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Considering Custody Arrangements For Companion Animals, Rachel Robinson-Greene

Languages, Philosophy, and Communication Studies Faculty Publications

In most states, pets are viewed as personal property in the eyes of the law. Last year, California shook up the status quo by passing Assembly Bill 2274, which was signed into law by Governor Jerry Brown in September. The law will allow judges in divorce cases to make more nuanced decisions when it comes to animal custody. Prior to the passing of the bill, courts were required to divide community property roughly equally. Judges now have the flexibility to consider factors like which of the parties in the relationship provides care to the pet in the form of walking, …

The Utah Statesman, January 15, 2019, Utah State University

The Utah Statesman

Weekly student newspaper of Utah State University in Logan.

Educational Policies Committee Program Proposal, College Of Agriculture And Applied Sciences, January 11, 2019 - Emphasis In Farm And Ranch Operations, Utah State University

Educational Policies Committee

The School of Applied Sciences, Technology, and Education in the College of Agriculture and Applied Sciences proposes offering an emphasis in the Agricultural Systems Technology program.

A Web-Based Self-Guided Program To Promote Valued-Living In College Students: A Pilot Study, Jacob Firestone, Leeann Cardaciotto, Michael E. Levin, Edie Goldbacher, Peter Vernig, Laura Eubanks Gambrell

Psychology Faculty Publications

Web-based programs that focus on values, a core process within acceptance and commitment therapy (ACT), may be a promising approach to cultivate positive psychosocial adjustment among undergraduates. The current study tested the usability, acceptability, and receptivity of the Living Your Values (LYV) program, a single-session, web-delivered, self-guided values intervention for undergraduates and its utility to promote valued-living and psychological wellbeing. In an undergraduate sample (N = 133), while the LVY program was deemed moderately usable, acceptability and receptivity findings were more attenuated. At follow-up (n = 98), a significant pre-intervention to follow-up increase in valued-living was evidenced both overall and …

Aging And Blaming In The Criminal Justice System, Rachel Robinson-Greene

Languages, Philosophy, and Communication Studies Faculty Publications

A recent study in the medical journal The Lancet suggests that, if trends hold, 50% of babies born today will live to be over 100 years old. Though long life is typically thought of as a good thing, some of our ordinary practices may need to change to track philosophical and practical challenges posed by longer life spans. In particular, we need to reflect on whether our attitudes about blame and punishment need to be adjusted. For example, last year, John “Sonny” Franzese was released from an American prison at the age of 100. Franzese was sentenced to fifty years …

Educational Policies Committee Agenda, January 10, 2019, Utah State University

Educational Policies Committee

• Curriculum Subcommittee
• Academic Standards Subcommittee
• General Education Subcommittee
• Cross-Listed Courses Discussion

Curriculum Subcommittee Minutes, January 10, 2019, Utah State University

Educational Policies Committee

Program Proposals

• Changing the MS in International Food and Agribusiness to MS Agribusiness
• Changing the name of the BS from Land, Plant, and Climate Systems to Soils and Sustainable Land Systems
• Offering a minor in Electrical Engineering
• Changing department name from Geology to Earth Sciences

Semester Course Approval Reviews

Other

• Cross-Listed Courses Discussion
• Zero Credit Courses

Curriculum Subcommittee Agenda, January 10, 2019, Utah State University

Educational Policies Committee

Program Proposals

• Changing the MS in International Food and Agribusiness to MS Agribusiness
• Changing the name of the BS from Land, Plant, and Climate Systems to Soils and Sustainable Land Systems
• Offering a minor in Electrical Engineering
• Changing department name from Geology to Earth Sciences

Semester Course Approval Reviews

Other

• Cross-Listed Courses Discussion

Educational Policies Committee Minutes, January 10, 2019, Utah State University

Educational Policies Committee

• Curriculum Subcommittee report
• Academic Standards Subcommittee report
• General Education Subcommittee report

