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Cultivate Art Gallery & Sustainable Design, Eva Haslam Apr 2023

Cultivate Art Gallery & Sustainable Design, Eva Haslam

Student Research Symposium

Cultivate is an art gallery that displays and sells all kinds of artwork located in Scottsdale Arizona. It is free and open to the public for all to enjoy. Cultivate also includes 3 studio spaces for local or visiting artists to use to create art, and a kitchen for internal use or for catering events. Overall, this is a place of gathering, relaxation, and appreciation. Made out of a construction technique called rammed earth, this building has incredible thermal mass properties which contributes to it’s sustainable design.

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Centre Point Community Center: Evidence Based Design, Kaylee Moes Apr 2023

Centre Point Community Center: Evidence Based Design, Kaylee Moes

Student Research Symposium

Centre Point Community Center is a public recreational facility located in Houston, Texas. The design strives to create an environment that is a gathering space for individuals of all backgrounds and all ages. A building that reflects and is centered around the community. It was important to keep in mind the functionality of all areas and ADA accessibility throughout the entirety of the design process. The design uses light, bright, and airy materials. Natural tones and colors are incorporated to promote a welcoming and inviting environment.

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The Grieving Brain: Effect Of Pairmate Loss On Coyote Oxytocin Receptor Densities, Kaleb Keller Apr 2023

The Grieving Brain: Effect Of Pairmate Loss On Coyote Oxytocin Receptor Densities, Kaleb Keller

Student Research Symposium

Complicated grief is a severe mental health disorder that can have detrimental effects on individuals who have lost a loved one. Understanding the biological underpinnings of grief is essential in being able to help develop effective treatments and therapies. Oxytocin is heavily implicated in studies about grief and pairmate loss due to its importance in modulating social behavior such as pair bond formation. Previous research has primarily focused on rodents and non-human primates as model organisms of social attachment and studies have shown that monogamous prairie voles showed a decrease in oxytocin receptor (OXTR) binding in the nucleus accumbens after …

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Cultivating Fluent And Meaningful Writing Through Empathy-Centered Texts In The Third Grade Classroom, Lori Qian Apr 2023

Cultivating Fluent And Meaningful Writing Through Empathy-Centered Texts In The Third Grade Classroom, Lori Qian

Student Research Symposium

In this qualitative case study, my professor and I examined how my class of third-grade students endeavored to construct meaning around empathy as they cultivated their fluency-centered writing skills. Through the use of empathy-based, culturally-responsive reading lessons, and knowing that reading and writing are intricately connected, the researchers draw upon specific book choices and a well-crafted discussion structure to encourage meaningful, fluent writing. By designing and instituting a simple yet purposeful reading response template, as well as implementing certain classroom practices, the researchers are able to observe the degree to which the text, associated discussion, and classroom practices have an …

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Dv Shelter: Research & Adaptive Reuse, Paige Boyce Apr 2023

Dv Shelter: Research & Adaptive Reuse, Paige Boyce

Student Research Symposium

Design by promoting the social, economic, and political self-determination of women and all survivors of violence and oppression. Taking an existing 3 story office building for adaptive reuse. Interviewing survivors and specialists to implement meaningful programming and implement the needs of a shelter.

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Natural Product Biosynthesis Through Biotechnological And Fermentation Approaches, Hassan Sher Apr 2023

Natural Product Biosynthesis Through Biotechnological And Fermentation Approaches, Hassan Sher

Student Research Symposium

Natural products as a source of medicine have long been attractive due to the huge structural diversity and promising biological activities such as antimicrobial, anticancer, antitumor, antifungal, antiviral, antiparasitic as well as antioxidant properties. Discovery of novel and modified natural products is the need of this modern era. To expand the chemical diversity in natural products and to increase the production titers of natural products, researchers have come up with various solutions: heterologous expression, cocultivation, fermentation engineering, isolation of new species, and strain engineering/improvement. o-Coumaric acid and p-coumaric acid are phenolic antioxidants found in various plant sources. These also serve …

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Perceptions Of Parental Acceptance And Contingencies Of Self-Worth Regarding Family Predicting Peer Relations, Jacqueline Johnson Apr 2023

