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\u3ci\u3eMarimba Spiritual\u3c/i\u3e— Minoru Miki
No full textMinerva Teichert Award 2025
Honorable mention
Marimba Spiritual (1984) by Minoru Miki is a staple piece of marimba literature that is highly regarded amongst marimba players all around the world. The male composer, Minoru Miki, often wrote his pieces with one person in mind: Keiko Abe. Ms. Abe is considered one of the most virtuosic marimba players and is an inspiration to not only up-and-coming female marimbists but to all young musicians pursuing marimba performance. Minoru Miki saw and respected what Keiko Abe had to offer, and wrote many pieces either dedicated to her or written for her to play. In the case of Marimba Spiritual, Minoru Miki wrote it specifically for Keiko based on her talents and abilities. After the premiere, hundreds of people learned and performed this piece, including a lot of women. As a young female marimbist, I have long admired Abe’s compositional style and electrifying performances. Her compositions have been one of the biggest influences within marimba repertoire, comprising many of the UIL Prescribed Music List keyboard solos
A Contentious Bond: The Mother-Daughter Relationship
No full textIt is a tale as old as time: a mother and daughter, struggling to understand and outdo the other, not realizing the uniformity between them. They are duplicates, coded with the same DNA. The daughter strives to become more than her mother, and her mother watches and witnesses everything that she could have become. It is a battle for power, to be seen and verifiable. They bicker, yell, and cry, often unable to find common ground. Greta Gerwig coined this concept perfectly in her film Lady Bird, where the featured mother and daughter cannot do anything but scream at each other. There is a resounding love between them, yes, but it is drowned out by the dissension. Perhaps there is a Freudian explanation, or maybe the patriarchy has succeeded in penetrating the family unit and pitting the women against each other. Regardless, it is a common theme seen consistently in this relationship. What factors cause mothers and their daughters in Western civilization to fight and bicker more than in other family dynamics
Phylogenetics of Channel Island deer mice based on the cytochrome \u3cem\u3eb\u3c/em\u3e gene sheds light on multiple colonization events and supports current taxonomy
No full textThe Peromyscus maniculatus species complex is a diverse North American group comprising multiple wide-ranging clades and insular endemic forms, including Channel Island deer mice. This study employs complete mitochondrial cytochrome b sequences of 75 mice from all 8 California Channel Islands to better understand their origins and to test the phylogenetic placement of Channel Island deer mice within the broader context of the P. maniculatus species group for the first time. We recover a well-resolved clade within P. gambelii (Baird 1858) that includes mice from the Northern Channel Islands (Anacapa, Santa Cruz, Santa Rosa, and San Miguel), Santa Barbara Island, and San Nicolas Island. The resulting patterns of genetic structure are indicative of natural biogeographic processes on the Northern Channel Islands and suggest translocation via Chumash trade routes to San Nicolas Island. Notably, Santa Catalina and San Clemente Islands may represent independent colonizations from this 6-island clade, displaying signatures of connectivity with each other and the mainland. The recovery of unnested island mouse clades divergent (0.98%–1.08%) from the central mainland P. gambelii clade is striking given their relatively short (~11,000 years) presumed evolutionary history on the Channel Islands based on archaeological evidence. We propose that mitochondrial genomes of most Channel Island deer mice may originate from a now-rare, ancient mainland P. gambelii haplogroup, which may have also colonized other California islands. Our results also validate the assignment of all subspecies to P. gambelii under the latest proposed taxonomy, though this species designation itself is an active area of research without consensus.El complejo de especies Peromyscus maniculatus es un grupo diverso de América del Norte que comprende varios linajes de amplia distribución, así como formas endémicas insulares, incluidos los ratones ciervo de las Islas del Canal (Channel Islands). En este estudio se analizan secuencias completas del gen mitocondrial citocromo b de 75 ratones provenientes de las ocho Islas del Canal de California, con el objetivo de comprender mejor sus orígenes y analizar, por primera vez, la posición filogenética de los ratones ciervo insulares en un contexto más amplio del grupo de especies P. maniculatus. Recuperamos un clado, con buen soporte, de P. gambelii (Baird 1858) que incluye ratones de las Islas del Canal del Norte (Anacapa, Santa Cruz, Santa Rosa y San Miguel), así como de las islas Santa Bárbara y San Nicolás. Los patrones resultantes de estructura genética indican procesos biogeográficos naturales en las Islas del Canal del Norte y sugieren una posible translocación hacia la isla San Nicolás a través de las rutas comerciales de los Chumash. Es notable que las islas Santa Catalina y San Clemente podrían representar colonizaciones independientes a partir de este clado de seis islas, mostrando señales de conectividad entre sí y con el continente. La recuperación de clados de ratones insulares no anidados, divergentes entre un 0.98% y un 1.08% del clado continental central de P. gambelii, resulta sorprendente dada su supuesta reciente historia evolutiva (~11,000 años) en las Islas del Canal, según la evidencia arqueológica. Proponemos que los genomas mitocondriales de la mayoría de los ratones ciervo de las Islas del Canal podrían haberse originado a partir de un haplogrupo continental antiguo y actualmente escaso de P. gambelii, que también podría haber colonizado otras islas de California. Nuestros resultados también corroboran la asignación de todas las subespecies a P. gambelii, según la taxonomía más reciente propuesta, aunque esta clasificación sigue siendo un área de investigación activa y sin consenso
BYU Nano-Carbon Physics Lab
No full textBYU Nano-Carbon Physics Lab
Started in 2003 by Physics Professors Robert Davis and Richard Vanfleet, who received the BYU Technology Transfer Award in 2024.
