UMCUR 2025 Award Winners
Engaged Scholarship Award
- Erin Heaton, Queer In & Out of Montana: Oral Histories of the LGBTQ+ Exodus from Montana
- Rylie Luhring, Seed Sisters
- Vivianne A. Ostheimer, Decomposing the Data: Assessing the Impact of a University of Montana Composting Pilot
Interdisciplinary Studies Award
- O'Maste-Win Foster, "Bring Them Home": A Film Screening and Discussion
- Willow Kipp, "Bring Them Home": A Film Screening and Discussion
- Nicholas Greenlund, Embodied Self-Remembering; Toward a Personal Movement Philosophy
OPUS Literary Arts Award
- Lia M. Blount, Yield the Ghost
- Tessa Macklin, Redwoods: A Young Adult Novel
- Kayli Mae Dollard, Bodies of Water
Performing Arts Award
- Taylor A. Ferguson, The Sedge
- Benjamin Medina Caplis, Olivia's Autumn
- Shawn Bouffard, Sound of Us
Humanities Award
- Riley Carney, The Greatest Shame of the World: Tomás Cerdán de Tallada’s Pioneering Analysis of Sixteenth Century Spanish Jails in Visita de la Carcel
- Logan Kai Stabnau, Kissinger’s Shadow Diplomacy: A Controversial Diplomat’s Conversations with Cesar Guzzetti and Jorge Videla in 1976 and 1978 and Their Implications on United States-Argentine Relations
- Wyatt Balius, Situating Standing Doctrine in Environmental Litigation
Social Sciences Award
- Lauren N. Schulte, Bridging the gap: The effects of intergroup contact on emotions and LGBTIQ+ history knowledge among cisgender heterosexual individuals
- Julia K. Brink, Investigating the Impact of Shame Resilience and Internalized Weight Stigma on Body Image in Men
- Madison A. Headrick, A Geospatial Analysis of Simple Assaults in Missoula: Temporal and Land Use Category Trends
Life Sciences Award
- Katie Coates, Exploring Interannual Variability and Environmental Impacts on the Reproductive Fitness of Mature Female Antarctic Krill
- Emily M. Ehli, Group-based BCST for Patients with RCC
- Christopher J. Cardella, How Warming Shapes Early Life Stages of Alpine Flora
Physical Sciences Award
- Sara Trotchie, Rachel Barney, Taylor Garst, Sarah Krout, and Samantha Yeats, Accuracy Evaluation of Modern Methods of Motion Capture
- Ryan Fleetwood, Estimating Snow Water Equivalent from the Montana Mesonet
- Bethany Blakey, Restoring Rattlesnake Creek: Using Citizen Science to Assess the Ecological and Morphological Impacts of Small Dam Removal