Congratulations to the undergraduate students listed below who had the opportunity to meet virtually with their state legislators to share their research findings. Research on Capitol Hill, now in its 21st year, gives lawmakers a glimpse into the research conducted by undergraduates at one of the states top research universities.
Click on a name below to learn more about the research presented to state legislators:
Oralia Aguilar – Oral Histories in the Era of COVID-19: The Utah Navajo and the Westside of Salt Lake City, Utah
Kylie Bethards – Analysis of AYA Cancer Patient Priority Symptoms Through Text Mining Software
Julia Case – Symmetric Electrochemical Cells in Nonaqueous Organic Redox Flow Batteries – Applications for Longevity Study
Tania Cervantes-Hernandez – Dating/Intimate Partner Violence and social media use among college students
Gareema Dhiman – Surveillants: A New Organelle of the Synapse
Helen Dodson – Dating/Intimate Partner Violence and social media use among college students
Heather Graham – Literacy and Representation in the LGBTQIA+ Communities
Gursirat Grewal – Improving Upper-Limb Prostheses Control via Optimizing sEMG Electrode Number and Location
Cody Harris – Sensory Perception in Advanced Prosthetics: The Philosophy of Proprioception
Jami Harvey – Oral Histories in the Era of COVID-19: The Utah Navajo and the Westside of Salt Lake City, Utah
Olivia Lam – Development of Photovoltaic Apparatuses Using 3D Printing Techniques
Indigo Mason – The University of Utah Sexual and Reproductive Health Care and Education Needs Assessment
Nate Nellis – Econometric Analysis on the Impact of Water Rates on Resident Usage and City Revenue: A Study in Salt Lake County, Utah
Jens Nilson – Child Labor Trafficking and the Child Welfare System
Adriana Payan-Medina – Characterization of Satellite-Derived Air Quality Measurements in Health Applications
Kylie Persson – Production of Platelet-Like Particles Using MEG-01 Cells
Elizabeth Porter – Supporting the Entire System: Reducing Educators Burnout with Mindfulness-based Practice and Social-emotional Learning
Anya Ragnhildstveit – Affective Tactile Grounding on Psychedelic-Induced States and Treatment Outcomes in Ketamine Assisted Psychotherapy
Mario Ramirez-Arrazola – Adding Up The Cost of Excluding Undocumented Utahns from State and Federal COVID-19 Relief
Alexia Savas – Correlating Surface Temperature Fluctuations with Atmospheric Flow
Travis Seamons – Controlling Bacterial Transcription with the Eukaryotic Transcription Factor QF
Joshua Swan – Energy Consumption and the Limits of Economic Growth
Tobin Wainer – Star Cluster Mass Function Fitting using Probabilistic Modeling
Zak Wankier – Anatomical Dimensions of Human Vertebral Bodies Over Time
Katie Workman – Epistemic Communications: the politics of confronting the global COVID-19 pandemic