The 2021 Undergraduate Research Showcase took place virtually on Friday, April 23rd. It featured poster and lightning talk presentations by undergraduate Boise State researchers, and was supported by the Institute for Inclusive and Transformative Scholarship at Boise State University.
Please see the following link for more information: https://www.boisestate.edu/undergraduate-research/showcase/
Submissions from 2021
Adolescent Behavior and Substance Use, Abby Aiello, Lane Grant, and Kelly Tebbe
The Impact of Global Recessions in the Construction Market of Ada County, Ali AlSaeed, Brendan Wedderspoon, Chloe Bauer, Evan Sarmiento, and Luke Lundblad
The Status of "Critical Inquiry" at BSU: Conceptual Background, Mason Banks, Elise Bonar, Anneliese Ostrom, Xander Vaughn, and Stephen Crowley
Negative Life Events, Social Support, and Positive Future Identity, Haley Barnard, John Halton, and Anita Suljic
EEG Biometric Information, MarGhece Barnes, Meghan Edgerton, Erin Kerr, Gabriel Miles, and Callum Young
Is There Evidence of Wage Inflation for Unskilled Workers in Boise, Idaho?, Jase Barrett, Zack Dellamonica, Kayleigh Hibbard, and Chris Verdi
Gender and Toys as Factors in the Relation Between Spatial and Math Skills During Childhood, Andrew Belarski and Iryna Babik
Shielding in Pediatric Radiology: Benefit vs. Risk, Jenna Berry, Jessica Honts, Emily King, Aly McLeod, Jamie Parker, and Racine Sanchez
Herbivory Effects on Summer Drought Tolerance and Winter Survival of Wyoming Big Sagebrush Seedlings, Kateri Bilay, Bailie Sirhall, and Marcelo Serpe
Integrated Pest Management in Idaho: Discovering the Diet of Idaho Barn Owls, Jenna Bishop, Trevor Speer, and Jim Belthoff
Alaska's Oil Paradox: Exploring the Relationship Between North Slope Crude Price & Economic Performance, Jackson Blackwell
Wage Inflation in the Local Economy for Highly-Skilled Positions, Jackson Blackwell, Julia Garofalo, Jordan Graham, Haley Hill, and Ryan Sparrell
Marks of Motherhood: Body Image in the Postpartum Period, Rachel Blickman
The Status of "Critical Inquiry" at BSU: Documentation, Elise Bonar, Mason Banks, Anneliese Ostrom, Xander Vaughn, and Stephen Crowley
Gerrymandering of School Districts Effect on Social, Educational, and Resource Access, Elise Braseth
The Effect of 5’-Methylthioadenosine/S-Adenosylhomocysteine Nucleosidase Deficiency on Vitamin-Dependent Metabolism in Escherichia coli O157:H7, Colton Brodock, Matthew Krahn, Caleb Johnston, and Ken Cornell
Ratios of Expression of Notch Intracellular Domain Protein Interaction within Notch Signaling Pathway, Levi Butler and Allan Albig
Gender Differences in the Effects of Viewing Body Positive Content on Instagram, Anna Button
Soiling Climate Change: Elementary Soil Education as a Solution to Climate Change, Sean Cahill, Jen Pierce, and Alex Brooks
Linguistics and Indigenous Populations in a Time of Pandemic, Ben Carter, Annika Henderson, Grace Priddy, and Ben Geffon
Diversity in the Writing Center: The Impact of Reflection on Inclusive Practices, Kate Carter-Cram
U.S. Foreign Aid to Sub-Saharan Africa: Effects on Hunger, Education, and Gender Equality, Kate Carter-Cram, Brendan Quinn, and Brittany Roell
From Cultural Values Through Parental Practices to Children's Academic Achievement: A Cross-Cultural Approach, Samantha Cary and Iryna Babik
"Last Night" Short Narrative Film, Mykah Charette
Covid-19 Global Pandemic in Sub-Sahara Africa, Elvine Angeline Chinabalire
Climate Change is Affecting You: Building Climate Education Lessons for Idaho Schools, Aiden Chisholm, Danielle Marquette, and Jennifer Pierce
Digitizing Historical Forest Service Data, Floriana Ciaglia, Chinwendum Njoku, and Isaac Bard
Virtual Instruction and Early Special Education: Parent and Teacher Perspectives, Claire Conner
Cybersecurity of the Artificial Pancreas, Daniel Cooke, Christine Patterson, and Aparna Sankaran
Examining Levels of Self-Criticism and Guilt Among Men of Various Income Groups, Mirabella R. Coplin and Matthew C. Genuchi
Synthesis and Evaluation of 2,4,6-Trisubstituted Quinoline Small Molecules to Inhibit a Notorious Inflammatory Cytokine, Grace Coughlin, Thomas Conrad, Darren Lighter, Thaaer Muhammed, Cody Wolf, Cheryl Jorcyk, Lisa R. Warner, Matthew King, and Don L. Warner
