Andre Bennin and Dr. Keith A. Crandall, Microbiology and Molecular Biology Cave microbiology has been of great interest to microbial ecologists in recent years because it has enabled them to assess microbial diversity within an isolated system. An excellent example of subterranean microbial life is found in Lechuguilla Cave Carlsbad Caverns National Park, New Mexico,where […]
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THE DIFFERENCES IN SKILLS BETWEEN ENTREPRENEURS AND MANAGERS WITHIN A LATTER-DAY SAINT COMMUNITY
Gianna Rosenbaum Ericksen, Marriott School of Management Many believe that entrepreneurs are born and not taught. There is speculation that success is personality-based rather than skill-based. The stream of research in this area, though, has indicated that skill plays a crucial role in the success of entrepreneurs. Successful ventures also depend on the right combination […]
The World vs. the United States How the International Community Defied a Superpower to Create the International Criminal Court
Anna Sanders and Dr. Darren Hawkins, Political Science The International Criminal Court has been an item of some debate both here in the United States and in the international community. The United States opposition and the subsequent creation of a supranational body without it’s support provide an interesting case for studying international organizations. It is […]
Transformation of Urban Space: Somali Bantu Women Refugees and the Lynn Community Health Center
April Reynosa and Dr. Julie Hartly, Anthropology Introduction This study evolved out of my experiences as a volunteer under Project North Star, a literacy program headed by the International Rescue Committee (IRC) that serves refugee women from Somalia. From September of 2006 through December 2006 I worked as the Child Development Instructor for this program. […]
Species Composition of a Desert Rock Pool Metacommunity
Cameron Kmetzsch and Professor Russell B Rader, Integrative Biology Rock pools are one of the most unique and threatened aquatic habitats in the world. Changes in global climate could alter precipitation patterns and disrupt the annual cycle of filling and drying to which this community has evolved. Previous misconceptions assume that all rock pools are temporary habitats. […]
Whose Legs are in the Water? Parsing out Community Composition and Turnover Rates of Plecoptera, Trichoptera, and Ephemeroptera
Sarah Walker and Dr. C. Riley Nelson, Department of Biology Many beta diversity indicies, like most analytical tools in ecology, abstract the known relative abundances and species presence into outputs primarily useful for obtaining p-values and little else. Therefore, the purposes of this proposed beta diversity method were to simplify currently used similarity analyses for […]
Over the Individualism Wall: Creating an Ubuntu Community at Immaculate Conception Catholic Parish
Jordan Layton and Dr. Jeremy Grimshaw, Department of Music As I near my host family’s neighborhood, the streets become constraining tunnels. Lining the curbs are wall after wall of concrete above my head, topped with razor wires, electric lines, or metal spikes. The only breaks to the walled monotony are tall, jail-like gates. Shutting the […]
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Kevin C Pinegar and Professor Adrian Pulfer, Visual Arts When I enrolled in Brigham Young University, I had decided that “for the sake of education” I would give up art and culture for a few years and live in Provo. I was naive back then: I thought that BYU would be a place that discouraged creative […]
Aboriginal Cultural Resilience: A Community Ethnography in Utopia
Jaren Meldrum and Dr. Todd L. Goodsell, Sociology Department Main Text Most rural indigenous communities in Australia have an abnormally high frequency of tobacco and alcohol use, domestic violence, and gambling, the prevalence of which can be seen as a result of an anomic loss of cultural identity in the postcolonial era (O’Connor 1984; Johnston […]
Community Development in Rural Mexico: Observations on Leadership and Community
Matthew Cox and Dr. Ralph Brown, Sociology Introduction Within the field of community development, there are various opinions of what qualities or characteristics define a developed community. Each of these definitions varies depending on the academic or professional sector in which it is found. This research began based on the hypothesis inherent in Flora and […]
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