UTAH ACADEMY
of
Sciences, Arts & Letters
Established 1908
Annual Conference
April 8, 2011
Salt Lake Community College
Salt Lake City, Utah
UTAH ACADEMY OF
SCIENCES, ARTS & LETTERS
Annual Conference April 8, 2011
9:00 - 10:00 a.m.
Registration: Jordan Health Sciences Building Atrium
10:00 – 11:30 a.m.
Plenary Session: Eccles Auditorium, JHS
Welcome: Dr. Chris Picard, Provost, SLCC
Presidential Address: Spencer H. Blake
Distinguished Service Award Presentation: Nichole Ortega
Tanner Lecture: Warner Woodworth
Rabbit Room Session: Eccles Auditorium, JHS
12:30 – 1:30
Lunch: Student Pavilion
John and Olga Gardner Prize Presentation: Nichole Ortega
2:00 – 5:00
Division Session Presentations: High Tech Center & Student
Pavilion
3:15 – 3:45
Break
Refreshments & Poster Session: Student Pavilion
5:30 – 6:30
UASAL Board Meeting: Student Pavilion 206
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Division Sessions
Room Assignments
POSTER SESSION
Student Pavilion
ARTS
Sessions 1 & 2, High Tech Center 109
Session 3, High Tech Center 111
BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES
High Tech Center 107
BUSINESS
Sessions 1 & 2, High Tech Center 206
Sessions 3 & 4, High Tech Center 209
EDUCATION
High Tech Center 215
ENGINEERING
High Tech Center 223
HPER
Student Pavilion 204
LETTERS – PHILOSOPHY
High Tech Center 246
LETTERS – LITERATURE
High Tech Center 234
PHYSICAL SCIENCES
Sessions 1 & 2, High Tech Center 239
Sessions 3, High Tech Center 237
SOCIAL SCIENCES
Sessions 1 & 2, High Tech Center 231
Sessions 3 & 4, High Tech Center 233
REFRESHMENTS
Student Pavilion
Tanner Lecture
Dr. Warner Woodworth
Brigham Young University
Action Learning: Using our Research & Teaching
as a Platform for Change
Warner Woodworth is a social entrepreneur and professor of
Organizational Strategy and Leadership at the Marriott School, Brigham
Young University where he teaches OD, Third World Development,
Microcredit, and Social Entrepreneurship. Author of 10 books and over
200 articles and conference papers, he has been engaged in empowering
the poor for three decades. He has helped found and/or served on the
boards of numerous NGOs including Enterprise Mentors International (5
countries), Ouelessebougou-Utah Alliance (Mali), Unitus (11 nations),
and HELP International (8 countries), among 24 others. In 2010 alone
the NGOs and MFIs he helped launch from his campus courses in past
years grew to over 7.2 million clients, raised some $36 million, and
trained over 520,000 microentrepreneurs. He has been honored with the
Faculty Pioneer Award for his global impacts from the Aspen Institute in
NYC, a Social Entrepreneurship Teaching Award at the World Forum,
Oxford University, and the first Peter Drucker Visiting Scholar at the
Drucker School, Claremont University in LA, among other recognitions.
He was also appointed by Nobel Peace Prize Laureate Muhammad
Yunus to the Advisory Board of Grameen America in NYC.
Distinguished Service Award
Dr. Clifton Sanders
Salt Lake Community College
Clifton Sanders is the Dean of the School of Science, Mathematics and
Engineering at Salt Lake Community College. He received his Ph.D. in
Organic Chemistry from the University of Utah in 1990 and a certificate
in Biblical Languages from Salt Lake Theological Seminary in 1995. He
has worked as a research technician and senior scientist for several Utah
biomedical, industrial and contract research companies. His academic
and industrial research has been sponsored by the National Science
Foundation, the National Institutes of Health, NASA and the Department
of Defense. He has co-authored several publications, presentations,
technical reports and patents in mechanistic organic chemistry, mass
spectrometry, polymer synthesis, and biomaterials technology. He has
worked at Salt Lake Community College since 1993 as a Chemistry
Instructor, Assistant Professor, and academic administrator. He was
awarded the 1995-96 Salt Lake Community College Distinguished
Faculty Lecturer Award for community outreach and science education,
and he received a Teaching Excellence Award in 1997 from the Salt
Lake Community College Foundation. As an adjunct Instructor in
Philosophical Theology at Salt Lake Theological Seminary Clifton
developed and taught courses in Biblical Interpretation, Theology and the
Arts, and Theology and Science. He has given theology presentations at
the Sunstone Symposium, Salt Lake Theological Seminary and Salt Lake
Community College. Clifton plays jazz saxophone with the G. Brown
Quintet, a local professional group. He provided solo saxophone
improvisations for Emma Lou Thayne’s reading of her suite of poems
“How Much for the Earth” at the March 2008 Nuclear Weapons
Symposium at Utah Valley University He also co-authored (with
Michael Minch) the paper “Democracy as Music, Music as Democracy”
which was published in Radical Philosophy Review, volume 12 (2009),
“Art, Praxis and Social Transformation--Radical Dreams and Visions.”
