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Translation Of: Trembley À Réaumur, Abraham Trembley, Morgan Mclaughlin

Biology: Student Scholarship & Creative Works

While examining a jar filled with aquatic plants and animals, Abraham Trembley, a young tutor working for Count William Bentinck in the Netherlands, noticed tiny, green, tube-shaped organisms attached to aquatic plants. Uncertain whether they were plants or animals, he devised a brilliant series of experiments to understand their biology. He observed them contract when disturbed and take steps towards a light, gathering in front of a chevron-shaped opening in a piece of cardboard. Nearly convinced they were animals, he cut one in half expecting to see it die. Instead, it regenerated two perfectly formed bodies from the severed halves. …

Coleoptera Of Brazil: What We Knew Then And What We Know Now. Insights From The Catálogo Taxonômico Da Fauna Do Brasil, Edilson Caron, Marcela L. Monné, Geoffrey Morse, Et Al.

Biology: Faculty Scholarship

In 2000, Cleide Costa published a paper presenting the state of knowledge of the Neotropical Coleopte ra, with a focus on the Brazilian fauna. Twenty-four years later, thanks to the development of the Coleoptera section of the Taxonomic Catalog of the Brazilian Fauna (CTFB - Catálogo Taxonômico da Fauna do Brasil) through the collaboration of 100 coleopterists from all over the globe, we can build on Costa’s work and present an updated overview of the state of knowledge of the beetles from Brazil. There are currently 35,699 species in 4,958 genera and 116 families known to occur in the country, …

Guide To The Alan Bersin Papers, Alan Douglas Bersin

Special Collections

The Alan Bersin papers consist of records collected by Bersin during his tenure as the Superintendent of San Diego City Schools and the Secretary of Education for the State of California. The vast majority of the records are in the form of correspondence, memoranda, meeting minutes, reports, and newspaper articles. These records delve into the workings of Bersin's office, planning behind such programs as the Blueprint for Student Success, the Institute for Learning, Special Education, and Charter Schools. Correspondence, news articles, and court cases document reaction to those programs from the public, labor unions, and the San Diego Board of …

Guide To The Athletics Department Records, University Of San Diego Athletics Department

University Records

This collection contains the historical records of the University of San Diego Athletics Department. Records include administrative memos, meeting minutes, correspondence, programs, and historical information as well as newspaper clippings related to USD athletics. The records document the advancement of the athletics program, including budget planning, notable events such as the reintroduction of the football program and the move to Division I, and documentation of the recreation program that served the broader campus community.

Finding Aids are tools used to aid research by describing the materials in a collection. University Records Finding Aids include historical and/or biographical information along with …

Guide To The University Of The Third Age Records, University Of San Diego, University Of The Third Age

University Records

The University of the Third Age records document the foundational years of the program. Records include plans and reports about the program and solicitation for funding. News articles, correspondence, and the script for the November 1978 documentary, broadcast by KCST-TV 39 San Diego, are included. Also included are records about establishing an Alumni association for the University, the graduation ceremony, programs for the early years of the university, and information about the courses taught. In addition to the administrative files are newspaper clippings and press releases related to the program.

Finding Aids are tools used to aid research by describing …

Guide To The Founders Gallery Exhibit Records, Therese Whitcomb

University Records

These records consist of the planning materials, newspaper clippings, and photographs gathered for University of San Diego Founders Gallery exhibits between 1971 and 1993.

Finding Aids are tools used to aid research by describing the materials in a collection. University Records Finding Aids include historical and/or biographical information along with a description of the collection and a folder listing of the content.

To view this collection please email University Archives and Special Collections staff at [email protected].

Book Review: Rev. Dr. Mark Hargreaves' The Sacred Architecture Of Irving J. Gill, Molly Mcclain

History: Faculty Scholarship

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Arts&Sciences Magazine Fall 2024, University Of San Diego

Arts & Sciences Magazine

2 | Message from the Dean

3 | Cultivating Radical Empathy on Stage

5 | Healing Through Art

6 | Building Across Borders

8 | Introducing USD's New Center for Food Systems Transformation

19 | Awards and Honors

33 | Faculty members Alejandro Meter, PhD, Rachel Blaser, PhD, and Christopher Adler, PhD

37 | Alumni Paloma Aguirre '05 and Patrick Harris '98

39 | Students Omsu Nguyen and Erik Christensen

41 | In the Community

42 | Off the Shelf

43 | Flashback

2024 Usd Fact Book, University Of San Diego

USD Fact Books (1985- )

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Usd President's Report 2023-24 Financial Operations, University Of San Diego

President's Reports (1985- )

Hello Friends, President's Report 2023-2024 Financial Operations, Giving to the University, Leadership

Addressing Chronic Violence From A Gendered Perspective: Fostering People-Centered Approaches At The National Level (Case Study: Jamaica), Elena B. Stavrevska, Nattecia Nerene Bohardsingh, María Dolores Hernández Montoya, Tania Cecilia Martínez, Briana Mawby, Aliza Carns

Kroc IPJ Research and Resources

Violence has traditionally been viewed through the lens of armed conflict or specific, concrete violent incidents. However, it is necessary to understand that violence may be a chronic phenomenon— a persistent, deeply ingrained aggression affecting daily lives.

