Intergenerational daCi Utah Day of Dance: “So…WE think YOU can dance!!!”

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Heather Gemperline and Professor Marilyn Berrett, Contemporary Dance Today’s educational climate emphasizes test scores, often resulting in children sitting still in their seats. However, research shows that children are kinesthetic learners and that being involved in dance can improve the academic scores that society values so much. Anne Green Gilbert, an internationally renowned researcher and dance […]

Preservation of Culture: Documentary of Ethnic Contrast in Ecuador

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Brandon Farmer, Jonathan Frioux and Dr. Mark Magleby, Art History Cultural diversity and its preservation are greatly influenced by today’s ever-changing world. With advances in technology, content and information from the more rapidly changing modern world can reach nearly any culture on the globe. Each and every community experiences changes over time, but the idea […]

Overcoming Limited Dynamic Range in Digital Recording Devices

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Jacob Fenn and Professor Thomas Russell, Media Arts The current age brings with it a wealth of adaptations and evolutions in film-making, most stemming from new digital methods which slowly supplant the time-honored celluloid. I chose to focus in my research at the changing world of digital imaging acquisition and one of its primary shortcomings. […]

The Organs of Historic LDS Tabernacles

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Mark Campbell and Dr. Douglas Bush, School of Music In colonizing the intermountain west, many early Latter-day Saints would construct houses of worship at the center of their communities called “tabernacles.” The last of these structures was built in the 1950s. Many tabernacles still exist and stand as a beautiful architectural legacy of LDS pioneers. […]

Creating a Culturally Sensitive Art Educator in the Ural Mountains

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Julia Baker and Professor Sharon Gray, Art Education As stated in my proposal, the overarching goal of this research is to assess how investing time, energy, and talents in improving the physical attributes of a special needs childcare institution in Russia will help art education student teachers become more well rounded, and sensitive educators and artists. […]

Becoming True Guitar Heroes

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Justin Aiken and Professor Lawrence Green Background Guitar Hero and Rock Band are two of the most successful video game franchises of all time – Guitar Hero alone has topped $2 billion in the first quarter of last year. In these games, a player mashes plastic buttons on a guitar shaped controller in time to notes […]

Structure Preserving Model Reduction in LTI Networks with Applications to Robust Network Reconstruction

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Enoch Yeung and Dr. Sean Warnick, Computer Science The purpose of this project was to investigate systematic methods for finding simplified representations that accurately model the structure and input-output dynamics of high dimensional nonlinear time-invariant systems near equilibrium points. As background, the dynamics of nonlinear time-invariant systems near their equilibrium points can be approximated using […]