He is married to Sandra Watkins and they have a 14-year old son,
Nathaniel.
John & Olga Gardner Prize
H. Scott Hinton
Utah State University
H. Scott Hinton was born in Salt Lake City in 1951. He received a
B.S.E.E. in 1981 at Brigham Young University and an M.S.E.E. at
Purdue University in 1982.
In 1981, he joined AT&T Bell Laboratories in Naperville, IL as a
Member of the Technical Staff. He was promoted to supervisor of the
Photonic Switching Technologies group in 1985 and then Head of the
Photonic Switching Department in 1989.
From 1992 to 1994, he was the BNR-NT/NSERC Chair in Photonic
Systems at McGill University and from 1994 to 1999 he was the Hudson
Moore Jr. Professor of Engineering at the University of Colorado at
Boulder, and finally from 1999 to 2002 he was the Dean E. Ackers
Distinguished Professor and the Chairman of the University of Kansas
Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Department.
In June 2002, he accepted the position as the Dean of the College of
Engineering at Utah State University. He has been very active in the
scientific community where he has published over 35 journal articles and
85 conference papers. He has also been active in service to the
professional community by serving in leadership positions for numerous
technical conferences and workshops.
Dean Hinton has also been awarded 12 patents. His current research is
focused on developing systems applications of smart pixels and freespace optical interconnection, synthetic biophotonic systems, and in
developing and
understanding technology-enhanced
learning
environments. He was the 2004-2005 President of the IEEE Laser and
Electro-Optics Society (LEOS), an IEEE-LEOS Distinguished Lecturer
for 1993-94 and is a fellow of both the IEEE and OSA.
Utah Academy
2011 Spring Excursion
Topaz Japanese Internment Camp
Saturday, June 4th 2011
Each year the Utah Academy participates in a Spring Excursion to
explore some natural or historic feature of our beautiful state. Our
excursion this year will be to Topaz Japanese Internment Camp
and Great Basin National Park. We will start at Delta at 8:00 a.m.
on June 4th, visit Topaz and Fort Deseret near Delta, and then
drive to Great Basin National Park. On the way, we will view
Sevier Lake and the Baker Archeological Site (Fremont Indian
village). At Great Basin National Park, we will visit Lehman Cave
and the Wheeler Peak Scenic Drive. We recommend that you make
plans to spend Friday night in Delta in order to get started at 8:00
a.m. on Saturday morning.
Please join us! Feel free to invite friends and family members to
join us as well. More information will be forthcoming via email,
but mark your calendars and contact Dwight Israelsen, Utah
Academy Member at Large, to RSVP.
Dwight Israelsen
Dept of Economics & Finance
Utah State University
3565 Old Main Hill
Logan, UT 84322-3520
(435) 797-2298
dwight.israelsen@usu.edu
We also invite you to mark your calendars for the 2012 UASAL
Annual Spring Conference to be held at Utah State University
Journal of the Utah Academy
Publication Policy
Papers published in The Journal of the Utah Academy of Sciences,
Arts, and Letters are drawn from papers presented by members in good
standing at the annual conference of the Utah Academy. To qualify for
publication, the papers must be recommended through a double blind
refereeing system.
Presenters are encouraged to publish their paper in The Journal of
the Utah Academy. The Journal’s criteria are that a submission is (1)
fresh, meaningful scholarly insight on its subject; (2) readable and well
written; and (3) of general interest for an academic readership beyond the
author’s field. If you wish your paper to be considered for publication in
The Journal, please send one hard copy of your paper and abstract to;
Nichole Ortega
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Utah Valley University
800 West University Parkway
Orem, UT 84058
Please send three hard copies to the chair of your division by May
15, 2011. All submitted papers will be considered for an Outstanding
Paper Award. Include both your institutional and home addresses and
phone numbers, email address and fax number. Papers will be peer
reviewed. Please suggest possible appropriated referees, including
names, telephone numbers and addresses.
