It is time to consider entering the 2022 UF Best Undergraduate Research Paper Contest. Submissions are due February 28th, the submission link will open February 1st. This contest is open to all UF Undergraduate Researchers.
There will be three awards, one each in
1) Arts & Humanities
2) Social Sciences, Education, Business
3) STEM & Medicine
This year the submission guidelines are new so read carefully. You will submit to the new on-line UF JUR, https://journals.flvc.org/ufjur. You will have to do several things
– Register on the site
– Follow the template EXACTLY – no submissions will be reviewed if they do not comply with all of the template requirements, no exceptions.
– You are required to have your research mentor sign the attached form and upload it with your submission. no submissions will be reviewed if they do not include the faculty form, no exceptions
Any questions regarding the submission should go to jur@aa.ufl.edu.
Good luck!
The three winners for best paper award are below. Congratulations to all the winners!
Author: Aimee Briel Clesi
Title: The New Southern Gothic: Habeas Corpus, AEDPA, and the Nightmare of Proving Actual Innocence
Faculty Mentor: Dr. Steven Noll – College of Liberal Arts and Sciences
Author: Jeffrey Hayden
Title: Leverage — How U.S. Aid Outpaced Cold War Ambitions in Afghanistan
Faculty Mentor: Dr. Matthew Jacobs – College of Liberal Arts and Sciences
Authors: Grace Hansen
Title: The Impact of Repeated Lidocaine Injections, Exercise, and Mindfulness on Fibromyalgia Symptoms in a Clinical population: A Pilot Study
Faculty Mentor: Dr. Roland Staud – College of Medicine
The three winners for best paper award are below. Congratulations to all the winners!
Author: Jordan Moumne
Title: Paul Rudolph’s and Carlo Scarpa’s Interaction with the Environment
Faculty Mentor: Jeff Carney, School of Architecture
Author: Emily McHugh
Title: Word Learning in Two Modalities
Faculty Mentor: Lori Altmann, Department of Speech, Language and Hearing Sciences
Authors: Kaden Loring (1st author), Paul Fulda, Luis Ortega, Guido Mueller, James Monroe, Xavier Huerta, and Jeremy McAllister
Title: Hydroxide catalysis bonding of a negative thermal expansion alloy for astronomical telescopes.
Faculty Mentor: Paul Fulda, Department of Physics
Three winners for best paper award were announced April 1, 2019 at the Undergraduate Research Symposium. Congratulations to all the winners!
Arts & Humanities:
Student author: Leah Brand
Article title: A look into Jewish aesthetics and abstraction
Faculty mentor: Rachel Silveri, Ph.D, School of Art & Art History
Social, Behavioral & Education Sciences:
Student author: Reanne Christina Mathai
Article title: Factors associated with opioid use disorder diagnosis and treatment progress
Faculty mentor: Lisa Merlo, Ph.D, MPE, Department of Psychiatry
STEM/MED:
Student author: Lindsay Renee Richards
Article title: Prevalence of intestinal parasites and related risk factors in rural localities from Pampa del Indio, Chaco, Argentina
Faculty mentor: Song Liang, Department of Environmental & Global Health