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Animal Care Internship and Shadowing at the Racine Zoo
(Kalamazoo, Mich. : Kalamazoo College, 2022)During the summer of 2021, I dedicated much of my time working at the Racine Zoo as an animal care intern. I chose to do this internship in order to widen my experience with all types of animals in anticipation for vet ... -
Anterior Cruciate Ligament (ACL) Injury in High School and Collegiate Female Athletes
(Kalamazoo, Mich. : Kalamazoo College, 2019)Injury to the anterior cruciate ligament (ACL) of the high school and collegiate female athlete is currently an epidemic in the field of sports medicine. The rate of which ACL injuries occur to female athletes is continually ... -
Anterior Cruciate Ligament Injuries: Why women are at higher risk for ACL injuries and prevention strategies
(Kalamazoo, Mich. : Kalamazoo College, 2018)Every year, there are about 175,000 patients who need and ACL reconstruction surgery; among those patients, about 38,000 are high school students. Since the title IX act, there has been a steady rise in the amount of ... -
The Antibiotic Crisis: Methods to Circumvent Resistance and Ways to move Forward
(Kalamazoo, Mich. : Kalamazoo College, 2019)In 2013, the human race was declared to be in a “post-antibiotic era” by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). Due to inappropriate prescriptions, overuse in agriculture, and the transfer of resistance ... -
The Art of Stage Management
(Kalamazoo, Mich. : Kalamazoo College, 2015)The duties of the stage manager are wide in range and included guiding cast members, completing paperwork, and organizing technicians though every step of the production process of the gender flipped production of William ... -
Arthropod Diversity in Corn and Mixed Prairie Biofuel Crops
(Kalamazoo, Mich. : Kalamazoo College, 2010-04)Competition for agricultural resources has been increasing due to the food and fuel demands of increasing human populations. Increasing demand for the agricultural production of both food and biofuel crops makes maximizing ... -
Artificial diet trials for the butterfly Jalmenus evagoras (Lepidoptera: Lycaenidae)
(Kalamazoo College, 2007-04-27)Rearing insects can be costly and time consuming, particularly if their food source is a living plant. Thus, it is often more efficient to raise insects on artificial diets. Most successful artificial diets have a ... -
Assessing Ecosystem Dynamics Amongst Zooplankton, Phytoplankton and Jellyfish (Mastigias) in Meromictic Marine Lakes
(Kalamazoo, Mich. : Kalamazoo College, 2010-04)Meromictic lakes, due to solute density, contain permanently stratified water and a floating bacterial plate–a chemocline. Marine lakes usually contain small, unique ecosystems. Meromictic marine lakes have not been ... -
Assessment and management forecast of the “Grove”, an urban forest fragment on the campus of Kalamazoo College
(Kalamazoo, Mich. : Kalamazoo College, 2013)Prior to European settlement, open savanna and continuous forest covered 95 percent of Michigan. Michigan’s ever-changing forests have since regenerated into many different community structures, including closed mesic ... -
An Assessment of Water Quality in the Kalamazoo Area: Analysis of the Headwater to the West Fork of Portage Creek Running Through Asylum Lake, Parkview Hills, and the West Fork Property
(Kalamazoo, Mich. : Kalamazoo College, 2017)Water is natural resource that is essential for the survival of many species; it provides habitats as well as nutrients. Today, water is threaten as a result of urbanization and an increase of pollutants entering the ... -
Auditory Disfluency Disrupts the Confirmation Bias
(Kalamazoo, Mich. : Kalamazoo College, 2018)The current study examined whether two different types of auditory disfluency could result in diminished bias amongst juror verdicts in a mock trial. In Experiment 1, acting as jurors, participants read either a positive ... -
Behavioral Characterization of a Graded, Bilateral Cervical Spinal Cord Contusion Injury in Rats
(Kalamazoo, Mich. : Kalamazoo College, 2013)Spinal cord injury (SCI) is estimated to affect roughly 1.28 million individuals in the U.S. today and continually increases with 12,400 new incidences yearly. The effects of SCI result in varying complications that depend ... -
The behavioral response of stored product pests, Rhyzopertha dominica (Coleoptera: Bostrichidae) and T. castaneum (Coleoptera: Tenebrionidae) to moldy grain volatiles
(Kalamazoo, Mich. : Kalamazoo College, 2019)Producers lose 10-30% of crops during post-harvest storage, processing, and marketing each year to insects. Concurrently, there has been a worldwide increase in resistance to the most common fumigant, phosphine, there ... -
Benefits of Vetch and Rye Cover Crops to Organic Sweet Corn Production
(Kalamazoo, Mich. : Kalamazoo College, 2012)Without chemical fertilizers, organic farmers must utilize alternative methods to provide enough nitrogen (N) for crops to maintain good yields, product quality and profitability. Leguminous cover crops are source of ... -
Biocide-induced Antimicrobial Peptide Resistance in Porphyromonas gingivalis
(Kalamazoo College, 2004)Defensins belong to a class of small, cationic antimicrobial peptides (CAMPs) which have evolved as the primary defense against microbial flora such as Porphyromonas gingivalis, an oral bacteria and major contributor ... -
Biology Department Improvement Forum
(Kalamazoo, Mich. : Kalamazoo College, 2021)The purpose of this poster is to present the results of a survey given to Kalamazoo College students that are involved in the Biology department at K. The goal of this survey was to find a general consensus regarding how ... -
The Birth of Midwifery: United States and Germany Die Geburt der Hebammen Vereinigten Staaten und Deutschland
(Kalamazoo, Mich. : Kalamazoo College, 2021)Beginning in the ancient history, midwifery was a key career and provided independence for women. Industrialization brought birth to the hospita.l Germany brought midwives with, the U.S. did not. The 20 th century saw ... -
The Black Death in Europe
(Kalamazoo, Mich. : Kalamazoo College, 2015)The Disease we now know as the Black Death was one of the most statistically devastating diseases of the past millennuim. In terms of sheer numbers, other diseases, like the Spanish Flu, might surpass it; but when it comes ... -
Body Language: Idiomatic Anatomy
(Kalamazoo, Mich. : Kalamazoo College, 2019)As a student of biology and the visual arts, I have experienced a continuously shifting perspective of the life forms that surround me. Particularly I have been interested in the role anatomy plays in expressing ... -
Broad-Scale Identification of White Matter Proteins and their Differential Expression in CADASIL
(Kalamazoo, Mich. : Kalamazoo College, 2021)This Study: There were two hypotheses for this study: 1) We would identify a novel list of proteins preferentially expressed in the white matter of the brain; 2) we expected to see diminished levels of protein expression ...
