Past ROCH Presenters

This month, undergraduate students from Utah State University and the University of Utah will present their research to Utah legislators at Research on Capitol Hill. This event is held every year to celebrate the best of undergraduate research from the st...

2020 | The Spiral of Silence: Self-censoring, disability and the 2016 election

2019 | Inducing Reversions Between Asexual and Sexual Reproductive Strategies in Daphnia

2017 | How the space environment affects seed germination and growth

2017 | A Ni2 electrocatalyst for CO2 reduction and H2 evolution

2020 | Understanding the role of small non-coding RNA in bumble bee reproduction

2020 | Application of field and lab x-ray methods to understand fluid-rock interactions

2021 | Belief, Virtue, and Illness in Late-Nineteenth Century Domestic Manuals

2017 | Dietary supplementation with tart cherries for prevention of inflammation-associated colorectal cancer in mice

2022 | Multiracial students do not belong in the margins

2017 | Relative effects of sleep hygiene behavior and physical exercise on sleep quality

2022 | To better engage students, instructors should create lab exercises with real-world examples

2020 | 3D Printing Morphing Wings for More Efficient Flight

2022 | Women’s Voices in the Hole-in-the-Rock Expedition

2017 | Increasing blue light from LEDs reduces leaf length in kale

2020 | Overcoming Barriers: Latinas in the U.S. Education System

2020 | Testing biocompatibility of hagfish proteins for biomedical application

2022 | Airborne ammonia levels are positively correlated with asthma hospitalization

2019 | Utah Wellbeing Study: Environment Insights

2019 | Between Commercial and Nonprofit: Narratives of Social Businesses

2022 | Improving climate models for better national security response to drought, extreme weather

2023 | The Preparation, Characterization and Electron Yield Measurement of Highly Insulating Granular Samples

2017 | Adaptive dye-sensitized solar cells

2017 | The effect of occupational licensing on women and minorities in Utah

2022 | Can common carp removal reduce algal bloom intensity in Utah Lake?

2023 | Mining-induced Mercury Bioaccumulation Threatens Community Critical Fishponds in Eastern Uganda

2019 | Building the Medieval Trebuchet

2021 | Antimicrobial Assay of Artemisia tridentata

2017 | Green infrastructure as a campus storm water management technique

2017 | The effect of behavior and testosterone levels on mating in garter snakes

2017 | Disposition for change: A teacher’s quest for student and self-liberation

2019 | The Art of Seduction: College Male Perceptions of Sexual Willingness

2022 | Can cannabinoids be used to prevent lung damage from Utah air pollution?

2022 | Machine Learning improves flow predictions between sides of the Great Salt Lake

2022 | Machine Learning improves flow predictions between sides of the Great Salt Lake

2022 | Machine Learning improves flow predictions between sides of the Great Salt Lake

2022 | Machine Learning improves flow predictions between sides of the Great Salt Lake

2020 | Influence of the cat-owner relationship on behavior outside the home

2021 | Autocart: spatially-aware regression trees for ecological and spatial modeling

2019 | Remote Camera Surveys to Inventory and Monitor Wildlife in Cedar Breaks National Monument

2017 | Wetland restoration succeeding Phragmites control: Informed by seedling performance of alkali bulrush

2019 | Developing Silent Unmanned Aerial Vehicles

2020 | Integrating Coding Skills in Mathematics: Case Studies for Improving Instruction

2019 | Cultural Traits of Salvadoran Gangs Offer Chance for U.S. to Weaken MS-13

2020 | Students Living On Campus Are More Likely to Persist

2019 | Delay Discounting: Measurement Methods and Implications

2020 | Bad Blood: Diabetes and the Eugenics Movement

2022 | Altered neural drive from an ACL injury may lead to re-injury

2020 | Implicit Biases in US Elections: Impact of candidate race, gender on voter turnout

2017 | Groundwater influences on the Logan River watershed

2017 | Identifying multiple predictors of physical rehabilitation outcomes

2020 | Limits of growth: Electricity consumption in Cache Valley, UT

2017 | The effect of occupational licensing on women and minorities in Utah

2019 | What Innovations Could Lower Costs and Improve Access to Dental Care?

