The University of Puget Sound summer research programs are designed to encourage and support research projects conducted by University of Puget Sound students and their faculty mentors. The program seeks to foster imagination, creativity, and accomplishment.

For additional information, visit Summer Research Grants in Science and Mathematics, and Summer Research Grants in the Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences.

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Submissions from 2023

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Megalithic Art in the Boyne Valley Passage Tombs, Andrew Benoit

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Gender, Self-Identity, and Vocal Music Education: Student Experiences at the University of Puget Sound in the 1990s, Liana Greger

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We Need More Than 'Luck': How Students Learn About Pleasure, Eliza Koch

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Examining the Effect of Varying Dilutions of Octopamine on the Gut Microbiome of Lab-raised and Wild Acheta Domesticus By Brandon Nelson University of Puget Sound Biology, Brandon Nelson

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Comparing fungal communities in Tsuga heterophylla seedling roots across nurse log decay stages and the forest floor, Ellie Olpin and Reisha Foertsch

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Does Faceted Ice Growth Follow a Characteristic Pattern, Spencer Racca-Gwozdzik

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Continuum Model of Faceted Ice Crystal Growth in Cirrus Clouds in 1 Dimension, Ella Slattery

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THIRD PARTY POWERHOUSE: Ko Wen-je's Rise in Taiwanese Politics, Walter Stackler

Submissions from 2022

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A Comparison of RNA and DNA Dinucleotides on Ice, Cas F. Almond

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Child Development & Covid-19: How Different Modes of Interpersonal Communication Impact Social Skills in Early Elementary School Students, Laura Arcia

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Two Dimensional Continuum Model of Ice, Maximilian Bloom

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Does environmental flow speed affect the local relative abundance of Vorticella convallaria?, Tia S. Bottger

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Relating urban heat island effect to avian diversity in connective matrices of Tacoma, Amanda Dougherty

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Population Dynamics and Trends of an Endangered Seabird: Tufted Puffins (Fratercula cirrhata) in Washington, Olivia M. Fross

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Identifying Critical Marine Foraging Habitat of Marbled Murrelets (Brachyramphus marmoratus) in South Puget Sound, Sam Gerrish

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Differential Star Photometry, Austin Glock

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Prescribed Moroccan Authenticity And The Quest For ‘Real’ Food, Eliana Goldberg

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From an Adoptee's Perspective: Interracial Adoption and Identity, Jolie Jenkins

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Processor Problems: An Economic Analysis of the Ongoing Chip Shortage and International Policy Response, David Jensen

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Using Boric Acid and Additives to Catalyze Direct Amidation Reactions, Kate Jernigan

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Weather Patterns and Lunar Cycles Shape the Soundscape of an Estuarine Ecosystem, Liam David Kimball

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Characterizing Marine Foraging Habitat for the Endangered Marbled Murrelet in the South Puget Sound, Max D. Merrill

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Retrofitting Washington's Past: An Ethnographic Analysis on Modernist Parcels through Urban Spatial. Discourse, Becca C. Murphy

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The Effect of Cold Water On The Mammalian Dive Reflex, Christopher I. Nicol

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Striped plateau lizards (Sceloporus virgatus) do not adjust foraging position or boldness in response to the plant odorant 2-E-hexenal, Henry L. Norton and Stacey Weiss

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Nuclear Fine-Tuning and the Illusion of Teleology, Ember Reed

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The Impact of Operation Pedro Pan in the Pacific Northwest: Issues of Community, Identity and Memory, Isabella M. Rodriguez

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Perceived Familial Social Support After Coming Out Predicts Mental Health in Gender-Diverse Adolescents, Hayden Smith

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The Impact of Amateur Hockey Leagues on NHL Performance, Leah Emily Smith

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Generating a novel fly line to quantify cellular oxidative stress on developing Drosophila melanogaster, Hanna Washburn

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Catalytic Direct Amidation, Maddy L. Whitney

Submissions from 2021

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Varied Behavior of Dinucleotides on Ice, Cas Almond and Nick Wolff-Gee

