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 […]
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Heritage Language Speakers: Developing an Important Resource
Elise Williams and Professor Ray Graham, TELL Department The goal of this project was to begin to create a curriculum which will enable Spanish teachers to help heritage language speakers (those who grew up speaking Spanish in their homes) to develop academically in their native language (L1). The secondary goal of this project is to […]
Hovering Parents: Is Helicopter Parenting a Unique Form of Parental Control?
Gregory Nichols and Dr. Laura Walker, School of Family Life Introduction Emerging adulthood is a stage of development encompassing the years between 18 and 25 during which individuals strive for self-reliance despite the instability in their education, employment, and housing status (Arnett, 2007). Identity exploration, though historically associated with adolescence (e.g., Erikson, 1959), is so […]
Inter-Caste Adoption in India: Effects on Kinship and Caste as Understood by the Adoptive Family
Kelly Hacker and Dr. Charles Nuckolls, Department of Anthropology In his studies of kinship (1984), David Schneider put forth the theory that kinship is not inherently biologically-based, but is rather a symbolic and flexible understanding of the relationship between individuals. Inter-caste adoption in India, where a husband and wife adopt an unrelated child born to […]
The Gender Gap: Analyzing Utah’s Election Outcomes and Policy Preferences
Josephine Borich and Dr. Jeremy Pope, Department of Political Science My project focused on finding policy differences between male and female candidates in Utah’s 2010 Republican Convention. I hypothesized that there would be policy differences between the genders and that these differences in opinion had the possibility to swing elections. An essential part of my […]
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 […]
An Artistic Investigation of Coming of Age: Inspired by Jugendweihe
Alyssa Grant and Professor Daniel Barney, Department of Visual Arts I am profoundly grateful for the opportunities opened to me through the funding of this ORCA grant. With my grant I was able to travel to Germany to gather source material and experience relevant to my artistic investigation of personal identity and notions of coming of age. […]
How Incarceration Affects Maternal Identify of Female Inmates
Ashlee Manwaring and Dr. Janelle Macintosh, College of Nursing I proposed an ORCA with Janelle Macintosh, RN, PhD, last fall, and was awarded the grant in February. Our original idea was to investigate how incarceration affects maternal identify of female inmates. This was closely related to Dr. Macintosh’s original dissertation proposal and completed dissertation. However, […]
Effects of AntiViral Drug Compounds in Blocking Influenza Virus M2 Channels in Xenopus Laevis Ooctyes
Timothy McClain and Professor David Busath, Department of Physiology and Developmental Biology Goal/Purpose of the Project The purpose of this project was to research and test various drug compounds to prevent influenza virus infection. A specific target of my research is M2 protein channels that aid in the uncoating of the viral coat. Recent mutations have rendered formerly […]
Assessing the Effects of the IRF5 Exon 1B on Translation
Jared Lambert and Dr. Brian Poole, Department of Microbiology and Molecular Biology With our lab’s previous finding revealing a hairpin folding structure in exon 1B (IRF5 risk allele), not found in the other first exons, this project was focused towards more fully understanding the role of IRF5 exon 1B’s hairpin structure and its effect on […]