OU - Emerging Scholars
The OU - Emerging Scholars collection showcases exemplary undergraduate student scholarship, such as published articles, papers that have won the University Libraries’ Undergraduate Research Award, works arising from research fellowships, etc.
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Science in Italian Renaissance Art Undergraduate
(2023-05)University Libraries Undergraduate Research Award -
Elucidating the Mechanisms of Antibiotic Tolerance During CoInfection of Staphylococcus aureus and Streptococcus agalactiae in Chronic Wounds Undergraduate
(2023-05)Polymicrobial infections are some of the most financially demanding issues in the healthcare system, requiring over $25 billion in treatment annually in the United States alone. This results from their increased virulence, ... -
The Substantial Restraint Doctrine: A New Judiciary Standard of Analysis for Campaign Finance Disclosure Undergraduate
(2023-05)American elections are defined by the millions of campaign finance dollars contributed to individual candidates and campaigns by 501(c)(4) nonprofit groups seeking to push forth their interests’ competing agendas. While ... -
Seoul: A Dilemma of Modernity or Affordability Undergraduate
(2021-04-09)This ArcGIS StoryMap explores the changes in Seoul’s real estate starting in the late 1900s due to gentrification and displacement. The two main areas studied throughout the StoryMap are the districts of Mapo-gu and ... -
Children of the Red Light Undergraduate
(2021-11)The city of Kolkata is full of astonishing history and various ways of life. As the capital of India’s West Bengal state, it attracts the public with its grand colonial architecture, art galleries, and cultural festivals. ... -
A Case of Mistaken Identity: State and Cultural Constructions of Mapuche Womanhood Through Activism Undergraduate
(2021-11-02)This paper will first discuss the Chilean state and Chilean feminists’ understanding of Mapuche women’s identity. I will argue that the Mapuche are used as a means to an end, then discarded when they have served their ... -
Maycomb's usual disease: A practical application to disability studies in "To Kill A Mockingbird" Undergraduate
(2021)This paper aims to connect literary studies and disability studies through the acknowledgement of disability in Harper Lee’s To Kill a Mockingbird. By analyzing Boo Radley as a character with autism, we can begin to discuss ... -
Solutions to media bias Undergraduate
(2021)I want to discuss all of the possible options for media regulation. I want to look at the pros and cons of each along with the financial impacts to each. I have found five possible solutions; reinstate the Doctrine exactly ... -
On Reinforcement Learning, Nurturing, and the Evolution of Risk Neutral Undergraduate
(2020)Reinforcement learning depends on agents being learning individuals, and when agents rely on their instincts rather than gathering data and acting accordingly, the population tends to be less successful than a true RL ... -
Exploring The Architecture on the Campus of the University of Oklahoma Undergraduate
(2020)As the title suggests, this paper presents itself as more than merely a historical account of the evolving architecture at the University of Oklahoma. Indeed, I have spent the past few months diving into how these buildings ... -
Residential Segregation: A Story of Health Inadequacies Undergraduate
(12/4/18)The intentional segregation of metropolitan areas in the United States during the twentieth century has resulted in rising health disparities in low-income minorities today. Contemporary medical practices like collecting ... -
The Effect of Nicotine and Cotinine on the Development of Cochliomyia macellaria (Fabricius) (Diptera: Calliphoridae) Undergraduate
(2019-03-26)Nicotine, readily available in electronic nicotine delivery systems, poses a lethal threat as it is easily accessible and highly toxic in its liquid form. Seventy-five percent of nicotine is metabolized into cotinine, and ... -
The Shadow Government: Influence of Elite Safavid Women Undergraduate
(2019-01-07)Until recently, the history of women in Safavid Iran has remained practically unexplored by scholars and historians. The lack of research done on women of the period can be mostly attributed to the scarcity of information ... -
Kantorovich Duality and Optimal Transport Problems on Magnetic Graphs Undergraduate
(2019-01-31)We consider Lipschitz- and Arens-Eells-type function spaces constructed for magnetic graphs, which are adapted to the magnetic setting from the classical area of optimal transport on discrete spaces. After establishing the ... -
The Way of Death: Abortion’s Path to Criminalization During the Middle Ages Undergraduate
(2018)A lightning rod of controversy since the Middle Ages, abortion has both been condemned as the “way of death” and championed as a tool of female liberation (Elsakkers, “Reading Between the Lines” 468). Current debates over ... -
Spectral and Stochastic Solutions to Boundary Value Problems on Magnetic Graphs Undergraduate
(2018)A magnetic graph is a graph G equipped with an orientation structure σ on its edges. The discrete magnetic Laplace operator LσG, a second-order difference operator for complex-valued functions on the vertices of G, has ... -
Bad People or Harmful Pasts? A Look into How Abuse Affects Deviance Undergraduate
(2018)Using data from the 2004 Survey of Inmates in State and Federal Correctional Facilities, an analytical sample of 3,277 prisoners were used to examine the gendered relationship between suffering abuse and engaging in deviant ... -
Earth conscious behavior of OU students Undergraduate
(2016-12-05)Amid growing concerns of environmental issues, such as resource depletion and climate change, an understanding of college student altruistic and egocentric behavior can offer insight into approaches for change. Students ... -
The epistemological limitations of Google's Knowledge graph Undergraduate
(2017)In 2012, Google introduced the Knowledge Graph, a computer system that instead of providing search results, provides information—what Google calls “knowledge.” Now, when people go to Google and search for “Leonardo da ... -
The evolution of marriage equality as a policy issue and as a new social norm in Latin America Undergraduate
(2015-11-23)The central question my research will address is the following: how has the issue of marriage equality evolved differently among Latin American countries and to what extent does it still remain contentious? The case studies ...
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