Perceptions Of Parental Acceptance And Contingencies Of Self-Worth Regarding Family Predicting Peer Relations, Jacqueline Johnson

Student Research Symposium

Parent-child relationship factors, such as family-related self-worth and perception of parental acceptance,are associated with peer relations. For example, parental rejection is negatively associated with child prosocial behavior (Rothenberg et al., 2022). Parental rejection is related to more aggression and adjustment problems (Rohner, 1975; Rothenberg, 2022). Less is known about the association between self-worth related to the family and peer relations. Contingencies of self-worth refer to whether “self-esteem is sustained by successes and achievements or threatened by obstacles and failures” within these domains (Perinelli et al., 2020). For children who have been rejected, close family relationships may be less important to …

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Student Perceptions Of Male And Female Instructors In A Post-Secondary Welding Course, Kjersti Decker Apr 2023

Student Perceptions Of Male And Female Instructors In A Post-Secondary Welding Course, Kjersti Decker

Student Research Symposium

Welding has traditionally been perceived to be a career reserved for males, yet more females have entered professions using welding such as agricultural education. This research was developed because of the lack of gender research in welding. The purpose of this study was to examine students’ perceptions of learning from a male instructor versus a female instructor in a post-secondary welding course. We examined associations and differences between students’ preference of a male and a female welding instructor as well as individual self-efficacy and perceptions towards using welding technology. The population for this study was undergraduate students and the sample …

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Signals Conveying Teachers’ Readiness For Change In Next Generation Science Professional Development, Bonni Jones Apr 2023

Signals Conveying Teachers’ Readiness For Change In Next Generation Science Professional Development, Bonni Jones

Student Research Symposium

Change in the domain of education is complex. Research has begun to uncover factors that influence the success of proposed initiatives. This paper examines factors influencing science teachers as they wrestle with implementing innovative teaching practices. We present a theoretical framework that unpacks a construct we call signals of readiness for change (readiness signals). We define readiness signals as elements of teachers’ talk that signal a teacher’s sentiment toward a proposed initiative. Signals often reflect tensions that must be resolved for initiatives like the Next Generation Science Standards to succeed and endure. These tensions exist in teacher beliefs, confidence in …

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Comparing The Pedagogical Strategies Of Teachers Who Co-Designed Units To Support Students’ Theory Building, Allisia Dawkins Apr 2023

Comparing The Pedagogical Strategies Of Teachers Who Co-Designed Units To Support Students’ Theory Building, Allisia Dawkins

Student Research Symposium

Co-design is a collaborative approach that intertwines individuals' unique perspectives and results in a product that holds creative stake for all parties. In educational contexts, co-design often results in innovative interventions that in turn affect how teachers instruct and interact with their students in the classroom. In this paper, we focus on two teachers who co-designed a unit meant to engage students in theory-building practices. Through a preliminary analysis of classroom video data, we identified six pedagogical strategies teachers enacted including how they used technology, introduced the lesson, facilitated whole-class discussions, monitored, addressed questions and wrapped up the lesson. We …

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Promoting And Providing Oral Healthcare For Francophone Africa, Mckay Lund Apr 2023

Promoting And Providing Oral Healthcare For Francophone Africa, Mckay Lund

Student Research Symposium

Oral health is key to overall health. Many people in francophone African countries face challenges in oral health including: lack of access to healthcare, cost of healthcare, lack of dentists and oral surgeons, lack of funding, and lack of effective oral health public health education or ad campaigns in French or other languages they speak.

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Beyond ‘Bisexual’: Toward A New Conceptualization Of Bi+ Experience, Brook Hutchinson Apr 2023

Beyond ‘Bisexual’: Toward A New Conceptualization Of Bi+ Experience, Brook Hutchinson

Student Research Symposium

Scholars have begun to explore the sexuality binary and the way it is experienced by and reinforced among bisexual individuals. However, extant research has not yet analyzed the experiences of bi+ individuals in heterosexual relationships, including those who have never experienced a non-heterosexual relationship. The current study seeks to fill this gap through a case study of bi+ individuals in Utah. Relying on in-depth interviews with sixteen bi+ identified individuals, this study explores the experiences of bi+ individuals engaged in heterosexual relationships and how these individuals define their sexuality and negotiate their identity. Preliminary analyses reveal unique experiences among this …

