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Graduation 1956
No full textA view of the stage at the CWSC graduation ceremony in 1956.https://digitalcommons.cwu.edu/john_foster_photos/2845/thumbnail.jp
Creating a Longstanding Food Pantry Lead by Students of Color
Get PDFThis poster presentation examines the ongoing efforts of PUSH, (President\u27s United to Solve Hunger) an international initiative across university campuses that focuses on alleviating hunger on campus. The Central Washington chapter differs from other university campuses as it is student-led and student-initiated. Through examining PUSH’s food justice initiatives such as the Wildcat Pantry, we can determine how our efforts have impacted the CWU community at large. With the new establishment of the Wildcat Pantry, a free food and supply resource, our team has faced several challenges such as consistent staffing, inventory maintenance, and social awareness
Super Bowl Popularity Estimated Using Taylor, Legrange, Hermite, and Cubic Spline Approximations
No full textThe Super Bowl is the annual playoff championship game for American Football of the National Football League, or NFL. The Super Bowl has served as the last game in every NFL season since 1966. Viewership and ratings have been recorded for each Super Bowl since the Super Bowl II in 1967. Taking viewership to represent the popularity of the event, we create high-order polynomials using various methods to further understand Super Bowl popularity. Taylor\u27s theorem is used alongside Lagrange polynomials, Hermite polynomials, and cubic splines to predict popularity of the Super Bowl between when the event is annually held. Additionally, numerical differentiation methods are used to further understand how the rate of change of the popularity of the Super Bowl changes over time. This is done in part to understand how streaming and the COVID-19 pandemic has potentially affected viewership
Have You Eaten Today?
No full textThis panel presents perspectives on the theme of coping, specifically amid the challenges that intensified with the increased isolation during the COVID pandemic. Since the early months of 2020, large parts of the United States have come to brief and long-term pauses that have resulted in deep introspection and have led to abandoned paths and impulse decisions. With a reflexive approach, these vignettes capture elements of the internal and external barriers we all face and the process by which we try to overcome them. The creation of a painting while processing racial trauma; using self-tattooing to handle neurodivergence; a raw reflection on growth in motherhood; the pitfalls of isolation and how one might self-medicate; a retrospective on the life of Les Blank and his love of a life less ordinary; a search for collaboration after an impulse move to Brooklyn. The ethnographic collection pulls from disparate voices to offer a view of the human condition in myriad form. Each visual presentation is roughly 5-10 minutes and is a selection from Visual Anthropology, winter 2022. Have You Eaten Today? A capture of life during the COVID era and quarantine, highlighting difficult subjects such as depression, loneliness, and alcoholism -- and a life-thread
Late Holocene Fire History Reconstruction from Beaver Lake in the Northwest Lowlands of The Olympic Peninsula
Get PDFFire is an important component of the landscapes and forests of the PNW, including the temperate rainforests of the Olympic Peninsula in northwest corner of Washington State. Previous studies in other areas of the peninsula show that past fire activity has varied locally and regionally as a result of changes in vegetation, climate, and human-land use activities since the early Holocene. The reconstruction of a late Holocene fire history record from the Beaver Lake watershed will provide a high resolution record in the currently understudied northwest section of the peninsula. This study uses macroscopic charcoal analysis of a 6.17 meter-long lake sediment core to illustrate how fire activity has varied at the site during the past 3400 years. The results of this study will be compared to local and regional records of changing vegetation, climate, and human-land use activities to provide a more complete understanding of the environmental history of the Olympic Peninsula during the late Holocene. Preliminary results show that fire has been present at Beaver Lake for at least the past 500 years in varying amounts, and continued research on the sediment core aims to pinpoint more specific shifts in fire activity. Land managers, archaeologists, and other researchers can use this data to better understand human-environment interactions in the case of fire on the peninsula
A Resource Guide Towards Improving Mental Health Through Art
No full textThe goal of this project is to explore art as a way to help people learn ways of coping with anxiety or overall stress. The project is a readily available website that includes methods to aid individuals with their mental health struggles. Multiple research studies present the positive impact that art can have on mental health. This project showcases some of my artwork and provides a step-by-step instruction on how to create it. I have incorporated multiple different forms of artwork such as mindfulness-based coloring, traditional art, and animation. Mindfulness-based coloring is meant to clear the mind while coloring, traditional drawing typically involves paper and pencil to draw, digital drawing includes drawing in some form of digital device to draw on, and animation consists of drawing multiple scenes or images by putting them together to create moving and fluid art. Each individual is unique, different, and contain various preferences for certain activities. For this reason, there are multiple forms of art that people can choose from. Additionally, this project contains a portfolio section that can give others inspiration for their own projects and creations with the step-by-step guides. The portfolio involves captions of each artwork that was created and may be presented as examples as to how people can actively express their feelings and emotions with art in a mindful way. Whether a person needs a moment to de-stress with an art activity or a productive hobby, this project would serve as a resource to cope and support their needs
