Journal of Undergraduate Research
MEG
Development of Student Research Resources and Training Material for Functional and Structural MRI-Based Research at BYU
Neal K. Bangerter, Erin Bigler, and Brock Kirwan
Examining the Extent of and Factors Contributing to Adult Literacy in Utah County Utah
Dr. Wendy Baker-Smemoe and Dr. Brad Wilcox
Advanced Placement Portfolio
Daniel Barney and Mark Graham
Validation of an nBmp2 mutant mouse model
Laura C. Bridgewater
Mentoring Undergraduates Via Organic Synthesis
Steven L. Castle
BYU MEG report
Emily Bates
Magnetic order and fluctuation dynamics of self-assembled magnetite Fe3O4 nanoparticles
Karine Chesnel
Pregnancy, media, and body image
Sarah Coyne
Supramolecular Chemistry for Undergraduate Students
David V. Dearden and Roger G. Harrison
PHARM: An Environment for Physical Acoustics Research and Mentoring
Kent L. Gee and Tracianne B. Neilsen
BYU undergraduates execute a familial study of non-demented individuals in high-risk Alzheimer’s disease pedigrees
John S.K. Kauwe
Elucidating a Precise Role for the Small Heat Shock Proteins CryAB and HspB2 in Cardiac Robustness
Julianne H. Grose
My Patient Died: A National Study of Nursing Students Perceptions After Experiencing a Patient Death
Barabara Heise and Debra Wing
The use of TeamSTEPPS® in the Development and implementation of staff nurse councils
Katreena Collette Merrill
The ‘Ohana MANA Challenge: An Intervention Study on Native Hawaiian and Pacific Islander Nutrition and Activity
Jane H. Lassetter
Multilingual Extraction Ontologies
David W. Embley, Stephen W. Liddle, Deryle W. Lonsdale, and Yuri Tijerino
Leveraging MOSTs (Mathematically Significant Pedagogical Opportunities to build on Student Thinking)
Keith R. Leatham and Blake E. Peterson
BYU COMPUTATIONAL NUMBER THEORY RESEARCH GROUP DAVID CARDON, DARRIN DOUD, PAUL JENKINS, AND PACE NIELSEN
Pace Nielsen
Egypt Excavation Conservation Training
Kerry Muhlestein, Lincoln Blumell, David Whitchurch, Paul Stavast, Giovanni Tata, R Paul Evans, and Kristin South
Post-Translational Modifications of Thymidine Kinase 1
Dr. Kim O'Neill
Assessing the Effects of Common Social Identity on Individual Effort and Cooperation in Cross-gender Teams.
Joseph Price
Gender and Political Ambition
Jessica Preece and Olga Bogach
ANATOMY ACADEMY: THE IMPACT ON NURSING STUDENTS
Gaye L. Ray and Jane H. Lasseter
Role of OctN1 in tobacco-¬‐induced COPD
Paul Reynolds
Digital Outcrop Model and Paleoecology of the Eight-Foot Rapid Algal Field (Middle Pennsylvanian Lower Ismay Sequence), Paradox Basin, Utah
Colton Goodrich and Scott Ritter
A Tectonic Origin for Mountains on Saturn’s Moon Titan
Jani Radebaugh
Stepfamily Experiences Project (STEP)
Kevin Shafer and Erin K. Holmes
Anatomy Academy
Dr. Gary Seastrand and Dr. Jon Wisco
Consequences of invasive grass-fire cycles on plant-pollinator relationships in Utah deserts
Sam St. Clair
Alcohol and Nicotine Co-Dependence
Scott C. Steffensen and Sterling N. Sudweeks
Effect of Caffeine on Skeletal Muscle Growth
David M. Thomson
Mechanism of Assembly of the Bardet-Biedel Syndrome (BBS) Complex
Barry M. Willardson
ORCA
Organocatalytic Aryl−Aryl Bond Formation: An Atroposelective [3,3]‑Rearrangement Approach to BINAM Derivatives
Gong-Qiang Li, Hongyin Gao, Craig Keene, Michael Devonas, Daniel H. Ess, and LaśzlóKürti *
The Impact of Autism on Families: Topography and Function of Repetitive Behavior
