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Understanding The Values That Inform Regenerative Ranching In The Northern U.S. Great Plains, T. Pape, G. Meredith, D. Sandal, M. F. Kabir, S. Banerjee, C. R. Allen, E. Dennis, M. Stephenson

School of Natural Resources: Faculty Publications

No abstract provided.

Towards A Standardized, Ground-Based Network Of Hyperspectral Measurements: Combination Of Time Series From Autonomous Field Spectrometers With Sentinel-2, P. Naethe, A. Desanctis, A. Burkart, Pke Campbell, J. A. Gamon Et Al.

School of Natural Resources: Faculty Publications

No abstract provided.

Evaluation Of Flash Drought Characteristics Using Satellite-Based Soil Moisture Product Between North And South Korea, Hee-Jin Lee, Won-Ho Nam, Jason A. Otkin, Yafang Zhong, Xiang Zhang, Mark D. Svoboda

School of Natural Resources: Faculty Publications

No abstract provided.

Are Larger Cities More Central In Urban Networks: A Metaanalysis, X. Li, Z. Neal

School of Natural Resources: Faculty Publications

No abstract provided.

The Regional Climate Center Program - Past, Present, And Future: Reflections From 40 Years Of Regional Climate Services, N. A. Unphlett, T. J. Brown, C. E. Conrad, T. U. Wall, B. L. Hall, A. T. Degaetano, J. W. Nielsen-Gammon, Rezaul Mamood, T. G. Houston

School of Natural Resources: Faculty Publications

No abstract provided.

Genomic Patterns In The Dwarf Kingfishers (Genus Ceyx) Of Northern Melanesia Reveal A Clear Mechanistic Framework Explaining The Paradox Of The Great Speciators, D. A. Deraad, A. N. Files, L. H. Decicco, R. P. Martin, P. Holland, D. Pikacha Jr., I. G. Tigulu, D. Boseto, T. H. Lavery, M. J. Anderson, R. G. Moyle

School of Natural Resources: Faculty Publications

No abstract provided.

Estimating Plant Β-Diversity Using Airborne And Spaceborne Imaging Spectroscopy, N. P. Kamaraj, H. Gholizadeh, R. G. Hamilton, S. D. Fuhlendorf, K. F. Huemmrich, J. A. Gamon

School of Natural Resources: Faculty Publications

No abstract provided.

Relative And Combined Impacts Of Climate And Land Use/Cover Change For The Streamflow Variability In The Baro River Basin (Brb), S. M. Kassaye, Tsegaye Tadesse, G. Tegegne, A. T. Hordofa, D. A. Malede

School of Natural Resources: Faculty Publications

No abstract provided.

Snapshot Usa 2021: A Third Coordinated National Camera Trap Survey Of The United States, J. F. Benson Et Al.

School of Natural Resources: Faculty Publications

No abstract provided.

Hydrological Impacts Of The Conservation Reserve Program—A Mini Review, L.B.S. Leal, T. Roy, Daniel R. Uden, Karina Schoengold

School of Natural Resources: Faculty Publications

No abstract provided.

Social Networks And Transformative Behaviours In A Grassland Social-Ecological System, H. K. Nesbitt, A. L. Metcalf, T. M. Floyd, Daniel R. Uden, B. C. Chaffin, S. Gulab, S. Banerjee, S. Vallury, S. L. Hamlin, E. C. Metcalf, D. T. Fogarty, D. Twidwell, Craig R. Allen

School of Natural Resources: Faculty Publications

No abstract provided.

The American West, 1899–1936: Prose, Poetry & Drama, Harriet Monroe, Michael R. Hill, Lindsay Atnip

Zea E-Books Collection

This comprehensive volume presents Harriet Monroe’s (1860–1936) previously unexplored love affair with the American West, an infatuation that blossomed in three interrelated genres: prose, poetry, and drama. Known internationally as the founder and influential editor of Poetry: A Magazine of Verse, here Monroe is revealed as a prolific author with a passion for the people, scenery, and environments she encountered during western escapes from her constricted urban life in Chicago. Monroe’s western travels were transformative. Originally schooled in the literary and artistic traditions of Europe, Monroe became increasingly convinced of the fundamental importance of the American West as the …

For Here Or To Go? (Re)Packaging The Takeaway, Randi Polk

National Collegiate Honors Council Monographs: Chapters

In this chapter, I intend to walk readers through my thought process for creating a virtual study abroad course and show how it was informed by lessons learned from the COVID-19 pandemic as well as current pedagogical trends. I will then discuss the implementation, including what worked and what did not go as planned. Finally, I will show how this course culminated in a student-led conference presentation and how this topic has shaped future thinking for Eastern Kentucky University (EKU) honors regarding global learning opportunities.

