Jeff Brown and Dr. Renea Beckstrand, College of Nursing In an intensive care center, one sees many patients suffering and staff rushing about, caring for patients’ needs. The most important thing about working in the area of intensive care is efficiency. Dr. Renea Beckstrand of the Brigham Young University College of Nursing has been researching […]
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Summary of Creative Research Grant Results of The Life of Luke S. Johnson
James A. Rae and Dr. Richard E. Bennett, Church History and Doctrine The results of being accepted for this scholarship resulted in an extensive life history of one of the most prominent Latter-Day Saint pioneers. Though now largely not well known, Luke S. and the Johnson family played an important role in the beginnings of […]
Prey Life History Variation Across a Predation Gradient
Matthew Baker and Dr. Mark Belk, Zoology Research exploring the effects of predation on life history evolution has focused almost exclusively on geographically disjunct populations subjected to discrete differences in mortality. Sampling only the ends of a predation continuum left to guess how prey life histories in the live bearing fish Brachyrhaphis rhabdopora vary by […]
PSALMS OF A CITY: POEMS ON THE INNER-CITY LIFE OF LOS ANGELES
Kael Moffat, Department of Honors English I proposed to fly down to Los Angeles for two weeks and compile notes, take photographs, and conduct interviews with people for the purpose of writing a chapter in a book of poetry about the L.A. area. My intent was to write about the conditions and life-style of inner-city […]
FIELD TRIPS INTO LIFE: THINGS I LEARNED BY GOING TO SCHOOL WITH SECOND GRADERS
Mark Carter, Department of English Introduction 0ne day I decided I needed some more excitement and challenge in my life. So, I went to a local elementary school and volunteered as a teacher assistant to a bilingual education instructor. Together, she and I took on a rambunctious class of second graders, with hopes of educating […]
THE VALUE OF LIFE: A CONTINGENT VALUATION STUDY OF RISK AVOIDANCE AND UTAH COUNTY AIR POLLUTION
Christopher Michael Lee, Economics Introduction While prices established in competitive markets provide the most traditional and widely accepted valuation of goods and services, many commodities cannot be valued with price studies because no competitive market exists for those commodities. Economist have developed some methods by which valuations for non-marketed commodities can be estimated. These non-market […]
THE EFFECTS OF EMPLOYMENT ON WOMEN’S LIFE SATISFACTION AND MAIIITAL QUALITY
Jared L. Bleak, Sociology The experience I had in researching and writing on the effects of employment on women’s life satisfaction and marital quality was a wonderful capstone to my education at Brigham Young University. The Research and Creative Work award I received made this experience possible. With the award I was able to decrease […]
Independence: Perceptions of Self-identity in the Life of a Native & American Woman
Tyler K. Lee and Professor David Shuler, Anthropology Summer was rapidly approaching and I was busy making plans to visit Oaxaca, Mexico in search of answers. Several cases of labor abuse involving Mixtec Indians from that region working in Californian fields had emerged and I wanted to find out if Mixtec communal living patterns were […]
In Vitro Effects of Follicular Dendritic Cells on Proliferation of HIVinfected T cells
Jesse Rowley and Dr. Gregory Burton, Microbiology Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV), the cause of AIDS, has eluded successful treatment since its discovery in the early 1980s. HIV is a retrovirus that infects and eventually destroys CD4+ T cells. In HIV infected individuals it is believed that during the longest phase of infection (latency) most viral […]
Internet Radio, Basketball, and High School Life
Scott Raab and Dr. Sirpa Grierson, English The high school years will always be magical because they never happen again. The new freedoms that many middle class American youth either inherit or seize have made the brief collection of academic years a type of Brigadoon. Although they live in a very different world, high school […]
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