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Virtual Interview Workshop
Wednesday, July 22 @ 5 pm on ZOOM
As many health professional programs are moving to virtual interviews for this application cycle, PreProfessional Advising and Career & Professional Development Center will offer tips on how to successfully navigate virtual interviews. Learn how to be a successful applicant in a virtual setting, whether you’re preparing for a recorded or live video interview!
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Virtual Interview Tips
Resources available for practice interviews
Q & A Session and more!
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Please Note: This workshop is open to students who are currently applying for University of Utah health professional programs.
Questions? Contact: ppa@advising.utah.edu
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The summer workshop series are free online workshops created for high school junior, seniors, and early undergraduates. Our goal with this series is to provide students with resources and information they might need to help prepare them for college. The workshops will cover various topics such as resume building, interviews with current Medical and PhD students, financial wellness, and many more. Students who complete a minimum of 8 workshops, will receive a certificate of completion at the end of the summer.
If you are interested in attending the Workshop Series, please see the information below for instructions on how to sign up:
Workshop Structure
All workshops will be conducted over Zoom. Prior to the first workshop, you must download the Zoom application on your computer or smart phone. Helpful directions can be found here. Audio and video connection is strongly preferred and encouraged. Each workshop will consist of a presentation with Q&A, in addition to ongoing dialogue with workshop participants and presenters. There will be interactive features such as polling, group breakout sessions, and more. Come ready to participate and ask questions!
Participation Expectations
Your attention and participation during the Workshop Series is expected. Our team, presenters, and guests have worked hard to organize and facilitate these workshops, so please respect their time and effort. If you commit to being at a presentation we are expecting you to come prepared and ready to engage.
Registration
Registration is required for each meeting individually. Attendance and participation in a minimum of 8 workshops will earn you a Certificate of Completion at the end of the summer. Registration links below:
June 3: How to Finance your College Education
June 10: Perfecting your Resume & Personal Statement
June 17: Building Professional Relationships
June 24: Maintaining Social & Emotional Health in College (limited space available)
July 1: Cultivating a Culture of Diversity & Inclusion (limited space available)
July 8: Keeping a Growth Mindset in Academia
July 15: Finding Employment in College
July 22: Interview with Medical School & STEM Graduate Programs
July 27: Student Involvement in College
July 29: Interview with Current STEM Undergrads & Graduate Students
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Faculty mentor: Elizabeth Archuleta
The Research Project, attempted to equip folks at the Warrior spirit drug recovery center with the means to create their own Combat Sports Program. This Research project was made possible by donations from the University Capstones funding.
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Faculty mentor: Tucker Hermans
Deep learning has enabled remarkable improvements in robotic grasp synthesis for previously unseen objects from partial object views. However, existing approaches lack the ability to explicitly reason about the full 3D geometry of the object when selecting a grasp, relying on indirect geometric reasoning derived when learning grasp success networks. In this work, we utilize learned reconstructions to explicitly model geometry in a constrained optimization grasp synthesis algorithm.
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Faculty mentor: Michael Thorne
Using earthquakes to look for Ultra Low Velocity Zones. This study is looking at a region under the Samoan Islands.
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Faculty mentor: Kim Hackford-Peer
The current narrative of boys in foster care is that they are all too damaged from childhood trauma to ever recover, and their future possibilities are limited. My project is about tracing the ways that toxic masculinity and these traumatic childhood occurrences are reinforcing each other. The significant contribution my project will make is outlining an intervention in that narrative that allows us to simultaneously acknowledge these boys as important members of our community.
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Faculty mentor: Elisabeth Conradt
Depression and anxiety are prevalent among pregnant mothers. Therefore, it is important to understand the implications maternal mental health may have on future maternal and offspring health. Understanding the physiological basis of maternal mental health and stress is also necessary as it may lead to better detection of maternal mental health deficits. This study examines several mental health variables and their relations to prenatal hair cortisol concentrations.
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Faculty mentor: Scott Schaefer
This project answers the question of how much partisanship impacts voting behavior. The results make three unique and important contributions. First, that partisanship is a significant factor in determining an person’s likelihood to vote. Second, the 2016 election marked a shift towards increased involvement from extreme partisans. And third, as is shown in the Utah analysis, the general partisanship of the precinct that you live has a significant impact on a voter’s likelihood to vote.
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Faculty mentor: Brian Codding
Dating archaeological sites is important for establishing patterns in settlement, trade, resource use, and population of prehistoric peoples. Unfortunately, direct techniques are not always possible. Using a relative dating system that employs ceramics is a cost-effective alternative. Here I have established a temporal model for ceramics found on sites that have had direct dating, to create a cross-reference that can be used by other researchers working in the Virgin River area.
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Faculty mentor: Brian Codding
This project is the first to create a comprehensive database for conflict and trauma in Bears Ears National Monument. The end result is a descriptive examination of trauma on the osteological record in the region, specifically separated by gender disparities.
