URSA Scholars Week is the annual campus-wide display of all undergraduate research currently being conducted at Baylor University. Through this event, students from all classifications and departments will have the opportunity to present their work before fellow students and faculty. A select few students from each department will receive awards for outstanding projects.
The 2021 URSA Virtual Symposium will be held April 5 - April 19, 2021.
URSA (Undergraduate Research and Scholarly Achievement) also provides small grant opportunities for students to conduct research at Baylor with a professor outside of the Scholars Week presentations. To learn more about URSA and the scholarship opportunities available, please click on the link: URSA Website
If you are interested in presenting: please fill out the submission form by March 29, 2021 at 11:59 PM CST.
See below for last year's 2020 URSA Virtual Scholars Week Awards.
2020 URSA Poster Presentation Awards |
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Student(s) |
Mentor |
Department |
Ashley Ricciardelli and Emily Quach |
Jacquelyn Duke |
Biology |
Morgan Ballard and Bradie Dean |
Carol Macaulay |
Anthropology |
Samantha Fetterman |
Brittany Perrine |
Communication Science & Disorders |
Caroline Wirth |
Brittany Perrine |
Communication Science & Disorders |
Nicole Salama |
Julia Daniel |
English |
Sarah Hamrin |
Robin Wallace |
Music Education |
Dayton Wright |
Religion |
Joe Coker |
Camille Rybacki Koch |
Political Science |
Ivy Hamerly |
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2020 URSA Virtual Symposium Presentation Awards |
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Student Presenter(s) |
Mentor |
Department |
Bisi Otulana, M. Guinn, F. Mansouri |
Dr. Stephen Trumble and Sascha Usenko |
Biology |
Lacey Barnes |
Dr. Robert Doyle |
Biology |
Nicole Wire, Jonathan Aparicio, Bronson Balzac, Sinchana Basoor, Ritu Channagiri, Luke Day, Sowmya Duddu, Anthony Giovi, Haider Khan, Jonathan Lai, Arvind Muruganantham, Angel Otto, Catherine Ravikumar, Christian Schultz, Saisha Singh, Avery Voight, Emily Young, Sriram Avirneni, Grip Gilbert, and Leo Rule |
Dr. Tamarah Adair |
Biology |
Christian McSweeny, Hannah Gannon, and Uche Oparaji |
Dr. Dena Quigley |
Biology |
Joseph Spear and Sae Hee Choi |
Dr. Tamar Carter |
Biology |
Sophia Antonini, Lacey Barnes, Avery Davis, Trista Enriquez, Shonti Wilson |
Dr. Lizbeth Souza-Fuertes |
Biology |
Shubhneet Warar, Ian Anthony, and Christina Gaw |
Dr. Frieda Blackwell |
Chemistry and Biochemistry |
Margaret McCutcheon, Emvia Calixte, Emily Ziperman, and Jamie Kim |
Dr. Elyssia Gallagher |
Chemistry and Biochemistry |
Humaira Islam and Ryan Scharf |
Dr. Paul Fillmore |
Communication Sciences and Disorders |
URSA Mentors of the Year |
URSA Outstanding Undergraduate Research Mentor 2020 Arts, Humanities, and Professional Disciplines Stephanie C. Boddie, Ph.D. |
URSA Outstanding Undergraduate Research Mentor 2020 Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics Disciplines Lorin S. Matthews, Ph.D. |
URSA Excellence in Leadership Award 2020 |
David Jortner, Ph.D. |
Dwayne Simmons, Ph.D. |
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Pictures of some winning posters at URSA Scholars Week 2019: