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Amore Cieco (Ii - Ben Tempo Saria Omai), Jonathan Green

Jonathan D Green

No abstract provided.

Levavi Oculos Meos (Jeremy's Book Xxiv), Jonathan Green

Jonathan D Green

No abstract provided.

Elegy For Tuba And Piano, Jonathan Green

Jonathan D Green

No abstract provided.

Ultra-Sensitive High-Precision Spectroscopy Of A Fast Molecular Ion Beam, A. A. Mills, B. M. Stiller, M. W. Porambo, Manori Perera, H. Kreckel, B. J. Mccall

Manori Perera

Direct spectroscopy of a fast molecular ion beam offers many advantages over competing techniques, including the generality of the approach to any molecular ion, the complete elimination of spectral confusion due to neutral molecules, and the mass identification of individual spectral lines. The major challenge is the intrinsic weakness of absorption or dispersion signals resulting from the relatively low number density of ions in the beam. Direct spectroscopy of an ion beam was pioneered by Saykally and co-workers in the late 1980s, but has not been attempted since that time. Here, we present the design and construction of an ion …

Technology Integration In Secondary Mathematics Classrooms: Effect On Students’ Understanding, Megan Sheehan, Leah A. Nillas

Leah A. Nillas

Technology use in secondary mathematics courses has the potential to bring about broad changes in learning environment and teaching pedagogy, allowing students to communicate and collaborate in new ways and to conjecture, justify, and generalize findings. However, this potential is only realized when teachers use technology in ways encouraging these outcomes (Galbraith, 2006). The purpose of this study is to examine the integration of technology in secondary mathematics classrooms and to evaluate the effectiveness of its use in relation to students’ learning outcomes. This self study research was conducted in honors geometry and AP calculus classes. Data sources included transcripts …

High-Resolution Cavity-Enhanced Spectroscopy Of Molecular Ion Beams, Manori Perera, Andrew Mills, Brian Siller, Michael Porambo, Kyle Crabtree, Carrie Kauffman, Holger Kreckel, Benjamin Mccall

Manori Perera

Molecular ions play a pivotal role in the chemistry of the interstellar medium due to their high reactivity even at low temperature. To identify these ions in interstellar space, it is essential to obtain high resolution laboratory spectra of potential interstellar ions for comparison to observational data. At the University of Illinois, we are developing a Sensitive, Cooled, Resolved Ion BEam Spectrometer (SCRIBES) that will allow us to obtain high resolution infrared direct absorption spectra of rotationally cold molecular ions in the absence of neutral molecules. This instrument can overcome many of the problems that arise when using other spectroscopic …

Missed Communication: Three New Anthologies On The City Visible: Chicago Poetry For The New Century, Allegrezza & Bianchi, Eds (Cracked Slab, 2007); Lyric Postmodernisms, Reginald Shepherd, Ed. (Counterpath Press, 2008); & Triquarterly #128, The “Ultra-Talk” Issue, Hamby & Kirby, Eds., Michael Theune

Michael Theune

In “The Flexible Lyric” (from The Flexible Lyric; Athens, GA: U of Georgia P, 1999), Ellen Bryant Voigt makes a “long aside” in order “to admit unseemly optimism regarding the American poetry wars,” writing

Originally published in Pleiades: A Journal of New Writing and used with permission.

Michael Theune's Response To "Some Darker Bouquets", Michael Theune

Michael Theune

No abstract provided.

The Case For Chick Lit In Academic Libraries, Stephanie Davis-Kahl

Stephanie Davis-Kahl

The purpose of this article is to prove that chick lit is a legitimate and important area of collection for academic libraries. This article presents a definition of chick lit with an overview of the origin and significance of the term itself, discusses chick lit’s impact on publishing, and its relationship to academia and women’s writing. The article concludes with guidelines on building a chick lit collection.

Coelomogenesis And Nutrition Of Clonally Produced Asteroid Larvae, William Jaeckle

William Jaeckle

Asexual reproduction by planktotrophic larvae of asteroids is an unusual life history strategy exhibited by several species in the families Luididae, Oreasteridae, Ophidiasteridae, and Asteriidae. Larvae of the former three families reproduce asexually in the field, while the asteriid Pisaster ochraceus has produced clones when larvae are reared in the laboratory. Our knowledge of the processes involved in larval cloning and the biology of the developing clone is fragmentary in nature. We used light, electron, and scanning laser confocal microscopy to study clones that develop through paratomy of the posterolateral larval arms. The archenteron forms by a modified form of …

Feast And Famine: A Statewide Science Serial Collection Assessment In Illinois, Karen Schmidt, Tina E. Chrzastowski, Naun Chew Chiat, Michael Norman

Karen Schmidt

In 2004, a group of Illinois librarians was awarded a research grant to assess the state of Illinois’ science serial collection. This collection assessment focused on academic libraries in the state, specifically those participating in the Consortium of Academic Research Libraries in Illinois (CARLI), but also including another 10 academic libraries in the state that do not belong to the consortium. Current serial subscription data were collected through both automated and manual means and the analysis was conducted in conjunction with Ulrich’s Serials Analysis System. Due to cataloging limitations and issues surrounding different ISSNs for print and electronic formats, the …

The Family Experience With Eating Disorders Scale: Psychometric Analysis, Victoria N. Folse

