Claire Monson and Dr. Roger Mcfarlane, Department of Classics and Comparative Literature The purpose of my application for an ORCA Grant was to collaborate with Sonderforschungsbereich (SFB) 950: Centre for the Study of Manuscript Cultures, located in Hamburg, Germany. Using their resources and the expertise of Professor Roger T. Macfarlane, we were able to make […]
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Emotion-Related Conflict Adaptation in Generalized Anxiety Disorder
Daniel Bjornn and Dr. Michael Larson, Department of Psychology Conflict adaptation is a neurological process that reflects the adjustment of performance on tasks when conflict is detected on previous trials. Conflict in this instance refers to the simultaneous activation of multiple response options. When conflict is detected, such as on an incongruent trial on Stroop […]
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: […]
La Photographie de Rue: The Changed Face of Doisneau’s Paris
Sarah Carrigan and Dr. James Swensen, Department of Visual Arts I suppose it all started in a textbook. Perhaps this shouldn’t be surprising, but as one who generally avoids superfluous bouts of academic reading, I’m still in a fair amount of awe that this project ever got dreamt up in the first place. Yet how […]
Influence of Tissue Stiffness Asymmetry on Human Vocal Fold Vibration
Kimberly Stevens and Dr. Scott Thomson, Department of Mechanical Engineering Background and Motivation The flow-induced vibration of the human vocal folds produces the sound for voiced speech and singing. The vocal folds consist of two folds of tissue, one on each side of the larynx, that are nominally symmetric in terms of shape, composition, and […]
Gold Nanoparticle Conjugation with A2 Protein in VLP for Symmetrical Alignment
Matthew Burnham and Dr. Brad Bundy, Department of Chemical Engineering A Virus-like Particle (VLP) is a nanostructure composed of many coat proteins. They differ from real viruses in that they are synthesized to be non-infectious. VLPs have many useful applications in vaccines, drug delivery, gene therapy, and material science1. Last year, I attempted to create […]
Place-Based Art Education/Anasazi & Fremon Art and Culture
Professor Mark Graham, Department of Art Education Evaluation of how well the academic objectives of the proposal were met This project engaged students in arts-based research of the rock art of Anasazi, Fremont and other ancient cultures in central and southern Utah. Their research had three components: (1) A review of research literature describing the history […]
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 […]
The Cognitive Neuroscience of Long-Term Memory
Dr. Brock Kirwan, Department of Psychology Memory is an essential cognitive ability. It allows us to use past events to guide future actions. Research in my laboratory focuses on determining the mechanics of how the brain remembers what it does. We are interested in determining what will be remembered and what will be forgotten. Specifically, […]