Research Showcase

Please join us as we gather again as an academic community to celebrate research and the achievements of our undergraduate students. Students will be presenting posters and presentations of their undergraduate research, scholarship, and creative work from all departments across campus, including work sponsored by the Undergraduate Research Center, University Honors, and the Center for Community Engagement to Advance Scholarship and Learning. Please support them and their faculty mentors as they celebrate these important accomplishments.

When: May 4, 2023 from 3-5 PM (May the Force be with you on this day! We encourage all students to lean into the Star Wars themed day)

Where: CCOM 1600, 1700, 1800

DU Undergraduate Research Showcase Presenter Order

3:00 PM - 3:10 PM Opening Remarks from Provost Clark
3:10 PM - 3:15 PM Arianna Carlson, Victims of Terrorism in the Basque Country Through Testimony and Memorialization
3:15 PM – 3:20 PM William Gross, Imaging and Identification of 2D Indium Selenide Semiconductor
3:20 PM – 3:25 PM Kathleen Hopps, Racial Biases in Pain Care Recommendations and the Moderating Effect of Providers’ Experience with Diverse Communities
3:25 PM – 3:30 PM Carter Sorensen, Computer-Assisted Total Knee Arthroplasty Accuracy Influenced by Anatomic Landmark Identification
3:30 PM – 3:35 PM Jennifer Armstrong, Hospital Havoc
3:35 PM – 3:40 PM Brandon Thierry, The Mindanao Plan: A Struggle For Rescue And Liberation In The Philippines, 1938-1941
3:40PM – 3:45 PM Seraphina Loukas, Caprin1 and FMRP Genetically Interact to Regulate the Development of the Larval Drosophila Neuromuscular Junction
3:45 PM – 3:50 PM Connor Block, Inductive Analysis of Media Narrative Regarding 2020 George Floyd Protests in Minnesota
3:50 PM – 3:55 PM Elijah Kruger, NATO’s Intervention in Kosovo: An Intersectional Gender Analysis

3:55 PM – 4:00 PM Christina Rorres, Investigation of Barium as a Temperature Proxy in Corals
4:00 PM – 4:05 PM Braden Krumholz, Jewish Baseball Players And Their Impact On The Lessening Of Anti-Semitism In Sports In The 1930s – Post World War II Era
4:05 PM – 4:10 PM Madi Sousa, Frame Theory And Its Applications
4:10 PM – 4:15 PM Simon Ruland, Prelude to Bleeding Kansas -- Governor Andrew H. Reeder
4:15 PM – 4:20 PM Ci Koehring, Human Neuron Model of Rett's Syndrome
4:20 PM – 4:25 PM Zachary Harker, French as a Subject and Language at United States' Universities
4:25 PM – 4:30 PM Helayna Schafer, Wealth Inequality and Democratic Legitimacy
4:30 PM – 4:35 PM Colin Kleckner, More Than a Headstone
4:35 PM – 4:40 PM Caitlyn Aldersea, Military Masculinities and Honorary Men: A Comparative Analysis of United States and United Kingdom Approaches to Iraq Security Sector Reform

DU Research

College of Arts, Humanities & Social Sciences

Connor Block	Inductive Analysis of Media Narrative Regarding 2020 George Floyd Protests in Minnesota	View
Justin Bravo	Latinx Stigma, Sculpture Informed by Stereotypes	View
Arianna Carlson	Victims of Terrorism in the Basque Country Through Testimony and Memorialization	View
Brandon Cohen	Examining The Link Between Teachers’ Racial Beliefs And Perceptions Of Students’ Social Emotional Competencies	View
Jack Emery	Re-Evaluating Justice: Comparing Allied Restitution Operations in Post-World War II Europe and Asia	View
Emma Finch	Reported School Climate for Diversity and Feelings of Belonging for Latine Students: Moderation of Feelings of Belonging by Parent’s Academic Aspirations and Expectations	View
Amy Fishman	Writing About Literature At The University Of Denver, 1997–2002	View
Emma Gries	Selection Frequency & Affective Outcomes of Reappraisal Tactics	View
Rylie Hansen	The Role of Early Postpartum Depression Symptoms on Hemodynamic Response to Infant Cry and Parental Behaviors	View
Zachary Harker	French as a Subject and Language at United States' Universities	View
Kathleen Hopps	Racial Biases in Pain Care Recommendations and the Moderating Effect of Providers’ Experience with Diverse Communities	View
Colin Kleckner	More Than a Headstone	View
Braden Krumholz	Jewish Baseball Players And Their Impact On The Lessening Of Anti-Semitism In Sports In The 1930s – Post World War II Era	View
Maddie Leake	The Effects of Stress on Sleep and Coping	View
Emily Martinez	What do I major in? The Factors that Inform Student’s Choice of College Major	View
Trudy Mickel	Does Youth Sports Participation Promote Long-term Physical Health for Individuals with Childhood Adversity?	View
Casandra Pearson	Disparities in Crowd-Directed Force Behaviors: Examining the Effects of Crowd Racial Composition and Crowd Size on Crowd-Directed Force Behaviors in a Contextually Rich VR Experiment	View
Simon Ruland	Prelude to Bleeding Kansas -- Governor Andrew H. Reeder	View
Helayna Schafer	Wealth Inequality and Democratic Legitimacy	View
Claire Shaver	The Effect of Controllability on Stigma Toward Mental Illness	View
Brandon Thierry	The Mindanao Plan: A Struggle For Rescue And Liberation In The Philippines, 1938-1941	View
Dylan Tyree	Cello: Extending The Limitations	View
Maggie Williams	Assessing Racialized Mental Representations of Crack and Powder Cocaine Users	View