At the time of acceptance for publication, manuscripts must be
submitted as an attachment in Microsoft Word via email, also attach a
PDF. Figures, diagrams and photographs must be saved as TIFF files
and should be no larger than 5 x 7. Papers must conform to the style of
the paper’s discipline: MLA, APA, Chicago, CBE, or AIP. Papers
should be between ten and twenty double-spaced pages.
The Journal of the Utah Academy is a refereed journal. Editorial
responses will be forthcoming after the resumption of school the
following fall when referees have returned their comments to the division
chairs.
Detailed publication guidelines are available at the Utah Academy
website: www.utahacademy.org
Poster Session
Session Chair: R Steven Turley
Brigham Young University
A Comparative Analysis of Increased Childhood Obesity and the
Reduction of Physical Education Programs in Public Education in
Utah Public Schools
Rosqvist, Kemp & Boyer, Bret H. D.P.T.,
Utah Valley University
The Effect of a Regional Exercise Science Professional Conference
on Student Perception of Professional Behavior
Denney, Paige & Boyer, Bret H. D.P.T., Utah Valley University
How Ecological Science Is Portrayed In Mass Media
Leilani F. Williams, Brigham Young University; Jerald B. Johnson &
Matthew J. Baker Northern Kentucky
Digital Humanities: What's all the Buzz about?
Burke Sorenson
Analysis of barn owl pellets (Tyto alba) collected from
Davis County, Utah
Jaime S. Heiner & Stephen P. Niedzwiecki M.S., Oquirrh Mountain
Charter School
Defense Chemistry In Inga umbellifera
Susanna Khachaturyan, Thomas A. Kursar, Phyllis D. Coley, & John
Lokvam, University of Utah
Seperation Of Mixed Halophilic Cultures From The Great Salt Lake
Staples, A., Culumber, M., Domek, M., Weber State University
Arts
Division Chair: Nichole Ortega
Utah Valley University
Session One
Session Leader: Nichole Ortega
High Tech Center 109
2:00
Dreams
Melanie Ewell Francom , Utah Valley University
2:15
Lacuna
Angela Banchero-Kelleher, Amy Markgraf Jacobson & Nichole
Ortega, Utah Valley University
2:30
Rudollf von Laban and the Nazis
Aleisha Paspuel , Utah Valley University
2:45
Backwards and in High Heels: The Myth of Female Passivity
in Ballroom Dance
Roger Wiblin, Utah Valley University
3:00
Going Through Life Sideways: Fritz Lang’s Violence with
His Female Characters
Elaine Sharp, Dixie State College
3:15 – 3:45
Break (Refreshments in Student Pavilion)
Session Two
Session Leader: Marcus Vincent, Utah Valley University
High Tech Center 111
2:00
Partcipant Motivation in College Ballroom Dance Classes
Johnny Ahn, Utah Valley University
2:15
John Wayne, Producer
Stephen Armstrong, Dixie State College
2:30
International Style v. American Style: The Coaches’
Perspective
Emily Darby, Utah Valley University
2:45
Gender Performance and Performativity in Ballroom Dance
Veronica Argyle, Utah Valley University
3:00
Alwin Nickolais: How His Choreography Reflects His Life
Experiences
Breanna Orr, Utah Valley University
3:15 – 3:45
Break (Refreshments in the Student Pavilion)
Session Three
Session Leader: Nichole Ortega
High Tech Center 109
3:45
The Disillusioned Hero: Friz Lang and Dave Bannion
Trisha Haber, Dixie State College
4:00
Night Journey: Insight of the Subconscious of Martha
Graham
Lauren Harris, Utah Valley University
4:15
The Shadow Effect
Melanie Ewell Francom, Utah Valley University
4:30
Visual Scripting
Elizabeth Micklavcic, University of Utah
4:45
Reggaeton from a Feminist Perspective
Giselle Fernandez, Utah Valley University
Biological Sciences
Division Chair: Erin O’Brien
Dixie State College
Session Leader: Erin O’Brien
High Tech Center 107
2:00
Batrachochytrium dendrobatidis fungus update for
populations of Hyla arenicolor in Zion National Park
Britnee Moore & Curt Walker, Dixie State College
2:15
The Effect of Rock Pool Properties on the Diversity and
