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You Feel Special When You Get A Library Card: Replicating Latinx Students' Public Library Feelings In Academic Library Spaces, Niki Fullmer

Library Faculty & Staff Presentations

The goal of academic and public libraries is to support the community by contributing to life-long learning, access, and knowledge. However, the feelings produced by these institutions are dissimilar although both use similar practices to reach their communities. Researchers administered surveys and interviews at a university to understand Latinx students’ perceptions of the academic library. Many of the questions inquired about their feelings towards public libraries as well as cultural affirmation wishes they wanted implemented in academic libraries. In our proposed presentation, we will share how Latinx students view public and academic libraries in relation to their culture and ethnicity.

Teamwork Makes The Dream Work: Collaboratively Navigating Information Literacy Instruction In The Classroom, Niki Fullmer, Katie Strand

Library Faculty & Staff Presentations

Teaching students to critically think and effectively research and write is a tall task, but an important one in ensuring students become informed citizens. The good news is we don’t have to face these challenging concepts alone. In Spring 2022, USU Librarians conducted a research study to better understand information literacy instruction that is occurring in our local high schools as well as understand teacher/librarian collaborations. Presenters will share key findings from this study and facilitate a discussion about how our expertise as teachers and librarians might intersect in ways that will better support our students. Participants will also discover …

Religión Y Literatura: Notas Para Una Economía, José Ramón Ruisánchez

Decimonónica

En este artículo estudio el momento de la convergencia de la literatura y la religión en el siglo XIX, sobre todo en México, aunque me apoyo en algunos ejemplos del ámbito general de la lengua española. Esbozo la compleja economía que forman en dos partes. Primero analizo cómo la poesía logra producir un discurso de verdad religiosa. Después, me ocupo de la manera en que los sacramentos organizan la narrativa de la época, sobre todo la novela. En las páginas finales de este texto, los pienso juntos para proponer una teoría amplia sobre las estructuras de significación durante el periodo.

Sweetgrass Method: A Culturally Responsive Approach Among American Indian And Alaska Native K-12, Mark Standing Eagle Baez Phd, Carla Allison Baez Phd, Brittany Lavallie, Whitney Spears

Journal of Indigenous Research

Abstract

The Sweetgrass Method is a culturally responsive approach to mental health for American Indian/Alaska Native Youth and serves as a process to communicate, collaborate, and continue ongoing supports. Sweetgrass known as Óhonte Wenserákon in the Mohawk (Kanien’keha) language and Wicko’bimucko’si among the Chippewa people. Sweetgrass is used by many American Indian/Alaska Native in purifying ceremonies, healing, prayer, smudging and basketry and is considered a sacred herb/plant. It is harvested, braided, dried, and burned. American Indian/Alaska Native people have held sweetgrass as sacred for a very long time and often burned at the beginning of a ceremony, or prayer to …

Lecturas Contra Un Mundo Corrupto: La Buena Lectura (1879-1882), Andrea Castro

Decimonónica

En el poema “La estrella y la tempestad,” firmado por C. y V, acudimos a un diálogo entre una niña y su madre en un paisaje que—si bien invita a una lectura alegórica—la madre y la niña experimentan en sus cuerpos.¹ La tempestad despierta en ellas sentimientos de confusión, miedo, misterio y estremecimiento. Así, la fuerza de la naturaleza evoca el sentimiento de lo sublime, sentimiento que hacia el final del poema será contenido por el espacio de la casa, construido a través de ruidos y sentimientos familiares.²

¿Para Qué Hay Revoluciones? La Quinta Modelo (1857), Una Novela Ejemplar, Pamela Vicenteño Bravo

Decimonónica

La historia del México independiente estuvo definida por revoluciones militares y sociales, luchas armadas o enfrentamientos desde la tribuna política que cimbraron las conciencias y modificaron el curso del país en numerosas ocasiones.¹ Si bien a la distancia los logros se estiman mayúsculos, las repercusiones llevaron consigo, además de cuantiosas pérdidas humanas, inestabilidad económica y división social, muchas veces irreconciliable. Luego de un reajuste de facciones y de la aparente consolidación de partidos políticos ideológicamente contrarios, esas revoluciones se tiñeron de un afán nacionalista, aunque a la par germinaba el desprecio por los disidentes, en lugar de trabajar y …

