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Gender, Skin Color, And The Power Of Place In The Medieval Dutch Romance Of Moriaen, Cathy C. Darrup

Medieval Feminist Forum: A Journal of Gender and Sexuality

No abstract provided.

Western News, Feb. 4, 1999, Western Michigan University

Western News (1972-2018)

Story highlights: For engineering; it's Kalamazoo-and Battle Creek, Krause to head 1999 BOT; Franklin will be vice chair, University's drive for Research II designation is on target; dependent on criteria decisions, Specialist in human microvascular system wins Distinguished Faculty Scholar title for 1998.

Western News, Jan. 21, 1999, Western Michigan University

Western News (1972-2018)

Story highlights: Provost lays out planning process to chart WMU's academic future, Image experts on campus today to focus on improving Michigan's technology reputation, Grants for fiscal year pass $65 million mark, Reading set for Milford's leading undertaker and poet, History from Albion to Zeeland uncovered through new regional guide, Trustees approve naming of two interim chairpersons; faculty appointment for Floyd.

1999 University Employee Service Recognition Program, Western Michigan University

25 Year Club

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Western Michigan University Undergraduate Catalog 1999-2001, Western Michigan University

Western Michigan University Course Catalogs (1904-present)

• Mission of The University
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Fact Book 1999-2000, Western Michigan University

Western Michigan University Fact Books

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The Western Michigan University Magazine, Winter 1999, Western Michigan University

Western Michigan University Magazine (1997-present)

• Paper Broncos: There's no paperless society in sight for this pair of high-tech programs.
• A Mechanicai'Mane' Attraction: A sophmore robotics whiz has put a 21st century spin on the University mascot.
• Taking the Rural Route to Good Health: WMU initiative is aimed at putting health care in its place.
• Master of the Craft: When it comes to teaching, award-winning author Stuart Dybek has the write stuff
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Thomas Jefferson And The United States Constitution: A Comparative Study Of Jefferson As Maturing Political Thinker To Jefferson The Political Operative, Thomas A. Parker

Masters Theses

The purpose of this thesis is to use historical, qualitative, and comparative methods of research in studying the life of Thomas Jefferson, his views on governance, and his impact on the highest law of our land, the United States Constitution. Thomas Jefferson's constitutional thoughts and theories evolved first as a maturing political thinker and later as a political operative on the state, national and international stage. His beliefs were shaped by many factors including Jefferson's own principles and character, his scholarship via learned men and life experiences, American and overseas events in and out of his control, titles and offices …

Spatial And Temporal Variations Of Cloud-To-Ground Lightning In Southern Michigan, Michael A. Crimmins

Masters Theses

Lightning has a profound impact on many aspects of modern day society. Understanding its temporal and spatial distributions is fundamental in learning to coexist with its destructive power. This study surveyed the spatial and temporal distribution of cloud-to-ground lightning over southern Michigan using data provided by the Detroit Edison Company. Flash density and 'lightning day' maps were produced for every year of the 1985 to 1995 study period and then averaged to determine long term trends. A temporal analysis determined the distribution of lightning from the inter-annual down to the diurnal scale.

The spatial analysis indicates both deficiencies in the …

Western News, Oct. 29, 1998, Western Michigan University

Western News (1972-2018)

Story highlights: Corporate/ University partnership brings $50 million in cutting-edge CAD tools to campus engineering labs, Sky Broncos win regionals; prepare to defend title, Evaluation pair heads $2 million Detroit project, Oral history is topic of talk to library friends, Pain and evil are focus of annual Burian lecture, Callan to lecture on Joyce, Grant total starts year at $4.7 million mark, WMUK drive ends with record funds raised.

Western News, Oct. 15, 1998, Western Michigan University

Western News (1972-2018)

Story highlights: Campus set to 'Send in the Spirit' for Homecoming, Faculty salaries top Floyd's list of legislative priorities, WMUK launches fall drive to cover program costs, High-tech research tools are anthropologist's topic, EEOC commissioner is Phi Beta Kappa speaker, University computing experts move into high gear to attack 'problem of the century' in campus offices.

