Every summer, the Office of Undergraduate Research programs a nationally competitive opportunity that provides undergraduate students with an intensive 10-week summer research experience under the mentorship of a University of Utah faculty member: Summer Program for Undergraduate Research (SPUR). Students participating in SPUR gain research experience in a variety of disciplines; for 2023, 30 disciplines are represented. SPUR scholars from 22 different universities will be on campus May 24-August 3, 2023. Congratulations!
SUMMER 2023 SPUR SCHOLARS:
Callie Avondet, University of Utah (Mentor: Maile Arvin, History)
Laila Batar, University of Utah (Mentor: Amanda Bakian, Psychiatry)
Owen Benzley, Brigham Young University (Mentor: Genevieve Albouy, Health, Kinesiology, and Recreation)
Porter Bischoff, Utah Valley University (Mentor: George Vega Yon, Internal Medicine)
Mason Burden, University of Utah (Mentor: Shanti Deemyad, Physics & Astronomy)
Meghan Carter, University of Utah (Mentor: Amy Lenz, Orthopaedics)
Ariyanna Clark-Drew, North Carolina A&T State University (Mentor: April Mohanty, Internal Medicine)
Andrew Clothier, University of Utah (Mentor: Amanda Bakian, Psychiatry)
Ashley Cluff, Johns Hopkins University (Mentor: Dipayan Chaudhuri, Internal Medicine)
Emily Dalley, University of Utah (Mentor: Connor Bischak, Chemistry)
Christen Daniel, North Carolina A&T State University (Mentor: Crystal Lumpkins, Communication)
Ryan De Los Santos, North Carolina A&T State University (Mentor: Kelly Baron, Family & Preventive Medicine)
Siddharth Dhumal, University of Utah (Mentor: Sameer Patil, School of Computing)
Cindy Diaz Rey, University of Utah (Mentor: Tabitha Benney, Political Science)
Ryan Gardner, Weber State University (Mentor: Julio Facelli, Biomedical Informatics)
Alex Gilsoul, University of Utah (Mentor: Alex Novoselov, Mechanical Engineering)
Jordan Giron, University of Texas at El Paso (UTEP) (Mentor: Lauren Barth-Cohen, Educational Psychology)
Jackie Gomez, University of Utah (Mentor: Sara Grineski, Sociology)
Mauro Gonzalez, University of Maryland, College Park (Mentor: David De Micheli, Political Science)
Tashianna Gray, North Carolina A&T State University (Mentor: Brock O’Neil, Surgery)
Fernanda Guzman, University of Utah (Mentor: Jeff Rose, Health, Kinesiology, and Recreation)
Eunseo Han, Connecticut College (Mentor: Brenna Payne, Psychology)
Charlie Hayward, Rochester Institute of Technology (Mentor: Xiaodong Ma, Radiology)
Aaliyah Henderson, University of Utah (Mentor: Andrea Baldwin, Gender Studies)
Hailey Hollins, University of Utah (Mentor: Jamie Gagnon, School of Biological Sciences)
Anna Hsu, Rice University (Mentor: Becky Utz, Sociology)
Taylor James, North Carolina A&T State University (Mentor: Raj Ghosh, Nutrition and Integrative Physiology)
Wyn Jarvinen, Skidmore College (Mentor: Divya Chandrasekhar, City & Metropolitan Planning)
Mike Komigi, University of Utah (Mentor: Tabitha Benney, Political Science)
Angela Lezaic, University of Utah (Mentor: Juliet Carlisle, Political Science)
Irene Liang, The University of Pennsylvania (Mentor: Djin Tay, Nursing)
Becca MacGillvray, Southern Utah University (Mentor: Gina Frey, Chemistry)
Lillian MacKinney, Wake Forest University (Mentor: Cory Inman, Psychology)
Abigail McWhirter, University of Edinburgh (Mentor: Lauren Barth-Cohen, Educational Psychology)
Aryana Merritt-Johnson, Western Washington University (Mentor: Zach Wilson, Biochemistry)
Breanka Moore, North Carolina A&T State University (Mentor: Mia Hashibe, Family & Preventive Medicine)
Manya Murali, University of California, Davis (Mentor: Jake George, Electrical and Computer Engineering)
Maiko Okamura, Connecticut College (Mentor: Brennan Payne, Psychology)\
Zachary Olson, University of Utah (Mentor: Haohan Zhang, Mechanical Engineering)
Yulisa Padilla-Fragosso, University of Utah (Mentor: Jeff Rose, Health, Kinesiology, and Recreation)
Riley Page, Slippery Rock University of Pennsylvania (Mentor: Rhonda Nelson, Occupational and Recreational Therapies)
Siena Popiel, University of Utah (Mentor: Phillip Singer, Political Science)
Oli Raines, University of Utah (Mentor: Megan Williams, Neurobiology & Anatomy)
Kevin Ramos, University of Utah (Mentor: Sara Grineski, Sociology)
Jonah Simmons, University of Utah (Mentor: Mandy Bunsawat, Internal Medicine)
Jane Staples, Vassar College (Mentor: Nitish Khurana, Pharmaceutics & Pharmaceutical Chemistry)
Abigail Stringfellow, University of Utah (Mentor: Roseanne Warren, Mechanical Engineering)
Marcus Tanner, University of Utah (Mentor: Leif Anderson, Geology and Geophysics)
Naomi Thombs, North Carolina A&T State University (Mentor: Kola Okuyemi, Family & Preventive Medicine)
Abril Vale-Luzardo, Southern Utah University (Mentor: Jenny Andrus, Writing & Rhetoric Studies)
Paulina Vargas, University of Texas El Paso (Mentor: Genevieve Albouy)
Megan Weaver, West Virginia University (Mentor: Kota Takahashi, Health & Kinesiology)
To learn more about each research project, visit the OUR website.