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Pepperoni Roll Studios: A Handbook & Policy Guide For A Podcast And Audio Production Student Organization, Nicholas Kirk Kratsas

Faculty & Staff Scholarship

For Students

Welcome to Pepperoni Roll Studios, WVU’s new and exciting experiential podcast and audio production organization! You’ve made a great decision to join one of the best communities on campus.

This handbook will guide and facilitate our new student-run organization. Within its pages, you’ll find out who we are, what we do and how we do it to fill you in on everything you need to know. Let’s roll!

For Advisors and Staff

WVU Student Media is excited to launch our new podcast and audio production organization, Pepperoni Roll Studio! This venture grew out of a demand for more …

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Mountaineer Undergraduate Research Review

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Analyzing West Virginia’S Public Charter Schools And Their Impacts On Education, Giana M. Loretta

Mountaineer Undergraduate Research Review

West Virginia is consistently ranked as one of the worst states in the nation for public K12 education. Many state policymakers have looked to charter schools as a viable solution to rectify deficiencies, create advanced academic opportunities, and give families additional options. However, the implementation of charter schools has been extremely contentious, as opponents fear they will siphon resources away from traditional public schools, only to fail shortly thereafter. Research indicates that neither perspective has been proven true. Thus, the impact that charter schools will have on West Virginia will, to a significant extent, be a result of how they …

Creating A Safer Lgbtqi+ Refugee Experience In Kakuma Camp, Wren King

Mountaineer Undergraduate Research Review

In December of 2013, Uganda passed the controversial Anti-Homosexuality Bill, which broadly criminalized same-sex relationships and supported the livelihoods of individuals in same-sex relationships, permitting sentences of life in prison for some sex acts. Ugandans fled the country to protect their safety. Many came to Kenya, a large majority coming to Kakuma Camp in the northwestern part of the country. At least 400 LGBTQI+ Ugandans arrived in the country between January 2014 and February 2015. Their resettlement was initially expedited and comparatively generous resources were made available to them. However, by the end of 2014, UNHCR and its partner organizations …

Creative Arts Spotlights, Elizabeth Boccabello

Mountaineer Undergraduate Research Review

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Creative Arts Spotlights, Emily Lehr, Anna Dunham

Mountaineer Undergraduate Research Review

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Incorporating Social Determinants Of Health In Clinical Assessments: An Immunological Perspective For Medical Students, Matthew S. Hudson

Mountaineer Undergraduate Research Review

Food insecurity is characterized by limited access to food and is common in food deserts; food deserts are geographic areas lacking affordable, fresh food due to a lack of grocery stores within reasonable proximity. Together, such economic and social problems can hinder a patient’s ability to make lifestyle modifications, leading to obesity and related health complications. Obesity is also highly correlated with chronic inflammation via pro-inflammatory cytokines (TNF, IL-1, and IL-6). Chronic inflammation can lead to dysregulated immune responses and predispose one to other biomedical conditions, such as cardiovascular disease. The literature maintains that environmental stressors and foods low in …

Student Organization Spotlights

Mountaineer Undergraduate Research Review

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The Psychology Of Contagion: Representations Of Historic Pandemics In Gothic Literature, Cassi Smith

Mountaineer Undergraduate Research Review

This essay asserts that gothic pandemic literature is a vital source for recording a history of collective traumas and psychological responses to events of mass contagion. I will first discuss the close historical relationship between the gothic genre and early medicine to convey that the entwining of the scientific and supernatural allows gothic literature to express mass hysteria and abstract fear tangibly. Then, I analyze the work of Daniel Defoe, Edgar Allan Poe, and Carmen Maria Machado, using them as representatives of three distinct historical eras of pandemics. I consider each author’s merging of their respective medical realities with the …

Understanding The Importance Of Birth Rituals In The Aztec And Surrounding Empires, Riley Klug

Mountaineer Undergraduate Research Review

Within my paper this semester, I hope to analyze a number of Aztec birth images within the codices and other sculptural sources. I would like to analyze the different goddesses relating to childbirth, fertility, midwives, and sex for their associations with pre-birth and after-birth ritual in Aztec culture. Taking information directly from the Florentine Codex and supplementing it with a number of scholarly sources, I will visually analyze the depictions of these goddesses and their associations with birth culture, as well as the childbearing process and its connected ceremonies. The questions I would most like to answer are who were …

Love In Plato's Symposium As A Technique Of Self, Aidan T. Connors

Mountaineer Undergraduate Research Review

Plato's Symposium is widely regarded as among the most influential of Plato's dialogues. The Symposium's primary goal is to provide an adequate definition of love and its overall place within the philosophical inquiry. Each of Plato's interlocutors offers a unique account of love, what it might be, and more especially, how one ought to behave in relation to love. This paper will use the insights of Michel Foucault, a 20th-century French philosopher known for critiquing our present-day cultural practices through a reading of the history of thought, in order to shed some light on how love in the Symposium can …

Connecting In A Virtual World: Lessons From A Geography Classroom, Annaka Exley, Julia Lopez, Kyle Roberts, Dylan Upperman, A'Ngelay Walter

Mountaineer Undergraduate Research Review

Since its conception in the 1960s, Geographic Information Systems or Science (GIS) has revolutionized how people make maps and utilize geospatial information. GIS, a tool typically used in quantitative applications, has vastly expanded mapping and computing capabilities and undoubtedly transformed the field of geography. In addition to its technical origins, GIS has more recently been explored as a social or cultural tool to share stories and collect qualitative data. In the Fall of 2021, the authors of this paper explored this emerging facet of GIS through a cultural geography course offered at West Virginia University. We, a group of university …

