VOLUME 20
Message from the Director
Welcome to the 2020 issue of the University of Utah’s Undergraduate Research Journal. Congratulations to the students who have published their important work here—the Undergraduate Research Journal collects and celebrates the contributions our undergraduate students from all over campus make to scholarship in their fields.
This journal would not be possible without the dedication of Cindy Greaves, who, along with Office of Undergraduate Research team members Stephanie Shiver and Megan Shannahan works to make the Undergraduate Research Journal the high-quality publication that you are reading today.
I would, as always, like to acknowledge the dedication and support of the faculty mentors who are committed to providing high-quality research experiences for undergraduate students at the University of Utah. The work published here represents countless hours of mentoring on the part of my colleagues all over campus—thank you for all that you do.
Happy reading, all!
Sincerely,
Rachel Hayes-Harb
Director, Office of Undergraduate Research
Associate Dean, Undergraduate Studies
Professor, Department of Linguistics
Architecture & Planning
- FROM GROUND TO AIR: CONNECTING NONEMERGENCY MEDICAL TRANSPORTATION IN RURAL UTAH – Emily Seang (Faculty Mentor: Keith Bartholomew)
- CONTEMPORARY DESIGN IN THE AMERICAN WEST THROUGH THE LENS OF FILM – Gabe Siu (Faculty Mentor: Anne Mooney)
- APPLICATION DESIGN FOR POST-SECONDARY EDUCATION PLANNING – Joseph Wassweiler (Faculty Mentor: Cord Bowen)
Business
- RACIAL DISSIMILARITY AFFECTS PEOPLE OF COLOR’S PARTICIPATION IN GROUPS – Tamara Calzado Real (Faculty Mentor: Barbara Blair), Elizabeth Tenney
- ANTECEDENTS TO SOCIAL MEDIA INFLUENCER EFFECTIVENESS – Monet Frank (Faculty Mentor: Abbie Griffin)
- THE LASTING EFFECT OF THE KURDISH GENOCIDE AND THE IMPACT OF THE MISSING MEN – Rahma Hussein (Faculty Mentor: Scott Schaefer)
- REGIONAL ECONOMIC EFFECTS OF NATIONAL MONUMENT DESIGNATION – Fiona Kastel (Faculty Mentor: Scott Schaefer)
- THE ROLE OF ACCOUNTING AND FINANCE PROFESSORS IN U.S. GOVERNMENT SPENDING EDUCATION – Jacqueline Mumford (Faculty Mentor: Bob Allen)
- ECONOMETRIC ANALYSIS ON THE IMPACT OF WATER RATES ON RESIDENT USAGE AND CITY REVENUE: A STUDY IN SALT LAKE COUNTY, UTAH – Nate Nellis (Faculty Mentor: Scott Schaefer)
- EFFECTS OF BRITISH COLUMBIA’S CARBON TAX ON CO2 EMISSIONS AND NET GASOLINE SALES – Jessilyn Rabe (Faculty Mentor: Jennifer Brown)
- WHERE INDUSTRY MEETS ACADEMIA: AN ANALYSIS OF SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT METHODOLOGIES IN PRACTICE – Keenan Ryder (Faculty Mentor: Brad Williams)
- AN ECONOMETRIC APPROACH TO VALIDATE THE ECONOMIC IMPACT OF THE 2002 WINTER OLYMPIC GAMES – Keegan VanLeeuwen (Faculty Mentor: Scott Schaefer)
Cultural & Social Transformation
- THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN NATIVE AMERICANS AND MUSEUMS: A CASE STUDY OF THE NATURAL HISTORY MUSEUM OF UTAH – Candace Bryan (Faculty Mentor: Elizabeth Archuleta)
- WOKBE: WEB APP PILOT FOR IMPLICIT BIAS TRAINING – Jenny Hobbs (Faculty Mentor: Annie Fukushima)
- SEXUAL AND REPRODUCTIVE HEALTH EDUCATION ACROSS CULTURAL CONTEXTS: GLOBAL, NATIONAL, AND LOCAL PRACTICES AND RECOMMENDATIONS – Noelle Huhn (Faculty Mentor: Claudia Geist)
- AN EVALUATION OF THE NON-FATAL STRANGULATION PROTOCOL IN UTAH – Veronica Lukasinski (Faculty Mentor: Annie Fukushima)
- PERFORMANCE AS SOLIDARITY – Tiyanni Mahi (Faculty Mentor: Hokulani Aikau), Angela Robinson
Dentistry
- METHCATHINONE DECREASES DOPAMINE TRANSPORTER FUNCTION – Yasmeen Siripathane (Faculty Mentor: Annette Fleckenstein), Charlotte Magee, Matthew Ream
Education
- EXAMINING ACCESS TO BOOKS IN PRESCHOOL CLASSROOMS: BOOK GENRES AND CHILD READING OUTCOME – Darby Anderson (Faculty Mentor: Seung-Hee Claire Son)
