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.
Submissions from 2022
A Comparison of RNA and DNA Dinucleotides on Ice, Cas F. Almond
Two Dimensional Continuum Model of Ice, Maximilian Bloom
Does environmental flow speed affect the local relative abundance of Vorticella convallaria?, Tia S. Bottger
Relating urban heat island effect to avian diversity in connective matrices of Tacoma, Amanda Dougherty
Population Dynamics and Trends of an Endangered Seabird: Tufted Puffins (Fratercula cirrhata) in Washington, Olivia M. Fross
Identifying Critical Marine Foraging Habitat of Marbled Murrelets (Brachyramphus marmoratus) in South Puget Sound, Sam Gerrish
Differential Star Photometry, Austin Glock
Prescribed Moroccan Authenticity And The Quest For ‘Real’ Food, Eliana Goldberg
From an Adoptee's Perspective: Interracial Adoption and Identity, Jolie Jenkins
Processor Problems: An Economic Analysis of the Ongoing Chip Shortage and International Policy Response, David Jensen
Using Boric Acid and Additives to Catalyze Direct Amidation Reactions, Kate Jernigan
Weather Patterns and Lunar Cycles Shape the Soundscape of an Estuarine Ecosystem, Liam David Kimball
Characterizing Marine Foraging Habitat for the Endangered Marbled Murrelet in the South Puget Sound, Max D. Merrill
Retrofitting Washington's Past: An Ethnographic Analysis on Modernist Parcels through Urban Spatial. Discourse, Becca C. Murphy
The Effect of Cold Water On The Mammalian Dive Reflex, Christopher I. Nicol
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
Nuclear Fine-Tuning and the llusion of Teleology, Ember Reed
The Impact of Operation Pedro Pan in the Pacific Northwest: Issues of Community, Identity and Memory, Isabella M. Rodriguez
Perceived Familial Social Support After Coming Out Predicts Mental Health in Gender-Diverse Adolescents, Hayden Smith
The Impact of Amateur Hockey Leagues on NHL Performance, Leah Emily Smith
Sense of Belonging: Space and Place in Southern California Surf Culture, Meg Elizabeth Sudac
Generating a novel fly line to quantify cellular oxidative stress on developing Drosophila melanogaster, Hanna Washburn
Catalytic Direct Amidation, Maddy L. Whitney
Submissions from 2021
Varied Behavior of Dinucleotides on Ice, Cas Almond and Nick Wolff-Gee
The Influence of Dog-Directed Speech on Quantity Discrimination in Domestic Dogs (Canis familiaris), Devin Cordell Anderson
Contemporary Feminism as Portrayed in Popular Media, Ainsley G. Austin
The Role of Black South African Women in the Construction of Memory with the South African Truth and Reconciliation Commission, Olivia Babcock
Healing Justice Spaces: Virtual Intersections of Religion, Environmentalism, and Social Justice, Addison M. Baker
RNA’s Thermodynamically Favored Position on Ice, Maximilian Bloom and Steven Neshyba
Hungarian Historical Hysteria, Kris R. Bohnenstiehl
The effects of Sceloporus virgatus cloacal microbiota on the growth of pathogenic fungi, McKenna L. Boulet, Stacey Weiss, and Mark Martin
Exploring the Olmsted Legacy in Washington, Amelia E. Burkhart
Public Access Screenings: An Ontological Inquiry into Cinematic Street Art, Logan B. Canada-Johnson
Conceptualizing Thought-Forms Through Dynamic Artworks, Kendyl Aurora Chasco
The Selectivity Gap in United States Responses to Human Rights Violations: Personal Integrity Violations between 1991 and 2001, Jessica Jo Cooper
Synthesizing Bismuth Nanoparticles, Courtney L. Cox
The Role of an Invasive Snail in the Aquatic Food Web at Spirit Lake, Mount St. Helens, Wyatt C. Cranston
Black Carbon on Mount Rainier, Isabella Rose Dunn Dias Ferreira and Charlie H. Henning
Engineering an IEC Fusion Device, Ouyang Du
Engineering an IEC Fusion Device, Ouyang Du
Diets of coastal and inland Western Fence Lizard populations in Washington State, Alexi J. Ebersole, Stacey Weiss, and Kena Fox-Dobbs
Ain't Nothin but a G(raffiti) Thang, Ciara Edwards-Mendez
Population Dynamics and Trends of an Endangered Seabird: Tufted Puffins (Fratercula cirrhata) in Washington, Olivia M. Fross
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
After the Alum: The Fate of Sulfur in Waughop Lake, Pierce County, Washington, Colin K. Glaze
Making the exotic familiar: Representing Chinese Culture in Chicago's Chinatown, Aya R. Hamlish
Elevated Levels of Black Carbon on Mount Rainier in Correlation to Wildfires, Charlie H. Henning and Bella Dunn Dias Ferreira
COVID-19 and Xenophobia: Reckoning with East Asian Identities in the United States, Allie R. Highsmith
Tacoma’s Luxury Effect and the Ecological Influence of the Green Schoolyards Initiative, Karen M. Hunt
Physiological and morphological differences between novel protist pathogens of the seagrasses Zostera marina and Zostera japonica, Kate L. Kelly and Megan Mooney
