Rob McFarland and Michelle S. James Acknowledgements: Without funding there would be no Sophie project, which is why the first item in this report on the Sophie activities during 2017 must be an expression of our gratitude to both the ORCA office and to the College of Humanities, on behalf of the faculty members involved, […]
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Improving High School Students’ Workforce Literacy through Collaborative, Online Alternative Reality Games
Jon Balzotti, Assistant Professor of English Evaluation of Academic Objectives This project analyzed student engagement in a high school setting using digital learning environments based on a semi-realistic workplace simulation. The research team explored the challenges of high school student engagement in both traditional and digital learning environments. Data from student surveys suggest that traditional role-play […]
A New Turkish Voice: Culture, Politics, and Expression in the Cello Works of Ahmed Adnan Saygun
Max Olivier and Luke Howard, School of Music A few years ago, I happened upon a little-known recording of the cello concerto of 20th-century Turkish composer Ahmed Adnan Saygun (1907-1991), and I immediately knew that I had discovered a gem. From the opening bars, Saygun drew me into his unique soundworld and captured my attention. […]
Measuring Compassion in the Workforce
Haley Kirk, Jeffrey Jenkins, Information Systems My ORCA project is designed to measure a person’s level of compassion using mouse-cursor tracking. The field of compassion is relatively untouched in the world of research, and I wanted to be one of the first to effectively measure compassion. I also wanted this measurement to be easily implemented into […]
Research Project: Work-family Balance and Social Support: Impact on Physical Health
Principle Investigator: Lori L. Wadssworth, Romney Institute of Public Management and Co-PI: Wendy Birmingham, Department of Psychology This research project explores the relationship between work social support, work-family balance, and marital quality on physical factors, measured by ambulatory blood pressure. The data collection involves each spouse wearing an ABP monitor for 24 hours. The monitor […]
Investigating the Impact of Recreation-at-Work: A Case Study Approach
Mat D. Duerden and Mark A. Widmer Evaluation of How Well the Academic Objectives of the Proposal Were Met Targeted Academic Objectives Our proposal described the following targeted objectives for this project: Students involved in the project will gain a rich exposure to case study research skills by learning to conduct field observations, take field […]
The Sophie Mentored Research Project: The Critically Annotated Collected Works of Elisa von der Recke and The Missionary Imagination
Net Path and Net Effect of Linear Networks with Dynamics
Charles Johnson and Dr. Sean Warnick, Computer Science Department Introduction In complicated interconnected systems the consequences resulting from shocks (the effects resulting from causes) are difficult to anticipate. Yet, the vast interconnection of digital age technology with critical infrastructure systems and other elements of the physical world exposes human convenience, property and safety to distant […]
Hildegard von Bingen: A Work of Virtues
Gina Fowler and Faculty Mentor: Rob McFarland, Department of German Researchers seeking historical primary and secondary source documents in a foreign language must often overcome the challenge of finding those resources without actually travelling to their country of origin. The Sophie Digital Library is an online database that was created by BYU faculty to address […]
Green Literature at a Distance: Topic Modeling the works of Selma Lagerlöf
Emily Livingston and Faculty Mentor: Christopher Oscarson, Scandinavian Studies The aim of this project was to examine themes common to the works of Selma Lagerlof using a revolutionary method allowed by modern technology: computer modeling. The corpus of Lagerlof’s work was run through a computer program which then output, or modeled, topics based on nouns […]
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