I participated in a two semester, First Year Research Experience [FYRE] course, for Bridges Scholars students. The goal of this program is to encourage students from diverse backgrounds; students with different race/ethnicity, gender and sexual orientation, and socioeconomic status. First and second year students at Miami are required to live on campus, and can choose […]
B42: The Paper Person: A Comparative Analysis of Rhetoric and Truth in Environmental Economics, Literature, and Policy
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 […]
C45: Communicating Research to Public Audiences
The research being conducted in this study is an interdisciplinary project focused on the idea of communication to the public. This is all centered on the question of what skills are needed for researchers to effectively communicate their ideas with the public. The relevance of this study relates to all fields because if researchers are […]
A42: Roman Influence on the Emergence of Written German
German is one of the most widely spoken languages today, but what do we know about its origins? While German as a language is different from Latin and later Romance languages, many Indo-European elements of German are very similar to Latin, especially lexically and morphologically. The earliest accounts of the “Germani” were written by Roman […]
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