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SPRING 2024

SCHOOL OF ARCHITECTURE + PLANNING

Emma Glende (Mentor: Alexandra Ponette-Gonzalez) - Tree Preferences Among Salt Lake Residents
Rachel Walker (Mentor: Milad Hosseini-Mozari) - Bridging the Gap: Immersive Environments for Resettlement

 SCHOOL OF BUSINESS

Emily Hernandez Alzamora (Mentor: Glen Kreiner) - Wellness practices that can be incorporated into the workplace that promotes mental health

SCHOOL FOR CULTURAL AND SOCIAL TRANSFORMATION

Jaylee Aston (Mentor: Claudia Geist) - Analyzing Perceptions of Sex, Sexuality and Gender in the Healthcare System
Marylinda Gonzalez (Mentor: Ed Munoz) - Traditional Dance and the Development of Latinx Identity (Latinidad) in Utah
Brekke Pattison (Mentor: Claudia Geist) - Safe Zone Training for Professional Health Students
Perla Rivera (Mentor: Lezlie Frye) - Brujeria Activism: Spiritual Epistemologies of Ancestral Knowledge for Liberation
Leslie Rodriguez (Mentor: Elizabeth Archuleta) - Uncovering The Red Face Palm: A decolonial lens into MMIW (Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women) Movement
Kadi Sow (Mentor: Ana Carolina Antunes) Feminism in Islam

COLLEGE OF EDUCATION

Maria Alanis (Mentor: Connor Warner) - Investigating Factors Related to Ute Student Achievement at Eagle View Elementary
Shreya Harikumar (Mentor: Karen Tao) - Proposal to Study Parent/Child Perspectives Surrounding Mental Health Within South-Asian Families in Utah
Cassidy Lamm (Mentor: Lauren Liang) - Soccer Study
Jun Yoon (Mentor: Claire Son) - Evaluating Multimedia Agents for STEM Vocabulary Learning in Young Children

