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More than Helpmates: The Role of Women in the Chartist Movement
Get PDFChartism––a working-class reform movement in Britain active from 1836 to 1858––has long been treated by historians a male-dominated movement, with only marginal roles for women activists. More recently, scholarship by Matthew Roberts and Malcolm Chase has complicated this picture, showing how, though the People’s Charter rejected calls for female suffrage, women organized and helped promote Chartist ideals. Joining with these scholars, this essay contends that women were important both to the debates over strategy and to the staffing of Chartist organizations although they faced opposition. Focusing on Mary Anne Walker, Susanna Inge, and others, this paper examines coverage of women Chartists in the Northern Star and other newspapers, letters, and other documents to demonstrate the impact of prominent Chartist women, female participation in the Chartist land plan and, especially, female Chartist organizations.https://orb.binghamton.edu/research_days_posters_2025/1048/thumbnail.jp
Basic Income and the Question of Immigration: Evaluating Citizen-Based vs. Residency-Based Proposals
Get PDFBasic income is a government welfare program whose primary goal is to alleviate poverty, provide economic security, and reduce inequality. Many non-citizen immigrants, refugees, and asylum seekers would stand to gain benefits if a basic income were implemented in the United States. Yet inclusion of such groups is highly controversial. Some experts argue that including immigrants in a basic income program would increase the immigration rate and cause spending to spike. Drawing on the process of naturalization, tax contributions of citizens and immigrants, and already established arguments, this research paper examines the debate over residency- vs. citizenship-based basic income. In taking the arguments on both sides, this paper will lay down the foundations for whether welfare is a pull factor in immigration and recognize if the politics of a non-citizen basic income plan could decrease the possibility of passing the program.https://orb.binghamton.edu/research_days_posters_2025/1083/thumbnail.jp
Increasing Social Determinants of Health (SDoH) Screening Rates among Hospitalized Patients through increase Utilization of the SDoH Navigator and Nurse Education
Get PDFSocial determinants of health (SDoH) significantly impact health outcomes, often more than medical care alone (WHO, 2024). Patients with low socioeconomic status face higher post-discharge risks, increasing readmissions (Virapongse & Misky, 2018). Despite their importance, SDoH screening remains inconsistent. Integrating SDoH data into Electronic Health Records (EHRs) is essential for addressing disparities and guiding targeted interventions (Liu et al., 2024). This quality improvement (QI) project aimed to enhance nurse education and increase SDoH Navigator utilization within the hospital’s EHR system to improve SDoH screening rates. Five nurses in a 40-bed telemetry unit participated in an educational intervention, including interactive training and hands-on demonstrations. The Addressing Client Needs with Social Determinants of Health Scale (ACN: SDH) assessed pre- and post-intervention knowledge. Post-test scores showed an 80% increase in correct responses, indicating improved SDoH knowledge and Navigator use. However, a small sample size limited finding.https://orb.binghamton.edu/research_days_posters_2025/1095/thumbnail.jp
The Passport Paradox: When Citizenship Becomes a Weapon
Get PDFThe US and EU are often viewed as safe havens for those who are being politically silenced under oppressive governments. Acquiring US/EU citizenship is often considered a solution to the lack of political agency of those escaping these regimes, but if access to citizenship is controlled by the state, to what extent does this new citizenship status solve this problem? This research focuses on Kurdish people who have escaped persecution at the hands of the Turkish government and resettled in one of these host regions. This research will demonstrate how the US/EU use citizenship acquisition as a tool to delimit the political agency of Kurds who have resettled there. Due to international negotiations between Turkey and the US/EU, foreign policy goals, and the individual dynamics of resettlement, resettled Kurds find that their political agency is still limited by the same repressive policies they sought to escape from.https://orb.binghamton.edu/research_days_posters_2025/1104/thumbnail.jp
Effects of Environmental Conditions on Thiamine Levels and Health of Brook Trout
Get PDFBrook trout (Salvelinus fontinalis), a predatory freshwater species, often consume prey fish with elevated levels of thiaminase. Previous studies have shown that thiaminase degrades thiamine (Vitamin B1), an essential cofactor in metabolic pathways including the pentose-phosphate pathway, citric acid cycle, and glycolysis. The deficiency of thiamine can impair RNA and DNA synthesis due to reduced NADPH production. This study investigated the impact of environmental factors on the thiamine levels in the diets of these brook trouts. Six brook trout strains from New York State and Canada, living in temperatures of 4°C and 19°C, and some under hypoxic conditions, were examined. A transketolase activity assay was developed and applied to fish liver samples for thiamine analysis. The findings are significant, as the assay paves the way for further studies on cellular redox states, oxidative stress, and the potential adverse effects of regulated enzymes on fish health and development.https://orb.binghamton.edu/research_days_posters_2025/1110/thumbnail.jp
