Julia Rogers Research Prize
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Finding Procedural Justice in Baltimore’s Department of Public Works
(2016)Structures of power and governance hold significant sway over the process and outcome of decision-making in local governments. An assessment of the processes involved in environmental decision-making (Dietz and Stern, ... -
The Identification and Characterization of Zebrafish Housed at Goucher College
(2016-12-13)To gain a better understanding of the Denio rario, zebrafish, gut microbiota composition and function and how it contributes to the health of the zebrafish, three zebrafish guts were cultured. The average density of the ... -
Hurts Like Heaven: Pain and the Facilitation of Transcendence
(2016)Though Western biomedicine rarely acknowledges it, pain can be a positive experience. In unrelated cultures across the globe, pain has been used to catalyze transcendence, a biologically measurable spiritual phenomenon. ... -
Subsidize Menstruation, Period.
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Henrietta
(2012)The research for my play was divided into three major categories: I looked at female romantic friendship at the turn of the 20th century, college life for women around 1900, and the ways in which female-female romantic ... -
Georgia O’Keeffe, The Woman Behind the Myth: Assumptions and Associations Projected by Alfred Stieglitz throughout the 1920’s
(2012)After visiting the Baltimore Museum of Art and selected which painting I would focus on for this paper, I was able to employ many of the library’s resources. Our class was structured in a manner that enabled research to ... -
Preservation in Practice: Adaptive Use of Historic Buildings as Arts Facilities in the San Francisco Bay
(2012)As a mature student, I had not researched and written a term paper in over thirty years. The last time I did so, I wrote the paper on a manual typewriter, and spent many happy hours in my university library, hoping to find ... -
Sexuality Education in the Twenty-First Century: The Struggle over Adolescent Rights
(2012)The beginning of the research strategy entailed entering key phases into the Goucher College Library online databases, particularly EBSCO and JSTOR. The online databases provided a medium for specified research that would ... -
From the Lab to the Dorm Room: Metacognitive Awareness and Use of Spaced Study
(2011)Numerous laboratory studies have demonstrated the long-term memory benefits of studying material in multiple distributed sessions as opposed to one massed session, given an identical amount of overall study time (i.e., the ... -
The Chernobyl disaster: Implications for the Soviet Union and glasnost
(2011)My research focused on the origins and development of the Soviet nuclear power industry, how the Soviet Union’s political climate in the 1980’s shaped the reaction to the Chernobyl nuclear disaster and how environmental ... -
The Rose: or Affection’s Gift for 1847: History, Culture and Society as Relating to the American Gift Book
(2011)For the final project in ART 382: The Art and History of the Book, I was required to write an essay based on original research I completed on a book from Goucher’s Special Collections and Archives. What intrigued me about ... -
National Register of Historic Places Registration Form for the Nomination of the Taytu Hotel, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia
(2011)My research goal for the final project of the preservation documentation course (HP611) was to provide information to support the nomination of a historical site in Ethiopia as a national landmark, according to the United ... -
Housing Solutions: Found Architecture, the Vernacular, and the Bungalow for Washington’s Teachers’ Homes
(2011)“Housing Solutions: Found Architecture, the Vernacular, and the Bungalow for Washington’s Teachers’ Homes” was a challenging project because it researched a debate about school architecture that circulated primarily between ... -
Elimination of Candida albicans’ Biofilms on Intravascular Catheters
(2015)This paper is the product of one semester’s work and research. I began the research with preliminary consultations with Professor Birthe Kjellerup and Goucher Library’s reference librarians to help my investigation of ... -
A Necessary Evil: The Midwives of Anne Arundel County
(2015)I’ve poured over sources, both primary and secondary. Right now I have nine books checked out from the library. My computer has gotten so full of digitized articles from the Baltimore Sun and the New York Times , medical ...
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