Infant Habituation: 5 – and 7 – month year olds

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Nichole Wojciechowski and Dr. Ross Flom, Psychology Department Infant habituation is a common method for assessing infant cognition. Habituation means becoming accustomed to any given stimuli leading to the participant becoming bored with the given stimuli. By becoming habituated to a certain stimuli, the person or animal is then able to show discrimination, meaning they […]

Evaluating the Relationship between Middle Eastern Governments and Political Opposition Groups

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Estee Ward and Dr. Donna Lee Bowen, Middle East Studies Main Text There is a growing consensus among scholars that “social science research on the Middle East has, as of yet, scarcely dealt with political opposition as an independent subject of analysis.” Most scholars consider the role of opposition as one way to facilitate the […]

Flawed Historiography of Snape’s ‘Anatomy of an Horse’

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Patrick Turley and Dr. James B. McDonald, Economics Main Text Data truncation is the source of econometric problems in many economic datasets. Truncation occurs when all observations below or above a certain threshold are systematically removed or are unavailable. For example, campaign contributions below a certain level are not usually publicly available, so any contribution […]

Veterinary Medicine

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Jeffrey Tucker and Dr. Michael MacKay Importance of Project It is not an overstatement to claim that the work Dr. Michael MacKay and I were able to conduct through the benevolence of the ORCA programme represents the cutting of history of medicine research. We have engaged a field that is strikingly underdeveloped, yet extremely relevant […]

Evaluating The Impact of Health Information Technology Resources on Quality of Patient Care

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Evan Thomas and Dr. Mark Showalter, Economics Introduction With issues ranging from controlling insurance availability and coverage to management of healthcare infrastructure and costs, healthcare is an inflationary topic of national debate today. Much of the publicized argument, such as the healthcare reform bill recently passed in Congress, has centered on how to restructure the […]

Using Behavioral and Physiological Measures of Anxiety in Autism

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Katherine Taylor and Dr. Mikle South Main Text The purpose of my study was to examine behavioral and physiological measures of anxiety in an effort to understand the appearance of anxiousness in children with autism spectrum disorders (ASD). With the help of my mentor, Dr Mikle South, and his other research assistants, I modified Ned […]

Sustainable Development and Good Cheese: An Evaluation of CHOICE Humanitarian and Hispanics in Philanthropy’s Goat Cheese Project in Tamaula and Huaricho, Mexico

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Jeffrey Swindle and Dr. Tim Heaton, Sociology and International Development Introduction CHOICE Humanitarian and Hispanics in Philanthropy (HIP) partnered to support a local project proposal by villagers in Tamaula and Huaricho, Mexico to create small goat cheese factories in each of the villages. The goal of the project was to create jobs for villagers so […]

Long-term Income Stagnation among the Bankrupt

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Daniel Sullivan and Dr. Frank McIntyre, Economics Main Text Past research has documented a wide array of personal risk factors for declaring bankruptcy, such as a loss of income, medical debt, excessive credit card debt, and large mortgages. These factors fall into two broad categories: adverse events, such as an acute income shock (e.g., job […]

After-School Violence in Samoa

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Devan Stevens Introduction In the Polynesian Islands of Samoa, there is a prevalence of after-school violence associated with school rivalries that is of serious concern to the local governments and community members. There is a paucity of research done in Samoa concerning adolescent aggression. Thus, the need for research is great. Samoan newspapers frequently report […]