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Faculty mentor: Sara LoTemplio
Research suggests that both cognitive control and self-regulation share blood glucose as a common limiting resource, which we explore through a double-blind placebo-controlled crossover experiment. Using EEG, we measure the ERN in response to both glucose supplementation and placebo. We theorized that the consumption of glucose would increase the peak of the ERN compared to placebo. However preliminary data has not shown supportive evidence of this hypothesis.
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Faculty mentor: Trafton Drew
This study examines the differences in visual search behavior and electrophysiological correlates examined using the ERP method of EEG when participants memorized the object information of objects they would later search for in different methods of encoding.
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Faculty mentor: Laurel Caryn
Cyanotype, an alternative photographic process, portrays hands of different colors in a wash of blue, thereby eliminating skin color and indications of race. I sought to take color/race off the table in order to equitably reveal the individual subjects as unique expressions of humanity.
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Faculty mentor: Laurel Caryn
I often find my inspiration for projects from my personal experience growing up in Utah. Being an advocate for animals, I have noticed Utah’s natural world start to disappear. Every year more animals are becoming endangered and soon we may live in a world where certain species may only be seen through photographs or in museums. The animals I have chosen to photograph have gone through the taxidermy process, because this is the way we will likely see them in the future.
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Faculty mentor: Kim Hackford-Peer
What began as an expansion of my son’s R.E.A.D.Y. club model, quickly evolved into a much more in-depth social study into why information is confusing and hard to find regarding LGBT issues in Utah public schools. There is a clear need for more accessible information for educators and administrators.
There are homophobic laws in place to prevent GSA’s from forming in junior high schools.
Educators and administrators are eager to support LGBT youth but are bound by outdated policy.
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Faculty mentor: Shannon Barrios
My research looks at conversational interaction to analyze whether or not learners recognize feedback as well as the nature of the feedback. The present research is a replication study on Mackey’s article (Mackey et. al 2000) where there were intermediate learners of English as a Second Language and intermediate learners of Italian as a foreign language, in which she investigated feedback recognition as well as the types of interactions.
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Faculty mentor: Kuby Balagurunathan
Heparin is a widely used blood anticoagulant medicine used in millions of surgeries worldwide annually. Currently this medicine is produced using slaughtered pig intestines, which causes many issues and is not a stable world supply. The research focuses on using bioengineering to produce polysaccharides and oligosaccharides of heparosan, a precursor to Heparin.
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Faculty mentor: Sujee Jeyapalina
The aim of this study was to assess the ability of FA and FHA surfaces to induce osteoblast differentiation. The degree of cellular differentiation was quantified using qPCR techniques, and titanium (Ti) and HA were used as the controls as they are the currently used in orthopedic applications.
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Faculty mentor: Swomitra Mohanty
Titanium Oxide sensors developed by Dr. Mohanty and his team are being used to diagnose TB patients in Uganda. The patient breath samples for diagnosis needed a way to be analyzed and to aid in diagnosis. Two types of tests were done amperometry and cyclic voltammetry. Originally machine learning was the proposed method however numerical methods proved more effective. The hypothesized signals ended being inconclusive due to the small sample size and nature of pediatric samples.
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Faculty mentor: Akiko Kamimura
The purpose of this survey research is to understand what kind of CAM modalities refugees are likely to use, whether they use it in conjunction with conventional medicine, and the expectations refugees have of American Physicians with regards to their use of CAM. We conducted a self-interviewer- administered surveys among refugees resettled in the US. Over three-quarters of refugees use an herbal medicine, nearly 80% of refugees use non-prescription pain medicine, and etc.
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Faculty mentor: Tabitha Benney
My research serves to investigate the interconnectedness of misogyny and climate denialism by examining various identities and how they may influence, change, or even perpetuate inaction in the international system. By conducting a content analysis on three current world leaders, I hope to present a clearer understanding on how masculine identities in state leaders has evolved counter to public opinion and democratic norms to impact climate change policies and the future of the human race.
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Faculty mentor: Robert Campbell
My project is on the mitochondrial morphology and how it effects platelet function and half life.
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Faculty mentor: Disa Gambera
My research was reading done toward the goal of writing my honors thesis. I focused first on theory and learning about semiotics and indexicality as a function of language, with many readings taken from Ferdinand de Saussure, Roland Barthes, Jacques Derrida, and Kaja Silverman, among others. Then I shifted to a general view of women’s work and textiles as a genre. I narrowed my focus to Adrienne Rich, Emily Dickinson, and Paisley Rekdal, and secondary texts about Dickinson’s life and works.
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Faculty mentor: Jennifer Watt
This is a paleoclimate reconstruction using paleoecological data from Baja California. Supplemental analysis of loss on ignition was additionally conducted to support final results.
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Faculty mentor: Melissa Zahl
The Pedal Away Parkinson’s: Recreational Therapy Specific Program project was to assist participants at the L.S. Skaggs Wellness Center to be more involved in the Pedal Away Parkinson’s event. Through this program the participants will identify attitudes and emotions towards their diagnosis and cycling. Gain an understanding of their personal barriers and how to overcome them. Finally, the participants will get the chance to ride bicycles and be involved in the Pedal Away Parkinson’s event.
