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Game Day Graphics - Installation View
No full texthttps://lux.lawrence.edu/artgallery_se2024/1039/thumbnail.jp
Synthesis_detail_3
No full textMaterials: Ceramics, acrylic paint on upholstery fabric.
Dimensions: variable
Project Advisor: Brittany Sievers
Year of Graduation: 2023https://lux.lawrence.edu/artgallery_se2023/1031/thumbnail.jp
The Multifaceted Woman: Installation View
No full textMaterials: Video Still
Dimensions: Variable
Project Advisor: John Shimon, Rob Neilson
Year of Graduation: 2023https://lux.lawrence.edu/artgallery_se2023/1046/thumbnail.jp
Personal Performance Piece
No full textMaterials: Durational performance with artists body, MDF, needles, paint, expanding foam, blood, shrink wrap, hair, graphite, estradiol valerate, paper, saliva, chalk, and steel.
Demensions: Variable
Project advisor: Rob Neilson
Year of graduation: 2023https://lux.lawrence.edu/artgallery_se2023/1052/thumbnail.jp
Personal Performance Piece: Installation View
No full textMaterials: Durational performance with artists body, MDF, needles, paint, expanding foam, blood, shrink wrap, hair, graphite, estradiol valerate, paper, saliva, chalk, and steel.
Demensions: Variable
Project advisor: Rob Neilson
Year of graduation: 2023https://lux.lawrence.edu/artgallery_se2023/1054/thumbnail.jp
Building a High-Throughput Yeast Two-Hybrid Assay to Screen for Novel Chronic Hepatitis B Drugs
Get PDFHepatitis B is a vaccine preventable liver disease caused by hepatitis B virus (HBV). Chronic hepatitis B currently affects about 296 million people around the world, killing 820,000 annually. There is currently no cure for chronic hepatitis B, but research over the last decade has identified hepatitis B X protein (HBx) as a promising therapeutic target. Specifically, inhibiting the interaction between HBx and human protein DDB1 could disrupt HBx function. An essential step in the drug development process is to create an assay that is capable of high-throughput screening millions of compounds for activity against HBx-DDB1. This research aims to design and optimize a high-throughput capable assay for the HBx-DDB1 interaction using the yeast two-hybrid (Y2H) system in S. cerevisiae. This assay could eventually be used to screen for novel drug compounds to treat chronic hepatitis B
Midwest Governors’ Rhetoric During the COVID-19 Pandemic
Get PDFThere has been an explosion of research measuring governments\u27 COVID-19 response both in the U.S. and globally. The response from the U.S. federal government to the COVID-19 pandemic was not consistent. Therefore, state governors had a variety of responses. Publicly available cell phone movement data was used to explore governors\u27 impact on citizens\u27 adherence to stay-at-home orders. This data was used to assess the impact of governors\u27 press conferences, controlling for COVID-19 case count, partisanship, median income, and other factors. There were 13 Midwest states observed over 13 months from February 1, 2020, to February 26, 2021. The results of the regressions are that all state governors, with one exception, had an impact on citizens\u27 movement, meaning the more press statements the governor gave on the danger of the pandemic, the fewer citizens moved. To further test governors\u27 press statements, I undertook a qualitative analysis of rhetoric by governors using classical rhetoric tools of persuasion using arguments of moral character, logic, and emotion. The results are that governors\u27 statements are critical to ensuring stay-at-home compliance
Kind of Blue
No full textThis lecture on Miles Davis’s Kind of Blue was recorded in the Lawrence Chapel on March 1, 2023. The lecture was designed for students and faculty in the First-Year Studies program. This program, a multidisciplinary introduction to liberal learning, has been a cornerstone of the Lawrence curriculum since 1945.
The lecturer, Mark Urness, is Associate Professor of Music at Lawrence. Professor Urness’s diverse performance experience encompasses orchestral, chamber, solo, and jazz playing. In addition to being awarded first prize in the International Society of Bassists Jazz Competition, he has also released Foreground, an unaccompanied jazz CD. Bass World magazine has described his playing as “completely in command of the instrument and the tunes, rife with good ideas, melodic instinct, and groove, not to mention killer intonation on the double stops and chords.”
Prior to his appointment to the faculty of Lawrence University, Professor Urness taught at the University of Iowa, Coe College, and the University of Northern Iowa. He received a Master of Music in double bass performance from the University of Cincinnati College-Conservatory of Music, a Bachelor of Arts in music from the University of Northern Iowa, and studied music and computer science at the University of Iowa