A Life\u27s Journey

This book stack was created by a first-year student at Ursinus College participating in a Common Intellectual Experience event. After a group Stacks on Stacks activity in Fall 2024, students were invited to submit their own individual creations in Spring 2025.https://digitalcommons.ursinus.edu/cie_stacks/1070/thumbnail.jp

Untitled Book Stack

This book stack was created by a first-year student at Ursinus College participating in a Common Intellectual Experience event. After a group Stacks on Stacks activity in Fall 2024, students were invited to submit their own individual creations in Spring 2025.https://digitalcommons.ursinus.edu/cie_stacks/1072/thumbnail.jp

Doing More Good for Less: Salvaging Development Aid

In stark contrast to its peak in the Marshall Plan era, professional sentiment towards international development aid has become increasingly pessimistic as its shortcomings have become apparent. Inter alia, leading thinkers charge development aid with enabling and sustaining economic dependency, governmental corruption, political power imbalances, and paternalism. Even so, there may be diamondlike programs in the development aid rough. Cash and voucher assistance (CVA) programs—a subset of development aid—have seen moderate success. In particular, as compared to other forms of aid, unconditional cash transfer programs (UCTs)—a specific type of CVA—appear economical and effective and avoid many of the above criticisms. Given their promise, we recommend three policies that are intended to target and improve these diamonds in the rough: (1) improving disbursement mechanisms, (2) scaling investment in CVA, and (3) providing UCTs wherever possible. In sum, while acknowledging its varied and severe flaws, we urge that policymakers and development economists can and should salvage what little works in development aid

Fighting Modern Battles, Brawling a Breast Cancer From the Past: A New Combination Therapy Technique Combining a Platinum-based Agent and HDAC Inhibition Agent

Carboplatin and tucidinostat are two often-used chemotherapeutic drugs in combating cancers. After seeding BT-549 cells in vitro and single-drug treatments were completed, IC50 values and treatment curves were determined for both drugs with CompuSyn software. The Tucidinostat IC50 value of 0.28614 µM indicates effective 50% inhibitory activity at less than one micromolar. Carboplatin treatment revealed an IC50 value of 273.792 µM, indicating ineffective treatment. Combination therapy revealed an antagonistic effect with a CI50 value of 210.406. This may be due to experimental errors with pipetting or cell seeding, or drug-ailment mismatch

Arches

This photo was taken of the arches in Izamal, La Ciudad Amarilla. Submitted as part of the Spring 2025 Study Abroad Photo Contest.https://digitalcommons.ursinus.edu/study_abroad_photos/1058/thumbnail.jp

Untitled Book Stack

This book stack was created by a first-year student at Ursinus College participating in a Common Intellectual Experience event. After a group Stacks on Stacks activity in Fall 2024, students were invited to submit their own individual creations in Spring 2025.https://digitalcommons.ursinus.edu/cie_stacks/1104/thumbnail.jp

Untitled Book Stack

This book stack was created by a first-year student at Ursinus College participating in a Common Intellectual Experience event. After a group Stacks on Stacks activity in Fall 2024, students were invited to submit their own individual creations in Spring 2025.https://digitalcommons.ursinus.edu/cie_stacks/1095/thumbnail.jp

Edible Broadway: The Kit Kat Club

The Kit Kat Club was an entry in Myrin Library\u27s 20th Edible Books Festival at Ursinus College.https://digitalcommons.ursinus.edu/ebf/1381/thumbnail.jp

Life is Messy

This book stack was created by a first-year student at Ursinus College participating in a Common Intellectual Experience event. After a group Stacks on Stacks activity in Fall 2024, students were invited to submit their own individual creations in Spring 2025. The spines on the books read: Out There Screaming, Sweat, The Between, Life is Messy.https://digitalcommons.ursinus.edu/cie_stacks/1141/thumbnail.jp

The Passionate Life

This book stack was created by a first-year student at Ursinus College participating in a Common Intellectual Experience event. After a group Stacks on Stacks activity in Fall 2024, students were invited to submit their own individual creations in Spring 2025.https://digitalcommons.ursinus.edu/cie_stacks/1052/thumbnail.jp