David Ball and Dr. Blake Hansen
Effects of Explicit Print Referencing on the Print Awareness of a Child with Severe Disabilities
Mallory Roberts and Blake Hansen
The Parent-Teacher Communication in Irapuato, Mexico
Jonathan Welling and Erin Whiting
Ang Simpleng Buhay: The Simple Life
Alyssa Stromberg and Robert T. Barrett
Visual Research of Delacroix
Drew Rane and Peter Everett
Application of Piaget’s Cognitive Development Theory to Art Education In a Multicultural Setting
Kaled Ostraff and Dan Barney
Artistic Practice and Domestic Experience in New Zealand
Alexis Ostraff and Gary Barton
The Filippini Project
Courtney McWhorter and James Swensen
Another Look: A Rephotographic Survey of Giovanni Paolo Panini’s Works
Kendra Harris and James Swensen
Adriaen van de Venne’s Skating Owls (1620-1660)
Sarah James Dyer and Martha Peacock
Summer Dance Intensive Field Study
Amy Gunter and Nathan Balser
Project: Dancing in the Light
Charis Dexter and Shayla Bott
Vienna Recording Project
Christian Succo and Dr. Will Kimball
Peer Recordings II
Austin Robinson and David Brown
Eugene Levinson’s School of Agility Understanding its Application
Joshua Lambert and Eric Hansen
Tchaikovsky’s Violin Concerto: The Composer’s Original, Auer’s Edition, and the Performer’s Dilemma
Caitlin Johnson and Alexander Woods
Karen Tuttle: Coordinated Violist Extraordinaire
Karen Tuttle and Dr. Claudine Bigelow
Details: Western American Fashion in the 20th Century
Chelsey Roberts and Mary Farahnakian
Voice Work and Dialects
Mackenzie Larson and Stephanie Breinholt
“Shepherd” A Documentary Film
Jared Jakins and Thomas Lefler
Psycholinguistic Study: Deaf Children vs. CODAS and Language Comprehension
Amber Smith and Michael Jones
Autophagy-Mediated Mechanisms of Chemoresistance in Cancer
David Broadbent and Dr. Joshua Andersen
Functional Anatomy of the Forelimb of a New Drepanosaur: Testing Behavioral Models for Extinct Species
Austin Andrus and Dr. Brooks Britt
Defining the Transpose Group in Landau-Ginzburg Mirror Symmetry
Lisa Bendall and Dr. Tyler Jarvis
Sound Reduction in Protheses for Developing Countries
Ashlie Burton and Lawrence Rees
Improvement of Atomic Layer Deposition Techniques of Tungsten Using Hydrogen as a Reducing Agent
Jason Kyle Anderson and Dr. David Allred
Singing the Bible: the Impact of Haik-Vantoura’s Theory
Hannah Lambert and Shon Hopkin
Researching the Restoration of the Melchizedek Priesthood
Nathan Richardson and Dr. Michael Hubbard MacKay
Reevaluating the Bronze and Iron Age Ceramic Evidence of Biblical Hebron
Christina Nelson and Jeffrey Chadwick
The Psychocultural Foundations of Religious Revitalization in the Southeast Asian Massif
Jacob R. Hickman
The Critically Annotated Collected Works of Elisa von der Recke and The Missionary Imagination
Michelle S. James and Cindy Patey Brewer
Optimizing Metallization of DNA-templated Nanostructures
Andrew Dearden and Adam Woolley
Neurological Research to Supplement HMD Technology Development for the Benefit of Deaf and Hard-of-hearing Students
Tyler Foulger and Michael Jones
Transpose Symmetry Groups of Noninvertible Polynomials
Nathan Cordner and Dr. Tyler Jarvis
Science in a Nutshell: Studying the Use of Humor in Science Writing
Meredith Gold and Gus Hart
Relating Quantum Dynamics and Entanglement
John Gardiner and Jean-Francois Van Huele
Assessing the Effects of Common Social Identity on Individual Effort and Cooperation in Cross-gender Teams.
