Capped and Filled:How one New Jersey town closed the last Landfill in the Meadowlands by Angel HarewoodSite Description: Keegan Landfill is in Kearny, New Jersey, and owned and operated by New Jersey Sports and Exhibition Authority. This is one of the last remaining...
Pollution Solution
Are Parks Along Newtown Creek a Pollution Solution, or Another Problem? by Jozy BentleySite Description: Newtown Creek is a 3.5-mile body of water that runs along the border between Brooklyn and Queens in New York City. For over 150 years this creek has been labeled...
Agent Orange Production
Agent Orange: Environmental Injustice at Home and Abroad by Susan CohenSite Description: As a historian interested in American foreign affairs and legal history, researching the use of Agent Orange is an interesting and relevant way to connect foreign policy and law....
Blinded by the Apocalypse
Blinded by the Apocalypse: Carl Sagan and Nuclear Winter by Kurt WeinsteinSite Description: I am aspiring to an academic career because I have an insatiable curiosity. I have found science and history to be fundamental disciplines in answering my questions about the...
Tell Me About Your Nuclear Experiences
Tell Me About Your Nuclear Experiences: Blaming American Imperialism and Military For Nuclear Injustice in the Pacific by Zach Jellison Site Description: My research is focused on three different atolls in the Pacific. The first is Johnston Atoll, which is locate...
Three Mile Island: Health
Democracy in Decline: Faith and Trust at Three Mile Island by Vinas Patel Site Description: In March, 1979, the nuclear plant at Three Mile Island, Pennsylvania became a scene of national and global attention. Technical malfunction and administrative negligence led to...
Three Mile Island: Media
Three Mile Island: America's Scar by Diandre WilsonSite Description: Three Mile Island is the site of a nuclear power plant in south central Pennsylvania. In March 1979, a series of mechanical and human errors at the plant caused the worst commercial nuclear accident...
The X-Files
Newark Becomes ‘Host’ to X-Files Conspiracy: The Search for Truth and Justice in the Nation’s Second Largest Sewer by Christina NguyenSite Description: The X-Files is one of the most recognizable and culturally significant television series to come out of the 1990s,...
Toxic Waste to Dog Park
From Toxic Waste Site to Dog Park: A Peculiar Transformation in Suburban New Jersey by Ismail Hozien Site Description: I hope to find through my research, the factors that caused the radioactive dump in my hometown, Wayne, New Jersey, to become a dog park. I hope to...
Operation Rolling Blunder
Operation Rolling Blunder:Agent Orange’s Newark Legacy and the Fight to Clean Up the Ironbound by Ryan GiustSite Description: The Diamond Alkali plant, later known as Diamond Shamrock after its merger with Shamrock Oil and Gas, was located at 80-120 Lister Ave in the...