Rebecca Cobo
Faculty Sponsor: Shaw Smith, Naila Mamoon
Service and Therapy Dogs
Luke Gray
Faculty Sponsor: Dr. Smith and Dr. Mamoon
BIO independent study research
Carlos Vegas
Faculty Sponsor: Rachid El Bejjani
Poverty Trap and Income Gap: The Effect of Social and Mental Constraints
My Doan
Faculty Sponsor: Shyam Gouri Suresh
Biology Independent Study
Soren Emerson
Faculty Sponsor: Rachid El Bejjani
Isolation and Characterization of E. coli Phage
Frances Resweber, Becca Collings
Faculty Sponsor: Dr. Dave Wessner
The History of Jews and Jewishness at Davidson
Severine Stier, Dahlia Krutkovich, EJ Canny, Brodi Madison, Cathy Xu, Taylor Drake, Emmitt Sklar
Faculty Sponsor: Denham
In this tutorial students have researched and written a history of Jews and Jewishness at Davidson College. The history explores the experiences of Jewish students, faculty, and staff at Davidson; a history of campus speakers, programming, and organizations pertaining to Judaism, Jewishness and/or anti-Semitism (this includes the history of Hillel, for example); the cultural and historical context of being Jewish at Davidson, which includes coverage of Jews in the American South, the relationship over time between the Presbyterian Church and Judaism specifically, as well as that between the Reformed tradition and Jews and Judaism more broadly; the history of Jewish people in higher education in the US; and also a history of American anti-Semitism, through several relevant case studies, including the recent experience of anti-Semitic hate speech and threats on Davidson’s campus. The history is housed on a website and includes oral histories (video and audio).
The Effect of Tax Rates on Interstate Migration Rates
Marshall Brady
Faculty Sponsor: Shyam Gouri Suresh
This paper draws data from all fifty states over a period of four years in an attempt to study the effect that government controlled economic variables, such as various taxes and the minimum wage, has on interstate migration rates in the United States. Several other variables that are not directly decided by state governments are included in the model to act as controls. It was predicted that those variables that increased one’s disposable income would increase migration and those that decreased one’s disposable income would decrease migration. Overall, the variables in question proved to match the theory at the ten percent significance level.