Understanding Gold Textiles: Case Studies Of Gold Threads From The Bronze Age And Antiquity In Europe, Karina Grömer, Francesca Coletti, Francisco B. Gomes, Kayleigh Saunderson

Textile Crossroads: Exploring European Clothing, Identity, and Culture across Millennia

The production of textiles, in terms of weaving techniques, has a long history in Europe, and dates back to the Stone Age, the time during which the first farming communities arrived in the Mediterranean and Central Europe, in the 7th/6th millennium BC. The first evidence of textile tools, like spindle whorls and loom weights, demonstrate that people made an important step forward in mechanizing this craft, not only twisting fibers and interlacing strands purely by hand, but also inventing tools to increase efficiency. Through the development of textile techniques, we see the unleashing of enormous creative power that stimulated even …

“What’S In A Name?” Toponyms And Loanwords In European Textile Cultures, Dimitra Andrianou, Klara Dankova, Nade Genevska Brachikj, Angela Huang, Meghan Korten, Elena Miramontes, Jasemin Nazim, Marie-Alice Rebours, Joana Sequeira

Textile Crossroads: Exploring European Clothing, Identity, and Culture across Millennia

Textiles as man-made products have been exchanged over distances for millennia. They can and have been produced almost anywhere; they are also, as a product, highly differentiated and quickly adjustable to changing demands. This brings with it naming practices to communicate about the goods in question. Textiles are labeled so that people can form expectations about them and rely on the reputation tied to the product’s identity. The terminology of textiles and textile items arises and develops in unison with technical innovations, discoveries, fashions, and trade patterns. Although the occurrence of toponyms e.g., in preindustrial trade (10th to 18th century …

The Terminology Of Soft Furnishings In Ancient Babylonia, Greece, And Rome: A Comparative Approach, Dimitra Andrianou, Elena Miramontes, Louise Quillien

Textile Crossroads: Exploring European Clothing, Identity, and Culture across Millennia

Various kinds of textiles were used to furnish domestic spaces in Antiquity, such as curtains, covers, hangings, pillows, cushions, mattresses, rugs, tapestries, tablecloths, and towels. These objects have practical and everyday functions, they embellish and add to daily comfort in the house and speak to the owner’s prosperity. Being made of perishable materials, furnishings have, on the whole, not survived in ancient Mesopotamia, Greece, and Rome. Apart from a few excavated pieces of textiles found in tombs, our information comes primarily from written testimonia and iconography.

It is thus essential to consider soft furnishings in their own right, in order …

Textiles, Dress And Politics: A Diachronic Perspective Through The Case Studies Of Ancient Rome And Medieval Iceland, Meghan Korten, Zofia Kaczmarek

Textile Crossroads: Exploring European Clothing, Identity, and Culture across Millennia

People dress for more than just aesthetic reasons. Over the centuries, dress became a sign of human civilization, allowing us to identify the origin, gender, and status of the wearer. Textiles and clothing influence our body, posture, movements, and the way we are perceived by society. Textiles are also a tool used by people to further their agenda, that is why they found their place in the political life of many ancient and modern societies.

According to Michel Foucault, power can be understood as a set of activities influencing the life of the other: It provokes, forbids, or permits, but …

Site-Specific Space Use And Resource Selection By Black Vultures (Coragyps Atratus) In The Southeastern Usa, Betsy Evans, John S. Humphrey, Eric A. Tillman, Michael L. Avery, Bryan M. Kluever

United States Department of Agriculture Wildlife Services: Staff Publications

North American populations of Black Vultures Coragyps atratus have increased and expanded their distribution in the southern and eastern USA. In conjunction with these patterns has been a rise in human–vulture conflicts. To improve our understanding of space use patterns and better inform management, we evaluated the movements of Black Vultures (n = 23) in the southeastern USA using a long-term GPS tracking database. Our specific objectives were to: (1) quantify home-range sizes in relation to season and geographical study location and (2) examine within-home-range resource selection to identify landscape and anthropogenic factors influencing roost and diurnal space use. …

Characterizing Feral Swine Movement Across The Contiguous United States Using Neural Networks And Genetic Data, Rachael M. Giglio, Courtney F. Bowden, Ryan K. Brook, Antoinette J. Piaggio, Timothy J. Smyser

