COLLEGE OF ARCHITECTURE + PLANNING

Rachel Walker (Mentor: Milad Mozari) - Bridging the Gap Immersive Environments for Resettlement

SCHOOL FOR CULTURAL & SOCIAL TRANSFORMATION

Marylinda Gonzalez (Mentor: Ed Munoz) - Traditional Dance and the Development of Latinx Identity (Latinidad) in Utah
Charlie Smith (Mentor: Kim Hackford-Peer) - Forging Representation in the Wake of Censorship: A “Trans” Analysis of Spider-Man’s Canon
Mia Strunk (Mentor: Kim Hackford-Peer) - The Need for Oral History Regarding Queer Members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints

SCHOOL OF DENTISTRY

Wes Hall (Mentor: Melodie Weller) - Optimizing the Sequencing Process for Hepatitis Delta Virus (HDV)
Collin Santoro (Mentor: Melodie Weller) - Pathogenesis of Sjogren’s Disease (SjD) by Environmental Pathogens

COLLEGE OF ENGINEERING

Bryson Anderson (Mentor: Lars Laurentius) - Optimization of Smart Hydrogel Structures for Improved Glucose Response
Igor Antonio Andrade Silva (Mentor: Tom Zangle) - Development of a reproducible protocol for the synthesis of polyacrylamide hydrogel with matched refractive index designed for quantitative phase imaging of cells
Prachi Aswani (Mentor: Marina Kogan) - Understanding Public Responses to COVID-19 Crisis Communication
Catherine Bao (Mentor: Vivek Srikumar) - Ensuring Equity and Safety in AI: Analyzing Existing Laws to Develop a Comprehensive Regulatory Framework
Samuel Becker (Mentor: Edoardo Battaglia) - Optimization of Marker Positions in Hand Pose Reconstruction Using Data Glove
Chad Berghoff (Mentor: Laura Hallock) - Surface Electromyography Sensor Use Cases in Stroke Rehabilitation
Sydney Biddix (Mentor: Robby Bowles) - CRISPR-upregulation of Aggrecan in the Goat Genome
Juana Borbolla (Mentor: Jeff Bates) - Ocular drug delivery based on intraocular pressure
Miles Bovero (Mentor: Luis Garcia) - Private and Performant On-device Deep Learning Inferencing Using Partially Homomorphic Encryption
Carson Brashear (Mentor: Agastya Balantrapu) - Design and Characterization of a Multiple Inlet Flow Facility using Computer Fans
Connor Browning (Mentor: Rob MacLeod) - Exploring The Spatiotemporal Evolution of Myocardial Ischemia Using Experimental Models
Brynne Byars (Mentor: Robby Bowles) - Exploring the Effects of Downregulation of ZNF-865 in Rat NP Cells
Alex Cantrell (Mentor: Robert Parker) - Development of a High-Fidelity Simulation Software for Bearing and Gear Contact Analysis in Power Transmission Systems
John Chen (Mentor: Pai Wang) - Optimizing Variational Quantum Algorithm for Solid Mechanics Problems
Seong Gyu Choi (Mentor: Tao Gao) - Catholyte molecular design for non-aqueous Mg-organic hybrid redox flow batteries
Daniel Coimbra Salomao (Mentor: Blair Sullivan) - Optimizing Robotic Inspection Planning through Advanced Graph Algorithms Techniques
Kiley Cole (Mentor: Monika Buczak) - EMG Collar Device for Feedback Control
Mason Coleman (Mentor: Connor Olsen) - Development of a Wearable Wrist Device for Real-Time Monitoring of Bioelectrical Signals and Hand Gesture Prediction Using EMG and FMG
Aspen Dalby (Mentor: Jennifer Weidhaas) - Quantifying Microplastics in Biosolids
Burke Dambly (Mentor: Luis Garcia) - Mapping Perceived Confidence: Correlating Sensor Data with Brain Activity During Decision Making
Catherine Davey (Mentor: Edoardo Battaglia) - Investigating the impact of different haptic and sensory effects in fidget toys on attention
Carson Davis (Mentor: Erika Pliner) - Effectiveness of Level Tools and Instruction on Optimal Ladder Setup
Leila Decampos (Mentor: Douglas Christensen) - Non-Linear Acoustic Modeling for Therapeutic Ultrasound
Landon Deroche (Mentor: Rob MacLeod) - Comparing Rule-based to Experimental Coronary Arteries
Becca Divine (Mentor: Ashley Spear) - Predicting ductility in 3D polycrystalline materials using machine learning
Jack Doughty (Mentor: Rajesh Menon) - Comparing the Performances of Multilevel Diffractive Lenses (MDL) and Fresnel Zone Plates (FZP) of High Numerical Aperture
Alicia Du (Mentor: Jay Kim) - Development of a Rapid Paper-Based Microfluidic Device for Multi-Metal Colorimetric Detection in Whole Blood Samples
Thomas Fenno (Mentor: Daniel Brown) - Intelligent Chess Tutoring: Real-Time Skill Assessment and Adaptive Strategy Generation
Hannah Frost (Mentor: Tao Gao) - Improving Lithium-Ion Battery Extreme Fast Charging and Low temperature Performance through SEI and Charge Transfer Resistance Reduction
Ethan Gilmore (Mentor: Daniel Brown) - Vulnerability of Imitation Learning Agents to Dataset Poisoning Attacks
Alex Gilsoul (Mentor: Alex Novoselov) - Couple Multi-Physics Simulation of CMC Damage Evolution in Hypersonic Flows with Uintah
Richard Gonzalez (Mentor: Tao Gao) - Studying example carboxylate ester electrolyte for low-temperature sodium-ion batteries.
Cam Tu Hoang (Mentor: Pierre-Emmanuel Gaillardon) - Accelerating Edge Deployed ML with RISC-V Enhanced eFPGA-SoCs
Ashley Howell (Mentor: Haohan Zhang) - Improve the Usability of a Cable-Driven Neck Exosuit for Individuals with Dropped Head Syndrome
Sky Jalili (Mentor: Robby Bowles) - CRISPR upregulation of Collagen II in the Goat Genome
Kayden Jenkins (Mentor: Alex Novoselov) - Flame-front Instabilities in Hydrogen-Oxygen Flames and Their Influence on Deflagration to Detonation Transition
James Karr (Mentor: Eric Pardyjak) - Relating Vorticity to the Reynolds Stresses for Turbulence Closure Problems
Alec Kim (Mentor: Shahrzad Roshankhah) - Hydraulic Fracture Behavior in Naturally Fractured Rocks Using 2D Digital Image Correlation: An Approach to Enhance Efficiency and Reduce Environmental Impact
Young Lee (Mentor: Rajesh Menon) - Single-exposure Volumetric Holographic Additive Manufacturing
Owen Leishman (Mentor: Pierre-Emmanuel Gaillardon) - Integrated Charge Pump Design for Neural Stimulation
Jaidan Malloy (Mentor: Heayoung Yoon) - Fabrication of Transparent Microhole Solar Cells
Grace Mead (Mentor: Jeff Bates) - Advancing Cystic Fibrosis Diagnostics: A Novel Electrochemical Approach
Brooklyn Mears (Mentor: Yunshan Wang) - Detecting The Intrinsic Fluorescence of Neurochemicals on UV Plasmonic Substrates in Microfluidic Channels
Toshi Mowery (Mentor: Pratik Soni) - A Cryptographic Approach to Fighting Misinformation
Lily Nygard (Mentor: Jake George) - Transcutaneous Stimulation as a Method of Upper-Limb Spasticity Management in Stroke Patients
Betul Oguz (Mentor: Rob MacLeod) - Spatial Relationship of Ischemic Regions and Coronary Vasculature
Juliana Ortiz Castillo (Mentor: Tao Gao) - Continuous and batch sustainable iron making Production from iron oxides ores in acidic electrolytes.
Jessica  Owsley  (Mentor: Lars Laurentius) - Investigating Degradation Mechanisms in Glucose-Sensitive Hydrogels for Diabetes Monitoring
Sylvia Pack (Mentor: Jeff Weiss) - Investigating the Effects of Strain on Early Lung Tumor Proliferation
Simon Padgen (Mentor: Alan Kuntz) - Developing Methods for External Control of Magnetic Screw Robots With Applications in Brain Surgery
Lawrence Ponce (Mentor: Luis Garcia) - Towards Semantic Mappings of Industrial Control Systems for Cross-Domain Threat Inference
Yoan Rossy (Mentor: Pania Newell) - Compressive Strength of 3D Printed Clay-Based Materials at Elevated Temperatures
Nathan Sudbury (Mentor: Amir Arzani) - Identifying Qualitative and Quantitative Biomarkers of Embolic Stroke Using Patient-specific Computational Fluid Dynamics
Mira Terry (Mentor: Ashley Spear) - The Role of Void and Surface Defect Interaction on Fatigue Behavior of Additively Manufactured Metals
Zachary Wallace (Mentor: Alan Kuntz) - The Application of Mixed Reality in Internal Trauma Diagnosis
Thomas Webb (Mentor: Tao Gao) - Direct Iron Reduction in an Acidic System
Yang Yang (Mentor: Samira Shiri) - Heat Transfer of Droplets Split on Spoked Superhydrophobic Surfaces
Tanya Yu (Mentor: Vivek Srikumar) - Auditing AI: Applying an Ethical Framework for Responsible Implementation

COLLEGE OF FINE ARTS

Courtney Buss (Mentor: Beth Krensky) - Art for Critical Consciousness: Museums, Community, and Art Education for Social Transformation
Brandi Chase (Mentor: Meekyung MacMurdie) - Before and After the Potter’s Wheel: Women’s Participation in Ceramic Production in Ancient Mesopotamia and Beyond
Allie Marsh (Mentor: Seth Keeton) - Operatic Traditions Database
Noah Reese (Mentor: Jorge Contreras) - Film and IP Law
Annie Wang (Mentor: Maureen O'Hara Ure) - Exploring Identity Through Mixed Media Experimentation

COLLEGE OF HEALTH

Katelyn Ballard (Mentor: Christopher Depner) - Effects of Circadian-Based Intervention on Cardiometabolic Health in Adults with Habitual Short Sleep Duration
Aidan Harshany (Mentor: William Holland) - Exploring Neuronal Ceramides: Implications for Behavior in an Early-Onset Alzheimer’s Mouse Model
Maddie Hopkins (Mentor: Jesse Christensen) - Exploring the Relationship Between Muscle Strength and Knee Joint Biomechanics in Veterans with Knee Osteoarthritis
Elijah Liu (Mentor: Sihem Boudina) - Elucidating the Role of BMPER in White and Brown Adipocyte Development and Expansion
Francisca Moreira (Mentor: Peter Fino) - A comparison between perceived and actual ability in injured athletes
Oliver Rhodes (Mentor: Peter Fino) - Safer Hospital Environments: Understanding How Hospital Room Design Affects Fall Risk Through Motion Capture and Participant Feedback
Margeaux Rice (Mentor: Jeff Rose) -
Seth Roberts (Mentor: Amandine Chaix) - Effect of Weight loss on Breast Cancer Growth in Obese Female Mice
Amishi Rohaj (Mentor: Jesse Christensen) - Does preoperative mental health influence postoperative physical function in medically complex adults following total knee arthroplasty?
Kate Walker (Mentor: Tanya Halliday) - Factors Influencing Weight Regain Following Planned Weight Loss: An Analysis
Zosia Weglarz (Mentor: Peter Fino) - Evaluating the Effect of Single vs Dual Task Condition on Postural Stability During Tandem Gait in Individuals with a Concussion
Lydia White (Mentor: Skyler Jennings) - Contralateral noise suppresses the cochlear microphonic for frequency-swept tones: Evidence for the Middle Ear Muscle Reflex
Jack Wilson (Mentor: John Symons) - The effects of DES1 inhibition on outcomes of Acute Ischemic Stroke.
Ximena Zendejas-Portugal (Mentor: Will Holland) - Role of FOXN3 in Hepatic Glucose Metabolism

COLLEGE OF HUMANITIES

Nayra Green (Mentor: Maile Arvin) - Investigating Settler Colonialism and Child Incarceration in Hawai'i
Lucas Gunyan (Mentor: Margaret Toscano) - The Role of Women in the Greco-Roman Worship of the Mysteries of Isis and Osiris
Zabrina Le (Mentor: Rachel Bryson) - Cultivating empathy in the age of AI: Technical editing pedagogy and the ethics of care
Ezra Moser (Mentor: Maureen Mathison) - Trends in Technical Communication: A Bibliometric Analysis of a Top Journal in Writing
Polly Redd (Mentor: Elizabeth Clement) - The Utah AIDS Foundation Food Bank: AIDS and LDS Identity-based Charity in Utah
Hannah Salas (Mentor: Maeera Shreiber) - From Historical Fact to Fictional Musical: The Holocaust in Contemporary American Memory and Education through "Cabaret"

SCHOOL OF MEDICINE

Shannon Anderson (Mentor: Kajsa Vlasic) - Evaluating facilitators and barriers of specialized pediatric burn care access at a tertiary healthcare facility in Northern Tanzania: A qualitative study
Deevya Baral (Mentor: Martin McMahon) - Characterizing the interactome of BRAF Kinase to Understand its Oncogenic Mechanisms in the Development and Progression of Melanomas
Tyler Beeston (Mentor: Kristina Suorsa-Johnson) - Proposal to Study the Implementation of a Peer Support Program Embedded into a Differences of Sex Development Clinic
Emma Breen (Mentor: Yan-Ting Shiu) - The Effect of Matrix Metalloproteinase-2 Knockout on Arteriovenous Fistula Maturation in a Mouse Model
Kelsie Call (Mentor: Tammy Stump) - EUREKA Mobile Health Intervention Pilot Study
Eeshan Chowdhary (Mentor: Joseph Palatinus) - Exploring Internally Translated Isoforms of the GJA5 gene as a treatment for Atrial Fibrillation
Sarah Dallas (Mentor: Melissa Watt) - Exploring the viability of a mobile health tool to improve antibiotic stewardship in Bangladesh, Mali, and Utah
Amanda Dryer (Mentor: Moriel Zelikowsky) - Behavior Analysis of Female Mice in Chronic Exposure to Partner Stress
Chelsea Gallardo (Mentor: Jeremy Alpenglow) - Cardiovascular responses to hypovolemia induced by lower body negative pressure in patients with PTSD
Diya Garg (Mentor: Neeraj Agarwal) - Impact of Homologous Recombination Repair Mutations (HRRm) on Survival Outcomes of Patients With Metastatic Hormone-Sensitive Prostate Cancer
Isabella Goh (Mentor: Natalia Harasymowicz) - Evaluation of the Role of CCR2 in Progression of Obesity-Induced Osteoarthritis
Reece Goh (Mentor: Alex Shcheglovitov) - Cell analysis of glioblastoma spheroids, organoid-glioblastoma chimeras, and control organoids through immunohistochemistry and imaging
James Harris (Mentor: Kimberley Evason) - Identifying Drugs to Target Lipid Metabolism in Hepatocellular Carcinoma
Mira Hua (Mentor: Donna Cross) - The Development of a Long-Circulating Targeted Paclitaxel Nanoconjugate for Enhanced Treatment of Traumatic Brain Injury (TBI)
Nikola Jaworska (Mentor: Natalia Harasymowicz) - Optimization of Synovial Embryonically-Derived Macrophage Cell Culture Conditions
Aparna Jayakumar (Mentor: Alessandra Angelucci) - Connectivity of Parvalbumin Inhibitory Neurons in Marmoset Primary Visual Cortex
Jenna Junge (Mentor: Reena Tam) - Perspective of Pediatric Emergency Department Providers: A Qualitative Study
Hakan Kariparduc (Mentor: Katie Basham) - Investigating the pro-tumor role of the aged microenvironment and senescence in Adrenocortical Carcinoma (ACC)
Cameron Kato (Mentor: Dimitri Traenkner) - Automated Discovery of Exon Candidates and Splice Isoforms in Human and Non-Human Genetic Code
Michael Krijanovski (Mentor: Peng Zhang) - Damage Sensing by the Drosophila Midgut Epithelium
Malia Mason (Mentor: Eric Tuday) - The Effect of Simulated Microgravity and Cosmic Radiation on Large Artery Stiffness in Mice
Tiffany Nguyen (Mentor: Rebecca Delaney) - Exploring self-advocacy and decision-making skills for adolescents and young adults living with congenital heart disease
Kevin Pan (Mentor: Yan-Ting Shiu) - The Impact of Nitric Oxide Therapeutic Gel on Venous Adaptation Following Arteriovenous Fistula Creation in a Porcine Model
Alex Puccio (Mentor: Ankur Shah) - Testing Cardiac Pacing Pseudo-Leads on Septum Tissue Using an In Vitro Setup
Varshitha Reddy Puchalapalli (Mentor: Mandy Bunsawat) - Arterial Stiffness and Central Blood Pressure in Cardiorenal Syndrome
Elena Rubsam (Mentor: Jill Shea) - Manufacturing and Characterization of a Fluorapatite Bone Scaffold
Divya Sundar (Mentor: Niru Ramkumar) - Role of the Soluble (Pro)Renin Receptor in Chronic Kidney Disease
Caitlin Tweed (Mentor: Jordan Grammer) - Evaluating the Necessity of BNST to NAc Projections in the Social Anxiety Neural Pathway Through Optogenetics
Daniel Wray (Mentor: Lisa Joss-Moore) - Molecular and Lipid Drivers of Lung Development

COLLEGE OF MINES & EARTH SCIENCES

Margaret Call (Mentor: Pete Lippert) - What can magnetic biomarkers tell us about the Eocene-Oligocene Transition in the North Atlantic?
Sarah Kelley (Mentor: Kris Pankow) - The Relationship Between Seismicity and Gopherus Tortoise behavior
Lily Maddox (Mentor: Mark Loewen) - Pathologic and taphonomic history of an exquisitely preserved specimen of Allosaurus jimmadseni from the Upper Jurassic Morrison Formation of Wyoming
Constance Sauve (Mentor: Sarah Lambart) - Fate of Recycled Material in the Mantle During Decompression Melting
Alex Straley (Mentor: Mark Loewen) - Postcranial atlas of the most complete specimen of Torosaurus from the  Latest Cretaceous Ojo Alamo Formation of New Mexico

COLLEGE OF NURSING

Stephanie Quist (Mentor: Lisa Taylor-Swanson) - ACUAWARE
Joshua Seabury (Mentor: Rebekah Perkins) - Promoting Age Inclusivity to Enhance Educational Excellence within the University of Utah College of Nursing (PAI-CON)

COLLEGE OF PHARMACY

Lademi Adepoju (Mentor: Kuby Balagurunathan) - Expression, Purification & Characterization of Recombinant Heparan Sulfate Glucuronyl Epimerase
Kish Jay (Mentor: Karen Wilcox) - Seizure Dynamotype Identification and Classification (Wilcox ADD Lab)
Caitlin Nguyen (Mentor: Chris Reilly) - Great Salt Lake Dust Toxicity and TRP Channel Activation
Isabella White (Mentor: Yue Lu) - Extracellular Vesicle Analysis of Ulcerative Colitis
Zhenyu Yang (Mentor: Katharine Diehl) - Identifying the readers of histone lacylation
Andy Yu (Mentor: Hamid Ghandehari) - Development of a mimic of Extracorporeal Membrane Oxygenation (ECMO) Circuit for high throughput drug screening

COLLEGE OF SCIENCE

Sahana Balaji (Mentor: Jack Jurmu) -  How Does the Gut Microbiome Mitigate Toxin Tolerance in Herbivorous Mammals?
Abigail Bruzual (Mentor: Chan Yul Yoo) - Improving thermotolerance in tomato by genetic engineering of chloroplast function
Ashlyn Christensen (Mentor: Sophie Caron) - Genetic Basis of Olfactory Attraction to 2-phenylethanol in D. melanogaster
Sophia Dahlen (Mentor: Erik Jorgensen) - Establishing a Protocol for Nano-Resolution Fluorescence and Electron Microscopy (nano-fEM)
Wilder Dalton (Mentor: Andrew Roberts) - A build, cyclize, contract strategy to prepare bioactive polycyclic natural product santiagonamine
Natalia Danilla (Mentor: Andrew Roberts) - Development of on-Resin Cyclization and Modification of Arylomycin for Targeted Gram-Negative Bacteria Recognition Through Structured Side Chain Orientations
Jessica Dickinson (Mentor: Qilei Zhu) - Development of a Green Electrochemical Method to Synthesize Thioether Bonds
Caston Draper (Mentor: Talia Karasov) - Validating and Characterizing the Ability of Pseudomonas syringae Knock-out Mutants to Infect the Leaves of Arabidopsis thaliana in Varying Levels of Drought.
Megan Duval (Mentor: Jack Longino) - Exploring species boundaries in Labidus, a widespread army ant genus
Alexis Enright (Mentor: Michael Werner) - Testing the Role of Glycosaminoglycans (GAGs) in Developmental Plasticity
Gavin Farley (Mentor: shanti deemyad) - Measurement of Superconductivity of 6LI Under Pressure Using a Four-Probe Technique
Divya Forbis (Mentor: Ofer Rog) - Utilizing Circular Chromosomes to Study Break Repair During Sexual Reproduction
David Fowles (Mentor: Ragadeepika Pucha) -  A New Method to Identify Black Holes in Dwarf Galaxies
Cooper Gangi (Mentor: Ayako Yamaguchi) - Quantification and Analysis of Perineuronal Nets in Response to Testosterone in Vocal Pathways of Female African Clawed Frogs
Andre Gohier (Mentor: Andrew Roberts) - Late-stage modification strategy for accessing substituted-urazole peptides and application to on-resin cyclization
Isaac Graham (Mentor: Ilya Zharov) - Effect of Mesoporous Silica Nanoparticle Pore Size on Silver Nanoparticle Nucleation and Growth
Lydia Hall (Mentor: Colleen Farmer) - The Ontogeny of an Ancient Lung: The Updated Proposal
Nathan Jackson (Mentor: Connor Bischak) - Exploring Electrolyte-Dependent Effects in Electron-Transporting Organic Mixed Ionic-Electronic Conductors (OMIECs)
Sylvia Lee (Mentor: Rodolfo Probst) - Unraveling the Identities of Associated Insects in Ant-Plant Symbioses with Nanopore DNA Sequencing
Ruby Linnell (Mentor: Dale Clayton) - Does Grooming Behavior Respond to Morphological Changes?
Kaylee Meyers (Mentor: Andrew Roberts) - Utilizing electrochemical techniques to prepare polycyclic aromatic and heteroaromatic products
Samantha Morris (Mentor: Aaron Puri) - Isolation of a Potential Antibiotic from Methylocystis Species Strain SC2
Jett Nemelka (Mentor: Andrew Roberts) - Chemical Synthesis of Biorthogonal L-Biotin
Vincent Ngo (Mentor: Qilei Zhu) - New Methods to Sustainably Halogenate Alcohols using Electrochemistry
Ainsley Nystrom (Mentor: William Anderegg) - Comparing Laboratory and Field Smoke Treatment Results of Tree Physiological Traits
Jessica Parsons (Mentor: Kasey Cole) - 3D-Printing Bones: Using Innovating Technologies to Create Accessible and Engaging Learning Experiences  Renewal Application
Dave Partey (Mentor: Kelly Hughes) - Development of genetic tools for the characterization of mechanisms associated with the secretion of proteins through the injectisome system
Will Pearce (Mentor: Rodolfo Probst) - DNA Barcoding to Solve Species Boundaries: Discovering Endemic Ocotea (Lauraceae) in Costa Rica
Alexander Rich (Mentor: Rodolfo Probst) - Decoding Spider Diversity: Venom RNA and Protein Peptide Analysis
Hunter Rose (Mentor: Heejin Yoo) - Comparative Analysis of Salicylic Acid Regulatory Mechanisms in Brassica and Solanaceae Species
Fátima  Serratos Chavarría  (Mentor: Bryn Dentinger) - Chemical Investigation of the Phenomenon of “Wood Lover’s Paralysis” in the Magic Mushroom Genus Psilocybe.
Richie Sheng (Mentor: Tim Tribone) - Matrix Factorizations of Polynomials
Lindsey Tamlin (Mentor: Erik Jorgensen) - The Role of RAB-37b in Synaptic Autophagy
Annie Thompson (Mentor: Andrew Roberts) - Deaminative Ring Contractions for the Synthesis of aza-[7]helicenes
Sam Tomek (Mentor: Michael Wermer) - Phylogeny of Monhysteridae Nematodes in Alpine Lakes and Rivers and their Relationship to Nematodes in the Great Salt Lake.
Gianna Toscano (Mentor: Sophie Caron) - Identifying Methods to Measure Innate Odor Attraction in Drosophila melanogaster
Tony Zhang (Mentor: Fred Adler) - Investigating the cell-cell interaction between Melanoma Cells: A Mathematical Biology Approach

COLLEGE OF SOCIAL & BEHAVIORAL SCIENCE

Pam Amornnimit (Mentor: Akiko Kamimura) - Assessing Patients’ Healthcare Experiences to Improve Care and Services for the Underserved Community Utilizing Free Clinics.
Madison Barnett (Mentor: Brett Clark) -  Study of the Early Pioneers of Environmental Justice and Industrial Medicine
Sylvan Carey (Mentor: Larry Coats) - Climate Change Impacts on Desert Ecosystems: Paleoecological Lessons from the Late Pleistocene in the Great Basin, Nevada
Karina Cedeno Hernandez (Mentor: Kara Moore) - Virtual reality study on the impact of age on the relationship between eyewitness confidence and accuracy.
Izabelle Chick (Mentor: Juliet Carlisle) - Understanding the Interplay of Emotions, Risk Perception, and Climate Change: Towards Political Action and Policy Support
Jessica Cisneros-Macias (Mentor: Katie Baucom) - Family-based lifestyle intervention to prevent diabetes in Hispanic/Latino communities in Utah (ADIOS T2)
Isabella Dinardo (Mentor: Akiko Kamimura) - Factors Influencing the Pursuit of Careers in Genomics and STEM Fields Among Underserved Populations: Assessing the Impact of the Genomic Summer Research for Minorities (Magnificents) (GSRM) Internship Program
Hanna Farra (Mentor: Sarah Small) - Time Poverty Rates in the United States by Race and Gender
Hudson Guttman (Mentor: Jeanine Stefanucci) - Within-Groups Experiment on Working Memory and Embodied Perception of 3D Radiology Images
Aubrey Hampton (Mentor: Akiko Kamimura) - Examining the Interplay of Dental Health and Mental Well-being in the Homeless Population
Sarah Herring (Mentor: Rob Lubeznik-Warner) - Examining Program Quality and Developmental Outcomes among Youth from Low-Income Backgrounds Participating in a School-based Camp Program
Naomi Hill (Mentor: Heather Melton) -  Improving Law Enforcement’s Response Towards Victims of Sexual Violence: The Impact of Traumatic Memory
Petr Horgos (Mentor: Jared Branch) - Validation of the Autobiographical Counterfactual Thinking Scale
Annia Hungerford (Mentor: Rebecca Owen) - Specialty Courts: Resources, Outcomes and Success of Family Recovery Court
Sangho Kim (Mentor: Marissa Diener) - Exploring the Link Between Parents’ Emotion Regulation and Emotional Socialization Efforts
Colleen Lasko (Mentor: Amy McDonnell) - Impact of Cell Phone Use on Stress Recovery and Attention Restoration in Nature
Hannah Lawrence (Mentor: Kara Moore) - Virtual reality study of the effect of duration and age on the confidence / accuracy relationship
Amanda Lucas (Mentor: Kim Korinek) - The impact of overrepresentation of migrant essential work on women, their mental-wellbeing, and their families.
Carter Munn (Mentor: Jared Branch) - The Effect of Music Type on Perceived Task Difficulty and Cognition
Jenny Nguyen (Mentor: Patricia Kerig) - Meaning-Making As A Moderator Linking Potentially Morally Injurious Events To Adult Quality Of Life
Grace Piskadlo (Mentor: Larry Coats) - Reconstructing the Late Ice Age Paleoecology of the Great Basin Region
Mckenzie Price (Mentor: Jack Silcox) - Analysis of Alpha Power During High-Level Language Processing to Support Evidence of Increased Listening Effort
Giancarlo Reinoso (Mentor: Michael Himle) - Primary Outcomes of TicHelper
Zoha Riaz (Mentor: Akiko Kamimura) - Oral Health in the Homeless Population Due to Drug Use
Kaitlyn Ricks (Mentor: Adrienne Cachelin) - Rationales, Reactions, and Reflections of Public Service Employees During the Abatement Process in Salt Lake City
Casey Westring (Mentor: Jared Branch) - Proposal to Study the Effect of The Big Five Personality Traits, Obsessive-Compulsive Traits, and Optimism on Counterfactual Thinking
Zack Wilson (Mentor: Cory Inman) - Individual Differences and Stimulation Parameters in Amygdala-Mediated Memory Modulation
Zoe Wu (Mentor: Lee Raby) - Do Pregnant Women’s Electrodermal Responses to An Infant Cry Video Predict Toddlers’ Socioemotional Outcomes at 18 Months
Thea Wulff (Mentor: Lee Raby) - Intergenerational Associations Between Maternal Emotion Dysregulation and Child Outcomes, with Maternal Sensitivity as a Potential Mediator
Moth Zhang (Mentor: Jared Branch) - Correlations between memory deficits and level of schizotypy in generally healthy populations
Eric Zhuo (Mentor: Sarah Creem-Regehr) - The Influence of IPD Mismatch in a Near-Space Blind Reaching Task within Virtual Reality
Ellie Ziemer (Mentor: Larry Coats) - Reconstructing Past Environments

UNDERGRADUATE STUDIES

Elisa Diaz (Mentor: CoCo James) - Edible Campus Gardens Impact and Engagement Study

COLLEGE OF EDUCATION

Steven Luo (Mentor: Chenglu Li) - Improving Math Learning Outcomes for High School Students with Learning Disabilities through AI-Assisted Argumentative Writing

COLLEGE OF ENGINEERING

Bryson Anderson (Mentor: Lars Laurentius) - Optimization of Smart Hydrogel Structures for Improved Glucose Response Chad Berghoff (Mentor: Laura Hallock) - Surface Electromyography Sensor Use Cases in Stroke Rehabilitation Andrew Coda (Mentor: Kerry Kelly) - Development of Teaching Tools Around Sensirion SFA30, an Indoor Air Quality Formaldehyde Sensor Daniel Coimbra Salomáo (Mentor: Blair Sullivan) - Optimizing Robotic Inspection Planning through Advanced Graph Algorithms Techniques Jensen Coombs (Mentor: Kay Park) - Nanoscale Investigation on The Surface Properties of Ice Chimdi Ihediwa (Mentor: Ashley Dalrymple) - Image Processing of X-rays of the Lumbar Spine and Spinal Cord Stimulation Implants Asma Khan (Mentor: Shireen Elhabian) - “Barely-SSM”: Weakly Supervised Statistical Shape Modeling for Anatomical Shape Representation Taehoon Kim (Mentor: Heayoung Yoon) - Angle-Dependent Solar Power Generation Using Microstructured Si Panels Jae Woong Lee (Mentor: Pai Wang) - Customizing Dispersion Bands of Phononic Crystals through Asymmetric Stiffness Luke Loehding (Mentor: Jan Kubanek) - Noninvasive Ultrasound Treatment of Chronic Back Pain Jacob Loseman (Mentor: Pai Wang) - Computational Modeling of Wave  Responses through Non-Local Interaction in  Phononic Crystals Sam Makin (Mentor: Cindy Furse) - Enhanced Breast Cancer Screening: A Novel Microwave Imaging Approach Jiwon Park (Mentor: Pai Wang) - Quantum Innovations in Solid Mechanics: A Variational Approach to Instability and Nonlinear Deformation Kibin Park (Mentor: Jiyoung Chang) - Multi-direction piezoelectric vibration sensor for high frequency tool-wear detection Keegan Richardson (Mentor: Jake George) - Development of Surface Electromyography Sock for Lower-Limb Muscle Activity Monitoring Sydney Smith (Mentor: Marc Porter) - Improving Detection of the Tuberculosis Biomarker Mannose-Capped Lipoarabinomannan Through Refinements in Proteinase K Sample Pretreatment Thomas Webb (Mentor: Tao Gao) - All Iron Redox-Flow Battery design, and Iron Refining Jude Werth (Mentor: Jan Kubanek) - Recording and manipulating neural activity in human brain organoids Stanley Wessman (Mentor: Taylor Sparks) - Student’s T Distribution as an Alternative to Gaussian Distribution for Bayesian Optimization George Wintriss (Mentor: Jacob Hochhalter) - Computational Modeling and Experimental Test Developing of Silicon Carbide Ceramic Matrix Composites

COLLEGE OF FINE ARTS

Courtney Buss (Mentor: Beth Krensky) - Art for Critical Consciousness: Museums, Community, and Art Education for Social Transformation Brandi Chase (Mentor: Meekyung MacMurdie) - Before and After the Potter’s Wheel:  Women’s Participation in Ceramic Production in Ancient Mesopotamia and Beyond James Navarro (Mentor: Jessica Rudman) - Lullaby for a Good Night's Sleep: A musical experience of depression

COLLEGE OF HEALTH 

Amer Al-Shuqairat (Mentor: Sihem Boudina) - Elucidating the role of BMPER in adipose tissue homeostasis and to validate its pro-adipogenic and insulin sensitizing effects Jaime Hurtado-Orozco (Mentor: Adriana Coletta) - Exercise across the cancer care continuum for breast and bladder cancer survivors. Norah Milam (Mentor: Katsu Funai) - Effect of N-Acetyl-Carnosine on Age-Related Skeletal Muscle and Heart Dysfunction Brianna Poulsen (Mentor: Sihem Boudina) - Exploring the mechanisms behind the sex-biased expression of PRDM16 Alex Puccio (Mentor: Ankur Shah) - Creation of In Vitro Setup to Assess the Mechanical Design of Pacing Coils to be Advanced into the Right Ventricle Septum Seth Roberts (Mentor: Amandine Chaix) - Effect of Weight loss on Breast Cancer Growth in Obese Female Mice Jack Wilson (Mentor: J David Symons) - The effects of DES1 inhibition on outcomes of Acute Ischemic Stroke in mice.

COLLEGE OF HUMANITIES 

Lucas Gunyan (Mentor: Margaret Toscano) - The Role of Women in the Greco-Roman Worship of the Mysteries of Isis and Osiris Caroline Jarvis (Mentor: Therese De Raedt) - Mbëkë Mi Translation Proposal Polly Redd (Mentor: Elizabeth Clement) - The Utah AIDS Foundation Food Bank: AIDS and LDS Identity-based Charity in Utah Shreya Reddy (Mentor: Ben Cohen) - Colonial India in the Late 19th and Early 20th Century: Recording Newsworthy Moments Under the British Raj

SCHOOL OF MEDICINE

Shannon Anderson (Mentor: Kajsa Vlasic) - Evaluating facilitators and barriers of specialized pediatric burn care access at a tertiary healthcare facility in Northern Tanzania: A qualitative study Annika Bachman (Mentor: Amy Lenz) - A Three Dimensional Analysis of Joint Space and Bony Morphology in Ankle Osteoarthritis Brigham Boyack (Mentor: Taylor Webb) - Validation of MR Guidance for Transcranial Ultrasound Neuromodulation Ryan Farnsworth (Mentor: Dustin Williams) - Presurgical Skin Preparation Approaches and Their Effect on Natural Bioburden Reece Goh (Mentor: Oleksandr Shcheglovitov) - Cell analysis in organoid-glioblastoma chimeras through immunostaining and imaging Soy Im (Mentor: Adrian Rothenfluh) - Investigating the Role of Kdm3 in Alcohol Sensitivity and Tolerance Jordan Langford (Mentor: Amy Lenz) - Pilon Fracture Morphology Over Time Tina Ly (Mentor: Moriel Zelikowsky) - The Neurological Mechanisms Underlying Partner Stress in Female Mice Lorrin Malady (Mentor: Moriel Zelikowsky) - Role of CRH/Tac2 Co-expressing Neurons of Bed Nucleus of Stria Terminalis Projecting to Ventromedial Hypothalamus in Footshock-Induced Aggression Malia Mason (Mentor: Eric Tuday) - The Effect of Simulated Microgravity and Radiation on Large Artery Stiffness in Mice Abby Niwa (Mentor: David Grunwald) - Determining if Altered IL4R Gene Function is Linked To Osteoarthritis Kevin Pan (Mentor: Yan-Ting Shiu) - The Impact of Nitric Oxide Therapeutic Gel on Venous Adaptation Following Arteriovenous Fistula Creation Derrick  Peterson (Mentor: Matthew Firpo) - Search For Biomarkers For Pancreas Cancer Jane Putnam (Mentor: Melissa Watt) - Caregivers’ expectations when visiting a village doctor with a complaint of pediatric diarrhea Sandhya Senthilkumar (Mentor: Kent Lai) - Investigating the modulation of the Inflammatory pathway by ER-Stress induced autophagy in SARS-CoV-2-spike protein over expressed HEK293T cells Alayna Stoddard (Mentor: Harriet Hopf) - The BASIC Trial: An ESKAPE From Transmission Caitlin Tweed (Mentor: Jordan Grammer) - The Significance of BNST to NAc Projections in Social Isolation Induced Social Anxiety Daniel Wray (Mentor: Lisa Joss-Moore) - Molecular and Lipid Drivers of Lung Development

COLLEGE OF NURSING

Stephanie Quist (Mentor: Lisa Taylor-Swanson) - ACUAWARE Joshua Seabury (Mentor: Rebekah Perkins) - Promoting Age Inclusivity to Enhance Educational Excellence within the University of Utah College of Nursing (PAI-CON)

COLLEGE OF PHARMACY

Lily Halberg (Mentor: Mei Yee Koh) - Elucidating different ways to regulate the NF-kB and IFN pathway through the TRADD-HAF complex. Kish Jay (Mentor: Karen Wilcox) - Seizure Dynamotype Identification and Classification

COLLEGE OF SCIENCE

Harold Chen (Mentor: Fabienne Chevance) - Build a Secretion Selection for SPI-1 System via Fusion Proteins Megan Duval (Mentor: Jack Longino) - Exploring species boundaries in Labidus, a widespread army ant genus Lydia Hall (Mentor: Colleen Farmer) - Ontogeny of An Ancient Lung Bricia Hendry (Mentor: Gina Frey) - Sense of Belonging in Introductory Chemistry at the University of Utah Kass Johnson (Mentor: Gina Frey) - Sense of Belonging in Introductory Chemistry at the University of Utah Aubrey Jones (Mentor: Ben Bromley) - Supermassive Black Hole Growth Veronika Kostur (Mentor: Colleen Farmer) - Passive Electroreception in the American Alligator (Alligator mississippiensis) Krish Kotak (Mentor: Martin Horvath) - Odorant-Dependent Olfactory Receptor Activity in Transgenic Drosophila Lukas Mesicek (Mentor: John Belz) - Investigating Critical Phenomena in Axisymmetric Black Hole Formation using the Finite Difference Method Andrew Moore (Mentor: Mikhael Semaan) - Non-equilibrium Free Energy as a “Least Action” Problem Tadg Noland (Mentor: Ekta Patel) - Reconstructing the Orbital History of the M32 Galaxy Ethan Reid (Mentor: Kasey Cole) - Using Wyoming ground squirrel burrows to determine if surface artifact density accurately represents subsurface artifact density. Nick Seefeldt (Mentor: Cagan H Sekercioglu) - Using stable isotopes to investigate the impacts of elevation and anthropogenically modified habitat on diet in Ethiopian rainforest birds Richie Sheng (Mentor: Tim Tribone) - Matrix Factorizations of Polynomials

COLLEGE OF SOCIAL AND BEHAVIORAL SCIENCE

Haylee Bracken (Mentor: Sarah Small) - Predatory Immobility of Mobile Home Park Residents Brette Crane (Mentor: Tom Kraft) - Effects of Early Life Adversity on Eating Behaviors in Domesticated Dogs Celeste Dean (Mentor: Tim Collins) - Shade, Urban Heat, and Public Transportation in Tucson, Arizona Isabella Dinardo (Mentor: Akiko Kamimura) - Factors Influencing the Pursuit of Careers in Genomics and STEM Fields Among Underserved Populations: Assessing the Impact of the Genomic Summer Research for Minorities (Magnificents) (GSRM) Internship Program Brock Epperson (Mentor: Kara Moore) - Testing the Pristine Conditions Hypothesis in Children Aubrey Hampton (Mentor: Akiko Kamimura) - Examining the Interplay of Dental Health and Mental Well-being in the Homeless Population Whitney Lang (Mentor: Amy McDonnell) - Effect of Cellphone Usage on Stress Physiology in a Nature Environment Max Lepore (Mentor: James Curry) - Social Class Representation in American Representative Institutions Ashley Olsen (Mentor: Kara Moore) - The Eyewitness Confidence-Accuracy Relationship in Various Conditions Mckenzie Price (Mentor: Jack Silcox) - Time-Frequency Analysis of Oscillatory EEG Activity During High-Level Language Processing Zoha Riaz (Mentor: Akiko Kamimura) - Oral Health in the Homeless Population Due to Drug Use Daniel Smith (Mentor: Francisco Perez) - Effectiveness of Special Drawing Rights in the Global South Suzy Smith (Mentor: Tom Kraft) - Early Life Adversity in Dogs and its Effects on Their Eating Habits

COLLEGE OF SOCIAL WORK

Heba Alhamdani (Mentor: Alysse Loomis) - Fostering culturally-informed care for early childhood and family mental health providers Dayttn Bartschi (Mentor: Sarah Canham) - A Thematic Analysis of Interventions to Address the Stigma and Discrimination Towards Persons Experiencing Homelessness Gracie Cottage (Mentor: Alysse Loomis) - The influence of the number of topics covered in trauma-informed training on preschool teachers’ self-efficacy in dealing with trauma and their implementation of trauma-informed practices in the classroom.

