Browsing Library Research Award for Undergraduates by Issue Date
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Animal Agriculture and Antibiotic Resistant Disease
(University of Washington Libraries, 12/10/2017)What social, economic, or political factors affect the way antibiotic use is regulated in the US? In the United States, farmers feed their animals antibiotics at low doses to prevent disease and promote their growth. Because ... -
Environmental Activism in Warren County, North Carolina
(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. ... -
Local Protein Synthesis in Neuronal Dendrites and Its Role in Synaptic Plasticity and Memory
(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 ... -
Drug Wars: South Africa’s Embattled Mother-to-Child Transmission Prevention Policy
(2005-12)The government of post-apartheid South Africa refused to dispense antivirals to HIV-infected mothers to prevent transmission of the disease to their children. This paper examines the logic of that policy in the context of ... -
Chairman Mao: Great Leader, Great Teacher, Great Supreme Commander, Great Helmsman and the Great Leap Forward
(2006)The Great Leap Forward brought famine and other disasters to China, but did not impair Mao's standing with the Chinese people. This paper explores how the Hundred Flowers Campaign prepared the population for acceptance ... -
Remembering Laughter and Tears In a Drawer: Music as a Response to Soviet Repression
(2006-02-02)After World War II, Stalin reimposed censorship on cultural expressions. Shostakovich responded to repression by incorporating references to his own and Jewish works in his music. His work, From Jewish Folk Poetry, is ... -
Aurora Avenue: Highway Culture in Transition
(2006-03-15)In the twentieth century, Aurora Avenue grew into a major highway in the middle of Seattle. Homes gave way to businesses which advertised through bright highway signs. This paper documents these signs, and reports on ... -
La Lucha por el Agua, la Lucha por la Vida: The Political Economy of Water Privatization in Cochabamba, Bolivia
(2006-05)This paper examines the failure of the attempt to privatize the water utilities in the city of Cochabamba, Bolivia. A large popular uprising against dramatically rising costs for water was not effectively managed by a weak ... -
Shipbreaking at Alang, India: “What is the right thing for this place?”
(2006-05)As ship scrapping became more difficult in Western countries due to regulation and high employee costs, companies outsourced to India and Bangladesh. This paper focuses on the Alang shipbreaking yard, where workers have ... -
Girls Just Want To Have Fun: American and Japanese Evaluations of the Japanese Moga During the Interwar Years
(2006-05)Modan garu or moga describes the young Japanese women in the 1920's who adopted dress and customs akin to those of the flappers in the United States. The moga represented a break with the established role of women in ... -
Against the “Hun”: Anti-Germanism at the Seattle Public Schools and the University of Washington, 1917-1918
(2006-05-21)In 1917-1918, during World War I, anti-German feelings swept the United States. Educational institutions were not immune. This paper describes in detail events at the University of Washington and the Seattle Public Schools ... -
How the XBOX went 360: An Overview of Xbox’s International Markets and Transnational Production
(2006-05-22)This group of seven students admirably traversed the vast resources of a variety of libraries on campus to produce two excellent projects, a written report and a DVD film. Their essays clearly reflected their growth through ... -
The Crucified Woman: A Paradox of Prurience and Piety (Introduction only)
(2007-08-03)The paper examines the paradox of the Crucified Woman, whose image appeared in Western Christian art in the Middle Ages. The social, literary, ritualistic and hagiographic contexts of such images are explored. -
Reinventing Traditionalism: The Influence of Critical Reconstruction on the Shape of Berlin's Friedrichstadt
(2007-08-03)Critical Reconstruction is an architectural and city planning theory developed by the German architect, Josef Paul Kleihues in the 1960's. This paper explores the theory's application in the Berlin district of Friedrichstadt. ... -
Rationality of Inaccurate Science: Britain, Cholera and the Pursuit of Progress in 1883
(2007-08-03)An 1883 cholera epidemic in Egypt had British officials struggling to prove that the disease had originated in that country, rather than from a British ship. A reading of primary materials from the era suggest that England ... -
Tapping into Culture: Examining a Post-Conflict Microfinance Approach in Huambo, Angola
(2007-08-06)The paper is a case study of the postwar economic reconstruction activities of Development Workshop in Angola. By employing the tool of microfinance and working within the cultural context of the Ovimbundu people, Development ... -
Invisible Lives: Stories of Innovation and Transition
(2007-08-06)Despite rapid economic growth, huge slums persist in Mumbai, India. This paper examines the underlying reasons, looking in particular at Asia's, and possibly the world's, largest slum, Dharavi. In a collusion between India's ... -
Beyond the Mosque Walls: Legal Constructions 'Apostasy' and 'Blasphemy' in Egypt's Public Sphere
(2007-08-07)Apostasy, or the renunciation of belief, was criminalized in Egypt in the 1990's. What followed was a robust debate in the public sphere about the issue. This paper analyzes the Egyptian press to find substantial evidence ... -
The Green Press: Mass Media and the U.S. Environmental Movement 1945-1975
(2007-08-07)The New York Times, the Chicago Tribune and the Los Angeles Times played major roles in raising awareness of air pollution in the postwar period. This paper examines the coverage these newspapers gave to air pollution and ... -
The H5N1 Virus: Global Health Implications and a Need for Chinese Preparedness
(2007-08-07)Avian influenza continues to threaten to become a worldwide pandemic. The virus appears to have arisen in China and spread to neighboring countries. China would be the center of vaccination and containment strategies if ...