Recomposing Memory’S Fragments: The Sacred Precinct In Gustavo Adolfo Bécquer’S Historia De Los Templos De España (1857) And Cartas Desde Mi Celda (1864), Azariah Alfante

Decimonónica

Inscribed on a section of bare wall in the renowned thirteenth-century Monasterio de Piedra of Zaragoza are the words: “Templo destruido y sus imágenes mutiladas durante el tiempo que medió entre la revolución de 1835 y el año 1840, en que pasó a propiedad privada.” The text’s emotionally charged language refers to the mid-century disentailment laws under Juan Álvarez Mendizábal. Its phrases “templo destruido” and “imágenes mutiladas” depict the monastery’s confiscation as a tortuous experience before it passed into private ownership, thus testifying to the monastery’s resultant damage and loss of its historical community and identity. Similarly, other old church …

Cortar El Contagio: El Calendario Y La Letanía Como Remedios Para La Familia Enferma (México,1860), Ty West

Decimonónica

En el Primer Calendario de la Familia Enferma Para el Año Bisiesto de 1860: contiene el diario de la enfermedad y las recetas propinadas (1860) de Ignacio Aguilar y Marocho (1813-1884), además del título aparecen dos referencias explícitas a la familia enferma. En la sección llamada “Hazañas gloriosas que deben tener presentes para la historia de Ayutla,” el autor presenta un resumen de los eventos que comienzan en marzo de 1854, terminan en diciembre de 1859 y culminan en el estallido de la revolución de Ayutla. El 14 de febrero de 1858, el autor explica, “El gobierno trashumante de Juárez …

Economías Conservadoras Del Conocimiento Y Prensa En La Costa Rica De Fines Del Siglo Xix, Gabriel Baltodano Román, Dorde Cuvardic García

Decimonónica

En Costa Rica, el periodo de mayor influencia del liberalismo político y social comenzó con el golpe de Estado del 27 de abril de 1870. Este hecho histórico supuso la cristalización de los intereses de determinadas familias de la oligarquía cafetalera que buscaban dominar y reformar la vida de la república. Mediante la sucesión de gobernantes emparentados y coligados, este clan hegemónico procuró garantizar la estabilidad política tras la profunda crisis de la década de 1860. Después de casi veinte años de dominio, la férrea cadena de mando liberal se rompió temporalmente con el levantamiento popular del 7 de noviembre …

Lecciones De Geografía Para Niños De Bien: El Diario De Los Niños (1839–1840), Kari Soriano Salkjelsvik

Decimonónica

En el frontispicio del primer número de la revista mexicana Diario de los niños. Literatura, entretenimiento é instrucción (1839–1840) encontramos unos ángeles que representan, literalmente, la infancia como un periodo de la vida inocente, limpio, y más cercano al paraíso que a la vida terrenal (Fig. 1). Unos niños-ángeles, claramente asexuados, rodean a dos mujeres-ángeles y se protegen tras sus alas y togas. Entre las hojas de un parral, llevan unas bandejas de uvas con actitud más juguetona que servil. De esta imagen también destaca otro ángel adulto con claros rasgos femeninos que preside la litografía y que es el …

El Príncipe Entre Los Leones: El Acontecimiento Darío En La Poesía Colombiana, David Ramírez

Decimonónica

Si Colombia fuera un animal, sería un león. Al menos eso pensaba Rubén Darío, para quien el león encarnaba el rasgo más característico de lo colombiano: la combinación de violencia y refinamiento, inteligencia y conservadurismo. La referencia más conocida a este respecto es el verso inicial de su soneto “Colombia,” uno de los poemas más declamados en la historia de ese país. “Colombia es una tierra de leones,” dice allí con grandilocuencia el poeta nicaragüense (Poesías completas 726). Variaciones de este verso, o incluso su repetición, son frecuentes siempre que escribe sobre autores, políticos o temas colombianos. “Cave …

Liberalismo Económico Y Conservadurismo Político En Zorobabel Rodríguez, Alvaro Kaempfer