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The Effect Of Video Narratives On Hearing Aid Wear Times In Adults: Preliminary Results, Vanessa Snow Apr 2023

The Effect Of Video Narratives On Hearing Aid Wear Times In Adults: Preliminary Results, Vanessa Snow

Student Research Symposium

Despite the benefits associated with hearing aid (HA) use, only 17% of the population that needs HAs uses them (World Health Organization, 2021). HA users often have no direct experiences with hearing loss (HL) and HAs due to low incidence (World Health Organization, 2021), which we hypothesized leads to the unrealistic expectations in new HA users and minimal HA use (Bille & Parving, 2003). To test this hypothesis, we designed a between-subjects experimental study that explored the effect of video narratives on HA wear times. Before they were fit with their first HAs, 16 adults with HL and no previous …

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Incredible Witnesses: ​An Analysis Of Thomas Of Cantimpré’S Use Of Witnesses In The Lives Of Christina The Astonishing And Margaret Of Ypres, Marianne Hale Apr 2023

Incredible Witnesses: ​An Analysis Of Thomas Of Cantimpré’S Use Of Witnesses In The Lives Of Christina The Astonishing And Margaret Of Ypres, Marianne Hale

Student Research Symposium

I will be analyzing two of the works of Thomas of Cantimpré. An initial study of the secondary literature surrounding Christina the Astonishing and Margaret of Ypres showed a lack of attention to the witnesses used by Thomas. I researched primary and secondary literature surrounding the hagiographies of Margaret of Ypres and Christina the Astonishing and the function of witnesses in secular and religious courts to generate guidelines to assess how witnesses were used. What I found is that Thomas used many kinds of witnesses from various levels in society and various relationships to the subjects. The preponderance of his …

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Mapping Vasopressin Receptors In Deep Structures Of The Coyote Brain, Maggie Zentner Apr 2023

Mapping Vasopressin Receptors In Deep Structures Of The Coyote Brain, Maggie Zentner

Student Research Symposium

Vasopressin is a hormone that is integral in memory, social behaviour, aggression, and bonding. Coyotes are monogamous animals with complex societal structure. Thus, it can be assumed that vasopressin is incredibly important in the function of the coyote brain. We looked at the deep structures of the coyote brain using 25 μm slices and mapped the areas of vasopressin binding using 125I-LVA. We found that the most dense areas of binding were in areas of the brain that play a role in learning, memory, cervical and head muscles, and odour discrimination, among others. These functions are largely integral in forming …

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The Impact Of The Family Place Utah's Better Together Program On Parent/Caregiver Distress, Mitchell Adair Apr 2023

The Impact Of The Family Place Utah's Better Together Program On Parent/Caregiver Distress, Mitchell Adair

Student Research Symposium

Parenting challenges and overall stress have increased in recent years, especially since the COVID-19 pandemic (Adams et al., 2020). The Better Together program at The Family Place Utah was developed to provide children with positive childhood experiences (PCEs), improve family functioning, and increase nurturing and attachment between parents and their children. We explore the positive impact Better Together has on parent stress.A sample of 219 caregivers with children aged 0 to 18 years participated in a randomized experiment to evaluate the effectiveness of the Better Together program. Families were randomly assigned to a treatment or waitlist group. Treatment participants started …

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How Does Embodied Doing Become Thinking? A Motor Control Characterization Of Ct, Ravi Sinha Apr 2023

How Does Embodied Doing Become Thinking? A Motor Control Characterization Of Ct, Ravi Sinha

Student Research Symposium

Few studies have examined the nature of learning involved when young children engage with tangible robotics toys, particularly from a cognitive perspective. We use the tool incorporation mechanism from cognitive and motor neuroscience studies to describe the development of computational thinking (CT) during early childhood. We characterize the development of CT through participation in screen-free coding tasks as learning symbol-based control.

