UB Excellence in Research, Scholarship and Creativity Award

This award recognizes outstanding Student Showcase projects from each decanal area that achieve superiority in presentation, content and scope, and which therefore merit acknowledgement as efforts worthy of university-wide distinction.

2026 Graduate Honorees

Toluwalope Adeniyi-Aogo

Pharmaceutical Sciences

Ryan Bingham

Architecture

Stephanie Durfee

Nursing

Jiyeon Kim

Geography

Shuvo Kundu

Information Science

Andre Lloyd

Law

Kathryn Maraszek

Experimental Therapeutics

Sare Martin

Social Welfare

Jennifer McCarthy

Social Work

Xuewen Pei

Epidemiology

Jack Reeves

Neuroscience

Matthew Rockhill

Dental Surgery

Zofia Rozmus

Dental Surgery

Yiling Shen

Accounting

Emily Sutton

Social Work

Ridham Varsani

Oral Biology

Ghazal Vasseghi

Environmental Engineering

Ryan Zhenqi Zhou

Geography

2026 Undergraduate Honorees

Laibah Ahmed

Computer Science

Zaned Colón Barreto

Studio Art

Carsyn Bonesteel

Bioinformatics and Computational Biology

Kento Carrera

Public Health

Bronagh Cassidy

Pharmaceutical Sciences

Caiden Class

Anthropology; Biotechnology

Ciah Courtney

English

Madison Cunningham

Anthropology

Matthew Drummond

Engineering Science

Vera Frimpong