Interdisciplinary – Page 20 – UROP Spring Symposium 2021

Interdisciplinary

Differing Road Types in Urban Areas Impacting Coyote-Rabbit Relationships in Detroit

Over the past decades, Americans have moved to urban cities across the country. In an effort to cope with increasing populations, many cities have elected to build ever-expanding roadway systems, which increases wildlife habitat fragmentation and reduces connectivity. Detroit, the largest urban center in the state of Michigan, has a park system made up of a few dozen parks, which offers a number of resources to wildlife, including food and water. However, most of Detroit’s parks are separated by roads and buildings, hindering the ability for animals to move between green spaces. Here we assess the effect of various types of roads (residential, city transit, and highways) separating the parks on the potential predator-prey relationship between coyotes (Canis latrans) and cottontail rabbits (Sylvilagus floridanus).

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Entry and Exit in the affordable care act market

The background information regarding my research project is about how does the insurance companies enjoy benefits in both ACA and Medicaid markets in order to To prove why insurance firms both present in these two markets would benefit more than firms which don’t. These might relate to the big picture that how the US government would issue health insurance in the future and how firms and people can enjoy it. The social benefits are for the firms or people who involve in the insurance plan to realize their benefits. I am using the economic concept of economics of scope and capability to conduct my Project. Economics of scope (eos) is a possible benefit enjoyed by related diversifiers and Capability is the unique asset that helps a firm outperform others. I have been searching for articles or papers that support the advantages of presenting both in these markets. My main conclusion is that even though the firms who present in both markets would gain a lot of advantages, however, there are some disadvantages presented.

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Increasing Diversity in the Medical Workforce

Despite evidence that having a diverse physician workforce has a multitude of benefits, it is still not representative of the total United States population. Evidence supports the conclusion that minority doctors are more likely to work in underrepresented minority communities in need of healthcare expansion, as well as aiding in the reduction of health-related disparities (Ibrahim 2019). This study examines what influences minorities’ decision to continue or leave the pipeline to medicine, in hopes of identifying potential barriers. In order to better understand the issue, preliminary research was conducted to find out current statistics about underrepresented minorities in medicine. After examining past research, we formulated our own hypotheses of potential barriers including inadequate mentorship, an unstable educational foundation, and hostile learning climates in post-secondary education, and used these hypotheses to draft focus group questions. We will host interviews so that students of color can discuss and share their experiences pursuing the pipeline to medicine. We anticipate that the data collected will support our hypothesis that foundational issues and lack of support have impacted retention rates of medically-interested students. Based on that data, we plan on drafting a survey that will allow us to garner more responses. After the conclusion of this data collection process, we hope to draft a manuscript that could be used by medical institutions in order to understand how to recruit and retain higher numbers of underrepresented minority students.

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The People’s Bible

Erin Lee Pronouns: she/her Research Mentor(s): Rebecca Wollenberg, Assistant Professor Research Mentor School/College/Department: Frankel Center for Judaic Studies, College of Literature, Science, and the Arts Presentation Date: Thursday, April 22, 2021 Session: Session 4 (2pm-2:50pm) Breakout Room: Room 9 Presenter: 6 Event Link Abstract For privacy concerns this abstract cannot be published at this time.

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Architecture of Dwelling: Considering Design, Social Relations, and Policy in Single and Multi-Family Housing

Supportive housing is a cost-effective combination of affordable housing with services that helps people live more stable, productive lives. Having such housing options are vital especially in cities undergoing rapid re-development because rising property values displace low-income households from their homes and sources of income. New Hope Housing is a non-profit organization that aims to provide such housing to individuals and families. A case study by the Urban Land Institute offers a comprehensive analysis on one of New Hope Housing’s apartments, highlighting the unique structure of their development model and operating timeline. Building on an integrated approach between a debt-free development model and single room occupancy (SRO) design, this research project looks for solutions to how SROs can re-define housing and positively impact the neighborhoods surrounding low-income housing.

