While multiple questions drive this project, one fundamental query lays at its center. How did American approaches to mortality, their own and others, during the early national period (roughly 1770 to 1850) shape both their ...

How do organizations assess and explain their performance? Prior studies have attempted to demonstrate that, like individuals, organizations take credit for good performance and blame poor performance on influences in ...

Older adults have been shown to avoid negative and prefer positive information to a higher extent than younger adults. This positivity bias influences their information processing as well as decision-making. We investigate ...

As one of the Sustainable City Year (SCY) projects this year, Green Cities students were asked to research, plan, and design environmentally friendly re-use and redevelopment options for the Salem Housing Authority ...

How can cities become more sustainable, resilient, and regenerative? This question is the foundation for studies in the“Green Cities”course that examines the history and future of the interface between urban growth and ...

How do legal scholars currently think about environmental justice law? Could African American literature, and its sister, Native American orature, shape those thought patterns?

Statements like "These windows are too old", "I need to build a new structure if I want it to be efficient", and "as long as it is LEED certified it must be a sustainable project" illustrate this point: There is a ...

Over the past 30 years, the U.S. prison population has exploded. With only 5% of the global population, the U.S. now incarcerates more than 25% of the world’s prisoners (ACLU, 2011). This has led to increased attention ...

Gresham, Oregon is growing, developing, and looking for a way to revitalize their downtown district. After speaking with representatives from the departments within City Hall, our group developed spatial relationship ...