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The Yale Undergraduate Research Journal

Editors-in-Chief:	Doyoung Jeong, Yale University
	Rachel Sterneck, Yale University
Editors:	Kevin Chen, Yale University
	Lauren Chong, Yale University
	Katherine Chou, Yale University
	Arushi Dogra, Yale University
	Veronica Lee, Yale University
	Eric Liu, Yale University
	Daniel Ma, Yale University

The Yale Undergraduate Research Journal was established in the spring of 2020 and is the first reviewed publication to span the disciplinary breadth of research conducted by Yale students.

YURJ publishes recent work from the Humanities, Social Sciences, and STEM fields online and in print.

Recent Content

» Vol. 2.1 – Letter from the Editor

Selena Lee

Articles

The Stories Behind the Stories Mediation of Narratives in David’s Story
Naima Kalra Gupta

The Impact of Hospital Concentration on Municipal Finances
Jarrett Bell

The Giant Under Salvini’s Feet: An Analysis of La Lega
Samuel Landino

The Nature of Cofilin’s Severing Mechanism
Ethan Lester

Strong inclination pacing of climate in Late Triassic low latitudes revealed by the Earth-Saturn tilt cycle
Miranda Margulis-Ohnuma, Jessica Whiteside, and Paul Olsen

Metabolic Control of Stem Cell Ageing and Longevity through Caloric Restriction
Valerie Navarrete

Examining the Viability of Computational Psychiatry: Approaches into the Future
Mitchell Ostrow

Analysis of the Electronic Effects and Reactivity of Benzhydrols in the Formation of Benzhydryl Ethers
Katherine Quesada, Daniel Chabeda, Jaeger Johnson, and Alex Shore

A Dispersive Force Model of Caribbean Island Biogeography
Anthony Sarkiss

Investigating factors that affect HIV-1 capsid stability
Max Mao and Joshua Temple

Caught Not by Surprise: Captatio in Roman Satire and Law
Alisia Pan

Examining Variations in Community Benefit Generation Across Namibian Conservancies
Amanda Zhang

Environmental Determinism and Spurious Correlation: Just-so stories in phonology
Jeremiah Jewell

Environmental Racism in Historical Context: The Robbins Incinerator Debate, 1980s-1990s
Brian Reyes

Social Movements in the Information Communication Technology Age: The Case of Hong Kong
Justin Jin

The Dark Side of Variety: An Economic Model of Choice Overload
Teeger Li Blasheck and Jawwad Noor

A Silent Injustice: Air Pollution as a Contributing Factor of COVID-19 Health Disparities
Spencer Johnson

Altering sensory learning by chronic inactivation of VIP interneurons
Christopher Alba, Hannah Selwyn, Katie Ferguson, and Jessica Cardin

In Search of Play
Margaret Saunders

Children's Reasoning About In-group and Out-group Obligations
Karli Cecil, Julia Marshall, and Paul Bloom

The Keiretsu Advantage: How Japanese Automakers Thwarted American Competition
Jasper Boers

Racial, Gender, and Sexual Imagery and the Black Queer Man: an Excerpt from “I Cannot Go Home as I Am: Exploring Identity in Black Queer Men at Yale in the Context of the HIV/AIDS Epidemic”
Maxwell Richardson

Tail-Anchored Protein Insertion Under ER Stress Conditions: Calcium is Key
Matthew Jordan and Malaiyalam Mariappan

“Hong-Kong Style Cultural Revolution” — Weaponization of the Cultural Revolution in the 2019 Hong Kong Protests
Yat Fung

Incomplete? Or Indefinite? Intuitionism on Gödel’s First Incompleteness Theorem
Quinn Crawford

Resisting Gentrification: Everyday Politics & Collective Action From Oakland to Madrid
Caitlyn Clark, Stephanie Redden, and Sakena Abedin

Turning Science Fiction into Reality: Enhanced Motor Learning for Prosthetic Limbs
Makayla Conley

Russian Peasants in Tolstoy’s War and Peace - Idealized and Instrumentalized
Antonia Seyfarth

An Upstander Is a Person in Your Neighborhood: Children, Sesame Street, and Race in 2020
Gemma Yoo

Co-opted by U.S. Capital: A Diachronic Study of Korean Americans’ Relation to the Model Minority Myth
Hannah Kwak

The Conscience of the Dollar: Are Religious Donors Sensitive to Moral Infractions?
Bradley Yam

Specularizing myth: (de)constructing feminine identity in “The Bloody Chamber” and “Wolf-Alice” by Angela Carter
Ishana Aggarwal

Canines and Commons: An Institutional Analysis
Andy Xie

Operationalizing Culture: Refugees, Migration, and Mental Health in the Wake of the Vietnam War
Helena Bui

Shadow Banks, Money Market Funds, and Regulation: How Much is Too Much?
Ainsley Weber

A Comparison of the Evolution, Structure, and Function of SARS-CoV and SARS-CoV-2 Spike Proteins
Tai Michaels

The Morality of Pronoun Flexibility: Connections Between Language and Cognitive Identity Alignment
Mafalda von Alvensleben

Development and Distribution of Thermometry Hardware for the Simons Observatory
Samuel Day-Weiss

Access to Drinking Water and the Empowerment of Women in the Southwest Coast of Bangladesh: Intersections of Gender, Class, and Space
Sunehra Subah

Argo: CIA Influence and American Jingoism
Andrea de Oliveira