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2016-01-01

Green, Jonathan

Green's research is focused on campsites and shelters, transitional spaces, and extreme landscapes. His interests lie in the idea of camping and survival in wilderness spaces. Temporal and semi permanent architecture of the campsite and shack act as transitional sites - as spaces between the...

2020-01-01

Paetsch, Ricarda

Few scientists know that the interior Pacific Northwest is home to many treeless plant communities containing diverse species of herbs, grasses, bryophytes and lichens. Although treeless plant communities are generally known to form biodiversity hotspots, in the interior Pacific Northwest only...

2016-01-01

Traynor, Jane

Kata, or fixed patterns, are an element of performance seemingly unique to the Japanese theatre tradition. To further investigate this phenomenon, I am tracing it back to what I believe is its genesis in medieval noh theatre. This is represented here by a ko-omote mask, of which both the inside...

2019-01-01

Meyer, Nicole

For many, a diamond is a symbol of love and commitment . For me it’s no different, except the love is for science and the commitment is to my PhD. The brilliance of a diamond evokes a sense of clarity and admiration, for these invaluable pieces of carbon, although small, can give us vast amounts...

2023-06-20

Fazlolah Firuzkohi, Amirhossein

This research aims to trace the evolution of protest slogans in the linguistic landscape (i.e., any form of writing visible in public spaces) of Iran by comparing the wall writings during the 1979 Islamic revolution and the 2022 Woman-Life-Freedom movement. Wall writing and graffiti are often...

2017-01-01

Northlich-Redmond, Will

“When You Lick My Skin We See Roses” is a graphic musical score. The work depicts a psychedelic confluence of distorted musical symbols, explosive color fields, abstract visual imagery, and varying dimensions of spatial depth. Ultimately, this image attempts to not only radically re-imagine...

2018-01-01

Boucher, Nicole

Sea ice is declining in the Arctic, resulting in the loss of valuable habitat that polar bears need to hunt seals. Polar bears feed on seals when the sea ice is formed and enter a fasting period after the sea ice breaks up in the summer. When sea ice breaks up earlier, bears may seek out other...

2017-01-01

Law, Lauren

Glass sponge reefs in Hecate Strait, British Columbia are threatened by trawling and oil/gas exploration. The reefs are ancient, dated at 9,000 years old, and represent modern analogues of extinct reefs that once existed during the Jurassic period. Given their rarity and vulnerability to damage,...

2023-06-20

Jessen, Erika

My research examines and compares osteological characteristics between different species and populations of Notropis. More commonly called ‘shiners,’ they are a genus of North American freshwater fishes. Small in size, many species appear superficially similar to one another. However, a complex...

2016-01-01

Cruikshank, Stephen

The following image reveals the contradictions of Cuban society: the incredible architectural aesthetics, for example seen in the figure of the Havana Capital (el Capitolio) here and the deterioration and impoverishment of the capital city depicted in the dark garbage ridden streets. Light and...