Abundance of Microflora and Fauna in SW Utah Slot
Canyon Pools
Chad Roberts, Dixie State College
2:30
Susceptibility Study of Staphylococcus aureus Carotenoid
Deficient Mutants to Oxacillin
Uriwan Vijaranakul, Pibulsongkram Rajabhat University,
Thailand; R. K. Jayaswal & Brian J. Wilkinson, Illinois State
University
2:45
Novel Marinobacter-like Organism and a Related Phage
Isolated from the Great Salt Lake
T. B. Simon, C. J. Oberg, M. D. Culumber, & M. J. Domek,
Weber State University
3:00
A Unified Study of Ethics on Conservation of Biodiversity
Ruhul Kuddus, Utah Valley University
3:15 – 3:45
3:45
Break (Refreshments in Student Pavilion)
Isolation and Characterization of Cellulytic Microorganisms
from the Great Salt Lake, UT
Elizabeth Mora, Brian Bill, Craig Oberg & Michele Culumber,
Weber State University
4:00
Comparison of Idiomarina Bacteriophage Isolated from the
Great Salt Lake, UT
Carlie Benson, Craig Oberg, Matthew Domek, & Michele
Culumber, Weber State University
4:15
Inhibition of Clostridium difficile by Lactic Acid Bacteria
Tarris Webber, Jed Lowe, Rachel Lowe, & Craig Oberg, Weber
State University
4:30
Antibacterial Properties of Originum vulgare Essential Oil on
Staphylococcus aureus
Marcus Stucki, Dennis Farnsworth, Zachary Hazenwinkel & Dr.
Don Warner, Dixie State College of Utah
4:45 – 5:00
Q&A
Business
Division Chair: Jon Westover
Utah Valley University
Session One – Faculty-Mentored Undergraduate Student Research
Session Leader: Jonathan H. Westover, Utah Valley University
High Tech Center 206
2:00
Organizational Politics in a Utah Context
Trista Doxey, Utah Valley University
2:20
The Impact of Right to Work Policies in Utah
Troy Callahan, Utah Valley University
2:40
The Impact of Workplace Wellness Programs on Decreasing
Employee Obesity and Increasing Overall Health
Skyler C. Macdonald & Jonathan H. Westover, Utah Valley
University
3:00 – 3:15
Q&A
Session Two – Entrepreneurship
Session Leader: Peter Robinson, Utah Valley University
High Tech Center 209
2:00
Sources of Entrepreneurial Passion
Michael Glauser, Westminster College
Melissa Cardon, Pace University
2:20
The Challenge: Experiential Education in Theory and
Practice
Dr. Peter Robinson, Dr. Laurent Josien & Rachel McGovern,
Utah Valley University
2:40
What Successful Entrepreneurs Really Do
Michael Glauser, Westminster College
3:00 – 3:15
Q&A
Session Three – Statistical Methods in Business Research
Session Leader: James B. McDonald, Brigham Young University
High Tech Center 206
3:45
Partially Adaptive Estimation of the Censored Regression
Model
Randall A. Lewis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology;
James B. McDonald, Brigham Young University
4:05
Partially Adaptive and Semiparametric Estimation of
Regression Models for Grouped Data
Jason B. Cook & James B. McDonald, Brigham Young
University
4:25
Moments to Remember: Some Popular Models for the
Distribution of Income
James B. McDonald & Jeffrey T. Sorensen, Brigham Young
University; Patrick A. Turley, Harvard University
4:45 – 5:00
Q&A
Session Four – Other Topics in Business
Session Leader: L. Dwight Israelsen, Utah State University
High Tech Center 209
3:45
An Analytical View of China as a Software Outsourcing
Outlet*
Taowen Le, Weber State University; Wayne Huang, Ohio
University; Jin Zhang, Professor, University of Wisconsin
Milwaukee
4:00
Advertising to Children: A Review to Determine Ethics and
Social Responsibility
Benjamin Hart, Utah Valley University
4:15
A Note on the Usefulness the Minimum-Variance Portfolio in
Practice
Leo Chan, Utah Valley University
*Presentation by Ed Harris, Weber State University
4:30
Diversification and Comparative Advantage: 160 Years of
Change in Utah’s Economy
L. Dwight Israelsen, Utah State University
4:45 – 5:00
Q&A
Education
Division Chair: David Williams
