As a craft-based artist and feminized person, I often struggle to understand where my art belongs. Not where it physically belongs, but how it will be remembered in an art historical context. After studying Japanese ceramics ...

As the life expectancy for humans continues to increase, the prevalence of age-related diseases is rising. Specifically, humans are becoming more at risk for cardiovascular and cerebrovascular diseases. As a result, it is ...

Dihydrofolate reductase (DHFR) is an essential enzyme in the folic acid synthesis pathway and has been the subject of intense study in recent decades. Despite the wide diversity of homologs, research attention has primarily ...

The intersection of two crises, the Covid-19 pandemic and mass incarceration, have culminated in an epidemic of unmatched proportions. While mass incarceration has made the correctional population more vulnerable to the ...

The first prisons were designed merely to house inmates while their punishments were determined. Later, the imprisonment itself became the punishment. Although early prisons were primarily focused on punishment and deterrence ...

Climate change is expected to increase the frequency and severity of forest fires and drought across the Pacific Northwest (PNW) of the United States. Due to increasingly variable temperature and precipitation patterns, ...

Historically in the beauty industry, market leaders offered a 10 to 20 shade range in facial cosmetic products, and thin, conventionally-attractive Caucasian women were the face of beauty campaigns. Enter Fenty Beauty. The ...

Salamone Rossi, an Italian performer, composer, and Jew in the late sixteenth and early seventeenth century lives on, for the most part, in brief mentions in textbooks for undergraduates in music history classes. Only a ...