The audience voted for their favorite speakers. The following early-career researchers won the People’s Choice Award in their respective oral sessions:
- Material Science in Separation and Energy Materials: Sandeep Kaur
- Genetics and Structural Biology: Yang Liu
- Earth and Environmental Science: Si Athena Chen
- Computational Biology: John Lagergren
- Grids and Machines: Saad Ayub Jajja
- Functional and Advanced Materials: Anuj Bisht
- Building Energy and Efficiency Research: Rui Zhang
- Magnetic Materials and Spintronics: Madalynn Marshall
- Mechanical Engineering/ Metallurgy: Subhamay Pramanik
- Nuclear Energy: Yuqiao (Joy) Fan
- Pattern Identification and Threat Detection: Ashok Tiwari
- Computational Material Science: Malgorzata Makos and Arpan Biswas
- Neutron Detection and Instrumentation: Breanna King Vestal
- Computational and Statistical Methods: Benjamin Russo
People’s Choice Award on best poster presentations:
- First Prize: Teagan Sweet
- Second Prize: Jenn Neu
- Third Prize: Darren Driscoll
Three final and top winners for the whole research symposium based on votes (two orals and one poster):
Sandeep Kaur (Chemical Science Division), Subhamay Pramanik (Chemical Science Division), and Teagan Sweet (Nuclear Nonproliferation Division)