United States Department of Agriculture Wildlife Services: Staff Publications

Globalization has led to the frequent movement of species out of their native habitat. Some of these species become highly invasive and capable of profoundly altering invaded ecosystems. Feral swine (Sus scrofa × domesticus) are recognized as being among the most destructive invasive species, with populations established on all continents except Antarctica. Within the United States (US), feral swine are responsible for extensive crop damage, the destruction of native ecosystems, and the spread of disease. Purposeful human-mediated movement of feral swine has contributed to their rapid range expansion over the past 30 years. Patterns of deliberate introduction of …

Bayesian Integrated Species Distribution Models For Hierarchical Resource Selection By A Soaring Bird, Ryo Ogawa, Guiming Wang, L. Wes Burger, Bronson Strickland, J. Brian Davis, Fred L. Cunningham

United States Department of Agriculture Wildlife Services: Staff Publications

Migratory birds exhibit seasonal geographic range (hereafter, range) dynamics during the annual cycle. Few studies have examined how migratory birds select their habitats for range occupancy at the species level and space use at the individual level simultaneously. We hypothesized that environmental variables directly related to fitness components would affect the range occupancy probabilities of migrants, whereas environment variables related to movements and flights would affect the space use intensities of migrants. We built Bayesian integrated species distribution models (ISDMs) to evaluate the effects of climate conditions, wind conditions, and landcover compositions on the seasonal range dynamics of American white …

Proceedings Of The 51st Annual Meeting, Southern Soybean Disease Workers (March 6-7, 2024, Pensacola Beach, Florida), Ian Small, Kiersten A. Wise, Travis R. Faske, Danise Beadle, Paul Patrick Price Iii, Tom W. Allen

Southern Soybean Disease Workers: Conference Proceedings

Success in Extension (moderator: Kiersten Wise)

Institutional currency: What is important at your university? Loren Giesler

Success (and challenges) in extension in the Mid-West, Daren Mueller

Success in extension in the Mid-Atlantic, Alyssa Koehler

Success (and failures) in xxtension in the Southeast, Ed Sikora

Success in extension in the Mid-South, Travis Faske

Student Competition (moderator: Ian Small)

Hiding in plain sight: Disentangling the biology of Cercospora species associated with Cercospora leaf blight of soybean, Ernesto da Silva, J. Searight, J. Richards, P. Price, and V. Doyle

Using spore traps to decipher the epidemiology of Cercospora leaf blight in the mid-south, …

Weaving Community: The Manual Loom As Metaphor For Rupture And Repair, Farrah Cato, Prerana Choudhury

Textile Society of America: Symposium Proceedings

The manual loom anchors women’s community and creative life in rural Assam. We explore this apparatus by extending definitions of the ‘digital’ and reconsidering the loom’s role as metaphor for both (dis)rupture and repair within the culturally diverse and bioculturally rooted lives of indigenous women in Assam. Our methods are based primarily on participatory research, community living, and slow travel undertaken by Prerana to remote parts of this northeastern state of India, juxtaposed with Farrah’s practical and theoretical approaches to technology. United by the recognition of how significant women’s lived histories and material production are, we reconsider the loom’s liminal …

The Touch And Breath Of Cloth: Folding And Unfolding Bedsheets With María Magdalena Campos-Pons, Theresa Downing

Textile Society of America: Symposium Proceedings

María Magdalena Campos-Pons’ Spoken Softly with Mama (1998) is an immersive installation she created to commune with her enslaved Nigerian ancestors and extended family in Cuba, when she was living in the U.S. but separated from family due to the embargo. A monumental work in the artist’s oeuvre with slave ship motifs, glass clothes irons, ironing boards, video projection, and sound, the dream-like installation transmits Campos-Pons’ thoughts like a letter written in cotton and silk. The installation centers her female family members, who worked as domestic laborers, with portraits projected or printed upon the means of their employment: bedsheets and …

Shifts & Strands: Rethinking The Possibilities And Potentials Of Textiles: Textile Society Of America 2024 Symposium--Full Program With Abstracts

