2026 Undergraduate Research Showcase
Submissions from 2026
Workshop as Style: Building Space for Healthy Expressions of Criticism in a Creative Writing Classroom, Grace Nunamaker and Aiden VanderStouwe
Predictors of Sepsis Mortality: Evaluating the Relationship Between Age, Demographics, and Bundle Compliance, Amy Oakes, Brenna Woolery, Sadie Kennison, Sandy Leonetti, and Kirk Ketelsen
Sintering and Characterization of AM h-BN Nanoparticle Inks for Extreme Environments, Jacob Olson, Primerose Bomokayi, Hector Ramirez, Allyssa Bateman, and Brian Jaques
Federal Reserve Challenge Team / Fed Club, Taivan Orton, Rafael Ribas, Hannah May, and Nasir Hussein Dad
Pressure Sensing Insoles Estimate Vertical GRFs During Loaded Walking, Justin Pallister, Tyler Brown, Aden Harrison, and Willis Dewane
Seeding Disease from the Gut: Glyphosate, Microbiome Disruption, and Parkinson’s Pathology, Paden Parisot, Sydney Boutros, Ty Naymik, Sabrina Wilson, Allie Higgins, Katie Hettel, Trevor Walker, and Kaitlyn Carver
Red Pandamonium: Daily Behaviors of Captive Red Pandas at Zoo Boise, Julia Parker, Ayden Hastings, Ali Hodder, Conner Klapper, Elizabeth Rogers, Thomas Schumacher, Tobin Shelly, Mia Strand, Ashley Santiago, Austin Reich, and Amy Ulappa
Understanding Wastes from Idaho Beverage Production, Jonus Parten, Sondra Miller, Roy Henson, and Gregor Posadas
Indigenous Led Ecological Restoration: Buffalo as Teachers, Sarah Pearce, Libby Lunstrum, Madison Stevens, and Annabel Christiansen
Habitat Restoration at Diane Moore Nature Center, Jared Peck, Greg Kaltenecker, and Heidi Carlisle
Staphylococcus aureus Antigens as a Potential Vaccine for Cows, Logan Pernat, Juliette Tinker, Noah Souza, and Elise Overgaard
Understanding Consumer Attitudes Toward AI: Privacy, Trust, and Adoption Dynamics, Gracie Peterson, Shikhar Sarin, Amanda Hopkins, Savannah Roberts, and Angie Corvera Ortega
Engineering Innovation Studio, Quincy Peterson and Griff Allen
Using Brain Signals to Understand How Feedback Shapes Learning, Spencer Petticrew, Mariane Bacelar, and Tina Nguyen
Habitat Restoration-Diane Moore Nature Center, Janelle Phillips, Danielle Brewer, Emaiya James-Plew, Spencer Mountain, Jaydin Dofflemyer, Gregory Kaltenecker, Heidi Ware Carlisle, and Elizabeth Serocki
Designing Bioinks: An Iterative Approach to Printability and Fidelity, Samuel phillips, David Estrada, and Miranda L. Nelson
Online Relationships & Men's Mental Well-Being, Montoya Phipps-Gallegos and Matthew Genuchi
Addressing Food Waste on Boise State Campus, Laura Potter, Seth Ashley, Keira Harley, Rylee Alexander, Gavin Beresford, and Emma Martens
The Relationship Between Basic Needs Theory, Perceived Barriers and Physical Activity Levels in College Students, Kayla Pratte, Katie Lysne, and Eric M. Martin
John Keats: An Exploration on Companionship, Victoria Purington and Kim Carter-Cram
Effect of Gas Flow Focusing Ratio on Line Morphology in Aerosol Jet Printing of h-BN Inks, Hector Ramirez, Jacob Olson, Primerose Bomokayi, Joshua Eixenberger, David Estrada, and Brian Jaques
Optimizing Inkjet Printing of Gold Ink for Electrochemistry Applications, Kaylee Rasmor and Carol Baumbauer
Judith: The Thane of God, Rylee Rayborn and Kim Carter-Cram
Singing for Survival: Harriet Prescott Spofford, Rylee Rayborn and Tara Penry
They Teach the Same Levels and We Know More': Barriers to English Language Learning Among Resettled Refugees in Boise Idaho, Sophia Readmond and Soulit Chacko
