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Eating Real Mexican: Identity, Authenticity, Americanization, Health, And Food Culture In The United States After 1900, Alexandra H. Ibarra

Dissertations and Theses

This thesis examines the connection between Mexican food and identity in the early to mid-twentieth century (1900-1950). Anglo-Americans created evolving racial/ethnic stereotypes during a period of intense Mexican immigration and nativism that used descriptions of food, hygiene habits, and health to reinforce boundaries of whiteness and citizenship.

By examining Americanization teaching manuals, food articles, as well as personal and corporate cookbooks, I seek to understand how Americanizers and other food writers used food to point to emphasize, unhygienic habits, excess use of spice and grease, as well as the "questionable" nature of immigrate food culture to separate them from Anglo-Americans. …

Wait, You Don’T Have An Open Access Policy?: Passing An Oa Policy In 2021, Miriam Rigby, Franny Gaede, Catherine Flynn-Purvis, David Condon

Online Northwest

Twenty years after passing a resolution supporting open access, the University of Oregon Faculty Senate passed their first comprehensive Open Scholarship Policy. Library personnel and faculty champions collaborated in this enormous effort over two years. This demanded the recognition of new models of scholarship and the development of new workflows leveraging the institutional repository and other tools. Given faculty hesitancy and uncertainty over mandates and enforcement, significant coalition-building was difficult in the time of COVID-19, but necessary to achieve consensus. We will share our strategies for success and suggestions for how they may be replicated.

Ebooks & Accessibility, Thomas A. Dodson

Online Northwest

EPUB 3.0, the current standard for eBooks, and has a number of features that make it more accessible to readers with disabilities than previous formats. In this talk I'll demonstrate how to crack open an EPUB3 and look at the code inside. I'll show some simple techniques for making eBooks more accessible using HTML: ARIA attributes to make generic tags more specific and provide landmarks to help assistive technologies to navigate the book, more semantic tags to make sure screen readers read text aloud properly, long and extended descriptions to communicate the meaning of complex images, and a method to …

Open Access To Expertise With Humanities Washington's Speakers Bureau, Asia Lara, Stone Addington

Online Northwest

In the context of open librarianship, access to information is critical, but raw information benefits from contextualization, exploration, and, ultimately, the guidance of an expert. Expertise, however, is typically sequestered in university and college campuses, with little outreach to outside communities.

Asia Lara and Stone Addington present on how Humanities Washington’s Speakers Bureau, an open educational resource for libraries to democratize access to expertise, grow and diversify audiences, and deepen connections with their communities. This program provides free public humanities presentations statewide from engaging scholars, artists, culture bearers, at little to no charge for hosting organizations.

Defending Your Rights: Author Agreements And Open Access, Holly Gabriel, Thomas A. Dodson

Online Northwest

Disseminating scholarly activities can be a complex field to nativage for both librarians and faculty. This session will advise attendees regarding how to maintain authors’ rights when publishing scholarly work. We will explore several journal copyright transfer agreements to highlight authors’ rights to share their work openly, such as in their campus institutional repositories. The presenters will showcase the SHERPA/RoMEO database as well as SPARC’s online author addenda tools to locate publisher’s policies. Attendees will also learn the benefits of sharing scholarly work openly together with tips for negotiating with publishers.

Embedded Librarian Shines A Light On "Grey Literature" For Informing Organizational Change, Tiffany Coulson

Online Northwest

As the use of “grey literature” becomes more accepted as a legitimate means of informing the implementation of timely research, librarians may become information resources much needed by grant writers, researchers, policy makers and innovative non-profits. Accessibility and timing are at issue for many change makers in a time where innovation and action are needed ahead of the constraints of academic research. This session will introduce ways in which organizational assessments may be quickly translated into real-time research which informs action. Real-world experiences in libraries and non-profits, accessible methodologies and resources for finding and citing non-traditional research will be presented.

From Raising Awareness To Establishing Negotiating Principles: A Model For Promoting Open Scholarly Communication, Zach Welhouse

Online Northwest

This talk introduces one model for promoting campus-wide support of open and sustainable scholarship principles, which a library can use in negotiations with publishers and vendors. It follows the formation of the library-based Open & Sustainable Scholarly Communication group and its faculty advisory committee through its tasks.

These tasks include: Surveying faculty on their attitudes toward Open scholarship, raising campus awareness of Open scholarship, and developing a reasonable set of principles that support our commitment to Open.

Researchers Like Money: Library Funding To Support Open Access Publishing Via Article Processing Fees, Miriam Rigby, Franny Gaede

Online Northwest

Open Access publishing is publishing, and it costs money. At the UO Libraries, one of the ways we are supporting OA publishing though a pilot Article Processing Charge Fund. It is designed to support all researchers - from undergraduates to faculty to staff - in publishing their work in fully open access journals and books. Now in its second year, we can share what works, difficulties we’ve encountered, ways we are expanding financial support for open access publishing, and how this program has facilitated advocacy for open access.

