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2023
Characterizing the Charging Properties of Lunar Dust is Critical to Returning to the Moon, Heather Allen
Phytoremediation is an Important Tool for Reducing Mining Pollution, Sabrina Allen
Developing Cancer Treatments With a One-Two Punch of a Metal and Carbon Monoxide, Joel Ashton
Is Feeding Algae to Lab- Grown Chicken the Future of Agriculture?, Elise Barton, Melanie Mills, Britton Porter, and Elizabeth Walker
A Utah-Native Plant Can Be Used to Promote Low-Impact Landscaping, Macie Booth
Gender Identities Outside of the Binary Existed in Ancient Rome, Samuel Cash
Grinding Cocoa Changes Chocolate Properties, Joseph Cooney
Increasing Drought Conditions Threaten Utah High-Tech Data Center Cooling Systems, Ella Devey
An Effective Nonprofit Board-Executive Relationship Starts With Defined Roles, Jaxon Didericksen
BIPOC Contributions Are Largely Excluded From Introductory Social Work Textbooks, Porscha Doucette
2022
Melting Arctic Ice Exposes Possible Conflict for US, China, Russia, Madeleine Alder
Only 7.8% of Eligible Vehicles in Utah Enroll in the Utah Road Usage Charge (RUC) Program, Tyson Bomsta and Joe Davis
Can Cannibinoids be Used to Prevent Lung Damage From Utah Air Pollution?, Emily Brothersen
Can Common Carp Removal Reduce Algal Bloom Intensity in Utah Lake?, Cristina Chirvasa
Utah's Food Processing Industry Can Manufacture Products From CBD-Containing Lipids That Have Superior Texture and Consistency, Joseph Cooney and Isaac Hilton
Does Emotion Training Reduce Implicit Racial Bias?, Marisa Davis and Emma Greenwood
Rare Earth Element Supply Chain: China’s Chokehold Creates a Dangerous US Dependency, Sabrina Ellis
Multiracial Students Do Not Belong in the Margins., Aubrey Felty
Test-Driving the Next Generation of CRISPR Gene Editing, Olivia Gornichec and Kailey Mayer
Improving Climate Models Can Help Ensure Better National Security Response to Drought and Extreme Weather., Chase Dean Harward
What Drug Candidates Exist for Treating COVID-19 Variants?, Kolton Hauck
Oral Histories Help Document the Impact of COVID-19 on Cache Valley's Latinx Community, Virginia Hernandez and Jasmine Morales
Altered Neural Drive From an ACL Injury May Lead to Re-Injury, Hunter Horsley
Precipitation is a Strong Predictor of Airborne Ammonia Levels., Bridger Jorgensen, Casey Olson, and Connor Snow
To Better Engage Students, Instructors Should Create Lab Exercises With Real-World Examples., Autumn Kelsch
A Tale of Two Sides: Modeling Great Salt Lake Flows to Help Balance Current Ecosystem Influences, Eric Larsen
Understanding the Decline in Successful Cattle Pregnancies, Andre Tu Nguyen
Women Can Step Out of the Shadows of Time and Take Their Rightful Place Next to the Men Who Blazed a Trail Through the Wilderness., Bonnie Swenson
The Surface Conditions of Spacecraft Panels May Significantly Affect Spacecraft Survivability, Trace Taylor
Utilizing NASA-Funded Biotechnology to Improve Resource Management on Earth and in Space, Tyler Wallentine
2019
Molecular Relatedness of Two Distinct Type IV CRISPR-Associated (Cas) Proteins, Matt Armbrust
Building the Medieval Trebuchet: Assembling a Half-Scale Historical Machine, Daniel Bertrand
Drones and “Ghost Guns”: Unregulated Legal Space, Tori Bodine
Inducing Reversions Between Asexual and Sexual Reproductive Strategies in Daphnia, Alex Braeger
