Early Orientalist Sentiments in Dutch Baroque Still Life Paintings: A Study of Harmen Steenwyck

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Maika Bahr and Professor Martha Peacock, Art History (Comparative Arts and Letters) Introduction : The relationship between the Dutch Republic and Japan during the seventeenth century provoked early Orientalist feelings that were manifested in still-life paintings. Harmen Steenwyck’s Still Life: An Allegory of the Vanitas of Human Life from 1640, depicts an intricate, Japanese sword […]

Building and Improving a Low Cost Holographic Video Monitor

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Parker Awerkamp and Daniel Smalley, Electrical Engineering Introduction Since the development of the television, the world has been seeking to improve the realistic qualities of video. However, the biggest shortcoming of video is yet to be fully resolved: how to recreate a three-dimensional (3-D) image electronically. While some techniques have been developed in an attempt […]

Cell Free Single Stranded DNA Concentration in CSF as biomarker to diagnose Alzheimer’s Disease

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Taylor Avei and Dr. John Kauwe, Biology Introduction: The neuropathology of Alzheimer’s Disease (AD) is well-known as a degradation of neural connections in the brain caused by multiple deposits of Amyloid-beta peptide plaques as well as neurofibrillary tangles of tau proteins [1]. Because of this and successful research, both Amyloid-beta 42 and tau protein levels […]

Changing the Culture of Public Transportation at BYU

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Samantha Aramburu and Jamin Rowan, Department of English Introduction Public transportation is an entity that is fast-growing in the state of Utah. While the Utah population is generally dependent on their cars, there are growing amounts of people that rely on public transportation to get where they need to go. There are several different transit systems […]

Archaeometry for the Ancestors: Stable Isotope Analysis of Skeletal Remains from Huarochirí, Perú

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Ridge Anderson, Zachary Chase, PhD, Anthropology Introduction The Huarochirí region of the central coast of Peru has been of utmost importance to Andean  anthropologists since the late 1930s discovery of the Huarochirí Manuscript. The manuscript is the only historical document we have that is written in an indigenous Andean language. Consequently, it has been one of […]

Iron Dysregulation induced by Oxidative Stress is Prevented by Curcumin in C2C12 Skeletal Muscle Cells

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Jacob Anderson, Dr. Chad Hancock; Nutrition, Dietetics, and Food Science Introduction Recent studies indicate a correlation between iron dysregulation and insulin sensitivity, suggesting that iron dysregulation may play a role in the development of type 2 diabetes mellitus [1]. However, the connection between iron regulation and insulin sensitivity is not fully understood. Iron is normally tightly regulated, and […]

The Effect of Deep Tissue Heating On Skeletal Muscle PGC1 a Protein Expression During Muscle Atrophy

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Kaitlin Abbott, Dr. Allen Parcell, Exercise Sciences Introduction Through this project, we aimed to determine if repeated heat stress is a viable treatment to reduce or slow muscle atrophy in human muscle subjected to disuse. Specifically, I investigated how repeated heat stress affects the expression of PGC1-a, a gene that is an upstream regulator of mitochondrial […]

Analysis of IsoTruss Joints

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Robert Thompson and Dr. DAvid Jensen, Civil and Environmental Engineering Department The purpose of this project was to identify how different winding patterns of composite tow affects the strength of interwoven joints, like those that exist in IsoTruss and other composite lattice structures. Three different winding configurations were analyzed to compare and determine how the […]

RAPID Biosensor Screening Blood and Urine

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Rebecca Whitney Bills and Dr. Bradley Bundy, Chemical Engineering Department Introduction: Endocrine Disrupting Chemicals (EDCs) have led to worldwide health problems, including cancers, developmental disorders, and reproductive disorders. A recent study estimates that annual health and economic costs caused by EDCs in the European Union is $200 Billion and that the costs are even greater […]