The Plan B paper is usually a review of literature with conclusions drawn after conceptualizing an area of inquiry, planning a systematic search, and analyzing and critiquing the acquired information. The summary and conclusions developed should enhance knowledge in the discipline. These papers and reports follow the same format specifications as theses and dissertations and are expected to reflect equivalent scholarship standards, even though they may be less intensive and not demand the originality of a Plan A thesis.
Some programs may not require a Plan A thesis or Plan B paper, but instead require a capstone report. Such reports may be found in this series.
Students requesting changes to thesis/dissertation:
Upon final deposit in the Institutional Repository (IR), a thesis/dissertation becomes part of the student’s official academic record. No changes may be made to the thesis or dissertation after it has been approved by the School of Graduate Studies.
A student may submit a request to include an addendum to the completed document. This requires the support of the thesis/dissertation chair and written approval from the Vice Provost for Graduate Studies. The author must submit a written request to the School of Graduate Studies including the proposed addendum and a letter of support from the dissertation chair. The School of Graduate Studies will forward the addendum and approval to the Library, and the addendum will be added to the record in the IR.
Students submitting a Plan B or other report:
Please go to All Graduate Reports and Creative Projects, Fall 2023 to Present and click on "Submit Research."
2011
Optimization of Crime Control Resources in a Society, Steven S. Thompson
CHARM Web-Interface, Nirmal G. Tiwari
Whole Body Vibration in Anterior Cruciate Ligament Rehabilitation, Sara Ruby Vargas
Prevention of Overuse Shoulder Injuries for the Incoming Collegiate Athlete Participating in Overhead Sport, Erin R. Variano
Pavement Management Systems on a Local Level, Cristian A. Vasquez
Utah Preschool Outcomes Data System, Sandeep Venigalla
Building Language Proficiency at the Secondary Level, Liji E. Waite
Improvement in Nutrition Knowledge and Retention about Gestational Diabetes Mellitus among Hispanic Pregnant Women, Debra M. Waldron
Software for Analyzing Municipal Water Data to Design Water Conservation Strategies, Adrian Patton Welsh
Great Salt Lake Watershed: Its Role in Maintaining the Wetlands of the Great Salt Lake, Danny C. White Jr.
Counterterrorism in Afghanistan: Aligning Resources and Goals, Jeremy R. Willis
Effect of Aquatic and Body Weight Supported Treadmill Exercise on Physiological and Kinematic Measures, Jessica Ensign Wing
Teaching Communication in the Chinese as a Foreign Language Classroom, Xia Wu
On the Use of Log-Transformation vs. Nonlinear Regression for Analyzing Biological Power-Laws, Xiao Xiao
Climate Change and Community Dynamics: A Hierarchical Bayesian Model of Resource-Driven Changes in a Desert Rodent Community, Glenda M. Yenni
2010
Assessing North American Influenza Dynamics with Hierarchical Spatio-Temporal Models, Jessica Anderson
Grading Practice Influence on the Value of an Assigned Grade, Carrie Bala
A Comparison of Prediction Methods of Functional Autoregressive Time Series, Devin Didericksen
Effects of Pluronics on a Beneficial Soil Microbe Pseudomonas putida Strain KT2440, Priyanka Gajjar
Improving Accuracy of Large-Scale Prediction of Forest Disease Incidence Through Bayesian Data Reconciliation, Ephraim M. Hanks
The USU Tree Inventory Website: A Case Study Of An Interactive Online Woody Plant Education Resource, Benjamin W. Harris
Statistical Analysis of Wastewater Remediation and Bio-Fuels Production of Algae, Jay D. Jones
Virtual Manipulatives in the Classroom and Resulting Articles and Lesson Plans, Cheryl Juliana
The Male Gender Role and Depression, Tom Liljegren
Carboxylases Involved in Microbial Acetone and Acetophenone Metabolism, Ameya Mashruwala
Creation and Evaluation of Interactive Learning Modules for Computer Science Education, Milan Neema
Laboratory Approach to Modeling the Initiating Mechanism in the Piping Failure of Sandy Soils, Olalekan O. Olorunsola
Assessment of Utah Bankruptcies by Census Tracts: A Spatial Statistical Approach, Kenneth Pena
Oscillation Phenomenon of the New York Canal at the I-84 Overpass in Boise, Idaho, Erik W. Robison
Numerical Solution of the Five-Moment Ideal Two-Fluid Equations in One Dimension, Marcus Scott
Assessing the Precision and Accuracy in a Small Sample of Actical Devices, Peter Sherick
Evolving Models: A Density-Based Approach to Modeling Sexual Dimorphism and Adaptive Speciation, Audrey Smith
Development of a Discrete Mathematics Textbook and Guide for High School Teachers, Rebecca A. Stokes
Simulating Power for One-Way ANOVA by Using Non-Normal Error Distributions, Caixia Xu
2009
Approaches to Promote Active, Conceptual Learning in a Pedagogically Hybrid Introductory Statistics Course, Brittany L. Allred
Random Motion and the Diffusion of Brine Shrimp: A Project Based Learning Unit, Rebecca Atkins
The Effectiveness of Institutional Intervention at Minimizing Demographic Inertia and Improving the Representation of Women Faculty in Higher Education, Amanda V. Bakian
Probe-Level Statistical Models for Differential Expression of Genes in Bovine NT Studies, Jason L. Bell
The Research, Process, and Design of the Trout Creek Revegetation Plan, Daniel C. Bolin
