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The Flight Of The Purdue Owl: An Institutional History, Harry C. Denny, Vicki R. Kennell, Garrett I. Colón

The Founders Series

The Flight of the Purdue OWL: An Institutional History chronicles both the widely known Purdue OWL website and the lesser-known but much-celebrated on-campus writing center. Purdue University is renowned for its world-class STEM curriculum as well as its intercollegiate athletics. The university also receives considerable attention, however, for the OWL website, which is one of the most used educational resources in the world. The on-campus OWL is also a highly regarded collegiate writing center. This book tells the history of how the Purdue OWL grew out of decades of faculty working with students and their desire for a laboratory where …

Objects Of Atrocity: Material Culture And The Challenges Of Difficult Histories, Robert M. Ehrenreich, Jane E. Klinger, Gabriel H. Pizzorno, Caroline Sturdy Colls

Purdue University Press Books

The vast majority of people throughout history have left few written traces. That is especially the case for those who were brutally forced from their homes, stripped of their possessions, and swiftly imprisoned, enslaved, or murdered. Objects of Atrocity: Material Culture and the Challenges of Difficult Histories addresses how we return humanity to these people in order to avoid their erasure from history. Academics and practitioners from a variety of disciplines and cross-disciplinary approaches grapple with the challenges and possibilities relating to the collection, conservation, storage, and display of objects in the aftermath of mass atrocities. This collection confronts a …

Book Review: War In The Smartphone Age: Conflict, Connectivity And The Crises At Our Fingertips, Caitlan Fealing

Parameters Bookshelf – Online Book Reviews

Author: Matthew Ford

Reviewed by: Caitlan Fealing

This review of War in the Smartphone Age highlights Matthew Ford’s argument that mass smartphone use is transforming modern warfare. Using recent conflicts, the book shows how civilian-generated data and connectivity accelerate decision making and reshape the conduct of war.

©2026 Caitlan Fealing

Book Review: Chokepoints: American Power In The Age Of Economic Warfare, Jared Massie

Parameters Bookshelf – Online Book Reviews

Author: Edward Fishman

Reviewed by: Major Jared Massie

Economic tools are reshaping global power in ways military professionals cannot ignore. From sanctions to tech controls, modern statecraft is increasingly defined by financial and industrial leverage.

©2026 Jared Massie

Proactive Strategies For Catheter-Associated Urinary Tract Infection (Cauti) Reduction: Leveraging Audit Tools And Interdisciplinary Collaboration, Mica Blauw

Posters

Catheter-associated urinary tract infections (CAUTIs) are a known cause of harm to patients. Policies enforcing infection prevention measures may help minimize the risk of harm to patients, but written policies do not always translate to bedside practice. We implemented a proactive daily audit to increase awareness of, and compliance with, CAUTI prevention tactics.

Code Wet: Navigating Water Leak Mitigation And Remediation Behind The Red Line, Mica Blauw

Posters

Water leaks in the hospital setting are concerning because of the possibility of mold growthon porous materials such asdrywallthatmaylead toinfections. Water leaksbehind the line of demarcation in the surgical services suiterequire extra care during the remediation processdue to the high-risk nature of surgical patients. We navigated water leakmitigation and remediation in a surgical suite while keeping surgical operations funning safely.

What Could Be Done Vs. What Was: How Temporal Framing Affects Representations Of Possibility, Noah Chapman Prescott

Cognitive Science Senior Thesis Posters

When making decisions for ourselves or predicting what others will do, we face the challenge of figuring out which of the infinite possible actions to consider in the first place. The space of possibilities considered, often called a “modal space”, has been shown to reflect both what people think is likely and what they think is valuable. The present work investigates how these modal spaces change with a difference in temporal orientation (what an agent could do vs. what they did do) and grammatical perspective (considering a scenario in the first- vs. the third-person). The findings suggest that both these …

Toward An Account Of Visual Aesthetic Experience In Multimodal Large Language Models Author, Batuhan Saridede

