2025 Boe and Britt Award Winners
(Winners listed by their order of appearance in the picture).
2025 Boe Award winners in the Under-60 credit hours category:
Eleanor Buchan (Lone Star College – Kingwood), Delivering with Dignity: Doulas Bridging Systemic Gaps in Patient Care in Texas Public Hospitals During the 1970s.
Maggie Burnett (Lone Star College – Montgomery), The Beef Industry Environment: An Econometric Study of Variables Affecting the Price of Beef.
Beth Lasco (Lone Star College – Montgomery), Houston Independent School District Under the New Education System: An Analysis of Reform Effectiveness
2025 Boe Award winners for the 60 and over credit hour category:
Blythe Meacham (Angelo State University), Beyond the Female Gothic: Wild Women in Charlotte Dacre’s Zofloya and Emily Brontë’s Wuthering Heights.
Sarah Coblentz (Southeastern Oklahoma State University), Watchfires of Freedom.
Nixon Gorka (The University of Texas at Tyler), “The Last Penumbra of Empire:” Imperialism and the British Foreign Intelligence Service.
2025 Britt Poster Awards
Humanities
Over 60:Clara Rodriguez (Texas A&M University-San Antonio), Juvenile Justice and Legal Literacy.
Under 60: Stephanie Hernandez (Northeast Texas Community College) From Protest to Pride: The Evolving Identity of Texas’ Chicano Murals.
Professional Studies
Under 60: Alberto Hernandez-Ontiveros (Texas A&M University-San Antonio). “Mortality, Morbidity, & Minorities: An Insight Into The Disproportionate Prevalence of Disease.”
Over 60: Rachel Smith and Ashlyn Peppler (University of Texas at Tyler), A secondary analysis of the psychological capital and gratitude of high school students in Northeast Texas.
STEM
Over 60 (3-Way Tie):
Andrea Granados (Midwestern State University), Exploring the Impact of Salt on Protein Aggregation Kinetics in Familial Alzheimer’s Disease Mutations
Kareena Kamal (The University of Texas at Dallas), Exploring Binding Between the Cry1Ab mutant F328E and its Cognate Receptor EC12
Kimiya Noor (Emporia State University), Examining Growth Media Differences on Helicobacter pylori Urease Kinetics and AHA Inhibition Mechanisms
Social Science
Under 60: Maddox Mear (Lone Star College - University Park), Economic Indicators and Their Impact on U.S. Pharmacy Consumer Spending: A Post-Pandemic Analysis
Over 60: Rahma Arif (The University of Texas at Dallas), Overcoming Systemic Barriers to Employment: The Need to Expand Paratransit in Rural Texas for Adults with Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities. (Not Pictured above).
STEM
Under 60: Caroline Noonan, (San Jacinto College). “Smell Ya Later (But Hopefully Not): Ammonia, Fish, and Their Toxic Relationship”.
Professional Studies
Under 60: Vickrum Sukhlani (Lone Star College – Montgomery), Academic Perspectives on AI Integration in Higher Education: Feasibility and Challenges in the US and China.