Each year, the Undergraduate Research Award honors an outstanding student researcher. Award winners receive $500, recognition at the Symposium of Student Scholars, and publication in the Kennesaw Journal of Undergraduate Research (KJUR). This collection showcases the work of award winners and finalists.
For submission information and a full list of past winners and finalists, visit the URA homepage.
Submissions from 2025
The Seduction of Journalism in Atlanta: William Randolph Hearst and the Atlanta Georgian, Andrew J. Bramlett
Balancing Power and Influence: U.S.-Brazil Foreign Relations in the 20th Century, Thais Russo Goncalves
Submissions from 2024
The Introduction and Spread of Kudzu in Georgia, Ingrid E. Baker and Albert Way
Thomas R. Marshall: Progressive Era Politics, a Presidential Hoax, and the 1920 Election, Andrew J. Bramlett and David B. Parker
Honor, Violence, and Recovery: The Stripping of Female Agency During the Partition of India, Anna k. Poole and Ryan Ronnenberg
Submissions from 2023
The Survival of Manuscripts: Resistance, Adoption, and Adaptation to Gutenberg's Printing Press in Early Modern Europe, Kaitlin Jean Kojali
Reckoning Roanoke: A Historiographical Examination of the Lost Colony, Anna K. Poole
Submissions from 2019
A Mathematical Model for the Effect of Domestic Animals on Human African Trypanosomiasis (Sleeping Sickness), Sagi Shaier and Meghan Burke
Submissions from 2017
Prevalence and Incidence of Health Risk Factors Among Adolescent Girls, Kylah Pollard, Mohammed Chowdhury, and Sarai Bauguess
Submissions from 2016
Silhouettes of a Silent Female’s Authority: A Psychoanalytic and Feminist Perspective on the Art of Kara Walker, Angelica E. Perez