Anton Lavey's Satanic Philosophy: An Analysis, Gabriel Andrade

Intermountain West Journal of Religious Studies

The history of Satanism goes back to at least 2500 years. Yet, only in the seventeenth century, was the devil perceived in more sympathetic terms, in large part due to John Milton’s Paradise Lost.¹ In the twentieth century, Aleister Crowley assumed the name of “The Beast 666,” as well as owning the title of “the wickedest man in the world.”² But, it was during the second half of the twentieth century, when an openly Satanic movement arose and gained significant attention from mass media with the enigmatic and sensationalist Anton LaVey at its helm.³ In this article, …

The Utah Statesman, January 8, 2019, Utah State University

The Utah Statesman

Weekly student newspaper of Utah State University in Logan.

Usu Faculty Senate Minutes, January 7, 2019, Utah State University

Faculty Senate & Faculty Senate Executive Committee

• University Business
• Information
• Reports
• Old Business
• New Business

Faculty Senate Agenda, January 7, 2019, Utah State University

Faculty Senate & Faculty Senate Executive Committee

• EPC Monthly Report – December 6, 2018
• USUSA Annual Report
• Professional Responsibilities and Procedures Committee Annual Report
• Scholarship Advisory Board Annual Report
• USUSA Recommendations (ASR 2018-2019-03 | ECR 2019-02)
• 405.8.2 Code – Faculty with Tenure below the Rank of Professor

Creative Citizen Science Illuminates Complex Ecological Responses To Climate Change, Abraham J. Miller-Rushing, Amanda S. Gallinat, Richard B. Primack

Biology Faculty Publications

Climate change is causing the timing of key behaviors (i.e., phenology) to shift differently across trophic levels and among some interacting organisms (e.g., plants and pollinators, predators and prey), suggesting that interactions among species are being disrupted (1, 2). Studying the phenology of interactions, however, is difficult, which has limited researchers’ ability to zero in on changes in specific interactions or on the consequences of mismatches. In PNAS, Hassall et al. (3) use a combination of citizen science techniques to investigate the effects of climate change on dozens of specific interactions. They focus on a Batesian mimicry complex involving stinging …

Group Effects Of A Non-Native Plant Invasion On Rodent Abundance, Bryan M. Kluever, Trinity N. Smith, Eric M. Gese

Wildland Resources Faculty Publications

Cheatgrass (Bromus tectorum) is the most prolific invading plant in western North America. Investigations determining the impact of this invasion on population state variables and community dynamics of rodents have largely occurred at the community or species level, creating a knowledge gap as to whether rodents affiliated by a shared taxonomy or other grouping are differentially affected by cheatgrass invasion. We examined rodent abundance along a gradient of cheatgrass cover using various groupings of two nocturnal rodent taxa comprising the majority of the rodent community in the Great Basin Desert. In the summers of 2010–2013, rodents were sampled …

Decreased Sarcopenia In Aged Females With Young Ovary Transplants Was Preserved In Mice That Received Germ Cell-Depleted Young Ovaries, Tracy L. Habermehl, Jeffrey B. Mason

Animal, Dairy, and Veterinary Science Faculty Publications

Previously, transplantation of young, cycling, ovaries increased life and health span in post-reproductive female mice. The current study addressed the influence of ovarian germ cells in the improvement in health by performing transplantations of young, germ cell-depleted ovaries. The purpose of this study is to further the understanding of reproductive influences on aging health. Control mice were grouped by age. Treatment mice were age-matched and received either germ cell depleted ovaries or germ cell containing ovaries at 400 days of age. All groups underwent health span assays until sacrifice (treatment and age-matched control groups were between 680 and 700 days). …

Wrestling With Competency And Everyday Literacies In School, Kortney Sherbine

Teacher Education and Leadership Faculty Publications

In this essay, I detail the entanglements of three young Black boys - Million Dollar Man, DJ, and Francisco - and their interests in and experiences with WWE wrestling. Drawing on posthumanist philosophies that attend to the productive relationships between the human and more-than-human objects, I consider ethnographic data composed during a second-grade literacy workshop to describe the ways in which the boys' talk, play, embodiments, drawing, and writing created new ways for them to demonstrate competencies in school. A rhizoanalysis of field notes, audio and video recordings, and artifactual documentation demonstrates the overlapping and diverging traditional and indeterminate literacies …

