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Migrations, Dislocations, Diasporas, and Cultural Identity in Contemporary Latin America
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Read moreResprouting allows competitive advantage in Redwood-Tanoak forests of Central Coast of California
Sofia Koutzoukis, under the mentorship of Margaret Metz, studies post-fire landscapes in Big Sur, California and explores the advantages for Redwoods and Tanoaks to either resprout or germinate from seed.
Read moreSeedling dynamics and the maintenance of diversity in an Amazonian rainforest
Margaret Metz and her students participated in the annual seedling dynamics census in Yasuní National Park, an Amazonian forest in Ecuador to investigate how seedling dynamics play a role in maintaining tropical forest diversity.
Read moreCloud classification from whole sky images
Jessica is an assistant professor of Environmental Studies at Lewis & Clark College. She did her dissertation work examining the energetics and kinematics of ...
Read moreAsian Art and American History
Dawn Odell’s research focuses on the exchange of material goods and artistic practices between Asia and Europe in the early modern period, with a ...
Read moreDevelopment of Synthetic Teaching Labs for Crystallographic Analysis
We are the first college in the Pacific Northwest to develop chemistry teaching labs that use single crystal X-ray crystallography as a new tool for characterizing molecular structure.
Read moreThe Role of Group Perception in Intergroup Apology
Our upcoming project will use experimental procedures with online surveys to explore the role of group perception in promoting effective intergroup apologies.
Read moreNeurocognitive Investigations of Appetitive Cue Processing in Adults and Young Children
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Read moreMigrant Detention: From McNeil Island to Mexico
In the 1880s, just after Chinese Exclusion, scores of Chinese were held at McNeil Island Prison until US courts ruled that they could be deported back to China in the early 1890s. This was the beginning of the creation of a mass incarceration system for aliens which today holds upwards of 340,000 migrants in jail in the United States.
Read moreExploring digital imagery on ceramics
The art department recently purchased a ceramic decal printer for the ceramics studio. One of the outcomes of this collaborative research project was to learn how to use the decal printer and to produce high quality ceramics decals for faculty and student use.
Read moreNature, Culture, and the Representation of Wine Terroirs
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Read moreEmanation in Kasmiri Saivism, Neoplatonism; and Hegel
Can Kashmir Shaivism explain the emergence of consciousness? Do Hegel's criticisms of Neoplatonism apply to Kashmir Shaivism too?
Read moreThe Great War 100 Years Later: The College, the Country, and the World
David Campion's Faculty ...
Read morePopular Culture, Nation and National Identity in Contemporary Mexico
This research team explored the problematic and at times contradictory relation between popular culture and the official constructions of the Mexican Nation and ‘national’ identities.
Read moreEffects of long-term nicotine exposure: mechanisms and behavioral consequences
During summer, students in my lab worked on 3 projects: 1) experiments to determine if developmental nicotine exposure causes changes in specific cell populations in the brain; 2) experiments to determine if developmental nicotine exposure causes changes to perception of smells; and 3) experiments to identify genes that are involved in nicotine's effects.
Read moreUnderstanding Laser Noise in an Atomic Vapor for Magnetometry
This experimental optics project seeks to develop a novel magnetometer using an interaction between light and matter that is highly sensitive to magnetic fields, laser noise derived from quantum interference in an atomic vapor.
Read moreMechanisms of protein aggregation in Parkinson’s disease using zebrafish
Our lab studies the mechanisms that regulate neuron development as well as disease. Parkinson's Disease involves the abnormal aggregation of a protein called alpha-synuclein. In collaboration with Dr. Vivek Unni’s lab at Oregon Health & Science University (OHSU), we have established a zebrafish model for studying alpha-synuclein function in the living brain. Because zebrafish are transparent during development, we are able to visualize a fluorescence-tagged form of alpha-synuclein in vivo using confocal microscopy.
Read moreAn Application of Markov chain: Card shuffling and measuring the randomness of a deck
We investigate the card shuffling problem from a simulation-based approach. We first create a randomness measure for gauging how well-shuffled a deck is. Several hundred thousand random decks are generated to simulate the distribution of the randomness measures of well-shuffled decks. Then we examine the number of shuffles a certain shuffling scheme would take to reach the mean of this simulated distribution.
