{"id":90295,"date":"2025-01-09T04:00:14","date_gmt":"2025-01-09T08:00:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/?p=90295"},"modified":"2025-01-10T09:45:41","modified_gmt":"2025-01-10T13:45:41","slug":"first-place-undergraduate-research","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/index.php\/01_09_2025\/first-place-undergraduate-research","title":{"rendered":"First-Place Undergraduate Research"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Brock Hochanadel, a senior studying environmental sciences, discusses his research poster with his parents, Steve and Danielle Hochanadel,\u00a0last month during the Office of Undergraduate Research\u2019s Undergraduate Research and Creative Activity Exhibition at Carlson Library. Hochanadel was awarded first place at the annual exhibition, which showcases research and creative activity projects by undergraduate students during the past year.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-90296\" src=\"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/Brock-Hochanadel-2024-Undergraduate-Research-MAIN.jpg\" alt=\"Brock Hochanadel, a senior studying environmental sciences, discusses his research poster with his parents, Steve and Danielle Hochanadel,\u00a0last month during the Office of Undergraduate Research\u2019s Undergraduate Research and Creative Activity Exhibition at Carlson Library.\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" srcset=\"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/Brock-Hochanadel-2024-Undergraduate-Research-MAIN.jpg 748w, https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/Brock-Hochanadel-2024-Undergraduate-Research-MAIN-300x169.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>For the 2024 exhibit, more than 80 student-created posters and creative projects representing various academic colleges were on display.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Winners:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>First place:<\/strong> Brock Hochanadel, a senior studying environmental sciences.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Second place:<\/strong> Victoria Ho, a sophomore studying chemistry and biochemistry.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Third place:<\/strong> Sydney Mockensturm, a junior studying psychology.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Honorable mentions: <\/strong>Shalika Sangras, a senior studying biological sciences, and Shreya Gupta, a junior studying biological sciences.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Dorothy Price Award\u00a0for creativity and innovation:<\/strong> Ladi&#8217;anna Ritsema, a senior studying art.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Honorable mention:<\/strong>\u00a0Liam Ginter, a senior studying art.<\/p>\n<p>In addition to the student awards, Dr. Andrew Geers, a professor of psychology in the College of Arts and Letters, was awarded the 2024 Outstanding Mentor of the Year award.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-90297\" src=\"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/Andrew-Geers-Matt-Schroeder-2024-Mentor-Award-STORY.jpg\" alt=\"Dr. Andrew Geers, a professor of psychology in the College of Arts and Letters, was awarded the 2024 Outstanding Mentor of the Year award, by UToledo Interim President Matt Schroeder.\" width=\"500\" height=\"380\" srcset=\"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/Andrew-Geers-Matt-Schroeder-2024-Mentor-Award-STORY.jpg 500w, https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/Andrew-Geers-Matt-Schroeder-2024-Mentor-Award-STORY-300x228.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<a href=\"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/index.php\/01_09_2025\/first-place-undergraduate-research\"><img width=\"120\" height=\"120\" src=\"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/Brock-Hochanadel-2024-Undergraduate-Research-MAIN-150x150.jpg\" class=\"alignright tfe wp-post-image\" alt=\"Brock Hochanadel, a senior studying environmental sciences, discusses his research poster with his parents, Steve and Danielle Hochanadel,\u00a0last month during the Office of Undergraduate Research\u2019s Undergraduate Research and Creative Activity Exhibition at Carlson Library.\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" \/><\/a><p>Brock Hochanadel, a senior studying environmental sciences, discusses his research poster with his parents, Steve and Danielle Hochanadel,\u00a0last month during the Office of Undergraduate Research\u2019s Undergraduate Research and Creative Activity Exhibition at Carlson Library. Hochanadel was awarded first place at the annual exhibition.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":17,"featured_media":90296,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[50,60,39,1,3,7],"tags":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90295"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/17"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=90295"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90295\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":90299,"href":"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90295\/revisions\/90299"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/90296"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=90295"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=90295"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=90295"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}