Virtual Office Hours: Wednesdays from 11:35 - 12:35 via Zoom (passcode: 947719)

Virtual Office Hours: Tuesdays from 2- 3PM via Zoom (Meeting ID: 752 297 4511
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Mary is a senior majoring in biology with a neurobiology emphasis and minor in chemistry. She started undergraduate research in the Spring of 2020 in Dr. Horvath’s lab, and is studying the impact of medicines on a DNA repair enzyme, MutY. She is interested in finding ways to make more efficient drug targeting systems for diseases like cancer or mutation rates in microbiota. She completed two semesters of UROP, and presented her research in the spring of 2022. Mary is continuing her research through the DNA lab course that Dr. Horvath teaches, and plans on publishing a paper in the Undergraduate Research Journal in the fall. Mary is very grateful to have been given resources that allow her to ask questions and find answers to them. She hopes to use the tools and skills she’s been given in a career in medicine.

Virtual Office Hours: Wednesdays from 5 - 6PM via Zoom

Gauri is a senior in the Honors College, pursuing a major in Health, Society, and Policy with a minor in Pediatric Clinical Research. Gauri started research her freshman year working at the University of Utah hospital studying white matter hypertensity disease progression with exercise and diet through the department of neurology. She has also done clinical research through the department of gastroenterology at the University of Utha hospital. She has completed two semesters of UROP and is currently working on writing her honor's thesis based on research through the department of neurology. Gauri is also the IRB specialist and will host monthly IRB labs for students to work on and troubleshoot their IRB applications. Please reach out to her with any research related questions, specifically those related to clinical research and with IRB related matters.

Virtual Office Hours: Fridays from 1 - 2PM via Zoom

Eliana is a Sophomore who is pursuing a major in Philosophy of Science with an emphasis in Psychology and certificates in Community Engagement and Digital Culture Studies. They are interested in spaces for participatory learning and interdisciplinary collaboration like public libraries and museums. They are taking many courses related to the history and theory of museums, culturally diverse education, science communication, community engagement, public history, and digital culture. In their first year of college, they worked as a learning sciences research assistant at the Natural History Museum of Utah. In this role, they studied how visitors learned from climate-focused interactives. They also worked for the Aileen H. Clyde 20th Century Women's Legacy Archive as an oral history research assistant. In that role, they interviewed influential women from various marginalized communities. They also participated in SPUR 2022 as an undergraduate researcher studying thematic and location-based WWII Homefront history for the National Park Service (NPS). At the end of the summer, they presented to NPS historians, program directors, and curriculum developers on the WWII Homefront’s role in development of the modern LGBTQ+ movement in the US. During Fall 2022, they are working as a Digital Matters intern researching how digital humanities methods can be used in museum interactive design to prompt community climate action. They are the Publications and Public Research Specialist for OUR. In this specialist position, they are working to redesign the Undergraduate Research Journal and find new ways to engage people at the University of Utah around undergraduate research. They plan to carry out projects to promote the Utah Conference on Undergraduate Research (UCUR) which will be hosted at the University of Utah in Spring 2023.

Virtual Office Hours: Fridays from 1 - 2 pm via Zoom

Melika is a Senior pursuing a major in Health, Society, & Policy with a minor in psychology. She started research in her junior year in Dr. Kamimura's lab studying mental health of uninsured patients during the pandemic. She completed one semester at UROP and has presented her research at the Spring 2022 UROP symposium.

Virtual Office Hours: Tuesdays from 9:30 - 10:30 AM via Zoom

Sophie is a senior in the Honors College pursing a degree in Mathematics. Sophie started research her sophomore year working in the department of Nutrition and Integrative Physiology in Dr. Symons lab, researching endothelial cell dysfunction. She participated in UROP and presented this research at the Undergraduate Research Symposium in the spring of 2021. Sophie is currently completing her second semester of UROP and working on her honors college thesis on mathematically modeling aspects of heart failure and fibrosis in Dr. Boudina’s Lab.  Sophie has also participated in an REU with the University of Utah Math department and their directed reading program. Sophie hopes to attend graduate school and continue putting her research skills into practice in her future career. 

Virtual Office Hours: Thursdays from 10 - 11AM via Zoom

Sarthak is a senior pursuing an honors degree in biomedical engineering. He got involved in a mycology lab in his freshman year doing DNA research, but is now working in a computational cardiac lab using machine learning methods on spectroscopic devices to help with surgery. He completed 2 semesters of UROP in this lab and is working on an honors thesis through this research. He has also been involved in other labs through SPUR and another REU doing research using MRI images and deep learning approaches for quantifying age and diagnosing sleep apnea. He's hoping to pursue a career in academia in the bioinformatics field, both to focus on teaching and research. He is a co author on a publication, and has presented his research at national conferences.

Virtual Office Hours: Wednesdays, 12-1 PM on Zoom

Emi is a senior in the Honors College pursuing a degree in Health, Society, and Policy with minors in chemistry and health in context.  Emi started research her sophomore year working as a research assistant studying the similarities between the lived experiences of family caregivers in an effort to provide better resources for a broad population of family caregivers.  She completed two semesters of UROP, submitted a paper based on her research to journals last summer, and is currently working on finishing her thesis paper based on this project.  Emi is very grateful for all the skills she obtained while doing research and hopes to continue putting these skills to practice in future research projects in graduate school and her future career.