Read moreGaudier-Brzeska, Reconsidered
Our writing explored Gaudier's national identity and the role of France in modernist writing and art, Kantian and Hegelian approaches to his art, the relationship between the modern art museum and the art movement Vorticism, and Gaudier's anarchism then and now.
Read moreSimulating Intergenerational Mobility Amongst the English Medieval Peasantry
We are working to implement an agent-based simulation model (coded in Java) that will produce new estimates of social mobility for the medieval English peasantry. First we organized, processed, and analyzed a data set of over 30,000 individual seed yield entries from harvest records of English manors during the period 1211 to 1491. Then we used the estimate of seed yields as an input to our agent- based simulation model. We then plan to use this model to generate counterfactual estimates of social mobility (and other measures).
Read moreThe Rabat Genizah Project: Digital Scholarship in a Multilingual Environment
The Rabat Genizah Project brings together an international team of community representatives, scholars, archivists, and information technologists to develop a digital archive of Moroccan Jewish documents. Research during summer 2014 focused on expansion of the archive, documentation of the project, and extension of the digital technologies to new Moroccan collections.
Read moreExpression, Expressing, and Expression of
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Read moreEating the World: The Constitution of the Self in Ayurveda and Hegel
Sepideh Bajracharya's ...
Read moreMigrant Detentions in the US and Mexico: The Rise of a Transnational Migrant Policing Regime
The US and Mexico jail more than half a million migrants each year. This project explores the history of migrant detentions in Mexico and the collaboration between the US and Mexican governments to create a transnational migrant policing regime from the late nineteenth century through the 1960s.
Read moreGroup-Based Emotions as Antecedents and Consequences of Competitive Victimhood
One of the projects in the ESIP lab investigates the emotions involved in competitive victimhood, a phenomenon in which two groups in conflict compete over who has suffered more.
Read moreAnton Chekhov’s Three Sisters: A “Contemporary” Text in Translation, Dramaturgy, & Performance
There are two major objectives we’d like to accomplish within the grant period. One, to collaboratively create a visceral, contemporary translation of Chekhov’s Three Sisters; and two, to work with the Portland Experimental Theatre Ensemble and a variety of professional actors in the city towards a production of that translation in a site-‐specific performance space in Portland in August 2014.
Read moreUnderstanding SNARE protein mediation of neuromodulator release from dense-core vesicles
The Lochner lab seeks to understand the biochemical underpinnings of long-term memory formation in a region of the brain called the hippocampus.
Read moreA Mantra for Hegel? Kaśmiri Śaivism and Hegel on Language.
Kashmiri Shaivism maintains that Shiva is incomprehensible. The Absolute is comprehensible, Hegel claims. Is there something that compels a decision for toward either Shaivism or Hegel? The larger question: Is ultimate truth—be it called Shiva, the Absolute, or the Unified Field Theory—comprehensible?
Read moreTargeting and Trafficking of Neuromodulatory Proteins in Hippocampal Neurons
We study molecular processes underlying memory formation, particularly targeting and trafficking of neuromodulatory proteins to synapses.
Read moreHuman Trafficking: From the Local to the Global
This new book explores distinctions in trafficking patterns between the developed and developing world, while also investigating the dramatically different ways that local and state authorities address the problem.
Read moreCampaign Finance Enforcement Across the 50 States
Todd Lochner teaches undergraduate courses in Constitutional Law, Civil Liberties, Introduction to American Politics, and Law, Lawyers and Society. He also teaches a joint ...
Read moreRace and National Identity in Bicentennial Chile and Argentina
When Chile and Argentina celebrated their Bicentennials in 2010, they reflected on who they were as a nation. Who was included and who was excluded during this time or imagining the nation?
Read moreThe War Beyond the West: Rethinking the Great War in Austria-Hungary and the Balkans
First, how does consideration of Austria-Hungary and the Balkans change our understandings of World War I? These geographic areas have long been overshadowed in a field of scholarship dominated by work on the Western front (Britain, France Germany). Second, how did the home front populations in these areas react and respond to the extraordinary strains of everyday life during Europe’s first “total war”?
