2024-03-29T09:14:51Zhttps://kuscholarworks.ku.edu/oai/requestoai:kuscholarworks.ku.edu:1808/276792023-02-07T17:08:30Zcom_1808_12535col_1808_13046
2019-02-04T17:04:48Z
urn:hdl:1808/27679
The Building of the University of Kansas - 1931 to 1951
Wellborn, Leigh A.
Project (B.S.)--University of Kansas, Architecture, 1951.
The following record of the building at the University at Lawrence, Kansas, is an attempt to bring up to date the Master’s Thesis of James Howard Compton. His work, which contains a short history of the founding of the University, is primarily concerned with the building of the campus from its origin to the summer of 1931. The individual buildings are described in a series of accounts containing specific information as to cost, style, material, construction, architect, and contractor.
2019-02-04T17:04:48Z
2019-02-04T17:04:48Z
1951
Undergraduate research project
http://hdl.handle.net/1808/27679
openAccess
Copyright held by the author.
School of Architecture, University of Kansas
oai:kuscholarworks.ku.edu:1808/265332018-07-09T22:16:27Zcom_1808_12535col_1808_13046
2018-06-20T15:22:03Z
urn:hdl:1808/26533
A study of participants' perceptions of "headquarters" crisis intervention training
Ballantyne, Sharon L.
Honors thesis
2018-06-20T15:22:03Z
2018-06-20T15:22:03Z
1975
Undergraduate research project
http://hdl.handle.net/1808/26533
openAccess
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University of Kansas
oai:kuscholarworks.ku.edu:1808/348492023-11-14T07:05:30Zcom_1808_12535col_1808_13046
2023-11-13T22:31:49Z
urn:hdl:1808/34849
The Day After Tomorrow: Climate Change & The Today of Science, Film, & Activism
Winkelman, Elizabeth
Submitted to the Department of History of the University of Kansas in partial fulfillment of the requirements for departmental honors.
In May of 2004, director Roland Emmerich released his blockbuster film The Day After Tomorrow. Since its release, the film has been noted as being an important piece of Cli-Fi, Climate Fiction. This thesis argues that the film has been given these distinctions of importance to Cli-Fi and the climate change movement is due to the political and social context it was released in as a traumatized post-9/11 society under the Bush Administration’s environmental policies. This thesis further argues that The Day After Tomorrow’s success stems from its ability to harness the emotions from this specific traumatized audience and has since been used by members of the climate change movement to garner public action.
2023-11-13T22:31:49Z
2023-11-13T22:31:49Z
2023-04-11
Thesis
https://hdl.handle.net/1808/34849
openAccess
Copyright 2023 Elizabeth Winkelman
Department of History, University of Kansas
oai:kuscholarworks.ku.edu:1808/84242020-08-26T14:08:01Zcom_1808_1260com_1808_12535col_1808_7158col_1808_13046
2011-11-18T20:43:09Z
urn:hdl:1808/8424
Part One: Mirrors; Part Two: Synthesis of Camphor
Kent, Robert C.
2011-11-18T20:43:09Z
2011-11-18T20:43:09Z
1908
Undergraduate research project
http://hdl.handle.net/1808/8424
en_US
openAccess
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University of Kansas
oai:kuscholarworks.ku.edu:1808/348482023-11-14T07:05:35Zcom_1808_12535col_1808_13046
2023-11-13T22:27:39Z
urn:hdl:1808/34848
Assault, Robbery, Mayhem: The Consequences Of Fraternal Campus Loyalty Movements At The University Of Kansas After World War I
Wilson, Brittney
Submitted to the Department of History of the University of Kansas in partial fulfillment of the requirements for departmental honors.
2023-11-13T22:27:39Z
2023-11-13T22:27:39Z
2023-05-01
Thesis
https://hdl.handle.net/1808/34848
openAccess
Copyright 2023 Brittney Wilson
Department of History, University of Kansas
oai:kuscholarworks.ku.edu:1808/265402018-07-09T22:16:27Zcom_1808_12535col_1808_13046
2018-06-20T15:22:04Z
urn:hdl:1808/26540
A study of the rhetorical theory of theophrastus
Klumpp, James F.
Honors thesis
2018-06-20T15:22:04Z
2018-06-20T15:22:04Z
1968
Undergraduate research project
http://hdl.handle.net/1808/26540
openAccess
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University of Kansas
oai:kuscholarworks.ku.edu:1808/348412023-11-14T07:05:42Zcom_1808_12535col_1808_13046
2023-11-13T21:44:10Z
urn:hdl:1808/34841
Meet the New Boss: “The Establishment” in 1960s and 70s American Thought
Clark, Mason
Submitted to the Department of History of the University of Kansas in partial fulfillment of the requirements for departmental honors.
Throughout the 1960s and early 70s the phrase “the Establishment” gained salience in American political and popular discourse. Referring to an unseen group of elites that had their hand in decision making, the phrase was wielded by both the political right and left. “The Establishment” permeated society in such a way that by the end of the 1970s the term was a common part of the vernacular. This thesis argues that the term “the Establishment,” gained prominence because of its overall utility during the considerable political and social change that occurred during the period.
2023-11-13T21:44:10Z
2023-11-13T21:44:10Z
2023-04-25
Thesis
https://hdl.handle.net/1808/34841
openAccess
Copyright 2023 Mason Clark
Department of History, University of Kansas
oai:kuscholarworks.ku.edu:1808/293452020-09-22T20:11:22Zcom_1808_776com_1808_12535col_1808_26619col_1808_13046
2019-06-19T15:18:33Z
urn:hdl:1808/29345
The Qipao: Defining Modern Women in the First Half of the 20th Century
Cox, Adrienne
This thesis was submitted to the Department of History of the University of Kansas in partial fulfillment of the requirements for departmental honors.
2019-06-19T15:18:33Z
2019-06-19T15:18:33Z
2019-04
Thesis
http://hdl.handle.net/1808/29345
openAccess
Copyright 2019, Adrienne Cox
Department of History, University of Kansas
oai:kuscholarworks.ku.edu:1808/293442020-09-22T20:10:48Zcom_1808_776com_1808_12535col_1808_26619col_1808_13046
2019-06-19T15:14:05Z
urn:hdl:1808/29344
Blood on the Plow: Extremist Group Activity During the 1980s Farm Crisis in Kansas
Correll, Caleb
This thesis was submitted to the Department of History of the University of Kansas in partial fulfillment of the requirements for departmental honors.
2019-06-19T15:14:05Z
2019-06-19T15:14:05Z
2019-05
Thesis
http://hdl.handle.net/1808/29344
openAccess
Copyright 2019, Caleb Correll
Department of History, University of Kansas
oai:kuscholarworks.ku.edu:1808/327672023-06-16T16:56:40Zcom_1808_12535col_1808_13046
2022-05-27T20:09:05Z
urn:hdl:1808/32767
The End of the Rhodium: Synthesis, Characterization, and Redox Chemistry of Manganese and Rhodium Complexes Supported by Unorthodox Diimine Ligands
Stiel, Jonah P.
Blakemore, James
Chemistry
Inorganic
Organometallic
Transition metals
Electrochemistry
Submitted to the Faculty of the Department of Chemistry in Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for Departmental Honors in Chemistry
Economical storage of the large quantities of energy that could be generated by intermittent renewable sources, such as solar and wind, remains one of the largest unmet technical challenges hindering the widespread adoption of such technologies. Storing renewable energy in chemical bonds by means of molecular electrocatalysis represents a promising potential solution to this pressing issue. The 2,2′-bipyridyl (bpy) moiety is ubiquitous among the current generation of fuel production molecular electrocatalysts, yet a fundamental understanding of the properties which make it exceptionally attractive for enabling redox catalysis is lacking. In this thesis, model systems supported by unconventional analogues of bpy were investigated in order to elucidate the influence of steric and electronic effects on catalyst candidates supported by bpy-type ligands. In Chapter 2, the synthesis and characterization of manganese and ruthenium complexes supported by 4,5-diazafluorene and 9,9′-dimethyl-4,5-diazafluorene are discussed. These ligands were found to enforce wider bite angles and act as weaker sigma-donors in the complexes than bpy in analogous species. In Chapter 3, our work focusing on half-sandwich rhodium complexes supported by non-symmetrically mono-substituted bpy ligands bearing either a chloro or nitro substituent is detailed. Non-symmetric mono-substitution of the bpy ligand system was found to be an effective strategy for engendering new redox behavior at the metal center. Furthermore, the redox properties of the complexes supported by the mono-substituted bpy ligands were found to be intermediate between those of the parent complex supported by bpy and the symmetrically di-substituted complex supported by 4,4′-dinitro-2,2′-bipyridyl. Taken together, the findings reported in this thesis highlight the power of seemingly subtle ligand modifications in facilitating new redox chemistry with transition metal complexes.
2022-05-27T20:09:05Z
2022-05-27T20:09:05Z
2022-05
Thesis
http://hdl.handle.net/1808/32767
embargoedAccess
Copyright © 2022 by Jonah Philip Stiel
Department of Chemistry, University of Kansas
oai:kuscholarworks.ku.edu:1808/80902020-08-20T13:33:49Zcom_1808_1260com_1808_12535col_1808_7158col_1808_13046
2011-09-30T20:38:27Z
urn:hdl:1808/8090
Labor Organizations in America
Crane, Cyrus
Labor organizations
2011-09-30T20:38:27Z
2011-09-30T20:38:27Z
1887
Undergraduate research project
http://hdl.handle.net/1808/8090
en_US
openAccess
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University of Kansas
oai:kuscholarworks.ku.edu:1808/293472020-09-22T20:15:10Zcom_1808_776com_1808_12535col_1808_26619col_1808_13046
2019-06-19T15:28:08Z
urn:hdl:1808/29347
Coping Through Curse: Confronting British Metropolitan Identity Through the "Curse of Tutankhamen" (1923-1933)
Hollman, Olivia G.
This thesis was submitted to the Department of History of the University of Kansas in partial fulfillment of the requirements for departmental honors.
This thesis seeks to understand the origins of the curse of Tutankhamen within interwar British society and to explain why the British were willing to believe in the “curse of Tutankhamen” between 1923 and 1933. It argues that the curse served as a method of coping as the British reforged their rational, Enlightened ways with irrational imaginings to deflect feelings of trauma after the First World War and of vulnerability with the loss of Egypt as a protectorate in 1922. Just as the British newspapers evaded discussing the true story of the archaeological dig of the tomb of Tutankhamen, so too did the British use their own imperial ideas of Egyptian Romantic allure to circumvent the reality of Egyptians through the curse of Tutankhamen.
I argue that the curse of Tutankhamen was a British-created myth with necessary Egyptian influences that served to preserve British imperial views of the “other” in the wake of World War One (1914-1918) and the British Unilateral Declaration of Egyptian Independence on February 28, 1922. Importantly, this thesis maintains that the veracity of the curse itself is secondary to the cultural effects of the purported curse in the British metropole. The curse of Tutankhamen was a myth born out of the British metropole-favored imagination and threating comparison with the Empire inherent in Orientalism. By analyzing coverage in British newspapers such as The Times and The Daily Mail and the accounts of later historians such as Allegra Fryxell and Roger Luckhurst, this thesis argues that the British authored and perpetuated the “curse of Tutankhamen,” by basing the curse within British perceptions of modern and ancient Egypt. The curse symbolized the mythological arrival of the periphery of the British Empire within British metropolitan identity.
