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Predicting Binding Modes for Carene Synthase: Using Alpha Fold and Rosetta Software to Probe Product Promiscuity
Get PDFCicadas on the Prairie
No full textA story of a boy recounting his experience with his friend and coming to terms with his relationship with the friend and himself. 
Mi Universidad: Empowering Youth with Popular Education Pedagogy and Community Cultural Wealth
No full textSince 2018, Homie UP YEP’s college summer-immersion program, Mi Universidad, has focused on enhancing community cultural wealth through educational attainment, life skills, health and well-being, family engagement, civic engagement, and cultural enrichment for local Chicanx/Latinx youth and families in North County San Diego, California. Our paper discusses Homie UP YEP’s development, research, and college summer-immersion program curriculum, as well as navigating impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic on our community and programming, and centering the voices and experiences of Homie UP YEP participants and community educators
Essential not Expendable: CoVid-19 and the Biopolitics of the Food Chain: Project Protect Food System Workers
No full textOur report presents a fisheye view of one such mobilization in the state of Colorado involving Project Protect Food System Workers which organized a network of promotoras (advocates) across the state while working towards successful passage of SB087, a Colorado’s Farm Worker Bill of Rights
Maximal-ly Surprising Triangle Functions
Get PDFWe look for functions that, evaluated symmetically on the angles of a triangle and added, achieve their maximum at surprising values
Beautiful Walks: Overcoming Adversity
Get PDFIn “Beautiful Walks: Overcoming Adversity,” Viviana Diaz reflects on what it means to move through the world as a first-generation Latina student and traveler. Her multimedia piece blends storytelling with photography and visual collage, tracing a path from Los Angeles to New York and London. Diaz honors the women who shaped her resilience and opens space for other first-gen students to see movement as transformation rather than risk. Each “beautiful walk” invites reflection on how identity is made and remade through the journeys we dare to take
How to Start Over Without Losing Your Beginning, Middle, or End
Get PDFMiranda Seche, a recent graduate of Cal State University, Los Angeles, reflects on her father’s educational journey as a first-generation college student and its impact on her own. His focus on the importance of college pressured Seche to attend university on his behalf instead of attending on her own. Thus, feelings of unpreparedness, navigational difficulties, and a lack of motivation surrounded her first foray into secondary education; feelings she realized were shared by many first-generation students everywhere. While sharing her new understanding of the hardships first-generation students endure, Seche also questions the lack of emphasis on the positive experiences and development that arise from those issues. After choosing to attend college again after a much-needed hiatus, Seche is emboldened by her previous struggles and explores the feeling of first-gen euphoria. In doing so, she focuses on her present accomplishments and looks back on her past as an opportunity for growth, rather than failure
Letter to My Parents
Get PDFIn “Letter to My Parents,” Shirley Serrano honors her parents through her gratitude for their part in helping her graduate from Cal State Los Angeles. Throughout all her struggles and experiences in her life leading up to and through college, she recalls the sacrifices her parents have made for her as well as the inspiration and affirmation they provided to help her persevere. This piece is written in both English and Spanish to celebrate the language of her parents as well as her own first generation multicultural identity
L’Année
Get PDFL’Année is a short comedy film created by James Stephens, a physics student at Durham University. It tells the story of the author’s 2024-2025 year abroad in Paris, within the framework of Erasmus+, an exchange programme allowing European students to study in universities elsewhere in Europe. With a focus on what made the time unique, like lan-guage learning and the cool people, it conveys the difficulty and the fun of stepping out of your comfort zone. There was no handbook, and the author knew nobody who had gone through it before. Unknowingly stepping towards a path of complex administration, language errors and the odd house party, he embarked on a journey different from most