COLLEGE OF ENGINEERING

Dominic Alei-Gonzalez (Mentor: Eric Pardyjak) - Developing and implementing the Differential Emissivity Imaging Disdrometer to predict new-snow avalanche instabilities
Sanjana Aujla (Mentor: Simon Binder) - Synthesis of Flexible Electrode Array
Nicholas Baker (Mentor: Tony Saad) - A Jupyter Notebook Educational Resource for Chemical Engineering Students in Numerical Methods Part 2
Lucas Bolster (Mentor: Ken Monson) - Detection of Cerebral Arteries with Magnetic Resonance Elastography
Jackson Brough (Mentor: Pavel Panchekha) - Hardware Accelerators and Cost Models for Herbie
Nate Brown (Mentor: Pania Newell) - Computational Modeling of an Inverted Stable Salt Nuclear Reactor
Joey Cai (Mentor: Daniel Brown) - Enhancing Adaptive Neck Exoskeleton Control through Implicit Human Feedback Analysis
Arianna Carter (Mentor: Tony Saad) - The Effect of Drone Airflow on Atmospheric Measurements using On-board Sensors: A Simulation and Generalized Scaling Approach
John Chae (Mentor: Jiyoung Chang) - Real-Time Feedback Control in Electrospinning of Functional Nanofiber for On-Demand and Customizable Manufacturing
Sarah Choe (Mentor: Marina Kogan) - #WakeUpWorldRussiaInvadedUkraine: Exploration of External-Facing Communications in Ukraine in 2014
John Cimmarusti (Mentor: Haohan Zhang) - User-in-the-loop Control of a Neck Exoskeleton 
Mary Clancy (Mentor: Kam Leang) - Bayesian-Estimation for Avalanche Rescue
Jeremy Clark (Mentor: Daniel Brown) - Sketch-Based Feedback for Multi-Agent Robotics Docmains
Andrew Coda (Mentor: Kerry Kelly) - Development of Teaching Tools Around Sensirion SFA30, an Indoor Air Quality Formaldehyde Sensor
McKenna Coughlin (Mentor: Jessica  Kramer) - Design and Synthesis of Authentic Mucin PTS Domains using NCA Polymerization
Catherine Davey (Mentor: Edoardo Battaglia) - Investigating the impact of different haptic and sensory effects in fidget toys on attention
Kerrigan Denham (Mentor: Ken Monson) - Development of Intraventricular Hemorrhage Testing in Preterm Cerebral Blood Vessels
Seth Doubek (Mentor: Daniel Brown) - Interpreting Graph Drawing with Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning
Zane Enders (Mentor: Pavel Panchekha) - Improving benchmarks for automated Numerics rewriting
Emily Erickson (Mentor: Daniel Brown) - RocketCalc: A Personalized Intelligent Algebra and Trig Remediation System Enabling Student Success in Calculus
Adrian Franz-Garrison (Mentor: Eric Pardyjak) - Developing and using Particle Imaging Velocimetry to understand the effect of turbulent airflow on snowflake particle motion.
Zane Frey (Mentor: Marc  Calaf) - Application of QES-Winds to Bridge the Physics Gap Between Wake Deficit Models and Large Eddy Simulations
Verl Grant (Mentor: Peter Zhu) - Carbon Storage in Concrete via Nano Bubbles
Ethan Hathaway (Mentor: Jeff Bates) - Cross Compatible Bio-Inks for 3D Hydrogel Printing
Milo Headden (Mentor: Jeff Bates) - Diffusion Kinetics of Ski Wax in Sintered Ski Base
Yazan Issa Sammaneh (Mentor: Simon Binder) - Developing Alternatives to Utah Electrode Arrays for Next-Generation Brain-Computer Interfaces
Kyle Jensen (Mentor: Bobby Mohanty) - POC Breath Testing for Malaria
Wyatt Jones (Mentor: Tianli Feng) - Prediction of thermal conductivity of GaN/AlN superlattices using machine learning-interatomic potential