2019-06-19T15:28:08Z
2019-06-19T15:28:08Z
2019-05
Thesis
http://hdl.handle.net/1808/29347
openAccess
Copyright 2019, Olivia G. Hollman
Department of History, University of Kansas
oai:kuscholarworks.ku.edu:1808/293492020-09-22T20:16:42Zcom_1808_776com_1808_12535col_1808_26619col_1808_13046
2019-06-19T16:08:19Z
urn:hdl:1808/29349
Demons & Devils: The Moral Panic Surrounding Dungeons & Dragons, 1979-1991
Wilson, Austin
2019-06-19T16:08:19Z
2019-06-19T16:08:19Z
2019-04
Thesis
http://hdl.handle.net/1808/29349
openAccess
Copyright 2019, Austin Wilson
Department of History, University of Kansas
oai:kuscholarworks.ku.edu:1808/265342018-07-09T22:16:27Zcom_1808_12535col_1808_13046
2018-06-20T15:22:04Z
urn:hdl:1808/26534
A study of self-perceived stage fright among students enrolled in the fundamentals of speech course at the University of Kansas
Prelogar, Mary Clark
Honors thesis
2018-06-20T15:22:04Z
2018-06-20T15:22:04Z
1967
Undergraduate research project
http://hdl.handle.net/1808/26534
openAccess
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University of Kansas
oai:kuscholarworks.ku.edu:1808/256902023-05-31T22:58:59Zcom_1808_12535col_1808_13046
2018-01-04T22:38:15Z
urn:hdl:1808/25690
Nineteenth Century Buildings of Lawrence
Wearing, Ben
Kellogg, Joseph M.
The index for this thesis was transcribed from card catalog entries at the Spencer Research Library at the University of Kansas, Lawrence, Kansas and is available online at https://hdl.handle.net/1808/34258
The purpose of this thesis is to a provide a survey of the early buildings in Lawrence, Kansas, to the extent possible for those that are no longer standing, and to document many of those yet remaining today.
2018-01-04T22:38:15Z
2018-01-04T22:38:15Z
1955-05
Undergraduate research project
http://hdl.handle.net/1808/25690
openAccess
University of Kansas
oai:kuscholarworks.ku.edu:1808/81132020-08-20T14:12:37Zcom_1808_1260com_1808_12535col_1808_7158col_1808_13046
2011-10-06T15:14:47Z
urn:hdl:1808/8113
A Brief Study of the Color Sense of Keats
Unknown
2011-10-06T15:14:47Z
2011-10-06T15:14:47Z
1887
Undergraduate research project
http://hdl.handle.net/1808/8113
en_US
openAccess
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University of Kansas
oai:kuscholarworks.ku.edu:1808/265392018-07-09T22:16:27Zcom_1808_12535col_1808_13046
2018-06-20T15:22:04Z
urn:hdl:1808/26539
A demographic study of campus activism at the University of Kansas
Falzer, Paul Robert
Honors thesis
2018-06-20T15:22:04Z
2018-06-20T15:22:04Z
1969
Undergraduate research project
http://hdl.handle.net/1808/26539
openAccess
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University of Kansas
oai:kuscholarworks.ku.edu:1808/294112020-09-22T20:18:14Zcom_1808_776com_1808_12535col_1808_26619col_1808_13046
2019-07-24T15:22:29Z
urn:hdl:1808/29411
If You Build It, They Will Come: From Flood Zone to Economic Boom
Berardi, Ben
On July 30, 1993, the newly-unified city of Chesterfield, Missouri bore witness to the most tumultuous disaster since its incorporation in 1988. The levee surrounding the area, fittingly named the Gumbo Flats, breeched in four separate places, the result of a perfect storm of high winter snow volumes and dangerously high levels of rainfall, among a multitude of other indirect factors. Massive flooding drowned the lowland area, leaving the entire Valley submerged under eleven feet of water.
But the flood itself is not the focal point of this article; the real story is how a suburban town, barely five years old, rallied around its residents, city officials, state legislators, and federal agencies to restore, renovate and evolve the Chesterfield Valley area into a real estate goldmine. By analyzing hundreds of city press releases and examining administrative action plans, I determined the critical decisions made regarding the renovation of the levee and the sources of funding that built the now-thriving Chesterfield Commons. In particular, levee enlargement and tax increment financing (TIF) catalyzed the creation of a corporate and community real estate mecca.
Throughout the history of modern disasters, the profitability of capitalism in the wake of a disaster has proven to be a common, and primary, factor in successful restoration and rejuvenation projects. Kevin Rozario, author of What Comes Down Must Go Up, presents the idea of creative destruction as a basis for how disasters pave the way for capitalistic business endeavors. He argues, “so deeply has the link between disaster and development become that even those who have fought most vigorously to contain the ravages of capital have tended to view further destruction as the necessary precondition for healing modernity’s harms” . The Chesterfield Valley is an exemplary model of this belief system, a true “out of the ashes rises the phoenix,” where ingenuity and community came together to direct infrastructure development, and an entire town’s willingness to inject finances where they were needed most established the foundation for a suburban city’s billion-dollar-and-counting economic powerhouse.
2019-07-24T15:22:29Z
2019-07-24T15:22:29Z
2019
Thesis
http://hdl.handle.net/1808/29411
openAccess
Copyright 2019, Ben Berardi
Department of History, University of Kansas
oai:kuscholarworks.ku.edu:1808/134252020-09-16T15:21:13Zcom_1808_776com_1808_21com_1808_12535col_1808_26619col_1808_23col_1808_13046
2014-04-08T21:34:42Z
urn:hdl:1808/13425
Marriage Contracts in Fifteenth-Century Normany: An Examination of MSD47 at the Spencer Research Library
Whittaker, Beth M.
Nelson, Lynn
This is a Senior Honors Thesis submitted to the
Department of History of the University of Kansas
in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the
Degree of Bachelor of Arts. The complete text of MSD47, the Charter Book of Raoul de Campront, is included as a supplement to http://hdl.handle.net/1808/6664.
2014-04-08T21:34:42Z
2014-04-08T21:34:42Z
1992-01-01
Undergraduate research project
http://hdl.handle.net/1808/13425
https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4923-4484
openAccess
Department of History, University of Kansas
oai:kuscholarworks.ku.edu:1808/348462023-11-14T07:06:00Zcom_1808_12535col_1808_13046
2023-11-13T22:14:09Z
urn:hdl:1808/34846
“ALL IS VANITY AND EVANESCENCE”: MANIFESTATIONS OF PURE LAND BUDDHISM WITHIN THE TALE OF THE HEIKE
Pottorf, Nicolas Eric
Submitted to the Department of History of the University of Kansas in partial fulfillment of the requirements for departmental honors.
2023-11-13T22:14:09Z
2023-11-13T22:14:09Z
2023-04-25
Thesis
https://hdl.handle.net/1808/34846
openAccess
Copyright 2023: Nicolas Eric Pottorf
Department of History, University of Kansas
oai:kuscholarworks.ku.edu:1808/265372018-07-09T22:16:27Zcom_1808_12535col_1808_13046
2018-06-20T15:22:04Z
urn:hdl:1808/26537
Stereotyping : a communication barrier to the effective medical care of the urban poor
Beyer, Diane C.
Honors thesis
2018-06-20T15:22:04Z
2018-06-20T15:22:04Z
1970
Undergraduate research project
http://hdl.handle.net/1808/26537
openAccess
This work is in the public domain and is available for users to copy, use, and redistribute in part or in whole. No known restrictions apply to the work.
University of Kansas
oai:kuscholarworks.ku.edu:1808/327832022-06-20T08:01:09Zcom_1808_12535col_1808_13046
2022-06-17T18:30:01Z
urn:hdl:1808/32783
The New Negro Woman: African-American Womanhood, Respectability, and Power in the Early Twentieth Century
Henderson, Riana
Fashion
Black Women
United States
Early 20th Century
New Negro Woman
New Negro Movement
Feminism
Femininity
Submitted to the Department of History of the University of Kansas in partial fulfillment of the requirements for departmental honors
This thesis seeks to shed light on the construct of the New Negro Woman as the start of Black female activism and identity. It grapples with the implications of Black womanhood in the early twentieth century (1900 to 1919), as African-Americans across the country would seek new opportunity, advancement, enterprise, and integration into American society under the New Negro Movement. The New Negro Woman was one form of this advancement, a model of educated, hardworking, ladylike, and modest Black womanhood free from the stereotypes of slavery. Fashion and respectability became tools used by Black women to subvert stereotypes surrounding their supposed ignorance and masculine quality. This new form of Black womanhood would have an impact on power, activism, classism, and colorism in the Black community. These discussions were illustrated in fashion magazines, such as The Colored American and Half Century Magazine, and in the voices of Margaret Murray Washington and Mary Church Terrell. The legacy and history of the New Negro Woman is relevant today, as the New Negro Woman was an empowering figure, yet the construct's colorism and respectability politics are still points of contention in the Black community.
2022-06-17T18:30:01Z
2022-06-17T18:30:01Z
2022-04-18
Thesis
http://hdl.handle.net/1808/32783
openAccess
Copyright 2022 Riana Henderson
Department of History, University of Kansas
oai:kuscholarworks.ku.edu:1808/265422018-07-09T22:16:27Zcom_1808_12535col_1808_13046
2018-06-20T15:22:05Z
urn:hdl:1808/26542
Crisis in epideixis : Ronald Reagan's State of the Union addresses as epideictic successes and deliberative failures
McAtee, Darin Patrick
Honors thesis
2018-06-20T15:22:05Z
2018-06-20T15:22:05Z
1988
Undergraduate research project
http://hdl.handle.net/1808/26542
openAccess
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University of Kansas
oai:kuscholarworks.ku.edu:1808/266352018-09-06T14:26:45Zcom_1808_776com_1808_12535col_1808_26619col_1808_13046
2018-07-11T17:24:23Z
urn:hdl:1808/26635
"The Fewer the Men, The Greater the Honor": The Naval Doctrine of Republicanism in the First Barbary War
Bednasek, Parker Black
Brown, Marie
Cooper, Joseph
Jahanbani, Sheyda
The First Barbary War was a naval conflict fought between the United States and Tripoli from 1801-1805 over the payment of “tribute” to Tripoli so they would not seize American merchant ships. The Jefferson Administration believed that the war would not take more than a few months but it ended up lasting a desultory four years. There were two main theoretical concepts that impacted the war – the idea of the proper role and size of a republican military power and the internal struggle of the U.S. Navy for professionalism and leadership. These two concepts influenced the development of the naval doctrine of republicanism for the U.S. Navy which can be characterized by limited size, firm, yet humane leadership, and aggressiveness toward the enemy. This doctrine is best exemplified by Commodore Edward Preble’s who had a great impact on the young naval officers who fought under him and who would come to lead the U.S. Navy for years afterwards
2018-07-11T17:24:23Z
2018-07-11T17:24:23Z
2018
Undergraduate research project
http://hdl.handle.net/1808/26635
openAccess
Department of History, University of Kansas
oai:kuscholarworks.ku.edu:1808/348442023-11-14T07:06:10Zcom_1808_12535col_1808_13046
2023-11-13T22:03:44Z
urn:hdl:1808/34844
“AD ASTRA PER ASTRONAUTA”: BRINGING THE PUBLIC “UP TO SPACE” AND ASTRONAUTS “DOWN TO EARTH”
Klinock, Austin
Submitted to the Department of History of the University of Kansas in partial fulfillment of the requirements for departmental honors.
2023-11-13T22:03:44Z
2023-11-13T22:03:44Z
2023-04-19
Thesis
https://hdl.handle.net/1808/34844
openAccess
Copyright 2023: Austin Klinock
Department of History, University of Kansas
oai:kuscholarworks.ku.edu:1808/265412018-07-09T22:16:27Zcom_1808_12535col_1808_13046
2018-06-20T15:22:04Z
urn:hdl:1808/26541
An attempt at experimental validation of the authoritarianism scale
Lockhart, Anne S.