Cities and Pandemic Response: Review of Best Practices, Spencer Crabb, Alexa Roitman, Will Long, and Nick Lopez
ARSIS 4.0 (Augmented Reality Space Informatics System), Caleb Cram, Olivia Thomas, Marc Francis, Akiah Tullis, Tri Nguyen, Trice Dayrit, and Jake Standerwick
Reconstructing the Mid-Late Triassic Paleoclimate of the Paraña Basin Using Carbon Isotope Analysis of Dinosaur, Crocodilian, and Reptile Enamel, Justin Crevier
Unusual Hydrothermal Rims on Igneous Zircons, Tso Morari Complex, Ladakh, India, Kyra Croft, Darin Schwartz, Himanshu Sachan, and Matthew J. Kohn
Big Five Personality Traits Predict Parenting Stress and Maternal Self-Efficacy, Gabrielle Crowe
Genetic Diversity in Oregon Populations of the Invasive Grass Taeniatherum caput-medusae (Medusahead), Amanda Davis and Stephen J. Novak
Modeling the Living Genome, Ethan Davis, Julianna Goelzer, and Matthew Ferguson
Reframing the Conversation: What Climate Stories Can Do to Spur Climate Action, Tabitha Delaney, Tristan Harris, and Jen Pierce
Multi-Layer Shallow Water Model, Chithkala Dhulipati and Michal Kopera
One World Trade Center, Seth Dixon, Luke Burley, and Kirsten Davis
The ASSIST Lab: Exploring the Relationship Between Allies and Students with Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities in Inclusive Postsecondary Education Settings, Calina Drakulic, Elyssa Gonzales, and MaKaylee Lindsey
Changes in Native American Reservation Borders Due to Natural Resource Access, Nino Duran, Zoe Doman, and Leif Everson
All Seasons Portable Hand Washing Station: The Design Process, Andrea Eborn, Christine Lynch, Zachary Andreason, and Adonis Olivas
Passing Through Plaçage: A Study of Racial Ambiguity Within 17th and 18th Century Colonial Louisiana, Mandee Edmonds
Maternal Prenatal Depressive Symptoms Predict Parental Stress, Jitka Elizarraras
Development of Small Molecules to Mitigate the SARS-CoV-2 Cytokine Storm, Andrea Feci, Emily Winkler, Joseph Tuccinardi, Grace Coughlin, Cody Wolf, Cooper McGrath, Matthew King, Lisa R. Warner, Cheryl Jorcyk, and Don L. Warner
Seattle Space Needle: How Did They Build That?, Savanna Fernandez, Nicolina Caruso, and Nick Paige
Mechanical Stress Modulates the Ionic Conductance of Bilayer Lipid Membranes, Pangaea W. Finn, Andrea Feci, Fulton McKinney, Aviana R. Smith, and Rosey Whiting
Wage Inflation and Demand for Skilled Labor Positions: A Closer Look at Boise's Construction Industry, Joy Flournoy, James Simmons, Sarah Stearns, Adriana Melendez, and Meredith Covey
Gender Differences in Dating Intentions Using Dating Apps, Devin Foster
"Stateless" Rohingya Crisis: Political, Social, and Identity Borders, Grace Fraczek, Matthew Keller, and Kaylyn Anderson
Negative Life Events' and Future Identity Perception in Adolescents, Nolan Garabo, Rachel Greb, and Rori McDaniel
The Effect of Parenting Style, Child’s Temperament, and Child’s Attachment Style on Out-Group Perception, Elena Gardner and Iryna Babik
Trends in Migration Across the U.S./Mexico Border, Daniel Garner, Grace Johnson, and Elias Shoemaker
Burj Al Arab, John Garrison and Zachary Thompson
Evaluating the Influence of Atmospheric Fluctuations on Infrasound Propagation at Volcán Villarrica, Scott J. Gauvain, Jeffrey B. Johnson, Jacob F. Anderson, Jerry C. Mock, and Bryan Rosenblatt
ML Com Displacement for Older Adults During a Stair Descent on Challenging Surfaces, Christina Geisler, Nicholas Hunt, Amy Holcomb, Clare Fitzpatrick, and Tyler Brown
Hip Mechanics of Infants: Understanding Hip Angles of an Infant in Different Baby Carrier Styles, Sarah Goldrod, Safeer Siddicky, and Erin Mannen
Comparative Analysis of Refugee Experiences, Grady Graham, Ashley Black, and Allison Kinard
Why are Boise's Trails So Muddy?, Amanda Grimsted
The Impact of Climate Change on "At Risk" Communities, Amanda Grimsted, Emily Her, Kenneth Huston, and McKenna Von Lanken
Teachers, Student Stress, and Academic Performance, Kevin Halim, Ashlee Handler, Carissa Pedersen, and Fairoz Walizada
Study Materials for Arabic Students: OER Intermediate Arabic Textbook Project, Grace Hall
HSP Hexaemeron: Emergent Themes in Comestor's Historia Scholastica, Emma Halverson and Joseph Bradshaw
Engineering Design in Scientific Inquiry (EDISIn): Material Affordances in a Physics Lab, Emily Hansen, Leslie Atkins Elliott, Stephen Crowley, and ShaKayla Moran
