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Empowering Appalachian Students: Tailoring Education To Provide Sustainable Solutions And Equal Opportunities For Appalachian Students, Rachel Krause

Student Research and Creative Activity Expo

Showcasing my work with editing lesson plans and materials for the Appalachian STEM Enrichment Academy for science experiments catering to different grade levels in the Appalachian region, and why it is important that everyone has opportunity to learn more about sustainability to spark curiosity.

Canadian Security Intelligence Service (Csis), Bert Chapman

Libraries Faculty and Staff Presentations

April 24, 2025 presentation for Canada's GovInfo Day Spring 2025 hosted by Simon Fraser University in British Columbia and Internet Archive Canada. Provides information about the publicly available information resources produced by the Canadian Security Intelligence Service (CSIS) which is the Canadian Government's foremost national intelligence agency. Provides information about this agency's statutory organization, types of publicly available reports they produce, information about other Canadian government intelligence agencies, and parliamentary oversight of Canadian government intelligence operations. Lists additional resources for finding information about CSIS and explains the benefits of having access to these resources for users.

A Co. 1-169 Command Aviation Company (Cac) Mobilization, William Lewis Fish Iii

M. S. in Project Management

The threats to the homeland and the strategic priorities of the United States have grown over the last two decades. The resources in the active duty component of the US Army are at maximum capacity requiring the Department of Defense to utilize its combat reserves. As a result, the operational tempo and deployment cycles for the National Guard (NG) have increased in quantity and intensity.

Mobilization for federal deployments have become a way of life in the NG. With resources less abundant, it is imperative that every resource is used efficiently over the project’s lifecycle. Traditional methods of project management …

U.S. Government Information Resources For Accountability On U.S. Assistance To Ukraine, Bert Chapman

Libraries Faculty and Staff Presentations

Provides detailed coverage of U.S. Government information resources documenting accountability for U.S. civilian and military assistance to Ukraine. Includes U.S. laws, agencies involved in U.S. arms export policy, Defense Department resources and data, Defense Dept. Inspector General reports, Government Accountability Office reports, congressional committee hearings, a letter from a congressional committee to the Secretaries of Defense and State and U.S. Agency for International Development administrator, congressional debate, and congressional recorded votes.

Approaching Towards United Korea, Danbi Jung, Megan Chaney

Liberty University Research Week

Undergraduate

Theoretical Proposal

Stalin’S Last Scheme: Examining The Korean War As A Part Of Josef Stalin’S Strategy To Neutralize Germany, Ronald Shaw

Liberty University Research Week

Doctoral

Textual or Investigative

Cold Turkey: Will The Recent Freeze In Turkish-Nato Relations Spiral Into A Bigger Problem?, Reagan Nelson, Paul Prentice, Ashlyn Cowell, Nathan Waite, Brent Schuliger, William Waddell

Liberty University Research Week

Undergraduate

Applied

Nato’S Future With China According To Europe, Damian Specht

UM Graduate Student Research Conference (GradCon)

This paper's purpose to understand how NATOS's future will look like. This is being accomplished by asking, whether the three main European NATO members -- Germany, France and the UK – and NATO as a whole will follow the US in replacing Russia with China as the main opponent. The reason for asking this question is China's unprecedented economic, political and military rise in the last two decades. The paper answers the question by applying structural realism (especially the concepts “balance of power” and balance of threat) and neoliberal interdependence theory. They are different concepts in the field of International …

Mackinder And The Arctic's Emerging Geopolitics: Recommendations For The U.S. And Its Nato Allies, Bert Chapman

Libraries Faculty and Staff Presentations

This presentation shows how Halford Mackinder (1861-1947) described Canada and the Arctic region in his geopolitical writings. It goes on to stress how the Arctic is becoming increasingly important in international geopolitical policymaking due to its significant oil and natural gas resources, how warming temperatures are increasing international access to its waters, and the how countries as diverse as Canada, China, Russia, and the U.S. see the Arctic region in their strategic policymaking. It concludes by stressing that the Arctic can no longer be viewed as a region immune from international conflict and presents recommendations for the U.S. and its …

Nato In Kosovo: Establishing Security Or Purporting State Power?, Christina J. Bloemen

University of Montana Conference on Undergraduate Research (UMCUR)

Constant conflict occurs between and within states, especially in the cases of Syria and Ukraine. The role of international institutions is called into question, particularly in cases where national sovereignty and human rights are concerned. In historical cases of international intervention, the ethnic conflict and wars between post-Yugoslavic states defined the 1990’s. Is it under the jurisdiction of international powers to intervene when human rights are violated or should the international community allow for states in conflict to term the rules of aid and intervention? With this in mind, I intend to explore the question: what factors led to or …

Designing International Institutions For Global Security, Rupayan Gupta

Fall 2012 Faculty Showcase

This talk focuses on the challenges inherent in designing international institutions for global security. The area of inquiry is interdisciplinary in nature, incorporating insights from economics, international relations, and mathematics (game theory). It is argued that this line of research would benefit from greater incorporation of techniques from bargaining theory and mechanism design. An agenda is proposed for interdisciplinary collaboration and some interesting results are presented from author’s published and ongoing research.

A Riverbank Filtration Demonstration Project On The Banks Of The Kali River In Southwestern India (Poster), Pamela Cady, Thomas B. Boving, Bheemanagoud Sahebagoud Choudri

Discovery@URI

One solution to India’s pressing safe drinking water needs is riverbank filtration (RBF). To evaluate the performance of RBF under the hydrogeological and climatological conditions of southern India, a small scale RBF system was installed in a village near the Kali River in the state of Karnataka. A series of hydraulic and tracer tests were carried out along with periodic geochemical monitoring of various water sources in the study area. Silica tracer data used to determine the relative contribution of surface and groundwater to the RBF system indicate that this RBF system derives approximately 27.6% of its water from the …

Military Doctrine: A Reference Handbook, Bert Chapman

Libraries Research Publications

This is a 2009 Purdue Libraries brownbag presentation on my book Military Doctrine: A Reference Handbook. It describes how the U.S. and other countries formulate and implement strategies for conducting military operations and publishing literature describing how they conduct military operations. Additional contents include highlighting military strategy objectives of various countries and key military doctrine documents produced by these countries.