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Unlocking Nature’S Code: Design Principles For Cooperativity In Multi-Electron Redox Processes, Mariona Garcia Dalmases, Alexis Telford, Courtney Young

Undergraduate Research Conference

No abstract provided.

Development Of An Excel Tool For Retirement Planning, Avery Johnston

Undergraduate Research Conference

Preparing for retirement is a difficult and intimidating process that requires a great deal of planning and preparation. I developed a user-friendly Excel tool that illustrates the balance of a retirement account over time. The user can manipulate key variables by using the sliders. The tool performs all the calculations and displays the running balance in a graph.

Beverage Effect On Events, Kayleigh Orth

Undergraduate Research Conference

The intent of this project is to research and analyze how an event and the beliefs systems of an individual can affect what type of beverages are served. For this research, I analyzed information of two different religions and investigated what goes into planning an event. The event chosen was a wedding. To accomplish this task, I had done research over popular beverages served, Catholic and Islamic diets and wedding traditions, as well as, interviewed six people that fell into the Catholic and Islamic beliefs who had weddings.

Using Macroinvertebrates As Water Quality Indicators In Angelina River, Aditi Dangi, Asa Dillon, Jolene Manlapaz, Ashley Riley, Hope Stowe

Undergraduate Research Conference

The Angelina River supports a variety of macroinvertebrates, fertilizers, and water-tolerant flora. The goal of this research was to create a complete dataset on water quality that included variables such as pH, dissolved oxygen content, nitrate levels, and temperature. The main objective was to link water contamination indicators with macroinvertebrate diversity to establish an early warning system for ecosystem health by collecting samples at two different locations of the Angelina River.

Analysis using Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and Lehigh Environmental Initiative guidelines showed that both locations had acceptable dissolved oxygen levels and healthy nitrate levels despite the environmental fluctuation. Using …

An Interactive Web Map Of Historical Buildings Of Downtown Nacogdoches, Texas, Cari Mitchell

Undergraduate Research Conference

Objective: The goal of this project is to use GIS to create a product that allows users interested in the history of downtown Nacogdoches, Texas to explore descriptive and pictorial information about the present historical buildings within the area of interest.

No Generation Without Representation: Solving Ai Art Attribution With Sno-E, Sadie Campbell

Undergraduate Research Conference

Artificial intelligence has sparked a new-age debate about its ethical implications, specifically in the world of art. The Signature Neural Operative- Environment (SNO-E) is a multidisciplinary solution that draws on computer science, statistics, and art. It addresses the issue of proper attribution for Al-generated artworks through a Convolution Neural Network that adopts signature checks to cite artists whose works are sampled by Al. This novel approach ensures proper recognition and compensation for artists in the Al-generated era.

Digital 3d Character Design With Milo, Ashton Pages

Undergraduate Research Conference

No abstract provided.

Creating Vr Content For Training Purposes, Oussema Dhieb

Student Research and Creative Activity Expo

This paper documents and analyses a GRID Lab project where VR content is created for police officer training.

High-Fidelity Turbulence Modelling Of Double-Diffusive Mixing In Buoyancy Driven Flows, Sanaz Izadifar

Student Research Symposium

Double-diffusive convection is the flow caused by buoyancy gradient in a fluid, where two different scalars cause density gradients, and each scalar has significantly different diffusion rates.

Queer Coded Branding And It's Brief History, Lars Madden

Student Research Symposium

Sappos, the Greek poet from Lesbos, both gifts and recieves flower crowns and necklace wreaths made of violets and lavender for her female lovers.

Designing For Mental Health, Kate Page

Student Research Symposium

More than 1 in 5 adults in America struggle with mental illness (National Institute of Mental Health). As someone who has personally struggled with mental health challenges, I can relate to the struggles of so many other people in the world. I wanted to do something about it with the tools I have.

Language Shapes Your Reality, Emily Staley

Student Research Symposium

Culture and Language walk hand in hand. Cultural stereotypes exist abundantly, and part of that stereotype exists within the cultural language. Certain speech patterns correspond to particular behaviors. Italians, for example, are known for being very passionate, loud, and romantic. One might say that they are very ‘Italian’.

