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Potential Effects Of Elevated Co2 On Pitcher Plant Nectar Composition, Prey Capture, And Inquiline Communities, Deirdre Courtney

Honors Theses

Human activities such as fossil fuel burning and deforestation have contributed significantly to the increasing levels of CO₂ in the atmosphere since the industrial revolution. Under the IPCC A1FI emission scenario, we are expected to reach levels as high as 1000 ppm by the end of the century. On average, C₃ plants experience a 27% increase in carbon to nitrogen (C:N) ratio under elevated CO₂. As a result, C₃ plants typically exhibit an increase in carbon-based secondary compounds. Carnivorous plants are a rare type of C₃ plant that has adapted to survive in low …

25 Year Club: 33rd Annual Gala, Western Michigan University

25 Year Club

25 Year Club: 33rd Annual Gala

December 2, 2014

• New Inductees
• Members
• Retirees

Developing Gifts In-Kind Support For Nonprofit Organizations: Case Study On Pretty Lake Vacation Camp, Erin Denay

Honors Theses

Nonprofit organizations often rely on in-kind donations from individuals, businesses, and organizations to help support their mission. In-kind support includes donated goods or services rather than a monetary donation. This honor’s thesis is comprised of research and applied best practices in a case study on developing gift-in-kind support for local Kalamazoo nonprofit organization, Pretty Lake Vacation Camp. In coordination with Pretty Lake Development Staff, Farm Staff, and four local businesses and organizations, $305 worth of in-kind donations were donated in time for the 2014 summer camp season for use on the camp farm. Various fundraising strategies and techniques were used …

October 31, 2014: Fellowship Opportunities At The John Carter Brown Library, 2015-16, Department Of English

Gleanings: Department of English Blog Archive

No abstract provided.

Western Michigan University Magazine, Fall 2014, Western Michigan University

Western Michigan University Magazine (1997-present)

• University News
• WMED: School of Medicine opens with inaugural class of 54 students
• Bee Inspired: Threatened honeybee population inspires student beekeeping, research project
• Lost & Found: Sudanese Lost Boy’s long-held dream realized at WMU
• Alumni Profile
• The Storytellers: Professor walked 1,500 miles in Africa documenting the role of oral tradition
• In Print: Biologic living and negotiating a river
• Read It: Professor suggests books from her recent reads
• Campus Glass: Alum’s book features Kanley Chapel’s student-designed stained glass
• For Heavy Hitters: Engineering students design concussion sensor for football helmets
• Boosting Detroit: Detroit enlists WMU teams to improve city efficiency
• College News …

Updates In Academic Affairs - 09/29/14, Office Of The Provost And Vice President For Academic Affairs

Updates in Academic Affairs

This edition highlights a number of news items, including a yearlong series to discuss potential revisions to WMU’s general education program, the upcoming Academic Convocation, money-management training for students and more.

Science Reference Strategic Planning Process (University Libraries), Edward J. Eckel

Academic Leadership Academy

Science Reference serves:

College of Engineering and Applied Sciences

College of Health and Human Services

College of Arts and Sciences

• Biology
• Chemistry
• Environmental Studies
• Geosciences
• Mathematics
• Physics
• Statistics

We are a small department - three full-time librarians and one full-time evening coordinator.

Changing information world and student/faculty body: •More reference questions via email and chat •Fewer in-person reference questions •More librarian time spent on rich activities:

• Information Literacy instruction
• Committee and taskforce work
• Consultations/collaborations with faculty, staff, administrators

We began to ask ourselves: Is our current service …

Discovery, September 2014, Office Of Vice President For Research

Research and Discovery News

• Discovery advances
• Contaminants industry, agriculture
• September 30 funding awards deadline: MDOT
• $1.23 MSNSF grant on STEM and URM
• National journal launched online
• Discover discovery
• Facilities & administrative cost rates

College Of Arts And Sciences E-News Issue 16: August 2014, College Of Arts And Sciences

College of Arts and Sciences news

• Good governance in Africa is focus of August conference
• WMU Hosts the First Annual Michigan Autism Conference
• WMU researchers receive grant to study fatal fungus in bats
• State group elects WMU executive to vice presidential post
• Most Delicious of Privileges
• Damar Foundation President
• English language and culture center gets new director