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The Influence of Dog-Directed Speech on Quantity Discrimination in Domestic Dogs (Canis familiaris), Devin Cordell Anderson

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Contemporary Feminism as Portrayed in Popular Media, Ainsley G. Austin

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The Role of Black South African Women in the Construction of Memory with the South African Truth and Reconciliation Commission, Olivia Babcock

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Healing Justice Spaces: Virtual Intersections of Religion, Environmentalism, and Social Justice, Addison M. Baker

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Language and Legislation: How Radical Feminists of the 1970’s Have Impacted the Sociopolitical Climate of the 21st Century, Beck Barr

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RNA’s Thermodynamically Favored Position on Ice, Maximilian Bloom and Steven Neshyba

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Hungarian Historical Hysteria, Kris R. Bohnenstiehl

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The effects of Sceloporus virgatus cloacal microbiota on the growth of pathogenic fungi, McKenna L. Boulet, Stacey Weiss, and Mark Martin

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Exploring the Olmsted Legacy in Washington, Amelia E. Burkhart

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Public Access Screenings: An Ontological Inquiry into Cinematic Street Art, Logan B. Canada-Johnson

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Conceptualizing Thought-Forms Through Dynamic Artworks, Kendyl Aurora Chasco

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The Selectivity Gap in United States Responses to Human Rights Violations: Personal Integrity Violations between 1991 and 2001, Jessica Jo Cooper

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Synthesizing Bismuth Nanoparticles, Courtney L. Cox

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The Role of an Invasive Snail in the Aquatic Food Web at Spirit Lake, Mount St. Helens, Wyatt C. Cranston

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Black Carbon on Mount Rainier, Isabella Rose Dunn Dias Ferreira and Charlie H. Henning

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Engineering an IEC Fusion Device, Ouyang Du

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Diets of coastal and inland Western Fence Lizard populations in Washington State, Alexi J. Ebersole, Stacey Weiss, and Kena Fox-Dobbs

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Ain't Nothin but a G(raffiti) Thang, Ciara Edwards-Mendez

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Population Dynamics and Trends of an Endangered Seabird: Tufted Puffins (Fratercula cirrhata) in Washington, Olivia M. Fross

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Comparing 40-year sediment records of aquatic ecosystem evolution in two large lakes in the blast zone of Mount St. Helens, Maeve Gallagher, Kena Fox-Dobbs, Avery Shinneman, and Angelica Lucchetto

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After the Alum: The Fate of Sulfur in Waughop Lake, Pierce County, Washington, Colin K. Glaze

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Making the exotic familiar: Representing Chinese Culture in Chicago's Chinatown, Aya R. Hamlish

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Elevated Levels of Black Carbon on Mount Rainier in Correlation to Wildfires, Charlie H. Henning and Bella Dunn Dias Ferreira

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COVID-19 and Xenophobia: Reckoning with East Asian Identities in the United States, Allie R. Highsmith

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Tacoma’s Luxury Effect and the Ecological Influence of the Green Schoolyards Initiative, Karen M. Hunt

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Physiological and morphological differences between novel protist pathogens of the seagrasses Zostera marina and Zostera japonica, Kate L. Kelly and Megan Mooney

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Quantification of Skeletal Muscle Synthesis Pathway Proteins in Wild Type and MMP-2 Knockout Mice After Functional Overload of the Plantaris Muscle, Naia N. Kenney and Jung Kim

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ἤρχετο μῦθων: Performance and Beginnings in Homer’s Odyssey, Charlotte E. Lowell

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mRNA Expression of Muscle Differentiation Markers in Wild Type and MMP-2 Knockout Mice After Functional Overload of the Plantaris Muscle, Natalie MacIlwaine, Gary McCall, and Jung Kim

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Decreasing precipitation due to climate change, and its effects on native fern species, Hannah Marx

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Why Not Climate Change? An Analysis of UNSC Action on Human Security Issues, Lily Miller

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Morphological and genetic differences between novel protist pathogens of the seagrasses Zostera marina and Zostera japonica, Megan Elizabeth Mooney and Kate Kelly

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The 2020 Tokyo Olympics and The Myth of Japanese Homogeneity, Hana Y. Morita