Britton Jordan (Mentor: Alan Kuntz) - Using Deep Learning to Model Forward Kinematics of a Flexible Metamaterial Robot
Celeste Kalapala (Mentor: jessica kramer) - Digestion of Synthetic Mucin Mimics By Mucin Proteases
Asma Khan (Mentor: Shireen Elhabian) - "Barely-SSM": Weakly Supervised Statistical Shape Modeling for Anatomical Shape Representation
Jonas Knochelmann (Mentor: Rogelio Cardona-Rivera) - Towards a Unified Theory of Procedural Content Generation
Ronnie Koe (Mentor: Alan Kuntz) - DefCutNet: Learning Resection Paths from Surgeon Demonstrations For Deformable Objects
Jae Woong Lee (Mentor: Pai Wang) - Double-Band Dispersion Relation Design in Phononic Crystals with Asymmetric Stiffness
Jiwon  Lee (Mentor: Jay Kim) - Development of Kidney-On-A-Chip for studying cell-cell interactions in kidney function and disease. 
Joey Lee (Mentor: Alex Novoselov) - Direct Numerical Simulation of Flame Propagation in Hydrogen and Ammonia Mixtures
Kalina Manova (Mentor: Jay Kim) -  Investigating How Osteocytes Impact Bone Quality through Bone-on-a-chip Microfluidic Device Research
Brooklyn Mears (Mentor: Yunshan Wang) - Detecting The Intrinsic Fluorescence of Neurochemicals on UV Plasmonic Substrates in Microfluidic Channels
Max Morris (Mentor: Rogelio Cardona-Rivera) - Project Goalie: Assessing the Feasibility and Viability of General-Purpose Goal Reasoning for Adaptive Agent Behavior in Virtual Game Worlds.
Sami Mower (Mentor: Shad Roundy) - Advancing Myalgic Encephalomyelitis Diagnosis and Treatment with UpTime
Christian Norman (Mentor: Bobby Mohanty) - TiO2 Nanotubes as Novel Electrode for Flash Joule Heating
Charlie Osborne (Mentor: Jessica Kramer) - Synthetic mimics inspired by polar fish antifreeze proteins
Kibin Park (Mentor: Jiyoung Chang) - Advanced Porous Scaffolding Design using Electrospun Nano/Microfibers for Tunable 2-dimensional Cell Culture Applications
John Peterson (Mentor: Deisy Carvalho Fernandes) - Characterization of 3d-Printed Graphene Oxide Swelling for Application in Delayed Drug Release
Sanaa Sadiq (Mentor: Jay Kim) - Lacrimal Tear Amino Acid Analysis: A New Perspective on Dry Eye Disease
Jaskehar Sekhon (Mentor: Shireen Elhabian) - Studying Robustness of Different Methods for Medical Visual Question-Answering
Slade Slack (Mentor: Dmitry Bedrov) - Self-assembly and interaction of perfluorinated surfactants in aqueous environments and air-water interfaces
Abigail Stringfellow (Mentor: Roseanne Warren) - Design of Low-Cost Ascorbic Acid Sensor Using Photographic Paper
Jordan Tan (Mentor: Vivek Srikumar) - Evaluating Compositionality Behavior in Language Models
Halli Thompson (Mentor: Jeff Bates) - Investigating Contaminants and Spermicidal Properties in Assisted Reproductive Technologies
Reynaldo  Villarreal Zambrano (Mentor: Edoardo Battaglia) - Complex Texture Rendering Using Multiple Eccentric Rotating Mass Motors and User Studies Research
Emma Wadsworth (Mentor: Rajesh Menon) - Thermal to Visual Translation with Deep Learning
Madeline Wagner (Mentor: Jeff Weiss) - Damage Properties of Tendons Crosslinked with Genipin
Jude Werth (Mentor: Jan Kubanek) - Recording and manipulating neural activity in human brain organoids
Yang Yang (Mentor: Samira Shiri) - Modelling Properties of Droplets Impacting a Macroscopic Spoked Surface
Chandler Zaugg (Mentor: Edward Hsu) - Leveraging Deep Learning for MRI Distortion Reconstruction