Discovery, July 2014, Office Of Vice President For Research

Research and Discovery News

• Discovery communities
• Discovery experts, July 31 deadline
• $1.4 million HHMI grant
• Sustainability award from second nature
• Diversity change initiative grant RFP
• $4 million for autism
• Facilities & administrative cost rates

Ceas E-News 06.20.2014, College Of Engineering And Applied Sciences

College of Engineering and Applied Sciences News

• Transportation Research Center receives second $1.4 million installment of funding for research
• Civil and construction engineering students investigate sensing technologies
• Geomatics summer course offers fundamentals in surveying and advanced technologies
• Summer commencement
• ·

College Of Arts And Sciences E-News Issue 14: June 2014, College Of Arts And Sciences

College of Arts and Sciences news

• CAS News
• STEM instruction reform focus of $1.4 million
• Howard Hughes Medical Institute grant
• WMU wins 2014 Climate Leadership Award from Second Nature
• Faculty Feature
• Dr. Christine Byrd-Jacobs named Graduate College associate dean
• Multiple System Atrophy research by Dr. Charles Ide leads to repeat gift
• Alumni Profiles
• Matt Bahleda '11, political science and philosophy graduate, starts legal career in California
• Jacqui Volkmann '08, organizational communication alumna, talks business and bracelets
• WIDR's first station manager, David Gorski '76, manages multimedia services

College Of Arts And Sciences E-News Issue 13: May 2014, College Of Arts And Sciences

College of Arts and Sciences news

• CAS News
• lnterdisciplinary freshwater science and sustain ability degree offered
• Dean and department chair named outstanding administrators
• Department of Gender and Women's Studies receives Bronco Pride Advocacy Award
• CAS employees Make a Difference
• Faculty Feature
• Dr. Wafa Hassan earns STARTALK grant
• Alumni Profiles
• After 14 years in foster care, Amanda Shelton '14 graduates with highest undergraduate honor
• Bradford Shovlin '03, new executive chef at Iron Horse Hotel
• Student Story
• WMU students lobby in Lansing

College Of Arts And Sciences E-News Issue 12: April 2014, College Of Arts And Sciences

College of Arts and Sciences news

• CAS News
• WMU sustainability video finalist in national competition
• CAS holds faculty and staff achievement award ceremony
• Part-time instructors awarded for excellence in teaching
• Faculty Feature
• Researcher signs letter delivered to President Barack Obama
• Alumni Profiles
• Psychology alumni win Geary Rummier Award
• Film, video and media studies graduates help make viral video
• Student Stories
• All-University Graduate Research and Creative Scholar Award goes to physics student
• Five Broncos, one family

Discovery, April 2014, Office Of Vice President For Research

Research and Discovery News

• Discovery experts update
• Water quality grant
• Evaluation center accolades
• $500k autism grant for WMU
• Lee honors college issues request for proposals
• Grant awards listed online
• Facilities & administrative cost rates

Lhc Lines - March 2014, Lee Honors College

Lee Honors College News

A newsletter for friends and alumni of the Lee Honors College at Western Michigan University

Discovery, February 2014, Office Of Vice President For Research

Research and Discovery News

• Discovery Experts Database Launches Mid-February

• Sampi Lands Two National Science Foundation Grants Totaling $529,000

• 2014 Tech Development Fund Winners Announced; Interim Director Named: Dr. Clark Bennett

• NEA Awards $10,000 to University Press

• Research And Creative Poster Day April 11

• Discover Discovery Workshops

• Research Universities Partner to Increase Faculty Diversity

• Facilities & Administrative Costrates (F&A) Important to the University

Western News, Jan. 10, 2014, Western Michigan University

Western News (1972-2018)

Story highlights: Annual MLK celebration starts next week; Alumni center to incorporate core of East Hall only; Building setbacks net about $200,000 in energy-cost savings; On Campus with Tom Comer.

2013-14 Annual Report, University Center For The Humanities

University Center for the Humanities Events

The mission of the Center is to recognize and support the humanities at Western Michigan University. As a gathering place for dialogue, the Center acts an incubator for the exchange of ideas among faculty, emeriti, alumni, undergraduate and graduate students, and people in the wider community. Through the understanding of diverse cultural, professional, political, and intellectual landscapes, we nurture engaged and vital academic life.