Cognitive Science Senior Thesis Posters

While Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLMs) increasingly mediate visual culture, far less is known about how MLLMs themselves evaluate aesthetic value and how those evaluations shift under different beliefs about authorship. This thesis investigates how three commercial MLLMs (ChatGPT, Claude, and Gemini) appraise visual artworks across six dimensions: liking, beauty, profundity, worth, narrativity, and intentionality. Using a balanced dataset of 100 artworks, half human-generated and half AI-generated, with representational and abstract works equally represented, each model evaluated every image under four provenance conditions: unspecified origin, inferred origin, assumed AI origin, and assumed human origin. Results show that representationalism in visual …

Category Learning Under Verbal Interference, Yawen Xue

Cognitive Science Senior Thesis Posters

What happens to cognition when you disrupt language? What does language actually do as a representational medium for cognition? Much literature shows a facilitative role of language on categorical thinking. This work specifically examines the role of language in category learning using a verbal interference paradigm. I ran two experiments where participants learned to distinguish between two novel categories of bugs while under conditions of verbal or visuospatial interference. In Experiment 1, category membership was determined by an XOR rule; in Experiment 2, category membership was determined by an AND rule.

In Experiment 1, participants on average did not succeed …

Seeing Through Similar Eyes: How Social Identity Shapes Reinterpretation Of Ambiguous Stimuli, Eli Bailit

Cognitive Science Senior Thesis Posters

Identical sensory input can lead to a variety of subjective experiences and interpretations. In the face of such ambiguity, we often turn to our social context. Does the identity of the person providing an alternative interpretation to an ambiguous stimulus impact someone’s likelihood to adopt it? This study examined whether perceived interpersonal similarity modulates reinterpretation of ambiguous visual stimuli. Thirty Dartmouth undergraduates completed a modified “MadLibs” paradigm in which they generated initial interpretations of ambiguous photographs, indicated their confidence in their interpretations, then decided how much to update those interpretations upon viewing an alternative sourced from an individual of varying …

A Mechanistic Investigation Of Theory Of Mind In Large Language Models, Idil K. Sahin

Cognitive Science Senior Thesis Posters

Large language models successfully solve classic theory-of-mind tasks adapted from cognitive science, but the mechanisms underlying this ability remain unclear. Do they deploy circuitry specialized for reasoning about other minds, memorize common false- belief vignette structures and outputs, or rely on more domain-general computations? We investigate this question in Qwen2.5-14B-Instruct using causal mediation and representational similarity analyses across matched prompt sets that systematically vary an agent’s beliefs, the state of the physical world, and the correct answer. We identify a population of mid-layer attention heads that tracks divergence between an initial representation and the current state of the world. These …

Examining Connections Between Off-Reservation Boarding Schools And Contemporary Mental Health Crises In Indigenous Communities, Amelia Benware

Arts & Sciences Undergraduate Showcase

Intergenerational trauma in Indigenous communities dates to the early fifteenth century with the beginning of European colonization and continues to affect Indigenous communities through the present day. This project specifically examines the manifestations of intergenerational trauma in the Lakota community throughout North Dakota stemming from the off-reservation boarding school era. This research relied on a collection of oral histories gathered between 2016 and 2020 of enrolled members of the Lakota community who shared their personal experiences of coping with intergenerational trauma, and that of their close family and friends. This research establishes interdisciplinary connections among the fields of history, psychology, …

Biol A112l Human Anatomy And Physiology Ii Laboratory Syllabus, Kathleen Nevis

Publications

Human Anatomy and Physiology II Laboratory syllabus with links to open access textbook.

Biol A112 Human Anatomy And Physiology Ii Lecture Syllabus, Kathleen Nevis

Publications

A Human Anatomy and Physiology II Lecture syllabus with links to open access textbook.

Infographic: My 14th Teacher Alphabet, Dominique Russell

Teacher infographics

What do you need information on? Artificial intelligence? Transitions? Seating designs? The 14th Teacher alphabet brings you quick links to popular content that you might find useful. Download the PDF for a hyperlinked version so you can access the content for each letter.

The White Elephant Saloon News: 25th Anniversary Edition

Joseph K. Dulle Fort Worth Stockyards Photograph Collection

The White Elephant Saloon News, 25th Anniversary Edition newspaper, released in 2001.

