David Lindell and David G. Long, Electrical Engineering I. INTRODUCTION NASA’s Decadal Survey emphasizes the importance of soil moisture measurements, citing their significance in predicting natural hazards and the role of soil moisture levels in the water and carbon cycles [1]. Soil moisture estimates are used for a variety of applications including drought detection, flood […]
Culminating Project
Logan McGill and Nathan Balser, Contemporary Dance Department During my time as a dance major at BYU I devoted countless hours to refining my technique, artistry, and performance quality in order to be the best dancer I could be. “Culminating Project” took those skills that I have spent so long refining and put them to […]
Spanish/English Book Anatomy Diagrams
India Johnson and Jeffrey Turley, Spanish and Portuguese Introduction This project is an illustrated online Spanish/English glossary of bookbinding terminology. It was created to fill a void: although cross-cultural interaction in the bookbinding community continues to increase, no comparable resource exists online or in print. Methodology My search of existing bilingual lexicography, both at the […]
Food as a Cultural and Human Experience: Exploring the Italian social traditions around food through photography
Sarah Wight and Paul Adams, Department of Design Introduction Last June, I set out with camera in hand to explore the Italian social traditions around food. I wanted to capture what mealtimes mean to Italians, and how they differ from Americans. I planned to create a body of work that acts as a window into […]
From Staged Reading to Fully Staged Models for Academic Production of New Works
Preston Yates and Timothy Threllfall, Theatre and Media Arts Last January at BYU, we had the incredible opportunity to work with one of Broadway’s best composures, Frank Wildhorn. This came about due to a master class that Frank was holding at BYU in October of 2013. He was very impressed with the level of talent […]
Single Ion Detection for Mass Spectrometry using Low Capacitance MOSFETs
Matthew Hamblin and Aaron Hawkins, Electrical Engineering Introduction Mass spectrometry is an important tool for analytical chemistry that allows the chemical composition of a compound to be determined. In order to do so, it separates the compound into ions, and then detects the number of ions of different masses. The charge on a single ion […]
The Grovecrest Project: Analyzing Sociable Behavior in Children with Language Impairment Following a Social Understanding Intervention
Maille Coombs and Faculty Mentor: Martin Fujiki, Communication Disorders Introduction The link between social communication and Language Impairment (LI) is an emerging topic in the field of speech pathology. It is known that children with LI struggle to produce and comprehend language, but it has recently been shown that these children also have notable difficulty […]
Translation from French to English of a Women’s Rights Study by a Senegal Research Group
Danielle Stanford and Faculty Mentor: Daryl Lee, French and Italian Introduction The goal of this project was to make an academic study on violence against women in Senegal accessible to a non-French speaking audience. The study was conducted by a university research group on gender issues (GESTES) at the Université Gaston Berger, Saint Louis, Senegal. […]
The Unsuccessful Japan Mission and LDS Missiology
Kaitlyn Jensen and Faculty Mentor: Gregory Wilkinson, Church History Introduction In the early years of the Latter-day Saint church a mission to Japan was opened in an effort to continue the spread of the gospel and the advancement of a worldwide church but in terms of evangelical success the mission was largely ineffective. The focus […]
Strength-Based Assessment for Children with Autism and Related Disabilities in Bosnia.
McKenzie May and Faculty Mentor: Blake Hansen, Counseling Psychology and Special Education Introduction Bosnia was the center of conflict during the war in Yugoslavia from April 1992 to December 1995. In post-war Bosnia, where there are limited resources, families of children with special needs bare the burden of care on their own. Caring for a […]