Older adults are a growing population in the United States and many elders suffer from physical, sexual, mental, isolation and financial abuse without any obvious signs. Through the research and evaluation of a growing number of elder abuse cases, Humboldt County’s Civil Grand Jury issued a report, Silver Tsunami Warning, explaining the concerns of elder abuse. Through this community project, my community partner, Adult Protective Services and I will bring mindfulness of elder abuse through promoting World Elder Abuse Awareness Month, advocate prevention of elder abuse, and educate how to report elder abuse through a visual campaign of banners advertised throughout Humboldt County.

Art of Sustainability - color, relax and learn - using the United Nations 17 Sustainable Development Goals. These critical call-to-action elements represent sincere ways that we all can advocate for social, environmental and economic issues. Whether you are interested in climate change, working on inequality and injustice, reducing poverty, developing clean water and more - this coloring page will allow you to see these topics in new ways. What are the intersections you see in life, work and your university projects? Coloring page - created by Angela Lukanovich and Jen Panaro https://www.raisingglobalkidizens.com/united-nations-sustainable-development-goals-coloring-poster/

The research will focus on the experiences of Liberian Americans while fleeing the civil wars, that took place 1989-2003. The displacement was shaped by the human security policies made by the Liberian Government and the United States government. The relevance of this study is the placement of value on the experiences of those who experienced displacement. More often than not, the focus of migration in the global south is the economic factors and how those factors affect the Western world. This research is a way to project the stories of those who are often not heard, the Liberian people.

Instructor evaluations are critical to the tenure process but are known to be biased with respect to gender (e.g. males are rated higher than females) and other identities (e.g. autism). This study aims to address the following question: Are male and female professors evaluated differently by male and female students when the professor’s autism identity is revealed compared to not revealed? This research highlights the impact of disclosing or failing to disclose one’s autism identity and its impact on student evaluations.

The main objectives of this study are to determine the variation in forage habitat selection of each of these species located in the Arcata Community Forest, and to see what might influence their forage site selection. I hypothesize that forage site selection for woodpeckers will be influenced by their prey choosing certain tree species and trees in moderate to high stages of decay. The data collected and used to complete my objectives as gathered by surveying multiple trails throughout the Arcata Community Forest, taking note of any woodpeckers engaging in foraging activity along with the species of woodpecker, the species of tree, and the stage of decay the tree was in.

This was a side-project of the Carrizo Ecosystem Project where two observers independently surveyed precincts of the Federally Endangered Giant kangaroo rat (Dipodomys ingens) on 10 plots in the Carrizo Plain National Monument, San Luis Obispo County, California. The goals were to note the bias between observers, to determine if the number of active precincts correlate with the current population density estimates, and to determine if indexing Giant kangaroo rat (GKR) precincts is a reliable method for determining the current GKR population status.

Understanding how limited funding for public health services impacts the homeless population of Humboldt County, California. This includes the demographic of the homeless population, the types of local public health services, and the current and future problems of the homeless in regards to access to public health services. Finally, considers local and national policy options to address the issue.

This project examines the geographic movement of materials and products related to the ironworks industry in Eureka, CA during the early 20th century. Archival research was undertaken in the Eureka Ironwork's Collection and Humboldt Room at Humboldt State University. Data was analyzed using GIS in order to understand the geographic scope of business transactions.

This project aims to show two different styles of Cartography to represent the same geographic area, Tibet. The first map is paper map, a mapping project of Tibet and of Tibetan toponyms. The paper map focuses on the region rather than the geopolitics of the region and displays toponyms that reflect Tibetan culture. The second map uses a web based interactive platform to display the various routes that HSU students have taken between 2000 and 2014, while conducting research in Tibet. The web map hopes to consolidate the previous field studies conducted, into an interactive database for future research to reference.

ADCY5-related Dyskinesia is a rare movement disorder, with early onset in childhood and adolescence. Previous studies have linked this disease to various point mutations in the ADCY5 gene. One study has demonstrated two of these mutations cause an increase in cyclic adenosine monophosphate (cAMP). However, the molecular basis of this disease phenotype has yet to be fully understood. Our study seeks to characterize the effects of one specific point mutation, p.R418W, on cellular cAMP levels using HEK293T cells, and to determine if increased cAMP levels affect neuronal differentiation using mouse embryonic stem cells (mESCs).