Joseph Price
Mitochondrial Membrane Lipids Regulator in B-CLL Leukemia Research
Brooke Keeton and Dr. John Prince
Mega-autophagosome Induction by Human COX-3 and Human Nucleobindin
Gideon N. Logan and Daniel Simmons
Learning Chemistry Through Experimentation
Brent Kamba ` and Dr. Jennifer Nielson
Bottom-Up Development of Nanoelectronics using DNA Origami Templates
John Jensen and Dr. Adam T. Woolley
Molecular-Level Interactions Responsible for Retention in Liquid Chromatography
Jessica Jenkins and James Patterson
Differences in Cognitive Processing Between Deaf and Hearing Individuals When Presented with Linguistic Stimuli
Aubrey Hatch and Michael Jones
Zeros of Poincare Series of Level 2
Andrew Haddock and Paul Jenkins
Determining Surface Roughness Using Extreme Ultraviolet Light
Joshua Marx and Steve Turley
Extent and Mechanism of Translational Readthrough in Humans
Michael Porter and Dr. John Prince
Microbial Pretreatment of Waste for Anaerobic Digestion
Braden Myers and Jaron Hansen
Determining Thin Film Roughness with EUV Reflection
Cody Petrie and Steven Turley
Wavelength Detection from Filtered Photodiodes
Nils Otterstrom and Dallin Durfee
Porous Cantilevers as Chemical Sensors
Steven Noyce and Robert Davis
Chaotic Scattering in General Relativity
Taylor Hugh Morgan and David Neilsen
Validation of Quantitative Regional Atrophy Dementia Classification in a Large Clinical MRI Sample
Samantha Sanders and Christophe Girdaud-Carrier
Tempestites of the Entrada Sandstone: Mapping and Reservoir Characterization
Jeffery Valenza and Dr. Tom Morris
The Fourier Coefficients of Modular Forms
Kyle Pratt and Dr. Paul Jenkins
Transiting Exo-Planets Indirect Detection of Planets Orbiting Other Stars
Brian Shaw and Denise Stephens
Magnetic Memory in Exchange Bias Films
Clarke Safsten and Karine Chenel
“Ultra Cold” Room Temperature Plasma
Stephen Rupper and Dr. Scott Bergeson
Gaussian Process Modeling of Modern Mass Spectrometry Computer Experimental Data
Mickey Warner and C. Shane Reese
The Marital Paradigm Study: Wave 2
Brian J. Willoughby and Spencer L. James
Is Healthcare a Right?
Ben Ader and Kelly Patterson
The SMC Matrix Bridging the Gap Between Traditional Strategic Communications and Digital Media
Rebecca Winchel and Dr. Kenneth Plowman
New Jazz Composition “You make me feel…Incredible”
Richard Williams and Mark Ammons
Networked Computer Music Installation
Matthew Webb and Steven Ricks
Large Developments and Light Rail Stops: An Analysis of Development and Transit in the Sacramento Metropolitan Region
Chelsea Bakaitis and Michael Clay
Jo Marries Goethe: Dr. Bhaer as the Goethean Ideal in Louisa May Alcott’s Little Women
Megan Armknecht and Paul Kerry
Memory Processes in Autism
Storm Atwood and Dr. C Brock Kirwan
The Effects of Genes on the Stress Response
S. Andrew Aston
The Dynamic Effects of Changes to Japanese Immigration
Ryne Belliston and Kerk Phillips
Openness and Inflation in the Long Run
David Beheshti and Richarch Evans
A Big Data Approach to Optimal Taxation
Christian Baker and Richard W. Evans
Portraying “The Responsible Man”: A Historiographical Analysis of Dietrich Bonhoeffer
Greer Bates and Dr. Paul Kerry
The Constitution: Who Knows, Who Cares?
