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 […]
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Search for Genomic Factors that Influence Cerebrospinal Fluid Levels of YKL40, a Novel Biomarker for Alzheimer’s Disease
Mo Lee and Dr. John S.K. Kauwe, Biology Department Alzheimer’s disease is the most common form of dementia in the United States. It is a complex neurodegenerative disorder featured by gradual onset and progression of memory loss combined with deficits in executive functioning, language, visuospatial abilities, personality, behavior and self-care. There are basically two types […]
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 […]
Summary Of Research On The Narcissus Myth And Its Variant In Turn- Of-The-Century French Literature
Stephen B. Vaisey and Dr. Scott M. Sprenger, French and Italian The goal of my research was to identify the origin of a deviation from the classic Ovidian myth of Narcissus that Professor Sprenger noticed in the Traité du Narcisse of Andre Gide. Gide’s Narcissus dies by drowning while trying to embrace his own image […]
Summary of Creative Research Grant Results of The Life of Luke S. Johnson
James A. Rae and Dr. Richard E. Bennett, Church History and Doctrine The results of being accepted for this scholarship resulted in an extensive life history of one of the most prominent Latter-Day Saint pioneers. Though now largely not well known, Luke S. and the Johnson family played an important role in the beginnings of […]
Summary of Creative Research Grant Results
Kathleen Price and Dr. Jeff Turley, Spanish and Portuguese This project entitled “Out of Obscurity” required the transcription of twenty letters dictated by King Philip II of Spain in 1592 during Spain’s naval wars against England and France. Most of the documents generated by Philip II, also known as the “paper king” for his prolific […]
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