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SUU Festival of Excellence 2019

10:00am MDT

Service in the Mountains: Guatemala LIB - Reading Room (2nd Floor)Christer Mercado Alcoholism and the Abuse of Other Drugs is Hereditary LIB - Reading Room (2nd Floor)Brad Larson Attending childcare centers during the first three years of life is psychologically damaging to children LIB - Reading Room (2nd Floor)Chad Banks • Abygail Dofelmire • Jessie Mineer • Carlie Robinson Attending Childcare: Harmful or Helpful? LIB - Reading Room (2nd Floor)Madison Ford • Rebecca Moffat • Rebekah Winward Children enrolled in high-quality preschools experience advanced social and cognitive development beyond that of preschoolers who remain at home LIB - Reading Room (2nd Floor)Jason Chang • Kiara Taylor • Justin Willden Children with learning disabilities should be mainstreamed LIB - Reading Room (2nd Floor)Amberley Justice • Victoria Pike • Maile Pratte • Ashley Woodcox Children with learning disabilities should be mainstreamed LIB - Reading Room (2nd Floor)Megan Bryan • Takayla Tebbs • Icisis Whitmore Debate: Children with learning disabilities should be mainstreamed LIB - Reading Room (2nd Floor)Caleb Christensen • Megan Colton • Kinley Nelson • Millie Reich Debate: Cohabitation before marriage is an important step for a successful long-term relationship. LIB - Reading Room (2nd Floor)Katelyn Brunson • Sage Chatterton • Reese Jones Debate: Men and women are born into immutable gender roles LIB - Reading Room (2nd Floor)Ron Jin • Kenydi Kane • Emily McDonald • Tawni Werber Debate: The increasing medicalization of birth is harmful to both mothers and their babies LIB - Reading Room (2nd Floor)Brooklyn Blackett • Josie Groft • Jentrie Ramos • Sammy Slack Divorce Rates are the Highest They Have Ever Been LIB - Reading Room (2nd Floor)Reagan Stanley • Madi Hall • Trystan Langston • Mason Jacoby Educational games on electronic devices can benefit infants in their cognitive development LIB - Reading Room (2nd Floor)Kambrie Howard • Qianting Lu • Shiho Okazaki • Xueping Wang Females and Males are socialized to approach moral questions in different ways. LIB - Reading Room (2nd Floor)Lea Christensen • Marissa King • Sladen Ott • James West Fishing For Proteins LIB - Reading Room (2nd Floor)Ryan Koch • Sydney Williams Genetic testing for at-risk carriers of abnormal genes LIB - Reading Room (2nd Floor)Drake Alvarez • Spencer Hahne • Alyssa Mortensen Investigation of a crossed benzoin-like condensation LIB - Reading Room (2nd Floor)Maxwell Bowles Optimizing Methylene Blue as a Sensitizing Agent LIB - Reading Room (2nd Floor)Hamza Samha Screening for Microbial Dissimilatory Reduction of Metals via a Colorimetric Plate Assay LIB - Reading Room (2nd Floor)Parker Feltner • Gavin Jones • Avery Malenius • Shardon Morril Should we try to protect self esteem or challenge it in children LIB - Reading Room (2nd Floor)Chelsy Goldtooth • Madison Kummer • Emily Morgan • Taylor Ray Social Media is to blame for depression increases in teens LIB - Reading Room (2nd Floor)Maggie Ellis • Abigail McConnell • Sydney Olivieri • Teresa De Enrique Schmidt Social media is to blame for depression increases in teens LIB - Reading Room (2nd Floor)Emma Marchant • Jayden Marshall • Jerica Pugh • Jessica Taylor Spanking is permissible in certain situations LIB - Reading Room (2nd Floor)Kiah Jones • Cassie Vines • Annie Wolter The effects of elevated glucose and stress levels on the liver and hippocampus structure in brown rats (Rattus norvegicus) LIB - Reading Room (2nd Floor)Josh Boyer • Landen Broadhead • Tiffany Chin • Tyler Kelsey • Kyler Kirkland • Christer Mercado • Spencer Seegmiller • Storm Speakman The Negative Effect of an Automatic Intensity Step-down Function During NMES Treatments LIB - Reading Room (2nd Floor)Cody Bremner The Pros and Cons of Cohabitation before Marriage LIB - Reading Room (2nd Floor)Aryn Blair • Lexi Evans • Maddy Smith • Christina Tran There is no difference between children in same sex couples and traditional male/female couples LIB - Reading Room (2nd Floor)Cassie Jimenez • Zack Jeppson Today's Parents Are Too Permissive LIB - Reading Room (2nd Floor)Lindsey Ballard • Aubree Hatfield • Rhys Kaiser • Madison Seamons Today's Parents are too Permissive LIB - Reading Room (2nd Floor)Kimberly Arellano • Alicyn Garcia • Cassidy Huff • Rachel Pangan Today's Parents are too Permissive LIB - Reading Room (2nd Floor)Megan Foote • Bekah Foster • Keston Hemsley • Qiqi Yu Vaccination Education LIB - Reading Room (2nd Floor)Cason Patterson • Allyson Smith • Alyse Szymanski Sanitation efficacy of 70% isopropyl alcohol vs blue light treatment on reusable electrodes LIB - Reading Room (2nd Floor)Hailee Eckman • Rylie Miller A Needs Assessment of Child and Family Mental Health Needs in a Rural Community LIB - Reading Room (2nd Floor)Courtney Doman • Jordan Rhodes • Andra Walker Alcoholism and the abuse of drugs is hereditary LIB - Reading Room (2nd Floor)Charity Beck • Annalee Carlson • Sophie George • Jake Paxton Alcoholism and the abuse of other drugs is hereditary LIB - Reading Room (2nd Floor)Navy Blomquist • Brook Higbee • Shelbie Jones • Sondrelle Scott An Analysis of Two Suicide Hypotheses LIB - Reading Room (2nd Floor)Drew Beatty • Nick Creer Basic Principles of Prenatal Health LIB - Reading Room (2nd Floor)Cecilia Campas • Sydney Jenson • Lindsey McMillon • Alonzo Stevens Benefits of Physical Activity on Academics LIB - Reading Room (2nd Floor)Kaylee Gerlach Breast feeding vs. Bottle feeding LIB - Reading Room (2nd Floor)Jaylyn Busby • James Felila • Talliyah Kozar Dance Training and its Effects on Balance in Healthy Young Adults LIB - Reading Room (2nd Floor)Ashlee Humphries Eating Healthy on a Budget LIB - Reading Room (2nd Floor)Rylee Kasal • Kylie Peterson • Scott Shumway Educational games on electronic devices can benefit infants in their cognitive development. LIB - Reading Room (2nd Floor)Hayley Higbee • Ashlee Ivie • Kassidy Johnson • Madison Moss Evaluation of desert plant extracts inhibition of biofilm formed by Pseudomonas aeruginosa LIB - Reading Room (2nd Floor)Halli Bestenlehner • Kenny Carter • Ted Cowan • Brandan Glazier • Chris Hall • Andrew Judd FCHD 1500 LIB - Reading Room (2nd Floor)Hailee Holt • Jessica Ravsten • Kylie Rose Helping College Students Create Exercise Habits LIB - Reading Room (2nd Floor)Kallie Fuellenbach • Walker Jones • Ana Weaver Increasing Medicalization of Birth; Harmful to Mothers and Babies? LIB - Reading Room (2nd Floor)Abigail Child • JinHao Guo • Mackenzie Hillstead • Brooklyn Oberhansly Is teen suicide the highest it has ever been? LIB - Reading Room (2nd Floor)Shaylie Davis • Gracie Griffith • Makayla Robinson • Harley Taylor Non-biological parenthood is much riskier than biological parenthood