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Spring 2025 Undergraduate Research Conference winners announced

April 30th, 2025

From April 8 to 11, undergraduate students showcased their undergraduate research projects at the annual Spring Undergraduate Research Conference, hosted by the Office of Undergraduate Research (OUR). The event featured over 900 student research projects from various disciplines, and Purdue Libraries was proud to support several projects.

Libraries faculty served as mentors to guide students through the research process. Three student projects stood out in the Information and Library Science (ILS) category and earned awards, listed below:

1st place: Riley Ann Knudsen

A Scoping Review of Patient-Centered Communication in Healthcare: An International Comparison of Curriculum and Recommendations 

Mentored by: Bethany McGowan

Poster presentation

2nd place: Makenzie Albert, Taylor Graham, and Yaajushi Valluri

How Audience Relations, University Practices, and Logistics of Student Journalism Impact the Journalistic Practices Used by Student Journalists 

Mentored by: Rachel Fundator and Clarence Maybee

Oral presentation

3rd place: Zonghan Lei

Leveraging ChatGPT for Qualitative Data Analysis: A Case Study on Data Management Practices Among Computer Vision Scholars 

Mentored by: Wei Zakharov

Poster presentation
Congratulations to all the winners and participants for their outstanding contributions to undergraduate research this year! View a full list of student researchers and their mentors, and learn more about the annual conference, on the OUR website.