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Issue 438: March 7-21, 2024, The Local Voice

The Local Voice

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Beth Ann Fennelly To Guest On 'Our New South' Podcast, Edwin Smith

University of Mississippi News

OXFORD, Miss. – Beth Ann Fennelly, a University of Mississippi English professor and former Mississippi poet laureate, will discuss the evolution of Southern cities today (March 5) as a guest on the "Our New South" podcast.

Alternatives To Traditional Essays, Derek Bruff, Emily Pitts Donahoe

Events

Faculty panel facilitated by Derek Bruff and Emily Pitts Donahoe. There is much value in the traditional essay, but it’s not always the only, or even the best way to accomplish our teaching goals. Recently, instructors have been experimenting with a wide range of alternatives to the take-home essay, a process that the advent of generative AI has only accelerated. In this panel, UM faculty from across disciplines share new assignments they’ve developed to promote engagement, foster academic integrity, and help students demonstrate their learning in a variety of ways. (Monday, March 4, 2:00-3:00 p.m., Zoom link provided after registration)

Panel Session. Game Changers: Connections And Empowerment Through Coaching, Anne Carr, Bre Henry, Rachel Martin, Connie Price Smith

WHEMN Conference

This panel spotlights the achievements and contributions of collegiate women coaches and sports administrators and will delve into the unique challenges and triumphs experienced by women in leadership roles within the realm of collegiate sports. Panelists will share personal journeys, insights and strategies for success and will offer invaluable perspectives on leadership, mentorship and breaking through barriers.

• Anne Carr, executive director, Student-Athlete Development, Mississippi State University
• Bre Henry, head coach, Volleyball, The University of Mississippi
• Rachel Martin, head coach, Rifle, The University of Mississippi
• Connie Price Smith, head coach, Men's and Women's Track & Field, The …

Panel Session. Science Superheroes: Cultivating Careers In Science And Research, Priyadarshini Chakrabarti Basu, Sydney Murphy, Donna Strum, Eden Tanner, Brandi Newkirk-Turner

WHEMN Conference

This panel features accomplished women scientists and researchers from Mississippi universities. The moderated discussion will include how they cultivated successful careers in their fields; lessons they have learned and how that translates into practical advice for other women; and how they are shaping the future of research and science by mentoring students and other women in their fields.

• Priyadarshini Chakrabarti Basu, assistant professor, Pollinator Health and Apiculture, Mississippi State University
• Sydney Murphy, dean, School of Graduate Studies in Health, University of Mississippi Medical Center
• Donna Strum, dean, School of Pharmacy, University of Mississippi
• Eden Tanner, assistant …

Panel Session. Nuturing The Next Generation Through Student Engagement And Success, Ashley Burnside, Rachael Durham, Erin Vaughn Jones, Jacqueline Mullen, Tonyalle Rush

WHEMN Conference

This session promises an insightful discussion on the importance of nurturing the next generation. Delve into a dialogue rich with best practices for effective student engagement, explore proven strategies that drive student success, and benefit from the wisdom gleaned from the panelists wealth of experience. Be part of a conversation that transcends theory, offering tangible lessons learned throughout their careers. Together, lets uncover the keys to nurturing the next generation through purposeful student engagement and steadfast commitment to their success.

• Ashley Burnside, director, Center for Student Success, University of Southern Mississippi
• Rachael Durham, assistant director, Center for Student …

Welcome, Charlotte Fant Pegues

WHEMN Conference

Dr. Charlotte Fant Pegues, WHEMN state coordinator and vice chancellor for Student Affairs at the University of Mississippi, leads a team of professionals who are committed to providing exceptional services and creating an environment where all students can be successful. During her 30 years of service to the university, she has served as assistant vice chancellor for student affairs, director of admissions and assistant provost and registrar. Dr. Fant Pegues earned several degrees from the university including a B.A. in Psychology, an M.A. in Education and a Ph.D. in Leadership and Counselor Education. She holds an academic appointment in the …

February 29, 2024, The Daily Mississippian

Daily Mississippian (all digitized issues)

No abstract provided.

A 'Game Changer' For Incarcerated Students, Jonathan Scott

University of Mississippi News

OXFORD, Miss. – A $150,000 grant to the University of Mississippi's Prison-to-College Pipeline Program will help expand course offerings and services to those looking to transform their lives during and after incarceration.