LIB - Reading Room (2nd Floor)Dallin Holt • Pablo Suarez • Emily Walkenhorst • Bethany Watko Perception of Body Fat among Female College Students LIB - Reading Room (2nd Floor)Dalton Beeson • Linda Herrera • Sandra Keck • Taylor Pulver • Micheal Scott • Nathan Sharp • Easton Weaver Should we try to protect self esteem or challenge it in children LIB - Reading Room (2nd Floor)Lauren Bagley • Brennon Hutchings Smile for Success: Effect of Facial Expressions and Hemispheric Dominance on Cognitive-motor Performance LIB - Reading Room (2nd Floor)Drew Beatty • Yeon Nam • Anna Wasden • Kailee Wingrove Blood Glucose Responses to the Sight and Smell of High and Low Glycemic Food in Mice LIB - Reading Room (2nd Floor)Tyler Haroldsen • McKayla Heaton • Torri Sageman Drawing Skills in Anatomy and Physiology Students LIB - Reading Room (2nd Floor)Sydney Whitson Textbooks: Obsolete or Eternal? LIB - Reading Room (2nd Floor)Emma Allen • Sarah Forsberg • Rebecca Moffat • Tyler Neilson • Kenzie Worthington

1:00pm MDT

The Road to Recycling LIB - Reading Room (2nd Floor)Megan Abel • Tristan Olsen-Lund • Samuel Wells Gender Inequality in Modern Day Horror Movies LIB - Reading Room (2nd Floor)Jessi Towe Low Cost Photonic Crystal for Biomedical Applications LIB - Reading Room (2nd Floor)Garrett Mackelprang The State of the Art LIB - Reading Room (2nd Floor)Bridget Intessimone Breast vs Bottle LIB - Reading Room (2nd Floor)Dallin Grover • Kehaulani Mankle • Cami Marx • Abi Nielson Connection Through Vulnerability, & the Vices of Virtual Validation LIB - Reading Room (2nd Floor)Wyatt Larsen Corporate Art Collections LIB - Reading Room (2nd Floor)Madicyn To'a Curriculum Analysis for Primary Care Programs LIB - Reading Room (2nd Floor)Chase Leavitt Debate: Attending childcare centers during the first 3 years of life is psychologically damaging to children. LIB - Reading Room (2nd Floor)Cassidy Jolley • Yington Li • Sage Oldroyd • Leilani Paul Debate: The school year should be lengthened LIB - Reading Room (2nd Floor)Madelyn Cardon • Austin Ewing • Nanan Agnes Omou • Barlow Pace Dino DNA LIB - Reading Room (2nd Floor)Megan Jensen DNA metabarcoding on local honey to determine quality and fraud LIB - Reading Room (2nd Floor)JuliAnne Allgood Investigation of Preferences in Ants LIB - Reading Room (2nd Floor)Zihe Wan Men and women are born into immutable gender roles LIB - Reading Room (2nd Floor)Xiyan Ding Multiple dimensions of intelligence make standardized IQ testing obsolete LIB - Reading Room (2nd Floor)Nathanial Newman • Camryn Oldham • Emily Simpson • Ethan Smith Sex education full disclosure vs abstinence LIB - Reading Room (2nd Floor)Maleah Earthly • Iris Grant • Raylee Moreno • Janae Pridmore Synthesis of (Z)-Stilbene Derivatives LIB - Reading Room (2nd Floor)Hayden Bishop Synthesis of (Z)-Stilbene Derivatives LIB - Reading Room (2nd Floor)Hayden Bishop • Brenton Bushnell Synthesis of 4,4,5,5-tetramethyl-2-((1E,3E)-4-phenylbuta-1,3- dien-1-yl)-1,3,2-dioxaborolane by the 9-BBN Catalyzed Hydroboration of (E)-but-1-en-3-yn-1-ylbenzene LIB - Reading Room (2nd Floor)Marcus Mifflin Third-Party Punishment Preferences: Thief Gain and Victim Loss Matter, but Not Race or Punishment Motive LIB - Reading Room (2nd Floor)Bryan Koenig Vaccines LIB - Reading Room (2nd Floor)White Janessa 10 Essential readieness of SUU LIB - Reading Room (2nd Floor)Collin Justis A Biodiversity Survey of