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Beyond The Numbers: Supporting Young Adults With Diabetes In The Transition To Adulthood, Alexis Salkovick

Honors Projects

This project focuses on the transition to adulthood for young people with diabetes, a chronic medical condition. Both Type 1 and Type 2 diabetes are included. The main research focus is two-part: first examining this transition including barriers to health care, changes in lifestyle, and mental health, and then creating a new, innovative tool to support young adults with diabetes. An independent literature review was conducted to investigate diabetes management, barriers to health care, how transitioning to adulthood impacts diabetes care, and the importance of patient support systems. Then, a board game was developed with the dual purpose of educating …

Analyzing 24-Hour Diet Recalls To Assess Dietary Changes Among Children Who Complete Oral Food Challenges (Ofcs), Hannah Plank, Wan Shen, Heesoon Lee

Honors Projects

Pediatric food allergies are a growing public health concern in America due to their potential association with long-term nutritional impacts and reduced quality of life in those affected. Oral food challenges (OFCs) are considered the gold standard for clinical food allergy diagnosis, but few studies have examined if passing or failing an OFC affects overall diet quality in infants. This clinical observational study examined differences in diet quality, measured by the Healthy Eating Index (HEI), among 39 children aged 0–6 years who participated in OFCs at ProMedica Allergy and Immunology Clinic in Perrysburg, Ohio. Parents and caregivers reported daily dietary …

Provost Presents Faculty Research Series: "Improving Equity Through Fiscal Policy: Dashed Dreams", Marc Fudge

CSUSB Sound and video recordings

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Nasa, Japan, And The Commercial Space Industry, William D. Haddock, Anonymous

Student Contributions

This policy brief analyzes China’s growing competition with the United States in the commercial space sector. China’s state-owned enterprises are expanding their influence in space development, challenging U.S. leadership. The brief proposes reforming NASA’s acquisition and bidding policies while strengthening U.S.-Japan cooperation to enhance joint space capabilities and preserve strategic influence.

How Should The U.S.-Japan Alliance Define Armed-Attack Thresholds To Effectively Respond To Gray Zone Threats In The Space Domain?, Michael O. Reedy, Michael L. Mclawhorn, Keelan Brenninkmeijer, Alexander B. Ross

Student Contributions

This policy brief outlines the need for a cohesive U.S.-Japan response framework to address gray-zone threats in the space domain. Interference with space assets is increasing in frequency and complexity, yet the alliance lacks a clearly defined joint escalation framework to guide responses. The brief recommends adopting a Space Conditions Matrix to identify conflict thresholds and strengthen coordinated decision-making in space operations.

Satellite Resiliency Against Nuclear Detonation In Space, Brianna Johnson, Samantha Harper, Tyler D. Thompson

Student Contributions

This policy brief examines weaknesses and ambiguities in the 1967 Outer Space Treaty regarding nuclear and other weapons of mass destruction in space. Following Russia’s 2024 veto of a UN Security Council resolution proposed by Japan and the United States, concerns over the deployment of nuclear weapons in space have intensified. The brief proposes technical standards for cost-effective resiliency testing and satellite hardening as part of bilateral U.S.-Japan measures to strengthen resilience against nuclear detonations.

Ai Readiness, Skill Gaps, And The Future Of Marketing, Trey Thomas, Angela Galaviz, Amanda Evert, Mihaela Roxana Ifrim

Student Research

This presentation explores how artificial intelligence is changing workforce readiness in marketing. It focuses on the growing gap between employer expectations and student preparation, showing how AI driven marketing now requires stronger analytical thinking, practical digital skills, and ethical decision making. The research also examines how learner feedback can help evaluate AI supported education and how responsible AI use affects trust, privacy, and long term marketing success. Overall, the project argues that future marketing readiness depends on practical, inclusive, and ethically grounded AI skill development.

