Research in Undergraduate Education (RUE) - Santa Fe College

04/23/2025

Congratulations to the Winners of the 2025 RUE Festival!

Analytical Research
1st Place, Savannah Spears - Biota and the Brain
2nd Place, Aria McDaniel - Gene Modification for Alzheimer’s Disease
3rd Place, Kyra Rentz - African Culture in African American Southern Food

Empirical Research
1st Place, Dan Topaj, Reginald Mendez, Maria Ramos Gutierrez, Amalia Perez Valiente - Barriers to Academic Success in Students at Santa Fe College
2nd Place, Kamyar Afsharmanesh - Controlled CO₂ Generation for High-Pressure Launch Systems
3rd Place, Aleeza Carruthers - Strong AI in the Age of ChatGPT

04/09/2025

Registration for the 2025 RUE Festival is now open! If you are a student at Santa Fe College who has done research in the last year and you would like to present it to faculty and other students, you are encouraged to attend. For more information and to register go to http://www.sfcollege.edu/RUE

04/23/2024

Congratulations to the winners of the 2024 RUE Festival!

Empirical Research

1st Place – James Zuniga, Sunny Zaffuto and Megan Gram - Student Belongingness at Santa Fe College
2nd Place – Lelia El khargui - An Examination of the Peninsula Effect: Florida’s Freshwater Turtle Species
3rd Place – Abbie VonBargen - The Appropriate Age for Technology in a Digital Age

Analytical Research

1st Place – Alexandra Wooten, Ericka Javillonar, Kaylin Madonia, Sherrie Blackwelder and Daniela Androuin - Preventing and Treating Alzheimer's Disease with Food
2nd Place – Elizabeth Wutzke and Stella Budkoski - Role of Blood Levels for Vitamin D3 and Viral Infections: COVID-19 and Influenza
3rd Place – Olivia LaPlante - BRCA for Beginners/Nature of Investigation: genetic interest in the mutations that go along with the BRCA gene

03/18/2024

Registration for the 2024 RUE Festival is now open! If you are a student at Santa Fe College who has done research in the last year and you would like to present it to faculty and other students, you are encouraged to attend. For more information and to register go to https://www.sfcollege.edu/rue/festival/.

04/25/2023

The 2023 Research in Undergraduate Education (RUE) Festival was held on Monday, April 24. Students presented research they have conducted as students at SF College.

The winners for the category of empirical research were:

1st Place – Emma Hammes, Camila Aristizabal & Gabriela Cordovi “College Students Attitudes Towards Mental Health and Potential Barriers” Faculty Mentor – Christopher Raye - https://courses.sfcollege.edu/files/47099334/download?download_frd=1

2nd Place – Muegge, Dillon, “Analysis of Body Condition in River Cooters (Pseudemys concinna) in the Santa Fe River” Faculty Mentor – Jerry Johnston & Cody Godwin - https://courses.sfcollege.edu/files/47078986/download?download_frd=1

3rd Place – Arigue, Suhayla, Dillon Muegge, Jake Miller & Jocelyn Bessette “Evaluation of Boat Strike Injuries on River Cooters (Pseudemys concinna) with Emphasis on Demographic Variation” Faculty Mentor – Jerry Johnston & Cody Godwin - https://courses.sfcollege.edu/files/47078990/download?download_frd=1

04/25/2023

Congratulations to the winners of the 2023 RUE Festival!

The winners in the category of analytical research are:

1st Place - Bence Beres, “Son of the White Mare: Folklore and Postcolonialism in Marcell Jankovics' Fehérlófia” Faculty Mentor Nik Bajorek - https://courses.sfcollege.edu/files/47153464/download?download_frd=1

2nd Place – Raymond Gage, “Overview of Current Genetic Sequencing Technologies” Faculty Mentor - Alejandra Maruniak - https://courses.sfcollege.edu/files/47098220/download?download_frd=1

3rd Place – Amber Waters, “The Erasure of Ancient Greek Women” Faculty Mentor – Claire Orenduff - https://courses.sfcollege.edu/courses/46794/files/47058386/preview?instfs=true

04/19/2022

Congratulations to the winners of the 2022 Research in Undergraduate Education Festival for posters showing analytical research.

1st place - Thomas Child for "The Psychedelic Future"

2nd place - Emilyan Aslanyan for "The Case for GMOs"

3rd place - Sage Ridenour for "Ethics of Medically Unnecessary 'Gender Assignment' Surgeries on Children"

04/19/2022

Congratulations to the winners of the 2022 Research in Undergraduate Education Festival for posters showing empirical research.

1st Place - Matthew Ten Eyck for "Production of Transgenic Watercress Expressing an Insecticidal Protein From Garlic Leaf"

2nd Place - Elliot Hirko for "Development of Photosensitive Cellulose Resin for Stereolithography 3D Printing"

3rd Place - Brian Bonilla for "Enhancement of sweet basil downy mildew resistance by CRISPR/Cas9"

03/23/2022

Registration is now open for the 2022 RUE Festival. The festival will take place this year on Monday, April 18. To for more information and to register, go to https://www.sfcollege.edu/rue/festival/index

03/15/2022

Submissions are now open for the 2022 RUE Festival on Monday, April 18.

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05/05/2021

Congratulations to the winner of the Oral Presentation portion of the 2021 RUE Festival, Isaac Vela for his speech, "The Obesity Epidemic."

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05/04/2021

Congratulations to the winners for the Analytical Research Posters in this year's RUE Festival!

1st Place - Brandon Teta - Sargent’s El Jaleo and How One Depicts Otherness

2nd Place - Alanis Gonzalez-Maldonado - The Art of Communication and Timelessness Viewed Through the Pieta

3rd Place - Terrion Thirsty - Zuihoden Mausoleum: A Proclamation of Abundance

See this poster and more at https://www.sfcollege.edu/rue/festival/2021/Index.html