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Browsing Library Award for Undergraduate Research Excellence (LAURE) by Title
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Alternatives to Exclusionary School Discipline: An Outline for Educational Administrators
Exclusionary discipline practices are intended to help students learn to act appropriately when in reality they have been shown to lead to negative school outcomes and exacerbate the “school to prison pipeline”. This ... -
An Analysis on Research Methods involving American Poverty and Education
Historical injustice in the United States has caused an inequitable distribution of wealth, which especially disfavors minority groups based on race, ethnicity, and geographic location. Opportunities in education, ... -
Andrea Alciato and the Politics of the Printed Image: A Study of the Emblemata’s Origins, Evolution, and Abstraction
Focuses on the historical conditions in Milan during the early sixteenth century that influenced the emblem’s emergence. -
The Application of Machine Learning to Digitized Postcards as Artifacts
When machine learning is mentioned in the news, it is rarely in the context of historical artifacts. Often, the public learns about what machine learning promises through news about optimizing workflows, improving ... -
Before the Numbers Disappeared: Media and Perception of the 1937 Soviet Census
This thesis surveys the 1936 All-Soviet Census and its importance to national image under Stalin as an explanation for its suppression shortly after completion. The census served as a vital data collection tool for the ... -
Behind the Man, the Kneel, and the Protest
Pictures are apparently worth a thousand words, and for the picture Michael Zargaris captured during the 2016 football season of a sole player kneeling justly before an NFL game, one could say that this photo is not only ... -
Communication: A Greater Analysis of Storytelling in Music Through Mayuzumi’s Bunraku
Imaginational responses similar to Eugene Gendlin’s “felt sense” appear in both music and writing. By studying a single composition for cello, Toshiro Mayuzumi’s Bunraku, writers, performers, and other creatives can ... -
Countering the Dominant Ideology of the Christmas Movie Genre
In the world of cinema, a strange phenomenon emerged in the 1940s and continues to this day: this is the phenomenon of the Christmas movie. This paper investigates the question of what defines a film in the Christmas ... -
Dare to Be a Wildflower: an in depth study of heliostat technology
Through an in depth study and analysis of heliostats, this paper will explore the concepts and attributes offered through the emittance of indirect daylighting within structures. Heliostats, hence bears a dual function in ... -
The Discourse of Women's Experiences Under Communism
The relationship between time passing and the admission of guilt is a complicated one. For how long it took Germany to acknowledge and discuss the atrocities of the Nazi regime, people immediately wondered in 1989 when and ... -
“Documenting Shell Shock”: LAURE Research Story Essay
Since the fall of my junior year here at Miami, I have spent much of my time devoted to studying the topic of shell shock in the United States, specifically examining the ways in which newspapers facilitated the spread ... -
Enabling New Interactions with a Library's Digital Collections: Automatic Gender Recognition in Historical Postcards via Deep Learning
The Walter Havighurst Special Collections from University Archives & Preservation at Miami University’s King Library has a growing collection of over 600,000 historical postcards, with approximately 30,000 digitized, ... -
Everything But Carry a Rifle: An Article Examining the Members of the Women’s Army Corps and their Relationship to Guns
In 1942, the Women’s Army Auxiliary Corps (WAACs) was created to help alleviate expected manpower shortages for World War II. Converted to the Women’s Army Corps (WACs) and officially made Army in 1943, the WACs performed ... -
An Exploration of Socio-political Themes Represented in Strauss'
From Saint-Saen’s Carnival of the Animals to Rimsky-Korsakov’s Scheherezade to Gershwin’s American in Paris, tone poems often recall stories of specific people or events. One key figure in the the development of tone ... -
Geographic Inequalities: Exploring Green Space Access in New York City
Access to green space, areas such as parks, outside playgrounds, and general plant life, has been linked to positive physical and mental benefits. In metropolitan areas like New York City, it can be difficult to find and ... -
The history of the body: concepts and care
I became interested in Renaissance literature when I conducted a research project on Shakespeare. It was apparent that the medicine of the bard’s time lacked one thing: scientific accuracy. I became inquisitive— how has ... -
Investigation of Library Research Strategies in an Undergraduate Biochemistry Project
This paper investigates the use of Miami University Library resources and services in undertaking a Biochemistry research project spanning the author"s entire undergraduate career at Miami University. -
Lifetime sexual violence and alexithymia: the meditating role of dissociation, thought suppression, and shame
One in four women report experiences of lifetime sexual victimization (LSV), which includes unwanted sexual experiences in childhood, adolescence, and adulthood (Fisher, Cullen, & Turner, 2000). Furthermore, college-aged ... -
Metaphors We Love By: A cognitive Linguistic Analysis of Conceptual Metaphors of Love in Metropolitan French and American English
What began with intensive background research, has developed into an extensive project which offers a cognitive linguistic analysis of conceptual metaphors of love in both English and French based on corpora linguistic data. -
Native Hawai'ian and French Polynesian Participation in Organic Agriculture
I began research on the Big Island of Hawaii in May of 2016 and completed this ethnography in December of 2016 by examining the overarching aspects of food sovereignty, including the accessibility of organic agriculture ...