Journal of Undergraduate Research

Paige Crosland and Professor Joseph Ostraff, Visual Arts The string theory, also known as the “great unifying theory,” finds middle ground between the long at-odds theories of quantum physics and general relativity. The “strings” in this theory are tiny pieces of matter, smaller than protons and neutrons, which make up the world, as we know it. […]

Jessica Bingham and Professor Val Brinkerhoff, Photography Over the past sixty years, Romania has had a tumultuous and transitive history. This country, nestled quietly between the Carpathian Mountains and the Black Sea, once maintained its traditional social structure, inhibiting a shift toward rapid modernization. This, however, changed drastically in the late 1940s when the Communist party […]

Anne M. Gregerson and Professor Donna Kay Beattie, Visual Arts I found a setting for my project that worked well with my goals. It was the Salt Lake City YWCA’s Girls To Women program, a gang intervention program for girls aged six to thirteen. I set up a schedule with program director, Kathryn Jones to present […]

Peter H. Everett and Professor Bruce H. Smith, Visual Arts Dynamic Symmetry is the name given by some to the underlying principles of design found in the human body and in the growth patterns of many plants and shells. From the research of Professor A.H, Church of Oxford, Rev. H. Moseley, D’arcy W. Thompson, and others […]

Matthew Dennis Doyle and Professor Adrian Pulfer, Visual Arts The project I completed combined my future occupation with my favorite pastime- soccer. Simply put, graphic design is problem-solving and a problem that needs solving is a lack of game loyalty or fan support which is necessary for the growth of soccer in the United States. Many […]

A few years ago I enjoyed a book in Special Collections and was impressed with the unique quality of it’s pictures. I found out that they were collotypes, something of which I had never heard. A year or two later a professor asked me if I was familiar with this process. I learned that collotype […]

Matthew Wilson and Professor Bethanne Andersen, Visual Arts How many people do you know have physical characteristics that match their personality? The idea that a personality and the way a person looks are connected is not new. Illustrators and animators have been capitalizing on it in their work for decades. However, it has just been since […]

Lisa Marie Brown and Professor Robert Barrett and Visual Arts The book market has long been the fine art gallery of illustrators. Portraits, landscapes, and characters set in beautiful historical and modern scenes are only a few of the genres that illustrators have explored through the medium of the book cover. Book illustration has a long […]

Emily Becraft and Professor Robert Barrett, Visual Arts The idea for this project came about as I, a descendant of Parley P. Pratt, realized I knew very little about him, his life, his family, and only a very small portion of what he contributed to the founding and history of the Church of Jesus Christ of […]

Valerie Atkisson and Professor Bruce Hixton Smith, Visual Arts For my final BFA show, I proposed to display eight drawings, eight paintings, and eight ceramic sculptures unified by process and metaphor. Ultimately, I wanted the works to relate to each other in color, texture, form, line, and process. I used a combination of two metaphors, […]