May 22, 2023
Over 500 students working with 107 mentors submitted more than 300 posters to present their social science research at the Mary Lou Fulton Mentored Student Research Conference on April 13, 2023.
Students who work with faculty mentors in the College of Family, Home, and Social Sciences are invited to share their research. Cash prizes were awarded to students in undergraduate and graduate categories for each department, as well as for research related to civic engagement, gerontology, western studies, and diversity, collaboration, and inclusion. Four additional awards were determined by voting from conference attendees. All participating students are also eligible to apply for a grant to cover graduate school application fees.
Listed below are the winning posters in each category with the students’ and mentors’ names. To view individual posters, visit fulton chair.byu.edu.
Anthropology
1st Place, graduate
Plant Identification from Absorbed Lipids in Ceramics from Petra, Jordan
Jake Hubbert with mentor Cynthia Finlayson
1st Place, undergraduate
Visual Depictions of Cotton Armour in the Late Aztec World
Josiah Abram Jensen with mentor Zach Chase
Economics
1st Place, undergraduate
Broken Heart Syndrome: Isolating the Causal Effect of a Spouse's Death on Lifespan
Hannah Hammond and Katharine Wilson with mentors Joe Price and Sven Wilson
2nd Place, undergraduate
Strength in Numbers: Gender, Influence, and Group Dynamics
Katelyn Cranney and Boston Kelley with mentors Olga Stoddard, Chris Karpowitz, and Jessica Preece
Family Life
1st Place, graduate
Boys Want Sex, Girls Want Relationships: Gendered Sex Scripts and Parent-Child Consent Communication
Corinne Archibald-Sato with mentor Jocelyn Wikle
2nd Place, graduate
Why Should I Care? Parental Factors Found to be Predictive of Empathy in 3-year-old Children
Anna S. Calley with mentor Jocelyn Wikle
1st Place, undergraduate
Examining Subjective Burden Among Spousal Cancer Caregivers: The Impact on Marital Quality
Jasmine Espinoza and Rebekah Case with mentor Jeremy Yorgason
2nd Place, undergraduate
How Effective is Premarital Education? An Analysis of Anxiously Engaged
Sidney Higgins, Nicole Vest, Rebecca Pierson, and Caroline Glissmeyer with mentor Alan Hawkins
3rd Place, undergraduate
Is Premarital Education Associated With Better Conflict Resolution and Lower Psychological Abuse?
Emma Howlett, Leah Meredith Simpson, and Claire Keller with mentors Jeremy Yorgason and Alan Hawkins
4th Place, undergraduate
How Does a Relationship with God Impact Conflict Resolution for Women of Faith?
Christina Cooper, Tamara Chamberlain, Eliza Madsen, Sidney Higgins, and Kaelie Wagner with mentors David Dollahite and Loren Marks
Geography
1st Place, undergraduate
Dendroarchaeology: Building a Millennium-Length Climatic Context for the Fremont Culture
Kyle Bird with mentor Matt Bekker
History
1st Place, undergraduate
Vanguards of Change in the "Georgia of the North": Youth Activism in the New Jersey Civil Rights Movement, 1935-1955
Emily Peterson with mentor Rebecca De Schweinitz
2nd Place, undergraduate
Finding Women in History: Jury of Matrons 1655
Keylla Ortega with mentor Amy Harris
3rd Place, undergraduate
WWII Propaganda Through Small Artillery: What We Can Learn About Psychological Warfare Leaflets in Europe From J Malan Heslop's Photographic Collection
Annalee Dahl, Jared Thurston, and Joshua DeLaigle with mentor Aaron Skabelund
4th Place, undergraduate
Information at War: The Letters of Corporal William ‘Billy’ Lloyd Casper
Joseph Bradford Hovey, Gaby Anderson, and Mikelle Andersen with mentor Aaron Skabelund
Political Science
1st Place, undergraduate
The Politics of DACA: Explaining variation among Republicans’ support for DACA
Diana Gonzales with mentor Alejandra Aldridge
2nd Place, undergraduate
Native American Individualism: A Unique Concept
Anna Nakaya and Naabaahii Tsosie with mentor Kelly Patterson
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Americans' Trust of Large Language Models
Adam Hubbs and Anna Nakaya with mentor Ethan Busby
3rd Place, undergraduate
Party Preferences and City Deferences: How Partisanship of City Officials and Voters affects Spending & Taxes
Bethany Pearson and Joshua Herrera with mentor Adam Dynes
4th Place, undergraduate
Female Support for Fundamentalist Islam
Julia Chatterley with mentor Jay Goodliffe
Psychology
1st Place, graduate
Estimating Hemispheric Specialization in Neurotypical Adults: A replication of Wange et al. (2014)
Madeline Peterson with mentor Jared Nielsen
1st Place, undergraduate
Self-Compassion Among Male College Students Can Lead to Improved Sleep Quality Through Fulfillment of Their Basic Psychological Needs
Unurzaya Amarsaikhan with mentor Sandie Sephton
2nd Place, undergraduate
Body Image and Self-Esteem in Midwestern Latino Youth: Associations with BMI, Gender, and Parental Perceptions
Mariah Dean, Kathleen Ririe, Katherine Tanner, Melanie Gurrusquieta, Elise Glover, Aubrey Chartier, and Wei (Victoria) Zhang with mentor Blake Jones
3rd Place, undergraduate
The Influence of Retrieval Practice in the Form of a Writing Intervention on Undergraduate Grades
Samuel Paul Chipman with mentor Chelsea Romney
4th Place, undergraduate
Functional Connectivity of Stroke-Induced Aphasia; A Lesion Network Mapping Analysis
Shea Stratford (Jensen) and Owen Benzley with mentor Jared Nielsen
Social Work
1st Place, graduate
Attitude of Gratitude: Protective Factors For Suicidality from Adolescence to Emerging Adulthood
Paul Coyne with mentor Annie Carter
2nd Place, graduate
What if our concern for maternal anxiety was as important as planning the baby shower?
