Jessica Biggs and Dr. Christopher Karpowitz, Department of Political Science The purpose of this project was to study whether exposing survey participants to information about immigration change will affect participants with high levels of authoritarianism. This project focused on whether individuals with high levels of authoritarianism will have higher levels of cognitive dissonance when presented […]
Welfare to Votes: Does TANF Depress Political Participation?
Taylor (Bambas) Rosecrans and Dr. Christopher Karpowitz, Department of Political Science The purpose of my study is to find a link between government welfare programs and the political participation of recipients. This kind of study is called a policy feedback analysis. It examines a public policy to see what effect it had on human behavior. […]
Gender and the Hindsight Bias: An Economic Experiment
Jacqueline Andros and Dr. Joseph Price, Department of Economics Hindsight bias, or the psychological tendency to think that we “knew it all along,” has been studied for over fifty years but no study has yet thoroughly documented the specific role that gender plays in an individual’s susceptibility to this effect. This is somewhat surprising, since […]
The Relationship Between Urban Leaf Area and Summertime Household Energy Usage in Provo
Jacob Adams and Dr. Ryan Jensen, Department of Geography The purpose of our study is to investigate the relationship between urban leaf area, estimated through remote sensing, and household energy usage in the city of Provo, Utah. Anecdotal evidence indicates that trees provide cooling in the summer by shading homes, which reduces the need for […]
An Analysis of Music Specialist Principles and Practices in Hungarian Music Education
Christy Ripa and Professor Jerry Jaccard, Department of Elementary Music Education Contrary to what I expected when our team arrived in Budapest, Hungary, I found that it was not much different from our American cities. While they are speaking a different language and have different cultural expectations and norms, they wear modern clothes and live modern […]
Hungary’s Undeniable Success in Music Education: An Analysis of Public and Private Teaching Principles and Practices in Hungarian Music Education
Bethany Richards and Professor Jerry Jaccard, Department of Elementary Music Education The purpose of my trip to Hungary was to observe and analyze the Hungarian music education system, realize its strengths, and adapt what I learned into my teaching here in America. My specific research assignment was to investigate the relationship between private and public music […]
Natural Reverberation and The Phantom of the Opera
Douglas Olsen and Professor Troy Streeter, Department of Theatre and Media Arts They say the neon lights are bright on Broadway, but potentially more incredible is the sound achieved by the audio engineers of the famous theatre district. These artists apply the world’s best audio technologies to create the sound of the American Musical. One of […]
Mariachi-Dachi
Kevin Merriman and Professor Ryan Woodward, Department of Visual Arts Why I chose to make a comic book Besides the fact that this is something I’ve fantasized doing since I was a kid, this was also the perfect project for me to help propel my career forward as an artist. As a student, it’s easy […]
The Childrens’ Literacy Project: “Restoring the Love of Reading”
Melissa Manwill and Professor Robert Barrett, Department of Visual Arts This project began as a desire to try my hand at making a graphic novel. I’d never done it before. Neither had my classmates. We had also never made a collaborative art project in the way that the animation program makes a film each year. Those […]
Bridging the Classical Literature and Youth
Soljee Lee and Professor Robert Barrett, Department of Visual Arts The purpose of this project was to create a medium that will bridge between the youth and the classical literature in order to address increasing epidemic of child illiteracy in this visual dominant world. The proposed solution was to introduce the classics to youth in […]
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