Endowmentball, Doron Narotzki

Northwestern Journal of Law & Social Policy

This Article presents a policy and a structural response to a national capacity failure in American higher education: the concentration of endowment wealth in a handful of elite institutions, while most colleges, those that educate the majority of Americans, including most low-income, first-generation, and underrepresented students, operate under permanent financial constraint, and remain drastically underfunded. This imbalance carries a profound social cost. It weakens equity, limits inclusion, and undermines the promise of upward mobility that higher education is supposed to deliver.

The proposed framework introduces a progressive excise tax on endowment investment returns, scaled by per-student wealth. Universities with excessive …

The Freedom To Be Bound: Anti-Discrimination Theology And The Ministerial Exception, Brooke Girley

Northwestern Journal of Law & Social Policy

The ministerial exception is generally seen as safeguarding the autonomy of religious institutions in employment decisions, but does it also serve as a roadblock to religious freedom? The recent dismissal of the gender discrimination lawsuit by Rev. Dr. Eboni Marshall Turman against the historic Abyssinian Baptist Church calls into question whether the breadth of the exception promotes religious freedom in all contexts. This article argues that the ministerial exception, although designed to protect religious autonomy, may paradoxically undermine that very autonomy when applied to faith communities, like Abyssinian, that have voluntarily embraced anti-discrimination as part of their theology and praxis. …

Teacher, Mentor, Scholar, Friend: A Tribute To Professor Len Rubinowitz, Cynthia Wilson

Northwestern Journal of Law & Social Policy

No abstract provided.

Frozen Identity: How Rigid Conceptions Of Sexuality Endanger Lesbian Asylum Claims, Mariajose De La Hoz

Northwestern Journal of Law & Social Policy

Bias, stereotypes, and antiquated conceptions of sexual orientation erect systemic barriers for lesbian women seeking asylum in the United States. Decision-makers with a limited understanding of LGBTQI+ identities impose expectations that reinforce stereotypes while discrediting applicants’ lived experiences. This results in adverse credibility determinations that distort evidentiary burdens and deny relief to applicants with legitimate claims. This Note examines how fixed conceptions of identity endanger the asylum process for lesbian women fleeing persecution based on their sexual orientation. Proposed solutions include statutory reforms, updated training for asylum officers, and a shift toward evaluating claims through the applicant’s lived experiences rather …

“As Though You Could Never Sink”: Gender Euphoria Through Aquatic Embodiment In The Sun Also Rises, Devan Edwards

Honors Theses

Recent scholarship in disability studies and queer theory (2007-2024) reveals that Jake Barnes's war wound in Hemingway's The Sun Also Rises functions as something more complex than tragic loss. This paper argues that Jake's swimming and fishing scenes constitute moments of gender euphoria, a term borrowed from contemporary transgender studies, enabled specifically by aquatic embodiment. In these scenes, water functions as the physical and symbolic medium through which Jake's war-wounded body transcends the performative demands of 1920s heteronormative masculinity. Building on Michael Anesko's provocative reading of Jake as "accidentally transgendered" (Literature and Medicine, 2015) and Martina Kübler's argument that impotence …

The Boys From Syracuse, Richard Rodgers, Lorenz Hart, George Abbott

Taylor Theatre Playbills

The playbill for Taylor University's performance of The Boys from Syracuse with music by Richard Rodgers, lyrics by Lorenz Hart, and the book by George Abbott.

Performed April 23-26, 2026 in the Mitchell Theatre at Taylor University.

The Boys from Syracuse by Rodgers and Hart is based on the play The Comedy of Errors by William Shakespeare, likely written in the late 16th century. As is common for many Shakespearean plays, he adapted an older story, Plautus' Menaechmi, into his classic farce about two sets of twins, separated by a tragic sea accident, who find each other after many …

Executive And Audit Committee Minutes, Clemson University Board Of Trustees, Minutes 2026 April 23, Clemson University Board Of Trustees, Clemson University Board Of Trustees

Minutes

No abstract provided.

