Improving the Bureaucracy: What Leads Government Officials to Use Evidence-Based Reports?

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Nick Moffit and Darren Hawkins, Political Science Introduction Many academics and government officials promote the use of scientifically rigorous policy evaluations, yet studies show that most practitioners seldom employ such evaluations, despite a growing body of policy-relevant academic literature. This represents a fundamental flaw of delegation, as citizens prefer the most efficient provision of public […]

German Immigrants in Church Records in the State of Kentucky

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Deborah Mocke and Roger P. Minert, PhD, History Introduction The purpose of this project was to assist in the furthering of German genealogical research, by making German Protestant church records in America more accessible to people with German ancestry. In the 2000 U.S. Census, nearly one in six people reported their ancestry as German. “42.8 […]

Regulation of Trophoblast Invasion by Pyruvate Kinase Isozyme M2 (PKM2): Preemptive to PKM2 Activation Decreases IUGR Symptoms in Mice exposed to Second-Hand Smoke

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Juan Mejia and Juan Arroyo, PhD, Physiology and Developmental Biology Introduction The placenta is an organ composed of highly vascular tissue. It plays an essential role in healthy fetal development as a mediator of gases and nutrients between the mother and fetus. Many complications can occur in this stage of fetal development, such as intrauterine […]

Low-Cost Applications of Composite Pressure Vessels in Solid Rocket Motor Design

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Riley Meik and Andy George, School of Technology For years, the delivery of payloads into space was unavailable to universities and small spacecraft companies. With growth in the space industry and advancements in rocket technology, space payload deployment became an option but was still cost-prohibitive for most. Sounding rockets, small rockets designed for low-cost, flexible […]

“The Evolution we believe in … is not Darwin’s”: Evolution, Science, and Latter-day Saint Education, 1875-1911

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Ian McLaughlin and Dr. Rachel Cope, Church History & Doctrine Introduction My project was designed to answer one question and ended up answering several others. The original question was: Why has so little been written on Latter-day Saint responses to evolution prior to 1909? Darwin’s Origin of Species was published way back in 1859, a […]

NF κB as a Mediator in Iron Regulation

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Erik D Marchant and Chad Hancock, Nutrition, Dietetics & Food Science Introduction Doxorubicin (DOX) is a commonly used chemotherapy drug. Although it is very effective in treating many different types of cancer, it has also been shown to induce oxidative stress in multiple tissues, partially due to severe iron-dysregulation. The effects of DOX have mostly […]

Microbes and Metals: Purifying the Water of Lake Titicaca

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Sara Ludlow, Dr. Gregory T. Carling, Department of Geological Sciences Pollution of Lake Titicaca has become a major threat to the health and lifestyle of the Uru people who use the lake water for their daily needs. Cities along the coast dump untreated sewage directly into the lake introducing dangerous microbial levels of Escherichia coli. Runoff […]