Open Access Week Publication Pandemonium quiz winners
The results of the Publication Pandemonium online quiz competition are in!
We are now in the second year of holding this quiz in celebration of International Open Access Week, which seeks to elevate dialogue around research access and ownership. Our quiz is meant to be educational and fun, focusing on core concepts within scholarly communications as well as current events in the research world. Although it’s no small feat, we had an impressive turnout with 132 SMHS folks participating this year!
The first prize we award in our competition is a Program Participation Prize, where the program with the highest percentage of enrolled students participating with a passing grade receives a prize of $500 towards open access publication. This year’s Program Participation Prize winner is: Biomedical Sciences, which saw 39.02% of their enrolled student body participate!
We also award three prizes for high scores, with all winners receiving UND merchandize, and the first place winner securing a $500 open access funding prize. This year we had multiple people with the same score, so winners were chosen at random from the top three scores, which were 90% (25 people), 80% (40 people), and 70% (28 people).
- Third Place Winner: Laura Sawney
- Second Place Winner: Jessica Craig
- First Place Winner: Gretchen Anderson
Special Honorable Mention must also go to Dr. Sahmoun, who is the first person ever to get a perfect score, but is ineligible to win first place as he is not a student. Very well done, Dr. Sahmoun!
Congratulations to all of our winners, and our heartfelt thanks to you all for participating in our second-annual Publication Pandemonium and other Open Access Week 2025 events. We are just chuffed that so many SMHS folks took us up on this challenge.
Finally, a very sincere thank you to SMHS Academic Affairs and Research Affairs for funding the prizes for our quiz competition!
