Submissions from 2013
Cooking Up the Optimal Baking Algorithm, Tony Burand, Michael Tetzlaff, and Jacob Smith
Many conventional rectangular baking pans have a problem in that they bake the corners of the batter faster than the rest of the pan. Circular baking pans eliminate this problem, but take up more space in the oven. We propose a solution tha...
Cooking Up the Optimal Baking Algorithm, Tony Burand, Michael Tetzlaff, and Jacob Smith
Many conventional rectangular baking pans have a problem in that they bake the corners of the batter faster than the rest of the pan. Circular baking pans eliminate this problem, but take up more space in the oven. We propose a solution tha...
The Case of Brown, Sara Ellingsworth
The world is understood through the formation of categories, of defining what something is and what something is not, totalizing an experience, person, or word in order to come to an understanding of its essential meaning. Associations colo...
The Case of Brown, Sara Ellingsworth
The world is understood through the formation of categories, of defining what something is and what something is not, totalizing an experience, person, or word in order to come to an understanding of its essential meaning. Associations colo...
On Ideals in Romantic Relationships, Paul Hjellming, Lori Bergstrom, Bo Johnson, and Eric Osmondson
Being in relationships is inseparable from being human. Humans are communicators and naturally form connections with other humans around them. Relationships help individuals assess who they are and who they would like to be. Individuals use...
On Ideals in Romantic Relationships, Paul Hjellming, Lori Bergstrom, Bo Johnson, and Erica Osmondson
Being in relationships is inseparable from being human. Humans are communicators and naturally form connections with other humans around them. Relationships help individuals assess who they are and who they would like to be. Individuals use...
The Genre of the Meme, Thomas Monson
The development and proliferation of the Internet has led to numerous discoveries in the study of media and communication. Such a recent development in online communication is the rise of the online meme. The traditional meaning of meme has...
The Genre of the Meme, Thomas Monson
The development and proliferation of the Internet has led to numerous discoveries in the study of media and communication. Such a recent development in online communication is the rise of the online meme. The traditional meaning of meme has...
Trees Nestled Among Skyscrapers: Frederick Law Olmsted and the Creation of Central Park, Matisse Murray
In the remarkable degree of scholarship that has been written on Frederick Law Olmsted since a resurgence of interest in his life during the early 1970s, there have been a number of varying interpretations regarding the social attitudes wit...
Family Structures of Homeless Men, Lauren Olson
I spent the semester exploring the family structures of homeless men in Minneapolis through interviews and participant observation. Originally, I was curious if differences in family structures affected men before, during and after being in...
Perception of Profanity in Interpersonal Relationships, Ashley Pivaronas, Jessica Benham, and Stephanie Melhaff
Swearing is a form of language commonly used, yet its use is oftentimes viewed negatively in certain contexts (Johnson & Lewis, 2010). Swearing is an interesting form of expression because it is not a behavior typically taught or encouraged...
Perception of Profanity in Interpersonal Relationships, Ashley Pivaronas, Jessica Benham, and Stephanie Melhaff
Swearing is a form of language commonly used, yet its use is oftentimes viewed negatively in certain contexts (Johnson & Lewis, 2010). Swearing is an interesting form of expression because it is not a behavior typically taught or encouraged...
The Markan Narrative of the Hemorrhaging Woman: Injustice Through Systems Then and Now, Tim Riendeau
The story of the hemorrhaging woman has been taught to many as a simple healing story that portrays Jesus’ ability to heal anyone with faith. While this idea is not being challenged directly, the text holds much more than that concept. The ...
The Markan Narrative of the Hemorrhaging Woman: Injustice Through Systems Then and Now, Tim Riendeau
The story of the hemorrhaging woman has been taught to many as a simple healing story that portrays Jesus’ ability to heal anyone with faith. While this idea is not being challenged directly, the text holds much more than that concept. The ...
Editor's Statement, Abby Stocker, Leah Patton, Brad Cox, Jacob Manning, Roberta Fultz, Jared Hedges, and Stacie Lewis
Separable Subsurface Scattering: An OpenGL Implementation, Michael Tetzlaff
The light reflection of many materials, including skin, milk, and marble, are not dominated by direct reflection, but rather by the subsurface scattering of light [1]. Most real-time computer graphics techniques, most notably Phong lighting...
