Published Student Research

Congratulations to our published student researchers!

*Asterisk denotes that student researcher is named as first author on manuscript

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Jaimie Adams

*Evaluating Close-Range Photogrammetry Methods: The 3D Reconstruction of Trinchera Cave Rock Art Panels - Published December 2023 in McNair Association of Professionals National Journal

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Briana Agenbroad

SNAPSHOT USA 2019-2023: The first five years of data from a coordinated camera trap survey of the United States - Published January 2025 in Global Ecology and Biogeography

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Hanna Ahuja

 

*Assessment of Cardiac Function of Rbm 20−/− Rats Using Pressure-Volume Loop Analysis After 28 Days of Angiotensin II Treatment - Published April 2018 in The Federation of American Societies for Experimental Biology Journal

 

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Megan Anderson

 

*Burrow webs: Clawing the surface of interactions with burrows excavated by American badgers - Published July 2021 in Ecology and Evolution

 

Rapid formation of iron monosulfides on Indicator of Reduction in Soil devices in S-rich hydric soils - Published March 2023 in Soil Science Society of America Journal

 

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Nathan Barrus

 

*Assessing a standardized method to identify optimal baselines for trophic position estimation in stable isotope studies of stream ecosystems - Published June 2024 in Hydrobiologia

 

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Alexina Birkholz

 

Searching for GEMS: Characterizing Six Giant Planets around Cool Dwarfs - Published November 2024 in The Astronomical Journal

 

Searching for GEMS: TOI-6383Ab, a giant planet transiting an M3-dwarf star in a binary system - Published November 2024 in The Astronomical Journal

 

Searching for GEMS: TOI-7149b, an Inflated Giant Planet Causing a 12% Transit of a Fully Convective M-dwarf - Published September 2025 in The Astronomical Journal

 

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Delta Burchi

 

Cocaine memory reactivation induces functional adaptations within parvalbumin interneurons in the rat medial prefrontal cortex - Published August 2020 in Addiction Biology

 

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Amanda Christensen

 

Identification and Characterization of the Lactating Mouse Mammary Gland Citrullinome - Published April 2020 in International Journal of Molecular Sciences

 

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Adam Couldridge

 

Electrostatic polarization of nonpolar substrates: a study of interactions between simple cations and Mo-bound N₂ - Published June 2019 in Dalton Transactions

 

*Peptidylarginine deiminase enzymes and citrullinated proteins in female reproductive physiology and associated diseases - Published December 2022 in Biology of Reproduction

 

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Arielle D'Arge

 

“We Participate, You Participate—They Decide”: Istvan Mészáros, Henri Lefebvre, and the Social and Ecological Contradictions of the Just Energy Transition - Published April 2026 in Geography Compass

 

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Kinsale Day

 

Global warming induced changes in extreme precipitation in the Western United States: projections from dynamically downscaled CMIP6 GCMs - Published September 2025 in Geophysical Research Letters

 

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Leroy Durrant

 

Rise of the king: Gondwanan origins and evolution of megaraptoran dinosaurs - Published May 2025 in Royal Society Open Science

 

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Samantha Haller

 

CARD9 knockout ameliorates myocardial dysfunction associated with high fat diet-induced obesity - Published March 2016 in Journal of Molecular and Cellular Cardiology

 

CARD9 as a potential target in cardiovascular disease - Published November 2016 in Drug Design, Development and Therapy

 

Capsase recruitment domain-containing protein 9 (CARD9) knockout reduces regional ischemia/reperfusion injury through an attenuated inflammatory response - Published June 2018 in Public Library of Science (PLOS) ONE

 

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Abigail Hawke

 

The microcephaly protein Abnormal Spindle has an essential role in symmetrically dividing neural precursors to promote brain growth and development - Published April 2026 in Developmental Biology

 

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Sophia Helmkamp

 

Stable polycyclic aromatic carbon (SPAC) formation in wildfire chars and engineered biochars - Published November 2022 in Science of the Total Environment

 

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Theresa Higgins

 

*Behavioral traits vary with intrinsic factors and impact local survival in Song Sparrows (Melospiza melodia) - Published May 2022 in The Wilson Journal of Ornithology

 

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Alexandra Higley

 

The Sloan Digital Sky Survey Quasar Catalog: Sixteenth Data Release - Published August 2020 in The Astrophysical Journal Supplement Series

 

The Completed SDSS-IV extended Baryon Oscillation Spectroscopic Survey: Large-scale structure catalogues for cosmological analysis - Published October 2020 in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society

