Eric Nelson, Chemistry and Biochemistry I was awarded the Research and Creative Work Scholarship for the winter semester of 1994 based on my proposal to synthesize a novel organic compound for testing and publication in conjunction with the research group of Dr. Jerald Bradshaw in the Chemistry Department. The Compound as described in my proposal […]
NURSE PRACTITIONERS’ PRESENT AND FUTURE VIABILITY
Annette Mulkay, College of Nursing My research project entitled Nurse Practitioners’ Present and Future Viability has four research questions: • What is the role of nurse practitioners today? • How do nurse practitioners perceive their role in health care reform? • What do nurse practitioners perceive as barriers to acceptance in the current health care […]
Awa Yio … (We are Glad)
Melanie Morrow, Dance The final product was everything I had hoped it to be! The piece was 10 minutes in length with two sections and was performed March 31st andAprillst, 1994. It involved approximately 60 past or present members of the BYU’s Men’s Chorus using only live percussion and voices. There were eight dancers, including […]
AN INVESTIGATION OF THE INFLUENCE OF POLAR VS. POLARIZABLE SUBSTITUENTS IN POLYSILOXANE STATIONARY PHASES FOR GAS CHROMATOGRAPHY
Sarah Morgan, Chemistry For my creative work and research scholarship project I proposed the synthesis of four polymers for use as stationary phases in gas chromatography. Each polymer would contain a pendant group with a halogen-substituted benzene ring, making use of the four halogen atoms-fluorine, chlorine, bromine, and iodine. Since these atoms lie along a […]
UPDATE ON THE RECONSTRUCTION OF THE CYTOCHROME B GENE OF THE EXTINCT M4MMUTHUS COLUMBI
Natalie Mincek, Chemistry The intent of this project was to reconstruct the cytochrome B gene from the extinct mammoth Mammuthus columbi. This was to be accomplished through amplification by PCR the fragments of the cytochrome B gene in order to determine their respective sequences, after which these DNA sequences would be combined to reconstruct the […]
INFLUENCE OF ULTRASONIC STIMULATION ON THE ANTIBIOTIC ACTION OF GENTAMICIN AGAINST GROUP D STREPTOCOCCI
Mark S. Miller, Microbiology During the Winter Semester of 1994, I was able to work with three members of the genus Streptococcus: S. pneumoniae, S. agalactiae, and S. faecalis. The minimum inhibitory concentrations (MIC) of the antibiotic gentamicin (an aminoglycoside which inhibits protein synthesis) against the three species were determined. The MIC of S. pneumoniae […]
THE HITCHICKER
Vance L. Mellen, Theater and Film I am glad to report on my use of the Research and Creative Works Scholarship. I’ve had a fantastic last year at BYU, and thanks to the grant I received, I feel extremely well prepared to enter graduate schooL Due in part to the work funded by this grant, […]
GROUP AND GENDER DIFFERENCES IN TOTAL RECALL AND SERIAL POSITION EFFECT FOR PICTORIAL, TEXTUAL, AND CONTEXTUAL STIMULI
Kirk M. Lunnen, Psychology Understanding how different modes of informational presentation can affect memorability is of great importance from advertising to education and in other disciplines. In education, for example, it relates to important issues such as determining the most effective strategies for increasing students’ vocabularies. In advertising, it means the difference between product recognition […]
MISTRESS AS METAPHOR: THE WRITTEN WOMAN IN MARTIAL
Elizabeth L. Long, Humanities, Classics, and Comparative Literature Thesis Martial features women as his subjects in roughly twenty-five percent of his epigrams .I Just as his other epigrams explore a wide range of subjects and themes, these poems differ in the ways that they use women. Some are merely crude jests2; others explore mythological or […]
THE VALUE OF LIFE: A CONTINGENT VALUATION STUDY OF RISK AVOIDANCE AND UTAH COUNTY AIR POLLUTION
Christopher Michael Lee, Economics Introduction While prices established in competitive markets provide the most traditional and widely accepted valuation of goods and services, many commodities cannot be valued with price studies because no competitive market exists for those commodities. Economist have developed some methods by which valuations for non-marketed commodities can be estimated. These non-market […]