COLLEGE OF FINE ARTS

Lauren Carn (Mentor: Alexandra  Harbold) - Through the Looking-Glass of Childlike Play: A New Adaptation of Alice's Adventures in Wonderland
Andie Funk (Mentor: Jonathan Dillon) - Integrating Songwriting in Elementary General Music: A Creative Project in Music Education
Mickayla Koday (Mentor: Maureen O'Hara Ure) - Large Format Illustrated Book
Michael Palmer (Mentor: Hubbel  Palmer) - Exploring the Radicalization of Youth in Alt-Right Spaces through Screenwriting
Colin Poly (Mentor: Ernest  Gentry) - Exploration of the Aluminosilicate Glass Formation Boundary
Alix Wright (Mentor: Moses Williams) - Engaging Embodiments: Exploring Materials, Entities, and Phenomenology

COLLEGE OF HEALTH

Katie Comer (Mentor: Tanya Halliday) - The Effects of AM vs PM Resistance Training on Insulin Sensitivity and Sleep Disturbance in Older Adults
Ivan Delgado (Mentor: Amandine Chaix) - The Effect of a High-Fat and Ketogenic Diet on Breast Cancer Tumor Growth in Female Mice
Chance Deschamps-Prescott (Mentor: Jesse Christensen) - Validating a Smart Phone Application in Monitoring Gait Abnormalities in Patients Post Stroke
Norah Milam (Mentor: Katsu Funai) - Effect of N-Acetyl-Carnosine on Age-Related Skeletal Muscle and Heart Dysfunction
Venisia Paula (Mentor: Katsu Funai) - High-fat, high-salt diet impairs mitochondrial ATP production in a novel mouse model of Chronic Kidney Disease.
Faith Smart (Mentor: Amandine Chaix) - The Impact of a Ketogenic Diet on Food Intake, Pancreatic Islet Adaptation, and Body Composition
Sia Tamala (Mentor: Mary Playdon) - Diet and Cancer in the Native Hawaiian/ Pacific Islander Community
Ceyda Ural (Mentor: Amandine Chaix) - The Metabolic Effects of Different Diet Regimens in Postmenopausal Female Mice
Ximena Zendejas-Portugal (Mentor: Will Holland) - Role of FOXN3 in Hepatic Glucose Metabolism

