Madison Harmer and Dr. Jacob Hickman, Anthropology Department Current social science literature outside of anthropology has attributed Hmong difficulties adapting to Western health care to their traditional healing practices, claiming that successful integration only occurs as the younger generation discards traditional beliefs (Franzen-Castle & Smith 2013). Ethnographic research conducted in France and Thailand refutes these […]
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Peer Mentored Dialectical Behavior Therapy Skills Workshop for Adjusting College Students
Meredith Pescatello and Dr. Tyler Pedersen, Counseling, Psychology, & Special Education Brigham Young University (BYU) has over 30,000 students, and many of them face difficult personal and psychological challenges. These may include adjusting to school life after returning from a mission, coping with academic demands, finding balance between work and school, or dealing with difficult […]
Understanding the Neural Networks of Eye Movements in Reading
Trenton Jackman and Dr. Steven Luke, Psychology Department Introduction Reading is a part of everyday life. Humans read street signs, textbooks, emails, manuals, novels, and many other things. While reading we move our eyes 2-4 times per second. Each movement is called a saccade, and each pause between movements is called a fixation. These eye-movements […]
Fixation-Related fMRI and Syntactic Networks in the Brain
Brent Foster and Dr. Steven Luke, Neuroscience Department Introduction Humans comprehend language at varying levels of complexity. Syntax, in particular, deals with the arrangement of words and phrases into meaningful sentences. For instance, in English we expect most sentences to follow some variation of the order “Subject–Verb–Object” such as “The boy (Subject) ate (Verb) cake […]
The Critically Annotated Collected Works of Elisa von der Recke and Women’s Articles in Vienna’s “Die neue freie Presse:” A Digital Companion to Red Vienna, White Socialism and the Blues: Ann Tizia Leitich’s America
PI: Michelle James Co-PI: Rob McFarland Without funding there would be no Sophie project, which is why the first item in this report on the Sophie activities during 2015 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, and […]
Kreisleriana and E.T.A. Hoffman: Literary Influences on the works of Robert Schumann
Freeman, Alissa Kreisleriana and E. T. A. Hoffmann: Literary Influences on the Works of Robert Schumann, Faculty Mentor: Scott Holden, Keyboard Studies Robert Schumann is one of the most renowned composers of the romantic era, but only those who have studied his life realize that he also made enormous contributions to the world of literature. […]
Weak Synchronization in Excitatory – Inhibitory Neuronal Networks
Eliason, Joel Weak Synchronization in Excitatory-Inhibitory Neuronal Networks Faculty Mentor: Benjamin Webb, Mathematics Introduction One ubiquitously observed dynamic phenomenon in the nervous system is that of weak synchronization or clustering, a behavior in which a large group of neurons in a population will all fire synchronously and then fall out of synchronization. When isolated to […]
Preserving Pasifika Working with Faith-Based Communities in Auckland
McKinley Stauffer and Steve Thomsen, Department of Communications Originally I had requested an ORCA Grant to aid in the creation of an ethnography documentary video on a qualitative research study of community-level efforts to preserve languages and cultural heritage among Pasifika immigrants living in the Auckland, New Zealand Metro area. The younger generations of these […]
Looking at Concepts of Thresholds and Talismans in Islamic Art to Create a Body of Work
Christensen, Jane Looking at Concepts of Thresholds and Talismans in Islamic Art to Create a Body of Work Faculty Mentor: Peter Everett, Studio Art I have been interested in systems of structure and calculation and how those systems manifest visually. In Rosalind Krauss’ essay on grids, she discusses the function of a grid to “map […]
Elisa von der Recke: Volume IV of the Critically Edited Collected Works Restored Sheet Music
Seay, David Elisa von der Recke: Volume IV of the Critically Edited Collected Works Restored Sheet Music Faculty Mentor: Dr. Michelle James, German & Russian Department My project involved recording and publishing restored music from the 18th century. BYU’s “Mentored Research Sophia Project,” led by staff within the German & Russian Department, is creating a […]