Victoria N. Folse

The role of the family in the development and maintenance of eating disorders is frequently cited in the literature; however, common methodological issues, including the use of diverse family assessment instruments with inadequate psychometric properties, exist. Further, variables specific to families with eating disorder are not being captured in available instruments. The modeling and role-modeling theory (Erickson, H., Kinney, C. (Eds). 1990. Modeling and role-modeling: Theory, practice, and research. Austin, TX: Society for Advancement of Modeling and Role-Modeling; Erickson, H. Tomlin, E., Swain, M. A.1983. Modeling and role-modeling: A theory and paradigm for nursing. Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice-Hall.) was employed …

The Butcher's Canticle Of The Earth, Jonathan Green

Jonathan D Green

solo percussion, strings, 15 minutes

Dancing With Maurice, Jonathan Green

Jonathan D Green

flute, piano, 6 minutes

The Non-Turning Of Recent American Poetry On David Caplan's Questions Of Possibility: Centemporary Poetry And Poetic Form, Michael Theune

Michael Theune

David Caplan’s Questions of Possibility: Contemporary Poetry and Poetic Form (Oxford University Press, 2005) is a good and necessary book that teaches or reinforces some vital lessons about poetry and poetic form. According to Caplan, his book is a necessary corrective, a check on “our current understanding of poetic form, especially contemporary metrical verse” which Caplan describes as emerging from the ever-perpetuated, and perpetuating, over-simplified binaries of the poetry wars—open/closed, Language/New Formalist—and which Caplan labels simply adequate.”

Originally published in Pleiades: A Journal of New Writing and used with permission.

The Vow, Michael Theune

Michael Theune

No abstract provided.

An Ounce Of Different Is Worth A Pound Of Same: Sustaining Rich Collections By Adapting What We Know & Learning Skills We Need, Karen Schmidt

Karen Schmidt

Following on a survey of TAMU library faculty about their work in collection development, this presentation formed the basis for discussion about skills we have and skills we need to assure that our research collections remaiin vital.

Wit's Worth: A Reflection On Contemporary American Poetry On Created In Darkness By Troubled Americans, Michael Theune

Michael Theune

Near the beginning of last century, Ezra Pound proclaimed that poetry should be at least as well-written as prose. Near the end of that same century, Charles Bernstein declared that poetry should be at least as interesting as TV. The start of a new century brings with it a new demand for poetry: poetry must be at least as witty, as knowing and as surprising as Created in Darkness by Troubled Americans. And, though it may not seem so at first, this silly—and disturbing, and wonderful—book offers serious lessons for and challenges to contemporary American poetry at all levels: …

Hallowmas, Michael Theune

Michael Theune

No abstract provided.

Austrian Economics, Christopher Prendergast

Christopher Prendergast

No abstract provided.

From Exceptionalism To Imperialism: Culture, Character, And American Foreign Policy, Meghan A. Burke, Laura Langman

Meghan A. Burke

Arthur Schlessinger (1983) suggested that the contradictions and paradoxes of American foreign policy reflected contradictions and paradoxes in the underlying character of the people. We would go further to suggest that the early years of colonial life, much like the early years of a person's life, had major consequences ever since. The intersection of Puritanism, available land, and eventually the rise of a commercial culture would forge a unique trajectory of what would be called “American Exceptionalism”, reflecting an “American character”, which itself is subject to three paradoxes or polarities, individualism vs. community, toughness vs. compassion, and moralism vs. pragmatism. …

Symphony No. 7, Jonathan Green

Jonathan D Green

chamber orchestra, 30 minutes

O Magnum Mysterium No. 1 (Jeremy's Book, Part Xvii), Jonathan Green

Jonathan D Green

SATB choir, 3 minutes

Faux, Flawed, Failed: Alice Fulton's Fuzzy Poetry And Poetics On Cascade Experiment By Alice Fulton, Michael Theune

Michael Theune

Alice Fulton is a poet and a theoretician who, for over 25 years, has tried to make much of, and even to occupy, this new fuzzy space. As many of her notebook entries (collected in The Poet’s Notebook: Excerpts from the Notebooks of Contemporary American Poets. Ed. Stephen Kuusisto, et al. NY: W.W. Norton, 1995) attest to, Fulton refers to and privileges the gap, the between. One entry mulls over the possibilities opened up by fuzzy logic, stating, “Conventional logic is based on the idea that a statement…is either true or false. Fuzzy logic deals with the degree of truth, …

Venite (Jeremy's Book, Part Xvi), Jonathan Green

Jonathan D Green

SATB choir, 3 minutes

Specious Counterpoint, Jonathan Green

Jonathan D Green

clarinet, violin, 4 minutes

Queensbury Rules, Jonathan Green

Jonathan D Green

piano, 7 minutes

Miranda Field's Swallow, Michael Theune

Michael Theune

No abstract provided.

Song And Dance By Alan Shapiro, Michael Theune

Michael Theune

Review originally published in Verse, Volume 19, Numbers 3/Volume 20, Number 1, 2003, pages 241-245.

Handout For Community Connections For Teacher Information Literacy, Stephanie Davis-Kahl, Lisa Payne

Stephanie Davis-Kahl

This handout was distributed during the poster session of the same name.