Established in 1964 by former University of Kentucky (UK) President John Oswald, the Oswald Research and Creativity Competition encourages research and creative activities by undergraduate students at UK. The objectives of the program are to stimulate creative work by undergraduate students and to recognize individuals who demonstrate outstanding achievement.
All submissions are sent anonymously to faculty reviewers in related fields and are judged based on a rubric. They are judged on originality, clarity of expression, scholarly or artistic contribution, and the validity, scope and depth of the project or investigation.
Winning Entries from 2021
Are We Doing Enough?: A Look at Current Issues Affecting LGBTQ Students at the University of Kentucky, Colton Barton
Rwanda’s Coffee Industry: Colonialism and the Impact of Fair Trade Coffee, Sydney Daniels
The Symphony of the Cell, Sydney Daniels
Animating Plastics: Shinto and Environmentalism in Sayaka Ganz’s Reclaimed Creations, Erin Inouye
Unorthodox but Functional Tools Used for the Ecological Design and Implementation of Pollinator Gardens, Quincy Ipsaro
Queen Mother / Mitochondrial Eve, Jayda Johnson
hold fire, Tejaswini Sudhakar
Winning Entries from 2020
Pit Stop, Lainey Barschak
Feeding a Growing Population--Feasibility of Leghemoglobin as Visual Marker for Facilitating Plant Genetics Based Nutritional Improvement, Rebecca E. Caldbeck
Touch Sanitation: Maintenance Art as Ecofeminism, Haley Drake
A Content Analysis of Representations of Women's Bisexuality in American Popular Music, 2008-2018, Haley D. Hintz
The Coffee in Your Cup: Reviewing Fair Trade’s Impact on Development, Elena Liu
The Pinnacle, Allyson McNulty
A Legacy Through Carnations, Tara Pulaski
A CsI Detector Array for the NDTGamma Test Measurement, Diana V. Sahibnazarova
"Hag" (Diptych), Claire Thompson
Winning Entries from 2019
Remembering Wonder, Emily Andreasson and Lindsey L. Fay
WonderEdge, Grace E. Butler
Microfibers Are Not Delicious, Meredith A. Coffey
Spatial Positioning and Operating Parameters of a Rotary Bell Sprayer: 3D Mapping of Droplet Size Distributions, Adnan Darwish Ahmad, Binit B. Singh, Mark Doerre, Ahmad M. Abubaker, Masoud Arabghahestani, Ahmad A. Salaimeh, and Nelson K. Akafuah
The History of Latino Students at the University of Kentucky, 1865-2019, Daniela Gamez Salgado
I Hide My Skin For Society's Purpose, Alexis Hogsten
A Portrait of Myself: Gaze Through the Eyes of Florine Stettheimer, Sydney A. Mullins
A Not-So Beautiful Mind: A Review of the Genetics of Schizophrenia, Lydia Pack
Effects of SUV39H1 and SUV420H1/H2 on Programmed Genome Rearrangement in Petromyzon marinus, Claire A. Scott
