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Honors Thesis Completion Award

About the Award

Honors Thesis Completion Awards enable outstanding undergraduate students pursuing University Honors degree. Honors thesis projects entail independent scholarly and creative work within a students’ chosen expertise, undertaken with faculty mentor support. The thesis, alongside honors course requirements, culminates in University Honors at graduation.

Honors thesis completion award applications are processed through the Office of Undergradcuate Research via the UROP application. Students applying for these funds through the UROP portal will be considered simultaneously for both programs, with preference given to the Honors These Completion awards.

For more information about the Honors program, visit the website: https://www.honors.utah.edu/, or contact our admissions team at admissions@honors.utah.edu.

  • To be eligible to receive the Honors Thesis Completion Award, applicants must:

    • Be conducting research or scholarly work with a University of Utah faculty member.
    • Be actively working on Honors Thesis project.
    • Apply through the Office of Undergraduate Research's UROP application portal.

  • Please refer to UROP deadline HERE. 

  • Apply through the UROP application process: https://our.utah.edu/urop-how-to-apply/

    • Select "Yes" on the question that asks if you are in the Honors College. And select "Yes" if you are applying for funding for your Honors Thesis research.

     

  • SPRING 2026

    COLLEGE OF SCHOOL OF ARCHITECTURE + PLANNING

    Mads Ward (Mentor: Keith Bartholomew) - Community Design Inputs for the Implementation and Evaluation of a New Urban Planning Framework Tailored to Salt Lake City, Utah

    COLLEGE OF HEALTH

    Krista Hamilton (Mentor: Genevieve Albouy) - Higher-Order Memory System Association to Enhance Memory Consolidation

    HONORS COLLEGE

    Cecilia Root (Mentor: Christopher Miller) - Representing Deserted Spaces: A Comparative Study of Juan Rulfo’s Literary and Photographic Work

    SCHOOL OF MEDICINE

    Casey Fleming (Mentor: Sujee Jeyapalina) - Influence of Keratinocytes and TGF-β1 on Radiation-Driven in Vitro Fibroblasts – Myofibroblasts Transition
    Avery Hartey (Mentor: Nick Frost) - Assessing the Role of Environmental Familiarity in Social Behavior of SHANK3 Knockout Mice

    COLLEGE OF NURSING

    Maddie Allen (Mentor: Lauri Linder) - Comparison of Demographic and Clinical Characteristics of Pediatric Patients Undergoing Hematopoietic Cell Transplant Who Develop Central Line-Associated Blood Stream Infections Before and After the COVID-19 Pandemic
    Anela Toporan (Mentor: Jacqueline Kent-Marvick) - A Scoping Review: Ultra-Processed Food Intake and Menopausal Symptom Severity Among Women

    COLLEGE OF SCIENCE

    Kaia Holicky (Mentor: Pete Lippert) - A first look at the Triassic-Jurassic Latitude of Buregkhangai, Central Mongolia, Part 2
    Isaac Rogers (Mentor: Jon Rainier) - A Model Study of [2+2] Photocycloadditions on Vinylogous Imide Backbones

    COLLEGE OF SOCIAL & BEHAVIORAL SCIENCE

    Chris Kennedy (Mentor: Andrea Brunelle) - From Minerals to Megafauna: A Paleoecological Study of Site Composition and Biodiversity at Redden Springs, Utah
    Konner Larsen (Mentor: Jackie Chen) - The Influence of Background Information on Person Memory
    Isabella Marquez (Mentor: Tim Webster) - Understanding the Distribution and Migration of Denisovans Through Geospatial Analyses

    FALL 2025

    COLLEGE OF EDUCATION

    Abigail Crockett (Aaron Fischer) - Connecting or Isolating? The Role of Social Media in the Lives of Autistic Emerging Adults

    COLLEGE OF ENGINEERING

    Acacia Laprade (Robby Bowles) - CRISPR-upregulation of Aggrecan and Collagen II in the Goat Genome
    Jesus Ponce (Pavel Panchekha) - Developing a Smarter Coverage-Guided Web Browser Fuzzer for Modern Security Testing

    COLLEGE OF HEALTH

    Austin Joyce (Will Holland) - Investigating the Role of FGF2 in Beta Cell Regeneration

    SCHOOL OF MEDICINE

    Henrique Moreno Benevides (Donna Cross) - Evaluation of Motor and Pathological Outcomes in an ALS Mouse Model Following Treatment with a Biodegradable Paclitaxel-Conjugate
    Seth Luke (Anna Beaudin) - Identifying Cellular and Molecular Determinants of MLL-AF9-driven Neonatal Leukemia

    COLLEGE OF MINES & EARTH SCIENCES

    Lauren Satterfield (Jeffrey Moore) - Modal Analysis for Structural Health Monitoring of Natural Arches: A Case Study of Hellroaring Bridge and Two Tree Bridge

    COLLEGE OF PHARMACY

    Francesca Levitas (Katharine Diehl) - In Situ Visualization of Acetyl-CoA by a Fluorescent Biosensor
    Meah Phan (Eric Schmidt) - Halogenated Tyramine Derivatives For Cold Allodynia Treatment

    COLLEGE OF SCIENCE

    Lucy Leary (Jody Reimer) - The world in color: Effects of power law noise on ecological long transients

    COLLEGE OF SOCIAL & BEHAVIORAL SCIENCE

    Stevie Ayers (Sarah Creem-Regehr) - The effects of concussion on dual-task sensory integration and control of gait while navigating
    Chloe Gourde (Timothy Webster) - Patterns of Sex Chromosome Evolution Across Primates