PI: Richard Robison The Specific aims for the project were as follows: Develop singleplex q-PCR assays to identify the tick-borne pathogens Borrelia burgdorferi, Borrelia hermsii, Bartonella henselae, and Babesia microti. Primer generation software will be used to design primer and probe sequences that will theoretically perform optimally in PCR reactions. All sequences will be subjected […]
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Overcoming Under-Reporting: Known Measurement Error
Shumway, Adam Overcoming Under-Reporting: Known Measurement Error Faculty Mentor: Dr. Joseph Price, Economics Department Introduction This project evaluates the feasibility of overcoming measurement error by using predictors for participation. Several national surveys under-represent actual program participation; some actual participants in government welfare programs, for example, fail to truthfully report participation when asked. Using data from […]
Preserving a Sinking Culture: An Investigative Report on the Kiribati Community in New Zealand and Fiji
Ryan Turner and Steven Thomsen, Department of Communications For thousands of years the peoples of the Pacific have been a people of exploration and travel. However, with the small country of Kiribati its people are now traveling to escape climate change and overpopulation¹. With such a small population at risk of relocating to another country […]
Charge-Steering CMOS Amplifier Design and Testing Final Report
Nathan Whitehead and Shiuhhua Wood Chiang, Electrical & Computer Engineering Project Overview The goal of this research was to demonstrate that the complementary and 4-stage amplifiers can achieve superior gain or speed over the 2-stage charge-steering amplifier in [1], and the conventional differential amplifier introduced in the ORCA grant proposal. The completion of this project has […]
Mentoring Environment Grant Final Report (2014-2015)
Quinn Mecham Academic Objectives The academic objectives of this proposal were largely met, including the collection of a global database on Islamist political parties, which has informed scholarship published in the last two years and which will be published in the coming years. Extensive bibliographies of Islamist parties in more than 20 countries around the […]
Final Report for 2013 MEG: Improving the memory response of pathogen specific helper T cells
Scott Weber – Department of Microbiology and Molecular Biology The following two aims are from my 2013 MEG. We made great progress and completed most of both Aim 1 and Aim 2. Details on the progress for each aim are described below. Mentoring Environment: This MEG allowed me to expand the size of my lab […]
2013-2014 Final Report : EPHEDRA (Each Person Has Essential Disciplinary Research Abilities) in Interdisciplinary Climate Change Studies
Professor Richard Gill Evaluation of how well the academic objectives of the proposal were met The central aim of this proposal was to provide opportunities for students from diverse academic backgrounds to work collaboratively on a number of federally funded projects that include Colorado Plateau grasslands, the Mojave Desert, the Great Basin sagebrush steppe, and […]
Mentoring Environment Grant Final Report
“Melting glaciers as a source of mercury and other trace metals do high elevation ecosystems in the Wind River Range, Wyoming” Greg Carling, Dept. of Geological Sciences 1. Evaluation of Academic Objectives The purpose of this project is to evaluate the chemistry of proglacial streams in the Wind River Range of Wyoming to develop baseline […]
MEG Report: Elastic Frames for Earthquake Resistance
Paul Richards, Civil and Environmental Engineering Project Topic and Objective The topic of the proposal was steel frames with superior elastic energy capacity that will permit buildings to better withstand severe earthquake loading. The anticipated outcomes related to mentoring were: each student researcher would be the lead author on a conference publication, students would present […]
MEG Grant Final Report 2014-2015
Robert P. Minert, Ph.D., A.G., Religious Education In 2013, I was awarded a mentoring grant under the MEG program for calendar years 2014-2015. The grant was for $20,000, all money stipulated for use as student wages. Advanced students of Germanic family history and German language were hired to extract data on German immigrants from old […]