John D. Young and Dr. Paul B. Pixton, History Having previously completed a study of religious memory as a motivating factor for Christians to persecute Jews in the High and Late Middle Ages, I felt a strong desire to tell the other side of the story–to analyze the Jewish historical mind-set during these persecution episodes. […]
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HEBREW LANGUAGE TUTORIAL
David R. Coughanour and Professor Chuck Bush, Linguistics When I proposed to undertake this project it was to provide a computer-aided language instruction tutorial for Hebrew 101 students. I was taking Hebrew 101 at the time that the opportunity to apply for an ORCA award came along and I remembered my Hebrew 101 instructor commenting that […]
Mom, Dad and Me: A Video Etnograpy Case Study
Julie Thompson and Dr. R. Carl Harris, Instructional Psychology and Technology Video Ethnographies bring together video clips, audio clips as well as text to create a case study on a CD-ROM. Our Society is turning towards computer-based education, and this case study fits the mold of one of the desirable ways for students to learn. […]
Impact of the Japanese Teahouse on Residential Architecture
David P. Rondina and Professor Lee A. Butler, History The results of this research grant have been interesting and difficult to obtain. To find all of the information that was necessary I not only looked in published books and articles but I also went to Japan to examine first hand some of the tea houses and […]
Effect of Phytoestrogens on Brain Development and Function
Jacob C. Ong and Dr. Edwin D. Lephart, Zoology Phytoestrogens are estrogen-like compounds derived from plants such as the soy plant and can mimic the function of the human estrogen hormone by binding to estrogen receptors. Estrogen plays a major role in the prevention of osteoperosis and cardiovascular disease in woman. Evidence also suggests that […]
Effects of Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation in a Rat-Model of Human Depression
Brian J. Higginbotham and Dr. Erin Bigler, Psychology Transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS) is a relatively new technology that extends the ability to noninvasively stimulate cortical brain structures (Walsh and Rushworth, 1999). TMS involves placing an electromagnet on the scalp and turning it rapidly on and off through the discharge of capacitors, thereby producing a time-varying […]
The Organ Reform Movement—A Revitalization of the 17th Century North German Organ
Benjamin J. Crandall and Dr. Douglas E. Bush, Music The sixteenth and seventeenth centuries comprised the so-called “golden age” of the organ due to the remarkable instruments built then and because of the extraordinary repertoire which spawned from these organs. Reaching a pinnacle of tonal expertise and craftsmanship in the organs of Arp Schnitger (1648-1719) […]
The Development of Musical Thought
Melissa J. Clayton and Professor Jerry L. Jaccard, Music The task at hand, at the beginning of my research, was to discover the process of musical thought development in a child. Piaget’s similar research in mathematical thinking started with first discovering the content of children’s thought in mathematics, through clinical observation. Then he analyzed this content. […]
Repairing Workplace Relationships: The Salience of Accounts and Circumstantial Moderators
Brian Reschke and Dr. Kristen B. DeTienne, Organizational Leadership and Strategy Research Question Misunderstandings, breaches of trust, and unmet expectations are frequent in the workplace. Accounts, or explanations of behavior, are often deployed by alleged offenders to reshape others‟ attributions regarding conduct. In recent years, scholars have returned to the question of how rifts in […]
HIV Tropism and the Germinal Center
Andrew Jay Thorne and Dr. Greg Burton, Chemistry and Biochemistry Human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) infection and resultant development of autoimmune deficiency syndrome (AIDS) killed 1.8 million people and infected 2.2 million more just in 2009. Not only are those whose personal lifestyle choices put them at risk for HIV infection affected. As of 2009, there […]