 

SCHOOL OF ARCHITECTURE + PLANNING

Emma Glende (Mentor: Alexandra Ponette-Gonzalez) - Tree Preferences Among Salt Lake Residents
Rachel Walker (Mentor: Milad Hosseini-Mozari) - Bridging the Gap: Immersive Environments for Resettlement

 SCHOOL OF BUSINESS

Emily Hernandez Alzamora (Mentor: Glen Kreiner) - Wellness practices that can be incorporated into the workplace that promotes mental health

SCHOOL FOR CULTURAL AND SOCIAL TRANSFORMATION

Jaylee Aston (Mentor: Claudia Geist) - Analyzing Perceptions of Sex, Sexuality and Gender in the Healthcare System
Marylinda Gonzalez (Mentor: Ed Munoz) - Traditional Dance and the Development of Latinx Identity (Latinidad) in Utah
Brekke Pattison (Mentor: Claudia Geist) - Safe Zone Training for Professional Health Students
Perla Rivera (Mentor: Lezlie Frye) - Brujeria Activism: Spiritual Epistemologies of Ancestral Knowledge for Liberation
Leslie Rodriguez (Mentor: Elizabeth Archuleta) - Uncovering The Red Face Palm: A decolonial lens into MMIW (Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women) Movement
Kadi Sow (Mentor: Ana Carolina Antunes) Feminism in Islam

COLLEGE OF EDUCATION

Maria Alanis (Mentor: Connor Warner) - Investigating Factors Related to Ute Student Achievement at Eagle View Elementary
Shreya Harikumar (Mentor: Karen Tao) - Proposal to Study Parent/Child Perspectives Surrounding Mental Health Within South-Asian Families in Utah
Cassidy Lamm (Mentor: Lauren Liang) - Soccer Study
Jun Yoon (Mentor: Claire Son) - Evaluating Multimedia Agents for STEM Vocabulary Learning in Young Children

COLLEGE OF ENGINEERING

Dominic Alei-Gonzalez (Mentor: Eric Pardyjak) - Developing and implementing the Differential Emissivity Imaging Disdrometer to predict new-snow avalanche instabilities
Sanjana Aujla (Mentor: Simon Binder) - Synthesis of Flexible Electrode Array
Nicholas Baker (Mentor: Tony Saad) - A Jupyter Notebook Educational Resource for Chemical Engineering Students in Numerical Methods Part 2
Lucas Bolster (Mentor: Ken Monson) - Detection of Cerebral Arteries with Magnetic Resonance Elastography
Jackson Brough (Mentor: Pavel Panchekha) - Hardware Accelerators and Cost Models for Herbie
Nate Brown (Mentor: Pania Newell) - Computational Modeling of an Inverted Stable Salt Nuclear Reactor
Joey Cai (Mentor: Daniel Brown) - Enhancing Adaptive Neck Exoskeleton Control through Implicit Human Feedback Analysis
Arianna Carter (Mentor: Tony Saad) - The Effect of Drone Airflow on Atmospheric Measurements using On-board Sensors: A Simulation and Generalized Scaling Approach
John Chae (Mentor: Jiyoung Chang) - Real-Time Feedback Control in Electrospinning of Functional Nanofiber for On-Demand and Customizable Manufacturing
Sarah Choe (Mentor: Marina Kogan) - #WakeUpWorldRussiaInvadedUkraine: Exploration of External-Facing Communications in Ukraine in 2014
John Cimmarusti (Mentor: Haohan Zhang) - User-in-the-loop Control of a Neck Exoskeleton 
Mary Clancy (Mentor: Kam Leang) - Bayesian-Estimation for Avalanche Rescue
Jeremy Clark (Mentor: Daniel Brown) - Sketch-Based Feedback for Multi-Agent Robotics Docmains
Andrew Coda (Mentor: Kerry Kelly) - Development of Teaching Tools Around Sensirion SFA30, an Indoor Air Quality Formaldehyde Sensor
McKenna Coughlin (Mentor: Jessica  Kramer) - Design and Synthesis of Authentic Mucin PTS Domains using NCA Polymerization
Catherine Davey (Mentor: Edoardo Battaglia) - Investigating the impact of different haptic and sensory effects in fidget toys on attention
Kerrigan Denham (Mentor: Ken Monson) - Development of Intraventricular Hemorrhage Testing in Preterm Cerebral Blood Vessels
Seth Doubek (Mentor: Daniel Brown) - Interpreting Graph Drawing with Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning
Zane Enders (Mentor: Pavel Panchekha) - Improving benchmarks for automated Numerics rewriting
Emily Erickson (Mentor: Daniel Brown) - RocketCalc: A Personalized Intelligent Algebra and Trig Remediation System Enabling Student Success in Calculus
Adrian Franz-Garrison (Mentor: Eric Pardyjak) - Developing and using Particle Imaging Velocimetry to understand the effect of turbulent airflow on snowflake particle motion.
Zane Frey (Mentor: Marc  Calaf) - Application of QES-Winds to Bridge the Physics Gap Between Wake Deficit Models and Large Eddy Simulations
Verl Grant (Mentor: Peter Zhu) - Carbon Storage in Concrete via Nano Bubbles
Ethan Hathaway (Mentor: Jeff Bates) - Cross Compatible Bio-Inks for 3D Hydrogel Printing
Milo Headden (Mentor: Jeff Bates) - Diffusion Kinetics of Ski Wax in Sintered Ski Base
Yazan Issa Sammaneh (Mentor: Simon Binder) - Developing Alternatives to Utah Electrode Arrays for Next-Generation Brain-Computer Interfaces
Kyle Jensen (Mentor: Bobby Mohanty) - POC Breath Testing for Malaria
Wyatt Jones (Mentor: Tianli Feng) - Prediction of thermal conductivity of GaN/AlN superlattices using machine learning-interatomic potential
Britton Jordan (Mentor: Alan Kuntz) - Using Deep Learning to Model Forward Kinematics of a Flexible Metamaterial Robot
Celeste Kalapala (Mentor: jessica kramer) - Digestion of Synthetic Mucin Mimics By Mucin Proteases
Asma Khan (Mentor: Shireen Elhabian) - "Barely-SSM": Weakly Supervised Statistical Shape Modeling for Anatomical Shape Representation
Jonas Knochelmann (Mentor: Rogelio Cardona-Rivera) - Towards a Unified Theory of Procedural Content Generation
Ronnie Koe (Mentor: Alan Kuntz) - DefCutNet: Learning Resection Paths from Surgeon Demonstrations For Deformable Objects
Jae Woong Lee (Mentor: Pai Wang) - Double-Band Dispersion Relation Design in Phononic Crystals with Asymmetric Stiffness
Jiwon  Lee (Mentor: Jay Kim) - Development of Kidney-On-A-Chip for studying cell-cell interactions in kidney function and disease. 
Joey Lee (Mentor: Alex Novoselov) - Direct Numerical Simulation of Flame Propagation in Hydrogen and Ammonia Mixtures
Kalina Manova (Mentor: Jay Kim) -  Investigating How Osteocytes Impact Bone Quality through Bone-on-a-chip Microfluidic Device Research
Brooklyn Mears (Mentor: Yunshan Wang) - Detecting The Intrinsic Fluorescence of Neurochemicals on UV Plasmonic Substrates in Microfluidic Channels
Max Morris (Mentor: Rogelio Cardona-Rivera) - Project Goalie: Assessing the Feasibility and Viability of General-Purpose Goal Reasoning for Adaptive Agent Behavior in Virtual Game Worlds.
Sami Mower (Mentor: Shad Roundy) - Advancing Myalgic Encephalomyelitis Diagnosis and Treatment with UpTime
Christian Norman (Mentor: Bobby Mohanty) - TiO2 Nanotubes as Novel Electrode for Flash Joule Heating
Charlie Osborne (Mentor: Jessica Kramer) - Synthetic mimics inspired by polar fish antifreeze proteins
Kibin Park (Mentor: Jiyoung Chang) - Advanced Porous Scaffolding Design using Electrospun Nano/Microfibers for Tunable 2-dimensional Cell Culture Applications
John Peterson (Mentor: Deisy Carvalho Fernandes) - Characterization of 3d-Printed Graphene Oxide Swelling for Application in Delayed Drug Release
Sanaa Sadiq (Mentor: Jay Kim) - Lacrimal Tear Amino Acid Analysis: A New Perspective on Dry Eye Disease
Jaskehar Sekhon (Mentor: Shireen Elhabian) - Studying Robustness of Different Methods for Medical Visual Question-Answering
Slade Slack (Mentor: Dmitry Bedrov) - Self-assembly and interaction of perfluorinated surfactants in aqueous environments and air-water interfaces
Abigail Stringfellow (Mentor: Roseanne Warren) - Design of Low-Cost Ascorbic Acid Sensor Using Photographic Paper
Jordan Tan (Mentor: Vivek Srikumar) - Evaluating Compositionality Behavior in Language Models
Halli Thompson (Mentor: Jeff Bates) - Investigating Contaminants and Spermicidal Properties in Assisted Reproductive Technologies
Reynaldo  Villarreal Zambrano (Mentor: Edoardo Battaglia) - Complex Texture Rendering Using Multiple Eccentric Rotating Mass Motors and User Studies Research
Emma Wadsworth (Mentor: Rajesh Menon) - Thermal to Visual Translation with Deep Learning
Madeline Wagner (Mentor: Jeff Weiss) - Damage Properties of Tendons Crosslinked with Genipin
Jude Werth (Mentor: Jan Kubanek) - Recording and manipulating neural activity in human brain organoids
Yang Yang (Mentor: Samira Shiri) - Modelling Properties of Droplets Impacting a Macroscopic Spoked Surface
Chandler Zaugg (Mentor: Edward Hsu) - Leveraging Deep Learning for MRI Distortion Reconstruction

COLLEGE OF FINE ARTS

Lauren Carn (Mentor: Alexandra  Harbold) - Through the Looking-Glass of Childlike Play: A New Adaptation of Alice's Adventures in Wonderland
Andie Funk (Mentor: Jonathan Dillon) - Integrating Songwriting in Elementary General Music: A Creative Project in Music Education
Mickayla Koday (Mentor: Maureen O'Hara Ure) - Large Format Illustrated Book
Michael Palmer (Mentor: Hubbel  Palmer) - Exploring the Radicalization of Youth in Alt-Right Spaces through Screenwriting
Colin Poly (Mentor: Ernest  Gentry) - Exploration of the Aluminosilicate Glass Formation Boundary
Alix Wright (Mentor: Moses Williams) - Engaging Embodiments: Exploring Materials, Entities, and Phenomenology

COLLEGE OF HEALTH

Katie Comer (Mentor: Tanya Halliday) - The Effects of AM vs PM Resistance Training on Insulin Sensitivity and Sleep Disturbance in Older Adults
Ivan Delgado (Mentor: Amandine Chaix) - The Effect of a High-Fat and Ketogenic Diet on Breast Cancer Tumor Growth in Female Mice
Chance Deschamps-Prescott (Mentor: Jesse Christensen) - Validating a Smart Phone Application in Monitoring Gait Abnormalities in Patients Post Stroke
Norah Milam (Mentor: Katsu Funai) - Effect of N-Acetyl-Carnosine on Age-Related Skeletal Muscle and Heart Dysfunction
Venisia Paula (Mentor: Katsu Funai) - High-fat, high-salt diet impairs mitochondrial ATP production in a novel mouse model of Chronic Kidney Disease.
Faith Smart (Mentor: Amandine Chaix) - The Impact of a Ketogenic Diet on Food Intake, Pancreatic Islet Adaptation, and Body Composition
Sia Tamala (Mentor: Mary Playdon) - Diet and Cancer in the Native Hawaiian/ Pacific Islander Community
Ceyda Ural (Mentor: Amandine Chaix) - The Metabolic Effects of Different Diet Regimens in Postmenopausal Female Mice
Ximena Zendejas-Portugal (Mentor: Will Holland) - Role of FOXN3 in Hepatic Glucose Metabolism

HONORS COLLEGE

Jane Putnam (Mentor: Melissa Watt) - Caregivers' expectations when visiting a village doctor with a complaint of pediatric diarrhea

COLLEGE OF HUMANITIES

Ryan Christenson (Mentor: Margaret Wan) - Portrayals of Women in Taiping Guangji: A Study of Female Roles and Archetypes in Medieval Chinese Narrative Literature
Mike Komigi (Mentor: Maile Arvin) - Embracing Perspectives of Melanesian West Papua in Museums as Way of Recognition and Decolonization.
Eliana Massey (Mentor: Maile Arvin) - Nā Lei Poina ʻOle (Children Never Forgotten): Representing Histories of Child Institutionalization in Hawaiʻi
Brandon Osgan (Mentor: Ed Rubin) - Vowel Reduction of Bolognese analyzed in Optimality Theory
Thea Soter (Mentor: Disa Gambera) - Coming Home: A Project of History, Heartache, and Heritage

COLLEGE OF LAW

Noah Reese (Mentor: Jorge Contreras) - The Screenwriting Singularity: AI, Contracts, and the Future of Writing for Film

SCHOOL OF MEDICINE

Ian Aist (Mentor: Stavros  Drakos) - The Role of Glycosylceramides and UGCG in Heart Failure and Recovery
Mikayla Anderson (Mentor: Jace King) - Longitudinal Study of Brain Structure and Ventricle Development Among Individuals Affected by Autism
Annika Bachman (Mentor: Amy Lenz) - A Three Dimensional Analysis of Joint Space and Bony Morphology in Ankle Osteoarthritis
Halli Baird (Mentor: June Round) - The Effects of Microbiota Dependent Regs on Beta-Cell Proliferation
Ben Baldwin (Mentor: Gregory Ducker) - Turning waste into fuel: a mechanistic dissection of cellular lactate utilization
Deevya Baral (Mentor: Martin McMahon) - Characterizing BRAF Kinase Interactions to Understand its Roles in the Development and Progression of BRAFV600E-driven Melanomas
Ayden  Berndt  (Mentor: Sixiang Shi) - Development of Fluorescence Based In Situ Dosimeters for Real-time Image Guided Radiotherapy
Hannah Berrett (Mentor: Michelle Vo) - The Determinating Factors of Mental Health Stigma and The Role of Social Influence
Veronic  Boire (Mentor: Moriel Zelikowsky) - Tac2 Neuropeptide Role in Aggressive Behavior post Acute Stress
Emma Breen (Mentor: Yan-Ting Shiu) - Role of the Oncogene E26 Transformation-Specific Sequence-1 in Arteriovenous Fistula Maturation Failure
Meghan Carter (Mentor: Amy Lenz) - Application of advanced medical imaging to assess foot and ankle form and function in patients with cerebral palsy
Andy Chan (Mentor: Hongchao  Guo) - Molecular Impact of JAK-STAT Signaling Pathway on Cardiomyocyte Maturation
Collin Clark (Mentor: Bruce Edgar) - Examining the Expression of the Dll-Gal4 driver in Drosophila Melanogaster to better understand the lethality of the Alkaline Ceramidase Brainwashing
Jasmin Cornish (Mentor: Kai Kuck) - "Could Trended Oxygen Partial Pressure in the Urine Be the 'ST Segment' Kidney Monitor We've Been Looking For?"
Anika D'Souza (Mentor: Donna Cross) - Investigating the Effects of Microtubule-Stabilizing Treatment on Neuroinflammation and Potentially Related Anxiety and Aggression in Aged Alzheimer's Transgenic Mice
Sarah Dallas (Mentor: Melissa Watt) -      Exploring the viability of a mobile health tool to improve antibiotic stewardship among village doctors in Bangladesh 
Anne Done (Mentor: Rob Judson-Torres) - Characterizing Melanoma Reporters Through Examining Their Gene Expression
Caroline Giddings (Mentor: Donna Cross) - Targeted Alpha Therapy for the Treatment of Alzheimer's Disease
Addison Hedges (Mentor: Moriel Zelikowsky) - Behavioral Effects of Trauma Recruit Separate Populations of Ventral Hippocampal Neurons
Emily Herdic (Mentor: Viola Rieke) - The Use of Magnetic Resonance guided Focused Ultrasound (MRgFUS)
Lana Hua (Mentor: Donna Cross) - Alterations in Alzheimer's disease phenotypic pathology after biodegradable paclitaxel-conjugate treatment
Alaina Kelly (Mentor: Mary Beth Scholand) - Telomere Biology Disorders and Genetic Mechanisms
Jennie Kim (Mentor: Sungjin Park) - Characterizing H-link in Extra Cellular Matrix of the brain
Jordan Langford (Mentor: Amy Lenz) - Investigation of the Morphological Relationship Between Pilon Fractures and Osteoarthritis in the Foot and Ankle
Kayla Marks (Mentor: Rob Judson-Torres) - Lentiviral Reporter Constructs for SOX10 Promoters and Enhancers and the Effect on Three Melanoma Cell Lines
Alan Mo (Mentor: Jordan Grammer) - Bridging the Gap: Computational Advancements in Neurobiology Research and Software Development
Eliana Moreno (Mentor: Amy Lenz) - Morphologic Analysis of Long Bones in the Foot and Ankle in Individuals with Charcot Marie Tooth Disease
Tiffany Nguyen (Mentor: Rebecca Delaney) - Exploring self-advocacy and decision-making skills for adolescents and young adults living with congenital heart disease
Hannah Nordhoff (Mentor: Kai Kuck) - Development of a Hydrogel-Encapsulated Enzyme to Detect Acetaldehyde
Eva Owen (Mentor: Moriel Zelikowsky) - Rodent model of post-traumatic stress disorder differentially alters sociability in male and female mice
Nate Patchen (Mentor: Yang Liu) - Visualizing and Facilitating DNA Double-Strand Break Repair Pathway Choice at High Resolution
Catherine Petersen (Mentor: Ram Gouripeddi) - Understanding the Relationship Between Environmental Exposures and the Risk of Pediatric Obesity Using Unsupervised Machine Learning
Savannah Pettey (Mentor: Sheri Holmen) - The Role of AKT1 and FAK Interactions in the Promotion of Melanoma Brain Metastasis
Margaret Pozo (Mentor: Elliot Smith) - Characterization of Action Potentials and High-frequency Oscillations during Interictal Discharges in Human Epilepsy
Carson Sautter (Mentor: Melissa Cortez) - Identifying Biomarkers that can be Used to Diagnosis Neuropathic Postural Tachycardia Syndrome (POTS)
Isabella  Scalise  (Mentor: Conan Kinsey) - Inhibiting CDK9 and Autophagy in Pancreatic Cancer
Jonah Simmons (Mentor: Mandy Bunsawat) - Characterizing Peripheral Vascular Function in Cardiorenal Syndrome
Clara Smith (Mentor: Sheri Holmen) - The Role of TIMP1 in Melanoma
Mayson Smith (Mentor: Mark Mahan) - Unraveling the Nexus between Inflammation and Neuroma Formations
Lorelei Sole (Mentor: Sheri Holmen) - Investigating the Role of Concurrent NF1 and RAS mutations in Melanoma
Alayna Stoddard (Mentor: Harriet Hopf) - The BASIC Trial: An ESKAPE From Transmission
Jacob Sussman (Mentor: Katharine Walter) - Mapping the Distribution of Tuberculosis Cases in High-Incidence Settings
Alec  Tzeng (Mentor: Yan-Ting Shiu) - The Effect of Nitric Oxide Synthase 3 on the Hemodynamics and Wall Mechanics in Mouse Arteriovenous Fistulas
Kyle Valestrino (Mentor: Panagiotis Kassavetis) - Deep Phenotyping of Essential Tremor
Rene Valles (Mentor: Jordan Grammer) - The Impact of Social Isolation on Neural Activity in the Bed Nucleus of the Stria Terminalis and Nucleus Accumbens
Alicia Velazquez (Mentor: Susanna  Cohen) - Project Interprofessional Simulation Program for clinical Resilience and Empathy (INSPIRE)
Eleni Yannias (Mentor: Stavros Drakos) - Transcriptional Regulation of AEBP1 in Cardiac Fibrosis

COLLEGE OF MINES & EARTH SCIENCES

Margaret Call (Mentor: Pete Lippert) - Can Biomagnetic monitoring using tree leaves measure the impact of an inland shipping port on residential air quality? A case study from the Eastern Los Angeles Basin, Part 2
Justin McKee (Mentor: Randy Irmis) - First associated Theropoda skeleton recovered from the Straight Cliffs Formation of Southern Utah
Constance Sauve (Mentor: Sarah Lambart) - Explore the fate of pyroxenite in a heterogeneous mantle along an adiabatic path.
Annabelle Warner (Mentor: Court Strong) - Evaluating the Prediction of Orographic Precipitation Gradients from a Convolutional Neural Network

COLLEGE OF PHARMACY

Husaib Arshad (Mentor: Raphael Franzini) - Exploring Dissociative Bioorthogonal Reactions Enabling Targeted Drug Delivery
Isaac Kendell (Mentor: Jindrich Kopecek) - T Cell Exhaustion and Remediation in Multi-Antigen T Cell Hybridization (MATCH)
Zhenyu Yang (Mentor: Katharine Diehl) - Identifying readers of histone lactylationn

COLLEGE OF SCIENCE

Sage Acord (Mentor: Sophie Caron) - Investigating the Effects of Single Nucleotide Polymorphisms on Behavioral Phenotypes in Isogenic Drosophila melanogaster
Kobi Baker (Mentor: Martin Horvath) - Implementing Machine Learning Models to Predict the Binding of Odorants to Insect Olfactory Receptors
Lexie Bingman (Mentor: Chan Yul Yoo) - Understanding the Role of Chaperones in the Assembly of the Plastid-Encoded RNA Polymerase (PEP) Complex in Plants
Ella Bleak (Mentor: Talia Karasov) - Factors of Tailocin Resistance in Pseudomonas
Leo Bloxham (Mentor: Connor Bischak) - Tuning Phase Transitions in Copper and Manganese Based 2-D Hybrid Halide Perovskites
Gabe Brown (Mentor: Austin Green) - Human Outdoor Recreational Use And It's Impact on Mammalian Behavior
Ashlyn Christensen (Mentor: Sophie Caron) - Nature vs Nurture: Linking Genetics and Behavior using a Drosophila melanogaster Model
Alyssa Curtis (Mentor: Heejin Yoo) - Unraveling the molecular mechanism for the impact of plant volatiles on plant immunity
Emily Dalley (Mentor: Connor Bischak) - Controlling Phase Transitions in Lead-free Perovskites for Clean Thermal Energy Storage
Kylie DeNiro (Mentor: Sophie Caron) - Investigating The Role of dArc1/2 in Pigmentation Patterning in Drosophila melanogaster
Kyle Elwood (Mentor: Gary Rose) - Quantifying the Expression of Genes for Arginine Vasotocin Receptors in the Brain of Thalassoma bifasciatum, a sex-changing fish.
Gabriela  Eyring  (Mentor: Bethany Buck) - Exploring the Binding Scope for the C-Terminal Zinc Fingers of ZBTB4
Topher Frederick (Mentor: Andrew Roberts) - Synthesis of Cyclophanes And Derivatives, Probing Planar Chirality Selectivity
Aubrey Jones (Mentor: Ben Bromley) - Supermassive Black Hole Growth due to Tidal Disruption Events
Krish Kotak (Mentor: Martin Horvath) - Odorant-Dependent Olfactory Receptor Activity in Transgenic Drosophila
Will Lee (Mentor: Ryan Stolley) - Synthesis and characterization of cyanoaziridines
Ruby Linnell (Mentor: Dale Clayton) - Does Grooming Behavior Respond to Morphological Changes?
Lukas Mesicek (Mentor: John Belz) - Investigating Critical Phenomena in Axisymmetric Black Hole Formation using the Finite Difference Method
Kenzie Montzingo (Mentor: Martin Horvath) - Examination of DNA Repair Enzyme MutY on DNA/RNA Hybrids
Andrew Moore (Mentor: Vikram Deshpande) - Fabrication of Boron Nitride Graphene Substrates for the Analysis of Strongly Correlated Phenomena.
Russell Moore (Mentor: Kyle Dawson) - Searching Millions of Quasar Spectra for Rare Objects and Misclassifications
Samantha Morris (Mentor: Aaron Puri) - Isolation of a Potential Antibiotic from Methylocystis sp. strain SC2
Jessica Parsons (Mentor: Kasey Cole) - 3D-Printing Bones: Using Innovating Technologies to Create Accessible and Engaging Learning Experiences 
Beth Penderghast (Mentor: Ben Bromley) - Searching for Planet Nine Using the Gaia DR3 Data-set
Allie Perkins (Mentor: Talia Karasov) - Quaking Aspen Pathogen Defense in the Presence of Climate Change Related Drought
Liza Roberts (Mentor: Michael Vershinin) -  Does microtubule rigidity depend on lattice defect density?
Bibiana Rodriguez Vega (Mentor: Sophie Caron) - The Role of Encephalization in Olfactory Behavior
Jonathan Sing (Mentor: Eric Montoya) - Asymmetric Spin Current Transport and Spin Orbit Torque in Dual-Ferromagnetic Structures
Angelina Skedros (Mentor: Jamie Gagnon) - The importance of sunscreen across the tree of life: understanding synthetic gadusol's impacts on early zebrafish (Danio rerio) development and investigating the role of gadusol in brine shrimp (Artemia)
Sydney Skousen (Mentor: Sophie Caron) - Capsid formation of dArc in the Drosophila melanogaster brain for Intercellular Signaling
Haley Welker (Mentor: Heejin Yoo) - Uncover the molecular foundations behind the local and systemic immunity of Brassica napus, as well as its parent species and its parent species, Brassica oleracea, and Brassica rapa.
Zhuyun  Xie (Mentor: Luisa Whittaker-Brooks) - Electroabsorption spectroscopy studies of a PM6:Y6 photovoltaic blend
Anuhya Yalavarty (Mentor: Ayako Yamaguchi) - Quantification of the Perineuronal Nets in response to testosterone in Female Vocal Pathways of African clawed frogs
Saya Zeleznik (Mentor: Fred Adler) - Mathematical Modeling of Supercolonial Behavior in Invasive Ants

COLLEGE OF SOCIAL AND BEHAVIORAL SCIENCE

Nile Boyer (Mentor: Andrea Brunelle) - Reconstructing the Environmental History of Utah's West Desert Using Magnetic Susceptibility and Loss on Ignition Analysis of Sediment Cores
Dustin Breakfield (Mentor: Akiko Kamimura) - Dental Anxiety and its Contributors in Underserved and Uninsured Populations
Sia Chauhan (Mentor: Akiko Kamimura) - Exploring the Perception and Knowledge about Sudden Cardiac Arrest and Heart Attacks Among Free Clinic Patients
Ben  Creer (Mentor: Cynthia Berg) - Self-control of Adults with Type 1 Diabetes and Their Perceptions of Partner Suppor
Bennett Davenport (Mentor: Stella Mosher) - Tracking The Presence Of Large Herbivores In The Fynbos Biome Of South Africa Using Coprophilous Spores
Caston Draper (Mentor: Stefania  Wilks) - Examining Potential Micro-Residue Contamination on Ground Stone Tools in Buried Contexts Using Starch Granule Analysis.
Sam Enke (Mentor: Jennifer Watt) - Reconstructing the Fire History and Paleoclimate of Sierra de San Pedro Mártir National Park, Baja California, Mexico
Hanna Farra (Mentor: Sarah Small) - Time Deficits by Race and Gender in the United States
Carissa Guardado (Mentor: Carol Sansone) - Social pressures of Student Athletes 
Sarah Herring (Mentor: Rob Lubeznik-Warner) - Examining the Role of Gender-Congruence in Youth-Adult Relationships and Positive Developmental Outcomes
Grace Heyborne (Mentor: Tim Webster) - Using PSMC to Reconstruct Historical Levels of Reproductive Skew in Primates.
Alex  Higuera  (Mentor: Paul White) - Empowering Voices: Exploring the Role of Academic and Social Counter Spaces in Supporting First-Generation Students in Response to the Campus Racial Climate
Gabriel  Holm (Mentor: Sarah Creem-Regehr) - The effect of concussions on sensory integration and spatial updating
Amanda Holt (Mentor: Lee  Raby) - Examining maternal emotional dysregulation associated with variability in infants' RSA responses to the Still Face Paradigm.
Akow Ibrahim (Mentor: Akiko Kamimura) - Healthcare Access Barriers in Utah Muslim Communities
Xochitl Juarez (Mentor: Theresa Martinez) - The Student-Parent Dilemma
Terry Kim (Mentor: Katie Baucom) - Post-intervention Assessments in the Couple-Based Diabetes Prevention Pilot Trial
Max Lepore (Mentor: Jim Curry) - Social Class Representation in American Representative Institutions
Griffin Light (Mentor: Cory Inman) - Lead-DBS Modeling to Uncover Spatial Factors Related to Amygdala-Mediated Memory Modulation
Abbie Nistler (Mentor: Jenn Follstad Shah) - Measures of Climate Grief and Hope Amongst Undergraduates at the University of Utah
Elsa  Osborne (Mentor: Akiko Kamimura) - Benefits of indoor climbing on well-being of young adults: Perspectives among indoor climbers
Andrew Parker (Mentor: Lee Raby) - Maternal Sensitivity and Infant Behavior in the Still-Face Paradigm: A Cross-Cultural Comparison Between Hispanic and non-Hispanic/White Mothers and Infants
Sean  Paton (Mentor: Larry Coats) - Secrets In Sediment: Understanding Late Glacial To Holocene Ecosystem Change In The Great Basin, Nevada Via Macrofossil Analysis 
Hailey Sherman (Mentor: Amy McDonnell) - Effect of Connectedness to Nature and Living Environment on Cognition and Affect after Exposure to Nature
Shannielle Taylor (Mentor: Rob Lubeznik-Warner) - Flourishing and connection in the context of summer camp: A mixed-methods design (renewal)

COLLEGE OF SOCIAL WORK

Dayttn Bartschi (Mentor: Sarah Canham) - A Thematic Analysis of Interventions to Address the Stigma and Discrimination Towards Persons Experiencing Homelessness

 

SCHOOL OF ARCHITECTURE + PLANNING

Tiana Ko (Mentor: Andy Hong) - Enhancing Barrier-Free and Safe Public Transportation for University of Utah

 SCHOOL FOR CULTURAL AND SOCIAL TRANSFORMATION

COLLEGE OF EDUCATION

Michael Molenaar (Mentor: Frankie Santos Laanan) - Proposal to Explore the Relationship of Disabilities and the Risk of Sexual Assault Victimization Among Female College Students 

COLLEGE OF ENGINEERING

Ian Aist (Mentor: Stavros Drakos) - The Role of Glycosylceramides and UGCG in Heart Failure and Recovery

Alex Altherr (Mentor: Lars Laurentius) - Read Out Label Optimization for Lateral Flow Assay to Detect CMV

Sanjana Aujla (Mentor: Simon Binder) - Synthesis of Flexible Electrode Array

Nicholas Baker (Mentor: Tony Saad) - A Jupyter Notebook Educational Resource for Chemical Engineering Students in Numerical Methods

Lucas Bolster (Mentor: Ken Monson) - Detection of Cerebral Arteries with Magnetic Resonance Elastography

Jackson Brough (Mentor: Pavel Panchekha) - Herbie UROP Fall 2023

Ethan Carcas (Mentor: Pai Wang) - Modeling Waves Through Architected Materials

Arianna Carter (Mentor: Tony Saad) - The Effect of Drone Airflow on Atmospheric Measurements using On-board Sensors: A Simulation and Generalized Scaling Approach

John Chae (Mentor: Jiyoung Chang) - Enhancing Electrospinning Process by Feedback Control Loop

Kiley Cole (Mentor: Monika Buczak) - EMG Collar Control for Tetraplegia Patients

McKenna Coughlin (Mentor: Jessica Kramer) - Design and Synthesis of Authentic Mucin PTS Domains using NCA Polymerization

Lance Delos Reyes (Mentor: Rajesh Menon) - Medical Imaging Using Near Infrared Waves

Zane Enders (Mentor: Pavel Panchekha) - Herbie UROP Fall 2023

Jensen Fobel (Mentor: Chris Pantelides) - Design of Self-Centering Bridge Bents in Seismic Region

Walter Geiger (Mentor: Robert Hitchcock) - Development of an Updated Underfoot Load Sensor to Reduce Sensor Failure During Manufacturing and Clinical Trials

Alex Gilsoul (Mentor: Alex Novoselov) - Modelling Hydrogen Flames with Machine Learning

Peri Harward (Mentor: Jacob George) - Applying Self-Supervised Machine Learning to Improve Bionic Hand Control

Ethan Hathaway (Mentor: Jeffrey Bates) - Cross Compatible Bio-Inks for 3D Hydrogel Printing

Milo Headden (Mentor: Jeffrey Bates) - Diffusion Kinetics of Ski Wax in Sintered Ski Base

Oliver Hubbard (Mentor: Hamid Ghandehari) - Reducing Drug Adsorption in Extracorporeal Membrane Oxygenation (ECMO) Circuits: Furosemide Extraction and Analysis

Anna Huber (Mentor: Chen Wang) - Depolymerization Kinetics and Repolymerization

Yazan Issa Sammaneh (Mentor: Simon Binder) - Developing Alternatives to Utah Electrode Arrays for Next-Generation Brain-Computer Interfaces

Wyatt Jones (Mentor: Tianli Feng) - Prediction of thermal conductivity of GaN/AlN superlattices using machine learning-interatomic potential

Britton Jordan (Mentor: Alan Kuntz) - Designing Metamaterial Robot for use in Microsurgery

Ishita Juluru (Mentor: Claire  Acevedo) - Segmentation of the lacunar canalicular network in a diabetic rat bone

Wooyoung Kim (Mentor: Juan Medina) - Network Effects of Disruptive Events on Traffic

Clara  Kramer (Mentor: Jeffrey Bates) - Synthesis of Polystyrene Ski Base Material to Replace Current Ski Base Technology

Logan Lancaster (Mentor: Haohan Zhang) - Using OpenSim to Model, Simulate, and Improve Gait Symmetry in Stroke Survivors.

Jiwon Lee (Mentor: Jungkyu Kim) - Development of a Glomerulus-On-A-Chip for studying cell-cell interactions in kidney function and disease.

Sam Lewis (Mentor: Connor Olsen) - An Investigation of How Electrode Size Affects the Quality of  Myographic Signals at the Wrist

Kalina Manova (Mentor: Claire Acevedo) - Investigating Osteocyte Impact on Bone Fragility Using Micro-CT Imaging and Bone-on-a-chip Microfluidic Device Research

Jennafer Marsh (Mentor: Thomas Zangle) - Sterilization of refractive index-matched hydrogel microdevices for cell culture assays

Sami Mower (Mentor: Shadrach Roundy) - Determining Myalgic Encephalomyelitis/Chronic Fatigue Syndrome Disease Severity using Wearable Sensors

Grant Nations (Mentor: Daniel Drew) - Investigating the Ground and Ceiling Effects for Small-Scale Electroaerodynamic Thrusters

Phat Nguyen (Mentor: Cynthia Furse) - Pseudo-Noise Codes for Microwave Medical Imaging Measurements

Kenneth Ochoa (Mentor: Anthony Butterfield) - Upgrading and Testing a PM Arapaho AQ Sensor

John Peterson (Mentor: Deisy Cristina Carvalho Fernandes) - Utilization of 3d-Printed Graphene Oxide Membranes for Application in Delayed Drug Release.

