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The Legality Of Lustration Within Transitional Justice: Does Political Exclusion Possess Legal Rationalizations That Preserve Effective Transitions To Democracy?, Christian D. Brown

Inquiro, the UAB undergraduate science research journal

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Live By The Research, Die By The Research, Szilárd Svitek

Journal of Humanistic Mathematics

The situation of doctoral students is a complex ethical issue. They are not really students any more, but they are not yet full members of the Academy, so they are less than it. PhD students focus primarily on research, since if they do not publish in quality scientific journals, their future (both career and financial) is very much in question. As most of the doctoral student's capacity is taken up by research and publication during the training period, another important task is relegated to the background: learning to teach and to supervise research. Will the student have the ambition to …

Teaching With The Genius In Mind: Enacting Literacy As A Civil Right, Katie Glupker, Pam Gower, Angela Knight

Language Arts Journal of Michigan

Because literacy is a civil right, educators are responsible for designing and implementing literacy education that is designed with the excellence of all students in mind. In order to learn about ways to ensure that literary practices are equitable for all students, the authors joined an educators’ book club to read Cultivating Genius: An Equity Framework for Culturally and Historically Responsive Literacy by Gholdy Muhammad. Muhammad describes the Black literary societies of the past and challenges educators of today to enhance classrooms by upholding equity and excellence through a five-layered framework: Identity, Skills, Intellect, Criticality, and Joy.

We studied Muhammad’s …

The Past:The Science Of Computing, News And Communications Services

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The computers of today are vastly different from the first-generation computers that filled a room. Kansas State University’s first computer, built by engineering professors W.R. Ford and J.E. Wolfe from 1954-1956, helped researchers solve complex calculations in minutes instead of months. In the top photo from 1975, Linda Shapiro, assistant professor of computer science, and Earl Harris, hardware analyst, work on computers in the department’s hardware room. The bottom photo from the 1980s shows the Nichols Hall computer machine room, which held large computers that connected to terminals in a nearby computer lab. See page 28 to learn how K-State …

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Spring 2022 issue of Seek

Graduate Scholar: A Pesky Pest, Pat Melgares

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Ivan Grijalva considers the sugarcane aphid a big headache. Strange, perhaps, since it would take about 16 of the pear-shaped, soft-bodied, leaf-sucking insects — lined up end to end — to measure 1 inch. In a farm field, aphids are rarely visible at first glance, even though hundreds or thousands may be present. Trivial? Not to Grijalva, Kansas State University doctoral student in entomology, who is using machine learning to detect and classify sugarcane aphid populations on sorghum leaves without the use of manual labor.

Explain It: Triple Bottom Line, News And Communications Services

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Hansin Bilgili, assistant professor of management in the Kansas State University College of Business Administration, explains, in fewer than 100 words, what triple bottom line is and why it is important for sustainability.

Undergraduate Scholar: Making Good Foods Better, Beth Bohn

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Jill Broxterman is hungry to take on the challenge of feeding a growing world, whether by ensuring food products are safe to consume or by making foods more nutritious. Originally an engineering major when she entered Kansas State University in fall 2019, Broxterman soon switched to food science and industry, offered through the College of Agriculture. The college is home to the Food Science Institute, which facilitates the university’s food science programs and provides research and technical assistance to the food industries.

Udp Focus: Music And The Write Stuff, Beth Bohn

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Wayne Goins brings music to life, whether playing, composing or writing about it. “My passion for performing and writing about music is what keeps me moving forward, looking for the next magic moment — both on the stage and on the page,” said Goins, university distinguished professor of jazz in the College of Arts and Sciences.

Faculty Focus: A Passion For Parks, Taylor Provine

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The iconic Gordon Parks was more than a prominent photographer: He was also a writer, filmmaker and musician. Several Kansas State University researchers are highlighting some of his multimedia material in a digital archive.