Fermentation of Prebiotics in Whole Food Powders by Probiotic Bacteria Strains, Michaela Brubaker and Sumira Phatak
The Effect of Dental Therapists on Access to Dental Care, Jacob Caldwell
Kids Killing Kids: Mental Illness, Adolescence, and Mass Murder, Levi Cragun
Assessing Speech & Swallowing Therapy Needs of Childhood Cancer Survivors, Kierstin Dewey
Developing a Computer Game for Measuring Delay Discounting, Haylee Downey and Ryan L. Becker
The Influence of Neighborhood Cohesion on Homelessness in Cache Valley, Utah, Madison Elliott
Motivations for Women’s Activism in Hydraulic Fracking, Taya Godfrey
Between Commercial and Nonprofit: Communicating Social Business, Cassidy Gummersall
Improving Wastewater Treatment Using Algal Biofilms and Bioenergy, Nathan Guymon
Camera Surveys to Monitor Small Mammals in Cedar Breaks National Monument, Ethan Hammer
High Tunnel Greenhouse Produces Higher Cut Flower Yields in Utah, Maegen Lewis
Cultural Traits of Salvadoran Gangs Offer Chance for U.S. to Weaken MS-13, Hannah Penner
Establishment of Fuel Breaks to Protect Sage-Grouse Habitat in Northwest Utah, William Price
Survey of Bird/Window Collisions at Utah State University-Brigham City, Spencer Smith
Fake News! Russian Disinformation Targets American Cognitive Biases Through Diverse Mediums, Spencer Sproul
The Art of Seduction: Male Perceptions of Sexual Willingness, Lisa Starrett
Environmental Insights from a Utah Pilot Study on Well-being, Casey Trout
Germ Cell-Depleted Ovaries Improve Metabolic Health in Post-Reproductive Mice, Kyleigh Tyler
Developing Silent Unmanned Aerial Vehicles, Glen Wright
2018
Can Adding Black Raspberries to the Western Diet Reduce Factors that Lead to Colorectal Cancer?, Tess Armbrust and Canyon Neal
Does Requiring Participation in Research Have a Positive Effect on Students’ Perception of Undergraduate Research?, Mikayla Austin
The Impact of Chronic Stress, Traumatic Experiences and Genes on Behavior, Colten Brown
Characteristics and Achievement Patterns of 3-Year-Old Preschoolers' Evolving Mathematical Knowledge to Inform Preschool Instructional Practices, Alyssa Collins and Brette Hoggan
How Internalized Sexism Impacts Young Adult Women and their Sociopolitical Behavior, Audrianna Dehlin
The Effect of Gender and Socioeconomic Factors on Reporting of Concussions among NCAA Student-Athletes, Joshua Hansen
Effects of Seed Coating and Water Level on Alkali Bulrush Germination and Biomass, Anders Hart and Emily Martin
A Collaborative Solution to Harmful Algal Blooms in Utah, Kyle Hillman, Bethany Jensen, and Ammon Balle
Carbon Pricing in the Private Sector: How Science, Politics, and Climate Change Influence Business Strategy, Hayden Hubbard, McKlayne Marshall, and Christopher Cottle
Great Basin Forb Restoration: Lupine Response to Altered Precipitation Predicted by Climate Change, Andrea Jo Johnson, Kristin Hulvey, Scott Jensen, and Tom Monaco
Mathematically Predicting the Aleut Tribe Population Using Archaeological Data, Jack Conrad Kiefer II and Paden Allen Thompson
An Examination of the Prevalence of Intimate Partner Violence Training in U.S. Medical School Curriculum, Tyson Lumbreras
Motor Affordance for Grasping a Handrail, D. McDannald, M. Mansour, and Garrett Rydalch
Teaching Styles Developed for Resisting Institutionalized Cultural and Socioeconomic Stereotypes of Mexican Americans, Rissely Parra and Micah Kwallek
Speak and Sketch: Improving Academic Retention in Students with Language-Related Learning Disabilities, R. J. Risueño