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The Influence Of Yoga Practice On Posture Perception And Stability, Marina Brawand Apr 2023

The Influence Of Yoga Practice On Posture Perception And Stability, Marina Brawand

Student Research Symposium

Our study aimed to investigate whether there is an influence of yoga practice on posture perception and stability, and explored the relationship between postural sway and posture judgments. To conduct this study, two groups were recruited: those with recent yoga experience (2x a week for the past 3 months) and those without. Participants viewed pictures of different postures while standing on a postural plate, and reported how long they believed an individual could hold the posture for. During this, their sway was measured in both the medial-lateral and anterior-posterior directions. Eye-tracking technology was used to track where the participants were …

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Autism, Light, And Rna - A Story In Three Parts, Ethan Dayley Apr 2023

Autism, Light, And Rna - A Story In Three Parts, Ethan Dayley

Student Research Symposium

Autism is a neurodevelopmental difference present in about 1 in 36 people. Autistics tend to have differences in social communication, interests, and the ways they process the world around them. Autism is an important research area because many autistics suffer from poor mental health and can have difficulties with obtaining education and maintaining employment. By better understanding how autism works at every level we may be able to help autistics have better outcomes in future. This research is a follow-up to a study published by Freeman et al. in 2018. That study demonstrated differences in oxytocin receptor binding in the …

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How Nonreligious Parents Socialize Their Children Regarding (Non)Religion, Jamie Child Apr 2023

How Nonreligious Parents Socialize Their Children Regarding (Non)Religion, Jamie Child

Student Research Symposium

Over the past few decades, the rate of religious disaffiliation in America has steadily increased. However, research on the experiences of nonreligious parents is lacking. In particular, little is known about how nonreligious parents socialize their children in regard to religious or nonreligious worldviews. This study aims to address this gap through an analysis of 35 interviews with nonreligious couples (N = 70 parents) residing in the United States. Initial analyses of the data identified the following four themes: (1) Encouraging Religious Exploration or Engagement (2) Family of Origin’s Religious Influence on Children, (3) Parents Concerns Regarding Children’s Religious Exposure, …

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Creating A Positive Sense Of Place: Feelings Of Safety And Autonomy In A Refugee Camp, Sandra Miles Apr 2023

Creating A Positive Sense Of Place: Feelings Of Safety And Autonomy In A Refugee Camp, Sandra Miles

Student Research Symposium

Having to flee your home and live in a refugee camp is a difficult situation that many people around the world experience. In order to provide support to refugees it is important to understand their experiences. Listening to the memories of past refugees can help us to better understand their experiences in refugee camps and the conditions and experiences that contributed to their sense of place after being forced to flee their homes. I analyzed interview data from 11 refugees that settled in Cache Valley after living in refugee camps in Ethiopia or Thailand. The semi-structured interviews are housed in …

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Validity Of Ultrasound In Estimating Body Fat Percentage Compared To 4-Compartment Model, Liz Cafferty Apr 2023

Validity Of Ultrasound In Estimating Body Fat Percentage Compared To 4-Compartment Model, Liz Cafferty

Student Research Symposium

Body fat percentage (%BF) can be estimated from subcutaneous fat thickness measured by ultrasound (US). %BFUS has been compared to %BF estimates from laboratory devices such as dual-energy x-ray absorptiometry (DXA) and the Bod Pod; however, comparison to a four-compartment (4C) “gold standard” is lacking. PURPOSE: This study compared the accuracy of %BFUS to %BF4C. METHODS: University club sport athletes (84 women, 138 men) participated. Bod Pod, DXA, and bioimpedance spectroscopy were used to measure body volume, bone mineral content, and total body water, respectively, for the 4C model. A-mode US measures were taken at 3 sites to estimate %BFUS. …

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Understanding The Role Of A Putative Type I Polyketide Synthase In Chlorflavonin Biosynthesis, Ammar Mussaji Apr 2023

Understanding The Role Of A Putative Type I Polyketide Synthase In Chlorflavonin Biosynthesis, Ammar Mussaji