The report makes the case for reconceptualizing violence in the Women, Peace and Security (WPS) and gender equality fields, building upon feminist conceptions of the continuum of violence to recognize that societal structures, systemic discrimination and even pervasive cultural norms can be sources of violence. This comprehensive view has significant implications for policy, demanding multisectoral strategies that address not just symptoms but the …

Vista: December 7, 2023, University Of San Diego

USD Vista (1965-)

No abstract provided.

Vista: November 30, 2023, University Of San Diego

USD Vista (1965-)

No abstract provided.

Understanding Discursive Framings Of Reparations For Slavery And Jim Crow, Carol Klier

San Diego Law Review

A meaningful reframing can be an effective tool for social change. The work of cognitive scientist and linguist, George Lakoff, explores the relationship between language use and the way we understand the world around us. Pertinent to the discussion of slave redress and reparations is the significance of discursive framing as a means of both promoting and dispelling worldviews. The manner in which we communicate particular ideas reveals much about how we conceptualize that subject. How we frame impacts the effectiveness of our messaging to others. As Lakoff indicates, “[F]acts matter enormously, but to be meaningful they must be framed …

Affirming And Supporting Black Women’S Lactation Agency As Redress, Dorothy Couchman

San Diego Law Review

This Article opens with Truth baring her breasts for four reasons. First, for many women like Truth who survived enslavement, lactation was a specifically gendered and racialized site of atrocity. Under chattel slavery in the United States, enslaved women were prevented from breastfeeding their infants as needed, compelled to wean their children far too early at the demands of their enslavers, or made to wet-nurse their enslavers’ White children in place of their own. This lactational coercion was part of a larger atrocity of reproductive abuse perpetuated against enslaved women.

Second, as Truth notes, enslaved women’s children were harmed when …

Vista: November 9, 2023, University Of San Diego

USD Vista (1965-)

No abstract provided.

Lost In Interpretation: The Lived Experience Of Nurse Interpreters In The Clinical Setting, Byron Batz

Dissertations

The use of language interpreters in the health care setting constitutes a vital part of provider-patient communication but remains a relatively unexplored phenomenon. Registered nurses (RNs) are often called upon to serve as interpreters when linguistically diverse patients constitute a large segment of the patient population. That RNs serve simultaneously in an interpreter role – in addition to clinical and advocacy roles – is a complex facet of contemporary nursing practice in a diverse U.S. culture. The purpose of this qualitative descriptive study was to examine the lived experience of RNs serving as interpreters in health care institutions in Southern …

Vista: November 2, 2023, University Of San Diego

USD Vista (1965-)

No abstract provided.

Vista: October 26, 2023, University Of San Diego

USD Vista (1965-)

No abstract provided.

Vista: October 19, 2023, University Of San Diego

USD Vista (1965-)

No abstract provided.

Effects Of Task Language On English And Spanish Bilinguals' Speech Perception Study, Ellis Noteboom, Gabriella Thomas, Camille Torre, Laura Getz

Creative Collaborations: Annual Showcase of Undergraduate Research

Variability across speakers and across languages makes speech perception a surprisingly complex task, as there are not exact numerical values you can memorize to determine what speech sound someone is intending at any given time without understanding the speaker context. For example, one acoustic cue is voice onset time (VOT), a measure for the length of different stop consonants. In English, voiced stop consonants like /b/ have short VOTs (around 0ms) and voiceless stop consonants like /p/ have longer VOTs (around 40ms). In Spanish, the same sounds are shifted in VOT, such that /b/ is pre-voiced with a VOT around …

Mcgurk Doesn't Work: Using Eeg To Investigate The Time Course Of The Mcgurk Effect, Alexandra Griffin, Sarah Mann, Izzie Ramirez, Laura Getz

Creative Collaborations: Annual Showcase of Undergraduate Research

Speech perception is an inherently multimodal process, where auditory signals provide concurrent information to visual information from the speaker's mouth movements. The McGurk effect is an illusion often used to study audiovisual speech integration; it is created by presenting incongruent auditory and visual speech cues. In the original study, listening to the spoken syllable /ba/ while watching visual mouth movements for /ga/ resulted in a 'fusion' perception of /da/ in 98% of participants (McGurk & MacDonald, 1976). Following, research on audiovisual integration has largely looked at the effect in isolated syllables. Our goal was to enhance the ecological validity of …

Vista: October 12, 2023, University Of San Diego

USD Vista (1965-)

No abstract provided.

