The Office of Undergraduate Research welcomes you to the first-ever Virtual Undergraduate Research Symposium!
Even under these difficult circumstances, University of Utah undergraduate researchers and their mentors made it happen. Congratulations to all for their flexibility, creativity, and perseverance!
Visitors, please click through the links below to learn about the University of Utah's undergraduate research projects through posters, oral presentations, performances, and visual arts. Don't forget to email students at the addresses provided to ask questions and to congratulate them for their excellent work!
Architecture + Planning
Poster 1: NAREN ANANDH - Visual Documentation: Kabuli Nomadic Camp
Business
Oral 1: MATTHEW FROBERG - Security Design in Markets with Risk: Price and Allocational Efficiencies
Poster 2: LUKE JOWERS - Partisanship's Impact on Voting Behavior
Cultural & Social Transformation -Visit the Transform Undergraduate Research Showcase
Poster 00: MERCEDES BROWN - Discourse of Difficulty: Trauma-Based Masculinity in Foster Care
Poster 7: ALEXANDER HIRAI - Loss Associated with Japanese American Incarceration
Poster 8: JENNY HOBBS - Wokbe: Implicit Bias Web app Pilto
ROBERT KEANEY - Warrior Spirit Tooele Combat Sports Program
Poster 9: JOCELYNE LOPEZ - Hablemos Salud
Poster 11: TIYA MAHI - Performance as Solidarity
Poster 13: JULIET REYNOLDS - Gay Straight Alliance Clubs, Utah Law and School Policy
Poster 14: ALEX SON - Strengthening Communities
Visual Arts 1: MANDY TRAN - Love to Resist
Dentistry
Poster 15: BRADON FALLON- Hormonal Effects on Hepatitis Delta Virus Replication
Education
Engineering
Oral 3: AJ BULL - Robotic Grasp Control using Tactile Feedback
Poster 22: JAKE COLLINS - Cellular Communications for Utility Distribution Network Assets
Poster 23: MATTHEW DAILEY - Perfluoroalkyl Contaminant Sensor
Poster 25: ABHI DUBAL - Applying Deep Compression Techniques to the Transformer
Poster 26: ASMITA DULAL - Osteoblast Cells Behavior on Fluoridated Hydroxyapatite
Poster 28: KYLEE FLUCKIGER - Flexible Sensing for Pressure Ulcer Detection & Prevention
Poster 32: CLEO HANCOCK - Learning Efficacy - A New Casing for A Tuberculosis Biosensor
Poster 34: SPENCER IVERSON - Low-Cost, Bluetooth Surface Electromyography Acquisition Device
Poster 37: RYAN MURDOCK - Generating Realistic Crystal Structures Using Neural Networks
Poster 38: SOREN NELSON - Optics-free imaging of QR Codes with Deep Learning
Poster 41: SPENCER SAWAS - Validating Expression of an Attachment Site for Synthetic Mucin Mimics
Oral 4: DINORAH SEGOVIA - Design and Fabrication of Si Micro/Nanowires through Thermal Oxidation
Poster 42: RYAN TATTON - Simulations of dMRI Reconstruction Explore Effects of Axonal Spacing
MARK VEN DER MERWE - Learning Continuous 3D Reconstructions for Geometrically Aware Grasping
Poster 46: DAVID WHITTAKER- Phase Change of Niobium Carbide through High-Temperature Annealing
Poster 47: LAURA ZIEGLER - Imaging Thinly Myelinated White Matter Pathways
Fine Arts
Poster 49: KRISTEN BENNETT - Wildlife Altered
Oral 5: KIMI BROWN - Shakespearean Support Group
Performance 2: SEVERIN SARGENT-CATTERTON Sargent-Catterton - Let's Make It a Thing
Poster 52: RACHEL ROSER - The Unity of Blue
Health
Poster 56: LAURA BOREN - Creating a Physical Activity Promotion Program for Utah Cancer Survivors
Poster 57: ANGIE CAMPOSANO MEZA, BRENDA SANCHEZ, JASMIN VELAZQUEZ - Seeds that Succeed
Poster 60: BRENNAN CRONQUIST - The POMS "Crater" Profile as seen in College Students
Poster 61: ERICA EMERY - Pedal Away Parkinson's: Recreational Therapy Specific Program
Honors
Oral 8: CAITLIN SILIANOFF - Objectified: Bodily Fragmentation in the Metaphysical Conceit
Poster 68: MAIA SOUTHWICK - The Experience of Feeling Heard in Conflict Across Relationships
Humanities
Poster 69: HALLIE ALLAN - Noun Incorporation in Crow: An Assessment of Various Approaches
Poster 70: HENRY ALLEN - Content Analysis: Newspaper Coverage of Colony Collapse Disorder
Oral 9: JUAN ESQUIVEL - Catholic Response to the AIDS crisis in Utah
Oral 10: MORENA SANTANA - How do Portuguese as a Foreign Language Learners Perceive Feedback?
