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The History, Memory, And Representation Of The Holocaust: Reflections On A Yearlong Freshman Seminar And Study Trip, Brian Vetruba, Cecily Hibbs, Talia Wazana, Abigail Wippel, Erin Mcglothlin, Anika Walke Nov 2016

The History, Memory, And Representation Of The Holocaust: Reflections On A Yearlong Freshman Seminar And Study Trip, Brian Vetruba, Cecily Hibbs, Talia Wazana, Abigail Wippel, Erin Mcglothlin, Anika Walke

University Libraries Presentations

Presented at the Lessons and Legacies conference on Holocaust Studies in November 2016, these posters document a year-long freshman FOCUS seminar held at Washington University in St. Louis in 2015-2016 that aimed to give incoming college students a sophisticated understanding of the causes, dynamics, representation, and memory of the Nazi genocide. Created and co-taught by Anika Walke and Erin McGlothlin, this intensive academic engagement featured two semesters of coursework focusing on the history and the literary and filmic representation of the Holocaust and a twelve-day trip to Germany, Poland and Lithuania. The group visited important Holocaust-related sites to deepen their …


Social Sustenance: Nurturing Change, Daniel Aguilera Oct 2016

Social Sustenance: Nurturing Change, Daniel Aguilera

2016 Fall Inclusion and Neighborhood Resilience with IISTL

The site’s direct connection to S. Grand Blvd. and the existing building are the fabric on which program, design and intent were concentrated. The building presented for adaptive reuse was originally the South Buick Auto Center, a structure capable of vehicle occupation on each floor, including the roof. The elevated rate of youth crime and the lack of activity space in the community brought about an idea for an alternative to re-incarceration, low employment rates and low educational and economic mobility for those individuals convicted of crimes between the ages of 17-25. Social Sustenance proposes a food truck incubator catered …


The Third Space: Creating A Community Anchor, Suzannah Grasel Oct 2016

The Third Space: Creating A Community Anchor, Suzannah Grasel

2016 Fall Inclusion and Neighborhood Resilience with IISTL

Third Space is a civic space that proposes journalism as a programmatic outlet for the Gravois Park and immigrant communities of St. Louis. Throughout history, journalism has been an invaluable platform and voice for marginalized communities through Foreign Correspondents Clubs [FCC]. FCCs are hubs where journalists, correspondents, diplomats, and citizens convene within the community. In these spaces community and club members can create periodicals, host forums and exhibitions, network with fellow members, learn about topical issues, reference libraries, and generally engage with their community in a meaningful way. Third Space provides these resources concurrently with a digital library to the …


Mountain Climbing Childhood, Xinzhi Pan Oct 2016

Mountain Climbing Childhood, Xinzhi Pan

2016 Fall Inclusion and Neighborhood Resilience with IISTL

The proposal for the reuse of the Donna Brown Building was the result of the analysis of the public space layout on S. Grand Ave. This included an understanding of the qualities of the promenade created in the S. Grand Commercial District through a “street diet”, and the beautification of the streetscape. I was in particular interested in studying parking as it clearly affects walkability and circulation. Through a series of studies in plan and section, I was able to look at the different parking typologies that exist along Grand. It was apparent in this study that as a pedestrian …


Early Beginnings: Inclusive Early Head Start Program, Amanda Malone Oct 2016

Early Beginnings: Inclusive Early Head Start Program, Amanda Malone

2016 Fall Inclusion and Neighborhood Resilience with IISTL

Gravois Park is a unique neighborhood for its density and diversity, yet it is troubled with issues of economic disparity and crime at a rate similar to north St. Louis. Research shows that low income and education lead into crime. Gravois Park confirms this by showing the lowest education levels of degrees attained within the City of St. Louis, along with some of the highest high school dropout rates for the public schools. School readiness, particularly among poor children, may help prevent the cascade of consequences of early academic failure and school behavioral problems. Specifically, the years before a child …


Interactive Education, Savannah Hecker Oct 2016

Interactive Education, Savannah Hecker

2016 Fall Inclusion and Neighborhood Resilience with IISTL

The building was constructed in 1926 as the Southside Automobile Company’s service center. The automotive industry has been an integral part of St. Louis’ history and precedents along Grand Blvd. My intention is to transform the building back to the historic use, bringing the lively nature of the automotive industry back to this area of Grand. The automotive service in St. Louis is still thriving and within the St. Louis area, and I propose a Trade School for Automobile Service. The School will have a service learning so parents and students will be able to work during their training. There …