College of Natural Sciences & Mathematics

Sam Allen	Spectropolarimetric Analysis of the Supernova M12045	View
Abran Bartlett-M	SARS-CoV-2 Nucleocapsid Protein Localization	View
Emma Buechler	Effects of Red Dragon Fruit (Hylocereus polyrhizus) Extract on Spinal Motor Neuron Survival and Gliosis in the G93A Mutant hSOD1 Mouse Model of ALS	View
William Christensen	Effects of Biochar on Short Term Growth in Rocky Mountain Lodgepole Pine	View
Noah Craver	Investigation of Septins In Drosophila Melanogaster	View
Barbora Cudova	Germ Band Extension in Drosophila String Mutants	View
Kate Dillon	Genetic Interactions Of Proteins Associated With Fragile X Syndrome	View
Stacia Fritz	Identification of Therapeutic Targets for Parkinson’s Disease	View
Simran Gill	Detection of Gaseous Ethylene Using Bodipy Ethylene Probes with Applications i	View
William Gross	Imaging and Identification of 2D Indium Selenide Semiconductor	View
Ashley Hasty	Do age and diet interact to affect fall webworm parasitism?	View
Adelaide Kerenick	Evaluation of Steric Effects for Faster BEPs (BODIPY Ethylene Probes)	View
Ci Koehring	Human Neuron Model of Rett's Syndrome	View
Seraphina Loukas	Caprin1 and FMRP Genetically Interact to Regulate the Development of the Larval Drosophila Neuromuscular Junction	View
Haley Maki	Ethylene Activation Of Latent Catalysts As A Detection Strategy To Reducing Food Waste	View
Sierra McKinney	The Link between Seba Fruit bats and Stalactites	View
Audrey Mitchell	Different Host Plants Affect Immune Response in a Generalist Caterpillar	View
Valorie Myhre	The Hypothalamus-Pituitary-Interrenal Axis in Two Basal Vertebrates, Acipenser oxyrhincus and Petromyzon marinus	View
Audrey Ng	Motivation and Cognitive Control in Children With and Without ADHD	View
Andrew Nguyen	Does Child Opportunity Indices (COI) Predict Birth Weight?	View
Stevie Ostman	Sibling Loss During Throughout Development and Depression	View
Zdenek Otruba	Exosome secretion and a tethering protein: Does tetherin tether?	View
Alexandra Penney	Expressing Alpha-Synuclein in RCSN-3 Cells to Improve the Study of Pathways in Parkinson’s Disease	View
Kate Pletcher	Experimental Demonstration of Stability of Symmetrically Tilted Optical Vortices	View
Anna Rini	The Role of Cognitive Control in the Processes Underlying Easy And Difficult Risky Monetary Decision-Making	View
Christina Rorres	Investigation of Barium as a Temperature Proxy in Corals	View
Lillian Sartor	Fingerprints as Forked Diffraction Gratings	View
Sarah Schuller	Carbon Sequestration in Peatlands: Using Environmental Proxies to Understand the Impact of a Changing Climate on Global Carbon Storage	View
Dorian Schwartz	Clustering Analysis of Ambient Fluorescent Bioaerosol WIBS Measurements at the Southern Great Plains Site	View
Emma Sellers	Parental Effects of Diet in Fall Webworm	View
Isabella Shaw	Honeybee Research and Student Perceptions of Science	View
Madison Sinar	The Effects of Red Dragon Fruit Betacyanin Extract on the Motor Function and Health of Neuromuscular Junctions in the G93A Mutant hSOD1 Mouse Model of ALS	View
Apshara Siwakoti	In Vivo Screening Of Therapeutic Small Molecules Against Parkinson’s Disease in C. elegans Models	View
Madi Sousa	Frame Theory And Its Applications	View
Anna Sparling	Concussion Associated Biomarkers	View
Lauren Wols	Copulation Duration in a Promiscuous Leaf Beetle	View
Zecheng You	Fabricating Vector Vortices	View

Josef Korbel School of International Studies

Caitlyn Aldersea	Military Masculinities and Honorary Men: A Comparative Analysis of United States and United Kingdom Approaches to Iraq Security Sector Reform	View
Maria de los Angeles Bustillos	Trade Wars, COVID-19, USMCA, and Protectionism: Exogenous Factor Influence on U.S- Mexico Supply Chains in the Automotive Industry	View
Elijah Kruger	NATO’s Intervention in Kosovo: An Intersectional Gender Analysis	View
Yatzari Lozano Va	The Role of Media Representations Of Feminicides In Influencing Perspectives Of Feminicide In Mexico	View
Kipling Newman	The Weight of Culture: Investigating the Relationship Between Stereotypes and Foreign Policy Through the Case Study of Heidelberg, Germany 1871-1917	View

Ritchie School of Engineering & Computer Science

Jennifer Armstrong	Hospital Havoc	View
Anna Block	Methods in Undergraduate Computer Ethics Education	View
Muskan Fatima	Evaluating the Privacy and Security Perspective of Older Adults Towards Online Dating	View
Angel Fernandes	Evaluating the Various Facets of Account Remediation Approaches of Popular User-Centered Interaction Services	View
Andrea Francis	Contribution Of The Loading-Unloading Balance Mechanism With Various Foot Placements	View
Robel Mamo	DU Build-A-Bot	View
Carter Sorensen	Computer-Assisted Total Knee Arthroplasty Accuracy Influenced by Anatomic Landmark Identification	View
Christy Vo	The Over-expression, Purification, and Crystallization of Proteins	View