Research Showcase

Please join us as we gather again as an academic community to celebrate research and the achievements of our undergraduate students. Students will be presenting posters and presentations of their undergraduate research, scholarship, and creative work from all departments across campus, including work sponsored by the Undergraduate Research Center, University Honors, and the Center for Community Engagement to Advance Scholarship and Learning. Please support them and their faculty mentors as they celebrate these important accomplishments.

DU Undergraduate Research Showcase Presenter Order

*Please note that formal 3-5 minute presentations will occur in CCOM 1600 from 3:10PM – 4:30 PM and the poster presentations will be ongoing throughout the entirety of the event.

3:00 PM - 3:10 PM Opening Remarks from Provost Clark
3:10 PM - 3:15 PM Madalyne Heiken, Amplifying Youth Through Art
3:15 PM – 3:20 PM Lauren Moak, Tipping in Hotel Housekeeping
3:20 PM – 3:25 PM Olivia Schneider, How Do Quadruplexes Help Proteins Fold?
3:25 PM – 3:30 PM Evan Dybvig, 4D Visualization in a 3D Environment
3:30 PM – 3:35 PM Katherine Miromonti, Saving the Sparkle: Conserving Schlumberger Jewelry and Drawings, circa. 1950-70
3:35 PM - 3:40 PM Jack Hempleman, Sustainable Rural Development: Is it Possible to Boost Rural Economies while Protecting the Environment?
3:40PM - 3:45 PM Grayden Wolfe, Childhood Experiences and Future Expectations During the COVID-19 Pandemic
3:45 PM- 3:50 PM Kevin Persky, Financial Feasibility Analysis on Asteroid Mining

3:50 PM – 3:55 PM Madilyn Fawcett, DiscoverU
3:55 PM – 4:00 PM Jackson Garske, State-Sponsored Cultural Production's Influence On Nationalist Politics In France
4:00 PM – 4:05 PM Leah York, Environment, Endocrine Function and Embryos: How Exposure to Environmentally Compromised Regions Impact Critical Steps of Human Development and the Disproportionate Impacts of these Effects on the Global South
4:05 PM – 4:10 PM Benjamin Dossett, DU Want To Build-A-Bot?
4:10 PM - 4:15 PM Megan Morrell, Between Populism and Settler Colonialism: A US Case Study
4:15 PM – 4:20 PM Gelella Nebiyu, Bridging the Gap: Connecting Resources to Underserved Schools
4:20 PM – 4:25 PM Emily King, Homophobia, Politics, and Public Health Protection: HIV Criminalization Law in California from 1985-1998
4:25 PM – 4:30 PM Wrap-Up with Director of the Center for Undergraduate Scholarship and Honors, Katherine Tennis

