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Remembering the Ancestors: A Recreation of the Late Medieval Jewish Diaspora Mentality

August 21, 2013 by admin

John D. Young and Dr. Paul B. Pixton, History Having previously completed a study of religious memory as a motivating factor for Christians to persecute Jews in the High and Late Middle Ages, I felt a strong desire to tell the other side of the story–to analyze the Jewish historical mind-set during these persecution episodes. […]

Filed Under: College of Family, Home, and Social Sciences, History, ORCA-2000

Summary of Creative Project—Images of French Canada: An Educational Tool for the French Language Classroom

August 21, 2013 by admin

Heather A. Young and Dr. Michael Bush, French and Italian This creative project constitutes one component of an initiative undertaken by Dr. Michael Bush to obtain and use culturally authentic images of everyday life in Francophone countries to illustrate lexical and grammatical concepts in the French language classroom. Receiving the ORCA Scholarship enabled me to […]

Filed Under: College of Humanities, French and Italian, ORCA-2000

An Index to the Genealogical Mission Journals of William Francis Butt

August 21, 2013 by admin

Tiffanie L. Wride and Professor Kip Sperry, Church History and Doctrine William Francis Butt served a Genealogical Mission to Great Britain from November 1894 to February of 1895. During these months he researched his ancestry among parishes of Wiltshire, England. In the Harold B. Lee Library Special Collections, there is a collection by William Francis Butt […]

Filed Under: Church History and Doctrine, ORCA-2000, Religious Education

Teachers Affective Relationship Towards Children and the Concurrent Peer Interactions in Preschool Settings

August 21, 2013 by admin

Melissa K. Wouden and Dr. Craig H. Hart, Marriage, Family, and Human Development Many early childhood education programs that serve children age three to five, focus on helping preschoolers develop healthy and positive social skills for interacting with teacher, and peers. Therefore, teachers in preschool settings are important for helping children become more socially competent. […]

Filed Under: College of Family, Home, and Social Sciences, Marriage, Family, and Human Development, ORCA-2000

Lithographic Collotypes

August 21, 2013 by admin

A few years ago I enjoyed a book in Special Collections and was impressed with the unique quality of it’s pictures. I found out that they were collotypes, something of which I had never heard. A year or two later a professor asked me if I was familiar with this process. I learned that collotype […]

Filed Under: Art, College of Fine Arts and Communications, ORCA-2000

Progress Summary of Translation of The Parson’s Family

August 21, 2013 by admin

Owen F. Witesman and Professor Ralph V. Larson, Continuing Education My first-draft translation of Finnish dramatist Minna Canth’s Papin Perhe [The Parson’s Family] is currently twenty pages (of one hundred thirty) from completion. This draft will be further proofed and refined by a number of character readings using individuals experienced in editing and dramatic interpretation. This […]

Filed Under: College of Humanities, Linguistics and English Language, ORCA-2000

The Art of Character Design

August 21, 2013 by admin

Matthew Wilson and Professor Bethanne Andersen, Visual Arts How many people do you know have physical characteristics that match their personality? The idea that a personality and the way a person looks are connected is not new. Illustrators and animators have been capitalizing on it in their work for decades. However, it has just been since […]

Filed Under: Art, College of Fine Arts and Communications, ORCA-2000

The Relationship Between Epidural Anesthesia During Labor and Successful Breastfeeding Behaviors of Newborns

August 21, 2013 by admin

Kevara Wilson and Dr. Debra Hobbins-Garbett, Nursing Every mother wants to give the best to her baby, and many mothers feel breastfeeding is doing just that—giving the best. For these mothers, the effect of epidural anesthesia on those first breastfeeding encounters is an important one. Unfortunately, few researched-based answers about these effects exist. The question […]

Filed Under: College of Nursing, Nursing Program, ORCA-2000

All That is Global is Not Gold: A Look at The ICC Monitor of the Coalition for an International Criminal Court

August 21, 2013 by admin

Joseph A. Willard and Dr. Paul J. Baltes, English The International Criminal Court (ICC) is a permanent global tribunal designed to bring to justice the individual perpetrators of heinous war crimes, crimes against humanity, and genocide. Although there are a number of opinions in circulation regarding the full history behind the ICC, the general consensus […]

Filed Under: College of Humanities, English, ORCA-2000

In Vivo Specific Degradation of Selected RNA Substrates by Endogenous tRNA 3’ Processing Endoribonuclease

August 21, 2013 by admin

Duane R. Wesemann The enzyme tRNA 3’ Processing Endoribonuclease (3’tRNase) is suspected to be an enzyme responsible for 3’ end processing of various pre-tRNAs. Our lab has demonstrated that RNAs containing a hairpin structure can be manipulated to appear as a “pre-tRNA” molecule and be recognized and cleaved by 3’tRNase. This is accomplished by the […]

Filed Under: College of Life Sciences, Microbiology and Molecular Biology, ORCA-2000

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