Ideas, Innovation, Invention (I3) Day 2026 Winners

President’s Awards and Director’s Choice Posters

President’s Awards:

Innovative Solutions- Students
Ana Clara Chaguri – Protactinoma
Tyler Roukey – Perfect Pass IOS
Eli Robertson – Efficient Frontier
Eric Kreitz & Samantha Shepard – PATH Leadership Framework
Art- Students
Steele Culp – Our Dance
Montanna Stuart – Reflected Resilience
Research- Students
Jayla Haven – Social Exchange Theory
Olivia Moore – Peanut Balls’ Effect on C-Section Rates
Elizabeth Sheppard – Brugada Syndrome
Innovative Solutions- Faculty/Staff
Deborah Amos – Trick or Treat for Canned Goods
Art- Faculty/Staff
Heather Gibson – Where Darkness Blooms
Research- Faculty/Staff
Maria Albores, Trang Bui, Vincent Smith – AI Info Leakage

Director’s Choice Awards:

Student Art
Embedded Links- Alex Cochran
Faculty Art
Beth Wolfe- Periodically Poetic
Student/Faculty Research
Maria and Moon- Info Leakage (Maria Albores, Trang Bui, Vincent Smith)
Innovative Solutions – Community Involvement Faculty
Jessica Wagner and Lucia Martin – Tracking Success
Productive Work – Student
Storely- William Wahlberg
Student Primary Research
Allison Given- Erlichiosis Trends (edited)

Faculty-Student Research

1^st– Rick Ferris & Thiago Romano- Student Expectations of Generative AI in the Academic Environment

Faculty- Productive Work

1^st – Brett White (with students Hayden Fogel & Luke Page)- Low Powered Scheduling System

Faculty- Enlightened Living

1^st – Brett White (with student Daniel Dennison)- Network Sandbox

2^nd – Jacob Tenney- CAPM Sundae

Faculty- Community Involvement

1^st – Emily Wikane- Move out market

2^nd – Colleen Kirtley- Give a Hug

Faculty Art

1^st – Beth Wolfe- Periodically Poetic

2^nd – Debbie Bannister- Hidden Branches

 

Faculty- Research

TIE- 1^st – Stephen Mech- Impact of Urbanization on Bird and Mammal Communities

TIE – 1^st – Suvayan De – Digital Divide to Linguistic Divide: Quantifying the Economic Returns to Multilingual AI Infrastructure

Student- Art

1^st- Ash Dean- Image

2^{nd –} Kynlee Wilfong, Rylee Tomlin, & Reese Weaver- Saturday Night Ethics

3^{rd –} Alex Cochran- Embedded Links

 

Student- Secondary Research

1^st – Olivia Moore- Labor Nurse’s Impact on C Section Rates Using Peanut Balls in Hospitalized Patients with Epidural Analgesia

2^nd – Ana Clara Chaguri- Evaluating Engineered CRISPR-AsCas12a Variants Under Mismatch Conditions

3^rd – Pearl Kirigi- A Cut That Lasts Forever: The Consequences of Female Genital Mutilation

Student- Primary Research

1^st – Ash Dean- Role of NDRG1 in Clear Cell Renal Cell Carcinoma

2^nd – Elizabeth Young- Biofilm Formation in Bacillus Subtilis

3^rd – Badria Aljohani- Dynamic Opportunity Leadership Triggered by Modified Radical Mastectomy under Local Anesthesia

 

Student- Innovative Solutions Enlightened Living

1^st – Samantha Shepard & Eric Kreitz – PATH Leadership Framework

2^{nd –} Kaylee Anderson- Informed Before Incision

3^{rd –} Patricia Blankenship – Trending Now: FOMO, Cognitive Errors, and the High Cost of Hype

 

Student- Innovative Solutions Community Involvement

1^st- Mya Toombs- UC Tech Talk

2^nd- Maliah McCann Coles- United Mobile Healthcare

3^rd- Peyton Depew- UC E Sports Center

 

Student- Innovative Solutions Productive Work

1^{st –} Pavle Matic- New Wellness App

2^nd- Noah Paschalides- G&N Garage Cleaning

3^rd- Andrew Cunningham- RIDE Motorcycle App