Over 81 undergraduate and 21 graduate student projects in the lab have advanced carbon nanotube (CNT) research.
Applications of research from the lab have resulted in over 30 patents, many of which have been licensed to companies for use in the world.
This display showcases highlights of work done in the lab
Beyond the Pitch: Teaching Emotional Labor in Advertising Education Through an Action Research Program
No full textAs the advertising industry continues to expand, new graduates must navigate the profession in the face of increasing challenges. With competition in the job market growing and Generation Z valuing work-life balance, the advantage of quality advertising education becomes paramount. Current advertising education does not address the challenge of emotional labor that professionals will face in the field. With limited scholarship that explores emotional regulation, communication dynamics, and client relations in an academic advertising setting, emotional labor in advertising education is explored through a thoroughly documented experiential learning study. This study employs Participatory Action Research (PAR) to investigate, develop, and test advertising curriculum for emotional labor in collaboration with undergraduate students currently enrolled in strategic communication programs. Using an experiential learning scenario, students completed two Request for Proposals (RFP) over 9 weeks. A group of 7 students created advertising campaign materials, completed weekly qualitative surveys, and participated in focus groups. The data collected revealed themes such as students\u27 lack of knowledge regarding display rules during client interactions, difficulties regulating emotions when receiving professional feedback, and the exploration of different emotional regulation strategies in response to the time to complete campaign tasks. The study further explores each theme, providing educators with insights about teaching emotions in the context of advertising academia. Recommendations are provided to help instructors begin to incorporate emotional labor education into their classrooms
Math 112 at BYU: Student Averages on Various Exam Questions
No full textIn Math 112 at BYU, exams play a crucial role in evaluating students\u27 understanding of the course content. Traditionally, these exams are a combination of multiple-choice and free-response questions, with the latter serving as a means to assess a student\u27s thought process while solving problems. Will students perform as well on a multiple-choice exam? Or will students\u27 averages be higher on free-response exams? In this thesis, we test 7 hypotheses related to these questions to provide more insight into the answer. We examine other factors that may affect students\u27 averages, including various Calculus 1 topics, modes of questioning, and difficulty levels. By applying a mixed-effect model to the Math 112 exam scores from the past five years, we find evidence that the format of exam questions impacts students\u27 averages. The results indicate that this difference is significant. We discuss the analysis and possible reasons why other results are not significant
Peggy Clinger
No full textCatherine Peggy Clinger (January 11, 1949 – August 9, 1975) was an American singer, voice actress and composer
A Strand in the Web: My Amish Roots Among the Swiss Anabaptists
No full textThe early morning summer sun cuts through the murmuring leaves of the towering maple tree rooted deeply on the edge of the large common area in Interlaken, Switzerland. It’s 2018, and the pealing bells from the Schlosskirche [castle church] still cut through the ground fog hanging along the water’s edge, crescendo over the lakes, and reverberate off the cliff walls like it has for countless generations. The pull of ancestral voices from the misty northern shorelines of Lake Thun in Oberhofen settles deep into the marrow of my identity. I stand in my Heimatort [place of origin] the land where my ancestors’ bones lie interwoven into the fabric of the fertile soil. I listen for their voices alongside the clanging of the bells, which they too must have heard on mornings like this one