The Western Michigan University Magazine, Fall 1998, Western Michigan University

Western Michigan University Magazine (1997-present)

• High-Energy Administration: Elson Floyd may be new to the presidency but he's already off and running with an ambitious to-do list.
• Reading Recovery: WMU-backed intervention program helps thousands of Michigan children improve their reading skills.
• Man with a Mission: Muggers, kidnappers and armed escorts are all in a day's work for researcher Dan Stufflebeam.
• Positive Impact: Alumnus Bill Brown, a longtime WMU supporter has been instrumental in reshaping Waldo Stadium.
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Western News, Oct. 1, 1998, Western Michigan University

Western News (1972-2018)

Story highlights: Floyd lays out vision; planning details for BOT, Student families on campus this weekend for annual Family Festival celebration activities, Nursing chair named for Lacey, Upton aide tapped for legislative affairs post, Coming Out Day marked, Africa's economic impact is visiting scholar's topic, Stoltman honored by national geography group, Day-long arts festival planned for Oct. 10.

The Social Contexts Of Tutoring: Mentoring The Older At-Risk Student, Jeanne B. Cobb

Reading Horizons: A Journal of Literacy and Language Arts

This qualitative research study targeted fourth grade at-risk children in a culturally diverse elementary school in a mid-sized city in the southwestern United States. The purpose of the study was to describe the nature of social interactions within the context of tutorial sessions and to identify common characteristics of highly-effective tutors in their interactions with older, at-risk readers.

Western News, Sept. 3, 1998, Western Michigan University

Western News (1972-2018)

Story highlights: WMU launches partnerships with city schools Grant will increase number of minorities entering health careers, Mentors; computers to aid beginning teachers, CommUniverCity crowds expected to hit 35,000, Australian firm awards $2.9 million in software for research and set-up of campus training site, Knollwood; Discount Den properties will be acquired, Rapley to describe problem-based learning in, Sept. 17 talk to area educators and public, Wood and Haenicke Halls top list of campus construction projects making a visual impact.

David Cressy, Birth, Marriage, And Death: Ritual, Religion, And The Life-Cycle In Tudor And Stuart England. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1997, Amy M. Froide

Medieval Feminist Forum: A Journal of Gender and Sexuality

No abstract provided.

Western News, Aug. 13, 1998, Western Michigan University

Western News (1972-2018)

Story highlights: President Floyd sets his agenda with audiences around the state, Faculty and staff invited to welcome the Floyds, Paper technology gifts push 1997-98 total past $9 million mark, Faculty and staff invited to welcome the Floyds.

Spatial Analysis Of Agricultural Cucurbita Sp. Varieties In The Eastern Broadleaf Province, Kathleen M. Baker

Masters Theses

The purpose of this research was to explain and quantify twentieth century agricultural distributions of the genus Cucurbita in the United States to determine the effect of temporal changes in economic utilization and a variety of historical, environmental and social circumstances on those distributions. Geographic information system (GIS) methods were combined with statistical software techniques to analyze the spatial and temporal trends of pumpkin and squash growth in one region (the Eastern Broadleaf Province, as defined by Bailey) of the United States from 1982-1992.

Counties with fewer frost free days, later spring frosts, more accumulated growing degree units throughout the …

Western News, July 2, 1998, Western Michigan University

Western News (1972-2018)

Story highlights: Aviation school negotiates third international contract, Football center named in honor of Bill Brown, Football center dedication planned for July 10, Changes slated for student parking system.

The Contemporary Migration Of Russian-Germans From Russia And Kazakhstan To Germany: A Case Study In Migration Geography, Jacquelin K. Tylzynski

Masters Theses

Since the collapse of communism in Central Europe and the former Soviet Union in the late 1980's/early 1990's over two million ethnic Germans have migrated to Germany (predominantly from Russia and Kazakhstan). Ethnic Germans are descendants of Germans who migrated to Central Europe and to Russia centuries ago who are returning to their historic roots since they have been allowed to leave. The reason ethnic Germans are migrating to Germany stems from a strange law written into West Germany's post-World War II constitution (in 1949) that promised ethnic Germans and their descendants the "right to return" to Germany; however, the …

The Faculty Recognition Dinner 1998, Western Michigan University

Faculty Recognition

The Faculty Recognition Dinner Program

May 21, 1998

Honored Guests:

• Shirley Bach
• Max Benne
• Robert Blefko
• Charles Comer
• Robert Erickson
• Louise Forsleff
• L. Richard Harring
• John Houdek
• Shirley Lukens
• Ruth Ann Meyer
• Richard Munsterman
• John Murphy
• Henry Raup
• James Riley
• Paul Robbert
• Malcolm Robertson
• Roger Ulrich
• William Welke
• Judy Yaeger

Western News, May 7, 1998, Western Michigan University

Western News (1972-2018)

Story highlights: New president already mapping out list of priorities, Haenicke happy with selection of Floyd, Nursing school to get $1 million from Bronson, Kellogg Foundation grant project benefits both WMU programs and Calhoun County agencies, WMU leads the way in HIV education; prevention and testing, BBA program revised to provide students with more hands-on; real world experience, Board endorses consensual sexual relations policy, 2,700 medievalists gather for international congress.

