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Graham Brown, Department of Dance Summary In December 2013 I received $18,000 to fund the artist fees for student and professional collaborators in my dance theatre production You presented by Repertory Dance Theatre at the Rose Wagner Performing Arts Center in SLC; January 29-30 2015. Evaluation of how well the academic objectives of the proposal […]

MEG Report: Elastic Frames for Earthquake Resistance

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Paul Richards, Civil and Environmental Engineering Project Topic and Objective The topic of the proposal was steel frames with superior elastic energy capacity that will permit buildings to better withstand severe earthquake loading. The anticipated outcomes related to mentoring were: each student researcher would be the lead author on a conference publication, students would present […]

Mentored Environment for Isogeometric Analysis

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Kevin Tew and Michael Scott The mentored environment for isogeometric analysis (IGA) has trained engineering and computer science students to develop isogeometric numerical methods and accompanying software to solve challenging problems in science and engineering. The mentoring environment consisted of: Weekly group meetings where research concepts were discussed, scientific literature was reviewed, and progress was […]

Utah Territory in Official Civil War Records

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Kenneth L. Alford, Church History and Doctrine Evaluation of how well the academic objectives of the proposal were met The purpose of this project was to find, transcribe, assemble, categorize, organize, edit, and publish (both a printed version and an electronic database version) the official records relating to Utah Territory’s involvement in the Civil War. […]

Intensive Mentoring and Micro-Electronics Research for Students in Engineering (IMMERSE) 2014

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Aaron Hawkins and Stephen Schultz, Electrical and Computer Engineering Project Description The MEG funds used for this projects supported undergraduate students working in the IMMERSE program starting in the Summer of 2014. IMMERSE employed a total of 35 students, with 14 of them being supervised directly by Dr. Aaron Hawkins and Stephen Schultz. The students […]

MEG Grant Final Report 2014-2015

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Robert P. Minert, Ph.D., A.G., Religious Education In 2013, I was awarded a mentoring grant under the MEG program for calendar years 2014-2015. The grant was for $20,000, all money stipulated for use as student wages. Advanced students of Germanic family history and German language were hired to extract data on German immigrants from old […]

Pre-Service Interdisciplinary Training in Autism Spectrum Disorders

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Terisa P Gabrielsen, PhD, NCSP, Department of Counseling, Psychology, and Special Education This project was designed to give mentoring experience to students across disciplines who were seeking additional knowledge and training in autism spectrum disorder (ASD). Participation in the project was intended to benefit students by giving them more knowledge within their field and across […]

Quantifying Aerosolized Saline Effects on Laryngeal Dryness

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Kristine Tanner, Ph. D., Department of Communication Disorders, Ray M. Merrill, Ph.D., Department of Health Science, Shawn Nissen, Ph.D., Department of Communication Disorders, and Scott Thomson, Ph.D., Department of Mechanical Engineering 1. Summary of Academic Objectives Met The purpose of this multidisciplinary Mentoring Environment Grant was to support students as they mastered novel objective methodologies […]