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Faculty mentor: Wanda Pillow
This research is a discourse analysis and investigation of how the University of Utah participates in the portrayal and representation of Indigenous Peoples and culture from 1930-1998. With the intended purpose of bringing more awareness to the impact the University of Utah’s legacy has had on its identity of Indigenous depictions.
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Faculty mentor: Mitchell Power
My research is related to the possibility of more severe and more frequent wildfire potential as the result of rising temperatures and increased drought, in the Uinta Mountains, Utah. I am observing the Medieval Climate Anomaly (800-1200 A.D.) when climactic conditions similar to those seen today and continuing into our near future post significant risk, and deserve our attention. Through a detailed analysis of lakebed sediments for particulate charcoal, I reconstruct past wildfire conditions.
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Faculty mentor: Shundana Yusaf
Traditional architectural knowledge is focused on monuments and spatial production of the elite. It has made architects blind to the intelligence of cultures of scarcity, that work with the little resources that they have. The 20th and 21st centuries are the times of mass human migration, human displacement and creation of scarcity. The culture that I focused on that was able to produce incredibly sustainable architecture while in scarcity are the Kabuli People of Khyber
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Faculty mentor: Larry Coats
The topic of this research was to investigate the arrival of a far-flung population of Colorado pinyon pine (Pinus edulis) in the Crawford Mountains located in Northeastern Utah. Using a reconstructive environmental proxy, Packrat (Neotoma) midden samples, we were able to identify macrofossils from past environments to radiocarbon date to get accurate emergence dates of this new species to the area.
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Faculty mentor: Akiko Kamimura
The purpose of this research project is to examine the association between household environmental safety and stress among uninsured primary care patients who live in poverty. Identifying these stress-related household environmental safety concerns provides a basis from which stress-reducing interventions can be launched. Providing education about environmental safety and local resources is the first step towards improving stress conditions in at-risk populations.
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Faculty mentor: Tabitha Benney
Our research project aims to understand Utahn’s perception of the short-term and long-term health risks of air pollution by looking at the perception differences among Utahn’s of high and low socioeconomic statuses. We utilized Dr. Tabitha Benney’s survey data of Utahn’s perceptions of air quality to test our hypotheses. This research will help inform policy, environmental education and awareness campaigns in the future.
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Faculty mentor: Heayoung Yoon
This project focused on understanding the rate of growth of SiO2 (silicon dioxide) on trenches and planar Si (silicon) samples. This was done using rigorous cleaning processes and thermal oxidation methods. This research can then be used to fabricate Si micro/nano pillars and measure the electrical and optical properties.
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Faculty mentor: J. David Symons
We tested the hypothesis that deleting ceramide biosynthesis specifically in endothelial cells (ECs) attenuates obesity-induced arterial dysfunction. Metabolic and vascular phenotyping was completed using wild type mice and mice with EC-specific deletion of Sptlc2 that consumed standard or high fat chow for 14-weeks. Preliminary results indicate obesity-induced metabolic and vascular disruptions are not attenuated by EC-specific Sptlc2 deletion.
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Faculty mentor: Rebecca Utz
Our research project studies familial health habits between adolescents and their parents, with the goal of finding correlations between the two. We also studied these individual’s perspective of their health vs. how healthy they actually are. Our study gives us the opportunity to learn how to promote healthier habits at the family level, thus developing new methods of preventative medicine and minimizing young adults becoming chronically ill.
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Faculty mentor: Julie Ault
I hope to offer a unique perspective on the international pressures the United States faced as a result of their Civil Rights Movement by focusing on the propaganda campaigns of both major superpowers. By studying the Civil Rights Movement through an international lens, we can better understand how the Cold War shaped the United States’ domestic policy.
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Faculty mentor: Keith Lohse
This research explores how a novel group of older adults with mild cognitive impairments (MCI) fit into previously investigated patterns of EEG power spectra seen in healthy younger adults (YA) and older adults (OA). The new MCI group represents a population that has shown to progress to Alzheimer’s disease or dementia, so understanding their EEG power spectra could lead to improved diagnosis and prevention of such disease progression by non-invasive means.
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Faculty mentor: Erhu Cao
Two proteins in the kidneys, polycystin-1 and polycystin-2, interact in renal tubules and promote the normal development and function of the kidneys. However, the proteins’ actions are not well understood. Polycystin-1 and Polycystin-2 are encoded by the PKD1 gene and the PKD2 gene respectively. A mutation in either of these genes can lead to ADPKD and eventually renal failure. Currently, there is no cure for ADPKD due to setbacks regarding structural determination of the ADPKD proteins.
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Faculty mentor: Swomitra Mohanty
My research was to develop a PFAS contaminant sensor. The sensor was to modular in series with others and incorporate a TiO2 nanotube substrate to treat the water when a voltage was applied.
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