Jtc 26: The Journey Of Risk To Reward, Grace Landry

University of Mississippi News

This story is part of the 2026 Journey to Commencement series, which celebrates the pinnacle of the academic year by highlighting University of Mississippi students and their outstanding academic and personal journeys from college student to college graduate.

Modulating Acute Stress Reactivity: Behavioral Interventions And Caffeine-Linked Stress Physiology In College Students, Kaitlyn Smith

Honors Theses

College students frequently rely on caffeine to manage academic demands, yet its physiological and psychological effects on acute stress remain poorly understood. Although caffeine is known to increase cardiovascular arousal and self‑reported anxiety, little research has compared different caffeine sources within the same individuals or examined whether brief behavioral interventions can buffer these effects. Self‑affirmation, a short writing exercise centered on personal values, has been shown to reduce stress reactivity, but its interaction with caffeine‑induced arousal has not been tested. This within‑subjects study examines how coffee, energy drinks, and a no‑caffeine control influence acute cardiovascular and self‑reported stress responses, and …

Professional Commitment As A Mediator Between Proqol, Resilience And Turnover Among Filipino Nurses, Ejay H. Ignacio

Creating Healthy Work Environments (CHWE)

The current global nursing shortage is a significant issue with substantial implications for nursing practice. Increased nurse turnover will yield five percent of the total annual hospital operating costs, estimated to be around 5 trillion dollars annually, due to the cost of hiring and training new nursing staff. In the United States, Filipino immigrant nurses play an integral part in the healthcare systems to patch the critical staffing gaps. The changing landscape of healthcare system delivery in the US, threatens Filipino nurses to stay at their current jobs. This study aimed to explore the mediating effects of professional commitment in …

Baby-Friendly Hospital Initiative Movement In Healthcare Settings: What Are The Practical Solutions?, Shela Hirani

Creating Healthy Work Environments (CHWE)

Introduction: Implementation of the Baby-Friendly Hospital Initiative (BFHI) in all healthcare facilities is valuable to protect, promote and support breastfeeding and the well-being of young children. Besides prioritizing patient care, the BFHI movement in healthcare settings supports well-being, job satisfaction and productivity of healthcare providers working in those workplaces. Saskatchewan, Canada, has 70 healthcare settings, out of which only one healthcare facility implements the WHO’s ‘Ten steps to successful breastfeeding’ and has a BFHI accreditation. This preliminary study aimed at exploring facilitators and barriers surrounding the successful implementation of BFHI in healthcare settings of Saskatchewan and identifying practical solutions and …

Institutional Timidity: Reading Len Rubinowitz Toward A Structural Theory Of Civil Rights Enforcement, Sheldon Bernard Lyke

Northwestern Journal of Law & Social Policy

This Article first documents institutional timidity in fair housing enforcement through Rubinowitz’s empirical account of HUD and then extends the analysis to higher education admissions. It shows that universities defending affirmative action uniformly adopted the diversity rationale while declining to argue that race-conscious admissions correct for bias embedded in their own criteria. These choices did not merely weaken outcomes; they also helped produce the doctrinal frameworks that later constrained them. In identifying institutional timidity as a mechanism of doctrinal production, this Article extends Rubinowitz’s insights across domains and into constitutional law. It concludes by proposing strategies that shift civil rights …

On Belonging: A Tribute To Professor Len Rubinowitz, Shobha Mahadev

Northwestern Journal of Law & Social Policy

No abstract provided.

A Tribute To Len And The Len Way, Monica Llorente

Northwestern Journal of Law & Social Policy

No abstract provided.

A Tribute To Professor Leonard S. Rubinowitz: “Just Call Me Len”, Merkys I. Gómez

Northwestern Journal of Law & Social Policy

No abstract provided.