Methods For Managing Human–Deer Conflicts In Urban, Suburban, And Exurban Areas, Geoff D. Westerfield, Justin M. Shannon, Orrin V. Duvuvuei, Thomas A. Decker, Nathan P. Snow, Erin D. Shank, Brian F. Wakeling, H. Bryant White

Human–Wildlife Interactions Monographs

This monograph identifies challenges and benefits associated with many human–deer conflict mitigation actions as well as methods to monitor the response of deer populations to management actions. Deer exploit urban, suburban, and exurban areas where human populations provide anthropogenic attractants, either intentionally or inadvertently, which often leads to human–deer conflicts. Mitigating actions have varying degrees of efficacy and may not be effective or accepted in every situation. Wildlife and municipal managers must work together to seek methods to reduce attractants, mitigate conflicts, and perpetuate the conservation of wildlife species that adds to the appreciation of nature in our lives.

Self-Evaluation Report For Society Of American Foresters' Continued Accreditation Of Bachelor Of Science Degree In Forest Ecology And Management, Karen E. Mock, Department Of Wildland Resources, Utah State University

Faculty

This self-evaluation report has been produced for the purpose of reaccreditation of the Utah State University Forest Ecology and Management (FEMA) undergraduate degree program by the Society of American Foresters (SAF). Utah State University has maintained an SAF-accredited forestry program since 1936 and was most recently reaccredited by SAF in 2010.

Utah State University has a long and influential legacy in the forestry profession. Our faculty have led and shaped the profession, and our graduates have become leaders in a variety of state, federal, international, and academic organizations. Our institutional structure, degree program components, and enrollments have changed over time, …

Newsletter 2019, Utah State University

Research

This is a newsletter from the 2018-2019 academic year at Utah State University. It explores the type of research being done, in addition to the changes in the past year regarding research, fellowships, and programs available to students.

Utah State Magazine, Winter 2019, Utah State University

Utah State Magazine

The quarterly magazine for friends and alumni of Utah State University.

Voices Of Usu: An Anthology Of Student Writing, Vol. 12, Utah State University Department Of English

Voices of USU

This collection of student writing represents the voices of over 2,000 students who enroll each academic year in Utah State University’s second-year composition course, Intermediate Writing: Research Writing in a Persuasive Mode. Voices of USU celebrates excellence in writing by providing undergraduate students of diverse backgrounds and disciplines the opportunity to have their work published.

La Heroica Alcahueta Dormía La Siesta: La Celestina’S Presence In La Regenta, Leyla Rouhi, Julie A. Cassiday

Decimonónica

Our epigraph comes from the closing scene of the opening chapter of Leopoldo Alas’s La Regenta (1885). Here Vetusta’s resident erudite, Saturnino Bermúdez, shows the local cathedral to a provincial couple visiting “la heroica ciudad” (I: 135) while he clumsily flirts with Obdulia Fandiño, the town’s most scandalous citizen. This first chapter of La Regenta famously begins with all of Vetusta taking its daily siesta while it “descansaba oyendo entre sueños” (I: 136), as Fermín de Pas, canon theologian and vicar general, ascends the cathedral bell tower to survey his drowsing domain. The multiple symbolic functions of Vetusta’s geography have …

Ecos Y Desvaríos Espiritistas En El Donador De Almas De Amado Nervo, Tatiana Suárez Turriza

Decimonónica

Es tarea complicada demostrar la vigencia de un escritor cuando la crítica ha anunciado el crepúsculo de su prestigio literario, como sucedió con Amado Nervo. Su fama de poeta en desgracia impidió durante largo tiempo el reconocimiento y valoración de su otra faceta, la de prosista y narrador prolífico. Ante esas circunstancias, en la última década del siglo pasado se inició una suerte de cruzada crítica literaria para “rescatar [a Nervo] y ponerlo precisamente en su lugar,” como propuso Alí Chumacero en entrevista con Gustavo Jiménez Aguirre (6). Esa empresa de rescate se destacó, sobre todo, por la revaloración del …

