Student Research - College of Social and Behavioral Science

Undergraduate Research Opportunities Program

UROP, a university-wide program designed to help undergraduate students work with faculty members on research and creative work, funded over 100 CSBS students during the 2013-2014 academic year as they worked on their own research and presented their findings at the 4th Annual CSBS Student Research Day. UROP provides up to $1,200 per semester for any first-time participants, and $600 for returning students. At the end of the year, students are given the opportunity to present their research at a number of different conferences and even get their work published in the annual Undergraduate Abstracts Journal.

Student Research Day

Undergraduate Category

2014 1st Place Undergraduate Winner
Jordan Roberts (political science)

An Offense-Defense Theory of Civil War Recurrence: The Role of External Military Support

2014 2nd Place Undergraduate Winner
Michelle Silver (psychology)

Reported History of Childhood Trauma Predicts Increased Pre-Sleep Arousal in Healthy Adults

2014 3rd Place Undergraduate Winner
Benjamin Unger (psychology)

Does Rumination on Anger or Sadness Mediate the Association Between Moral Injury and Externalizing Versus Internalizing?

Graduate Category

2014 1st Place Graduate Winner
Michelle Knoll (anthropology)

Paleogenomics, phylogeography, and maize: a proposed method for identifying allelic variation between ancient plant populations

2014 2nd Place Graduate Winner
Shannon Boomgarden (anthropology)

Experimental Maize Farming in Range Creek Canyong: Year One

2014 3rd Place Graduate Winner
Rick Haskell (economics)

The Effects of Student Participation in Utah's Public Education Career Paths

Student Choice Award and 2014 Department Research Cup Winner


Karen Vazquez and Enoabasi Etokidem (economics)	Department of Anthropology