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Oregon Undergraduate Research Journal: Vol. 20 No. 2 (2022)
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(University of Oregon, 2022-11)Looking east, Mount Hood dominates the skyline of northwestern Oregon. White-capped or craggy brown, it looms above the sprawling urban streets, the winding Sandy River, the fir trees, the railroads, the fireweed and false ...
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(University of Oregon, 2022-11)In more ways than one, our 2021–2022 school year set major records. In the fall, the most students to ever attend the UO matriculated as Ducks. In the spring, Eugene received so much rain that April was the 7th-wettest ...
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(University of Oregon, 2022-11)The letter below was written to the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy in response to its August 2022 memorandum establishing new federal policy on public access to the products of publicly funded research. ...
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(University of Oregon, 2022-11)During the summer of 2022, my travels—for environmental fieldwork and vacations alike—took me all across Oregon’s Cascade Range, from the North Santiam Canyon to Mount Bachelor. Whether the skies were misty or blue, whether ...
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(University of Oregon, 2022-11)Editorial board for Volume 20 Issue 2 Summer 2022 of Oregon Undergraduate Research Journal
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(University of Oregon, 2022-11)During a recent job as a field technician, I spent time in the burn area of the Beachie Creek Fire, which struck the Lyons-Detroit corridor in August 2020. The fire burned nearly 200,000 acres of old-growth forest, and ...
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(University of Oregon, 2022-11)Anthropological and historical scholarship on cultural change in colonially subordinated cultures has often stressed deculturation—cultural loss and degradation—as a consequence of colonialism. This paper disputes that ...
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Activation of Defense Mechanisms in the Nudibranchs Peltodoris nobilis and Hermissenda crassicornis (University of Oregon, 2022-11)Nudibranchs are marine invertebrates that use various defenses to deter predators. Peltodoris nobilis is a member of the superfamily Doridoidea and uses de novo chemical synthesis for defense. Hermissenda crassicornis is ...
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(University of Oregon, 2022-11)The modern LGBT+ rights movement in the United States has pushed both political and social advancements forward since the mid-twentieth century, furthering the fight for equality. Even as hundreds of anti-LGBT+ bills have ...
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(University of Oregon, 2022-11)Over time, dominant world powers like the United States have levied the tool of definition to dehumanize, delegitimatize, and disempower certain peoples. How society defines what is normal vs. abnormal, human vs. inhuman, ...
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(University of Oregon, 2022-11)Thiamine deficiency is a condition that affects millions of infants in South and Southeast Asia due to heavy cultural reliance on thiamine-poor, polished white rice as a dietary staple. Previous research suggests that a ...
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(University of Oregon, 2022-11)In 1988, South Korean president Roh Tae-woo implemented democratic reforms in order to host the Olympic Games. These reforms opened the floodgates for Korean New Wave films. The reforms repealed censorship regulations and ...
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(University of Oregon, 2022-11)While the larval and early juvenile stages of the stalked ascidian Boltenia villosa are well-documented in the literature, little is known about the range of morphological variation in B. villosa adults. Anecdotal evidence ...
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(University of Oregon, 2022-11)Medieval Scandinavian literature held a trope that bent the gendered actions and presentations of its characters, which in turn changed their social standing within their stories: the more masculine the action or presentation, ...
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(University of Oregon, 2022-11)This paper examines the poems of Franny Choi and Victoria Chang within the context of Asian American poetry, poetics, and criticism. It demonstrates how Choi and Chang’s work engage in a destabilization of binaries in order ...
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(University of Oregon, 2022-11)Efforts to understand and preserve the methane seep communities of the Gulf of Mexico and the US western Atlantic margin begin with an understanding of biodiversity and community composition. In this study, 10,143 individuals ...