In fact, most cultures with Latin rooted languages are stereotyped for being passionate and expressive. German, Dutch and Russian cultures are known for being direct and straightforward. Japanese, Korean, and Chinese cultures are known for having more passive, non-confrontational stereotypes. Cultures with similar languages tend to have similar stereotypes.

Color Dynamics: An Exploration Of Language And Color, Elizabeth Stanger

Student Research Symposium

There is evidence that color terms develop in a specific order in each language. This order can be seen in the hopscotch above. First, a term for black and white (or dark and light in general), then red, yellow and green interchangeably, blue, and then brown. The colors pink, purple, orange, and grey develop around the same time and don't display hierarchical trends. Finaly, a color term for light blue is developed. In languages like Spanish and Russian, their term for this color is completely separate from blue.

Empower Boomers: Champion Inclusive Design, Alaine Thomson

Student Research Symposium

I like the second one down, looks sophisticated and a leisurely read. Big type face. Intriguing photos. Looks engaging and worth my investment to read the article. The first one is tolerable. Big words to catch your attention. But the additional pages could be broken up with photos, ect. and larger typeface. I totally disliked the bottom one!!! Makes me physically ill! Dizzy, like going in a book store with anxiety. Boom, Boom your eyes are bounced all over the page. Number three is the same way. Too many little boxes with snippets of information and incredibly small type that …

Quilting: Design & Womanhood, Savannah Lawson

Student Research Symposium

My mother has always been a maker. My entire life, I have heard her sewing machine whirring as often as I have seen her face. She was, in particular, an amazing quilter, spending hours, weeks, months on intricate & exquisite compositions, often just to give them away to friends or family after. It’s always been a part of her, so when she was diagnosed with Alzheimer’s Disease in January of 2022, her imminent loss of her ability to sew was devastating. In the wake of this news, I began to take my first real interest in her quilts. I even …

Dynamics Of Rotating 2d Ellipse In Stratified Flow, Anton Kadomtsev

Student Research Symposium

• In nature, there exist innumerable flows with varying density, known as stratified flows.

• The density variation is caused by salt content or temperature variation.

• Submersibles in stratified flows approximated by spheroid.

• Fluid parcels perturbed from their neutral position gain potential energy, which becomes kinetic energy. Inherent oscillation is Brunt-Väisälä frequency.

• Stratification affects the flow structures and forces on bodies.

The Power Of Context In English And Design, Hannah Stowell

Student Research Symposium

Exploring how context shapes the rules governing effective communication in both the English language and graphic design.

Visuality Of Sound, Janelle Clark

Student Research Symposium

Graphic design is simply a visual representation of abstract concepts and communication to help people understand a message. Humans have created language and used sound to represent visuals, yet it goes much deeper than that. While sound and language can represent human defined objects based on cultural experience, there is an actual visual language behind sound itself. This field is called Cymatics, termed by Dr. Hans Jenny, a pioneer in the study of the visuality of sound. His research, along with more to follow have laid the groundwork of a previous unseen language. In this research, elements of the natural …

Analyzing Atmospheric Gravity Waves Over Antarctica And Visualizing Machine Learning Data, Anastasia Brown

Student Research Symposium

• Gravity Waves are buoyancy waves that propagate in the atmosphere [1]
• Mostly generated by tropospheric weather,
• Can vertically propagate above 100 km altitude,
• Affect the temperature structure of the atmosphere, 
• Drive pole-to-pole circulation.

The Dynamics Of An Asian Family, Katrina Lam

Student Research Symposium

Spilt-household

Men earn income but also maintain the family (1850s &1920s was a common time for Chinese-American families)(1930s Filipino families also reflect spilt households due to men exceeding the women population).

A Pirate Brand For Me: Piracy As A Model For Contemporary Design Practice, Rosie Davis

Student Research Symposium

No abstract provided.

