PREEXPOSURE OF LiCl AND CCK-8: EFFECTS ON TASTE AVERSION CONDITIONING

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Tyler J. Gerritsen, Gregory N. Ervin, Psychology Taste aversion conditioning is a uniquely learned behavior. In most laboratory cases, the subjects receive a dose of the drug in question and a bottle of saccharin (sacc). Ordinarily, rats will strongly prefer drinking sacc to water (Fig. 1). Whereas with taste aversion, rats develop an aversion to […]

MANUSCRIPT VARIATION IN THE CANTERBURY TALES

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Melissa A. Gallup and Professor Paul Thomas, English Geoffrey Chaucer wrote the Canterbury Tales before his death in 1400, producing his tales over the space of approximately 14 years. But even with over twenty thousand lines of poetry and prose, his work was still unfinished, for the plan was that each pilgrim would share two […]

NEW FOSSIL CRINOIDS FROM THE EARLY MISSISSIPPIAN (KINDERHOOKIAN) WASSONVILLE FORMATION OF SOUTHEAST IOWA

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Forest J. Gahn and Dr. Scott Ritter, Geology Purpose and Structure: The purpose of this paper is to document a newly discovered assemblage of Early Mississippian (Kinderhookian) fossil crinoids from southeast Iowa. I will provide an introduction and background of the project, followed by the results of the research. Cited references are included at the […]

AN INTERLINGUISTIC THEORY OF JAZZ, BARTHES AND 20TH CENTURY SPANISH LITERATURE

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Jeff Gabbitas and Dr. Dale Pratt, Spanish and Portuguese, Through this grant I have been given the opportunity to explore a common thread that ties jazz and 20th century Spanish literature together. I put a large amount of time and thought into this interlinguistic theory by studying different Spanish literary works and comparing the content […]

REPRESENTATIONS OF THE BRAID GROUP IN THE SYMMETRIC GROUP

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Holly Freedman and Dr. Stephen Humphries, Microbiology My project was to determine which elements of the symmetric group, or permutations on a finite set of objects, generate group representations for the braid group. I started out by finding group representations for the three-strand braid group. A three-strand braid is a set of three disjoint strings […]

CLEF: COMPUTER LISTENING EXAM FORMAT

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William Findlay and Harrison Powley with Dr. Steven Johnson, School of Music CLEF, a computer based test delivery system, makes possible creating and administering music listening tests on the Macintosh platform. The software I created aims to provide both teachers and students with a useful tool for the study of music history. Music history courses typically require […]

A STUDY OF SELF-EMPLOYMENT TRENDS

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Bengte Evenson and Dr. Mark. H. Showalter, Economics The implications of current trends in self-employment are not well understood because the relevant literature is simply not well developed. A good portion of the current literature on self-employment can be found in the Small Business Journal, a recently established publication with a sociological focus. Economic publications […]

ENANTIOSELECTIVE SYNTHESIS OF BIOLOGICALLY IMPORTANT COMPOUNDS

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David G. Evans and Dr. Matt A. Peterson, Biology and Agriculture Until only very recently it has been the common practice of most pharmaceutical manufacturers and manufacturers of agrochemicals such as herbicides and insecticides to market chiral compounds as mixtures of enantiomers. This practice has been driven by market forces due to the fact that […]

THE DIFFERENCES IN SKILLS BETWEEN ENTREPRENEURS AND MANAGERS WITHIN A LATTER-DAY SAINT COMMUNITY

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Gianna Rosenbaum Ericksen, Marriott School of Management Many believe that entrepreneurs are born and not taught. There is speculation that success is personality-based rather than skill-based. The stream of research in this area, though, has indicated that skill plays a crucial role in the success of entrepreneurs. Successful ventures also depend on the right combination […]