2025 Submissions

UT undergraduates can now vote for their favorite video for the Texas Student Research Showdown audience award! Learn more about the Showdown. All current UT undergraduates can vote for their favorite 2-minute videos explaining research to a general audience, and help their peers at the chance of winning the $1,000 audience award. Voting is open through Friday, April 4. 

Cast Your Vote!

Science, Technology, and Engineering

Arshia Verma

Impact of Maternal Immune Activation on Ultrasonic Vocalizations in Mice


Ashot Tumaghyan

Printing My Own Body Parts in 3D!


Cecilia Dotson

Genetic and Epigenetic Contributions to Athleticism


Chinonso Obiefule

What I Did Last Summer


Devon Voyles

ABLE


Francesca Abraham

How is CRISPR Cas9 Used to Genetically Engineer C. elegans?


Geena Kaown

New uses for previously used cooking oil

Nicole Wu 

Saponification: The Process that Connects Dead Bodies and Soap 


Nathalie Scott

Uncovering Novel Deep-sea Archaeal Genomes - Baker Lab 

Phoebe Boespflug

Fishy Business: Exploring Anti-Predator Responses in Gambusia affinis


Po Chun Hsu

Isotretinoin and CO2 Laser Resurfacing, Balancing Risks and Re-evaluating Dermatologic guidelines


Rahul Raja Durai Murugan

Predicting Tumor Response to Paclitaxel + Carboplatin


Raquel Paz Bergia

Episodic Memory Decline in Parkinson's Disease | Raquel Paz Bergia


Rhea Lazar

From Light to Darkness: How Salamanders Adapted to Life Underground


Rinka Ko

Targeting Triple-Negative Breast Cancer


Sarayu Parthasarathy

Bridging the Diagnostic Gap: A New Approach to Malaria Testing


Shruthi Ananth

How Hearing Loss Starts Earlier Than You Think


Sohmee Kim

Why white matter matters


Susannah Lynn-Macrae

What THESE two proteins have to do with neurodevelopmental disorders


Syedah Shah

Neuron Traffic Control: How a Single Hydrogen Bond Battles Epilepsy


Titus Loftin

A Benchmark Dataset for Machine Learning and Data-Driven (Inverse) Approaches in Mechanics


Tony Chae

Brain Pong: Play Pong with your Mind!


Victor Moran


Harnessing Supercritical CO2 for Efficient Energy


 

Arts, Humanities, and Social Sciences

Aaryana Sharma

Spontaneous Language Planning in Sign Language

Aashna Mangal

Mental Health Is Everyone’s Story


Abhinav Ganesh

Ancient Wisdom: Uncovering the Psychology of Past Societies through Text


Gia Nguyen

Human-AI Interactions in Virtual Reality


Harsha Ketavarapu

Bheem: Investigating the Power of Belief in Children’s Perceptions of Strength and Self-Efficacy


Isabella Sanchez

Christianity in Texas Public Education Policy


Jane Goldberg

Plants Can Save Your Life: A Comparative Study of the Support and Impacts of Urban Agriculture


Jennifer Smith

Texas Talks: Voices of The Lone Star State


Kethana Uppalapati

Time-Driven Activity Based Costing for Value-Based Care


Krishna Hariprasad

Emergency Contraception at UT Austin: 73* Questions With EC4EC


Leah Tharakan

Media Bias in BLM Policy Outcomes


Lucy Metheny

Ethical dilemmas in migraine treatment and access to care


Magali Osowski

1976 Presidential Election

 

Nethra Middela

NCHA Research | Texas Mental Health Initiative for South Asians


Olivia Beskid

Exploring How to Define the Domain to Avoid Set-Theoretic Paradoxes While Still Permitting Unrestricted Quantification


Riya Thakkar

Research Showdown


Sarah Tarrance

Empowerment Through Horses @ REDArena


Ty Gribble

The Wacky President