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This collection contains work awarded a Student Research Excellence Award by the WSU Vancouver Library. Yearly awards are provided to students who demonstrate excellence in undergraduate research that demonstrates significant inquiry and savvy use of library resources.
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Maximizing Costs to Prevent Antibiotic Resistance Evolution
(2019-04)The increasing prevalence of antibiotic resistance among bacteria continues to threaten current and future human health. One possible strategy for managing antibiotic resistant bacteria may be to prevent the evolution of ... -
Grand Challenge: Childhood Pneumonia Mortality in Nigeria
(2016-04)As the current deadliest childhood disease worldwide, childhood pneumonia is a critical public health grand challenge. Pneumonia causes more deaths of children under five years of age than any other infectious disease ... -
Railroaded: Race Relations in Twentieth-Century Oregon
(2015-04)Between the Great Depression and the end of World War II, two black railroad employees were convicted of murder in Oregon. Two violent murders; one linked to money and one to illicit sexual relations. Both deaths occurred ... -
The Theory of Planned Behavior and College Student's Attitudes and Barriers to Cooking
(2014-04)There is a strong connection between poor diet and negative health. Fast-food consumption increases in young adulthood, while consumption of healthier foods like fruit and vegetables is low. Cooking is linked to greater ... -
Lascivious Pilgrims: Sexuality and Sexual Laws in the British Puritan New England Colonies During the Seventeenth-Century
(2012-12)Modern audiences often see the Puritan religion and early American colonial culture as rigid and traditional, the beliefs of which were satirically summed up by H. L. Mencken as "the haunting fear that someone, somewhere ... -
Social Interactions in the Short-tailed Fruit Bat (Carollia perspicillata): Wing-boxing Behavior and Screech Vocalizations
(2010-04)Short-tailed fruit bats (Carollia perspicillata), a species of neotropical frugivorous bats native to the humid jungles of Centra and South America, is an excellent model for the study of social communication (Cloutier & ...