What to Sight and Smell Was Sweet: Flowers and Gardening in Paradise Lost, Linnea White
Flowers and gardening have been part of human life since God placed Adam and Eve in the Garden of Eden. In Milton’s epic Paradise Lost, flowers and the act of gardening enhance the meaning of the poem and give insight into life before and a...
What to Sight and Smell Was Sweet: Flowers and Gardening in Paradise Lost, Linnea White
Flowers and gardening have been part of human life since God placed Adam and Eve in the Garden of Eden. In Milton’s epic Paradise Lost, flowers and the act of gardening enhance the meaning of the poem and give insight into life before and a...
Submissions from 2012
Utopia or an Iron Cage? Marx, Weber, Nietzsche, and the Future of Modernity, Ryan Steel
Student Library Research Prize winner Ryan Steel discusses modernity and some of its core characteristics and the way they manifest in modern social reality using the perspectives of Karl Marx, Max Weber, and Friedrich Nietzsche as general ...
Submissions from 2011
Sequencing of Amine Nucleoside Polymers: Understanding the Fidelity of DNA-Directed Reductive Amination, Sarah M. Anderson
DNA replication is a form of template-directed polymerization that occurs with the aid of numerous enzymes. By developing a DNA replication mimic that can undergo template-directed polymerization without enzymes, the scope of template-direc...
The Un-Human Femme Bisclavret: Monstrous Misuses of the Disunion between Secular and Religious Culture in Marie de France’s 'Bisclavret', Santidad Bennett
While much of the recent scholarship on Bisclavret has focused on its unusual treatment of the werewolf motif, the more telling character of the story is actually the wife whose abuse of language subverts the major cultural constructs of wh...
Innovation and Harmonization in Raphael's Stanza della Segnatura, Nathan Cornelius
Raphael's paintings for the Stanza della Segnatura, Pope Julius II's personal library in the Vatican, are one of the great masterpieces of Renaissance art. My research project explored the rich meaning behind this innovative series of image...
Constructing a Vector for Over Expressing Nitrobenzene Dioxygenase in E. coli, Paul Davis
Due to extensive use of nitroaromatic compounds in the production of dyes, pesticides, explosives, and their harmful effects on the environment, studying the enzyme mechanisms of bacteria capable of utilizing these compounds as nutrient sou...
La Concencia Mestiza Materialized: A Study of Judith Ortiz Cofer’s Silent Dancing, Megan Frutiger
In her creative nonfiction memoir Silent Dancing: A Partial Remembrance of a Puerto Rican Childhood, Judith Ortiz Cofer demonstrates one way of dealing with questions of bicultural identity. This creative work, Ortiz Cofer says, arose out o...
Game Theory and Von Neumann’s Minimax Theorem, Megan Hall
We encounter many situations of conflict on a day‐to‐day basis. When trying to find a solution, we consider all the possible consequences of our choices. Sometimes, the outcome of a situation depends on the decisions of others. This is wher...
Increased Power and Detuning of Diode Lasers for Magneto-optical Trap of Lithium, Jami Johnson
Precision experiments such as laser cooling and trapping using diode laser systems are increasingly prevalent in the fields of modern atomic, molecular and optical physics. Multiple laser diodes of precise frequencies and significant output...
Phase Sensitive Detection: Frequency Locking of a Laser Diode for Lithium Cooling and Trapping, Brandon Peplinski
The frequency of a laser-diode can be locked by providing a negative feedback voltage to the piezo-electric transducer in the laser cavity. By phase-modulating the light and placing side bands on the carrier frequency, the fluorescence of t...
Submissions from 2010
Alcuin and Vikings: A Theology of Carolingian Election, Chastisement, and Exaltation, Taylor Ferda
Throughout the long history of the Church's struggle to take seriously the biblical precepts for peacemaking, the changing context has always brought with it a difficulty in being a witness to peace in a world gripped by violence. The Vikin...
For God and Country: Baptist General Conference Attitudes toward World War II, Taylor Ferda
On the afternoon of February 23, 1943, amidst the gathering of professors, pastors, and students, the inauguration ceremony of Professor Henry Conrad Wingblade as the second president of Bethel Institute was held at the school's chapel. In ...