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Letter from the Editor
Full text linkDear Reader,
Welcome to this semester\u27s issue of Osmosis! We are a student-run magazine filled with all things science. This year, this includes scientific articles, research abstracts, and even science fiction stories, all written by fellow UR students. We have a talented group of writers, editors, and designers this year, and I cannot wait to share with you our fall issue. Whatever made you open up our magazine today, whether it be the cover art or the allure of science, I hope you find something you enjoy as much as we enjoyed putting it all together.
Thanks to all who helped make the magazine possible, and thank you, reader, for giving us a moment of your time.
Happy reading
Fostering Belief and Belonging: Catalysts for Success in STEM
Full text linkAs an aspiring scientist, have you ever found yourself consumed by the suffocating pressure to be perfect? Does the weight of failure loom ominously over your endeavors, threatening to derail your aspirations? And in the quiet moments of introspection, do whispers of self-doubt emerge, casting shadows of uncertainty over your path forward in STEM? I know I certainly have
Droughts, Destruction, and Displacement: How Climate Change Exacerbates Violence in the Sahel
Full text linkFebruary 2023 through January 2024 marked the first 12- month period that global average temperatures exceeded the 1.5°C benchmark proposed in the Paris Climate Agreement, indicating early signs of coming dangerously close to exceeding a permanent 1.5°C increase in global average temperatures. Permanently exceeding the 1.5°C benchmark is expected to lead to increasingly frequent and dangerous extreme weather events such as droughts and wildfires, while also increasing the risk of climate tipping points such as collapse of coral reef systems (UN, n.d.). Though no place is safe from the effects of climate change, few places on Earth will be hit as hard as Africa
The Undergraduate Research Experience at UR
Full text linktoAnyone who has attended the University of Richmond (UR)can attest to the unparalleled experience that is conducting research. Here, the focus is on nurturing well-versed scientists that are capable of critical thinking, deductive reasoning, and problem solving
Self-Compassion and Law Student Professional Identity Formation
Full text linkThe American Bar Association’s Standards for Legal Education and Admissions to the Bar require law schools to provide students with “substantial opportunities” for “[t]he development of a professional identity.” The Standards do not require a particular curriculum or mode of instruction but offer two guideposts for legal educators: one, that “professional identity focuses on what it means to be a lawyer and the special obligations lawyers have to their clients and society,” and two, that professional formation “should involve an intentional exploration of the values, guiding principles, and well-being practices considered foundational to successful legal practice.” The guidance and concomitant flexibility afforded by the Standards offer law schools remarkable challenges and opportunities, notably that law students be invited to intentionally explore the contours of their vocation. This essay adds to the discourse on professional identity formation by asserting that selfcompassion ought to number among the “values, guiding principles, and well-being practices” to which law students are formally introduced and invited to internalize as essential to their professional identity formation
Devil in Heaven: The Role of Matt Murdock\u27s Parents and Friends in the Creation of Daredevil\u27s Identity
No full textTraumas and losses mark superheroes´ lives from the beginning. Often orphans, superheroes start their journey with the loss of a paternal or maternal figure. This tragedy destroys their previous world and identity, but it also gives them a purpose. The superhero character, Daredevil, is no exception; he experiences loss and pain, too. Matt Murdock’s life is marked by the death of many people close to him, starting with the loss of his father, which leaves the deepest scar on him. The assumption of the super identity is necessary to replace the previous one, shattered by the trauma suffered. Matt, traumatized, needs to create a new persona. This new persona comes with a new worldview and values, a new moral code that conflicts with the mainstream one. Daredevil\u27s story highlights the contradictions of his character involving the balancing of his violent vigilantism with an Übermenschliche morality
The masterplot of the market
No full textStories about the family, work, and the market circulate in law, legal discourse, and beyond. The family, we are told by numerous authorities, is a non-market site, centred on emotional attachment rather than economic transaction. It is a site of interpersonal care, growth, and nurturance that acts as a counter to the excesses of an unbridled marketplace. The market, in contrast, is a site where autonomous beings contract, pursuing their interests efficiently and maximising wealth. This is one masterplot of the market, which, as it operates in the United States, constructs certain household members outside of the market and constructs the market as a sphere of rational exchange and value creation. And while one might think of it as two masterplots – one about home and the other about the marketplace – we understand it as one plot that both delineates and separates the spheres and the kinds of value and exchange within them. The masterplot of the market is a hyper-charged, superordinating narrative put forth by political commentators, academic theorists, and other contributors to public discourse and compounded by law. The masterplot of the market – the sum of a thousand political and cultural stories – structures the ways in which we collectively and culturally think and talk about various kinds of exchange and also leads to a legal system that organises itself around reifying that masterplot, serving the idealised market, and enriching those certain legal actors to the detriment of others