2023 winners
Siyang Luo (First place) | Pandemic Echoes: Chinese Nationalism and the Transnational Student's Dilemma
Nuo Chen (Second place) | Could Plastic Pollution Impact Natural Marine Tracer System?
Kirsten Bell (Third place) | Challenging the Stereotype of the Witch: Medea in 15th Century Burgundy

2022 winners
Penelope Sergi ʼ23 (First place) | Woman of Letters: The Life of the First Female Printer in America
Samantha Becker ʼ23 (Second place) | The Impact of Religion on Bermudian Politics and National Identity
Katie Hurwitz ʼ23 (Third place) | A Study of Child-Directed and Child-Created Music in Early Elementary School Pedagogy
Ariel Hirschhorn ʼ23 (T5) (Third place) | In Full Color: Race and the Development of Kodak Color Film

2021 winners
Befikadu Mekonnen (Grand prize); Arianna Taylor, Humanities; Ethan Sawyer, Social Sciences; Anesse Pinpokintr, Natural Sciences; Evelyn Ferwalt, Engineering

2020
No winners due to COVID-19.
2019 winners
Mackenzie Steen ’21 (Second Place), A Systematic Review of Trauma-Informed Teaching in Medical Education
Jisoo Woo ’20 (First Place), Using LED Light to Enable Asymmetric Olefin Difunctionalization with CO2
Julian Maceren ’20 (Third Place), Investigating Metal-Free Azide-Alkyne “Click” Reactions for Conjugating Peptides to Nanoparticle Carriers

2018 winners
Carrie Heusinkveld ’19 (Second Prize), French Literature; Daria Lynch ’19 (First Prize), History; Zeen Xiao ’20 (Third Prize), Music History

2017 winners
Eli Rogers (’18), Ahmed Selmi (’19), and Ling Yang (’19)

2016 winner
Austin Bailey (’16) Left to right: Susan K. Cardinal, STEM Librarian, Austin Bailey, and Todd D. Krauss, Professor of Chemistry and Chair, Professor of Optics.

2015 winners
Claire Webster (’16) and Amy Eisenstadt (’16)
On left: Eileen Daly-Boas, Religion & Classics Librarian, Claire Webster, and Curt Cadorette, Professor of Religion & Classics.
On right: Blair Tinker, Research Specialist for GIS, Amy Eisenstadt, and Cindy Ebinger, Professor of Earth & Environmental Sciences.
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