Antibiotic-resistant bacteria are becoming increasingly more common and deadly. Most of the antibiotics produced are used in the agriculture industry; particularly as feed additive to prevent disease and increase animal ...

Emergency Room doctors and surgeons are required to have a tight sealing mask for extensive periods of time. Medical professionals believed that if they had a customizable mask, it would be more tolerable for themselves, ...

The fundamental basis of many human diseases is changes to the cells and tissues in the human body, including cancer, diabetes and transplanted organ rejection. The best way to understand the complex changes to cells ...

For the Spring 2021 semester, UWEC offered the course ENGL 325 “Race, Language, and Class in the US” as a virtual remote class. The social annotation platform, Perusall, was utilized as a way for students to annotate and ...

This project argues that Eugenics coupled with new understandings of adolescence in the early 20th century converged to create an ideal of the “teenage girl”. The concept of adolescence was developed in the late 19th century ...

Beginning in 1918, women across the United States became the government-endorsed target of suspicion as potential carriers of what is now referred to as Sexually Transmitted Infections (STI’s), especially syphilis and ...

In the two years since the beginning of the pandemic, there has been a large spread of misinformation regarding COVID-19 which can hinder collective action in democratic societies and contribute to distrust in information ...

Recent research reports an increase in the prevalence of self-injury (NSSI) among adolescents during the pandemic, jumping from 17% to 28% in 2021. The reasons for this needed exploration. Social support acts as a protective ...

The COVID-19 pandemic has challenged higher education institutions across the world to maintain the quality of education and fulfill their mission. Notably, classes and research projects that involved high-performance ...

Throughout the COVID-19 pandemic, many U.S. citizens have largely been left to make personal risk-benefit decisions for themselves, with some mandated and enforced restrictions. People’s everyday decisions about life ...