- A MOTIVATIONAL FRAMEWORK FOR THE ADDICTED SUBPERSONALITY AND MANIFESTATION OF THE RECOVERED SELF – Anya Ragnhildstveit (Faculty Mentor: Patricia Henrie-Barrus)
- AFFECTIVE TACTILE GROUNDING ON DISSOCIATIVE STATES AND TREATMENT OUTCOMES IN KETAMINE ASSISTED PSYCHOTHERAPY FOR ADULTS WITH MAJOR DEPRESSION: PRELIMINARY EVIDENCE TO SUPPORT CLINICAL UTILITY – Anya Ragnhildstveit (Faculty Mentor: Patricia Henrie-Barrus, Ilse DeKoeyer-Laros, Eric Garland) Sarah Cunningham, Quinn Tanner, Linda Good
- THE RISE OF PERSONALIZED-PRECISION eHEALTH IN A COVID-19 ERA – Anya Ragnhildstveit (Faculty Mentor: Patricia Henrie-Barrus)
Engineering
- ADDRESSING NOVICE CODING PATTERNS: EVALUATING AND IMPROVING A TOOL FOR CODE ANALYSIS AND FEEDBACK – Jacqulyn Anderson (Faculty Mentor: Eliane Stampfer Wiese)
- COBALT SUPPLY INSIGHTS IN THE FACE OF INCREASED ELECTRIC VEHICLE DEMAND – Danielle Beatty (Faculty Mentor: Taylor Sparks), Xinkai Fu, Gabrielle Gaustad, Gebrand Cedar, Richard Roth, Randolph Kirchain, Michele Bustamante, Callie Babbitt, Elsa Olivetti
- BLOCK COPOLYMERS AND NANOSPHERE LITHOGRAPHY AS A BOTTOM-UP FABRICATION TOOL FOR FACILITATING DETERMINISTIC LATERAL DISPLACEMENT – Michael Bekeris (Faculty Mentor: Roseanne Warren)
- CELLULAR COMMUNICATIONS FOR UTILITY DISTRIBUTION NETWORK FIELD ASSETS – Jake Collins (Faculty Mentor: Masood Parvania)
- USING REGRESSION MODELING FOR ACCURATE PREDICTION OF POWER GENERATION IN WEARABLE ENERGY HARVESTERS – Julia Dominesey (Faculty Mentor: Shad Roundy)
- FLEXIBLE SENSING FOR PRESSURE ULCER DETECTION AND PREVENTION – Kylee Fluckiger (Faculty Mentor: Jason Wiese)
- LEVERAGING COMPILER INTERMEDIATE REPRESENTATION FOR MULTI- AND CROSS-LANGUAGE VERIFICATION – Jack Garzella (Faculty Mentor: Zvonimir Rakamaric), Marek Baranowski, Shaobo He
- THE OSI MODEL AND THE SPIRAL UP APPLICATION PROTOCOL – Anastasia Gonzalez (Faculty Mentor: Joseph Zachary)
- INTEGRATION OF DIFFERENT MATERIALS ON A SPIRAL CHANNEL DESIGN TO OPTIMIZE MICROFLUIDIC SPERM SORTING – Jesse Griffin (Faculty Mentor: Bruce Gale)
- TURBO-CHARGING ODD CYCLE TRANSVERSAL – Jing Guo (Faculty Mentor: Blair Sullivan), Brian Lavallee
- LOW-COST, BLUETOOTH SURFACE ELECTROMYOGRAPHY FRONT-END – Spencer Iverson (Faculty Mentor: Jake George), Mark Brinton, Tyler S. Davis, Gregory A. Clark
- HYBRID ENZYME-BIMETALLIC NANOPARTICLE SYSTEM FOR TANDEM OXIDATION CATALYSIS – Kathryn Jones (Faculty Mentor: Michael Nigra)
- RAPID DETECTION OF TUBERCULOSIS BREATH BIOMARKERS VIA ENGINEERED ELECTROACTIVE SOLUTIONS – Shaylee Larson (Faculty Mentor: Swomitra Mohanty)
- DEVELOPMENT OF A SMART HYDROGEL BASED SENSOR FOR MONITORING AND PREVENTING OPIOID OVERDOSE – Wonmi Lee (Faculty Mentor: Jules Magda)
- JOINT CONGRUENCY AND DISTANCE ANALYSIS OF THE SUBTALAR JOINT DURING WEIGHT-BEARING– Rich Lisonbee (Faculty Mentor: Andrew Anderson), Amy Lenz
- LEARNING EFFICIENCY OF FEATURES EXCHANGE IN FEDERATED LEARNING – Xintong Liu (Faculty Mentor: Mingyue Ji)
- A COMPUTATIONAL, TWO-DIMENSIONAL MODEL OF THE CORONARY VASCULATURE – Maura Perez (Faculty Mentor: Rob MacLeod)
- DEVELOPMENT OF A LOW-COST SYSTEM FOR MYOELECTRIC PROSTHESIS CONTROL – Sridharan Radhakrishnan (Faculty Mentor: Gregory Clark), Jacob A. George, Mark R. Brinton, Michael D. Paskett, Paul Colgan, Tyler S. Davis
- ARE KANAMYCIN AND ERYTHROMYCIN ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANT BACTERIA AND MULTI-DRUG RESISTANT BACTERIA PRESENT IN DISINFECTED WASTE WATER SAMPLES FROM CENTRAL VALLEY WATER RECLAMATION FACILITY? – Aarushi Rohaj (Faculty Mentor: Ramesh Goel)
- MODELING FOR THE DESIGN OF ELECTROCHEMICAL ENERGY STORAGE MATERIALS – Takara Truong (Faculty Mentor: Roseanne Warren)
- A PRELIMINARY EXAMINATION OF SAFER NOVEL STABILIZATION METHODS FOR ROOM TEMPERATURE SODIUM SULFUR BATTERIES – Robert Underwood (Faculty Mentor: Roseanne Warren)
- LEARNING 3D RECONSTRUCTIONS FOR GEOMETRICALLY AWARE ROBOTIC GRASPING – Mark Van der Merwe (Faculty Mentor: Tucker Hermans), Qingkai Lu, Balakumar Sundaralingam, Martin Matak