HONORS COLLEGE

Jane Putnam (Mentor: Melissa Watt) - Caregivers' expectations when visiting a village doctor with a complaint of pediatric diarrhea

COLLEGE OF HUMANITIES

Ryan Christenson (Mentor: Margaret Wan) - Portrayals of Women in Taiping Guangji: A Study of Female Roles and Archetypes in Medieval Chinese Narrative Literature
Mike Komigi (Mentor: Maile Arvin) - Embracing Perspectives of Melanesian West Papua in Museums as Way of Recognition and Decolonization.
Eliana Massey (Mentor: Maile Arvin) - Nā Lei Poina ʻOle (Children Never Forgotten): Representing Histories of Child Institutionalization in Hawaiʻi
Brandon Osgan (Mentor: Ed Rubin) - Vowel Reduction of Bolognese analyzed in Optimality Theory
Thea Soter (Mentor: Disa Gambera) - Coming Home: A Project of History, Heartache, and Heritage

COLLEGE OF LAW

Noah Reese (Mentor: Jorge Contreras) - The Screenwriting Singularity: AI, Contracts, and the Future of Writing for Film

SCHOOL OF MEDICINE

Ian Aist (Mentor: Stavros  Drakos) - The Role of Glycosylceramides and UGCG in Heart Failure and Recovery
Mikayla Anderson (Mentor: Jace King) - Longitudinal Study of Brain Structure and Ventricle Development Among Individuals Affected by Autism
Annika Bachman (Mentor: Amy Lenz) - A Three Dimensional Analysis of Joint Space and Bony Morphology in Ankle Osteoarthritis
Halli Baird (Mentor: June Round) - The Effects of Microbiota Dependent Regs on Beta-Cell Proliferation
Ben Baldwin (Mentor: Gregory Ducker) - Turning waste into fuel: a mechanistic dissection of cellular lactate utilization
Deevya Baral (Mentor: Martin McMahon) - Characterizing BRAF Kinase Interactions to Understand its Roles in the Development and Progression of BRAFV600E-driven Melanomas
Ayden  Berndt  (Mentor: Sixiang Shi) - Development of Fluorescence Based In Situ Dosimeters for Real-time Image Guided Radiotherapy
Hannah Berrett (Mentor: Michelle Vo) - The Determinating Factors of Mental Health Stigma and The Role of Social Influence
Veronic  Boire (Mentor: Moriel Zelikowsky) - Tac2 Neuropeptide Role in Aggressive Behavior post Acute Stress
Emma Breen (Mentor: Yan-Ting Shiu) - Role of the Oncogene E26 Transformation-Specific Sequence-1 in Arteriovenous Fistula Maturation Failure
Meghan Carter (Mentor: Amy Lenz) - Application of advanced medical imaging to assess foot and ankle form and function in patients with cerebral palsy
Andy Chan (Mentor: Hongchao  Guo) - Molecular Impact of JAK-STAT Signaling Pathway on Cardiomyocyte Maturation
Collin Clark (Mentor: Bruce Edgar) - Examining the Expression of the Dll-Gal4 driver in Drosophila Melanogaster to better understand the lethality of the Alkaline Ceramidase Brainwashing
Jasmin Cornish (Mentor: Kai Kuck) - "Could Trended Oxygen Partial Pressure in the Urine Be the 'ST Segment' Kidney Monitor We've Been Looking For?"
Anika D'Souza (Mentor: Donna Cross) - Investigating the Effects of Microtubule-Stabilizing Treatment on Neuroinflammation and Potentially Related Anxiety and Aggression in Aged Alzheimer's Transgenic Mice
Sarah Dallas (Mentor: Melissa Watt) -      Exploring the viability of a mobile health tool to improve antibiotic stewardship among village doctors in Bangladesh 
Anne Done (Mentor: Rob Judson-Torres) - Characterizing Melanoma Reporters Through Examining Their Gene Expression
Caroline Giddings (Mentor: Donna Cross) - Targeted Alpha Therapy for the Treatment of Alzheimer's Disease
Addison Hedges (Mentor: Moriel Zelikowsky) - Behavioral Effects of Trauma Recruit Separate Populations of Ventral Hippocampal Neurons