Women "Reading The World:" Challenging Welfare Reform In Wisconsin, Kristine B. Miranne, Alma H. Young

The Journal of Sociology & Social Welfare

The latest iteration of welfare reform, the 1996 Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act (PRWORA), endorses work requirements and time limits on benefits, while giving greater discretion to individual states in developing welfare programs. Linking personal responsibility with work indicates that policy makers believe that it only takes properg uidancea nd minimal trainingfo r welfare recipients( predominately women) to make the transition from welfare to work. We suggest, however, that focusing on incentive, sanction, or compulsion ignores the structural features of poverty, especially as they impact the multiplicities of poor women's lives. In order for the welfare system to …

Western News, April 9, 1998, Western Michigan University

Western News (1972-2018)

Story highlights: Schedules set for visits by presidential candidates, Haenicke to testify before House subcommittee May 6, Four more chosen as 'named endowed professors', Roberts to give leadership lecture, Paper Tech Foundation announces campaign, Maestro Takeda to serve as artist-in-residence, Full text of President Diether H. Haenicke's "State of the University" address presented on March 31, 1998; at the 18th annual Academic Convocation.

The Social Diffusion Of Safe Sex Behaviors In College Women, Sherry Pagoto

Masters Theses

With the ever rising numbers of people becoming infected with the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) as reported by the Centers for Disease Control (CDC, 1997) the need for preventing the spread of infection is clear. One promising intervention, based on a theory called social diffusion, involves training popular opinion leaders to act as behavior change endorsers within their community (Kelly, 1991). This study found 25-30% reductions in high-risk behaviors and 16-18% increases in safe sex behaviors in a male homosexual population as a result of this type of intervention. The current study examines the effectiveness of this intervention within a …

The Effect Of Rate Vs. Number Of Emissions Of An Operant Behavior On Behavior Probability, Michael D. Makepeace

Dissertations

The present study compared three conditions in the training of a set of operant responses on later probability of behavior that represented a generalization or co-adduction of the behavior emitted in training. In two of the conditions, the numbers of emissions of target responses were exactly equal; in a third condition, the number of emissions of target responses was a lesser quantity. The two conditions with an equal number of emissions of target responses were distinguished by the rate of responses yielded by contingencies surrounding training in each condition. In one of these conditions, subjects responded at a relatively low …

Spatial And Ethnic Patterns Of Real Estate Control Affecting Upward Mobility Of Immigrants In A Nineteenth Century Industrial Community, Debra S. Alfonso

Masters Theses

The subject of immigrant success has previously been analyzed in the context of ethnic characteristics, individual heroism, worker solidarity, and advancement of industrialization. Most immigrants start at the bottom of the social-economic ladder. The mechanisms of advancement vary depending on both ethnic values and the constraints of the socioeconomic system. The key variable is normally thought to be advancing occupational status.

The problem addressed is how did recent immigrants to a 19th century steel-town obtain home ownership and advancement in spite of declining industrial wages. Using a GIS system to link and analyze geographic and historical records I was able …

Esl Learners: Process Writing And Publishing Good Literature, Jane F. Rudden, Anita R. Nedeff

Reading Horizons: A Journal of Literacy and Language Arts

The purpose of this article is to report on our examination of books written by children who are ESL learners, and compare the books with criteria for meritorious literature (Norton, 1995), and to discuss the implications of the results relevant to process writing instruction with second language learners. The books examined were written by students in grades K through 5 in a rural elementary school. They had been in the United States for a short period of time. Their familiarization with process writing was due to its being a part of their daily curriculum. The school's writing program embraces those …

Western Michigan University Graduate Catalog 1998-2000, Western Michigan University

Western Michigan University Course Catalogs (1904-present)

Section I: Admission, Registration, Records, Academic Regulations, and Graduation

Section II: Student Financial Assistance, Academic Rights and Responsibilities, and Student Services

Section III: Description of Graduate Programs and Courses

Section IV: Glossary of Terms

Section V: The Graduate Faculty

Section VI: University Officials

Section VII: The Index

Fact Book 1998-1999, Western Michigan University

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