Nicole Gomez Bravo and Laura Smith, German Introduction This study examined factors influencing the linguistic and cultural integration of Spanish-speaking immigrants into the local language and culture. Immigration and the integration of recent immigrants is an increasingly polarizing topic worldwide, with many citizens complaining that new immigrants fail to learn the target language of their […]
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Impact of a Psychology of Gender Course on Student Attitudes
Charles Dale Flint and Emily Darowski, Harold B. Lee Library Introduction Ambivalent sexism is present in U.S. university students (Chrisler, Gorman, Marvan, & Johnston-Robledo, 2013) and is a combination of both hostile sexism (a direct antipathy towards woman) and benevolent sexism (seemingly positive beliefs and actions based on gender stereotypes; Glick & Fiske, 1996). Ambivalent […]
Psychosocial Empowerment Group Creation and Implementation Among Malawi Women
Libby Evans and Benjamin Ogles, Psychology Research has shown that most women in Malawi will experience some form of trauma or adversity in their lifetime, and that such adversity can increase rates of mental illness and instability by as much as 15-20% (Saxena, 2017). Simple psychosocial groups and trainings have been shown to increase psychological […]
The Pygmalion Project
Sophie Determan, Roger Macfarlane, Comparative Arts & Letters The goal of my project was to assist Dr. Roger Macfarlane in developing the online index of the Oxford Guide to Classical Mythology in the Arts which will be centered at BYU. The OGCMA is an important and widely-used index that identifies 30,000+ artworks spanning from the 1300-1900s. […]
Giving Sunshine to Sunnyvale: Implementing a Recreational Therapy Group for Refugees
Allison Barnes and Ramon Zabriskie, Experience and Design Management Giving sunshine to Sunnyvale refers to bringing light and hope to the Sunnyvale community in Salt Lake City that is mainly comprised of refugees from many different countries. This project was to create a recreational therapy group for refugee children in this community. This took place […]
Does Transparency Mobilize Citizens and Decrease Corruption?
Neal Bangerter and Brigham Daniels, BYU Law School I worked with Professor Brigham Daniels on his ongoing research with Mark Buntaine at UC Santa Barbara. This is a summary of the results from the 2018 phase of the project. Introduction Transparency in government is widely considered to have a positive impact on governance, by equipping […]
Changing the Culture of Public Transportation at BYU
Samantha Aramburu and Jamin Rowan, Department of English Introduction Public transportation is an entity that is fast-growing in the state of Utah. While the Utah population is generally dependent on their cars, there are growing amounts of people that rely on public transportation to get where they need to go. There are several different transit systems […]
Archaeometry for the Ancestors: Stable Isotope Analysis of Skeletal Remains from Huarochirí, Perú
Ridge Anderson, Zachary Chase, PhD, Anthropology Introduction The Huarochirí region of the central coast of Peru has been of utmost importance to Andean anthropologists since the late 1930s discovery of the Huarochirí Manuscript. The manuscript is the only historical document we have that is written in an indigenous Andean language. Consequently, it has been one of […]
Molecular Characterization of Penstemon scariosus (Plantaginaceae)
Mikel R. Stevens The objectives of this project: Our objective was “to develop an understanding of the genetic structure of the varieties within P. scariosus. With a specific intent to test the hypothesis that P. scariosus var. albifluvis is distinct within P. scariosus” while mentoring no less than four undergraduate students. We have meet and […]
Evolution of the photopigments in the largest and most complex terrestrial animal eyes
Seth M. Bybee, Department of Biology, December 2017 Evaluation of how well the academic objectives of the proposal were met The proposal had three main aims: 1). Produce a phylogenetic estimate of aeshnid dragonfly evolution from transcriptomes. 2). Use the phylogeny from Aim I and the photopigments isolated from the transcriptome data to examine the […]
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