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Ullem Campus Farm Internship Experience
No full textOver the summer, I worked on DePauw\u27s Ullem Campus Farm and practiced sustainable agriculture. Throughout my story map, I highlight memorable and humorous experiences of my time working on the farm, such as my never-ending relationship with growing tomatoes, concocting compost tea to improve nutrient- poor soil, setting tarps down to prohibit pesky weed growth, building tools for the farm in woodshop, and making new beds for the next generation of produce.https://scholarship.depauw.edu/srfposters/1210/thumbnail.jp
Entrepreneurship over the Business Cycle
No full textDuring economic recessions, individuals face a challenging decision: whether to seek traditional employment or start their own business. While recessions are a poor time for entrepreneurship due to reduced consumer spending and business productivity, these periods also feature high unemployment, which makes finding wage work difficult. This project developed a theoretical framework to study entrepreneurship over the business cycle by introducing labor market frictions, creating a tractable yet realistic structure for occupational choice. Traditional macroeconomic models struggle to capture entrepreneurial decision-making across business cycles. As such, this project looked at labor market frictions in building a theoretical framework. Over the summer, we conducted a comprehensive literature review, constructed the model using scholastic processes, and programmed simulations and visualizations using Current Population Survey microdata in Julia.https://scholarship.depauw.edu/srfposters/1233/thumbnail.jp
The nature and distribution of road sediment contaminants in the greater Las Vegas, Nevada area
No full textRoad sediment is an underutilized medium in the investigation of environmental pollution, yet it serves as both a source and sink for a wide array of pollutants. In urban areas especially, contaminants present within road sediment have the potential to pose human health risks depending on the abundance, chemical, and physical nature of these contaminants as well as the duration (i.e. acute or chronic) of exposure. Las Vegas, Nevada is currently one of the fastest growing urban areas in the United States and is therefore a prime location for the investigation of potential environmental contaminants and pollutants in road sediment. Forty-six road sediment samples were collected from locations throughout the Las Vegas region, including Las Vegas, Henderson, and Boulder City. Geochemical and mineralogical characterization of the selected samples was completed using scanning electron microscopy (SEM), transmission electron microscopy (TEM), and X-ray fluorescence spectrometry (XRF). Results from these analyses indicate the presence of metal-bearing particulate matter (including metal shavings), in addition to spherules, all of which are consistent with an anthropogenic origin. Additionally, geoaccumulation index (Igeo) values determined from XRF bulk chemical data show that Cu and Zn were enriched in road sediment samples (Igeo \u3e 1) throughout Las Vegas and are thus considered to be significant anthropogenic pollutants in the region. This study serves as the first investigation into road sediment contaminants in the region, and provides a critical framework for more detailed investigation of the source and potential human health effects of these contaminants
Guff Circle
No full textSocial media has transformed from a tool to keep up with friends and family to using it as news outlets, online advertising, content creation, and so much more. The fundamental essence of “keeping up” has been diluted by utilizing social media for various purposes, and social media users now have to install multiple social media applications to complete this task. For example, a person who downloaded Facebook in the 2000’s to keep up with their social circle would likely still use Facebook for certain updates, but also use Twitter to post updates to a slightly different audience, along with Messenger to communicate, and Instagram to show their day-to-day life. Even while having so many options for social media, people in numerous social circles would still have difficulty keeping up with all of their social dynamics and different groups. Guff Circle, a web-based application, gives people a different avenue to keep up with their numerous social circles and cliques. Users will be able to use a single platform where they do not need to follow their peers across different social media and profiles. Instead, they can create their own circles with select users and create posts for their eyes only. Guff Circle, using Vue.js and Firebase, allows users to create and name their own social circles to update their friends and families, and communicate with them as well. Users can chat with their friends or make social circles similar to group chats from Messenger, and also create updates about their lives as they would using Facebook, while having the ability to upload media as well, just like Twitter or Instagram. Users can also switch between social circles to allow them to maintain the context in a social dynamic, or also make public posts that anyone can see