2020 | OHVs and salmon streams: Identifying factors in stream-crossing decisions

2020 | Performing the Lived Experiences of LGBTQIA+ Individuals in Cache County Makes a Difference

2021 | COVID-19 Impacts Undergraduates: Mental Health Distress and High-Risk Health Decrease Grades

2021 | The Impact of Exercise Program Participation on Recidivism and Relapse Among Drug Court Participants

2017 | Unraveling the driving forces behind bacterial infection

2020 | Connecting Attention & Reading Skills in Children with Autism Spectrum Disorder

2022 | What food producers need to know about CBD and lipids

2021 | Antibiotic Misuse Portends Future Utah Health Crisis—Public-Private Cooperation Needed

2017 | Tender Tinder: A study of one of the hottest dating apps and geographic location

2017 | Vibrato in early music performance practice

2021 | A Computational Model of Neovascularization in Wet Age Related Macular Degeneration

2019 |  Speech Contact Pressures in Children with Cancers of the Head, Neck, or Brain

2020 | Collaboration and the environment: Music as a model for social change

2022 | What drug candidates exist for treating COVID-19 variants?

2019 | Germ Cell-Depleted Ovaries Increase Lifespan and Restore Health

2020 | Collaboration and the environment: Music as a model for social change

2020 | Ecological Footprint 2.0: Illustrating human harvest of the planet

2019 | Kids Killing Kids; A Look into Mental Illness, Adolescence, and Mass Murder

2021 | Atelophobia and the Figure

2017 | Impact of ranked-choice voting on incumbents

2017 | Optimizing the growth and characterization of retinal pigment epithelial cells

2020 | Overcoming Barriers: Latinas in the U.S. Education System

2022 | Melting Arctic Ice exposes possible conflict for US, China, Russia

2019 | The Influence of Neighborhood Cohesion on Homelessness in Cache Valley, Utah

2020 | Evidence for paleoearthquake on the Hurricane fault, southwestern Utah

2019 | High Tunnel Systems for Producing Annual Cut Flowers in the Intermountain West

2020 | Understanding Uinta Basin oil and gas emissions impacts to inform Utah policy

2022 | Does emotion training reduce implicit racial bias?

2020 | Art & Ecosystem in Costa Rica

2019 | Molecular Phylogeny of Two Distinct Type IV CRISPR-Associated (Cas) Proteins

2017 | Of, by, and for Utahns, not New Yorkers: An analysis of an Article V amendment

2020 | Improvements in In-Motion Wifeless Charging Systems for Electric Vehicles

2017 | Green infrastructure as a campus storm water management technique

2019 | Fermentation of Prebiotics in Whole Food Powders by Probiotic Lactic-acid Producing Bacterial Strains to Identify Synbiotic Combinations

2017 | Disposition for change: A teacher’s quest for student and self-liberation

2017 | Effects of attention on postural sway after ACL injury

2019 | Bioenergy and Waste Reduction from Municipal Reclaimed Water

2017 | The effect of occupational licensing on women and minorities in Utah

2020 | Designing Technology for Different Scales of Irrigation Scheduling

2020 | Addressing refugee health disparities through community-based research

2020 | Cache Valley air pollution damages DNA and increases cancer risk

2020 | Integrating Coding Skills in Mathematics: Case Studies for Improving Instruction

2019 | Construction of a Live Chimeric Zika Vaccine Through the Expression of Viral Envelope Proteins

2023 | Mammalian cell culture using mixed hydrolysates for use in cellular agriculture

2020 | Improvements in In-Motion Wireless Charging Systems for Electric Vehicles

2017 | Behavioral preferences within the southern resident Killer Whale population at Lime Kiln Point State Park

2022 | China’s Rare Earth Element Supply Chain Chokehold Threatens U.S. Economy and Security

2020 | Changing how Utahns Perceive Water-wise Landscaping

2017 | Royal jelly diet for in-vitro rearing of bumble bee larvae

2019 | Survey of Bird Window Collisions at Utah State University-Brigham City Regional Campus

2019 | Political Science | Fake News!: Russian Disinformation Targets Cognitive Biases in Physical and Cyber Mediums

2019 | Feminism in Fracking: An Analyzation of Women’s Activism Regarding Hydraulic Fracturing

2020 | Addressing refugee health disparities through community-based research

2019 | Implications of Emerging Technologies for Law Enforcement and its Impact on Public Trust

2022 | No Title Given

2022 | Panel surface conditions may significantly affect spacecraft survivability

2019 | The Role of Cognitive Load on Postural Stability in the Elderly

2022 | Highway to Hell: Reforming Gas Tax Revenues to Incorporate Electric Vehicles

2022 | The impact of COVID-19 on the Latinx community in Cache Valley, Utah

2017 | Standardizing accelerated bridge construction

2019 | Establishment of Fuel Breaks in Northwestern Utah

2021 | Emergent Centralized Chinese Cryptocurrency Challenges Status of U.S. Dollar, Multiagency Action Required

2017 | High intensity ultrasound: A new way to replace partially hydrogenated oil