Luke Bell and Jeremy Pope
Adaptation of D2 dopamine receptors following acute ethanol
Brian Behnke and Scott Steffensen
P300 Latency in Alzheimer’s Disease: A Meta-Analysis and Meta-Regression
David Payne Bennett and Dawson Hedges
Implicit Association of Gender and Politics
Bryonna Bowen and Jessica Preece
Specialty Selection in the Face of an Aging Demographic in Taiwan
Ian Christensen and Michael Barnes
A National Study of Nursing Students’ Recommendations Regarding End of Life Content in Nursing Education Curricula
Danielle Shkapich and Barbara Heise
Parents of Children with Type 1 Diabetes and Their Needs
Janelle M. Neu and Donna Freeborn
Caring for Dying Children: A Systematic Review of the Literature
Megan Watts and Debra Mills
Dual Species Magneto-Optical Trap
Daniel Woodbury and Scott Bergeson
Electronic Health Records in Simulation and Its Effects on Student Knowledge of Patient Condition
Katie Holiday and Debra Wing
Increasing the Number of Adults in Utah County who Receive the Pertussis Vaccine Through Proper Education
Sarah Jones and Beth Luthy
Characterizing Dna2 in Model Plant Arabidopsis
Connor Woodward and Brent Nielsen
Estimating the Short-Run Supply Curve of Higher Education
Carter Davis and Taylor Nadauld
Exploring how Dual-Task Interference Influences End-User Secure Behavior
K Shane Reeves and Jeffrey Jenkins
Look Sharp! How Eye Tracking and Memory Explain Susceptibility to Phishing
Ian Jones and Anthony Vance
The Humility Effect: Mitigating Intergroup Conflict
Reese Haydon and Dr. Kurt Sandholtz
Micro-Enterprise Education: The Academy for Creating Enterprise
Barry West and Gibb Dyer
Religious Principles and the Stakeholder Perspective: A Natural Union
Jordan Nielsen and Brad Agle
Empathy in Nursing Students: The Impact of a Poverty Simulation
Kristen Hamblin and Gaye Ray
National Study of Neonatal Intensive Care Unit Nurse’s Perceptions of Obstacles and Supportive Behaviors in End-of-Life Care
Katie Hillary and Renea Beckstrand
Political Knowledge and Extra-Governmental Activism in Peru
Lucas Brook and Darren Hawkins
Neural Mechanisms of Inhibitory Control: Predictors of Eating Behavior in Obesity
Kaylie Carbine and Michael Larson
Genetic Basis for Rheumatic Heart Disease in High Risk Families in Western Samoa
Eleni Tukuafu and John S.K. Kauwe
A Method of Introducing Site Specific Mutations into the phoR Gene of the E. coli Chromosome
Cameron Woodward and William McCleary
Paleopathologies of a Nabataean Burial Site
Mariana L. F. Castroand and Dr. David Johnson
Firefly Evolution and Signaling Systems
Michael Swindle and Michael Whiting
The Effects of Stress and Exercise on Learning and Memory
Teresa Nufer (St. Pierre) and Jeffery G. Edwards
The Countering Effects of Exercise on Stress Reduced Long-term Potentiation in Mouse Hippocampi
Jacob Trotter and Dr. Jerffrey Edwards
Diverging predation environment between two sister species of live bearing fish: boldness, activity, and exploration.
David Money and Jerald B. Johnson
Effects of phosphorous availability on nematode growth and morphology in vitro
Ammon Perkes and Byron Adams
Testing the Validity of the LCTSR 12-point Grading System
Ted Poirczynski and Jamie Jensen
Genome-Wide Association Study Of Cerebrospinal Fluid Prostatic Acid Phosphatase Levels
Lyndsay A. Staley and John S. K. Kauwe
Histone Modifications and their Effects on Nucleosome Positioning and Gene Expression
Jordon Ritchie and Steven Johnson
Analysis of the Adjuvant Effect of Vitamin D3 in Enhancing Mucosal Immune Responses
Cameron Sargent and Dr. Eric Wilson
How Yersinia pseudotuberculosis biofilm formation is regulated by global regulator CsrA
Jeffrey Schachterle and David Erickson
c-Fos enhances functional β-cell mass
Jason Ray and Jeffery Tessem
Three-Dimensional Modeling of Facial Nerve VII
Dani Peterson and Jonathan Wisco
The Role of Endocannabinoid Receptor GPR55 on Learning and Memory
Bradley Prince and Jeffery Edwards
Utilization of the TGF-β signaling pathway and cell-substrate interaction in a novel anti-cancer drug screen
Nicholas Saguibo and Dr. Marc Hansen
Metabolic Transformational Effects of Endosymbionts on Withanolides of Datura wrightii
Trevor Smart and Brad Geary
Lymphoblastoid cell line generation from SLE patient lymphocytes
Vera Mayhew and Brian Poole
Effect of EBI2 on B cell Migration
Jeffrey Mella and Brian Poole
P. larvae Bacteriophages as a Treatment for American Foulbrood in Honeybees
Bryan Merrill and Sandra Burnett
How Chemokine CCL28 Binds to Yersinia pseudotuberculosis
Jeffrey Moffat and David Erickson
Effects of blocking TLR 4 and RAGE on the Progression of OA in the TMJ
David Mecham and David Kooyman
Hyperosmolarity And Trophoblast Behavior In Gestational Diabetes, Preeclampsia, And Intrauterine Growth Restriction
Camilo Mejia and Juan Arroyo
Bayesian Model for Antarctic Accumulation and Proposing Field Measurement
Philip White and Shane Reese
Transferring Hypothetical Deductive Reasoning
Jordan Hatch and Jamie L. Jensen
Did Tardigrades Survive the Last Glacial Maximum in Antarctica?
