Vassar Scholarship
Messing With Medicine: Disruptions of Medical Systems in Online Communities of Trans People
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2022-April-01
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Science, Technology, and Society Program
Science, Technology, and Society Program
Vassar Scholarship
"Adapt and Overcome": The Relationship Between Emergency Departments and the Opioid Epidemic
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2020-January-01
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In my thesis, I argue that the opioid epidemic poses challenges but also opportunities for emergency departments to assess and improve their performance under duress for the betterment of future generations and ailments to come. I first delve into the...
Vassar Scholarship
"Alternative" childbirth: the complexity of birthing among Latinx folk in the United States
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2017-January-01
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Vassar Scholarship
"It's Gotta be the Shoes": A Case Study on Shoes, Distance Running, and Technology in Sport
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2021-January-01
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Over one weekend at the beginning of October 2019, Eliud Kipchoge's sub-two-hour marathon in the INEOS 1:59 Challenge and Brigid Kosgei's world-record-breaking Chicago Marathon win reset the clock in terms of what was believed to be humanly possible in the...
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"Kill the pilgrim, save the water:" Ramapough sovereignty and resistance to the proposed Pilgrim Pipelines
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2018
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Vassar Scholarship
"No Compunction Whatsoever:" An Examination of the Institutional Norms of Science at the MIT Radiation Laboratory During the Second World War and Implications Beyond
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2013-January-01
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'Female Viagra' and the intersection of medicine, gender, and desire: reinforcing misconceptions of female sexuality in the sexopharmaceutical era
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2019-January-01
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A jab well done: acupuncture, American healthcare, and a place for ethnomedicines
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2017-January-01
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Vassar Scholarship
A misunderstanding of spacetime throughout "space" and "time"
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2016-January-01
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Vassar Scholarship
A Multifaceted Comparison of Concentrated and Distributed Solar Power
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2013-January-01
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Vassar Scholarship
A Panacea or a Problem? Electronic Health Records and the Complicated Politics of Its Stakeholder Network
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2022-May-01
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Vassar Scholarship
A perspective of the dental state in America: interpreting the socioeconomic costs from poor oral care
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2019-January-01
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A platform of her own: an examination of feminist attempts to reclaim pregnancy from medicalized gynecology
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2019-January-01
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Vassar Scholarship
A renewable Cuba: bilateral relations and renewable energy investments between the U.S. and Cuba
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2017-January-01
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Vassar Scholarship
A Vision for the Future: Adaptive Spectacles as a Solution to Global Visual Impairment
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2012-January-01
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Vassar Scholarship
Adding insult to injury: how clinical research of today highlights disparities for the disadvantaged human participant
Publication Date
2019-January-01
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Vassar Scholarship
An American gunplay: performances of race, gender, and nationalism in three acts
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2017-January-01
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Vassar Scholarship
An Analysis of the Verisante Aura in the United States
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2015-January-01
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Vassar Scholarship
An Evaluation of the Scope of Challenges Associated with Addressing the Inequitable Access to Menstrual Products in Post-Colonial Rural India
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2022-April-01
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Vassar Scholarship
An Eye for the Invisible: Exploring the Role of Image-Making in Science
Publication Date
2020-January-01
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This thesis tracks the evolution of filmed and photographed depictions of science, emphasizing in particular their dual existence as empirical research tools and stunning works of art.
