A Novel Approach to a Big Simulation Problem: Creating Efficient Dry Granular Material Simulations with Accurate Visual Detail and Behavior

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PI: Seth Holladay We received a MEG grant for researching the simulation of granular materials for computer graphics and animation. Materials such as sand and snow simulation is very expensive but necessary for productions, as well as hard to control the look, so I have been mentoring undergraduate and graduate students researching how to make […]

The Critically Annotated Collected Works of Elisa von der Recke and Women’s Articles in Vienna’s “Die neue freie Presse:” A Digital Companion to Red Vienna, White Socialism and the Blues: Ann Tizia Leitich’s America

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PI: Michelle James Co-PI: Rob McFarland Without funding there would be no Sophie project, which is why the first item in this report on the Sophie activities during 2015 must be an expression of our gratitude to both the ORCA office and to the College of Humanities, on behalf of the faculty members involved, and […]

The Essay Genome Project

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PI: Patrick Madden First of all, and most importantly, I want to thank everyone at ORCA and in my college and department who approved and funded this project. The financial support of the Mentored Environment Grant made possible a lot of interesting and far-reaching research for me and my students. I deeply appreciate the generosity. […]

Dorothy Wordsworth’s Travel Writings: A Digital Critical Edition

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PI: Nicholas Mason Thanks to the MEG award we received in 2014-15, my colleague Paul Westover and I have been able to mentor six outstanding BYU students in archival research and scholarly editing and have made significant progress toward the publication of a major new critical edition of the works of the nineteenth-century poet and […]

Victorian Short Fiction Project

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Leslee Thorne-Murphy Evaluation of Academic Objectives Our project was to prepare a digital collection of short stories, The Victorian Short Fiction Project (VSFP), for a scholarly review process. The VSFP is a digital anthology of Victorian-era short stories compiled and edited by students in undergraduate Victorian literature classes here at BYU. Leslee Thorne-Murphy designed the […]

Hit the road: A mentored experience for journalists covering BYU away games

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Kristoffer D. Boyle, Ph. D Evaluation of how well the academic objectives of the proposal were met The aim of this project was to provide student journalists with real-world experiences in covering BYU sports teams on the road. We felt like we accomplished this aim as experienced faculty and staff worked side by side with […]

Evaluation of how well the academic objectives of the proposal were met

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Edward L. Carter Evaluation of how well the academic objectives of the proposal were met Our purpose was to enable journalism students to report on the activities of BYU students, faculty and staff, specifically as it relates to poverty alleviation efforts. We feel like this purpose was accomplished. We learned much about BYU’s national and […]