Ellie Vance and Thom K. Edlund My summer in Moscow was amazing, but not what I expected it to be. Rather, it was filled with unexpected but wonderful surprises and changes along the way. The original plan was to secure an internship in a Moscow archive in order to learn more about how archive systems […]
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History of Latter-Day Saint K-12 Education
Eric Tonini and Casey Griffiths, Church History & Doctrine The Republic of Kiribati is a nation consisting of thirty-three coral atolls. While twenty-one of the atolls are inhabited, a majority of the population lives on the main island known as South Tarawa. This major population on South Tarawa have moved from outer islands in the […]
Post-Genocide Rwanda Peacebuilding Efforts: The Perspective of the People
Amerins Tolman and Ben Cook, Law School Introduction: In 2015, there were forty active conflicts worldwide, with approximately 167,000 fatalities. These statistics are representative for the past decade. Many fatalities are associated with the inability to create lasting peace in the developing world, due to a lack of peace-building techniques, assistance from the transnational justice […]
Slam Poetry in Suburban Schools
Madelyn Taylor and Christopher Crowe, English Introduction Since the birth of hip-hop culture as youth culture in the 1970s, exploration of hip-hop influenced pedagogies in formal schooling has grown increasingly popular (Hill, 2009). By centering classrooms on elements of hip-hop arts such as spoken word, graffiti culture, and hip-hop music, educational research has seen notable […]
Moral Transformation of Religious Conflict: Believers & Bonfire in Belfast, Northern Ireland
Brinnan Schill and Jacob Hickman, PhD, Anthropology The purpose of this project was to investigate the cultural and historical implications of contemporary religious changes among two case studies of millenarian movements, drawing specifically on ethnographic field research already conducted in a Hmong village in Northern Thailand, and continuing research on conflict transformation among the Protestant […]
Using Remote Video Systems to Measure Effectiveness of Small Scale MPAs in Saipipi, Samoa
Calvin Quigley and Dr. Richard Gill, Biology Introduction- Coral reefs represent an invaluable natural, providing $30 billion dollars of fishing and recreational profits worldwide, and housing nearly a quarter of the oceans species [1, 2]. However, threats such as climate change, ocean acidification, coastal development and overharvesting have destroyed more than a fifth of the […]
Does Hypochlorous Acid Accelerate the Degradation of Absorbable Sutures?
Stephen Pinnock and Anton Bowden, Mechanical Engineering Patients who undergo surgery may experience infection in the surgical site due to bacteria with a biofilm phenotype. This biofilm can render the bacteria resilient to standard antibiotics and the wound must be disinfected with an antimicrobial solution. Hypochlorous acid (HOCl) is a commonly used surgical antimicrobial used […]
Microbes and Metals: Purifying the Water of Lake Titicaca
Sara Ludlow, Dr. Gregory T. Carling, Department of Geological Sciences Pollution of Lake Titicaca has become a major threat to the health and lifestyle of the Uru people who use the lake water for their daily needs. Cities along the coast dump untreated sewage directly into the lake introducing dangerous microbial levels of Escherichia coli. Runoff […]
Native BYU: Remembering Living Histories
Maren Loveland, Dr. Michael Taylor, English Department In collaboration with BYU’s recently founded Native American Alumni Association, BYU’s Special Collections, and Diné historian and BYU alumna, Farina King (Northeastern State University), the purpose of this project is to create a permanent physical and digital collection that documents the extensive and diverse history of BYU’s Native American […]
The Impact of Perceived Support on Multi-cultural and International College Students in Utah
Erin Kaseda, Wendy Birmingham, Psychology College is a time in which young adults face a large number of stressors, including academic adjustment, education and career planning, evolving family relationships, struggles with financial independence, dating and marriage, and exposure to new cultures and ideas.1 Previous studies have suggested that college students face high levels of stress, with […]
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