- PHASE CHANGE OF NIOBIUM CARBIDE THROUGH HIGH-TEMPERATURE ANNEALING – David Whittaker (Faculty Mentor: Dinesh Shetty)
- IMAGING THINLY MYELINATED WHITE MATTER PATHWAYS – Laura Ziegler (Faculty Mentor: Michael Pritz)
Fine Arts
- HOW WE MOVE WHEN WE FEEL: KINESTHETIC EMPATHY THROUGH MIRROR NEURONS – Amelie Bennett (Faculty Mentor: Kate Mattingly)
- THE MURRAY MURALS PROJECT: CONNECTING LIVES ON CANVAS – Sydney Porter Williams (Faculty Mentor: V. Kim Martinez)
Health
- TREATMENT FIDELITY OF GAZE AND POSTURAL STABILITY INTERVENTIONS TO IMPROVE BALANCE IN PATIENTS WITH MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS – Parker Ballard (Faculty Mentor: Lee Dibble)
- INSULIN AND GLUCOSE: BIOMARKERS OF APPETITE FOLLOWING ACUTE EXERCISE – Margaret Bielefeld (Faculty Mentor: Tanya Halliday), Savannah Mcoy
- DEFINING THE ROLE OF CHAPERONE-MEDIATED AUTOPHAGY IN DEGRADING HARMFUL PROTEINS IN CARDIAC PATHOLOGY – Nima Fatahian (Faculty Mentor: Rajeshwary Ghosh), J. Scott Pattison, J. David Symons, Sihem Boudina
- EFFECT OF A CHOLINE DEFICIENT DIET ON ENERGY EXPENDITURE IN MICE – Luke Garcia (Faculty Mentor: Katsu Funai), Anthony Verkerke
- LATE-IN-LIFE TREADMILL-TRAINING AMELIORATES THE DECLINE IN CARDIAC AUTOPHAGY ASSOCIATED WITH AGING IN MICE – Kellsey Ly (Faculty Mentor: J. David Symons), Caroline Ramous, JaeMin Cho, Lauren Thompson, Kiana Luu, Alex Margretts, Skye Buzianis, Michele Hansen, Karla Maria Pires, Kevin Whitehead, Kandis Carter, Marcio Buffolo, Seul-Ki Park, Sihem Boudina
- INSULIN AND GLUCOSE: BIOMARKERS OF APPETITE FOLLOWING ACUTE EXERCISE – Savannah McCoy (Faculty Mentor: Tanya Halliday), Margaret Bielefeld
- THE EFFECTS OF A METFORMIN-LEUCINE DUAL THERAPY ON RECOVERY FOLLOWING INACTIVITY IN AGED MICE – Jessie Montgomery (Faculty Mentor: Micah Drummond)
- IS INTACT ENDOTHELIAL CELL AUTOPHAGY NECESSARY TO OBSERVE TRAINING-INDUCED VASCULAR ADAPTATIONS? – Caroline Ramous (Faculty Mentor: J. David Symons), Jae Min Cho, Suel-Ki Park, Michele Hansen, Kellsey Ly, Lauren Thompson, Sihem Boudina
- HOME-BASED HIGH-INTENSITY INTERVAL TRAINING TO IMPROVE COLORECTAL CANCER SURVIVORSHIP: FEASIBILITY AND RELATIONSHIP WITH NOVEL SURROGATE BIOMARKERS OF COLORECTAL CANCER RECURRENCE – Nathan Rose (Faculty Mentor: Adriana Coletta)
- A NEW PROTOCOL FOR FIRST RESPONDERS FOR HYPOTHERMIC PULSELESSNESS IN PEDIATRIC PATIENTS – Isabel Shimanski (Faculty Mentor: Chris Stratford)
- EXPLORING RELATIONSHIPS BETWEEN PRACTICE HISTORY, PERFORMANCE, AND INJURY RISK IN A SAMPLE OF DEVELOPMENTAL ALPINE SKIERS – Sarah Taylor (Faculty Mentor: Keith R. Lohse), Bradley Fawver, Brady DeCouto, A. Mark Williams
- IMPROVING VACCINATION COMPLIANCE AND COMBATING ANTI-VACCINATION SENTIMENT IN THE UNITED STATES – Kendall Thiede (Faculty Mentor: Steven C. Alder)
- SPTLC2 DELETION IN ENDOTHELIAL CELLS: IMPLICATIONS FOR ARTERIAL FUNCTION – Lauren Thompson (Faculty Mentor: J. David Symons), Caroline Ramous, Kellsey Ly, Kiana Luu, Alex Margetts, Trevor Tippetts, Jae Min Cho, Seul-Ki Park, Ran Hee Choi
- THE ROLE OF PILOT-TESTING IN DEVELOPING AN INTERVENTION PROTOCOL FOR ROBOTIC PET RESEARCH – Rebecca Westenskow (Faculty Mentor: Rhonda Nelson)
Honors
- THE IMPLICATIONS OF DEMENTIA DIALOGUES ON HEALTH CARE WORKERS AND CARE TAKERS – Sophia McQueen (Faculty Mentor: Rebecca Utz)
- OBJECTIFIED: BODILY FRAGMENTATION IN THE METAPHYSICAL CONCEIT – Caitlin Silianoff (Faculty Mentor: Christopher Mead)
Humanities
- A CONTENT ANALYSIS OF NEWSPAPER COVERAGE OF COLONY COLLAPSE DISORDER – Henry Allen (Faculty Mentor: Sara Yeo)
- THE EDUCATION CATASTROPHE ON AMERICAN INDIAN STUDENTS – Samantha Eddy (Faculty Mentor: Maria Alberto
- CATHOLIC RESPONSE TO THE AIDS CRISIS IN UTAH – Juan Esquivel (Faculty Mentor: Elizabeth Clement)
- GENDER AND NATIONAL IDENTITY: THE HISTORICAL MEMORY OF SOVIET-ERA ETHNIC ESTONIAN AND ETHNIC RUSSIAN WOMEN – Tara Godwin (Faculty Mentor: Julie Ault)
