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For The Love Of The Game: A Deeper Look Into The Rise Of Women's Hockey, Kylie Larsen
For The Love Of The Game: A Deeper Look Into The Rise Of Women's Hockey, Kylie Larsen
Student Research Symposium
In my research, I wanted to look into the history, culture, and stereotypes surrounding women's hockey and push the boundaries of this information by exploring a new aesthetic and design for the sport. I considered personal experiences female players have had with misogyny in a male dominated sport, bias' in designs for uniforms/locker rooms/equipment/fan apparel/etc, and historical moments like the 'pay deal' agreement'. All of these different things played a part in the designs of my deliverables in one way or another. This new research based aesthetic approach better represents women's hockey history and its growing, hopeful future.
How Fire Severity Influences Black Bear Space Use, Emily Lowrimore
How Fire Severity Influences Black Bear Space Use, Emily Lowrimore
Student Research Symposium
The American black bear (Ursus americanus) is the most common bear species in North America and inhabits forested areas throughout Utah state. Black bears provide a variety of ecosystem services including seed dispersal, opportunity for hunting, and offering a representation of pristine wilderness. Food source availability is believed to be the driving force behind black bear movement, habitat selection, and home range formation. Ensuring that black bears have a variety of vegetation types available to them is crucial to their success. Wildfire is a major disturbance in the forested regions black bears occupy and can cause dramatic habitat changes that …
Living In Killer Corsets: The Body's Response To Victorian Era Corsets, Rachel Walker
Living In Killer Corsets: The Body's Response To Victorian Era Corsets, Rachel Walker
Student Research Symposium
Lasting narratives surrounding the role of corsets in the lives of nineteenth-century women tend toward opposing extremes; few dress reformers who completely denounced corsets and a minority of upper-class women who used corsets to achieve the smallest possible waist even if detrimental to their health. The spectrum of nineteenth-century corset opinions was wide. Valerie Steele’s monumental work on the history of corsetry explains that most people at the time fell somewhere in the middle. (Steele 2001) Women of all social classes wore corsets daily and most worked labor-intensive jobs, enjoyed recreational activities outdoors, and sports increasingly so towards the late …
Music And Mental Health Disorders, Caroline Schaner
Music And Mental Health Disorders, Caroline Schaner
Student Research Symposium
My research outlines the preventative measures that music can have on depression and similar disorders. I cover several neurotransmitters, but focus primarily on Dopamine and Serotonin. The goal of my research is to educate teens and young adults on how music can be used as a preventative measure to delay or eliminate the onset of major depressive disorder.
Desdemona's Responsibility For Pain In Shakespeare's Othello, Anna Holmes
Desdemona's Responsibility For Pain In Shakespeare's Othello, Anna Holmes
Student Research Symposium
Shakespeare’s portrayal of women has been heavily debated amongst critics from the very beginning. Was he a feminist for his time, subtly pointing out the failings in Elizabethan society’s treatment of women? Or was he instead simply portraying the role of women at the time? I argue that Shakespeare’s nuanced portrayal of women speaks more of the feminist argument, as he writes complex female protagonists in a time when no one believed in these complexities. While some argue that his view of women was sexist from his brutalization and violence against women, I argue that it’s within these confines he …
Mid-Century Modern: Revitalized And Thriving, Wyatt Koyle
Mid-Century Modern: Revitalized And Thriving, Wyatt Koyle
Student Research Symposium
The Mid-Century Modern style of furnishings and design originated in the 1940's and was short lived as other trends quickly took its place. Nowadays however, we are seeing this style resurface and return in force. It no longer applies only to furniture, but has spilled over into other areas of interior design as well. After personally observing this in both educational and professional projects that I contributed to, my interest in the style and its future has grown. The main questions that can be asked are: 1) Is the Mid-Century Modern style that we see today the same as the …
Financial Literacy In America, John Cappelli
Financial Literacy In America, John Cappelli
Student Research Symposium
After graduation most people do not have enough financial knowledge to be successful. This research project looks at how financial literacy courses impact students of different backgrounds. Research was conducted using online databases to evaluate primary and secondary sources including surveys and Add something specific about the sources you used. From this research I found that US high school graduates are lacking in financial education. In conclusion I think that all US highschools need to include mandatory financial education courses in order to ensure students have at least a basic understanding before having to make major decisions.
