Browsing Goucher College - Julia Rogers Research Prize by Title
Now showing items 1-20 of 40
-
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 ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
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; ... -
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, ... -
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. ... -
FROM EXPLORATION TO EQUITY: A MUSEUM’S JOURNEY TOWARD DECOLONIZATION
(2018-12)In the context of a societal shift calling upon institutions to be more equitable, the movement to decolonize museums requires new approaches to collecting and presenting human remains and cultural artifacts. Nearly ... -
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 Fundamental Shared Essence of Dance and Mathematics
(2017)This paper seeks to investigate the intricate, inherent relationship between dance and mathematics. Although perhaps not initially obvious to all, mathematics is apparent in all forms of dance. It manifests in a plethora ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
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. ... -
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 ...