Emily Herdic (Mentor: Viola Rieke) - The Use of Magnetic Resonance guided Focused Ultrasound (MRgFUS)
Lana Hua (Mentor: Donna Cross) - Alterations in Alzheimer's disease phenotypic pathology after biodegradable paclitaxel-conjugate treatment
Alaina Kelly (Mentor: Mary Beth Scholand) - Telomere Biology Disorders and Genetic Mechanisms
Jennie Kim (Mentor: Sungjin Park) - Characterizing H-link in Extra Cellular Matrix of the brain
Jordan Langford (Mentor: Amy Lenz) - Investigation of the Morphological Relationship Between Pilon Fractures and Osteoarthritis in the Foot and Ankle
Kayla Marks (Mentor: Rob Judson-Torres) - Lentiviral Reporter Constructs for SOX10 Promoters and Enhancers and the Effect on Three Melanoma Cell Lines
Alan Mo (Mentor: Jordan Grammer) - Bridging the Gap: Computational Advancements in Neurobiology Research and Software Development
Eliana Moreno (Mentor: Amy Lenz) - Morphologic Analysis of Long Bones in the Foot and Ankle in Individuals with Charcot Marie Tooth Disease
Tiffany Nguyen (Mentor: Rebecca Delaney) - Exploring self-advocacy and decision-making skills for adolescents and young adults living with congenital heart disease
Hannah Nordhoff (Mentor: Kai Kuck) - Development of a Hydrogel-Encapsulated Enzyme to Detect Acetaldehyde
Eva Owen (Mentor: Moriel Zelikowsky) - Rodent model of post-traumatic stress disorder differentially alters sociability in male and female mice
Nate Patchen (Mentor: Yang Liu) - Visualizing and Facilitating DNA Double-Strand Break Repair Pathway Choice at High Resolution
Catherine Petersen (Mentor: Ram Gouripeddi) - Understanding the Relationship Between Environmental Exposures and the Risk of Pediatric Obesity Using Unsupervised Machine Learning
Savannah Pettey (Mentor: Sheri Holmen) - The Role of AKT1 and FAK Interactions in the Promotion of Melanoma Brain Metastasis
Margaret Pozo (Mentor: Elliot Smith) - Characterization of Action Potentials and High-frequency Oscillations during Interictal Discharges in Human Epilepsy
Carson Sautter (Mentor: Melissa Cortez) - Identifying Biomarkers that can be Used to Diagnosis Neuropathic Postural Tachycardia Syndrome (POTS)
Isabella  Scalise  (Mentor: Conan Kinsey) - Inhibiting CDK9 and Autophagy in Pancreatic Cancer
Jonah Simmons (Mentor: Mandy Bunsawat) - Characterizing Peripheral Vascular Function in Cardiorenal Syndrome
Clara Smith (Mentor: Sheri Holmen) - The Role of TIMP1 in Melanoma
Mayson Smith (Mentor: Mark Mahan) - Unraveling the Nexus between Inflammation and Neuroma Formations
Lorelei Sole (Mentor: Sheri Holmen) - Investigating the Role of Concurrent NF1 and RAS mutations in Melanoma
Alayna Stoddard (Mentor: Harriet Hopf) - The BASIC Trial: An ESKAPE From Transmission
Jacob Sussman (Mentor: Katharine Walter) - Mapping the Distribution of Tuberculosis Cases in High-Incidence Settings
Alec  Tzeng (Mentor: Yan-Ting Shiu) - The Effect of Nitric Oxide Synthase 3 on the Hemodynamics and Wall Mechanics in Mouse Arteriovenous Fistulas
Kyle Valestrino (Mentor: Panagiotis Kassavetis) - Deep Phenotyping of Essential Tremor
Rene Valles (Mentor: Jordan Grammer) - The Impact of Social Isolation on Neural Activity in the Bed Nucleus of the Stria Terminalis and Nucleus Accumbens
Alicia Velazquez (Mentor: Susanna  Cohen) - Project Interprofessional Simulation Program for clinical Resilience and Empathy (INSPIRE)
Eleni Yannias (Mentor: Stavros Drakos) - Transcriptional Regulation of AEBP1 in Cardiac Fibrosis