Rotating Algae Biofilm Reactor Design For Optimization Of Nutrient Uptake And Bioproducts, Amy Cox, Kolton Hauck, Carson Miller, Kade Fish
Rotating Algae Biofilm Reactor Design For Optimization Of Nutrient Uptake And Bioproducts, Amy Cox, Kolton Hauck, Carson Miller, Kade Fish
Student Research Symposium
This project will aim to develop a rotating algae bioreactor (RABR) design that maximizes biofilm assimilation rate (BAR) for total nitrogen (TN) and total phosphorus (TP) reduction from reclaimed water. The optimization variables that will be tested are photosynthetic active radiation (PAR) and duty cycle. The industry established constraints for this project are that nutrient concentration must be reduced from 500 mg/L to 200 mg/L total nitrogen (TN) and from 50 mg/L to 15 mg/L total phosphorous (TP). The reclaimed water and algae will be collected from the Central Valley Water Reclamation Facility (CVWRF) in Salt Lake City, Utah.Further, this …
Seasonal Variations In Global Ionospheric Total Electron Content (Tec), Jason Knudsen
Seasonal Variations In Global Ionospheric Total Electron Content (Tec), Jason Knudsen
Student Research Symposium
As the Sun ionizes atoms and molecules in the Earth’s ionosphere, the region of atmosphere above approximately 100 km in altitude, the created ionization in this region affects many of the systems that we rely on in daily life. This includes cellular service, GPS navigation, weather forecasting, and credit card data. A good measure for the level of ionization in the ionosphere is the total electron content (TEC), which is the number of electrons in a one square meter column above a given location. The TEC over a geographic location influences the propagation of radio waves that traverse that section …
Adhd - Please Get Your Facts Right, Ellie Giauque
Adhd - Please Get Your Facts Right, Ellie Giauque
Student Research Symposium
A deep dive into what it means to have ADHD and spread awareness of correct and scientific facts.
The Development Of Controlled Attention, Lexie Scott, Katelin Pyfer
The Development Of Controlled Attention, Lexie Scott, Katelin Pyfer
Student Research Symposium
The ability to maintain items of information within working memory is depending on the ability to allocate attention to items within WM. Individual differences in WM capacity may bedependent on the amount of information that can be held and maintained in the focus of attention. A basic question in cognitive development is whether individuals increase the capacity of the focus of attention or the efficiency with which they can process information. We examined the differences in typically developing children versus adults in the capacity and efficiency of attention control. In our study, children and young adults completed a dichotic attention …
Esports In Education, Ryan Miner
Esports In Education, Ryan Miner
Student Research Symposium
This project seeks to investigate and answer whether the benefits of implementing esports (competitive video games) in schools outweigh the negative effects of video games in the lives of students. I conducted thorough research on my College’s library database as well as news websites to find primary and secondary sources of the effects of esports in schools, both in the positive and negative. The research also had a special emphasis on several different perspectives, including students at each schooling level (elementary, middle, high school), as well as parents and educators. Analysis of this evidence shows that video games can cause …
Vital Change Needed In Shift Of Focus In Mental Institutions, Emma Carver
Vital Change Needed In Shift Of Focus In Mental Institutions, Emma Carver
Student Research Symposium
Mental Illnesses and disorders are at an all time high in American history with little being done to try and aid such an epidemic. Mental Institutions that focus solely on the short term solution need to shift their focus to long term care to prevent issues such as; mental, emotional and financial stresses on the family or individual felt from caring for struggling individuals. To conduct my research, I used library and internet resources to gather primary and secondary sources all focused on mental illness and mental institutions. I used sources by underrepresented scholars concerning different first hand experiences with …
Should I Study Abroad In Sweden?, Sydney Fisk
Should I Study Abroad In Sweden?, Sydney Fisk
Student Research Symposium
In my research, I was trying to answer the question of if I should study abroad in Sweden? My research aims to investigate whether Sweden is a safe place for me to go as well as what it would be like to live there for an extended amount of time. By evaluating sources from a variety of people, I was able to inform my argument on why I should study abroad in Sweden. I focused my research by mostly looking at popular sources like blog posts from study abroad programs and students studying abroad in Sweden, but I also found …
Application Of Acceleration Data To Inertial Navigation, Eric Eastham
Application Of Acceleration Data To Inertial Navigation, Eric Eastham
Student Research Symposium
In many fields, there exists a need for knowing the precise location of an object. In many cases, the Global Positioning System can be used to determine the precise location of an object, and even its speed and acceleration, to an accuracy of within 10 to 30 feet. In some cases however, such as in applications in space exploration, this is unavailable. Without reference to exterior points, inertial navigation can be a useful tool to determine an object's current location based on the prior movement and rotational changes made. The position is determined by taking the accelerations throughout the course …
The Failed Promise Of Private School Voucher Systems: How We Can Learn From Previous Systems In Future Endeavors, Sarah Curtis
The Failed Promise Of Private School Voucher Systems: How We Can Learn From Previous Systems In Future Endeavors, Sarah Curtis
Student Research Symposium
Voucher systems have been enacted in a number of states, giving government grants to students in order to attend private school institutions where they may not have had the financial ability to before. Voucher systems have claimed to ensure the prosperity of students as they aim to provide religious freedom, special needs education, and opportunities for academic excellence. This promise has held popularity among its supporters, but looking at decade old systems now reveal that this simply isn’t true and has stirred controversy around vouchers. While school vouchers promised higher test scores, they have failed to provide such results when …
The Effects Of Moisture On The Conductivity Of M55j Carbon Fiber Composites, Crystal Tingle
The Effects Of Moisture On The Conductivity Of M55j Carbon Fiber Composites, Crystal Tingle
Student Research Symposium
In this research, we studied the effects that humidity (moisture) can have on M55J Carbon Fiber Composite samples.