- HEROINES OF CONFUCIANISM: CHINESE WOMEN OF THE HIGH QING – Rachel Griffin (Faculty Mentor: Margaret Wan)
- REPRESENTATION AND INTERPRETATION: UNDERSTANDING TEXT THROUGH IMAGES IN THE ROMANCE OF THE ROSE – Erin Jackson (Faculty Mentor: Jerry Root), Jensen Kelly
- A WIDENING DIVIDE: AN EXAMINATION OF CONSTITUTIONAL POLARIZATION IN SUPREME COURT NOMINATION HEARINGS – Bennett Johnson (Faculty Mentor: Shannon McGregor)
- WHAT IN THE FETCHING HECK IS A MOUN[ɁƏ]N: REPLICATION STUDY OF EDDINGTON & SAVAGE (2012) – Cailey Lloyd (Faculty Mentor: Rachel Hayes-Harb)
- MAGNIFIED VISION – Maria Stokes (Faculty Mentor: Hugh Cagle), Yue Zhao
- THE MEANING OF NO – Gabrielle Zweifel (Faculty Mentor: Disa Gambera)
Medicine
- THE ROLE OF FIBROBLAST GROWTH FACTOR 21 IN HEART FAILURE – Naredos Almaw (Faculty Mentor: Dipayan Chaudhuri)
- TUMOR GENOMICS AS A ROUTE TO CLARIFYING INHERITED GENETICS IN MULTIPLE MYELOMA – Taylor Aucutt (Faculty Mentor: Nicola Camp), Rosalie Waller, Myke Madsen
- BEHAVIORAL RESPONSE TO ALARM PHEROMONE IN THE MINIATURE FISH, DANIONELLA TRANSLUCIDA – Jacob Bedke (Faculty Mentor: Adam Douglass), Ariadne Penalva
- CELL SURFACE CHANGES THAT INFLUENCE SIZE BASED DISSEMINATION OF A FUNGAL PATHOGEN – Brianna Brammer (Faculty Mentor: Jessica Brown), Steven Denham
- GEOMETRICAL ANALYSIS OF EXPERIMENTAL ARTERIOVENOUS FISTULA LUMEN IN RATS AND INTER-ANALYST VARIABILITY
Savanna Cahoon (Faculty Mentor: Yan-Ting Shiu) - DECELLULARIZED EXTRACELLULAR VENTRICULAR PORCINE HEART MATRIX LEADS TO IMPROVED STRUCTURAL ARRANGEMENT AND DEVELOPMENT OF HUMAN IPS CELL-DERIVED CARDIOMYOCYTES AND FIBROBLASTS – Enrique Coca Frias (Faculty Mentor: Martin Tristani-Firouzi), Scott Cho, Natalia Torres
- COLLABORATING FOR CHILD HEALTH AND WELL-BEING A PILOT RCT OF A COLLABORATIVE CARE PRACTICE BETWEEN CHILD WELFARE AND CHILD HEALH CARE – Mary Kathryn Curcio (Faculty Mentor: Kristine Campbell)
- HEALTHCARE PROVIDER BIAS IN ESTIMATING THE HEALTH LITERACY OF PARENTS IN A PEDIATRIC EMERGENCY DEPARTMENT – Bridget Dorsey (Faculty Mentor: Maija Holsti)
- DAMPENED NUCLEUS ACCUMBENS BOLD RESPONSE IN MALES: AN FMRI STUDY ON THE EFFECTS OF CHRONIC PAIN AND SEX ON REWARD NETWORKS – Lauren Ericksen (Faculty Mentor: Tiffany Love), Vincent Koppelmans, Jon-Kar Zubieta
- HINDGUT EPITHELIAL ION TRANPORTERS IN DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER – Austin Goodwin (Faculty Mentor: Aylin Rodan), John Pleinis
- INVESTIGATING THE ROLE OF A PTF1A TARGET GENE, FGF21, IN MAINTAINING DIFFERENTIATED PANCREATIC CELLS – Ella Gregory (Faculty Mentor: Diane Hernandez), Charles Murtaugh
- KINEMATICS OF HIPS WITH CAM FEMOROACETABULAR IMPINGEMENT SYNDROME – Joseph Hartle (Faculty Mentor: Andrew Anderson)
- VERAPAMIL PROTECTS AGAINST SEVERE HYPOGLYCEMIA- INDUCED FATAL CARDIAC ARRHYTHMIAS – Yiqing Huang (Faculty Mentor: Simon Fisher), Candace Reno
- PERSPECTIVES FROM STUDENTS IN THE NATIVE AMERICAN SUMMER RESEARCH INTERNSHIP PROGRAM – Miranda Jones (Faculty Mentor: Maija Holsti), Akiko Kamimura, Sarah Elizabeth Levitt, Noelia Juarez
- INVESTIGATING DIFFERENCES IN CORONARY ARTERIES FROM DIALYSIS AND NON-DIALYSIS PATIENTS – Marina Kynsheva (Faculty Mentor: Yan-Ting Shiu)
- THE EFFECT OF DIFFERENTIAL RASGRP2 ISOFORM EXPRESSION ON MEGAKARYOCYTE ACTIVATION – Olivia Lee (Faculty Mentor: Jesse Rowley)
- INVESTIGATING THE ROLE OF SEROTONIN SIGNALING IN LIVER CANCER USING THE CRISPR/CAS9 SYSTEM – Chloe Lim (Faculty Mentor: Kimberley Evason)
- IUGR AMPLIFIES ATHEROSCLEROSIS AND INSULIN RESISTANCE IN RATS FED A HIGH FAT DIET – Jingtong Liu (Faculty Mentor: Anastasiya Mankouski), Baifeng Yu, Erin Zinkhan
- GENETIC INTERACTIONS AND OSMOREGULATORY EFFECTS OF HUMAN DISEASE GENES BLOS4, VPS16B, VPS33B, AND WNK IN DROSOPHILA Aaron McMurray (Faculty Mentor: Aylin Rodan), John Pleinis
- CORRELATIONS BETWEEN CHRONIC PAIN AND BRAIN STRUCTURE – Sophie McQuinn (Faculty Mentor: Tiffany Love)
