Charlotte Williams and Dr. Julie Hartley-Moore, Department of Anthropology, Brigham Young University In Europe, notions about national identity are being called into question as historical state-sponsored conceptions encounter new forces present in current affairs—including, relative economic prosperity, mass immigration, conflicting ideas about religion, and desired assimilation into a collective European identity. Ireland provides a case […]
Body Weight and Self-control in Pigeons
Daniel Watkins and Dr. Harold Miller, Psychology Recent approaches have interpreted self-control in terms of temporal factors. Most recent models posit that self-control amounts to a choice between a smaller reward that is available sooner and a larger reward that is available later. The model is applicable to both humans and nonhumans. Additionally, the model […]
The Gendering of Choice of Majors What do College Students Perceive Influences Them?
Miriam Walther and Dr. Mikaela Dufur, Sociology While 13.8% of workers in architecture and engineering occupations are women, 77.6% of personal care and service workers are female (Bureau of Labor and Statistics 2005). What is the cause of this discrepancy? While these occupations are so heavily gendered, 50.3% of workers in management, professional, and related […]
Cocaine’s Effects on Inhibitory GABA Neurons in the Midbrain
Seth Taylor and Dr. Scott Steffensen, Psychology Cocaine abuse is a serious societal problem. The 2006 Monitoring the Future survey of students showed that 2.5% of high school seniors had used cocaine in the past month, 5.7% in the last year, and 8.5% at least once in their lifetime. According to the 2005 National Survey […]
Assessing Effects of Rural Marriage Markets
Sarah Savage and Dr. Vaughn Call, Sociology Rural communities are unique in that they have a limited number of eligible singles or “marriage pool” which restricts the choice of marriage partners. There is great importance in the number of potential partners in a marriage market because this number affects persons in the transition to their […]
Development of a Measure for Child Psychotherapy Process and Outcome Research
Tyler Sasser and Dr. Jared Warren, Assistant Professor Department of Psychology The latest research has shown that 1 in 5 children meet criteria for a mental disorder and 1 in 10 children experience significant impairment in the family, school, and community due to a mental disorder (Huang et al., 2005). Unfortunately, only about one quarter […]
Mutant Bacterium Photorhabdus Luminescens’ Effect on Nematode’s Ability to Enter Endotokia Matricida
Jared Nielsen and Dr. Byron Adams, Microbiology and Molecular Biology Nematodes (roundworms), like all organisms, must develop, survive, and reproduce. For entomopathogenic nematodes (insect pathogens) such as H. bacteriophora, this is only possible when the worm can find an adequate food source (host insects). As the nematode scours the surrounding soil and finds a potential […]
The Origin and Development of the Pueblo Kachina Cult
Adrien Mooney and Dr. Glenna Nielsen-Grimm, Anthropology Background The Pueblo people of the Southwestern United States have a unique set of beliefs centered on the practice of ceremonies dedicated to kachinas, intermediaries between the Pueblo people and their deities. The word kachina literally means “life-bringer,” and the kachina ceremonies are integral for the growth of […]
Journeys of Navajo Social Workers
Farina King My name is Farina King. During the summer of 2008, I was a student intern for the Diné Policy Institute (DPI), located in Tsaile, Arizona. I was an undergraduate senior, studying History and French with minors in Native American Studies and African Studies. I had to recite those same lines of personal information […]
A Time for Museums: A Study of Supporters at the Museum of Peoples and Cultures
Heidi Kartchner and Dr. Julie Hartley, Anthropology The Study During the months of May and June 2008 I conducted a research study at BYU’s Museum of Peoples and Cultures (MPC) in Provo, Utah. My intent was to research the MPC’s supporters, looking specifically at their leisure habits and patterns of cultural consumption and how that […]
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