Alex Jensen and Dr. Jason S. Carroll, School of Family Life In the spring and summer of 2007 the Flourishing Families Project collected data from 500 families in the Seattle area. Each family was given extensive questionnaires and video taped discussing various family topics. Out of these 500 families data was collected on roughly 350 […]
Tracking Off-site Recreational Therapy Activities
Maya Inoue and Dr. Gary Burlingame, Psychology At the beginning of this research experience, my research group and I sought to find evidence that off-site recreational therapy was effective in increasing a patient’s perceived freedom and self-efficacy. This research idea came in response to the diminishing financial support at the Utah State Mental Hospital (USM) […]
Final ORCA Report
Amy Hurt I conducted my field study in the city of New Orleans for two months, 24 April -25 June 2008. During this time I lived in a small house in Mid-City, an apartment in Jefferson Parish, a hotel room on Decatur Street in the French Quarter, and a rent-by-the-day room just outside of the […]
Recreating the Past Through the Use of Modern Technology
Jennifer Harris and Dr. Cynthia Finlayson, Anthropology Last year I set out on an adventure to research an ancient civilization, to gather photographic and textual research halfway across the globe. I traveled to Greece in order to research the ancient Minoans, a very advanced and interesting people who had a great influence on Greek culture. […]
Home Cookin’: The Mechanisms that Affect Child Obesity
Collin Flake and Dr. Renata Forste, Sociology After careful consideration and several discussions with my faculty advisor about potential projects, I set out to tackle the problem of child obesity. I began my project by extensively reviewing previous literature on the issue. Child obesity is rapidly becoming one of the most prevalent health concerns in […]
Actin Reorganization Events in Zyxin Mutant Cells
Stephen Filios and Dr. Marc Hansen, Physiology and Developmental Biology Cell migration is an important part of understanding how cancer affects the body. Benign tumors are non-migratory, and can be removed from a patient surgically. Once cancer cells start to migrate, or metastasize, the cancer is considered malignant. As a result, cancer spreads to other […]
Governance and Growth: Technology Absorption and Economic Development
Johnathan Christensen and Dr. Daniel L. Nielson, Political Science The original purpose of my research project was to apply a business theory to international trade to explain why the exports of the Asian Tigers were so successful. However, as I began writing on this topic during my capstone seminar, I learned of a striking empirical […]
Gifts in the Burgundian Court Analyzing Financial Records from the Fifteenth Century
Liel Boyce and Dr. Jesse Hurlbut, Department of French and Italian (HUM) The Duke of Burgundy was a major broker of art, culture, civilization and power in Western Europe in the fifteenth century. The administration of his wealth and all his expenditures was centralized in a single office called the “Chambre des Comptes.” These annual […]
Kachinas of the Southwest: Dances, Dolls, and Rain Elucidating the Kachina Cult
Jaime Bingham and Dr. Paul R. Stavast, Anthropology This past semester (Winter 2008), the Museum of Peoples and Cultures (MPC) researched and curated an exhibition on the Kachina Cult of the Pueblo and Hopi cultures. The Kachina Cult is centered around belief in a set of spiritual beings that bring blessings, gifts, and rain. Kachina […]
Memory-texts and the Interdiscursive Construction of Identity among the Khmer Diaspora
Brandon Bales and Dr. Janis Nuckolls, Linguistics Department and Dr. Charles Nuckolls, Anthropology Department Abstract Displaced people present a problem for ethnographic research in that they generally lack stable socio-cultural contexts on which researchers rely for making empirical observations. This study shows how people produce memory-texts as a way of recontextualizing themselves in new or […]
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