These students have all been awarded support for research projects with faculty mentors through Summer Research Grants in Science and Mathematics, Summer Research Awards in Arts, Humanities, and Social Sciences, or University Enrichment Research Awards.
Whether their work has been laboratory-based, field-based, theoretical, or any combination thereof, we are proud to acknowledge their commitment to intellectual growth, creative thinking, and professional development through independent and collaborative projects.
Seth Ack
"Diagnostic Capabilities of Nucleic Acid Amplification Testing for COVID-19"
Devin Anderson
“The Influence of Oxytocin on Social Learning by Dogs (Canis familiaris)”
Jordan Anderson
"The Action-Perception of Musical Rhythm: A Review of EEG Findings"
Lauren Augusta
"Luminescence Variation in Photobacterium Leiognathi Strain KNH6"
Aaron Balderrama
"Perceptions Toward Latinx and White Men Who Disclose Self-Harming Behavior"
Daniel Balderrama
"Phytochromes A and F Play Important Roles in Red Light Mediated Hypocotyl Elongation in S. lycopersicum"
Bobby Banta-Green
“Analyzing Microplastics in the Stomachs of Benthic Fish in the Salish Sea”
Anjali Bardhan
“Iron-Based Catalysis of Acceptorless Dehydrogenation Reactions”
Eva Baylin
“Stories of Shirtwaists and Tenements: Labor, Immigration and Americanization on the Lower East Side”
Nisa Bhatia
“The Effect of Canopy Humus on Non-Vascular Epiphyte Ecophysiology”
Quinn Bohner
“Beyond a Call to Action”
Ashley Brauning
“A New Transcription Factor Partner for FBS1 INTERACTING PROTEIN 1 (FBIP1) in Plant Stress Responses?”
Chlöe Brew
“Paradigms of Feminine Power: The Piraeus Athena and Aphrodite of Knidos”
Karina Cherniske
“Collaborative Creation of a Nepalese NGO”
Emily Chu
“Amide Bond Formation with Various Combinations of Catalysts and Additives”
Liz Coleman
“Creating a Method to Detect Albuterol in Wastewater Filtered by SPE”
Courtney Cox
"Synthesis of EG6 Ligand and MPA-Coated Bismuth Nanoparticles"
Douglas Craig
“RNA World on Ice”
Catherine Croft
"A Stop Motion Children’s Show about Neuroscience"
Aidan Crosby
“The Bonus March and the Cold War”
Samuel Dickerson
“Evaluating the Potential for Beaver Dam-Building to Promote Pacific Salmon Habitat in Washington’s White River Basin”
Alexi Ebersole
“Variation of Morphology and Microhabitat Use of Western Fence Lizards in Washington State”
Oscar Edward-Hughes
“Interstitial Space: An Exploration of the Urban Landscape and Marginal Communities of Tacoma, Washington”
Juliano Estrada Donatelli
“Against Colonial Imaginaries: Rewriting Latin America in Juan José Saer’s The Witness and Bernardo Carvalho’s Nine Nights”
Joseph Ewers
“The Effect of Lipid Peroxidation on Proteoliposome Structure and Stability”
Nick Finley
“Assessing Harbor Seal Phoca vitulina Daily Haul-Out Patterns in the Southern Puget Sound as a function of Time, Weather, Tide, and Human Disturbance”
Anneke Fleming
“Plant Cell Cycle Regulation and Stress Response via F-BOX STRESS INDUCED 1 (FBS1)-mediated APC8 Degradation”
Alexis Földváry
“The Status of Rural Healthcare From the Lens of Non-Physicians”
Olivia Fross
"One Bird, Two Bird, Black Bird ...and Another Black Bird: Breeding Biology of Double-crested Cormorants (Phalacrocorax auritus) in Woodard Bay"
Matthew Garcia
“Polycrystalline Hematite Synthesis for Use in Siderophore-Iron Oxide Interface Analysis”
Maya Gilliam
“All Things Intentional: Creating Cohesion in Intentional Communities”
Michael Girardin
“Using eDNA to Determine the Distribution and Abundance of the Invasive European Green Crab (Carcinus maenas) from the Washington Coast into Puget Sound”
Colin Glaze
“Identifying the Effects of Alum Treatment on Sediment and Water Chemistry of Two Lakes in Pierce County, Washington”
Madeleine Golitz
"Illustrating Neuroaesthetics"
Camille Goo
“The role of MMP-2 in hypertrophic response on the muscle fiber phenotypes in functionally overloaded adult mice”
Daisy Gould
“Am I gay enough? Examining perceptions toward non-heterosexual women”
Sean Grealish
“Getting to the Core of Nurse Log Succession in the Hoh Temperate Rainforest”
Kobi Hall
“Polarizing Majorana Fermions Through Virtual Compton Scattering”
Sean Hamel
"Measuring the Abundance of European Green Crabs (Carcinus maenas) in Washington Using Baited Remote Under Water Video (BRUV)"
Charlie Henning
"Sampling and Analyzing Black Carbon on Mount Rainier"
Zachary Herrmann
“Body Politics and 21st Century Taboo”
Helena Heyer-Gray
“Characterizing the mid-incubation eggshell microbiome of Sceloporus virgatus eggs and identifying likely fungal egg pathogens”
Lily Hoak
“Where are the Women in US Foreign Policy and National Security?”
