Emerging from Atlanta’s historical rail line infrastructure, the Atlanta Beltline, a twenty-two-mile ring of multi-use trails, parks, and light rail system is shaping a new way of life within the city’s urban core. The Beltline is challenging critical issues such as suburban spr…
Sea surface temperature (SST) is a crucial quantity for interpreting past climate variations, yet reconstructing historical SSTs from ship-based measurements is challenging because of varying biases that are on the order 0.1°C to 1°C. Whereas SST biases are complicated and can a…
Art is a regenerative kind of healing magic. In the studio, my body works with my mind to make paintings, drawings, collages, ceramic objects, hand-written words, and multi- media instillations. Through this work, I examine how my menstruating, gender-fluid white/pink body/mind …
A surge of recent research suggests that current and future shifts in marine species' distributions are ultimately driven by physiological responses to environmental variation. These observations and predictions are important because changes in species' distributions cause ecolo…
My installations are collaborations with time, material, and chaos. I want to show the beauty and sadness which lies in the process of entropy. Entropy (the second law of thermodynamics) is a term used in physics to measure the cooling and gradual loss of energy in all things; f…
Behaviors and designs are closely related in all areas and mediums. Every design detail can serve people with a better quality of life. As a designer, I always take my personal experience as the primary source of design. Coming from China, a country with more than five thousand …
Background: Globally, injection drug use (IDU) is common among cisgender women who participate in sex work (CWSW), placing them at heightened risk of HCV acquisition and transmission. However, the epidemiology of HCV among CWSW in the United States is not well understood. In thi…
I make ceramic and mixed media objects that embody interaction with material. Translated from the simple utterance of the hand the material articulates the labor. As in any relationship there are miscommunications and disagreements; Desperation, struggle, and honest interaction …
As an artist, I explore my family's complicated history of lost Jewish identity and the contrary involvement. I engage in this history by reflecting on the current political climate using an archive developed by my ancestors. I use components of these varying objects, photograph…
This research project evaluates the way in which culture, localism, and globalism (also referred to in this thesis as (g)localism) performatively converge in surfing communities. Localism, in accordance with the sport of surfing, include various communicative forms of aggressive…
This thesis will focus on the relationship between different shapes of furniture and space and the furniture design and manufacturing process. In the minimalist interior design, the structure and geometry of the indoor space depend on the furniture. I am interested in how stylis…
My artwork provides opportunities for the viewer to think about and engage with representations of scales of space and time that are beyond what we typically consider useful in everyday life. The understanding of these scales, however, is essential in comprehending the vast hist…
In-between Spaces is a paper based in personal narrative that uses Critical Race Theory and art to analyze the history of photography and systems of discrimination facilitated by hegemonic culture. Body is at the center as a symbol of the physical and psychological impacts syste…
This body of work explores technology throughout modern history into today, and how it affects society and the people within. There are many sides to technological innovation, and as time goes on it also changes our own priorities; even how we choose to either reject reality or …
This body of work explores information processing of metabarcodes. It seeks to answer the following questions: what does this string of metabarcode DNA mean? Where does it come from? And how do we utilize it in new and interesting ways? This is done by implementing a genomic inf…
Most literature associated with ethnic-racial socialization and academic outcomes is set within the historic social-political contexts of mainland United States. The problem addressed in this study was the impact of ethnic-racial socialization on Black high school student's acad…
現代嶺南女作家的文學創作與中國現代文學史的五四新文學、革命文學、左翼文學、抗戰文學及延安文學等各時期的文學主潮基本保持一致。在新文學領域,澳門女作家趙連城、冼玉清;廣府女作家許廣平、草明、吳乃茵、杜君慧;潮汕女作家馮鏗、陳波兒、許心影、陳曙光、陳鳳兮;客家女作家李堅真、李素英,等等,從嶺南邊緣地帶進入北京、上海、武漢、延安等文化中心,融入文學主潮,以嶺南文化獨有的品格和活力,創作了不少優秀的文藝作品,在文學史上具有一定的作用和地位。在文言詩詞領域,趙連城、冼玉清、許心影、張荃等在抗戰時期的愛國詩篇,與同時代嶺南文人饒宗頤等一樣,表現了崇高的中華民族詩魂…
Starting from inviting volunteers to tell a unique memory, I created to relive the past, to recover the future/ memory rubbing lab, a work that incorporates video, audio and interactive installations. In it, people can listen, watch, tell, and draw different memories. As experim…