Awards

Best of GradCon Awards

UM Graduate School will be offering cash awards for those chosen as the "Best of GradCon" in the following categories ($300 awarded per submission):

Oral Presentations - STEM & Social Sciences/Humanities
Poster Presentations - STEM & Social Sciences/Humanities
Performing & Visual Arts Presentations - Includes Creative Writing

Congratulations to all our 2023 "Best of GradCon" Conference award recipients. Each recipient was honored with a certificate and cash award. VIEW 2023 SUBMISSIONS IN SCHOLARWORKS.

For more information on past GradCon submissions & awardees visit the GradCon Archives.

2023 Best of GradCon Award Winners

To view the winning oral presentations, click on the title of the presentation. The big, blue Download button will lead you to the slides/poster file (PPT or PDF). The recording (mp4) is linked down at the bottom of each record (after the abstract, scroll down).
Student(s)	Subject Area	Project Title
Lillian Martz	Oral Presentations - Humanities & Social Sciences	Interpersonal Protective Factors of Suicide Ideation and Attempt Among Adolescents
Connor Meyer	Oral Presentations - STEM	Parasitic Infection in a Social Carnivore: T. gondii Exposure Increases Risky Decision Making in Gray Wolves
Lacy Hazelwood & Holli McDonald	Poster Presentations - Humanities & Social Sciences	Children of Casas Grandes: A Molecular Examination of Subadults at Convento and Paquimé
Ava Orr	Poster Presentations - STEM	Methods for Extracting Wildfire Specific PM2.5 for the Western United States
Jadd Davis	Visual & Performing Arts Presentation	Identity and Performance Anxiety in Classical Singing: A Counseling Perspective