Drs. Eric H. Christiansen and William Keach, Department of Geological Sciences Introduction The origin of Earth’s continents, many of our most important ore deposits and the largest and most damaging volcanic eruptions are all related to the emplacement of silicic plutons–large masses of once molten magma. Understanding the details of the mechanism by which these […]
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How Does the Effect of Cholesterol Vary between the Inner and Outer Membrane?
Dr. John Bell, Department of Physiology and Developmental Biology Summary This proposal was designed to use fluorescence spectroscopy to identify in as much detail as possible physical properties of model membranes in effort to understand roles of cholesterol in biological membranes. The following questions were addressed: how does the effect of cholesterol differ between the […]
Advanced Biological and Biomedical Applications in Electrical Engineering
Drs. Neal K. Bangerter and Brian A. Mazzeo, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering Summary The aim of the awarded MEG grant was to provide seed funding to establish a mentorship program for undergraduate students wishing to prepare for careers or graduate work in biological or biomedical applications of electrical engineering. Such a program has […]
The Effects of Development Aid on Public Health
Dr. Daniel Nielson, Department of Political Science Reaching Academic Objectives Between 2007 and 2009 the students in my mentoring research program helped fill out the Project-Level Aid (PLAID) Database, now called AidData and located at aiddata.org, to such an extent that the academic fruits became both evident and prominent. With the help of the mentored […]
Finding Plagiarizing and Undesirable Web Documents by Utilizing Word Similarity in the Fuzzy Set Information Retrieval Model
Dr. Yiu-Kai Dennis Ng, Department of Computer Science Evaluation of the Academic Objects In the 2007 MEG proposal, I specified the following Internet problems to be solved using a Fuzzy set information retrieval (IR) model: (i) detecting plagiarism, which is the act of using another’s words or ideas as one’s own, (ii) filtering junk emails, […]
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The Journal of Undergraduate Research contains published research reports resulting from undergraduate mentoring. Reports are published 1 year after the grants are awarded. (e.g. Reports for projects marked 2013 (projects that were funded in February 2013) were published in January 2014.) activity affect american analysis approach art assessment based behavior byu cancer care cells change […]
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