AN ECOLOGIST’S POETRY

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Bryn Ellen Palmer and Dr. Susan Howe, Botany My creative project was an exploration into the poetic wilderness of both previously written poetry and my own originally created works dealing with the natural world. This experience was principally completed during January to August of 1996. The experience as a whole was stimulating and evolving for […]

CULTURE AND SEX DIFFERENCES IN THE LDS POPULATION: A COMPARISON OF RUSSIAN AND AMERICAN ATTITUDES TOWARD SEXUAL BEHAVIOR

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Oxana Palesh and Dr. Michael B. Ehlert, Psychology Recent work on female and male attitudes toward sexual behavior indicate that the sexes view sexual activity differently. Buss reported that females feel greater concern about a partner’s emotional commitment, whereas males show greater concern toward a partner’s sexual commitment. Clark and Hatfield reported 1 that when […]

SCALE-SENSITIVE LINEAR ANALYSIS OF GRANIVOROUS RODENT POPULATION DYNAMICS

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Nikkala A. Pack and Dr. Brian A. Maurer, Zoology Ecological systems undergo perturbations; populations grow, decline, or go extinct. If the effect of one population on another can be determined, when one population is perturbed, we can predict the response of the second population. This is important for conservation efforts, for example, in predicting the […]

REDOX PROPERTIES OF HORSE SPLEEN FERRITIN

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D. Cope Norcross and Dr. Gerald D. Watt, Chemistry and Biochemistry Iron is essential to all forms of life. Yet, free iron is toxic unless sequestered and regulated. Organisms use the protein ferritin to perform this function. Ferritin is found storing and releasing iron in almost all living organisms. Ferritin is a large, nearly spherical, […]

APPLICATIONS OF META 1,3-PHOTOCYCLIZATIONS USING SILICON AS A TETHER

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Bradley Nilsson Current literature contains many examples of the use of light to induce the synthesis of novel compounds and natural compounds. One reaction that has been extensively studied is the meta photocycloaddition of arenes to alkenes. Commonly this is experimentally treated as an inten-nolecular reaction. Problems with this approach to the photocycloaddition include low […]

THE BEHAVIORAL RESPONSE OF THE BOXELDER BUG WITH RESPECT TO SUSPECT SEMIOCHEMICALS

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Jared Steven Nielsen and Dr. Gary M. Booth, Philosophy The boxelder bug, Boisea trivattatus, is a common structural and agricultural insect pest found throughout North America. Unfortunately, current pest management methods are not effective for controlling boxelder bug populations. If discovered and developed attractants would provide an effective and environmentally responsible solution to boxelder bug […]

INVESTIGATION OF THREE METHODS OF VARIABLE SELECTION: LINEAR MODEL SELECTION, CART AND TREED REGRESSION

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Todd R. Nelson and Dr. Scott Grimshaw, Statistics My project for the Research and Creative Activities Scholarship Award looks at the effectiveness and accuracy of a popular new method of variable selection. The method under investigation uses tree-based models to select important variables and then uses classical least squares estimation to fit a regression model […]

THE DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE AND EARLY AMERICAN RELIGIOUS RHETORIC FROM THE PURITAN POLITICAL SERMONS

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Ryan D. Nelson and Dr. Neal Lambert, Humanities For this work, I attempted to look closer at the influence that the early Puritan political sermons had upon the writing of the Declaration of Independence. Although an interesting topic to study in general, I found it necessary to consistently revise my research to become more specific. […]

THE ENVIROFRIDGE

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Paul R. Neil and Dr. Richard Terry, Agronomy and Horticulture This research project was designed (see Figure 1) and experimented with in hopes of eventually assisting people of third-world countries to refrigerate and store food and medicine for extended periods of time, much the same as conventional refrigeration. Overall, designing and performing this project has […]