Claire Dixon and Dr. Marian Wardle, Visual Arts With this grant, I set out to design a quilt exhibition that would satisfy two distinct interpretations of quilts that have emerged in the last few decades. One camp, which Susan Bernick further separates into “art” quilt culture and “feminist” quilt culture, aims to elevate quilts from […]
Consumer Culture: An Installation
Alicia A. Delgado and Professor Joseph Ostraff, Visual Arts Background Food and eating carry many associations. For the video installation, I wanted to portray a culture partaking of another culture’s foods. I wanted the food of one=s culture to be symbolic of the literal consuming of it. I think it is interesting how often we say, […]
A Matter of Choice: Perceptions of Personal Mastery and Control After Giving Birth
Melissa A. Dalton-Richardson and Dr. Lynn Callister, Nursing Within recent years, there has been a steady increase of births attended by midwives in the United States. The reemergence of midwives to the medical scene provides pregnant women with alternative methods of birth. In order to provide women with the most information possible about these two […]
Democratic Teaching in BYU’s American Heritage Course: Teaching Citizenship While Improving Learning
Olivia Dahl and Dr. J. Gary Daynes, History Democratic teaching is a topic that is popular among educators. What it essentially means is that students are given opportunities to choose how and possibly what they learn. A major concern in the social sciences is how well schools and universities are preparing students to become responsible […]
Multigenre Writing for Teaching Literature at Banneker High School in Washington, D.C.
Merinda Gurney Cutler and Dr. Sirpa T. Grierson, English Multigenre writing is a nontraditional style of writing developed by pioneers in education such as Peter Elbow, Tom Romano, and Sirpa T. Grierson. This form of writing is ideal for high school students who view writing, especially research writing, with apathy and boredom. Dr. Grierson’s approach […]
The Development of a Biblical Hebrew Parser
John D. Crawford and Dr. Deryle Lonsdale, Linguistics The purpose of this project was to produce a phrase-structure grammar for Biblical Hebrew and to determine the best way to apply said grammar in a computerized parser in order to test its durability. Overall I believe this project was a success. Although the parser has only […]
Anthropomorphism at Qumran: An Examination of Qumran’s Pentateuch
Cory Daniel Crawford and Dr. Stephen D. Ricks, Asian and Near Eastern Languages Although the first writings on the banks of the Dead Sea, known as the Dead Sea Scrolls, were first discovered in 1947, not all were made accessible to more than a handful of scholars; indeed, not even the subject matter of the […]
The Organ Reform Movement—A Revitalization of the 17th Century North German Organ
Benjamin J. Crandall and Dr. Douglas E. Bush, Music The sixteenth and seventeenth centuries comprised the so-called “golden age” of the organ due to the remarkable instruments built then and because of the extraordinary repertoire which spawned from these organs. Reaching a pinnacle of tonal expertise and craftsmanship in the organs of Arp Schnitger (1648-1719) […]
The Finest View: Embryology in Four Dimensions, Research Results
Justin N. Craig and Dr. Robert E. Seegmiller, Zoology One of the most complicated and difficult to comprehend organ systems in embryological development is the nervous system. In the study of embryology, one realizes that the understanding of human origin exists and must be studied not only in three dimensions, but also the fourth, i.e. […]
Calorimitry Data Tracking the Encapsulation of Small Organic Water Contaminants by Cavitand [Co412]-8
Julie K. Cope and Dr. Roger G. Harrison, Chemistry Cavitand [Co412]-8 is a cage-like molecule having an inner cavity with a volume of approximately 1375 Å that traps small organic molecules. The “1” in the chemical formula represents resorc[4]arene, a bowl-shaped molecule1. Two resorc[4]arenes are connected with four cobalt molecules to form the cavitand [Co412]-8. […]
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