Tyler Hammond and Dr. Jeffrey Edwards, Department of Physiology and Developmental Biology Introduction Both exercise and stress have an impact on learning and memory. Exercise appears to have positive effects on learning and memory while stress appears to have negative effects on learning and memory. Previous work in our lab has demonstrated that exercise enhances […]
Archives for February 2016
Legislator Responsiveness, Age, and Internet Proficiency
Sean Stephenson and Michael Barber, Political Science Elected officials should try to establish a relationship with their constituents and keep them well informed by responding to any questions they may have regarding political issues. One way legislators can do this is by responding to emails. Some legislators choose to respond to emails themselves, while others […]
Digital Archive of Mental Health Narratives
Elisabeth Anna Muldowney and Jon Balzotti, English Introduction Narratives have the power to help people understand experiences that are foreign to them. But narratives focusing only on a single dimension of a story have the potential to cause harm, as many popular depictions of eating disorders demonstrate. Common eating disorder narratives often correctly acknowledge that […]
A Mormon Theology of Immigration: Liberation Theology in the Restored Church of Christ
Jenna Carson and Jason Kerr, English Department Introduction I wrote an academic paper arguing that Latter-day Saint doctrine, especially the Law of Consecration, provides the foundation for a specific theology of liberation that can be placed in conversation with traditional liberation theology put forth by Gustavo Gutierrez. I then put the theology to work by […]
The Birth of the Abolitionist Movement in 19th-century Romania, under the Influence of French Revolutionary Discourse
Mihai Scrobotovici and Dr. Anca Sprenger, French & Italian Introduction Fragmented into multiple vassal principalities, Romanians had no country of their own until the 20th century. In the 19th century, French revolutionary ideas catalyzed Romanians’ aspirations for political unity and independence, producing the Revolution of 1848 in the principalities of Moldavia and Wallachia. Unfortunately, the […]
The Role of First Language Accent on German Vowel Perception
Erik Arnold and Laura Catharine Smith, Germanic and Slavic Languages Introduction The role of accent in second language (L2) production and perception has been acknowledged by researchers, but generally only in the sense of limiting their subjects to a specific dialect region to avoid any dialect influence on their results. Some studies have, however, investigated […]
“‘All that glisters is not gold’: Gender Representation and Theatrical Performances of The Merchant of Venice from 1998 to 2015”
Catherine Hollingsworth and Rick Duerden, English Department Introduction The Merchant of Venice poses problems concerning the representation—a social and cultural construction—of gender and Judaism. Some critics wonder whether or not this play should be performed now: could and should modern audiences experience The Merchant of Venice? This study argues that this play should be performed […]
Viennese Kineticism and Beyond: A Bibliography of Austrian Women Artists
Dianne Isom and Dr. Rob McFarland, Department of German and Russian Introduction While the advent of digital archives have revolutionized the discipline of Women’s Studies, the current online offerings of visual and textual works by German-speaking women artists, especially Austrian artists, lag far behind the digital collections of their English-, French-, and Spanish-language contemporaries. Brigham […]
Using Reading Strategies to Teach Students Close Reading
Colleen McQuay and Dawan Coombs, English Introduction The Common Core State Standards call for students to be better able to comprehend and close read literature when it states that students will be able to “read closely to determine what the text says explicitly and to make logical inferences from it.”1 However, even though this is […]
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