Brigham Young University
Session Leader: David Williams
High Tech Center 215
2:00
Visions and Blueprints for Tomorrow’s Schools: Why We
Need Them Now
Dr. Jim McCoy & Dr. Prent Klag, Southern Utah University
2:15
Developing instruction for the diverse classroom:
Collegial collaboration in action
Vessela Ilieva, Ph.D. Utah Valley University
2:30
The Use of Instructional Time for Teaching Science at the
Elementary Level
Mary Sowder, Utah Valley University
2:45
Teacher Training at Snow College, 1888-1936
David Rosier, Snow College
3:00
Practical Theory: Making Research Writing Theory Useful
for Students
Angie Carter, Utah Valley University
3:15 – 3:45
Break (Refreshments in Student Pavilion)
3:45
Mobile Technology
Talitha Hudgins, Utah Valley University
4:00
Assessing Effective Instructional Design in the
Developmental Mathematics Classroom
Jacque P. Westover, Utah Valley University
Engineering
Division Chair: Doran Baker
Utah State University
Session Leader: Doran Baker
High Tech Center 223
2:00
The Effect of Surface Geometry and Heat Flux on Thin Wire
Nucleate Pool Boiling of Subcooled Water in Microgravity
Troy Munro, Utah State University
2:15
Mechanical Property Effects on Anisotropic Thermal
Conductivity of Planetary Soils
Daniel Garrett, Utah State University
2:30
Document Flash Thermography
Cory A Larsen, Utah State University
2:45
SABER OH Mesospheric Airglow Emissions
Bryant Svedin, Utah State University
3:00
Mars to Go Lite: A Minimal Manned Mars Mission
Donovan Chipman & David Allred, Brigham Young University
3:15 – 3:45
Break (Refreshments in Student Pavilion)
3:45
Analytical and Experimental Evaluation of Aerodynamic
Thrust Vectoring on an Aerospike Nozzle
Shannon Eilers & Matthew Wilson, Utah State University
4:00
Enhancing Multispectral Imagery of Ancient Documents
Trace A. Griffiths, Utah State University
4:15
SAM Instrument Control and Tracking
Spencer Jackson, Utah State University
4:30
Attitude Control Using Aerodynamic Vectoring on an
Aerospike Nozzle
Crystal Frazier & Nate Erni, Utah State University
Health, Physical Education
& Outdoor Recreation
Division Chair: Shaunna McGhie
Utah Valley University
Session Leader: Shaunna McGhie
Student Pavilion 204
2:00
Assessment of the Army’s Method of Predicting Body
Composition
Jason V. Slack, PhD, & Jeffery Cowley, Utah Valley University
2:15
Food Insecurities in Global Communities
Judith Pratt, MSN, RN, Weber State University
2:30
Motivational Behaviors of Elite Senior Athletes
M. Vinson Miner, Ph.D., Bret H. Boyer D.P.T.,
Utah Valley University
2:45
Eat to Live, Live to Dance: Preventing Eating Disorders in
Dancers
Kristy Jo Hunt, Dixie State College
3:00 – 3:15
Q&A
3:15 – 3:45
Break (Refreshments in Student Pavilion)
3:45
Under Graduate Student vs. Graduate Program Perception
of Professional Behavior in Utah
Bret H. Boyer, D.P.T., M. Bohne Ph.D., Jason Slack, Ph.D.,
Brian Seastrand & Spencer Evensen, Utah Valley University
4:00
Patients’ Opinions on the Proper Reimbursement for
Services Offered by their Primary Care Physicians
Travis Moulton, Osteopathic Medical Student III
4:15
Accessibility of Outpatient Services as Viewed by those Being
Discharged from State Hospital South
Nicholas Baldwin, Osteopathic Medical Student III; Jaren Blake
M.D., Principal Investigator
4:30 – 4:45
Q&A
Letters – Foreign Language,
Humanities & Philosophy
Division Chair: Jim Gustafson
Southern Utah University
Session One
Session Leader: Jim Gustafson
High Tech Center 246
2:00
Effects of American Cold War Propaganda on Modern
Perceptions of Russian Culture and Motives
Josh Uda, Utah Valley University
2:15
A Marriage Blessing: Masha, Pyotr, and a Tale of Two
Russias
Michael Flynn, Dixie State College
2:30
The Poetic Imperative: Pedagogical Musings on Teaching
Spanish Poetry
David Richter, Utah State University
2:45
