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Diyar Ahmed (Jun Yang) - Investigating the Role of C-Nap 1 and the BB-DC Linkage in Primary Cilium Structure
Connor Blunt (Margaret Wan) - Guan Yu from Three Kingdoms and his portrayal in Smite
Bryce Bosworth (Michael Werner) - Life in brine: Culturing the nematodes of the Great Salt Lake in search of the mechanism of adaptation to extreme conditions
Ali Bouck (Ryan Looper) - Total Synthesis and MOA Investigation of Ezomycin
Bennett Browning (Jesse Christensen) - Patient-Reported Outcomes Measurement Information System (PROMIS) Physical Function and Knee Injury and Osteoarthritis Outcome Score (KOOS) Relationship on Performance Measures in People Undergoing Total Knee Arthroplasty
Garrett Butler (Kathleen Ritterbush) - Investigation into the relationship between environmental conditions and physical development of ornamentation on Ammonite fossils
Michelle Cao (Jordan Gerton) - Student Interactions in Undergraduate Introductory Physics Lab for Non-Physics Majors
Spencer Carstens (Shreya Goel) - Evolution of the Metastatic Tumor Microenvironment Through High Resolution Microscopy
Victoria Chiou (Anna Beaudin) - Fetal hematopoietic stem cell metabolism in response to varying prenatal folate status. 
Calvin Coates (Will Holland) - Type II Diabetes, Ceramides, and Heart Failure
Aaron Coon (Heayoung Yoon) - Fault Analysis for Semiconductor Materials and Devices
America Cox (Bryn Dentinger) - Utilizing Genomic and Metabolic Data to Investigate the Evolutionary Ecology of Ant-Farmed Fungi
James Craig (Chuck Dorval) - Investigating Off-Contact Stimulation Techniques for Deep Cortical Regions in Humans Using Patient-Specific Brain Models
Shane Denherder (Elisabeth Conradt) - Physiological Responses to an Online Infant Cry Stimulus task in Expectant Mothers
Collin Dover (Shahrzad Roshankhah) - Hydraulic Fracturing
Dewi Eagan (Leif Anderson) - Velocities of Rock Glaciers Relating to Rock Content and other factors
Samantha Eddy (Shundana Yusaf) - Local Building Methods, Techniques and Indigenous Community Engaged Architecture
Tanner Frahm (Eugene Kwan) - Investigating Effects of Noninvasive Cardiac Radiation on Connexin-43 Distribution
Alexis Friedman (Tao Gao) - Electrochemical Reduction of Carbon Dioxide to Carbon Monoxide Via Flow Cell 
Christian Furness (Jack Longino) - Seasonal changes in worker fat content of  Formica obscuripes, the western thatch ant
Shalyce Gardner (Clement Chow) - Follow up on Genetic Modifiers Identified in PIGA Deficiency Screening
Emma Glende (Adrienne Cachelin) - Community-based research for educational equity in Salt Lake City, Utah
Gabrielle Hadinger (Yan-Ting Shiu) - Effects of E26 avian erythroblastosis virus transcription factor (ETS)-1 inhibition on hemodialysis arteriovenous fistula (AVF) development
Tala Hammond (Sihem Boudina) - The Role of Liver-Specific autophagy in Hepatic Homeostasis
Kaysen Hansen (Jake George) - Effects of Pulse Amplitude on Frequency Discrimination with Electrocutaneous Artificial Sensory Feedback
Liam Haynie (Yong Lin Kong) - Enhancing Resonance Sensitivity of 3D Printed Sensors
Josh Hill (Ben  Bromley) - Finding Planet 9
Josh Hillyard (Allison Payne) - Evaluation of immune responses from focused ultrasound treatment with immunotherapy in a pre-clinical breast cancer murine model 
Rachel Holland (Maureen Mathison) - Rhetoric as Tool: Scientific Innovation Through a Multiples Lens
Jonathan Hong (Kent  Lai) - Novel pathway of adipogenesis in mice with impaired galactose metabolism
Brianna Ingersoll (Jesse Christensen) - Biomechanics and Strength Outcome Comparison Between Supervised and Unsupervised Physical Therapy After Total Knee Arthroplasty: A Retrospective Study
Nate Iverson (Ben  Myers) - Purification of the Smoothened cytosolic tail for biochemical and structural studies.