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
ἤρχετο μῦθων: Performance and Beginnings in Homer’s Odyssey, Charlotte E. Lowell
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
Decreasing precipitation due to climate change, and its effects on native fern species, Hannah Marx
Why Not Climate Change? An Analysis of UNSC Action on Human Security Issues, Lily Miller
Morphological and genetic differences between novel protist pathogens of the seagrasses Zostera marina and Zostera japonica, Megan Elizabeth Mooney and Kate Kelly
The 2020 Tokyo Olympics and The Myth of Japanese Homogeneity, Hana Y. Morita
Determining Dynamic Population Trends with Biomarkers in Wastewater, Joelle Moroso and Daniel Burgard
Petrology and Tectonic Setting of the Silver Pass Volcanics, Central Cascades, WA: Early Evidence of Farallon Slab Breakoff, Pauline Peterson and Jeff Tepper
Using Geomagnetics to Identify a Previously unrecognized Fault within the Olympic Penninsula, Lincoln L. Pickering
Marine habitat use patterns of the Endangered Marbled Murrelet (Brachyramphus marmoratus), Bryce F. Poplawsky
Myth and Guilt in the Other Europe: David Binder's Dissident Reporting on the Collapse of Yugoslavia, Matt Roge
Investigating the Feasability of a Sum Frequency/Second Harmonic Generation Experiment to Examine the Behavior of RNA on Ice, Miranda Emily Roland
The Role of MMP-2 on Satellite Cells and Hypertrophy of the Mouse Plantaris Muscle After Functional Overload, Layla Santos
The Relationship Between Short-Term International Volunteer Work and Long-Term Community Involvement, Sophie Ivana Semenjuk
Complicating Courtly Love: Queering Sex and Gender in High Medieval Literature (1000-1250), Chloe L. Shankland
Evaluating the Role of Thought in Sensorimotor Enactivism, Hannah Stockton
Mitigating Spillover Effects of a General Warning on Accuracy Judgements of True News Headlines, Delaney R. Todd
Analyzing Opioid Use and Disposal in Washington State Through Wastewater-Based-Epidemology, Diana Tran and Dan Burgard
Geochemistry of Eocene to Miocene Rocks in a Rear-Arc Setting, Central Cascades, Washington, Audrey V. White and Jeffrey Tepper
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
Beyond a Call to Action, Quinn A. E. Bohner
The Action-Perception of Musical Rhythm: A Review of EEG Findings, Jordan Anderson
The Bonus March and the Cold War, Aidan Crosby
Interstitial Space: An Exploration of the Urban Landscape and Marginal Communities of Tacoma, Washington, Oscar Edwards-Hughes
Against Colonial Imaginaries: Rewriting Latin America in Juan José Saer’s El entenado & Bernardo Carvalho’s Nove Noites [REPORT], Juliano Estrada Donatelli
Against Colonial Imaginaries: Rewriting Latin America in Juan José Saer’s El entenado & Bernardo Carvalho’s Nove Noites [REPORT], Juliano Estrada Donatelli
All Things Intentional, Maya Gilliam
Identifying the Effects of Alum Treatment on Water and Sediment Chemistry of Two Lakes in Pierce County, Washington, Colin Glaze
Illustrating Neuroaesthetics, Madeleine Golitz
Using dendrochronology to create a timescale of succession on nurse logs in the Olympic temperate rainforest, Sean Grealish
Body Politics and 21st Century Taboo, Zachary Herrmann
Testing Mitigation Strategies for HABs at Spanaway Lake, Nancy Hollis
Physarum Polycephalum Network Construction, Rei Ishii
A Historiography of Nationalism: And the Case for Scandinavia, Alexander L. Jacobson
Polarization of Majorana Fermions in a Background Current, Lukas Karoly and David C. Latimer
‘Playing Hapsburg:’ The Hapsburg Monarchy and The post-Yugoslav Croatian Society, Fran Leskovar
Understanding Burning Man through Fundamental Religious Studies Theories, Tio Lloyd
Replacement Policies in Semantic Database Caching, Colin Monaghan
Choice Sets for Andean Mothers' Discounting, Alessandra Vidal Meza
Some Papal Bull: 16th Century Alum trade and English Royal Autonomy, Kyra Zapf
Submissions from 2019
Washington’s Affordable Housing Property-Tax Levies: Lessons from the Campaigns, Anna Barcus
"Hail Hydra": Marvel's Captain America and White Nationalism in the United States, Erin Budrow
The Multidimensionality of Wellness Tourism in Thailand and Costa Rica: Mind, Body, and Soul, Cheyenne Clarke
Developing Techniques to Observe The Effects of Bisphenol AF on Guppy Embryo Development, Lauren Clarke
The Philosophies of Love and Despair in Kierkegaard’s Early Aesthetic Works, James Conley
Petrology of the Earliest Cascade Volcanic Units in Washington: the Northcraft, Tukwila, and Rattlesnake Mountain Formations and Implications for the Evolution of the Cascade Arc, Louisa Cryan and Jeffrey H. Tepper