• Environmental Activism in Warren County, North Carolina 

  Westling, Maysen (University of Washington Libraries, 12/4/2020)

  The modern environmental justice movement has stemmed from the activism that took place in Warren County, North Carolina following the decision to construct a toxic waste landfill in a majority black and low-income community. ...

• Multiculturalism and Racial Conflict in Los Angeles’ “Little Bronze Tokyo,” 1941-1947 

  Zhou, Wendi (University of Washington Libraries, 2021-05)

  After the end of Japanese American internment, many Japanese Americans returned to their homes in LA’s “Little Tokyo” to find it nicknamed “Bronzeville.” The area had been settled by African-American migrants who moved ...

• Facing Climate Change: The Case of the Arctic Tern (Sterna paradisaea) 

  Mander, Finn (University of Washington Libraries, 2021-05)

  Arctic seabird populations have been on the decline in recent decades, yet a clear cause has not been identified. The Arctic tern (Sterna paradisaea) provides a unique opportunity for evaluating the potential of climate-related ...

• An Assessment of the Intricacies Surrounding the Visibility of Royal Mughal Women in Visual and Written Sources During Akbar’s Reign 

  Shivakumar, Nanditha (University of Washington Libraries, 2021-05)

  Royal Mughal women have played an immense role in consolidating the success and power of the Timurid-Mughal Empire. They have made significant contributions to, and influenced, several key sectors such as the Political, ...

• Dams, Salmon, and Orcas 

  Privat, Nicole (University of Washington Libraries, 2021-05)

  Dams are a staple in many areas, providing drinking water and hydropower to billions. But as history has shown, major alterations to the environment such as these can have unexpected results on local wildlife. This issue ...

• The Pink Scare: _The Woman Patriot_ and the Gendering of Radicalism 

  Johnson, Frances (University of Washington Libraries, 5/3/2021)

  From 1918 to 1932, the five female directors of the Woman Patriot Publishing Company published _The Woman Patriot_ in the wake of the Progressive Era and the First Red Scare. The newspaper emerged as an active voice in the ...

• Local Protein Synthesis in Neuronal Dendrites and Its Role in Synaptic Plasticity and Memory 

  Kravchuk, Alexandra (University of Washington Libraries, 2/14/2021)

  "The biological basis of memory formation and the molecular processes which regulate it is a rapidly developing, modern topic of neuroscience research. Though many questions remain unanswered, locally synthesized proteins ...

• Doctors Without Disability Awareness: The Role of Medical Training in a Profound Healthcare Barrier for People with Disabilities 

  Holbrook, Lauren (University of Washington Libraries, 2021-05)

  "People with disabilities (PWD) constitute the largest minority group in the United States. An estimated 1 in 4 adults live with a disability. As the population of PWD grows, medical staff must meet their unique needs and ...

• Bleaching of Coral Reefs Due to Ocean Acidification and Warming 

  Hall, Keely (University of Washington Libraries, 2021-05)

  Climate change is impacting marine ecosystems in a multitude of ways. Consequences of greenhouse gas emissions, due to anthropogenic factors, include ocean acidification and warming. Under these conditions, corals are ...

• Who Decides? Inuit Food Sovereignty in a Changing Arctic 

  Forman, Maxwell (University of Washington Libraries, 2021-05)

  Inuit food insecurity in the Arctic has become a chronic issue due to colonial processes and, increasingly, climate change. While food security approaches by external forces have fallen short, Inuit peoples are finding ...

• Improving Algae Photobioreactor Energy Efficiency Through Active Irradiance Control for Dynamic Carbon Dioxide Fixation 

  Geiman, Connor (University of Washington Libraries, 7/12/2021)

  For my Mechanical Engineering senior capstone, I developed and experimented with a 40-liter Chlorella vulgaris algae photobioreactor testbed for carbon dioxide removal. It responds to elevated levels of carbon dioxide, ...

• Seaweed's Ability to Mitigate Climate Change 

  Finkel, Emma (University of Washington Libraries, 2021-05)

  Climate change is a pressing issue that affects every organism on the planet. This essay and book define and explore the effects of climate change and seaweed's ability to help mitigate the problem. The research essay ...

• Days of Decision: San Francisco’s 1960 House Un-American Activities Committee Protest as a Turning Point of the New Left 

  Carter, Sophie (University of Washington Libraries, 3/17/2021)

  After the degradation of labor union power throughout the postwar era, a new politics took hold among young Americans, and its academic roots and appeal to student demographics established the university as the new ...

• A beekeeper's guide to Varroa destructor: dissecting its invasive nature and methods of treatment 

  Deng, Yuqing (University of Washington Libraries, 2021-05)

  This website explores the pathology of parasite Varroa destructor, a mite that preys on Eastern and Western honey bees, inflicting especially harmful effects in the latter host. This medium functions as a short, yet credible ...

• Studies in 16th Century Construction Project Management: San Lorenzo de El Escorial and San Pietro in Vaticano 

  Borreguero, Juan Granados (University of Washington Libraries, 2021-05)

  Through the juxtaposition of two key 16th-century architectural landmarks: the Monastery of El Escorial and the Basilica of Saint Peter, I examine the conditions under which the building projects were managed. Architectural ...

• Washington State Food Banks Amid a Global Pandemic 

  Blynov, David (University of Washington Libraries, 2021-05)

  The Covid-19 pandemic has affected nearly every facet of life, most alarmingly that of food security. Scholars suggests that food security is one of the most important indicators of physical and financial wellbeing. This ...

• Cyclicity in Landscape: Its Reality in Nature and Clash with Human Civilizational Progress 

  Nguyen, Hannah (University of Washington Libraries, 3/19/2019)

  Seeking to understand how landscape’s dualities serve as the basis for its inherently natural cyclicity in Henry David Thoreau’s Cape Cod brings us to a clearer recognition of its odds with the American ideal of unidirectional ...

• Reproduction, distribution, and feeding ecology of the Greenland shark (Sominosus microcephalus) in relation to climate change and human activities in the Arctic 

  Stork, Kalina (University of Washington Libraries, 5/6/2019)

  My submission is a research paper on the ecological role of the species the Greenland shark (Sominosus microcephalus). Very few research studies have been conducted on this species, so this paper is a review on over 30 ...

• Benthic-pelagic decoupling and walrus responses to a warming Arctic 

  Stromberg, Wells (University of Washington Libraries, 3/18/2019)

  A walrus diet typically consists of invertebrates that live on the seafloor, consumed in large quantities with the help of special morphological traits. In addition to the threats posed by diminishing sea ice in their ...

• Increased prevalence of human activity in the Arctic as a result of climate change, and the impacts on the Arctic ecosystem from resulting increases of introduced species 

  Lawson, Delaney (University of Washington Libraries, 5/6/2019)

  Arctic sea ice levels have been steadily decreasing since the end of the 20th century, and there is no evidence of this trend disappearing in the coming years. As a result of this, shipping routes are opening up within ...

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