Research and Publication Opportunities in Structure of Materials

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Drs. David Fullwood, Brent Adams and Chris Mattson, Department of Mechanical Engineering Executive summary The MEG award has been used by our research group as a springboard to launch undergraduates to levels of excellence in academia and the engineering community, and as seed money for research initiatives that will benefit these and future undergraduates. It […]

Facing Reality: An Experimental Approach to Ethnic Identity

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Drs. Michael Findley and Daniel Nielson, Department of Political Science Evaluation of how well the academic objectives of the proposal were met The research project has been successful, overall, and we are continuing to prepare research for publication. When we recruited students to assist us with the research, we asked them to develop their own […]

Refinement
 and 
Validation 
of 
Elicited 
Imitation 
as 
a 
Measure
 of 
Oral
 Proficiency


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Dr. Dan Dewey, Department of Linguistic and English Language We 
were 
able 
to 
achieve 
most 
of 
the 
goals 
established
 in 
the 
MEG 
proposal 
we
 submitted
 in 
the 
Fall 
of 
2008 
(for
 a 
grant 
Winter, 
2009). 

We 
did 
end 
up
 adjusting
 the 
project 
and 
use 
of 
the 
funds 
slightly 
to 
adapt 
to 
changing 
needs 
and 
to […]

Three-Dimensional Seismic Study of Pluton Emplacement

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Drs. Eric H. Christiansen and William Keach, Department of Geological Sciences Introduction The origin of Earth’s continents, many of our most important ore deposits and the largest and most damaging volcanic eruptions are all related to the emplacement of silicic plutons–large masses of once molten magma. Understanding the details of the mechanism by which these […]

The Role of Nuclear Bmp2 (nBmp2) in Skeletal Muscle

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Dr. Laura Bridgewater, Department of Microbiology & Molecular Biology The goal of this project was to characterize the molecular pathway by which nBmp2 disrupts Ca2+ handling in skeletal muscle of nBmp2 mutant mice. Previously, we had worked with Dr. Chad Hancock’s lab to measure muscle function in nBmp2 mutant mice, and those results showed a […]

The Sweat of Their Brow

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Dr. Kristi Bell, Department of English I received a MEG award that was disbursed Fall Semester 2009. It was a three semester program running through Fall Semester 2010. Because of leftover funds I have been able to do additional work through Summer 2011. Summary of Project By the Sweat of Their Brow was an oral […]

How Does the Effect of Cholesterol Vary between the Inner and Outer Membrane?

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Dr. John Bell, Department of Physiology and Developmental Biology Summary This proposal was designed to use fluorescence spectroscopy to identify in as much detail as possible physical properties of model membranes in effort to understand roles of cholesterol in biological membranes. The following questions were addressed: how does the effect of cholesterol differ between the […]

Inverse Spectral Problems for Graphs

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Dr. Wayne Barrett, Department of Mathematics Research Results/Findings This MEG grant made it possible to support several student research activ- ities from Spring 2009 through Winter 2010. It funded one of four undergraduate students that I mentored sum- mer 2009 in the BYU Mathematics Department’s National Science Foundation-sponsored Research Experiences for Undergraduates (REU) in accordance […]

Advanced
 Biological 
and 
Biomedical 
Applications 
in 
Electrical 
Engineering

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Drs. 
Neal 
K. 
Bangerter and 
Brian 
A. 
Mazzeo, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering Summary The 
aim 
of 
the 
awarded 
MEG 
grant
 was 
to
 provide
 seed 
funding 
to 
establish
 a
 mentorship 
program 
for
 undergraduate 
students 
wishing
 to
 prepare 
for 
careers 
or 
graduate
 work 
in 
biological
 or 
biomedical
 applications 
of 
electrical
 engineering. 

Such
 a 
program
 has […]