Jessica Hocking
“Structure-property Relationships in Oxadiazole-based Liquid Crystals: Effects of Changing the Lengths of Terminal Alkyl Chains”
Nancy Hollis
“Exploring Possible Strategies for Hazardous Algal Bloom Mitigation in Spanaway Lake”
Gabrielle Hurley
“Pilot Testing: Diffusing Capacity of the Lung for Carbon Monoxide During Exercise in Heat”
Rei Ishii
“Physarum polycephalum Network Construction”
Alexander Jacobson
“Revising the Modernist Narrative of Nationalism”
Lukas Karoly
“Polarization of Majorana Fermions in a Background Current”
Cambria Kasten
“The role of the IGF-1/Akt/mTOR pathway on tibialis anterior muscle hypertrophy during regeneration in cardiotoxin-induced injury in adult mice”
Brian Kim
“Phenomenal Anger”
Jenna Krueger
“Job Retention Risk Factors for Professionals in Wilderness Therapy”
Lucas Leary
“Generating Gender Violations in Latin Poetry”
Fran Leskovar
“‘Playing Hapsburg’: The Hapsburg Monarchy and The Post-Yugoslav Croatian Society”
Tio Lloyd
“Examining Burning Man through the Lens of Fundamental Religious Studies Theories”
Kayden Lynch
“The Effects of Potassium Sulfate on the Surface Morphology of Atmospheric Ice Crystals”
Remy Mann
“Synthesis of GlcNAc–MurNAc Fragments as Lysozyme Substrates”
Isabel Mejia Natividad
“F-BOX STRESS INDUCED 1 Targeted Protein Degradation in Arabidopsis thaliana Stress Response Pathways”
Kendra Mitchell
“Synthesis of LUVs from Aquaporin-0 and Model Liposomes”
Colin Monaghan
“Replacement Policies in Semantic Database Caching”
Sydney Morgan
“REVAMP: Tracing the History of the symphony Orchestra as an Institution in the United States”
Timothy Mork
“Towards the Synthesis of a Thioglycoside Analog of Peptidoglycan”
Joey Moroso
“Validation and Degradation of Various Population Biomarkers in Wastewater”
Tina Nguyen
“Nontoxic Biological Interactions of Bismuth Nanoparticles in the model organism Caenorhabditis elegans”
Lohitvenkatesh Oswal
“Using antiSMASH to screen antifungal BGCs and SMs in the S. virgatus cloacal microbiome”
Maiya Pacleb
“Synthesis and phase behavior of 1,3,4-oxadiazole based liquid crystals containing a lateral nitro group”
Sophie Paul
“Stagings of Identity: Re-Imagining the Nutcracker in the Tacoma Community and Beyond”
Sara Pernikoff
“The Role of FBS INTERACTING PROTEIN 1 (FBIP1) in Arabidopsis thaliana”
Alex Peterson
“Analysis of nonlinear optical properties of Hematite-coated FTO glass”
Bryce Poplawsky
“Pupping Phenology of Phoca vitulina and Climate Change: A Shift in Pupping Phenology”
Haley Reed
"Bayesian Hierarchical Modeling to Understand Election Forecasting & Pollster Bias"
Jake Rizzo
“Differential Photometry of Variable Stars”
Miranda Roland
"Synthesizing Amides Using Boric Acid as a Catalyst in the Presence of Additives"
Emily Ross
"The Creation of Chromophoric Lysozyme Substrates Using a Chemoenzymatic Approach"
Julia Schiff
“Materialized Narratives: An Exploration of Printmaking Techniques”
Vanessa Schultz
“Sampling Darkened Snow in the Colorado Rockies”
Joshua Silva
“Collecting Samples for Bisphenol Treated Zebrafish (Danio rerio) tissue and Initial Results for BPA and BPS Treated Zebrafish Tissue”
Hannah Stockton
“Tracking Vorticella Orientation in 3D”
Syndey Sukhdeo
"Understanding the Role of F-BOX STRESS INDUCED 1 Gene in Abiotic Plant Stress Responses"
Lexus Sullivan
“Chasing the Mystery of the Cascades: Geochemistry of Early Arc Rocks in Central Oregon and Arc-Scale Trends Through Space and Time”
André-Philippe C. Therrien
“Ovid’s Tristia 2, Irony and Rhetoric”
Addie Tinkham
“Determining a Baseline of Tacoma’s Marine Shorelines”
Diana Tran
“Analysis of Opioid Use Through Wastewater Based Epidemiology”
Alessandra Vidal Meza
“Choice Sets for Andean Mothers’ Discounting”
Aldrin Villahermosa II
“Seasonality of Functional Genes in the Sargasso Sea Reveals Microbial Communities Adaptation to Nutrient Stress Through Synthesis and Degradation of Methylphosphonates”
Joshua Wah-Blumberg
“The Effect of Raindrop Impact Location on the Dispersal Distance of Splash-Cup Plant Seeds”
Marley Weiss
“Behavioral Lateralization of the Western Fence Lizard (Sceloporus occidentalis)”
Maddy Whitney
“Testing the Effects of Antibiotics on a Zebra Finch’s Reproductive Success”
Natalie Willoughby
“The Intersectionality of Digital Activism”
Whitney Worrell
“Reconstruction of Paleoenvironments in Western Washington Using Trace Fossils and Sediment Analyses”
Claire Zable
“The Effects of Lipid Peroxidation on Membrane Proteins in the Presence of Cholesterol”
Kyra Zapf
“16th Century Alum, Aka. Why the Pope was a pirate and why we care”
Shani Zelenko
“Quantification of the Neurological Effects of Paraquat, Minocycline and Ascorbic Acid on Dopaminergic Neurons in Honeybees”