The White Elephant Saloon News: 20th Anniversary Edition

Joseph K. Dulle Fort Worth Stockyards Photograph Collection

The White Elephant Saloon News, 20th Anniversary Edition newspaper, released in 1996.

White Elephant Saloon Postcard With Photograph

Joseph K. Dulle Fort Worth Stockyards Photograph Collection

A postcard from the White Elephant Saloon featuring a photograph of people at the bar.

White Elephant Saloon Postcard With Painting

Joseph K. Dulle Fort Worth Stockyards Photograph Collection

A postcard from the White Elephant Saloon featuring a painting from the bar, "The Nude Over The Bar" by Frank Burket.

White Elephant Saloon Pamphlet With Calendar

Joseph K. Dulle Fort Worth Stockyards Photograph Collection

An advertising pamphlet from the White Elephant Saloon with a calendar for September, 1996. The calendar features scheduled performances of country artists at the bar all across the month.

Bringing Behavioral Health Into The Pediatric Clinic, Bob Underwood, Rebekah O'Donnell

Pediatrics in Practice: A CME Podcast

A clear, practical look at integrated behavioral health in pediatric primary care — what it looks like day-to-day, who benefits and how to get started in your practice. Rebekah O'Donnell, LCSW from Children's Mercy, walks listeners through real examples of warm handoffs, care coordination and screening workflows to improve outcomes for children and families.

Click here to stream the podcast episode.

Desert Dichotomies: Climatic Imaginaries Of The Arid+[Ant]Arctic, Amanda Aman

Mavs Open Press Open Educational Resources

Desert Dichotomies is a research-based architecture design studio that examines the impacts of climate change across arid and polar desert environments, revealing unexpected parallels between landscapes often understood as environmental opposites. Focusing on Antarctica, Arctic Alaska and the Sonoran Desert, the project investigates how climate change, resource extraction and human systems of control are transforming ecological processes, water systems and cultural landscapes. While arid deserts face increasing drought and water scarcity, polar deserts are experiencing accelerated warming, ice loss, permafrost thaw and flooding. Despite these contrasting conditions, both regions exhibit similar consequences, including declining water quality, biodiversity loss, infrastructural vulnerability …

White Elephant Saloon 25-Year Celebration Pamphlet

Joseph K. Dulle Fort Worth Stockyards Photograph Collection

A pamphlet announcing the White Elephant Saloon's 25 years at the Fort Worth Stockyards on September of 2001.

White Elephant Saloon Invitation Paper

Joseph K. Dulle Fort Worth Stockyards Photograph Collection

An invitation paper for the White Elephant Saloon's 25th anniversary on September 23, 2001.

White Elephant Saloon 10-Year Invitation

Joseph K. Dulle Fort Worth Stockyards Photograph Collection

An invitation for the White Elephant Saloon's 10-year celebration on September 10,1986.

White Elephant Saloon 25-Year Invitation

Joseph K. Dulle Fort Worth Stockyards Photograph Collection

An invitation card for the White Elephant Saloon's 25-year celebration on Sunday, September 23, 2001.

White Elephant Saloon Booklet

Joseph K. Dulle Fort Worth Stockyards Photograph Collection

A booklet from the White Elephant Saloon's 10-year celebration listing all major events during the bar's 10-year history.

Nmoer Course Assessment Process, Sammi Williams

Data Collection

The NMOER Course Assessment Process is a standardized data collection system used to document and assess courses that utilize Open Educational Resources (OER). Institutions are asked to report all courses currently using OER, including newly adopted OER courses as well as courses that have continued using OER from previous years.

Oer Data Collection, Michael Hickman

Data Collection

The OER Data Collection process gathers course, student, and outcome data to evaluate the impact of Open Educational Resources (OER) on student success and affordability. By analyzing enrollment, grades, withdrawal rates, resource costs, and demographic trends across participating institutions, this initiative provides valuable insights into the effectiveness of OER adoption and its role in improving access to higher education while reducing textbook expenses.

White Elephant Saloon Announcement

Joseph K. Dulle Fort Worth Stockyards Photograph Collection

A sheet of paper from the White Elephant Saloon, announcing a special evening of Bob Wills's music to honor the passing of Al Stricklin, who made an appearance at the bar before.