Equity And Open Education Cohort Model For Faculty And Teaching And Learning Support, Amy R. Hofer, Jen Klaudinyi

Online Northwest

This session will describe the Equity and Open Education Faculty Cohort professional development course, originally designed by Jen Klaudinyi at Portland Community College, and scaled statewide in collaboration with Open Oregon Educational Resources. A new version of the course aimed at participants in support roles, such as librarians, instructional designers, accessibility services, will launch in Spring 22. The central insight of the course is that faculty often assume that their course is more equitable when they adopt affordable materials, but an open license does not ensure an equity lens, including universal design, cultural relevance, and diverse perspectives.

Developing Digital Stewardship Training: Reflections From A Collaborative Project To Strengthen Staff Skills, Dale Musselman, Lotus Norton-Wisla

Online Northwest

We will discuss an IMLS-funded project to develop online digital stewardship training for staff of tribal archives, libraries, museums, and small public libraries, adapted from curriculum from WSU’s Center for Digital Scholarship and Curation.

The project team considered prevalent notions of openness and neutrality, and reflected on how practices around digitization, discovery, and access may perpetuate dispossession and erasure of traditional knowledge. We encourage learners to incorporate responsible, ethical approaches when collaborating with others and including diverse cultural heritage materials in their digital collections.

We will share relevant learnings from the project, courses, and the work of the CDSC.

Lending A Hand: The Library's Role In Supporting Open Pedagogy, Robin Jeffrey

Online Northwest

Open pedagogy doesn't have to live only in the classroom - it can be supported by the library and by librarians! Come to this presentation to learn what open pedagogy is, the benefits of open pedagogy for faculty and students, and how librarians and libraries can help support and integrate the creation and use of open educational resources built by students for students.

Using The Web Of Science To Create A Retrospective Faculty Scholarship Collection, Maura Valentino, Daniel Levy

Online Northwest

While faculty often understand the benefits of publishing in an institutional repository, they often cannot find the time or feel too technically overwhelmed to upload their articles. At Central Washington University we used the Web of Science to locate articles published by faculty and uploaded those articles into the IR. This has resulted in a nearly complete collection of the Scholarship created by CWU faculty.

Introduction To Pubmed Central, Emily Hamstra

Online Northwest

PubMed Central (PMC) is a database of over 6 million free, full-text articles from the 1700s to the present in the biomedical sciences. PMC is maintained by the National Library of Medicine and is freely available online (https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/). PMC includes Open Access articles, preprint articles, author manuscripts, and more. This presentation will explore how to use PMC, cover content you can expect to find in PMC, discuss and define Open Access articles, preprint articles, and author manuscripts in PMC, and will explain the relationship between PMC and the biomedical database PubMed.

Learn-Static: Innovative Digital Humanities Pedagogy With Static Web Technologies, Olivia Wikle, Evan Williamson, Kate Thornhill, Gabriele Hayden

Online Northwest

Static web technologies offer an exciting opportunity for Digital Humanities instructors to incorporate transferable digital literacy skills into the classroom, while producing low-cost, low-maintenance web projects that are sustainable even for institutions with limited resources. These tools spur students to learn transferable data management and digital literacy skills, and their open nature strengthens instructors' control over classroom web projects. This presentation will introduce the NEH-funded Learn-STATIC initiative, which aims to make static web technologies more accessible for students and instructors alike through open-source learning sequences that contain reusable code stored in GitHub repositories, example lesson plans, and documentation.

Open-Source Archives West: Replacing A Proprietary Xml Database With Basex, Tamara Marnell

Online Northwest

Since 2007 the Orbis Cascade Alliance has operated Archives West: a centralized repository of over 42,000 finding aids from institutions across six western states. The Alliance recently replaced the proprietary software used to index finding aids for searching and browsing, Ixiasoft TEXTML, with the open-source project BaseX. This presentation will provide an introduction of BaseX and how it can be used to create fulltext-searchable databases from large collections of XML documents.

Keynote: Oer|Edi + Social Justice On Your College Campus, Angelique Carson

Online Northwest

In her keynote address, Angelique Carson, Shared Collections Librarian at Washington Research Library Consortium, acknowledges that it is a crucial time for Open Educational Resources (OER) and conveys the belief that we cannot meaningfully discuss Equity, Diversity and Inclusion (EDI) topics within higher education without including OER. In fact, she emphasizes the importance of centering OER within EDI efforts. She goes on to share inspiring and creative examples of how academic librarians, information specialists, and educators are addressing and advocating for EDI concerns with OER material on their campuses.