Submerged Perspectives': Ecocriticism In Central America, Eden Van Saun, Julia Medina

Creative Collaborations: Annual Showcase of Undergraduate Research

In her anthology Poéticas de la destrucción / Poéticas de la preservación, Gisella Heffes defines the term 'ecocriticism' as "a land centered practice from which literary and cultural studies can be researched, analyzed, and explored," specifically through environmental and critical lenses. Using her three subsequent classifications as a launching point, my research was organized into six distinct categories: colonialism, extractivism, the Panama Canal, deforestation, conservation, and post-apocalypse and analyzed how humans, but more specifically, foreign polities, have impacted the Central American landscape. In this interdisciplinary exploration -- consisting of comparative explorations of written texts, visual arts, film, and other media …

"Taking A Gamble": Navigating Indigenous Identify, Recognition, And Gaming In Southeastern Connecticut, Robert Justice, T.J Tallie

Creative Collaborations: Annual Showcase of Undergraduate Research

My senior thesis is an homage to Southeastern Connecticut, where I was born and raised, that analyzes the many intersections (gender, race, and socioeconomics) of the three Native tribes in the region. Indigenous History is one of American history's most understudied and incorrectly portrayed aspects. I hope to call more attention to it through this project by studying the process of Federal Recognition and its effect on the histories of three Southeastern Connecticut tribes. Examining the experiences of the Mohegan, Mashantucket Pequot, and Eastern Pequot tribes in their pursuit of recognition throughout the 20th century reveals enduring Native agency. This …

The American Dream As The Bipoc Nightmare, Jenny Han, Carlton Floyd

Creative Collaborations: Annual Showcase of Undergraduate Research

The ethos of the American Dream is considered to be the cause and the foundation of the United States of America. However, many people, especially those who are part of the BIPOC (Black, Indigenous, People of Color) community criticize these notions, arguing that if the dream ever existed at one point in time, it no longer exists. On one hand, America is hailed as being the land of freedom and opportunity for immigrants. But on the other hand, America is also thought of as being the land built on the enslavement and exploitation of especially the BIPOC community. As a …

Made In China: Analyzing The Cultural Context And Consequences Of Transnational Adoption, Mei Flory, Atreyee Phukan

Creative Collaborations: Annual Showcase of Undergraduate Research

This project will outline the context under which transnational adoption becomes necessary and how this international process affects bicultural individuals. I will be focusing specifically on the One Child Policy of China and its psychological and sociopolitical effects on Chinese American adoptees, who are often girls. Transnationally adopted Chinese Americans are inherently bicultural due to the difference between their nationality and ethnicity; thus, I will be examining how transnationally (native country differs from adoptive country) adopted individuals interpret their place in between both cultures and how this affects their psychological well-being, with attention to COVID-19 and the overturning of Roe …

Flying High: An Analysis Of Cultural Essentialism In Bts' Wings, Mei Flory, Koonyong Kim

Creative Collaborations: Annual Showcase of Undergraduate Research

In 2016, South Korean K-Pop group BTS released their album Wings, which included their hit song "Blood Sweat and Tears." The following year, BTS became the first South Korean artist to win a Billboard Music Award, marking their official entry into the Western music industry. Wings, inspired by Western literature such as Hermann Hesse's Demian and the Greek myth of Icarus, blends cultural references to illustrate BTS' successful crossing of cultural boundaries and the criticisms that come with it. As a K-Pop group and therefore a major component of the Hallyu Wave, BTS' commercial and social success highlights the exportation …

The Peaky Blinders: A Postmodern And Ideological Analysis Of Class, Gender, And Nationalism, Charlotte Ferguson, David Sullivan

Creative Collaborations: Annual Showcase of Undergraduate Research

This paper focuses on the ideological and postmodern approaches to analyzing the popular television show from the British Broadcasting Corporation, Peaky Blinders. Utilizing a thematic approach for analysis, this paper highlights social class, gender, and nationalism throughout the show that best exemplifies the impact it has on challenging and subverting traditional narratives, as well as reflecting and upholding particular beliefs and values about the world. The analysis of the themes, and intersectionality of the themes, assesses the impact the television show has on audience viewpoints of social constructs, norms, and reality.

Vista: October 5, 2023, University Of San Diego

USD Vista (1965-)

No abstract provided.