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Mountain Memories: Stories of Our Appalachian Boyhoods with Henry Louis Gates, Jr.

On December 5, 2024, the James Madison Program welcomed Professor Henry Louis Gates, Jr. of Harvard University. Professor Gates, who hails from Keyser, West Virginia, discussed his upbringing in…

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Defending Civilization: A Philosopher on the Frontlines of World Conflict

Drawing on his decades of reporting from Ukraine, Sudan, Afghanistan, Bosnia, Nigeria, Libya, Syria, and Israel, globally renowned philosopher, journalist, and filmmaker Bernard-Henri…

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ART 217 The Arts of Japan

The course will explore a broad range of media representing 5000 years of Japanese art history by delving into the life stories of individual things. Developing the critical skill of visual…

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NCW Welcome to the Class of 2028

New College West community members welcoming the incoming Class of 2028.

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The Global South and the Future of World Order 4th Annual Conference: "Panel 5: Liberalism and Liberals Beyond the West"

How is the liberal tradition evolving beyond the Western world? How have Global South liberals coped with nationalism, populism, and authoritarianism? Is there a common perspective on liberalism in…

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The Global South and the Future of World Order 4th Annual Conference: "Closing Roundtable: Reimagining the Global South in World Order"

Can historical experiences and contemporary statecraft from the Global South be reconciled with liberal internationalism? Given the ties that bind Global South countries to China and Russia, how…

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TigerSafe Reel 5: What to Do if You're Locked Out

TigerSafe has lots of useful information in case you get locked out of your residence. Here's the run-down on what to do if you find yourself stuck without your prox card.

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Welcome to NCW Class of 2027

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Are Asian Americans People of Color? Reimagining Asian American Ethnic Identity and Forging Cross-Racial Solidarity with Black Americans, Zi Liu, UG '24 (2280004)

Are Asian Americans people of color? At the outset of his most famous 1903 essay, W.E.B. Du Bois writes: “the problem of the twentieth century is the problem of the color line.” But in…

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Shouts & Murmurs: A Gendered Study of Sonic Suspensions in the 19th Century Novel, Clara McWeeny, UG '25 (2770242)

When considering moments of auditory focus in the 19th century novel, rarely does one stop to consider the sonic attention paid to instances of direct speech. Readers instead find their preoccupation…

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Robotic Swarm Inspection for Infrastructure Monitoring, Darren Chiu, UG '23 (2265354)

Robotic swarm inspection for structures offers a flexible, scalable, and cost-effective solution in comparison to human inspection such as the benefit of being resilient to individual failures,…

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Pitch Tunneling in Baseball, Ben Zenker, UG '24 (2264109)

Pitch tunneling in baseball is when two pitches look the same for most of their trajectory towards home plate, but then move in opposite directions. Pitchers utilize pitch tunneling to try and fool…

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Creating a Division 1 Pitch Grader Using Machine Learning, Alexander Dreger, UG '25 (2763371)

In baseball, the goal of the pitcher is to prevent runs. To do so, they must make it difficult for the batter to hit the ball. There are a variety of techniques and methods the pitcher can use to…

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Reimagining Baseball Analytics using ChatGPT, Senne Michielssen, UG '25 (2771011)

Spray charts are a data visualization used in baseball to describe which area of the field hitters have historically hit the ball to. Hitters have unique hitting tendencies for various reasons (e.g.,…

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Agents with aspirations: A Prospect Theory approach to intrinsic motivation in Reinforcement Learning, Lucas James Irwin, UG '23 (2270745)

Artificial Intelligence (AI) is becoming ubiquitous, yet the lack of transparency in its decision-making process and its value system raises alarms. To address this, my senior thesis combines…

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Beyond Norm-Takers or Norm-Breakers: India and China’s rhetorical engagement with the norm of sovereignty at the United Nations Security Council between 1971-1992, Kanishkh Kanodia, UG '23 (2270044)

Traditional accounts of Third World interaction with the norm of sovereignty presume that these states complied with the norm by assimilating into a Western-dominated order after decolonization,…

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