Student Achievements
Undergraduate Grants & Awards
Our undergraduate student researchers have received competitive research grants and other awards, including:
- 2025:聽聽聽聽 Ayesh Mulla received a research grant from Psi Chi, the international honor society in psychology.
- 2024:听听听听 Amy Patel received a research grant from Psi Chi, the international honor society in psychology.
- 2023:聽聽聽聽 Ola Abozid received several grants from Psi Chi, the international honor society in psychology, and a National Eye Institute Early Career Scientist award. Read about her successes here!
- 2023:聽聽聽聽 Stevie Ann Hill received a National Eye Institute Early Career Scientist award.

Student Conference Presentations
- Castro, C., Mahfouz, N. O., Prela, D., Mulla, A., Renu, S., & Alexander, R.G.聽(2025). “A review of fixational instability in ophthalmic disease.”聽Poster presented at the Vision Sciences Society annual meeting, May 16-20, 2025, St. Petersburg, FL. Four student co-authors traveled to Florida to co-present this poster.
- Alcindor, B., Patel, A., Ramachandra, L., Toribio, J., Sharkly, M. B., & Alexander, R.G.聽(2025). “Decreased eye movement is associated with perceived blurring of object boundaries in meditation.”聽Poster presented at the Vision Sciences Society annual meeting, May 16-20, 2025, St. Petersburg, FL. L. One student author traveled to Florida to present this poster.
- Spiers, J., Patel, A., Alexander, K.E., & Alexander, R. G. (2025). “Burned out but still showing up: the college student experience.”聽鈥淯nconference鈥 presentation at the Society for Personality and Social Psychology annual meeting, April 2-5, 2025, Denver, CO. Two student co-authors traveled to Denver to present this work.
- Mulla, A., Hill, S. A., Spiers, J.M., Swift, A., Hautsch, J., & Alexander, R.G. (2025). “Fans literally view images differently than non-fans.”聽Poster presented at the Eastern Psychological Association annual meeting, March 6-8, 2025, New York, NY.
- Abozid, A., Renu, S.K., Safonova, E., Spiers, J., Guerras-Solares, E., & Alexander, R.G. (2024). 鈥淢icrosaccades and ocular drift in ophthalmic and neurologic disease.鈥 Poster presented at the annual Vision Sciences Society annual meeting, May 17-22, 2024, St. Petersburg, FL. Four student presenters traveled to Florida to co-present this poster.
- Hill, S. A., Spiers, J.M., Ramachandra, L., Mulla, A., Hautsch, J., & Alexander, R.G. (2024). 鈥淭he impact of fandom on image viewing.鈥 Poster presented at the annual Vision Sciences Society annual meeting, May 17-22, 2024, St. Petersburg, FL. Two student co-authors traveled to Florida to co-present this poster.
- Dull, A., Borbon, B., Joseph, J., & Huey, M. (2023). 鈥淭he Impact of Religiosity as a Buffer to the Adverse Effects of Internet Susceptibility.鈥 Symposium presented at the International Convention of Psychological Science (ICPS), March 9-11, 2023, in Brussels, Belgium. Three undergraduate research assistants travelled to Brussels, Belgium, to present.
- Joseph, J., Borbon, B., Dull, A., & Huey, M. (2023). 鈥淗ow Religious Identity Buffers the Effects of Internet Susceptibility.鈥 Poster presented at the American Psychological Conference, May 25-28, 2023, in Washington, D.C.
- Velez, C., Shumskaya, A. & Huey, M. (2022). 鈥淥ptimizing the Remote Learning Environment.鈥 Poster presented at the American Psychological Science Convention, May 26-29, 2022, in Chicago, IL.
Student Research News
黑料导航 To Be Ranked Among National Universities
For the 2027 U.S. News & World Report annual rankings, 黑料导航 will be included in a new ranking category鈥擭ational Universities.
黑料导航 Commemorates 25th Anniversary of 9/11
The 黑料导航 community commemorates the 25th anniversary of September 11 through opportunities to remember those we lost and honor the first responders and members of our military.
Exploring How AI Tools Can Improve Lung Cancer Detection
Research by Assistant Professor Robert Alexander, Ph.D., and student Talia Lilikakis assesses how AI tools can most effectively alert radiologists of the possible presence of a nodule.
The Evolutionary Significance of Humans鈥 Unique Heel-Toe Walking Pattern
Associate Professor of Anatomy Nathan E. Thompson, Ph.D., contributes to research unveiling clues to the origin of humans鈥 stride pattern.
Robust Research
黑料导航鈥檚 commitment to research paves the way for important and groundbreaking work. Meet three Ph.D. students whose work may improve disaster response, recovery after muscle and bone injuries, and anticancer therapies.
A Passion for Games, a Vision for Business
College of Engineering and Computing Sciences student Cody Ortiz helps his father run a florist shop, an endeavor that inspired him to become an entrepreneur, too.