W&L University Student Scholarship: Recent submissions
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More Than a Home: Permanent Supportive Housing is Health Care for People Living With HIV/AIDS
Housing instability and HIV-positive status are inextricably linked. Permanent supportive housing (PSH) is an intervention to address chronic homelessness. Individuals who transition from housing instability to PSH experience ... -
The Land of the Stars: The Origin of Cy Twombly's Aesthetic (thesis)
My thesis focuses on a little-known backdrop Twombly painted for a children's Christmas program in 1953. The backdrop was first brought to my attention after The News-Gazette, the local Lexington newspaper, ran an archival ... -
A Review of the Models of Schizophrenia: And a putative novel, more unified model
Schizophrenia is a debilitating disease state which causes immense pain to sufferers and to their families. Although some proximate causes of symptoms of the disease have been identified, no ultimate cause has been uncovered ... -
Normative Volume Development of the Nucleus of the Solitary Tract (poster)
Abundant research has shown that in most neural systems, mature synaptic relationships are fine-tuned during development. One correlate of such fine tuning is changes in axon termination patterns. Our lab has previously ... -
Helping Local NGOs Achieve Effective Governance (poster)
Principles for Effective Governance. Particularly designed for non-profits. Recommendations for legal compliance and public disclosure. Recommendations for effective governance and Recommendations for strong financial ... -
Nutrient Investment in the Tissues of a Generalist Arthropod Predator
Whole-animal SIA is frequently used to study the ecological impact of insects and other small arthropods, but lumps together the carbon and nitrogen fractionation of an organism's tissues and can change the resultant ... -
Niche of a Generalist Apex Predator (presentation)
The case for the importance of predators in controlling structure and function of lower trophic levels in ecosystems has gained considerable currency in recent years. Predators control biodiversity through direct and ... -
How Does Ingroup Directed Anger Promote Collective Action? (thesis)
The current research investigated the implications of ingroup transgressions on identity threat, ingroup directed anger, and collective action about ingroup transgressions. It also considered the moderating role played by ... -
Maggie Lena Walker: Banker, Entrepreneur, and Social Activist (thesis)
Few women have achieved the stature in the black community of Richmond, and the United States, as Maggie Lena Walker. In 1903 she founded the St. Luke Penny Savings Bank, becoming the first woman, white or black, to found ... -
Selling Souls From A Distance: Market Revolution Transformations in the United States Domestic Slave Trade and Slave Traders (thesis)
Chapter One of this project explores the dual stereotype of the trader created in the antebellum South. Northerners and Southerners criticized the ignorant, lowly itinerant trader but not the large-scale, wealthy trader ... -
Efficacy of Aid in Africa: Why it has Failed and How it can be Fixed
Amani Children's Village serves as an example of the flaws in the charitable aid system in which money flows directly to an organization through donations in the classic NGO format. The difficulties seen in terms of Amani, ... -
Primary Care's Code Blue: Can Basic Patient Care Be Revitalized?
Part One of this paper will identify what it means exactly to access primary care in the ER, the people who access such care, and why they access primary care in the ER. I argue that those who access primary/ambulatory ... -
Microarray Analysis of Nonfunctional Ribosomal RNA Decay in Saccharomyces cerevisiae (thesis)
Nonfunctional ribosomal RNA decay (NRD) is a eukaryotic degradation pathway that targets and eliminates structurally intact but functionally defective ribosomal RNAs (rRNAs). Two separate NRD pathways for 18S and 25S rRNA ... -
Homeless and Hurting: Implications for the Mental Health of Children
Because homeless children tend to be from low-income households, they carry not only the stigma of being homeless and impoverished, but also the weight of adversity and struggle that comes from these two categories. Homeless ... -
A Bad Road Paved with Good Intentions: The Impact of No Child Left Behind on Poor and Minority Students
This paper considers NCLB's [No Child Left Behind] impact on the racial and income achievement gaps the law sought to narrow. It will also explain how, in some ways, NCLB may have actually worked to harm the struggling ... -
Policy Reform Proposal: China's Hukou System
Hukou is a household registration system that categorizes every citizen as “agricultural (rural)” or “non-agricultural (urban)” and bans the movement into different regions (Meng, 2012). Although its restriction on migration ... -
Combating Malaria: The Potential of mHealth
In order to combat malaria effectively, we must utilize a broad range of proven preventative and therapeutic treatments. Mobile health – commonly abbreviated as mHealth – hosts the potential to more effectively connect ... -
Fair Opportunity in Affordable Housing: How the Judicial Remedy in Gautreaux Informed Antipoverty Policy
We should be particularly concerned with relative deprivation in fair housing—the differences between the ghetto and the suburbs—because relativity shows us how inequalities prevent full participation in society.13 According ... -
What's Passed is Prologue: The Affordable Care Act
The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA or ACA), passed on March 23, 2010, is the most comprehensive U.S. healthcare reform legislature enacted since the passage of Medicaid and Medicare in 1965. The overarching ...