Southern Utah Reptiles LIB - Reading Room (2nd Floor)Sierra Ball A Structural Comparison of Isozymes with Widely Varying Optimal Temperatures LIB - Reading Room (2nd Floor)Scott Adair • Jayde Bertoch Become a Leader in the Outdoors LIB - Reading Room (2nd Floor)Samantha Taylor Evolution of Wood Warbler (Parulidae) Song LIB - Reading Room (2nd Floor)Nic Gasparro • Marggie Glenn • Jungyun Huh • Sierra White Genetic analysis of diatoms in streams affected by the Brian Head Fire LIB - Reading Room (2nd Floor)Tyler Colfack Impacts of the Brian Head Fire on the Freshwater Macroinvertebrates of the Markagunt Plateau (2016-2019) LIB - Reading Room (2nd Floor)Mike Contente • Fredric Govedich • Irania Hernandez • Makayla Oborn • Courtney Webb • Samuel Wells Importance of Collaborative Skills in the Workforce LIB - Reading Room (2nd Floor)Audry Wilcox Marine Species Preservation LIB - Reading Room (2nd Floor)Alyson Lamoreaux Perception of Educational Videos Based on Narrator’s Gender LIB - Reading Room (2nd Floor)Brianna Brunson • Anna Covington • Peyton Green Possible New Species of Sea Spider Discovered in the Midwaters of Monterrey, CA LIB - Reading Room (2nd Floor)Kodi Allen Woods Robinson Helicopters Safety LIB - Reading Room (2nd Floor)Sami Zvonkovic Significance of Quichapa lake for Migratory Birds LIB - Reading Room (2nd Floor)Rachael Bolus • Tanner James • Tanner Jefferies • Sandon Stokes • Levi Sweeten • Samuel Wells Survey of Coleopteran species of Spring Creek Canyon LIB - Reading Room (2nd Floor)Gavin Stapley • Brian Thompson The effect of urbanization on genetic diversity in southern Utah ant populations LIB - Reading Room (2nd Floor)Johanna Garavito Wilderness and Archaeological Site Stewardship LIB - Reading Room (2nd Floor)Brielle Johnson Childless, Single Female's Knowledge and Attitudes about Breastfeeding LIB - Reading Room (2nd Floor)Naomi Beatty • Abigail Bishop • Carly Button • Javlyn Weaver Cognitive declines requires mandatory retirement laws: debate LIB - Reading Room (2nd Floor)JuliAnne Allgood • Kolton Allgood Energy Expenditure, Heart Rate and Wearable Devices: Sport Modes Versus General Modes LIB - Reading Room (2nd Floor)Jayson Cole • Tyler Downs Factors Contributing to Sleep Deprivation in College Students LIB - Reading Room (2nd Floor)Joel Alvidera • Carson Kelly • Maura Knutsen • Tomas Langholtz Gay and Mormon: How a Bishop Can Help LIB - Reading Room (2nd Floor)Tate Avey • Jim Mock • Carisa Wood Relationship between Maladaptive pornography consumption and maladaptive video game addiction. LIB - Reading Room (2nd Floor)Thaddeus Cole • Quinn Simpson • Tyler Tatton Sex Perspective Rigidity and Empathetic Responses to People in Distress LIB - Reading Room (2nd Floor)Mattison Doman Silver Nanoparticles Ability to Identify Capping Ligands for Early Disease Detection LIB - Reading Room (2nd Floor)Jaxson Jeffery • Hayley Sorensen Testing the Accuracy of Popular Wrist Worn Tracking Gadgets at Measuring Energy Expenditure and Heart rate in College Age Joggers at Varying Grades on a Treadmill LIB - Reading Room (2nd Floor)Whitney Stevens The Effect of Skin Tone on the Accuracy of Heart Rate Measurement of Wrist-Worn Fitness Trackers During Resting and Sub-Maximal Activity LIB - Reading Room (2nd Floor)Amber Heltemes • Rachel Sloan • Julie Taylor The Impact of Religiosity and Pornography Addiction on Shame, Anxiety, and Hope based on Gender LIB - Reading