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Show GREETINGS FROM THE DIRECTOR Welcome to the fifth edition of the University of Utah's Undergraduate Research Abstracts Journal. I wish to congratulate the students whose abstracts appear in this Journal, a truly remarkable group of students who have conducted research and creative artistic work under faculty supervision in a wide range of disciplines. Many of these students presented their scholarly work at our Second Annual Undergraduate Research Symposium on April 7, 2005. This issue of the Abstracts recognizes many students who received assistant-ships from the Undergraduate Research Opportunities Program (UROP). UROP's primary purpose is to provide undergraduates with opportunities to collaborate directly with a faculty mentor in research or creative artistic activities. To find out how to become involved in UROP please visit our web site at: http://www.ugs.utah. edu/urop/index.htm I would also like to commend the Honors program students whose abstracts appear in this issue of the Journal. I am most grateful to the faculty who men-tored the students whose work is published in this journal. Thanks to Gretchen Wilson, Coordinator, Honors Program, for recruiting Honors' student abstracts. We are pleased to publish 26 abstracts representing student posters presented during January 2005 at the Utah State Capitol Rotunda in conjunction with the "Research Posters on the Hill" event. We are grateful to Robert McDermott, Center for High Performance Computing, who was instrumental in producing these posters and in organizing the session at the Rotunda. Ronald Pugmire, Associate Vice President for Research and JoAnn Murray, his Administrative Assistant, ably assisted in recruiting and preparing students for Research Posters on the Hill, while coordination and publicity were provided by Kay Clark and Nancy Lyon from the Office of the Vice President for University Relations. I would also like to express my appreciation to David Pershing, Senior Vice President for Academic Affairs and Ray Gesteland, Vice President for Research, for their financial support of the UROP Program. Their generous support has helped many students excel in research and creative artistic work. Finally, I am most grateful to Jill Boeder, UROP Administrative Program Coordinator, for her steadfast assistance in preparing this publication, and to John Francis, Associate Vice President for Academic Affairs, for his support and encouragement. Slava Lubomudrov Director, UROP |
