Congratulations to our 2025 Lang Prize Winners
Prize celebrates undergraduate research using library resources
We are pleased to announce the 2025 winners of the library’s Lang Prize!
Now in its ninth year, the Norma J. Lang Prize for Undergraduate Information Research recognizes students who make exceptional use of library resources and services, such as primary source materials and special collections, online databases and journal articles, interlibrary loan, or consulting with a librarian. The Lang Prize is supported by a bequest from the late UC Davis Professor Emerita of Botany Norma J. Lang, and honors her devotion to her students and love of the research process.
Through their research, this year’s nine prize recipients explored topics ranging from the impact of online health misinformation to the influence of US training on human right violations during Chile’s dictatorship, and from emerging technology to fight climate change to the link between midlife hypertension and dementia.
We invite you to learn more about this year’s winners and their research projects below.
Meet our 2025 Lang Prize Winners
Arts, Humanities & Social Sciences
Mariana Perez Sierra
Expandiendo La Herida: How US Training Exacerbated Human Rights Violations During Chile’s Dictatorship
Sofia Hosseinzadeh
“How that Stevenson Rumor Started”: The 1952 Election and Cold War Gender and Sexuality
Divisha Singh
Clicks, Likes, and Shares: How Online Health Misinformation is Undermining Healthcare and Implications for Medical Professionals
Nafeesa Khan
Valley Fever Outcomes, Occurrences, & Occupational Risks in Vulnerable Populations in California & Arizona: A Systematically-Approached Review of Literature
Ananya Nipane
Feminization and Racial/Ethnic Diversification of the Legal Field, 2005 – 2020
Science, Engineering & Mathematics
Miranda Do-Tran
Midlife Hypertension and Dementia: The Shadow Link
Peter Gorge
Evaluating the Effects of Energy Drinks on Athletic Performance and Health
Tianeh Parsi
Comparing Lifestyle-Only Interventions with Combined Medicinal and Behavioral
Approaches in Managing Polycystic Ovarian Syndrome (PCOS)
Zach Van Vechten
Stratospheric Aerosols: A Potential Tool for a Warming Climate