Jonathon Jackson and Dr. Robert Seegmiller, Zoology As has been outlined, I am submitting this report of the accomplishments that have been made over the past semester in conjunction with the 1,000 dollar award that I received from your office. First, I would like to thank those people who have made financial contributions and those […]
AN ABSTRACTION OF THE JAVA LANGUAGE’S AWT LIBRARY
Leanne Isaac and Dr. Phillip J. Windley, Computer Science As Java, a new language developed for the Internet, has continued to grow in popularity, the face of the World Wide Web is changing. Now, once static HTML pages are lined with moving animation and sounds. While the possibilities that Java brings to the Internet are […]
WINDOWS OF FRANCE: A COLLAGE OF FRENCH CULTURE THROUGH THE EYE OF A CAMERA
Kimberly A. Ingram and Dr. Michael D. Bush, French and Italian This grant has enabled me to embark upon an exciting project that will improve the tools available in the field of French Language acquisition, a video disc textbook. This project contains three main objectives: 1) set up a bilingual database of the images necessary […]
SOCIAL PROBLEMS OF CHILDREN WITH SPECIFIC LANGUAGE IMPAIRMENT
Michelle H. Hutchings and Dr. Martin Fujiki, Speech and Language Pathology Specific Language Impairment (SLI) is a well documented disability among many schoolaged children. Children with SLI exhibit “significant limitations in language functioning that cannot be attributed to deficits in hearing, oral structure and function, or general intelligence” (Leonard, 1987, p. 1). SLI results in […]
THE UNREFLECTING NARCISSUS
Benjamin Huff and Dr. Scott Sprenger, Philosophy Andre Gide’s La Symphonie Pastorale (in English, The Pastoral Symphony) portrays a pastor who mistakes the love of a woman for the love of God and believes he is serving God while he serves mostly just himself. Even his avowed love for Gertrude, a blind orphan girl he […]
THE EFFECTS OF JUNIPER LITTER DEPTH AND ALLELOPATHY ON TWO NATIVE SPECIES
Chad S. Horman and Dr. Val Jo Anderson, Botany and Range Science Juniper (Juniperus spp.) forests cover a large percentage of the West and are continuing to invade grass/shrub ecotypes. This eventually leads to a reduced understory and lower productivity for grazing animals. This reduction in understory biomass is due to the competitiveness of this […]
A SUMMARY OF RESEARCH DONE ON ABORIGINAL MARRIAGE SYSTEMS
Rachelle Holloway and Dr. David Crandall The results of receiving this grant was research conducted in Victoria, Australia concerning the marriage systems of Australian Aboriginals. The research was originally intended to be conducted in areas predominantly populated by less Westernized Aboriginals, but there were problems in obtaining this ideal. Firstly, anthropologists in general are somewhat […]
English Article Acquisition of Native Russian Speakers
Jacob Burdis and Professor Ray Graham – Education For decades, researchers have explored various aspects of the development or morphology in second language learners of English. Undoubtedly, one of the most popular models describing this development is the natural order hypothesis. Stephen Krashen (1977) presents an average morphological order of acquisition for English where learners, “acquiring […]
COSTA RICA’S BORDER PEOPLE: LIVING ON THE FRINGES OF TWO SOCIETIES
Ann Marie Hinckley and Dr. David P. Crandall The Nicaraguan Revolution ended nearly fifteen years ago, however, the political, economic, and cultural effects resulting from the war continue. These effects are keenly felt in the border regions of Costa Rica. Border regions are frequently turbulent because within them 70% of the world’s smallest wars are […]
BRINGING THE NAUVOO TEMPLE TO LIFE
J. Mark Hiatt and Dr. Richard D. Draper, History After the Saints were forced out of Nauvoo, angry vandals, fearing the Saints would return, destroyed the magnificent temple left behind. The temple the mobsters destroyed took five years to build and every sacrifice imaginable for the Saints to complete. Since the temple does not exist […]
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