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Underserved - Installation View
No full textMaterials: Color pencils
Project Advisors: Tony Conrad
Year of Graduation: 2021https://lux.lawrence.edu/artgallery_se2021/1040/thumbnail.jp
Up Out the Window of a Zion Tour Bus that Summer
No full textMaterials: Acrylic Paint
Dimensions: 8 x 8 inches
Project Advisor: Tony Conrad
Year of Graduation: 2022https://lux.lawrence.edu/artgallery_se2022/1022/thumbnail.jp
Geophysical Survey of North Kakalin Village on Wisconsin Site OU-0115, Kaukauna
Get PDFBetween September and November 2020 Lawrence University conducted a geophysical survey in the area immediately northwest of the historic Grignon Mansion. The survey was undertaken to follow up on a previous geophysical survey, conducted in 2018, that identified possible prehistoric structures in that area. A combination of high-resolution magnetic, soil resistivity, and ground penetrating radar surveys were conducted over a 40 meter by 40 meter area in anticipation of better resolving these structures. The survey identified a number of features that appear to support the results of the 2018 survey, thus strengthening the case for the presence of undisturbed prehistoric structures
From Appledore to Appleton: Unexpected Lessons from Seeley\u27s Honeybee Democracy
No full textThis lecture on Thomas Seeley’s Honeybee Democracy was recorded in September 2021. The lecture was designed for students and faculty in the Freshman Studies program. This program, a multidisciplinary introduction to liberal learning, has been a cornerstone of the Lawrence curriculum since 1945.
The lecturer, Alyssa Hakes, is Associate Professor of Biology at Lawrence. Professor Hakes is an evolutionary ecologist with interests in plant-insect interactions and spatial statistics. Her research has been published in the American Journal of Botany, Ecology, Global Ecology and Conservation, and The International Journal of Plant Sciences
Downtrodden
No full textMaterials: Colored pencil
Dimensions: 18 x 24 inches
Project Advisors: Rob Neilson, Tony Conrad
Year of Graduation: 2021https://lux.lawrence.edu/artgallery_se2021/1000/thumbnail.jp
Hand Tools
No full textMaterials: Wood, Steel
Dimensions: Variable
Project Advisors: Rob Neilson
Year of Graduation: 2021https://lux.lawrence.edu/artgallery_se2021/1009/thumbnail.jp
No-Name #2
No full textMaterials: Digital photo prints
Dimensions: 34.5 x 23 inches
Project Advisor: John Shimon
Year of Graduation: 2021https://lux.lawrence.edu/artgallery_se2021/1020/thumbnail.jp
The Biomechanics of the Softball Swing in Seven Stages: Optimizing Exit Velocity
Get PDFThe study of sports biomechanics is a rapidly developing field that can be used to analyze an athlete’s most critical motions and improve their performance. In the world of baseball, sports biomechanists, scientists dedicated to the field of sports biomechanics, help keep pitchers healthy, optimize pitch performance, and improve a batter’s swing efficiency. Because of their surface-level similarities, the findings of baseball biomechanical studies have been projected onto the sport of women’s fastpitch softball, despite their substantial differences in physiology, field dimensions, pitch delivery, and classifications of hitters. The purpose of this study is to produce a biomechanical analysis unique to women’s fastpitch softball that helps to guide hitters and coaches in optimizing exit velocity, the speed the ball comes off the bat. Data werecollected in two separate experiments in which each batter took 30 at-bats and completed threebroad jumps, vertical jumps, and rotational medicine ball throws. The topfiveexit velocities were recorded and averaged, the furthest distances for broad jump, vertical jump, and rotational medicine ball were kept, and the correlation between these categories were found. Point of impact data was recorded in the second experiment and utilized.Each swing is broken down into seven swing stages and six body sections to complete a more complex analysis. A positive correlation coefficient was reported between both the broad jump and rotational medicine ball throw with exit velocity(r = 0.49 and r = 0.50 respectively). Point of impact was also evaluated, and an inverse relationship between impact height and exit velocity (r = -0.57)was shown. Results indicate the importance of hip and ankle muscle activation in energy production inthe swing as well as the need for further study regarding the influence on point of impact in the swing