Recent ucsd_libraries_ulrp_2024 items

Uncovering History through Archival Poetry: Susan Howe’s The Midnight

Fri, 17 Oct 2025 00:00:00 +0000

Winner 2024 Special Collections & Archives Category, nominated by Ameeth Vijay (Department of Literature).

Analysis of Susan Howe's poem, "The Midnight," which considers the history of the poet's mother and Howe's use of dialetheism.

Domestic Abuse and Women's Legal Consciousness: Cases from Magazines and Newspapers in China in the 1930s

Fri, 17 Oct 2025 00:00:00 +0000

Winner 2024 Social Sciences, Arts & Humanities Category, nominated by Weijing Lu (Department of History)

This research delves into legal consciousness and women’s agency during the early 1930s in China. In 1931, the Nationalist government implemented the Civil Code of the Republic of China, which granted women important legal rights, such as expanded property ownership and marriage autonomy. Notably, the Code unprecedentedly allowed individuals to be granted divorce by the courts on the grounds of intolerable domestic abuse. While existing literature have suggested an increase in divorce litigations initiated by abused women, indicating a rise in their legal awareness, there has been limited discussion on how abused women leveraged available resources to resist abuse and oppressive sociopolitical conditions prior to taking formal legal action. How did women experiencing domestic abuse navigate their situations in the years following the 1931 Civil Code? Through...

A Blood-Based Diagnostic Approach for Head and Neck Squamous Cell Carcinoma

Fri, 17 Oct 2025 00:00:00 +0000

Winner 2024 Life & Health Sciences Category, nominated by Weg M. Ongkeko (Department of Surgery)

Head and Neck Squamous Cell Carcinoma (HNSCC) is a cancer of the mucosal epithelium in the oral cavity, larynx, and pharynx. It is the 6th most common cancer worldwide and is typically diagnosed at later stages, resulting in lower survival rates compared to other major cancers. Current diagnostic methods include tissue biopsy, lymph node biopsy, ultrasound, immunochemistry, CT, MRI, and PET. The goal of this project is to develop a blood-based diagnostic test for HNSCC less invasive and more cost-effective than current methods. The test utilizes the microbiome and genomics to effectively diagnose patients in early stages. The blood microbiome showed many species to be differentially abundant between cancer and normal samples, with significant overlap between blood and tissue microbiomes. The microbiome shows promising potential as a diagnostic tool in blood samples for...

Enhancing Historical Understanding with Retrieval Augmented Generation

Fri, 17 Oct 2025 00:00:00 +0000

Winner 2024 Data & GIS Category, nominated by Professor Colin Jemmott (Halıcıoğlu Data Science Institute)

Although the amount of resources available on the internet seems to be growing daily, it’s becoming increasingly challenging to navigate the sea of information. While one might expect the influx of articles to make it easier to answer questions, the information accessible is often written well after the historical events have concluded, reflecting modern perspectives and interpretations. When answering historical questions, people often tend to rely on a simple Google search, which leads to websites such as Wikipedia. These sites can be problematic due to the unreliability of sources and the tendency to project 21st-century viewpoints onto historical information. These tools provide users with a surface-level summary that lacks the historical nuance and contextualization that is needed for a thorough understanding of the matter at hand. This project aims to...

The Circle of Violence: Eigner’s Poetry amid the Socio-political Unrest of the 1960s

Fri, 17 Oct 2025 00:00:00 +0000

Honorable Mention 2024 Special Collections & Archives Category, nominated by Ameeth Vijay (Department of Literature)

The United States of America in the 1960s was characterized by big changes in the socio-political scenario, owing to the rapidly changing view of technology, science, and cultural art,marking the advent of the counterculture. With the Civil Rights Movement at its climax, there was a heavy division of race and among the people who remained conservative in the rising popularity of liberalism. This gave way to new movements in art, with localized artistic styles and innovations gaining popularity through close-knit, academically, and artistically associated groups of poets, painters, philosophers, etc. Larry Eigner, being one of them, linked to the Black Mountain school of poets, focused his poetry during this time mainly on literary-historical topics with special attention to the placement of words on the page and the creation of an environment through...