Unless otherwise stated, students listed are WINNERS of the category.
2026 IU South Bend Undergraduate Research Conference
Posters
Greta Neubauer | Exploring the Effects of Velocity Based Training (VBT) to Enhance On-Ice Sprint Performance in Ice Hockey of Distances 10-35m
Ryleigh Jebson | Designing Enhanced Embedded Systems for Wireless Environmental Datalogging Using Bluetooth Low Energy
- Kitty Koontz | Honorable mention | Tree and Bird Diversity in Three Urban Greenspaces in South Bend, Indiana
Abram DeBew | Learning Approach, Degree Progression and Well-Being in Indiana College Students with ADHD
Kitty Koontz | To Protect and Serve?” - Constructing Police Encounters through a Media Lens
Presentation
- Lillian Magers-Pershing | Exploring Community, Food, and Black Identity in George Tillman Jr’s Soul Food
- Ella Martin| Violent, Victimized, or Villainized? How Mentally Ill Offenders are Portrayed in Fictional Crime TV Shows
- Tenleigh Phelps| From Script to Stereotype: Rape Myth Representation in Fictional Crime Television
- Eduardo Corona Montalvan| Living with Loss: Documentary Portrayals of Victims and Community Recovery After School Shootings
- Dalton Blankenbaker | Honorable mention | The Hollywood Riders: An Inductive Inquiry into Media Portrayals and Gang Identity
- Hillary Corona | Honorable mention | Inside the Compound: Examining how Documentaries Construct the Image of Cult Communities
- Jasmine Frayre | Honorable mention | They deserved it: Motives Behind Mass Murder That are Socially Constructed in Documentaries
- Kailey Martin | Honorable mention | The Myth of the Monster: Pedophile Portrayals in the Media
- Odette Ruvalcaba | Honorable mention | “From Screen to Society”: How Documentary Films Shape Public Perceptions of Stalking
- Osprey Burkholder, Kitty Koontz, Abigail McDaniel, and Justin Neilson | Saint Joseph Watershed Project
- Kristen Miller | Design and Evaluation of Improved Fluorescent Probes for Anionic Membrane Lipids
- Milo Moss | Honorable mention | Native Tree Canopy and the Effects on Soil Invertebrate Diversity, Microbes, and Ecological Function
- Brett Hammond | Spain in Film
- Nyssa Bickel| Reconnecting Young Adults with the Potawatomi Zoo: The Role of Childhood Memories
- Zaz Cawley | Honorable mention | Spain in Film
- Christopher Diaz | Honorable mention | Spain in Film
- Eli Lozano | Honorable mention | The Garbage Kingdom