03/23/2026
Lloyd International Honors College is pleased to announce the First Place Award winners of the Symposium Prizes and our Honorable Mentions for the 26th Annual Undergraduate Honors Symposium which took place on Friday, March 20. First prize carries with it a $250 award. Congratulations to all of the honorees and to all of the student presenters!
First Place Awards:
Visitor's Award: Maddy Nolen, Elon University, "Dying for a Haul? How Mortality Salience and Hauls Impact Young Women's Online Shopping Behavior"
UNCG, Arts & Humanities Award: Jamie Michael Gross, "Foretelling the Future: The Roman World as a Catalyst for the Development of the Sibylline Tradition"
UNCG, Sciences and Professional Schools Award: Nikolai Tassin, "Generative AI Use and the Propensity of Pro-Anorexia Content"
Honorable Mentions:
Visitors:
Riley Bain, East Carolina University, "LMX and TMX: Mitigating Burnout Created From Internal Stressors"
Bhavana Mahalakshmi Chandramouli, UNC Charlotte, "Name Anglicization in Ethnic Groups: Links to Self-Concept Clarity and Cultural Belonging"
Taylor Cotie, Greensboro College, "Exploring Parkinson’s Disease and Its Impact on Psychological Functioning and Social Engagement"
Precious Khan Wondzi, Salem College, Evaluating Eugenol as a HOG1-Dependent Osmotic Stress Mimetic in Saccharomyces
cerevisiae"
UNCG:
Krishna Diliplkumar Shah, "Determinants of Housing Outcomes among American Households"
Meaghan Dohnert, "Entrepreneurs' Usage of Technology & AI"
Cameron Dupree, "Testosterone: Gender Affirming Hormone Replacement Therapy (HRT) for Transgender Men and Trans Masculine Non-Binary Individuals"
Mordecai Ericksen, "The Canon Problem: How Tradition in the Arts is Harming Students"
Ava Hall, “Silence = Death”: Art as Resistance During the HIV/AIDS Epidemic of the 1980s and 1990s"
Destini Rentz, "Exploring Neuroplasticity and Developing Neurologic Disorders"
Sawyer Wemyss, "Support Programs for Multilingual Learners"