Sending Children Away: A Case Study of Boarding Schools in Uganda

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Kindra Clemence and Dr. Mikaela Dufur, Sociology Boarding schools are more popular in Africa than in the United States or Europe. In some countries, including Uganda, more than half of all students that finish secondary school spend at least some time in a boarding school. However, there has been almost no academic inquiry into the […]

Waging the Moral Equivalent of War: The Political Conditions for Alternative Fuel Reform in the United States and Brazil

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Logan Richards Clark and Dr. Kirk Hawkins, Political Science Department Energy often plays a central role in both domestic and international conflict. Many scholars, activists and policymakers agree that the environmental, economic, and political costs of the United States’ self-proclaimed “addiction” to oil for its use as transportation fuel, among other functions, are unsustainable, even […]

Saying One Thing, Doing Another: Is Discrepant Enforcement of Laws Protecting Women and Girls Related to Discrepant Enactment of International Law by Nation-State?

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Carl Brinton and Dr. Valerie Hudson, Political Science In short, the project was a great success. The hypotheses tested all came out with greater statistical significance than we had even hoped for. The implications of our findings have a deep potential impact, and beyond merely presenting the findings at the annual meetings of the American […]

Using The Federalist to Better Understand the Constitution: Does Publius’s “Split Personality” Pose a Problem?

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Chris Bates and Dr. Brent Gilchrist, Political Science Considered by many to be the seminal work in American political theory, The Federalist has long stood as one of the most important commentaries on the American Constitution and constitutional system. Despite the work’s near canonical status, however, a number of authors have questioned its value as […]

Bringing the Cold War to Life in the High School History Classroom

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Aaron Woodrow Andersen and Dr. Andrew Johns, History My project addresses some pressing needs in public school education. There currently seems to be somewhat of a “gloom and doom” attitude about public schools in the United States. The public school system has come under fire in recent years for its perceived failure to adequately educate […]

Concert Studies Companion

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Benjamin Taylor and Dr. David Brown, School of Music The primary goal of this project was to compose a companion duet for eight of the sixteen etudes in Concert Studies for Trumpet, providing a pedagogical tool for use in the trumpet studio at BYU. The remaining eight etudes are being considered for a similar project […]

Hiva Usu: Sacred Choral Music of Tonga

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Robert Swenson and Dr. Paul Broomhead, Music Education Protestant missionaries from England first set foot in Tonga in the early 19th century. Along with a radically new theology, they brought with them a musical style rooted in Western European tradition. Tongans whole-heartedly embraced Christianity and eagerly integrated elements of European culture into their own – […]

A Crisis in Loyalty: Reconciling Public and Private Loyalties in Public Relations

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Megan Stoker and Dr. Kevin Stoker, Communications For my ORCA project I was attempting to determine how conflicts of loyalty were addressed in modern public relations practices. From previous research I had determined that there were no clear cut guidelines for public relations practitioners to use when evaluating and deciding between two conflicting loyalties. This […]

Art Education Curriculum Improvement

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Erin Knutson and Professor Donna Kay Beattie, Art Education While in London, I visited Aimee Mills at the Ellen Wilkinson School for Girls. Aimee is the area head and after observing her classroom, she allowed me to observe Paul Allison’s classroom. This interested me as Paul also had a student teacher. I was able then to […]