Honors thesis
2018-06-20T15:22:04Z
2018-06-20T15:22:04Z
1967
Undergraduate research project
http://hdl.handle.net/1808/26541
openAccess
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University of Kansas
oai:kuscholarworks.ku.edu:1808/292902021-10-28T19:25:52Zcom_1808_12535col_1808_13046
2019-06-11T20:32:21Z
urn:hdl:1808/29290
If It’s Not Broke, Break It, and then Break It Again: Understanding [Cp*Rh] Catalysts for Hydrogen Evolution by Investigation of Remarkably Inert Analogues
Boyd, Emily A.
Blakemore, James
Electrochemistry
Thermochemistry
Hydrogen evolution
Catalysis
Redox chemistry
This undergraduate thesis was submitted in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the Degree of Bachelor of Science with Honors in Chemistry
Monomeric half-sandwich rhodium hydride complexes are often proposed as intermediates in catalytic cycles, but relatively few such compounds have been isolated and studied, limiting understanding of their properties. In this thesis, the preparation of a monomeric rhodium(III) hydride complex bearing the pentamethylcyclopentadienyl (Cp*) and bis(diphenylphosphino)benzene (dppb) ligands is reported. The hydride complex is formed rapidly upon addition of weak acid to a reduced precursor complex, Cp*Rh(dppb). Single-crystal X-ray diffraction data for the [Cp*Rh] hydride, which were previously unavailable for this class of compounds, provide evidence of the direct Rh–H interaction. Complementary infrared spectra show the Rh–H stretching frequency at 1986 cm–1. In contrast to results with other [Cp*Rh] complexes bearing diimine ligands, treatment of the isolated hydride with strong acid does not result in hydrogen evolution. Electrochemical studies reveal that the hydride complex can be reduced only at very negative potentials (ca. –2.5 V vs. ferrocenium/ferrocene), resulting in Rh–H bond cleavage and hydrogen generation. Experimentally determined thermochemical parameters for reactions of the [Cp*Rh] hydride and its reduced form provide a rationale for the observed reactivity differences between the dppb and analogous diimine frameworks that can generate H2 with moderately strong acids. These results are discussed in the context of development of design rules for improved catalysts bearing the [Cp*] ligand.
To gain further insight into the electronic properties of the phosphine-based ligands that favor metal hydrides and limit catalysis, a second series of [Cp*Rh] complexes supported by the redox-active bidentate diphosphine ligand bis(diphenylphosphino)ferrocene (dppf) is described, with particular attention paid to the outcomes of proton and electron transfer on this framework. Notably, Cp*Rh(dppf) exhibits a quasireversible RhII/I reduction at –0.96 V vs. Fc+/0 rather than undergoing a net 2e– RhIII/I process as is often observed on the [Cp*Rh] platform. This behavior provides access to a species in the relatively uncommon rhodium(II) oxidation state which has been characterized by electron paramagnetic resonance spectroscopy. Protonation of Cp*Rh(dppf) results in formation of an isolable [Cp*Rh] monohydride that is inert to protonolysis, providing a second example of the stabilizing effect bidentate diphosphine ligands have on Rh–H bonds. The quasireversibility of the dppf-centered FeIII/II couple of the rhodium monohydride [Cp*Rh(dppf)H]+ at +0.41 V vs. the ferrocenium/ferrocene redox couple facilitates a rigorous thermochemical analysis of the system, from which we have determined that oxidation centered at the dppf ligand results in dramatically increased acidity of the Rh–H bond by 23 pKa units.
2019-06-11T20:32:21Z
2019-06-11T20:32:21Z
2019-05
Thesis
http://hdl.handle.net/1808/29290
openAccess
Copyright 2019, Emily A. Boyd
Department of Chemistry, University of Kansas
oai:kuscholarworks.ku.edu:1808/265442018-07-09T22:16:27Zcom_1808_12535col_1808_13046
2018-06-20T15:22:05Z
urn:hdl:1808/26544
The rhetoric of isolation : a study of selected prison writings
Payne, Arnold David
Honors thesis
2018-06-20T15:22:05Z
2018-06-20T15:22:05Z
1974
Undergraduate research project
http://hdl.handle.net/1808/26544
openAccess
This work is in the public domain and is available for users to copy, use, and redistribute in part or in whole. No known restrictions apply to the work.
University of Kansas
oai:kuscholarworks.ku.edu:1808/265382018-07-09T22:16:27Zcom_1808_12535col_1808_13046
2018-06-20T15:22:04Z
urn:hdl:1808/26538
An economic model of intransitivity : its application to persuasion
Bliese, Nancy Wood
Honors thesis
2018-06-20T15:22:04Z
2018-06-20T15:22:04Z
1968
Undergraduate research project
http://hdl.handle.net/1808/26538
openAccess
This work is in the public domain and is available for users to copy, use, and redistribute in part or in whole. No known restrictions apply to the work.
University of Kansas
oai:kuscholarworks.ku.edu:1808/293502020-09-22T20:17:39Zcom_1808_776com_1808_12535col_1808_26619col_1808_13046
2019-06-19T16:18:20Z
urn:hdl:1808/29350
Fritz Kuhn's Nazi America: Kuhn's Growth and Destruction of the German American Bund in the 1930s
Wolf, Cameron
This thesis was submitted to the Department of History of the University of Kansas in partial fulfillment of the requirements for departmental honors.
The German American Bund was the most influential and dangerous American Nazi organization to exist before the destruction of Hitler’s Germany. Building itself from the remnants of two Nazi organizations that failed to establish any kind of true legitimacy, the Bund saw an explosion of its’ prestige due to their leader: Fritz Kuhn. This paper will argue that no other group established themselves to the same degree, as a legitimate Nazi Organization within American culture as the German American Bund. Conversely as the perception of the Bund within society grew as a legitimate threat to democracy as Hitler’s army moved throughout Europe, the social conditions within the United States during the 1930s exacerbated the attraction to the Bund and inflamed the desire of the government to see the Bund’s demise. It is vitally important to understanding how Nazism, and political dissidence gains attraction and support as there has been a resurgence of pro-Nazi activity within culture today.
2019-06-19T16:18:20Z
2019-06-19T16:18:20Z
2019-04
Thesis
http://hdl.handle.net/1808/29350
openAccess
Copyright 2019, Cameron Wolf
Department of History, University of Kansas
oai:kuscholarworks.ku.edu:1808/80892020-08-20T13:32:09Zcom_1808_1260com_1808_12535col_1808_7158col_1808_13046
2011-09-30T20:32:54Z
urn:hdl:1808/8089
A Tribute to an Educator, Horace Mann
Gilmore, Mary
2011-09-30T20:32:54Z
2011-09-30T20:32:54Z
1884
Undergraduate research project
http://hdl.handle.net/1808/8089
openAccess
This work is in the public domain according to U.S. copyright law and is available for users to copy, use, and redistribute in part or in whole. No known restrictions apply to the work.
University of Kansas
oai:kuscholarworks.ku.edu:1808/267022018-09-07T08:00:54Zcom_1808_735com_1808_408com_1808_12535col_1808_32786col_1808_10179col_1808_13046
2018-09-06T13:51:28Z
urn:hdl:1808/26702
“Annexation or Reunification?” Linguistic Appraisal of German and Russian news reporting on Crimea
Cassidy, Lauren
“Fake News” has reached new heights of contestation within recent times around the globe. Appraisal Theory provides a framework through which instances of news platforms’ positive and negative judgments can be identified, including their stances toward what counts as truthful reporting. Previously, researchers have identified the stances of news agencies by conducting linguistic analyses on news articles, showing how new agencies are able to assert their views through textual constructions. However, the expression of stance in German and Russian news articles showing different sides to the same conflict involving the Russian annexation of the Crimean peninsula has remained largely unexplored. To address this gap, I selected articles reporting on Russian involvement in Crimea from a liberal German news source, a conservative German news source, and a Russian-state sponsored news source based in Germany. Using a manual linguistic coder, I identified each instance of positive and negative attitude towards Russian involvement in Crimea within each news article. The analysis reveals that German and Russian news sources use different linguistic constructions to moralize Russian actions in Ukraine, with each side reporting information to support a German or Russian worldview respectively. The study shows how news agencies attempt to align readers with a particular worldview and that even if news sources appear to provide information from multiple sources or perspectives, they can still constitute bias.
2018-09-06T13:51:28Z
2018-09-06T13:51:28Z
2018-05-31
Undergraduate research project
http://hdl.handle.net/1808/26702
openAccess
Department of Germanic Languages & Literatures, University of Kansas
oai:kuscholarworks.ku.edu:1808/293302021-10-28T19:57:35Zcom_1808_12535col_1808_13046
2019-06-14T22:51:37Z
urn:hdl:1808/29330
The Rhodium Less Travelled: Understanding the Influence of Bipyridyl Ligand Substituents on [Cp*Rh] Catalysts for Hydrogen Evolution
Moore, William N. G.
This undergraduate thesis was submitted to the Faculty of the Department of Chemistry in Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for Departmental Honors in Chemistry
This thesis details a two-part investigation into the [Cp*Rh(bpy)] framework (where Cp* = pentamethylcyclopentadienyl and bpy = 2,2'-bipyridyl), a known platform for electrocatalytically generating hydrogen. Chapter 1 of this thesis describes an in-depth investigation into the characteristics of a [Cp*Rh] complex (1) bearing the 4,4´-dinitro-2,2´-bipyridyl (4,4´-NO2bpy) ligand and multiple reduced forms of 1. Isolated 1 was characterized by several forms of spectroscopy including nuclear magnetic resonance, electronic absorption, and mass spectrometry. Moreover, single crystals suitable for X-ray diffraction analysis were grown, and the structure of 1 solved with the help of Dr. Victor W. Day. Electrochemical studies reveal that 1 is the first example of a monometallic [Cp*Rh] complex that exhibits three quasi-reversible one-electron reductions and a fourth irreversible reduction. In these studies, a rather large spacing between the redox events (~ 0.5 V) suggested the possibility of isolating one or more of the reduced species. In accord with this theory, the singly reduced species (2) could be chemically prepared and isolated. UV-visible absorption spectra display new peaks that correspond to the readily observed color change from red/orange to green upon reduction of 1 to 2. X-band electron paramagnetic resonance spectroscopy confirms the paramagnetic nature of 2, and reveals a narrow signal at g = 2.006, consistent with the majority of the unpaired electron density being localized on the 4,4´-NO2bpy ligand. Cyclic voltammetry and spectroelectrochemistry further confirm that 2 is produced by both electrochemical and chemical reduction of 1, and that the second reduction of 1 is primarily metal-centered. Electrocatalytic studies reveal that the extremely electron-withdrawing nature of the nitro substituents effectively eliminates catalytic function, providing insight into the features that govern catalysis in [Cp*Rh] complexes.
Chapter 2 describes investigations of a second less-studied aspect of the [Cp*Rh(bpy)] framework: namely, the role of less symmetric substitution of the bipyridyl ligand in modulating reduction potentials and catalytic competence. In this work, a new divergent synthetic route was developed, in which known synthetic steps were strategically assembled to provide straightforward access to a small family of [Cp*Rh] complexes bearing a single substituent at the 4-position of the bpy ligand. The method thus developed enabled preparation of three new C1-symmetric complexes with different substitutions at the 4 position of one of the pyridine rings of the bpy ligand: –NO2 (3), –Cl (4), or –NH2 (6). NMR spectroscopic characterization supports successful formation of the new diamagnetic compounds. Hammett analysis reveals a dependence of intraligand charge transfer (ILCT) energy and metal-to-ligand or ligand-to-metal charge transfer (MLCT or LMCT) energy on the bpy ligand substituents, as reported by use of the σp+ parameter. Electrochemical studies also confirm a Hammett parameter dependence of the reduction potentials of the new compounds, confirming an important role for singly substituted bipyridyl-type ligands in influencing the electrochemical behavior of [Cp*Rh(bpy)]-type complexes. Specifically, the more electron-donating substituents (as judged via the σp– parameter) are associated with complexes displaying more negative reduction potentials. Building on the findings from Chapter 1, cyclic voltammograms collected with complex 3, bearing the 4-nitro-2,2´-bipyridyl ligand, reveal slow chloride ligand loss upon one-electron reduction, implicating significant stabilization of the singly-reduced form by the single electron-withdrawing nitro group. As the chemical and electrochemical properties of these complexes are readily modulated by substituent effects, the strategy of ligand modification can thus be realistically anticipated to afford fine-grained control of electrocatalysis in future studies.