Shara Jackson Harper with mentors Sarah Coyne and Steven Hoffman
3rd Place, graduate
The Impact of Eating Disorders on Treatment Outcomes for Substance Use Patients
Mia Greer with mentor Cory Dennis
4th Place, graduate
Predicting Body Image in LGB Adolescents
MarjAnn Ober with mentors Sarah Coyne and Annie Carter
Sociology
1st Place, undergraduate
Legacies of Hardship: A Gendered Analysis of the Relationship Between Financial Hardship in Early Childhood and Adolescent Psychological Distress
Abel Huskinson with mentor Melissa S. Jones
2nd Place, undergraduate
The Criminalization of Female Genital Mutilation in Ohio: A Social and Political Analysis
Madsyn Selph with mentor Jane Lopez
3rd Place, undergraduate
What's Gonna Happen With Us? How Friendship Networks Change After Marriage
Madeleine Meldrum with mentor Jonathan Jarvis
Civic Engagement
1st Place
Strength in Numbers: Gender, Influence, and Group Dynamics
Katelyn Cranney and Boston Kelley with mentors Olga Stoddard, Chris Karpowitz, and Jessica Preece
2nd Place
I Care For Myself: Does Individualism Overshadow the Effect of Fear on COVID-19 Response?
Hyrum Devenport, Allie McBride, and Alex Acosta-Rubio with mentor Kelly Patterson
3rd Place
Vanguards of Change in the ‘Georgia of the North’: Youth Activism in the New Jersey Civil Rights Movement, 1935-1955
Emily Peterson with mentor Rebecca De Schweinitz
4th Place
Belonging in a Predominant Culture
Rod Hernndez, Julia Plantz, and Jalyse Ortiz with mentor Jane Lopez
Diversity, Collaboration, and Inclusion
1st Place
The Politics of DACA: Explaining variation among Republicans' support for DACA
Diana Gonzales with mentor Alejandra Aldridge
2nd Place
It’s Not About Success. It’s About the Message. Elite Messaging and Xenophobic Hate Crimes in the EU
AnneMarie Ackerman with mentor Quinn Mecham
3rd Place
Depression and Parent Socialization of BIPOC Teens: Implications for Ethnic Identity
Emily J. Takamasa with mentors Ashley Fraser and Adam Rogers
Gerontology
1st Place
In Silico Screening to Identify Potential Positive Allosteric Modulators of α3β2 Neuronal Nicotinic Acetylcholine Receptors
Matthew Rasmussen, DeLaney Anderson, Dalton Tanner, Casey Callison, Jed Christensen, Stephen Harmon, Daniel-Luke Isemonger, Jacob Jackson, Daniel Mikulecky, Jessica Ranger, Breanna Rodriguez, Amelia Steed, Rebekah Torgesen, Carson Ulrich, Carter Ulrich with mentor Scott Steffensen
Redd Center for Western Studies
1st Place
The Disappearing Lake: Investigating the Shrinking of the Great Salt Lake and Links with PM2.5 and PM10 Air Pollution
Kirsten Sanders, Abigail Henrie, and Autumn Welling with mentor Ruth Kerry
2nd Place
Dendroarchaeology: Building a Millennium-Length Climatic Context for the Fremont Culture
Kyle Bird with mentor Matt Bekker
3rd Place
Murky Water: Investigating Spatial and Temporal Patterns of Turbidity of Strawberry River and Reservoir using Landsat and Drone Imagery
Sierra Cutler, Hannah Johnston, and Adam Chilvers with mentor Ruth Kerry
4th Place
Investigating the Toxic Heavy Metal Content of Soils and Grass in Urban Parks using Hyper-spectral Analysis
Abigail Henrie and Kirsten Sanders with mentor Ruth Kerry
Students’ Choice Awards
Timeliest Topic
Group Therapy Interventions for Survivors of Childhood Sexual Abuse (CSA)
Julia Elmber, Jamon Jex, Anthony Salas, Mattayha Whipple with mentor Gary Burlingame
Best Presenter
The More You Know, The More Your Child...Won't Get Help?
Alyssa Black with mentor Steve Hoffman
Most Relevant Research
The Disappearing Lake: Investigating the Shrinking of the Great Salt Lake and Links with PM2.5 and PM10 Air Pollution
Kirsten Sanders, Abigail Henrie, and Autumn Welling with mentor Ruth Kerry
Most Eye-Catching Poster
La Virgen & La Malinche: Reflections of Mexican Womanhood
Sarai Silva and Joanna Hildreth with mentor David-James Gonzales