Child Prisoners: Asylum-Seeking Detainees in the U.S. and the Violation of the Flores Settlement Agreement

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Miriam Sweeney and Carolina Nunez, J. Reuben Clark School of Law After hearing about the American asylum-seeking crisis, it wasn’t enough to know that attorneys around the country were pushing legislation to close family detention centers. I pored over articles about what makes American private corporations feel entitled to imprisoning children. In order to structure […]

Understanding our Early Christian Roots Translating and Publishing a Koine Greek Papyrus

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Zakarias Gram and Faculty Mentor: Lincoln H. Blumell, Religious Education- Ancient Scripture This project was focused on analyzing, transcribing, translating, and publishing an edition of an ancient Greek papyrus housed in Oklahoma City. The experience was both very educating and exciting for me, as I am pursuing a degree in Classics and will continue to […]

An Eye Tracking Study: Composition Teachers’ Assessment of Native and Non-Native

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Rachel Casper and Faculty Mentor: Grant Eckstein, Department of Linguistics & English Language Introduction Applied linguists are interested in the cognitive processes of writing teachers within the subfields of both second language writing and writing assessment. Such cognitive insights as how a teacher reads and scores a piece of non-native English speaker (L2) writing can […]

NCECA Presentation

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Lindsey Jensen and Faculty Mentor: Tara Carpenter, Art Education Tara Carpenter and I traveled to Portland and led a discussion with about 50 people at the National Ceramic Education Association. We researched the trend of unskilled ceramic artwork that has been happening in the art world lately. Conceptual work that is done by someone who […]

HiPS Turbulent Flow Modeling for High Schmidt Number Flow A Novel Approach to an Old Problem

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Joshua Frei and Dr. David Lignell, Chemical Engineering Department The whorls and vortices of smoke plumes, churning waterfalls, and crashing waves have a captivating sense of mystery about them. This chaotic, seemingly random fluid motion is known as turbulent flow, and it is ubiquitous both in day-to-day life and in engineering problems. Despite the many […]

An Ultra-Low Power Analog-To-Digital Converter for Neural Signal Recording: Comparator Research

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Alexander Petrie and Dr. Shiuh-hua Wood Chiang, Electrical and Computer Ingineering Department Introduction Brain diseases, such as depression and strokes, affect an ever-increasing number of the human population. Much scientific research has been devoted to finding ways towards alleviating the negative symptoms of these diseases. However, much more research must be conducted before these maladies […]

Hand-powered Washing Machine for the Developing World

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Chris Bailey, Sean Larson, Megan Peffer, Sarah Ann Skousen, Judith Westwood, and Dr. Randy Lewis, Chemical Engineering Department Introduction Many countries still hand wash all their clothing. The community of the Uros Islands in Peru is no exception. Our goal was to develop a hand powered washing machine that will be useful to and improve […]

Equilibration of Chloride Ions in Concrete Bridge Decks after Rehabilitation Using Hydro-Demolition and Concrete Overlay

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Elizabeth Newbill and Dr. Spencer Guthrie, Civil and Environmental Engineering Department In cold regions like northern Utah, harsh winters can lead to decreases in the service life of concrete bridge decks. Chloride-based deicing salts, which are commonly used to remove snow and ice from the surface of concrete bridge decks during winter months, are of […]

Measuring Up: Engineering Stronger and Faster Cardiomyocytes

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Kaitlyn McEntire and Dr. Alonzo Cook, Chemical Engineering Department Introduction If a heartbeat connotes life, then cardiomyocytes are the life givers. When heart disease results in cardiomyocyte death, however, these life-giving, beating cells are unable to reproduce, and portions of the heart irreversibly die. Despite modern technology and developments in heart disease treatment and prevention, […]

Static and Dynamic Obstacle Avoidance for Small UAV

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Michael Farrell and Dr. Tim McLain, Mechanical Engineering Department Introduction Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAV) are becoming increasingly prevalent in society today. One of the most important problems for such vehicles is obstacle avoidance. Common applications for small UAV require them to navigate through an environment containing many obstacles, both static and dynamic. As part of […]