Volume 1
Issue 1
The Feminine Power of Potential in Eudora Welty’s “A Piece of News” and “A Curtain of Green”
Sally Cunningham
The Need for International Cooperation on Ethical Guidelines in CRISPR-Cas9 Gene Editing
Kate Leblanc
European Climate Law: The European Union's Framework for Environmentally Sustainable Economic Growth
Alexandra Pountcheva
Our Debut Publication
After nearly a year of work, the Bishop's Undergraduate Research Journal is excited to bring you our debut publication! In this issue, we feature original academic research from our students in English literature, bioethics, and European politics. We aspire to produce future publications to highlight the exciting academic works produced by undergraduate students at Bishop's University. Please select the "DOWNLOAD" button in the column to the left to read our debut publication.
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We extend our sincerest gratitude to Dr. Kerry Hull, Dr. Claire Grogan, the Office of Research & Graduate Studies, the Students' Representative Council, and our editorial board for making this project a reality.
Volume 2
Issue 1
'Muzyka kak oruzhiye': Duality, Nation-Building, and the Use of Music as a Weapon in Soviet Central Asia, 1924-1936
Ulrik Doyon
Land Identity: An Insight to Land Rights in the Report on the Royal Commission on Aboriginal Peoples (1996)
Laura Sagués Jorba
Call him by his name: Unpacking and challenging transphobia in critical reception of the Life of St. Marinos
Caroline Homet
The Welfare-Prison Nexus Beyond the Reagan Administration
Gabrielle Liu
Evaluating Health, Built Environments, and the Economic Impacts of Urban Revitalization: A Logic Model
Sienna Longo, Kanny Barry, & Dr. Martine Shareck
Our Second Volume
The second volume of BURJ is finally here, and we’re excited to share it with you. We deeply appreciate our contributors’ patience and are proud to showcase their research across disciplines like History, English, Political Studies, and Biology, highlighting the diversity of our undergraduate community.
A special thank you to Virginia Marquez-Pacheco (’25) and Donovan Faraoni (’24) for their leadership and hard work, and to the entire editorial team for their contributions. We also thank Chang He (’25) and Rebecca Benyk (’25) for their extra help in reviewing submissions. We look forward to publishing our third volume soon!