Decimonónica

Quienes le aseguraron a España “la eterna sujeción y la inalterable fidelidad de sus colonias de América,” afirma Zorobabel Rodríguez a fines del siglo XIX, “justificaron, precipitaron e hicieron necesaria la rebelión y la independencia” (Estudios 130). Fueron el colonialismo y el mercantilismo, añade, junto al “sistema proteccionista, engendro de uno y otro, los que, con promesas de inundar España de oro y plata, la sumieron en la miseria.” El rechazo a esta triada “marca en la historia de nuestro desenvolvimiento económico el principio de una nueva era” cuando se abrazó, en 1811, una apertura comercial que, “lejos de …

Juan De La Rosa O El Mestizo Huérfano Hispanizado Como Fachada De Modernidad, Mercedes Mayna-Medrano

Decimonónica

En el siglo XIX, surge el tropo del mestizo huérfano.¹ Esta figura condensa los deseos de las élites criollas y su intento por “resolver” el llamado problema indígena, especialmente en una Bolivia derrotada por Chile después de la Guerra del Pacífico (1879-1883).² El presente artículo tiene como objetivo central analizar la canónica novela fundacional boliviana Juan de la Rosa. Memorias del último soldado de la independencia (1885) del cochabambino Nataniel Aguirre. Mi hipótesis es que, a través del uso del modo expresivo melodramático, el autor pretende borrar la herencia indígena en los mestizos cochabambinos. Pero, a la …

La Oratoria Sagrada En La Regenta De Leopoldo Alas “Clarín”, María Asunción Gómez

Decimonónica

La oratoria, entendida como el arte de hablar con elocuencia, jugó un papel esencial en la España del siglo XIX y se concretó como género literario en forma de discursos, conferencias y sermones. A raíz de la revolución liberal de 1868 (“La Gloriosa”), la oratoria experimentó un claro auge tanto en el ámbito político como en el religioso. De hecho, a juzgar por los numerosísimos tratados de oratoria sagrada publicados a lo largo del siglo XIX, parece evidente que la Iglesia era consciente de la importancia de la retórica como arma idónea para combatir el materialismo y el avance de …

Las Fantasmas De La Literatura Puertorriqueña: De Tapia A Corchado Y Juarbe, Zaira Pacheco Lozada

Decimonónica

Cuando examinamos el corpus que inicia la literatura del terror en el siglo XIX en Puerto Rico, salta a la vista el especial protagonismo de los espectros femeninos en las narraciones breves. Si bien la tradición del cuento de terror en la literatura puertorriqueña se ha explorado en el estudio de Cristina Bravo Rozas La narrativa del miedo: Terror y horror en el cuento de Puerto Rico (2013) y en el más reciente estudio, El gótico transmigrado: Narrativa puertorriqueña de horror, misterio y terror en el siglo XXI (2021) de Sandra M. Casanova Vizcaíno, todavía no encontramos una mirada que …

The “Polémica De La Lengua” Of 1842: A “Liberal” Philology?, Pablo Martínez Gramuglia

Decimonónica

In April of 1842, Domingo Faustino Sarmiento was a relatively well-known journalist who had arrived in Santiago de Chile less than two years before, by the end of 1840; he wrote for different periodicals, but his most frequent participation was in El Mercurio. Published in Valparaíso, this was the only permanent daily newspaper in Chile, which granted a wide readership that gradually started to notice him, up to the point that he would become its first stable writer and the editor-in-chief (Martínez Gramuglia et al. 266-70). Even though he did not sign most of his contributions, by 1842 El …

La Impresión Conservadora: Los Hermanos Uribe Y Alcalde Y El Campo Tipográfico Del Primer Conservadurismo Mexicano, 1828- 1836, Sergio Gutiérrez Negrón

Decimonónica

Año tras año, entre 1828 y 1836, y a medida que México se adentró atropelladamente en uno de sus periodos más caóticos y determinantes, los nombres de Tomás Uribe y Alcalde y José Uribe y Alcalde comenzaron a aparecer, con marcada insistencia, en las portadas y contraportadas de los numerosos panfletos y periódicos que intensificaron las llamas de la discordia política. Entre esos años, las oficinas, imprentas y talleres tipográficos de los que estuvieron a cargo los hermanos Uribe y Alcalde, de manera separada, y que luego dirigieron, produjeron algunas de las publicaciones de sensibilidades conservadoras más características de la …