Engagement: A Big Bang, Jennifer Tidball

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It’s a research success story that starts with an explosion and continues with the formation of a company based on Kansas State University research. Or, as physicist Chris Sorensen calls it: serendipity. “We discovered graphene serendipitously in the lab when we were using controlled explosions to make an aerosol gel,” said Sorensen, Cortelyou-Rust university distinguished professor of physics and university distinguished teaching scholar. “I wasn’t expecting to make graphene.” But make graphene they did. And that’s just the first chapter of the story.

Behind The Code: Researchers Tackle The New World Of Cybersecurity, Jennifer Tidball

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k-state.edu/seek 29 Kansas State University cybersecurity researchers want you to know the difference between the stereotype of cybersecurity and the reality of it. The stereotype: Cyberattacks are committed by hooded hackers cracking code to infiltrate our security systems. The reality: Cyberattacks certainly can happen that way, but it’s much more likely to come in the form of vulnerable and outdated hardware and software, social engineering, phishing scams and ransomware. That reality can be a pretty scary place. An outdated piece of software can make an autonomous vehicle susceptible to cyberattacks. Clever social engineering can cause an unknowing employee to provide …

Angles Of Attack: Fighting Cancer With Interdisciplinary Science, Marcia Locke

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How do tumors develop despite the body’s defenses? Why can the body stop some tumors from forming but not others? What makes cancerous cells live longer than normal cells and wreak havoc on the body? And how can we fight these processes? Kansas State University researchers are searching for answers to these questions and more through the interdisciplinary Johnson Cancer Research Center in the College of Arts and Sciences. The center’s faculty members span 20 departments in five colleges. They work to better understand cancer and find ways to prevent it, detect it earlier and treat it more successfully, while …

Balancing Act: Sustaining Our Future Across Disciplines, Michelle Geering

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A farmer in western Kansas worries his well will be dry in 30 years. More than 9 million tons of clothing — some items only worn once — go to U.S. landfills each year. Globally, 79% of all consumer plastics end up in landfills or as litter and can take hundreds of years to decompose. These are a fraction of the sustainability challenges the world faces. If current behaviors and practices are left unchanged, experts say the consequences to our livelihoods and for the environment are bleak. But all is not lost: A variety of measures and practices can help …

Rural Research & Communinity Collaboration, Malorie Sougéy

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The Chapman Center for Rural Studies aims to preserve and promote the stories and culture of Kansas with a specific focus on rurality. It is a center of excellence in the Kansas State University College of Arts and Sciences. Mary Kohn, director of the Chapman Center since August 2020 and associate professor of English, outlines three major responsibilities of the center: Give students high-quality, hands-on learning experiences; Serve local — especially rural — communities; Equip faculty to productively work with students and communities.

The New Normal, Courtney Roszak-Moore

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Flip the calendar back to March 2020. Economic activity went to zero and the country experienced a shutdown. Unemployment rose and people stayed home and didn’t go about their normal routine of buying things. To try and rebound the economy, the Federal Reserve issued several rounds of stimulus checks. “The economic decisions that we saw in March 2020 were driven completely by the fact that we were shut down,” said Eric Higgins, research director and the von Waaden Chair of Investment Management in the College of Business Administration. “Once the country opened back up, those issues began to go away …

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• A plan for economic prosperity in Kansas
• Researcher develops a model market CHAMP
• Telling the story of Black westward settlement
• From plastic sticker to laser printer
• The Fight Continues: Updates on COVID-19 research from K-State

Seek: Research Magazine For Kansas State University. [Introductory Matter] Spring 2022, David Rosowsky

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Introductory material for the Spring 2022 issue of Seek, including the table of contents and a letter from Vice President for Research David Rosowsky.

Taking Advantage Of Uzbek Classical Music Opportunities Forming Music Teachers Artistic Taste, Ermat Majidovich Fayzullaev, Dilshod Majidov

Mental Enlightenment Scientific-Methodological Journal

The content of this article focuses on the study of the experience of providing future specialists with theoretical and practical knowledge of Uzbek classical music, including maqoms, in educational institutions operating at different stages of the system of continuing education. Analytical comments were made on the specifics of music education.

