James Jensen and Dr. Mark Clement, Department of Computer Science The project began in the Computational Science Lab in the Computer Science Department, where I was given the assignment of finding something useful to do with a collaborating biologist’s microarray data. Initially, the goal was to identify differentially expressed genes, and shifted to integrating differential […]
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Developing an Instrument to Assess Immunization Requirements Among Utah Health Care Workers in the Outpatient Setting
Nathan Wiley and Dr. Beth Luthy, College of Nursing The health care environment is ideal for the spread of immunization-preventable and communicable diseases (Goldstein, Kincade, Gamble, & Bearman, 2004). Communicable diseases, such as pertussis, are highly contagious and easily transmitted by health care workers (HCWs) to at-risk patients (CDC, 1997; Sandora, Gidengil, & Lee, 2008). […]
Healing All Around the World: French Nurses’ Perspective of the French Healthcare System
Cami Schiel and Dr. Leslie Miles, College of Nursing The purpose of this project was to examine how foreign nurses (specifically French nurses) perceived their healthcare system, and those in other countries. This ultimately led to additional insight into where they get their perceptions, positive and negative aspects of different types of healthcare systems, and […]
Adults with Type 1 Diabetes; Lifetime perspectives
Laura Boone and Dr. Donna Freeborn, College of Nursing The purpose of this qualitative study was to identify the stressors experienced throughout childhood and adolescence of adults with type 1 diabetes (T1D). Identification of stressors can be a helpful tool in improving the child and family’s quality of life and current treatment methodologies. T1D is […]
Recruiting Internal Auditors: The Effects of Using the Internal Audit Function as a Management Training Ground and Performing Consulting Services
Matthew Starliper and Dr. David Wood, School of Accountancy A critical component of high quality corporate governance is attracting well-qualified job candidates into the internal audit function (IAF). Yet, IAFs face significant challenges in hiring a sufficient number of qualified professionals to perform their worki. Given this challenge, it is important to understand factors that […]
Antibody Production and Diversification in Humanized Mice
Stanton Nielsen and Dr. Brad Berges, Department of Microbiology and Molecular Biology Many scientists are skeptical of using humanized mice to study the human adaptive immune response. The reasoning behind this skepticism stems from discrepancies in various studies seen previously. A study conducted by Traggiai et al. showed that humanized mice elicited a human adaptive immune response when […]
Imagining a Controversy: The Taft-Katsura Memorandum in Korean Historical Memory
Joseph Seeley and Dr. Kirk Larsen, Department of History One of the most important lessons I learned over the course of this project was that a finished research project is often dramatically different from what is originally planned. When I began consulting with my advisor about doing an ORCA project together, our initial idea was […]
Examining the Relationship Between Graduation Rates and Minority Rates in Utah High School
Stephen Richards and Dr. Eric Eide, Department of Economics The humorist Dave Barry has said, “The one thing that unites all human beings, regardless of age, gender, religion, economic status or ethnic background, is that, deep down inside, we ALL believe that we are above-average drivers.” I think he’s right, but I presume to add […]
Youth Self-Efficacy As A Predictor of Youth Symptoms and Psychotherapy Outcomes
Brooke Daniels-Brown and Dr. Jared Warren, Department of Psychology The purpose of the project was to examine youth self-efficacy as it relates to youth symptoms and treatment outcomes in a community mental health setting. From analyzing the collected data, results suggest that youth self-efficacy may act as a moderator and potential mediator in youth mental […]
Curriculum Adaption Highlighting Strengths of Students with ADHD
Katie Dooley and Professor Daniel Barney, Department of Visual Arts In accepting this research grant my objective was to better understand the characteristics of ADHD and to regard these characteristics as strengths that could be seen as assets in a classroom. When I began this research I was hopeful that I would find many articles discussing […]