Holden Jones (Claudia Geist) - Attitudes Towards Gender and Sexuality in Future Health Care Providers
Wona  Kim (Jennifer Weidhaas) - Investigation of contaminants in stormwater entering Red Butte Creek from University of Utah
Jonas Knochelmann (Rogelio Cardona-Rivera) - Computational Models of Creative AI for Text Generation
Jack Landmesser (Scott Langenecker) - Gonadal Hormones and Addiction: Analyzing Differences in Reward Pathway Activity Between Heavy Drinkers and Controls on the Basis of Gonadal Hormones
Andrew Larkin (Caroline Saouma) - Viability of Ruthenium-Based Catalyst for Direct Transformation of CO2 to Formate
Alex Leavitt (Alan Kuntz) - Investigation of two styles of tendon-driven continuum robots
Hannah Lee (Thomas King) - Experimental Regulatory Element Evolution: Investigating How Enhancers Can Become Promoters
Sabrina Lin (Nick Witham) - Characterizing Material Properties of Artificial Muscle Fibers Composed of Linear Low Density Polyethylene
Emily Lym (Swomitra Mohanty) - Tuberculosis Biomarker Detection with GCxGC Time of Flight System
Zihao  Lyu (Dipayan Chaudhuri) - Identifying novel intracellular vesicles involved in ion and metabolite handling
Marin Macfarlane (Amy McDonnell) - The Influence of Nature Images on the Neurophysiology of Attention
Zach Mallender (Christopher Depner) - Sleep Extension and Brain Wave Power Transformation
Matt Michaud (Heath Henninger) - Alterations in Scapulothoracic Kinematics following Reverse Total Shoulder Arthroplasty 
Raina Miller (Moriel Zelikowsky) - The Role of the Ventral Hippocampus in Trauma-Enhanced Fear
Quinna Nguyen (Daniel Drew) - Electrohydrodynamic Pumps for Silent, Solid-State, and Direct Electronics Cooling
Emmanuel Onyeagba (Will  Holland) - The Role of FOXN3 in Glucagon Receptor Antagonist (GRA)-mediated cardioprotection. 
Sonia Osuna (Peter West) - Developing an Animal Model with a Hypothalamic Hamartoma and its Seizure Phenotypes from a Somatic Mutation in the Sonic Hedgehog Signaling Pathway
Claire Park (Nicholas Frost) - How inducing hemi-spatial neglect can give us the evidence of how the spatial information is converted between different coordinate systems
Gary Perea (Caroline Saouma) - Kinetics Studies of Reaction Between Ruthenium Metal Catalyst and H2/CO2 Gas
Mikal Peterson (Nitin Phadnis) - Understanding chromosome pairing using hybrid drosophila chromosomes
Julia Petheram St. Andre (Shanti Deemyad) - Raman Spectroscopy to Probe Superconducting Properties at Extreme Conditions
Alec Phipps-Wirtz (Leif Anderson) - Microplastic Deposition In The Wasatch Range of Utah
Alicia Quick (Amy McDonnell) - Effects of Natural and Urban Imagery on Error-Related Negativity
Nathan Ramey (Swomitra Mohanty) - A comparison and streamlining of liquid phase and vapor phase detectors for tuberculosis biomarkers
Kayla  Rebentisch (Jessie King Jensen) - Hashtag popularity: A content analysis of e-cigarette, cigarette, cigar, and cannabis posts on Instagram 
David Rou (Andrew Miller) - Verification of Protein Translation in Radiated and Non-Radiated Breast Tissue
Ana Rowe (Sandy Parkinson) - Suppressors of signal switching mutations
Ben Searle (Lauren Barth-Cohen) - Investigating Student-Instructor Interactions in a 3D IPLS Lab
Nancy Sohlberg (Gannet  Hallar) - Links Between New Particle Formation (NPF) and Biogenic Emissions in the Southern Ocean (SO) Region
Mitchell Spendlove (Wesley Hamilton) - Evaluation of Metrics for the Resistance of Gerrymandered Voting Districts
Micah Spjute (Yong Lin Kong) - Characterization of 3D Printed LC Sensors on Thermoplastic Dental Aligners
Miles Thomas (Karen Wilcox) - Epileptogenesis in a Mouse Model Using the TMEV Virus
Emilio Trujillo (Anna Beaudin) - Cochlear Immune Response to Congenital Cytomegalovirus-associated Sensorineural Hearing Loss
Anya Weglarz (Melissa Watt) - HIV stigma during the intrapartum period in Tanzania
Marc Whiting (Ben  Bromley) - Operation Planet 9 
Tyler  Whitley (Frank Sachse) - The effect of altered TRPC1 expression on the development of cardiac hypertrophy 
Clara William (Genevieve Albouy) - Neural Correlates of Memory Schema Formation Across Memory Domains
Leisina Wolfgramm (Meekyung MacMurdie) - Patterns: The Theory of Design in History
Breanna Wong (Yong Lin Kong) - Molybdenum nanoparticles and PBTPA for Higher Resolution 3D Printed Transient Electronics
Anna  Yarema (Jan Kubanek) - Encapsulation of neuromodulatory drug ketamine in perfluorooctylbromide core nanoparticles for targeted release via ultrasound.
Sierra Young (Kim Korinek) - Sleep Quality & Early-Life War Exposure: An Analysis of Sleep Problems Among Vietnamese Older Adults Using Data from the Vietnam Health and Aging Study (VHAS)
Sammi Yu (Yong Lin Kong) - Characterization and Integrated Design of Core-Shell and Biodegradable Conductive Ink 
Nik Zarandona (Nitin Phadnis) - Identification of the gene responsible for sex ratio distortion in D. pseudoobscura