SOURCE celebrates CWU students' work

The scholarly work of Central Washington University students, from human-powered generators and early American cuisine to a discovery of laser emissions and experiments with hookworms, will be displayed and celebrated Thursday.
The 16th annual Symposium on University Research and Creative Expression (SOURCE) is from 8:30 a.m. to 5 p.m. in the Student Union and Recreation Center at CWU.

SOURCE provides a forum for sharing and celebrating student work with the campus and Ellensburg community. The work will be displayed in a variety of ways, including oral and poster presentations, artwork and performances.
This year more than 580 people are scheduled to present about 150 oral presentations, 18 creative expression presentations and 138 poster presentations, including 11 on university satellite campuses.
In addition to the presentations will be a student fashion show, a business plan competition, saxophone and clarinet performances and a tour of a portable version of the Digital Visualization Laboratory (DVL) proposed for Science Phase II.
For a complete program and schedule of presentations, visit www.buy-laptop-battery.org/~source.
Human-powered
CWU junior Garrett Griffith, from Bothell, is one of many students set to present their work at SOURCE. Griffith has come up with a bright idea that any cell phone owner can appreciate.
Griffith has created a human-powered electrical generator capable of charging a variety of small, personal electronics, while also powering a video display, according to a news release from CWU.
The goal of the project, Griffith says, is “creating a self-powered demonstration system where students can plug in a charger to top off their iPod or cell phone dell inspiron 1525 battery charge using power they can generate themselves.”
Griffith modified a bicycle training stand to accept a belt-driven 300-watt DC generator — used to charge a 12-volt automotive hp pavilion zv5000 battery— and added system components to control the charge to the Acer aspire one 10.1 battery and record power supplied from the generator, the release said.
The user pedals the bicycle to generate power. The average person can sustain power output of 100 watts. Using Griffith’s bicycle generator, a five-watt cell phone Acer aspire 3000 battery can be charged in about five minutes, and a laptop battery ( dell inspiron 1545 battery ) in about an hour.
Griffith hopes his project will “plant seeds of interest regarding energy conservation.”
Serving up history
Graduate student Karen Bailor, from Wenatchee, is investigating history with a tasty twist. The award-winning research for her thesis, “Cooking Up a Nation: Food, Culture, and Identity in the Early American Republic,” explores the ways cuisine changed to reflect American values in the post-revolutionary period. Her research will also be displayed at SOURCE.
 Bailor, who has a dual passion for cooking and history, was fascinated by the topic of historical cuisine and decided to make it the focus of her graduate thesis, according to a university news release.
“I wanted to research why Americans ate what they ate,” she said in the release. (dell 6y270 battery )“While American hearth, home and table generally became more refined as the American people struggled for more respectable lives, the food that was served on those tables took on uniquely democratic values, embracing simplicity, equality and a deep connection to the land.”
For example, “election cakes” became a tradition of the public democratic process. (hp pavilion dv6000 ac adapter)Though recipes vary, election cakes were always produced in large quantities and acted as a unifying element at public democratic events, the release said.
By the 19th century, election cakes became a symbol of democracy and represented the freedom and independence bound up in the right to vote.
“These cakes became part of a uniquely American public culture as they symbolized American democracy, and ultimately, American nationhood,” Bailor said.
Bailor was recently awarded the Outstanding Graduate Student Scholarship Award from Central’s College of Arts and Humanities for a chapter of her thesis. She is in her second year of graduate study, and also completed her undergraduate work at Central, with a major in history and minor in literature.
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