2019-06-14T22:51:37Z
2019-06-14T22:51:37Z
2019-04
Thesis
http://hdl.handle.net/1808/29330
openAccess
Copyright 2019, William N. G. Moore
Department of Chemistry, University of Kansas
oai:kuscholarworks.ku.edu:1808/266392018-09-06T14:26:45Zcom_1808_776com_1808_12535col_1808_26619col_1808_13046
2018-07-11T18:09:50Z
urn:hdl:1808/26639
"And He Was an Arab!": Imperial Femininity and Pleasure in E.M. Hull's 1919 Desert Romance, The Sheik
Glennemeier, Jaelyn
Brown, Marie
Wilson, Aimee
Wood, Nathan
E.M. Hull’s sensational novel The Sheik thrilled and shocked early twentieth century readers with its tale of a woman’s journey into the Sahara desert and her interracial sexual desire for the brooding Arab sheik who captures her. The groundbreaking book made the mysterious and thrilling Arabian desert accessible to working class readership and broke the rules on what was acceptable on the written page. This paper contextualizes The Sheik within the “golden age” of women’s travel writing by comparing the journey of its heroine, Diana Mayo, to the non-fiction travel accounts of other pioneers of Middle Eastern travel. The memoirs of Gertrude Bell, Lady Mary Montagu, and E.M. Hull reveal an shared imperial identity unique to white women of the British Empire. It is an identity founded in the newly acquired autonomy granted to women through their physical mobility in the desert and their negotiations of gender in the early twentieth century. In exploring this identity, this paper demonstrates Hull’s use of fiction to test the bounds of white women’s engagement with the Middle East and their participation in the Orientalist fantasies based in sex, desire, and liberation from which they had been historically excluded.
2018-07-11T18:09:50Z
2018-07-11T18:09:50Z
2018
Undergraduate research project
http://hdl.handle.net/1808/26639
openAccess
Department of History, University of Kansas
oai:kuscholarworks.ku.edu:1808/265432018-07-09T22:16:27Zcom_1808_12535col_1808_13046
2018-06-20T15:22:05Z
urn:hdl:1808/26543
Harry Truman's 1948 non-political tour
McKinley, Scott S. O.
Honors thesis
2018-06-20T15:22:05Z
2018-06-20T15:22:05Z
1979
Undergraduate research project
http://hdl.handle.net/1808/26543
openAccess
This work is in the public domain and is available for users to copy, use, and redistribute in part or in whole. No known restrictions apply to the work.
University of Kansas
oai:kuscholarworks.ku.edu:1808/327632022-06-19T21:15:52Zcom_1808_12535col_1808_13046
2022-05-16T18:30:14Z
urn:hdl:1808/32763
Towing the Line: The State of Minnesota’s Dichotomy as Both a Regulator and Promoter of Sportfishing
Sprau, Sloan
Submitted to the Department of History of the University of Kansas in partial fulfillment of the requirements for departmental honors
Submitted to the Department of History of the University of Kansas in partial fulfillment of the requirements for departmental honors
2022-05-16T18:30:14Z
2022-05-16T18:30:14Z
2022-05-31
Thesis
http://hdl.handle.net/1808/32763
openAccess
© 2022 Sloan Sprau. All Rights Reserved.
Department of History, University of Kansas
oai:kuscholarworks.ku.edu:1808/310392022-02-22T22:49:41Zcom_1808_12535col_1808_13046
2021-01-05T21:17:31Z
urn:hdl:1808/31039
Presbyterians in Persia: Christianity, Cooperation, and Control in Building the Mission at Orumiyeh
Kidwell, Natalie
Brown, Marie G.
Rosenthal, Anton
Brody, Sam
Persia
Iran
Missionaries
Christianity
Imperialism
This thesis was submitted to the Department of History of the University of Kansas in partial fulfillment of the requirements for departmental honors.
The establishment of a mission station in Orumiyeh, Persia was the beginning of a vast mission project in the country — spanning more than 100 years and resulting in the appointment of the first United States minister to Persia. This mission was the result of a series of coincidences and particularities, including the socio-economic and political situation of the community of Assyrian Christians to whom it was directed. Beyond this, however, the mission was founded on friendship and affection between Assyrian Christians living in Orumiyeh and the American missionaries. This intersection of familiarity and foreignness, ensconced in recollections of linguistic developments, shared religious practice, and everyday moments spent together, reveal much about the fragile, complicated, and ultimately intimate nature of empire.
2021-01-05T21:17:31Z
2021-01-05T21:17:31Z
2020-05
Thesis
http://hdl.handle.net/1808/31039
openAccess
Copyright 2020, Natalie Kidwell
Department of History, University of Kansas
oai:kuscholarworks.ku.edu:1808/266382018-09-06T14:26:45Zcom_1808_776com_1808_12535col_1808_26619col_1808_13046
2018-07-11T17:57:08Z
urn:hdl:1808/26638
Rewriting History: The Impact of the Cuban Missile Crisis on American Journalism
Fay, Kelcie E.
Jahanbani, Sheyda
Farber, David
Hagel, Jonathan
The Cuban Missile Crisis represented a unique moment in the history of American foreign policy because it was the first time that the world faced a nuclear standoff. The threat of a third World War allowed US government officials to deceive the press under the guise of protecting national security. Since the fall of the Berlin Wall and the release of thousands of documents from ex-Soviet and American archives, historians are rethinking the narrative of the Cuban Missile Crisis that has been presented in the press during and after the crisis. This paper will explore the relationship that President Kennedy cultivated with the press to promote his political agenda and the impact that this relationship had on the reporting of future foreign policy crises.
2018-07-11T17:57:08Z
2018-07-11T17:57:08Z
2018
Undergraduate research project
http://hdl.handle.net/1808/26638
openAccess
Department of History, University of Kansas
oai:kuscholarworks.ku.edu:1808/266432018-09-06T14:26:45Zcom_1808_776com_1808_12535col_1808_26619col_1808_13046
2018-07-11T19:32:35Z
urn:hdl:1808/26643
It’s Time to Talk of Other Things: of Black Power, War, and Beauty Queens
Vasquez, Alyssa D.
Bailey, Beth
Lewis, Adrian
Farber, David
The history of military entertainment has become more popular in recent years as scholars have begun to identify the insights that studying entertainment reveals about culture and institutions. This thesis presents a piece of this growing historiography by analyzing the roles of three Miss Black America pageant winners who toured Vietnam in 1970, 1971, and 1972. Despite the variable and sometimes unclear roles of these women, they ultimately boosted the morale of black service members and became symbols of black power, black beauty, and black culture during their tours.
2018-07-11T19:32:35Z
2018-07-11T19:32:35Z
2018
Undergraduate research project
http://hdl.handle.net/1808/26643
openAccess
Department of History, University of Kansas
oai:kuscholarworks.ku.edu:1808/210212020-09-22T20:08:25Zcom_1808_12535col_1808_13046
2016-06-24T16:35:07Z
urn:hdl:1808/21021
Inhibition of Runx by Ro5-3335 Affects Nematostella Regeneration
Tran, Christina
This undergraduate research project is being made available in KU ScholarWorks with the permission of the author. The project was supervised by Dr. Paulyn Cartwright, associate professor of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology at the University of Kansas.
The sea anemone, Nematostella vectensis, has the ability to fully regenerate amputated body parts. We hypothesize that Runx, a transcription factor, controls the cellular processes for regeneration, specifically the transition between cellular proliferation and cellular differentiation. A known inhibitor to the Runx pathway is Ro5-3335, a benzodiazepine. Inhibiting the Runx pathway by Ro5-3335 will help determine if Runx is necessary for proper regeneration in Nematostella. We introduced bisected Nematostella polyps to Ro5-3335 for a 24-48 period and observed regeneration of oral ends. Tentacle regeneration appeared delayed in treated polyps compared to the controls. It was not until three weeks post-treatment that the treated animals recovered normal regeneration. We conclude that Ro5-3335 appears to repress regeneration in the polyps which suggests that the Runx pathway is important for proper regeneration in Nematostella.
2016-06-24T16:35:07Z
2016-06-24T16:35:07Z
2016-01-25
Undergraduate research project
http://hdl.handle.net/1808/21021
openAccess
Department of Ecology & Evolutionary Biology, University of Kansas
oai:kuscholarworks.ku.edu:1808/327662022-05-28T08:00:59Zcom_1808_12535col_1808_13046
2022-05-27T19:47:55Z
urn:hdl:1808/32766
Timing of Brittle Deformation in the Cañon City Embayment, CO: Laser Ablation U-Pb Dating of Carbonate Fractures
Center, Marc A.
Moeller, Andreas
Cañon City embayment
Rocky Mountain Front Range
Laser ablation inductively coupled plasma mass spectrometry
Geochronology
Uranium lead dating of carbonate veins
This thesis was submitted to the Department of Geology of the University of Kansas in partial fulfillment of the requirements for departmental honors.
Currently, little is known about the exact timings of brittle deformation present in the Rocky Mountain Front Range. U-Pb carbonate dating via laser ablation is an emerging field that greatly broadens the potential to date deformation features, especially fault-hosted carbonate deposits. We have tested the feasibility of dating carbonate veins on samples from three different locations in the Cañon City embayment of the Rocky Mountain Front Range.
The results indicate that it is possible to date the carbonate veins crosscutting the Jurassic Morrison Fm. with low uncertainty, 110.4 ± 1.4 Ma, using this approach, which puts this in the timeframe of continuing sedimentation in the basin, prior to uplift of the Rocky Mountains. Fault-hosted carbonate veins in the Ordovician Harding Fm. yield scattered data interpreted as reflecting repeated precipitation of carbonate with the oldest event at ~100 Ma and the youngest between ~12 Ma and ~6 Ma. Ages range from early Cretaceous to Neogene and likely reflect the results of multiple fluid flow events associated with uplift in the area. Fluid events probably coincide with the different stages of uplift, which created the total current elevation (~2-3km) of the Colorado Plateau and Rocky Mountains. Major regional events include the flat slab subduction during the Laramide Orogeny and lithospheric delamination. However, the evidence of deformation occurring prior to the Laramide Orogeny poses new questions about the region. U-Pb carbonate dating using laser ablation - inductively coupled mass spectrometry (LA-ICP-MS) is highly applicable to the Front Range and future work will use this method to create a detailed deformation history of the area.
2022-05-27T19:47:55Z
2022-05-27T19:47:55Z
2022-05-11
Thesis
http://hdl.handle.net/1808/32766
openAccess
Copyright 2022 Marc A. Center
Department of Geology, University of Kansas
oai:kuscholarworks.ku.edu:1808/293312021-10-28T19:42:10Zcom_1808_12535col_1808_13046
2019-06-14T23:12:04Z
urn:hdl:1808/29331
An Adventure in Space (Group) and (Reaction) Time: Divergent Synthesis of Heterobimetallic Complexes of Zinc with Lewis Acids
Kelsey, Shaun R.