Disposition for Change: A Teacher's Quest for Student and Self-Liberation, Morgan Sanford and Elise Maddox
Are Davis County School District Students Represented in Their Schools' Literary Choices?, Erin Searle
Making a Modern Piece of Music More Memorable, Ethan Seegmiller
Transplanting a Bacterial Immune System: Determining the Function of a Novel CRISPR System, Riannon Smith and Melena Garrett
The Effects of Nicotine on Maladaptive Alcohol Drinking, Isabella Stuart
How State-Level Affirmative Action Bans Affect Underrepresented Students’ Opportunities and Outcomes, Jackie Sullivan
Decreasing Blue Light from LED Increases Growth in Four Diverse Species, Boston Swan
How Pesticide Additives Alter Feeding Behavior and Viral Infections in Honey Bees, Matthew Thompson
Bioproducts from Bacteria: A Synthetic Biology Approach, Andrew Walters, Ron Sims, and Charles Miller
Testing Rearing Diets for A New Invasive Insect Pest in Utah, the Brown Marmorated Stink Bug, James Withers and Loren Linford
2017
Adaptive Dye-Sensitized Solar Cell, Christopher Ikedichukwu Anokam
Standardizing Accelerated Bridge Construction, Weston Bellon
Structural and Functional Characterization of the Shigella flexneri Type Three Secretion System (T3SS) ATPase Spa47, Jenna Bouvang
The Effect of Occupational Licensing on Women and Minorities in Utah, Jacob Caldwell, Colton Cowan, and Olivia Abercrombie
Optimizing the Growth and Characterization of Retinal Pigment Epithelial Cells, Lori Caldwell
High Intensity Ultrasound: A new way to replace partially hydrogenated oil, Zachary Cooper
Of, By & For Utahns, Not New Yorkers, Matthew R. Cude
Relative Effects of Sleep Hygiene Behavior and Physical Exercise on Sleep Quality, Austin Dopp
Green Infrastructure as a Campus Storm Water Management Technique, McKenna Drew and Utah State University
Effects of attention on postural sway after ACL injury, Natalie L. Ferguson
Royal Jelly Diet for In-vitro Rearing of Bumble Bee Larvae, Shannon Heiner
Impact of Ranked-Choice Voting on Incumbents, Logan Hemmert
Dietary supplementation with tart cherries for prevention of inflammation-associated colorectal cancer in mice, Ashli Hunter
Behavioral preferences within the Southern Resident killer whale (Orcinus orca) population at Lime Kiln Point State Park, Rylee Jensen
Tender Tinder: A Study of the Different Cultures Surrounding one of the Hottest Dating Apps, Karlie Jordan
Wetland restoration following Phragmites control: informed by seedling performance of alkali bulrush, Gabriela Judd and Karin Kettenring
Murder She Wrote: Death and Drama in Nesting Woodpeckers, Mariah Panoussi, Taryn Rodman, Allison Stassel, Ryan Sabel, Melanie Athens, Blake Christensen, Ryan Gallegos, and Taylor Albrecht
A Ni2 Complex as an Efficient Electrochemical Catalyst for CO2 Reduction and H2 Evolution, Alyssa Sam
Disposition for Change: A Teacher’s Quest for Student- and Self-Liberation, Morgan Sanford and Elise Maddox
Vibrato in Early Music Performance Practice, Kaylee Simmons
How the Space Environment Affects Seed Germination and Growth, Alexander Souvall, Gareema Dhiman, Andre Nguyen, Michelle Jung, Astrid Ji, Takuyuki Sakai, Takahiro Shimizu, Yuta Takahashi, Midori Morikawa, Shusuke Okita, Akihiro Nagata, Shaunda Wenger, Toshihiro Kameda, and JR Dennison
Identifying Multiple Predictors of Physical Rehabilitation Outcomes, Jacklyn M. Sullivan, Elizabeth B. Fauth, and Sydney Y. Schaeffer