Caj Johansson and Byron Adams
Do Differently Managed Dairy Cows with Production-related Metabolic Diseases have Similar Protein and Fat Species in Colostrum and Milk?
Holly Martin and Dr. Beverly Roeder
Inhibition of the Myostatin Signaling Pathway in Cultured Muscle Cells by a Novel Small Molecule
Ryan Matekel and Robert Hyldahl
Fire Blight Treatment with Lytic Bacteriophage
Todd Jarvis and Julianne Grose
Optimization of Selenium Chemoprevention in Prostate Cancer Cells
Xiuqi Li and Merrill Christensen
Ventral tegmental area dopamine and GABA neurons: Physiological properties and expression of mRNA for endocannabinoid biosynthetic enzymes and type I metabotropic glutamate receptors
Zachary Hopkins and Jeffrey G. Edwards
Investigating the Effect of Ethanol on Exocytosis In Vitro
Brady Hunt and Dixon Woodbury
3D Mapping of Cardiac Nerves for Improved Cardiac Ablation Procedures in the Treatment of Cardiac Arrhythmia
Adam Jorgensen and Jonathan J. Wisco
Novel Comet Assay Identifies Preliminary DNA Damage Prior to Cell Apoptosis in Mouse Model of RAGE Over-expression
Steven Knapp and Paul Reynolds
Rare Genetic Variant to the Protection of Alzheimer’s Disease
Josue David Gonzalez Murcia and John Kauwe
Mapping Interaction Through Compensatory PhoU Mutants in Escherichia Coli
Tanner Dean and William McCleary
Analysis of Anti-Dengue Antibodies
Lauren Syndergaard and Brian Poole
Use of humanized mice to study the production of human antibodies
Steven Hallam and Dr. Bradford Berges
Engineering a Pathogen Specific High Affinity T-Cell Receptor Called LLO56
John Hancock and Dr. Scott Weber
Discovery and Characterization of Bacteriophage to control MRSA
Jacob B. Hatch and Bradford Berges
Mapping the Trigeminal Nerve
Kinnison Edmunds and Dr. Jonathan Wisco
Microarchitectural Analysis of the Ulnar Collateral Ligament to Inform its Reconstruction
Jakob Gamboa and Dr. Jonathan Wisco
Customizing 3D models from MRI data: Creating educational anatomy models of neurologic disease
Brett Gardiner and Dr. Jon Wisco
Genetic Variation within Cotton Tissues
Kimberly Clemons and Dr. Joshua Udall
Effect of harvester ants on invasive and native plant establishment on disturbed sites in Rush Valley, Utah
Amy Clark and Samuel B. St. Clair
Anatomical Variation of the Porcine Recurrent Laryngeal Nerve
Marc Christensen and Dr. Jonathan Wisco
Understanding the Role of Estrogen in the Mucosal Immune Response
Youna Choi and Dr. Eric Wilson
Exploration of Russian Harp Repertoire
Eliza Weed and Dr. David Day
Encroachment of Bwindi National Park, in Relation to Richness and Diversity of Tree Species
Catherine Johns and Dr. Brigham Daniels
Entomophilic Nematode Diversity and Distribution in Beaver Dam Wash Area
Westen Achibald and Dr. Byron Adams
The Emerald Ash Borer: Beautifully Deadly
Preston Arnold, Dr. S. M. Bybee, and Dr. N. P. Lord
Replication of Gene-Gene Interactions in Large Alzheimer Disease Dataset
Kevin Boehme and Dr. John "Keoni" Kauwe
Importance of Rare Genetic Variants in Alzheimer’s Disease (TTC3)
Devan Bursey and Dr. John S. K. Kauwe
Biofilm Binding Capabilities of Yersinia pseudotuberculosis Mutants
Bailey Benson and Dr. David Erickson
Vibrio Cholera: Detection and Destruction
Amber Brown and Dr. Julianne Grose
Iron as a Biomarker for Alzheimer’s Disease
Samual Barlow and Dr. Jonathan Wisco
Clonal integration and ramet development in quaking aspen
Anson Call and Dr. Samuel St. Clair
A Digital Epigraphic Database: Partnership with Duke Collaboratory for Classics Computing
Nozomu Okuda and Dr. Roger Macfarlane
A New Approach to Museum Exhibits
Allison Rietz and Kerry Soper
The College Writing Experience for At-Risk High School Students
Caroline Howard and Dawan Coombs