Representaciones De La Modernidad En Dos Cuadros De Costumbres, Francisco Solares-Larrave

Decimonónica

Toda mención de la literatura decimonónica hispanoamericana conjura imágenes de novelas emocionalmente intensas, como Sab y María, o de obras complejas y de dimensiones épicas como Amalia o Martín Rivas. En otras palabras, la imagen de esta literatura está firmemente asociada con tramas románticas, altamente simbólicas y de aspectos casi épicos, pues tienden a incluir rasgos de la historia y la política de los países en que se generaron. De esa suerte se comprende que novelas como Cumandá y Cecilia Valdés ocupen lugares privilegiados en el canon de la producción literaria decimonónica, ya que retratan no sólo tensiones …

Espacio Político En “La Duquesa Job” De Manuel Gutiérrez Nájera, Rodrigo Figueroa Obregón

Decimonónica

La crítica especializada ha revalorado el legado de Manuel Gutiérrez Nájera (México, D.F., 1859-1895), sobre todo a la luz de sus crónicas y sus escritos políticos, cuya recuperación se debe en gran medida a Erwin K. Mapes y Boyd G. Carter. Si bien se solía considerar a Gutiérrez Nájera como el escritor por antonomasia que habitaba y escribía desde su torre de marfil, los trabajos de los académicos antes mencionados trajeron a la luz un corpus de textos que lidian directamente con la política y el mundo de su tiempo. Por ende, la lectura de la crónica de Gutiérrez Nájera …

Progress At What Price?: Defenses Of Indigenous Peoples In Argentine Writing About Patagonia (1894-1904), Ashley Kerr

Decimonónica

Official history boasts that by the mid-1880s, the Argentine government had definitively brought Patagonia under national control, neutralizing the savagery associated with both the land and the indigenous people who lived there. The 1881 Tratado de Límites between Argentina and Chile and the 1884 Ley Orgánica de los Territorios Nacionales demarcated the limits of national sovereignty and organized the newly-formed provinces of Neuquén, Río Negro, Chubut, Santa Cruz, and Tierra del Fuego. General Lorenzo Vittner declared the successful end of the Conquista del desierto in 1885, ending military efforts to subdue indigenous populations in the south (Mases 59). At the …

Connecting With Computer Science: Electronic Textile Portfolios As Ideational Identity Resources For High School Students, Mia S. Shaw, Deborah A. Fields, Yasmin B. Kafai

Instructional Technology and Learning Sciences Faculty Publications

The development of student identities—their interests in computer science, perceptions of the discipline, and sense of belonging in the field—is critical for broadening participation of underrepresented groups in computing. This paper reports on the design of portfolios in which two classes of high school students reflected on the process of making electronic textile projects. We examine how students expressed self-authorship in relation to computer science and how the use of reflective portfolios shaped students’ perceptions of computer science. In the discussion we consider how reflective portfolios can serve as ideational resources for computer science identity construction.

Learning And The Practice Of Social Media In Informal Science Education Centers, Lisa Lundgren, Kent J. Crippen

Instructional Technology and Learning Sciences Faculty Publications

Both social media and informal learning spaces have the potential to foment knowledge-building. This article aims to bridge theory and practice with an analysis of the social media practices across informal science learning centers through the lens of the Contextual Model of Learning. We evaluate strategies through directed content analysis of phone interviews, online surveys, and researcher field notes. Our findings reveal that informal science learning centers create marketing-related social media strategies as opposed to ones which align with contemporary learning in informal settings. Implications for researchers who seek to use social media in an educative manner are discussed.

Rethinking Behavior - Winter 2019, Midwest Symposium For Leadership In Behavior Disorders

ReThinking Behavior Magazine

A magazine for professionals serving children and youth with behavioral needs.

Winter 2019, Volume 2, Issue 2