Read moreInvestigating Forest Recovery in River View Natural Area After Removal of Invasive Plant Species
In fall 2011, the city of Portland purchased 146 acres of forest adjacent to the Lewis & Clark College campus, creating the River View Natural Area (RVNA). At that time, RVNA was heavily invaded by non-native plants. The city removed these species by cutting/herbicide. This action created an opportunity to investigate forest recovery after invasive removal. Will native species return without further management? Or will removal of these species lead to new invasions by non-native plants?
Read moreParallel computing with higher-level languages and compelling examples
Jens Mache was born in Karlsruhe, Germany. As an undergraduate student, he studied computer science at the University of Karlsruhe (Vordiplom in 1992). After ...
Read moreThe “Natural” Wine Movement in France and Allied Regions
http://college.lclark.edu/live/profiles/29-philippe-brand/ https://college.lclark.edu/live/profiles/109-deborah-heath/ ...
Read moreAn Exhibit: Diderot at 300, Making Knowledge Happen in the 18th Century
At the center of the exhibit, the Encyclyopédie's schematic tree of knowledge inspired by Bacon's own, displays the interdisciplinary and collaborative nature of knowledge-making in the 18th-century. Branching out into the faculties of Memory, Reason, and Imagination, human understanding is featured as the subversive key to accessing, critiquing, and creating knowledge through the disciplines ramifying from these faculties - including philosophy, history, and literary creative arts.
Read moreRibosome biogenesis and export
The long-term goal of this project is to understand how cells make ribosomes. One of the ways in which cancer cells differ from normal cells is their huge rate of ribosome biogenesis, and thus understanding how cells assemble and export ribosomes may provide new therapeutic targets for the specific inhibition of cancer cell growth.
Read moreAppetites and Emotions in Plato’s Early and Middle Dialogues
In Plato’s Protagoras, Socrates clearly indicates that he is a cognitivist about the emotions—in other words, he believes that emotions are in some way constituted by cognitive states.
Read moreImproving electrochemically deposited manganese oxide thin film pseudocapacitance and long term cycling stability
Manganese dioxide is being extensively studied as a pseudocapacitor. Pseudocapacitors charge faster than traditional batteries and have a higher energy densities than capacitors, making them ideal for many applications including fast- recharging bike lights.
Read moreNature religion in the Pacific Northwest
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Read moreC.E.S. Wood and the Wood Archive at Lewis & Clark
Pauls Toutonghi is Assistant Professor of English at Lewis & Clark College where he teaches fiction writing and English literature coursework. His fiction has ...
Read moreSurface Chemistry of Gold Nanoparticles in Natural Environments
Gold nanoparticles (Au NPs) are currently the subject of research efforts focused on developing highly sensitive sensors, diagnostic techniques, and targeted drug therapies. As these NPs move from the research lab to large-scale production, they will inevitably be released into the environment. This project sought to explore the eventual fate of these nanoparticles after release into the environment.
Read moreWhen Practice Doesn’t Make Perfect: Studying Preschooler’s Creative Problem Solving in a Museum Setting.
Dr. Nilsen holds a BA in Psychology from Graceland University and an MA and PhD in Psychology from the University of Michigan. He received a ...
Read moreCartlandia: Making a Documentary
The mobile food movement is enriching urban life while providing access to the American Dream for immigrants, entrepreneurs, and aspiring chefs.
Read moreEvent-related Potential Correlates of Response Inhibition to Alcohol Cues Among College-Aged Binge Drinkers
Todd D. Watson is an Assistant Professor in the Psychology Department and is also a faculty member in the new, interdisciplinary Neuroscience program at ...
Read moreMapping Neuronal Circuitry using Brainbow zebrafish
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Read moreOrego: Artificial Intelligence and the Game of Go
Go (Weiqi), the oldest strategy game in the world, was invented in China thousands of years ago. Its rules are simpler than those of Chess, but its strategies more subtle and profound. Top human Go players, unlike Chess players, can still easily defeat the most powerful computers. The space of possible board configurations is unfathomably vast, many orders of magnitude larger than the number of electrons in the universe. We suspect that human Go strength depends on the ability to decompose the game into local subproblems that are largely, but not quite, independent.
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