The Office of Undergraduate Research is excited to announce our Summer Program for Undergraduate Research (SPUR) 2024 Faculty Mentors! 2024 faculty mentors represent 39 faculty from 14 colleges.

The application to work with a SPUR 2024 faculty mentor is open, and we are also excited to share we are using Infoready - a new platform for OUR applications. Please share information about this full-time summer research opportunity with undergraduate researchers, both here at the U and at other institutions! Student applications are open from November 1st, 2023 to January 28th, 2024.

Andy Hong, College of Architecture & Planning - Fall Risk Mapping: Visualizing Fall-related Injuries among Older Adults across the United States 

Ed Muñoz, School for Cultural & Social Transformation - Construyendo Latinidad (Constructing Latinx Identity) in the Intermountain West 

Melodie Weller, School of Dentistry - Unlocking Autoimmunity: Impact of Environmental Pathogen Exposures on Chronic Autoimmune Diseases 

Claire Son, College of Education - Preschoolers' Multimedia Learning of STEM Vocabulary and Concept Knowledge 

Jennifer Weidhaas, College of Engineering - Wastewater based epidemiology for understanding disease burden in communities

Rajesh Menon, College of Engineering - Deep-neural networks for Next-generation Imaging

Jake George, College of Engineering - Utah NeuroRobotics Lab: Brain-Computer Interfaces and Artificial Intelligence for Assistive and Rehabilitative Robotics

Alex Novoselov, College of Engineering - Simulation and modeling of chemically reacting hypersonic flows

Alexander Lex, College of Engineering - Understanding Cancer with Data Visualizations of Cell Microscopy

Lien Fan Shen, College of Fine Arts - Empowering Comic Artists with DALL-E, AI Imaging Generating Program

Skyler Jennings, College of Health - The Brain and the Ear: How Attention Shapes the Response of the Inner Ear When Listening to Speech in Noisy Backgrounds

Brad King, College of Health - Exercise and inhibition in the aging hippocampus 

Danny Davis, College of Health - Leveraging shoe modifications to improve walking capacity

Anne Jamison, College of Humanities - Understanding How Stories Evolve in Fanfiction Communities via Data Science

Vincent Koppelmans, School of Medicine - Motoric Function in Alzheimer's Disease: Relations to Brain Structure and Applications for Classification

Mandy Bunsawat, School of Medicine - Identifying Therapeutic Approaches to Improve or Reverse Disease-Related Decrements in Vascular and Autonomic Health in Heart Failure and Chronic Kidney Disease

Matt Wachowiak, School of Medicine - Seeing What the Nose Tells the Brain: Exploring Sensory Coding Using Imaging in the Mouse Olfactory System

Adam Hughes, School of Medicine - Interrogating the molecular mechanisms of mitochondrial-derived compartment formation

Ram Gouripeddi, School of Medicine - Quantifying the Exposome for Health Research

Djin Tay, College of Nursing - Economic Burden of Cancer Associated with Long Term Treatment and at End of Life

Lisa Taylor-Swanson, College of Nursing - MENOGAP: Engaging in Community-Led Development and Testing a Group Medical Visit Intervention

Nitish Khurana, College of Pharmacy - Reducing drug adsorption in Extracorporeal Membrane Oxygenators for Optimal Drug Dosing

Shanti Deemyad, College of Science - Superconductivity at extreme conditions

Connor Bischak, College of Science - Organic Mixed Ionic-Electronic Conductors for Artificial Vision

William Anderegg, College of Science - Effects of drought, heat, or smoke exposure on tree seedling and mature forest climate resilience

Austin Green, College of Science - Wasatch Wildlife Watch

Matthew Fry, College of Social & Behavioral Science - Planning and Participating in Urban Forests and Trees 

Megan Reynolds, College of Social and Behavioral Science - Economic security policy and birth outcomes among socio-economically disadvantaged women

Katie Baucom, College of Social & Behavioral Science - Adapting Diabetes Interventions to improve Outcomes and Stop Type 2 Diabetes in Hispanic Communities in Utah (ADIOS T2D)

Lindsay Gezinski, College of Social Work - A National Exploratory Study on Housing Services for Survivors of Human Trafficking

Teresa DeAtley, School of Medicine (REACHU2) - Exploratory Design Approaches for Health Equity Research.

Olanrewaju Onigboi, School of Medicine (REACHU2) - Cigarette Smoking and sleep quality among Women of color from racially diverse communities

Kelly Glazer Baron, School of Medicine (REACHU2) - Sleep health disparities: implications for cardiovascular disease and diabetes

Ursula Martinez, School of Medicine (REACHU2) - Enhancing Motivation to Quit Smoking via Self-help Intervention Targeted to Cancer Type

Brock O'Neil, School of Medicine (REACHU2) - Cancer Health Services and Disparities Research

Tabitha Benney, College of Social & Behavioral Science (HAPPIEST) - Integration of Traditional Ecological Knowledge with STEM Curriculum on the Wind River Reservation

Jeff Rose, College of Health (HAPPIEST) - Homelessness, air quality, and park displacement events

Sara Grineski, College of Social & Behavioral Science (HAPPIEST) - Resident perspectives on air pollution and environmental injustice in Salt Lake County

David Curtis, College of Social & Behavioral Science (HAPPIEST) - Who is sensitive to exposure to air pollution? Physiological and psychosocial mechanisms to cardiovascular and metabolic disease

Check out this semester's Undergraduate Research Education Series (URES) events! Visit our website to register and learn more, as well as access the 50+ on-demand Undergraduate Research Education Series (URES) events!

The deadline for the Virtual Fall Symposium is Sunday, November 26. Click here for resources and to submit. You can upload: 

NCUR 2024 will be taking place in Long Beach, CA April 8-10, 2024. Submissions are due December 8, 2023. 

Need support or help navigating undergraduate research at the U? Visit our Research Advising webpage for information about Funding Fridays, IRB Lab, Research Advising, and more!

Interested in learning about undergraduate research opportunities? Students, faculty, and staff may make a request. 

Looking for undergraduate researchers? We can help! Visit our website to submit a request to post to the Research Opportunity Database.