Collaboration Among Vocational Rehabilitation And Mental Health Leaders: Supporting The Vocational Success Of Transition-Age Youth With Serious Mental Health Conditions, Anwyn Gatesy-Davis, Nancy Koroloff, Joseph Marrone, Maryanne Davis

Regional Research Institute for Human Services

Background: The ability of vocational rehabilitation, adult mental health and child mental health service systems to collaborate regarding the employment and career development goals of transition-age youth has not been explored nor has attention been paid to strategies that would increase this collaboration.

Objective: his qualitative study asks leaders from these three systems to describe collaborative activities that support better vocational services for transition-age youth with serious mental health conditions and discuss barriers and facilitators to collaboration.

Methods: Qualitative interviews were conducted with 39 formal and informal leaders in vocational rehabilitation (n = 16), child mental …

Story And Play: Applying Narrative Game Scholarship To Game Design, Rodale Wenger

University Honors Theses

This paper examines the relationship of narrative to computer games from a design perspective. Over the past three decades, the academic discourse on narratives games has evolved considerably while producing a wealth of serious scholarship. However, the process of narrative game design continues to be an underdeveloped area of study. In this thesis, I review influential scholarship on narrative games and the broader topic of interactive digital narrative (IDN) and attempt to analyze its potential application to the process of design. I examine some of the major works on IDN, explore historical and ongoing debates related to narrativity within games, …

Illustrating Ensemble Predictability Across Scales Associated With The 13–15 February 2019 Atmospheric River Event, Chad W. Hecht, Allison C. Michaelis, Andrew C. Martin, Jason M. Cordeira, Forest Cannon, F. Martin Ralph

Geography Faculty Publications and Presentations

The “Valentine’s Day” atmospheric river (AR) event that affected a majority of California during 13–15 February 2019 ranked as an AR3 (Ralph et al. 2019) along most of the California coast and reached AR4 intensity in Southern California. The strong onshore flow and dynamically favorable characteristics of the Valentine’s Day AR produced both an intense and long-duration precipitation event resulting in widespread hydrometeorological impacts across California. Palomar Observatory in northern San Diego County observed >10 in. (>254 mm) of precipitation in 24 h, the highest 24-h accumulation since record keeping began in 1943 (Hatchet et al. 2020

Madagascar Terrestrial Camera Survey Database 2021: A Collation Of Protected Forest Camera Surveys From 2007–2021, Erin M. Wampole, Brian D. Gerber, Jean Claude Razafimahaimodison, Mahandry Hugues Andrianarisoa, Claude Jacquot Ralazampirenena, Patricia C. Wright, C. Delaid Rasamisoa, Dean Gibson, Natalie Vasey, Multiple Additional Authors

Anthropology Faculty Publications and Presentations

Madagascar is a threatened global biodiversity hotspot and conservation priority, yet we lack broad-scale surveys to assess biodiversity across space and time. To fill this gap, we collated camera trap surveys, capturing species occurrences within Madagascar into a single standardized database. This data set includes nine distinct protected areas of Madagascar and encompasses 13 subprojects, 38 camera arrays, and 1156 sampling units (independent camera site per survey) within two important biodiversity eco-regions: western dry deciduous forest and eastern humid rainforest. Camera surveys were conducted from June 2007 to January 2021. The final data set includes 17 unique families of mammals …

As Librarians Convene Here, Multnomah County Library Showcases Work In Equity And Inclusion, Kathi Inman Berens

English Faculty Publications and Presentations

As more than 3,300 U.S. librarians flock to Portland for the Public Library Association conference March 23-25, they’ll witness up close Multnomah County Library’s groundbreaking work in diversity, equity, inclusion and social justice. The pandemic, and social justice work after the 2020 protests, have permanently influenced how the library delivers services.

Small And Rural Libraries Have Persevered Amid Challenges, Kathi Inman Berens

English Faculty Publications and Presentations

When the Public Library Association holds its 2022 conference in Portland March 23-25, those overseeing the event will include Stephanie Chase, an association board member and the executive director of the Libraries of Eastern Oregon.

About one-third of libraries in eastern Oregon are staffed with just one person. Still, Chase’s organization, a consortium of 15 rural county libraries, offers access to a bigger collection of materials than people living in the sparsely populated region could previously have dreamed of, including the 66,000 ebooks and audiobooks accessible on a smartphone through OverDrive’s Libby app.