LP Purdy (Mentor: Jeffrey Bates) - Biodegradation of Polymers Modified with Saccharide-Type Functionality

Zachary Rasmussen (Mentor: Swomitra Mohanty) - Tuberculosis Sensor Optimization via Modelling of Biomarker Adsorption and Desorption Processes

Jessica Redmond (Mentor: Claire Acevedo) - Effect of Diabetes on Bone in Fatigue Test

Bryce Rundell (Mentor: Tianli Feng) - Prediction of thermal conductivity of high entropy ceramics

Lyndsey Schultz (Mentor: Jacob George) - Development of Surface Electromyography Sock for Lower-Limb Muscle Activity Analysis

Sasha Skliar (Mentor: Swomitra Mohanty) - Surface Labeling Bulk NanoBubbles using Nile Red

Slade Slack (Mentor: Dmitro Bedrov) - Self-assembly and interaction of perfluorinated surfactants in aqueous environments and air-water interfaces

Megan Stephens (Mentor: Michael Scarpulla) - Semiconducting Material Defect Computing

Abigail Stringfellow (Mentor: Roseanne Warren) - Design of Low-Cost Ascorbic Acid Sensor Using Photographic Paper

Nathan Toth (Mentor: Jacob George) - Variable Weight System to Explore Dynamic Sensorimotor Function in Paretic Limbs

Emma Wadsworth (Mentor: Rajesh Menon) - Thermal to Visual Image Translation with Deep Learning

Tyler Walker (Mentor: Pania Newell) - Investigation of the Representative Volume Element in Fibrous Porous Systems

Nathan Wallace (Mentor: Ashley Dalrymple) - Quantifying Posterior Root-Muscle Thresholds and Recruitment Curves

Tanner Watts (Mentor: Alan Kuntz) - GoalGenerationNet Goal Point Cloud Generation for Deformable Object Manipulation

Kelly Wu (Mentor: Eliane Wiese) - Exploring Ethics Integrated Teaching through K-means Clustering

Eden Yau (Mentor: Chen Wang) - recycling of PP packaging straps into usable FDM Filament

Wyatt Young (Mentor: Robert Hitchcock) -    Inertial Mass Unit Signal Processing and Associated Data Pipeline

Andy Yu (Mentor: Hamid Ghandehari) - Development of a mimic of Extracorporeal Membrane Oxygenation (ECMO) Circuit for high throughput drug screening

Ien Zielinski (Mentor: Deisy Cristina Carvalho Fernandes) - Graphene Synthesis and 3D Printing

 COLLEGE OF FINE ARTS

Pablo Ayala (Mentor: John O Erickson) - Cross Examination of Human Physiological Responses and Critical Race Intersectionalities through Exposure to Immigrant Focused Visual Art Gallery Exhibition

Mickayla Koday (Mentor: Maureen O'Hara Ure) - Large Format Handbound Illustrated Book

Steffan Perez-Velez Solis (Mentor: Elizabeth Craft) - A Deeper Look Into Latino Theater

Elle Taylor (Mentor: Molly Heller) - Dance Improvisation as a Somatic Healing Tool and Generator of Movement Performance Art

Alix Wright (Mentor: Heath Williams) - Engaging Embodiment: Exploring Materials, Entities, and Phenomenology

 COLLEGE OF HEALTH

Alisha Chong (Mentor: Christopher Depner) - Effects of Increasing Sleep Duration on C-Reactive Protein, Insulin Sensitivity, and Blood Pressure in Adults with Habitual Short Sleep

Ivan Delgado (Mentor: Amandine Chaix) - The Effect of a High-Fat and Ketogenic Diet on Breast Cancer Tumor Growth in Female Mice

Elly LaMonte (Mentor: Christopher Depner) - The Effect of Habitual Short Sleep Duration (HSSD) on Insulin Sensitivity

Faith Smart (Mentor: Amandine Chaix) - The Impact of a Ketogenic Diet on Food Intake and Body Composition

Ceyda Ural (Mentor: Amandine Chaix) - Impact of High Fat Diet Feeding on Metabolic Health in Postmenopausal Female Mice

 COLLEGE OF HUMANITIES

Britta Bolander (Mentor: Aniello De Santo) - Models, Evidence, and the Epistemology of Machine Learning

Z Chodos (Mentor: Aaron Kaplan) - An Optimality Theoretic Analysis of Context-Specific Exceptions to Gemination in Japanese 

Caleb Curtis (Mentor: Alexis Christensen) - A Mycenean Environment

Pierce Dirkis (Mentor: Matt Haber) - The Intersection of Pediatric Autonomy and Conscientious Objection: New Perspectives

Kalista Leggitt (Mentor: Matt Haber) - The Intersection of Pediatric Autonomy and Conscientious Objection: New Perspectives

Eliana Massey (Mentor: Maile Arvin) - E Mālama Nā Lei Poina ʻOle (Care for the Children Not Forgotten): Constructing a Community-Engaged Digital Database for Accessing and Interpreting Histories of Child Institutionalization in Hawaiʻi

Savannah McDaniel (Mentor: Elizabeth Swanstrom) - Creature Comforts: Domesticity and Domestication in Mary Shelley's Frankenstein (1818) and Tim Burton's The Nightmare Before Christmas (1993)

Mel Palmer (Mentor: Elizabeth Clement) - The History of Drag in Utah: Developing a New Collection in the Archives

Lex Putnam (Mentor: Aniello De Santo) - An Evaluation of Novel Slur Formation through Textual Media Analysis of "Transgender"

George West (Mentor: Mira Green) - An Examination of the Role of Popular Politics in the Late Roman Republic

 SCHOOL OF MEDICINE

Halli Baird (Mentor: June Round) - The Effects of Microbiota Dependent Regs on Beta-Cell Proliferation

Hannah Berrett (Mentor: Michelle Vo) - The Determinating Factors of Mental Health Stigma and The Dynamics of Social Influence

Adriana Bibo (Mentor: Nicole Losurdo) - Determining if Bx42 Mutations Cause Microcephaly

Libby Brooks (Mentor: Natasha Pavlova) - Response to glutamine withdrawal in breast cancer and fibroblast cell lines

Meghan Carter (Mentor: Amy Lenz) - Application of advanced medical imaging to assess foot and ankle form and function in patients with cerebral palsy

Wesley Chidester (Mentor: Lisa Joss-Moore) - The Effects of Postnatal Growth Restriction on PPARγ Alternative Splicing and Downstream Gene Expression

Eeshan Chowdhary (Mentor: Joseph Palatinus) - Internal Translation of the GJA-5 gene as a Therapeutic Target for Atrial Fibrillation

Collin Clark (Mentor: Bruce Edgar) - Examination of the Effects of the Alkaline Ceramidase Brainwashing in the body of Drosophila Melanogaster to Allow for Efficient Drug Screening

Anika D'Souza (Mentor: Donna Cross) - FDG - PET Analysis of Neurodegenerative Diseases in Autopsy confirmed Dementia Cohort

Cameron Davis (Mentor: Douglas Mackay) - Probing Nup50's Function in the DNA Damage Response

Anne Done (Mentor: Robert Judson-Torres) - Examining the role of different DCT isoforms in melanoma cell response to targeted therapy

MiKaela Field (Mentor: Sheri Holmen) - Defining the Role of FAK in Melanoma

Dhruvan Gopinath (Mentor: Nirupama Ramkumar ) - Loss of soluble (pro)renin receptor in male mice attenuates kidney disease and fibrosis

Alexa Gormick (Mentor: Justin English) - Design and construction of a 'repressilator' system based on the Tet-On system of inducible gene expression and the VEGAS directed-evolution method.

Breydon Hardy (Mentor: Heath Henninger) - How do muscle moment arms affect internal rotation of the glenohumeral joint following reverse total shoulder arthroplasty?

Addison Hedges (Mentor: Moriel Zelikowsky) - Behavioral Effects of Trauma Recruit Separate Populations of Ventral Hippocampal Neurons

Camille Hoang (Mentor: Stefan-M Pulst) - Utah Parkinson's Disease Registry

Lana Hua (Mentor: Donna Cross) - Alterations in Alzheimer's disease phenotypic pathology after biodegradable paclitaxel-conjugate treatment

Amy Jamison (Mentor: Siwen Hu-Lieskovan) - Using Acral Melanoma Tumor Genetic Information to Identify Biomarker Patterns in Order to Predict Tumor Treatment Response

Hephzibah Kaleem (Mentor: Martin  Tristani-Firouzi) - NFATc1 Gene Expression in the Zebrafish Heart

Peyton King (Mentor: Heath Henninger) - Evaluating Longitudinal Scapulothoracic, Humerothoracic, and Glenohumeral Motion Following Reverse Total Shoulder Arthroplasty

Mia Kowalczyk (Mentor: Robert Campbell) - Procoagulant Platelet Formation and Function: The Effect of Regulating Mitochondrial Calcium Flux by MCU on Platelet Activation During Hyperglycemia and Hyperlipidemia

Brenda Lee (Mentor: Alessandra Angelucci) - Role of Top-Down Feedback in Information Processing in Primate Primary Visual Cortex

Grace Makassa Agnes (Mentor: Kylie Jacobs) - Investigating amino acid toxicity with a yeast model for citrullinemia

Kayla Marks (Mentor: Robert Judson-Torres) - Lentiviral Reporter Constructs for Identifying the Different Transcriptional States of Melanoma

Ritika Nayan (Mentor: Tracey Lamb) - MDSC mediated control of Malaria-Flu Co-infection

Julia  Nguyen  (Mentor: Megan Williams) - The use of c-fos immunohistochemistry as a marker for neural activity in the hippocampus following K3-GABA neuron inhibition.

Hannah Nordhoff (Mentor: Kai Kuck) - Development of a Hydrogel Acetaldehyde Sensor

Nathan Patchen (Mentor: Yang Liu) - Visualizing DNA Double-Strand Break Repair Pathway Choice at High Resolution

Catherine Petersen (Mentor: Ram Gouripeddi) - Understanding the Relationship Between Environmental Exposures and the Risk of Pediatric Obesity Using Unsupervised Machine Learning

Nic Poll (Mentor: Moriel Zelikowsky) - Social Effects of Bed Nucleus of the Stria Terminalis Corticotropin-releasing Hormone Neuronal Activation Using Optogenetic Stimulation

Olivia Raines (Mentor: Megan Williams) - Analysis of Kirrel3 Mediated Synapse After Development

Carson Sautter (Mentor: Melissa Cortez) - Identifying Biomarkers that can be Used to Diagnosis Neuropathic Postural Tachycardia Syndrome (POTS)

Isabella Scalise (Mentor: Conan Kinsey) - Inhibiting CDK9 and Autophagy in Pancreatic Cancer

Gavin Schaaf (Mentor: Peng Zhang) - Identifying Colorectal Cancer Genes Using Fruit Fly Models

Kiba Sedigh (Mentor: Brian Mickey) - Propofol: Prospective Intervention for Treatment-Resistant Depression

Jonah Simmons (Mentor: Kanokwan Bunsawat) - Characterizing Peripheral Vascular Function in Cardiorenal Syndrome

Marie Slater (Mentor: Jessica Osterhout) - Characterization of pain-related reflexive and affective-motivational behavior in an inflammatory model 

Mayson Smith (Mentor: Mark Mahan) - A Qualitative and Quantitative Analysis of Calcitonin Gene-Related Peptide in Neuroma Formation

Ryleigh Smith (Mentor: Guillaume Hoareau) - Beneficial effects of GJA1-20K: Mechanistic Insights in a Mouse Model of Hemorrhagic Shock

Morgan Smoot (Mentor: Nicole Pershing) - The contribution of prophage to Adherent Invasive Escherichia Coli (E. coli) adhesion and invasion of mammalian cells 

Porter Stulce (Mentor: Dustin Williams) - The Critical Need and Improvement of Preoperative Skin Preparation Technology

Yvonne Sun (Mentor: John Rose) - Telehealth Utilization in a Comprehensive Multiple Sclerosis Clinic During the COVID-19 Pandemic: Single Center Experience

Jacob Sussman (Mentor: Katharine Walter) - Spatial Analysis and Mapping of Tuberculosis Cases in Paraguay

Rushmeen Tariq (Mentor: Eric Snyder) - The Role of HNF4ɑ in Dual-Identity Lung Adenocarcenomas

River Tobias (Mentor: Yan-Ting Shiu) - Aging and Hemodialysis Fistulas Maturation Failure: Role of Receptor for Advanced Glycation End Products 

Alec Tzeng (Mentor: Yan-Ting Shiu) - The Effect of Nitric-Oxide Releasing Gel on the Hemodynamics and Wall Mechanics in Rat Arteriovenous Fistulas

 COLLEGE OF MINES AND EARTH SCIENCES

Emma Boeman (Mentor: Randall Irmis) - Determining the Provenance of Cambrian Fossils Using X-Ray Fluorescence Technology

Samuel Bona (Mentor: Randall Irmis) - Cave Sediment Core Records 2200 Years of Alpine Climate in Utah

Melanie Gomez (Mentor: James Karner) - Sample Identification of Terrestrial Rocks (i.e., meteor-wrongs) Collected by the Antarctic Search for Meteorites (ANSMET) at the Dominion Range (DOM) Icefields, Antarctica

Justin McKee (Mentor: Randall Irmis) - First associated Theropoda skeleton recovered from the Straight Cliffs Formation of Southern Utah

Rae Noble (Mentor: Tonie van Dam) - Impact of the 2022-2023 Utah Winter Snowpack Anomaly on Multiyear Climate Dynamics and Groundwater Storage

Christian Norman (Mentor: Swomitra Mohanty) - Flash Joule Heating of Coal for Graphene and Graphite Production

Cameron Olsen (Mentor: Leif Anderson) - Determining the Age of Paleoglaciers and Santa Clara Lava Flow Using Cosmogenic Nuclide Dating Techniques

Henry Peterson (Mentor: Michael Simpson) - Mechanism of Corrosion of Stainless Steel in Molten Salt Loops

Annabelle Warner (Mentor: Courtenay Strong) - Evaluating the Prediction of Orographic Precipitation Gradients from a Convolutional Neural Network in the Western United States

 COLLEGE OF NURSING

Sofia Flowers (Mentor: Lauri Linder) - The Caregiving Experience for Children Diagnosed with Cancer: A Secondary Analysis

Michaella Lawson Halweg (Mentor: Rebekah Perkins) - Promoting Age Inclusivity to Enhance Educational Excellence within the University of Utah College of Nursing

 COLLEGE OF PHARMACY

Isaac Kendell (Mentor: Jindřich Kopeček) - T Cell Exhaustion and Remediation in Multi-Antigen T Cell Hybridization (MATCH)

 COLLEGE OF SCIENCE

Samantha Ball (Mentor: Ben Bromley) - Symbiotic Stars

Anna Christiansen (Mentor: Julie Hollien) - The effects of polyglutamine length in Huntingtin  protein on aggregation and degradation

Noah Conner (Mentor: Eric Montoya) - Effect of Granular Structure on Spin Torque Oscillators

Emily Dalley (Mentor: Connor Bischak) - Controlling Phase Transitions in Lead-free Perovskites for Clean Thermal Energy Storage

Natalia Danilla (Mentor: Luisa Whittaker-Brooks) - Application and realization of potential usage of synthesis of aryl halides with self-n-doping perylene diimide semiconductors

Madi Dean (Mentor: Chan Yul Yoo) - Investigating the assembly of the chloroplast RNA polymerase complex under the microscope in Light and Dark conditions  

Kylie DeNiro (Mentor: Sophie Caron) - Investigating The Role of dArc1/2 in Pigmentation Patterning in Drosophila melanogaster

Tori Earl (Mentor: Michael Shapiro) - Elucidating the Genetics of Novel Avian Plumage Colors

Gabriela Eyring  (Mentor: Bethany Buck-Koehntop) - Exploring the Binding Scope of ZBTB4 C-Terminal Zinc Fingers

Kierra Forthman (Mentor: Connor Bischak) - Determining the Kinetics of Sulfonate Dopants in Organic Mixed Conductors

Topher Frederick (Mentor: Andrew Roberts) - Efficient Synthesis of Cyclophanes Without Protecting Groups

Liv Inman (Mentor: Michael Shapiro) - Deciphering the Genetic Mechanisms Underlying the Feather-Loss Phenotype in Naked Neck Pigeons

Sydney Larsen (Mentor: Joshua Steffen) - A Metagenomic Analysis of the Effects of Changing Environmental Conditions on the Microbial Composition of Apis mellifera Pollen Preserves

Vivian Marcoux (Mentor: Wayne Potts) - Genetic Factors in Cerebral Malaria

Delaney Miller (Mentor: Shelley Minteer) - Electrocatalytic Production of FDCA from 2,5-Bis(Hydroxymethyl)Furan over Graphite Rod Electrodes

Ali Nopper (Mentor: Andrew Roberts) - Efficient synthesis of [2.2]paracyclophane and asymmetric derivatives using deaminative contraction chemistry

Alice Parker (Mentor: Luisa Whittaker-Brooks) - Studying Trends in Exciton Binding Energies Using Electroabsorption Spectroscopy

Hetvi Patel (Mentor: Erik Jorgensen) - Cargo sorting by clathrin adaptor AP-3 at synapses

Elisabeth Penderghast (Mentor: Ben Bromley) - Searching for Planet 9 in Gaia DR3

Allie Perkins (Mentor: Talia Karasov) - Quaking Aspen Pathogen Defense in the Presence of Climate Change Related Drought

Maddox Riewald (Mentor: Aaron Puri) - Characterization of an anti-fungal natural product produced by Methylobacter tundripaludum strain 21/22

Bibiana Rodriguez Vega (Mentor: Sophie Caron) - The Role of Encephalization in Olfactory Behavior

Michael Romero (Mentor: Thomas Richmond) - Activation of Carbon Fluoride Bonds with Platinum Chelating Azo Ligand

Emily Sageser (Mentor: Yao-Yuan Mao) - Understanding Dark Matter in Relation to Satellite Galaxies

Nick Seefeldt (Mentor: Cagan H Sekercioglu) - Using stable isotopes to investigate the impacts of elevation and anthropogenically modified habitat on diet in Ethiopian rainforest birds

Jonathan Sing (Mentor: Eric Montoya) - Asymmetric Spin Current Transport in Dual-Ferromagnetic Structures

Gigi Skedros (Mentor: James Gagnon) - Fish Need Sunscreen Too: Understanding synthetic gadusol and its impacts on early zebrafish (Danio rerio) development.

Anastasia Varela (Mentor: Margaret Doolin) - Does gut microbiome diversity affect parasite development and host response to parasitism?

Haley Welker (Mentor: Heejin  Yoo) - Comparative analysis of the regulatory mechanism of the plant defense hormone salicylic acid for immunity among Brassica napus and its parent species, Brassica oleracea, and Brassica rapa.

Zhuyun Xie (Mentor: Luisa Whittaker-Brooks) - 2-D phenylethylammonium lead bromide Synthesis and optical properties characterization

 COLLEGE OF SOCIAL & BEHAVIORAL SCIENCE

Jaylee Aston (Mentor: Claudia Geist) - Analyzing Perceptions of Sex, Sexuality and Gender in the Healthcare System

Theo Baende (Mentor: Sonia Salari) - Intimate Partner Homicide-Suicide: A collection of intimate murder-suicide accounts from young adults aged 18 to 44 in the United States before and during the COVID-19 pandemic. 

Dustin Breakfield (Mentor: Akiko Kamimura) - Dental Anxiety and its Contributors in Underserved and Uninsured Populations

Zoe Brown (Mentor: Kim Korinek) - Invesitagting the Mental Health of and Mental Health Services and Support for Vietnamese American Veterans of the American/Vietnam War

Kerrigan Bunker (Mentor: Adrienne Cachelin) - Understanding the Relationship Between Food Policy and Mutual Aid for Community Resilience and Food Sovereignty

Sia Chauhan (Mentor: Akiko Kamimura) - Exploring the Perception and Knowledge about Sudden Cardiac Arrest and Heart Attacks Among Free Clinic Patients

Abby Christensen (Mentor: Lee Raby) - Mother's Secure Base Script Knowledge and Emotion Regulation as  Predictors of Child Social- Emotion Outcomes

Eamon Christiansen (Mentor: Akiko Kamimura) - Utah Case-Study of the Experience of Transgender Adults in Public Life

Ben Creer (Mentor: Cynthia Berg) - The Role of Partner Self-Control in Assisting with Diabetes Management

Bennett Davenport (Mentor: Stella Mosher) - Tracking The Presence Of Large Herbivores In The Fynbos Biome Of South Africa Using Coprophilous Spores

Cindy Diaz Rey (Mentor: David De Micheli) - Identity Formation and Politicization: A Comparative Study of Muysca and campesino communities in the Cundiboyacense territory of Colombia

Sophia Dodge (Mentor: Alex Greenwald) - Gambel Oak Acorns as a Food Resource Among the Five Finger Ridge Fremont

Carissa Guardado (Mentor: Carol Sansone) - An ideal body for sports: A 2x2 design of athletes in lean vs non lean sports with and without the 'ideal body' for their sport. 

Gabriel Hammond (Mentor: Timothy Webster) - Genomic Analysis of Male Reproductive Skew in Bornean and Sumatran Orangutans 

Kylee Haslam (Mentor: Andrea Brunelle) - Exploring the Seasonality of the Desert Southwest Through X-Ray Fluorescence Analysis

Akow Ibrahim (Mentor: Akiko Kamimura) - Healthcare Access Barriers in Utah Muslim Communities

Lauren Isom (Mentor: Andrea Brunelle) - Using X-Ray Fluorescence Analysis to Identify Paleoclimatic Precipitation Patterns in Southwestern North America

Halisha Knipe (Mentor: Timothy Webster) - Correcting a bioinformatic alignment error in archaic genomes 

Emma Layon (Mentor: Jennifer Watt) - Reconstructing the fire history for the Sierra San Pedro Martir National Park, Baja Mexico

Yanet Matos (Mentor: Kristina Rand) - Aging and prospective memory across a lifespan: differences in reliance on familiarity.

Colby McLain (Mentor: Andrea Brunelle) - Using Loss On Ignition and Magnetic Susceptibility Testing to Understand  Paleoclimatic Changes in the West Desert of Utah

Haley Parsons (Mentor: Katherine Baucom) - Cultural Adaptations and Modifications to Behavioral Interventions: Application to Diabetes Prevention for Latine Adults

Sean Paton (Mentor: Larry Coats) - Organic Material And Sediment Processing From The Great Basin At Ladder Cave

Jillian Perry (Mentor: Andrea Brunelle) - West Desert Sediment Core Analysis

April Radford (Mentor: Mitchell Power) - Stable Isotope Incorporation in Utah Juniper

Logan Reeves (Mentor: Akiko Kamimura) - Promoting Physical, Mental, and Social Wellbeing Using Indoor Climbing Among College Students

Lauren Shields (Mentor: Sonia Salari) - Modern Examination of Child Outcomes from Intimate Partner Homicide Suicide Events

Shannielle Taylor (Mentor: Robert Lubeznik-Warner) - Flourishing in Adolescence From Low SES Backgrounds After Attending Summer Camp Moderated by Connection

Maya Upton (Mentor: Andrea Brunelle) - Fire History at Fish Lake in Central Utah

Emma Videla (Mentor: Sonia Salari) - Mid and Later Life Intimate Partner Homicide Suicide IPHS Before and During the Pandemic: Differences in News Reporting for Fatal Events

Chloe Voss (Mentor: Tabitha Benney) - Utah Radon Lab and Incidence of Elevated Radon Levels in Schools

Sola Yu (Mentor: Lee Raby) - Relationship of Prenatal Maternal Stress and Infant Attachment

COLLEGE OF SOCIAL WORK

Angelica Uzoigwe (Mentor: Tiffany D. Baffour) - A Scoping Review of Anti-Racism Programs and Practices in Higher Education: Implications for Developing Interventions to Advance Racial Equit

SCHOOL OF BUSINESS

Asher Bess (Mentor: Sara Malik) - The importance of managerial quality in hospitals; why patients recover under good management

 SCHOOL FOR CULTURAL AND SOCIAL TRANSFORMATION

SCHOOL OF DENTISTRY

Alex Romano (Mentor: Melodie Weller) - Characterization of Hepatitis D in the Sjogren's Syndrome Phenotype

 COLLEGE OF ENGINEERING

Aksel Anderson (Mentor: Rob MacLeod) - Three-Dimensional Mapping of Ischemic Zones and Coronary Arteries

Kamry Bailey (Mentor: Robby Bowles) - CRISPR-activation of BLST gene in HEK-293 Cells through Design Optimization of gRNA

Kin Blandford (Mentor: Haohan Zhang) - Eye-tracking to enable control of a powered neck exoskeleton for people with disabilities

Ethan Carcas (Mentor: Pai Wang) - Graphically Representing Waves Through Architected Materials

Lance Delos Reyes (Mentor: Rajesh Menon) - Medical Imaging Using Near Infrared Waves

Jason Dieu (Mentor: Shundana Yusaf) - Energy Modeling and the Use of Design to Create Cost-Effective Engineering

Abby Firth (Mentor: Swomitra Mohanty) - Exploratory Machine Learning of Multi-feature Electrochemical Sensor Data for Tuberculosis Diagnosis

Emily Giesinger (Mentor: Swomitra Mohanty) - Assessment of Valent Metals in Detection of Schistosomiasis Biomarkers: Computational approach

Verl Grant (Mentor: Peter Zhu) - Rail thermal stress measurement using local resonances

Josh Gubler (Mentor: Connor Olsen) - An Investigation of How Electromyographic Signals can be Compressed to Reduce Sample rate Without Compromising Controllability

Shing Hei Ho (Mentor: Alan Kuntz) - Safe Robot Learning of Surgical Tasks via Reward Modeling

Justin Isaac (Mentor: Luke Timmins) - Uncertainty Quantification of Wall Shear Stress in Blood Flow Simulations

Rui Jin (Mentor: Rob MacLeod) - Integration of Electrogram Signal Processors: OpenEP and PFEIFER

Yeonsu Kim (Mentor: Jiyoung Chang) - Studying the effect of Heat Treatment and polymer concentration on the spreading of polymeric Nanofibers.

Jeewon Kim (Mentor: Jiyoung Chang) - Piezoelectric vibration sensor for real-time tool wear detection

Wooyoung Kim (Mentor: Juan Medina) - Network Effects of Disruptive Events

Joey Lee (Mentor: Alex Novoselov) - Direct Numerical Simulation of Flame Propagation in Hydrogen and Ammonia Mixtures

Kevin  Lee (Mentor: Ken Monson) - Critical stretch thresholds of circumferential and axial collagen damage in cerebral blood vessels.

Sam Lewis (Mentor: Connor Olsen) - An Investigation of How Electrode Size Affects the Quality of Myographic Signals at the Wrist

Luke Loehding (Mentor: Jan Kubanek) - Noninvasive Ultrasound Treatment of Chronic Back Pain

Ty Lunde (Mentor: Stavros Drakos) - AEBP1 as a Potential Anti-fibrotic Therapy in Heart Failure

Jennafer Marsh (Mentor: Thomas Zangle) - Soft lithography fabrication of refractive index-matched hydrogel microdevices for cell culture assays

Quinna Nguyen (Mentor: Daniel Drew) - Electrohydrodynamic Pumps for Silent, Solid-State, and Direct Electronics Cooling

Andrew Pack (Mentor: Jay Kim) - "Microfluidic Zero Liquid Discharge Desalinization for Biosignature Preservation in Brine Samples"

George Polishchuk (Mentor: Stavros Drakos) - AEBP1 as a potential anti-fibrotic target in cardiac fibrosis.

Zachary Rasmussen (Mentor: Swomitra Mohanty) - Optimization of Detecting Tuberculosis Biomarkers In Breath Using Square Wave Voltammetry and Gaseous Mass Transfer

Haven Redd (Mentor: Henry Fu) - Correlating Flagellar Motility of Helicobacter pylori to Culturing Conditions and Growth Stage of H. pylori Liquid Cultures

Gabe Sherman (Mentor: Stefan Nagy) - AutoHarness: Enabling Usage-agnostic Automatic Fuzzing Harness Generation for Expanded Security Vetting of Critical Software APIs

Nate Soejima (Mentor: Julia Dunn) - Characterization of fatigue on external bone-endoprosthesis overload protection device

Nathan Sudbury (Mentor: Amir Arzani) - Patient-specific Computational Fluid Dynamics Modeling of Embolic Stroke

Tyler Walker (Mentor: Pania Newell) - Investigation of the Representative Volume Element in Fibrous Porous Systems

Herbie Wright (Mentor: Tucker  Hermans) - GraphSDF

Dobin Yang (Mentor: Kami Mohammadi) - Full waveform inversion using physics informed neural network (PINNs)

Wyatt Young (Mentor: Robert Hitchcock) - Data Structuring Pipeline for the Orthopedic Rehabilitation Training System (ORToS) for Lower Extremity Fractures

Ien Zielinski (Mentor: Deisy Cristina Carvalho Fernandes) - Classification of 3D Printed Graphene Oxide Membranes

 COLLEGE OF FINE ARTS

Tate Alexander (Mentor: Brian Snapp) - Ceramics Glaze testing

Camden Barrett (Mentor: Alexandra Harbold) - Adapting Rehearsal Room Practices to Accommodate a New Means of Theatre-Making: A Safe Manner of Exploring Devised Work With Courage and Curiosity

Michael Palmer (Mentor: Hubbel Palmer) - Discussing Anti-Semitism's Impact on American Youth through Screenwriting

 COLLEGE OF HEALTH

Jasmine Arreguin (Mentor: Peter Fino) - The Effects of Concussion on Turning Stability

Noah Bondi (Mentor: Anandh Babu Pon Velayutham) - Dietary Strawberries to Improve Diabetes-Induced Oral Dysbiosis

 COLLEGE OF HUMANITIES

John Bowden (Mentor: Dave Bresnahan) - Sensory Experiences of The Swahili Coast

Caleb Curtis (Mentor: Alexis Christensen) - A Mycenean Environment: An Analysis of the Textual and Archaeological Data from Pylos

Marco Leavitt (Mentor: David Roh) - Utilizing Machine Learning Technology to Advance Ethnic Studies Curricula

Melissa Lira (Mentor: Trace Daniels Lerberg) - One's Own Little Universe: A Global Anthology of Diary Fiction. A Proposal to research and assemble a collection of thirty works of diary fiction from around the world spanning three centuries

Mel Palmer (Mentor: Beth Clement) - "One of Us": The History of Community Building in Utah's Royal Court of the Golden Spike Empire

George West (Mentor: Mira Green) - Proposal to Study the Historiography of Popular Politics in Late Republican Rome

 SCHOOL OF MEDICINE

Austin Bender (Mentor: Gregory Ducker) - Exploring In Vitro Arginine Metabolism in Melanoma Cell Lines

Cameron Davis (Mentor: Douglas Mackay) - Probing Nup50's Function in the DNA Damage Response

Hannah Duron (Mentor: Dipayan Chaudhuri) - The Role of Mitochondrial Double-Stranded RNA and the Response of Interferons in Hepatocytes

Alexa Gormick (Mentor: Justin English) - Understanding cellular regulatory functions through the design and construction of a 'repressilator' system using classic genetic engineering protocols and the VEGAS directed-evolution method

Breydon Hardy (Mentor: Heath Henninger) - How do muscle moment arms affect internal rotation of the glenohumeral joint following reverse total shoulder arthroplasty?

Peyton King (Mentor: Heath Henninger) - Evaluating Longitudinal Scapulothoracic, Humerothoracic, and Glenohumeral Motion Following Reverse Total Shoulder Arthroplasty

Xander Kraus-McLean (Mentor: Brandi Wynne) - Hyperosmolarity-mediated activation of TonEBP plays a dual role in the kidney

Lorrin Malady (Mentor: Moriel Zelikowsky) - Role of CRH/Tac2 Co-expressing Neurons of Bed Nucleus of Stria Terminalis Projecting to Ventromedial Hypothalamus in Footshock-Induced Aggression

Ritika Nayan (Mentor: Tracey Lamb) - MDSC Mediated Control in Malaria-Flu Coinfection

Carmen Nieznanski (Mentor: Daniel Leung) - Differences in cholera antibody responses between male and females from representative sample groups in Haiti and The Democratic Republic of Congo

Abby Niwa (Mentor: David  Grunwald) - Testing the Hypothesis that Altered IL4R Gene Function is Linked to Osteoarthritis

Morgan Smoot (Mentor: Nicole Pershing) - The contribution of prophage to Adherent Invasive Escherichia Coli (E. coli) adhesion and invasion of mammalian cells

Porter Stulce (Mentor: Dustin Williams) - The critical need and improvement of preoperative skin preparation technology

Matyas Szilagyi (Mentor: Panagiotis Kassavetis) - Utility of Image Guided Deep Brain Stimulation (DBS) Programming in an Outpatient Neurology Clinic

Kiersten Thompson (Mentor: Dustin Williams) - Reducing Surgical Site Infections Through Enhanced Pre-Surgical Preparation Technology

Nick Thomson (Mentor: Yan-Ting  Shiu) - Investigating Sex Differences in Arteriovenous Fistula Maturation: Role of Histological and Morphometrical Factors

River Tobias (Mentor: Yan-Ting  Shiu) - Aging and Hemodialysis Fistulas Maturation Failure: Role of Sirtuin 1

Kyle Valestrino (Mentor: Panagiotis Kassavetis) - Deep Phenotyping Essential Tremor

 COLLEGE OF MINES AND EARTH SCIENCES

Logan Ashurst-McGee (Mentor: Leif Anderson) - Mapping last Ice Age glaciers in Utah

Garrett Butler (Mentor: Kathleen Ritterbush) - Analysis of the Relationship Between Ribbing Amplitude and Hydrodynamics in Ammonoids

Alec Phipps-Wirtz (Mentor: Leif Anderson) - Microplastic pollution in remote alpine lakes

 COLLEGE OF NURSING

Sofia Flowers (Mentor: Lauri Linder) - Cancer Symptom Self-Management for Children and Parents in the Caregiver Role

Michaella Lawson (Mentor: Rebekah Perkins) - Promoting Age Inclusivity to Enhance Educational Excellence within the University of Utah College of Nursing

Brianna Oliveros (Mentor: Lauri Linder) - Qualitative Usability Evaluation of the Revised Color Me Healthy App

Haley Utendorfer (Mentor: Lauri Linder) - Qualitative Usability Evaluation of the Revised Color Me Healthy App: Perceptions of Children

 COLLEGE OF PHARMACY

Lily Halberg (Mentor: Mei Yee Koh) - Elucidating different ways to regulate the NF-kB pathway through the hypoxia associated factor (HAF) and the hypoxia inducible factor (HIF)

 COLLEGE OF SCIENCE

Janint Camacho (Mentor: Heejin Yoo) - Unraveling the Complexities of Amino Acid-Mediated Regulation for plant immunity

Harold Chen (Mentor: Fabienne Chevance) - Build a Secretion Selection for SPI1 System via Fusion Proteins

Noah Conner (Mentor: Eric Montoya) - Effect of Granular Structure on Spin Torque Oscillators

Parker Guzman (Mentor: Sarah Bush) - Are anti-parasite behavioral defenses contagious in Rock Pigeons?

Sydney Larsen (Mentor: Joshua Steffen) - The Effects of Air Quality on Native Bee Populations' Pollen Preserves

Delaney Miller (Mentor: Shelley Minteer) - Electrocatalytic Production of FDCA and H2 from 2,5-Bis(Hydroxymethyl)Furan over Reticulated Vitreous Carbon Electrodes

Ali Nopper (Mentor: Andrew Roberts) - Efficient synthesis of cyclophanes using Cbz protecting groups

Micaela Olivares (Mentor: Nitin Phadnis) - Identifying a hybrid sterility and segregation distortion gene in Drosophila pseudoobscura

Kiyanna Porter (Mentor: Selvi Kara) - Higher Dimensional Chip Firing

Bridget Raymundo (Mentor: Martin Horvath) - MutT

Maddox Riewald (Mentor: Aaron Puri) - Characterization of an anti-fungal natural product produced by Methylobacter tundripaludum strain 21/22

Anastasia Varela (Mentor: Maggie Doolin) - Does gut microbiome diversity affect parasite development?

 COLLEGE OF SOCIAL & BEHAVIORAL SCIENCE

Eamon Christiansen (Mentor: Akiko Kamimura) - Trans-Exclusionary Policies and Transgender Suicide and Murder

Hailee Davis (Mentor: Jackie Chen) - The Influence of Demographic Characteristics on Surgical Team Leadership Efficiency in Trauma Situations

Jeff Dillon (Mentor: Jackie Chen) - The Influence of Demographic Characteristics on Surgical Team Leadership Efficiency in Trauma Situations

Gabriel Hammond (Mentor: Tim Webster) - Genomic Analysis of Male Reproductive Skew in Bornean and Sumatran Orangutans 

Amanda Holt (Mentor: Lee Raby) - Examining Economic and Marital Factors as Predictors of Maternal Physiological and Emotional Reactivity During the Still Face Paradigm

Izzy Hong (Mentor: Adrian Bell) - Understanding Identity Structure in Tonga:  How Identity Changes in Relation to Others and the Environment

Halisha Knipe (Mentor: Tim Webster) - Correcting a bioinformatic alignment error in archaic genomes

Seunghee Moon (Mentor: Rob Warner) - Examining the Positive Influences of Near-Peer Relationships at Summer Camp on the Self-Efficacy of Emotion Regulation Among Adolescents

Andrew Nielsen (Mentor: Adrian Bell) - Land Usage by Tongan Agriculturalists: Markets and Traditional Systems of Exchange

Jade Ramirez-Barraza (Mentor: Sarah Small) - The History and Disciplinary Disruption of Barbara Bergmann's Theory on Economic Risks of Housewifery

COLLEGE OF ARCHITECTURE + PLANNING

Campeon Ramirez (Mentor: Milad Mozari) - Bridging the Gap: Immersive Environments for Resettlement

Alex Turner (Mentor: Alessandro Rigolon) - Understanding Benefit Distribution and Disparity of Transit Availability on Local Impacted Communities

Pete Vawdrey (Mentor: Joerg Ruegemer) - Plant Wall

SCHOOL OF BUSINESS

Rajeh Albugami (Mentor: Amelia Stillwell) - Voice in Saudi Arabia, the measure of voice within Saudi Organizations

Luis Ramirez (Mentor: Lyda Bigelow) - The Intersection of Entrepreneurship and Latinx Critical Theory: Promoting Access to Credit for Latinx Entrepreneurs of Construction Companies with Alternative Methods of Financial Reporting

 SCHOOL FOR CULTURAL AND SOCIAL TRANSFORMATION

Sandra Del Rio Madrigal (Mentor: Alborz Ghandehari) - Facilitating Relationships between TRANSFORM and Hunter High School GEAR UP

Hannah Early (Mentor: Ed Munoz) - Examining Dominant-Minority Relations in International Context through Collaborative Online International Learning (COIL) Pedagogy

Ximena Franco (Mentor: Annie Fukushima) - An In-Depth Analysis Of The Court System's Response To A Child's Psychological Well-being in Domestic Violence Custody Hearings.

Natalia Garrido (Mentor: Claudia Geist) - Views on Sexuality and Gender in Future Health Care Providers

Adam Montgomery (Mentor: Kim Hackford-Peer) - Institutional Queer Safe Spaces: A Case Study of a Queer History Class's Impact on School Climate

Elizabeth Russo (Mentor: Annie Fukushima) - Women's Role in Male Resiliency After Sexual Assault

Kadi Sow (Mentor: Ana Carolina Antunes) - Islamic Feminsism

Haley Tetzlaff (Mentor: Thomas Swensen) - The Impact of Ethnic Studies in K-12 Education

SCHOOL OF DENTISTRY

Eliza Diggins (Mentor: Melodie Weller) - Evaluating the Impact of Drought Induced Pathogenic Susceptibility in Staple Crops Using Network Analysis

 COLLEGE OF EDUCATION

Andrew Koenig (Mentor: Paton Roden) - New Leadership Academy's Effect on Leadership in Higher Education

 COLLEGE OF ENGINEERING

Aksel Anderson (Mentor: Rob MacLeod) - Three Dimensional Mapping of Ischemic Zones and Coronary Arteries

Lauren Anderson (Mentor: Rob MacLeod) - 4D Shape Modeling of the Left Atrium in Patients with Atrial Fibrillation

Michael Barkdull (Mentor: Tao Gao) - Flow Cells: Finding an Alternative Energy Storage

Milo Birdwell (Mentor: Kay Park) - Experimental Work with Water Bridge

Cassandra Burdick (Mentor: Caleb Thomson) - Virtual Reality Exercises-Box and Blocks Continued

Joe Christiansen (Mentor: Connor Olsen) - Development and Validation of a Wireless Low-Cost EMG Recording Device for Prosthetic Control

James Craig (Mentor: Chuck Dorval) - Investigating Off-Contact Stimulation Techniques for Deep Cortical Regions in Humans Using Patient-Specific Brain Models

Nichols Crawford Taylor (Mentor: Tucker Hermans) - Environment Modeling for Planning with Graph Neural Networks

Kerrigan Denham (Mentor: Ken Monson) - Preliminary Overstretch Testing of Preterm Cerebral Blood Vessels

Jensen Fobel (Mentor: Chris Pantelides) - Design of Self-Centering Bridge Bents in Seismic Region

Yash Ghanathe (Mentor: Stefan Nagy) - Designing Fuzzing Techniques for Automatically Hunting Configuration-specific Vulnerabilities at Scale

Emily Giesinger (Mentor: Bobby Mohanty) - Development of Automated Data Analysis Software for the Detection of Tuberculosis Biomarker in Breath Using Electroactive Solution Detection

Carlos Gonzalez (Mentor: Priyank Kalla) - Abstraction models for manufacturability aware silicon photonics.

