Current Winners

2025 UGA Libraries Undergraduate Research Award:
Current Winners

We are pleased to announce the winners of the 2025 UGA Libraries Undergraduate Research Awards! This year, we asked students to leverage their creativity, sharing reflections on what they learned from the research process through any desired format. The award recipients' project submissions will be available to view on UGA Open Scholar.

First Place
Zachary Stiles
Conducting Historical Research Online Course
Project medium: Online Course

Second Place
Mann Chung Hak Sy Tha
Paradise Lived
Project medium: Interactive fiction

Third Place
Raquel Beatriz Caldas Laranjeira
Brazil's Humanitarian Visa Program for Haitian Migrants: A Critical Analysis of Policy Gaps, Regional Disparities, and Integration Challenges
Project medium: Comic strip

Honorable Mention
Sophia Nguyen
The Toughs: A Story of Repression and Dissent
Project medium: Choose your own adventure game

Honorable Mention
Hanif Zaman
My Journey from a Student to a Protein Biochemist
Project medium: Website