Multiculturalism and Dance Fusion

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Aurora Goncalves and Professor Catherine Black, Dance Department My project, entitled, “Multiculturalism and Dance Fusion” was a choreographic work of art that included different dance genres with a variety of rhythms to portray the culture of Brazil through the language of movement. The purpose of my project was to build bridges between Brazil and BYU. I […]

A Statistical Report of BYU Premedical Students from 2002-2007

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Daniel Chan and Professor David Kaiser, Preprofessional Advisement Center In 2006 the average number of BYU medical school applications for any one applicant was 17. With the chance of matriculation per application only 3.8%, yet the cost of each application running as high as $700 each, it is important for BYU premedical students to make informed […]

What Happens to Children Who are Neglected?: A Four-country Study Assessing the Relation between Inattention to Children in Poverty and their Well-being

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William Brubaker and Dr. Kirk Dearden, Health Science Children experience extreme poverty differently than adults. Child poverty cannot only be categorized in terms of family income since it is experienced as both material and developmental deprivation. In order to fully assess the effects of childhood poverty, children’s experiences based on set outcomes must be taken […]

A Biomechanical Evaluation of a Novel Mobile Walking Device

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Thomas D. Bateman and Dr. Matthew K. Seeley, Exercise Sciences Many individuals rely on crutches to help them walk. Those relying on traditional crutches often suffer from upper-extremity pathologies as well as psychological detriments.1 Additionally, those using crutches typically suffer from increased energy expenditures during locomotion.2 The Millennial Crutch (Figure 1) is a proposed alternative […]

Peer Modern: A Contemporary, Movement-Based Abstraction of Henrik Ibsen’s Poetic-Drama/Adventure Epic Peer Gynt

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Anthony Aiu and Professor Catherine Black, Modern Dance As stated by the National Dance Association, dance is basic education that intensifies and clarifies the human experience. It reinforces all learning relating to and enhancing other academic areas, promotes self and social awareness, and also influences one’s understanding of their own culture and the culture of other […]

Book and Paper Conservation

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Annette Steele and Professor Mark B. Pollei, Conservation Lab, Harold B. Lee Library The two week course at the American Academy of Bookbinding at Telluride, Colorado was extremely enlightening and crucial to my study of the conservation of pre-nineteenth century books and papers. Armed with research and four books in need of treatment I attended […]

The Early Pioneers of the Church in Southern Brazil

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Delaine C. Smith and Dr. Mark Groberg, Latin American Studies Librarian Brazil is a much talked about location for The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints because of the growing amount of convert baptisms that take place there in recent years. Has the growth of the church in southern Brazil always been so dramatic? […]

Nourish Tomorrow’s Generations

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Karla Passey de Bustamante and Dr. Mark Grover, Humanities “Society without basic family life is without foundation and will disintegrate into nothingness. Our political institutions…cannot rescue us if our basic institution, the family, is not intact. ” The importance of the family as a basic societal unit has been addressed from various points of view […]

Easternizing American Bookmaking A Study of Chinese Bookbinding and Papermaking

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Amy Noorlander and Professor Pamela Barrios, HBLL Special Collections The Chinese hold their craftspersons in high esteem, likewise they treated me as a student craftsperson with respect and honor. My guide in downtown Beijing, near Heping Gate, Li Meiqi took me to the private offices of conservationists at work restoring centuries old books. Although we did […]

The Hugh Nibley Papers and Recordings

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David Lurth and Professor Gary Gillum, Harold B. Lee Library The direction of the Nibley Papers and Recordings project changed slightly from what was originally proposed last fall due to unanticipated developments. Shortly after the project was funded, the room in the Harold B. Lee Library (HBLL) where the boxes of Nibley papers were stored and […]