Phenomenological Intentionality of Pedro Salinas in His
Poem “La memoria en las manos” from Largo lament
Andrew Bishop, Brigham Young University
3:00
Political Journalism and Pamphlets by Peruvian Women
During the 1920s: The Role of Dora Mayer de Zulen
Iliana Portaro, University of California, Davis
3:15 – 3:30
Q&A
3:15 – 3:45
Break (Refreshments in Student Pavilion)
Session Two
Session Leader: Matias Martinez-Abeijon,
Southern Utah University
High Tech Center 246
3:45
Translation of Media as Education: Engaged Learning
Project at UVU
Mariana Penin, Utah Valley University
4:00
What Holds the World Together at its Innermost? The
Correct Interpretation of Goethe’s Faust
Eberhard Lehnhardt, Utah Valley University
4:15
The Project of Silencing – Why White Supremacist Capitalist
Patriarchy Never Dies
Vanim Zetreus, Utah Valley University
4:30
Oedipus Family in José Luis Borau’s Furtivos and Icíar
Bollaín’s Flores de otro mundo
Matias Abeijon, Southern Utah University
4:45 – 5:00
Q&A
Letters – Literature
Division Chair: David Allred
Snow College
Session Leader: David Allred
High Tech Center 234
2:00
Robert Browning on the Unfaithful Woman
Tonia Wilson, Weber State University
2:15
The Function and Fetishism of Victorian Clothing in the
Neo-Victorian Novel
Amanda Scott, Dixie State College
2:30
Patriarchal Discourse in Charlotte Perkins Gilman’s “The
Yellow Wallpaper” and “If I Were a Man”
Kami McArthur, Dixie State College
2:45
A Destructive Modern ‘Game of Chess’ in T. S. Eliot’s The
Waste Land
Dustin Jackson, Dixie State College
3:00 – 3:15
Q&A
3:15 – 3:45
Break (Refreshments in Student Pavilion)
3:45
The Cold-Blooded Murder of the English Tongue:
Addressing Grammar across the Curriculum
Julia Combs, Southern Utah University
4:00
The Museum, the Academy, and the Politics of Display:
Fetishiziation and Aestheticization of American Indian Texts
Kimberli Lawson, Utah Valley University
4:15
The Reign of Ants in Magical Realist Novels of Grass,
Rushdie, and Marquez
Maria Inglefield, Weber State University
4:30
Enamored of an Ass: A Shakespearean Exploration of
Falling for the Wrong Guy
Jennifer Gibb, Northern Arizona University
4:45 – 5:00
Q&A
Physical Sciences
Division Chair: Jean-Francois Van Huele
Brigham Young University
Session One - Plenary
Session Leader: Jean-Francois Van Huele
High Tech Center 239
2:00
Romancing Mathematics with Chemistry: How
Mathematical Trees Can Be Used to Synthesize Molecular
Structures
Chin-yah Yeh, Utah Valley University
2:15
Validation of Mineral Chelates by Scanning Electron
Microscopy
Robert Jensen, Aldolph Yonkee, & Edward B Walker, Weber
State University
2:30
Instantaneous frequency tracking of partials of a string
vibrating at large amplitudes using a high speed camera
David C. Ripplinger & Brian E. Anderson, Brigham Young
University
2:45
Direct Determination of Iron in Whole Blood by X-ray
Fluorescence
Shenelle Kleyn, Shalease Adams, R. Devin Roane, Firas Harb,
Yasmen Simonian, & Edward B Walker, Weber State University
3:00
Lorentzian and Gamma Distribution Representations of
EFG Components in Inhomogeneous Broadening in PAC
Spectroscopy
Mike Adams, P. Matheson, & W. E. Evenson, Utah Valley
University
3:15 – 3:45
Break (Refreshments in Student Pavilion)
Session Two - Physics
Session Leader: Brent A. Sorenson, Southern Utah University
High Tech Center 239
3:45
Accretion Disk Structure and the Fe Kα Spectral Line
Profiles in Active Galactic Nuclei
Brandon K. Wiggins & Brent A. Sorensen, Southern Utah
University
4:00
Measuring the change in EUV reflectance caused by
amorphous silicon oxidation
Zephne Larsen, David D. Allred, & R. Steven Turley, Brigham
Young University
4:15
Calculation of gravitational fields of disk-like and ring-like
structures
Jeremy Redd & Alexander M. Panin, Utah Valley University
4:30
Who can perform an observation?