“Downstream People:” Lessons From The Tar Creek Superfund Site And Quapaw Nation In Pursuit Of An Environmental Justice-Informed Cercla Regime, Leah Fitter

Northwestern Journal of Law & Social Policy

In 1983, the United States Environmental Protection Agency (“EPA”) designated Tar Creek, a former productive zinc and lead mining zone located in northeastern Oklahoma on land predominantly owned by the Indigenous Quapaw people, as a Superfund site. Its designation came in the wake of findings in 1980 that drainage and tailings from the site’s mining days had polluted the zone’s surface water into some of the most toxic water in the country. Tar Creek was an environmental justice disaster that disproportionately exposed the historically marginalized Quapaw Nation to hazardous mining waste and resulted in detrimental health impacts. Despite numerous demonstrations …

Restrain, Seclude, Repeat: Seeking Solutions To End The Troubled Teen Industry’S Cycle Of Harm, Elizabeth James

Northwestern Journal of Law & Social Policy

Although there is a consensus that children receiving mental health treatment in youth residential programs should only be restrained and secluded in emergency situations, youth residential program staff routinely restrain and seclude children in non-emergency situations, causing significant physical and psychological harm to the child and, on occasion, leading to the child’s death. Current federal and state laws do not adequately regulate this practice, nor correct a business model that wrongly prioritizes profits over a child’s well-being, but private action through 42 U.S.C. § 1983 may provide a powerful remedy to victims of the troubled teen industry and the necessary …

Dedication To Professor Len Rubinowitz Upon His Retirement

Northwestern Journal of Law & Social Policy

No abstract provided.

The Double-Edged Rhetoric Of Parental Rights: Conflicts Between Freedom And Control In Cases Concerning Transgender Youth, Susan Etta Keller

Northwestern Journal of Law & Social Policy

This Article examines the rhetorical structures courts and advocates deploy in two distinct lines of cases adjudicating parental rights claims affecting transgender youth: cases challenging state bans on gender-affirming care, and cases challenging school policies supportive of transgender students. Although the legal basis for the parental rights claims in each set of cases is the same—substantive due process rights under the Fourteenth Amendment—the alignment of parental interests with those of their children diverges between the two sets. In the gender-affirming care cases, parents act in concert with their children’s expressed interests; in the school policy cases, parents seek to override …

Rationale Behind Subtitle Usage In Non-Deaf Individuals Across Various Platforms, Jenna E. Kasselman

Honors Theses

Subtitles have a long history with the medium of audiovisual communication. Options for viewing media with added text have only increased with technology, and in the age of the internet, more accessible material is available than ever before. While numerous studies have been conducted on the beneficial effects of subtitles for both the deaf and the hearing, little academic publication has been done on the rates of subtitle usage, reasons for usage, and how that usage differs based on what media is being viewed. The current study examines subtitle usage, frequency of subtitle usage, and reasoning for that usage divided …

The Indiana Statesman, April 23, 2026, Indiana State University

Student Newspaper

Recipients announced for 2026 Faculty Awards; Dr. Melinda Roberts, Dean of the College of Arts and Sciences, will be moving to California State University

The Cuban Spectacular: Do You Know What It Means To Be In New Orleans?, Department Of Music, University Of Richmond

Music Department Concert Programs

No abstract provided.

Corrigendum To "Reflective Thinking And Its Relationship With The Performance Of Selected Offensive Basketball Skills Among University Students'' [Modern Sport 2026; 25(1):102–111], Rawaa Jawad Kadhim, Intisar Owaid Ali

Modern Sport

Corrigendum to "Reflective Thinking and its Relationship with the Performance of Selected Offensive Basketball Skills Among University Students'' [Modern Sport 2026; 25(1):102–111]

Reason for Correction: Following a careful review of the authorship contributions, the authors request the addition of Dr. Intisar Owaid Ali to the authorship list in recognition of her substantial academic contributions to this study.
Updated Author Information
Author Name: Intisar Owaid Ali
Affiliation: College of Physical Education and Sports Sciences for Women, University of Baghdad
Email: [email protected]
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0009-0004-0108-5277
Updated Author Contributions (CRediT): Dr. Intisar Owaid Ali contributed to the Conceptualization, Methodology (study design and …