J. Dee Higley, Psychology Summary This is the final report for the MEG Grant titled: A nonhuman primate model of anxiety-induced alcohol abuse and alcoholism. The formal phase of the project ran from June 1 through August 23, 2016, with the students learning how to safely work with their research subjects, joining a research team, […]
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Professional Responsibility and Professional Development in a Crowdsourcing Model of Legal Assistance
Kif Augustine-Adams and Ivan Meitus, Law School The MEG funds that I received supported student participation in pro bono legal assistance fieldwork at the South Texas Family Residential Center in Dilley, Texas, as well as student participation in an academic conference to present and discuss our research. The funds also supported teaching assistants who returned […]
Quantifying predictive value of biological data types in machine learning models of cancer outcome
Samantha Jensen, Stephen Piccolo, Biology Precision medicine is a growing movement toward utilizing molecular diagnostics to guide medical decisions. It is particularly useful when applied to cancer treatment, as knowing details about cancer stage, genetic pathology, and tumor type can inform life-saving decisions. Increasingly, physicians may use genetic, proteomic, epigenetic, and expression data to determine treatment […]
Modeling Main Group Metal Alkane Functionalization Reactions in Highly Acidic Carboxylic and Sulfuric Acid Solvents
Lily H. Carlson, Prof. Daniel H. Ess, Chemistry Department Our group is interested in identifying the unknown mechanisms of main-group C-H functionalization reactions. In the long term, our goal is to use computational chemistry tools to develop general principles on mechanisms, intermediates, reactivity, and selectivity for hydrocarbon C-H functionalization reactions by p-block main-group compounds as well […]
Mathematical modeling of cell-cell and cell-extracellular matrix interactions
Dr. Emily Evans, Department of Mathematics Scientific Merit of Project Understanding cell-cell and cell-extracellular interactions is important because these inter- actions play a role in wound healing, developmental processes, and pathological conditions such as cancer. The work done for this project is in some sense joint work with biologists, in the sense that biologists perform […]
Learning and Lifting: Moving Toward BYU’s Ideal Mentoring Environment Using Climate Change Research as a Model
Modeling Quantum Energy Teleportation
Rachel Gardner, Dr. Manuel Berrondo, and Dr. Jean-Francois Van Huele, Department of Physics and Astronomy Introduction The purpose of my research was to design and create a model for Quantum Energy Teleportation (QET) that maximizes the usefulness of the teleportation. The model allowed me to contrast QET to Quantum Information Teleportation (QIT), and in particular […]
Computationally Modelling the Trophic Cascade in Yellowstone National Park
Emily Menden and Dr. Sean Warnick, Department of Computer Science Introduction The area of quantitative ecology has been growing in recent years as biologists and mathematicians come together to better understand the ecological dynamics in the systems that surround us. One category of systems that begs to be studied is systems in which species are […]
Parameter Reduction of the Hodgkin-Huxley Model of a Spiking Neuron
Tyler Bahr and Dr. Mark Transtrum, Department of Physics and Astronomy Introduction The foundational model of voltage spiking in neurons, formulated by Hodgkin and Huxley in 1952, is composed of 4 dynamical variables and 25 parameters. The sheer complexity of the basic neuron model is a key issue which makes neural simulations computationally expensive. We […]
HiPS Turbulent Flow Modeling for High Schmidt Number Flow A Novel Approach to an Old Problem
Joshua Frei and Dr. David Lignell, Chemical Engineering Department The whorls and vortices of smoke plumes, churning waterfalls, and crashing waves have a captivating sense of mystery about them. This chaotic, seemingly random fluid motion is known as turbulent flow, and it is ubiquitous both in day-to-day life and in engineering problems. Despite the many […]
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