Oregon Undergraduate Research Journal: Recent submissions

  • Cover Art — “The Visitor” 
    Wilkinson, Olivia (University of Oregon, 2022-05)
    Smaller things tend to go unnoticed, especially when they exist around us and touch our daily lives in minute ways. Crouch down, look up, or step closer, and there is a world of beauty and movement just about everywhere. ...
  • The Anthropocene Commons – A New Paradigm of Scale Variance: Commons Frameworks and Climate Change Theory 
    Aghel, Parsa (University of Oregon, 2021-06)
    The term Anthropocene, denoting the era where human activity is the greatest influence on the environment and climate, marks a new era of climate change theory and understanding. This paper, though, looks at existing ...
  • How Egocentric Biases Maintain Social Anxiety: A Literature Review 
    Mingus, Kyra (University of Oregon, 2021-06)
    Biases and heuristics are mental shortcuts that help guide our daily decision making and cognitive processing but can often lead us astray when they account for inaccurate or misinterpreted information. In this review I ...
  • Burning Woman: Sexualized Robots and the Vilification of Women in Metropolis and its Precursors 
    Grove, Cassian (University of Oregon, 2021-06)
    The vilification and subsequent destruction of feminine robots is a surprisingly common trope in film and literature. This essay draws connections between three very different works—Fritz Lang’s Metropolis, Villier’s ...
  • “Don’t Kill My Buzz, Man!” – Explaining the Criminalization of Psychedelic Drugs 
    Sproul, Conrad (University of Oregon, 2021-06)
    In the 1950s, psychedelic drugs were the subject of extensive psychiatric research in the United States. By 1960, they had been found to be non-addictive, to have remarkable safety profiles, and to potentially be able to ...
  • Meet the Editorial Board 
    Unknown author (University of Oregon, 2021-06)
    Editorial board for Volume 19 Issue 1 Spring 2021 of Oregon Undergraduate Research Journal
  • Art Feature—“Intertidal Intricacies” 
    Lake, Anna (University of Oregon, 2021-06)
    This photo series was taken while out in the field for a class at the Oregon Institute of Marine Biology (OIMB), the coastal campus of the University of Oregon. These pictures represent the small intricacies in the beautifully ...
  • Art Feature—“A Child’s Map to a Future World” 
    von Raven, Billy (University of Oregon, 2021-06)
    “A Child’s Map of a Future World” is a mixed media work on wood panel that investigates how a future descendant might map a world of climate breakdown using accumulated everyday fragments. These fragments were chosen ...
  • Guest Editorial—“Building Research Communities During a Pandemic” 
    Millar, Lanie (University of Oregon, 2021-06)
    What does it mean to do research during a global pandemic? Many of us have grappled with challenges and tragedies over the past year, but we also acquired new skills as our educational lives shifted largely or entirely ...
  • Letter from the Editor 
    Chambrose, Starla (University of Oregon, 2021-06)
    As for many students this past year, the COVID-19 pandemic completely derailed my research plans. I had been working on my thesis in a lab in the Institute of Ecology and Evolution since the winter of my sophomore year. ...
  • Cover Art—“Indigenizing Neuroscience” 
    Bauer, Temerity (University of Oregon, 2021-06)
    Our research community at the University of Oregon is a brain. Each researcher represents a singular neuron, microglia, ion transport channel or other part of the complex machinery that plays a crucial role in our ‘brain’ ...
  • Understanding Native Hawaiian Land Relations Through Kānaka Maoli Literature 
    Harden, Jordan Kalani (University of Oregon, 2021-01)
    Within a hegemonic Western discourse, Hawai‘i is largely considered an aesthetic tourist destination. It is perceived to be a vacation haven, bountiful in opportunities for real estate, commodification, and gentrification. ...
  • “You Shall Not Oppress a Resident Alien”: The Conception of Immigrants in the Hebrew Bible 
    Thielman, Miriam (University of Oregon, 2021-01)
    An increase in global immigration has resulted in humanitarian crises across the world as countries struggle to respond to the growing number of refugees and asylum seekers arriving at their borders. Understanding the ...
  • Hunting for Prions: Propagating Putative Prion States in Budding Yeast 
    Evarts, Jacob; Capage, Mikala (University of Oregon, 2021-01)
    Prions have been closely associated with fatal neurodegenerative diseases. Recent evidence, however, suggests that prions also represent an additional class of epigenetic mechanism that is biologically beneficial. From an ...
  • The Nuclear Family and Gender Roles in Oregon’s Venereal Disease Campaign: 1911-1918 
    Fellman, Dimitra (University of Oregon, 2021-01)
    The Social Hygiene Society of Portland, Oregon (later renamed the Oregon Social Hygiene Society - or OSHS) was founded in 1911 in order to combat venereal disease in the city and eventually across the state. Oregon’s efforts ...
  • Silent Slaves: Reconstructing Slave Perspectives on the Grave Stele of Hegeso 
    Garcia, Alexis (University of Oregon, 2021-01)
    The Grave Stele of Hegeso (400 BCE) depicts a ‘mistress and maid’ scene and preserves valuable insights into elite iconography. The stele also explores the experiences of wealthy Athenian women in their social roles and ...
  • Meet the Editorial Board 
    Unknown author (University of Oregon, 2021-01)
    Editorial board for Volume 18 Issue 1 Winter 2021 of Oregon Undergraduate Research Journal
  • Art Feature—“Material Trail” 
    Lawrence, Isais (University of Oregon, 2021-01)
    The illustration is focused around “emergy,” which is a word created from the term “embodied energy.” Emergy is the total energy used in the life cycle of a product; it is the energy required both directly and indirectly ...
  • Guest Editorial—“The Lure of the Lab” 
    Fisher, Scott (University of Oregon, 2021-01)
    My undergraduate research experiences completely changed my life and career trajectory! I credit my early research work to leading me to become a Staff Scientist at the Gemini Observatory in Hawaii, build camera systems ...
  • Letter from the Editor 
    Chambrose, Starla (University of Oregon, 2021-01)
    I know I’m not the only one who is more than a little glad that 2020 is finally behind us. Yet while I was reflecting on all the tumult of the last year, I wondered if I should be so quick to try and wipe it all from my ...

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