Serving Students With Disabilities Who Are Culturally And Linguistically Diverse In Rural Communities: Technology Access Is Essential, Benjamin Gallegos, Lisa A. Dieker, Rebecca Smith, Nicole C. Ralston

Northwest Journal of Teacher Education

Before the COVID-19 pandemic changed the educational landscape, students with disabilities, especially those who are culturally and linguistically diverse, and their special education teachers who worked and attended schools located in rural communities faced barriers most schools and communities experienced nationwide. As schools shifted to remote virtual learning due to the COVID-19 pandemic, rural schools were already at a disadvantage with the lack of resources with technology access. The call for addressing shortcomings in the various digital technology supports towards enhancing the teachers’ delivery of content and the students’ academic outcomes has been a continual challenge to address. This paper …

Embryological Development And Mortality Of Danio Rerio In Long Term Exposure To 17Α-Ethynylestradiol, Seong A. Jeon

University Honors Theses

Synthetic estrogens as well as other chemicals have become an increasing issue in the impact they have on marine species particularly those sensitive to the environment. A broadly used synthetic estrogen, 17α-ethynylestradiol, has become more widely known to become a growing problem to the ecology of marine wildlife due to increased usage and lack of removal in municipal sewage treatment facilities. This study observes the impact of low level EE2 in embryos following generational exposure. Zebrafish embryos, following three generations of exposure, were observed in rate of mortality, lethality, and hatch success. Concentrations as low as 1ng/L of EE2 has …

Connecting The “Real-World” To The Math Classroom: Implementing Professional Development For Mathematical Modeling, Rejoice Akapame

Northwest Journal of Teacher Education

This qualitative research study focused on the changes in classroom pedagogy and content of rural mathematics teachers who engaged in a year-long professional development project focused on mathematical modeling. During a 2-week summer institute, teachers solved mathematical modeling problems as learners and then went through an iterative design process of creating, testing and refining lessons for classroom implementation. The lessons were implemented during the academic year. Results of this study indicate that teachers developed a willingness to move from traditional lecture and replication as the main form of pedagogy. Instead they incorporated more group tasks, alternate assessments, and created their …

“A Tale Of Two Classrooms”: Designing Culturally-Relevant Hip Hop Curriculum To Support Stem Identity Of Underrepresented Students, Jessica Mcclain, Rebecca Colina Neri Ph.D

Northwest Journal of Teacher Education

This article explores how educators can contribute to the development of STEM identity in historically marginalized groups by using critical frameworks and pedagogies like Funds of Knowledge and Critical Hip-Hop Pedagogy as a curricular tool to counter traditional teaching practices. The authors amplify the importance of cultural spaces that support educators in examining aspects of power, access, and cultural awareness in STEM classrooms to increase student participation and acquisition of STEM knowledge. This article provides a guided activity named “A tale of two citiez” as an example of how educators can act towards (re)conceptualizing and (re)imagining STEM classrooms.

A Path To Decolonizing The Online Classroom, Erin Woodford

Northwest Journal of Teacher Education

Designing our online classroom is more than just putting content online or showing up on video conferencing as scheduled. The inequities across regions that inhibit success with online learning may affect students anywhere at any time. How do you navigate what inequities our learners may face? Are decolonization strategies the key to creating a more equitable, student-centered classroom? This paper illustrates the autoethnographic case study research process of decolonizing the online classroom that takes the researcher to the United Kingdom and back to the US and Canada to realize how global decolonization varies, yet how using an equity lens in …

Introduction: Into The Academy, Maika Yeigh

Northwest Journal of Teacher Education

Maika Yeigh, Co-editor of Northwest Journal of Teacher Education, introduces this special issue, Into the Academy, to put into practice the aims and scope of the journal, by “amplifying previously silenced and emerging voices, first-time authors, and those for whom the publication process has felt burdensome or laden with barriers.” Putting those aims into practice, the editorial board encouraged manuscripts with first-authorship belonging to new and emerging scholars, and the Board is thrilled and honored to present their work in this issue.

Addressing Gendered Harassment And Women's Travel Needs, Madeline Brozen

PSU Transportation Seminars

This presentation will cover experiences, disparities, and solutions to gendered travel differences. Madeline will discuss research from a worldwide survey of harassment on public transit with specific insights from Los Angeles and research from two agency-led studies in Los Angeles. The talk will cover the large issues that make women's travel needs distinct from their male counter-parts - safety and complex travel patterns and some promising solutions for addressing these disparities.

“The Power Of Onomatopoeia In Manga” An Essay By Natsume Fusanosuke With Translators’ Introduction, Jon Holt, Teppei Fukuda

World Languages and Literatures Faculty Publications and Presentations

Natsume Fusanosuke is one of the founding critics of manga that pioneered a style of formal analysis of manga in the 1990s. Natsume’s first important foray into his “theory of expression” (hyōgenron) was seen in the collaborate work, Manga no yomikata (How to read manga) in 1995. He later streamlined those ideas in a twelve-episode series Manga wa naze omoshiroi no ka: sono bunpō to hyōgen (Why is manga so interesting?: Its grammar and expression) for NHK television in 1996. The accompanying expanded book (1997) consists of well-ordered, individual essays on elements of manga such as …