Discovery: Research Annual Report 2014, Office Of Vice President For Research

Research Annual Reports

• WMU boosts its autism research and professional training initiatives
• W.E. Upjohn Center internationally known for its topographical innovation
• From invention to commercialization
• Faculty receive awards
• Center for Research on Instructional Change in Postsecondary Education

Fact Book 2014-15, Western Michigan University

Western Michigan University Fact Books

• General Information
• Enrollment Information
• Institutional Comparison
• Student Information
• Faculty Information
• Budgets and Resources

2014 Complete Digest, Department Of English

Gleanings: Department of English Blog Archive

No abstract provided.

25 Year Club: 32nd Annual Gala, Western Michigan University

25 Year Club

25 Year Club: 32nd Annual Gala

December 3, 2013

• New Inductees
• Members
• Retirees

Wmu International News Fall 2013, Haenicke Institute

WMU International News

In this issue:

• Empowering global engagement across the arts and sciences
• Employees abroad: Spanish immersion program expands understanding of international education
• Excelling in public relations key goal for Chinese twinning student
• WMU cultural anthropologist examines migration and lupus in Ecuador
• Ambiguity of borders continues to intrigue alumna from Berlin
• Visits to 35 countries complements global studies major
• Veteran administrator tapped to lead University’s international initiatives
• Future Iraqi engineer discovers the world at WMU
• WMU alumna coach points Japanese tennis player to Kalamazoo

Environmental Beliefs And Concern About Animal Welfare: Exploring The Connections, Catherine A. Faver

The Journal of Sociology & Social Welfare

An online survey examined environmental beliefs and concern about animal welfare among 105 social work students in the U.S.- Mexico border region. Environmental beliefs were measured using items from the revised New Ecological Paradigm (NEP) Scale (Dunlap, Van Liere, Mertig, & Jones, 2000). Higher concern about animal welfare was significantly related to three dimensions of the revised NEP Scale: (1) belief in the fragility of nature's balance, (2) belief in the possibility ofan ecological crisis, and (3) rejection of the notion that humans have a right to dominate nature (anti-anthropocentrism). The findings suggest that by making explicit connections between the …

Institutionalizing Harm In Tennessee: The Right Of The People To Hunt And Fish, Lois Presser, Jennifer L. Schally

The Journal of Sociology & Social Welfare

What discourses render harm to nonhumans a right? In this article we consider the case of Tennessee's Senate Joint Resolution 30, which proposed to grant citizens "the personal right to hunt and fish." To clarify the institutional logics legitimizing such harm, we analyzed the text of the Resolution as well as statements by politicians and others leading up to the passage of the amendment the Resolution would enact. Logics that supported the Resolution were: (1) claims of the economic utility of hunting and fishing; (2) veneration of the past; and (3) claims of future infringement on said activities. Nonhuman targets …

Discovery, November 2013, Office Of Vice President For Research

Research and Discovery News

Inside this issue:

• VP Discovery update
• $ 1 .4m DOT award; DOE, NSF awards
• Discover Discovery workshops
• Research and Dessert, Nov 22
• Upjohn Center recognized for map products
• IP: Tech development fund deadline 11/22
• Graduate student research; F&A rate

Western News, Oct. 31, 2013, Western Michigan University

Western News (1972-2018)

Story highlights: Researchers leading $1.4 million project; Donations sought to conserve East Hall’s two wings; More than 50 longtime employees to be inducted into 25 Year Club this year; On Campus with Shawn Tenney.

The Principles Of Good Health Care In The U.S. In The 2010s, Andrew S. Targowski

Transactions of the International Conference on Health Information Technology Advancement

The purpose of this investigation is to define the principles of good health in the U.S. in the 21st century. The interdisciplinary, civilizational methodology is applied to establish roots of this health care at the national level. Among findings are; well-being of Americans” is the constitutional opportunity of an American, good health of Americans is a constituent of their well-being, basic health care should be perceived as the controlled right of a citizen. Human and societal wisdom requires mentally healthy people. Human and societal wisdom requires well educated citizens. The state of health care of the Americans is in a …

Inquiry, Summer/Fall 2013, Office Of Vice President For Research

Research and Discovery News

Inside this issue:

• Discovery plan
• Faculty research updates
• TAPPI recognitions
• IP and commercialization updates
• Research Day draws record number of participants
• Publications online
• Facilities & administrative cost rate change