Michael Stallings and Professor Chad Hancock, Department of Nutrition, Dietetics, and Food Science Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus is a public health concern for the United States and is becoming a global health crisis. The hallmark of type 2 diabetes is high blood sugar, which leads to a host of other health issues. In healthy subjects, insulin […]
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The Video Essay: Introducing an Increasingly Relevant Sub-genre
Jacob Cutler and Dr. Patrick Madden, Department of English Teaming up with Inscape (BYU’s journal of literature and art) has proven to be fundamental for my ORCA project. In addition to publishing two of my video essays, Inscape has published my short essay explaining and introducing the concept of the video essay. I have included that essay below […]
Mariachi-Dachi
Kevin Merriman and Professor Ryan Woodward, Department of Visual Arts Why I chose to make a comic book Besides the fact that this is something I’ve fantasized doing since I was a kid, this was also the perfect project for me to help propel my career forward as an artist. As a student, it’s easy […]
The Childrens’ Literacy Project: “Restoring the Love of Reading”
Melissa Manwill and Professor Robert Barrett, Department of Visual Arts This project began as a desire to try my hand at making a graphic novel. I’d never done it before. Neither had my classmates. We had also never made a collaborative art project in the way that the animation program makes a film each year. Those […]
Chronicle of a Country: French Oral Histories
Jacob Johnson and Dr. Dean Duncan, Department of Theatre and Media Arts Our project is a creative approach to documenting French culture through the words and experiences of its citizens. We traveled to France and interviewed many people, learning a great deal about what happiness means to people from this country. Our questions were simple: […]
German Immigrants in American Church Records
Dr. Roger Minert, Church History and Doctrine The funding sought and granted under the MEG program was to be used to continue a project begun in September 2003 under the title “German Immigrants in American Church Records.” To date, some 60 students have contributed to this research designed to identify German, Austrian, and Swiss immigrants […]
Development of Real-Time Polymerase Chain Reaction (q-PCR) Assays for the Specific Detection and Characterization of Select Bacterial Pathogens
Dr. Richard Robison, Department of Microbiology & Molecular Biology The Specific aims for the project were as follows Develop q-PCR reactions for specific target genes of bacterial pathogens Primer generation software will be used to design primer and probe sequences that will theoretically perform optimally in PCR reactions. All sequences will be subjected to BLAST […]
The Function of Yeast PAS kinase
Dr. Julianne Grose, Department of Microbiology & Molecular Biology Evaluation of academic objectives PAS kinase is a newly discovered member of the nutrient sensing kinases that regulates glucose homeostasis in mice and yeast. The aim of our 2009 MEG “The Function of Yeast PAS kinase” was to characterize the role of a known PAS kinase […]
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