Contemporary Design In Sports, Madeline Anderson

Student Research Symposium

With the emergence of discussion about the return of the Seattle SuperSonics, this project aims to blend the world of sports with contemporary design. To make a contemporary brand, means to think about every single aspect and detail of the brand with a reason. This re-brand explores the vintage feel of the team that ran the court in the late 20th century as well as influences from modern day branding. With references such as the Utah Jazz, Cleveland Cavaliers, Athens Kallithea F.C., Borussia Dortmund and Venezia FC- the new Seattle SuperSonics use expressive typography, modernized colors, and contemporary references to …

Wake Characteristics Of In-Phase And Out-Phase Array Of Oscillation Airfoils, Yi-Cheng Chen

Student Research Symposium

In order to solve the hydrodynamics of a school of fish using the open-source SEM solver Nek5000, an oscillating mesh is required to simulate fish oscillations and at the same time simplify the process of mesh partitioning and satisfy the limitation of nek5000 that the mesh must be quadrilateral.

Microbial Diversity Analysis Of Utah Native Plant Curl-Leaf Mountain Mahogany (Cercocarpus Iedifolius), Satwinder Pal Gill

Student Research Symposium

• Climate-induced Environmental stressors such as drought and salinity are the main threat to crop production and food security.
• Continuous use of chemical fertilizers deteriorates soil health. 
• New strategies to mitigate the effect of stress in plants and alternatives for chemical fertilizers are needed.
• The Intermountain West region of the US is rich in native plants adapted to arid and semi-arid climates, which are recommended for low-water-use landscaping.
• Curl-leaf Mountain mahogany (Cercocarpus ledifoius Nutt.) is a native plants of IW and abundant in Utah. It is widely distributed nutrient-deficient soils, drought, and pathogen resistance actinorhizal plants that can fix atmospheric …

Contemporary Korean Photographers Reestablishing Cultural And Individual Gender Identity In Modern-Day South Korea, Samantha Greene

Student Research Symposium

“The modern-day society of South Korea continuously transforms old traditions in hopes of establishing what Korean cultural and individual identity is in today’s contemporary world.” – Kevin Cawley, Korean Confucianism

Survival And Growth Of Early Stages Of Solanum Spp. After Insect Herbivory, Aj Hammond

Student Research Symposium

• Early survival and performance are key life-history traits that account for the variation in individual fitness and shapes population dynamics (Fig 1).
• The early stages of a plant’s life cycle (Fig 2a) are usually the most critical, being vulnerable to pressures such as herbivores and parasites more than later stages.
• Questions: How do natural enemies impact early survival and regrowth of plants?

Variability In Indoor Free Play Physical Activity Over One Week In Preschool-Aged Children, Benjamin B. Johnson

Student Research Symposium

• Indoor free play during preschool or childcare provides children with an opportunity to engage in total (light-to-vigorous) physical activity (TPA).
• Researchers may collect indoor free play TPA during a single indoor free play period, multiple indoor free play periods over a single day, or over multiple days.
• Little is known about the variability in TPA over indoor free play periods or if a single indoor free play period is representative of weekly indoor free play TPA.

Purpose: To assess within- and between-day variability in indoor free play TPA in young children.

Buckling Analysis Of A Novel High-Throughput Assembly For Accelerated Fatigue Test, Mehedi Hasan Mahfuz

Student Research Symposium

The novel high-throughput assembly was developed by Singh et al.[2024] previously to study creep, which we are using to study fatigue instead.

The main difference of testing creep and fatigue is, during fatigue test, the specimens are loaded with half-time compression and half-time tension where creep is only subjected to tensile load.

Mexican Food Vs Chicano Food, Andrew Mccann, Jonathan Mitchell Bagley

Student Research Symposium

The challenging and windy road that was the mixture of american and mexican cultures created many ripples in the history books. Families finding themselves in new countries by ways of war, land grabs, and danger continued to do what the Mexican culture does best; proper against all odds. The identity collaboration of mexican families in american cultures is none more apparent in one of the world's favorite foods. The challenge we face today, is whether to go for seconds.

Impact Of Language Barriers On Healthcare Outcomes, Kaylie Sharp, Abigail Stanger

Student Research Symposium

Thousands of immigrants of varying linguistic and national origin live in the United States today. They need the same quality medical care as natural-born citizens of the U.S., and yet, many of these people experience great discomfort obtaining medical help due to language barriers and the issues that they can create.

Native Spanish speakers present the highest minority in the United States and Utah. Despite the many resources available to them, Spanish speakers often are faced with linguistic barriers that diminish the quality of care they and their families receive in healthcare across Utah.