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Mountaineer Undergraduate Research Review

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Opening Regards, Wvu Pre-Health Professional Development Office

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Opening Regards, Maryanne Reed

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Land Acknowledgement

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Front Matter

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Full Issue

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Sports Team Success And Managerial Decisions: The Role Of Playing Time Concentration, Alexander Cardazzi, Brad R. Humphreys, Kole Reddig

Economics Faculty Working Papers Series

Professional sports teams employ highly paid managers and coaches to train players and make tactical and strategic team decisions. A large literature analyzes the impact of manager decisions on team outcomes. Empirical analysis of manager decisions requires a quantifiable proxy variable for manager decisions. Previous research focused on manager dismissals, tenure on teams, the number of substitutions made in games, or the number of healthy players on rosters held out of games for rest, generally finding small positive impacts of manager decisions on team success. We analyze manager decisions by developing a novel measure of game-specific coach decisions based on …

Duncan Alford, Setting The Bar For Collegiality And Professionalism, Caroline L. Osborne

Law Faculty Scholarship

Duncan E. Alford (1963 – 2023), lawyer, librarian, scholar, colleague. This essay documents the significant contributions our colleague, Duncan E. Alford, University of South Carolina School of Law made to his profession. Professor Alford’s is remembered for his significant contributions.

New Business Opportunities And Enhanced Resilience Resulting From Covid-19, Heather M. Stephens, Zachary T. Keeler, Mark D. Partridge

Regional Research Institute Working Papers

The abrupt onset of Covid-19 disrupted the US and global economy. After the initial shock, the US saw persistently large increases in new-business applications, reversing a downward trend since the late 1970s. Since new and small businesses create more net jobs and provide more economic benefits to communities, understanding factors associated with their creation is important in crafting greater regional-economic resilience and long-term economic growth. Since the size of this change varies geographically, a good question is whether startups were created out of necessity due to job losses and other difficulties, or to exploit potential new opportunities formed in the …

Does Title Vii Prohibit Discrimination In Employment-Transfer Decisions Only If They Cause Materially Significant Disadvantages For Employees?, Anne Marie Lofaso

Law Faculty Scholarship

Case at a Glance: Petitioner Jatonya Clayborn Muldrow, a sergeant for the St. Louis Police Department, was transferred to another unit within the department. Muldrow sued the City of St. Louis for making a discriminatory transfer decision in alleged violation of Title VII. This case presents the question of whether Title VII prohibits discriminatory transfer decisions absent a separate court determination that the decision caused Muldrow materially significant disadvantages.

The Growth Of Firms, Markets And Rents: Evidence From China, Daniel Berkowitz, Shuichiro Nishioka

Economics Faculty Working Papers Series

The evidence for whether China become more competitive following its accession to the World Trade Organization (WTO) is mixed. Using recent methods for estimating markups and profit shares, this paper documents that Chinese manufacturing firms on average collected more rents after the accession because the rate of net entry of firms lagged the rapid growth of the domestic market. While the selection on large productive firms drove the rise in the aggregate markups in the United States (De Loecker et al, 2020), these competitive forces played a secondary role in China.

West Virginia Law Scholar, Fall 2023, Wvu College Of Law Library

West Virginia Law Scholar

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Measuring Persistent Global Economic Factors With Output, Commodity Price, And Commodity Currency Data, Arabinda Basistha, Richard Startz

Economics Faculty Working Papers Series

In this study we use monthly G7 industrial production data, commodity price index data, and commodity currency exchange rate data in a dynamic factor model to examine the global economic factors useful for commodity price prediction. We differentiate between the dynamic factors by specifying a persistent factor and a non-persistent factor, both as a single global factor using all data and as factors for each category of data. The in-sample predictive performances of the three persistent factors together are better than the non-persistent factors and the single global factors. Out-of-sample outcomes based on forecast combinations also support the presence of …

Hacking The Library Exhibition Panels, Sally Brown, Jackie Andrews, Matthew Conboy, Ruth Yang, Trudy Trudy Borenstein- Sugiura, Shan Cawley, Chantel Foretich, Xue'er Gao, Ryan Lewis, Robin Miller, Imari Nacht, Chris Revelle, Erin Tapley

Faculty & Staff Scholarship

The hacker ethos in the positive sense is about the ability to deconstruct and reconstruct information systems. Hacking starts with reconceptualizing libraries. Libraries are now beyond the book. As libraries evolve into a new sort of space --still a space for research, learning and study-- but also for community engagement and collaboration, library exhibits present a unique opportunity for both collaborating exhibitors and library users. Artists engage with libraries creatively through artist residencies, installations, using discarded library materials in their work, collaborative workshops, digital collections remixing, performances and more. Hacking the Library will present artwork that highlights the intersecting values …

Banned Books: A History Of Censorship, Sally Brown, Caroline Blumish

Graduate Student Scholarship

Caroline Blumish, a WVU Professional Writing graduate (2023), curated this exhibit on the history of banned books in the United States. The exhibit explores the pervasive practice of literary censorship, emphasizing its attempts to silence voices, perspectives, and records of historic events. Blumish's showcase delves into the evolution of censorship, from early suppression efforts to contemporary challenges, urging viewers to contemplate the delicate balance between societal values and the fundamental principles of free speech. The exhibit highlights the resilience of writers and encourages critical discussions on the broader implications of stifling diverse voices in a democratic society.

Chantel Foretich Panel, Chantel Foretich

Hacking the Library

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Chris Revelle Panel, Chris Revelle

Hacking the Library

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Ryan Lewis Panel, Ryan Lewis

Hacking the Library

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