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USem 103 students will present their FUSE research on diverse topics addressing current critical issues, policies, and challenges, including topics addressing sustainability, social justice, LGBTQ+, racism, privacy, economics, media, crime, policing, consumerism, and education.
A capstone presentation preceded by a summary of the current state of sharing economy (Uber, Airbnb, Lyft) environments in the world, USA, and southern Oregon. This capstone presentation is a computer science full-featured project that includes a ridesharing mobile application, distributed system, concurrency solutions, hub networks, and novel solutions to current sharing economy issues.
This project asks the question of whether resource abundance determines an economy's ability to develop, or whether weak local institutions are responsible. The goal of this paper is to highlight the importance for instituting strong institutional change with local ownership to facilitate sustainable development.
My research focuses on how housing and stock market crashes affect young adults entering the workforce. The research I have conducted is from a variety of sources, mainly journal articles and government documents.
A poster highlighting ASSOU's new approach to investing in solar on university campuses by leveraging student fee dollars. SOU students are modeling a novel approach to expand solar generation on campus while ensuring a revenue stream back into the student Green Fund.
My research project is going to be looking at whether socio-economic status and/or child abuse affects the age of when an individual first starts using drugs. I will be using data from a national data set in which research on this topic has already been conducted. I am adding the variable of socio-economic status to see if it shows a correlation to when an individual starts using drugs. I will also be able to see if there is a correlation between child abuse and socio-economic status.
This presentation explores how investing in protecting and restoring watersheds can improve the quality of the water flowing into drinking water treatment plants. In doing so, we can reduce drinking water treatment costs.
The Good: Globalization The Bad: Income Inequality The Ugly: Secular Stagnation Since its conception, economics has been an international profession. Unfortunately, in our modern world, the gains from globalization and trade liberalization have not flowed equally through the economy; in fact, their combined effect has actually been detrimental in some respects. I will examine some of these facets as I preempt my eventual capstone research.
The presentation will center around the Kansas tax plan that was implemented in 2012 which employed supply-side economics. This was the most aggressive tax cutting plan ever implemented as a means to significantly boost Kansas’s economy. Ultimately, however, the supply side plan substantially reduced government revenue and decreased economic growth the recently passed federal tax plan championed by the Republican party has very similar elements to the “failed” Kansas tax plan.
USem 103 students will present their FUSE research on diverse topics addressing current critical issues, policies, and challenges, including topics addressing sustainability, social justice, LGBTQ+, racism, privacy, economics, media, crime, policing, consumerism, and education.