Connections To Home: Immigrant Material Culture In Northern Utah, Alyssa Burton, Claudia Méndez Wright
Connections To Home: Immigrant Material Culture In Northern Utah, Alyssa Burton, Claudia Méndez Wright
Student Research Symposium
This study explores how a group of Latin American immigrants in Cache Valley connects to 'home' through material culture. We analyzed 16 interviews in NVivo with Latin American immigrants for the whats, hows, whys, and effects of object exchange between the immigrants in the U.S. and people in their country of origin. We found that this excahnge helps immigrants remember their roots, maintain interpersonal relationships in their countries of origin, and build interpersonal relationships in the U.S. These immigrants also discussed objects of sentimental value. Some represented memories of in their origin countries. Others represented new memories created in the …
Exploring Color's Influence On Emotions Within Design, Tyson Alles
Exploring Color's Influence On Emotions Within Design, Tyson Alles
Student Research Symposium
In this study, surveys were provided to 78 participants to determine what colors they associated with which emotions. 20 emotions were provided: anger, anxiety, bravery, inspiration, irritation, love pride, sadness, shame, and surprise. The 10 color choices given for each color were as follows: red (#FF0000), orange (#FF8800), yellow (#FFFF00), green (#00FF00), cyan (#00FFFF), blue (#0000FF), violet (#8F00FF), magenta (#FF00FF), black (#000000), and brown (#654321). Both RGB and CMYK color groups were included to span the spectrum of light as well as the two common secondary colors, orange and violet. Black and brown were added as darker variables to contrast …
Changes In The Female Athlete Triad Knowledge After Educational Intervention: A Pilot Study, Kate Buckley
Changes In The Female Athlete Triad Knowledge After Educational Intervention: A Pilot Study, Kate Buckley
Student Research Symposium
A 10-Minute educational intervention, investigating knowledge of the Female Athlete Triad among USU Female athletes. Knowledge was assessed using a 7 question survey both before the educational intervention and after to compare knowledge scores.
Evolution Of Floral Microbes And The Resulting Effects On Pollinator Preferences, Hailey Hatch
Evolution Of Floral Microbes And The Resulting Effects On Pollinator Preferences, Hailey Hatch
Student Research Symposium
Floral microbes are an overlooked aspect of the extended floral phenotype. They mediate interactions between flowers, pollinators, and other floral microbes that have significant implications for pollinator and plant health by altering floral nectar chemistry. The interactions between floral microbes and pollinators are critically important to understand as pollinators have a key role in both the crop and natural ecosystem world. Our aim is to explore how floral nectar traits may affect evolution and competition within the floral yeast Metchnikowia reukaufii, the floral bacteria Bacillus subtilis, and other microbes isolated from Brassica rapa nectar. To address this, we are conducting …
Developing A Novel Method For Testing Stopping Ability For Balance Recovery, Charlie Baggett, Chase Mitton
Developing A Novel Method For Testing Stopping Ability For Balance Recovery, Charlie Baggett, Chase Mitton
Student Research Symposium
This is a pilot study to determine a new method to assess response inhibition in a reactive balance context. Our aim is to create a method for assessing inhibition of a balance recovery step similar to past cognitive neuroscience research where button press responses in seated participants are used. A total of 17 young adults (18-30 years) were recruited for testing using the ReacStick and lean & release system in which participants were placed in a harness connected by a support cable to the wall behind them and another failsafe cable attached from the ceiling. Participants leaned into the support …
Comfort In The Living Environment, Susie Head
Comfort In The Living Environment, Susie Head
Student Research Symposium
It is important to design our living environments to provide a level of comfort and there are sciences and theories that make comfort a technical process. How do these theories and practices work together and how can they be applied to a material such as a wallpaper to encourage interior comfort. Research was done into practices such as feng shui, hygge, wabi-sabi, and color and pattern science to create three original wallpapers. The conclusion was that comfort and peace can be found in mindfulness and a connection to nature.
Discrimination Help Center, Emily Neil
Discrimination Help Center, Emily Neil
Student Research Symposium
Race and ethnicity have been and still is at the heart of South African history, politics, society and economy since the European colonization. South Africa remains a complex mix of different races, cultural identities, languages and ethnic bonds. Discrimination Help Center (in the Afrikaan language, Diskriminasie Hulp Sentrum) in Cape Town, South Africa is a place for the Black Community to feel safe and get any help they may need. On site, there are lawyers, mental health help, therapy, career resources, help finding an education and housing, financial help, a cafeteria/food bank, and a healing garden.