Trade(In) Space: International Incubator, Lindsley Etienne Oct 2016

Trade(In) Space: International Incubator, Lindsley Etienne

2016 Fall Inclusion and Neighborhood Resilience with IISTL

Immigrants and refugees come into the United States with vast amount of skills and traits, but are not always granted the opportunity to showcase them. The International Business Incubator creates the opportunity for incoming refugees and immigrants to have a space that allows them to startup their own businesses. Incubation is defined as something that develops or produces or hatches. The space proposed is experienced through physical and visual connections that provide the guest with the ability to witness the production. The Incubator provides a series of spaces that our linked to classrooms, where guest can come learn how to …


Inclusion & Neighborhood Resilience: Designing For Equity In Post Industrial Cities, Catalina Freixas Oct 2016

Inclusion & Neighborhood Resilience: Designing For Equity In Post Industrial Cities, Catalina Freixas

Books and Monographs

For this studio, the SFS collaborated with The International Institute of St. Louis in a call for innovative design ideas to re-imagine the former building of the IISTL located at 3654 South Grand Ave. This architectural piece was built in 1930s as a car repair and dealership, with hydraulic elevators that lifted the cars from the repair shop at the lower level to the parking at the rooftop. Later, the building was renovated into doctor’s office space until 1999 when the Institute renovated it for office space use. The studio challenge was to create an iconic adaptive reuse for the …


Admitted: A Novella, David A. Patterson Silver Wolf (Adelv Unegv Waya) Jun 2016

Admitted: A Novella, David A. Patterson Silver Wolf (Adelv Unegv Waya)

Books and Monographs

Daniel becomes the new resident manager of First Step, a center for men with alcoholism or drug addiction. A fictional account of the experiences of the men in treatment and of Daniel as he works at First Step, attends school, and deals with his own addictions.


Publishing Undergraduate Scholarship: Should You Be Afraid?, Emily Stenberg May 2016

Publishing Undergraduate Scholarship: Should You Be Afraid?, Emily Stenberg

University Libraries Presentations

With a growing emphasis on undergraduate engagement in academia, library publishers are discovering that it is vital to negotiate the conflicting directives of publishing, protecting, and promoting undergraduate scholarship. Some faculty are concerned that publishing student work online is harmful to both the student and faculty publishing prospects; while others may make publication a course requirement with little concern about copyright or reputation. Students themselves often have little understanding of privacy and intellectual property. This panel will explore some of the questions and concerns libraries must answer in order to build stronger relationships and successful publishing opportunities for all Emily …


Proposal: Creation Of Bio-Habitat, Zhang Ailing May 2016

Proposal: Creation Of Bio-Habitat, Zhang Ailing

2016 Spring Social Ecologies of Harlem

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Harlem Watershed Neighborhood Landscape Intervention, Mateus Iamarino May 2016

Harlem Watershed Neighborhood Landscape Intervention, Mateus Iamarino

2016 Spring Social Ecologies of Harlem

No abstract provided.


Mapping Intensities, Leilei Wu May 2016

Mapping Intensities, Leilei Wu

2016 Spring Social Ecologies of Harlem

No abstract provided.


Birdscape, Joshua Stevens May 2016

Birdscape, Joshua Stevens

2016 Spring Social Ecologies of Harlem

No abstract provided.


Urban Food Garden / Food Bank, Tianyi Zhang Meo May 2016

Urban Food Garden / Food Bank, Tianyi Zhang Meo

2016 Spring Social Ecologies of Harlem

No abstract provided.


Rainstorm Mosaic Park, 4732 Natural Bridge Ave, Yiran Zhang May 2016

Rainstorm Mosaic Park, 4732 Natural Bridge Ave, Yiran Zhang

2016 Spring Social Ecologies of Harlem

No abstract provided.


Intervention Proposal: Reinvestment In Eugene Tink Bradley Park, Ed Falkowski May 2016

Intervention Proposal: Reinvestment In Eugene Tink Bradley Park, Ed Falkowski

2016 Spring Social Ecologies of Harlem

No abstract provided.


