Scholarly Posters Celebrated by Librarians at Summer Research Symposium

In January 2023, more than 90 medical and pharmacy students presented posters detailing the results of their projects at UC San Diego’s Summer Research Symposium. A team of health sciences librarians reviewed all the posters in order to award the Library’s Best Use of Literature in a Poster distinction. This accolade recognizes researchers who best cited the sources used in their research.

The librarians evaluated the variety of resources used, the use of citations throughout the poster, the currency of the sources and the completeness and consistency of sources cited. First and second-place awards were given to both medical and pharmacy students, along with a monetary prize. The award-winning posters were displayed in WongAvery Library for several months following the symposium.

The next session, the 2024 Summer Research Symposium, will be held on January 18, 2024 in the Price Center Ballroom.

2023 Medical Student Recipients

Ariadne Nichol (left) and Rhiannon Buchholz (right) hold their poster award certificates for the UC San Diego School of Medicine.

First place: Ariadne Nichol for “Rapid Review of COVID-19 Vaccination Access and Acceptance for Global Refugee, Asylum Seeker and Undocumented Migrant Populations.”

Second place: Rhiannon Buchholz for “Optical Coherence Tomography Angiography (OCT-A) of Conjunctiva in Health and Disease.”

2023 Pharmacy Student Recipients

Louis Odeesho (left) and Xiaoying Huang (right) hold their poster award certificates for the UC San Diego Skaggs School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences.

First place: Louis Odeesho for “Screening Antarctic, Brazilian and Ghanaian Natural Products Against Trypanosoma Brucei.”

Second place: Xiaoying Huang for “Initial In-Vivo Study of Antidotes, RS194B and 2-Pralidoxime, in Target Tissues.”