Room (2nd Floor)Anjelica Ashworth • Patric Leukel The school year should be lengthened LIB - Reading Room (2nd Floor)Madelyn Cardon • Austin Ewing • Nanan Agnes Omou • Barlow Pace Tips, Tricks and Risks: Social Risk Taking in Young Adults LIB - Reading Room (2nd Floor)McKenna Dalton What is the Accuracy of Wearable Tracking Devices in Determining a Resting Energy Expenditure Based on Training Status? LIB - Reading Room (2nd Floor)Eric Lee New Zealand Pycnogonids (Sea Spiders) LIB - Reading Room (2nd Floor)Bonnie Bain • Fredric Govedich • Jordan Richins Speed Science: Teaching Students How to Learn from Failure LIB - Reading Room (2nd Floor)Bonnie Bain • Fredric Govedich To spank or not to spank? LIB - Reading Room (2nd Floor)Sydney Riley • Deborah Ferwerda • Noa Taeatafa

3:00pm MDT

5 Counties Association of Governments volunteer LIB - Reading Room (2nd Floor)Bryce Webster A Sociological Take on Cedar City's Chamber of Commerce LIB - Reading Room (2nd Floor)Alexes Ramirez American Rationals For Dog Ownership LIB - Reading Room (2nd Floor)Josh Christensen • Hannah Covington • Karl Greathouse • Jason Luo • Dream Weaver Art Education in Elementary Schools LIB - Reading Room (2nd Floor)Hannah Ynchausti College Food Pantry Experiences LIB - Reading Room (2nd Floor)Amanda Dortzbach Community Partner: American Red Cross LIB - Reading Room (2nd Floor)Brinn Fullmer Hands-Only CPR LIB - Reading Room (2nd Floor)McKenna Dodge • Charity Sagiao • Vishant Thapa Human Values and a Sense of Place LIB - Reading Room (2nd Floor)December Braithwaite • Chelsea Hicken • D'Mia Lamar • Michelle Lambert Molybdemum as a Cofactor in Enzymatic Reactions in Cyanobacteria LIB - Reading Room (2nd Floor)Hyeonseo Cho • Brent Thacker Stayin' Alive LIB - Reading Room (2nd Floor)Mallorie Gale • Amanda Giles Sustainable House Infrastructure Project LIB - Reading Room (2nd Floor)Jason Brimhall • William Johnston • Tanner Valentine Visual Map of SUU Campus On Android LIB - Reading Room (2nd Floor)Jacob Moulton Volunteer Income Tax Assistance: Serving the Community LIB - Reading Room (2nd Floor)Alec Anderson Cyber Crime: The Digital Threat at Southern Utah University (SUU) LIB - Reading Room (2nd Floor)Paul Bausman • Courtney Dickinson • Brigitte Sweeten Dual Factor Authentication LIB - Reading Room (2nd Floor)Shukai Chen • Jaeger Christensen • Brandon Pitts Gender Neutrality: Forest Inventory and Analysis LIB - Reading Room (2nd Floor)Samar Alhussain • Ali Alnasser • Connor Hudson • Nicholas Raditsas How Safe are You While Using the Internet? LIB - Reading Room (2nd Floor)Taylor Cella • Michael Kavoukas • Wayne Larson • Wyatt Remund Is Your Information Safe on Public Wi-Fi? LIB - Reading Room (2nd Floor)Thomas Grant • Ranger Iradukunda • Hayden Johnson • Prince Nash Managing how technology is used in future libraries LIB - Reading Room (2nd Floor)Erik Rekve One Phish, Two Phish LIB - Reading Room (2nd Floor)Ali Alnasser • Thomas Gubler • Ethan Larsen • Sadie Sanchez Section 508 Testing and Implementation: Forest Inventory and Analysis LIB - Reading Room (2nd Floor)Taylor Cella • Junming Chen • Trystan Humphries • Jared Smith Securing Passwords LIB - Reading Room (2nd Floor)Brian Burdick • Brandon Hightower • Connor Hudson • Kurtis Lundell Social Media Use LIB - Reading Room (2nd Floor)Matt Burgoyne • Ian Hamlet • Kelson Orton SUU Campus Trees LIB - Reading Room (2nd Floor)Jessica Ball Website