 

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Caleb Hoopes

 

*Donor–Acceptor Pyridinium Salts for Photo-Induced Electron-Transfer-Driven Modification of Tryptophan in Peptides, Proteins, and Proteomes Using Visible Light - Published April 2022 in Journal of the American Chemical Society

 

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Danielle Jones

 

*Surface observations from Atmospheric Radiation Measurement Sites Constrain the Anthropogenic Contribution to Cloud Droplet Number - Published February 2026 in Geophysical Research Letters

 

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Corinne Komlodi

 

A Six Year, Low-resolution Multibroadband Transit Photometry Study of HD 189733b - Published January 2023 in The Astronomical Journal

 

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Alexander Larsen

 

An In-depth Look at TOI-3884b: A Super-Neptune Transiting an M4 Dwarf with Persistent Starspot Crossings - Published May 2023 in The Astronomical Journal

 

TOI-3984 A b and TOI-5293 A b: Two Temperate Gas Giants Transiting Mid-M Dwarfs in Wide Binary Systems - Published June 2023 in The Astronomical Journal

 

TOI-5344 b: A Saturn-like Planet Orbiting a Super-solar Metallicity M0 Dwarf - Published December 2023 in The Astronomical Journal

 

Searching for GEMS: Characterizing Six Giant Planets around Cool Dwarfs - Published November 2024 in The Astronomical Journal

 

Searching for GEMS: TOI-6383Ab, a giant planet transiting an M3-dwarf star in a binary system - Published November 2024 in The Astronomical Journal

 

*Searching for GEMS: Discovery and Characterization of Two Brown Dwarfs Around M Dwarfs - Published April 2025 in The Astronomical Journal

 

Searching for GEMS: Two Super-Jupiters Around M Dwarfs that May have Formed via Gravitational Instability - Published June 2025 in The Astronomical Journal

 

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Adison Linder

 

A conserved protein tyrosine phosphatase, PTPN-22, functions in diverse developmental processes in C. elegans - Published August 2024 in PLOS Genetics

 

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Michael Lindman

 

The Wind beneath My Wings. I. Spectral Types and Multiplicity of the Central Stars Supporting Stellar Bow Shock Nebulae  - Published December 2020 in The Astrophysical Journal Supplement Series

 

A Six Year, Low-resolution Multibroadband Transit Photometry Study of HD 189733b - Published January 2023 in The Astronomical Journal

 

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Lukas Lindquist

 

*Impacts of climate change on groundwater recharge in Wyoming big sagebrush ecosystems are contingent on elevation - Published May 2019 in Western North American Naturalist

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McKell Lyon

 

A Six Year, Low-resolution Multibroadband Transit Photometry Study of HD 189733b - Published January 2023 in The Astronomical Journal

 

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Adrienne Mackenzie

 

*Prevalence and diversity of haemosporidians in a migratory high-elevation hummingbird in North America - Published January 2022 in Parasitology Research

 

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Miles Milbrath

 

*Evaluating how growth and diet of native freshwater fishes change in response to salinity and pH in a semi-arid landscape - Published September 2025 in Fishes

 

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Tyler Myers

 

Selective Modification of Tryptophan Residues in Peptides and Proteins Using a Biomimetic Electron Transfer Process - Published April 2020 in Journal of the American Chemical Society

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Ryen Nielsen

 

Symbiotic acacia ants drive nesting behavior by birds in an African savanna - Published October 2023 in bioTropica

 

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Brittany Nordberg

 

Variable hybridization outcomes in trout are predicted by historical fish stocking and environmental context - Published July 2019 in Molecular Ecology

 

*Historical data provide important context for understanding declines in cutthroat trout - Published February 2021 in North American Journal of Fisheries Management

 

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Kianna Olson

 

Monitoring AGN with Hbeta Asymmetry. II. Reverberation Mapping of Three Seyfert Galaxies Historically Displaying Hbeta Profiles With Changing Asymmetry: Mrk 79, NGC 3227, and Mrk 841 - Published December 2020 in The Astrophysical Journal

 

Monitoring AGNs with Hbeta Symmetry. III. Long-term Reverberation mapping Results of 15 Palomar-Green Quasars - Published August 2022 in The Astrophysical Journal Supplement Series

 

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Maxwell Packebush

 

*Natural and engineered mediators of desiccation tolerance stabilize Human Blood Clotting Factor VIII in a dry state - Published March 2023 in Scientific Reports

 

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Agnesh Pandey

 

