Motivating Millennials: Improving Practices in Recruiting, Retaining, and Motivating Younger Library Staff

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Sara Diane Smith and Professor Quinn Galbraith, HBLL Human Resources The purpose of this project was to explore generational differences in the library workplace through a literature review, through studying results from national workplace surveys, and through analyzing the results of past surveys given to student employees at the Harold B. Lee Library. As part of […]

British Sociopolitical Periodicals Digital Project

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Annalaisa Plessinger and Dr. Maggie Kopp, University Libraries The L. Tom Perry Special Collections department of the library hosts many precious collections from rare books to periodicals that benefit the research and understanding of countless scholars. However, periodicals have not received the same attention as books; books are being uploaded onto the Internet Archive for […]

Chasing Rabbits: A Collection of Personal Essays

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Max Ogles and Dr. Patrick Madden, English Department Background The intent of my project was to write a collection of nonfiction personal essays in the classical essayist tradition. The personal essay tradition began in the 1500s with Michel de Montaigne. Montaigne is known as the “Father of the Essay” because he invented the form and […]

The May Queen: A Historical Novel

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Kimber Albrechtsen and Dr. Leonard Tourney, English The objectives of my project were to identify and implement theoretical aspects of writing historical fiction, and to write the first four chapters of a historical novel. My creative text examined themes of the emergence of communism, the development of modern terrorism, and the complexity of family relationships. […]

In Thanksgiving and Praise: Prayer, Rhetoric, and Congressional Thanksgiving Proclamations

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Samuel Wells and Dr. Christopher Hodson, History With my grant I analyzed how early congressional Thanksgiving proclamations textually moved away from overtly Christian wording while simultaneously retaining a rhetorical Christian foundation. To illustrate my point I chose to analyze said declarations as textual examples of prayer. In order to do so, I first examined Congress’s […]

Quasi-maximum Likelihood Methods in Truncated Models

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Patrick Turley and Dr. James B. McDonald, Department of Economics Data truncation is the source of econometric problems in many economic datasets. Truncation occurs when all observations below or above a certain threshold are systematically removed or are unavailable. For example, campaign contributions below a certain level are not usually publicly available, so any contribution […]

Close Spaces: Original Research on Attachment in Thai Orphans

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Jenessa Halliday and Dr. Charles Nuckolls, Anthropology This report evaluates attachment among twenty orphaned toddlers living in the Viengping Orphanage in Chiang Mai, Thailand. The report measures the attachment of the orphans towards their daily caregivers, using an adapted version of the Waters attachment q-set (AQS). Due to a correlation between orphans and insecure attachment, […]

Stream Turbidity: A Variable to Co-habitation of Fish Predators and Prey?

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Nicholas Davis and Dr. Ryan Jensen, Department of Geography Global bio-diversity is being threatened by many different factors. Most of this is man induced. One of these factors is the introduction of non-native organisms to new locations. One hypothesis that explains why some non-native invasive organisms are so successful is that the native organisms have […]

Word and Image of the ‘Other’: A Rhetorical Analysis of Georg Forster’s “Voyage Round the World” in Comparison to William Hodges’ Paintings Produced During Captain Cook’s 2nd Voyage

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Philip Thomas and Professor Joe Ostraff: Department of Visual Arts I’ll never forget the moment sitting in the large workshop in the basement of Rangi Kipa’s house in Ohope, New Zealand, when he talked about his art and especially the Paraka carvings, a shape based off the prow figure found on traditional Maori Waka (a canoe […]