Brandon Jahner and Dr. Michael Dunn, Nutrition, Dietetics, and Food Science Introduction: Pregnant women who consume the recommended micronutrient level of folic acid can reduce the incidence of newborn neural tube defects (NTD), like spina bifida and ancelephthy, by up to 70% (Yang et al., 2002). Hispanic women with the highest rates of NTD births, […]
Archives for April 2014
Motivating Millennials: Improving Practices in Recruiting, Retaining, and Motivating Younger Library Staff
Sara Diane Smith and Professor Quinn Galbraith, HBLL Human Resources The purpose of this project was to explore generational differences in the library workplace through a literature review, through studying results from national workplace surveys, and through analyzing the results of past surveys given to student employees at the Harold B. Lee Library. As part of […]
British Sociopolitical Periodicals Digital Project
Annalaisa Plessinger and Dr. Maggie Kopp, University Libraries The L. Tom Perry Special Collections department of the library hosts many precious collections from rare books to periodicals that benefit the research and understanding of countless scholars. However, periodicals have not received the same attention as books; books are being uploaded onto the Internet Archive for […]
Chasing Rabbits: A Collection of Personal Essays
Max Ogles and Dr. Patrick Madden, English Department Background The intent of my project was to write a collection of nonfiction personal essays in the classical essayist tradition. The personal essay tradition began in the 1500s with Michel de Montaigne. Montaigne is known as the “Father of the Essay” because he invented the form and […]
Discrimination and Second Language Acquisition during Study Abroad
Nicholas Kramer and Dr. Laura Smith, German/Slavic Department Our research project has been a very exciting development, and although there is more to be done, we have accomplished a lot in the past year. Three different surveys, all of which had 40 questions, were written and distributed while I was on a study abroad in […]
The May Queen: A Historical Novel
Kimber Albrechtsen and Dr. Leonard Tourney, English The objectives of my project were to identify and implement theoretical aspects of writing historical fiction, and to write the first four chapters of a historical novel. My creative text examined themes of the emergence of communism, the development of modern terrorism, and the complexity of family relationships. […]
In Thanksgiving and Praise: Prayer, Rhetoric, and Congressional Thanksgiving Proclamations
Samuel Wells and Dr. Christopher Hodson, History With my grant I analyzed how early congressional Thanksgiving proclamations textually moved away from overtly Christian wording while simultaneously retaining a rhetorical Christian foundation. To illustrate my point I chose to analyze said declarations as textual examples of prayer. In order to do so, I first examined Congress’s […]
Quasi-maximum Likelihood Methods in Truncated Models
Patrick Turley and Dr. James B. McDonald, Department of Economics Data truncation is the source of econometric problems in many economic datasets. Truncation occurs when all observations below or above a certain threshold are systematically removed or are unavailable. For example, campaign contributions below a certain level are not usually publicly available, so any contribution […]
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