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The four winners.

The 2025 Skyward Showcase provided students and faculty in an opportunity to give 10-minute talks highlighting current research in a friendly and informal environment.

Hosted by the Smead Scholars, the event, formerly titled Researchpalooza, featured 31 undegraduate, masters, and PhD students presenting their research.

Congratulations to four students for receiving top honors at the event:

• Best Overall: Paraksh Vankawala (Advisor: Bob Marshall) "Computer Vision-Guided Analysis of Plasma Waves in the Inner Magnetosphere
• Best 1st year graduate: Mark Boyer (Advisor: Zach Sunberg) "Holistic, human-centered evaluations of explainable AI"
• Best undergraduate: Cai Kenemore "ACS3 Anomaly Characterization Using Ground Based Event Camera"
• Best Memes/Most Entertaining: Arvind Jayashankara Aradhya (Advisor: Kevin Gifford) "Real-time Geospatial Spectrum Sharing Between Earth Exploration Satellite Services and Communication Networks via Geofencing of co-operative 5G/6G transmitters".

Held Friday, Feb. 7, it also featured a keynote address by Smead Scholar alumnus Dylan Boone of NASA JPL on the Europa Clipper mission and a closing talk by Research Professor Delores Knipp on the major solar storm in May 2024.

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