The Spring 2026 Undergraduate Poster Session was held on April 3, 2026 at the O'Hara Student Center. Students created posters as visual representations of their work to communicate the specific scope of their research.

One student will be selected to receive the Halliday Award for Outstanding Undergraduate Research Poster for their hard work, which comes with a certificate and a monetary award.

Great job everyone!

Jacob Baney: Hycean Worlds: An Overview

Abby Bakkenist: Lighting the Way: MEK Inhibitors Boost 5-ALA Photodynamic Therapy in Pediatric Brain Tumors

Sara Carrigan: Physics in Intellectual Property Law: A Case Study in Medical Physics

Liam Cunningham: Training Sample Variations as a Source of Systematics in Type Ia Supernova Cosmology

Evan Enwright: Mapping Quasar Accretion Disks via Dual-0band Photometry at Allegheny Observatory

Sara Gelven: Measuring Precipitable Water Vapor for the Vera C. Rubin Observatory

Meg Gibbons: Seismic Wave Identification in the CUORE Experiment to Assess Detector Performance

Cooper Gray: Pitt-CoRTEx: Cosmic Ray Tracker Experiment for Education and Outreach

Abbie Kantoris: Gender Differences in Attitudes and Approaches to Physics Problem-Solving

Enoch Li: Measuring Neutrino Mass via Beta Decay

Sebastian Masangkay: Kilonovae and the Origin of Heavy Elements

John Ritter: The Fundamentals of the Magneto Optical Trap

Nischal Shakya: The Basics on Red Dwarf Stellar Structures

Melanie Torres: Identifying Stellar Merger Products Through Rapidly Rotating Red Giants

Alex Tsvetkov: History of the Stern-Gerlach Experiment

Chase Venturino: Antarctica is Dying

Jayden Wisniewski: The Effect of Exam Layout on Student Performance