Detonation Of A White Dwarf Star: Simulations Of The Sub-Chandrasekhar Type 1a Supernovae, Melissa Rasmussen
Detonation Of A White Dwarf Star: Simulations Of The Sub-Chandrasekhar Type 1a Supernovae, Melissa Rasmussen
Student Research Symposium
A type Ia supernova can result from the double detonation of a white dwarf star below the Chandrasekhar mass limit. Using the hydrodynamics code Castro, we simulate this detonation by perturbing a carbon/oxygen white dwarf with an accumulated shell of helium, with a small amount of nitrogen-14. In this work, we investigate the robustness of the model. Adjusting the location of the perturbation affects whether detonation occurs. Changing the composition of the helium shell affects the speed at which it burns. The size of the reaction network used affects whether the star's core burns immediately or from a shock wave …
Simultaneous Simulation Of Microgravity And Ionizing Radiation In A Laboratory Environment, Achal Duhoon
Simultaneous Simulation Of Microgravity And Ionizing Radiation In A Laboratory Environment, Achal Duhoon
Student Research Symposium
A novel system was developed to simulate the combined effects of reduced gravity and ionizing radiation present during spaceflight on biological and particulate samples. The miniature rotary cell culture system (mRCCS) was designed to synchronously rotate up to five independent vessels containing particulate samples suspended in fluid media, constructed using radiation tolerant, biocompatible, and vacuum compatible materials. Reduced gravity conditions were achieved when suspended particles (e.g., 200 μm polystyrene microcarrier beads with or without adhered cell clusters) were suspended inside the vessels moving near terminal velocity in viscous neutral-buoyant fluid media with densities matched to the suspended particles to achieve …
The Societal Impacts Of Alcohol Dependence And Elective Sobriety, Jillian Poll
The Societal Impacts Of Alcohol Dependence And Elective Sobriety, Jillian Poll
Student Research Symposium
This project's aim is to extrapolate the role that design and advertising plays in cultural perception of alcohol consumption & patterns. As such, the research process was designed to quantify each of the factors that influence the development of an Alcohol Use Disorder, then determine solutions to target the root issues that citizens face. Common issues include underage consumption, alcohol addiction, and coerced consumption. The quantifiable research portion of this project answers these questions: 1) What genetic, social, and psychological causes contribute to alcohol addiction?; 2) How does culture affect alcohol consumption?; 3) What are the social and societal repercussions …
Modeling The Spread Of Curly Top Disease In Tomato Crops, Rachel Frantz
Modeling The Spread Of Curly Top Disease In Tomato Crops, Rachel Frantz
Student Research Symposium
Curly Top disease (CT), caused by a family of curtoviruses, infects a wide variety of agricultural crops. Historically, CT has caused extensive damage in tomato crops resulting in substantial economic loss for the tomato industry. Control methods for CT are scarce, and methods for predicting and assessing the scope of CT outbreaks are limited. In this paper, we formulate two theoretical models, a deterministic model and a stochastic model, for the spread of CT in a heterogeneous environment consisting of beets (preferred host) and tomatoes. The models are composed of two susceptible classes and two infected classes (infectious beets and …
Creating Safe Spaces For Women Through Architecture And Interior Design - Expressed Through The Design Of A Queer Women's Bar, Riley Robbins
Creating Safe Spaces For Women Through Architecture And Interior Design - Expressed Through The Design Of A Queer Women's Bar, Riley Robbins
Student Research Symposium
Safe Spaces are so important to marginalized communities. These spaces have been severely lacking for queer women. There are currently around 1,000 bars for cisgender gay men and 15 for queer women across the entirety of the United States of America. This research explores the design of a Queer Women’s Bar and how it can become a safe space.There is currently a movement called the Lesbian Bar Project that seeks to increase these safe spaces and keep them in place. A big problem they have is getting people to keep coming back. This research explores that and how a bar …
Applying Cognitive Load Theory To Video Materials To Increase Metacognition And Improve Academic Performance Of Structured Query Language Course, Kyle Lam
Student Research Symposium
Structured Query Language (SQL) is a standardized programming language used to manage relational databases and perform various operations on the data in them.This course was highly technical for the undergraduate students, to make the learning more effective, the teacher must assess the intrinsic cognitive load on the learner and adjust the extraneous cognitive load when creating video materials.This study applied cognitive load theory (CLT) to remove split attention and redundancy effects; offer suitable worked examples and segmentation to decrease the cognitive load demand of learners.This study tries to address the relationship between cognitive load level and metacognition, and clarify how …