Browsing Library Award for Undergraduate Research Excellence (LAURE) by Issue Date
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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 ... -
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 ... -
Reconsidering the Unreliability and Treatment of Mentally Ill Narrators
Throughout her memoir, Girl, Interrupted (1993), Susanna Kaysen includes the images of several pieces of official medical documentation from just before and throughout her stay at McLean mental hospital. Each note is ... -
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 ... -
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, ... -
“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 ... -
Researching Lead Exposure Effects on Substance Use Disorders: My Passions in Environmental Health Equity
With underlying neurological effects of lead (Pb) on learning and neuron firing, which is seen in consequential developments of learning disabilities, could the comorbidity of ADHD and SUDs be determined, in part, by Pb ... -
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, ...