Celebrating Student Success: 
Undergraduate Fall Research Awards and 2024 Published Research

Undergraduate Research Publications

Twice per year, the Office for Undergraduate Research (OUR) at the University of Utah publishes a collection of undergraduate research from across campus. Humanities Students contribute their work and showcase the research happening across our college. Faculty mentors are crucial to the process, and students benefit from collaborating with them on cutting-edge research.

The publication Range: Undergraduate Research Journal highlights some of the work from our Humanities students from 2024.

• Addison Bethards (Mentor: Tanya Flores) - Case Study of Vowel Development in a Bilingual Hard of Hearing Child
• Chris Jun (Mentor: Allison Segal) - Picking Your Partner: An Exploration into the Heterosexual Matrix in the Dating Simulator Genre
• Ahyeon Kim (Mentor: Allison Segal) - The Importance of Digital Literacy: An Investigation into the Vulnerable Populations of Teenagers and Seniors
• Soohwan Lee (Mentor: Allison Segal) - The Representation of Asian American Actors in Hollywood
• Krystan Morrison (Mentor: Brandon Render) - Postmodern Influences on Women’s Political Weaponization of Personal Style in the United States, 1960-1980
• Brandon Osgan (Mentors: Ed Rubin and Aaron Kaplan) - An Analysis of Vowel Reduction in Bolognese
• Theadora Soter (Mentor: Disa Gambera) - Coming Home: A Project of History, Heartache, and Heritage
• Chaeeun (Erica) Yang (Mentor: Allison Segal) - The Duality of Twitter Culture Among K-pop Fans
• Milo Yeates (Mentor: Matt Haber) - Counterfactual Utilitarianism: A New Metaphysical Framework for Consequentialist Ethics
• Daniel Yi (Mentor: Allison Segal) - White Collar Crime: An Analysis of its Financial, Social and Cultural Influence

 

Undergraduate Research Opportunity Program (UROP)

The Undergraduate Research Opportunity Program (UROP) is designed to support students in their pursuit of knowledge beyond the classroom. The recipients are selected based on research proposals and have the opportunity to work closely with faculty mentors throughout the Fall 2024 semester. This collaboration allows students to engage deeply with their chosen topics, gain hands-on experience, and contribute to the ongoing scholarly work within their fields.

Humanities Fall 2024 UROP Award Recipients:

• Nayra Green (Mentor: Maile Arvin) - Investigating Settler Colonialism and Child Incarceration in Hawai'i
• Lucas Gunyan (Mentor: Margaret Toscano) - The Role of Women in the Greco-Roman Worship of the Mysteries of Isis and Osiris
• Zabrina Le (Mentor: Rachel Bryson) - Cultivating Empathy in the Age of AI: Technical Editing Pedagogy and the Ethics of Care
• Ezra Moser (Mentor: Maureen Mathison) - Trends in Technical Communication: A Bibliometric Analysis of a Top Journal in Writing
• Polly Redd (Mentor: Elizabeth Clement) - The Utah AIDS Foundation Food Bank: AIDS and LDS Identity-based Charity in Utah
• Hannah Salas (Mentor: Maeera Shreiber) - From Historical Fact to Fictional Musical: The Holocaust in Contemporary American Memory and Education through "Cabaret"

Fall 2024 Early Exploration Scholars in Humanities

Congratulations to the Humanities Students selected for the Office of Undergraduate Research’s Early Exploration Scholars. Students in this program learn more about research opportunities on campus and receive a $500 scholarship for participation.

• Bri Clegg, History BA and Religious Studies BA
• Simone Wiatrak, Communication BS
• Sophia Valdez, World Languages and Cultures: Cultural Studies emphasis

Learn more about the Office of Undergraduate Research.