Josh Gubler (Mentor: Connor Olsen) - An Investigation of How Electromyographic Signals can be Compressed to Reduce Sample rate Without Compromising Controllability

Kaysen Hansen (Mentor: Jake George) - Effects of Pulse Amplitude on Frequency Discrimination with Electrocutaneous Artificial Sensory Feedback

Quinn Hayward (Mentor: Dave Warren) - Quantify and investigate temperature induced damage to nerves from neurostimulation

Shing Hei Ho (Mentor: Alan Kuntz) - Safe Robot Learning of Surgical Tasks via Reward Modeling

Anna Huber (Mentor: Chen Wang) - Depolymerization Kinetics

Rui Jin (Mentor: Rob MacLeod) - Comparative Analysis of Electrogram Signal Processors: OpenEP Versus PFEIFER

Jacob Johnson (Mentor: Ana Marasovic) - Towards Robust Negation Processing via Training with Instance Bundles

Jun Ha Kim (Mentor: Shahrzad Roshankhah) - Analyzing Behaviors of Hydraulic Fractures in Natural Rocks with Direct Visualization

Clara Kramer (Mentor: Jeff Bates) - Synthesis of polystyrene ski base material to replace current Ski Base Technology

Ryan Lam (Mentor: Alan Kuntz) - Application of Microscale String Tendon Robots in Eye Surgery Tools

Logan Lancaster (Mentor: Haohan Zhang) - Improving the Structure of Robotic Neck Brace Systems by Implementation of Particle Jamming

Andrew Lee (Mentor: Stefan Nagy) - VariabilitySanitizer: Making Programs Variability-aware for Shedding Light on Occluded Security Vulnerabilities in Highly-configurable Systems

Kevin Lee (Mentor: Ken Monson) - Critical stretch thresholds of circumferential and axial collagen damage in cerebral blood vessels.

Maddie Lodico (Mentor: Chuck Dorval) - Evaluating the response sensitivity of axons, from realistic geometries of axon trajectory, to optimize contact location for deep brain stimulation

Will Loxley (Mentor: Fernando Rodríguez) - Disabled, Not Disqualified: Ableism in Recruitment and Retention for Game Development

Emily Lym (Mentor: Bobby Mohanty) - Development of ROC Curves for Detection of Tuberculosis in Patients

Bailey Martin (Mentor: Priyank Kalla) - Efficient Computation of Grobner Bases for Partial Logic Synthesis of Arithmetic Circuits

Lucia Mason (Mentor: Tao Gao) - All-Mn Flow Cell Battery

Carson Minor (Mentor: AShutosh Tiwari) - Development of Antimicrobial Ceramic Composites using Nano-Structured Titanium Dioxide

Mia Nelson (Mentor: Caleb Thomson) - Training Convolutional Neural Networks to Recognize Myoelectric Signaling

Abbie Nistler (Mentor: Jeff Bates) - Creating Biodegradable Commodity Polymers

Taylor Ottley (Mentor: Dmitry Bedrov) - Creation of a Machine-Learning Dataset and Descriptor for the Screening of Polymer Electrolyte Architectures

Andrew Pack (Mentor: Jay Kim) - Finding Life Signatures in a Mars Analog Environment

Henry Peterson (Mentor: Huiwen Ji) - Characterizing the Channel Structure of Zeolites with Extensive Stacking Disorder

Jesse Prime (Mentor: Edoardo Battaglia) - Design of a Low-Profile Arm-Swing Assistance Robot

Mathias Schoen (Mentor: Edoardo Battaglia) - Hand Pose Reconstruction using Mounted Flex Sensors and Neural Networks

Lyndsey Schultz (Mentor: Jake George) - Development of Surface Electromyography Sock for Lower-Limb Muscle Activity Analysis

Jack Shunn (Mentor: Jeff Phillips) - Replication of Existing Methods of Result Ranking for Online Search Queries

Ada Stewart (Mentor: Jake George) - Effects of Learning on Intensity Discrimination of Electrocutaneous Artificial Sensory Feedback

Elise Stockham (Mentor: Robby Bowles) - Optimization of gRNA Design for CRISPR-activation of ZNF-865

Garrett Stoneman (Mentor: Tommaso Lenzi) - Mechanical Design and Biomechanical Assessment of a Powered Hip Exoskeleton

Alex Tokita (Mentor: Prashant Pandey) - Building Scalable Representations for Streaming Graphs (RAM to Disk)

Brendan Wagley (Mentor: Tao Gao) - Improving the Structure and Flow Efficiency of Fe Flow Cell Batteries Through Improved Electrolytic Solutions and Tests of Flow Channels.

Herbie Wright (Mentor: Tucker Hermans) - Developing 3D Understandings of Cluttered Scenes in Computer Vision

 COLLEGE OF FINE ARTS

Pablo Ayala (Mentor: Wendy Wischer) - Cross Examination of Human Physiological Responses and Critical Race Intersectionalities through Prolonged Exposure To Visual Art Gallery Exhibition Space

Adah Bennion (Mentor: Wendy Wischer) - Senior BFA Exhibition and Performance Event

Cayden Turnbow (Mentor: Sonia Albert Sobrino) - AAS Capstone Film Project

 COLLEGE OF HEALTH

Haley Blomquist (Mentor: Brad King) - Exercise and GABA Lab

Alisha Chong (Mentor: Christopher Depner) - Effects of Increasing Sleep Duration on CRP, Insulin Sensitivity, and Blood Pressure in Adults with Habitual Insufficient Sleep

Kyle Harshany (Mentor: Will Holland) - The effect of the gain and loss of neuronal ceramides on behavior in an early onset Alzheimer's mouse model.

Cameron Jensen (Mentor: Peter Fino) - The Effect of mild Traumatic Brain Injuries on Turning Smoothness

Anila Jonnavithula (Mentor: Raj Ghosh) - Development of a Novel Fluorogenic-Based Assay to Measure Chaperone Mediated Autophagy Activity in Cells and Tissue

Milo Light (Mentor: J David Symons) - Intact endothelial cell autophagy preserves outcomes of acute ischemic stroke in mice

Isaac Ou (Mentor: Tanya Halliday) - Impact of Whey Protein Supplementation on Body Composition and Athletic Performance in High School Soccer Players

Nizhoni Porter (Mentor: Anandh Babu Pon Velayutham) - Effect of Blueberry Supplementation on Oral Dysbiosis in C57BL/6J Mice

Keaton Rosquist (Mentor: Anandh Babu Pon Velayutham) - Role of Strawberry Anthocyanins on Diabetic Kidney Disease in db/db Mouse Model

Jada Voth (Mentor: Stacy Manwaring) - Exploring Play over Time in Toddlers at-risk for Autism

 HONORS COLLEGE

Nayla Rodriguez (Mentor: Michael Gills) - Diversity through a lens

Gillian Ruppel (Mentor: Michael Gills) - Intensive Literary Fiction Novel Project: Paper Stars and Shattered Jars

 COLLEGE OF HUMANITIES

Addison Bethards (Mentor: Tanya Flores) - Vowel Speech Sound Development in Hispanic Deaf and Hard of Hearing (HHH) Children

Britta Bolander (Mentor: Aniello De Santo) - Bridging the Ethics Divide: Expanding the Scope and Context of AI Ethics

John Bowden (Mentor: Dave Bresnahan) - Recapturing the Day-To-Day Sensory Experience of the 19th Century Swahili Coast 

Joe de Lannoy (Mentor: Gema Guevara) - Breaking the Circle: Analyzing and Redefining Puerto Rican Migration and Identity Post Hurricane Maria

Pierce Dirkis (Mentor: Matt Haber) - The Intersection of Pediatric Autonomy & Conscientious Objection: New Perspectives

Annie Jensen (Mentor: Mira Green) - (Un)Manning Alexander: The Reception of Bagoas the Eunuch in Contemporary Narratives of Alexander the Great

Suzanne Kekoa (Mentor: Maile Arvin) - Decolonializing Native Hawaiian Women's bodies

Kalista Leggitt (Mentor: Matt Haber) - The Intersection of Pediatric Autonomy and Conscientious Objection: New Perspectives

Molly Rhodes (Mentor: Ashton Lazarus) - Research for Historical Novel "Another Tale of Ise" (Working Title)

Luke Seaver (Mentor: Peter Roady) - Mapping the Conservative Movement: Using Network Analysis to Explain the Growth of Conservatism in the United States

Trever Vallieres (Mentor: Eric Herschthal) - Carbon Emissions in the Plantationocene

Zeia Woodruff (Mentor: Matt Haber) - The Intersection of Pediatric Autonomy and Conscientious Objection: New Perspectives

 SCHOOL OF MEDICINE

Sam Aamodt (Mentor: Kristi Warren) - Ovarian hormone receptors on innate lymphoid cells influence immune outcomes in human airway disease.

Ray Aljassimi (Mentor: Donna Cross) - The development and characterization of biodegradable paclitaxel-conjugates for Alzheimer's disease (AD) treatment. The goal of this research is to optimize and evaluate the efficacy of brain targeted paclitaxel-polymer conjugates through pharmacokinetics and biodistribution studies.

Ajak Arok (Mentor: Jared Rutter) - Investigating the allosteric regulation of GPD1

Nehal Bakshi (Mentor: Rebecca Delaney) - Cannabis Use Among Older Adults: Exploring Decision Making Processes in Product Selection for Symptom Relief

Danny Barrera (Mentor: Anna Beaudin) - Identifying the Source of Fetal Interleukin-7 in the Hematopoietic Niche

Abbey  Blair  (Mentor: Dustin Williams) - A New Method for quantification of bacterial bioburden on the skin

Libby Brooks (Mentor: Natasha Pavlova) - Cellular response to changes in available amino acid supply

Nia Brooks (Mentor: Tracey Lamb) - Knocking out localized EphA2 to determine potential Eph-based therapeutic 

Matt  Chambers (Mentor: Candace Reno-Bernstein) - Reserpines Effects on Reducing Severe Hypoglycemia-Induced Lethal Cardiac Arrhythmia

Elijah Counterman (Mentor: Benjamin Spike) - CRIPTO Dependent Regulation of Exosome Excretion and Uptake in Heterogenous Breast Cancer

Anna Gilstrap (Mentor: Peter Shen) - Rapid Isolation of Protein Complexes from Cellular Lysates

Dhruvan Gopinath (Mentor: Nirupama Ramkumar) - Deficiency of the soluble prorenin receptor (sPRR) in female mice attenuates angiotensin II mediated hypertension

Siqi Guo (Mentor: Matthew Rondina) - Study on the function of L-plastin in megakaryocytes and platelets

Audrey Hendarto (Mentor: Kurt Albertine) - Treatment of chronically ventilated preterm lambs with insulin-like growth factor-1 to improve development of the distal ileum

Sam Hendry (Mentor: Matthew Mulvey) - Understanding the multifunctional nature of the PasTI toxin-antitoxin system in Extraintestinal Pathogenic Escherichia coli.

Abhilasha Khatri (Mentor: Stephen Kimani) - Development of a multi-dimensional cancer stigma scale

Mia Kowalczyk (Mentor: Robert Campbell) - Procoagulant Platelet Formation and Function: The Effect of Regulating Mitochondrial Calcium Flux by MCU on Platelet Activation for Ischemic Stroke Prevention

Brian Kwak (Mentor: Stavros Drakos) - Determining the Additive Effects of Mechanical Unloading plus Esmolol/Milrinone Infusion in Preventing Reperfusion Injury in Acute Myocardial Infarction: Experimental Study

Jordy Larrea Rodriguez (Mentor: Amy Lenz) - BioRobotic Simulator for Replicating Foot and Ankle Kinematics and Kinetics

Irvane Nelson (Mentor: Owen Chan) - The efficacy of the novel somatostatin receptor 2 antagonist, ZT-01, given via an osmotic pump to restore glucagon secretion in diabetic rats.

Carmen Nieznanski (Mentor: Daniel Leung) - Differences in cholera antibody responses between male and females from representative sample groups in Haiti and The Dominican Republic of Congo

Gosha Polishchuk (Mentor: Stavros Drakos) - AEBP1 as a potential anti-fibrotic target in cardiac fibrosis.

Catherine Rousculp (Mentor: Katie Basham) - Examining the role of non-canonical Wnt signaling in adrenal homeostasis and hyperplasia

Devin Thomas (Mentor: Troy Madsen) - Impact of Concurrent Methamphetamine Consumption on Opioid Use Disorder Treatment 

Nick Thomson (Mentor: Yan-Ting Shiu) - Investigating Sex Differences in Arteriovenous Fistula Maturation: Role of Hemodynamic Parameters

Zach Tripp (Mentor: Michele Villalobos) - Childhood Opportunity Index as a Predictor of Autism Spectrum Disorder Diagnosis in Utah

Emilio Trujillo (Mentor: Anna Beaudin) - Cochlear Immune Response to Congenital Cytomegalovirus-associated Sensorineural Hearing Loss

Alex Wiedemann (Mentor: Marcus Pezzolesi) - Investigating and identifying genetic determinants of circulating sphingolipids

 COLLEGE OF MINES AND EARTH SCIENCES

Chloe Barry (Mentor: Jamie Farrell) - Improving constraints on the Yellowstone magma body using a dense seismic array

Claire Cruz (Mentor: Leif Anderson) - Creation of Landslide Database in Iceland Assessing Mechanisms, Occurrences, and Hazards

Grant Daniels (Mentor: Steve Krueger) - Diffusivity and Saturation effect on Mean Radius

Maddie Festin (Mentor: Michael Thorne) - Identifying and Characterizing the East Asia Ultralow-Velocity Zone using Anamolous SPdKS Seismic Arrivals

Autumn Hartley (Mentor: Emily Cunningham) - The Cause of Excess Magmatism in the Northern Atlantic Margin

Angelina Miller (Mentor: Gannet Hallar) - New Particle Formation Events in the Salt Lake Valley: Understanding the Causes and Effects

Tyler Yoklavich (Mentor: Kip Solomon) - Continued Investigation of Hidden Valley Springs Source Water

 COLLEGE OF NURSING

Emma Norris (Mentor: Sara Simonsen) - Using film to address reproductive health among Central African refugees resettled in Utah 

Brianna Oliveros (Mentor: Lauri Linder) - Qualitative Usability Evaluation of the Revised Color Me Healthy App

Haley Utendorfer (Mentor: Lauri Linder) - Qualitative Usability Evaluation of the Revised Color Me Healthy App: Perceptions of Children

 COLLEGE OF PHARMACY

Eli Finlinson (Mentor: Karen Wilcox) - Creation of an Integrated Seizure Identification and Analysis Program for Focused ultrasound Experimentation in Epilepsy

Kylee McManus (Mentor: Shreya Goel) - Synthesis and Characterization of Ultrasmall Porous Silica Nanoparticles for Use in Image-Guided Treatment of Metastatic Tumors

CJ Reid (Mentor: David Grainger) - Characterization of juvenile chondrocyte cell sheets prepared with temperature-responsive cell culture inserts and variable media volumes

 COLLEGE OF SCIENCE

Nicole Amedee (Mentor: Dale Clayton) - The Effect of Body Size on Grooming Behavior in Birds

Noah Armstrong (Mentor: Dylan Klure) - Identifying the adaptations responsible for toxin tolerance in herbivorous woodrats

Georgia Brach (Mentor: Andrew Roberts) - Residue selective cyclization of tyrosine containing peptides

Collin Caldwell (Mentor: Michael Werner) - Phenotypic plasticity in R. aquatica

Ani Camacho (Mentor: Heejin Yoo) - The Effect of root-fed Amino Acids on the programmed cell death mechanism on Arabidopsis leaves 

Akila Chalapathi (Mentor: Heejin Yoo) - Elucidate the molecular basis for the shade effect on plant immunity

Aidan Connor (Mentor: Jon Rainier) - Photochemical Electrocyclizations

Sarah Crago (Mentor: Sophie Caron) - Counting Neurons in Drosophila Brains

Alyssa Curtis (Mentor: Heejin Yoo) - Role of monoterpenes as a systemic signal for plant immunity

Sierra Davis (Mentor: Nitin Phadnis) - The Study of Incompatibility Genes on Locus X22

Andrew Erickson (Mentor: Jordan Gerton) - Simulating a Single Molecule Localization Microscope utilizing a Deformable Mirror

Audrey Glende (Mentor: Shanti Deemyad) -  Studying the pressure dependence of electrical conductivity of EuCd2P2

Kaan Goktepe (Mentor: Ofer Rog) - Measuring Secondary Structure Conservation in Condensate Proteins

Parker Guzman (Mentor: Sarah  Bush) - Are anti-parasite behavioral defenses contagious in Columba livia?

JC Herrmann (Mentor: Aaron Puri) - Structural Elucidation of Novel Quorum Sensing Molecule from Methylobacterium nodulans

Benvin Lozada (Mentor: Jingyi Zhu) - Using Machine Learning to Analyze the Relationship Between School Funding and Economic Equity

Julane Machado (Mentor: James Gagnon) - Fish Sunscreen: Understanding the Protective Role that Gadusol and Melanin Play in UV Protection in Zebrafish

Julianna Matteis (Mentor: Fabienne Chevance) - Explicating the Substrate-engaged Signals for Type 3 secretion of FlgJ in Salmonella enterica

Victoria Medvedeva (Mentor: Aaron Puri) - Secondary metabolite-assisted protection of an aerobic bacterium during anoxic stress

Samantha Nestel (Mentor: Michael Werner) - Development Meets Metabolism: Investigating How Diet and Nutrition Influence Developmental Decisions

Alice Parker (Mentor: Luisa Whittaker-Brooks) - Building an Optics Table to Study Excitons through Electroabsorption Spectroscopy

Scott Perkins (Mentor: Chan Yul Yoo) - Investigating Alternative Promoter Selection of NCP Orthologs to Understand Chloroplast Biogenesis in Monocot Species

Kiyanna Porter (Mentor: Selvi Kara) - Mathematics of Higher-Dimensional Chip-Firing

Emily Sageser (Mentor: Yao-Yuan Mao) - Understanding Dark Matter in Relation to Dwarf Galaxy Distributions

Olivia Schmitz (Mentor: Gina Frey) - Sense of Belonging in Introductory Chemistry at the University of Utah

Jacob Strong (Mentor: Alicia Lamarche) - Utilizing Gröbner Bases to Create Families of Polynomials with Shared Algebraic and Geometric Properties

Marcus Tanner (Mentor: Ben Bromley) - Analysis of Gap Dynamics in the Saturnian Ring System

Quyen Tran (Mentor: Martin Horvath) - Measuring Biochemical Activity of DNA Repair Enzyme MutY from the Lost City

MacKenzie Woodrum (Mentor: Austin Green) - Different environments of breeding and non-breeding pairs

Anuhya Yalavarty (Mentor: Ayako Yamaguchi) - Quantification of the Perineuronal Nets in response to testosterone in Female Vocal Pathways of African clawed frogs

Bailey Young (Mentor: Mike Shapiro) - In Darwin's Footsteps: A Shared Genetic Control for Beak and Toe Size in Domestic Pigeons (Columba livia)

 COLLEGE OF SOCIAL & BEHAVIORAL SCIENCE

Evelyn Acosta (Mentor: Janae Chandler) - Exponential Growth Bias: Measurement, Intervention, and impact on Financial Decision-Making among Emerging Adults.

Theodore Baende (Mentor: Sonia Salari) - Intimate Partner Homicide-Suicide: A collection of intimate murder-suicide accounts from young adults aged 18 to 44 in the United States before and during the COVID-19 pandemic

Winky Boody (Mentor: Tyler Faith) - Was Early Homo an Ecological Generalist?

Kerrigan Bunker (Mentor: Adrienne Cachelin) - Understanding Mutual Aid Gardens for Urban Resilience and Food Sovereignty

Emalee Carroll (Mentor: Phillip Singer) - Credit Claiming and Blame Avoidance in Health Care: Strategic Actions and Avoidance by Congress

Sophia Chernosky (Mentor: Adrienne Cachelin) - Savor Cookbook Ethnography: Stories of Community, Culture, and Food (2nd book)

Jordan Davidson (Mentor: Frank Drews) - Measuring Bias Blind Spot and Perseverance

Hailee Davis (Mentor: Jackie Chen) - The Influence of Demographic Characteristics on Surgical Team Leadership Efficiency in Trauma Situations

Nina de Vos (Mentor: Elisabeth Conradt) - Exploring the Relationship Between COVID-19 and Emotion Dysregulation in Expectant Mothers, and the Moderating Effects of Partner Support

Julia Decker (Mentor: Lisa Diamond) - Proposal to Study Obsessive-Compulsive Symptoms in Sexually-Diverse and Gender-Diverse Members of the LDS Church

Jeff Dillon (Mentor: Jackie Chen) - The Influence of Demographic Characteristics on Surgical Team Leadership Efficiency in Trauma Situations

Isabelle Forrest (Mentor: Shane Macfarlan) - Death Seasonality in Baja California Sur Mexico

Amy Harvey (Mentor: Stella Mosher) - Reconstruction of fire and vegetation history during the mid-Holocene at Verlorenvlei, South Africa: an analysis of sedimentary charcoal morphometrics

Kylee Haslam (Mentor: Andrea Brunelle) - Dating the History of West Desert near the Wishbone Site Through Sediment Analysis

Brendan Hatch (Mentor: Lisa Diamond1) - Social Safety Among Multiracial Individuals

Sam Hoffman (Mentor: Larry Coats) - Paleoecological Reconstruction of the late Pleistocene

Aaron Ibarra (Mentor: Janae Chandler) - Exponential Growth Bias (EGB)

Lauren Isom (Mentor: Andrea Brunelle) - The Wishbone Core: Identifying Sediment Components to Determine the Paleoclimate of Bonneville Basin

Sydney Kincart (Mentor: Phillip Singer) - State Variation of Eligibility in Medicaid Waivers for Disabled Populations

Karena Klinkenberg (Mentor: Andrew Linke) - Climate Change and Agriculture Employment in the US

Jensen Koff (Mentor: Sarah Creem-Regehr) - Test retest study of Multisensory Cue-Combination

David Lee (Mentor: Josh McCrain) - What Changes Voters' Perceptions of Inflation?

Benning Lozada (Mentor: Brennan Payne) - Analyzing Asymmetry in the Perceptual Span while reading using Steady State Visual Evoked Potentials

Kitsel Lusted (Mentor: Rick Forster) - Analyzing Utah's Snowpack using Synthetic Aperture Radar

Corinna McMurtrey (Mentor: Mitchell Power) - Effect of Volcanism on Aksumite Agriculture: a long-term perspective from the Tigray Plateau, Ethiopia

Carson Miller (Mentor: Cory Inman) - Elucidating the Mechanisms of Amygdala-Mediated Memory Enhancement

Nura Mostaghimi (Mentor: Akiko Kamimura) - Increasing science self-efficacy and identity through participation in the Native American Summer Research Internship Program

Misty Myers (Mentor: Sarah Creem-Regehr) - How Auditory and Visual Cues Aid in Navigation

Isaiah Ortiz (Mentor: Tom Maloney) - Voices for Children: Economic Inequality, Labor Rights, and Outcomes for Workers

Lauren Page (Mentor: Mitchell Power) - Developing a Protocol for Detecting Volcanism Through Andean Lake Sedimentary Records

Haley Parsons (Mentor: Katie Baucom) - Cultural Adaptations and Modifications to Behavioral Interventions: Application to Diabetes Prevention for Hispanic/Latino/a Adults

Nancy Pasillas (Mentor: Sonia Salari) - Proposal to study Rates of Murder-Suicide of IPV in States with Restrictive and Non-Restrictive Gun Policies

Katya Podkovyroff Lewis (Mentor: Kaedan O'Brien) - Comparing Bulk versus Serial Sampling in δ13C, δ18O, and 87Sr/86Sr Isotopic Analysis of Fossil Herbivore Teeth

Inakhshmi Rashid (Mentor: Lisa Aspinwall) - Communication Between Young Adults and Family Members with Type 2 Diabetes

Jake Richins (Mentor: Amy McDonnell) - Effects of Natural and Urban Imagery on the Brain's Reward Processes

Talon Roberts (Mentor: Mitchell Power) - A geospatial and climatic analysis of the rise and fall of the Aksumite Empire on the Tigray Plateau, Ethiopia

Camille Schadl-Romero-Oak (Mentor: Akiko Kamimura) - Free Clinic Patients views of lifestyle changes versus immediate medical intervention as forms of treatment, and the correlation to health literacy

Lauren Shields (Mentor: Sonia Salari) - Impacts of COVID-19 on Interpersonal Homicide-Suicide and Familicide-Suicide

Marti Sorensen (Mentor: Larry Coats) - Using Packrat Middens to Understand Paleoenvironments of Range Creek Canyon, Utah

Brennan Stock (Mentor: Karen Kramer) - The Role of Governmental Support in Transforming Maya Communities in the Yucatan Peninsula.

Matt Storie (Mentor: Amy McDonnell) - Influence of nature on effortful processing of emotionally charged stimuli

Sofi Thoms (Mentor: Akiko Kamimura) - Impact of Structural Racism and Cultural Differences on the Quality of Care of Asian American Cancer Survivors

Melissa Tyszko (Mentor: Rebecca Owen) - Restorative Justice and Parental Involvement: An Examination of Salt Lake Peer Court

Maya Upton (Mentor: Andrea Brunelle) - Fire History at Fish Lake in Central Utah

Emma Videla (Mentor: Sonia Salari) - Mid and Later Life Intimate Partner Homicide Suicide IPHS Before and During the Pandemic: Differences in News Reporting for Fatal Events

