The Role of Electoral Engagement in Youth Social Movements - Study I of "Protests, Politics, and Power: Exploring the Connections Between Youth Voting and Youth Movements"

Youth activism and participation in social movements has been one of the defining features of civic life in the past several years: from the anti-gun violence protests after the Parkland school shooting in 2018, to the nationwide actions for racial justice following George Floyd's murder in 2020. Both of those were also election years in which young people achieved historic or near-historic levels of voter turnout. But what, exactly, was the relationship between young people's participation in the streets and at the ballot box?To answer that question, the Center for Information & Research on Civic Learning and Engagement (CIRCLE) joined a team of researchers to produce Protests, Politics, and Power: Exploring the Connections Between Youth Voting and Youth Movements. This research encompasses two studies that tackled this question with different but complementary perspectives and approaches. The Role of Electoral Engagement in Youth Social Movements is a qualitative study based on interviews and supplemental surveys with young leaders and participants in social movements. The second study, Quantifying the Effects of Protests on Voter Registration and Turnout, uses quantitative methods to study changes in electoral participation in areas where protests took place

Spirodiepoxides: mechanism studies and applications in synthesis

Disclosed are studies on the mechanism and reactivity of spirodiepoxides (SDE) and their applications in synthesis. Experimental and computational data led to the establishment of three discernable mechanisms for nucleophilic opening of SDEs. New SDE-based methodologies have also been developed including the formation of functionalized azoles in a single flask from allenes and the addition of carbon nucleophiles to generate useful precursors to complex polyketides (i.e. erythromycin). Heteroatom additions to SDEs have been identified in the studies towards the potent proteasome inhibitor, epoxomicin. Syntheses of the AB spiroketal and C ring systems of the anticancer natural product, pectenotoxin 4, have also been achieved using SDE-based methods.Ph.D.Includes bibliographical references