- AN UNDERGRADUATE RESEARCH EXPERIENCE REFLECTIVE NARRATIVE: FROM FIRST GENERATION STUDENT TO RESEARCH ASSISTANT – Kayla Navarro (Faculty Mentor: Adam de Havenon)
- GNAWING TIME: A NOVEL BEHAVIORAL TEST TO ASSESS OROFACIAL PAIN IN RATS – Anthony Phero (Faculty Mentor: Norman Taylor), Luiz Ferrari
- ORAL HEALTH: GATEWAY TO OVERALL HEALTH AND WELL-BEING – Bianca Ruiz-Negron (Faculty Mentor: Man Hung), Ryan Moffat, Gagandeep Gill, Evelyn Lauren, Megan Rosales, James Richey, Frank W. Licari
- PRESYNAPTIC INPUTS OF BIPOLAR CELLS ONTO RETINAL GANGLION CELLS – Christina Sanchez (Faculty Mentor: Ning Tian), Brent Young
- DEVELOPING A HEPATOCYTE PREFERENTIAL INSULIN ANALOG BASED ON ASGP-R LIGAND – Mica Sloan (Faculty Mentor: Simon Fisher), Danny Chou
- IDENTIFYING GENETIC MODIFIERS OF APOPTOSIS IN RETINAL DEGENERATION – Kaitlyn Stevens (Faculty Mentor: Clement Chow)
- HUMAN ARTERIOVENOUS FISTULA WALL THICKNESS IN THE FIRST SIX MONTHS AFTER CREATION – Spencer Tingey (Faculty Mentor: Yan-Ting Shiu), Yingnan Li, Isabelle Falzon
- EFFECT OF ORAL SODIUM BICARBONATE ON PHYSICAL FUNCTION IN PATIENTS WITH CHRONIC KIDNEY DISEASE – Kunani Tuttle (Faculty Mentor: Kalani Raphael)
Mines & Earth Sciences
- CHEMICAL VARIABILITY AND CHARACTERIZATION OF SAN CARLOS OLIVINE AS STARTING MATERIAL IN EXPERIMENTAL PETROLOGY – Sarah Hamilton (Faculty Mentor: Sarah Lambart)
- BLOWING IN THE WIND: THE EFFECT OF THE SHRINKING GREAT SALT LAKE ON SNOW DURATION IN THE WASATCH MOUNTAINS – Chase Hodges-Heilmann (Faculty Mentor: Gannet Hallar), Tanner Visnick, Christopher Rapp
- BIOAVAILABLE STRONTIUM FOR ARCHAEOLOGICAL STUDIES IN MODERN MANHATTAN, NEW YORK – Riley Murray (Faculty Mentor: Diego Fernandez)
- A PRELIMINARY PALEOMAGNETIC TEST FOR INCREMENTAL PLUTON EMPLACEMENT – Travis Parsons (Faculty Mentor: Peter Lippert), John Bartley
- UTAH WINTER FINE PARTICULATE STUDY: A STATISTICAL OVERVIEW – Christopher Rapp – (A. Gannet Hallar)
- CHARACTERIZING LANDSLIDES IN WEBER RIVER DELTA, UTAH IN RELATION TO PRECIPITATION AND GROUNDWATER LEVEL – Shakir Shaharudin (Faculty Mentor: Paul Jewell)
- LOCAL DISTANCE SOURCE DISCRIMINATION USING INTERPRETABLE MACHINE LEARNING MODELS – Jonathan Voyles (Faculty Mentor: Keith Koper), Ben Baker
Nursing
- CONTENT OF DAILY JOURNALING BY CHILDREN WITH CANCER IN GAME-BASED APPLICATION – Kaitlyn Fox (Faculty Mentor: Lauri Linder)
- FAMILY CAREGIVER EMPLOYMENT: AN EXPLORATION OF CAREGIVER AND HOSPICE NURSE COMMUNICATION – Kalen Gunter (Faculty Mentor: Lee Ellington)
- REPRODUCTIVE HEALTH AND BARRIERS TO CARE AMONG WOMEN WITH DISABILITIES – Nene Maruta (Faculty Mentor: Sara Simonsen)
- A MINDFUL APPROACH TO PERCEIVED STRESS FOR OLDER ADULTS RECEIVING REHABILITATION SERVICES IN LONG-TERM CARE (LTC)– Anthony Muradas (Faculty Mentor: Katarina Felsted)
- CONTRACEPTION KNOWLEDGE AND ATTITUDES AMONG HISPANIC WOMEN – Laura Sofia Ortega-Flores (Faculty Mentor: Ana Sanchez-Birkhead)
- PROVIDER RESPONSES TO THE IMPLEMENTATION OF ONE KEY QUESTION(R) INTO THE UNIVERSITY OF UTAH HEALTHCARE SYSTEM – Alexandria Pehrson (Faculty Mentor: Sara Simonsen)
- HOSPITAL ACQUIRED BLOODSTREAM INFECTIONS IN PEDIATRIC PATIENTS UNDERGOING HEMATOPOIETIC STEM CELL TRANSPLANTATION – Mayra Rodriguez (Faculty Mentor: Lauri Linder)
- BARRIERS TO WOMEN’S ACCESS TO PERINATAL MENTAL HEALTH CARE IN RURAL UTAH – Kristen Stucki (Faculty Mentor: Gwen Latendresse)
- ANALYZING THE SYMPTOM EXPERIENCE OF ADOLESCENTS AND YOUNG ADULTS WITH CANCER – Makenna Terrell (Faculty Mentor: Lauri Linder)
- CAUSES OF DISCONTINUATION OF FERTILITY TREATMENTS IN UTAH – Camrey Tuttle (Faculty Mentor: Sara Simonsen)
- A MENTORSHIP MODEL FOR EDUCATIONALLY DISADVANTAGED HIGH SCHOOL STUDENTS INTERESTED IN THE NURSING PROFESSION – Keely VandenBerge (Faculty Mentor: Sara Hart)
- SEX DIFFERENCES IN DISPOSITIONAL MINDFULNESS AND ITS EFFECT ON ACUPUNCTURE TREATMENT OUTCOMES – Annie Walton (Faculty Mentor: Lisa Taylor-Swanson)