A Monolithic Solid-State Interferometer For Real-Time Multi-Environment Measurements, Aaron J. Pung

Space Dynamics Laboratory Publications

The high degree of precision offered by optical interferometry makes it an ideal tool in many applications, including vibration detection, wind tunnel aerodynamics, surface topology measurements, and environmental sensing. In the latter case, real-time measurement of real-world environments is crucial to ensuring the health and safety of individuals operating within domestic and industrial domains. Currently, these measurements are made possible with portable fiber-based interferometer systems – systems that are also limited by high cost, fragility, coupling loss, and low power. This work presents a lightweight free-space interferometer that is versatile, modular, and compact. The interferometer is monolithic, geometrically simple, easy …

San Rafael Swell Satellite Image, Ellie Leydsman Mcginty, R. D. Ramsey

Wildland Resources Faculty Publications

As a contribution to the Utah as Art collection created by UtahView, a member of the AmericaView consortium (https://americaview.org/), this image of the San Rafael Swell, Utah is intended to act as an educational resource to increase interest in the contributions of remote sensing satellites as an aid to Earth resource management. The San Rafael Swell, located in central Utah, is a large and unique geologic feature characterized by badlands, canyons, mesas, and colorful sandstone formations. It covers 1,800 square miles and has elevations ranging from 4,000 to 7,000 feet above sea level. The San Rafael Swell was formed roughly …

High Uinta Mountains Satellite Image, Ellie Leydsman Mcginty, R. D. Ramsey

Wildland Resources Faculty Publications

As a contribution to the Utah as Art collection created by UtahView, a member of the AmericaView consortium (https://americaview.org/), this image of the High Uinta Mountains, Utah is intended to act as an educational resource to increase interest in the contributions of remote sensing satellites as an aid to Earth resource management. The Uinta Mountains are an east-west trending range located in northeastern Utah, with portions extending into northwestern Colorado and southwestern Wyoming. The Uinta Mountains are the highest range in Utah, with elevations ranging from 8,000 feet in the lower canyons to over 13,500 feet at Kings Peak. A …

Lake Powell Satellite Image, Ellie Leydsman Mcginty, R. D. Ramsey

Wildland Resources Faculty Publications

As a contribution to the Utah as Art collection created by UtahView, a member of the AmericaView consortium (https://americaview.org/), this image of Lake Powell, Utah is intended to act as an educational resource to increase interest in the contributions of remote sensing satellites as an aid to Earth resource management. The second largest reservoir in the United States, Lake Powell impounds water from the Colorado River. Lake Powell was created with the construction of Glen Canyon Dam in 1963. It took 17 years for the lake to fill Glen Canyon to the high-water mark of 3,700 feet above sea level. …

2021 Colorado Plateau Dark Sky Cooperative Annual Report, Aubrey Larsen

Extension Research

This report details the activities and accomplishments of the Colorado Plateau Dark Sky Cooperative in 2021.

Utah College Sexual Behavior Survey: Initial Findings Report, Cris Meier, Julie Gast, Tyson Barrett, Melissa Ferguson, Demi Culianos, Lily Ward

Extension Research

The purpose of the Utah College Sexual Behavior project was to establish the reliability and validity of the retrospective measures used in the survey and gain a better understanding of the sexual behaviors of Utah youth by asking Utah State University (USU) students about their sexual behaviors as youth.

