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Adaku Echendu (Environmental Studies) – Urban Flooding and Changing Landscapes: Improving Environmental Sustainability By Incorporating Urban Communities’ Experiences, Perceptions, and Knowledge in Environmental Management in Nigeria
Flooding is a disaster with ripple effects. Its environmental, social, and economic impacts are significant. Floods annually ravage Nigeria constituting an immediate and growing...
Annelies Verellen (Art History) – Women’s Self-portraiture in the Seventeenth Century
Annelies studies women’s strategy of self-fashioning in the early modern period, specifically through their self-portraits. She examines the prejudices embedded within the practice of...
Paulina Bleah (PhD in Nursing) – The Experience of Living with Diabetes in Liberia
Diabetes is a growing public health concern in Liberia; recent data shows about 2.1% of the population are living with the disease. This figure...
Olivia Scully (MA in Kinesiology & Health Studies) – Exploring the effects of the body acceptance movement for women and gender diverse people
Olivia investigates how people have taken up the body acceptance movement on social media, and how it has affected their relationships with their bodies,...
Bjorn Bols (MA in Classics) – Ancient Greek Wrestling
Wrestling was the first non-running event added to the ancient Olympics in the 18th Olympiad in 708 BCE. Wrestling continued to appear in Greek...
Experiential Learning in Graduate Studies with Francisco Zepeda Trujillo and Hiwot Mekuanent
Today we talk about opportunities that graduate students have during their graduate journey. We all know that for the specific degree there are certain...