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.
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
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College of Arts, Humanities & Social Sciences
Daisy Booker
Predicting Socioemotional Development Across the First Year of Life: Early Infant fNIRS and BITSEA Justin Bravo
The Studio of the Latino Lover
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
Caroline Hamilton
One or the Other: An Exploration of Gender Essentialism and Binary Categorization
Haley Hartmann
A Midsummer's Wet Dream: An Exploratory Artists' Book
Madalyne Heiken
Amplifying Youth Through Art
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
Emily King
Homophobia, Politics, and Public Health Protection: HIV Criminalization Law in California from 1985-1998
Abigail Langeberg
The Effects of Reason for Wrongful Conviction on Perceiver Stereotype Endorsement and Hiring Judgments
Maddie Leake
Stressful Life Event Effect on Sleep and Emotion Regulation
Meredith Lemons
Primary Caregiver, Sibling Acceptance of LGBTQIA+ Family Members
Katherine Miromonti
Saving the Sparkle: Conserving Schlumberger Jewelry and Drawings, circa. 1950-70
Megan Morrell
Between Populism and Settler Colonialism: A US Case Study
Gelella Nebiyu
Bridging the Gap: Connecting Resources to Underserved Schools
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 Elena Arroway
Point of Use Technologies to Increase Access to Clean Water in Rural Communities
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
Spencer Cockerell
Using Neural Networks to Extend Experimental Trajectories in Genetic Circuits
Phoebe Dillon
Approaches to Understanding Protein-RNA Binding: TDP-43
Elise Gellman
Microsatellite Genotyping And Development Of Sperm DNA Extraction Protocols In Gryllus Firmus Crickets
Kaitlyn Glover
Characterization and Comparison of Calcium Oscillations Between Oligodendrocytes and Other Mammalian Cells
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
Leah Huzjak
Optical Vortex Nucleation Behind A Circular Obstruction
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
Cole Jernigan
CO Releasing Organic Polymers for Biomedical Applications
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
Adelaide Kerenick
A Cross-Coupling Approach to Synthesis Of BEPs: Faster Access to Probe Conditions
Alec Mackay
Site-Directed Mutagenesis To Characterize Manganese Binding Site of SARS-CoV-2 NSP15 Protein
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
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Josef Korbel School of International Studies
Rosie Contino
The Case of Kenya: Evaluating Kenya Slum Upgrading Program from a Sustainable Urbanization Framework Jackson Garske
State-Sponsored Cultural Production's Influence On Nationalist Politics In France
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
Grace Wankelman Armed Conflict and Gendered Household Power in Guatemala
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Ritchie School of Engineering & Computer Science
Kyle Bucholz
Geometry of Object Storage and Recognition in Human Memory Benjamin Dossett DU Want To Build-A-Bot?
View Evan Dybvig
4D Visualization in a 3D Environment
Madilyn Fawcett
DiscoverU
View Hannah Hornung
5 Degree of Movement Prosthetic Thumb using Twisted Fiber Artificial Muscles
Ori Miller
Ground-Air Robot Cooperative Tracking of an Adversarial Agent
Guy Milliman
Machine Learning and Cybersecurity Applications
Sneha Patil
A Novel Online Robot Design Research Platform to Determine Robot Mind Perception
Aubrey Patrick
DiscoverU
Ashley Sanchez
DU Want to Build a Bot