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 2010
Predictive habitat modeling for a population assessment of a globally threatened seabird, the DeFilippi’s petrel, Emily Landeck
Synthesis of Nucleoside Analogs for Preparation of Phosphinate DNA, Jinhee Lee
The Economics of Penny Auctions, Colin Blake MacDonald
Experience vs. Age in the Bumblebee, Bombus huntii, Jacqueline E. Mathes
Chimeric aneuploids and their role in the evolution of early generation synthesized Arabidopsis allopolyploids, Starr C. Matsushita
Twitterers and Tyrants: Evaluating the Role of Twitter in the Authoritarian Setting, J.E. Merrill
Plasma IL-6 responses to high-intensity cycling exercise, Carolyn Moore
Synthesis of T4 lysozyme substrate, Jamie Nguyen
Communicating with Wings, Robert Niese
Julio Cortazar, Narratology, and the Short Story, Kyle McCarthy Nunes
Determining Pacific Northwest Seabird Diet Using Stable Isotopes, Susin D. Olszewski
Acoustic Effect of Holes on a Brass Disk, Brooke R. Peaden
Disorder in Rome's Asia Minor, William Roundy
Genetic regulation of adenylate cyclase genes in Bdellovibrio bacteriovorus, Kat Schmidt
Are Our Words Really Real? Rabbits, Cats* and the Inscrutability of Reference, Nicholas D. Schwarzenberger
The Queen's Blood: A Study of Family Ties during the Wars of the Roses, Helen Shears
Time progression of Bub1 activation in Zebrafish (Branchydanio rerio) during egg maturation, Julie P. Swinson
Synthesis of a Modified Cinchonidine Catalyst for use in the Asymmetric Michael Reaction, Craig Van Bruggen
Honest Movement: Video as Second Consciousness in Dance Performance, Leah C. Vendl
Bending the Gaze: An Ethnographic Inquiry into Contemporary Contortion, Jacqueline C. Ward
Reverse-Engineering Linear Algebra, Billy Wonderly
Zebrafish (Danio rerio) oocyte maturation and development, Amanda J. Wood
Submissions from 2009
The Effect of Female Ornamentation on Aggressive Male-Male Interactions in the Striped Plateau Lizard (Sceloporus virgatus), Matt E. Dubin