DU Research

College of Arts, Humanities & Social Sciences

Daisy Booker	Predicting Socioemotional Development Across the First Year of Life: Early Infant fNIRS and BITSEA	View
Justin Bravo	The Studio of the Latino Lover	View
Megan Burnham	Social and Affective Impacts of the COVID-19 Pandemic on University Students	View
Zoe Grisez	Helping Young Adults With Physical Disabilities Seek Independence And Higher Education	View
Caroline Hamilton	One or the Other: An Exploration of Gender Essentialism and Binary Categorization	View
Haley Hartmann	A Midsummer's Wet Dream: An Exploratory Artists' Book	View
Madalyne Heiken	Amplifying Youth Through Art	View
Jack Hempleman	Sustainable Rural Development: Is it Possible to Boost Rural Economies while Protecting the Environment?	View
Colin Holter	The Renaissance of American Big Band Jazz: An Exploration in Contemporary Presentation	View
Emily King	Homophobia, Politics, and Public Health Protection: HIV Criminalization Law in California from 1985-1998	View
Abigail Langeberg	The Effects of Reason for Wrongful Conviction on Perceiver Stereotype Endorsement and Hiring Judgments	View
Maddie Leake	Stressful Life Event Effect on Sleep and Emotion Regulation	View
Meredith Lemons	Primary Caregiver, Sibling Acceptance of LGBTQIA+ Family Members	View
Katherine Miromonti	Saving the Sparkle: Conserving Schlumberger Jewelry and Drawings, circa. 1950-70	View
Megan Morrell	Between Populism and Settler Colonialism: A US Case Study	View
Gelella Nebiyu	Bridging the Gap: Connecting Resources to Underserved Schools	View
Kassidy Patarino	Contextual Influences on Trust: Automatic Deception Detection	View
Camilla Rodriguez- Guzman	Supporting the Immigrant Community	View
Chase Routt	Exploration of Cobalt Catalysts as Catalytic Chain Transfer Agents in Crosslinked Photopolymers	View
Kyle Thurmann	The Effects of Reward Anticipation on Cognitive Control and Memory Encoding Processes: A Meta-Analysis	View
Amelia Trembath	Peer Support Buffering for Post-Institutionalized vs Non-adopted Children on Psychosocial Outcomes	View
Zachary Vangelisti	Priming Pain Expression Intensity Influences Intent to Seek Physical Healthcare	View
Keelan Vargas	Georeferencing and Mapping Spatial Distributions of Peruvian/Quechuan Arborglyphs in North Routt County	View
Peter Vo	Vietnamese Diaspora	View
Grayden Wolfe	Childhood Experiences and Future Expectations During the COVID-19 Pandemic	View

College of Natural Sciences & Mathematics

Emma Aggeler	Impacts of Ambient Air Pollution on Birth Weight Percentile and Gestational Age at Birth	View
Elena Arroway	Point of Use Technologies to Increase Access to Clean Water in Rural Communities	View
Makenzie Bell	Rab8 Trafficking of Apical Cargo is Required for Endothelial Lumen Formation and Sprouting Dynamics	View
Nicole Choi	Influence of Hypoxia Acclimation and Evolutionary History on the Muscle Structure of Peromyscus Mice	View
Spencer Cockerell	Using Neural Networks to Extend Experimental Trajectories in Genetic Circuits	View
Phoebe Dillon	Approaches to Understanding Protein-RNA Binding: TDP-43	View
Elise Gellman	Microsatellite Genotyping And Development Of Sperm DNA Extraction Protocols In Gryllus Firmus Crickets	View
Kaitlyn Glover	Characterization and Comparison of Calcium Oscillations Between Oligodendrocytes and Other Mammalian Cells	View
Riley Harrison	Effect of LPLA-2 Knockdown on Polar Body Membrane Breakdown	View
Stormy Hegg	Impact of Urbanization on Leaf Dry Matter Content	View
Dawson Hewatt	Comparing FAMACs Perovskite Solar Cells to FADMACs Perovskite Solar Cells Through Transient Measurements	View
Leah Huzjak	Optical Vortex Nucleation Behind A Circular Obstruction	View
Dhiona Jaramillo	E. Coli. G-Quadruplexes: Do They Act As Chaperones?	View
Alyssa Jeng	Mutations in the Human VPS41 Protein and Their Effect on Insulin Secretion	View
Cole Jernigan	CO Releasing Organic Polymers for Biomedical Applications	View
Landon Joyal	Using Mathematical Modeling Of Galaxies To Disprove The Existence Of Dark Matter	View
Chad Kashiwa	Examining Motivational Influences on Cognitive Control and Memory	View
Adelaide Kerenick	A Cross-Coupling Approach to Synthesis Of BEPs: Faster Access to Probe Conditions	View
Alec Mackay	Site-Directed Mutagenesis To Characterize Manganese Binding Site of SARS-CoV-2 NSP15 Protein	View
Christina Maguire	Testing Microsatellite Genotyping In An Urban Cricket Population	View
Greer McKinley	Structure/Function studies on the MRAP1 of Amia calva	View
Audrey Mitchell	The Effect of Temperature on the Phenology of Fall Webworm	View
Zdenek Otruba	Modelling the Effect of Tethering on Exosome Secretion	View
Max Palay	Mean squared displacement as an identifier in classification of membrane fusion events	View
Toni Panzera	One Star, Two Star, Red Star, Blue Star: Probing the Binary Status of the Wolf-Rayet Stars WR 12 and WR 71 with Spectropolarimetry	View
Alexandra Penney	The Impact of Spermine on Alpha-Synuclein Aggregation and Cell Viability in Parkinson's Disease	View
Caitlin Pham	Elucidating the Relationship Between Amyloid Aggregation and Inhibition of Polyamine Synthesis and Senescence in Down Syndrome Fibroblasts	View
Gabriela Recinos	Female Age-related Brain Immune Changes And Numbness	View
Mary Ringgenberg	Revealing the Structure of Wolf-Rayet Binary Systems: WR47 and WR62a	View
Olivia Schneider	How Do Quadruplexes Help Proteins Fold?	View
Roman Shrestha	Synthesis of Neopentoxy Boron Dipyrromethene Ethylene Probe-4 (Neo BEP-4) and Evaluation of its Optical Characterizations	View
Arlo Simmerman	Cadherin Conservation and Localization in Sponge Tissue (Porifera)	View
Tessa Smith	Toxicity and Binding of TAR DNA-Binding Protein 43	View
Alec Smith	Therapeutic Potential of a Red Dragon Fruit, Hylocereus polyrhizus, Ethanol Extract in an hSOD1G93A Mouse Model of Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis: Isolation and Characterization of Other Novel Red Dragon Fruit Extracts Enriched in Betacyanin Compounds	View
Casey Tindall	Discovering New Zinc Permeable Ion Channels	View
Anit Tyagi	Understanding Why The Anti-Cancer Drug, Pembrolizumab, Fails In Certain Patients	View
Abby Walker	Interconnectedness With Nature And Human Emotional Response To Biodiversity	View
David Winter	The Wolf's Bite: Investigating The Shapes Of Colliding Wind Regions In Wolf-Rayet Binary Star Systems	View
Leah York	Environment, Endocrine Function and Embryos: How Exposure to Environmentally Compromised Regions Impact Critical Steps of Human Development and the Disproportionate Impacts of these Effects on the Global South	View

