Ryan Stewart and Dr. David Erickson Abstract The plague bacterium Yersiniapestisrecently evolved from the enteric pathogen Yersiniapseudotuberculosis, during which time it has adopted a flea-borne lifestyle. Y. pestisforms a biofilmin the flea digestive tract to enhance transmission, whereas Y. pseudotuberculosisdoes not. Biofilmformation requires the hmsgenes, which direct the production of an N-acetylglucosamineextracellular matrix (ECM) that […]
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Alabaster Sky: Writing for the Web
Graham Ward and Dr. Eric Samuelsen, Department of Theatre and Media Arts Writing the web series Alabaster Sky was a process of daily adaptation. From viewing every web series and documentary-style movie we could get our hands on, to inventing a method of structuring serial fiction that’s non-linear, this project tested us daily. The success […]
Silet Signals: Non-Verbal Communication Through Digital Media
Sarah Theurer and Professor Joseph Ostraff, Department of Visual Arts Progress of the Project Through video interviews with students across the US as well as in Great Britain, the Silent Signals project intended to create a portrait of the current university generation through documention their non-verbal communication and signals. We set out to do this through […]
The Garifuna: A Nation Within Nations
Benjamin Petersen and Dr. Jared Johnson, Department of Communications The Garifuna are the descendents of West Africans brought to the Americas in the 1600s aboard slave ships. After a shipwreck in the Caribbean, they settled on the island of St. Vincent and mixed with the Carib Indians, creating a unique people and culture that thrived […]
National Identity and Culture: Through Traditional Language and Music in Okinawa, Japan
Ryler Nielsen and Dr. Jeremy Grimshaw, School of Music Two of the most often used methods that we, as humans, use to identify with each other are language and music. The Omoro Soushi, compiled in the early 1600s, is a compilation of poems and songs in the Okinawan language that were used to create music. […]
Modern Cartoons
John Herzog and Professor Kelly Loosli, Department of Visual Arts My grant from the BYU Office of Research & Creative Activities afforded me the opportunity to study and research the limited animation style pioneered by UPA in the 1940s and 1950s, and to use my research to design a UPA-style character. UPA, or United Productions of […]
An Exploration in New Media and Social Marketing
David Jon Banks and Professor Jeff Parkin, Department of Theatre and Media Arts This project set out to explore, identify, and harness strategy and implementation of social marketing for low-budget and student film online distribution. Taking from previous examples and small-scale testing, a lot has been learned. The biggest lesson learned? Just how much my student […]
Industry Based Multimedia Education
Cameron Wilson and Dr. Geoffrey Wright, School of Technology My goal was to study how the cinematographic industry teaches multimedia and digital production, and compare that with how Utah schools teach multimedia and digital production. The outcome was somewhat of a surprise to me. I thought that public school teachers, having proper pedagogical training, and […]
Spinning Objects in a Shallow Bath: Eggs in Milk
Kenneth Langley and Dr. Tadd Truscott, Department of Mechanical Engineering Introduction If an egg spinning on a counter-top passes through a shallow pool of milk, a thin film of milk will be drawn up the sides of the egg and sprayed on the counter-top. This phenomenon is not limited to eggs or milk. In fact, […]
The Planar Equitent Conjecture: Combining Isoperimetry and Minimal Surfaces
Abraham Frandsen and Dr. Michael Dorff, Department of Mathematics The goal of this project was to explore a new problem in geometric optimization: isoperimetric surfaces with both boundary and volume constraints. The idea behind the problem is the following: what is the optimal way to enclose a given volume with a surface that must also […]