Environmental issues such as deforestation and climate change are some of the most pressing concerns today and require a concentrated global response. How does the rhetoric surrounding these topics affect how people understand them and form potential solutions? First, I analyze the rhetoric in Garrett Hardin’s 1968 “The Tragedy of the Commons,” one of the […]
C35: The functionality of vocal communication in lowland woolly monkeys (Lagothrix lagotricha poeppigii) from the Tiputini Biodiversity Station, Ecuador
In group-living primates, vocal communication is critical for social interactions, maintaining contact with group members, avoiding confrontations with individuals in other groups, and evading predators. For this study, we investigated the vocalization patterns of wild woolly monkeys from the Tiputini Biodiversity Station in Amazonian Ecuador. We combined behavioral data previously collected in 2014 and 2015 […]
B45: Women as Community Health Workers in India: How Gendered Norms Present Both Benefits and Limitations
This research investigates the connection between community health workers (CHW) in India and the effect gender has on their role. It is important to understand the ways in which other global health systems function effectively while noting the aspects that may be inadequate. In India, community health workers play an essential role as advocates and […]
B26: Controlling the Twist Sense of ortho-Phenylene Foldamers
In nature, oligomers and polymers fold to generate intricate three-dimensional structures, yielding macromolecules with diverse functions including transport, catalysis, signal-recognition, and charge- and energy-transfer. Over the years, a wide variety of abiotic foldamers have been developed, ranging from non-natural peptides to aromatics. The ortho-phenylenes represent a recent addition to the family of aromatic foldamers. Systematic […]
C46: Religion as a Benefit or Barrier to Supporting Transgender Children
Transgender children are at an overall heightened risk for negative mental health consequences (Perez-Brumer et al., 2017), and the religious beliefs of family members and healthcare practitioners may have the potential to cause emotional harm to transgender youth (Anderson & McGuire, 2019). Despite these claims, research regarding the role religion plays in the lives of […]
B27: Synthetic Food Additives: Chemistry, Health Effects, and the Societal Dilemma
Have you ever been puzzled by complex-sounding ingredients on your food label, wondering why they are used and what they do? Synthetic additives are ubiquitous in today’s commercial food products, and their definitions, uses, and regulation are surprisingly complex. Today, many categories of synthetic additives exist, designed to improve food’s characteristics or manufacturing processes. Various […]
A62: Experiential Learning and After School Programming: A Review of the Literature
Learning does not have to end along with the regularly scheduled school day. Community Psychology senior capstone professor Dr. Paul Flaspohler was approached by Project Experience and Boys and Girls Club for help about how to better their programs. Experiential learning, or learning through reflection on doing, has been shown to be successful in the […]
A57: Producing Ceramic Materials as an Alternative Recycling Method for Mine Waste Remediation
In an ever-growing world that continues to develop, there is an increasing demand for resources to be discovered, processed, and manufactured. Industries mine for valuable resources such as gold, silver, and copper to produce the infrastructure and goods that have become a necessity. To obtain and increase the quality of resources mined, the sought-after elements […]
C97: The transient assembly of supramolecular hosts of tetraethylene glycol and pentaethylene glycol diacids fueled by EDC
A dissipative system is a thermodynamically open system which is operated out-of thermodynamic equilibrium in an environment with which it exchanges energy and matter. which is characterized by the spontaneous appearance of symmetry breaking and the formation of complex, sometimes chaotic, structures where interacting particles exhibit long-range correlations. As stated in the BESAC report Challenges […]
B28: Separation and Characterization of Polyphenols in Salix Pulchra for Future Isotopic Studies
The availability of C13 labeled willow tissue (Salix pulchra) has pushed the need for extraction and characterization of polyphenolic compounds within the plant. A method of separation and purification of tannin from the willow plant has been established, but the identity of the extractable non-tannin polyphenols present in willow is not currently known. In order […]
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