May 2, 2025
Reception & Presentations 2pm to 5pm
Cal Poly Humboldt Library
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The Art of Script: Humanity's Creative Abilities to Give Sound and Thought a Body
Starsong Brittain
Native American Studies and Anthropology
Undergraduate Student
College of Arts, Humanities & Social Sciences
Script is an overlooked art form in our society today. This project puts a spotlight on the creative bandwidth humanity has had in developing script. Along with the work done to revive forms of script and the language it takes shape from. Script extends throughout human time. Shifts from the realm of the sacred to that of mundane. Script gains its shape from the culture that develops it. At the end the viewers concepts of; what script is, how it functions, and what it can be, should be shifted. As well as causing for a reevaluation of how script is looked at by our society.
The Effects of Tribal Water Rights on Forestry Practices
Colleen Sloan
Forestry
Undergraduate Student
College of Natural Resources & Sciences
The United States, on behalf of numerous Native American tribes, brought action against the State of Washington, alleging that the State violated the fishing clause of the Stevens Treaties by building and maintaining barrier culverts that prevented salmon movement along rivers. This poster will show the effect of the 'right to fish' on tribal water rights and the lasting effects of these factors on forestry practices, especially road building.
Precision Measurement of the Universal Gravitotional Constant
Frederick
Kuster-Tabares
Physics & Astronomy
Undergraduate Student
College of Natural Resources & Sciences
In cooperation with Indiana University (formerly IUPUI), the Cal Poly Humboldt (formerly Humboldt State University) Gravity Lab is undertaking a project to more accurately measure the value of the Universal Gravitational Constant in terms of SI base units. Gravitational modifications to the torque on the pendulum will be obtained via two methods through sequential experiments with a common apparatus, with the goal to provide a window into the cause of previous discrepancies between the two methods of measurement, resulting in a more accurate determined value for G.
Prostitution In Baja California: A Study Of How Prostitution Affected Gender Roles Along Border Cities In Baja California During The Mexican Revolution Era
Michael Lino
Anthropology
Undergraduate Student
College of Arts, Humanities & Social Sciences
This study examines the role of prostitution during the Mexican Revolution Era (1910 – 1920) in the altering of gender roles for women along the border cities of Baja California. The significance of this research will deliver insight to the gender roles and contributions to society of this marginalized group. Historical source material (Documents, artifacts, paintings, etc.) offers limited biased information about prostitutes as individuals. The goal of this research is to provide information to alter the discourse of prostitution from being depicted as a duality of moral or immoral to how prostitution reflects a society’s views on sexuality.
Modeling Peak Photosynthesis in The Great Smoky Mountains
Crystal
Diaz
Environmental Science & Management
Undergraduate Student
College of Natural Resources & Sciences
This study examines how climate change is affecting plant phenology—the timing of seasonal growth—in the Great Smoky Mountains (GSM), a deciduous forest located between North Carolina and Tennessee. The research focuses on how variations in spring temperature and winter precipitation influence the timing of peak vegetation growth, measured using the Green Chromatic Coordinate (GCC). GCC is a spectral index that tracks the greenness of vegetation from RGB images, indicating leaf development and peak photosynthesis. Using data from the National Ecological Observatory Network (NEON), the project aims to predict when peak GCC occurs each year.
Following the Money: Capitalist in Communist China - A Bibliographical Project
Alexander Garcia
History
Undergraduate Student
Dr. Robert Cliver
History
Faculty
College of Arts, Humanities & Social Sciences
What happens when a planned economy is based on an unplanned economy? In this bibliographical project, we collected sources from all around the world relating to capitalist business and manufacturing in the first decades of the People's Republic of China. This project breaks new ground in historical studies of the early PRC by reexamining the relationship between the Communist Party-State and those capitalists who survived the transition to socialism. With over 500 entries, this is the largest collection of materials on capitalists and private enterprise in Communist China and will most certainly be an aid to any researcher, professional or in-training.
From the Post-Soviet to Eurasia: Regional Constructs a Quarter-Century after Independence
Matthew Derrick
Geography
Faculty
Merien Townsel
Geography
Undergraduate Student
Hyejin Jun
Geography
Undergraduate Student
College of Natural Resources & Sciences
This project, an overview of an in-progress edited book, interrogates Eurasia as a form of regional definition for the states that gained independence after the USSR’s breakup, arguing for the continued relevance “post-Soviet” as a regional construct. The idea of the post-Soviet is positioned as a heuristic device to evaluate existing prior attempts at regional definition. Path-dependency as a concept suggests that preexisting institutions condition the institutional form that follows political transition; the condition of path-dependency remains relevant across the post-Soviet successor states.
The Clarke Museum College Corps Fellows - Pitch Fest 2024
Carrie
White
Other
Undergraduate Student
Valentin
Velazco
Other
Undergraduate Student
Lucia
Rodriguez
Other
Undergraduate Student
Other
Hosted at Cal Poly Humboldt, Pitch Fest is an opportunity for College Corps Fellows to participate in an authentic learning experience focused on the learning objective of grant writing. Many community partners had their College Corps students take the initiative to identify a project, create a budget to accomplish their respective strategic goals, and develop an argument as to why their needs were crucial for the institution they worked for and the greater community. Together, three College Corps Fellows serving The Clarke Museum, Eureka, won the top grant prize to protect “The Sun Set Twice on the People that Day “ Mural, painted by Native artists Brian Tripp and Alme Allen.
Is ‘Populism’ or the ‘Neoliberal Project’ Challenging Liberal Democratic Norms & Institutions?
John Ferdon
Political Science & Philosophy
Undergraduate Student
College of Arts, Humanities & Social Sciences
Conventional wisdom in academia and media often paint recent challenges to liberal democratic norms and institutions as a a result of “populism”. In this lenses, the anti-pluralistic, and tribalistic tendencies of the demos, or people, of a political community challenge the ‘liberal’ element of liberal democracy. In this project I challenge this conventional wisdom, and argue that such an analysis does not take into account the causes of the what is referred to as ‘populism’’. To understand the causes, I argue that we must take a look at the cultural, political and economic changes that have been unfolding since the late seventies.
Finding Nemo: Where Are The Fish Going?
Cade Freels
Physics
Undergraduate Student
Sonnet Antio
Physics and Mathematics
Undergraduate Student
Ana Sammel
Mathematics
Undergraduate Student
College of Natural Resources & Sciences
Rising ocean temperatures will have a huge impact on life in the ocean, and on the communities that have an economic dependence on the fishing industry. It is important to understand the ocean’s changing environment and the serious repercussions these changes will bring to humanity, in order to prepare for the future. To help plan for this future, we have created a mathematical model that predicts where herring and mackerel, two types of fish located around Scotland, will relocate to over the next 50 years, and the impact these relocations will have on small Scottish fishing companies.