Reed College

Beyond redlining: Gentrification, displacement, disadvantages, and exclusivity predict urban environmental and health inequities

This study investigated environmental justice by developing and comparing four contemporary urban segregation typologies (persistent exclusivity, persistent disadvantage, recent gentrification, and recent displacement-hosting) with historical Homeowners’ Loan Corporation (HOLC) z...

Ancestral hydrocarbon metabolism enables PET degradation by a natural bacterial consortium

ABSTRACT Plastic biodegradation in natural environments is increasingly recognized as a multi-organism process, yet the mechanisms enabling coordinated depolymerization and metabolism of polyethylene terephthalate (PET) remain poorly understood. Previously, we demonstrated that a...

Properties of Multidimensional Vector Zeckendorf Representations

A generalization of Zeckendorf’s theorem states for integer k≥3, every nonnegative integer has a unique k-Zeckendorf representation as a sum of distinct k-bonacci numbers, where no k consecutive k-bonacci numbers are present in the representation. Anderson and Bicknell Johnson ex...