Welcome to the LEAP symposium. This event enables our undergraduates, most of whom are first year students, to share their ideas, discoveries, and artistic expressions with the campus and larger community. We encourage you to explore the variety of projects ranging from zines, infographics, and posters to oral presentations or creative works and performances representing research and reflections relating to students’ personal or professional development or interests. Thank you to the Office of Undergraduate Research for their help in putting this together and to our faculty and peer advisors for supporting our students during this challenging year. Congratulations, students!
Rachel Borup – Health Professions LEAP
Jean Aguirre – Field Practicums During COVID-19
Salar Ahmed – How COVID-19 Has Impacted The Global Muslim Community
Ciara Anderson – COVID-19 and College Learning
Jaucalyn Boone – COVID-19 and Online Learning Impact on Elementary Students
Claire Brooks – Effects of COVID-19 on the Healthcare of Pregnant Women
Sara Cademartori – The Impact of COVID-19 on Mental Health
Aspen Caldwell – How COVID-19 affects nurses’
Melanie Carter – The Impact of COVID-19 on Weddings
Brian Chuong – Bereavement and COVID-19
Hannah Donovan – Effect of COVID-19 on Healthcare Workers
Emily Edwards – Healthcare Workers Amid the COVID-19 Pandemic
Erin Escover – COVID-19 and the International Travel and Tourism Industry
Fiona Fathauer – Effect of the Pandemic on College Students
Allie Faubert – Covid 19: The Elder Population and the Vaccine
Hailee Fell – How the Dynamics of Higher Education have Changed During COVID-19
Taylor Fisher – Business Owners & COVID-19
Ava Foulke – How have High School Students been affected by the COVID-19 pandemic?
Addison Gay – Effect of COVID-19 on High School Students
Alegria Godinez – Undergraduate Symposium Project
Vanessa Gutierrez – Impact of COVID-19 on the Mental Health of Nurses
Autumn Hadley – The Management of Autoimmune Disease During the COVID-19 Pandemic
Meikayah Hall – The Effects of COVID-19 on Families Around the World
Aria Handlon – Effects of the COVID-19 Pandemic on the Tennis Sport as a Whole
Justin Hosino – Symposium Project
Paulina Jimenez – COVID-19 Impact on First-Year College Students Mental Health
Jared Johnson – The effect of COVID-19 on Healthcare Education
Angel Khampha – Exploring The Mental Health of Skateboarders During COVID-19
Cora Lanphear – Distance Learning- Capturing the Experience of Education during COVID-19
Katie Larsen – College and the Coronavirus Pandemic – The Impacts on College Freshmen
Keane Law – COVID-19 and music
Payton Lewis – Mental Health for Families During COVID-19
Steven Ly – The Effect of the COVID-19 Pandemic on Lives of Healthcare Workers
Osvaldo Miranda – Boy’s & Girls Club and COVID-19
Emma Nicklaw – Mental Health of College Students During the Covid-19 Pandemic
Taylor Otterness – How Covid-19 Has Changed Sibling Relationships
Grace Panik – Mental Health of Student Athletes during COVID-19
Alyssa Pham – Children’s Physical Health and COVID-19
Anna Pierce – The Effects of COVID-19 on Students Entering the Medical Field
Brayden Powell – Coronavirus and ITP
Will Rahter – How Covid-19 has affected the lives of stylists.
Hailey Riis – COVID-19 – Attacks From Both Sides
Kiara Romero – How has the COVID-19 Pandemic affected the unemployment rate in the United States?
Leah Russon – COVID-19 and the Pregnancy Experience
Annika Sanger – Social Workers and The Covid-19 Pandemic
Lily Sawyer – The Effects of the Coronavirus on College Athletes
Kelly Strope – The Impact of Covid-19 on Cancer Patients
Sophie Wojcicki – Hospital Restrictions due to the Coronavirus
Marily Zafllow – Catholic School during the pandemic
Zoë Ziebarth – College Students and COVID-19
Marissa Diener – Health Sciences LEAP
Habibo Abdi – Prenatal Education on Congenital Cytomegalovirus (cCMV) Improves Knowledge on cCMV
Ann Engar – Pre-Law LEAP
Hannah Amick, Maria Crago, Alex Duncan, Chloe Nash – San Antonio Independent District v. Rodriguez
Andrew Cannon, Holden Cheney, Matt McFarland, Jackson Taylor – The Impact of Citizens United v. FEC
Emma Videla, Andrew Sonzini, Frannie Bengel Kayla Flores – Roe v. Wade
Coco James – Community-Engaged LEAP, Food and Water Justice, Social & Behavioral Sciences LEAP
Perla Aceves – Effects of Greenness on Academic Success in Latina Girls
Lynn Allen – At What Point is Humanity Lost?
Ruzan Almutairi – Symposium Art Project
Nadine Bahati – Afrofuturism and hope
Barrett Banfield – The Flock of Society
Michael Brasso – Alone In The World
Lexie Caraveo – People increasing technology and myths growing from technology
Jacob Coopman – The Effects of Art on Mental Health
Malena Dowling – We Deserve to Feel at Home In Our Bodies
Drew Garcia – The Struggles of Parents with Disabled Children.