Tutorial for Gateway Preparatory Academy LIB - Reading Room (2nd Floor)Brandon Hightower Welcome to the World of Drones LIB - Reading Room (2nd Floor)Michelle Holden Giving Multilingual Writers a Helping Hand LIB - Reading Room (2nd Floor)Christina Winters VISAS: Volunteers with International Students and Scholars LIB - Reading Room (2nd Floor)Robb McCollum • VISAS Volunteers C in the Dark: Lighting Cedar City's Town Letter LIB - Reading Room (2nd Floor)Jake Sip • Dallin Giles • Cameron Aston Educational games on electronic devices can benefit infants in their cognitive development. LIB - Reading Room (2nd Floor)Elizabeth Anderson • Bryn Banks • McKenzie Culler • Kelson Orton Late Cretaceous Dinosaur Tracks from the Iron Springs Formation, Iron County, Utah LIB - Reading Room (2nd Floor)Jennifer Crowell Perceptions of Morality LIB - Reading Room (2nd Floor)Natassha Fagergren • Samantha Harper • Katherine Saldana Project GNATS LIB - Reading Room (2nd Floor)Battai Hunton • Andrea Reeder • Colton Robinson Project Illumination LIB - Reading Room (2nd Floor)Reece Alvarado • Austin Becker Remarried families are more likely to have problems than families that are only married once LIB - Reading Room (2nd Floor)Danlee Overson Teen suicide is higher than it even has been. LIB - Reading Room (2nd Floor)Sojin Choi • Mallorie Christensen • Shane Prisbrey • Taylor Tenney The effects of ploidy on auxin biosynthesis in Hemerocallis hybrida LIB - Reading Room (2nd Floor)Riley Carter The Integrated Capacious Model of Leadership Identities Construction LIB - Reading Room (2nd Floor)Brionne Neilson The Viability of Aviation in the Future Economy LIB - Reading Room (2nd Floor)Mason Hopkins What the Frit?! LIB - Reading Room (2nd Floor)Aubriel Koehler • Mikey Savage A Study of Ringtail (Bassariscus astutus) Genetic Diversity in Southern Utah LIB - Reading Room (2nd Floor)Laura Aston Caffeine Derived Carbene Ligands in the Sonogashira Cross-Coupling Reaction LIB - Reading Room (2nd Floor)Garett Ruesch Pilot Shortage in the United States LIB - Reading Room (2nd Floor)Andrew Lloyd Nonprofit and Business Sector Collaboration: Strategic Strengthening through Partnership LIB - Reading Room (2nd Floor)Sarah Tullis The Impact of Demos on Video Game Sales LIB - Reading Room (2nd Floor)Kelsie Eddy The Power of Networks: On and Off Campus LIB - Reading Room (2nd Floor)Schuyler Bradley The Role of Interview Anxiety in Hiring Decision LIB - Reading Room (2nd Floor)Blake Bennion   Who am I? Feedback about Self and its Effect on Purchasing Behavior and Response to Gain and Loss Frame Messages  LIB - Reading Room (2nd Floor)Amanda Evans Marxist Theory of Alienation and Drug Use in Modern Society LIB - Reading Room (2nd Floor)Kaleigh Bronson Drawing as an Active Learning Activity in Undergraduate Human Anatomy LIB - Reading Room (2nd Floor)Nizhoni Marasco Job Application Research LIB - Reading Room (2nd Floor)Sarah Drake Stripping Lipid Bilayer Removal by Buffer Flow LIB - Reading Room (2nd Floor)Ruth Hunter SYNTHESIS OF ESTERS VIA THE HALOFORM REACTION LIB - Reading Room (2nd Floor)Emily Olson Title: The Anatomy of Lab: Factors Affecting, Causes of, and Student Motivations for Leaving Anatomy Lab Courses Early LIB - Reading Room (2nd Floor)Sarah Monson Whopper Copper to Proper Copper: The Marvelous Transition from Massive to Miniature LIB - Reading Room (2nd Floor)Zhouling Chen • Jessie Fischer