Research Week
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This collection contains work that was presented as a part of the University's annual Research Week. Research Week is the University of Texas at Austin’s annual celebration of undergraduate research and creative activity. Research Week is sponsored by the School of Undergraduate Studies and provides opportunities for undergraduates to explore UT Austin’s vast and diverse community of research and creative work, and to find ways of getting involved. If you are interested in submitting your Research Week poster to this collection, please complete this form and send it along with the file for your poster to tsw@utlists.utexas.edu.
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Item Progressivism En Vogue? An Analysis of Electoral Support for House Co-sponsors of H.R. 1384 (Medicare for All Act of 2019)(2021) Trivisonno, RossIn spring of 2019, Rep. Pramila Jayapal introduced H.R. 1384, the largest, most sweeping iteration of the late John Conyers’ longstanding ‘United States National Healthcare Act,’ this time dubbed the ‘Medicare for All Act of 2019.’ Despite ultimately dying in committee, it marked a massive revival and revision of the act first introduced in 2003. It was co-sponsored by 118 progressive Democrats in the House, roughly aligning with Congressional Progressive Caucus (CPC) membership – and then some. While not called to a floor vote, the bill served as marked political theatre and had something of a rallying effect on its co-sponsors’ campaign coffers/profiles with countless liberal PACs and special interest groups endorsing them, fundraising, and providing valuable unearned media attention. H.R. 1384 was the most definitive progressive-left policy of the 116th Congress, so how did its co-sponsors’ electoral performances fare afterwards? This research attempts to answer that question with a comprehensive electoral analysis of the era.Item The Use of Mixl1 in Ex Vivo and Chimeric Organ Regeneration(2017) Kashiparekh, AnokhiItem Understanding the relationship between prison overcrowding and inmate health(2018) Kashiparekh, AnokhiItem Designing a Mobile App for Individuals Recovering from an Opioid Addiction(2018-06) Levin, HannahItem FitCity|SA - A Health-Based Housing Model for San Antonio, TX(2017) Moore, DanaItem Factory Farm to Table: Agriculture’s Impact on Austin’s Working Class(2018-04-06) Cavanaugh, KerriFactory farming accounts for the production of 99% of meat in America. Factory farm practices are often unethical, dangerous, and hidden from public view. Despite the often unseen work of this industry, factory farming plays a major role in American diets and food choices. The lobbying done by the corporations who own factory farms (like Tyson’s), and those corporations who utilize factory produced food (like McDonald’s), have helped shape government regulations and subsidies to their benefits, resulting in low cost, high calorie foods being more accessible than nutritious foods. This paper explores how the ways individuals can afford to eat shapes the ways the individuals think about themselves and their places in society. This is achieved first by looking at government nutritional guides and funding for food, and the consequences these decisions create for consumers. Next, it will look at how factory farms came to exist and how these practices affect the employees within the factories. Then, it looks into a government bill on obesity and how such proposed legislation shapes public attitudes on obesity. The fourth chapter analyses surveys and a focus group that were conducted as part of this study. Lastly, long-term and short-term solutions to America’s food production system will be discussed.Item Welche Sprache ist sie anyway?: Borrowed anyway/anyhow in Texas German(2018-05) Jesswein, VictoriaA common phenomenon when languages are in contact is for one language to borrow words or phrases from another and incorporate them into the native vocabulary. Texas German, which has been in contact with English for over 100 years, shows extensive borrowing of English words. In addition to content word borrowing, lexical items such as nouns and verbs, Texas German shows examples of borrowings of discourse markers (DMs), which serve functional rather than lexical purposes. One of the most common English DM borrowings is anyway and it variant form anyhow. In this thesis I analyze the extent to which borrowed anyway/anyhow exhibit the same semantic and pragmatic functions as in English.Item Language & Video Games: A Cross-Genre Approach(2018-05) Ting, Shu Jie; Tellakat, MohiniOnline multiplayer games are often thought to promote "toxic" or negative language due to their competitive nature and need for cooperation from teammates. This study will investigate language patterns of players from different genres and aims to provide insight on how game characteristics may influence general language use in online communities.Item Political Economy of Thailand’s Third Gender(2018-04) Aguirre, DavidItem Defining a Matrix Language in Language Mixing(2018) Sharath, VivekItem Water Accessibility among Homeless Individuals(2018) Fischer, AlexisItem Increasing Geographic Literacy: Analyzing Students’ Grasp on Geography(2018-04) Guevara, ElizabethItem The Mesoamerican Ball Game: A Deadly Sport(2018-04) Cawthon, RylieItem LGBT Inclusion in South Asian American Domestic Violence Services(2018-04) Rao, NikitaItem Education y Justicia: A Living History of the Latinx Experience in U.T Austin(2018) Hernandez, LukeItem An Assessment of University Infrastructure Impact on the Safety of Individuals with Physical Disabilities at the University of Texas at Austin - Poster(2017) Weston, Natalie; Sonnenberg, Stephen; Faust, KaseyItem Going Digital: Presenting UT Campus History in the 21st Century(2017-04) Levin, Jennifer