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Philosophy, History
The Jewish and Christian Bibles have been interpreted to value certain lives more than others. From its composition, texts like Deuteronomy and Joshua made a distinction between insider and outsiders, proclaiming those on the outside were necessarily disposable. The Christian Bible, from its beginnings too, demarcated those whose lives were of less value, for example, ending its discourse by killing all those who opposed Christianity in the Apocalypse of John. The term 鈥渘ecropolitics鈥� comes from the work of African philosopher, Achille Mbembe, who utilized this term to discuss 鈥榳ho may live and who must die鈥� in modern political orders. Mbembe鈥檚 work demonstrates how ideology impacts the parameters of life for the undervalued, turning them into the living-dead. I will consider how, in modernity, monarchs, sectarians, nation-states, and political parties have marshaled biblical texts to adjudicate deaths of various kinds for certain peoples.

Physics
In the search for feasible and economical strategies for increasing usage of renewable energy sources, thermoelectric energy conversion is a promising approach for reducing energy consumption and reusing waste heat generated in industries such as manufacturing. Over 60% of the energy consumed in the US is lost as waste heat that is not recycled for use again. Thermoelectric (TE) materials are materials that convert heat into usable energy. Although devices made of TE materials such as Bi2Te3 are some of the most efficient in TE energy conversion, these materials can be toxic, scarce, expensive, and inflexible. Single walled carbon nanotube films, offer advantages over inorganic TE materials due to their abundance, flexibility, lower cost, and tunable thermoelectric properties. In this talk, I share results from an ongoing collaboration with the National Renewable Energy Laboratory focused on characterizing these carbon nanotube films and future steps toward integrating these materials in TE devices.

Criminal Justice & Criminology
How do relatively stable societies unravel into violence? As it turns out, it happens in much the same way that people become dangerous violent criminals鈥攋ust on a larger scale鈥攁nd the process follows very specific patterns. This project explains the underlying theory of violentization, follows the patterns of how it is manifested at the societal level through various case studies, offers a brief glimpse of the nonlinear dynamics methods used to model the patterns of violentization at the societal level, and suggests ways of exiting the process.

Social Work & Environmental Engineering
Over the last three years, Epic Scholars has been engaging in Participatory Action Research to evaluate their programming and ensure the best services and resources for independent students on the 爱液A片 campus. During this time, we have completed two University wide needs assessments, listening tours with participants in Epic Scholars, and one year of evaluation. One primary focus on this evaluation was to increase our knowledge and expertise in implementing a peer leadership model. Based on feedback from the research team and the data collected, this year we implemented a peer leader training model that we anticipate will increase the benefits of peer leadership both for students and peer leaders. We will end this presentation with two members of the PAR team sharing what being part of this team has meant for them as scholars and individuals.

English

Northern Shovelers (Spatula clypeata) overwinter in Colorado. Between November and March, these ducks have been routinely observed feeding in large groups, often exceeding several hundred individuals. This feeding behavior is observed consistently in the same water bodies throughout the winter but is not observed in other lakes that are nearby.听It is unclear why these ducks choose some lakes over others. The objective of our study is to verify where shovelers frequently display this mass feeding behavior. A second objective is to identify what properties, both biotic and abiotic, promote this behavior. In the winter of 2021/2022, we evaluated approximately 20 lakes for the behavior, only two lakes consistently had over 100 shovelers mass feeding 100% of the time and this behavior was never witnessed on the other lakes. 听The lakes where the behavior was observed were similar in surface area and dissolved oxygen concentrations. Understanding the conditions that promote this behavior will aid in management decisions regarding protection of various water bodies.

Psychology
This study examined different methods for effectively preparing female rape victims, who can be considered vulnerable witnesses, to reduce confidence-accuracy bias and increase conviction rates in female sexual assault cases. Through a semi-structured interview process interviewing advocates within the criminal justice system, who work directly with female sexual assault victims, we hoped to better grasp how the system can better facilitate this vulnerable population in trial and answer the question: How can effective witness preparation reduce confidence-accuracy bias for female rape victims in jury trials?听

Finance and Economics
Participation in an honors program provides a variety of benefits and impactful learning experiences. That said, the honors experience within many Institutions of Higher Education is sometimes characterized by selectivity, elitism, and exclusivity. This presentation will address a study examining the impact of a Pre-Honors program at 爱液A片 specifically aimed at expanding access to honors for students with lower-GPAs. 听Preliminary findings suggest that when exposed to interventions, the recruited students engage in similar registration behavior as existing honors students. The researchers hope the results of this experiment will lead to the development of strategies that may support the success of students who enter honors with a lower GPA, inform the role of peer effects in honors, and help explain how much of the positive impact that honors exists for students who do not meet traditional honors profiles.

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Chemistry and Biochemistry
Unlike most eukaryotic translation, Blackcurrant Reversion virus (BRV) lacks a 5′-m7GpppN cap (5’cap), and initiates translation using a structured RNA in its 3′ untranslated region (UTR) called a cap-independent translation enhancer (CITE). CITE binds to translation machinery and delivers that machinery to the 5′ UTR, typically via an RNA kissing-loop interaction. Our research focuses on these 3′ CITE and 5′ UTR RNA structures and their significance in facilitating translation. Using site-directed mutagenesis to generate mutants and a luciferase reporter to measure protein production, we analyzed the relationship between structure and function. We found that increased stem structure decreased translation efficiency, whereas decreased stem structure increased translation efficiency. We propose the increased structure 鈥渕asked鈥� bases and decreased structure 鈥渦nmasked鈥� bases that are involved in the end-to-end kissing-interaction and affect protein production. As a lesser-known viral CITE, this study aids further understanding of plant viral CITE structures and their translation initiation mechanism.