Basic Income in America: Exploring the Ideology Behind the Agenda
Get PDFWhile basic income is experiencing renewed interest in American political, scholarly, and public discourse, it is often presented within two conflicting ideological frameworks. Scholars such as Anton Jäger and Daniel Zamora have labeled it a chiefly neoliberal policy while others like Philippe Van Parjis have described it as a socialist effort to expand the welfare state and even undermine capitalism. This podcast seeks to address these conflicting perspectives by providing a comprehensive analysis of the ideologies driving historical and contemporary basic income proposals in the U.S. The podcast begins with a discussion of the early basic income proposals of the National Welfare Rights Organization and Nixon’s Family Assistance Plan. It then examines contemporary proponents and critics of basic income and their differing ideologies. This culminates in an analysis of the core motivations for basic income proposals in America whilst providing the listener with the context to formulate their own conclusion.https://orb.binghamton.edu/research_days_posters_2025/1119/thumbnail.jp
The Batrachomyomachia -- a Short Lived Battle with a Long Lasting Legacy
Get PDFThe ancient Greek poem Batrachomyomachia tells the story of a one-day war between the kingdoms of mice and frogs, ended only by the intervention of Zeus. This poem has taken many forms, including a 1721 collection of translations which can be found in the Binghamton Special Collections. This paper tells the story of the book’s many owners, from a French nobleman who killed himself before the revolution could take his head to a Prussian bookseller who fled to America with his Jewish wife in the late 1930s. While some left a name or other mark of ownership behind, other owners were only found in historical records including this book. This paper argues that these records are the only way we have a connection between this book and some of its owners, signifying the incredible importance of keeping and maintaining proper records, allowing future scholars to explore otherwise unidentifiable connections.https://orb.binghamton.edu/research_days_posters_2025/1129/thumbnail.jp
Narcissism in Authoritarian Leadership
Get PDFWhile it is easy to determine whether a ruler is authoritarian, in the field of political psychology, there is much debate surrounding how best to define this type of leadership. Through analysis of the political psychology of authoritarians such as Vladimir Putin, Adolf Hitler, and Saddam Hussein, this work aims to define narcissistic authoritarian leadership, adding more consistency to the literature as well as determining the benefits and consequences of this type of leadership. This research shows that narcissistic authoritarian leadership occurs when a ruler puts an emphasis on their power and desires rather than on what is best for the people. The autocrat uses grandiosity and cruelty to gain power, but these traits are also the very traits that will inevitably lead to their downfall. These findings aim to create more consistency in the literature and develop a more well-rounded discussion surrounding authoritarianism.https://orb.binghamton.edu/research_days_posters_2025/1168/thumbnail.jp
I have a very particular set of skills : Special cataloging approaches for special collections.
Get PDFCataloging special collections materials requires specialized training that is not always readily available to catalogers. This presentation will explain the workflows and resources used by three different librarians to catalog materials with unique challenges: community cookbooks, government documents, and archival scrapbooks. Participants will gain the knowledge and confidence to catalog niche material types as this presentation introduces specialized MARC fields, databases, websites, controlled vocabularies, and descriptive standards to use as part of their cataloging toolkit
Gamifying Information Literacy: Using Unity and Github to Collaborate on a Video Game for the Library
No full textGamification, as a way to engage students in the library, has been a topic explored by librarians for many years. In this article, two librarians at a small rural academic library describe their year-long collaboration with students from a Game Design Program to create a single-player pixel-art video game designed to teach information literacy skills asynchronously. The project was accomplished using the game engine Unity and utilizing GitHub for project management. Outlined are the project’s inspiration, management, team structure, and outcomes. Not only did the project serve to instruct, but it was also meant to test the campus’ appetite for digital scholarship projects. While the project ended with mixed results, it is presented here as an example of how innovation can grow a campus’ digital presence, even in resistant libraries