- UTAH WOMEN WITH BLEEDING DISORDERS: EXPERIENCES WITH PREGNANCY AND CHILDBIRTH – Ashli Young (Faculty Mentor: Sara Simonsen)
Pharmacy
- DEVELOPMENT OF A NOVEL CRISPR-BASED TOOL FOR INSTANTANEOUS VISUAL GENOTYPING OF ZEBRAFISH – Korak Chakraborti (Faculty Mentor: Randall T. Peterson), Saba Parvez
- ALTERNATIVE PHARMACEUTICAL APPROACH TO OPIOID EPIDEMIC THROUGH ANALYSIS OF SENSORY NEURONS THAT SIGNAL PAIN AND FATIGUE – Loveleen Ghuman (Faculty Mentor: Noemi Paguigan), Jie Zhang
Science
- PERSISTENT CURRENT FROM SPIN ORBIT INTERACTION IN HELICOIDAL QUANTUM WIRES – Jonah Barber (Faculty Mentor: Eugene Mishchenko)
- HABITAT FRAGMENTATION IN THE WASATCH MOUNTAIN RANGE: UNDERSTANDING THE ROLE OF I-80 ON MIGRATORY MAMMALS AND COMMUNITY COMPOSITION USING CAMERA TRAPS – Kelsey Barnick (Faculty Mentor: Cagan Sekercioglu), Austin Green
- MAPPING CHEMICAL ENRICHMENT VIA SUPERNOVA REMNANTS – Galen Bergsten (Faculty Mentor: Gail Zasowski)
- NEURAL MECHANISMS OF SEXUAL TRANSFORMATION IN THALASSOMA BIFASCIATUM, THE BLUEHEAD WRASSE – Madeline Bernardo (Faculty Mentor: Gary Rose)
- NOVEL LIGAND SYNTHESIS FOR CO2 HYDROGENATION – Austin Cannon (Faculty Mentor: Caroline Saouma)
- SYNTHESIS OF AN ANTIBIOTIC SCAFFOLD INSPIRED BY THE TAN 1057-D BIOLOGICALLY ACTIVE NATURAL PRODUCT – Rachel Cantrell (Faculty Mentor: Ryan Looper)
- THE EFFECT OF INFLAMMATORY COMPONENTS ON INFLUENZA A VIRULENCE EVOLUTION – Kaili Curtis (Faculty Mentor: Wayne Potts), Rodrigo Costa
- EFFECTS OF FARNESYLTRANSFERASE INHIBITORS ON ENDOTHELIAL CELL FUNCTION IN CEREBRAL CAVERNOUS MALFORMATION – Adam Dickson (Faculty Mentor: Tam Phuong)
- PROBING PEPTIDE SUBSTRATE RECOGNITION OF RADICAL SADENOSYLMETHIONINE ENZYME TTE1186 VIA ASSAY OF SYNTHESIZED PEPTIDE SUBSTRATE MUTANTS AND LIQUID CHROMATOGRAPHY/MASS SPECTROSCOPY ANALYSIS – Calder Duffin (Faculty Mentor: Vahe Bandarian)
- CONFOCAL RAMAN MICROSCOPY STUDIES OF REVERSIBLE PROTEIN ION-EXCHANGE INTERACTIONS WITHIN POROUS SILICA PARTICLES – Allison Jacobsen (Faculty Mentor: Joel Harris), Mayram Zare
- WEIGHING ABELL 2029: HOW DIFFERENT ASSUMPTIONS CHANGE A GALAXY CLUSTER’S MASS – Logan Kelley (Faculty Mentor: Daniel Wik)
- PARASITE SURVEY OF WOODRATS (GENUS NEOTOMA) IN SOUTHWEST USA – Zahra Khan (Faculty Mentor: Denise Dearing) Margaret Doolin, Sara Weinstein
- A DEMOGRAPHIC SURVEY OF BRYANT’S WOODRAT IN A DISTURBED HABITAT – Cameron Kohlschein (Faculty Mentor: Denise Dearing), Dylan M. Klure
- DETERMINING THE MOLECULAR STRUCTURE OF THE ZEAXANTHIN-GSTP1 COMPLEX – Markell Kolendrianos (Faculty Mentor: Martin Horvath)
- DISCOVERING ZEAXANTHIN IN COMPLEX WITH GSTP1 – Annabel Lee (Faculty Mentor: Martin Horvath)
- DEVELOPING SPECTROSCOPIC METHODOLOGY TO UNRAVEL RESPIRATION – Richard Lee (Faculty Mentor: Matthew Kieber-Emmons)
- EFFECTS OF WIND-GENERATED UNDERWATER NOISE ON SOUTHERN RIGHT WHALE GROUP DYNAMICS – Jayanti Muehlman (Faculty Mentor: Jon Seger), Victoria Rowntree
- PID TEMPERATURE CONTROL FOR THE COMPUTATIONAL STUDY OF CHIRAL CRYSTALLIZATION – Nicholas Olsen (Faculty Mentor: Michael Grünwald), John Carpenter
- UNDERSTANDING EYE COLOR GENETICS IN THE DOMESTIC PIGEON – Bridget Phillips (Faculty Mentor: Michael Shapiro), Emily Maclary, Ryan Wauer
- INHIBITORY NEURON CLASSIFICATION AND DISTRIBUTION ACROSS THE CEREBRAL CORTEX OF THE MARMOSET MONKEY (CALLITHRIX JACCHUS) – Gabriella Rasmussen (Faculty Mentor: Alessandra Angelucci)
- AMERICAN COCKROACHES EXHIBIT INTER-INDIVIDUAL VARIATION IN RECEPTIVITY TO CLASSICAL CONDITIONING – Lyndsay Ricks (Faculty Mentor: Donald Feener)
- INVESTIGATING THE ROLE OF THE UNFOLDED PROTEIN RESPONSE IN QUIESCENCE – Gabriela Rocha (Faculty Mentor: Julie Hollien)
- NANOMITE-DECORATED NANOPARTICLES AS SURFACE-ENHANCED SPECTROSCOPY SUBSTRATES– Wallis Scholl (Faculty Mentor: Jennifer Shumaker-Parry)
