Sewanee: Sewanee Scholarship 2023
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Why Investing in Companies That Consistently Deliver Affordable Products to Consumers Is Worthwhile
(University of the South, 2023-04-28)Why Investing in Companies That Consistently Deliver Affordable Products to Consumers Is Worthwhile Anna McCasland, C’23 Dr. Huarui Jing, Assistant Professor of Finance Department of Economics and Finance: The University ... -
Maximizing Profit and Managing Risk: A Sector-based Diversification Strategy for Stock Portfolio Optimization
(University of the South, 2023-04-28)Our senior thesis for the Finance Major involves managing a portfolio of five stocks with a figurative investment of $1,000,000. We carefully select stocks based on historical performance, macroeconomic trends, and information ... -
Food Desert and Obesity Rates: Evidence from Washington D.C.
(University of the South, 2023-04-24)The high financial and human costs of obesity create an urgency to combat this disease that has been increasing with unceasing relentlessness in the United States since the 1970s. This study investigates food deserts as ... -
Do early competitive outcomes have long-term consequences for cognitive ability in the Mangrove Rivulus?
(University of the South, 2023-05-05)Individuals vary in their cognitive abilities for a number of reasons, one of which includes the influence of their early environment. Early social experiences and stressors can affect brain development, resulting in ... -
Discovering the Deep Motivators of Spring Gatherers in Southern Appalachia
(University of the South, 2023-04-28)Situated within a spacious wooded neighborhood in Sewanee, Tennessee is Hat Rock Spring, where a built structure supports the flowing waters of a perennial spring. Individuals from local and regional municipalities travel ... -
Spatial Segregation among Phacelia bipinnatifida Morphotypes in Shakerag Hollow
(University of the South, 2023-04-28)Phacelia bipinnatifida, also known as scorpionweed, is a biennial wildflower that lives in old-growth cove forest sites such as Shakerag Hollow. Polymorphisms exist in certain flower populations, with varying characteristics ... -
A Multi Temporal Landslide Inventory for Wetar Island, Indonesia
(University of the South, 2023-04-28)Wetar is a ~2652 km2 island in the Inner Banda Arc in Eastern Indonesia. The Inner Banda Arc consists of volcanic islands, of which many, including Wetar, are being rapidly uplifted by arc-continent collision between ... -
A plasmid-launched reverse genetics system for the human coronavirus HCoV-OC43
(University of the South, 2023-04-28)Coronaviruses (CoVs) are a large family of single-stranded, positive-sense RNA viruses that infect a wide range of vertebrate hosts. Along with SARS-CoV-2, the etiological agent of the COVID-19 pandemic, there are six other ... -
Inwardly- Art Comp Thesis
(University of the South, 2023-04-28)This thesis handles the duality that is present in the beginning and end of intrinsic change. By exploring these concepts with grayscale works and oil paintings, a juxtaposition appears: one that both denotes a reckoning ... -
Using a Strategy Consisting of Market Capitalization and Moving Averages to Analyze the Performance of Three Investment Models for a 3-Month Period
(University of the South, 2023-04-28)Using three different models, Portfolio Theory, Capital Asset Pricing Model, and Fama French Three Factor Model, we invested in five stocks to maximize profits and minimize risk. We decided to invest in one stock with high ... -
Identity and Belonging at Sewanee: The University of the South
(University of the South, 2023-04-28)sing qualitative research methods including a focus group, individual interviews, and auto-ethnographic insider-interviews, this study aimed to open the conversation surrounding topics like identity, belonging, and ... -
Analysis of heavy microplastics in five tributaries of the Danube River, Germany and the Cumberland River, Tennessee
(University of the South, 2023-04-28)This study on five tributaries of the Danube River was conducted as part of the CLEANDANUBE project, which aims to characterize the water quality of the Danube River from the Black Forest of Germany to the Black Sea. Water ... -
Finding the Resistivity of Graphene using the van der Pauw method
(University of the South, 2023-04-28)Thin resistivities of conducting and semiconducting materials were measured. The samples are thin films between 15µm and 50m thick, including aluminum, copper, silicon, and graphene. These included rectangles and squares ... -
Which Marie is Marie
(University of the South, 2023-04-28)This presentation explores the history of the study of the identity of anonymous 12th century French poet Marie de France, and how the historiography developed alongside greater trends in academia. -
Rubidium Fluorescence and Diode Laser Spectroscopy
(University of the South, 2023-04-28)The invention of inexpensive, tunable, narrow-bandwidth semiconductor diode lasers has opened up many spectroscopic analysis techniques to individual use, undergraduate research, and advanced laboratories. In this study, ... -
Overcoming the challenges of Human HSP60 and ERK5 inhibition in cancer through heterobifunctional degraders and improved analogs
(University of the South, 2023-04-28)Human Heat Shock Protein 60kDa (HSP60) and Human Extracellular Regulated Kinase 5 (ERK5) are two distinctly functional proteins that are present in a variety of cancers. Because of this, both proteins have become of recent ... -
Attachment as a Predictor for Leadership Style
(University of the South, 2023-04-28)The relationships of children to their caregivers are known to affect the way people continue to interact and engage with those they are in relationships with later in life. These early relationships can create positive, ... -
The Art of Convergence: The Dichotomies of Zhang Hongtu
(University of the South, 2023-04-28)“Daring to breed the horse with the cow,” Contemporary Chinese Artist Zhang Hongtu has coined himself this title as an experimental, satirical artist with multiple points of inspiration. Zhang’s works Guo Xi–Van Gogh (1998), ... -
Yasumasa Morimura's Futago: An Exit and Re-entrance into the Canon of Art History
(University of the South, 2023-04-28)Yasumasa Morimura (b. 1951) is a Japanese artist who challenges the dominant paradigm of Euro- American artworks. His artworks express his subjective feelings of being stuck inside the realm of Japanese art history within ... -
Mapping Soil Carbon with Farmers Who Practice Renegenerative Management
(University of the South, 2023-04-28)Innovative farmers around Tennessee’s southern Cumberland Plateau are stewarding their lands in the hopes of increasing soil carbon levels by using regenerative practices, such as improved cover cropping and rotational ...
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