Brandon Dean and Dr. Macleans Geo-Jaja, Educational Leadership and Foundations Public health educational campaigns are an important part of the health care systems of the world. From public service announcements pleading with us to not “Drink & Drive,” to large outdoor billboards advertising the “Fight the Bite” campaign against West Nile Virus, public health education […]
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Shaping Public Space: Examining the Musée d’Orsay and Modern Louvre
Heather Jacques Wood and Dr. Daryl Lee, French and Italian For this project, I wrote an honors thesis examining how museum space—understood as a form of public space—has been shaped by the forces of politics, culture, and public space theories. Two museums in particular, the Musée d’Orsay and the Musée du Louvre, served as case […]
1936 Lithuanian Republic Federal Prison Records
Svetlana Mortensen and Professor Thom Kent Edlund, History Department As it was planned I went to Lithuania in November 2005. Few days after my arrival I went to the Lithuanian Central State Archive and met the Archive Assistant Director Valerija Juseviciute with whom I communicated beforehand. Upon this meeting I made a rather unpleasant discovery. In […]
Shack Settlement Planning and Public Participation: Duncan Village, South Africa
David Kay and Dr. Richard Jackson, Geography Over the last ten years, government programs have facilitated the redevelopment of many South African communities; however, for many the promise of redevelopment has been elusive. In 2002, there were an estimated 8 million people living in shack settlements in South Africa. From 1994 to 2004, the government […]
An Investigation of Ethnographic Musical Instruments for Presentation in a Public Exhibition
Christine Echols and Dr. Marti Lu Allen, Anthropology I used my ORCA scholarship to study a significant group of ethnographic musical instruments that were held by the Museum of Art and the Museum of Peoples and Cultures at BYU. By research and study, I was able to address questions of patterns and commonalities in rituals […]
Perceptions of Public Health Nurses in Taiwan
Meagan Astill and Dr. Erin Maughan, Nursing The importance of health promotion and disease prevention, primary focuses for public health nurses, has been a source of debate between medical professionals, many of whom focus only on the biomedical aspects of health care rather than ‘holistic’ care (Mino, 2005). The public health nurse is at the […]
Gender Politics and Education in 1920s Ireland: Public and Private Editorializing in TCD: A College Miscellany
Katherine Fisher and Dr. David Hatch, English When I began this project, I planned to investigate the ways in which Irish students engaged with and wrote about certain philosophical and literary tenets of modernism. As I conducted background research on the social and political climate in Ireland during the 1920s, however, my focus shifted somewhat […]
A Crisis in Loyalty: Reconciling Public and Private Loyalties in Public Relations
Megan Stoker and Dr. Kevin Stoker, Communications For my ORCA project I was attempting to determine how conflicts of loyalty were addressed in modern public relations practices. From previous research I had determined that there were no clear cut guidelines for public relations practitioners to use when evaluating and deciding between two conflicting loyalties. This […]
Republican Primary Donor Retention in the 2012 General Election Do Divisive Primaries Affect Campaign Donors?
Robert Richards and Dr. Jay Goodliffe, Political Science Department Introduction In recent presidential elections, we have seen many long, drawn out nomination battles in party primary elections. The divisive primary hypothesis states that divisive presidential primaries hurt the party’s performance in the general election (Kenney and Rice 1987). Research on this claim has generally focused […]
HAITIAN IMMIGRANTS IN SANTIAGO, DOMINICAN REPUBLIC
Jesse S. Morgan and Dr. John P. Hawkins, Anthropology, I was awarded an ORCA grant in order to carry out ethnographic research in the Dominican Republic (DR.). ORCA’s support made it possible for me to spend four months in Santiago, the second largest city, during winter semester. I had originally intended that my fieldwork would […]
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