Mammalian Cytotoxicity Study of Novel Organometallic Complexes, Nathan Harrison, Caleb Leach, Kyle Lusk, Kris Waynant, and Ken Cornell
Study of Electron Instabilities in Crossed Electric and Magnetic Fields, Gerardo Herrera, Isaac Wolstenholme, Mason Cannon, Jessica Carlson, Liz Gaffney, John McClarin, Ranajoy Bhattacharya, and Jim Browning
Reconnecting the Lusk District, Emma Hill, Zoey Ball, Megan Nukaya, Sean Cahill, and Will Long
Linking Health, Demography and Socio-Economic Status: Three Examples from 18th-19th Century London, Christin Hoard, Steven Dwello, Zackary Rushton, Molly Schmidt, Anna Green, Marina Noble, and Cheryl Anderson
You've Gotta Friend In Me: Networking for Climate Change, Kenneth Huston
Gonadal Shielding and Its Effect On Dose, Millie Ibarra, Nykell Mogensen, and Ali Woolf
Musculoskeletal Adaptations in Younger and Older Adults in Response to Challenging Conditions, Amanda K. Ivy, Amy E. Holcomb, Aidan G. Cormier, and Clare K. Fitzpatrick
Ultra Short Period Planets in K2 III, Prasanna Jayanthi, Elisabeth R. Adams, Brian Jackson, Samantha Johnson, David R. Ciardi, William D. Cochran, Michael Endl, Mark E. Everett, Elise Furlan, Steve B. Howell, Phillip J. MacQueen, Rachel A. Matson, Ciera Partyka-Worley, Joshua Schlieder, Nicholas J. Scott, Sevio M. Stanton, and Carl Zielger
Presidential and Policy Changes: The Effect on the U.S-Mexico Border, Eleni Jervis
City of Boise News: How Can the City of Boise Effectively Reach Boise State Students?, Abby Johnson, Grant Gaudio, Jason Mick, and Emily Arnold
Gender Differences in Perceptions of Self Esteem, Equity, and Teacher-Student Relationship, Allison Johnson, Cierra Tyacke, and Britney Marshall
Association Between Type of Trauma and Type of Juvenile Criminal Charges, Andrea Johnson
How Is Social Validity Measured in Math Interventions?, Andrea Johnson, Mali Sawyer, and Gena Nelson
Insects are Small, but Mighty in Pollinating Foods We Consume: The Significance of Non-Bee Pollinators, Julie Julison
Portable Art in the Great Basin: Possible Insect Stone Artifacts, Julie Julison
Nursing Interventions to Manage Postoperative Delirium, Daum Jung
Understanding the Origin of Friction Force of Water, Sunwoo Jung and Byung Kim
The Parthenon, Piper Kilgore, Mark West, and Connor Perry
Endangered Species at the U.S. Mexico Border, Tyler Knudson, Elizabeth Alcaraz, and Landrie Smith
Taj Mahal, Ian Kurle and Ryan Shaffer
Men's Conformity to Masculine Gender Role Norms: A Broad Association to Thought Suppression, Hannah G. Lacy and Matthew C. Genuchi
Relationships Between Thought Control Styles and Depressive Attitudes in High Conformers to Traditional Masculine Norms, Andrew Lahren and Matthew C. Genuchi
Optimization of One-Pot Coupling Reactions of Di-Substituted Furans for Disease Treatment, Jacob LaMay, Elsie Dickerson, Andrea Feci, Emily Winkler, Joseph Tuccinardi, Ryan Reeves, and Don L. Warner
Effects of Doxorubicin on Cardiac Fibroblasts and the Extracellular Matrix, Tyler Lantz, Conner Patricelli, Steve Nick, Matthew Turner, Julia Oxford, and Xinzhu Pu
ParFlow Performance Tracking & ParFlowIO, William Lawrence, Nicholas Prussen, and Jared White
Development of Novel Organometallic Compounds as Antibiotics, Caleb Leach, Kyle Lusk, Ashley Williams, Taylor Koch, Sarrah Belhadj, Kris Waynant, and Ken Cornell
Soil Recovery After Fire and Invasion: Implications for Sagebrush Reestablishment, Ashley Leavell and Marie-Anne de Graaff
3D Shapes of Galaxy Cluster in TNG Simulations, Rosana Lenhart and Heidi Wu
Museum of Pop Culture, Joey Lewis, Ethan Diaz, and Will Doud
What Roles That Familial Relationships Play on Latine Student Success at Boise State University, Libbie Luevanos, Jessica Mueller, Dustin Nguyen, Stacey Pedraza, Catherine Bates, Luke Jones, and Vicki Stieha
Comparing Parameters in Growth Models, Payton Lyons, Andrii Zaiats, and Trevor Caughlin
Comparison of Image Processing Methods for Better Point Clouds of Sagebrush, Valorie Marie, Stacey Clifton, Anna Roser, Peter Olsoy, Andrii Zaiats, and Trevor Caughlin
AFM Study of Model Membrane Made of Mouse Lens Phospholipids, Mason Marosvari, Max-Florian Mortimer, Nawal K. Khadka, Raju Timsina, and Laxman Mainali
Notch Mutation Effects on NICD Molecules Dimerization, Monik Marquez and Allan Albig