Undergraduate Research and Scholarship Showcase

DU Research

• College of Arts, Humanities & Social Sciences

  August Alexander	Species-Based Moderation and Attitude-Based Mediation of the Hardship-to-Pain Bias	View
  Lily Baeza	Disrupting “Good” vs. “Bad” Person Binaries by Humanizing Victims of Urban Homicide	View
  Ellie Barnett Cashman	Disrupting “Good” vs. “Bad” Person Binaries by Humanizing Victims of Urban Homicide	View
  Amanda Brown	The Relationship Between Exposure To Violence During Childhood And/Or Adulthood And Gross Cognitive Functioning Among Justice-Involved Individuals With TBI​	View
  Lauren Chapell	Monday to Tuesday	View
  Daniela Chavez	Youth Organizing	View
  Brandon Cohen	Prevalence Induced Concept Change In Gender Perceptions	View
  Nyah Cubbison	Emotional Well-being Of Group Fitness Instructors	View
  Garrin Desmond	Group-level Gender Bias: How Nonverbal Behavior Impacts Assessments of Acceptance	View
  Claire Fox	Trust Fall: Patterns and Prospective Futures in General Trust	View
  Ruby Gregerson	The Crimson Society: An Immersive Student Experience	View
  Haven Hinds	Flower Study	View
  Zachary Hogan	Comparing The US Response To The Soviet Invasion Of Afghanistan And The Russian Invasion Of Ukraine: Learning From The Past And Planning For The Future	View
  Rhys Holman	Agnosticism To The Abstract: The Case For Philosophizing Without Abstract Objects	View
  Kevin Kappes	Understanding Entanglements of Emerging Economic Goliaths: A comparative analysis of Chinese and Brazilian internationalization, development, and interdependence	View
  Colin Kleckner	Recording Veteran's History	View
  Alyssa Knaus	Atmospheric Particulate Matter (PM) Trends Of The Front Range Of Colorado Via PurpleAir Sensors	View
  Erin Kubat	A Midsummer Nights Dream Specialty Props	View
  Katie Lamberton	Measures Of Effectiveness On The Parent Project Class	View
  Lilliya Larson	Clinical Implications Of Gender Differences In ADHD Symptomatology	View
  Amanda LeMoine	"After All These Years"- A Novella	View
  Alina Mali	Determining The Difference Between History Of Depression On Family Health History Form And SCID Using Socioeconomic Standard Measures	View
  Ixchel Marquez	Underdiagnosed & Over-Punished	View
  Alexandra McCollister	The Relationship Between Exposure to Violence During Childhood and/or Adulthood and Gross Cognitive Functioning Among Justice - Involved Individuals with TBI	View
  Elsa Mortensen	The Return: A Community Literary Magazine	View
  Audrey Ng	Developmental and ADHD Symptom-Related Changes in Motivated Cognitive Control	View
  Ren Pratt	Technology and Homelessness: How Accessibility and Blockchain Technology Could Impact the Unhoused	View
  Cari Reichel	La Virgen Reinvented: Political Activism, Identity, and Transnational Uses of an Icon	View
  Jayce Rumsey	Jayce Rumsey's Senior Capstone: The Door By Paul Elliott	View
  Scott Simpson	Patterns In Motivating Factors In Prenup Negotiations: A Qualitative Case Study	View
  Chase Spurbeck	The Role of Autonomic Arousal in Anxiety’s Effect on Cognitive Control	View
  Jacqueline Stephenson	Saint Brigit and Her Habits: Exploring Queerness in Early Medieval Ireland	View
  Evelyn Stovin	The Secularization of Religious Studies	View
  Lauren Tapper	Hawai’i Uncovered	View
  Sam Werkema	Theatrical Costume Design with A Midsummer Nights Dream and The Taming	View
  Hunter Whitehouse	Systematic Review of Parenting and Family Measures Used to Study of Family Factors and Adolescent Anxiety	View
  Kansas Wood	Writers In The Schools	View

