MAD winners

Grand Prize
Jason Davis '25: 
Experience-driven auditory attention

Runners up
Serageldin Elagamy '24: 
When the Old Traditions Failed: The Impact of the Covid-19 Pandemic on the Mental Health of the Dartmouth Class of 2024

Katherine Jia '27: 
Why Do Conversations Die?

FALL 2024:

Grand Prize
David Qiu '26: 
Illuminating Radial Glia: Gene Expression Insights with the Zebrafish model

Runner up
Chase Harvey '25: 
The Creation of the Queer Idyll

Watch all the winning videos on the library YouTube channel!

Grand prize:

Cady Rancourt: Examining College Teaching through the Bigger Picture

Runners-up (in alphabetical order):

Cinay Dilibal: Tele-Ophthalmology Based Online Eye Examinations for Diagnosis of Corneal Diseases

Saron Ketema: Harnessing the Immune System: A Look into In Situ Vaccination in Cancer Research

Gaia Yun: Inhibiting ACAT1 in Niemann Pick Disease Type C

Grand prize: Penelope Spurr

• Visualizing Memories of the Vietnam War

Runner up: Ashley Laveriano

• PFAS in the Great Bay Estuary

Best research narrative: Akiah Watts

• Interaction between AAVE and colorism in attitudinal judgments of African Americans

People's choice: Maya Khanna

• Reimagining Pristine Wilderness: A History of Indigenous Genocide in America's National Parks

Grand prize: Aditya Prasad

• Physically Based Rendering Techniques to Visualize Thin-Film Simulations

Runner up: Lauren Dorsey

• Powering 18th-century Maps with Interactive GIS

Best animation: Maia Madison

• Hijacking viral immune evasion to design more effective vaccines

Best research narrative: Steven Shin

• Do you see what I see?

People's choice: Ashley Alveriano & Ivan Tochimani-Hernandez

• The Dartmouth Agroforestry Project

Grand prize: Erica Busch

• Understanding visual perception in autism 

 Special prize: Archival research on the history of Dartmouth: Caroline Cook

• She had the Misfortune of Being a Woman

 Most creative way to explain a complex topic: Joshua Perlmutter

• Understanding Field Ultra-Diffuse Galaxies

 People's choice: Justin Luo

• Exploring a Multimedia Annotation System in Virtual Reality

 Best explanation of complex research: William Kaufman

• Hamiltonian Engineering for Quantum Systems with Reinforcement Learning

Grand prize: Emma Esterman

• Exploring the evolution of bacteria and viruses

Best visual storytelling: Cheyenna Gonzalez

• What Queer Tango Means for All of Us

Best use of research video footage: Jessica Rosien

• Grit Avoidance Behaviors in Long Tailed Macaques

Best experiential learning video: Elisabeth Sanson

• Undergraduate Research on The Final Climb