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Kalama-Africa Constitution
(Kalamazoo College, 2018)A constitution for the Kalama-Africa student organization which includes information on the mission, membership, executive board, and statements about non-discrimination and confidentiality. -
Afro Fiesta Desi Soul program 2017
(Kalamazoo College, 2017)Program of student organization descriptions for AFDS night 2017 -
Afro Fiesta Desi Soul Flyer 2014
(Kalamazoo College, 2014-02)Flyer advertising AFDS event for winter quarter 2014 -
Kalamazoo College Student Voter Turnout and How to Increase Student Political Engagement
(2022-03-01)This research project investigates the best way for Kalamazoo College to increase its student voter turnout rate. Kalamazoo College students voted at their highest levels in the 2018 Midterm and 2020 Presidential Elections ... -
“Coils, Garden Guerrillas, and Purple Space Suits” : Recentering Black Stories and Knowledge Through Community Gardening for the Future of Humanity
(2022-03-01)The author uses essays, short stories, and poetry to reflect on food justice, black communities, and the future. Section one is anchored to the science fiction essay: “Community Gardens meet ZORA zr7.” The poems and short ... -
Art as We Know It
(2022-03-01)In an original video documentary, three student artists share their creative process and reflect on the art school experience during the Covid-19 Pandemic. Kalamazoo College performance artist Rebecca Chan, Western Michigan ... -
Kaleidoscope/QTPOCC flyer
(Kalamazoo College, 2019)Flyer giving details about both Kaleidoscope and QTPOCC student groups -
Perceived Weight’s Role on Friendship Selection as Mediated by Weight Self-Relevance, Body Satisfaction, and Internalized Weight Bias
(2020-03-01)Given that it is known that individuals in a friendship cliques tend to be of similar BMIs (Bruening et al., 2015; Fletcher, Bonell, & Sorhaindo, 2011), the present study investigates potential explanations as for why. ... -
Trauma-Focused Cognitive Behavioral Therapy : A Review Integrating the Theoretical Components with the Scientific Research
(2022-03-01)Trauma-Focused Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (TF-CBT) is a widely studied treatment intervention for children who are victims of sexual abuse and who exhibit symptoms of post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD). TF-CBT utilizes ... -
Title IX & Access to Menstrual Hygiene Products
(2021-11-01)This summer was spent researching and gaining new knowledge surrounding the topic of Title IX and equal access to hygiene products for menstruating individuals. Once a week I met with Dr. Boatwright and a few peers over ... -
Living, Seeing, and Growing in Oaxaca, Mexico
(2021-11-01)The author originally planned to volunteer for 50 hours as a teaching assistant in a local elementary school in Oaxaca, Mexico, when the school closed due to Covid-19. The SIP became four photo essays applying the concepts ... -
Summer at the ‘Sherm : Reflections on a Summer at Sherman Lake YMCA
(2021-11-01)What kinds of challenges do summer camp counselors face on a daily basis? Can individuals with disabilities successfully work at camp with campers without disabilities? Can students of psychology benefit from working at ... -
Speech Language Pathology : A Career Exploration
(2021-11-01)The proceeding work is a website containing a collection of various online sources regarding the career exploration of Speech Language Pathology. The intended audience is that of Kalamazoo College Psychology majors who ... -
A Collection of Children’s Books to Aid in Speech Therapy
(2021-11-01)The goal for this project was to create a series of children’s books that helped speech and language therapy and had more representation of minorities. With the help of my sister, who was in her last semester of graduate ... -
Support Group for Women and Non-men on Mackinac Island
(2021-11-01)In this experiential SIP, I created a support group for women and non-men in my rural hometown. To start a support group, I had to secure a meeting space, advertise, provide refreshments, keep a journal, and, most importantly, ... -
Using Desensitization Programs to Promote Dental Exam Compliance in Older Adults with Dementia: A Proposed Study
(2021-11-01)With the growing population of Americans aged 65 and older, there will be many more Americans living with Dementia and other age-related cognitive impairments. As a result of the behavioral and psychological symptoms of ... -
Adolescent Perpetrated Intentional School Shootings: Discovering the Characteristics that Influence Media Exposure
(2021-11-01)Although gun violence in schools is rare, the severity and frequency of these crimes has been increasing in the last few years. As waves of these violent shootings shake the United States, news outlets bombard the population ... -
Still-Face Interactions with Household Dogs: Assessing Dogs’ Attention to Their Owner
(2021-11-01)Research shows that dogs attend to humans’ attention in the sense of what object the human points to in laboratory situations that scaffold dogs' attention to humans’ pointing. We suspected that dogs attend to humans’ ... -
How Profanity and Taboo Gesture Increase Pain Tolerance
(2021-11-01)Swearing increases pain tolerance possibly because of its connection to aggression. However little research has explored if taboo gestures produce a similar effect. We hypothesized that the middle finger and “fuck” would ... -
Limitations of Mediated-Interference and Potentiation When Pairing Neutral Flavor Cues
(2022-03-01)Mediated conditioning is the phenomenon in which the elicited representation of a stimulus can modify conditioning even in the absence of the stimulus itself. This occurs when the representation of this stimulus is elicited ...