• College of Natural Sciences & Mathematics

  Alyssa Aragon	Comparing Chrysochus Beetle's Copulation Patterns	View
  Sidney Barbier	How to Solve a Wicked Problem: An Introduction to Environment, Society and Sustainability	View
  Maverick Bartholomew	Unique Transcriptomic Profiles in Atlantic Killifish During Salinity Acclimation in Warm Water	View
  Lark Bradsby	Low-Noise Quadrature Phase-Shifting Interferometry	View
  William Christensen	Effects of Biochar on Short-Term Growth in Pinus contorta var. latifolia	View
  Noah Craver	Investigation of Septin Proteins in Drosophila Melanogaster	View
  Liam Doherty	Investigating the Regulation of the Hypothalamic-Pituitary-Interrenal Axis in Atlantic Sturgeon (Acipenser Oxyrinchus) Following an Acute Stressor.	View
  Nicole Doris	Mutual Benefits of Near-peer Mentoring in STEM Postsecondary and Career Development	View
  Noah Fagello	Inflammation in Primary Human Astrocytes is Dependent on Toll-Like Receptor 3 & 9 When Exposed to Astrocyte-Derived Exosomes Isolated from Patients with COVID-19 and TBI	View
  Ren Pratt	Technology and Homelessness: How Accessibility and Blockchain Technology Could Impact the Unhoused	View
  April Friesen	Photolysis of Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbons in Simulated Atmospheric Cloud Water Buffers	View
  Stacia Fritz	Identification of Potential Therapeutics for Parkinson's Disease	View
  Paola Gascot-Chinea	Collection and Analysis of Chemical Reaction Products When Protein Samples Are Exposed to Denver Urban Air	View
  Janelyn Geronimo	Designing an Introductory Course on Computational Sociology	View
  Julia Gielczynski	Colocalization of ODC and Amyloid Plaques in AD/DS Patients	View
  Olivia Harman	Determining How Calcium Affects Exosome Secretion in A549 Cells	View
  Elsie Harrington	Preserving Paradise: Investigating Beach Littering Behaviors and Developing Sustainable Solutions in Coastal Nicaragua	View
  Joslyn Hays	Causes Of Hatching Failure In Great Tit (Parus major) And Blue Tit (Cyanistes caeruleus) Populations In Comparison Of Urban-Rural Areas	View
  Clarice Hise	STEM Near-Peer Mentoring	View
  Greta Ivesdal	The Anthropic Habitats of the Mixed Cantabrian Forests: A Classification of the Anthropic Habitats in the Mixed Cantabrian Forest Ecoregion	View
  Allie Leary	Lab Experiments to Optimize a Newly Developed Ultrafine Particle Counter	View
  Vanessa Leon-Gamez	Same play, different way: recurrent loss of sexual signals in a field cricket	View
  Ella Mathews	Using Bio Indicator Species to Visualize Ground-Level Ozone Pollution in Denver	View
  Alice McTavish	Characterization of a Novel Pathway for Transmembrane Proteins Found on Insulin Granules	View
  Alexandra Norman	Extremophiles may help mitigate TDP43 aggregation in ALS	View
  Regan Parish	Evaluating Microglia & Astrocyte ‘Cross-talk’ in Sustained Neuroinflammation Secondary to COVID-19 & TBI	View
  Emmy Radin	Participative Citizenship in Mashpi, Ecuador: Meaningful and Sustainable Models for Education and Conservation	View
  Emma Robson	Investigating the Invitro Pro-inflammatory Effects of Astrocyte-Derived Exosomes from Patients with a History of COVID-19 and Mild Traumatic Brain Injury.	View
  Victoria Rockwell	The Effects of Artificial Light at Night on Nocturnal Insect Immunity	View
  Norah Schroder	The Effect of Fire Severity on Bee Nesting Habitats	View
  Shujan Sharafeldeen	Investigating the Role of ebf3a in Craniofacial Development	View
  Anna Sparling	Nitric Oxide Synthase Pathways after mTBIs	View
  Christine Stadnik-Poteroba	Multivocality Of The California Gold Rush: The Inter-oceanic Route Via Nicaragua	View
  Mia Supan	The Accumulation of Anthropogenic Debris on Beaches in Nicaragua	View
  Will Thrush	Exploring Substrates For Ring Closing Metathesis Based Ethylene Detection	View
  Magdalena Tisher	A Novel Photochemical Approach in the Synthesis of β-Lactams	View
  Anna Vogt	Comparison of the Functional Composition of the Overstory and Understory in Disturbed Riparian Forest Communities.	View
  Jaiden Voldrich	Ampliative Fluorescent Detection of Ethylene	View
  Michaela Wahlheim	Long-Term Impacts of Fire Severity on the Diversity of Cavity-Nesting Bees and Wasps	View
  Jon Weber	Towards Novel Generation Of Classically Entangled Vector Beams	View
  Olivia Wuttke	Evaluating the Efficiency of Low-Cost Air Quality Sensors to Size Particulate Matter at a Suburban Field Site	View

• Daniels College of Business

  Daniel Cieraszynski

  Trade, Growth, and Inequality in the United States

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• Josef Korbel School of International Studies

  Colton Arciniaga	Missed Exits: Causal Mechanisms Influencing Militarized Interstate Dispute Escalation in Latin America	View
  Ryan Bell	The Right Ecumenism: How American Conservatives Used (and Abused) the Second Vatican Council	View
  Emma Loeber	Shaming Women to Shame Men: A Case Study of the Houthis and the Relationship Between Honor Culture in Yemen and the Use of Sexual Violence in the Yemeni Civil War	View
  Grace Naegelen	Policy and Public Opinion: The Relationship Between The Philosophy of Buen Vivir and Environmental Perspectives in Ecuador	View
  Vincent Pandey	Questioning the Effectiveness of the Olympic Truce	View

• Lamont School of Music

  Trevor Briggs

  Flamethrower Vol. 1-3: Innovation In Multidisciplinary Electronic And Acoustic Music

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• Ritchie School of Engineering and Computer Science

  Murphy Li	Immersive Stargazing: Leveraging VR for Astronomy Education	View
  Emily Lin	Data Quality Matters: Suicide Intention Detection on Social Media Posts Using a RoBERTa-CNN	View
  Joe Ontiveros Rodriguez	Creating an Adaptive and Intuitive Single-Operator Multi-MAV Interface Using Augmented Reality	View
  Alisha Pravasi	Assessing ChatGPT's Efficacy in Interpreting Privacy Policies	View
  Steven Said	Analysis of the Effects of Alcohol Ablation on the Mechanical Properties of Heart Tissue	View
  Melaku Saketa	Machine Learning & Web Development: A DU Build-A-Bot Adventure	View
  Daniel Silva Rios	Development of Non-Enzymatic Glucose Sensors using Copper Electrodes & Nanoparticles	View
  Maisey Toczek	Usability of the DU Build-A-Bot Platform	View
  Ana Vences	Achilles Tendon Degeneration in Collegiate Gymnastics	View

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