Student Researcher: Melinda Xiong Faculty Instructor: Julie Andrzejewski, St. Cloud State University The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is delaying two studies exposing infants and schoolchildren to pesticides and other hazardous chemicals. The studies have been cancelled until further notice based on ethical and perception concerns such as “ensuring the greatest confidence in the approaches used.” [...]

Student Researcher: Britten Johnson and Wanjiru Mugo Faculty Advisor: Julie Andrzejewski Canada is the largest foreign supplier of oil to the United States sending over 370 million barrels a year, half of which comes from Alberta’s tar sands. Tar Sands oil is extremely toxic to our environment. The amount of energy that you have to [...]

Researcher:  Zachery Stoe and Wanjiru Mugo Faculty Advisor:  Julie Andrzejewski Evaluator:  Anthony Akubue In the US, the Rocky Mountains are said to contain about a tenth of the country’s untapped oil and a third of its natural gas reserves. Just recently though, the Rocky Mountains, under the Bush administration, have opened up areas for what [...]

Researcher:  Bee Yang Faculty Advisor:  Julie Andrzejewski Evaluator:  Carla Magnuson According to Department of Defense (DoD) documents, the Pentagon paid more than $70 million to an oil company known as Hunt Refining. Hunt Refining is a corporate affiliate of Hunt Oil. Records show that Hunt Refining has received contract work increasingly larger sums of taxpayer [...]

Researcher:  Nick Sieben Faculty Advisor:  Julie Andrzejewski, St. Cloud State University Evaluator:  Carla Magnuson A recent research study by the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI) found that World military spending has grown 45 percent in the past decade, with the United States accounting for nearly half of all the expenditures. Military spending grew six [...]

Student Researcher: Samantha Barowsky Faculty Evaluator: Douglas Anderson, Ph.D Southwest Minnesota State University In Georgia welfare is down even while unemployment skyrockets.  In 2004 28,000 adults received benefits, now those who receive welfare number fewer than 2,500. Some applaud this aggressive push to end reliance on TANF (Temporary Assistance for Needy Families), but for the [...]

Researcher:  Rena Hawkins Faculty Evaluator:  Sangeeta Sinha, Ph.D. Southwest Minnesota State University  Schools are more segregated today then when Martin Luther King was assassinated. Segregation has increased not only based upon race but children from different classifications, Teachers curriculum, the government and also the test that are given to students to test their level of [...]

  Student Researcher:  Amie Shirkey Faculty Evaluator:  John Sterner Southwest Minnesota State University   In Ecuador, there is a new movement called Gravity Birthing.  These birthing rituals started small but have become more popular due to the amazing results they have had.  These births are shown to reduce complications at the hospitals. Ecuador has a [...]

Student Researcher: Alexander Rott Faculty Evaluator:  Michael J. Munford, Director of Campus Security Southwest Minnesota State University   The number of people being killed in the United States by police is on the rise.  In just two years police killings have gone up 13 percent, from 622 deaths in 2003, to 703 deaths in 2005.  [...]

Student Researcher: Brittany Sandager Faculty Evaluator:  B. C. Franson, J.D. Southwest Minnesota State University   While the world press focused on Barack Obama’s election, Israel broke the ceasefire with Palestine on the U.S. election day. Israel’s bloody bombing of Gaza began on November 4 while the truce which began Jun. 19, 2008 was still in [...]