Initial Conditions And Analysis - Accumulation And Subtraction, J.D. Mcclanahan May 2016

Initial Conditions And Analysis - Accumulation And Subtraction, J.D. Mcclanahan

2016 Spring Social Ecologies of Harlem

No abstract provided.


Social Ecologies Of Harlem Studio Board, Guangdi Yao May 2016

Social Ecologies Of Harlem Studio Board, Guangdi Yao

2016 Spring Social Ecologies of Harlem

No abstract provided.


On/Off The Grid: Autocatalytic Ecologies, Rory Thibault May 2016

On/Off The Grid: Autocatalytic Ecologies, Rory Thibault

2016 Spring Social Ecologies of Harlem

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Syllabus: Social Ecologies Of Harlem, Spring 2016, Jacqueline Margetts May 2016

Syllabus: Social Ecologies Of Harlem, Spring 2016, Jacqueline Margetts

2016 Spring Social Ecologies of Harlem

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Point-Of-Sale Report To The Nation: Realizing The Power Of States And Communities To Change The Tobacco Retail And Policy Landscape, Center For Public Health Systems Science, Stephanie Andersen, Rachel Barth, Cheryl Kelly Apr 2016

Point-Of-Sale Report To The Nation: Realizing The Power Of States And Communities To Change The Tobacco Retail And Policy Landscape, Center For Public Health Systems Science, Stephanie Andersen, Rachel Barth, Cheryl Kelly

Center for Public Health Systems Science

Advancing Science and Policy in the Retail Environment (ASPiRE) is funded by the National Cancer Institute's (NCI) State and Community Tobacco Control (SCTC) Research Initiative. ASPiRE is a consortium of researchers from the Center for Public Health Systems Science (CPHSS) as Washington University in St. Louis, the Stanford Prevention Research Center, and the University of North Carolina Gillings School of Global Public Health. In 2011, ASPiRE received a five-year grant from SCTC to conduct research on how to maximize state and local policies to restrict tobacco marketing at the point of sale (POS) and in the broader retail environment. It …


You’Re In Good Company: Developing A Research Conference For Advanced Graduate Students In The Humanities, Brian Vetruba, Daria Carson-Dussan, Melissa Vetter Apr 2016

You’Re In Good Company: Developing A Research Conference For Advanced Graduate Students In The Humanities, Brian Vetruba, Daria Carson-Dussan, Melissa Vetter

University Libraries Presentations

In 2014, librarians at Washington University in St. Louis developed an annual research conference for advanced graduate students in the Humanities. This conference was inspired by the desire to connect to graduate students at the dissertation stage as librarians had observed a gap in librarian-graduate student interactions between the first years of graduate school and when students embark on their own dissertation research. Librarians discovered that graduate students often struggle in isolation with similar research questions as well as project management and dissertation writing; thus, we aptly entitled the conference “You’re in Good Company: A Mini-Conference for Advanced Graduate Students …


Bruma Winery, Alejandro D’Acosta López Jan 2016

Bruma Winery, Alejandro D’Acosta López

Building Case Studies

No abstract provided.


Terra Cotta Studio, Tropical Space Jan 2016

Terra Cotta Studio, Tropical Space

Building Case Studies

the façade is made up of perforated brickwork patterns to allow the building to be open-air while creating spaces within for the artist to store and display work


Chuon Chuon Kim 2 Kindergarten, Yinghua Hua Jan 2016

Chuon Chuon Kim 2 Kindergarten, Yinghua Hua

Building Case Studies

No abstract provided.


Bima Microlibrary, Yinghua Hua Jan 2016

Bima Microlibrary, Yinghua Hua

Building Case Studies

No abstract provided.


Touguinhó Iii House, Yinghua Hua Jan 2016

Touguinhó Iii House, Yinghua Hua

Building Case Studies

No abstract provided.


Gs1 Portugal, Zhuoying Chen Jan 2016

Gs1 Portugal, Zhuoying Chen

Building Case Studies

No abstract provided.


International Baroque Museum, Zhuoying Chen Jan 2016

International Baroque Museum, Zhuoying Chen

Building Case Studies

No abstract provided.