Ethics of End-of-Life Care: Alzheimer\u27s and Assisted Dying
Full text linkAssisted dying and euthanasia are hotly contested end-of-life care options that present pressing dilemmas concerning patient autonomy, relief of suffering, and the misapplication of these delicate medical procedures. Access to and prohibition of these options is predicated on years of legal history, including continuous adjustment, and is actively contested in many places. Each country where at least one of these options is accessible, such as the United States, Canada, and the Netherlands, possesses largely similar restrictions and guidelines, with notable exceptions. Through the examination of data in countries that allow access to assisted dying, euthanasia, or both, it is possible to gather evidence on the impact of these laws and to explore whether current United States law should be adjusted to be more permissive or restrictive. Data showing extremely low rates of prescription and substantial rates of non-ingestion in the US suggests that current laws and restrictions err on the side of caution – perhaps prohibiting access to patients who would otherwise qualify for assisted dying. In contrast, high rates of administration of assisted dying procedures and low rates of withdrawal from the process in the Netherlands and Canada suggest that these locations allow access at too great a rate – perhaps in relation to socialized medicine and policies that allow access to non-terminal patients. Across all locations, lawmakers are faced with the question of how and whether assisted dying can be ethically provided – as laws must make decisive rulings on medical situations that are highly personal and may vary wildly, even between two people diagnosed with the same condition at the same time. Laws allowing assisted dying seek to provide a controlled choice to end one’s own suffering in patients who are experiencing unbearable pain, and often cite concerns such as the fear of future decline and the loss of quality of life by implementing restrictions that necessitate in-depth discussions with multiple physicians, alongside other location-specific requirements. Through the examination of the role of patient autonomy and the options afforded to patients experiencing these extreme end-of-life situations, the ability of assisted dying to relieve suffering in terminal patients in a controlled and painless manner, and a discussion of current data, this work will posit that the current structure of United States laws on assisted dying is extremely restrictive – but that this restrictive approach adequately protects terminal patients and prevents the US from experiencing already high rates of deaths by assisted dying overseas climbing at the steep rates that can be seen in the Netherlands and Canada, and should not be adjusted to be more permissive
Architectural utopias: The pedagogy of still-existing socialist infrastructure in From the Academy to the Streets: Notes from a Working Class Think Tank
No full textThis article illuminates the significance of aesthetics, architecture, and political struggles by turning to concrete historical examples of socialist urbanism and city planning. In addition to drawing out architecture as a prime exemplar of political art, I find it a useful model for pedagogical politics. More specifically, these examples illustrate the inherently political nature of all education and of Paulo Freire’s utopian pedagogy. Although some mischaracterize Freire’s conception of the educational relationship as one of absolute equality, Freire always maintained the teacher can start as a learner but can never stay a learner. To start implies direction, and political pedagogy implies a political direction. The political educator, like the utopian architect, begins from learning from the people as part of understanding the current conjuncture. Yet what defines the educator as such is that they depart from a certain point toward another [...] there exists within the verb to start out a connotation of movement, and another of intentionality, and another of directivity.” With this in mind, I turn to the role of architecture and planning in revolutionary pedagogy before turning to concrete examples of political architecture that add an additional element contributing to its status as the exemplary form of political and pedagogical art: its role in the revolutionary process of transforming society and the creation of socialist urbanism, as well as its capacity to endure and persist in the face of counterrevolutions such that, socialist architecture is still with us in“post-socialist” states
September 2025 Table of Contents Newsletter - Library Changes
No full textFall term greetings from the library. You know what they say about change! This summer brought several changes to the library. We closed the Music and Media Library in the Green Center for the Performing Arts and closely followed funding challenges at the Indiana State Library.
See this month\u27s Table of Contents for more updates about new displays as well as a tribute to Rick Provine
Echoes of Japan: Art in Motion and Stillness
No full textKawano Kaoru Girl with Prunus Blossom, Early-mid 20th century Color Woodblock Print DePauw Art Collection, 1991.11.41https://scholarship.depauw.edu/peeler_exhibit/1206/thumbnail.jp