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Flavonoids are an important class of plant secondary metabolites with a variety of biological functions in the development processes of hosts. These molecules have also shown health-benefiting properties such as antioxidant and anti-inflammatory activities. As such, they are commonly used as pharmaceuticals and nutraceuticals. In plants, flavonoids are assembled through a type III polyketide synthase (PKS) and associated tailoring enzymes such as hydroxylase and glycosyltransferase. Some filamentous fungi also produce flavonoids, such as chlorflavonin from Aspergillus candidus. Chlorflavonin is a novel halogenated flavonoid found in nature reported to possess antifungal and anti-tuberculosis activity. Unlike plants, the biosynthetic process of flavonoids …

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Review Of Born-Digital Design Records, Nicole Grady Mountjoy Apr 2023

Review Of Born-Digital Design Records, Nicole Grady Mountjoy

Journal of Western Archives

Book review of Born-Digital Design Records part of the Trends in Archives Practice series by the Society of American Archivists.

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Promoting Education In Africa, Jack Colemere Apr 2023

Promoting Education In Africa, Jack Colemere

Student Research Symposium

Education in Africa has been a challenge for many years. But why? What can be done to transform it into something better? Through understanding Africa's history behind their education systems and by designing spaces to help promote better learning we can begin to reverse the impacts of the past and give good education and equal opportunities to all.

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The Zionist Mindset: How The Perception Of Israel Pushed Mormonism Toward Apocalypticism, Andrew Barber Apr 2023

The Zionist Mindset: How The Perception Of Israel Pushed Mormonism Toward Apocalypticism, Andrew Barber

Student Research Symposium

Since its very inception, and regardless of sect, the Mormon religious movement has always shared a similar ideology of Millennialism, the belief that Christ is preparing the world and especially Israel, for his imminent return. But especially, the mainstream Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints has felt a parallel between their religious persecution and exodus to the Salt Lake Valley, and the similar Jewish Exodus and religious persecution both in the Old Testament and during the Holocaust.

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Telescope Restoration, Aidan Tueller Apr 2023

Telescope Restoration, Aidan Tueller

Student Research Symposium

In partnership with Dr. Jan Sojka, head of the Physics Department, a plan was created to make the telescope on top of the Engineering Lab building operational again for either staff, students, classes, or labs to use. The telescope was purchased through funds by Utah NASA Space Grant Consortium. This presentation will give a recap of how the restoration went and plans for future use of the telescope.

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Ethics, Fashion, And Film In The 1950s And 60s, Sara Miner Apr 2023

Ethics, Fashion, And Film In The 1950s And 60s, Sara Miner

Student Research Symposium

Hollywood fashions are deeply implicated in western cultural discourses around notions of individualism and free expression. Hollywood offers fantasies of freedom through the desire for and consuming of the images and materials of fashion. Notions of individualism and freedom reflect the Enlightenment traditions of individualism, autonomy, and self-determination.

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The Russo-Ukrainian War: Understanding The German Media Coverage Of Ukrainian Refugees, Bailey Runhaar, Caitlin Keith, Maralenae Leake, Claudia Schwabe Apr 2023

The Russo-Ukrainian War: Understanding The German Media Coverage Of Ukrainian Refugees, Bailey Runhaar, Caitlin Keith, Maralenae Leake, Claudia Schwabe

Student Research Symposium

The Russo-Ukrainian War began in 2014. In February 2022, Russia launched a full-scale invasion of Ukraine, escalating the ongoing war. The Western media began reporting about the attack as soon as information became available. News reports, articles, and social media were flooded by information related to the conflict, including the stories of refugees from this war as they left Ukraine to other countries around Europe. Throughout this war, German media coverage has been generally pro-Ukraine, showing the country and its refugees sympathy and support, says the Diplomatic Courier. While the war between Russia and Ukraine is still raging, the Western …

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Solutions To The Water Crisis By Cache Valley Residents, Marinda Lamb, Brooke Piippo Apr 2023

Solutions To The Water Crisis By Cache Valley Residents, Marinda Lamb, Brooke Piippo

Student Research Symposium

Cache Valley is full of water, yet has been plagued by the water crisis like much of the Western United States. We employed a few different methods to interview residents of Cache Valley, separating them into groups of community members, water managers, and farmers. In our research we attempted to determine how each of these groups thought the water crisis should be solved.

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