Sam Aamodt (Mentor: Kristi Warren) - Ovarian hormone receptors on innate lymphoid cells influence immune outcomes in human airway disease.
Teric Abunuwara (Mentor: Emily Dennis) - : Using Tensor Based Morphometry to Map Correlations in Brain Structure to Long Term Effects of Mild Traumatic Brain Injuries in Military Veterans
Evelyn Acosta (Mentor: Janae Chandler) - Exponential Growth Bias: Measurement, Intervention, and Impact on Financial Decision-Making among Emerging Adults
Ray Aljassimi (Mentor: Donna Cross) - The development and characterization of biodegradable paclitaxel-conjugates for Alzheimer's disease (AD) treatment. The goal of this research is to optimize and evaluate the efficacy of brain targeted paclitaxel-polymer conjugates through pharmacokinetics and biodistribution studies.
Ruba Alraqibah (Mentor: Yong Lin Kong) - Bidirectional propulsion of 3D printed flexible micro-swimmers at low Reynolds number.
Nicole Amedee (Mentor: Dale Clayton) - Testing the Interspecific Body Size Principle with Red-Tailed Hawks and American Kestrels
Noah Armstrong (Mentor: Dylan Klure) - Identifying the adaptations responsible for toxin tolerance in herbivorous woodrats
Jaden  Arnold (Mentor: Jindrich Kopecek) - Induction of Apoptosis in DR5 Expressing Cells by Multivalent Polymer Peptide Conjugate-Mediated Receptor Crosslinking
Ajak Arok (Mentor: Jared Rutter) - Investigating the allosteric regulation of GPD1
Callie Avondet (Mentor: Sara Grineski) - Mentor Competencies and Undergraduate Researchers: Assessing Which Mentoring Skills are Most Influential to Undergraduate Mentee's Science Identity and Graduate School Intentions
Nehal Bakshi (Mentor: Rebecca Delaney) - Cannabis use among older adults: Exploring decision making processes in product selection for symptom relief
Michael Barkdull (Mentor: Tao Gao) - Testing and Development of Redox-Flow Cell Resistant to Environmental Changes
Nathan Bartlett (Mentor: Brittany Coats) - Surface Response Model for Subconcussive Head Impacts
Jake Berryhill (Mentor: Jennifer Follstad Shah) - The Continued Influence of Landscape Legacy on Riparian Plant Communities in a Changing Environment
Arnel Besic (Mentor: Connor Bischak) - Making and Characterizing Electropolymerized Polymers for Organic Mixed Ionic Electronic Conductors
Addie Bethards (Mentor: Tanya Flores) - Vowel Speech Sound Development in Hispanic Deaf and Hard of Hearing (HHH) Children
Radhika Bhakta (Mentor: Chen Wang) - Upcycling waste polyesters from post-consumer PET waste
Milo Birdwell (Mentor: Kay Park) - Experimental Work with Water Bridge
Abbey  Blair  (Mentor: Dustin Williams) - A New Method for Quantification of Bacterial Bioburden on the Skin
Haley Blomquist (Mentor: Bradley King) - Impact of Exercise on the Hippocampus and Striatum
Emma Boeman (Mentor: Randall Irmis) - Determining the Provenance of Cambrian Fossils Using X-Ray Fluorescence Technology
Bryce Bosworth (Mentor: Michael Werner) - Life in brine: Culturing the nematodes of the Great Salt Lake in search of the mechanism of adaptation to extreme conditions
Georgia Brach (Mentor: Andrew Roberts) - Residue selective cyclization of tyrosine containing peptides
Jasper Bradford (Mentor: Vikram Deshpande) - Non-Homogenous Strain in Twisted Bi-layer Graphene
Joey Brignone (Mentor: Edoardo Battaglia) - 3D visualization of shoulder movement to provide proprioception
Nia Brooks (Mentor: Tracey Lamb) - Potential Eph-based therapeutic through knock out of endothelial EphA2
Janice Bunker (Mentor: Jane Hatter) - Evidence for Women Flutists in Eighteenth-century England
Cassandra Burdick (Mentor: Caleb Thomson) - Box and Blocks Virtual Reality Environment
Collin Caldwell (Mentor: Michael Werner) - Tracking Plasticity Alteration in North American Lake Cress at Variances of Submergence
Hunter Carlson (Mentor: Jesse Christensen) - Hip Mechanics as a Reflection of Physical Function in Aging Adults with Early to Late-Stage Hip Osteoarthritis
Emalee Carroll (Mentor: Phillip Singer) - Credit Claiming and Blame Avoidance in Health Care: Strategic Actions and Avoidance by Congress
Quin Cassidy (Mentor: Shelley Minteer) - Utilizing Electrochemistry to Generalize the Synthesis of Indenes
Akila Chalapathi (Mentor: Heejin Yoo) - The effect of shade on plant immunity in Brassicaceae and Solanaceae crop species
Matt  Chambers (Mentor: Candace Reno) - Effects of Norepinephrine Synthesis on Cardiac Arrhythmias in Males and Females
Victoria Chiou (Mentor: Anna Beaudin) - Fetal hematopoietic stem cell metabolism in response to varying prenatal folate status
Piper Christian (Mentor: Sara Grineski) - Utilizing Feedback from Utah Families with Asthmatic Children to Mitigate Air Pollution Health Consequences
Calvin Coates (Mentor: Will Holland) - Type II Diabetes, Ceramides, and Heart Failure
Clara  Coffey (Mentor: Jessica Kramer) - Synthesis and characterization of clickable polyproline-based materials
Eli Counterman (Mentor: Benjamin Spike) - CRIPTO Dependent Regulation of EGFR in Heterogenous Breast Cancer
Jamie Covington (Mentor: Diane Hernandez) - The effect of microbe-pancreatic cellular interactions on Ptf1a expression.
America Cox (Mentor: Bryn Dentinger) - Utilizing Genomic and Metabolic Data to Investigate the Evolutionary Ecology of Ant-Farmed Fungi
Sarah Crago (Mentor: Sophie Caron) - Counting Neurons in Drosophila Brains
Nichols Crawford Taylor (Mentor: Tucker Hermans) - Planning using Multi-Object and Environment Relational Predictions
Joshua Crockett (Mentor: Allison Payne) - Non-Invasive Magnetic Resonance Shear Wave Elastography for Breast Cancer Treatment Assessment
Claire Cruz (Mentor: Leif Anderson) - Creation of Landslide Database in Iceland Assessing Mechanisms, Occurrences, and Hazards
Andrei Dan (Mentor: Jeff Bates) - Developing a model for the drug delivery rate of Timolol through a hydrogel lens.
Grant Daniels (Mentor: Steve Krueger) - Investigation of Best Fit lines of Droplet Condensation and Evaporation Statistical Steady State Distributions
Abbie Darling (Mentor: Andrew Roberts) - Exploring Synthetic Handles in Peptide Chemistry
Sami Davis (Mentor: Brandi  Wynne) - The Role of Renal Dendritic Cells Regulating Sodium and Water Transporters
Sierra Davis (Mentor: Nitin Phadnis) - The Study of Incompatibility Genes on Locus X22
Gabi Desjardins (Mentor: Katharine Diehl) - Development of a fluorescent biosensor for acetyl-CoA
Eliza Diggins (Mentor: Melodie Weller) - Identification of Hepatitis Delta Virus in Agricultural Commodities
Hannah Early (Mentor: Ed A. Munoz) - Examining Dominant-Minority Relations in International Context through Collaborative Online International Learning (COIL) Pedagogy
Tyler Endow (Mentor: Jack Silcox) - Investigating the Effect of Driving on the False Hearing Phenomenon
Andrew Erickson (Mentor: Jordan Gerton) - Topographical Modeling of a Deformable Mirror for Super-Resolution Microscopy
Michael Esplin (Mentor: Yong Lin Kong) - Hybrid 3D Printing of Exceptional Points
Fatima Faizi (Mentor: Man Hung) - Factors Associated with Type 1 Diabetes
Cannon Fehrenbach (Mentor: Talia Karasov) - Identifying bacterial genes responsible for colonizing stressed plants.
Kailee Ferret (Mentor: Leslie Francis) - Continuing Safe Access to Reproductive Healthcare Despite the Fall of Roe
Adam Ford (Mentor: David Grainger) - In Vitro chondrogenic capacity classification of juvenile chondrocyte donors from cultured pellets
Isabelle Forrest (Mentor: Shane Macfarlan) - Death Seasonality in the Baja California Peninsula
Tanner Frahm (Mentor: Eugene Kwan) - Analyzing Effects of Noninvasive Cardiac Radiation on Connexin-43 Distribution
Daniel Frerichs (Mentor: Thomas Reichler) - A statistical study of the impact of extreme stratospheric circulation events on surface weather and climate over the Northern Hemisphere.
Christian Furness (Mentor: Jack Longino) - Seasonal changes in worker fat content of  Formica obscuripes, the western thatch ant
Jordyn Gagon (Mentor: Moriel Zelikowsky) - Control of Isolation-Induced Aggression through Activation of Prefrontal Cortex Pyramidal Neurons
Clista Galecki (Mentor: Bill Anderegg) - Assessing Plant Adaptability to Wildfire Impact and Drought
Jane Gardner (Mentor: Dustin Williams) - Custom Antimicrobial Product Development for Infection Prevention
Natalia Garrido (Mentor: Claudia Geist) - Views on Sexuality and Gender in Health Care Providers
Danaya Geer (Mentor: vicente planelles) - Determining if HIV-1 can enter the cell nucleus without binding to Cyclophilin A
Anna Gilstrap (Mentor: Peter Shen) - Rapid Isolation of Protein Complexes from Cellular Lysates
Jeremi Godbout (Mentor: Monika Buczak) -   Developing Vibrotactile Sensory Feedback  for TetraSki Adaptive Sports Equipment
Divyam Goel (Mentor: Matthew Mulvey) - ST131 biofilms - a possible key to understanding how E. coli is spreading multidrug resistance globally
Carlos Gonzalez (Mentor: Priyank Kalla) - Abstraction models for manufacturability aware silicon photonics.
Nik Greger (Mentor: Marina Kogan) - Measuring the Influence of Epistemic Communities on the Spread of Ideologically-Oriented Content on Reddit
SuYeon Gwak (Mentor: Matt Euler) - Testing the association between performance on the Word Pair Judgement test and Independent Living Scale in older adults with and without Alzheimer's Disease.
Kyle Harshany (Mentor: Will Holland) - The effect of the gain and loss of neuronal ceramides on behavior in an early onset Alzheimer's mouse model.
Autumn Hartley (Mentor: Emily Cunningham) - The Cause of Excess Magmatism in the Northern Atlantic Margin
Amy Harvey (Mentor: Stella Mosher) - Using sedimentary charcoal morphometrics and experimental burning to reconstruct fire and vegetation history during the mid-Holocene at Verlorenvlei, South Africa
Audrey Hendarto (Mentor: Kurt Albertine) - Treatment of chronically ventilated preterm lambs with insulin-like growth  factor-1 to improve development of the distal ileum
Sam Hendry (Mentor: Matthew Mulvey) - Understanding the multifunctional nature of the PasTI toxin-antitoxin system in Extraintestinal Pathogenic Escherichia coli.
JC Herrmann (Mentor: Aaron Puri) - Structural Elucidation of Novel Quorum Sensing Molecule from Methylobacterium nodulans
Sam Hoffman (Mentor: Larry Coats) - Paleoecological Reconstruction of the late Pleistocene
Taylor Holladay (Mentor: Jessie Fan) - Exponential Growth Bias: Measurement, Intervention, and Impact on Financial Decision-Making Among Emerging Adults
Isabelle Hong (Mentor: Rebecca Delaney) - Exploring older adults' decision processes for selecting cannabis products for pain relief, depression/anxiety, or sleep
Lindi Hopkins (Mentor: Jeffrey Bates) - Effectiveness of Ski Wax Treatments in Sintered Ski Bases Using Different Temperatures and Application Methods
Alicia Horn (Mentor: Lindsay Keegan) - Estimating the Impact of COVID-19 Interventions on the Effective Reproduction Number
Jude Horsley (Mentor: Fred Adler) - Stochastic-Deterministic Hybrid Models for Investigating COVID-19 Evolution
Oliver Hubbard (Mentor: Hamid Ghandehari) - Reducing Drug Adsorption in Extracorporeal Membrane Oxygenation (ECMO) Circuits: Propofol Extraction and Analysis
Aaron Ibarra (Mentor: Janae Chandler) - Exponential Growth Bias: Measurement, Intervention, and Impact on Financial Decision-Making among Emerging Adults
jasmine jacobo (Mentor: Vincent Koppelmans) - Reducing the Burden of Depression by Predicting Treatment Response from a Neuro-Motor Function
Cameron Jensen (Mentor: Peter Fino) - The effect of mTBI on smoothness of movement during turning
Noah Johnson (Mentor: Amandine Chaix) - Effects of time-restricted feeding (TRF) and calorie restriction (CR) on heart function in mice.
Dakota Jones (Mentor: Marc Calaf) - Thermal Effects on Roof-Mounted Solar Modules
Jake Jones (Mentor: Candace Floyd) - Anatomical localization and characterization of the swine rubrospinal tract
Rachel Jorgensen (Mentor: Mark Loewen) - Comparing Epidermal Structures in Allosaurus to a Juvenile Dromaeosaur
Jack Jowers (Mentor: Tom Maloney) - Children's Budget Report (Voices for Utah Children)
Saey Kamtekar (Mentor: Akiko Kamimura) - Exportation and Domestic Distribution in Top COVID Vaccine Producing Countries
Caroline Keller (Mentor: Nitin Phadnis) - The identification and characterization of a second autosomal gene that works in association with Overdrive to create hybrid incompatibility within Drosophila pseudoobscura in USA D. pseudoobscura (USA) and Bogota (Bogota) D. pseudoobscura subspecies
Bridget Kelly (Mentor: Alexis Christensen) - Worship of Women in Ancient Greek Myth and Culture
Samantha Kight (Mentor: Philip Dennison) - Using Viewshed and Machine Learning to Model Visibility for a Terrain and Vegetation
Jennifer Kim (Mentor: Sungjin  Park) - Characterizing Architectures of HaloTag Link Protein in Brain ECM
Sydney Kincart (Mentor: Phillip Singer) - State Variation of Eligibility in Medicaid Waivers for Disabled Populations
Daniel Koizumi (Mentor: Sean Howe) - Generalization of Braid Group Algorithms for the Study of Hypersurface Complements
Ryan Lam (Mentor: Alan Kuntz) - Design of an Actuation System for Microscale String Tendon Robots
Alan Larrea Caro (Mentor: Tao Gao) - Development and Performance of a High Coulombic Efficiency All-Iron Redox-Flow Battery
Jordy Larrea Rodriguez (Mentor: Amy Lenz) - BioRobotic Simulator for Replicating Foot and Ankle Kinematics and Kinetics
Alex Leavitt (Mentor: Alan Kuntz) - Shape modeling and miniaturization of two styles of continuum robots
Andy Lee (Mentor: Jared Rutter) - Examining the Role of Lactate Dehydrogenase A (LDHA) in the liver
Hannah Lee (Mentor: Thomas King) - Experimental Regulatory Element Evolution: Investigating How Enhancers Can Become Promoters
Owen Leishman (Mentor: Pierre-Emmanuel Gaillardon) - Inexpensive Gas Sensor Interface
Amelia  Lessen (Mentor: Tom Henderson) - ChopSAT
Milo  Light (Mentor: David Symons) - How metabolism affects acute ischemic stroke outcomes in older mice
Rob Lindemann (Mentor: Thomas Zangle) - 3D Intensity and Phase Imaging Using an LED Array Microscope to Quantify Cell Mass
Maddie Lodico (Mentor: Chuck Dorval) - Evaluating the response sensitivity of axons, from realistic geometries of axon trajectory, to optimize contact location for deep brain stimulation
Will Loxley (Mentor: Ashley Guajardo) - Disabled, Not Disqualified: Ableism in Recruitment and Retention for Game Development
Benning Lozada (Mentor: Brennan Payne) - Analyzing Asymmetry in the Perceptual Span while reading using Steady State Visual Evoked Potentials
Benvin Lozada (Mentor: Jingyi Zhu) - Using Machine Learning to Analyze the Relationship Between School Funding and Economic Equity
Yiming Lu (Mentor: Edward Hsu) - Optimize DTI-IVIM encoding strategies to shorten scanning time and improve accuracy
Marin Macfarlane (Mentor: Amy  McDonnell) - The Influence of Nature Images on the Neurophysiology of Attention
Christian Madsen (Mentor: Jennifer Weidhaas) - Adsorption and desorption of water soluble herbicide safeners to agricultural soils
Joshua Marchant (Mentor: Dennis Parker) - Absolute Temperature Measurement in Tissue using Water and Fat Proton Chemical Shift
Julia  Martin (Mentor: Cindy Berg) - Ethnic Status and Type 1 Diabetes Management in Young Adulthood
Caroline Martin (Mentor: Elisabeth  Conradt) - The Intergenerational Influence of Rejection and Insensitivity from Emotionally Dysregulated Mothers Upon The Child's Attachment and Psychopathology
Bailey Martin (Mentor: Priyank Kalla) - Efficient Computation of Grobner Bases for Partial Logic Synthesis of Arithmetic Circuits
Travis Martinez (Mentor: Dustin Williams) - Investigative Work in Antibiotic Treatment of Biofilms Using New Reactor Models
Garrett McClellan (Mentor: Luke Timmins) - Optimization of Computation Framework and User Interface to Analyze 4D Flow Cardiac MRI Data
Rose McLaughlin (Mentor: Lee Raby) - Examining the Effects of Pre-Adoption Adversity and Parental Sensitivity on Adoptive Children's Behavioral Problems
Kylee McManus (Mentor: Shreya Goel) - Synthesis and Characterization of Ultrasmall Porous Silica Nanoparticles for Use in Image-Guided Treatment of Metastatic Tumors
Corinna McMurtrey (Mentor: Mitchell Power) - Effect of Volcanism on Aksumite Agriculture: a long-term perspective from the Tigray Plateau, Ethiopia
Casey Miller (Mentor: Aniello De Santo) - Mathematical Models of Tone in Thai Reduplication Patterns
Adam Montgomery (Mentor: Kim Hackford-Peer) - Institutional Queer Safe Spaces: A Case Study of a Queer History Class's Impact on School Climate
Hannah Morrison (Mentor: Shahrzad Roshankhah) - Laboratory Simulation of Hydraulic Fractures in Pre-fractured Rocks
Nura Mostaghimi (Mentor: Akiko Kamimura) - Increasing science self-efficacy and identity through participation in the Native American Summer Research Internship Program
Erika Muhlrad (Mentor: Amy Lenz) - Analysis of Coordinate System Definitions for Ankle Biplane Fluoroscopy RENEWAL
Jackson Munn (Mentor: Aaron Puri) - Determining Bacterial Community Compositions and Methane Flux of Red Butte Canyon Sediment Over Time
J.R. Murphy (Mentor: Sarah Lambart) - Hawaii & Southern Utah: The Floating Rocks
Caden Myers (Mentor: Ling Zang) - Characterization of Metal Induced Self Assembling Nanofibers after Pyrolysis
Mia Nelson (Mentor: Caleb Thomson) - Training Convolutional Neural Networks to Recognize Myoelectric Signaling
Irvane Nelson (Mentor: Owen Chan) - The efficacy of the novel somatostatin receptor 2 antagonist, ZT-01, given via an osmotic pump to restore glucagon secretion in diabetic rats.
Phat Nguyen (Mentor: Cindy Furse) - Pseudo-Noise Codes for Microwave Medical Imaging Measurements
Hoang Nguyen (Mentor: Yue Zhao) - Building better fit model for Primordial Black Holes contraints
Khoi Nguyen (Mentor: Russell Stewart) - Treating Dye Wastewater With Laccase Immobilized by electrostatically condensed phase of poly-guanidinyl-propyl-methacrylate and polyphosphate sodium hexametaphosphate
Carter Niedert (Mentor: Edgar Bruce) - Unbiased RNAi Gene Screening for the Analysis of Intestinal Stem Cell Damage-Sensing Pathways and Their Effects on Cell Proliferation
Tara Olson (Mentor: Lisa Diamond) - Intersectionality NOW! Social Justice within Social Science Research and Education.
Emmanuel Onyeagba (Mentor: Will Holland) -  The Role of FOXN3 in Glucagon Receptor Antagonist (GRA)-mediated cardioprotection.
Scott Orton (Mentor: Raj Ghosh) - Studying the Cells of the Heart and Their Proteins
Sonia Osuna (Mentor: Peter West) - Developing an Animal Model with a Hypothalamic Hamartoma and its Seizure Phenotypes from a Somatic Mutation in the Sonic Hedgehog Signaling Pathway
Taylor Otterness (Mentor: Crystal Sigulinsky) - ON Cone Bipolar Cells Post-Synaptic Partner Coupling Motifs
Taylor Ottley (Mentor: Dmitry Bedrov) - Creation of a Machine-Learning Dataset and Descriptor for the Screening of Polymer Electrolyte Architectures
Isaac Ou (Mentor: Tanya Halliday) - Impact of Whey Protein Supplementation on Body Composition and Athletic Performance in High School Soccer Players
Cody Page (Mentor: Kendall Gerdes) - LGBTQIA and Religious Freedom: Using Rhetoric to Build Bridges of Understanding
Lauren Page (Mentor: Mitchell Power) - Developing a Protocol for Detecting Volcanism Through Andean Lake Sedimentary Records
Claire Palmer (Mentor: Heejin Yoo) - Functional analysis of ISOCHORISMATE SYNTHASE1 from Brassicaceae oilseed crops for plant immunity
Ethan Parker (Mentor: Alex Shcheglovitov) - Rescuing Neural Proliferation in GRIN2B Deficient iPSC-Derived Neurons
Brayden  Paul (Mentor: Tommaso Lenzi) - Metabolic cost Analysis during Ambulation in Stroke Subjects using a Hip Exoskeleton
Raquel  Perry (Mentor: Amandine Chaix) - Effects of Time Restricted Feeding on Metabolic Pathways and Aging
Mikal Peterson (Mentor: Nitin Phadnis) - Understanding chromosome pairing using hybrid Drosophila chromosomes.
Katya Podkovyroff Lewis (Mentor: Kaedan O'Brien) - Comparing Bulk versus Serial Sampling in δ13C, δ18O, and 87Sr/86Sr Isotopic Analysis of Fossil Herbivore Teeth
Nic Poll (Mentor: Moriel Zelikowsky) - Social Effects of Bed Nucleus of the Stria Terminalis Corticotropin-releasing Hormone Neuronal Activation Using Optogenetic Stimulation
Kimberly Ponce Gonzalez (Mentor: Kathie Supiano) - Nursing Home Social Worker Perceptions and Process of the PLGS
Nizhoni Porter (Mentor: Anandh Babu Pon Velayutham) - Effect of Blueberry Supplementation on Oral Dysbiosis in C57BL/6J Mice
Jesse Prime (Mentor: Edoardo Battaglia) - Design of a Low-Profile Arm-Swing Assistance Robot
Annie Pugmire (Mentor: Brian Evavold) - Role of CD8aa as a regulatory marker in Experimental Autoimmune Encephalomyelitis
Alicia Quick (Mentor: Amy McDonnell) - Effects of Natural and Urban Imagery on Error-Related Negativity
Luis Ramirez (Mentor: Lyda Bigelow) - The Intersection of Entrepreneurship and Critical Race Theory: A Competitive Analysis of Latinx Construction Companies
Inakhshmi Rashid (Mentor: Lisa Aspinwall) - Communication Styles Between Family Members with Type 2 Diabetes and Non-Affected Family Members, and its Association with Perceived Risk and Intended Preventative Health Behaviors
CJ Reid (Mentor: David Grainger) - Characterization of juvenile chondrocyte cell sheets prepared with temperature-responsive cell culture dish and cell culture insert
Alyssa Richards (Mentor: Larry Coats) - Paleoecology in the Northern Snake Range, Nevada
Keegan Richardson (Mentor: Carena Cornelssen) - Optimization of ultrasonic stimulation for effective treatments of brain disorders
Jake Richins (Mentor: Amy  McDonnell) - Effects of Natural and Urban Imagery on the Brain's Reward Processes
Mary Roalstad (Mentor: Jennifer Follstad Shah) - Microbial Ecoenzyme Activity Rates in the Water Column of Urban Rivers and Streams
Talon Roberts (Mentor: Mitchell Power) - Modern and prehistoric geospatial and climatic analysis of Aksumite Empire site on the Tigray Plateau, Ethiopia
Topher Roller (Mentor: Stella Mosher) - The role of colonizers in 17th century fire regime and vegetation composition in South Africa's fynbos biome
Keaton Rosquist (Mentor: Anandh Babu Pon Velayutham) - Dietary Strawberry to Improve Diabetic Nephropathy in Preclinical Model
Catherine Rousculp (Mentor: Katie Basham) - Examining the role of non-canonical Wnt signaling in adrenal homeostasis and hyperplasia
Gillian Ruppel (Mentor: Michael Gills) - Intensive Literary Fiction Novel Project: Paper Stars and Shattered Jars
Elizabeth Russo (Mentor: Annie Fukushima) - Resilient Factors Among Male Survivors of Child Sexual Assault in Utah
Camille Schadl-Romero-Oak (Mentor: Akiko Kamimura) - Free Clinic Patients views of lifestyle changes versus immediate medical intervention as forms of treatment, and the correlation to health literacy
Olivia Schmitz (Mentor: Gina Frey) - Sense of Belonging in Introductory Chemistry at the University of Utah
Mathias Schoen (Mentor: Edoardo Battaglia) - Real-Time Hand Tracking using Flex Sensors and Machine Vision
Tanner Short (Mentor: Mark Minor) - Measuring and Simulating Cane Dynamics for Large Workspace Haptic Interaction
Miles Smith (Mentor: Kim Hackford-Peer) - The Effects of Misogyny and Sexism in Transgender AFAB People
Nancy Sohlberg (Mentor: Gannet Hallar) - Links Between New Particle Formation (NPF) and Biogenic Emissions in the Southern Ocean (SO) Region
Marti Sorensen (Mentor: Larry Coats) - Using Packrat Middens to Understand the Fremont Occupation of Range Creek Canyon, Utah
Matt Stefanic (Mentor: Karen Wilcox) - UROP Proposal: Investigating the role of microglia in infection-induced Epilepsy
Sophie Stephens (Mentor: Sihem  Boudina) - Developing a computational model to explore the relationship between myocardial fibrosis and mitochondrial dysfunction in a mouse model of heart failure
Elise Stockham (Mentor: Robert Bowles) - Optimization of gRNA Design for CRISPR-activation of ZNF-865
Garrett  Stoneman  (Mentor: Tommaso Lenzi) - Mechanical Design and Biomechanical Assessment of a Powered Hip Exoskeleton
Marcus Tanner (Mentor: Ben Bromley) - Analysis of Gap Formation Criteria in the Saturnian Ring System
Miles Thomas (Mentor: Karen Wilcox) - Mechanisms of Encephalitis and Epileptogenesis in the TMEV Model
Ashley Thompson (Mentor: Gennie Parkman) -  Combination of AKT and SGK inhibition as a therapeutic strategy for BRAF-mutant melanoma
Sofi  Thoms (Mentor: Akiko Kamimura) - Quality of Life of Asian American Cancer Survivors and Family Caregivers
Macey Tilk (Mentor: Mitchell  Power ) - A Look into the Biodiversity of Avalanche Chutes
Quyen Tran (Mentor: Martin Horvath) - Investigating the Mutation Rate of Bacteria in Response to Pharmaceutical Drugs on DNA Repair Enzyme MutY
Alex Turner (Mentor: Alessandro Rigolon) - Understanding Benefit Distribution and Disparity of Transit Availability on Local Impacted Communities
Melissa Tyszko (Mentor: Rebecca Owen) - Impacts of External Factors on Participant Success in Salt Lake Peer Court
Gary  Urry (Mentor: Punam Sawant-Pokam) - The influence of altitude on migraine aura
Rene Valles (Mentor: Jordan Grammer) - Evaluating Social Reward in Socially Isolated Mice
Jada Voth (Mentor: Stacy Manwaring) - Exploring Play over Time in Toddlers at-risk for Autism
Brendan Wagley (Mentor: Tao Gao) - Manufacturing of Fe Flow Cell Batteries for the Optimization of Performance and Longevity
Nathan Wallace (Mentor: Caleb Thomson) - Low-Cost Wearable Upper-Limb Myoelectric Exoskeleton
Alex Wallberg (Mentor: Jessica Kramer) - Examining the Biological Properties of Synthetic Antifreeze Glycoproteins
Bridget Ward (Mentor: Zach Wilson) - Regulation of the Mitochondrial Oxaloacetate Carrier
Martha Werner (Mentor: Shane Macfarlan) - Analysis of Death, Drought, and Climate in the Baja Sur Peninsula, Mexico
Rachel Whipple (Mentor: Caroline Saouma) - Catalytic Conversion of CO2 to MeOH by Well-Defined Triphos-Ligated Cobalt
Alex Wiedemann (Mentor: Marcus Pezzolesi) - Investigating And Identifying Genetic Determinants Of Circulating Sphingolipids
CLAUDIA WIESE (Mentor: Joshua Steffen) - The Effects of Formic Acid Treatment on Honeybee Foraging Behavior Utilizing Pollen Metagenomics
Clara William (Mentor: Genevieve Albouy) - Neural Correlates of Memory Schema Formation Across Memory Domains
Jennie Wilson (Mentor: Clement Chow) - Identifying Genetic Modifiers in PIGA deficiency
Stein Witt (Mentor: Tommaso Lenzi) - Analysis of Ambulation in Stroke Subjects using a Knee Exoskeleton
MacKenzie Woodrum (Mentor: Raj Ghosh) - Generation of a novel technology to degrade specific mutant proteins via lysosomes
Guang Yang (Mentor: Fernando Guevara Vasquez) - Inverse Problem on Networks
Tyler Yoklavich (Mentor: Kip Solomon) - Identifying Sources of Groundwater to Hidden Valley Springs
Zane Zobell (Mentor: Joe Palatinus) - Characterization of GJA1-20k in AC16 Cell Line

Diyar Ahmed (Jun Yang) - Investigating the Role of C-Nap 1 and the BB-DC Linkage in Primary Cilium Structure
Connor Blunt (Margaret Wan) - Guan Yu from Three Kingdoms and his portrayal in Smite
Bryce Bosworth (Michael Werner) - Life in brine: Culturing the nematodes of the Great Salt Lake in search of the mechanism of adaptation to extreme conditions
Ali Bouck (Ryan Looper) - Total Synthesis and MOA Investigation of Ezomycin
Bennett Browning (Jesse Christensen) - Patient-Reported Outcomes Measurement Information System (PROMIS) Physical Function and Knee Injury and Osteoarthritis Outcome Score (KOOS) Relationship on Performance Measures in People Undergoing Total Knee Arthroplasty
Garrett Butler (Kathleen Ritterbush) - Investigation into the relationship between environmental conditions and physical development of ornamentation on Ammonite fossils
Michelle Cao (Jordan Gerton) - Student Interactions in Undergraduate Introductory Physics Lab for Non-Physics Majors
Spencer Carstens (Shreya Goel) - Evolution of the Metastatic Tumor Microenvironment Through High Resolution Microscopy
Victoria Chiou (Anna Beaudin) - Fetal hematopoietic stem cell metabolism in response to varying prenatal folate status. 
Calvin Coates (Will Holland) - Type II Diabetes, Ceramides, and Heart Failure
Aaron Coon (Heayoung Yoon) - Fault Analysis for Semiconductor Materials and Devices
America Cox (Bryn Dentinger) - Utilizing Genomic and Metabolic Data to Investigate the Evolutionary Ecology of Ant-Farmed Fungi
James Craig (Chuck Dorval) - Investigating Off-Contact Stimulation Techniques for Deep Cortical Regions in Humans Using Patient-Specific Brain Models
Shane Denherder (Elisabeth Conradt) - Physiological Responses to an Online Infant Cry Stimulus task in Expectant Mothers
Collin Dover (Shahrzad Roshankhah) - Hydraulic Fracturing
Dewi Eagan (Leif Anderson) - Velocities of Rock Glaciers Relating to Rock Content and other factors
Samantha Eddy (Shundana Yusaf) - Local Building Methods, Techniques and Indigenous Community Engaged Architecture
Tanner Frahm (Eugene Kwan) - Investigating Effects of Noninvasive Cardiac Radiation on Connexin-43 Distribution
Alexis Friedman (Tao Gao) - Electrochemical Reduction of Carbon Dioxide to Carbon Monoxide Via Flow Cell 
Christian Furness (Jack Longino) - Seasonal changes in worker fat content of  Formica obscuripes, the western thatch ant
Shalyce Gardner (Clement Chow) - Follow up on Genetic Modifiers Identified in PIGA Deficiency Screening
Emma Glende (Adrienne Cachelin) - Community-based research for educational equity in Salt Lake City, Utah
Gabrielle Hadinger (Yan-Ting Shiu) - Effects of E26 avian erythroblastosis virus transcription factor (ETS)-1 inhibition on hemodialysis arteriovenous fistula (AVF) development
Tala Hammond (Sihem Boudina) - The Role of Liver-Specific autophagy in Hepatic Homeostasis
Kaysen Hansen (Jake George) - Effects of Pulse Amplitude on Frequency Discrimination with Electrocutaneous Artificial Sensory Feedback
Liam Haynie (Yong Lin Kong) - Enhancing Resonance Sensitivity of 3D Printed Sensors
Josh Hill (Ben  Bromley) - Finding Planet 9
Josh Hillyard (Allison Payne) - Evaluation of immune responses from focused ultrasound treatment with immunotherapy in a pre-clinical breast cancer murine model 
Rachel Holland (Maureen Mathison) - Rhetoric as Tool: Scientific Innovation Through a Multiples Lens
Jonathan Hong (Kent  Lai) - Novel pathway of adipogenesis in mice with impaired galactose metabolism
Brianna Ingersoll (Jesse Christensen) - Biomechanics and Strength Outcome Comparison Between Supervised and Unsupervised Physical Therapy After Total Knee Arthroplasty: A Retrospective Study
Nate Iverson (Ben  Myers) - Purification of the Smoothened cytosolic tail for biochemical and structural studies.
Holden Jones (Claudia Geist) - Attitudes Towards Gender and Sexuality in Future Health Care Providers
Wona  Kim (Jennifer Weidhaas) - Investigation of contaminants in stormwater entering Red Butte Creek from University of Utah
Jonas Knochelmann (Rogelio Cardona-Rivera) - Computational Models of Creative AI for Text Generation
Jack Landmesser (Scott Langenecker) - Gonadal Hormones and Addiction: Analyzing Differences in Reward Pathway Activity Between Heavy Drinkers and Controls on the Basis of Gonadal Hormones
Andrew Larkin (Caroline Saouma) - Viability of Ruthenium-Based Catalyst for Direct Transformation of CO2 to Formate
Alex Leavitt (Alan Kuntz) - Investigation of two styles of tendon-driven continuum robots
Hannah Lee (Thomas King) - Experimental Regulatory Element Evolution: Investigating How Enhancers Can Become Promoters
Sabrina Lin (Nick Witham) - Characterizing Material Properties of Artificial Muscle Fibers Composed of Linear Low Density Polyethylene
Emily Lym (Swomitra Mohanty) - Tuberculosis Biomarker Detection with GCxGC Time of Flight System
Zihao  Lyu (Dipayan Chaudhuri) - Identifying novel intracellular vesicles involved in ion and metabolite handling
Marin Macfarlane (Amy McDonnell) - The Influence of Nature Images on the Neurophysiology of Attention
Zach Mallender (Christopher Depner) - Sleep Extension and Brain Wave Power Transformation
Matt Michaud (Heath Henninger) - Alterations in Scapulothoracic Kinematics following Reverse Total Shoulder Arthroplasty 
Raina Miller (Moriel Zelikowsky) - The Role of the Ventral Hippocampus in Trauma-Enhanced Fear
Quinna Nguyen (Daniel Drew) - Electrohydrodynamic Pumps for Silent, Solid-State, and Direct Electronics Cooling
Emmanuel Onyeagba (Will  Holland) - The Role of FOXN3 in Glucagon Receptor Antagonist (GRA)-mediated cardioprotection. 
Sonia Osuna (Peter West) - Developing an Animal Model with a Hypothalamic Hamartoma and its Seizure Phenotypes from a Somatic Mutation in the Sonic Hedgehog Signaling Pathway
Claire Park (Nicholas Frost) - How inducing hemi-spatial neglect can give us the evidence of how the spatial information is converted between different coordinate systems
Gary Perea (Caroline Saouma) - Kinetics Studies of Reaction Between Ruthenium Metal Catalyst and H2/CO2 Gas
Mikal Peterson (Nitin Phadnis) - Understanding chromosome pairing using hybrid drosophila chromosomes
Julia Petheram St. Andre (Shanti Deemyad) - Raman Spectroscopy to Probe Superconducting Properties at Extreme Conditions
Alec Phipps-Wirtz (Leif Anderson) - Microplastic Deposition In The Wasatch Range of Utah
Alicia Quick (Amy McDonnell) - Effects of Natural and Urban Imagery on Error-Related Negativity
Nathan Ramey (Swomitra Mohanty) - A comparison and streamlining of liquid phase and vapor phase detectors for tuberculosis biomarkers
Kayla  Rebentisch (Jessie King Jensen) - Hashtag popularity: A content analysis of e-cigarette, cigarette, cigar, and cannabis posts on Instagram 
David Rou (Andrew Miller) - Verification of Protein Translation in Radiated and Non-Radiated Breast Tissue
Ana Rowe (Sandy Parkinson) - Suppressors of signal switching mutations
Ben Searle (Lauren Barth-Cohen) - Investigating Student-Instructor Interactions in a 3D IPLS Lab
Nancy Sohlberg (Gannet  Hallar) - Links Between New Particle Formation (NPF) and Biogenic Emissions in the Southern Ocean (SO) Region
Mitchell Spendlove (Wesley Hamilton) - Evaluation of Metrics for the Resistance of Gerrymandered Voting Districts
Micah Spjute (Yong Lin Kong) - Characterization of 3D Printed LC Sensors on Thermoplastic Dental Aligners
Miles Thomas (Karen Wilcox) - Epileptogenesis in a Mouse Model Using the TMEV Virus
Emilio Trujillo (Anna Beaudin) - Cochlear Immune Response to Congenital Cytomegalovirus-associated Sensorineural Hearing Loss
Anya Weglarz (Melissa Watt) - HIV stigma during the intrapartum period in Tanzania
Marc Whiting (Ben  Bromley) - Operation Planet 9 
Tyler  Whitley (Frank Sachse) - The effect of altered TRPC1 expression on the development of cardiac hypertrophy 
Clara William (Genevieve Albouy) - Neural Correlates of Memory Schema Formation Across Memory Domains
Leisina Wolfgramm (Meekyung MacMurdie) - Patterns: The Theory of Design in History
Breanna Wong (Yong Lin Kong) - Molybdenum nanoparticles and PBTPA for Higher Resolution 3D Printed Transient Electronics
Anna  Yarema (Jan Kubanek) - Encapsulation of neuromodulatory drug ketamine in perfluorooctylbromide core nanoparticles for targeted release via ultrasound.
Sierra Young (Kim Korinek) - Sleep Quality & Early-Life War Exposure: An Analysis of Sleep Problems Among Vietnamese Older Adults Using Data from the Vietnam Health and Aging Study (VHAS)
Sammi Yu (Yong Lin Kong) - Characterization and Integrated Design of Core-Shell and Biodegradable Conductive Ink 
Nik Zarandona (Nitin Phadnis) - Identification of the gene responsible for sex ratio distortion in D. pseudoobscura  

Emily Adler (Stella Mosher) - How do soil geochemistry and charcoal morphotypes respond to paleofire events in the Southern Africa's Fynbos biome?
Derek Anderson (Sujee Jeyapalina) - Determining the biocompatibility of metal-doped fluorapatite
Maxwell Austin (Andrew Roberts) - Reagent Development to Access Triazolinediones for Bioconjugation
Dua Azhar (Sophie Caron) - Quantifying the Relationship Between Relative Brain Size and Sensory Neuron Population Across the Drosophila Phylogeny
Emily Ballard (Yelena Wu) - Preventative Skin Cancer Research: What attitudes do young females have about skin cancer and do their behaviors match?
Danny Barrera (Anna Beaudin) - Exploring the Source and Abundance of Fetal Interleukin-7
Drew Becker (Jennifer Weidhaas) - Escherichia Coli Analysis Using Microbial Source Tracking in Emigration Creek
Andelin Beishline (Tracey Lamb) - Mechanisms Underlying Thrombocytopenia in Plasmodium Infection
Kian Ben-Jacob (Jacob Hochhalter) - Creation of a Digital Twin for a High-Power Model Rocket as Proof of Concept
Karen Bennett (Jack Silcox) - The effects of driving on false hearing and cognitive load
Ali Bergmark (Brennan Payne) - An analysis of the relationship between short-term sentence recall and noise interference in older adults
Arnel Besic (Connor Bischak) - Investigating Ion Cooperativity in Organic Mixed Ionic Electronic Conductors for Enhanced Bioelectronics
Aiden Beukema (Randall Irmis) - Understanding the CO2 Concentrations of the Late Triassic Through Carbon Isotope Analysis
Alex Billings (Melissa Cortez) - Exploration of chromatic light effects and light sensitivity levels in patients with autonomic dysfunction
Anya Biskupiak (Guangzhen Wu) - Recreational Marijuana Legalization and its Effects on Adolescent Crime
Sophia Blankevoort (Jessica Kramer) - Enzymatic Modification of Synthetic Mucins with Bioactive Sugars
Sophia Boehler (Melodie Weller) - Identifying Patterns of Viral Profiles In The Salivary Gland and Associations With Sjogren's Syndrome and Non-Hodgkin's Lymphoma.
Chloe Bokinskie (Jennifer Watt) - Analyzing the Historical Record of Mountain Pine Beetles Using Pollen and Archive Records in the Sawtooth National Recreation Area
Bergen Braun (Andrew Anderson) - Statistical Shape Modeling of Sex-Based Pelvic Morphology
Dallen Calder (Stavros Drakos) - The Role Of Adipocyte Enhancer Binding Protein 1 (Aebp1) In Cardiac Fibrosis Progression And Its Potential As A Therapeutic Target.
Miranda Cardenas (Heayoung Yoon) - Design and Fabrication of Microstructured Shadow Mask for Thin-Film Solar Cells
Hunter Carlson (Jesse Christensen) - Hip Mechanics as a Reflection of Physical Function in Aging Adults with Early to Late-Stage Hip Osteoarthritis
Spencer Carstens (Shreya Goel) - Evolution of the Metastatic Tumor Microenvironment Through High Resolution Microscopy
Natalie Caylor (Valerie Greer) - From Sheltered in Place to Thriving in Place: An Analysis and Presentation of Older Adults' Experiences of Aging in Place During the Pandemic
Britney Chen (Yan-Ting Shiu) - Hemodynamic Analysis of the Use of Nitric Oxide Releasing Gel to Improve Rat AVF Maturation
Carter Christensen (Cindy Furse) - Proposal For Research of Field Focusing for Implantable Telemetry Antennas
Taylor Christensen (Catherine Loc-Carrillo) - Testing the Efficacy of Disinfectants on Face Masks During the COVID-19 Pandemic via a Surrogate Virus
Clara Coffey (Jessica kramer) - Synthesis and Characterization of Clickable Polyproline-based Materials
Rachel Compton (Anandh Babu POn Velayutham) - Dietary Strawberry Mediates in Expression of Brown Adipose Tissue Batokines in High-fat Diet Fed C57Bl/6J Mice
Comstock (Brian Snapp) - Manifesting Material - Exhibiting Research-Based Ceramic and Intermedia Work Spring 2021
James Conger (Jerry Root) - Translating the Medieval Legend of Theophilus
Ashley Covington (Moriel Zelikowsky) - The Effects of Environmental Enrichment on Behaviors in Isolated Mice
Jessica Cuello (Adrienne Cachelin) - Exploring Food Justice through Qualitative Research
Maren Curtis (Lori Kowaleski-Jones) - Data Analysis to Improve Earned Income Tax Credit Outreach
Lorenz Cushman (Jeffrey Bates) - Synthesis and Characterization of Fluorine Free Ski Wax
Jordan Cutshall (Melodie Weller) - Viral Profile of Salivary Glands in Primary Sjogren's Syndrome and Healthy Patients
Thaiss Del Rio Sanchez (Annie Fukushima) - More Than a Status: The Sociolegal Construction of Immigrant "Illegality" and its Influence on Anti-Immigrant Policy during the Trump Administration
Angela Deng (David Krizaj) - The effects of TGFB2 on the mechanosensitive environment of the Human Trabecular Meshwork cells
Shane Denherder (Elisabeth Conradt) - Physiological Responses to an Online Infant Cry Stimulus task in Expectant Mothers
Gabi Desjardins (Katharine Diehl) - Development of a fluorescent biosensor for acetyl-CoA
Emmanuel Diaz (Katie Baucom) - Literature Review : The Association Between Childhood Exposure To Intimate Partner Violence and Physical Health Outcomes
Victoria Ding (Bethany Buck-Koehntop) - Investigating Methylated DNA Recognition by the N-terminal Zinc Fingers of ZBTB38
Drue Domagala (Jon Rainier) - Using PROTACs to Inhibit Toll-like Receptors
Kaylon Draney (Jeffrey Bates) - Biodegradable Superabsorbent Polymers
Zach Eatough (Amy Lenz) - Shape modeling and 3D analysis of Weight-Bearing Computed Tomography in patients with ankle osteoarthritis
Jenny Echeverria (Matt Thiese) - Hypertension and Sleep in Commercial Drivers and Manual Material Handlers
Aidyn Eldredge (Tim Webster) - Genomic Insights into the Evolution of Cytokine Tissue Specificity Across Primates
Katerina Excell (Villu Maricq) - Investigation of the Molecular Mechanisms Behind Glutamate Receptor Transport Disruption
Bryce Fairbanks (Tom Maloney) - Utahn's Experience with Economic Inequality: A Benchmark with Texas and the US
Fatima Faizi (Man Hung) - Factors associated with type 1 diabetes
Cannon Fehrenbach (Talia Karasov) - The Effects of Climate Change on the Bacterial Pathogenicity of Plants
Isabelle Fernandez (Shane Macfarlan) - The Impacts of Marriage and Reproduction on Female Longevity
Kailee Ferret (Leslie Francis) - Challenging The Right to Privacy: The Effects of Texas' Heartbeat Bill
Kenzie Fleming (Aaron Fischer) - Evaluating the Efficacy of Asynchronous Problem-Solving Teleconsultation with Teachers who Serve Rural Students with Disabilities
Adam Ford (Dave Grainger) - Development of in vitro classification platform for chondrogenic capacity of juvenile cartilage-derived chondrocyte donor strains
Izzy Fuller (Sarah Hinners) - Impact of "Landscape Lab" Green Infrastructure on Stormwater Hydrograph Peaks in Red Butte Creek
Summer Furrer (Melodie Weller) - Detection and Localization of Hepatitis Delta Virus Sequence in Sjogren's Syndrome Salivary Gland Tissue
Jordyn Gagon (Moriel Zelikowsky) - Control of Isolation-Induced Aggression through Activation of Prefrontal Cortex Pyramidal Neurons
Maddy Gahan (Andrea Brunelle) - Reconstructing the Fire History Using Charcoal Sediment in Newell Springs, Utah
Marina Gerton (Eric Schmidt) - Investigation Into Potential Antibiotic and Antiparasitic Agents Produced by Shipworm Symbiont Teredinibacter Turnerae
Lauren Gleave (Akiko Kamimura) - Perceptions and Efficacy of Utah's Sex Education Among College Students
Jackie Gomez (Jennifer Watt) - A Historical Record of Fire at Mill Lake, Idaho
Mickey Gough (Maureen Mathison) - Won't Someone Think of the Children? A Rhetorical Analysis of a Prominent Antivaccination Advocate
Zeke Green (Jacob Hochhalter) - Jig Development for Digital Image Correlation and High-Resolution Electron Backscatter Diffraction Microstamping
Nik Greger (Marina Kogan) - Measuring the Influence of Epistemic Communities on the Spread of Ideologically-Oriented Content on Reddit
Karah Hall (Marcus Pezzolesi) - Investigating the Role of C5orf42 in Diabetic Kidney Disease
Olivia Hanson (Melissa Watt) - HIV stigma during the intrapartum period in Tanzania
Alyssa Harpring (Thomas Zangle) - Applying Particle Image Velocimetry and Particle Tracking Velocimetry to Microrheology
Preston Harris (Ben Bromley) - Seeking lightcurve echoes of circumstellar objects from TESS Data
Abby Harrison (Jake George) - Renewal - Discriminability of Transcutaneous  Sensory Feedback
Lauren Harvey (Thomas Swensen) - Termination Policy and Historicizing the Ute and Paiute Tribes
Hailey Hauck (James Gagnon) - The Role of T Cells in Cardiac Regeneration
Josh Hill (Ben Bromley) - Operation Planet Nine
Jake Hirst (Jacob Hochhalter) - Optimizing Accuracy of Continuum Manipulator Orientation with Machine Learning
Tyler Ho (Peter Fino) - The Effects of Repeated Expected and Unexpected Underfoot Perturbations on Step Length and Step Cadence During Complex Gait
Alli Hoffman (William Brazelton) - Phylogenetic and Metagenomic Analyses of Candidatus Acetothermia bacterium at the Lost City hydrothermal field
Rachel Holland (Maureen Mathison) - Rhetoric as Tool: Scientific Innovation through a Multiples Lens
Nate Hooper (Dustin Williams) - CZ-01179 and its Application with NPWT
Lindi Hopkins (Jeffrey Bates) - Effectiveness of Ski Wax Treatments in Sintered Ski Bases Using Different Temperatures and Application Methods of Ski Wax
Alicia Horn (Lindsay Keegan) - Estimating the Impact of COVID-19 Interventions on the Effective Reproduction Number of COVID-19
Jude Horsley (Taylor Sparks) - Synthesis and Characterization of Novel High-Entropy Na-𝛽''-Alumina structure as Super Ionic Conductor
Linnea Horvath (Jessica King) - Defining the Association Between a Voluntary Use of Fitbits and Self-Reported Physical Activity Volumes
McKenna Hunt (Sudha Jayaraman ) - Mobile Health Applications for Emergency Settings in Low-Income Countries
Job Huxford (Marco Bortolato) - Establishing a Connection Between CELSR3 and Tic Disorders
Brianna Ingersoll (Jesse Christensen) - Biomechanics and Strength Outcome Comparison Between Supervised and Unsupervised Physical Therapy After Total Knee Arthroplasty: A Retrospective Study
Mason Jacketta (Taylor Sparks) - Defect Detection in Carbon-Fiber Composites
Seokjin Jeong (Amy McDonnell) - Effect of Listening to Degraded Speech on Driving Performance in a Simulator
Yein Ji (Sonia Albert Sobrino) - Intergenerational Cultural Dissonance in Asian American Young Adults
Holden Jones (Claudia Geist) - Attitudes Towards Gender and Sexuality in Future Health Care Providers
Saey Kamtekar (Akiko Kamimura) - Exportation and Domestic Distribution in Top COVID Vaccine Producing Countries
Simran Karim (Yan-Ting Shiu) - Inter-Analyst Variability Analysis of Hemodynamics in Porcine Arteriovenous Fistulas
Caroline Keller (Nitin Phadnis) - The identification and characterization of a second autosomal gene that works in association with Overdrive to create hybrid sterility in the Drosophila pseudoobscura subspecies D. pse USA and D. pse Bogota.
Sameer Khan (Ben Bromley) - Exploration of Dusty Debris at the L1 Lagrange Point of the Earth-Sun System
Kayleigh Kirkpatrick (Kaedan O'Brien) - Faunal Analysis of Amigo 3, a Cave in Utah's House Range
Pauline Kneller (Gannet Hallar) - Examining the Presence and Role of Aerosols in the Microphysics and Visibility Effects of Cold Fog in the Heber Valley
Daniel Koizumi (Sean Howe) - Generalization of Braid Group Algorithms for the Study of Hypersurface Complements
Andrew Larkin (Caroline Saouma) - Measuring equilibria between *Ru catalyst dimethylcarbamate, Ru-formate, and CO2-Ru to examine potential use for CO2 to formic acid and methanol catalysis
Alan Larrea Caro (Tao Gao) - Development and Performance of a High Coulombic Efficiency All-Iron Redox-Flow Battery
Brooke Larson (Julie Hollien) - Investigating the mechanisms targeting misfolded proteins to late endosomal micro autophagy for degradation during ER stress.
Michelle Le (Karen Wilcox) - Seizure onset and offset dynamics in a temporal lobe epilepsy mouse model in response to anti-epileptic drug therapy
Kaylen Lee (Tara Deans) - Novel Genetic Circuit for the Differentiation of Pluripotent Stem Cells into Megakaryocytes
Margo Lelonek (Leif Anderson) - The last glacial ice in Utah: an exploration of glacier mass balance in the Wasatch Range
Rob Lindemann (Thomas Zangle) - 3D Intensity and Phase Imaging Using an LED Array Microscope to Quantify Cell Mass
Grace Liu (Ram Gouripeddi) - Understanding the Complex Effects of Air Quality and Meteorological Factor Exposures on Health
Sophia Loose (Christopher Depner) - Comparison of Self-Reported versus Wrist-Actigraphy Quantified Sleep Duration
Augusto Lopez (Akiko Kamimura) - Mental Health of Hospice Care Volunteers amid the COVID-19 Pandemic
Frances Lucas (Annie Fukushima) - Domestic Violence Amongst Latinas
Megan Lynch (ShawnaKim Lowey-Ball) - Artifacts from the Fifteenth Century Hoi An Shipwreck, and their Cultural Relevance to Life in South East Asia
Angelica Madsen (Jeffrey Bates) - Hydrogel-Based Dehydration Sensor Adhesive
Tini Mai (Ariel Blair) - Are racial microaggressions affecting professionalism in an organizational setting?: taking the view of the aggressor.
Zach Mallender (Christopher Depner) - Investigation of EEG activity of chronic insufficient sleep and clinical sleep intervention
Mitchell Mansell (Sujee Jeyapalina) - Serological PCR Validation of Overexpressed Genes Identified Using Complete RNA Sequencing of Patients Blood
Sanila Math (Edmund Fong) - Racialization of Healthcare & the Implication of Race on Doctors and Patients of Color
Garrett McClellan (Robert Hitchcock) - Light Scattering Spectroscopy Catheter Development
Thayer McCollum (Will Holland) - The Effects of Ceramide Synthesis Inhibition on Neurodegeneration in Mice
Victoria Medvedeva (Aaron Puri) - Secondary Metabolite-Assisted Protection of an Aerobic Bacterium During Anoxic Stress
Ty Mellor (Fabienne Chevance) - Optimization of Protein Secretion via the Salmonella Type III Secretion System
Cameron Mercer (Bruce Gale) - Rapid fabrication of a dynamic lung microphysiological system that incorporates an extracellular matrix-based membrane.
Matt Michaud (Heath Henninger) - Alterations in Scapulothoracic Kinematics following Reverse Total Shoulder Arthroplasty
Raina Miller (Moriel Zelikowsky) - Social Interaction as a Buffer Against the Effects of Trauma in Mice
Alberto Miranda (Yong Lin Kong) - Gait Adaptation in Unknown Environments Utilizing Reinforcement Learning in a Three-Linked-Sphere Robot
Azeem Mohammed (Randy Jensen) - Compiling Cell Viability Data for Vitro Studies: Improving the Efficacy of Treatment for Meningioma Tumors
Jose Montelongo-Silva (Nicholas Frost) - Isoform Diversity in a Preclinical Model of Autism
Mariah Montoya (Annie Fukushima) - Impact of Rape-Myth Acceptance in Utah's Trauma Response to Victims of Sexual Assault
Hiraya Natividad (Michael Werner) - HDAC Knockout to Identify P. Pacificus H4K12ac
Brad Nelson (Talia Karasov) - Effects of Brassicaceae and Solanaceae Plant Extracts on In Vitro Growth of Various Pseudomonas Strains
Samantha Nestel (Michael Werner) - Development meets Metabolism: Investigating how Diet and Nutrition Influence Developmental Decisions
Insa Norcross (Haohan Zhang) - Simulate a neck exoskeleton in OpenSim to improve robot design and predict human movements
Emily Nuibe (Candace Reno) - Norepinephrine Effect on the Amount of Cardiac Arrhythmia's on Rats in Hypoglycemia
Kiyo Obayashi (Julie Hollien) - Does repositioning of lysosomes to the microtubule organizing center prevent protein aggregation?
Ben Orkild (Rob MacLeod) - Applying the Windowed Approach to the Regularization to ECGI in Atrial Fibrillation
Evan Oro (Jesse Christensen) - Studying Sedentary Behavior in Patients with Chronic Kidney Disease In The SLIMM 2 Study as a Resistance Training Guide
Crystal Ortiz (Skyler Jennings) - Does the Cochlear Microphonic reveal the optimal sound for evoking a robust response from the human auditory nerve in an individual listener?
Cody  Page (Kendall Gerdes) - Part 1: The Rhetorical Context of Justice and Mercy within the U.S. Criminal Justice System Part 2: Sensitive Rhetorics: Academic Freedom and Campus Activism
Natasha Pagel-Aprill (Andrea Brunelle) - Vegetation and Fire History of Southern Utah
Sammy  Paredes (Stefania Wilks) - Understanding sample contamination of surface residues; a comparison of debris extract with its associated archaeological sample.
Ryan Park (Skyler Jennings) - Statistical Analysis of Cochlear Microphonic Data to Generate Personalized Chirp Stimuli
Tavie Parker (Dave Grainger) - Characterization of Basic Fibroblast Growth Factor Effects on Human Bone Marrow Stem/Stromal Cell Sheet Fabrication and Therapeutic Properties
Adriana Payan-Medina (Swomitra Mohanty) - Evaluation of Electrocatalytic Sensor Technology for Pathogen Detection in Water
Andrew Payne (Yang Bai) - Validation of Consumer Physical Activity Devices among Adolescents
Ava Peitz (Ming Hammond) - Using Degron-Tagged Fluorogenic Proteins for Visualization of Mammalian cGAMP Activity In Vitro
Tessa Petersell (Peter Fino) - Reactive Balance within Concussion Evaluation and Recovery
Angela Pham (Brian Baucom) - Refinement of routine outcome monitoring in marginalized communities
Shaylie Platten (Sara LoTemplio) - Anxiety, Pupillometry, and Event Related Negativity
Kimberly Ponce Gonzalez (Kathie Supiano) - Nursing Home Administrators Perceptions of the emotional care needs of Dementia Family Care Partners
Olivia Pratt (Talia Karasov) - Role of Secondary Metabolites in Pathogenicity of Pseudomonas
Katelyn Pyper (Shawn Owen) - Engineering and Biophysical Characterization of Split-beta-lactamase Fusion Constructs
Kayla Rebentisch (Jessie King) - Tobacco Product Exposure Through Instagram Hashtags
JJ Repman Johnson (Jay Jordan) - Literacy Research Projects
Alyssa Richards (Larry Coats) - Paleoecological Reconstruction of the Pleistocene in the Northern Snake Range, of the Great Basin, Nevada
Jackson Ridges (Nitin Phadnis) - Mapping an Undefined Hybrid Incompatibility Gene
Mary Roalstad (Jennifer Follstad Shah) - Desktop Ecology: An Urban Ecoenzyme Analysis
Ashlee Roberts (Aylin Rodan) - The Effects of Interaction Between NGLY1 and NKCC1 Genes
Duke Ross (Miriam Albert-Sobrino) - Strings
Annie Sánchez (Guangzhen  Wu) - The Effects of Recreational Marijuana Legalization on Sex Offenses in Alaska, Colorado, Oregon, and Washington state
Jessica Schmidt (Lori Kowaleski-Jones) - Scoping Review on the Effects of Trust on the Uptake of Resources to Address Social Determinants of Health
Carrie Schultz (Tim Webster) - Using the Pairwise Sequential Markovian Coalescent (PSMC) to examine the effects of Pleistocene climate fluctuations on primate populations
Chris Schulz (Amy McDonnell) - Proposal for Undergraduate Research Opportunities Program   Effects of Natural and Urban Imagery on Reward Processing in the Brain
Mallory Scofield (Cari  Johnson) - Quantitative Anlysis of Volcanic Lithic Fragments in the West Desert of Utah
Pegah Shadalo (Elisabeth Conradt) - The Effect of Early Life Trauma on Epigenetic Processes Within Pregnant Women
Will Shadley (Carlos Santana) - How Hidden Philosophical Values Determine the Prioritization of Species Conservation in Utah's Division of Wildlife Resources
Ali-Abbas Sial (Thomas Zangle) - "Refractive index matching of polyacrylamide and agarose hydrogels for use in quantitative phase imaging"
Emily Singer (Akiko Kamimura) - Effect of COVID-19 Pandemic on Oral Health Among Parents and Guardians of Children
Dawson Slaughter (Pania Newell) - Effect of Size Scaling on Mechanical Response of Nano/Micro Architected Structures
Jackie Smith (Tanya Halliday) - Mindfulness-Based Therapy to Prevent Weight Regain Following Intentional Weight Loss
Mary Smith (Cynthia Benally) - Analyzing Mathematics Education Received by Navajo Students in Indian Boarding Schools during the 1950s to the 1970s
Miles Smith (Kim Hackford-Peer) - The Effects of Misogyny and Sexism in Transgender AFAB People
Summer Soller (Sean Howe) - Estimating Betti Numbers of Linear Arrangements in Elliptic Curves over C
Moala Solomone - Hala'eua (Annie Fukushima) - "You will not bring shame this family! He did not tough you!" - Oral Histories of Tongan - American Sexual Violence Survivors
Sarita Som (Talia Karasov) - Investigating Phage Specificity for Pseudomonas Hosts
Karrah Spendlove (Randall Irmis) - Exploring Possible Pedal Ontogenetic Trajectories in Early Jurassic Grallator Footprints from The St. George Dinosaur Discovery Site of St. George, Utah"
Ella Spurlock (Luisa Whittaker-Brooks) - Magnetic Doping and Characterization of Quantum Electronic Materials Based on π-d Conjugated Coordination Polymers with Controlled Spin-Thermal Properties
Nick Squire (Sivaraman Guruswamy) - Developing MnAl Permanent Magnets to Replace Rare Earth Based Magnets For Energy Conversion
Brynn Staker (Elizabeth Craft) - George Cohan and Society
Sophie Steckel (Caroline Saouma) - Electrochemical Alternatives to H2 Hydrogenation
Lindsey Stewart (Bruce  Edgar) - Mechanism of the Rhomboid Gene in Controlling Gut Regeneration
Sabrina Su (Jay Kim) - Integration of a pneumatically actuated microvalve pump with in vitro cell culture to study the mechanobiological response of the trabecular meshwork
Heba  Sultan  (j david  symons) - The influence of time-restricted feeding on arterial function in obese mice
Bassel Tekarli (Michael McIntosh) - Potential Ligands Targeting Alpha 10 Receptors to Inhibit Neuropathic Pain
Ashley Thompson (Gen Parkman) - The role of SGK-AKT inhibition in melanoma growth in vivo.
Macey Tilk (Mitchell Power) -  Population Structure of Douglas Fir (Populus tremuloides) and Aspen (Populus tremuloides)  in Avalanche Chutes in the Wasatch Mountains
Anya Tiwari (Ram Goel) - Self-cleaning surfaces using Copper impregnated ZnO Nanostructures
Rebecca Urban (Jake George) - Discriminability of Electrocutaneous Sensory Feedback
Bailey Van Wagoner (Robby Bowles) - Decreasing Nociceptive Sensitivity Through Downregulation of ASIC1 Gene
Vincent Veibell (Andrew Merryweather) - Evaluating the Accuracy of a Wearable 3D Motion Tracking Garment (STITCH) to Perform Real-Time Kinematic Analyses and Inform Musculoskeletal Disorder Prevention
Olivia  Walker  (Rob MacLeod) -  The Effects of Stimulus Location on Cardiac Electrostatic Simulations via Uncertainty Quantification
Jeff Wang (Julia Dunn) - Limited Shoulder Range of Motion and Trunk Compensatory Movements
Anya Weglarz (Melissa Watt) - HIV stigma during the intrapartum period in Tanzania
Marc Whiting (Ben Bromley) - Operation Plane Nine
Tyler Whitley (Frank Sachse) - The effect of TRPC1 channels on the development of cardiac hypertrophy
Claudia Wiese (Josh Steffen) - Using Pollen DNA Metabarcoding to Identify Changes in Foraging Behavior of the Honeybee Before and After Formic Acid Treatment
Emi Wilson (Jeanine Stefanucci) - Evaluating the efficacy of simulated augmented reality cueing in virtual reality
Jennie Wilson (Clement Chow) - Identifying Genetic Modifiers of Seizure in PIGA Deficiency
Elizabeth Winterholler (Taylor Sparks) - Co-Precipitation of Mineral Doped Salt Brine for Nutritional Supplement
Breanna Wong (Yong Lin Kong) - Molybdenum nanoparticles and PBTPA for Higher Resolution 3D Printed Transient Electronics
Kathy Wright (Melissa Cortez) - Continued Exploration of Mood Disorder Implications in Postural Tachycardia Syndrome (POTS) Patients
Angus Wu (Fabienne Chevance) - Investigating mutagenized FliQ protein in AA31-50 and its effect on early and late secretion patterns in S. Typhimurium.
Daisy Xiong (Lubdha Shah) - Investigating the impact of fat infiltration on clinical outcomes for patients undergoing radiofrequency ablation
Anahi Yerman (Shane Macfarlan) - Cross-National Analysis of Gender Inequality Effects on the Age at First Marriage and the Spousal Age Gap
Sammi Yu (Yong Lin Kong) - 3D Printing of Biodegradable Conductive Wires
Yunyue Zhang (Henry Kopeček) - Multivalent Polymer-Peptide Antagonists to PD-L1 --An Enhanced Alternative Checkpoint Inhibitor Blockade Immunotherapy
Angie Zheng (Ella Myers) - The Hobbesian Assumptions Behind Mearsheimer's Theory of Offensive Realism and Hegemonic Powers
Jared Zollinger (Jake George) - Surface Electromyography Integrated Low-Cost Control System for Dexterous Bionic Arms