Effects Of Buried Wood On The Development Of Populus Tremuloides On Various Oil Sands Reclamation Soils, Kaitlyn E. Trepanier, Laura Manchola-Rojas, Bradley D. Pinno

Aspen Bibliography

Buried wood is an important but understudied component of reclamation soils. We examined the impacts of buried wood amounts and species on the growth of the common reclamation tree species trembling aspen (Populus tremuloides). In a greenhouse study, aspen seedlings were planted into four soil types, upland derived fine forest floor-mineral mix (fFFMM), coarse forest floor-mineral mix (cFFMM), and lowland derived peat and peat-mineral mix (PMM), that were mixed with either aspen or pine wood shavings at four concentrations (0%, 10%, 20% and 50% of total volume). Height and diameter growth, chlorophyll concentration, and leaf and stem biomass were measured. …

Ehealth Education And Support For Pediatric Hearing Aid Management: Parent Goals, Questions And Challenges, Natalie Nichols, Karen F. Munoz, Guadalupe G. San Miguel, Michael P. Twohig

Communicative Disorders and Deaf Education Student Research

Purpose: To investigate parent goals, questions, and challenges that emerged during coaching phone calls in an eHealth program designed to provide education and support for hearing aid management.

Methods: Coaching phone calls were audio-recorded, transcribed and qualitatively analyzed for emergent themes within the categories of goals, questions, and challenges.

Results: Emergent themes revealed parent goals were focused on self-efficacy, routines, device care and child development. Emergent themes for questions revealed parents asked questions related to the device care, audiology appointments, confirmation of learning, and child development. For challenges emergent themes revealed parents’ own struggles (e.g., with emotions), issues related to …

Recommendations On Using Artificial Intelligence In Archival Appraisal And Selection, Rebecca Y. Bayeck, Giovanni Colavizza, Jenny Bunn, Mark Bell, Souvick Ghosh

Instructional Technology and Learning Sciences Faculty Publications

This article reports on discussions from a three-day webinar about artificial intelligence (AI) in archival appraisal and selection. Increasingly, workshops and research are conducted to discuss AI and archives. This article is an example of this growing interest in the potential of AI for the field of archives. Yet, within the field, discussions about how AI can be applied in archival appraisal and selection is still limited. To advance a conversation on the issue, and particularly on ways to use AI in archival appraisal and selection, we organized a three-day webinar in 2022 with a diverse group of researchers and …

Flaming Gorge Satellite Image, Ellie Leydsman Mcginty, R. D. Ramsey

Wildland Resources Faculty Publications

As a contribution to the Utah as Art collection created by UtahView, a member of the AmericaView consortium (https://americaview.org/), this image of Flaming Gorge, Utah is intended to act as an educational resource to increase interest in the contributions of remote sensing satellites as an aid to Earth resource management. Flaming Gorge Reservoir and Flaming Gorge National Recreation Area, located in northeastern Utah and southwestern Wyoming, encompass scenic landscapes and wilderness areas that provide outstanding opportunities for boating, fishing, water-skiing, camping, and rafting. Flaming Gorge Reservoir, 91 miles in length, began to form in 1962 after the Bureau of Reclamation …

Angler Catch Rates, Opinions, And Abiotic Variable Relationships In The Lower Logan River, Utah, Tyler Coleman, Jim Derito, Chris Penne, Gary Thiede, Phaedra Budy

Watershed Sciences Student Research

Summer base flows for rivers are critical for maintaining water quality, healthy fish populations, and a functional aquatic ecosystem. Low summer base flows can increase water temperatures and lower dissolved oxygen levels. These conditions can cause Brown Trout (Salmo trutta) energetic stress and result in lower angler catch. The goal of this study was to determine if low river flows and higher water temperatures influence angler catch rates of Brown Trout on the lower Logan River, Utah and to better understand angler use of the lower river. We performed a creel survey on approximately 6.4 km of the …

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Trico: A Novel Repellent For Preventing Deer Damage To Ornamental Shrubs, Paul D. Curtis, Brian C. Eshenaur

Human–Wildlife Interactions

Homeowners whose landscape plants are repeatedly browsed by white-tailed deer (Odocoileus virginianus; deer) desire repellent products that are effective and long-lasting. We conducted a 12-week trial from January 6 through April 5, 2021 to test the duration and efficacy of a novel deer repellent (Trico®) relative to Plantskydd®, a commonly used deer repellent, and untreated plants. We placed treated and control Japanese yew shrubs (Taxus media ‘Hicksii’) at 4 homeowner sites (Birch Hills Drive, Fairview Crescent, Pinegrove Ave., and St. Paul Blvd.) near Rochester, New York, USA, where we detected deer presence. Yews are frequently eaten …