Browsing Sewanee: Sewanee Scholarship 2023 by Title
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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 ... -
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), ... -
Ash (Fraxinus sp.) Inventory and Emerald Ash Borer (Agrilus planipennis F.) Treatment Options for Monteagle Sunday School Assembly
(University of the South, 2022-04-28)The invasive emerald ash borer (EAB, Agrilus planipennis F.) has eradicated populations of ash (Fraxinus sp.) trees across the United States. The major response options include tree removal and stem chemical treatments. ... -
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, ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
How to Maximize Your Return by Investing in the Pharmaceutical and Natural Resource Industries
(University of the South, 2023-04-28)In this paper, we will be discussing the five-year performance of five stocks that include two different sectors: natural resources and the pharmaceutical sector. We chose these sectors because of the positive returns on ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
The roles of the ERK and HSP-60 in Tumorigenic Cancers: Discussing Potentially Novel Treatment Methods
(University of the South, 2023-04-28)Within the United States, tumorigenic cancers are currently a near-hopeless battle for families seeking treatment. Medulloblastoma and malignant neoplasms have a median survival rate among pediatric cases of only 3 years, ... -
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, ... -
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 ... -
Subalpine forest mortality in the Colorado Rocky Mountains: assessing global change
(University of the South, 2023-04-28)The Colorado river provides water directly to >40 million Americans in the southwest, and indirectly to millions more, including Sewanee students, through winter agriculture. The Colorado River obtains as much as 75% of ...