- ORTHOGONAL CRISPR-CAS GENOME EDITING AND EFFICIENT INHIBITION WITH ANTI-CRISPRS IN ZEBRAFISH EMBRYOS – Paige Takasugi (Faculty Mentor: James Gagnon)
- ANALYSIS OF SINGLE NANOPARTICLES USING NANOPARTICLE MASS SPECTROMETRY (NPMS) – Susanna Tang (Faculty Mentor: Scott Anderson), Bryan Long, Daniel Rodriguez
- SYNTHESIS OF MESOPOROUS SILICA NANOPARTICLES FOR TARGETED ALPHA THERAPY – Lauren Tervet (Faculty Mentor: Ilya Zharov)
- A STRUCTURAL ANALYSIS OF THE LOST CITY MUTY METAGENOME – Payton Utzman (Faculty Mentor: Martin Horvath) Mary Fairbanks
Social & Behavioral Science
- THE CONSTITUTIONAL CONTEXT OF PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION AND EXECUTIVE ORDERS – Dallas Blackburn (Faculty Mentor: Richard Green)
- POPULUS FREMONTII IN A CHANGING ENVIRONMENT – Sydney Boogaard (Faculty Mentor: Jennifer Follstad Shah)
- TRANSLOCATION AND ERADICATION: A CASE STUDY OF THE ADVOCACY COALITION FRAMEWORK IN UTAH’S BIGHORN SHEEP MANAGEMENT – Saige Bowen (Faculty Mentor: Juliet Carlisle)
- RODENT DIVERSITY VARIES BY HABITAT TYPE AND ANTHROPOGENIC ALTERATIONS IN RIPARIAN CORRIDORS OF THE COLORADO PLATEAU – Michael Broughton (Faculty Mentor: Isaac Hart)
- TEMPORAL FEEDING PATTERNS OF ALOUATTA PALLIATA AT LA SELVA BIOLOGICAL RESEARCH STATION COSTA RICA: A REFLECTION – Sydney N. Cahoon (Faculty Mentor: Melissa Seaboch)
- ASSESSMENT OF GLUCOSE’S ROLE IN COGNITIVE CONTROL – Nathan Caines (Faculty Mentor: Sara LoTemplio)
- 4,500 YEARS OF BIOTIC CHANGE IN RANGE CREEK CANYON – William Cannon (Faculty Mentor: Larry Coats)
- PETROCHEMICAL RELEASES DISPROPORTIONATELY AFFECTED SOCIALLY VULNERABLE POPULATIONS ALONG THE TEXAS GULF COAST AFTER HURRICANE HARVEY – Alyssa Castor (Faculty Mentor: Timothy Collins), Aaron Flores, Sara Grineski
- WEARY FEET AND FLAKED STONE: LIFE ALONG THE DELORES RIVER VALLEY – Emily Cebrowski (Faculty Mentor: Brian Codding), Brock James
- POLITICAL POLARIZATION AND SOCIAL MEDIA USE – Maxton Cline (Faculty Mentor: Paul White)
- WAR RITUALS IN SMALL SCALE SOCIETIES: POTENTIAL TREATMENT FOR VETERANS WITH PTSD – Rachel Coy (Faculty Mentor: Shane Macfarlan)
- MEASURING WORKING MEMORY, AND AFFECT THROUGH NATURE AND URBAN EXPOSURES – Kaedyn Crabtree (Faculty Mentor: David Strayer)
- UTAHAN’S HEALTH RISK PERCEPTION SURROUNDING AIR POLLUTION – Linda Derhak (Faculty Mentor: Tabitha Benney), Zahra Saifee, Samuel Bey
- EXAMINING FREE CLINIC PATIENTS HOUSEHOLD ENVIRONMENTAL SAFETY AND THE RESULTING IMPACT ON THEIR PERCEIVED STRESS LEVELS – Claire Dinehart (Faculty Mentor: Akiko Kamimura) Margaret Alvord, Samin Panahi, Jeanie Ashby
- GEOLOCATING NEIGHBORHOOD RECREATIONAL SPACES: UNDERSTANDING INEQUALITIES BY NEIGHBORHOOD ECONOMIC CONDITIONS – Madeline Engel (Faculty Mentor: David Curtis)
- HOW SENSITIVE ARE PACKRAT MIDDENS FOR DETECTING TREE COLONIZATION? – Natalie Fillerup (Faculty Mentor: Larry Coats)
- PATIENT PRIVACY AND DATABASE SECURITY FOR EMERGING HEALTH INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY– Chloe Garner (Faculty Mentor: Rebecca Utz)
- INTERPERSONAL CORRELATES OF GRIT AND SELF-CONTROL: A CIRCUMPLEX ANALYSIS – Kelli Geskes (Faculty Mentor: Timothy Smith)
- MY PASSION: ANTHROPOLOGY – Ellison Goodrich (Faculty Mentor: Melissa Seaboch)
- NATIONAL INFERIORITY COMPLEX OF KOREA – Su Yeon Gwak (Faculty Mentor: Daniel Morgan)
- CLIMATE ANOMALIES IN SOUTHEASTERN UTAH: MODERN VARIATION FROM 30 YEARS OF TEMPERATURE AND PRECIPITATION TRENDS – Logan Hastings (Faculty Mentor: McKenzie Skiles)
- PARTY IMAGE AND INTRA-PARTY DISSENT IN AMERICAN POLITICS: THE EQUAL RIGHTS AMENDMENT AND DEMOCRATIC ECONOMIC POLICY CONFLICT IN THE 1980s – Wyatt Hudgens (Faculty Mentor: Matthew Burbank)
- EXAMINING THE EFFECTS OF POWER DYNAMICS ON MULTIRACIAL PERCEPTIONS IN THE WORKPLACE – Camranh Le (Faculty Mentor: Jacqueline Chen)
