The Office of Undergraduate Research welcomes you to the 2020 Virtual Fall Symposium!
Welcome! Please click through the links below to learn about the University of Utah's undergraduate research projects through performances, posters and oral presentations. Don't forget to email students at the addresses provided to ask questions and to congratulate them for their excellent work!

ALL STUDENT PRESENTATIONS LISTED BY MENTOR'S COLLEGE
Architecture & Planning
Film Performance #1: GABI SIU - Contemporary Design in the American West through the Lens of Film
Oral #1: JOE WASSWEILER - Fixing Tuition Inflation
Business
Cultural & Social Transformation
Poster #3: JENS NILSON - Child Labor Trafficking and the Child Welfare System
Education
Poster #4: JIMENA MURILLO - Psychology and Intervention Use
Engineering
Poster #5: MITCHELL CHILD - Castable, Porous Insulation for Oxygen Generation Applications
Poster #6: BRYCE LARSEN - Promoting Osteogenesis using CRISPR-dCas9-VPR
Poster #8: IAN MCCOLLOUGH - Castable Porous Ceramic Insulation
Oral #3: TARA ZAMANI - Spiking Neural Network Modeling and an XOR Application
Fine Arts
Oral #4: ALAN CHAVEZ - Master Minds and Artists: Visiting Influencers in the Pre-Civil Rights Era
Health
Humanities
Poster #14: TARA HOGAN and REBECCA RIVAS - Undergraduate Ethnocentrism
Poster #15: JOHN HUNT, ELENA ORREGO, MARCEL PETERSEN - Rubin (1992) Replication
Poster #17: ZOE PRICE & LYNDSAY ZACCARI - Beyond a Face: Replication of Rubin 1992
Medicine
Poster #19: FATIMA FAIZI - Type 1 diabetes self-care: your daily dose of diabetes
Mines & Earth Sciences
Nursing
Poster #27: MADELINE TRIPP - Addressing Opioid Use in Carbon County, Utah
Science
Poster #29: ISABELLE GALLAND - The Phylogenetic Enigma of the Psychedelic Mushroom genus, Psilocybe
Poster #30: BILLY NGUYEN - Elucidating the Molecular Mechanism of Action of the Microsclerodermins
Social & Behavioral Science
Oral #7: MEGHAN BURROWS - Youth, Environment, and Belonging
Poster #33: EMMA DEAN - The Effect of Maternal Resilience on Newborn Neurobehavioral Outcomes
Poster #37: MASON STEPHENS - Mindfulness and P300 correlational relationship to Time Spent in Nature
Social Work
Poster #40: ZACK BISKUPIAK - Understanding the Operational Definition of Mindfulness Meditation