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Determining Dynamic Population Trends with Biomarkers in Wastewater, Joelle Moroso and Daniel Burgard

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Petrology and Tectonic Setting of the Silver Pass Volcanics, Central Cascades, WA: Early Evidence of Farallon Slab Breakoff, Pauline Peterson and Jeff Tepper

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Using Geomagnetics to Identify a Previously unrecognized Fault within the Olympic Penninsula, Lincoln L. Pickering

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Marine habitat use patterns of the Endangered Marbled Murrelet (Brachyramphus marmoratus), Bryce F. Poplawsky

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Myth and Guilt in the Other Europe: David Binder's Dissident Reporting on the Collapse of Yugoslavia, Matt Roge

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Investigating the Feasability of a Sum Frequency/Second Harmonic Generation Experiment to Examine the Behavior of RNA on Ice, Miranda Emily Roland

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The Role of MMP-2 on Satellite Cells and Hypertrophy of the Mouse Plantaris Muscle After Functional Overload, Layla Santos

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The Relationship Between Short-Term International Volunteer Work and Long-Term Community Involvement, Sophie Ivana Semenjuk

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Complicating Courtly Love: Queering Sex and Gender in High Medieval Literature (1000-1250), Chloe L. Shankland

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Evaluating the Role of Thought in Sensorimotor Enactivism, Hannah Stockton

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The Take on College Summer Fellowship Program: Impacts of College Mentorship on First-Generation and Low-Income High School Students, Hong L. Ta

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Mitigating Spillover Effects of a General Warning on Accuracy Judgements of True News Headlines, Delaney R. Todd

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Analyzing Opioid Use and Disposal in Washington State Through Wastewater-Based-Epidemology, Diana Tran and Dan Burgard

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Geochemistry of Eocene to Miocene Rocks in a Rear-Arc Setting, Central Cascades, Washington, Audrey V. White and Jeffrey Tepper

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The Foundation of an Uprising: Spatial Socialization and National Identity Formation in Hong Kong’s Anti-Extradition Law Amendment Bill Protests, Hannah Williams

Submissions from 2020

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Beyond a Call to Action, Quinn A. E. Bohner

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The Action-Perception of Musical Rhythm: A Review of EEG Findings, Jordan Anderson

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The Bonus March and the Cold War, Aidan Crosby

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Interstitial Space: An Exploration of the Urban Landscape and Marginal Communities of Tacoma, Washington, Oscar Edwards-Hughes

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Against Colonial Imaginaries: Rewriting Latin America in Juan José Saer’s El entenado & Bernardo Carvalho’s Nove Noites [REPORT], Juliano Estrada Donatelli

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Against Colonial Imaginaries: Rewriting Latin America in Juan José Saer’s El entenado & Bernardo Carvalho’s Nove Noites [REPORT], Juliano Estrada Donatelli

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All Things Intentional, Maya Gilliam

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Identifying the Effects of Alum Treatment on Water and Sediment Chemistry of Two Lakes in Pierce County, Washington, Colin Glaze

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Illustrating Neuroaesthetics, Madeleine Golitz

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Using dendrochronology to create a timescale of succession on nurse logs in the Olympic temperate rainforest, Sean Grealish

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Body Politics and 21st Century Taboo, Zachary Herrmann

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Testing Mitigation Strategies for HABs at Spanaway Lake, Nancy Hollis

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Physarum Polycephalum Network Construction, Rei Ishii

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A Historiography of Nationalism: And the Case for Scandinavia, Alexander L. Jacobson

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Polarization of Majorana Fermions in a Background Current, Lukas Karoly and David C. Latimer

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‘Playing Hapsburg:’ The Hapsburg Monarchy and The post-Yugoslav Croatian Society, Fran Leskovar

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Understanding Burning Man through Fundamental Religious Studies Theories, Tio Lloyd

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Replacement Policies in Semantic Database Caching, Colin Monaghan

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Choice Sets for Andean Mothers' Discounting, Alessandra Vidal Meza

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Some Papal Bull: 16th Century Alum trade and English Royal Autonomy, Kyra Zapf