This undergraduate thesis was submitted In partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Bachelor of Science with Honors in Chemistry.
Assembly of heterobimetallic complexes is challenging due to the propensity of ditopic ligands to bind metals unselectively. This challenge is exacerbated in situations in which two redox-inactive metals are to be coordinated within one ligand framework, as such metals can bind in a variety of coordination environments. In this thesis, the preparation and isolation of four heterobimetallic complexes of zinc, a redox-inactive first-row transition metal, with a range of other redox-inactive Lewis acidic metals (Na+, Ca2+, Nd3+, and Y3+) are reported. The complexes were prepared via a divergent route in which a common monometallic zinc complex featuring a crown-ether-like site within a macrocyclic structure was selectively metallated with triflate salts of sodium, calcium, neodymium, and yttrium. One-dimensional 1H and two-dimensional 1H–1H Correlation Spectroscopy (COSY) Nuclear Magnetic Resonance (NMR) studies provide robust support for synthesis of the target heterobimetallic compounds. Single crystals suitable for X-ray diffraction analysis were grown of the [Zn,Nd] complex, revealing the expected atomic connectivity within the macrocyclic framework. In the solid state, the zinc center is five-coordinate, with a terminal acetonitrile ligand; this finding contrasts with the structure of the analogous [Ni,Nd] complex that instead features a four-coordinate nickel center. These results are discussed in the context of developing model compounds for study of the spectroscopic and electrochemical properties of heterobimetallic complexes containing redox-inactive Lewis acids.
2019-06-14T23:12:04Z
2019-06-14T23:12:04Z
2019-05
Thesis
http://hdl.handle.net/1808/29331
openAccess
Copyright 2019, Shaun R. Kelsey
Department of Chemistry, University of Kansas
oai:kuscholarworks.ku.edu:1808/348422023-11-14T07:06:42Zcom_1808_12535col_1808_13046
2023-11-13T21:54:29Z
urn:hdl:1808/34842
Decolonizing the Wakarusa Museum: The Role of Public Education and Forced Displacement Within the Settler Colonial Structure
Cox, Claire
Submitted to the Department of History of the University of Kansas in partial fulfillment of the requirements for departmental honors.
The Wakarusa River Valley Heritage Museum aims to preserve, collect, and display the history of the Wakarusa River Valley before the construction of Clinton Lake. However, Indigenous perspectives and Native voices have been omitted from the historical narrative. To this day, the Wakarusa Museum does not acknowledge the Native American history that was submerged beneath Clinton Lake. As a result, the Wakarusa Museum is an institution of colonization. This thesis argues that the Wakarusa Museum exemplifies the consequences of living under a settler colonial empire by exposing two foundational pillars of settler colonialism: public education and forced displacement.
2023-11-13T21:54:29Z
2023-11-13T21:54:29Z
2023-04-11
Thesis
https://hdl.handle.net/1808/34842
openAccess
Copyright 2023 Claire Cox
Department of History, University of Kansas
oai:kuscholarworks.ku.edu:1808/310182023-02-07T17:06:51Zcom_1808_12535col_1808_13046
2020-12-24T04:00:28Z
urn:hdl:1808/31018
A Critical Geopolitical Analysis of Urban/Suburban Green Spaces: Meadowbrook Park as a Material Discourse
Hane, Madisen K.
This project was created for the EVRN 371 class and presented at the 2020 Fall Undergraduate Research Symposium online event, held November 30th-December 4th. The Symposium was sponsored by the KU Center for Undergraduate Research.
This presentation is a critical geopolitical analysis of urban and suburban green spaces using Meadowbrook Park as an example of a material discourse. This presentation emphasizes a critical geopolitical approach to analyzing a physical space, which is Meadowbrook Park. Critical geopolitical analysis aims to unpack a place, text or idea and to think of these things as a narrative with a deeper meaning and to identify what may be hidden or obscured in that narrative.
2020-12-24T04:00:28Z
2020-12-24T04:00:28Z
2020
Presentation
http://hdl.handle.net/1808/31018
https://youtu.be/EF0vTb_xaGo
openAccess
Copyright 2020, Madisen K. Hane
Environmental Studies Program, University of Kansas
oai:kuscholarworks.ku.edu:1808/80932020-06-26T20:18:15Zcom_1808_1260com_1808_12535col_1808_7158col_1808_13046
2011-09-30T20:57:46Z
urn:hdl:1808/8093
A Review of the Fisheries Dispute
Markley, Albert Calvin
2011-09-30T20:57:46Z
2011-09-30T20:57:46Z
1887
Undergraduate research project
http://hdl.handle.net/1808/8093
en_US
openAccess
This work is in the public domain according to U.S. copyright law and is available for users to copy, use, and redistribute in part or in whole. No known restrictions apply to the work.
University of Kansas
oai:kuscholarworks.ku.edu:1808/343842023-06-17T06:07:09Zcom_1808_12535col_1808_13046
2023-06-16T17:10:31Z
urn:hdl:1808/34384
Cations on Board, Ready for Takeoff: Using Vanadyl and Its Terminal Oxo to Probe Ligand Donor Strength in Heterobimetallic Complexes
Dopp, Claire
Blakemore, James
Vanadium chemistry
Redox
X-ray diffraction (XRD) analysis
Infrared spectroscopy
Electron paramagnetic resonance (EPR)
Cyclic voltammetry (CV)
Submitted to the Faculty of the Department of Chemistry in Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for Departmental Honors in Chemistry.
The coordination chemistry of heterobimetallic complexes has become a highly studied research topic in the broader field of inorganic chemistry. This can be attributed in part to the appealing opportunities that are afforded by assembly of well-defined complexes containing two (or more) different metals. In particular, it has been shown that the properties of a core metal center can be systematically varied by incorporation of secondary metal cations in close proximity. In this thesis, a possible origin of these tuning effects has been explored though use of the vanadyl moiety as a spectroscopic and structural probe. Vanadyl, or oxovanadium(IV), is a dicationic, paramagnetic species bearing a terminal oxo ligand that is quite chemically robust, making it ideal for use as a probe moiety. The studies presented in this thesis represent an extended examination of the origin of such tuning effects, with a particular attention paid to adapting synthesis and characterization methods to complexities that arise due to inclusion of vanadyl. Chapter 1 describes structural, spectroscopic, and electrochemical studies conducted with heterobimetallic vanadyl complexes containing a series of mono-valent cations (i.e., potassium) and a di-valent cation (calcium). This chapter mentions the synthesis of a heterobimetallic complex incorporating the lithium cation, but this compound and its speciation profile are described in detail in Chapter 2. The complex containing lithium appears to behave differently than the other heterobimetallic complexes reported here and thus it is described separately. Chapter 3 describes spectroscopic experimentation on heterobimetallic complexes based on the same ligand framework as those in Chapters 1 and 2 but presents expansion of our previous series of complexes to analogues containing trivalent cations. Taken together, the results assembled in this thesis paint a comprehensive picture of the tuning effects that Lewis acidic metal cations can exert on the vanadyl ion.
2023-06-16T17:10:31Z
2023-06-16T17:10:31Z
2023-05
Thesis
https://hdl.handle.net/1808/34384
openAccess
Copyright © 2023 by Claire Dopp
Department of Chemistry, University of Kansas
oai:kuscholarworks.ku.edu:1808/348452023-11-14T07:06:58Zcom_1808_12535col_1808_13046
2023-11-13T22:08:10Z
urn:hdl:1808/34845
Repatriation Beyond the Borderlands: The Impact of the Depression of 1921 on Kansas City's Mexican Immigrants During the Great Depression
Madrigal, Anna
Submitted to the Department of History of the University of Kansas in partial fulfillment of the requirements for departmental honors.
During the Great Depression, federal, state, and local authorities throughout the United States utilized large-scale deportation raids and repatriation to eject an estimated 400,000 Mexicans and Mexican-Americans from the country. While previous studies of Mexican repatriation during the Great Depression focus on larger communities near the U.S.-Mexico border, there are very few academic discussions of what repatriation looked like in the Midwest and beyond. The Kansas City metropolitan area contains one of the largest communities of Mexican immigrants in the United States outside of the borderlands. Unlike in Los Angeles, San Antonio, or even Chicago, authorities in Kansas City used large-scale Mexican repatriation in Kansas City prior to the Great Depression, and ultimately learned that repatriation is a temporary solution to a perennial issue. This senior thesis analyzes how Kansas City authorities used repatriation during the Depression of 1921, the ineffectiveness of repatriation in slowing the growth of the Kansas City barrio, and the community-building that took place between 1921 and 1929 that proved crucial to the staying power of Mexicans in Kansas City through the Great Depression.
2023-11-13T22:08:10Z
2023-11-13T22:08:10Z
2023-04-19
Thesis
https://hdl.handle.net/1808/34845
openAccess
Copyright 2023 Anna Madrigal
Department of History, University of Kansas
oai:kuscholarworks.ku.edu:1808/252102020-09-22T20:07:00Zcom_1808_12535col_1808_13046
2017-10-26T20:12:38Z
urn:hdl:1808/25210
A Comprehensive Investigation of Mercaptoazulenes & Their Complexes with Monovalent Gold
Tappan, Bryce
Discussed herein are the syntheses and characterization of a family of azulenylthiolate gold(I) complexes, which show promise for applications in the fields of molecular electronics and luminescent chemosensing. The reactivities and the photoluminescent behavior of these systems were investigated via 1H NMR, electronic absorption, fluorescence, and phosphorescence spectroscopies. In addition, single-crystal X-ray crystallography was employed to reveal key structural features of several of the mercaptoazulene ligands and azulenylthiolate gold(I) complexes to provide insight into the origins of these species’ unique physicochemical properties. TD-DFT calculations were performed to aid in the interpretation of electronic absorption and photoluminescence spectra. Finally, although not central to advancing the knowledge of these systems, this thesis also provides a complete description of experimental pitfalls that one may need to avoid in attempting to synthesize and characterize such complexes.
2017-10-26T20:12:38Z
2017-10-26T20:12:38Z
2016-05-13
Undergraduate research project
http://hdl.handle.net/1808/25210
openAccess
Department of Chemistry, University of Kansas
oai:kuscholarworks.ku.edu:1808/130472020-09-22T20:18:50Zcom_1808_12535col_1808_13046
2014-02-11T17:41:10Z
urn:hdl:1808/13047
Secular Music in Reform and Dispersed-Harmonic Tunebooks, 1820-1850
Fulton, Erin
Laird, Paul
This senior thesis was submitted in partial fulfillment of the degree of Bachelor of Music in Musicology.
In nineteenth-century America, tunebooks—collections of hymnody and psalmody in settings suitable for amateur performance—served and reflected multiple facets of musical culture. Although their most obvious purpose was to offer music for use in the church service, such collections also figured in domestic music-making and provided repertoire for recreational singing societies. In addition, they served as pedagogical aids in singing schools, the predominant vehicle of music education at the opening of the century. These same singing schools furnished a growing number of Americans with the skills to pursue vocal music inside or outside of church. A constant
demand for new tunebooks by this increasingly musically literate public had already fostered a lively native school of composition, including such figures as William Billings, Daniel Read, Supply Belcher, and Joseph Stone. The repertoire of these collections includes anthems and through-composed pieces along with psalm and hymn tunes of all descriptions: plain and florid, British and American. The majority of such pieces set sacred texts. Despite their relative scarcity, however, secular songs hold a distinctive role
in the tunebook repertoire and can serve to elucidate the more fundamental issue of competing styles of part-writing. Examination of these atypical pieces offers a glimpse into a facet of tunebook culture currently afforded little attention.
