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When in Spain
Get PDFWhile still in the midst of their study abroad experiences, students at Linfield University write reflective essays. Their essays address issues of cultural similarity and difference, compare lifestyles, mores, norms, and habits between their host countries and home, and examine changes in perceptions about their host countries and the United States. In this essay, Olivia Welsh describes observations during their study abroad program at University of Alicante in Spain
Little House For Someone With Big Feet
No full textLittle House For Someone With Big Feet, taken by Sidra Griffin on the Linfield University Semester Abroad Program in New Zealand. 3rd place, Architecture division, in the 2024 Linfield University Study Abroad Photo Contest.https://digitalcommons.linfield.edu/intl_photos2024/1005/thumbnail.jp
Freshwater Mussels: Historical and Contemporary Threats in the Pacific Northwest
No full textFreshwater mussels are a long-lived, bioindicating, filter feeding invertebrate species. They are crucial to freshwater ecosystem health. However they are North America\u27s most imperiled species. With limited information about local population distribution\u27s our first research question was: What is the current native fresh water mussel distribution in the Greater Yamhill Watershed (GWY)? Additionally we had a second guiding question made based on our reseach into mussel\u27s life history traits in combination with GYW\u27s historical logging practices that have heavily altered mussel habitat. Do historic logging practices, such as splash dams and log drives, explain freshwater mussel distribution in the GYW?
Using an analytical mapping program and exisiting databases we identified 16 streams paired by shared physical characteristics, and by presence or absence of history of splash dams and log drives. Through conducting stream surverys in these paired streams we were able to further our understanding of distribution in effected and uneffected waterways. While surveying these rivers, we also found contemporary threats to these species. Through the course of our monitoring a large mussel bed became dewatered during baseflows over summer causing hundereds of mussels to die.This makes water policy, especially during climate change and droughts, an important future direction for this new research project
Memory & Media
No full textThe rise of social media should concern us. Gottfried et al. (2016) found that 67 percent of Americans get some of their news from social media. The infinite availability of information has impacted our memory for information presented online, as well as our ability to evaluate the credibility and truthfulness of that information. Source memory can be used to help determine truthfulness of information. If a person can remember where they read something, they are better able to assess the truthfulness of that information (Unkelbach & Rom, 2017). Source memory is further complicated by confirmation bias. Frost et. al (2015) found that people had better memory for information that supported their viewpoint compared to opposing information. So, not only do we have issues remembering where information came from, we are also more likely to remember information that is consistent with our belief system (whether it\u27s truthful or not). The present experiments examined source memory for news headlines and logos. Experiment 1 normed headlines for political ideology congruence and general knowledge of the headline topic and news organizations. Experiment 2 examined memory for news headlines and news logos, as well as how that is influenced by congruent political ideology
Galway Gems
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Leadership in the Interim and Future
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A Perfect Educational Pairing
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Bathing Under the Sun
No full textBathing Under the Sun, taken by Grace Swinth on Islas Baleareas, Mallorca, Cala d\u27Or, while participating in the Linfield University Semester Abroad Program in Spain. 1st place, People division, in the 2025 Linfield University Study Abroad Photo Contest.https://digitalcommons.linfield.edu/intl_photos2025/1012/thumbnail.jp