Emily Adler (Stella Mosher) - Charcoal Morphotypes and Geochemical Responses to Paleofire in the South African Fynbos
Awais Ahmad (Owen Chan) - The Effect of Norepinephrine on Glutamate Release in the VMH during Hypoglycemia
Naren Anandh (Shundana Yusaf) - Towards Re-Inventing Traditional Materials
Derek Anderson (Sujee Jeyapalina) - Quantifying the antibacterial properties of silver and strontium-doped fluorapatite
Nicolai Andreas (Tao Gao) - Analysis of Zn Deposition and Dendrite Formation in Redox Flow Batteries
Pooja Annigeri (Nitin Phadnis) - The identification and characterization of a second autosomal gene that works in association with Overdrive to create hybrid incompatibility within Drosophila pseudoobscura in Bogota and D. pseudoobscura pseudoobscura (USA) subspecies.
Maxwell Austin (Andrew Roberts) - Organocatalyzed Macrocyclization of Small and Large Peptides
Dua Azhar (Sophie Caron) - Quantifying the Relationship Between Relative Brain Size and Sensory Neuron Population Across the Drosophila Phylogeny
Drew Becker (Jennifer Weidhaas) - Analysis of Fecal Coliform Indicators in Upper Emigration Creek
Kian Ben-Jacob (Jacob Hochhalter) - Creation of a Digital Twin for a High-Power Model Rocket as Proof of Concept
Aiden Beukema (Randall Irmis) - Inferring CO2 Levels of Late Triassic Paleoclimate From Carbonate Nodules Found in South-Eastern Utah Mudstone.
Alex Billings (Melissa Cortez) - Exploration of Pupillary Biomarkers in Postural Tachycardia Syndrome (POTS)
Lexie Bingman (Sarah  Hinners) - Landscape Lab Pollinator Study
Nickolas Blank (Viola Rieke) - Developing a Treatment for Chronic Neck Pain: Simulations of Focused Ultrasound Treatments in the Cervical Spine
Sophia Boehler (Melodie Weller) - Detection of Poxvirus in Non-Hodgkin's Lymphoma
Chloe  Bokinskie  (Jennifer Watt) - Analyzing the Historical Record of Mountain Pine Beetles Using Pollen and Archive Records in the Sawtooth National Recreation Area
Alexander  Brill (Shannon  Boomgarden) - Fremont Corn: Archaeological Context of Prehistoric Irrigation and Corn Morphology
Anna Busatto (Rob MacLeod) - Spatio-Temporal Evolution of Myocardial Ischemia
Cloe Butler (Ana  Antunes ) - Beyond the Birds and the Bees: Submission of Comprehensive Sexuality Education Experiences to Peer-Reviewed Journal
Henry Cagle (Yong Lin  Kong) - Soft Three-Linked-Sphere Robot for Self-Propulsion in Low Reynolds Fluids and Land Navigation
Lillee Casselman (Caroline Saouma) - Feasibility of Electrocatalytic Carbon Dioxide Reduction
Bryce Cheek (Cindy Furse) - Implantable antennas and Deep Brain Stimulation (DBS) for Depression
Liuchen Chen (Annie Fukushima) - Asian Immigrant and Diasporic Communities Experiences: Utah State-Wide Needs Assessment of Domestic Violence, Sexual Violence & Human Trafficking
Carter Christensen (Cindy Furse) - Proposal For Research of Field Focusing for Implantable Telemetry Antennas
Joshua Christensen (Lisa  Diamond) - Proposal to Study the Potential Trauma-Related Effects of LDS Church Involvement on LGBTQ+ Individuals
Abigail Citterman (Jacob George) - Compliance Discrimination through Sensory Feedback
Nicholas Colt (Eugene  Kwan) - Investigation of the Efficacy of Creating Scar Tissue Using Noninvasive Cardiac Radioablation
Rachel Compton (Anandh Babu Pon Velayutham) - Brown Fat Activity Mediates the Vascular Beneficial Effects of Dietary Strawberry
Aidan Copinga (Alan Kuntz) - Application of Optimized Continuum Robots
Ashley Covington (Moriel Zelikowsky) - The Effects of Environmental Enrichment on Social Behaviors in Isolated Mice
Maren Curtis (Lori Kowaleski-Jones) - Data Analysis to Improve Earned Income Tax Credit Outreach
KC Ellen Cushman (James Curry) - Proposal to Study Aspects of Political Candidate Charisma
Lorenz  Cushman (Jeff Bates) - Alternative Ski Wax Material
Jordan Cutshall (Melodie Weller) - Non-Hodgkin Lymphoma Development in Primary Sjogren's Syndrome Patients
Emily Davidge (Shane Macfarlan) - Does early female age at reproduction cause an inversion in the mortality rate by sex?
Thaiss Del Rio (Annie Fukushima) - More Than a Status: The Sociolegal Construction of Immigrant "Illegality" and its Influence on Anti-Immigrant Policy during the Trump Era
Sandra Del Rio Madrigal (Annie Fukushima) - Monsters in Diaspora
Anna Carissa Delos Reyes (Trafton Drew) - Do Distracting Objects affect Quitting Thresholds?
Anqi Deng (David Krizaj) - The effects of TGFB2 on the mechanosensitive environment of the Trabecular Meshwork cells
Shaistah Din (Marissa Diener) - Congenital Cytomegalovirus Awareness and Prevention Practices
Hannah Doherty (Margaret Doolin) - Discovering the impacts of different gut microbiomes on parasitic infection
Morrison Donovan (Sarah Canham) - Understanding the Impact of Decentralizing Homeless Services on Mobility in Salt Lake City
Bailey Doucette (Bobby Mohanty) - Improvement of Colorimetric Assay for Pneumonia Screening via the Volatile Organic Breath Biomarker, Heptane
Zachary Eatough (Amy Lenz) - Shape modeling and 3D analysis of Weight Bearing Computed Tomography in patients with ankle osteoarthritis
Jenny Echeverria (Matthew Thiese) - Relationship between Sleep and Depression in Manual Material Handlers and Truck Drivers
Spencer Eiting (David Warren) - Using MATLAB for Automated Measurements of Tip Impedance and Shunting Pathway Impedance of Microelectrode Arrays
Aidyn Eldredge (Timothy Tim) - Genomic Insights into the Evolution of Cytokine Tissue Specificity Across Primates
Katerina Excell (Andres Maricq) - Investigating the Role of Tau-Like Proteins in Glutamate Receptor Transport to the Synapse
Dillon Fehlau (Tao Gao) - Study of Magnesium Redox Flow Batteries
Madeleine Festin (Jeffrey Moore) - Deep Seated Gravitational Slope Deformation and Rock Glacier Mapping in the Hunter-Fryingpan Wilderness of Colorado
Mickenzie Fleming (Aaron Fischer) - Evaluating the Efficacy of Asynchronous Problem-Solving Teleconsultation with Teachers who Serve Rural Students with Disabilities
Summer Furrer (Melodie Weller) - Detection and Localization of Hepatitis Delta Virus Sequence in Sjögren's Syndrome Salivary Gland Tissue
Madison Gahan (Andrea Brunelle) - Reconstructing the Fire History Using Charcoal Sediment in Northern New Mexico
Kimberly Gamarra (Wayne Potts) - Identifying the genetic basis for resistance to malaria
Marina Gerton (Eric Schmidt) - Investigation Into Potential Antibacterial and Antiparasitic Agents Produced by Shipworm Symbiont Teredinibacter turnerae
ANI GIOKAS (Anurag Singh) - The Noetherian property of invariant rings
Lauren Gleave (Akiko Kamimura) - Evaluating Efficacy of Current Utah Sex Education Policies in Nonabstinent LDS Populations
Rose Godfrey (Dustin Williams) - Antimicrobial Blue Light, Oregano Oil, and CZ Gel Manage Staphylococcus aureus Biofilms at the Skin-Implant  Interface of Percutaneous Osseointegrated Prosthetics in an Ex Vivo Setup
Aaron Gold (Tyler Faith) - Environmental Signals of Late Pleistocene Fauna at Howiesons Poort Archaeological Sites in South Africa
Jacqueline Gomez (Jennifer Watt) - A Historical Record of Fire at Mill Lake, Idaho
McKinley Gough (Maureen Mathison) - Won't Someone Think of the Children? A Rhetorical Analysis of an Antivax Organization
William Graham (Shad Roundy) - Magnetic Field Study in Self-Biased Wireless Power Transfer
Aleah Griffin (Anna Beaudin) - The Effect of Maternal Immune Activation on Postnatal Lung Cytokine Production
Ella Habbeshaw (Kristen Kwan) - Examining the Cellular Mechanisms of Cornea Morphogenesis
Gabrielle Hadinger (Yan-Ting Shiu) - Effect of Inhibition of Lysyl Oxidase on Collagen Fiber Configuration during Venous Adaptation after Arteriovenous Fistula Creation
Karah Hall (Marcus Pezzolesi) - Investigating the Role of C5orf42 in Diabetic Kidney Disease
Cleo Hancock (Bobby Mohanty) - Improving Three-Electrode Electrochemical Devices for Pulmonary Illness Detection
Olivia Hanson (Melissa Watt) - HIV stigma during the intrapartum period in Tanzania
Alyssa Harpring (Thomas Zangle) - Comparing Particle Image Velocimetry to Standard Particle Tracking Velocimetry for Organelle Tracking
Abigail Harrison (Jacob George) - Discriminability of Transcutaneous Sensory Feedback
Blessing Heelis (Shane Macfarlan) - Modern Human Birth Seasonality in Baja California, Mexico
Josh Hillyard (Allison Payne) - Evaluation of immune responses from focused ultrasound treatment with immunotherapy in a pre-clinical breast cancer model
Colin Hinchman (Eugene Kwan) - 4D Flow Characteristics of Left Atrial Blood Flow in Atrial Fibrillation
Brittney Hoskins (Kathleen Ritterbush) - AMM Lab Edge Study
Lauren Hulse (Nitin Phadnis) - dentifying and Characterizing the Last Unidentified Incompatibility Gene in the Drosophila pseudoobscura hybrid system
McKenna Hunt (Sudha  Jayaraman ) - Mobile Health Applications for Emergency Settings in Low-Income Countries
Dylan Hutchings (Trafton Drew) - Repeat Search through space and memory
Justin Ingraham (Lauri Linder) - Color Me Healthy Narrative Analysis and Research
Miles Jacob (Sophie Caron) - What is the relationship between degree of Kenyon cell connectivity and Drosophila olfactory learning and behavior?
Devon Jecmen (Sara LoTemplio) - Anxiety, Working Memory, and Error Processing
Harrison Jendrusch (Kelly Hughes) - Structural Analysis of a Key Bacterial Flagellar Substrate Secretion Protein
Serena Jones (Micah Drummond) - Effects of Voluntary Wheel Running on Muscle Recovery and its Mechanisms
Rachel Jorgensen (Mark Loewen) - EXCEPTIONALLY PRESERVED EPIDERMAL INTEGUMENTARY STRUCTURES IN THE JURASSIC CARNIVOROUS DINOSAUR ALLOSAURUS
Leehye Kang (Trafton Drew) - A realistic study on visual search - What can Lego tell us?
Shalini Kasera (Lisa Joss-Moore) - How do IUGR and DHA supplementation alter glutathione and ROS levels in the rat liver at postnatal day 12?
Kayleigh Kirkpatrick (Tyler Faith) - Assessing how Utah Fauna Respond to Recent Climate Change Through Vertebrate Fossils from High-Elevation Caves
Pauline Kneller (Gannet Hallar) - Examining the Presence and Role of Aerosols in the Microphysics and Visibility Effects of Cold Fog in the Heber Valley
Arianna LaLonde (Sarina Sinclair) - Bone Mineral Density Analysis of CT Scans with Digital Color-Coded Models for Percutaneous Osseointegrated Prosthetics
Olivia Lam (Heayoung Yoon) -  Time-dependent electrical characterization of perovskite solar cells using 3D printed apparatus
Charles Lambert (Jake Abbott) - The Modular and Reconfigurable Omnimagnet Manipulation System
Joshua Larsen (Thomas Fallin) - Redesigning The Traditional Orthopedic Bone Screw
Brooke Larson (Julie Hollien) - Investigation of the molecular switch targeting misfolded proteins for degradation during ER stress.
Michelle  Le (Karen Wilcox) - Classification of seizure onset and offset dynamics in a temporal lobe epilepsy mouse model
Shiyang Li (Mu Zhang) - Integrating Security Contexts into Undergraduate Machine Learning Curriculum
Clara Lindley (Jennifer Ose) - Associations between Inflammatory and Angiogenesis Biomarkers and Cancer-related Distress
Augusto Lopez (Akiko Kamimura) - Mental Health of Free Clinic Volunteers amid the COVID-19 Pandemic
Seth Lunt (Brian Mickey) - Identifying Biomarkers to Explain Differences Between Responders and Non-responders to Propofol as a Novel Treatment for Treatment-resistant Depression.
Teasha Luu (Joel Trinity) - Role of Vascular Dysfunction and PBMC on Long-COVID
Angelica Madsen (Jeff Bates) - Hydrogel-Based Dehydration Sensor Bio-adhesive
Mara Magistad (Daniel Clifton) - Developing Effective Personal Training Programs for Contemporary Dancers
Kelly Mai (Yang Bai) - A Monitor-Based Healthy Lifestyle Intervention for At-risk Adolescents in Rural Communities
Michael Maio (Tanya Halliday) - UROP Continuation Application: A Literature Review and Determination of Best Recruitment Practices
Joshua Marchant (Henrik Odeen) - Model Predictive Filtering to Enable Real-Time Volumetric Magnetic Resonance Temperature Imaging of Laser-Induced Interstitial Thermotherapy
Vista Marston (Thomas Henderson) - Creation of Dynamic Lane Systems
Steven Marz (Andrey Rogachev) - Development of Optoimpedance Spectroscopy and Optical Correlation Noise Spectroscopy
Cole Matteson (Michael Deans) - Signaling Pathways that Regulate Cochlear Innervation by Type II Spiral Ganglion Neurons
Thayer McCollum (Will Holland) - The Effects of Ceramide Synthesis Inhibition on Neurodegeneration in Mice
Rose McLaughlin (Lee Raby) - Adoption-Related Stress on Utah Adoptive Parents' Symptoms of Depression
James  McMahon (Rajeev Balasubramonian) - Spiking Neural Network Prefetcher
Carl Mellor (Fabienne Chevance) - Optimization of Protein Secretion via the Salmonella Type III Secretion System
Audrey Meyer (Brent Steele) - From jus ad bellum to jus ad proelium: the Just Struggle Against COVID-19 in the United States
Braden Miles (Chris Pantelides) - Performance of ABC columns and retrofit techniques under advanced corrosion and seismic loading.
Melika Moeinvaziri (Akiko Kamimura) - Mental Health Impacted by the Pandemic
Maren Moffatt (Brian Codding) -  Classifying Fremont ceramics with high-resolution photography and machine learning
AZEEM MOHAMMED (Randy Jensen) - Compiling Cell Viability Data for Vitro Studies: Improving the Efficacy of Treatment for Meningioma Tumors
Sara Morrison (Thomas Zangle) - Cancer Cell Death Classifier
Erika Muhlrad (Amy Lenz) - Analysis of Coordinate System Definitions for Ankle Biplane Fluoroscopy
Ethan Murdock (Aaron Puri) - Quorum Sensing in a Shipworm Symbiont
Caden Myers (Jeffrey Bates) - Synthesis and Characterization of Biodegradable Ionomers
Nadege  Nayituriki  (Akiko Kamimura) - intimate partner violence prevention and reproductive health care in Utah
Henry Nibley (Lyen Huang) - Institutional Barriers and Facilitators to Naloxone Co-Prescription: A Quality Improvement Analysis
Carter Niedert (Bruce Edgar) - Unbiased RNAi screening to identify damage sensing pathways and their effect on cell proliferation
Emily Nuibe (Candace Reno) - Norepinephrine as a Cause of Hypoglycemia-Induced Cardiac Arrhythmias
Kiyo Obayashi (Julie Hollien) - Determining whether regulated Ire1 dependent decay is responsible for the degradation of MVK and p-MVK mRNA in the mevalonate pathway
Sonresa Ochoa-Vidales (Nels Elde) - Evolutionary Analysis of Host-Pathogen Adaptations in MDA5 and Other dsRBPs
Braedon Olsen (Taylor Sparks) - Datamining for Machine Learning Benchmark Datasets in Thermoelectric Materials
Benjamin Orkild (Rob  MacLeod) - A Windowed Approach to the Regularization of ECGI's Inverse Problem
Crystal Ortiz (Samantha Gustafson) - The Effect of Task Instructions on Word Recognition and Listening Effort Using a Verbal Response Time Paradigm
Andrew Osterhout (Ganesh Gopalakrishnan) - ComPACT: Formal Modeling of GPU Computing
Amani Oumar (Yan-Ting Shiu) - MRI-Based Computational Hemodynamics of Mouse Arteriovenous Fistula with Accessory Veins: Deformable and Mobile Vascular Wall
Natasha Pagel-Aprill (Andrea Brunelle) - Fire History of the Northern New Mexico Sagebrush Steppe
Samantha Paredes (Stefania Wilks) - Understanding sample contamination of surface residues; a comparison of debris extract with its associated archaeological sample.
Sohyun Park  (Annie Fukushima) - Marketing for Gender-Based Violence Consortium
Ethan Parker (Alex Shcheglovitov) - Addressing Patient-Specific PLXNB1 deficits in Bipolar Patient Cell Line with Sema4D
Tavie Parker (David Grainger) - Characterization of Basic Fibroblast Growth Factor Effects on Human Bone Marrow Stem/Stromal Cell Sheet Fabrication and Therapeutic Properties
Dainen Parry (Thomas Fallin) - Correction of Torsional Deformities of Long Bones in Children and Adolescents Without an Osteotomy
Andrew Payne (Yang Bai) - Validation of Consumer Physical Activity Devices among Adolescents
Torri Peck (Cynthia  Berg) - Sibling Support in Families where Multiple Members have Type 1 Diabetes
Gary Perea (Caroline Saouma) - Saouma Group Research
Jeffrey Perry (Roseanne Warren) - Residual Stress Analysis on a Two-Photon Polymerized Thin Film
Tessa Petersell (Peter Fino) - Association Between Clinical and Functional Reaction Time Tests in Athletes
Emma Pinegar (Tucker Hermans) - 3D Object Reconstruction in Cluttered Scenes for Autonomous Robot Manipulation
Shaylie Platten (Sara LoTemplio) - Anxiety, Working Memory, and Event Related Negativity
Kennedy Powell (Jacob George) - Robotic Supernumerary Digit to Explore Biological Control of External Devices and Shared Human-Machine Dexterity
Alan Prasad (Donna Cross) - The use of neuroimaging to improve global health
Katelyn Pyper (Shawn Owen) - Engineering and Biophysical Characterization of Split-beta-lactamase Fusion Constructs
Sarv Raafati (Josh Bonkowsky) - The Development of Astrocytes in Zebrafish and its Impact on Vanishing White Matter
Charlotte Randolph (Jon Rainier) - Synthesis of Very Long Chain Polyunsaturated Fatty Acids
Makena Reynolds (Alexandra Harbold) - A Musical Adaptation of the Life and Work of Emily Dickinson.
Jackson Ridges (Nitin Phadnis) - Mapping the X22 gene in D. puedoobscura
Annie Sanchez (Guangzhen  Wu) - The Effects of Recreational Marijuana Legalization on Sex Offenses in Alaska, Colorado, Oregon, and Washington state
Stella Santa Ana (Moriel Zelikowsky) - The effects of social isolation at different ages
Gabriel Santana (Caleb Thomson) - Data augmentation of electromyography data to improve the performance of deep-learning algorithms for decoding motor intent
Justinas Sapiega (Christopher Depner) - Impact of Sleep Extension on Insulin Sensitivity
Dana  Schiwal (Josh Bonkowsky) - Study of the mechanism of action of chloroquine and neuroinflammation in a zebrafish model of X-linked Adrenoleukodystrophy
Jessica Schmidt (Lori  Kowaleski-Jones) - Scoping Review on the Effects of Trust on the Uptake of Resources to Address Social Determinants of Health
Carrie Schultz (Timothy Tim) - Using the Pairwise Sequential Markovian Coalescent (PSMC) to examine the effects of Pleistocene climate fluctuations on primate populations
Brooklynn Scott (Timothy Tim) - Genomic insights into lineage specific differences in macaque social behavior
Tanner Short (Mark Minor) - Measuring and Simulating Cane Dynamics for Large Workspace Haptic Interaction
Gabriel Shuster (Marc Calaf) - Enhanced Convention for Higher Photovoltaic (PV) Module and System Efficiency
Andie Sieja (Rob MacLeod) - Comparison of Left Atrial Shape between Women and Men with Atrial Fibrillation
Emily Singer (Akiko Kamimura) - Effect of COVID-19 Pandemic on Oral Health Among Uninsured Populations
Jaclynn Smith (Tanya Halliday) - Mindfulness-Based Therapy to Prevent Weight Regain Following Intentional Weight Loss
Matthew Snyder (Becky Neufeld) - Effects of Priming Ingroup versus Outgroup Golden Rule on Christian Attitudes Towards LGBT
Erick Solum (Jacob Hochhalter) - Performance Benchmarking of Genetics Based Machine Learning Packages
Karrah Spendlove (Randall Irmis) - Exploring Possible Pedal Ontogenetic Trajectories in Early Jurassic Grallator Ichnites from The St. George Dinosaur Discovery Site of St. George, Utah
Brynn Staker (Elizabeth Craft) - UROP Proposal-Musicology Research Project
Ethan Stanley (Jesse Christensen) - Reliability and Validation of Mobile Motion-Analysis Software in Healthy Adults
Jada Kali Stelmach (Hilary Coon) - Characterizing the Effects of Mitochondrial DNA in Suicide Deaths
Alexander Stevens (Lucas Timmins) - Evaluating the Relationship Between Vascular Collagen Damage and Age in a Mouse Model
Lindsey Stewart (Bruce Edgar) - Drosophila Genome Screening for Damage Sensing and Regeneration Related to Colorectal Cancer
Kari Stoddard (Lisas Taylor-Swanson) - Learning About Diverse Perimenopausal Women's Symptom Experience and Access to Medical and Integrative Healthcare Providers
Sabrina Su (Jay Kim) - Cornea Organ Chip Microfluidic Lifting Gate Valve Pump
Heba Sultan (j david symons) - The Impact of Time Restricted feeding on Vascular Dysfunctions.
Kishan Thambu (Julio Facelli) - An Exploration of Biomarkers and Patterns Associated with Retinal Blood Vessel Growth via Artificial Intelligence and Image Processing
Payton Thomas (Tamara Bidone) - Analysis of E-cadherin Dynamics from a Brownian Dynamics Model
Sarthak Tiwari (Brian Cottle) - Characterization of LSS spectra in ex-vivo and in-vivo environments
Hannah Torabi (Jared Rutter) - Role of SLC16A6 in Normal Physiology and Disease
Michael Turja (Shad Roundy) - Design and Characterization of Low-cost, Long-life, Wireless, In-situ Soil Sensing Networks
Michaella Valenzuela (Carlos Santana) - An Empirical Study of Undergraduate Syllabi and Philosophy's Demographics Problem
Maya Wagner (Daniel Wik) - "X-raying" Galaxy Cluster Abell 2319: Understanding Its High Energy Components
Olivia  Walker (Rob MacLeod) - An Exploration of Current Densities Necessary for Heart Activation
Markel Walter (Jie Zhang) - Molecular profiles of muscle-innervating primary sensory neurons  and their roles in muscle fatigue and pain
Anika Weaver (Lindsey Drager) - Our Dystopian Future:  A Creative Exploration of Climate Change and the Working Class
Caton Weinberger (Kenneth Raby) - The Effect of Attachment Security on Executive Function in Early Childhood
Ian Wixom (Thomas Reichler) - Analyzing the Changing Length of the Four Seasons from Historical Carbon Dioxide Records
Derrick Wong (Yong Lin  Kong) - Characterization and Continued Optimization/Design of 3D Printed LC Circuit Sensors
Elaine Wong (Jacob George) - Wireless Miniature Wearable Surface Electromyography Device for Intuitive Control of Smart Technology
Kathy Wright (Melissa Cortez) - Exploration of Mood Disorder Implications in Postural Tachycardia Syndrome (POTS) Patients
Ding Wu (Fabienne Chevance) - Investigating mutagenized FliQ protein in AA31-50 and its effect on early and late secretion patterns in S. Typhimurium.
Jialin Wu (Rogelio Cardona-Rivera) - Creating awareness of implicit bias through serious games
Elena Yee (Micah Drummond) - Effects of macrophage immunotherapy treatment to improve muscle recovery following disuse atrophy in old mice
Anahi Yerman (Shane Macfarlan) - Cross-National Analysis of Sex Ratio and Gender Inequality on the Age at First Marriage and the Spousal Age Gap
Robin Young (Thomas Maloney) - Utah Economic Benchmark Project
Jared Zollinger (Jacob George) - sEMG Integrated Low-Cost Control System for Dexterous Bionic Arms

