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Journal of Undergraduate Research

 

Welcome to the Journal of Undergraduate Research. This page contains published research reports resulting from undergraduate mentoring. Reports are published 1 year after the grants are awarded. (e.g. Reports for projects marked 2013 (projects that were funded in February 2013) were published in January 2014.)

Current Issue: Volume 2019, Issue 2019 (2019)

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Populism and Emotions
Allison Adams and Kirk Hawkins

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Primordial Origins of Supermassive Black Holes
William Black and David Neilson

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Increasing Cryptographic Security Through Quantum Erasure
Richard Barney and Jean-Françios S. Van Huele

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Women vs. Men Who Makes Better Use of Financial Aid?
Nichole Christensen and Jessica Preece

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The Effects of Helicobacter Pylori on Cognition: A report
Kenric Gordon, Thomas Petersen, and Dawson Hedges

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The Healing Power of Music: Documentary
Maren Cline and Robert Walz

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Orchestral Snare Drum Production
Peter Fullmer and Dr. Matthew Coleman

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Japanese Grammar Tool and Database
John A. Dinkel and Steven Moody

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The Pygmalion Project
Sophie Determan and Roger Macfarlane

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Eye Movements in Second Language Reading of Russian
Hunter Hill; Steven G. Luke, PhD; and Jennifer M. Brown

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Lebensborn Mothers: The Women of the Thousand-Year Reich
Zachary Herzog and Dr. Hans-Wilhelm Kelling

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Identifying Maternal Healthcare Needs of Pregnant Refugee Women in Utah
Amanda Brower and Dr. Sheri Palmer, RN, DNP, CNE, CTN-A,

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Cyclic Peptide Catalyst design
Millicent Campbell and David Michaelis

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Finding Planets Around Massive Stars
Elisabeth Frischnecht and Denise Stephens

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Cancerous Male and Female Gene Expression
Clarissa Farmer and E. Shannon Tass

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Cluster Analysis via Random Partition Distributions
Brandon Carter and Dr. David B. Dahl

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The Photo Vision: Modern Cliché-Verre
Jacqueline Camacho and Christiane Ramsey

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High Level Gesture Control for UAVs
John Akagi, Brady Moon, Jared Paxton, and Dr. Cammy Peterson

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Product Design for Children with Limb Defects
Cecilee Petersen and Richard Fry

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Attitudes Toward Economic Reform in Ukraine
Eliza Riley and Celeste Beesley

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How Endorser Gender Affects Candidate Electability
Miranda Hatch, Connor Kreutz, and Jessica Preece

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America's Hope
Cassie Prettyman and Paul Adams

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City of Nothing: Architectural Simulation & Las Vegas
Rachel Playstead and Daniel Everett

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Media Music Composition and Production
Shane Myers and Aaron Merrill

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Native BYU: Remembering Living Histories
Maren Loveland and Dr. Michael Taylor

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Nahida Ruth Lazarus’ “Das jüdische Weib”
Kate Menlove and Dr. Michelle James

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Damselfies of Vanuatu
Madison Lallatin and Seth Bybee

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Revision of the genus Gilia of Utah
Zachariah Jaramillo and Dr. Leigh Johnson

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Could TK1 Suppress the Immune System and Promote Tumor Development?
Joshua Keller, Roman Kovtun, and Kim O'Neill

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NF κB as a Mediator in Iron Regulation
Erik D. Marchant and Chad Hancock

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The Effects of Hyperlipidemia on β-Cells
Andrew Barlow, Trevor Lloyd, Mason Poffenbarger, Austin Ricks, and Dr. Jeffery Tessem

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The effect of Chenopodium quinoa on salinization levels in soil
Angel Mirae Morris, P. Jeff Maughan, Bryan G. Hopkins, and Neil Hansen

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Deferred Taxes and Cash Flow Predictability
Kaleb Norwald and Jake Thornock

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Measuring Compassion in the Workforce
Haley Kirk and Jeffrey Jenkins

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Improving Healthcare Through Interdisciplinary Education
Jonathan Jacobs and Katreena Collette-Merrill, RN, PhD

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Inclusion of Women in Computer Science
Naomi Johnson and Dr. Kevin Seppi

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Microbes and Metals: Purifying the Water of Lake Titicaca
Sara Ludlow and Dr. Gregory T. Carling

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Muscle Activation via MRI: Comparison of Techniques
Logan Thorneloe and Neal Bangerter

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Gas Detection System for Biomass Cookstove Emissions
Jeffery Smith, Cyera Bishop, and Matthew Jones

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Do Support Groups for Medical Patients Reduce Risk for Mortality? A Meta-Analytic Review
Connor Workman; Dakota Jake; Daniel Rallison; Timothy Smith, PhD; and Julianne Holt-Lunstad, PhD

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Evaluation of an EEG Task for Detecting Latent Infections
Ryan Weels, Savanah Bishun, and Bruce Brown

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Role of Electrical Synapses in Dopamine Transmission in the Brain
Josh Nelson, Seth Stapley, and Scott Steffensen

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Remembering “The Good Life”
Colby Sanford and Joseph Ostraff

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The Human Condition of Coping
Ryan Shumway and Robert Machoian

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Slam Poetry in Suburban Schools
Madelyn Taylor and Christopher Crowe

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Acoustic Phonetic Analysis of Tol
Micah Wood and Dr. Chris Rogers

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Morphological Parsing and Segmentation
Kyle Roth and Deryle Lonsdale

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Neurosecurity: Comprehending Security Messages
Zachary Vance and Bonnie Anderson

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Applying Acoustic Beamforming in Sub-Arrays to Jet Engine Noise
David Van Komen, Kent Gee, and Tracianne Nielson

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Identifying Unknown Satellites
Nicholas Van Alfen and Joseph Moody

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History of Latter-Day Saint K-12 Education
Eric Tonini and Casey Griffiths

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A Summer in Moscow
Ellie Vance and Thomas K. Edlund