Big Humanities, Big Data: Genre Analysis of Eighteenth-Century British Poetry
Brittany Strobelt and Kylan Rice
“Womenomics:” Translating Women’s Property Rights for a Global Audience
Taylor Madsen and Dr. Daryl Lee
Translation from French to English of a Women’s Rights Study by a Senegal Research Group
Danielle Stanford and Daryl Lee
Unter den Heiden: Exploring the Motives Behind the Demonization of African Natives in Colonial German Missionary Literature
Kristen Jacobsen and Cindy Brewer
Ida Pfeiffer: The Annotated Travels of Ida Pfeiffer
Alexander Smith and Dr. Rob McFarland
Problems with Mission Literature and Imagination: German Mission Literature, 1885-1918
Eric Smith and Cindy Brewer
Learning Armenian and English Pronunciation
Anna McConner-Hughes and Dr. Wendy Baker-Smemoe
THE FAILURE OF A LATIN AMERICAN BESTSELLER: Researching the Reception of João Guimarães Rosa in the United States
Andrew Kelly Nelson and James Krause
Comparison of Language Gains Across Classroom, Foreign Language Housing, and Study Abroad Environments
Kari Tanner and Dr. Jeffrey Turley
Turn of the Century Sweden and the Ecological ImaginaryTopic Modeling Ecological Thought in Swedish Nature Texts
Benjamin Holt, Dane Christensen, and Dr. Christopher Oscarson
Obrajes, Andean Workers, and the Spanish Elite: Hegemony and Hierarchy in Peru’s Late-Colonial Era
Taylor Cozzens and Dr. Jeffrey Shumway
Dionysus in Spain: The New Divinity in Unamuno’s San Manuel Bueno, mártir
David Delbar and Roger Macfarlane
Video Games – that Happen to be Educational
Kyle Bryant, Dr. Jarom McDonald, and Dr. Derek Hansen
Including Religion in Gender: LDS Men’s Experiences in Masculinity-Making
Ashley Brocious and Dr. Leslee Thorne-Murphy
Portraits of an Immigrant Population: A Look into the Life of Mexican Migrant Workers in Florida
Jenna Carson and Patrick Madden
More than a Feeling: The Transmission of Affect and Group Identity
Lauren Fine and Brian Jackson
Making a Case for Mark Twain’s A Horse’s Tale: Twain’s Use of Templates and Myths as His Highest Moralism
Sara Guggisberg and Dr. Frank Christianson
GESTES French-English Translation: Senegalese Women’s Property Rights Research
Charlotte Coleman and Dr. Daryl Lee
Elisa von der Recke: Volume I of the Complete Collected Works
Anna Katharina and Michelle James
Beyond Käthe Kollwitz: A Bibliography of German-Speaking Women Artists
Aloe Corry and Dr. Rob McFarland
Recontextualizing Chekhov through the Graphic Novel
Matisse Hales and Dr. Mark Purves
Corrections around the world: An international survey of oral corrective feedback
Andrew Bashford and Dr. Mark Tanner
Early Documentation of the Orang Seletar and Sugut Sungai Languages
Kevin Blissett and Dr. Dirk Elzinga
Amiens Cathedral: City of God
Dennis West and Dr. Seth Holladay
Conservation of Metallic Beads
Heather White and Dr. Paul Stavast
Health Insurance Market Inefficiencies for the Children of Teen Mothers
Joshua Witter and Joseph Price
Missing Teeth: The Economic Impact of Holes in the Urban Fabric
Andrew Van Leuven and Dr. Ryan Jensen
Religion’s Role in Parent to Child Political Socialization
Madison Dayton Daines and Quin Monson
Reducing the Gender Gap through Religious Socialization
Kalifa Smith and Dr. Jessica Preece
Assessing the Impact of Spiritual and Relational Teaching on Student Learning
Jillian Ferrell and Jeffrey Reber
Development of a Self-Determination Theory Measure of Adolescent’s Motivations to Abstain from Sex and Alcohol
Jacob Curtis and Sam Hardy
Role of ROS (reactive oxygen species) on cocaine-induced DA release in the NAc
Jacqueline Solomon and Dr. Scott Steffensen
Neural mechanisms: Nicotine and Alcohol Co-dependence
Jordan Spencer and Dr. Scott Steffensen