Oral 11: MARIA STOKES - The Making of Method
Medicine
Oral 15: NARDI ALMAW - The Role of Fibroblast Growth Factor 21 in Heart Failure
Poster 84: AUSTIN GOODWIN - Hindgut Epithelial Ion Transporters in Drosophila Melanogaster
Poster 86: ELIZABETH HAYES - Characterizing Focal Adhesion-based Tumor Cell Dissemination
Poster 87: CHIEKO HOKI - Understanding the Role of NETs in Ischemic Stroke Outcomes
Poster 88: AMANDA HORIUCHI - Perm1: A Novel Regulator of Mitochondrial Energetics in Cardiomyocytes
Poster 93: OLIVIA LEE - The Effect of Differential RASGRP2 Isoform Expression on Platelet Activation
Poster 94: MEGAN LEWIS - Translational Regulation of E2F1 in Cancer
Poster 95: YINGYUE LI - Genotyping of phosphoglucomutase 2 deficiency mouse model
Poster 100: ABDUL OSMAN - Progression of SNHL in Patients with Trisomy 21
Mines & Earth Sciences
Poster 106: CHASE HODGES-HEILMANN - Analyzing dust events in the Wasatch snowpack
Poster 107: HAYLEY LIND - Spatial Variation of Starch and Sugars in Ponderosa Pine
JUSTIN KRIER - Mapping of Ultra Low Velocity Zones in the Core-Mantle Boundary
Poster 108: ZAHRA SAIFEE - Application of Calcium Phosphate Cements in Dental Pulp Capping
Nursing
Poster 109: KALEN GUNTER - Interactions Between Family Caregivers and Visiting Hospice Nurses
Poster 110: ALEC PARENT - Research Platform for Research with Sensors
Pharmacy
Poster 114: MACEY SMITH - Enzyme Promiscuity – Alkaline Phosphatase
Science
Poster 116: GALEN BERGSTEN - Probing Explosive Enrichment via Supernova Remnants
Poster 118: AUSTIN CANNON - Novel Ligand Synthesis for CO2 Hydrogenation
Poster 120: JACOB CAPENER - How Does GRK2 Control The Hedgehog Pathway in Development and Cancer?
Poster 123: KASON GLOVER - Novel Antibiotics Inspired by Natural Tetrapeptide GE 81112
Poster 124: CAT GREENBURG - Leucine Regulation of Membrane Transport Proteins in S. cerevisiae
Poster 129: MARKELL KOLENDRIANOS - Determining the molecular structure of zeaxanthin-GSTP1 complex
Poster 130: BRENNAN MAHONEY - GRASPing Multisensory Circuitry in Drosophila
Poster 131: ALEXANDRIA MARGETTS - Development of a Murine Stroke Model
Poster 132: CHRISTOPHER NIELSON - Bond Dissociation Energies of Early Transition Metal Borides
Poster 133: NICK OLSEN - Simple Molecular Models for Chiral Crystallization
Poster 135: GABBY ROCHA - Investigation the role of the Unfolded Protein Response in Quiescence
Poster 136: JESSICA STANLEY - Relationship Between Bill Morphology and Parasite Load
Poster 138: LAUREN TERVET - Synthesis of mesoporous silica nanoparticles for targeted alpha therapy
Oral 20: JACKSON TURNER - Computation of Eigenfunctions on Various Domains
Social & Behavioral Science
Poster 142: CLAIRE BAER - Treeline Migration Patterns of Pinus edulis Throughout the Holocene
Poster 145: MICHAEL BROUGHTON - Monitoring Small Mammal Populations at Utah Bottoms
Poster 147: WILLIAM CANNON - 4,500 Years of Biotic Change in Range Creek Canyon
Poster 151: KAEDYN CRABTREE - Nature vs. Urban: Measuring Attention Restoration Theory and Affect
Poster 168: JOHNNY RODRIGUEZ - Reclaiming the Sterilized Body
Poster 175: TRACEY TACANA - The stability of infant physiological reactivity from seven to 18 months
Poster 176: SARAH TRELA-HOSKINS - Randomized Experiment Using Sleep Technology
Poster 178: EYLÜL YEL - Crafting Authenticity in Utah’s Distilled Spirit Industry
Social Work
Poster 180: EBONY MILLER - Eyewitness Identification: A Scoping Review