The Grizzly, February 15, 2024

Freedom, Transformation and Pathways: Spring Exhibits at the Berman • Ursinus Faculty Discusses Generative A.I. • An Artist\u27s Craft: The Making of Running Away • Everybody Dies • Opinions: What Was Your Favorite Memory Studying Abroad? • Ursinus Athletics Crossword • Bears Come in the Clutch: Ursinus Reels Off Two Straight Victorieshttps://digitalcommons.ursinus.edu/grizzlynews/2026/thumbnail.jp

The Grizzly, February 8, 2024

Restructuring VP Positions • Steam Bending With Adriane Colburn • 2024 Watson Fellowship Finalists • The Writing Fellow Experience • Jasmine\u27s Journey of Sushi • Swimmers Gear Up for Champs • Senior Day Sweep: Ursinus College Men\u27s Wrestlinghttps://digitalcommons.ursinus.edu/grizzlynews/2025/thumbnail.jp

The Grizzly, February 9, 2023

The Wismer Shuffle • Talking Trash to Address Ursinus\u27 Waste Issue • February Editor\u27s Letter • Ursinus Student Lives It Up, Down Under • Job, Internship and Networking Fair February 15! • Opinions: Pets Banned From Campus Buildings? A-Paw-lling! • Deal -ing out Ws • Swim, Swam, Swum in Floridahttps://digitalcommons.ursinus.edu/grizzlynews/2004/thumbnail.jp

Investigating the Role of the Ribosome-Associated Complex and the Nascent Polypeptide-Associated Complex During Ionic, Oxidative, and Endoplasmic Reticulum Stress Conditions

Prions are infectious, self-propagating protein aggregates that cause diverse neurodegenerative diseases in mammals including Transmissible Spongiform Encephalopathies (TSEs). In yeast, prions are not disease-causing agents and instead may have beneficial functions, including adaptation to stress, by altering gene expression and protein production in cells. To ensure the proper folding of proteins, cells have developed various quality control systems. One of the cell’s quality control mechanisms is the use of ribosome-associated chaperone complexes, allowing co-translational quality control as the amino acid chain is synthesized by the ribosome. The Ribosome-Associated Complex (RAC) and Nascent Polypeptide-Associated Complex (NAC) constitute the ribosome-associated chaperone complexes and are conserved in eukaryotic organisms from yeast to humans. Despite the increased interest in the study of individual complexes, limited information on the interaction between the two complexes is available. Therefore, in this research, we have investigated the role of the RAC and NAC subunits in response to multiple types of environmental stress conditions. Our experiment suggests that the subunits of RAC and NAC may contribute differently to each type of environmental stress and that certain subunits may perform additional functions beyond chaperoning. In addition, our preliminary work shows a trend of better stress tolerance in cells with the [PSI+] prion compared to [psi-] cells that lack the prion, consistent with the hypothesis that novel proteins produced in [PSI+] cells may help to promote stress survival

Estimating the Xi Effect: How Chinese Aid Affects Economic and Political Institutions

Under Xi Jinping, China has expanded its aid allocation worldwide and has introduced global infrastructure projects to connect itself to countries everywhere. With such ambitious aid allocation, China has been the recipient of both admiration and scorn on the international stage. This paper assesses these concerns using data from 2000 to 2017 to determine how Chinese aid affects recipient states’ economic and political institutions. Specifically, this research looked to ascertain if there is a measurable Xi Effect in recipient states. The quantitative analysis shows the Xi Effect is small and positive on economic institutions and political institutions, signifying Xi Jinping’s tenure is not having adverse effects on institutions in recipient states. However, these questions remain vital because it is well noted that institutions matter for economic development, especially as the world looks to China for development aid and Xi Jinping consolidates his power in China. Lastly, the implications of the findings for U.S. foreign policy in Latin America are considered. Based on quantitative analysis and a qualitative case study, it is recommended that the US promotes bilateral and multilateral ties with its Southern neighbors rather than using China’s increasing involvement as a justification for reviving the antiquated Monroe Doctrine

Juice

Acrylic painting on canvas depicting a close up view of ice cubes in a glass of juice. Presented as part of the 2023 Annual Student Exhibit in the Berman Museum of Art at Ursinus College.https://digitalcommons.ursinus.edu/asae_2023_images/1041/thumbnail.jp

R Text Analysis for Adam Smith CIE Selected Works

Text mining and text analysis is a way of understanding text documents using r coding that is more frequently used for numbered data. It helps with understanding portions of the text and drawing conclusions from there. This research looks specifically at the Adam Smith required documents that are used in the CIE course designated for freshmen. It looks at sentiments of the documents, including word sentiment, sentence sentiment, page and overall document sentiment as well. It provides visuals of word clouds to portray word frequency, tf-idf (which is explained in the presentation) and bigram analysis

Tales From Darwin 4: Enter the Ergosphere

Colored pencil and marker cartoon art depicting an Aztec science fiction story. Presented as part of the 2023 Annual Student Exhibit in the Berman Museum of Art at Ursinus College.https://digitalcommons.ursinus.edu/asae_2023_images/1029/thumbnail.jp

Tapestry of Ew

Tapestry made from found fabric and glass beads. Presented as part of the 2023 Annual Student Exhibit in the Berman Museum of Art at Ursinus College.https://digitalcommons.ursinus.edu/asae_2023_images/1009/thumbnail.jp

The Grizzly, April 20, 2023

Images of Spring Fever • New Photo Editor for Next Year! • Bears Helping Bears: UCREW\u27s No-Shame Pledge • One Last Letter From Our Editor • Meet Layla M. Halterman, EIC • Farewell for the Summer • Good Luck to Our Graduating Senior Editors • Opinions: That\u27s All, Folks!; No Crew Team? Why? • That\u27s the Game! • Let Them Place Bets • Ursinus Baseball: Stealing the Oddshttps://digitalcommons.ursinus.edu/grizzlynews/2013/thumbnail.jp