Volume 38 • Issue 2 • 2025 • Fall hero image.
Volume 38 • Issue 2 • 2025 • Fall

Fall 2025 capstone projects and other scholarly works by UNC Asheville students.

Cover image from: Emily Settles, Find Us in the Moonlit Garden, Acrylic print


Articles

Disability Identity: Socially Constructed

Alexis Rose Bell

Volume 38 • Issue 2 • 2025 • Fall

Eat The Meat. Leave The Bones. Black Fatigue: Facing Visibility and Invisibility

Katana King

Volume 38 • Issue 2 • 2025 • Fall

Explaining Variation in Student Access to the Polls

Olivia Suzanne Barefoot

Volume 38 • Issue 2 • 2025 • Fall

How Right Is Your Neighbor: Investigating Far-Right Party Success in a Fractionalized Society and Economic Hardship

Matthew R Vidakovich

Volume 38 • Issue 2 • 2025 • Fall

Impacts of Pastured Poultry on Soil Fertility in a Mixed Silvopasture System in Western North Carolina 

Christian Matias Miller

Volume 38 • Issue 2 • 2025 • Fall

Improving Organic Solar Cell Sustainability: Using Hansen Solubility Parameters to Enhance PTQ-10 Solubility in Green Solvents

Adam Jean-Pierre Wold

Volume 38 • Issue 2 • 2025 • Fall

Insect Biodiversity, Herbivory, and Community Composition in American (Castanea dentata), Chinese (Castanea mollissima), and Hybrid Chestnut Trees  

Eli (Marguerite) Perryman

Volume 38 • Issue 2 • 2025 • Fall

Monitoring Early Success of Small-Scale Riparian Zone Repair Post-Helene

Noah Ortiz

Volume 38 • Issue 2 • 2025 • Fall

Mutational Analysis of Non-Palmitoylated Cysteines in Gα12

Corey Donovan Ginley

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Newt Orientation after Displacement 

Nolen Collazo

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Omens in the Sky: A Historical and Comparative Examination of the Mothman and Other Winged Legends  

Joseph Stewart Heilman

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​​Parasite Hideouts: Preserving Native Hymenopterans Through Pollinator Hotel Management 

Bailey Blythe Lankford, Maria Escobedo and Dr Elsa Youngsteadt

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Presidential Ambassadorial Appointments: Competence or Patronage?

Katie Shea Conroy

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Repurposing 275-Gallon Intermediate Bulk Containers from Tropical Storm Helene: Prototyping Design of Rain Catchment System for Emergency Water Supply

Kasidy Eve Loggins

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 River Cane’s Impact on Riparian Bank Erosion After Hurricanes  

Sara Annice Baldwin Nusbaum

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Sister Sin and Spare Rib: Safety, Softness, and the Resilience of Womanhood

Emily Lane Settles

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Determining the role of Ap4A in the stress response of Staphylococcus aureus

Jenna Vidaud

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Suburban Blues: An American Mythology

Kate Juliette Malowany

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Surveying Pollinator Conservation Attitudes & Behaviors in Western North Carolina

Atticus Brooks

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Survival, Growth, and Physiology of American, Chinese, and Hybrid Chestnut Seeds Out-planted in Established Chestnut Plantations

Olivia Wilson

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Sustainable Investing: Can ESG Weighted Portfolios Match Traditional Returns?    

Nadia Fourie

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The Disillusionment of Time: Exploring The Grief of Memories in Conversation with Reception to Change in Nature Through the Drawing Process

Jenna White

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The Grotesque and Carnivorous Beauty of Hannibal Fanart

Sara Margaret Ricker

Volume 38 • Issue 2 • 2025 • Fall

The Impact of Mindfulness-Based Interventions on Individuals with Type 1 Diabetes: A Biopsychosocial Approach

Jesse McCauley

Volume 38 • Issue 2 • 2025 • Fall

Using Macroinvertebrates to Assess the Effects of Tropical Storm Helene in the Swannanoa River Watershed 

Olivia Rae Williams

Volume 38 • Issue 2 • 2025 • Fall

VO₂max and Longevity - How Improved Cardiorespiratory Fitness Reduces the Impacts of Aging

Logan Fewster

Volume 38 • Issue 2 • 2025 • Fall

“Wash Me Sins Away:” Gendered Punishment and Containment in Ireland’s Magdalene Laundries

Mikaela Soledad Manosalvas Mueller

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Women Running from Houses: How Gothic Romance Paperbacks of the 1960s and 1970s Adapted a Romantic-era Visual Language of Women in Danger

Steve Witherspoon

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Working Hard or Hardly Working? Variations in Perceptions of Poverty and Economic Inequality in the United States

Reese Huffman

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Moments Between: Fleeting, Shifting, Passing Through, An Exploration in Pastels

Eliza Shadden

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Fluidity and Found Family in Carter Sickels' The Prettiest Star

Atticus Mason

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The Elevator and the Iron Cage: Disabled STEM Students at UNC Asheville

Kit Crabtree

Volume 38 • Issue 2 • 2025 • Fall

Reimagining the Tableau Vivant; “Living Pictures” in K-Pop Music Videos

Jude Furey-Moore

Volume 38 • Issue 2 • 2025 • Fall

Beyond Hormone Replacement:  A Meta-Analysis of Traditional Chinese Medicine and Complementary Therapies for Hashimoto’s Thyroiditis  

Mackenzie Mealing

Volume 38 • Issue 2 • 2025 • Fall

To Feel Many Other Ways

Wallis Flanagan

Volume 38 • Issue 2 • 2025 • Fall

Improving Processability of PTQ-10 Derivatives in Green Solvents through Hansen Solubility Parameters

Adam Jean-Pierre Wold and Rich Miller

Volume 38 • Issue 2 • 2025 • Fall

Clinician and Patient Perspectives on Nutrition Counseling: Exploring Nutrition Counseling for the Gender-Diverse Community

Houston Cable

Volume 38 • Issue 2 • 2025 • Fall

Does the Healthcare Workforce Need Stitches? Exploring Policy Approaches in Western North Carolina

Emma Hoosier

Volume 38 • Issue 2 • 2025 • Fall

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