Saints At War: Preserving the Histories of Latter-day Saint Servicemen and Women

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Lindsay Payne Halgren and Dr. Dennis A Wright, Church History and Doctrine War is a unique phenomenon for each person concerned; two soldiers in the same battle could face entirely different conflicts. In order to better understand the many facets of war and military life, we must investigate as many different accounts as possible. As […]

The Doctrine of Pre-existence: A Window into the Latter-day Saint Concept of Restoration

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Chris Coltrin and Dr. S Kent Brown, Ancient Scripture The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints claims to be a church of restoration—restoring what was taught in the church that Christ established when on the earth. My research sought to substantiate the claim of restoration by examining an unusual doctrine in the LDS Church […]

LDS Missionary Work in the Basque Language: How the Work Began, and Why It Was Discontinued

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Devin Caywood and Dr. Bruce VanOrden, Religion Basque Country is a relatively small region composed of three (arguably four) provinces in North Central Spain and two in Southern France. Statistics state that there are two million people in Spanish and French Basque provinces that claim Basque as their first language. 70-80 percent of those people […]

Evaluation of the Abilities of Cationic Steroid Antibiotics to Inhibit Microbial Growth in Food

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Timothy W Winter and Dr. Paul B Savage, Chemistry and Biochemistry Food-borne illnesses are a continuing problem in the US. According to figures from the Center for Disease Control, an estimated one million food-borne infections and 500 deaths occur each year associated with Salmonella. Also reported are the cases involving Escherichia coli O157:H7; the death […]

Mathematics in Rural Mexico: Motivations and Barriers for Adult Women Learners

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Janel Wilson Williams and Dr. Jacqueline Taylor Voyles, Mathematics Education Math educators have long realized that women in general have shied away from involvement in the mathematical world. Current research in the mathematics education field studies the motivations and barriers women have to studying math. My research extends this topic to a small village in […]

Physical Vapor Deposition of Silicon Dioxide from a Silicon Tetraacetate Precursor for Anchoring Nanotubes to Atomic Force Microscopy Probe Tips

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Jed Whittaker and Dr. Robert Davis, Physics and Astronomy It has been previously shown1 that silicon tetraacetate vapor thermally decomposes to a silicon dioxide thin film and gas phase acid anhydride at 160-170°C. Here a method is developed to anchor carbon nanotubes to atomic force microscope (AFM) tips with such a silicon dioxide thin film. […]

Effects of siRNA-mediated silencing of Phosducin-like Protein Expression on Protein Folding by the Cytoplasmic Chaperonin Complex

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Sarah Warburton and Dr. Barry Willardson, Chemistry and Biochemistry Our lab has recently described an interaction of Phosducin-like protein (PhLP) with the cytoplasmic chaperonin complex (CCT), a sixteen polypeptide complex required for the native folding of actin and tubulin and many other cellular proteins. We found that the binding of PhLP blocked CCT-dependent folding of […]

Determining Optical Constants with an EUV Polarimeter

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Fabian Walter and Dr. R Steven Turley, Physics and Astronomy Characterizing mirrors is of great importance when designing optical devices. In order to control the reflectivity, these mirrors are made of multilayer structures. The index of refraction n, which allows for the calculation of the reflectivity, depends on the wavelength of the light. In the […]

Extraction of Genealogical Information from the Internet

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Troy Walker and Dr. David Embley, Computer Science Data extraction is a rapidly growing area of computer science. It focuses on the extraction of pertinent data from large stores of knowledge such as databases or the internet. Data extraction allows us to use existing stores of data in new ways. One application for data extraction […]

Molecular Machine Components Observed in the Gas Phase: Self- Assembling Pseudorotaxanes of Cucurbit[n]urils (n=6, 7, and 8) and Doubly-Protonated 1,4-Diaminobutane

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Kevin Alan Walker and Dr. David Dearden, Chemistry and Biochemistry Nanotechnology offers the potential of creating machines the size of molecules. Such machines have limitless possibilities in numerous fields: chemistry, computer science, technology, and medicine, to name a few. Molecular machines could be instrumental in creating computers millions of times faster than our present computers. […]