Nathan Richardson, Dr. Michael Hubbard MacKay, Church History and Doctrine Many historians, both Mormon and non-Mormon, have developed ideas about the restoration of the priesthood, and there is a rich literature that describes the details of those events. However, the Joseph Smith Papers Project, for which my mentor, Dr. MacKay is an author, has uncovered […]
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Visual Research of Delacroix
Drew Rane and Professor Peter Everett, Studio Arts The paintings of Eugene Delacroix show an exception power and emotion. Delacroix uses the human figure and color in order to express emotion. There continues to be an important place for the use of representation of the human figure in contemporary art. This is through the expressive […]
Research of Baleen Whale Bioacoustics using a Synthetic Whale Larynx Model
Nelson Warner and Dr. Scott Thomson, Mechanical Engineering Introduction Although extensive research has been performed to document whale songs, we have little understanding of how baleen whales produce their sound. This project was to create a physical model of a sei whale larynx (voice box) to study the source of vocal production in baleen whales. […]
ORCA Undergraduate Research Award – Final Report
Michael Daetwyler While working on my undergraduate degree, I studied an interesting strain of Staphylococcus epidermidis. This particular strain produced an unidentified substance, which was lethal to other Gram-positive bacteria. I immediately thought that this substance might prove advantageous in treating infections caused by antibiotic resistant bacteria. To begin investigating that possibility, I grew the […]
Researching the Effects of Osteoarthritis as a Systemic Immune Response
Danielle Peterson and Dr. David Kooyman, Physiology and Developmental Biology Our bodies are dynamic structures that do not operate as individual compartments, but as a whole. When something goes awry in one specific tissue or organ, specific signals from that diseased area are released affect other tissues. I received an ORCA grant last year to […]
Close Spaces: Original Research on Attachment in Thai Orphans
Jenessa Halliday and Dr. Charles Nuckolls, Anthropology This report evaluates attachment among twenty orphaned toddlers living in the Viengping Orphanage in Chiang Mai, Thailand. The report measures the attachment of the orphans towards their daily caregivers, using an adapted version of the Waters attachment q-set (AQS). Due to a correlation between orphans and insecure attachment, […]
Student Mentoring in Research: Laser-Activated Drug Delivery to Cancer Cells
William G. Pitt, Chemical Engineering Department Summary of Scope of Proposal This proposal was submitted in October of 2011 to organize and fund a mentoring group in the Pitt lab in Chemical Engineering. Marjan Javadi, then a PhD candidate in Chemical Engineering, and 5 uldergraduate students participated in this research group. The purpose was 2-‐fold, […]
Public Health in Southeast Asia: Focus on Adolescent Health Research
Randy M. Page, Department of Health Sciences 1. Evaluation of how well the academic objectives of the proposal were met Outcome 1: Students will develop research and presentation skills and gain confidence in their abilities. This project directed students to work on research conducted in Thailand focusing on adolescent body image and smoking. Students participated […]
Summary of Creative Research Grant Results: The Effects of 15th and 16th Century Scholarship on the American Founding
Owen D. Yeates and Dr. Richard Vetterli, Political Science The scope of my initial research proposal was quite wide, simply stating that I would study the writings of the Cambridge Platonists and Oxford Reformers and those surrounding them to discover the effects of religious thought on the concepts of virtue and liberty as transmitted from […]
Summary Of Creative Research Grant Results And Artistic Statement
Marguerite McQuarrie Whitley and Professor Bruce Hixon Smith, Visual Arts The outcome of my final show was different than what I had originally proposed when I applied for an ORCA grant. I began as I had planned, studying the figure in sessions at the Springville art museum, and I had started and nearly completed 15 […]
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