During the time period encompassed by this study, two styles of part-writing dominated American hymnody: dispersed-harmonic and reform. Although proponents of both movements shared an interest in increasing musical literacy and mproving standards of church-musical performance, the two had strikingly different ideologies and musical characteristics, as will be described below. Such dissimilarities persist in the area
of secular music. Dispersed-harmonic and reform tunebooks reflect divergent attitudes
regarding the appropriate uses of secular tunes, whether secular and sacred music should
be stylistically distinct from one another, the topics raised by secular texts, and the performance contexts in which secular music was sung.
The reformers, always concerned with regularizing church music, express more closely-defined views of secular song. Dispersed-harmonic compilers tend to take less prescriptive approaches to the subject, as evinced by the lack of a musically distinct secular style and the Christianization of secular pieces within the repertoire. This examination of twenty-seven tunebooks—encompassing reform, dispersed-harmonic, and
mixed types—reveals differences in the two part-writing styles specific to the secular
repertoire, while further clarifying the basic distinctions between the two.
2014-02-11T17:41:10Z
2014-02-11T17:41:10Z
2013-12-12
Undergraduate research project
http://hdl.handle.net/1808/13047
openAccess
School of Music, University of Kansas
oai:kuscholarworks.ku.edu:1808/266372018-09-06T14:26:45Zcom_1808_776com_1808_12535col_1808_26619col_1808_13046
2018-07-11T17:46:06Z
urn:hdl:1808/26637
The Lion, The Rooster, And The Union: National Identity in the Belgian Clandestine Press, 1914-1918
Dunn, Matthew R.
Denning, Andrew
Wood, Nathan
Scott, Erik
Significant research has been conducted on the trials and tribulations of Belgium during the First World War. While amateur historians can often summarize the “Rape of Belgium” and cite nationalism as a cause of the war, few people are aware of the substantial contributions of the Belgian people to the war effort and their significance, especially in the historical context of Belgian nationalism. Relatively few works have been written about the underground press in Belgium during the war, and even fewer of those works are scholarly. The Belgian underground press attempted to unite the country's two major national identities, Flemings and Walloons, using the German occupation as the catalyst to do so. Belgian nationalists were able to momentarily unite the Belgian people to resist their German occupiers by publishing pro-Belgian newspapers and articles. They relied on three pillars of identity—Catholic heritage, loyalty to the Belgian Crown, and anti-German sentiment. While this expansion of Belgian identity dissipated to an extent after WWI, the efforts of the clandestine press still serve as an important framework for the development of national identity today. By examining how the clandestine press convinced members of two separate nations, Flanders and Wallonia, to re-imagine their community to the nation of Belgium, historians can analyze the successful expansion of a nation in a war-time context.
2018-07-11T17:46:06Z
2018-07-11T17:46:06Z
2018
Undergraduate research project
http://hdl.handle.net/1808/26637
openAccess
Department of History, University of Kansas
oai:kuscholarworks.ku.edu:1808/293462020-09-22T20:11:59Zcom_1808_776com_1808_12535col_1808_26619col_1808_13046
2019-06-19T15:22:24Z
urn:hdl:1808/29346
Shifts in Tone: The Effects of the First World War on Classical Music
Halliwell, David
This thesis was submitted to the Department of History of the University of Kansas in partial fulfillment of the requirements for departmental honors.
This paper explores how the First World War affected the lives and compositions of Ralph Vaughan Williams, Maurice Ravel, and Arnold Schoenberg, three well-known twentieth-century composers who fought in the conflict on the British, French, and Austrian sides. The war affected the lives and compositions of these three men in significant, enduring, and divergent ways. The sharp differences in their compositional reactions to the war owe primarily to these authors' previous compositional styles, particularly their prewar approach to tonality, and their divergent wartime experiences, such as the extent of military service and traumatic events that paralleled the war. Despite their differences, a commonality was present; the war prompted these composers to change their view of tonality. More broadly, the war also led to compositions that were characteristically darker, more somber, and dedicated to the injured and deceased.
2019-06-19T15:22:24Z
2019-06-19T15:22:24Z
2019-04
Thesis
http://hdl.handle.net/1808/29346
openAccess
Copyright 2019, David Halliwell
Department of History, University of Kansas
oai:kuscholarworks.ku.edu:1808/327622022-06-19T21:16:36Zcom_1808_12535col_1808_13046
2022-05-11T16:59:04Z
urn:hdl:1808/32762
Three Elements Walk Into a Glovebox: Promoting Uncommon Redox Chemistry with Heterobimetallic Rhodium, Samarium, and Europium Complexes
Cosner, Emma L.
Chemistry
Inorganic
Organometallic
Metals
Lanthanides
Submitted to the Department of Chemistry of the University of Kansas in partial fulfillment of the requirements for departmental honors
The oxidation states accessible to a given metal center can significantly impact the reactivity that occurs at that site. Thus, an important goal within the field of inorganic and organometallic chemistry is the promotion of uncommon metal oxidation states; accessing these states could enable new chemistry and make positive impacts on, for example, sustainable energy technology. In this thesis, the theme of accessing uncommon oxidation states is explored with three redox-active systems built around rhodium, samarium, and europium heterobimetallic complexes. Chapter 1 describes the impact of ligand-centered redox activity on a metal hydride capable of hydrogen evolution. With a family of [Rh,Fe] heterobimetallic complexes, the thermochemical parameters that govern hydrogen evolution with this system have been determined. The thermochemical calculations predict that iron-centered oxidation acidifies a nearby rhodium hydride by 23 orders of magnitude; in situ proton NMR confirmed the drastic shift in acidity. Chapter 2 describes the use of heterobimetallic frameworks that place secondary redox-inactive metals in close proximity to redox-active lanthanide elements, with the goal of tuning the redox properties of the lanthanides, an area that has received far less attention than it deserves. Here, synthesis, characterization, and electrochemical studies of samarium and europium heterobimetallic complexes are reported; while we find that mono- and heterobimetallic samarium complexes have no observable redox activity under our conditions, the Eu(III/II) reduction potential was found to shift dramatically upon incorporation of secondary redox-inactive metals (350 mV for monocationic sodium and 620 mV for dicationic calcium). Taken together, these chapters reveal the power of secondary metals, both redox-inactive and redox-active, in facilitating reactivity with heterobimetallic complexes.
2022-05-11T16:59:04Z
2022-05-11T16:59:04Z
2022-05-01
Thesis
http://hdl.handle.net/1808/32762
embargoedAccess
© 2022 Emma L. Cosner. All Rights Reserved.
Department of Chemistry, University of Kansas
oai:kuscholarworks.ku.edu:1808/266362018-09-06T14:26:45Zcom_1808_776com_1808_12535col_1808_26619col_1808_13046
2018-07-11T17:38:37Z
urn:hdl:1808/26636
United Nations Resolutions 661: Intervention, Devastation and the Internal Collapse of 1990s Iraq
Bieberly, Mattie
Brown, Marie
Scott, Erik
Jahanbani, Sheyda
In 1945, the United Nations was created to uphold international peace and security. In order to ensure prosperity for all members of the international community, the United Nations implements economic sanctions against countries that violate pre-determined standards. Such was the case in August of 1990; when the United Nations created UN Resolution 661 in response to the Iraqi invasion of Kuwait. What followed was a 13-year sanctions regime against Iraq that created a humanitarian crisis, specifically in the areas of healthcare, infrastructure, and domestic economy. The use of sanctions by the United Nations violated their purported goal of promoting peace and prosperity for all. Instead, sanctions create more instability for the states they are placed on and the UN continues to prey on vulnerable populations by instituting sanctions, as happened in Iraq with UN Resolution 661.
2018-07-11T17:38:37Z
2018-07-11T17:38:37Z
2018
Undergraduate research project
http://hdl.handle.net/1808/26636
openAccess
Department of History, University of Kansas
oai:kuscholarworks.ku.edu:1808/85382020-06-30T02:01:12Zcom_1808_1260com_1808_12535col_1808_7158col_1808_13046
2011-11-23T21:26:39Z
urn:hdl:1808/8538
A Study of Terpeneless Lemon Extracts
Spilman, C. Clay
2011-11-23T21:26:39Z
2011-11-23T21:26:39Z
1912
Undergraduate research project
http://hdl.handle.net/1808/8538
en_US
openAccess
This work is in the public domain according to U.S. copyright law and is available for users to copy, use, and redistribute in part or in whole. No known restrictions apply to the work.
University of Kansas
oai:kuscholarworks.ku.edu:1808/293482020-09-22T20:15:57Zcom_1808_776com_1808_12535col_1808_26619col_1808_13046
2019-06-19T15:59:59Z
urn:hdl:1808/29348
The Great Italian Educator: The Montessori Method and American Nativism in the 1910s
Klaske, Elise M.
This thesis was submitted to the Department of History of the University of Kansas in partial fulfillment of the requirements for departmental honors
The purpose of this project is to investigate to what extent Protestant nativism impeded the spread of the Montessori Method in the United States. The Montessori Method has experienced waves of popularity in America ever since it was first introduced in 1910. During the first wave of popularity, from 1910-1917, Dr. Maria Montessori, the founder, faced backlash from educators and educational philosophers for her scientific reasoning and her pedagogical and social philosophies. Some Montessori historians believe that these factors were critical in halting the spread of the Montessori Method in America in 1917. An additional theory is that Montessori’s personal identity, as an Italian Catholic woman, impeded the reception of her ideas in America. Considering that the time period was characterized by anti-Catholic rhetoric from political organizations as well as newspapers and journals, the theory makes sense.
Research for this project was conducted by examining newspaper publications that covered the Montessori Method, rebuttals of the method published by American educators, and the books and articles written by Montessori advocates. Other primary sources include Catholic publications and Dr. Montessori’s own books and writings. Secondary sources, such as autobiographies of Maria Montessori’s life and examinations of nativist activity at the beginning of the 20th Century, help paint a picture of the state of America when Dr. Montessori visited in 1913. Overall, these sources indicate that anti-Catholic sentiments played a minor role, if any, in hampering the spread of the Montessori Method.
Maria Montessori’s publicist, Samuel S. McClure, crafted a particular public image for Montessori, compatible with themes of social reform, Progressive educational reform, and feminism, which would appeal to most Americans. The creation of this public image is significant as it was a manifestation of the cultural upheaval experienced during the early 20th century and had lasting implications for Progressive education and the future of the Montessori Method in America. Supporters for the method emphasized the scientific foundation of the method, Dr. Montessori’s ideas for social reform through education, and the compatibility of the method with American ideals of individual freedom and responsibility. In the end, other factors such as leading educators’ disapproval of different aspects of the method, World War I, and Dr. Montessori’s personality led to the decline of the Montessori Method in America at that time.
2019-06-19T15:59:59Z
2019-06-19T15:59:59Z
2019-04
Thesis
http://hdl.handle.net/1808/29348
openAccess
Copyright 2019, Elise M. Klaske
Department of History, University of Kansas
oai:kuscholarworks.ku.edu:1808/265362018-07-09T22:16:27Zcom_1808_12535col_1808_13046
2018-06-20T15:22:04Z
urn:hdl:1808/26536
The woman's rights movement, 1848 - 1885 : issues and argument
Turner, Kathleen J.
Honors thesis
2018-06-20T15:22:04Z
2018-06-20T15:22:04Z
1974
Undergraduate research project
http://hdl.handle.net/1808/26536
openAccess
This work is in the public domain and is available for users to copy, use, and redistribute in part or in whole. No known restrictions apply to the work.