Detecting and Characterizing Mg ii Absorption in DESI Survey Validation Quasar Spectra - Published August 2023 in The Astronomical Journal

 

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Brock Parker

 

TOI-532b: The Habitable-zone Planet Finder confirms a Large Super Neptune in the Neptune Desert orbiting a metal-rich M-dwarf host - Published September 2021 in The Astronomical Journal

 

TOI-1696 and TOI-2136: Constraining the Masses of Two Mini-Neptunes with the Habitable-Zone Planet Finder - Published June 2022 in The Astronomical Journal

 

TOI-3714 b and TOI-3629 b: Two Gas Giants Transiting M Dwarfs Confirmed with the Habitable-zone Planet Finder and NEID - Published July 2022 in The Astronomical Journal

 

TOI-3757 b: A low density gas giant orbiting a solar-metallicity M dwarf - Published September 2022 in The Astronomical Journal

 

TOI-5205b: A short-period Jovian planet trainsiting a Mid-M Dwarf - Published March 2023 in The Astronomical Journal

 

TOI-5375 B: A Very Low Mass Star at the Hydrogen-burning Limit Orbiting an Early M-type Star - Published April 2023 in The Astronomical Journal

 

An In-depth Look at TOI-3884b: A Super-Neptune Transiting an M4 Dwarf with Persistent Starspot Crossings - Published May 2023 in The Astronomical Journal

 

TOI-3984 A b and TOI-5293 A b: Two Temperate Gas Giants Transiting Mid-M Dwarfs in Wide Binary Systems - Published June 2023 in The Astronomical Journal

 

TOI-3785 b: A Low-density Neptune Orbiting an M2-dwarf Star - Published July 2023 in The Astronomical Journal

 

TOI-2015b: A Warm Neptune with Transit Timing Variations Orbiting an Active Mid-type M Dwarf - Published July 2024 in The Astronomical Journal

 

Searching for GEMS: Characterizing Six Giant Planets around Cool Dwarfs - Published November 2024 in The Astronomical Journal

 

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Emily Purifoy

 

*Differential Roles of Diet on Development and Spinal Cord Regeneration in Larval Zebrafish - Published April 2024 in Zebrafish

 

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Hannah Rhymes

A brainstem to circadian system circuit links Tau pathology to sundowning-related disturbances in an Alzheimer's disease mouse model - Published August 2023 in Nature Communications

 

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Tatiana Rice

 

Dysregulated lipolysis and lipophagy in lipid droplets of macrophages from high fat diet-fed obese mice - Published August 2022 in Journal of Cellular and Molecular Medicine

 

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Sarah Rich

 

Alkali Metal Intercalation and Reduction of Layered WO₂Cl₂ - Published December 2020 in Chemical Materials

 

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Thomas Rochais

 

*How similar are the properties of quasars with nearly identical ultraviolet spectra? - Published September 2016 in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society

 

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Rachel Schambow

 

A high salt diet inhibits obesity and delays puberty in the female rat - Published July 2017 in International Journal of Obesity

 

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Marjie Schmitt

 

Cardiac PAD2 expression and myocardial citrullination decline with age in female mice independent of estrogen - Published June 2025 in American Journal of Physiology - Heart and Circulatory Physiology

 

Diabetes-induced right ventricular remodeling precedes left ventricular remodeling and occurs via distinct fatty acid uptake pathway - Published May 2026 in Cardiovascular Diabetology - Endocrinology Reports

 

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Danielle Schurhammer

 

A Comprehensive Search for Stellar Bowshock Nebulae in the Milky Way: A Catalog of 709 Mid-Infrared Selected Candidates - Published December 2016 in The Astrophysical Journal

 

Infrared Photometric Properties of 709 Candidate Stellar Bowshock Nebulae - Published November 2017 in The Astrophysical Journal

 

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Erin Schwalbe

 

Source and seasonality of epizootic mycoplasmosis in free-ranging pronghorn (Antilocapra americana) - Published July 2022 in Journal of Wildlife Diseases

 

Evaluating two sampling methods for Mycoplasma bovis Diagnosis in American Bison (Bison bison) - Published April 2024 in Journal of Wildlife Diseases

 

Mycoplasma bovis Outbreak and Maintenance of Subclinical Infections in An Exposed Cohort of Juvenile American Bison (Bison bison) - Published April 2025 in Journal of Wildlife Diseases

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Zoe Short

 

*Vane traps collected more bee genera and less bycatch of other insects compared to pan traps - Published September 2023 in Prairie Naturalist