COLLEGE OF MINES & EARTH SCIENCES

Margaret Call (Mentor: Pete Lippert) - Can Biomagnetic monitoring using tree leaves measure the impact of an inland shipping port on residential air quality? A case study from the Eastern Los Angeles Basin, Part 2
Justin McKee (Mentor: Randy Irmis) - First associated Theropoda skeleton recovered from the Straight Cliffs Formation of Southern Utah
Constance Sauve (Mentor: Sarah Lambart) - Explore the fate of pyroxenite in a heterogeneous mantle along an adiabatic path.
Annabelle Warner (Mentor: Court Strong) - Evaluating the Prediction of Orographic Precipitation Gradients from a Convolutional Neural Network

COLLEGE OF PHARMACY

Husaib Arshad (Mentor: Raphael Franzini) - Exploring Dissociative Bioorthogonal Reactions Enabling Targeted Drug Delivery
Isaac Kendell (Mentor: Jindrich Kopecek) - T Cell Exhaustion and Remediation in Multi-Antigen T Cell Hybridization (MATCH)
Zhenyu Yang (Mentor: Katharine Diehl) - Identifying readers of histone lactylationn

COLLEGE OF SCIENCE

Sage Acord (Mentor: Sophie Caron) - Investigating the Effects of Single Nucleotide Polymorphisms on Behavioral Phenotypes in Isogenic Drosophila melanogaster
Kobi Baker (Mentor: Martin Horvath) - Implementing Machine Learning Models to Predict the Binding of Odorants to Insect Olfactory Receptors
Lexie Bingman (Mentor: Chan Yul Yoo) - Understanding the Role of Chaperones in the Assembly of the Plastid-Encoded RNA Polymerase (PEP) Complex in Plants
Ella Bleak (Mentor: Talia Karasov) - Factors of Tailocin Resistance in Pseudomonas
Leo Bloxham (Mentor: Connor Bischak) - Tuning Phase Transitions in Copper and Manganese Based 2-D Hybrid Halide Perovskites
Gabe Brown (Mentor: Austin Green) - Human Outdoor Recreational Use And It's Impact on Mammalian Behavior
Ashlyn Christensen (Mentor: Sophie Caron) - Nature vs Nurture: Linking Genetics and Behavior using a Drosophila melanogaster Model
Alyssa Curtis (Mentor: Heejin Yoo) - Unraveling the molecular mechanism for the impact of plant volatiles on plant immunity
Emily Dalley (Mentor: Connor Bischak) - Controlling Phase Transitions in Lead-free Perovskites for Clean Thermal Energy Storage
Kylie DeNiro (Mentor: Sophie Caron) - Investigating The Role of dArc1/2 in Pigmentation Patterning in Drosophila melanogaster
Kyle Elwood (Mentor: Gary Rose) - Quantifying the Expression of Genes for Arginine Vasotocin Receptors in the Brain of Thalassoma bifasciatum, a sex-changing fish.
Gabriela  Eyring  (Mentor: Bethany Buck) - Exploring the Binding Scope for the C-Terminal Zinc Fingers of ZBTB4
Topher Frederick (Mentor: Andrew Roberts) - Synthesis of Cyclophanes And Derivatives, Probing Planar Chirality Selectivity
Aubrey Jones (Mentor: Ben Bromley) - Supermassive Black Hole Growth due to Tidal Disruption Events
Krish Kotak (Mentor: Martin Horvath) - Odorant-Dependent Olfactory Receptor Activity in Transgenic Drosophila
Will Lee (Mentor: Ryan Stolley) - Synthesis and characterization of cyanoaziridines
Ruby Linnell (Mentor: Dale Clayton) - Does Grooming Behavior Respond to Morphological Changes?
Lukas Mesicek (Mentor: John Belz) - Investigating Critical Phenomena in Axisymmetric Black Hole Formation using the Finite Difference Method
Kenzie Montzingo (Mentor: Martin Horvath) - Examination of DNA Repair Enzyme MutY on DNA/RNA Hybrids
Andrew Moore (Mentor: Vikram Deshpande) - Fabrication of Boron Nitride Graphene Substrates for the Analysis of Strongly Correlated Phenomena.
Russell Moore (Mentor: Kyle Dawson) - Searching Millions of Quasar Spectra for Rare Objects and Misclassifications
Samantha Morris (Mentor: Aaron Puri) - Isolation of a Potential Antibiotic from Methylocystis sp. strain SC2
Jessica Parsons (Mentor: Kasey Cole) - 3D-Printing Bones: Using Innovating Technologies to Create Accessible and Engaging Learning Experiences 
Beth Penderghast (Mentor: Ben Bromley) - Searching for Planet Nine Using the Gaia DR3 Data-set
Allie Perkins (Mentor: Talia Karasov) - Quaking Aspen Pathogen Defense in the Presence of Climate Change Related Drought
Liza Roberts (Mentor: Michael Vershinin) -  Does microtubule rigidity depend on lattice defect density?
Bibiana Rodriguez Vega (Mentor: Sophie Caron) - The Role of Encephalization in Olfactory Behavior
Jonathan Sing (Mentor: Eric Montoya) - Asymmetric Spin Current Transport and Spin Orbit Torque in Dual-Ferromagnetic Structures
Angelina Skedros (Mentor: Jamie Gagnon) - The importance of sunscreen across the tree of life: understanding synthetic gadusol's impacts on early zebrafish (Danio rerio) development and investigating the role of gadusol in brine shrimp (Artemia)
Sydney Skousen (Mentor: Sophie Caron) - Capsid formation of dArc in the Drosophila melanogaster brain for Intercellular Signaling
Haley Welker (Mentor: Heejin Yoo) - Uncover the molecular foundations behind the local and systemic immunity of Brassica napus, as well as its parent species and its parent species, Brassica oleracea, and Brassica rapa.
Zhuyun  Xie (Mentor: Luisa Whittaker-Brooks) - Electroabsorption spectroscopy studies of a PM6:Y6 photovoltaic blend
Anuhya Yalavarty (Mentor: Ayako Yamaguchi) - Quantification of the Perineuronal Nets in response to testosterone in Female Vocal Pathways of African clawed frogs
Saya Zeleznik (Mentor: Fred Adler) - Mathematical Modeling of Supercolonial Behavior in Invasive Ants

