Journal of undergraduate research and scholarly excellence

JUR publishes extraordinary undergraduate work in an easily accessible and professional peer-reviewed journal. The mission is to print outstanding undergraduate research, scholarly articles, and creative works in order to make them available to the public and connect the worldwide community of college undergraduates. http://jur.colostate.edu.Includes bibliographical references.Characterization of Staphylococcus aureus isolated from the nasal cavity flora of nursing majors / Jennifer Rath, Breanna Christmas, Kristin Picardo, and Theresa Westbay -- The end of the "New Great Game": China's economic rise in Central Asia and its implications for the US and Russia / R. Bailey Scott -- Home in the garden: developing an eco-queer framework for sustainable housing design / Cameron Butler and Jan Adamowski -- ¡Patria, protestad! / Elías Manuel Hernández Escalante -- Inequitable marriage: financial dependence of women in the Victorian novel / Gavriella Levy Haskell -- Midnight memories / Nicole Catherine Massey-Smith -- Engulfed / Nicole Catherine Massey-Smith -- Accidental Connections | I Feel It In My Bones / Kadin Kostelic -- Art University Pavilion / Alejandra Guadalupe Medina Márquez -- The Key / Alexander Kuhn -- Broken Glass / Sydney Lackey, Dawna Mazzulla, and Hallie Potthoff -- Inspiration for Revolution / Duy Nguyen -- Rubber Chicken | Remnants; Things Forgotten, Things Ignored / Juliette Davidia Hebert -- A simplified combinatorial analysis of Charles-Louis Hanon's The Virtuoso Pianist in 60 Exercises / Katherine Burris and Lori Carmack -- Recognizing cultural dysthymia: The implications of including discrimination-mediated mental illnesses in the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders / Anahvia Taiyib Mewborn -- Radicalization of politics: Obstructing the Oslo Peace Process / Joel W. Abdelmoez -- Seeing myself through new eyes: The relationships between mentoring relationship quality and youth self-concept / Alexandra Abt -- Service-learning: Bridging the gap between classroom instruction and ground reality / Stuti Das -- Double majors: When interests intersect in unexpected ways / Michaela Koretko -- China's energy demand: Political, economic, and environmental implications, and its relationship to Canada's oil sands / Dane Neumeyer and Simon Nantais -- Elementary teachers expectations and perceptions of school counselors / Kelly Stapelton and Lori T. Meier -- A commentary on the life of Eleanor Roosevelt through Erikson's eight stages of psychosocial development theory / Nicole Anne Lim Jin-Ni.Annual