Composition of Creek Sediment Through Farmland - Kittitas County
No full textWe measured the elemental composition of sediment at the heads compared to the mouths of six different streams in Kittitas County, Washington. Sediment composition can determine the effects of large-scale agricultural fertilization and the health of stream ecosystems as they flow through farmland. We collected two sediment samples from each of the six creeks we selected in Kittitas County, and determined the elemental composition of the samples. We analyzed the samples using Central Washington University’s ICP-OES which provided results in which most streams had high amounts of specific elements, including: aluminum, calcium, iron, and potassium. Our measurements showed the opposite of our hypothesis; streams contain higher concentrations of elements at the tops of creeks versus the bottoms, with a few exceptions that may have resulted from errors in the procedure. Further research could be conducted to determine why higher concentrations of elements are found at the tops of creeks, and whether this is the case in other counties as well
Lexical data analysis of popular hiking areas in the Alpine Lakes Wilderness
No full textDuring the COVID19 pandemic public lands felt a massive surge in visitation with people looking for alternative socially-distanced activities. As land managers scrambled to keep up with maintaining these spaces, there was a demand for more efficient ways of understanding problems and making decisions. One solution to this problem is the implementation of spatial data analytics, which can help prioritize department resources to areas of concern. Lexical data provided by recreationalists can efficiently provide valuable information about visitation through use of data analytics software.To demonstrate the value of spatial data analytics in land management, I will be working with lexical survey data from the most well-traveled hiking areas of Alpine Lakes Wilderness. I will identify key words and shared themes of both positive and negative sentiment. By integrating the data with geographical locations I will show areas and features needing special attention
King Sejong\u27s Legacy
No full textKing Sejong (1397-1450) is known as one of the greatest rulers of Korea of all time, as he created Hangul (Korean alphabet), encouraged significant scientific advancements, reinforced Confucianism in Korea, and caused many political and social advancements. However, despite how important he is in Korean culture, he is rarely mentioned in American classes about Asia. This knowledge is more important now than ever, with South Korea being a major power in economics, technology, and more. To rectify the lack of knowledge of King Sejong, this presentation will cover his achievements and their influence on Korea today, the most obvious of which being Hangul, which is the current Korean writing system. The presentation will also cover how his Confucian beliefs influenced his achievements, as King Sejong’s reign was a major turning point for Korea in terms of Confucian impact. A major reason why there is so much information about King Sejong, even though he lived in the early 1400s relates to another of his accomplishments – he took the printing advancements that had been made during his father’s reign and embraced them, causing Korea to become the lead East Asian nation in printing, improving printing speeds by 20 times before the design was finalized, providing a better way of publishing scientific advancements and inventions. Through these publications and modern publications discussing them, we can get a picture of King Sejong’s life and influence. The broad scope of his influence will illustrate the Korean trajectory of innovation and accomplishment that we see today
Interpretable Machine Learning for Self-Service High-Risk Decision-Making
No full textThis presentation contributes to interpretable machine learning via visual knowledge discovery in general line coordinates (GLC). The concepts of hyperblocks as interpretable dataset units and general line coordinates are combined to create a visual self-service machine learning model. The DSC1 and DSC2 lossless multidimensional coordinate systems are proposed. DSC1 and DSC2 can map multiple dataset attributes to a single two-dimensional (X, Y) Cartesian plane using a graph construction algorithm. The hyperblock analysis was used to determine visually appealing dataset attribute orders and to reduce line occlusion. It is shown that hyperblocks can generalize decision tree rules and a series of DSC1 or DSC2 plots can visualize a decision tree. The DSC1 and DSC2 plots were tested on benchmark datasets from the UCI ML repository. They allowed for visual classification of data. Additionally, areas of hyperblock impurity were discovered and used to establish dataset splits that highlight the upper estimate of worst-case model accuracy to guide model selection for high-risk decision-making. Major benefits of DSC1 and DSC2 is their highly interpretable nature. They allow domain experts to control or establish new machine learning models through visual pattern discovery