CAURS 2025 Awards

Top oral Presentation caurs 2025

Binhao Wu, Northwestern University

Ethnic-Racial Identity Content and Perception of East Asians as an Ingroup vs. Outgroup

Top Poster presentation caurs 2025

Aidan Balagtas, Northwestern University

Novel Role of Histone H1.1 in Regulating Epidermal Differentiation


Top poster in biological sciences

Ritvik Viniak, Northwestern University

Ocular macrophages are necessary for choriocapillaris maintenance


top poster in chemistry and Environmental sciences

Julian Novin, Northwestern University

Synthesis and Evaluation of New Protein Aggregation Inhibitors for the Treatment of ALS


top poster in sociology, anthropology, and psychology

Avery Blaszak, Northwestern University

Nuclear Abolition Activism on Campus: Catalysts and Motivations for Action


top poster in engineering and Computer science

Lynna Deng, Northwestern University

Bacterial Plastic Recycling at Scale: Evaluating the Tolerance of Comamonas testosteroni for Concentrated Plastic Waste


top poster in Fine arts, humanities, and linguistics

Ella Grace, DePaul University

Psyche of a Jazzwoman: Gendered Psychological Barriers to Jazz Participation


top poster in social justice

Morgan Willison, Northwestern University

Beyond Surgery & Hormones: Community-Specific Gender-Affirming Care, Research, & Innovation


Top Poster in Physics and Math

Bennet Korotko, Loyola University

Holographic Entanglement Entropy in Non-Commutative Theories