Heritability of Cognition Subscales in the Cache County Memory Study Cohort and Methods For Estimating Heritability, Colette Kelly Childs
The Pliocene/Pleistocene Evolution of the Western Snake River Plain Near Grand View Idaho, Meagan R. DeRaps
Cow Insurance Vs. Human Insurance: A Comparison Study, Corlan Fawcett
Indoor Outdoor Relationships at the Residential Scale, Benjamin H. George
The Itinerant Prophet: Brigham Young and His Tours of Mormon Settlements, Brent A. Haslam
Investigations into Mapping Lava Flows in the Snake River Plain, Idaho, Vinita Ruth Hobson-Broko
Peer Observation Methods to Estimate Classroom Behavior, John Hughes
Alternative Futures 2030: Ogden Valley, Louis Alan Hurst
Teaching Probability Through Use of an Applet, Melissa Gregory Jackson
Theory of Planned Behavior Model Fit Using ATOD Prevention Program Data, Ying Jin
An Alternative Futures Study for the Uintah Basin: Exploring 2030, Nicholas E. Kenczka
The Statistical Evaluation of Collective Risk Models With Various Distributional Assumptions, Chang Li
Comparison of Exact Methods for Analyzing Family-Based Samples, Abbie Lundgreen
A Synthesis of Empirically supported classwide Interventions: Matching Interventions to Common Functions of Classroom Behavior Problems, Bethanie Monsen-Ford
An Investigation of the Ends of Finitely Generated Groups, Daniel T. Murphree
Applications of Modern Classification Methods to Predict Occurrences of Rare and Invasive Plant Species, Stacey Reynolds
Intermediate-Complexity Biological Modeling Framework for Nutrient Cycling in Lakes Based on Physical Structure, Michael Clay Rigley
Logistic Models with Missing Categorical Covariates, Jeremiah Rounds
The Classification of Simple Lie Algebras in Maple, D. Russell Sadler
Teacher Treatment Integrity in School Based Interventions, Gregory A. Simpson
Evaluating the Effectiveness of a Probability Applet, Chelsa Green Tuddenham
Interaction of Soil and Seepage Barrier Cracks under Seepage Flow, Justin Whitmer
Comparison of Random Forests and Cforest: Variable Importance Measures and Prediction Accuracies, Rong Xia
2008
Heritability of Cognition and Memory Loss in the Cache County Memory Study Cohort, Cassidy P. Allen
Examining the Validity of the Spring 2007 Math 1050 Common Final, Angela K. Brock
A synthesis of the Literature on Reading Interventions to Improve Oral Reading Rates, Kelley Douglass
Mixtures of Truncated Normal Data Assimilation Models for Parameter Estimation and Prediction in Hydrological Systems, Darl D. Flake II
Representation of English Language Learners in Special Education: an Overview, Rachel M. Morley
Ecology, Problem Framing and Local Land Use Controls: A Case Study of Socio-Ecological Governance in Franklin County, Idaho, Alissa Salmore
2007
A Catalog and the Perceived Effectiveness of Stormwater Best Management Practices BMPs Used on Municipal Sites in Northern Utah, Saadia E. Ahmed
Black-Scholes and Extended Black-Scholes Models: A Comparative Statistical Analysis, Bradley Thomas Bush
Carlisle and Intermountain Indian Schools: A Comparison of Native American Boarding School Models, Danene Dustin
Capstone Mathematics and Technology: A Collection of Mathematical Technology Enhanced Activities for Students and Teachers, Heidi Eastman
Mathematically Modeling PCR: An Asymptotic Approximation with Potential for Optimization, Martha J. Garlick
Decomposing Vector Space Representations of the Lie Algebras s[2C and s[2R, Brian W. Gleason
SAS Macro for Hierarchical Dependence in Meta Analysis, Matthew Wayne Maw
Combating Childhood Obesity: Changing Our Environment, Anna Mitchell
A Method for Finding Standard Error Estimates for RMA Expression Levels Using Bootstrap, Gabriel Nicholas
Rapid Identification: River Guides, Storytelling, and Sharing Identity, Alisha Paxton
Design Guidelines for the Historic Downtown of the City of St. George, Utah, Bronson R. Tatton
2006
A Sedimentation Study of the Green River Irrigation Canal, Green River, Utah, Jan Michael Miller
Evaluating the Computational Efficiency of XFBAT and FBAT for Family Based Studies, Yanwei Ouyang
A Comparison of Four-Step Model and Path Flow Estimator for Forecasting Network Flow: A Case Study of Cache County in Utah, Siddareddy B. Pedaballi
2005
Aldol Reactions: E-Enolates and Anti-Selectivity, Matthew Grant Anderson
Synchronized Line-Scan LIDAR/EO Imager for Creating 3D Images of Dynamic Scenes: Prototype II, Donald C. Anderton
Special Classification Models for Lichens in the Pacific Northwest, Janeen Ardito
Electronics Design of the AGLITE-LIDAR Instrument, Scott S. Cornelsen
A Review of School-Based Interventions for Children and Adolescents who suffer from Depressive Symptoms, Sherry L. Hlavaty
Cognitive Assessment of School Age Spanish Speaking English Language Learners, Casey Johnson
Parent Training Programs, Values, and Related Issues Concerning the Culturally Diverse, Raina Ilen Jones
Wavelet Analysis of Magnetometer Data, Inga Maslova
Wavelet Factorization via a Homogenization Analogy for Solutions of Linear Systems, Andrea Van Sickle
Minimum Velocities for the Suspension of Fine Sediment in the Green River Canal, Michael W. Stoeber
Alternative Futures for the Bear River Watershed, Richard E. Toth
Hunger and Satiety in Recovering Eating Disorder Patients, Jenelle T. West
Simulation Study of Estimation and Inference in Factor Analysis: Normal and Non-normal Noise Distributions, Ping Zhang