• Aasutosh Acharya (Rajesh  Menon) - Lensless Camera Project Proposal
  Issak Allaire-MacDonald (Shadrach Roundy) - Design and Characterization of a Shoe-insert Energy Harvester to Support Smart Insoles
  Nicolai Andreas (Tao Gao) - Development of a Novel Zn-Fe Semi-Solid Redox Flow Battery
  Marissa Angell (Ganesh Gopalakrishnan) - Modular Machine Learning Model Creation, Compression, and Benchmarking
  Pooja Annigeri (Nitin Phadnis) - The identification and characterization of a second autosomal gene that works in association with Overdrive to create hybrid incompatibility within Drosophila pseudoobscura in Bogota and D. pseudoobscura pseudoobscura (USA) subspecies.
  Tali Bauman (Katherine Baucom) - Lifestyle Coach Experiences Delivering the Diabetes Prevention Program
  Andelin Beishline (Tracey Lamb) - Effect of Platelets on Malaria
  Anna Bell (Marina Kogan) - Applying Natural Language Processing Techniques to Summarize Bills on the Utah State Legislature Agenda
  Debora Brito de Andrade (Tanya Flores) - The Effects of Language Barriers on Social Isolation and Loneliness in Spanish-Speaking Older Adults in Salt Lake County, Utah
  Stephanie Brock (Brenda Bowen) - Preservation of Microbial Life in Halite at the Bonneville Salt Flats
  Anna Busatto (Rob MacLeod) - Spatio-Temporal Evolution of Myocardial Ischemia
  Alexandra Call (Rod Stewart) - Investigating the Role of Inka1 Protein Kinase Inhibitors During Neural Crest Development.
  Savhannah Carpenter (Mark Loewen) - Analysis Of A New Specimen From Montana Informs The Evolutionary Relationships Of Two New Centrosaurine Ceratopsian Dinosaurs From The Campanian Wahweap Formation Of Utah
  Ping Cheng Chung (Pai  Wang) - A New Academic Research Site which helps with both the scope of the search and the issues of redundant information by focusing on presenting relevant information in an organized fashion.
  Aidan Copinga (Alan Kuntz) - Gradient-free optimization of tendon-driven continuum robot design
  Morrison Donovan (Sarah Canham) - Examining Transportation, Mobility, and Access Patterns Among Persons Experiencing homelessness in Salt Lake
  Bailey Doucette (Bobby Mohanty) - Colorimetric Assay for Pneumonia Screening via the Volatile Organic Breath Biomarker, Heptane
  Samantha Eddy (Shundana Yusaf) - Cultural Resource Mapping
  Nicolas Edgar (Alexander Shcheglovitov) - Investigation of neurogenesis in human stem-cell derived neural rosettes using live-cell imaging
  James Faulkner (Kristina Rand) - An Exploration Of Space, Time, And Memory
  Dillon Fehlau (Tao Gao) - Study of Magnesium Metal Deposition Morphology with SEM
  Isabelle Fernandez (Shane Macfarlan) - The Impacts of Marriage and Reproduction on Female Longevity
  Ethan Gallup (Kody Powell) - Using Unbalanced GANs to Increase Diagnostic Speed and Accuracy in Fault Detection Systems
  Erin Garzella (Tracey lamb) - Co-infection of Malaria and Gammaherpesvirus in Mice
  Sydney Gilliland (Lauri Linder) - Color Me Healthy Development
  Kenneth Goler (Gail Zasowski) - Using Analogs to Reveal the Secrets of our Closest Galactic Neighbor
  Cleo Hancock (Bobby Mohanty) - Robust Development of a Tuberculosis Biomarker Sensor using Three-Electrode Potentiometry
  Hailey Hauck (James Gagnon) - Cardiac Regeneration: B and T Cells in Zebrafish and Medaka Hearts
  Lauren Hulse (Nitin Phadnis) - Identifying and Characterizing the Last Unidentified Incompatibility Gene in the Drosophila pseudoobscura hybrid system
  Dylan  Hutchings (Trafton  Drew) - Behavioral Paradigm of Repeat Visual Search
  Alexander Ingold (Alessandra Angelucci) - Development of a Utah Optrode Array (UOA) for large scale optogenetics in non-human primate cortex: C-fos Analysis of Spatial Excitation Pattern
  Miles Jacob (Sophie Caron) - What is the relationship between degree of Kenyon cell connectivity and Drosophila olfactory learning and behavior?
  Howard Jacobson (Vincent  Koppelmans) - Social media usage and its impact on older adults' mental health during the COVID-19 Pandemic?
  Nathan Jensen (Tao Gao) - Enhancing Lithium-Ion Battery Charging Performance through Induced Flow from Magnetic Field-Controlled Magnetic Colloid Motion
  Yein Ji (Emelie  Mahdavian) - Depression in Film: What's Inaccurate and its Negative Effects.
  Serena Jones (Micah Drummond) - Effects of Voluntary Wheel Running on Muscle Recovery and its Mechanisms
  Hannah Khelfa (Sanford Meek) - The mechanical atomization of partial spinal injury rehabilitation
  Clara Lindley (Jennifer Ose) - Associations between Inflammatory and Angiogenesis Biomarkers and Cancer-related Distress
  Kevin Lutz (Ryan Steele) - Renewable Energy Insights from the Vibrational Spectroscopy of Copper Hydroxide Hydrates
  Vista Marston (Thomas Henderson) - Optimization of Lane-Based Large Scale Unmanned Aircaft Systems
  Steven Marz (Andrey Rogachev) -  Development of Optoimpedance Spectroscopy and Optical Correlation Noise Spectroscopy
  Annie Matzke (Brenda Bowen) - Depositional history of the Bonneville Salt Flats from geochemical analysis of Ostracodes
  Scott McMullin (Yan-Ting Shiu) - Investigate the effect of sildenafil on hemodynamics in the arteriovenous fistula in rats: role of vein branches
  Colin McNabb (Chuck Dorval) - Computational Model of Primate Brain to Probe Efficacy of Transcranial Temporal Interference Stimulation
  Cameron Mercer (Bruce Gale) - Rapid fabrication of a dynamic lung microphysiological system that incorporates an extracellular matrix-based membrane.
  Ashley Merrell (Gail Zasowski) - Searching for Morphological Analogs of the Milky Way
  Alberto Miranda (Yong Lin Kong) - Gait Adaptation in Unknown Environments Utilizing Reinforcement Learning in a Three-Linked-Sphere Robot
  Maren Moffatt (Tyler Faith) - Evaluating Environmental Impact on the Middle to Late Stone Age Technological Transition
  Ethan Murdock (Aaron Puri) - Quorum Sensing in a Shipworm Symbiont
  Benjamin Natividad (Michael Werner) - Establishment of CRISPR Based Tools for Genomic Modification of P. pacificus
  Alexandra  Neubauer (R. Michael Young) - Development of Artificially Intelligent Storytelling Agents Integrated with Zoom Video Conferencing for Increased Engagement in K-12 Online Education
  Crysta Oswald (Cindy Furse) - Next Generation Deep Brain Stimulation for Depression Using Passive Intracranial Arterial Stents
  Eleanor Otis (Alexandra  Harbold) - Villains versus Victims: The Harmful Notions that Society has Constructed in King Lear
  Amani  Oumar (Yan-Ting Shiu) - MRI-Based Computational Hemodynamics of Mouse Arteriovenous Fistula with Accessory Veins
  Dainen Parry (Wade Fallin) - Correction of Torsional Deformities of Long Bones in Children and Adolescents Without an Osteotomy
  Samuel Partridge (Tao Gao) - Understanding Deposition Mechanisms of Magnesium in Electrolyte Solutions
  Torri Peck (Cynthia Berg) - The Effects of Sibling Support in Families where Multiple Members have Type 1 Diabetes
  Ava Peitz (Ming Hammond) - Increasing Turn-On Kinetics of Guanidine Biosensors
  Kennedy Powell (Jacob  George) - Robotic Supernumerary Digit to Explore Biological Control of External Devices and Shared Human-Machine Dexterity
  Sarv Raafati (Joshua  Bonkowsky) - The Development of Astrocytes in Zebrafish and the Impact on Vanishing White Matter
  Charlotte Randolph (Jon  Rainier ) - Organic Chemistry- Synthesis of Very Long Chain Polyunsaturated Fatty Acids
  Dana Schiwal (Joshua Bonkowsky) - Study of the mechanism of action of chloroquine and neuroinflammation in a zebrafish model of X-linked Adrenoleukodystrophy
  Allyson Schmidt (Leslie  Knapp ) - Comparing Nuclear and Mitochondrial DNA Diversity in Wild Chimpanzees
  Momina Sial (Jessica King) - How state taxes on e-cigarettes affect recreational usage amongst teens in the US
  Rian Simpson (Mark Minor) - Predicting head impact forces in a smart helmet using embedded sensing
  Sarah Smart (Pete Lippert) - Magmatic and geochemical signatures in convergent boundaries
  Matthew Snyder (Becky  Neufeld) - Effects of Priming LGBTQ+ College Resources and LDS Resources on Majority Christians Within Predominant Same Ingroup Christian Regions and Minority Christians Within Predominant Outgroup Christian Regions.
  Megan Sterrett (Brittany Coats) - Modeling the Strain of Brain Tissue in Subconcussive Traumatic Brain Injury
  Kari Stoddard (Lisa Taylor-Swanson) - Long Term Effects of Acupuncture on Pain Management
  Carson Storm (Aditya Bhaskara) - Verifying the Correctness of Neural Network Compression through Visualization
  Gnimdo Tako (Tony Butterfield) - Hydrolysis of Cellulosic Biomass Utilizing Termite Biomass
  Claire Ticknor (Wenda Tan) - Sintering of 3D-Printed Steel-Copper Functionally Graded Material
  Rebecca Urban (Jacob George) - Discriminability of Electrocutaneous  Sensory Feedback
  Elise-Marie Vandamme (Marco Bortolato) - 5R2 and Its Effect on Major Depression
  Maya Wagner (Daniel Wik) - "X-Raying" Galaxy Cluster Abell 2319: Understanding Its High Energy Components
  Markel Walter (Jie Zhang) - Innervation of mu and delta opioid receptor-expressing primary sensory nerves in the skeletal muscle and their roles in muscle fatigue and pain
  Emilee Wilson (Jeanine  Stefanucci) - Building a Low-Cost, Outdoor Augmented Reality System for Wayfinding
  Derrick Wong (Yong Kong) - Optimization and Design of 3D Printed LC Circuit Sensor Designs
  Elaine Wong (Jacob George) - Wireless Miniature Wearable Surface Electromyography Device for Intuitive Control of Smart Technology

Devaki Abhyankar (Ravi Ranjan) - Investigating the effects of anti-arrhythmic drugs in controlling atrial fibrillation and atrial flutter through patient specific computer simulations
Alex Acuna (Marti Tristani) - Nuclear Factor of Activated T-cells 1 (NFATc1) as a Novel Atrial Fibrillation Susceptibility Gene
Yousef Alamri (Skyler Jennings) - Modeling the human compound action potential elicited by temporal envelopes and speech-like stimuli.
Issak Allaire-MacDonald (Shadrach Roundy) - Design and Characterization of a Shoe-insert Energy Harvester to Support Smart Insoles
Ali Almiskeen (Mark Minor) - Development of a Hybrid Aerial-Aquatic Vehicle dynamic model and Testing
Sam Bagge (Brenda Bowen) - Development of Palaeohydrologic Groundwater Proxies from Benthic Gill-Breathing Gastropods
Matthew Baldwin (Michael Morse) - The Measurement of Bond Dissociation Energies of the Late Transition Metal Halides
Tyler Ball (Matthew Sigman) - Analytical Methods Utilizing Symmetry-Adapted Perturbation Theory to Study and Diagnose Non-Covalent Interactions
Erin Barry (Gannet  Hallar) - Tracking Dust in the Southeast U.S. and Caribbean during the 2020 Saharan Dust Event
Becca Bateman (Rich Nelson) - Mathematically modeling the costs and benefits of mitigation strategies on the COVID-19 pandemic in Utah
Tali Bauman (Katherine Baucom) - Lifestyle Coach Experiences Delivering the Diabetes Prevention Program
Isaac Bell (Dustin Williams) - NPWT Wound Size Analysis
Alyssia Blackburn (Annie Fukushima) - Racial Inequality Through Police Killings in Utah
Alex Blackmer (Tim Garrett) - New Approaches for Quantification of Falling Snow using Radar Estimation
Caleb Bost (Taylor Sparks) - Utilization of Powder Coating Technologies in Wastewater Treatment
Laura Brannan (Alan Kuntz) - Inference Over Knowledge Representations Automatically Generated from Medical Texts with Applications in Healthcare Robotics
Spencer Brown (Dustin Williams) - Development of a transfemoral implant for the reduction of heterotopic ossification in amputees
Ella Burkholz (Heather Melton) - How College Students Describe Intimate Partner Violence
Cloe Butler (Ana Carolina  Antunes) - Beyond the Birds and the Bees: Creating a comprehensive sexuality student-centered zine with refugee and immigrant children for peer education
Kate Button (Disa Gambera) - Car Fetishization in Hollywood Films: A Tragedy of the Commons
Constance Caparas (Anna Beaudin) - The Effects of Early Immune Activation on Innate Lymphoid Cell Frequency and Cellularity in Murine Intestines
Savhannah Carpenter (Mark Loewen) - TWO NEW CENTROSAURINE CERATOPSIANS FROM THE CAMPANIAN WAHWEAP FORMATION OF UTAH
Erin Carroll (Moriel Zelikowsky) - The Effects of Social Isolation on Mouse Mating, Behavior, and Mouse USVs
Lillee Casselman (Caroline Saouma) - Feasibility of Electrocatalytic Carbon Dioxide Reduction
Marissa Castillo (Adam  de Havenon) - The Relationship Between Autonomic Response Variability and Clinical Outcomes in Ischemic Stroke Patients
Joshua Chang (Christopher Depner) - Correlation between cognitive performance and objective and subjective sleepiness during insufficient sleep
Kendal Chatard (Timothy Webster) - Factors Influencing Mitochondrial Genetic Load in Chimpanzees and Bonobos: Population Size and the Mother's Curse Hypothesis
Abel Chavez (Marissa Diener) - Determining the Efficacy of Educational Interventions in Changing Women's Hygiene Behaviors to Prevent Congenital Cytomegalovirus (cCMV)
Alan  Chavez (Elizabeth Craft) - Recording the History of the University of Utah Department of Music
Cynthia Checketts (Rachel Mason Dentinger) - Why White Mice? Teaching animal history to inform undergraduate biology classes
Tayla Chiang (Sophie Caron) - Changes in the peripheral olfactory circuit across the Drosophila phylogeny
Colby Child (Timothy Collins) - Neighborhood disparities in air pollution exposure at the US-Mexico border: The intersection of race/ethnicity and older age
Mitchell Child (Raymond Cutler) - Castable Ceramic Insulation Continued
Alex Christensen (Thomas Zangle) - Evaluating growth models from quantitative phase imaging data.
Gwen Christopherson (Adrienne Cachelin) - Food Apartheid and Community Gardens
Abby Citterman (Jacob George) - Compliance Discrimination through Sensory Feedback
Nicholas Colt (Eugene Kwan) - Investigation of the Efficacy of Creating Scar Tissue Using Noninvasive Cardiac Radiation
Courtney Cookson (Bart Raeymaekers) - The Prevention of Bacteria Growth on Ear Ventilation Tubes via Anti-Biofouling Methods
Vanessa Cox (Rogelio Cardona-Rivera) - Metaphors We Design Games By
Roarke Cullenbine (Guangzhen Wu) - Exploring the Impact of Recreational Marijuana Legalization on Drug-related Crimes in Alaska, Colorado, Oregon, and Washington State
Brooklyn  Darby (Minna Roh-Johnson) - The impact of phosphorylated paxillin on cancer cell migration in vivo
Emily Davidge (Shane Macfarlan) - Does early female age at reproduction cause an inversion in the mortality rate by sex?
Lexi DeFord (Eric Pardyjak) - Aspirated Temperature Sensor and Modeling GUI
Shaistah Din (Albert Park) - Congenital Cytomegalovirus Awareness and Prevention Practices
Helen Dodson (Akiko Kamimura) - Dating/Intimate Partner Violence and Social Media use in College Students
Sydney Dowben (William Johnson) - Abandoned Mercury Mine - Stansbury Island
Kaylon Draney (Jeff Bates) - Biodegradable Super Absorbent Polymers
Derek Dunford (Bruce Gale) - Interstitial Fluid Collection Device for Human Muscle Tissue: Road to Human Trials
Alex Dzubay (Jeffrey Moore) - Resonant Frequency Monitoring of Natural Rock Columns
Jaxson Elggren (Christopher Depner) - Effects of nightly sleep extension on timing of energy intake.
Boe Ericksen (Michael Thorne) - Searching for Lunar Interior heterogeneities though a complexity analysis of deep lunar moonquakes
Camryn Ernst (Jennifer Watt) - A Holocene Fire History for the Playa Llanos de Kakiwi in Southern Baja, Mexico
Valerie Fernandez (Daniel Leung) - Understanding the Incidence and Risk Factors Associated With Travelers' Diarrhea
Logan Fisher (Viola Rieke) - Investigation of Reduced Energy-Temperature Efficiency in Transcranial Focused Ultrasound
Oliver Flatt (Pavel Panchekha) - Better Taylor Expansion using Equivalence Graphs
Ardyn Ford (Scott Schaefer) - An Analysis of the Gender Gap in Utah Politics
Nate Francis (Jaclyn Wright) - Queer Isolation
Clista Galecki (William Anderegg) - Understanding Tree Sapwood Allocation Under Drought Stress
Shelby Galinat (Matthew Sigman) - Modeling of Electrolyte Solubility for Non-Aqueous Redox Flow Batteries
Jhorg Garcia (Michael Paskett) - Reducing Cognitive Workload during Prosthesis Use with a Sensory-Enabled Neuroprosthesis
Gauri Garg (Adam de Havenon) - Correlation of Physical Activity and Nutrition with White Matter Hyperintensity Change
Erin Garzella (Tracey Lamb) - Co-infection of Malaria and Gammaherpesvirus in Mice
Elle Gaudette (Peter Fino) - The Relationship between Somatic and Autonomic Motor Systems in People With mTBI
Emil Geisler (Ganesh Gopalakrishnan) - Rank Selection for Tensor Decomposition Based Model Compression
Abby Gerber (Shane Macfarlan) - The Effect of Reproductive Timing on Female Mortality Risks in the Baja California Peninsula during the 19th century.
Rose Godfrey (Dustin Williams) - Assessing the Potential of Antimicrobial Blue Light and Combination Therapies to Treat and Prevent Infections Following Osseointegrated Implant Technology
Ashley Goodwin (Alexandra Harbold) - The Not Broken Monologues
Matthew Gordon (Ivan Mendieta-Munoz) - Nowcasting Regional GDP in Utah using Dynamic Factor Models
Aashish Gottipati (Kobus Van der Merwe) - Spectrum Migration: Orchestrating User Experience in 5G
Heather Graham (Kim Hackford-Peer) - Literacy and Representation in the LGBTQIA+ Communities
Gursirat Grewal (Eric Stone) - Improving Functional Control of Upper-Limb Prosthesis
Angel Griego (Sara Grineski) - Primary school children's academic performance: the role of environmental and socio-demographic factors in Utah public schools
Aleah Griffin (Anna Beaudin) - The Effect of Maternal Immune Activation on Postnatal Lung Cytokine Production
Benjamin Hamilton (Pai Wang) - Parameterization and Computational Approximation of Knots for Wave Propagations
Liam Hammons (Walter Shephard) - Dark and Lonely Places: Setting, Temporality, and Spatiality in H. P. Lovecraft
Rachael Hansen (Jeanine Stefanucci) -  The Impact of Meditation on the Perception of Space and Time
Brian Hassard (Orest Symko) - Acoustical Coupling of Traveling-Wave Thermoacoustic Engines
Millie Heiner (Jeffrey Bates) - Biodegradable Pressure-Sensitive Adhesive
Erin Hernandez (Annie Fukushima) - The Impact of Domestic Workers Bill of Rights: Is it Needed in Utah?
Matthew Hesterman (Melodie Weller) - Hepatitis D Epidemiology in Utah Proposal
Nate Hooper (Dustin Williams) - CZ-01179 And Its Efficacy Against Bacterial Biofilms
Al Ingold (Alessandra Angelucci) - Development of a Utah Optrode Array (UOA) for large scale optogenetics in non-human primate cortex: C-fos Analysis of Spatial Excitation Pattern
Anika Isom (Ben Christensen) - Rheometry Analysis of Rabbit Vocal Folds for Asthma Medication
Trace Jacobson (Vincent Koppelmans) - Social media usage and its impact on older adults' mental health during the COVD-19 Pandemic?
Ashton Jensen (Donna Cross) - Performing Diffusor Tensor Imaging (DTI) on Alzheimer's mice (3XTg-AD) to confirm that Paclitaxel prevents further white matter abnormalities after three months.
Madeline Jensen (Rose Smith) - Impact of Plant and Microbial Diversity on Nitrogen Retention in Storm-Water Green Infrastructures
Connor Johnson (Tim Slover) - Of Ronald and Edith
Sahana Kargi (Ganesh Gopalakrishnan) - Performance Ramifications of Deep Neural  Network Compression Through Visualization
Allie Kenton (Melodie Weller) - Viral profiles associated with Non-Hodgkin's Lymphoma in Primary Sjogren's Syndrome patients.
Zahra Khan (Dylan Klure) - The Impact of Anthelmintic Therapy on Host Helminth Infection
Kasper Koblanski (Santhosh Karanth) - Role of FOXN3 in Glucagon Signaling in Type 1 Diabetes
Rachel  Kon  (Sujee Jeyapalina) - Development of zinc-substituted fluorapatite as an engineered bone graft for dental and orthopaedic applications
Emi Labon (Mark Minor) - Characterizing cane dynamics for large workspace virtual haptic interaction
Olivia Lam (Heayoung Yoon) - Development of Photovoltaic Apparatuses Using 3D Printing Techniques
Sydney Larsen (Anandh Babu Pon Velayutham) - Blueberry supplementation ameliorates gut microbiome dysbiosis in aged C57BL/6J Mice
Shaylee Larson (Swomitra Mohnaty) - Detection of Tuberculosis Associated Breath Biomarkers Via Engineered Electroactive Solutions
Ian Lavin (Rajeev Balasubramonian) - Utilization of Spiking Neural Networks for Improved Design of Cache Prefetchers
Emilia Lewis (Larry Coats) - Late Holocene Migration of Colorado pinyon (Pinus edulis) into the Crawford Mountains, Utah; evidence from packrat (Genus Neotoma) middens
Isaac Leyva-Cardenas (Kimberley Evason) - Live Imaging Analysis of Hepatic Stellate Cell Migration in Zebrafish Livers
Shirley Li (Mu Zhang) - Integrating Security Contexts into Undergraduate Machine Learning Curriculum
Sabrina Lin (Nicholas Witham) - Optimizing Artificial Muscle Performance Through Characterization of Linear-Low Density Polyethylene
Jake Lowe (William Brazelton) - Characterizing Metabolisms of the Lost City Ecosystem
Seth Lunt (Brian Mickey) - Identifying Biomarkers to Explain Differences Between Responders and Non-responders to Propofol as a Novel Treatment for Treatment-resistant Depression.
Michael  Maio  (Tanya Halliday) - A Literature Review to Determine Best Approaches to Recruit and Enroll Adults with Prediabetes into a Clinical Exercise Intervention
Kyra Mann (Jennifer Follstad Shah) - Microplastic Water Pollution Spanning the Wildland to Urban Gradient of Red Butte Creek, Salt Lake City, Utah.
Sam Mann (Walter Reeve) - Gendered Language in Joseph Smith's Revision of the New Testament
Mitchell Mansell (Sujee Jeyapalina) - Serological PCR Validation of Overexpressed Genes Identified Using Complete RNA Sequencing of Patients Blood
Isaac Martin (Anurag Singh) - Is the divisor class group of strongly F-regular rings finitely generated?
Aaron Mata (Melody Mickens) - Caregiving During COVID-19 A Qualitative Study of Residents in Assisted Living Facilities During COVID 19
Mina Matta (Pai Wang) - Ingestible Gastric-resident Electronic Meta-Material (iGEM) for Obesity Treatment
Ashlee McBride (Peter Fino) - Age-related changes to the cognitive control of turning with mobility-related anxiety
Ian McCollough (Raymond Cutler) - High Temperature Ceramic Cast Insulation for Use in Oxygen Generators
Shaun Mckellar (Cindy Furse) - A Study of the Effects of Electromagnetic radiation on COVID-19
James McMahon (Mahdi Bojnordi) - CPU Branch Prediction with Spiking Neural Networks
Tessa McNamee (Shanti Deemyad) - Analyzing the potential relationship between crystal structure and magnetic transitions
Ishmael Medina (Brian Codding) - The Impacts of Ancient Maize Agriculture in Utah
Jonas Merrell (Jacob Hochhalter) - Using FRANC3D, Abaqus and Symbolic Regression to Develop Equations for Stress-Intensity Factor
Rachel Morse (Amy McDonnell) - Motivational Influences on the ERN Component
Aliza Murad (Michael Dichio) - Understanding the Roberts Court's Reduced Engagement in Judicial Review.
Jamie Nakano (Matthew Basso) - Filipino Americans on the World War II Home Front
Kayla Navarro (Adam  de Havenon) - Association Between Cardiac Magnetic Resonance Imaging Parameters and White Matter Hyperintensities
Landon  Needham (Christopher Depner) - Does Increased Sleep Duration Improve Cognitive Performance?
Loren Nelson (Samantha Gustafson) - Impact of Distraction on Speech Perception and Listening Effort
Alex Neubauer (Michael Young) - Development of Artificially Intelligent Storytelling Agents Integrated with Zoom Video Conferencing for Increased Engagement in K-12 Online Education
Jenny Ngo (Luisa Whittaker-Brooks) - Current and voltage bias stress effects in organic-metal halide perovskite photovoltaic devices
Kevin Nguyen (Adam  de Havenon) - Analyzing Blood Pressure Variability and Localizing the Role of the Autonomic Nervous System in Stroke Patients vs. Other Medical Conditions
Katherine Nielson (Annie Fukushima) - I Gig, You Gig: Working in a Gig-Economy as a Woman of Color
Stu  Nolan (Wanda Pillow) - A Discourse Analysis of 50 Years of Frontiers A Journal of Women's Study
Cullen O'Brien (Ella Myers) - An Analysis of Ideology in Online Environments
Kyanna  Orr (Kelly Baron) - Sleep, diet and physical activity during the COVID-19 pandemic: Relationships with psychological adjustment and illness prevention behaviors
Kristy  Parajuli (Akiko Kamimura) - Experiences during the COVID-19 pandemic among individuals with a refugee background in Utah
Sohyun Park (Annie Fukushima) - UROP Proposal - Sohyun Park
Sam Parry (Jacob Hochhalter) - Analytical Solutions to Partial Differential Equations via Physics Informed Machine Learning, Genetic Programming, and Symbolic Regression.
Melissa  Paulsen (Adrienne Cachelin) - Youth, Environment, and Belonging
Epiphany  Pecchia-Bekkum (Mitchell Power) - Analysis of Ruthenium Contamination on Pollen Structure: A Case Study from Williams Lake, Washington
Matt Peterson (Paul Stout) - Mokume allow compatability
Ben Phan (Minqi Li) - The Rate of Surplus Value in Modern United States Industries
Alyssa Phillips (Monisha Pasupathi) - Shame and Guilt: Expression of Emotion
Stephanie Ponce (Annie Fukushima) - Proposal to study Dental Care Access within the Latinx Community in Utah
Elizabeth Porter (Aaron Fischer) - Supporting the Entire System: Mindfulness-based Practice and Social-emotional Learning for Educators to Reduce Burnout
Rikki Price (Jim Agutter) - Orthopedic Rehabilitation Training System (ORTos) Digital Interface
Kai Pruyn (Tommaso Lenzi) - Biomechanics Analysis of the Assistance Provided by a Powered Knee Exoskeleton for Standing Up
Anya Ragnhildstveit (Patricia Henrie) - Affective Tactile Grounding on Psychedelic-Induced States and Treatment Outcomes in Ketamine Assisted Psychotherapy for Adults with Major Depression: Preliminary Evidence to Support Clinical Utility
Mario Ramirez-Arrazola (Thomas Maloney) - Analyzing Medical Implications of  Barring Relief Aid from the Utah Undocumented Community.
Savana Rast (Sujee Jeyapalina) - Bone Graft Replacement
Jacob Razzouk (Jessica King) - Recall of Spanish-Translated FDA Warning Text on E-Cigarette Products
Brielle Reichert (Donald Feener) - Dietary Habits in Pogonomyrmex Occidentalis and Pogonomyrmex Rugosus Ants Elucidated by Stable Isotopes
Alexander Rinn (Pania Newell) - Numerical and Experimental Mechanical Characterization of Geo-Architected Porous Materials
Claire Rogers (Peter Fino) - Post-Concussion Balance Recovery: Response to Perturbations While Turning
Duke Ross (Miriam Albert-Sobrino) - "Osaru-Chan" Short Film
David Rou (Sujee Jeyapalina) - Analyzing RNA Expression and Protein Translation of Radiated Breast Tissue
Audrey Rubart (Jamesina Simpson) - Numerical Simulation of Electromagnetic Ionosphere Disturbances Detecting Earthquake Activity
Evan Sangster (Rebecca Utz) - A Policy Analysis of the Medicare Hospice Benefit: The History of Hospice and the Emergence of Live Discharge
Stella Santa Ana (Moriel Zelikowsky) -  The effect of social isolation on adolescence into adulthood
Justinas Sapiega (Christopher Depner) - Developing Biomarkers of Sleep Loss in Humans
Karl Schriewer (Frank Sachse) - Computer Modeling of Cardiac Conduction Tissue Using Segmentation and Registration Processes
Brooklynn Scott (Tim Webster) - Genomic insights into lineage-specific differences in macaque social behavior
Bela Sedillo (Lindsay May) - Maintaining Therapeutic Range for Anticoagulation Treatment
Andie Sieja (Rob MacLeod) -  Comparison of Left Atrial Shape before and after Catheter Ablation with Recurrence of Atrial Fibrillation
Andy Simonson (Kody  Powell) - Optimizing Battery Charging and Discharging in a Manufacturing Facility Using Reinforcement Learning
Bailey Smith (Shane Macfarlan) - Effects of ages at first marriage and spousal age gaps on remarriage probability: Knapp Family Genealogy Data Entry and Analysis
Alice Snelling (Aaron Puri) - Detecting Novel Quorum Sensing Signals in Methylotrophs
Erick Solum (Jacob Hochhalter) - Optimization and Tunability of Hyperparameters in Physics Informed Machine Learning
Madeleine Sorenson (Rebecca Utz) - Live Hospice Discharge: A Critical Analysis About the Ethics of Ending Hospice Care for Terminal Patients
Ella Spurlock (Luisa Whittaker-Brooks) - Development of Quantum Electronic Materials Based on π-d Conjugated Coordination Polymers with Controlled Spin-Thermal Properties
Zach Srivastava (Chapman  Waters) - Moral Machines and Power Grid Distribution
Annie Staker (Blair Sullivan) - Can Low-Congestion Dominating Sets on Sparse Graphs be Found Quickly?
Sophie Steckel (Caroline Saouma) - Reduction of Cobalt Catalysts to Facilitate Hydrogen Gas Production for Cleaner Fuel
Sophie Stephens (J David Symons) - Evaluating the Effects of Ceramide Inhibitors on NO Generation and Endothelial Cell Dysfunction in Patients with Cardiovascular Disease and Healthy Volunteers.
Paige Stephenson (Jane Hatter) - Power and Patronage: A Study of Female Leaders in Early European Courts
Megan Sterrett (Brittany Coats) - Modeling the Strain of Brain Tissue in Subconcussive Traumatic Brain Injury
Carson Storm (Aditya Bhaskara) -  Verifying the Correctness of Neural NetworkCompression through Visualization
Forest Streeter (Aylin Rodan) - Effects of RGS Proteins on Aging and Salt Sensitivity
Lizzie Su (Brittany Coats) - Using a Deep Convolutional Neural Network for Early Detection of Ocular Blast Trauma
Vivian Su (Yong Lin Kong) - Development of Closed-Loop Magnetic Actuation Control System for Magnetic Swimmer Robot based on Unmodeled Dynamic Factors and Perturbations
Sydney Sullivan (Krista Carlson ) - Nanostructured Ceramics for Electrocatalytic Water Disinfection
Joshua  Swan  (Matthew Ringgenberg) - Empirical study of Option price & Stock price anomalies with modified Black-Scholes Theorem.
Dawn Sweeney (Cynthia Furse) - Using Artificial Intelligence to Predict Disconnections in Solar Cells
Zachary Ta (Kelly Baron) - Sleep, Diet, and Physical Activity during the COVID19 Pandemic.
Will Tanguy (Patricia Kerig) - Exploring Depressive Symptomatology as a Mediator for the Association between Attachment Trauma Exposure and Adolescent Dating Violence
Kishan Thambu (Julio Facelli) - Structural Profiling of MicroProteins: Aiding in the Classification and Identification
Taylor Thompson (Marissa Diener) - The Importance of Parental Presence in Pediatric Oncology Patient Coping Strategies and the Impact of COVID-19
Savanah Tiffany (Matthew Basso) - War and Gender: Gay, Lesbian, and Bisexual Identity During WWII
Sarthak Tiwari (Frank Sachse) - Real-time Analysis of Optical Biopsy Using Unsupervised Machine Learning
Sona Torosyan (Matthew Flatt) - Optimization and Performance Comparisons for the Racket implementation of HAMTs
Shaylynn Trego (Timothy Collins) - Disparities in extreme heat exposure in Maricopa County, Arizona: The intersection of race/ethnicity and older age
Trey Trusty (Maureen Mathison) - Muskianism and Rhetoric
Kalei Tuitupou (Kehaulani Vaughn) - Black Lives Matter and Pacific Islanders: Understanding the concept of Solidarity in the Diaspora
Moira Turner (Gunseli Berik) - Gender, Capital Accumulation, and Neoliberalism: Applications of Rosa Luxemburg's Expanded Reproduction Scheme
Ema  Valverde (Shane Macfarlan) - The Effect of Reproductive Timing on Female Mortality Risks in the Baja California Peninsula during the 19th century
Chanel Van Ginkel (Roseanne Warren) - Investigation into the Processing of Coal Char for use in Sodium-ion Batteries
Elise Vandamme (Marco Bortolato) - 5alphaR2 and Its Effect on Major Depression
Samantha Vranes (Yan-Ting Shiu) - MRI-based Computational Hemodynamics of Pig Arteriovenous Graft
Emily Wahlquist (Andrea Wallace) - Caregiver Perception of Patient Readiness for Discharge
Chris Wallace-Carrete (Amy Bergerson) - University of Utah Faculty Perspectives on the Exceptional Educational Experience
Alison Wang (Caroline Saouma) - Synthesis and Analysis of Mn Catalysts for Electrochemical Reductions of CO2
Zak Wankier (Sarina Sinclair) - Use of Loadsol Devices to Assess Patient Ground Reaction Forces During Prescribed Physical Therapy from Home
Clara Wayman (Juliet Carlisle) - Transmission of Environmental Attitudes from Parent to Child.
Emi  Wickens  (Anne Kirby) - Family Caregivers:  A qualitative study of  similarities and differences among a variety of caregiver experiences
Isabell Wideman (Daniel Mendoza) - The University of Utah's Asia Campus: A Lighting Study of the Incheon Global Campus
Katie Workman (Brent Steele) - Epistemic Communications: the politics of confronting the global COVID-19 pandemic
Emily Yang (Ryan Steele) - Vibrational Signatures of the Structural Flexibility of Tropine
Colby Young (Haimanti Bhattacharya) - Economic Structure across OECD countries and relationships to inequality

