The Office of Undergraduate Research welcomes you to the virtual presentations for the Undergraduate Research Symposium (in person presentations will be held in the Union Building April 5, 9:00AM-2:30PM)! Congratulations to all the students and mentors for their hard work, dedication and perseverance!
Visitors, please browse 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!
(If you encounter any issues while viewing a presentation, please email OUR@utah.edu.
Students listed by College of Faculty Mentor:
architecture + planning
Oral #1: Natalie Caylor - Perspectives on Aging in Place During the Covid-19 Pandemic: A Qualitative Analysis
Poster #1: Samantha Eddy - Cultural Resource Mapping
Visual Arts #1: Drew Green - post sonica
Oral #2: Tessa Vu - Spatial Investigation of Toxic Sites and Water—A Focus on Racial Equity
cultural & social transformation
Poster #2: Holden Jones - Attitudes Towards Gender in Future Health Care Providers
Poster #4: Tiare Mitchell - The Intergenerational Effects of Hawaiian Sovereignty
Poster #5: Carmencita Totua - Mental Health in Pacific Islander Communities
dentistry
education
Poster #8: Mary Smith - The Effects of Mathematics Education in Indian Boarding Schools, 1950-1970
Engineering
Poster #9: Blayze Ashurst - Potentiostat PCB Design and Measurement with Altium
Oral #4: Bryce Cheek - Deep Brain Stimulation to Treat Depression
Oral #5: Carter Christensen - Field Focusing for Implantable Telemetry Antennas
Poster #10: Vanessa Cox - Metaphors We Design Games By
Poster #11: Amelia Heiner - Biodegradable Pressure Sensitive Hot Melt Adhesive
Oral #7: Ian Lavin - Online learning with Spiking Neural Networks for Data Prefetching
Poster #12: Angelica Madsen - Hydrogel-Based Dehydration Sensor Adhesive
Poster #13: Benjamin Orkild - The Role of Right Ventricular Shape in Tricuspid Valve Regurgitation
Oral #8: Jeff Perry - A Residual Stress Analysis of Two-Photon Polymerized Thin Film
Poster #14: BENSON PULVER - Baseline for Magnetically Propelled Soft Robots
Oral #9: Koriann South - Teaching Ethics in AI
Poster #17: Hayley Tankersley - Literature Search on Women in Early Antennas Research
Poster #20: Olivia Walker - The Effect of Variable Conductivity on Cardiac Excitation
Oral #10: Jeff Wang - Limited Shoulder Range of Motion and Trunk Compensatory Movements
Fine Arts
Performance #1: Duke Ross - STRINGS
Oral #11: Makena Reynolds - The Emily Dickinson Musical
Oral #12: Brynn Staker St. Clair - The Cohan Narrative: Examining the Reach of George M. Cohan
Health
Poster #23: Teasha Luu - Reactive-Hyperemia and Microvascular Function: A Comparison of Methods
Humanities
Poster #25: Hannah Mundinger - Rare Disease, the Diagnostic Odyssey, and Normality Reconstruction
Medicine
Oral #13: Katerina Excell - The role of Amyloid Precursor Protein in a model of Alzheimer’s Disease
Poster #27: Simran Karim - Analysis of Hemodynamics in Porcine Arteriovenous Fistulas
Poster #28: Saul Rivera-Flores - Wide-angle Vitreous Imaging in Familial Exudative Vitreoretinopathy
Poster #29: Alexander Sperber - A Novel Approach to Differentiating Cardiac Fibroblasts from iPSCs
Mines & Earth Sciences
Nursing
Poster #31: Annette Ellis - Race in Clinical Research
Pharmacy
Poster #33: Katelyn Pyper - Testing of Split-beta-Lactamase Constructs for Therapeutic Application
Science
Oral #15: Annie Giokas - Noetherian Property of Invariant Rings
Poster #35: Yung-Chi Lan - The Role of Slm1 in Mitochondrial Function
Poster #36: Ethan Murdock - Predicting Quorum Sensing Signals Using Enzyme Co-Occurrence Analysis
Poster #38: Ana Rowe - Suppression of Chemoreceptor Signal-Switching Defects
Oral #16: Nathaniel Thomas - IFITM3, SAMHD1, and the IFN Response to Viruses
Social & Behavioral Science
Poster #41: Joshua Christensen - The LDS Context: Religious Trauma, Social Safety, and LGBTQ+ Health
Poster #42: Jessica Cuello - Exploring Food Justice through Qualitative Research
Poster #43: Anna Delos Reyes - Incorrect Computer Aided Detection (CAD) marks lead to early quitting
Poster #47: Dylan Hutchings - Searching Through Memory and Space for the Effect of Repeat Search
Poster #48: Seokjin Jeong - The Effect of Listening to Degraded Speech on Driving Performance
Poster #49: Sophia Martinez - Narrative Agency and Distress Regulation in Youth
Poster #50: Shaylie Platten - Neither worry nor cognitive load affects how our brains process errors