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Recycled and Upcycled Clothing: An Examination of Environmentalism in American Fashion Culture
(Kalamazoo, Mich. : Kalamazoo College., 2011)This paper seeks to examine recycled and upcycled clothing as it relates to the environmental movement and the societal functions that allow it to prosper. Recycled and upcycled clothing is analyzed through interdisciplinary ... -
Contested Meaning : An Exploration of Study Abroad and the Resulting Processes of Negotiation in Oaxaca, Mexico
(Kalamazoo, Mich. : Kalamazoo College., 2014)Research on U.S. undergraduate study abroad conventionally focuses on the experience from a sending community's perspective, consequently ignoring the complex processes of mediation that occur in host communities. By drawing ... -
An Investigation of Select Monomers and The Synthesis of Model Dimers Possessing the 4-O-5 Linkage and Their Ability to Undergo Electrocatalytic Hydrogenation
(Kalamazoo College, 2016)While fossil fuels provide many advantages, our increased demand for them has driven up carbon dioxide concentrations in the atmosphere and has caused us to dig deeper in to the planet to obtain them. As we search for ... -
Synthesis of a Novel Dual-Action Intermediate for the Chemotherapeutic Treatment of Prostate Cancer
(Kalamazoo College, 2016)Prostate cancer affects more men in the United States than any other cancer with projections estimating that 220,800 men will be diagnosed in 2015. Advancements in drug design and research have substantially decreased the ... -
Commuter Behavior at Kalamazoo College: Manifesting Ontological Security in Environmental (In)Action
(Kalamazoo, Mich. : Kalamazoo College, 2010)In June 2007, Kalamazoo College became the second college in Michigan to sign the American College and University Presidents‟ Climate Commitment, a promise to address local and institutional influences on climate change. ... -
Developing the Third Sector of HUMANeX Ventures : ATHLETex
(2014)This paper focuses on a strategic marketing for ATHLETeX, a sector of a Kalamazoo-based human capital consulting firm, HUMANeX Ventures. The company has two other sectors, business and education, that have been around ... -
"Como Quiere Cuidarse?" Medicalization of Women's Bodies in an Ecuadorian Public Health Clinic
(Kalamazoo, Mich. : Kalamazoo College., 2011)My research examines the doctor-patient interactions in a small public health clinic on the outskirts of the city of Quito, Ecuador. I used Emily Martin's metaphor of the uterus as a machine of capitalism to examine the ... -
Rebuilding Lives of the Poor: How Ministry with Community Drop-In Center Cultivates Self-Sufficiency and Dependency
(Kalamazoo, Mich. : Kalamazoo College., 2010)According to C.L. Caton, each year between two to three million people in the United States experience an episode of homelessness. Ministry with Community is a daytime shelter for the working poor and homeless in Kalamazoo, ... -
Power and Participatory Governance: the Struggles of Indigenous People for Self-Determination
(Kalamazoo, Mich. : Kalamazoo College., 2012)Recent re-theorizations of participation in development point to the potential for participatory governance through radical citizenship {Hickey and Mohan 2004). These do not adequately account for the entrenchment of ... -
Antiphospholipid Antibodies Interact with Neutrophil Extracellular Traps: a Novel Mechanism of Thrombosis in the Antiphospholipid Syndrome
(Kalamazoo College, 2014)Antiphospholipid syndrome is an autoimmune disorder that causes thrombosis and pregnancy complications with no targeted treatment available. Antiphospholipid antibodies (aPLs) against β2GPI have been known to activate ...