URCO Recipients Spring 2008
| Name | Department | Faculty Mentor | Project Title |
| Rachel Bradshaw | Biological & Irrigation Engineering | Paul Schreuders | BioFuels: An Investigation for the Efficacy of Industrial Grade Enzyms in BioEthanol Production |
| Ian Burtenshaw | Nutrition & Food Sciences | Robert Ward | Intestinal Integrity and the Effect of Milk Fat Globular Membranes |
| Corey D. Clawson | English | Anne Shifrer | Finding Brazil in Nova Scotia: Portuguese "Saudade" in the Work of Elizabeth Bishop |
| Stephanie Croasdell | Biology | Tim Gilbertson | Alteration of Salt Sensitivity in an Animal Model of Hyperinsulinemia |
| Justin Dekany | Physics | J.R. Dennison | Intial Time Dependent Resistivity of Insulating Polymers |
| Thomas G. Evans | Religious Studies | Philip Barlow | The Catholic Experience in Utah |
| Bobby Free | Art | J. Daniel Murphy | Soda Firing (2228 F) |
| Richard Scott Gardner | Wildland Resources | Karen Mock | Genetic Variability in Western Aspen (Populus tremuloides) and Arthropod Diversity: A Study of the Extended Phenotype |
| Arash Garrossian | Chemistry | Tom Chang | Carbohydrate and Cyclopamine Conjugates on Anticancer Agent |
| Hyrum Gillespie | Plants, Soils, and Climate | Yajun Wu | Characterization of a Laccase Mutant |
| Christina Hansen | Chemistry & Biochemistry | Joan Hevel | DCoH and DCoHalpha Interface Residues Affect Protein Function |
| Jesse Hayes | Physics | J.R. Dennison | Operation and Calibration of an IN SITU Electrostatic Field Transition Probe |
| Jordan Hunger | Nutrition & Food Sciences | Ilka Nemere | Dose-Response Relationship of Parathyroid Hormone and Beta Glucuronidase Release in Intestinal Cells |
| James Q. Meservy | Sociology, Social Work, Anthropology | Bonnie Pitblado | A Look into the Unknown: Effects of Heat-Treatment on Quartzite |
| Tasha Newman | Plants, Soils & Climate | Brent Black | Optimizing Micropropation of Chokecherry |
| Christel Olsen | Biological & Irrigation Engineering | Paul Schreuders | BioFuels: An Investigation for the Efficacy of Industrial Grade Enzyms in BioEthanol Production |
| Bryce Osborne | Animal, Dairy, & Veterinary Sciences | Ken White | Comparison of Methylation Patterns Concerning 5 Transcription Factors |
| Charles Oughton | History | Mark Damen | Transcription, Translation, and Commentary of Sculteto's Trichiasis Admiranda |
| Heidi Pearce | Geology | Tammy Rittenour | Study of Sand Dunes on the Snake River Plain |
| Christopher Luke Peterson | Biology | Joseph Li | Differential Effects of RNAi on Toll-Like Receptrs in Oncolytic Bluetongue Virus Infected Human Cancer A549 Cells |
| Jared Randall | Watershed Sciences | Mark Vinson | How the Piscicide Rotenone Affects Aquatic Invertebrates in Timber Creek, Utah. |
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