Assessing Plasma Stability of 7-Hydroxymitragynine Found in Kratom, Oliver Reed, Anna J. Shuey, Jessica Seiber, Elliot Johnson, Fashion Bennett, and Owen McDougal
Developing Methodology to Examine Motor Skill and Affective Development in Children Participating in Krav Maga, Abbie M. Richards, Lynda B. Ransdell, Laura J. Petranek, Yong Gao, Liana D. Domingo, and Kylie J. Smith
Roleplaying or "Roll-playing": An Analysis of Humor in Dungeons and Dragons, Elena Rielinger and Aiden VanderStouwe
Lived Horror into Literary Form: Ambrose Bierce, The Civil War Author, Hector Rivera and Tara Penry
Vitamin C Binding to β-Lactoglobulin, Jack Roth, Owen McDougal, and Mia Toronto
Implementation of a Custom Controlled-Atmosphere Glovebox for Air-Sensitive Atomic Layer Deposition of Ultra-High-k Dielectrics, Yvette Russell, Scott Riley, Aenakshi Sircar, Steven Hues, and Elton Graugnard
Language Exposure and Cognitive Development in Adolescents, Santos Salinas and Nichole Lasich
Effects of Osmotic Stress on Growth Dynamics of Bacillus amyloliquefaciens, Trinity Schatzel, Jaycee Fahrner, and Leonora Bittleston
Naming the Underworld: Inferos and the Harrowing of Hell in Peter Comestor's Historia Scholastica, Jaimie Schmitt, Karen Wadley, Michael Compton, Mary Dittman, Alexander Hale, Makena Walsh, and Noah Wojcik
Design and Fabrication of Neutron Shielding for Neutron Generators, Ethan Schwieder, James Simpson, Allyssa Bateman, Scott Phillips, and Brian Jaques
Predictors for the Regional Presence of Snake River Plains Ground Squirrels, Lillie Scofield and Jennyffer Cruz
Aqueous Solubility and Lipophilicity of Several Alkaloids Found in Kratom, Jessica Seiber, Owen McDougal, and Anna Shuey
Asteroid Mining, Caleb Shepherd, Sondra Miller, Carlos Cordova, Wyatt Davis, Josh Hudgins, Michael Deur, Alex Anta, and Miranda Nelson
Cloning and Purification of S. aureus FnBPA, Hla, and IsdC Antigens, Zain Shipley, Juliette Tinker, and Jaxon Loper
Oral Care and Ventilator Associated Pneumonia in the ICU, Lauren Shoffner, Lucy Zhao, McKenna Leonard, Maddi Nall, Jacy Rodriguez, and Katie Yowell
What Is Driving 'Urban Sprawl'?, Jack Shrontz and Kelly Chen
Molecular Cloning, Protein Purification, and Mutagenesis of Salmonella AB5 Toxins, Anna Sklyarov, Juliette Tinker, and Noah Souza
The Incentives of Corporate Misconduct, Molly Sleeman and Rafael Ribas
Sensor Evaluation for Infant Biomechanics: Force Sensitive Resistors vs. Pressure Sensors in a Pavlik Harness, Nyelah Smith, Erin Mannen, Ant Lakatos, and Benjamin Johnson
Negotiation of Meaning in non-SLA Contexts: An Ethnography of an Undergraduate Linguistics Classroom, Thomas Staley and Aiden VanderStouwe
Harriet Beecher Stowe, D’Lonna Steiner and Tara Penry
What Values Would You Instill in Your Children?: A Cross-Cultural Comparison of Future Parents in the U.S., South Africa, and India, Maci A. Stephens and Iryna Babik
"Nudosos Son Los Caminos Del Milagro": A Virtual Ethnography on the Religion of Cvstodia and the Influence of Spanish Catholicism on the Video Game Blasphemous, Avery Sterling and Kelly Arispe
Exploring Microbial Metabolic Pathways in Pitcher Plant and Lake Metagenomes, Megan Stovall, Chadwick DeFehr, and Leonora Bittleston
Ambiguity in Nathaniel Hawthorne's "Young Goodman Brown", Kaylee Sullivan and Kim Carter-Cram