Lagomorphs are small plant eating mammals that are split into two extant families: the Ochotonidae which is comprised of pikas, and Leporidae which is made of rabbits and hares. The earliest lagomorph occurrence is 55 ...
In 2013, the Oregon Judicial Department reported that the second most requested language for interpretation services was Mam, a language spoken by the Mam indigenous people of Guatemala. Despite their growing presence in ...
Prior research suggests that language systems are not entirely separate but interact in bilingual individuals. The current study seeks to extend prior work by investigating whether or not bilingual toddlers organize ...
In the timeline of criminal justice, integrating education into the prison system is a fairly recent development that did not emerge until the early 1900s. In Oregon in particular, we can track these changes through the ...
With no previous signal processing background, I began to study how electrical brain waves vary with movement speed and uncertainty. I learned when fleshing out the details or just seeing the big picture made sense for the ...
In this paper, I seek to determine whether the robust gender difference in preferences for trade protection shown in surveys of individuals extends to legislators' votes in the U.S. House of Representatives. Since this ...
OURJ is just one of the many platforms on campus that seek to broadcast undergraduates’ research achievements. I would be remiss to neglect mentioning the Undergraduate Research Symposium (URS), which celebrates its tenth ...
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 ...
Ginieczki, Taylor Sarah(University of Oregon, 2022-05)
As I reflect on my last year at the University of Oregon, it is clear that last fall brought us more than a return to in-person education. It also brought us the next chapter of the pandemic, one of learning how to integrate ...
It would be an understatement, I think, to say that the last few months have been an unexpected challenge. From the COVID-19 pandemic to the racial injustice sparking civil unrest across the country, the headlines that ...
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. ...
Our inspiration to conduct research can come from anywhere. For some, it might be an interesting idea from a lecture, or a unique detail from a research article. For others, it could be an observation of the world around ...