Browsing Goucher College - Julia Rogers Research Prize by Issue Date
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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 ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
Four Mennonite Pioneers: Case Studies of the Ordination of Mennonite Women
(2012-05-17)I enjoy researching even more than I enjoy writing. Making discoveries and finding all the pieces that complete a picture of a particular topic or event is very satisfying. Pieces for this project were challenging to locate. ... -
Disciplinary Power and Contemporary Photography
(2013)I began this essay with a preliminary research consultation to help commence investigating photographic art, philosophy of surveillance, and visual imaging – all outside of my major discipline. A few minutes after searching ... -
“Open to All:” Andrew Carnegie’s Library Building Program and the Development of the Modern Library Building Type
(2013)Initially the focus of this paper was somewhat broad. At the time I was taking the history course, “The Great Libraries of Baltimore” and Professor Husch’s “European andAmerican Architecture” class. In both classes I was ... -
Loyalty and Memory: A Civil War Scrapbook in Baltimore
(2013)This paper is evidence of the power that a primary source can have over a researcher when that source inspires more questions than answers. When I was first introduced to the series of Civil War Scrapbooks in Goucher’s ... -
WOOK-TV Television Production Facility Property History and Evaluation
(2014)I chose the WOOK-TV television studio building as the subject of my Historic Property Documentation paper. WOOK-TV was the nation’s first African American television station. My basic research strategy began with a general ... -
Their Eyes Were Watching God and the Revolution of Black Women
(2014)It did not pay to be a woman during the Harlem Renaissance. Women’s work was seen as inferior and the women themselves were often under-valued and deemed worthless, meant only to be controlled by the patriarchal society. ... -
An Incomplete Truth: The Role of Crisis and Politics in Early Twenieth Century Mathematics
(2014)As a History and Computer Science double major, Goucher’s library services have served as a valuable asset for research and topic exploration. The purpose of my submission for the Julia Rogers research prize was to combine ... -
Externalities from Concentrated Animal Feeding Operations
(2014)Classical economics is based upon three assumptions about the firms and individuals that partake in the market: they are goal-oriented, meaning that they are interested in fulfilling their own personal or private goals; ... -
Courting Clam: The Art of Reducing Stress
(2015)For my research project, I created an exhibition of art that represents calm because one of my goals is to find serenity. I wanted to explore how artists have “courted calm” through art. My strategy for this research project ... -
The Canvas: Excerpt from "They Said They Wanted Revolution"
(2015)When I decided to tell the story of my parents, I realized that it required heavy research and investigation. My father’s execution, which took place on January 25, 1983, in Iran, and my mother and my own escape from that ...