Megan Genetti – The Beauty of ART
Peri Halvorson – Symposium art project
Wyatt Hardesty – Rhetorical Strategies of the 21st Century
Lily Hines – The effect of adverse childhood experiences on adulthood
Wenqi Huang – Black and White, or Gray
Mateo Ismodes – Symposium Art Project
Ryan Jensen – Bioethics – A Look at Non-Humanity as a Catalyst For Our Own Humanity
Ravin Johnson – What Seperates Us From Animals
Hannah Jones – Media Distorts Our Morality
Annie Kopell – What Else Are You Missing Out On?
Grady Lambert – One set of eyes, two different sights
Barry Li – The love of the sunset
Joseph Lopez – Benefits of Vertical Farming in the United States for Urban Life
Summer Lujan – Visual Arts: Artist’s Statement
Harold Luu – Resurrection with technology could effect emotional health
Nandi Luvai – The Creature’s epiphanies
Hannah Marumoto – Black Women’s health disparities
McKenzie Maser – Human Connection
Joshua Matthews – Quicksand – The Sinking of Palestinian Diaspora Identity
Blaine Mauer – Art Symposium Project Homelessness
Yesica Medina Gutierrez – Lack of Mental Health Awareness for LGBTQ+ Minorities
Sydney Mendel – The Use of Technology in Education
Julia Middleton – Zombie Symposium Art Project
Madalene Middleton – Hearts Like Ours
Isaiah Ortiz – Disrupting Citizenship
Elsa Osborne – Neurodiverse Lived Experience
Kenny Peralta – The Unfolding of Racist America
Justin Phipps – Dehumanization of Criminals
Markell Price – Dehumanizing People with Mental Illness through Stigmas
Troy Rainier – Mental wellbeing and social media
Jessica Ralston – Healing Racism Through Meditation & “The Ideal of Virtue Without Purity”
Lorelei Rentmeister – Childhood Sexual Abuse and Resiliency
Itzel Rivas – The Effects of Social Media On Our Mental Health
Cvetanka Rizvanovic – The Ultraviolet Underground
Izzy Rust – Empathy and Emotional Intelligence in Relation to Psychopathy.
Ava Sandberg – Queer Existence is Resistance
Daisia Sanders – The effects of Covid-19 depending on ones economical or social status
Thiago Santana – Unethical Human Experimentation
Lauren Shields – Sexual Recovery
Tyson Sommer – Gay Men and Conformity: Masculinity and Femininity
Rachel Straight – Depression in Females
Winston Sullivan – Escaping Loneliness, a Tragedy
Megan Taylor – Everyone’s different, but aren’t we all the same?
Kaden Terry – Artificial Intelligence and H/humans
Carrie Thompson – The Effects of Maternal Narcissism on Teenage Daughters
Simon Toribio – A Migrant’s Journey
Hill Tran – Ignorance Can Kill
Leah White – Analysis of Sexual Abuse of Elders in Nursing Homes
Shay Wilson – Bare Bears: The Male Gaze and Exploitation of Women in Pornography
Rebecca Larsen – Health Professions LEAP
Olivia Flosi, Gabrielle Kan, Sadie Norris, Faith Smart – Physician’s assistance in executions
Gianessa Gambetta, Rebekah Hardman, Thomas Phan, Malia Teets – Human Embryo’s Moral Standing
Viviana Garcia, Kailee Klus, Liza Tolton – Federal DNA Data Banks? No Thanks!
Joshua Rivkin – Arts LEAP
Lana Ballenot, Katie Kendall, Joseph Nelson, Sydney Palma – Salt Lake City’s Japantown
Emmy Darling, Taylor Jones, Kaelan Maxfield, Emily Tippets – Youth Suicides in Salt Lake County
Jennifer Seagrave – Engineering LEAP
Alexander Carhart – What Are They Thinking About?
Hunter Chak – Utah’s Natural Wonders and Why We Need to Take Care of Them
Shaun Cluff – LEAP 1500 Zine Project
Zoe Czaja – Liberal Country Singers Zine
Christopher DeChant – My Day in The Backcountry
Ben Fuchs – More Experience Zine
Luke Hartung – My Life Through Greek Gods
Tylor Mahoney – Dice Of My Life
Semrah Odobasic – Maintaining your Computer
Kevin Pineda – A View of a Life
Stephanie Smith – University of Utah Marching Band Zine
Eric Stickley – A Traveler’s Guide to Traveling
Jordan Tan – This is a Zine about Meta
Seetha Veeraghanta – Engineering LEAP
Nichols Crawford Taylor – LEAP 1500 Final Zine
Lydia Hall – A Historical Moose-hap
Mason Jacketta – Zine of Talmage and Aidan
Nora Wood – Health Professions LEAP
George Conde, Emily Rhodes – Healthcare Discrepancies: Covid-19 and African-American Populations
Brooklyn Rapp, Baylie Johnson – Assisted Living/Nursing Home Patients and COVID-19