February 22, 2024, The Daily Mississippian

Daily Mississippian (all digitized issues)

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Ellagic Acid And Flavonoid-Based Metabolites From The Seed Kernel Of Irvingia Gabonensis, Fazila Zulfiqar, Amar Chittiboyina, Zulfiqar Ali, Alvaro M. Viljoen, Ikhlas A. Khan

Annual Poster Session 2023-2024

Irvingia gabonensis (Aubry-Lecomte ex O’Rorke) Baill (Irvingiaceae), commonly known as African mango is a multipurpose tree providing food, medicine, and timber. Native to West and Central Africa, it is grown in various tropical and subtropical regions of the world. The seed kernel is of economic importance due to its popularity in local and international trade. It has now become a popular herbal weight-loss supplement, particularly in the United States. Seventeen compounds of diverse classes including four flavonoid glycosides, five ellagic acid derivatives, and eight other metabolites were isolated from the methanolic extract of the defatted seed kernel of Irvingia gabonensis. …

Tom Franklin Wins Prestigious Harper Lee Award, Edwin Smith

University of Mississippi News

OXFORD, Miss. – Tom Franklin has appeared at the Monroeville Literary Festival in Alabama four times, but the next time he attends, he'll be at center stage as recipient of this year's Harper Lee Award.

Finding Aid For The James O. Eastland Collection (Mum00117)

Archives & Special Collections: Finding Aids (alphabetical)

Correspondence, documents, publications, photographs, scrapbooks, and recordings from the congressional office of U.S. Senator James O. Eastland of Mississippi. Also includes his personal correspondence, financial records, plantation records, and law firm files.

Issue 436: February 8-22, 2024, The Local Voice

The Local Voice

No abstract provided.

February 8, 2024, The Daily Mississippian

Daily Mississippian (all digitized issues)

No abstract provided.

Spring Southtalks Begin Feb. 6, Rebecca Lauck Cleary

Blog Posts

The SouthTalks series continues the Creativity in the South programming focus this spring at the University of Mississippi, with lectures, performances and film screenings examining the interdisciplinary nature of Southern studies. The series is sponsored by the university's Center for the Study of Southern Culture.

Southtalks Continue Theme Of Creativity In The South, Rebecca Lauck Cleary

University of Mississippi News

OXFORD, Miss. – The SouthTalks series continues the "Creativity in the South" programming focus this spring at the University of Mississippi, with lectures, performances and film screenings examining the interdisciplinary nature of Southern studies.

Southern Register. 2024.1 (Winter 2024), University Of Mississippi. Center For The Study Of Southern Culture

Southern Register

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The Ole Miss, University Of Mississippi

The Ole Miss (1897-)

The Ole Miss Annual, 2024

Modified Loss Functions For Algorithmic Bias Mitigation, Christina Joy Trotter

Electronic Theses and Dissertations

Artificial intelligence and machine learning are becoming more present in everyday life. Training data distributions, amongst other variables, can cause these systems to be unfair. Users, as well as other individuals, may be negatively impacted. This work studies using modified loss functions to mitigate race and sex bias caused by data and models.

In the first experiment, the trade-off between fairness and accuracy when data is biased and unbiased is explored. A group risk function is introduced and used to create two versions of a modified loss function: Max Group Equity and Max Group Equality Binary Cross-Entropy (BCE). Both functions …

Acculturation And Seeking Campus Counseling Services Among Saudi International Students In The United States: An Intrepretative Phenomenological Analysis, Abdullah Almutairi

Electronic Theses and Dissertations

This study adopts a phenomenological qualitative approach to explore and examine the acculturation process of Saudi students living in the United States, particularly in relation to their access to campus counseling services. The findings of this study identify five themes: 1) premigration expectations and realities, 2) journey of cultural adaptation, 3) navigating academic adaptations, 4) coping with acculturation and academic pressures, and 5) expectations of services provided by campus counseling experiences. This study highlights that the acculturation journey is a complex experience that affects Saudi students’ psychological well-being, which hinders their access to campus counseling services. The purpose of this …

The Bishop And The Jesuit: Catholic Influence On Succession Polemic In The Long Seventeenth Century, Troy Dallas Bone

Electronic Theses and Dissertations

This thesis investigates printed polemics discussing succession crises during the long seventeenth century, and it traces how continuity and change defined religio-political debates from the Elizabethan period to the Stuart era. To do so, it focuses on the impact of two Catholic clergymen—John Lesley, the Scottish Bishop of Ross, and Robert Parsons, English exile and Jesuit priest. Lesley was the author of A Defence of…Marie Quene of Scotlande—originally—printed in 1569 and republished twice more in English in 1571 and 1584—which combatted Protestant efforts to exclude Mary Queen of Scots from the English throne by promoting her hereditary right to succeed …

"A Transient Veil": Appropriation Of Exclusionary Form In Eighteenth-Century Women's Writing, Andrea Ferniany

Electronic Theses and Dissertations

“’A Transient Veil’ : Appropriation of Exclusionary Form in Eighteenth-Century Women’s Writing” is an exploration of how women writers of the eighteenth century strategically and subversively appropriated patriarchal, often misogynistic, literary idioms to expand literary discourse and craft flexible, alternative, and feminine literary forms. It emerges from the desire to underscore what rhetorical features of women’s writing can tell us about the creative agency of women writers. By exclusionary form, I mean to reference both rhetorical conventions and aesthetic traditions that excluded women writers by assuming a male subject position or by the explicit objectification of feminine figures. This dissertation …

In Service, Marina Greenfeld

Electronic Theses and Dissertations

A collection of poems.

