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Painting the Medium: Digital Standardization of Archaeological Data
- Adam WallAnthropology - ArchaeologyUndergraduate Student
The bulk of archaeological notes taken in the field are hand-written, with pencil-sketched maps and diagrams, varying widely in legibility, clarity, and completeness of information. While this last point cannot easily be fixed in post, the former two can be through the development of a comprehensive “style guide” and tutorial for the digitization of archaeological field notes—using the free design program “Inkscape.” The guide is designed to be internally consistent and easily comprehensible, usable even by those with no experience with either the programs or raw data involved, guiding the user along the process of rendering previously inconsistent field data into a uniform visual style.
Paleo Facial Reconstruction
- Joanne GallagherAnthropologyUndergraduate Student
- Sheena GlasgowAnthoropologyUndergraduate Student
- Cathlyn GaribayAnthopologyUndergraduate Student
- Lucy HerAnthopologyUndergraduate Student
- Garrett GoodnightAnthropologyUndergraduate Student
- Alexander GuerinAnthropologyUndergraduate Student
Facial reconstruction is a method whereby the likeness of a person is reconstructed from the cranial skeleton. This projects involved researching facial reconstruction techniques and applying them to casts of hominin fossil skulls in the anthropology teaching collection. Species/specimens chosen to reconstruct include: (1) a juvenile Australopithecus africanus (the “Taung Child”), a 2.5 million-year-old hominin from South Africa; (2) an adult Paranthropus boisei skull; (3) also an adult Homo neanderthalensis found at the La Chapelle Aux-Saint, in France. To complete the reconstructions, we used a combination of tissue depth markers for humans and chimpanzees.
Parents Before Prisoners: Maintaining Connection Throughout Separation
- HALEY HOBLITTSocial WorkGraduate Student
The complexity of the Child Welfare System has left Humboldt County Correctional Facility (HCCF) incarcerated parents voicing their confusion of the system specifically regarding how to reach case plan objectives in an institution that offers limited family reunification services. The collective project, Parents Before Prisoners: Maintaining Connection Throughout Separation, aimed to address this matter by creating a resource guide for HCCF parents, that not only explains the child welfare system, but also contains a curriculum that can be used to reach case plan objectives.
Pathways to Healing: A Cultural Identity Development Curriculum
- Shaylynne MastenSocial WorkGraduate Student
With the Bear River Band of the Rohnerville Rancheria’s Ts’ Denoni Youth Program, I developed a curriculum that covers cultural teachings such as ceremony protocol, regalia, Tribal histories, gender roles, etc. This curriculum focuses on the following: (1) for youth and their families to familiarize themselves with the local Tribal histories, ceremony protocol, regalia, basketry, etc., (2) to help Native youth and families become more comfortable in their own cultural knowledge and identity, and (3) provide a foundation of local cultural knowledge that our youth and families can pass down to the next generation, to help create a cycle of healing.
Peers Offering Wisdom Education and Respect (P.O.W.E.R.)
- Alita RednerSocial WorkGraduate Student
Rapid Cycle Evaluation of the Peers Offering Wisdom Education and Respect (P.O.W.E.R.) program. P.O.W.E.R. is a living community curriculum that provides culturally competent group-based behavioral health counseling services to Indigenous Youth ages 13-17 years old. This project was guided by Indigenous Research Methodology including spirit-based research amidst the Pandemic of 2020. Theoretical references including systems theory and relational theory influenced this research. Research concluded an emphasis on evaluating the presentation of the curriculum to guide youth awareness of identity and process of trauma healing through ceremony, reflection, and belonging activities.
Perceiving immigrants as American and its Relationship to Attitudes Toward Immigrants
- Joseph PangPsychologyGraduate Student
- Sophie TiminPsychologyUndergraduate Student
- Christopher AbersonPsychologyFaculty
We examined the relationship between intergroup contact and intergroup threat on measures of discrimination against Hispanic/Latino immigrants in the United States. Specifically, we are interested in if contact and threat can predict perceptions of immigrants as "American". Our results found that negative contact experiences with immigrants predict perceiving immigrants as threats and categorizing them as not American.
Perching Height Preference in Raptors
Jacob Scholar, Wildlife Undergraduate Student
College of Natural Resources & SciencesThis research investigated the relationship between various raptor species and their preferred perching heights, employing a laser rangefinder and binoculars to determine these heights. My objective was to explore if different raptor species exhibit distinct perching height preferences, potentially impacting the diversity of raptors in an area, deal with various pest species using predators, and possible solutions to bring back extirpated raptor species.
Performance Profile For Tabata Intermittent Trainning on Treadmill
- Nathan TamayoKinesiology & Recreation AdministrationGraduate Student
- Taylor BloedonKinesiology & Recreation AdministrationFaculty
- Jill PawlowskiKinesiology & Recreation AdministrationFaculty
- Young KwonKinesiology & Recreation AdministrationFaculty
This study investigated the effect of four supramaximal intensities (110%, 130%, 150%, and 170% of VO2max) on number of Tabata bouts performed by recreationally trained men (mean age = 22.27 ± 1.74 years, height = 1.72 ± 0.07m, mass = 78.74 ± 15.77kg) were assigned the four intensities in a counterbalanced order. HR, stride frequency, and number of bouts were measured during each testing session. Given that ideal number of Tabata bouts is ~8, results suggested that intensities ranging between 130% and 150% were optimal. The number of bouts outside this range were found to be too high or too low what is deemed normal.
Permanence in an Ephemeral Collection: The History and Future of the Pamphlet Collection at Humboldt State University Library
- Carly MarinoLibraryFaculty
Is a vertical file of newspaper clippings and ephemera still relevant in the digital age? This poster describes the changing nature of vertical files, pamphlets, and other ephemeral collections in the 21st century using the Humboldt State University Library Pamphlet Collection as a case study. The poster also considers how archivists and librarians continue to encourage student and researcher participation with ephemeral materials, whether paper or digital.
Perpetuating a Stereotype: Minstrel-Shows in Antebellum America
- Abigail MorenoEnglishUndergraduate Student
In “The African-American Experience as portrayed by Minstrels” I examine how the African-American experience in Antebellum America was inaccurately portrayed by minstrel-performers; slaves were largely portrayed as happy field workers; lazy and good-for-nothing buffoons. The disparity between the entertainment art form and the reality of the black-slave offers a historical viewpoint of the American people of this era, their white nationalist values, as well as their prejudicial practices.