s Radical Individuals
    Benjamin Platt, English

 

2017

  • How Telling is Author Voice? Further Associations Between Personality and Writing
    Jasper E. Hunt, Psychology
  • Magic Use in Roman Sexual Performance
    Anne Chenchar Classics
  • The Blue French Horn: Intertwining Origin Stories in How I Met Your Mother
    Sydney Stein, Communication and Journalism 

 

2016

  • Birdsong, Music, and Value Judgments
    Catherine Cloetta, Zoology and Physiology
  • Understanding the Human-Elephant Conflict in India: A First-hand Perspective
    Anne N. Reed, Zoology & Physiology
  • Pip's Spatial Education in Charles Dickens's Great Expectations
    Roslyn Fleming, English