It is time to consider entering the 2026 UF Best Undergraduate Research Paper Contest!
Submissions are due February 28th for the best paper contest, the submission link will open February 1st. This contest is open to all UF Undergraduate Researchers.
IMPORTANT DOCUMENTS
Find the links to JUR Template and Mentor Approval Form below
Congratulations
To our Undergraduate Research Best Paper winners
2025 Best Paper Award Winners
Social, Behavioral & Education Sciences
Author/s: Angie Cordova
Faculty Mentor: Dr.Andreas Keil
Title: Assessing Individual Differences in Emotional Reactivity Using Electrophysiology and Self-Reported Affect
STEM
Author/s: Serena Huberty
Faculty Mentor: Dr. Vanessa Hull
Title: Nutritional sustainiblity of California (Zalophus californinaus) and Steller Sea Lion Diets under Future climate condition.
2024 Best Paper Award Winners
Arts and Humanities
Author/s: Dalia Dooley
Faculty Mentor: Dr.Neil Weijer
Title: The Unsung Propagandist: Female Ascendancy in the office of war information and their influence of the development and dissemination of world war II propaganda.
Social, Behavioral & Education Sciences
Author/s: Bailey Fawcett
Faculty Mentor: Dr. Laurie Gauger
Title: Nonword Repetition and Memory for Digits: Are They Predicators For Sight Word Reading and Decoding?
2023 Best Paper Award Winners
Arts and Humanities
Author/s: Madison Ross
Faculty Mentor: Brent S. Sumerlin
Title: Democratization of Sono-RAFT: utilizing low-frequency sonication to achieve controlled radical polymerization
Social, Behavioral & Education Sciences
Author/s: Saba Khan
Faculty Mentor: Michael Moorhouse
Title: Analyzing Methods of Prevention in Improving Outcomes for Patients with Opioid Use Disorder
2022 Best Paper Award Winners
Arts and Humanities
Author/s: Stefany Marjani
Faculty Mentor: Dr. Jill Sonke, College of the Arts
Title: Analyzing pre-health students’ views on Health Humanities and an applied virtual experience during the COVID-19 pandemic
Social, Behavioral & Education Sciences
Author/s: Katherine Carlo
Faculty Mentor: Dr. Gustavo Cortes, Warrington College of Business
Title: The Impact of the Smoot-Hawley Tariff on State Level Capital Market Efficiency
STEM/Medicine
Author/s: Connor Goodwin
Faculty Mentor: Dr. Mirian M. Hay-Roe, Florida Museum of Natural History
Title: Black Soldier Fly Larva (Hermetia illucens) Frass vs. Red Wiggler (Eisenia fetida) Castings on (Capsicum annum) “Early Jalapeno” Seedling Growth
2021 Best Paper Award Winners
Arts and Humanities
Author/s: Aimee Briel Clesi
Faculty Mentor: Dr. Steven Noll, College of Liberal Arts and Sciences
Title: The New Southern Gothic: Habeas Corpus, AEDPA, and the Nightmare of Proving Actual Innocence
Social, Behavioral & Education Sciences
Author/s: Jeffrey Hayden
Faculty Mentor: Dr. Matthew Jacobs, College of Liberal Arts and Sciences
Title: How U.S. Aid Outpaced Cold War Ambitions in Afghanistan
STEM/Medicine
Author/s: Grace Hansen
Faculty Mentor: Dr. Roland Staud, College of Medicine
Title: The Impact of Repeated Lidocaine Injections, Exercise, and Mindfulness on Fibromyalgia Symptoms in a Clinical population: A Pilot Study