| Winner | Runner Up | People’s Choice Award | |
| 2024 | Ayden Kemp Biosystems Engineering “Can plastic power airplanes?” | Md Mijan Rahman Aerospace Engineering “Seamless handover of autopilot via kinetics and exhaustion (S.H.A.K.E.)” | Azeez Adebayo Mechanical Engineering “Green, tough, and resilient: Exploring the extraordinary strength of cellulose nanopaper” |
| 2023 | Jacob Botello Biological Sciences “What’s in a ‘Game’? How video games can change the way we teach evolution” | Natasha Grabau Anatomy, Physiology & Pharmacology “Anatomy, Physiology & Pharmacology To sleep or not to sleep?” | Adebowale Oyerinde Nutritional Sciences “Volatile organic compounds: a new potential marker for obesity” |
| 2022 | Shivaprasad Nageswaran Industrial & Systems Engineering “Significance of Seat Belt Buckle Release Force Post Passenger Vehicle Rollover Accident” | Justin Harvell Chemical Engineering “Using Building Blocks to Fix Broken Hearts” | Miranda Silano Geosciences “The Calm Before the Storm: Keeping an Eye on the Gulf of Mexico’s Tropical Cyclone Risk and Vulnerability” |
| 2021 | Summia Rahman School of Forestry & Wildlife Sciences “Sustainable Food Packaging for a Future World “ | Ja’Lia Taylor College of Education “Effects of Virtual Coaching on Preschool Teacher Practices” | Summia Rahman |
| 2020 | Sophie Boorman Clinical Sciences, Veterinary Medicine “The Effect of Concurrent and Non-Concurrent Administration of Mepivacaine Hydrochloride and Triamcinolone Acetonide on Inflamed Equine Osteochondral “ | Eleanore Larson Geology & Geography, Department of Geosciences “What’s the stink in Choccolocco Creek?” | Eleanore Larson |
| 2019 | Brittannie Chester Nutrition, Dietetics and Hospitality Management “The Efficacy of Registered Dietitian Nutritionist Interventions in the Management of Glycemic Control in Adults with Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus” | John Hinkle Chemical Engineering “Lignin-Based Renewable Energy Storage Devices” | Kenzie Friesen Kinesiology “Quiet Down Audience: This is Supposed to be Real Life” |
| 2018 | Thamer Al-Qurashir Pharmaceutical Sciences “Police vs Criminals in Atherosclerosis” | Christie Seltmann Kinesiology “Effects of 3 week yogic breathing techniques towards sub-maximal running responses” | Thamer Al-Qurashi |
| 2017 | Lauren Woodie Nutrition, Dietetics and Hospitality Management “Time-restricted feeding of the Western-diet and its affect on obesity, metabolic dysfunction and cognitive impairment” | Md Motiur Rahman Health Outcomes Research and Policy “Disparities in the appropriateness of medication use: a population based study” | Md Motiur Rahman |
| 2016 | Madison Chandler Drug Discovery and Development “Bridging the divide between cancer genetics research and the underserved in Alabama” | Yuan Tian Chemical Engineering “Peptide grafted hydrogels for capturing endothelial progenitor cells: repairing blood vessels after angioplasty” | Andrea Cole-Wahl Forestry & Wildlife Sciences “Could Sirex Woodwasps be a threat to Alabama Forest Health?” |
| 2015 | Hamed Majidzadeh Forestry & Wildlife Sciences “Soil Carbon Dynamics beneath Impervious Surfaces” | Hisham Abdelrahman Fisheries & Allied Aquacultures “Influence Of Variation In Water Temperature On Survival, Growth, And Yield Of Pacific White Shrimp Litopenaeus Vannamei In Inland Ponds For Low-Salinity” | Hisham Abdelrahman |
| 2014 | Narendra Sadhwani Fisheries & Allied Aquacultures “Influence Of Variation In Water Temperature On Survival, Growth, And Yield Of Pacific White Shrimp Litopenaeus Vannamei In Inland Ponds For Low-Salinity” | Yuan Zeng Entomology and Plant Pathology “Intuitively wired for battling multidrug resistant pathogens: termites give us the hope” | Yuan Zeng |
| Fall 2013 | Ning Hou Industrial and Organizational Psychology “Testing the effect of timing of delivery of a cross-cultural training program” | Chandan Roy Mechanical Engineering “Low melt alloys (LMAs) as thermal interface material for high density power electronics; are they reliable?” | |
| Summer 2013 Doctoral | Shaima Nahreen Chemical Engineering “Production of Jet fuel from Biomass” | Naved Siddiqui Mechanical Engineering “Piezoelectric Energy Harvesting from Vibrations” | Ian Cero Psychology “Puttin’ on a clean shirt to rassle a hog: old problems and new solutions for reliable psychological measurement” |
| Summer 2013 Master’s | Reid Nelson Fisheries & Allied Aquacultures “Using otolith microchemistry of Gulf killifish (Fundulus grandis) to differentiate estuaries and ascertain chemical signatures indicative of oil exposure” | Nikhil Jha Electrical and Computer Engineering “Quantification of Pulmonary Circuit Anatomy Through Cardiac Magnetic Resonance Imaging” | Reid Nelso |