The Impact of Exercise on Memory: A Neurological Investigation of the Recommendations made by the American Heart Association
Seth Spencer and Dr. C Brock Kirwan
The Role of α6 Nicotinic Acetylcholine Receptors on Dopamine Release
Michaela Squire and Dr. Scott Steffensen
Gains and Losses
Cassie Widdison and Dr. Christopher Kirwan
Psychological Predictors of Injury in Marathon Runners
Dallin Christensen and Ben Ogles
Discovery and confirmation of novel serum biomarkers diagnosing Alzheimer’s disease
Tyler Mower and Dr. John Kauwe
The BYU Ad‐Deir Monument and Plateau Project
Josie Newbold and Dr. Cynthia Finlayson
Liquidity, Market Depth, and Informed Trading
Roy Roth and Dr. Scott Condie
Developing Utah Juniper into a Useful Species for Dendrochronology
Calli Nielsen and Dr. Matthew F. Bekker
Stephen Fuller: Jamaican Planter, British Ambassador, Closet Abolitionist
Garrett Nagaishi and Dr. Matthew Mason
Induction of Neuromelanin in Live Tissue
Corrine Morrison and Dr. Scott Steffensen
The Effect of Exercise on Inhibitory Control to Images of High and Low Calorie Food
Cory Pettit and Michael J. Larson
Opportunism in Ugandan NGOs: A Randomized Field Experiment
Eric Reuben Smith
Predictive Factors of Gender, Attitudes Towards Sec, and Relationships on Signs of Dating Violence in Japan
Joshua Murphy and Niwako Yamawaki
Effects of Chronic Ethanol on GABA(A) Receptors in the VTA
Ashley Nelson and Dr. Scot Steffensen
The Effect of Second Language Reading on Eye Movement on Second Language Learners
Kyle Nelson and Dr. Steven Luke
Fear of Negative Evaluation in Autism Spectrum Disorders
Catie Nielson and Mikle South
The Effects of Trilostane and DHEAS on Dopamine Release in the Nucleus Accumbens
Tyler Okelberry and Dr. Scott Steffensen
The Effect of Exercise on Inhibitory Control to Images of High and Low Calorie Food
Cory Pettit and Michael J. Larson, PhD
The Efficacy of Neurofeedback in Improving Physical Balance
Christopher Schow and Dr. Scott C. Steffensen
Assessing Gender Differences in Cognitive Processes Using Event Related Potentials
Jack Silcox and Dr. Bruce Brown
A Generalized Ordered Response Model
Carla Johnston and Dr. James McDonald
America’s Prodigal Devotion to Light Rail: Did Denver’s Light Rail System Help with Traffic Decongestion?
Thomas Kelemen and Dr. Michael Ransom
Skill, Complexity, and Strategic Interaction
Val Lambson and John van den Berghe
The Effects of Sleep-dependent Memory Consolidation on the Discriminability and Generalizability of Learning
Bengt Grua and Dr. C Brock Kirwan
Compulsory Voting in Latin America: Good or Bad for Democracy?
Ian Hansen and Dr. Darren Hawkins
Voter Turnout: How Femininity and Competence Affect Attitudes Toward Female Political Candidates
Holly Henrich and Dr. Chris Karpowitz
Aging and Pattern Separation
Nathan Giles and Dr. C. Brock Kirwan
Cortisol Profiles as Bio-Markers of Extreme Temperaments
Claudia Rasmuseen and Dr. James Dee Higley
The Effects of Sleep-dependent Memory Consolidation on the Discriminability and Generalizability of Learning
Bengt Grua and Dr. C Brock Kirwan
Good vs. Evil: Incorporating Human Stimuli to the Question of Infant Morality
Jordan Layton and Dr. Ross Flom
MAOa Genotype X Environment Interaction and Influence on Monoamine Neurotransmitter Functioning in Rhesus Macaques (Macaca mulatta)
Daniel Loveland and Dr. J. Dee Higley
Priming the Pump: A Study of Hidden Biases
Rachel Maxwell and Dr. Jerffrey Reber
Change over time of White Matter Hyperintensities and cognitive scores in the Cache County Memory and Aging Study
Zachary McDonnell and Dr. Erin Bigler
How the Hispanic Perception of Brigham Young University Affects Its Multicultural Student Body
Jorge Encinas and Clifford Mayes