Aspen Marshall (Atmospheric Sciences)
Summertime Air Quality Disparities in Salt Lake County, Utah 
Faculty Mentor: Jessica Haskins, Atmospheric Sciences  

Tushita Sinba (Biology)
Investigating the Role of Redox-Sensitive Oct4 in Guiding Early Cell Fate Decisions in Mouse
Faculty Mentor: Dean Tantin, Pathology  

Gianna Toscano (Biology)
Sniffing Out Receptors: Innate Olfactory Responses to Verbenone in Drosophila Melanogaster
Faculty Mentor: Sophie Caron, Biological Sciences  

Kiley Campora (Biology) & Rohan Menon (Biology)
Loss of ALMS1 Inhibits Adipogenesis Through Primary Cilia Signaling Defects
Faculty Mentor: Keren Hilgendorf, Chemistry  

Charlotte Hilton-Miney (Biology and Health Society and Policy)
Characterizing the Function of Histone Deacetylases in an Animal Model Organism
Faculty Mentor: Michael Werner, Biological Sciences  

Ethan Hood (Physics)
Optimizing Camera Calibration for the IceCube Upgrade Project
Faculty Mentor: Carsten Rott, Physics & Astronomy  

JJ Snow (Biology)
Climate Change and Phenological Mismatch in Native Pollinator Foraging
Faculty Mentor: Josh Steffen, Science Research Initiative 

Arianna Duven (Physics)
An Application of Regression Techniques to Energy Reconstruction in IceTop Cosmic Ray Events 
Faculty Mentor: Dennis Soldin, Physics & Astronomy  

Joe Brosz (Chemistry)
Filling the Void: Frontal Polymerization of Dicyclopentadiene in Foam Scaffolds
Faculty Mentor: Jacob Lessard, Chemistry  

Amanda Alves (Physics)
Comparing Seasonal Variations of Atmospheric Muons in Deep Underground Detectors
Faculty Mentor: Dennis Soldin, Physics & Astronomy 

Kendah Jabar (Biology)
Rescue Mission: Deletion of STU2’s Basic Linker Rescues Spindle Integrity in ToG2-deficient Cells 
Faculty Mentor: Matthew Miller, Health Sciences  

Travis Bach (Mining Engineering) & Owen West (Engineering)
Leaf Vacuum Filtration
Faculty Mentor: Stuart Li, Mining Engineering 

Alexandra Percassi (Biology)
Understanding the Impacts of Polyunsaturated Fatty Acids on Organelles 
Faculty Mentor: Sara Wong, Science Research Initiative 

Ryan Friel (Applied Mathematics) 
Access to Primary Care in Salt Lake County
Faculty Mentor: Robyn Brooks, Mathematics  

Raul Mena Rodriguez (Biomedical Engineering)
Lipid Desaturation and Osmoadaptive Signaling: Investigating the Convergence of OLE1 and HOG Pathway 
Faculty Mentor: Sara Wong, Science Research Initiative  

Connor Houston (Physics)
The IceCube Surface Array Enhancement at the Telescope Array Site
Faculty Mentor: Dennis Soldin, Physics & Astronomy 

Sofia Leveratto (Biology)
PPARy Expression is Altered in a Sex-Divergent Manner in Human Placenta Supporting SGA and LGA Infants
Faculty Mentor: Lisa Joss-Moore, Medicine  

Katrina Wade (Chemistry) & Claire Kealy (Biology)
Of Ruminants and Rats: Stable Isotopes and Physiology
Faculty Mentor: Corrin Laproski  

Lindsey Tamlin (Biological Sciences)
The Role of RAB-37b in Synaptic Autophagy 
Faculty Mentor: Erik Jorgensen, Biological Sciences  

Safiya Hamund (Bio Informatics and Philosophy of Science) 
Electrocatalytic Reduction of Peroxydisulfate via Ion-Paring with Dicationic Redox Species
Faculty Mentor: Henry White, Chemistry  

Sylvia Lee (Biology)
Nanopore Sequencing Reveals the Identities and Microbiomes of Associated In
Faculty Mentor: Rodolfo Probst, Science Research Initiative 

Aspen Warden (Bio Informatics and Philosophy of Science)
From Dendrites to Data: Measuring Psychedelically Induced Neuroplasticity 
Faculty Mentor: Robyn Brooks, Mathematics 

Alexander Jeremy Rich (Biochemistry and Molecular Biology)
Rescuing Archived Spider Venoms for Drug Discovery via RNA-derived COI Minibarcoding on Nanopore
Faculty Mentor: Rodolfo Probst, Science Research Initiative  

The College of Science Symposium is made possible by the generous work and contributions of many supporters including: College of Science Student Council, ASUU, and the College of Science.