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Oregon Undergraduate Research Journal: Recent submissions

  • Cover Art—“Hope” 
    Salter, Sophia (University of Oregon, 2021-01)
    This piece is the last in my series that explores how people respond to grief and trauma. The two people holding hands represent the hope and healing that come after the acceptance of a traumatic experience and the need ...
  • Massacre or Genocide? Redefining the Sook Ching 
    Singsank, Lauralei (University of Oregon, 2020-08)
    Sook Ching is a Chinese term meaning “purge through cleansing.” Operation Sook Ching took place in Singapore from February 21 to March 4, 1942. It was a military operation carried out by the Japanese with the intent of ...
  • From Nimble NIMBY to Palpable PIMBY: Anti-Blackness in George Deukmejian’s California Prison Boom 
    Hollenbeck, Jakob (University of Oregon, 2020-08)
    When California Governor George Deukmejian assumed office in 1983, the state had not added to its twelve prisons in eighteen years. During his two terms, Deukmejian oversaw the construction of eight prisons — a 67% ...
  • Miłosz the Visionary: His American experience in Visions from San Francisco Bay 
    Grudzien, Ania (University of Oregon, 2020-08)
    Nobel Prize winner Czesław Miłosz is one of the most influential poets, prosiest, philosophers, and diplomats, his works spanning two centuries and multiple continents. Born in 1911, in what is now modern-day Lithuania, ...
  • Mating Affects Lifespan Differently in Two Strains of Pseudo-female Caenorhabditis elegans 
    Lancaster, Ruben (University of Oregon, 2020-08)
    Mating is vital for sexually reproducing species, yet the ideal mating strategy for males and females can differ. The ensuing conflict between the sexes – namely, sexual conflict – results in a decrease in population level ...
  • Constructions of Identity and War: A Reciprocal Relationship in Former Yugoslavia 
    Ginieczki, Taylor (University of Oregon, 2020-08)
    This article investigates the reciprocal relationship between identity and conflict, focusing the inquiry on the violent dissolution of Yugoslavia and the resulting Yugoslav Wars of the 1990s. A brief history of nationalist ...
  • The Effect of Emotion on Associative Memory: Anger Versus Fear 
    Adler, Melissa (University of Oregon, 2020-08)
    Studies show that emotion enhances memory for individual items but weakens memory for associations between items (Bisby & Burgess, 2014). One explanation for this associative memory impairment is that emotional stimuli ...
  • Meet the Editorial Board 
    Unknown author (University of Oregon, 2020-08)
    Editorial board for Volume 17 Issue 1 Spring 2020 of Oregon Undergraduate Research Journal
  • Guest Editorial—“Green Open Access is ‘Just’ Publishing” 
    Condon, David M (University of Oregon, 2020-08)
    A shared experience among many graduate students is the dawning realization that the vaunted privilege of having one's scholarly work accepted for publication is also a fleecing. The exact terms of this fleecing depend on ...
  • Letter from the Editor 
    Chambrose, Starla (University of Oregon, 2020-08)
    It would be an understatement, I think, to say that the last few months have been an unexpected challenge. From the COVID-19 pandemic to the racial injustice sparking civil unrest across the country, the headlines that ...
  • Cover Art—“Moonrise, Eugene, Oregon” 
    Kalman, Audrey (University of Oregon, 2020-08)
    Hayward Field is the quintessential setting for track and field, and the new Hayward Field will be central to the sport moving forward. This embodiment of progress is analogous to the undergraduate research conducted at ...
  • Negotiating Freedoms: Women Experience Homelessness in Eugene, OR 
    Fox, Violet (University of Oregon, 2020-01)
    This research includes a literature review, historical background and policy overview, as well as three interviews with women experiencing homelessness, and two interviews with shelter staff in Eugene, Oregon. The purpose ...
  • Behavioral and Neural Predictors of Individual Differences in Concept Generalization 
    Iwashita, Takako (University of Oregon, 2020-01)
    Concept learning involves linking related pieces of information to a shared label, such as learning that furry creatures that bark are called “dogs.” People vary in how well they learn concepts and apply them to new ...
  • Technology and Scientific Authority in United States Abortion Policy: Concerns Over a Mechanistic Approach and a Better Way Forward 
    Wilms-Crowe, Momo (University of Oregon, 2020-01)
    Building on the pragmatist philosophical tradition and work done by scholars in the field of feminist technological studies, this paper considers abortion as a case study to examine how science and technology interact with ...
  • Caliban Yisrael: Constructing Caliban as the Jewish Other in Shakespeare’s The Tempest 
    Rolnick-Wihtol, DeForest Ariyel (University of Oregon, 2020-01)
    This paper seeks to introduce new data into the discussion of William Shakespeare’s portrayal of Jewish people through intertextual and close reading of Shakespeare’s The Tempest and The Merchant of Venice, sections from ...
  • Meet the Editorial Board 
    Unknown author (University of Oregon, 2020-01)
    Editorial board for Volume 16 Issue 1 Winter 2020 of Oregon Undergraduate Research Journal
  • Art Feature—“Orange Cup Coral (Balanophyllia elegans)” 
    Hopkins, Lincoln (University of Oregon, 2020-01)
    This is a photo of a member of the species Orange Cup Coral (Balanophyllia elegans) taken underneath a dissection scope at the Oregon Institute of Marine Biology—one of the University of Oregon’s satellite campuses. The ...
  • Guest Editorial—“Celebrating a Decade of UO Undergraduate Research” 
    Hatfield, Kevin D (University of Oregon, 2020-01)
    In 2010 student leaders began advocating for three initiatives to support undergraduate research and creative work— an annual conference, a student-edited journal, and a dedicated office. They approached Karen Sprague, ...
  • Letter from the Editor 
    Chambrose, Starla (University of Oregon, 2020-01)
    OURJ is just one of the many platforms on campus that seek to broadcast undergraduates’ research achievements. I would be remiss to neglect mentioning the Undergraduate Research Symposium (URS), which celebrates its tenth ...
  • Cover Art—“The Woman” 
    Hollowgrass, Clara (University of Oregon, 2020-01)
    This piece is part of a series I did which focuses on the refinement found in a face. The medium is scratchboard, which I made myself from wood and black and white paint, and I used an old, empty fountain pen as my carving ...

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