About UMURJ

University of Michigan Undergraduate Research Journal is a student-run research journal with a mission to build connections between undergraduate students, graduate students, and the public, as well as among the different academic disciplines, through the publication of non-technical articles in all fields of research.

Volume 17 • 2024

Article


Letter from the Editors

Amy Liu, Evelyn Faust and Kyle Rodrigues

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Mission Statement

UMURJ Editors

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Acknowledgements

UMURJ Editors

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About the Staff

UMURJ Editors

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Humanities


Deconstructing Wahhābism

Bilal Irfan

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Social Sciences


The Roots and Clinical Effects of Racial Bias in Medicine

Kayla Egan

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Extensive Drug-Resistant Typhoid Fever Prevention and Management in Pakistan: A Challenge to Public Health

Bilal Irfan, Ihsaan Yasin and Denise Kirschner

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Physics and Math


Evaluation of CDM and RBM Methods to Estimate Small Q-matrices

Raphael Jeong-Hin Chin

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Life Sciences


Multimodal Imaging Evaluation of Rabbit Models

Ashley Brown, Van Phuc Nguyen, Iyabode Ajayi and Yannis M. Paulus

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An analysis of SPEEK as a suitable alternative for Nafion in a proton electrolyte membrane in PEM fuel cells

Ihsaan Yasin and Bilal Irfan

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Unlocking the Power of Molecular Cloning: Revolutionizing Medical Microbiology Procedures

Neelabh Datta

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Checking the Status: The Evolutionary Explanations and Drug Resistance Prevalence to Dolutegravir for HIV Treatment (A Review)

Evan Hall

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A study on the effect of Zamzam water on the germination and growth of Jasminum sambac

Bilal Irfan and Ihsaan Yasin

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Association Between Coexisting Hypertension, Dyslipidemia, and Elevated C-Reactive Protein with Cardiovascular Disease in the Health and Retirement Study

Thomas Karadimas and Helen C.S. Meier

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Fitness Costs of Early Life Adversity in Primates

Irene Wang

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