 

Symbiotic acacia ants drive nesting behavior by birds in an African savanna - Published October 2023 in bioTropica

 

*Monarchs Reproduced in Eastern Wyoming and Were Not Parasitized by Ophryocystis elektroscirrha - Published February 2024 in Prairie Naturalist

 

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Veronica Spaulding

 

*A self-assembling, biporous, metal-binding covalent organic framework and its application for gas separation - Published April 2021 in Materials Advances

 

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Tera Swaby

 

TOI-3714 b and TOI-3629 b: Two Gas Giants Transiting M Dwarfs Confirmed with the Habitable-zone Planet Finder and NEID - Published July 2022 in The Astronomical Journal

 

TOI-3757 b: A low density gas giant orbiting a solar-metallicity M dwarf - Published September 2022 in The Astronomical Journal

 

TOI-5205b: A short-period Jovian planet trainsiting a Mid-M Dwarf - Published March 2023 in The Astronomical Journal

 

An In-depth Look at TOI-3884b: A Super-Neptune Transiting an M4 Dwarf with Persistent Starspot Crossings - Published May 2023 in The Astronomical Journal

 

TOI-3785 b: A Low-density Neptune Orbiting an M2-dwarf Star - Published July 2023 in The Astronomical Journal

 

The Unusual M-dwarf Warm Jupiter TOI-1899 b: Refinement of Orbital and Planetary Parameters - Published August 2023 in The Astronomical Journal

 

Searching for GEMS: TOI-6383Ab, a giant planet transiting an M3-dwarf star in a binary system - Published November 2024 in The Astronomical Journal

 

Searching for GEMS: TOI-5688Ab, a low-density giant orbiting a high-metallicity early M-dwarf - Published March 2025 in The Astronomical Journal

 

Searching for GEMS: Discovery and Characterization of Two Brown Dwarfs Around M Dwarfs - Published April 2025 in The Astronomical Journal

 

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Kasey Trotter

 

*Crystal structure of cis,fac-{N,N-bis­[(pyridin-2-yl)meth­yl]methyl­amine-κ3 N,N′,N′′}di­chlorido­(dimethyl sulfoxide-κS)ruthenium(II) - Published August 2015 in Acta crystallographica

 

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Nikiphoros Vlastos

 

Benchmark Investigation of SCC-DFTB against Standard and Hybrid DFT to Model Electronic Properties in Two-Dimensional MOFs for Thermoelectric Application - Published May 2024 in Journal of Chemical Theory and Computation

 

Benchmark Investigation of SCC-DFTB Against Standard DFT to Model Phononic Properties in Two-Dimensional MOFs for Thermoelectric Applications - Published November 2024 in Journal of Chemical Theory and Computation

 

Functionalized Graphene via a One-Pot Reaction Enabling Exact Pore Sizes, Modifiable Pore Functionalization, and Precision Doping - Published November 2024 in Journal of the American Chemical Society

 

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Lucas Wall

 

*Acquired CRISPR spacers and rhamnose-glucose polysaccharide defects confer resistance to Streptococcus mutans phage ɸAPCM01 - Published June 2025 in Microbiology

 

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Joshua Walmsley

 

Probing Electrocatalysis at Individual Au Nanorods via Correlated Optical and Electrochemical Measurements - Published October 2018 in Analytical Chemistry

 

*Probing Electrocatalytic CO₂ Reduction at Individual Cu Nanostructures via Optically Targeted Electrochemical Cell Microscopy - Published February 2019 in Journal of Analysis and Testing

 

The Role of Heating in the Electrochemical Response of Plasmonic Nanostructures under Illumination - Published April 2019 in Journal of Physical Chemistry

 

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Isabelle Wasseen

 

iRhom2 deletion protects against diabetic neuropathy by suppressing neuroinflammation - Published January 2026 in The Journal of Pharmacology and Experimental Therapeutics

 

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Ashley Wolf

 

Heading west: ecology of swift foxes in a novel landscape beyond their range - Published June 2025 in Wildlife Biology

 

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Rex Yeigh

 

Remote Operations and Nightly Automation of the Red Buttes Observatory - Published September 2016 in Publications of the Astronomical Society of the Pacific

 

A giant planet undergoing extreme-ultraviolet irradiation by its hot massive-star host - Published June 2017 in Nature

 

The KELT Follow-up Network and Transit False-positive Catalog: Pre-vetted False Positives for TESS - Published November 2018 in The Astronomical Journal