Awards

UURAF Award Ceremony

Save the Date! The 2025 UURAF Award Ceremony will be held on April 21, 2025 from 3:30 - 4:45 PM at the Kellogg Hotel and Conference Center.

Student presenters will be notified via email after the forum concludes and asked to RSVP. The award ceremony is free and open to the public. Refreshments will be served. Research mentors, friends, and family members are invited to attend.

Michigan State University is committed to providing equal opportunity for participation in all programs, services and activities. Direct requests for accommodations to Heather Dover, Coordinator for Undergraduate Research (doverhea@msu.edu, 517-884-1558). Requests received after April 15, 2025 will be honored whenever possible.

At least one person in this setting reports chemical or scent sensitivity that may adversely impact their participation. We therefore request your cooperation in making this a scent-controlled environment by refraining from the use of scented products whenever possible.

To recognize exemplary scholarly achievements, monetary prizes will be awarded. One first-place award ($100; group presentations of more than 4 people will evenly split $400) will be given in each presentation category. (Note: only undergraduate student presenters are eligible for awards. Student presenters without RCR training are not eligible.) First-place award recipients, whether in an oral, poster, performance, film or exhibit presentation, are eligible to submit their work for consideration for the UURAF Grand Prize, a $500 award. All materials submitted for the UURAF Grand Prize must comply with grand prize guidelines. A panel of faculty judges will review submissions. A total of two grand prizes ($500 each) will be awarded to one program from the science, engineering, and mathematics related categories and one program from the arts, humanities, and social sciences related categories. Group presentations will evenly split the prize money. Grand prize recipients will be notified by mid-June.

First-place Award Recipients

Current and past UURAF award recipients as well as UURAF Program Books are available in the Past Forums section of this website.

2024 Grand Prize Recipients

Social Sciences, Humanities, and Arts Grand Prize: Gracie Rudolfi, Natalie Liliensiek and Lorraine Inman, The Impact of Foregrounding on Aesthetic Experience: An Analysis of Real-Time Responses to Sonnets
Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics Grand Prize: Coral Brock, Root and Shoot Acylsugar Screening Across the Solanaceae Using LC-MS