Introduction For The Special Issue: Race And Rurality In Education

The Rural Educator

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Archiving Feminist Truth In Trump’S Wake Of Lies, Julie Shayne

Humboldt Journal of Social Relations

This article is about an assignment I do in one of my Gender, Women, and Sexuality Studies social movement classes. I revised the assignment the first time teaching the class after Trump lost the 2020 election. For the assignment, students work in groups to research local feminist and gender justice organizations and deposit all of their original materials – recordings, photos, flyers, etc. – into a digital, open access archive I co-created several years ago with librarians and staff on my campus. In 2021 I had my students do the “post-Trump” edition where they researched local organizations about how their …

A National Rural Postsecondary Research Agenda, National Rural Postsecondary Research Agenda Working Group

The Rural Educator

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Remote Portals: Enacting Black Feminisms And Humanization To Disrupt Isolation In Teacher Education, Mildred Boveda, Keisha M. Allen

Occasional Paper Series

As two Black women teacher educators who contend with the neoliberal expectations of the westernized academy and the material realities of preparing teachers for P-12 contexts, we face the pressures of performing productivity while attempting to ameliorate injustices for multiply-marginalized students (e.g., Black students with disabilities facing economic hardships). Working within predominantly white spaces, we were already socially and intellectually isolated prior to the 2020 pandemic. In this collaborative essay, we articulate how COVID-19 exasperated existing educational and social inequities, yet served as a portal to collective sense-making of our heightened intersectional consciousness, sense of duty to community, and enactments …

Your Personal Guide To Getting Into Research, Katherine Vo. Brown, Priyadarshini Chandrashekhar, Harshith Gontla, Ekaterina S Kovatsenko, Aamira Shah, Kelsey Littrell

The Cardinal Edge

The stereotype of a researcher conjures up an image of a person in a white lab coat, juggling various test tubes and chemicals. However, this picture does not capture the essence of all research. Contrary to popular belief, you do not have to be a STEM major to do research! Research is for everyone, and there are many options to participate across all disciplines. As an R-1 classified research institute, the University of Louisville (UofL) is involved with groundbreaking research across many disciplines including education, political science, and business. Below are some compelling reasons to pursue research as an undergraduate …

What Is Philosophy In Prison? George Eliot And The Search For Moral Insight, Alison Liebling

Journal of Prison Education and Reentry (2014-2023)

I argue in this article that people in prison make excellent philosophers, for reasons related to what they are deprived of. I also suggest that great novels constitute, or at the very least, introduce us to, philosophy. Some of the deepest questions about human life can be addressed by fusing philosophical thinking with empirical research in prisons. Prisoners talk with depth and insight about what it is to feel human, what matters most in human experience, and the importance of the ‘vibrations of fellow feeling’.

Intellectual Competency Development For The Students Of Technical Higher Education Institutions, Ilkhom Karimov

Central Asian Problems of Modern Science and Education

This article discusses the development of intellectual competencies of students in technical higher education, and it uncovers the content and essence of intellectual competence, important factors for the development of intellectual competence, the necessary factors and the formation of a competitive specialist, as well as the development of intellectual abilities of future professionals

The Past: Molding The Future, News And Communications Services

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The College of Education at Kansas State University traces its lineage back to courses in vocational education, which began in the late 1890s. In 1965, the Kansas Board of Regents approved the College of Education as an independent academic unit offering both undergraduate and graduate degrees.

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Spring 2021 issue of Seek

Explain It: Mrna, Anna Zinovyeva

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Anna Zinovyeva, assistant professor of biology in the College of Arts and Sciences, studies gene expression and RNA biology. Zinovyeva explains, in fewer than 100 words, what mRNA is and why revolutionary mRNA vaccines are so important during the COVID-19 pandemic.

Graduate Scholar: Mars Making, Katie Messerla

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Geology student researches makeup of the red planet.