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To Make the Slave Anew

To Make the Slave Anew: Art, History, and the Politics of Authenticity is a book that aims to discern how our modern understanding of slavery and the life of the slave came to be. It explores the memory of slavery and racism in the United States through the lens of music, visual studies, literature, ethnography and folklore. Each chapter achieves this by studying various figures, events, and pieces of work that impacted the cultural conception of slavery by including pictures of art and excerpts from literature, scholarly work, journals, etc. Through the exploration of various methods of cultural memory, To Make the Slave Anew argues that our contemporary perceptions of slavery are based on more recent””largely late nineteenth and early twentieth century””myths regarding the life of the slave and slavery in the South. With recent questions on the memory and relics of racism and slavery in the United States gaining more attention, To Make the Slave Anew offers a way of understanding how society comes to remember such concepts, and how those memories can shift with time.

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Archaeology of Jebel Barkal Website Creation

Jebel Barkal is a UNESCO World Heritage site in northern Sudan. The Jebel Barkal Archaeological Project at the University of Michigan was looking for an effective way to share its archaeological findings with a range of audiences and found that creating a website would meet these needs. We surveyed different archaeological project websites to determine which features would work well for the project’s needs. This also helped us to determine what website builder would be utilized, as they all have different offerings for features you can include. In addition, we looked into how the websites looked aesthetically to figure out what would appeal most to different audiences, the general public, teachers, students, scholars, and eventually people in Sudan (in an Arabic version). From our previous research we found that the features most important to us were a research portal, one section with older research from the previous director, Tim Kendall, one from the current director, Geoff Emberling, and a news feed/blog to keep visitors up to date with the findings at the site and intrigue possible sponsors to want to donate. We also found that for aesthetic purposes, making sure text passages are not too long and that there are images included helps to keep the user connected to the topic but not overwhelmed. Lastly, formatting of the website was discussed frequently as some audiences have different access to computers and phones; we found that websites generally need a universal format that will look good no matter what device they are displayed on. In conclusion, it will be possible to create an engaging website for this project that will have research available for professionals and researchers to use, but also be useful to the general public with shorter summaries of the research.

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Archaeology of Jebel Barkal (ancient Nubia)

Gebel Barkal is an archaeological site in Northern Sudan along the Nile River that was a capital city and temple center of ancient Kush (Nubia). The site was first excavated in 1916-20 under the direction of George Reisner, an archaeologist based at Harvard and the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. A University of Michigan project is beginning to work at the site with both excavation and conservation, working with the local community to create lasting connections surrounding this site. I have been working to to transcribe George Reisner’s field diaries from 1918 to 1920. By using older information of past seasons (or excavations), my mentor and his colleagues can inform their excavation and gain insight on the best ways to excavate and, in turn, preserve the site.

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The Role of Sociopolitical Factors on Syntactic Alignment

Priming has been widely known as an automatic process, occurring without conscious guidance or intention. This automatic priming mechanism provides a basis for syntactic priming, through which people repeat the syntactic structure that they have just heard. This study investigates the factors that affect syntactic priming, and specifically we focus on how sociopolitical factors affect the degree of priming. Participants were presented with a speaker who read sentences that had core liberal or conservative values. They were then required to describe novel illustrations that could be described using double object or prepositional object sentence structures. Results are still pending on this experiment, but we expect that sociopolitical factors will play a substantive role in increasing or decreasing the priming, depending on how much the participants agreed with the speaker.

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Implications of Grammaticality on Code-Switching in Spanish-English Bilinguals

The Hispanic population is projected to compromise 29 percent of the total US population by 2060 (Colby & Ortman, 2015). Consequently, the Spanish language is finding itself in the spotlight more often than ever before. Understanding how Spanish-English bilinguals communicate can help inform teaching methods for language-learners and curb social taboos that impact Hispanic populations. This study aims to understand the effect of social and grammatical factors on code-switching in Spanish-English bilinguals. Through the use of Qualtrics surveys, bilinguals of varying proficiency levels rated sentences based on how “good” they sounded. They were shown an image and four corresponding sentences: two that were code-switched where one was grammatical and one ungrammatical, and two non-code-switched sentences where one was grammatical and one was ungrammatical. As predicted, ungrammatical sentences were rated more poorly than their grammatical counterparts. While its cost was not as great as that of the grammaticality of the sentence, sentences that contained a code switch were rated more poorly than those that did not. This could be chalked up to the fact that there is a negative connotation associated with code-switching in regions of the US; those that code-switch may face social isolation or pressure against their language use. Understanding this concept through data will allow us as a society to better address this stigma. The data also gives us a more comprehensive understanding of how bilinguals communicate. This can be used when developing more applicable teaching approaches for those that are learning Spanish or English as a second language.

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