Textile Society of America: Symposium Proceedings

Shifts & Strands: Rethinking the Possibilities and Potentials of Textiles

Textile Society of America 2024 Symposium, November 12-17, 2024, a virtual event

Theme and mission

Accessibility statement

About the 2024 symposium logo

Letter from the President, Isaac Facio

Letter from the Co-Vice President, Sharbreon Plummer

Letter from the Co-Vice President Symposia Chair, L Vinebaum

2024 symposium acknowledgements

Symposium organizers

Program agenda

Keynote and plenary sessions

Session abstracts

Awards and scholarships

Congratulations to the 2024 Founding President awardees

2024 winner of the R. L. Shep Award

2024 Student / New Professional Scholarship recipients

Cultivating Delight, Crossing Divides, And Solving Impossible Problems: Lessons Learned From A Year Of Virtual Conferences, Jon Blandford, Kathy J. Cooke, Erik Liddell, Kathryn M. Macdonald, Tara M. Tuttle

National Collegiate Honors Council Monographs: Chapters

This chapter highlights some of the lessons learned from a year of virtual conferences held by three different honors organizations, the Southern Regional Honors Council (SRHC), the Northeast Regional Honors Council (NRHC), and the Kentucky Honors Roundtable (KHR) during the COVID-19 pandemic.

Harnessing Flip In Both Hybrid And Fully Online Honors Courses To Build Community, Monica Vandieren, Sylvia A. Pamboukian

National Collegiate Honors Council Monographs: Chapters

To encourage emotionally and socially significant student collaboration, the University Honors Program at Robert Morris University developed a variety of Flip assignments and activities, including scavenger hunts, journals, and peer-advising, that were integrated into online and hybrid courses in order to create a sense of community for students from their first year through their senior year.

Honors As Neighborhood: 1995 National Collegiate Honors Council Presidential Address, Ada Long

Journal of the National Collegiate Honors Council Online Archive

1995 National Collegiate Honors Council Presidential Address, published in the National Honors Report, Vol. XVI, No. 4 (winter 1996), 21–24; rpt. in NHR Vol. XX, No. 4 (winter 1999), 9–12. The typographical errors have been silently corrected.

In this address to members of the National Collegiate Honors Council, outgoing president Dr. Ada Long (1945–2024) reflects on the sensibility and characteristics of neighborhood and considers what this means to honors education and its community of learners. Identifying three values of neighborhood—conversation, personal affiliation and belonging, and caring—Long expounds on their relevance to educators and society at large on the cusp …

From Individuals To Neighbors: Growth Through Embracing Positionality, Joy L. Hart, Andrea Radasanu, Rebecca C. Bott-Kutson, Jonathan D. Kotinek

Journal of the National Collegiate Honors Council Online Archive

Drawing inspiration from Dr. Ada Long’s (1995) presidential address, the authors describe an experience that facilitates neighborhood-building among honors educators and students across the nation as well as a neighborhood approach to understanding social problems. Focusing on food justice in the first year of the Justice Challenge, honors students learn about community needs, develop leadership and partnership skills, and collaborate with community members through an array of opportunities. Throughout the academic year, individual positionality shifts through deeper engagement with multiple viewpoints and facilitates new approaches for collaboration toward effectively addressing thorny problems. Cultivation of such connections is central in revitalizing …

International Honors Neighbors, Mimi Killinger, Abigail Arnold, Abby Bouchard, Katharine Poulin, Gabriella Shetreet, Kailee Soucia

Journal of the National Collegiate Honors Council Online Archive

cohort of five students and one faculty member share ways in which their Bulgarian study abroad experience (2024) built upon an existing international partnership and, in so doing, aligned with the tenets of, and goals for, “neighborhoods” as described by Dr. Ada Long (1945–2024). The authors describe lessons learned through the unique pedagogy and practices of NCHC’s City as Text^®, suggesting that honors may be especially well suited for neighborly international exchange. The authors describe their study abroad experiences as being effective in developing a sense of global citizenship across cultural divides and cultivating an actual sense of …

Expanding Our Honors Neighborhood: Teaching In And About Jails And Prisons, Victoria M. Bryan, Owen Cantrell

Journal of the National Collegiate Honors Council Online Archive

Dr. Ada Long (1945–2024) advocated for equal access to quality education. Authors suggest that her reflections on neighborhoods, community, and intentional inclusion were not one-off musings but rather indicative of how she saw her responsibility as an educator. Drawing on Long’s establishment of a lecture series that brought faculty into a local Alabama prison to share research with incarerated students, this essay presents firsthand experiences teaching honors courses in prison, particularly those offered at Walker State Prison as part of Georgia State University’s Prison Education Project (2016–2023). While honors colleges often build programs to be as community-centric as possible, authors …