Wendy Birmingham and Adam Howard with Dr. Julianne Holt-Lunstad, Psychology Department Epidemiological research indicates that both the quality and quantity of social relationships significantly protects individuals from various causes of morbidity and mortality. For most adults, marriage and children play a central role in their social lives. Social relationships have been reliably associated with important […]
A Study of the Evolution of the Angel of Death in Jewish Literature
Carolyn Plocher and Dr. Jared Ludlow, Religious Education My original proposal was entitled “Ancient Near Eastern Perspectives on the Process of Death in the Hellenistic Period.” I initially chose this topic because the human fascination with death extends far back into history; in fact, it alone has been the reason for the founding of many […]
Martin Harris: “A Fals Charge of Standen”
Robert D. Palmer III and Dr. Steven C. Harper, Church History Though unjustly remembered by some mainly as the man who lost the first 116 pages of the Book of Mormon, Martin Harris was an instrumental character in helping to bring about the Book of Mormon and the beginning of the LDS Church. Not only […]
Orality, Social Memory, and the Apocryphal Acts
David M. Nielsen and Dr. Kristian Heal, Director, Center for the Study and Preservation of Ancient Religious Texts The corpus of texts that constitute the New Testament apocrypha is large, to make a gross understatement. It is a vast collection that spans the continents, languages, and centuries of the early Church and rightly so would […]
Santo Toribio: Religion, Politics, and Society
Thomas Evans and Dr. Alonzo Gaskill, Church History and Doctrine Santo Toribio is a saint who was canonized by the Roman Catholic Church, but whose cult (used here in the very general meaning as “following”) includes many beliefs and practices that would categorize him as a “folk saint”, or unofficial saint. He died as a […]
The Chrism in the Gospel of Philip
Christopher J. Dawe and Dr. Gaye Strathearn, Ancient Scripture The Gospel of Philip, while not the most famous of the Gnostic texts found with the lost documents of Nag Hammadi Library in 1945 does offer an exciting glimpse at the ritual sacraments used by Valentininian Gnostics. In the view of the anonymous author of Philip […]
Computer Aided Complex Analysis
Jared Whitehead and Adam Rich with Dr. Michael Dorff, Mathematics Department Complex analysis is a fundamental course in mathematics required by some engineering and physical science disciplines. Since complex numbers are two dimensional – they have a real and imaginary part – visualizing their graphs, a very important part of practical and theoretical analysis, can […]
Approximation Algorithms for Factory Optimization in Parallel Manufacturing
David West and Dr. Sean Warnick, Computer Science Many industrial companies, especially ones that produce chemicals, use a batch manufacturing process to make their product. In a batch manufacturing process, a sequence of machines take “batches” of material and progressively perform actions until the final product is produced. One goal of managers of these companies […]
Unique Rotating Platform for Acoustical Research
Richard T. Watkins and Dr. Tim Leishman, Physics and Astronomy A few weeks into the development of this project, several factors became apparent that we did not anticipate when I wrote the original proposal. The table size needed to be larger than first envisioned to make possible the experiments and data collection that would be […]
Novel Preparation and Single Crystal Analysis of Layered Metal-doped Vanadates
Jeffrey Watkins and Dr. Branton J. Campbell, Physics and Astronomy Layered transition-metal-doped bismuth vanadates, commonly known as BIMEVOX oxides, have very attractive oxygen-ion conductivity properties at moderate temperatures and show promise in applications as electrode materials and membranes for oxygen separation. Of great interest is the relationship between the atomic structure of BIMEVOX materials and […]
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