Student Research and Scholarship: Recent submissions
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NOW and Then: Women in the 1980s and Present Day
This presentation brings together the position of women and women’s rights in the 1980s and their position today. Discussion points include progress, stagnation, and changes still to be made. -
The Now of Then
This presentation explores the approaches and progress and lack of progress of feminist movements in the 1970’s and in 2016. It uses analysis to make suggestions about the best ways to combine the progressive movements in ... -
Eliminating Gender Roles Through Adverstisement
The main focus of this project is to explore how advertisement is beginning to fight to eliminate gender bias and gender roles through commercials and children’s toys. Starting from the 1970’s Fantastic Feminist Co-op’s ... -
Campus Sexual Assault Prevention: Not Just Our Issue
This project further explores the idea of male-focused educational rape prevention from a campus sexual assault perspective. By switching the prevention focus, she hopes campus sexual assault rates will decrease. -
Rhetoric Towards Female Political Candidates
This project explores how male candidates and males in general use sexist rhetoric to belittle female candidates. It also focuses on how these female candidates are framed and how they respond to such rhetoric. -
Transformation of Women's Sexual Health: The Fight Continues
For many years, feminists have been fighting for control over their own reproductive heath and sexual education. Looking through the works of NOW and the Fantastic Feminist, we see evidence of this fight that has continued ... -
Connecting a Community: Analyzing Feminist Perspectives on Miami University's Campus
This presentation centers about research on whether or not the Miami student population considers their university to be feminist. It first describes some of the events that happened on campus during the Fall 2016 semester. ... -
SHAND-Y: A Smart Power Strip Connected to the IoT
The purpose of the project is to create a power strip that is capable of saving energy by turning off power to outlets connected to devices that are not in use. To do this, an Arduino Yun connects to a web page and sends ... -
Empowering Women of Bangladesh in the Garment Industry
Women’s empowerment is an important aspect of the social, political and economic life of developing countries. Globally, women’s economic and political empowerment performance has changed through education and labor, but ... -
The New Architectural Trend in China: The Heritage and Deelopment of Traditional Culture
After the failed Anglo-Chinese War of the 1840s, China was forced to open to international trade. China is still borrowing developing experiments from the West in the distinctive Chinese cultural context. By doing so, a ... -
Affordable and Sustainable Housing Solutions for Iran's Low Income Citizens
This paper studies the architectural implications of the economic and social needs and challenges of Low-Income and Iranian families in Tehran. The attempt is to answer the following question: what strategies can be used ... -
Olympic Legacy:Flexible Architectural Strategies for Boston's 2024 Olympics Proposal
The Olympics present the perfect opportunity for host cities to show their value to the world. This opportunity introduces immeasurable pressure to create an impressive display of entertainment for the spectators. The ... -
Built Environment that Enhances Children's All-round Development-Vidyalaya
India is one among the ten fastest growing economies in the world but suffers in terms of literacy contributing to 34% of the worlds illiterate population. In India English is the primary language for government, business ... -
Creating Conducive Environments for Dar Es Salaam's Street Children Through Archiecture
How can architecture be part of a solution to the difficult lives of street children in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania? In Dar es Salaam, street children exist in poverty without family support, education, or technical skills. ... -
Architecture of repose: Creating moments for retreat and intimacy
The fast-paced nature of contemporary culture acts as a catalyst for anxiety due to overstimulation. This paper explores how the built environment can be designed in order to bring people from a state of overstimulation ... -
The Symbiotic Relationship Between Baseball, Education, and the Community
Professional baseball is one of the most affluent American sports. However, cities that house Minor League stadiums receive relatively small benefits, despite the huge investment, risk, and financial strain stadiums impose ... -
Beyond Mechanical Limits: Cohousing and Permaculture
This research aims to achieve two objectives. The first objective is to minimize and eliminate building contributions to climate change starting from a domestic prototype. The second is to increase the role of architecture ...