Kylan Rice and Conner Bassett with Dr. Susan Howe, English In a socially mediated age marked by competing identity politics, fractured and proliferating interests, and streamlined global connectivity, networking and community-building have become invaluable components of any venture /career goal. This is as true for lawyers or politicians as it is for poets and artists. […]
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When Science Meets Art: Understanding the Results and . Methods of the American Sagger Process
Jason Palmer and Professor Brian Christensen, Department of Visual Arts Overview The aims and purposes of this ORCA funded research project were two fold; first the funds would be used to renovate a heavily used kiln in the ceramics department to allow for greater atmospheric control, operator’s ease of use, and general safety. Second we […]
Benefits, Barriers and Readiness to Adopt a Universal Serial Bus (USB) Personal Health Record among Older Adult Hispanic Americans
Kristen Painter and Dr. Barbara Heise, College of Nursing As the older adult population has aged, learning to manage their health and concurring chronic disease conditions has become a prevalent topic for health care providers. It has been shown that advances in information technology can improve healthcare outcomes (IOM, 2001; IOM, 2008). Recently, personal health […]
Characterization of 10 polymorphic microsatellite loci in the South American lizard Liolaemus fitzingerii with cross-amplification in L. chehuachekenk
Nathan Hanna and Dr. Jack Sites, Biology Department Liolaemus is a genus of lizards that is very common in South America, particularly the southern regions. Distinguishing differences between separate species within the Liolaemus genus has been an ongoing pursuit, one in which Jack Sites and his lab have been extensively engaged. Liolaemus chehuachekenk is a […]
Phylogenetic Relationships Among North American Heterodontine Snakes
Douglass Brown and Dr. Jack W. Sites Jr., Biology Department Introduction Among extant snakes (~3150 species), Caenophidia or “advanced” snakes are a monophyletic group comprising the great majority of species (~2620) of species (Vidal et al. 2010). The American caenophidian snake fauna comprises five families: the Viperidae and Elapidae – both displaying a front fanged […]
The Cinematographic portrayal of Americans in Late Stalin Era Soviet Film
James K. Pringle and Dr. Raissa Solovieva, German Studies and Slavic Languages This research examines how Soviet directors portrayed Americans in the six anti-American films released during the late Stalin era (1945-1953). These six films are The Russian Question (dir. Romm, 1947), Meeting on the Elbe (dir. Alexandrov, 1949), Court of Honor (dir. Room, 1949), […]
A Matter of Perspective British Education on the American Revolution
Devon Zimmerman and Dr. Eric Dursteler, History Department While history attempts to be factual, history is primarily about perspective, which can sometimes lead to very biased information. Perspective causes countries to have significantly different accounts of the same events, especially wars. In the case of the American Revolution, England and the United States have very […]
Practice Makes Perfect: A Comparative Study between French and American Harp Pedagogical Techniques
Angela Barlow and Dr. Steven Ricks, Associate Professor, BYU School of Music I will never forget hearing the first few notes of Symphonie Fantastique played by the Orchestre de Paris during my music study abroad stay in Paris. However, it isn’t just the first few notes of the Symphonie that I will always remember, it […]
William E. Gates Mesoamerican Collection
Connie Lamb, Public Services Introduction The title of the MEG grant that I received beginning January 2011 is the “William E. Gates Mesoamerican Collection”. The purpose of the grant was to hire a student to go through the Gates Collection and create a complete and accurate register (finding aid) to these materials. Gates (1863-1940) was […]
Summary of Creative Research Grant Results: The Effects of 15th and 16th Century Scholarship on the American Founding
Owen D. Yeates and Dr. Richard Vetterli, Political Science The scope of my initial research proposal was quite wide, simply stating that I would study the writings of the Cambridge Platonists and Oxford Reformers and those surrounding them to discover the effects of religious thought on the concepts of virtue and liberty as transmitted from […]