Merrill Asp & Jean-Francois Van Huele, Brigham Young
University
4:45
Modeling a history of radiative cooling of various size planets
and planetesimals using Maple
Alexander M. Panin, Utah Valley University
Session Three – Chemistry
Session Leader: John Lamb, Brigham Young University
High Tech Center 237
3:45
Rapid Analysis of Zinc Oxide in Drug Products by X-ray
Fluorescence
Jazzi Sharifan, Trandon Bender, Kevin Larkin, Brian Penman,&
Edward B. Walker, Weber State University
4:00
Characterization and Separation Applications of a
Resorcinarene-based Cavitand
Na Li, Roger G. Harrison, & John D. Lamb, Brigham Young
University
4:15
Analysis of Dimethicone in Skin Protection Products by
FTIR
Chase S. Naisbitt, Stuart A. Zuniga, & Edward B. Walker,
Weber State University
4:30
A Quantitative Analysis of the Water Quality of Coal Creek
in Cedar City, Utah
Shannon Force, Samantha Huntsman Darren Dillard, Nicole
Ramos, Kasidy Miller,& Kim Weaver Ty Redd, Southern Utah
University
4:45
Use of X-ray Fluorescence for Quality Screening of Minerals
Used in Dietary Supplements
Brandon Price, Firas Harb, & Edward B Walker, Weber State
University
Social Sciences
Division Chair: Rob Reynolds
Weber State University
Session One
Session Leader: Rob Reynolds
High Tech Center 231
2:00
The Regressives: Unraveling the Progressive Movement
John Howell, Southern Utah University
2:15
Shared Promise: The Rhetoric of Presidents Bush and
Obama
Luke Perry, Southern Utah University
2:30
The Emergence of Leadership in Online Gaming
Chris Becker, Weber State University
2:45
The Influence of Presidential Subscription to Schools of
Political Thought on the Paradigm of Imperial Decline
Brittney Parks, Southern Utah University
3:00
Internal and External Threats Posed by Islamic State and
Sub State Actors
Maxwell Sands, University of Utah
3:15 – 3:45
Break (Refreshments in Student Pavilion)
Session Two
Session Leader: John Hill, Salt Lake Community College
High Tech Center 233
2:00
Lessons Learned from C.R.I.M.E.S.
Ramona Linville Higley, Weber State University
2:15
Six Percent Policing: Focusing on Chronic Offenders
John Hill, Salt Lake Community College
2:30
An Ethnography: Learning about Peace and Justice Work
Josh Gold, Salt Lake Community College
2:45
Urban Legends in Japan and the United States: A CrossCultural Analysis
Mai Yamamoto, Weber State University
3:00
Changes in Racial Concentration Ratios in Mountain States
Counties, 1990 - 2000
L. Dwight Israelsen, Utah State University
3:15 – 3:45
Break (Refreshments in Student Pavilion)
Session Three
Session Leader: Spencer Blake, Salt Lake Community College
High Tech Center 231
3:45
The Temple Recommend: A Solution to the Free-Rider
Problem
Austin Bowles & Tyler Bowles, Utah State University
4:00
Demographic Transition and Religious Identity among
Mormons in the Intermountain West, 1972‐2010
Rick Phillips, University of North Florida
4:15
Generation Heathen: A look at religiously unaffiliated
attitudes at Salt Lake Community College
Karine Agajanian, University of Utah; Jen Chapman & Spencer
H. Blake, Salt Lake Community College
4:30
Antigay Behaviors Among Young Adults: Prevalence,
Patterns, and Motivators in a Noncriminal Population
(Replicated)
Chad Morrow, CoCo James & Spencer H. Blake, Salt Lake
Community College
4:45
The Impact and Interdiscursive Mechanics of Globalization
on a Cambodian-American Refugee
Brandon Bales, Brigham Young University
Session Four
Session Leader: Pam Miller, College of Eastern Utah
High Tech Center 233
3:45
The Significance of Physical Beauty: Acid Attacks and the
Media’s Message to Women
Shaylee Wheeler, Weber State University
4:00
Influence of Mood Induction on Impulsive Decision Making
Rodzon, K.S., Berry, M.S., Odum, A., & Jordan, K., Utah State
University
4:15
A Second Soul: Exploring Contexts of Language Acquisition
and Personality
Arron Combs, Dixie State College
4:30
A Test of Emerson’s Network Exchange Theory
Emmalou Rees, Weber State University
4:45
Returning to School: Women at SLCC
Anne Graham, Salt Lake Community College