University of Kansas
oai:kuscholarworks.ku.edu:1808/84582020-08-27T13:11:01Zcom_1808_1260com_1808_12535col_1808_7158col_1808_13046
2011-11-22T18:09:52Z
urn:hdl:1808/8458
A Study of Methods for the Determination of Potassium in Fertilizer
Hackman, Gene
2011-11-22T18:09:52Z
2011-11-22T18:09:52Z
1911
Undergraduate research project
http://hdl.handle.net/1808/8458
en_US
openAccess
This work is in the public domain according to U.S. copyright law and is available for users to copy, use, and redistribute in part or in whole. No known restrictions apply to the work.
University of Kansas
oai:kuscholarworks.ku.edu:1808/348472023-11-14T07:07:34Zcom_1808_12535col_1808_13046
2023-11-13T22:20:34Z
urn:hdl:1808/34847
A College Try: The People’s College of Fort Scott Kansas
Sours, Walter
Submitted to the Department of History of the University of Kansas in partial fulfillment of the requirements for departmental honors.
2023-11-13T22:20:34Z
2023-11-13T22:20:34Z
2023-11-11
Thesis
https://hdl.handle.net/1808/34847
openAccess
Copyright 2023: Walter Sours
Department of History, University of Kansas
oai:kuscholarworks.ku.edu:1808/294142019-07-26T08:00:39Zcom_1808_12535col_1808_13046
2019-07-25T22:36:44Z
urn:hdl:1808/29414
Corona Loss on Small Conductors
Parish, Claude L.
Brain, James W.
This senior thesis was submitted to the faculty of the School of Engineering and Architecture of the University of Kansas in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Bachelor of Science in Electrical Engineering.
2019-07-25T22:36:44Z
2019-07-25T22:36:44Z
1937
Thesis
http://hdl.handle.net/1808/29414
openAccess
University of Kansas
oai:kuscholarworks.ku.edu:1808/81082020-08-20T13:54:24Zcom_1808_1260com_1808_12535col_1808_7158col_1808_13046
2011-10-04T17:36:05Z
urn:hdl:1808/8108
The Literature of the Elizabethan Age
Moore, Luella Jane
2011-10-04T17:36:05Z
2011-10-04T17:36:05Z
1887
Undergraduate research project
http://hdl.handle.net/1808/8108
en
openAccess
This work is in the public domain according to U.S. copyright law and is available for users to copy, use, and redistribute in part or in whole. No known restrictions apply to the work.
University of Kansas
oai:kuscholarworks.ku.edu:1808/327822022-06-20T08:01:01Zcom_1808_12535col_1808_13046
2022-06-17T18:18:00Z
urn:hdl:1808/32782
Questions, Answers, and the American Dream: A Cultural History of the Quiz Show
Mirakian, Joseph
Quiz show
Cultural history
US popular culture
Submitted to the Department of History of the University of Kansas in partial fulfillment of the requirements for departmental honors
For as much of an impact as the great politicians and generals of yesteryear have had on the world’s current state and trajectory, the people themselves deserve equal recognition for getting their societies to where they are today. I do not say this merely in respect to the life’s work of each individual who has walked the earth but also in regard to the ideas and values that have been propagated and passed down through the generations, adapting accordingly to their ever-changing social, political, and economic surroundings. These ideas, which can be anything from specific ideological stances to national images to more innate concepts like freedom and justice, are commonly reflected in a society’s cultural output. Thus, by critically studying and contextualizing media produced by a society in a certain timeframe, one can gain a good deal of insight into the minds of those who produced and consumed said media. This is cultural history.
When I set out to study the American quiz show with a cultural historical lens, two questions were at the top of my mind: “What is the cultural legacy of the quiz show?” and “How has this genre, far from monolithic but relatively consistent in substance from its creation to now, retained such a dedicated following across vastly disparate cultural periods?” There is very little scholarship on this specific subject, so my work can be seen as a convergence of various approaches to the quiz show—standard historical analysis, sociology, and media and television theory are all integrated into this thesis. After my research, I concluded that the quiz show, a cultural institution in the United States from 1936 to present day, reinforces the ideals of the American dream and consumerism due to its audience, which in turn encourages those concepts to appear in future entertainment products. Some significant gaps in scholarship still remain surrounding the quiz show, but I hope to lay the groundwork for further research.
2022-06-17T18:18:00Z
2022-06-17T18:18:00Z
2022-04-22
Thesis
http://hdl.handle.net/1808/32782
openAccess
Copyright 2022 Joseph Mirakian
Department of History, University of Kansas
oai:kuscholarworks.ku.edu:1808/265352018-07-09T22:16:27Zcom_1808_12535col_1808_13046
2018-06-20T15:22:04Z
urn:hdl:1808/26535
The legal interview : an analysis of interviewing skills and techniques as they are taught to and required of practicing attorneys
Russell, Steven
Honors thesis
2018-06-20T15:22:04Z
2018-06-20T15:22:04Z
1984
Undergraduate research project
http://hdl.handle.net/1808/26535
openAccess
This work is in the public domain and is available for users to copy, use, and redistribute in part or in whole. No known restrictions apply to the work.
University of Kansas
oai:kuscholarworks.ku.edu:1808/266412018-09-06T14:26:45Zcom_1808_776com_1808_12535col_1808_26619col_1808_13046
2018-07-11T19:11:23Z
urn:hdl:1808/26641
“Associated Women Sycophants”: Sorority Women and Changing Gender Roles at the University of Kansas, 1948-1973
O'Sullivan, Shea E.
Hagel, Jonathan
Bailey, Beth
Syrett, Nicholas
This thesis aims to study the different social expectations of University of Kansas sorority women and the evolution of those social mores over time. Very little study on this topic has been done previously. Beth Bailey’s Sex in the Heartland is one of the few works that discusses the Associated Women Students in relation to the sexual revolution at KU but does not include extensive discussion of sorority women’s roles. From its founding in 1948 until its reinvention in 1970, the Associated Women Students (AWS) was the authority for University of Kansas (KU) women regarding all regulations and social events that placed desirability and emphasis a more socially conservative college woman. Integral to these operations were KU sorority women, who were significantly involved within the AWS and strong believers in social conservatism. Sororities utilized the infrastructure of the AWS to provide consistent and effective resistance to changes in gender roles and sexual mores for women. Historically, the years 1948-1975 at the University of Kansas are significant because it shows a regional version of change that reflects national trends.
2018-07-11T19:11:23Z
2018-07-11T19:11:23Z
2018
Undergraduate research project
http://hdl.handle.net/1808/26641
openAccess
Department of History, University of Kansas
oai:kuscholarworks.ku.edu:1808/347962023-10-04T06:07:35Zcom_1808_12535col_1808_13046
2023-10-03T20:11:41Z
urn:hdl:1808/34796
IN SITU U-PB GEOCHRONOLOGY OF PEROVSKITE AND SCHORLOMITE GARNET FROM MAGNET COVE, AR: NEW AGE CONSTRAINTS ON ALKALINE MAGMATISM AND SUITABILITY AS REFERENCE MATERIALS
Pell, Dalton
Magnet Cove Igneous Complex
Ring dike
Continental magmatism
Laser ablation inductively coupled plasma mass spectrometry
Geochronology
Reference materials
Uranium lead dating
This undergraduate thesis was submitted to the graduate degree program in Geology and the Graduate Faculty of the University of Kansas in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Bachelor of Science.
The Magnet Cove Igneous Complex (MCIC) in Arkansas consists of multiple ring dikes of silica undersaturated rocks including various syenites, ijolites, phonolites, trachytes, and carbonatite (Erickson and Blade, 1963). The emplacement of the rocks is hypothesized to be from outside-in, with the outermost syenite ring emplaced first, and the carbonatite last (Erickson and Blade, 1963). There is an abundance of titanium- and zirconium-rich minerals including perovskite, titanite, and schorlomite, kimzeyite garnet. This study used laser ablation inductively coupled plasma mass spectrometry (LA-ICP-MS) after petrography characterization to date emplacement of the MCIC and test if these Ti minerals are suitable as U-Pb reference materials. Results will contribute to the discussion on the cause of Cretaceous magmatism in the midcontinent US.
One perovskite grain was analyzed with 34 spots of 35μ size. Of the garnets, multiple grains were analyzed and the number was dependent on rock type, surface area of the grain, and inclusion-rich material. Upwards of 40 spots were used on each rock type and were all 85μm. 85μm size was based on U and Pb concentrations.
The age of perovskite was initially calculated to be 85.7 ± 5.5 Ma, which is slightly younger than previous estimates of the MCIC. However, when the common Pb ratio was anchored at 0.82 ± 0.04, it is closer to other calculated ages at 100.5 ± 1.7 Ma. Garnet ages were calculated from four different rock types: fine-grained ijolite (FGI), garnet-pseudoleucite syenite (GPS), garnet ijolite (GI), and garnet-biotite ijolite (GBI). Each rock achieved a slightly different age; however, the age range sits within the bounds between 98.1 Ma and102.8 Ma, which is consistent with the estimates for the magmatism in the Arkansas Alkaline Province (AAP). FGI: 98.5 ± 0.6 Ma, GPS: 101.4 ± 0.5 or 101.1 ± 0.5 with an anchored common Pb at 0.8 ± 0.08, GI: 98.1 ± 0.6 Ma, GBI: 102.8 ± 0.6 Ma. U-Pb dating of schorlomite by LA-ICP-MS is ongoing and will test their use as potential reference materials in future studies.
2023-10-03T20:11:41Z
2023-10-03T20:11:41Z
2023-05
Thesis
https://hdl.handle.net/1808/34796
openAccess
Copyright 2023 Dalton Pell
Department of Geology, University of Kansas
oai:kuscholarworks.ku.edu:1808/81072020-08-20T13:52:36Zcom_1808_1260com_1808_12535col_1808_7158col_1808_13046
2011-10-04T17:30:54Z
urn:hdl:1808/8107
Sanitation
McAlpine, Robert Lynn
2011-10-04T17:30:54Z
2011-10-04T17:30:54Z
1887
Undergraduate research project
http://hdl.handle.net/1808/8107
en_US
openAccess
This work is in the public domain according to U.S. copyright law and is available for users to copy, use, and redistribute in part or in whole. No known restrictions apply to the work.
University of Kansas
oai:kuscholarworks.ku.edu:1808/266402018-09-06T14:26:45Zcom_1808_776com_1808_12535col_1808_26619col_1808_13046
2018-07-11T19:05:38Z
urn:hdl:1808/26640
Tackling Textbooks of the Times: The Telling Truth About Race in Textbooks from 1945-1970
Meyer, Anna Shirley
Hagel, Jonathan
Moran, Jeffrey
Rury, John
As a key classroom tool, textbooks offer concrete insights from the past. In 1944, Gunnar Myrdal’s study An American Dilemma: The Negro Problem and Modern Democracy, convinced Americans that the issue of American prejudice and racism could be eradicated using education. In response, intellectuals, educators, and activists moved the front of the battle against racial prejudice and discrimination to the classrooms and textbooks. In the Cold War geopolitical context and the American Civil Rights Movement, the approach to teaching race shifted rapidly and dramatically between 1945 and 1970. This thesis examines how textbooks shifted due to these influences to show how intellectuals, educators, and activists shaped their attempts to solve the American dilemma. However, textbooks are not without their own limitations. In the twenty-five years after World War II, textbook publishing and adoption rates were generally slow and new classroom sets were expensive. The textbook lag was acknowledged and somewhat amended through supplemental teaching material. Nevertheless, textbooks limited the success of education as the method in which to solve racial prejudice. An evaluation of the shifts textbooks did display, represents that the role of education in solving social issues is possible. There is hope for the future of education and textbooks, as technology continues to diminish the inherent limitations of textbooks.