Crosscultural Backchannelling Responses Among Second Language Learners, Chien-Hui Hsu

Electronic Theses and Dissertations

Backchannel responses (Yngve, 1970) have always been an essential component of conversational interactions that facilitate speaker-listener engagement and mutual shaping of narratives (Bavelas et al., 2000). This study aims to investigate the cross-linguistic difference in backchannelling responses between Taiwan Mandarin and English (General American) second language (L2) learners, and how those differences might impact communication in a cross-cultural classroom. The current study examines 20 participants, ten each from Taiwan Mandarin speakers and American English speakers. Each speaker was observed in an online conversation to eliminate the influence of non-verbal cues such as gestures and facial expressions. The backchannelling responses they …

The Metaphysics Of Creaturely Love In The Philosophy Of Anne Conway, Jeremiah Joseph Langer

Electronic Theses and Dissertations

A common belief during the early modern period held that humans bear ethical relations only to creatures with whom we share the right kinds of similarity. A tradition attributed to René Descartes holds speciesist and anthropocentric views according to which nonhuman animals are mere automata who lack rational minds. Even Baruch Spinoza, who was much more radical in his Ethics, suggests creaturely similarity is restricted to beings with rationality. As such, Descartes and Spinoza conclude that lower beings cannot be morally evaluated for their actions and humans cannot be morally evaluated for their treatment of lower creatures. In her sole …

The Third Ethos: Asexual Potentialities In Transnational Literature Between 1900-1926, Kimberly Allyn Kotel

Electronic Theses and Dissertations

The Third Ethos responds to the call put forth by sexuality studies for more extensive research into asexualities as a burgeoning field of identity and modality. At the same time, it furthers recent literary scholarship that locates the origins of modernism in earlier aesthetic movements such as symbolism, decadence, and aestheticism, underscoring the influence of modernization on artistic output during the fin de siècle while concurrently contributing to the development of Decadent studies. Analyzing Rachilde’s La Jongleuse, Willa Cather’s O Pioneers!, and Sylvia Townsend Warner’s Lolly Willowes, I argue that the Western sociocultural understanding of sex that existed in the …

Bigger Than Bees: Victorian England’S Relationship To The Bee – Considering Symbolism And Understanding, Grace Jacqueline Kaim

Electronic Theses and Dissertations

The complex and beautiful relationship the people in Victorian England had to the bee is one that goes beyond ideas of politics and religion. This thesis will explore this relationship by utilizing print, ephemera, jewelry, and household items, to demonstrate how the representation and symbolism of the bee was recognized and cherished by Victorians. While bees did certainly have an intimate relationship to the areas of politics and religion, one that is acknowledged throughout this work, their connection to grander themes of introspection, industrialism, folklore, morality, and status helps us understand the Victorians on a deeper level.

The Value Of Empathy For Teachers In Nontraditional Classrooms, Mindy Clair Waldrop

Electronic Theses and Dissertations

Little is known about the experience of teachers in nontraditional classrooms, particularly those in Juvenile Detention Centers (JDCs). Using the tenets of hermeneutic phenomenology this study interpreted the lived experience of teachers in nontraditional classrooms. Hermeneutic principles involve using texts, including interview transcripts, to develop understanding and interpret meaning. Following interviews with teachers currently practicing in the JDC nontraditional classroom setting, the researcher engaged in the hermeneutic circle of understanding, which requires an ongoing commitment to the attitude of hermeneutic phenomenology and reflection (Alsaigh & Coyne, 2021). Four themes emerged as significant to the experience of teachers and their use …

Dixieland Do Sul: Brazilian Racial Democracy And The Recontextualization Of Transnational Confederate Symbols (Vol. 1), Maximilian Xavier Conrad

Electronic Theses and Dissertations

Following their defeat in the American Civil War, tens of thousands of American Southerners, many of them former Confederates, fled the United States to seek out new homelands in Latin America. Thousands would set their sights on Brazil, encouraged by the promise of arable land and the prospect of a new society in one of the hemisphere’s last slaveholding societies. Though many of these Confederados returned to the United States after Reconstruction, their influential presence in Brazil has remained a persistent factor. What has been the resulting impact of this nineteenth century Confederate immigration? This thesis volume will argue that …