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Developing Interdisciplinary Anti-Violence Pedagogy
- Maxwell SchnurerCommunicationFaculty
- Tessa PitreEnglishFaculty
- Leslie RossmanCommunicationFaculty
- Maral AttallahCRGSFaculty
- Mary Sue SavageCHECK ITStaff
The Students for Violence Prevention first year experience program faculty cohort will present key strategies learned in developing interdisciplinary anti-violence pedagogy. The faculty will cover strategies for community building, how classroom work weaves with activist strategies, and tactics for supporting students in trauma.
Digitizing Stratigraphic Maps
- Lily CamaraAnthropologyUndergraduate Student
- Marisa BazalduaAnthropologyUndergraduate Student
This project is aimed at digitizing hand-drawn stratigraphic maps of excavations from the Dos Hombres to Gran Cacao (DH2GC) archaeological project in northwestern Belize. Archaeological illustration is a form of technical illustration that graphically records material derived from an archaeological context. Illustration is a powerful medium for disseminating knowledge, as it demonstrates the excavation process and captures history as it is unearthed. We use Adobe Illustrator CS3 software for the digitization process. Finished maps are used in the annual report for the Institute of Archaeology (IoA) in Belize.
Does Handedness Affect Lateralization of Facial Emotion Processing
Shairy Jimenez Delgado, Psychology Graduate Student
- Alice L.ZhangPsychologyGraduate Student
Behavioral and neuroimaging work on the visual processing of facial stimuli has consistently demonstrated a right hemisphere bias in face perception generally as well as in emotion perception. Research on lateralization of other cognitive functions such as language has found differential patterns of lateralization between right-handed and left-handed individuals. Several neuroimaging studies found evidence between handedness and degree of lateralization for face processing. The current study seeks to extend previous work by investigating the relationship between degree of handedness and degree of hemispheric lateralization for the processing of faces displaying positive and negative affect.
Dog World Dog Memes
- Ingrid BehaAnthropologyUndergraduate Student
Memes, photographs or videos that are edited to be satirical and that makes fun of cultural ideologies, are passed rapidly through the internet and phone applications and can end up on hundreds of websites within hours. Methods employed included participant observation, literature review, and screenshot analysis from Facebook and Instagram. Patterns in the types of posts indicate that people of all ages actively seek out dog memes to reduce anxiety and that dog memes are more popular when they are humanized. Dog memes are an artifact of our generation that transcends age groups and allows us to research meme culture that reflects a virtual population.
Drop the Ramp
- Michele JanelliFilmUndergraduate Student
- Adrian TercceroFilmUndergraduate Student
‘Drop The Ramp’ explores creating a landscape of the invasion on Omaha beach on D-day through immersive and intimate screenings. Sitting in the middle of the larger projection will be a smaller screen showing a war veteran, Frank Devita as he recounts a story never told about storming the beaches of Omaha. Inverting the interview footage to make it a color negative….viewers will need to view through their phones inverting their screens to view Frank as a color positive. This plays on newer generations' relation to war and how we’ve only ever experienced it through screens. It also plays on our relationships with older generations and how their stories might go unappreciated in a modern age
Drug Decriminalization
James Brother, Social Work Graduate Student
College of Arts, Humanities & Social SciencesI've been conducting research regarding drug decriminalization because of the harmful effects on people's future, the disproportionate impacts on people of color, and the opportunities to develop other forms of restorative justice and recovery.
Dunsmuir
- Jacob VarelasFilmUndergraduate Student
Dunsmuir is a small town. A film project.
Eat to Live: An analysis on Human Adaptation to Our Own Actions
- Tyani Ifemoa OrtizAnthropologyUndergraduate Student
Food is a fundamental life struggle, and just like any other species, humans have developed ways to meet our nutritional needs. Using scholarly peer reviewed texts, I investigated if there was any change to our nutritional needs as we have genetically modified the corn plant. Trends in the data analysed suggest that while the nutritional needs of humans hasn’t changed, the amounts in which we consume certain foods has profound effects on the human body. In the case of corn, too much sugar, such as high fructose corn syrup gives us an stored energy with out any extra nutrients. If we then do not burn off this stored energy it will accumulate and cause health problems.
EcoNews
- Claire RothEnvironmental StudiesUndergraduate Student
The presentation of my research will document the process by which EcoNews, the bimonthly environmental publication produced by the Northcoast Environmental Center in Arcata, California, comes to fruition. I have gained experience in this topic through my internship with the Northcoast Environmental Center, where I help to produce EcoNews. Additionally, I will present on the history behind EcoNews, as it has been in operation since 1971 and is one of the longest-running bioregional publications in the nation.
Effects of Recreation on Wildlife
- Jordan SchmidtRecreation AdministrationUndergraduate Student
This project will look at recreational areas and discuss proper management techniques to reduce the impact of recreation in coastal environments.