2018-07-11T19:05:38Z
2018-07-11T19:05:38Z
2018
Undergraduate research project
http://hdl.handle.net/1808/26640
openAccess
Department of History, University of Kansas
oai:kuscholarworks.ku.edu:1808/266342018-09-06T14:26:45Zcom_1808_776com_1808_12535col_1808_26619col_1808_13046
2018-07-11T17:10:36Z
urn:hdl:1808/26634
"I've Tried so Hard to Make Good Americans Out of You": Legacy, Memory, and the Seattle General Strike of 1919
Ammon, Kathryn Grey
Hagel, Jonathan
Farber, David
Roediger, David
This historical project explores competing legacies and formation of memory within the Seattle General Strike of 1919 both in its after effects on the Seattle Labor Movement and the nation as a whole through the First Red Scare. This paper is divided into three chapters, an examination of the strike, national and local media coverage of the strike, and an examination of national and local repercussions from the strike. The Seattle General Strike of 1919 existed within an intersection of many disparate movements—and truly has been memorialized as more than the sum of its parts. The Seattle General Strike has not been evaluated within the context of differing pro-capitalist and pro-worker solidarity viewpoints and how these two stories split, which this thesis will do.
2018-07-11T17:10:36Z
2018-07-11T17:10:36Z
2018
Undergraduate research project
http://hdl.handle.net/1808/26634
openAccess
Department of History, University of Kansas
oai:kuscholarworks.ku.edu:1808/266442018-09-06T14:26:45Zcom_1808_776com_1808_12535col_1808_26619col_1808_13046
2018-07-11T19:39:23Z
urn:hdl:1808/26644
Defensive Humanitarianism: Swiss Internment Camps During WWI
Zimmerman, Holden
Denning, Andrew
Jahanbari, Sheyda
Janzen, Marike
During World War I, the Swiss state interned nearly 30,000 foreign soldiers who had previously been held in POW camps in Germany, France, Britain, Belgium, Austria, and Russia. The internment camp system that Switzerland implemented arose from a Swiss diplomatic platform that this thesis describes as defensive humanitarianism. By offering good offices to the belligerent states of WWI, the Swiss state utilized humanitarian law both to secure Swiss neutrality and to alleviate, to a degree, the immense human suffering of the war. This thesis fills a gap in the historiographical literature as one of the few papers in English on the topic, as well as one of the only to holistically consider the internment camp system as a panacea for the crises that the Swiss state faced during WWI. By mixing domestic concerns with international diplomacy and humanitarianism, a domestic policy platform taken to the international diplomatic level succeeded in building enough trust between the signatory states to create an internment system that reconceptualized the treatment of foreign soldiers from the holding of prisoners to the healing of men.
2018-07-11T19:39:23Z
2018-07-11T19:39:23Z
2018
Undergraduate research project
http://hdl.handle.net/1808/26644
openAccess
Department of History, University of Kansas
oai:kuscholarworks.ku.edu:1808/327842022-06-20T08:01:08Zcom_1808_12535col_1808_13046
2022-06-17T18:48:57Z
urn:hdl:1808/32784
“The Luck of the Archives: An Examination of the Unusual Journey of the Colonel Hopkins Collection”
Kurtz, Morgan
Submitted to the Department of History of the University of Kansas in partial fulfillment of the requirements for departmental honors
2022-06-17T18:48:57Z
2022-06-17T18:48:57Z
2022-04-27
Thesis
http://hdl.handle.net/1808/32784
openAccess
Copyright 2022 Morgan Kurtz
Department of History, University of Kansas
oai:kuscholarworks.ku.edu:1808/293432020-09-22T20:09:46Zcom_1808_776com_1808_12535col_1808_26619col_1808_13046
2019-06-19T15:10:15Z
urn:hdl:1808/29343
Defining the Music of America's White Rural Working Class From the 1920s through the 1950s
Becker, Thomas
This thesis was submitted to the Department of History of the University of Kansas in partial fulfillment of the requirements for departmental honors
This thesis discusses the recordings of hillbilly and folk music cut by record company agents and folklorists from the 1920s through the 1940s. These years saw the rise of recorded music as mass entertainment in the United States, and therefore are of importance as a watershed moment in the development of American music. The similarities and differences between the group of Artist and Repertoire men that recorded hillbilly music (along with many other varieties of American music) and the group of folklorists who recorded folk music are important in understanding the different ways that Americans have thought about the music of the white working class.
This thesis argues that both the hillbilly and folk recordings were parallel attempts to synthesize music of and for the white working class. This paper focuses on the ideas of Alan Lomax, and accesses his letters and documents created for the Library of Congress to discuss his vision for “white folk music” as a cohesive and ongoing musical tradition produced and consumed by white Americans. This vision resembles the place in American society that hillbilly and later country music came to occupy.
Given that the two genres were both intended as products of and for the white, rural working class, the most important difference between the recordings is in the reason that they were made. While Lomax had lofty ambitions for his music as a top-down movement propagated by public programs such as the Archive of American Folk Song, the record company agents simply did their best to exploit what they saw as a business opportunity. Although they did not necessarily see some cultural value in their version of the music of the white working class, the record company A&R men laid the groundwork for something similar to Lomax’ vision for “white folk music.”
2019-06-19T15:10:15Z
2019-06-19T15:10:15Z
2019-04
Thesis
http://hdl.handle.net/1808/29343
openAccess
Copyright 2019, Thomas Becker
Department of History, University of Kansas
oai:kuscholarworks.ku.edu:1808/348432023-11-14T07:07:59Zcom_1808_12535col_1808_13046
2023-11-13T21:57:51Z
urn:hdl:1808/34843
RESCIND ERA: THE FAILED EFFORTS IN KANSAS TO RESCIND RATIFICATION OF THE EQUAL RIGHTS AMENDMENT, 1973-1980
Haggar, Alexandra L.
Submitted to the Department of History of the University of Kansas in partial fulfillment of the requirements for departmental honors.
The Equal Rights Amendment (ERA), which would give men and women equal legal rights, was passed in Congress in 1972, much to the pleasure of many women’s rights activists and lawmakers. State legislatures raced to be among the first to ratify the ERA. One year later, 30 of the needed 38 states had ratified the proposed amendment. However, at the same time, grassroots conservative movements were mobilizing very quickly, in large numbers, to defeat the ERA. Anti-ERA sentiment grew notably high in the South and Midwest. Before the one-year anniversary of Congress passing the ERA, Oklahoma became the first state to reject the amendment, giving birth to the anti-ERA movement. Later, Nebraska became the first state to rescind its prior ratification.
Sandwiched between these two states was Kansas, a traditionally red state with an unusually progressive history. Resolutions were consistently introduced in the Kansas legislature from 1973-1980. But every anti-ERA legislation brought forth was promptly struck down. This study will conduct a case study into the rescission efforts in Kansas and why they were, ultimately, not victorious. The ERA in Kansas reveals a greater theme about the state’s political makeup at the time. As the ERA’s popularity fell throughout the country, Kansas remained in favor of the amendment showing the state as a moderate holdout to the rising conservatism. At the same time, it also reiterates a common thread throughout the state's history: a disdain for extremism. While the ERA died out in 1982, it was never rescinded in Kansas.
2023-11-13T21:57:51Z
2023-11-13T21:57:51Z
2023-04-17
Thesis
https://hdl.handle.net/1808/34843
openAccess
Department of History, University of Kansa
oai:kuscholarworks.ku.edu:1808/81112020-08-20T14:05:31Zcom_1808_1260com_1808_12535col_1808_7158col_1808_13046
2011-10-06T15:06:39Z
urn:hdl:1808/8111
Tendencies in Modern Education
Rice, Mary Antoinette
2011-10-06T15:06:39Z
2011-10-06T15:06:39Z
1887
Undergraduate research project
http://hdl.handle.net/1808/8111
en_US
openAccess
This work is in the public domain according to U.S. copyright law and is available for users to copy, use, and redistribute in part or in whole. No known restrictions apply to the work.
University of Kansas
oai:kuscholarworks.ku.edu:1808/82082020-09-16T16:54:35Zcom_1808_776com_1808_1260com_1808_12535col_1808_26619col_1808_7158col_1808_13046
2011-10-11T18:21:11Z
urn:hdl:1808/8208
The Distribution of the Geneva Award
Unknown
Project (Senior Thesis)--University of Kansas, Department of History, 1897?
2011-10-11T18:21:11Z
2011-10-11T18:21:11Z
1897
Undergraduate research project
http://hdl.handle.net/1808/8208
en_US
openAccess
This work is in the public domain according to U.S. copyright law and is available for users to copy, use, and redistribute in part or in whole. No known restrictions apply to the work.
Department of History, University of Kansas
oai:kuscholarworks.ku.edu:1808/264412020-09-22T20:07:38Zcom_1808_12535col_1808_13046
2018-06-01T14:30:46Z
urn:hdl:1808/26441
Opposites Attract: Synthesis and Electrochemical Studies of Electron-Rich and Electron-Poor Rhodium Complexes for Hydrogen Evolution Catalysis
Henke, Wade C.
Electrocatalysis represents an attractive route to coupling renewable energy sources such as wind or solar power with sustainable generation of chemicals. An attractive target chemical would be hydrogen gas because it can be used as a fuel that does not emit pollution (CO2). Progress toward this goal is hampered by a poor mechanistic understanding of how the electrocatalysts couple electrons with substrates to generate products. This problem is especially serious in the case of highly active catalysts that involve redox-active or proton-responsive ligands. Rhodium compounds featuring pentamethylcyclopentadienyl (Cp*) and diimine-type ligands are especially complex because they involve both of these modes of non-innocence. Changes in ligand substitution patterns are often used to improve the activity and stability of catalysts, but the consequences of such modifications are unknown in this class of catalysts. This limits the usefulness of these compounds and their incorporation into more elaborate energy-conversion systems. Here, we will discuss two specific cases that involve use of electron-donating and electron-withdrawing bipyridine variants.
Specifically, this thesis describes the synthesis and electrochemical properties of two novel rhodium compounds featuring pentamethylcyclopentadienyl (Cp*) and 4,4′-disubstituted 2,2′-bipyridine (bpy) ligands. The compounds were prepared with two disubstituted bipyridine derivatives, 4,4′-bis(tert-butyl)-2,2′-bipyridine (tBu-bpy) and 4,4′-bis(trifluoromethyl)-2,2′-bipyridine (CF3-bpy); these ligands are more electron-donating and electron-withdrawing, respectively, than the parent underivatized bpy system. Once synthesized these compounds were characterized using 1H, 13C{1H}, and 31P{1H} nuclear magnetic resonance, mass spectrometry, UV-visible spectroscopy and single-crystal X-ray diffraction.
Electrochemical studies with these complexes revealed that they are catalysts for hydrogen production. The catalytic activity is modulated by the choice of ligand. Compared to the parent bpy complex, the overpotential for hydrogen evolution is shifted to a smaller value for the [Cp*Rh(CF3-bpy)Cl]+(PF6)– complex, but shifted to a larger value for [Cp*Rh(tBu-bpy)Cl]+(PF6)–. Bulk electrolyses carried out with these complexes confirmed catalytic turnover and a high faradaic efficiency for hydrogen evolution in all cases. Notably, [(Cp*H)Rh(CF3-bpy)NCMe]+, a putative intermediate in the process of hydrogen evolution, was detected by 1H NMR following electrocatalytic H2 generation with [Cp*Rh(CF3-bpy)Cl]+(PF6)–. Few such [(Cp*H)Rh] complexes have been observed or reported in past work, and the observation of a species of this type therefore suggests a general role for such intermediates in hydrogen evolution with this class of catalysts.
2018-06-01T14:30:46Z
2018-06-01T14:30:46Z
2017-05
Undergraduate research project
http://hdl.handle.net/1808/26441
openAccess
Copyright 2017 Wade C. Henke
Department of Chemistry, University of Kansas