Daniels College of Business

Lauren Moak Tipping in Hotel Housekeeping View

Kevin Persky
Financial Feasibility Analysis on Asteroid Mining
View

Josef Korbel School of International Studies

Rosie Contino	The Case of Kenya: Evaluating Kenya Slum Upgrading Program from a Sustainable Urbanization Framework	View
Jackson Garske	State-Sponsored Cultural Production's Influence On Nationalist Politics In France	View
Nhi-Lac Thai	An Exploration Of Admissions Inequalities at CU Boulder	View
Maria Trubetskaya	Trade Liberalization and the Social Determinants of Health: A Case Study of NAFTA's Impact on Mexico from 1994 to 2005	View
Grace Wankelman	Armed Conflict and Gendered Household Power in Guatemala	View

Ritchie School of Engineering & Computer Science

Kyle Bucholz	Geometry of Object Storage and Recognition in Human Memory	View
Benjamin Dossett	DU Want To Build-A-Bot?	View
Evan Dybvig	4D Visualization in a 3D Environment	View
Madilyn Fawcett	DiscoverU	View
Hannah Hornung	5 Degree of Movement Prosthetic Thumb using Twisted Fiber Artificial Muscles	View
Ori Miller	Ground-Air Robot Cooperative Tracking of an Adversarial Agent	View
Guy Milliman	Machine Learning and Cybersecurity Applications	View
Sneha Patil	A Novel Online Robot Design Research Platform to Determine Robot Mind Perception	View
Aubrey Patrick	DiscoverU	View
Ashley Sanchez	DU Want to Build a Bot	View