- HIGHER LEVELS OF SELF-EFFICACY AND READINESS FOR A FUTURE CAREER AMONG SPANISH-SPEAKING PHYSICIAN ASSISTANT STUDENTS AFTER THEIR VOLUNTEER WORK AT A STUDENT-RUN FREE CLINIC IN THE UNITED STATES – Sarah Elizabeth Levitt (Faculty Mentor: Akiko Kamimura)
- IMPACT OF MOTHER’S DEPRESSION, ANXIETY, EMOTION DYSREGULATION, AND EARLY CHILDHOOD TRAUMA ON HAIR CORTISOL LEVELS DURING PREGNANCY – Treasure Lundskog (Faculty Mentor: Elisabeth Conradt)
- FINANCIAL ADVISOR TITLES: INFORMATIONAL COMPLEXITY AND THE ROLE OF REGULATORY SIMPLIFICATION – Alex Macfarlan (Faculty Mentor: Cathleen Zick)
- REFLECTION ON RESEARCH IN GENETIC BIOINFORMATICS – Sally Matthews (Faculty Mentor: Timothy Webster)
- SECURE BASE SCRIPT ATTACHMENT REPRESENTATIONS AND BEHAVIOR PROBLEMS IN MIDDLE CHILDHOOD – Kyrah Naegle (Faculty Mentor: Lee Raby)
- SPATIAL AND TEMPORAL VARIATIONS IN BLACK CARBON IN SNOW ALONG THE WASATCH FRONT – Baylee Olds (Faculty Mentor: McKenzie Skiles)
- MATERNAL SENSITIVITY AS A PREDICTOR OF INFANTS’ PHYSIOLOGICAL REACTIVITY ONE YEAR LATER – Ali Palmer (Faculty Mentor: Lee Raby), Bailey Speck
- THE ASSOCIATIONS BETWEEN MATERNAL AND PATERNAL STRESS DURING PREGNANCY AND NEWBORN OUTCOMES – Amy Palmer (Faculty Mentor: Elisabeth Conradt), Mindy A. Brown
- ASSOCIATIONS BETWEEN RACE, ETHNICITY, SOCIOECONOMIC STATUS AND EMOTION DYSREGULATION ON NEWBORN ATTENTION AND AROUSAL – Alexander Peterson (Faculty Mentor: Elisabeth Conradt), Uma Dorn
- BRINGING AUTOMATION-RELATED COMPLACENCY INTO THE 21ST CENTURY – Kristianna Radley (Faculty Mentor: Frank Drews)
- ADDING UP THE COST OF EXCLUDING UNDOCUMENTED UTAHNS FROM STATE AND FEDERAL COVID-19 RELIEF – Mario Ramirez-Arrazola (Faculty Mentor: Thomas Maloney), Matthew Weinstein
- SOCIAL AND ECONOMIC FACTORS: THE INFLUENCERS OF CONTRACEPTIVE EFFECTIVENESS – Johnny Rodriguez (Faculty Mentor: Claudia Geist)
- COMPARING THE PHYSICAL ACTIVITY OF PARENTS AND THEIR ADOLESCENTS – Taylor Silkey (Faculty Mentor: Rebecca Utz), Samin Panahi
- ESTABLISHING A TEMPORAL DISTRIBUTION FOR CERAMICS OF THE WASHINGTON COUNTY, UT VIRGIN RIVER BRANCH OF THE ANCESTRAL PUEBLOAN – Crystal Spagnuolo (Faculty Mentor: Brian Codding), Kenneth Blake Vernon
- A REAL-WORLD INVESTIGATION OF THE ATTENTIONAL CAPTURE PARADIGM – Patrick Stewart (Faculty Mentor: Trafton Drew)
- RANDOMIZED EXPERIMENT USING SLEEP TECHNOLOGY – Sarah Trela-Hoskins (Faculty Mentor: Kelly Baron)
- THE MEDIATING ROLE OF COPING BEHAVIORS IN THE RELATION BETWEEN PARTNER RELATIONSHIP QUALITY AND INFANT STRESS SIGNS – Joshua Urry (Faculty Mentor: Sheila Crowell), Robert Vlisides-Henry
- AN ANALYSIS OF DEVELOPMENTAL AND LANGUAGE OUTCOMES IN CHILDREN WHO WERE EXPOSED TO CYTOMEGALOVIRUS IN-UTERO – Walker West (Faculty Mentor: Marissa Diener)
- DIFFERENCES IN PERSPECTIVE-TAKING BETWEEN MOTHER AND PEER LISTENERS – Kathryn Wylie (Faculty Mentor: Monisha Pasupathi), Cecilia Wainryb
- THE TRAJECTORY OF TRAUMA: THE EFFECTS OF ACES ON SUICIDAL IDEATIONS – Lauren Ziegelmayer (Faculty Mentor: Sonia Salari)
Social Work
- DEVELOPING A MENTORING PROGRAM WITH UNDERGRADUATE STUDENTS: A FEASIBILITY STUDY FOR WORKING WITH REFUGEE YOUTH – Allyson Berri (Faculty Mentor: Caren Frost), Lisa Gren
- POST-TRAUMATIC STRESS DISORDER PREDICTS CRAVING AMONG OPIOID-TREATED CHRONIC PAIN PATIENTS – Hannah Louise Landicho (Faculty Mentor: Eric Garland)
- EYEWITNESS IDENTIFICATION: A SYSTEMATIC REVIEW – Ebony Miller (Faculty Mentor: Joanne Yaffe)
- POLYNESIAN YOUTH AND THEIR POLYDIMENSIONAL EXPERIENCE WITHIN NATIVE AND WESTERNIZED SPACES: AN EXAMINATION OF PACIFIC ISLANDER YOUTH AND THE CULTURAL FACTORS THAT AFFECT THEIR EXPERIENCE OF LEVELS OF SUICIDAL IDEOLOGIES AND CULTURAL SHAME – Tausoa Mulitalo (Faculty Mentor: Leilani Katoa-Taholo)
- NEURAL MECHANISMS OF MINDFULNESS-ORIENTED RECOVERY ENHANCEMENT – Madeleine Odette (Faculty Mentor: Eric Garland)
- EXAMINING POLICY PRIORITIES FOR ADDRESSING HOMELESSNESS IN SALT LAKE COUNTY BY PEOPLE WITH LIVED EXPERIENCE – Elise Smith (Faculty Mentor: Sarah Canham), Piper Moore