Seth Ack (Lars Laurentius) - Multiplexed Detection of COVID-19/SARS-CoV-2 Biomarkers for Diagnosis and Surveillance
Oralia Aguilar (Mary Ann Villarreal) - Teachings in the Time of a Pandemic
Yousef Alamri (Skyler Jennings) - Hearing In Noisy Backgrounds
Abby Anderson (Pai Wang) - Finite Element Analysis of a Birds Beak
Daniel Anderson (Emily Scott) - Anayzing Stress Physiology in Response to Prolonged Visits to Nature
Alayna Arnholt (Scott Langenecker) - An Analysis on the Influence of Anxiety on Post Error Slowing
Jake Baldauf (Lindsay Keegan) - Enhancing Transmission Models of COVID-19 with New Data Sources
Alex Ballinger (Diane Pataki) - Communicating Research Information and Activities Through Digital Media
Shelly Baltazar (Yan-Ting Shiu) - Analysis of Pig Arteriovenous Grafts Using MRI-based Reconstruction and Computational Fluid Dynamics
Sabita Bastakoti (Erin Castro) - Research Collaborative On Higher Education In Prison
Becca Bateman (Fred Adler) - Mathematically modeling the impact of viral interactions and evolution on the COVID-19 pandemic
Kylie Bethards (Lauri Linder) - Analysis of AYA cancer patients' self-reported priority symptoms using a text analysis program
Katie Bezdjian (Mathieu Francoeur) - Design of a high-temperature receiver for concentrated solar power energy conversion
Hannah Blomgren (Regina  Frey) - Influence of Identity on Perception of Belonging and Inclusion in Introductory Physics at the University of Utah
Audrey Brown (Matt Wachowiak) - Identifying OSN receptors using RNA sequencing and analyzing odor suppression
Ashton Bruno (Nitin Phadnis) - Chromosome Pairing in Drosophila
Candace Bryan (Elizabeth Archuleta) - Misrepresented and Exploited: The Relationships between Museums and Native Americans
Savanna Cahoon (Yan-Ting  Shiu) - Title: Geometrical analysis of experimental arteriovenous fistula over time in the pig model
Dallen Calder (Andy Weyrich) - Lessons Learned from COVID-19 to Enhance Research Administration Services
Julia Case (Shelley Minteer) - Bipolar Molecules for Symmetric Non-aqueous Organic Redox Flow Batteries
Tayla Chiang (Lars Laurentius) - Multiplexed Detection of COVID-19/SARS-CoV-2 Biomarkers for Diagnosis and Surveillance
Nain Christopherson (Jeff Metcalf) - Literature and English Language Learners in Salt Lake City Public High Schools
Raquel Cifuentes (Cheryl Wright) - gender roles in preschool childrens storytelling
Alessandra Cipriani-Detres (Laurence Parker) - The Fight for Diversity: Marketing Diversity in Higher Education and its Misleading Impacts on Incoming Students at the University of Utah
Julie Colon Medina (Divya Chandrasekhar) - Effectiveness of multi-hazard response planning for concurrent disasters (Case study: COVID-19 and post-earthquake response in the Salt Lake City Metro Region)
Rachel D'Agostini (Krista Carlson ) - Investigation of the silica sol-gel transition using percolation theory framework
Christopher de Freitas (Marina Kogan) - Microblogging and the Role of English in Ukraine's Euromaidan Revolution of 2014
Juan Esquivel (Elizabeth Clement) - AIDS epidemic response by the local Utah community
Mary Fairbanks (Martin Horvath) - Calcium's Effect on DNA repair function of MutY
Brayden Fairbourn (Yan-Ting Shiu) - Hemodynamic and Geometric Analysis of Patient Arteriovenous Fistulas
Tiffany Farfan (Stephanie Shiver) - The Disparate Impact of COVID-19 Remote and Online Work on Under-served Undergraduate Researchers
Nima Fatahian (Rajeshwary Ghosh) - Defining The Role Of Protein Degradation Mechanisms In Cardiac Pathology
Valerie Fernandez (Daniel Leung) - Understanding the Epidemiology of Travelers' Diarrhea: Developing a Preventative Public Health Initiative
Matt Findlay (Kevin Shah) - The Role of Myocardial Injury and Inflammation Leading to Cardiac Deterioration in Patients with COVID-19
Emma Fine (James Gagnon) -  Simulating homing guide RNAs (hgRNAs) in zebrafish cell lineage tracing
Ashley Flores (Samantha Gustafson) - Understanding Loudness Perception in Children
Nate Francis (Jaclyn Wright) - Queer Isolation and the Formation of Community
Izzy Fuller (Cindy Furse) - Enhancing Education after Covid
Abrielle Fulwider (Melissa Watt) - Proposal to Assess the Trajectory and Efficacy of Latent Tuberculosis Infection Treatment for Refugees Resettled in the Salt Lake Valley
Shelby Galinat (Matthew Sigman) -  Synthesis and Analysis of Electrolytes for Non-Aqueous Redox Flow Batteries
Tyler Gee (Swomitra Mohanty) - Machined Learning of Breath-based Volatile Organic Compound Sensors for Improved Diagnosis
Kameron Goold (Gail Zasowski) - Using Magnesium and Iron to Constrain Evolutionary Models of the Milky Way
Angel Griego (Sara Grineski) - Social Inequalities In Exposure To Environmental Hazards In Utah: Impacts On Schoolchildren
Olivia Haddadin  (Bryan Jones) - Species-specific differences in retinal Aii cell connectivity
Molly Hanrahan (Stephen Alder) - Avoiding the Harms of Short Term Medical Volunteering
Cody Harris (Dustin Stokes) - Representationalism vs. Radical Embodiement: Human-Machine Functional Systems
Jami Margaret Harvey (Mary Ann Villarreal) - Teachings in the Time of a Pandemic
Aly Hill (Wanda Pillow) - The Utah Women's Suffrage Movement: Discourses on womanhood and Native American women (1860-1920)
Jerry Howard (Krista Carlson ) - Investigation of the silica sol-gel transition using percolation theory framework
Olivia  Huntzinger (Katherine Baucom) - Romantic Partner Influence on Lifestyle Changes in the Diabetes Prevention Program
Anna Hyde (Kenneth Golden) - Modeling the Effects of Algal EPS on Fluid Flow within Sea Ice
Brianna Ingersoll (Ravi Chandran) - Physical Modeling of COVID-19 infection and spread and evalaution with emergent data
Austin Johnson (Adriana Coletta) - Efficacy of a Hospital-Based Exercise Program on Physical Outcomes linked with Survival Among Cancer Survivors
Morgan Kelley (Fred Adler) - Mathematically modeling the impact of viral interactions and evolution on the COVID-19 pandemic
Ayesha Khan (Tolga Tasdizen) - AI/CXR Early Warning System for Infectious Respiratory Disease Outbreaks
Faris Khan (Taylor Sparks) - Predicting Material Properties from Crystal Structure Using Directional Message Passing Neural Networks
Julianne Kimmel (Jia-Wen Guo) - Text Analysis of Pediatric Suicide Ideation
Samantha Kraus (Matthew Sigman) - Cascade Redox-Relay Heck Reaction
Justin Krier (Michael Thorne) - Localization of ultra low-velocity zones at Earth's core-mantle boundary using SKKS and SKS differential travel-times and amplitudes
Jonathan Krummenacher (Jon Davies) - Proposal for Artificial Intelligence in a competitive robotics competition.
Sam Lakey (Cindy Furse) - Enhancing Education after Covid
Erica Lampers (Beth  Howard) - Fostering a Sense of Belonging  in a Remote Environment: What Can we Learn from COVID-19 Practices?
Zachary Lauritzen (Jiyoung Chang) - Understanding the capturing and evolving mechanisma of aerosols on nanofibers
Derek Lawrence (Jay  Agarwal) - Comparing Locally-Administered FK506 and GDNF in the Repair of Severed Mouse/Rat Sciatic Nerve via Nerve Conduit Reservoir
Andrew Lee (Karen Eilbeck) - Developing Strategies And Tools To Mine Clinical Variant Assertions
Somi Lee (Joseph Kim) - Psychological Impact of Social Isolation in Older Adults during the COVID-19 Pandemic
Aidan Lethaby (Jacob George) - Functional Validation of a Low-Cost Control System for Dexterous Bionic Arms
Bernard Li (Julio Facelli) - Characterizing Local COVID-19 Emergent Phenomenon and Mitigation Using Computational Modeling
Darren Llewellyn (James Gagnon) - Tracing Differentiation of Germline Stem Cells in the Zebrafish Ovary
Jocelyn Longaza (Andrew Anderson) - Establishing Baseline Kinematics in Division 1 Soccer Players
Nicky Loyola (Martin Horvath) - TCB3 and Membrane Homeostasis
Isaac Martin (Karl Schwede) - A Conjecture Concerning F-Signature and the Torsion Subgroup of the Divisor Class Group
Grace Mason (Jessica Sanders) - The University of Utah Sexual and Reproductive Health Care and Education Needs Assessment
Caitlin McCartney (Anandh Babu Pon Velayutham) - Gut Microbiota Mediates The Vascular Beneficial Effects Of Berry Anthocyanins
Allison McElroy (Lindsay Keegan) - Enhancing Transmission Models of COVID-19 with New Data Sources
Eliza McKinney (Nadja Durbach) - Zenana Missions: Gender, Religion, and Empire in Victorian India
Colin McNabb (Tamara Bidone) - Brownian Dynamics Model of Cell-Cell Adhesions formation
Olivia McQuarrie (Jakob Jensen) - Tracking Public Communication, Perceptions, and Behaviors Related to COVID-19: Improving Health Communication about Infectious Diseases
Ashley Merrell (Jordan Gerton) - Investigating the Impact of COVID-19 on the Academic Experience and Career Aspirations of Students in the College of Science
Rachel Morse (David Strayer) - Measuring Cognitive Control And Response To Reward Using Electroencephalography (EEG)
Kayla Navarro (Adam de Havenon) - Impaired Cerebral Venous Outflow and Cerebral Small Vessel Disease
Nate Nellis (Scott  Schaefer) - Water Rate's Effect on Consumption in Small Utah Cities
Soren Nelson (Rajesh Menon) - Deep Learning In Lensless Imaging
Kevin Ngo (Thomas Zangle) - Comparative Analysis between Multiple systems of Quantitative Phase Imaging
Anh Nguyen (Jennifer Shumaker-Parry) - Study of plasmonic substrates with polystyrene spikey beads  for Surface-enhanced Raman spectroscopy
Kevin Nguyen (Adam de Havenon) - Analyzing Blood Pressure Variability and Localizing the Role of the Autonomic Nervous System in Stroke Patients vs. Other Medical Conditions
Zach Nguyen (Jon Rainier) - Degradation of Labeled Very Long Polyunsaturated Fatty Acids
Gracie ONeill (Pai Wang) - Actuation of Shape Memory Polymers by Focused Ultrasound
David Onwukeme (Milad  Hosseini-Mozari) - Bio-Variable Typefaces: The development of intelligent variable typefaces that can see, hear, feel and communicate human Interaction.
Milan Oxspring (Ruth Watkins) - What Universities Can Learn from Institutions That Thrived After the 2008 Global Financial Crisis
Jessica Padron-Loredo (Robert Welsh) - Minority Health Disparities and Health Information During the COVID-19 Pandemic
Cole Paradis (Pai Wang) - Development of Parallel Computing Program for Bloch Wave Simulations
Matthew Parker (John McLennan) - Borefield Performance for Ground Source Operations at Gardner Commons Proposal
Adriana  Payan-Medina (Ramkiran Gouripeddi) - Exploring Novel Aspects Of The Exposome
Katee Perez (Amy Lenz) - Segmentation and Duo-Fluorescent Alignment of Subtalar and Tibiotalar Joint for Osteoarthritis Patients
Nathan Pfau (Joseph Kim) - Psychological Impact of Social Isolation in Older Adults during the COVID-19 Pandemic
Tracy Phan (Monisha Pasupathi) - College, Interrupted: Individual differences in freshmen college student mental health, identity, and retention in college as a function of COVID-19 disruptions to education across four institutions.
Shaylie Platten (Kristin Cloyes) - Examining social support needs and networks of cancer survivors  and their caregivers during the COVID-19 pandemic
Radhika Prasad (Ming  Wen) - The prospective effects of marijuana use in adolescence on illicit drug use in middle age
Quinn Pritchett (Tracy Frech) - Developing COVID-19 guidelines for autoimmune disease patients
Eva Pronovost (Cindy Furse) - Enhancing Education after Covid
Mario Ramirez-Arrazola (Thomas Maloney) - How Would Enforcement of the Public Charge Rule Affect State Budgets, and How Would It Affect Immigrant Families?
Savana Rast (Sujee Jeyapalina) - Fluorapatite Scaffold Infused with Stromal Vascular Fraction for Bone Substitution
Stella Ray (Regina Frey) - Assessing the Learning Assistant Experience in the College of Science
Noelle Reimers (Gregory Ducker) - The Role of Phosphatidylcholine Metabolism in Hepatocellular Carcinoma
Olivia Richards (Pai Wang) - Aerogel-based Metamaterial Design for Helicopters
MacKenzie Ridley (Beth  Howard) - Fostering a Sense of Belonging  in a Remote Environment: What Can we Learn from COVID-19 Practices?
Luis Rufino (Pearl Sandick) - Investigating Supersymmetric Dark Matter with MADHAT
Seaton Schwab (Andrew Anderson) - Magnetic Resonance Imaging T1rho Values to Determine Health of Hip Cartilage
Jacob Scutt (Pai Wang) - Experimental Study on the Parametric Acoustic Array and Its Applications
Grange Simpson (Mark Yandell) - Identifying Disease Causing Genetic Variants for Sudden Death of the Young
Brett Smith (Sonia Solari) - The Disparate Impact of COVID-19 Remote and Online Work on Under-served Undergraduate Researchers
Elise Smith (Sarah Canham) - Examining Policy Priorities for Addressing Homelessness in Salt Lake County among Persons by those with Lived Experience
Maia Southwick (Monisha Pasupathi) - College, Interrupted: Individual differences in freshmen college student mental health, identity, and retention in college as a function of COVID-19 disruptions to education across four institutions.
Claire Stanley (Gregory Ducker) - Amino Acid Metabolism in Metabolic Disease
Jada Kali Stelmach (Hilary Coon) - Characterizing the Effects of Mitochondrial DNA in Suicide Deaths
Kincade Stevenson (Jon Rainier) - The Synthesis of Coronavirus Translation Inhibitors
Erik Stevning (Shelley Minteer) - Understanding Mechanisms of Membrane Degradation in Non-aqueous Redox Flow Batteries
Sydney Sullivan (Krista Carlson) - Titanium nanotubes for water purification and the destruction of biofilms
Zachary Ta (Kelly Baron) - Sleep, diet and physical activity during the COVID-19 pandemic: Relationships with psychological adjustment and illness prevention behaviors
Graham Taggart (Nitin Phadnis) - Discovering Cryptic Autosomal Suppressors of an Ancient Selfish Sex Chromosome in Drosophila pseudoobscura
Micky Tao (Sheila Crowell) - Advancing Current Understanding of how COVID-19 Affects Pregnancy and Childbirth: The COPE Study
Mack Tawa (Courtney Wagner) - Halophilic Magnetotactic Bacteria within the Great Salt Lake
Alejandra Tellez-Montenegro (Ana Sanchez-Birkhead) - Breast Cancer Awareness of Continuum of Care in Hispanic Communities
Shaylynn Trego (Sara Grineski) - Effects of the COVID-19 Pandemic on Undergraduate Research Experiences: A Multi-institutional Study
Sara Trela-Hoskins (Kelly Baron) - Sleep, diet and physical activity during the COVID-19 pandemic: Relationships with psychological adjustment and illness prevention behaviors
Sang Truong (Hanseup Kim) - Integration of interface electronics for an Airborne virus detector prototype
Payton Utzman (Martin Horvath) - 2nd Generation of Lost City MutY
Nathan Vance (Rob MacLeod) - Quantifying Effect of Anatomical Differences on Electrical Propagation Within the Heart
Alyssa Varghese (Anne Blaschke) - Virulence factors of non-typeable Haemophilus influenzae
Marilisa Vega (Amy Bergerson) - University of Utah Staff Perspectives on the Exceptional Educational Experience During COVID 19
Christopher Wallace-Carrete (Amy Bergerson) - University of Utah Staff Perspectives on the Exceptional Educational Experience During COVID 19
ZIhe Wan (Matthew Kieber-Emmons) - Identification of the Photoactive Yellow Protein Partner Protein
Joe Wassweiler (Cord Bowen) - Rethinking Post-Secondary Education
Rory Weeks (Luisa Whittaker-Brooks) - Spatially resolved mechanistic understanding of a model solid electrolyte/electrode interface
Jevan Winn (Benjamin Slade) - A Historical Semantic Account of Aspectual Adverbials in Old English
Jacob Zamora (Jacob Hochhalter) - Verification of Fast Uncertainty Quantification Method for Anisotropic Elasticity
Lauren Ziegelmayer (Emily Scott) - Examining Changes in Physiological Stress Levels After Exposure to Nature Imagery

Brynn Adams (Claudia Geist) - Queer Resilience in Action: The History of an LGBT Student Club at Brigham Young University Samuel Adams (Allison Payne) - Correcting for Acoustic Phase Aberrations in Soft Tissue Applications Monique Aguirre (Katie Baucom) - The Role of Community-Based Participatory Research in Diabetes Prevention Noah Alex (Yong Lin Kong) - Machine learning integration with direct ink writing printed magnetic microswimmers Henry Allen (Sara Yeo) - Quantitative Content Analysis of Media Coverage on Colony Collapse Disorder Brighton Alvey (Andrew Roberts) - Peptide Bicyclization with Chemoselective Reactivity of 1,2,4-triazoline-3,5-diones Ayana Amaechi (Marco Bortolato) - Understanding Sex Differences in Pathological Agression Naren Anandh (Shundana Yusaf) - Visual Documentation of Kubuli Nomadic Camp in Khyber Paktunkhwa Daniel Anderson (Emily Scott) - Analyzing Changes in Stress Physiology After Prolonged Exposure to Nature Elisabeth Antley (Brennan Payne) - The effects of hearing loss on cognitive and executive function in older adults Blair Armstrong (Hamid Ghandehari) - Evaluation of Elastinlike Fusion Proteins to serve as Drug Free Macromolecular Therapeutics Hakan Ashaboglu (Trent Smith) - The photographic and written documentation and ultimate preservation of the work of Robert L. and Anna C.Bliss. Blayze Ashurst (Ross Walker) - Analysis and Development of Methods for Multiplexed Potentiostats. Beheshta Aslami (Brian Baucom) - Testing Associations Between Emotional Expression During Couple Interactions and Suicide Risk in Geographically Decentralized Military Service Members Noelle Atkin (Fred Adler) - An Ecological Analysis of the Classical Music Canon Taylor Aucutt (Nicki Camp) - Extracting RNA and DNA from Plasma Tumor Cells as a Novel Way to Characterize Multiple Myeloma Claire Baer (Larry Coats) - Distribution Patterns of Pinyon Throughout the Holocene Shelly Baltazar (Yan-Ting Shiu) - Investigating the Combined Effect of Laminar Shear Stress and Indoxyl Sulfate on the Expression of Endothelial Nitric Oxide Synthase Edward Barrowes (Kai Kuck) - Development and Testing of Environmental Carbon Dioxide Sensors as Proxy for Capnography Devices for use in Low-Resource Settings Jacob Bedke (Trafton Drew) - Effect of Practiced Visual Search on Neurophysiological Components of Visual Working Memory's Attentional Template Lori Begaye (MIchelle Debbink) - Under-treated iron deficiency anemia increases the risk of postpartum blood transfusion Misha Bekeris (Roseanne Warren) - Block Copolymers as a Fabrication Tool for Facilitating Deterministic Lateral Displacement Particle Separation Katie Bezdjian (Mathieu Francoeur) - Design of a high-temperature receiver for concentrated solar power energy conversion Maggie Bielefeld (Tanya Halliday) - The Effect of Prediabetic Phenotypes on Exercise Intervention Zack Biskupiak (Eric Garland) - Defining, Utilizing, and Understanding Mindfulness as a Treatment Method for Mental and Physical Health Issues Michael Blum (Pania Newell) - Numerical Investigation on the Coupling Effect of Pore Shape and Crack Orientation on the Mechanical Properties of Amorphous Silica using Molecular Dynamics Simulations Drew Bonner (McKenzie Skiles) - Comparing data sets of snow water equivalent (SWE) from UAVSAR to ground observation sites Laura Boren (Jon Groot) - Culturally Competent Physical Activity Promotion for Cancer Survivors in West Valley City, Utah Izabella Bourland (Shane Macfarlan) - Sex Ratio at Birth in the Baja California Sur Peninsula Kimi Brown (Robert Scott Smith) - Shakespearean Support Group Mercedes Brown (Kim Hackford-Peer) - They Are Not What Happened To Them Jacoby Bryce (Jennifer Taylor) - Utilizing Technology to Measure Physician Wellness and Patient Impact AJ Bull (Tucker Hermans) - Tactile Grasping During Placement Riley Bunderson (Dr. Aislinn McDougall) - Storytelling via Game Mechanics Savanna Cahoon (Yan-Ting Shiu) - Geometrical analysis of experimental arteriovenous fistula and inter-analyst variability Nathan Caines (Sara LoTemplio) - Glucose effect on cognitive control William Cannon (Larry Coats) - Analysis of Packrat Middens from Range Creek Canyon, Utah Jacob Capener (Ben Myers) - Investigation of the Role of GRK2 in the Hedgehog Pathway Marissa Castillo (Adam de Havenon) - The Relationship Between Autonomic Response Variability and Clinical Outcomes in Ischemic Stroke Patients Emily Cebrowski (Brian Codding) - Weary feet and flaked stone Part II: Investigation of the labor-leisure economy of prehistoric foragers. Tania Cervantes-Hernandez (Akiko Kamimura) - Household Environmental Safety Education for Uninsured Free Clinic Patients Ben Chenot (Scott Langenecker) - Quality of Life in Older Adults and their Support Persons Camille Christensen (Simon Fisher) - Preventing Severe Hypoglycemia-Induced Cardiac Arrhythmias and Mortality in Rats Emma Christensen (Andrew Anderson) - Effect of Pelvic Positioning on Radiographic Measurements of the Hip Taylor Christensen (Catherine Loc-Carrillo) - Isolation and characterization of bacteriophages from GW Veterans and GW-era Veterans with IBS-D Ian Clark (Mitchell Power) - Changes in Climate and Fire during past droughts in the Uinta Mountains: A case study of the Medieval Climate Anomaly from 800- 1200 A.D. Connor Clay (Kerry Kelly) - Upgrading Air Quality Sensors Courtney Cohen (Alexandra Harbold) - Exploring the Impact of Firsthand Experiences on Theatrical Rehearsal and Performance Kobe Cornelison (Trafton Drew) - Electrophysiological correlates of long-term memory encoding processes across multiple encounters involving visual working memory Rachel Coy (Shane Macfarlan) - Cross Cultural Analysis of Post Combat Rituals in Small Scale Societies Bethany Dahlstrom (Carol sogard) - GRAPHIC DESIGN ALUMNI BOOK: DESGR: THEN/NOW Matt Dailey (Swomitra Mohanty) - Perfluoroalkyl Contaminant Sensor Connor Davis (Shane Macfarlan) - Evaluating the Connections of Utah State Legislators using Social Network Analysis Lexi DeFord (Eric Pardyjak) - Continuing and Improving the Low-Cost Energy-Budget Measurement System (LEMS) Devices Adara DeNiro (Erhu Cao) - Developing Antibodies for Studying Structures and Functions of Polycystic Kidney Disease Proteins Hannah DeShazer (Micah Drummond) - The Effects of a MicroRNA 146a deficiency on Muscle Atrophy and Regrowth Aruna Dhungel (Jeffrey Bates) - Hydrophobic Layer Development & Testing for Feminine Hygiene Product Shelby Dibble (Brian Codding) - Environmental Factors Drive Spatial Variation in Evidence of Prehistoric Conflict: Tests of Hypotheses in the Bears Ears National Monument Claire Dinehart (Akiko Kamimura) - Household Environmental Safety for Uninsured Free Clinic Patients Shad Dinkins (Jeff Weiss) - Tension Induced Alignment of Collagen for In Vitro Models of Angiogenesis Abhi Dubal (Rajeev Balasubramonian) - Performing Deep Compressions on the Transformer Ethan Edwards (Laurel Caryn) - Photography: A Microcosm of Hyperreality in Post-Internet Society Lauren Ericksen (Tiffany Love) - A fMRI Study of Resting State Saliency Network Connections Camryn Ernst (Jennifer Watt) - A Holocene Fire History for the Playa Llanos de Kakiwi in Southern Baja, Mexico Juan Esquivel (Elizabeth Clement) - "The Reckoning: AIDS in Conservative America" Andrew Falkowski (Taylor Sparks) - A Bayesian Approach to Transfer Learning in Neural Networks Braden Fallon (Melodie Weller) - Development of an RNA Plasmid System for Evaluation of Hepatitis Delta Virus Promoter Activity Alex Farley (Jan Kubanek) - Ultrasonic neuromodulation of single neurons in human brain tissue Marcus Fechner (Ramesh Goel) - White-Rot-Fungi's Ability to Treat Micropollutants in Water Emma Fine (James Gagnon) - Simulating homing guide RNAs (hgRNAs) in zebrafish cell lineage tracing Sierra Freitas (Steven Naleway) - Using Microspheres to Understand the Effect of Particle Geometry in Freeze Casting Lydia Fries (Matthew Sigman) - Studies into the Oxidative Addition of Co(I) Complexes: Ortho-Substituted Benzyl Bromides Elle Gaudette (Peter Fino) - The Relationship between Somatic and Autonomic Motor Systems in People With mTBI Tyler Gee (Swomitra Mohanty) - Machined Learning of Breath-based Volatile Organic Compound Sensors for Improved Diagnosis Kallin Glauser (Elizabeth Clement) - Birth Control Attitudes in Mormon Utah Kason Glover (Ryan Looper) - Streamlined Pursuit of Bioactive Natural Product GE81112 Ellie Goodrich (Leslie Knapp) - Examining the Relatedness of Pan troglodytes verus of Senegal Brandt Graham (Matthew Kieber-Emmons) - Correlating Nitrile IR Frequencies of Unnatural Amino Acids to Local Electrostatic Environments in Dihydrofolate Reductase Elliott Gray (Sarah Lambart) - The enigmatic floating Rocks from Hawaii and Southern Utah. Tristan Gunn (Owen Kingstedt) - Assessment of the Effects of Raster-based Distortions on the Accuracy of the Scanning Electron Microscopy Grid Method Kalen Gunter (lee ellington) - Visiting Hospice Nurses And Work-Related Stress Among Family Caregivers Lauren Hainsworth (Shane Macfarlan) - Cultural Rewards to Participants of Warfare Sarah Hamilton (Sarah Lambart) - Element characterization of San Carlos olivine and clinopyroxene: an in-depth look into the major constituents of basaltic magmas through element mapping and electron microprobe analysis. Alex Hamrick (Rajes Menon) - Reinforcement Learning in the Development of Nanophotonic Structures Nathan Hansen (Thomas Zangle) - Microwell Growth Assays as a Tool to Study Cell-To-Cell Heterogeneity Warda Hashmi (Junco Warren (Shibayama)) - Novel Role of the Mitochondrial Regulator Perm1 in Heart Arrhythmia Brian Hassard (Orest Symko) - Improvement of High Frequency Traveling Wave Thermoacoustic Engines Logan Hastings (Jennifer Watt) - Reconstructing paleoclimate variability in Baja California, Mexico through pollen analysis Millie Heiner (Jeffrey Bates) - Pressure Sensitive Adhesive Erica Hill (Stacy Manwaring) - Play and Language Development in Toddlers at Risk for Autsim Spectrum Disorder Alexander Hirai (Annie Fukushima) - The Economic Loss of Topaz Japanese American Prisoners Chase Hodges-Heilmann (Gannet Hallar) - Blowing in the wind: The effect of the shrinking Great Salt Lake on snow duration in the Wasatch Mountains. Chieko Hoki (Robert Campbell) - Understanding the Role of Neutrophil Extracellular Traps in Ischemic Stroke Matt Hunter (Ling Zang) - Carbon-Optically Transparent Electrodes through Photoresist Pyrolysis Olivia Huntzinger (Katie Baucom) - Romantic Partner Influence on Lifestyle Changes in the Diabetes Prevention Program Sierra Hymas (Rich Fiorella) - Variation in non-structural carbohydrate concentration and isotope ratios with needle age in Ponderosa pine Anika Isom (Ben Christensen) - Rheometry Analysis of Rabbit Vocal Folds for Asthma Medication Spencer Iverson (Jake George) - Low-Cost, Bluetooth Surface Electromyography Front-End Austin Johnson (Adriana Coletta) - Efficacy of a Hospital-Based Exercise Program on Physical Outcomes linked with Cancer Survival Among Cancer Survivors Bennett Johnson (Shannon McGregor) - A Widening Divide: An Examination of Polarization in Supreme Court Nomination Hearings Sonny Jones (Michael Paskett) - Using Physiological Factors to Study the Mental Workload of Neural Prostheses. Hyonoo Joo (Catherine Loc-Carrillo) - Order Effects of Phage and Antibiotic Combination (PAC) Treatment Against a Methicillin Resistant Staphylococcus aureus and Pseudomonas aeruginosa Dynamic Biofilm Luke Jowers (Scott Schaefer) - Partisanship's Impact on Political Activity Andrew Jue (Kay Park) - Measurement of the Material Dependence of Nanogap Forces Nicole Kallsen (Kate Mattingly) - Seeking Common Ground: A case study of ballet's cultural values in Salt Lake City Savannah Kapp (Shane Macfarlan) - Reproductive Fitness: Historical Demography of Baja California Sur Olivia Kavapalu (David Curtis) - Differences in access to recreation amenities as an explanation for elevated obesity risk among Pacific Islanders in Utah Michael Keyser (Lucas Timmins) - Improving the 3D Reconstruction of a Deployed Stent by Correcting for Curvature Induced Rotional Drifts Juli Kim (Kristi Warren) - The effects of sex hormones on the activation of ILC2 during asthma Kasper Koblanski (Amnon Schlegel) - The role of monocarboxylate acid transporter gene SLC16A6 in fasting ketogenesis and linear growth Lauren Kochaver (Steven Naleway) - Understanding How Microspheres Affect the Structure of Freeze Cast Materials Kade Kofford (Yelena Wu) - Risk Information and Skin-cancer Education for Undergraduate Prevention (RISE-UP) Markell Kolendrianos (Martin Horvath) - Creating the Zeaxanthin-Binding Protein Complex (GSTP1) Rae Kovnick (Craig Bryan) - Examination of differences between suicide gestures and suicide threats Samantha Kraus (Matthew Sigman) - Effect of Redox Acceptor on the Rate of the Redox-Relay Heck Reaction Yung-Chi Lan (Markus Babst) - Localization Survey of Slm1 Protein: Protein Phase Separation and Phosphorylation Hannah Louise Landicho (Eric Garland) - Studying Efficacy of Mindfulness Therapy for Chronic Pain and Opioid Misuse: A Focus on Cognitive Reappraisal Bryce Larsen (Robert Bowles) - Finding new genes that promote osteogenesis through CRISPR-Cas9 gene upregulation Sydney Larsen (Anandh Babu Pon Velayutham) - Blueberry supplementation ameliorates gut microbiome dysbiosis in aged C57BL/6J Mice Shaylee Larson (Swomitra Mohanty) - Optimization Of Tuberculosis Biomarker Detection In Breath Condensate Via Engineered Electroactive Solution Dalton Latimer (Kai Kuck) - AKI (Acute Kidney Injury) Detection During Surgery Katrina Le (Thomas Zangle) - Buckle-Up: Study of Rapid Buckling of PDMS Nathan LeCheminant (Jacob Hochhalter) - Application of Topology Optimization in Representing Multi-axial Stress States Under Uniaxial Load Jack Levitt (Mary Playdon) - Dietary and Lifestyle Factors Associated with Serum Ceramides Megan Lewis (Bruce Edgar) - Examining the Mechanism of Translational Regulation of Transcription Factor E2F1 Emily Li (Kent Lai) - Characterization of the cardiomyopathy phenotype in a cardiac-specific phosphoglucomutase 2 (Pgm2) gene-knockout (KO) mouse model Hayley Lind (Rich Fiorella) - NSC Concentration and Isotope Ratios in Ponderosa Pine Trees Throughout the Western United States Syrenna Lisonbee (Robert Welsh) - Evaluating executive functioning in older adults with the Rey-Osterrieth Complex Figure Drawing Test Tiffany Liu (Mingyue Ji) - Private Machine Learning: Designing a Code of Features Exchange Mark Livingston (Tara Deans) - Engineering Mouse Embryonic Stem Cells for the Production of Platelets Jocelyne Lopez (Annie Fukushima) - Hablemos Salud (Lets Talk Health) Nelson Lotz (Brent Steele) - The Ontological Security in International Political Economy: the Identity and Economics Behind the Brexit Referendum Veronica Lukasinski (Annie Fukushima) - Proposal to Study Non-Fatal Strangulation and Reporting in Cases of Domestic Violence in Utah Serena Madsen (Richard Medina) - I Am Man, Hear Me Roar: Masculinity, Extremism, and Violence in the United States Jason Manning (Adam Rauff) - Quantification of Neovessel Regression in Angiogenesis via Time-Series Imaging Hunter Mansfield (Kimberley Evason) - Investigation of the Serotonin System in Liver Regeneration and Hepatocellular Carcinoma Alex Margetts (J David Symons) - Development of a Murine Stroke Model Carrie Marsh (Jennifer Follstad Shah) - Use and Implementation of Water Purification Devices in Group International Travel Christine Martinez (Wanda Pillow) - Runnin' Utes or Runnin' Racism: Discourse Analysis of the Evolution of the University of Utah Mascot Olivia Mauchley (Akiko Kamimura) - Understanding the Lifestyles of Physically Active Older Adults Ashlee McBride (Keith Lohse) - Age Related Changes to the Cognitive Control of Turning with Mobility-Related Anxiety Savannah McCoy (Tanya Halliday) - Are Fasting and Postprandial Appetite Ratings Influenced by Prediabetes Phenotype? Iris McCulloch (Andrea Brunelle) - Holocene Reconstruction of the North American Monsoon in Northern Baja California, Mexico Taylor McFarland (Kevin Jones) - Exploring the role of nuclear export of TFE3 in alveolar soft part sarcoma Shaun Mckellar (Cindy Furse) - Optimization of a Biopolymer antenna applicator Ishmael Medina (Brian Codding) - The Impacts of Ancient Maize Agriculture in Utah Sai Mehta (Kuby Balagurunathan) - Heparosan Sulfate and Lung Branching Ebony Miller (Joanne Yaffe) - Systematic Scoping Review of Eyewitness Identification Research Kinley Millett (Andrew Linke) - Environmental Changes and Women Empowerment in Sub- Saharan Africa Alia binti Mohd Zaki (Mark Minor) - Distributed Sensing in Multi-Bladder Network within Football Helmet for Impact Detection Michael Montgomery (Simon Fisher) - MicroRNA Levels in Blood Serum and their Association with Recurrent Hypoglycemia and the Counterregulatory Response Jaya Muehlman (Jon Seger) - The effect of underwater noise on southern right whale group dynamics Jacqueline Mumford (Bob Allen) - The Role of the Accounting Professionals and Educators in Government Spending Jamie Nakano (Shane Macfarlan) - Cross-Cultural Negative Outcomes of Warfare Among Warriors Alexandra Nelson (Ramon Barthelemy) - Revisiting the "LGBT Climate in Physics" APS Report Sam Nelson (Jill Shea) - Peripheral Nerve Regeneration Assisted by PLA Conduits Soren Nelson (Rajesh Menon) - Lensless-Camera Image Classification and Reconstruction with Neural Networks Kevin Ngo (Thomas Zangle) - Quantitative Phase Imaging Calibration Andrew Nielsen (Marianna Di Paolo) - Analysis of the Wick R. Miller Collection's Shoshone Ethnographic Narratives Sam Nielsen (Aaron Fischer) - Preliminary Examination of Tiered Mental Health Services at School Settings Robert Nievar (Yong Lin Kong) - Utilizing PT symmetry to enhance the sensitivity of a 3D printed sensor Bella Ohran (Jared Bergman) - Role of LOK in ERK/ Ezrin Pathway Nick Olsen (Michael Gruenwald) - Simple molecular models for chiral crystallization Nikolas Orton (Cagan Sekercioglu) - The Effects of Changing Precipitation Regimes on Springtime Avian Migration Through Utah's River Corridors Pedro Padilla-Martinez (Edmund Fong) - Marijuana Policy and Race: A Case for Decriminalization in Utah Alec Parent (Kathy Sward) - Software Validation and Verification in Sensor Health Projects Cole Perschon (Blair Sullivan) - Evaluating the Practicality of Structural Rounding for Data Mining John Persons (Tony Butterfield) - Aerial Particulate Matter Concentrations within the North Arapaho Community on the Wind River Reservation Research Study Kylie Persson (Tara Deans) - In Vitro Biogenesis of Platelet-Like-Particles from MEG-01 Cells Using a Microfluidic Device Henry Ponce-Orellana (Aaron Puri) - Antimicrobial Discovery and Biosynthetic Potential of Species in the Flavobacteriaceae Family Kamala Poudyel (Akiko Kamimura) - Perceptions of mental health and stress related to social support and acculturation among Bhutanese refugee women in the United States Radhika Prasad (Ming Wen) - The Long-term Effects of Marijuana use on Illicit Drug use Behaviors Madison Putich (Anandh Babu Pon Velayutham) - Dietary supplementation of blueberry improves inflammatory chemokines and adhesion molecules in the aging vasculature Katie Redd (Justin Diggle) - New Technology and Printmaking Applications Melissa Regalado (Marissa Diener) - A Community-Based Research Study to Analyze and Assess Academic and Well-Being Needs of Utah Students in Foster Care Juliet Reynolds (Kim Hackford-Peer) - GSA's and Middle School/Junior High Policy Restrictions in Utah Schools Johnny Rodriguez (Claudia Geist) - The Indigenous Reproductive Justice Movement: A Collection of the History of Forced Sterilizations William Roe (McKenzie Skiles) - Impacts on Snow Water Resources From a Warmer Climate and Radiative Forcing by Dust on Snow in the Wasatch Mountains Claire Rogers (Peter Fino) - Response of Concussed Individuals to Perturbations During Walking and Turning Tasks Clayton Russell (Jeffrey Moore) - Low-Cost Resonance Sensing Supporting Landform Health Assessment Alex Scalzo (Cheryl Wright) - Do teacher, professional and parent expectations influence post-secondary attendance for student with autism spectrum disorder? Izzy Schlegel (Michael Yu) - Development of Clickable Collagen Hybridizing Peptides for Targeted Osteoarthritis Therapy Jonathan Schmidt (Donna Cross) - MR-guided Focused Ultrasound delivery of paclitaxel to increase axonal sprouting after spinal cord injuries. Sophia Schuman (Conan Kinsey) - Protective Autophagy Elicited by RAF→MEK→ERK Inhibition in Colorectal Cancer Travis Seamons (Tara Deans) - Investigation of Mechanisms Behind the QUAS/QF System in Prokaryotes Dinorah Segovia Galicia (Heayoung Yoon) - Design and Fabrication of Silicon Micro/Nanowires through Thermal Oxidation Processes Paige Shipman (Jeremiah Alt) - Optimization of the Culturing of Nasal Epithelial Cells for Analysis of Ciliary Beat Frequency Caitlin Silianoff (Christopher Mead) - Abject Subjects: Bodily Imagery in the Metaphysical Conceit Taylor Silkey (Rebecca Utz) - The Apple Doesn't Fall Far From the Tree: How Physical Activity Habits of Parents Influence Their Teenager's Gabi Siu (Anne Mooney) - Contemporary Design in the American West through the Lens of Film Emma Slominski (Dennis Parker) - Treatment Simulation of Transcranial Magnetic Resonance-guided Focused Ultrasound Elise Smith (Sarah Canham) - Examining Policy Priorities for Addressing Homelessness in Salt Lake County among Persons by those with Lived Experience Alex Son (Annie Fukushima) - Motherland to Diaspora: Building Khmer Solidarity with Participatory Action Research Maia Southwick (Monisha Pasupathi) - The Experience of Feeling Heard Between Relational Contexts Crystal Spagnuolo (Brian Codding) - Establishing Temporal Distribution for Ceramics of the Virgin River Branch of the Ancestral Puebloan Harini Srinivasan (Brandi Wynne) - The Role of Renal Dendritic Cells (rDCs) in Salt-Sensitive Hypertension Jessica Stanley (Dale Clayton) - Relationship Between Bill Morphology and Parasite Load Cassidy Stein (Mitchell Power) - A summer rainfall reconstruction from bristlecone pine (Pinus longaeva) in the Uinta Mountains, Utah Kaitlyn Stevens (Clement Chow) - Identifying Genetic Modifiers of Apoptosis in Retinal Degeneration Erik Stevning (Shelley Minteer) - Time Point Analysis of Anion Selective Semi-Permeable Membrane Degradation in an Organic Redox Flow Battery Caden Stewart (Chris Gregg) - Machine Learning Detection of Paternal Diet Effects on Offspring Behavior Patterns Maria Stokes (Hugh Cagle) - A Comparative Study of Detection Methods: Early Optical Telescopes and Gravitational Wave Detectors Dawn Sweeney (Jamesina Simpson) - The Men & Women behind the Curtain: Researches left in the Footnotes Jared Tambaschi (Jacob Hochhalter) - High-throughput Automated System Hayley Tankersley (Jamesina Simpson) - Acknowledged Without Authorship: The Programmers Behind the Science Alexandra Taylor (Claire Son Son) - Vocabulary Intervention Program Development for Young At-Risk Low-Income Children Sarah Taylor (Keith Lohse) - Using the contextual interference effect to probe the underlying neural processes associated with motor skill learning Kelsee Todd (Susan Bock) - Development of an Automated Baculovirus Titration Assay Using Neutral Red and Endpoint Dilution Methods David Topham (Shawn Owen) - Increasing Localization of Her2 Surface Protein Using Epidermal Growth Factor Mandy Tran (Darius Bost) - Love To Resist Sarah Trela-Hoskins (Kelly Baron) - Circadian Timing, Information Processing and Energy Balance Study/ Randomized Experiment of Sleep technology Tushig Tsogtbaatar (Tracey Lamb) - The Role of Ephrin B on Antibody Response to Plasmodium Yoelii Andrea Uehling (Shane Macfarlan) - Warriors: A Cross Cultural Study of War Veterans and Their Rewards Merosa Uiagalelei (Hokulani Aikau) - Pacific Islander Women in the Diaspora Mark Van der Merwe (Tucker Hermans) - Robust Object Reconstruction for Robotic Grasping Keely VandenBerge (Sara Hart) - A Mentorship Model for Underrepresented High School Students Interested in the Nursing Profession Keegan VanLeeuwen (Scott Schaefer) - An Econometric Approach to Validate the Economic Impact of the 2002 Winter Olympic Games Ryan Wauer (Mike Shapiro) - Understanding the Genetic Basis of Piebalding in Domestic Rock Pigeons Nataly Welch (Adrienne Cachelin) - Exploring educational experiences from the students perspective: Building cultural competence among teachers Dave Whittaker (Dinesh Shetty) - Investigation into Niobium Carbide as an Extremely Wear-Resistant Material Ellen Williams (Keith Lohse) - Spectral Slope as a Biomarker of Cognitive Decline in Older Adults with Mild Cognitive Impairment Josh Wood (Peter Fino) - Mild Traumatic Brain Injury and its Effects on Cognition and Balance during Dual-Tasks Representative of Everyday Life Kathryn Wylie (Monisha Pasupathi) - Differences Between Mother and Peer Listeners in the Encouragement of Perspective-Taking Kyle Wynn (Martin Horvath) - Using Alpha-conotoxin RgIA and the Alpha9Alpha10 Nicotinic Acetycholine Receptor to Find Alternative Medications for Treatment of Chronic Neuropathic Pain. Emily Yang (Ryan Steele) - Vibrational Signatures of the Structural Flexibility of Tropine Eylül Yel (Sarita Gaytán) - Managing Authenticity in the Utah Craft Spirit Industry Jacob Young (Jared Rawlings) - Bullying, Peer Groups, and Music Participation:The Socialization of Bullying Behavior in Adolescence Tara Zamani (Neil Cotter) - UROP Research Proposal Spring 2020