COLLEGE OF SOCIAL AND BEHAVIORAL SCIENCE

Nile Boyer (Mentor: Andrea Brunelle) - Reconstructing the Environmental History of Utah's West Desert Using Magnetic Susceptibility and Loss on Ignition Analysis of Sediment Cores
Dustin Breakfield (Mentor: Akiko Kamimura) - Dental Anxiety and its Contributors in Underserved and Uninsured Populations
Sia Chauhan (Mentor: Akiko Kamimura) - Exploring the Perception and Knowledge about Sudden Cardiac Arrest and Heart Attacks Among Free Clinic Patients
Ben  Creer (Mentor: Cynthia Berg) - Self-control of Adults with Type 1 Diabetes and Their Perceptions of Partner Suppor
Bennett Davenport (Mentor: Stella Mosher) - Tracking The Presence Of Large Herbivores In The Fynbos Biome Of South Africa Using Coprophilous Spores
Caston Draper (Mentor: Stefania  Wilks) - Examining Potential Micro-Residue Contamination on Ground Stone Tools in Buried Contexts Using Starch Granule Analysis.
Sam Enke (Mentor: Jennifer Watt) - Reconstructing the Fire History and Paleoclimate of Sierra de San Pedro Mártir National Park, Baja California, Mexico
Hanna Farra (Mentor: Sarah Small) - Time Deficits by Race and Gender in the United States
Carissa Guardado (Mentor: Carol Sansone) - Social pressures of Student Athletes 
Sarah Herring (Mentor: Rob Lubeznik-Warner) - Examining the Role of Gender-Congruence in Youth-Adult Relationships and Positive Developmental Outcomes
Grace Heyborne (Mentor: Tim Webster) - Using PSMC to Reconstruct Historical Levels of Reproductive Skew in Primates.
Alex  Higuera  (Mentor: Paul White) - Empowering Voices: Exploring the Role of Academic and Social Counter Spaces in Supporting First-Generation Students in Response to the Campus Racial Climate
Gabriel  Holm (Mentor: Sarah Creem-Regehr) - The effect of concussions on sensory integration and spatial updating
Amanda Holt (Mentor: Lee  Raby) - Examining maternal emotional dysregulation associated with variability in infants' RSA responses to the Still Face Paradigm.
Akow Ibrahim (Mentor: Akiko Kamimura) - Healthcare Access Barriers in Utah Muslim Communities
Xochitl Juarez (Mentor: Theresa Martinez) - The Student-Parent Dilemma
Terry Kim (Mentor: Katie Baucom) - Post-intervention Assessments in the Couple-Based Diabetes Prevention Pilot Trial
Max Lepore (Mentor: Jim Curry) - Social Class Representation in American Representative Institutions
Griffin Light (Mentor: Cory Inman) - Lead-DBS Modeling to Uncover Spatial Factors Related to Amygdala-Mediated Memory Modulation
Abbie Nistler (Mentor: Jenn Follstad Shah) - Measures of Climate Grief and Hope Amongst Undergraduates at the University of Utah
Elsa  Osborne (Mentor: Akiko Kamimura) - Benefits of indoor climbing on well-being of young adults: Perspectives among indoor climbers
Andrew Parker (Mentor: Lee Raby) - Maternal Sensitivity and Infant Behavior in the Still-Face Paradigm: A Cross-Cultural Comparison Between Hispanic and non-Hispanic/White Mothers and Infants
Sean  Paton (Mentor: Larry Coats) - Secrets In Sediment: Understanding Late Glacial To Holocene Ecosystem Change In The Great Basin, Nevada Via Macrofossil Analysis 
Hailey Sherman (Mentor: Amy McDonnell) - Effect of Connectedness to Nature and Living Environment on Cognition and Affect after Exposure to Nature
Shannielle Taylor (Mentor: Rob Lubeznik-Warner) - Flourishing and connection in the context of summer camp: A mixed-methods design (renewal)

COLLEGE OF SOCIAL WORK

Dayttn Bartschi (Mentor: Sarah Canham) - A Thematic Analysis of Interventions to Address the Stigma and Discrimination Towards Persons Experiencing Homelessness