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Contract And Grant Awards Fiscal Year 2005, Office Of The Vice President For Research

Office of the Vice President for Research

I invite you to read this report Contract & Grant Awards, fiscal year 2005, which lists contract and grant (C&G) awards received by the University of New Mexico (UNM) during the period from July 1, 2004 - June 30, 2005 (FY05). These awards represent new funds that were acquired during FY05 by the main campus, branch campuses and education centers, and the Health Sciences Center (HSC). The HSC includes the School of Medicine, College of Nursing, and College of Pharmacy. The awards received for FY05 total $295.4M, of which $167.6M is attributed to the main campus and $127.8M to HSC. …

"Whither?" Some Thoughts On The Genre Of Literature In An Electronic Age, James C. Schaap

Pro Rege

This article was originally presented as a lecture for the MacLaurin Institute, a Christian study center at the University of Minnesota, on January 19, 2005.

Medieval Feminist Dissertations Recently Completed

Medieval Feminist Forum: A Journal of Gender and Sexuality

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A Researcher's Research Agenda For Scholarly Communication In Canada, William F. Birdsall, Kathleen Shearer

Proceedings of the IATUL Conferences

Despite millions of dollars being spent on research each year in Canada, little attention is paid to the dissemination of the results of research. There is a disconnect between Canadian public policies in this area; although a high priority is assigned to the generation of research, there is a lack of policies addressing its dissemination. Meanwhile, the environment in which research knowledge is being disseminated is undergoing a profound transformation because of several important drivers. In particular, these drivers include new technology, changing research patterns, new users, economics, and commercialization. The major objective of this study was to examine the …

Repositories: What's The Target? An Arrow Perspective, Derek Whitehead

Proceedings of the IATUL Conferences

The key observation about institutional research repositories is that they are under-used. This paper looks at why take-up has been slow, and what might encourage researchers to use these facilities.

This paper surveys the evolution of practice and rationale for the institutional research repository, looks at existing use studies and opinion surveys of users, and examines ways in which university libraries, the main proponents, have changed their approaches in response to their experience. The experience of Swinburne University of Technology, a partner in the Australian ARROW project, is drawn upon.

Why Research-Oriented Design Isn’T Design-Oriented Research, Daniel Fallman

Nordes Conference Series

Human-Computer Interaction (HCI) is the discipline concerned with the design, evaluation, and implementation of interactive computing systems. Typically, HCI researchers do not primarily study existing technologies, styles of interaction, or interface solutions. On the contrary, one of the core activities in contemporary HCI is to design new technologies—prototypes—that act as vehicles through which the researchers’ ideas for novel and alternative solutions materialize and take on concrete shape.

Webgenres And -Styles As Socio-Cultural Indicators - An Experimental, Interdisciplinary Dialogue, Ida Engholm, Karen Lisa Salamon

Nordes Conference Series

The article presents a crossdisciplinary experiment of analysing web-design through a combination of the academic fields of design history and anthropology. The two authors merge aesthetic and socio-cultural aspects of new technology in a case-based discussion of the invention and use of contemporary web design. Indicating the potentials of an inter-disciplinary perspective in exploring design in general they draw on such parameters as user-differentiation and aesthetic positioning in a discussion of the role of genre and style in commercial formations on the web. Comparing examples from banking web-pages, they discuss certain aspects of cultural and esthetical conceptual representational systems that …

Shift Towards Networks: Integrating Social And Physical Subsystems Of The City Through Stratified Models, Jeroen Van Schaick

Nordes Conference Series

The urban system consists of subsystems that cannot be meaningfully separated; though rigid layered approaches in Dutch Urban design and planning treat the social and the physical subsystem as autonomous in urban designs and plans. This article develops a critique on these approaches through a comparison of socio-spatial models by Lefebvre (Social Space), Castells (Space of flows), Dupuy (Network City) and Heeling (Urban Ground Plan as mediator). As to stratified models in general it can be concluded that relations – as between levels (in stead of layers) of socio-spatial systems – should become a central issue in specific designs when …

Design As Seven Steps Of Deterritorialization, Erik Werner Petersen

Nordes Conference Series

The purpose to this article is two-fold: First, to draw a map of the birth and development of design from the specific point of view: the concept of deterritorialization. Second, to address the present day situation of design through the deleuzian concept of “abstract machines”. The aim is respectively to more precisely specify the ultimate state of deterritorialization, and more importantly to uncover how these machines can advance the potentials of design by constituting becomings.

Design As A Way Of Bringing A Service Brand To Life: The Design Dimension In Brand Development, Joacim Andersson

Nordes Conference Series

In the area of marketing and branding, design and the design competencies are frequently seen as ‘supplier(s)’ of product attributes as something to be added to ‘the core’ i.e. the brand itself. As a metaphor design has been constructed as sugar coating. Even though the coat is important it does not make full use of the potential that the design methodologies represent. This article discuss how the area of branding, specifically service branding, can make better use of the potential that design holds and the challenges it brings.

If Everything Is Design, What Then Is A Designer?, Sara Ilstedt Hjelm

Nordes Conference Series

Design as an activity, a subject and an end product is expanding. Today we design everything from drugs to welfare systems. Society is an artefact where natural laws or science are no longer valid. But if everything is design and everyone designs what is then the particular competence of the practising professional in graphic, industrial or interior design? How can a design researcher contribute to the development of knowledge when it is argued that all research is design? The background for the discussion is pragmatic rather than ideological and is based in the authors own practice as a designer, researcher …

An Anthropological Move Towards Tangible Interaction Design, Mads Vedel Jensen

Nordes Conference Series

User interaction design has for many years been concerned with the skills required in operating computers and machines. For keyboard and mouse operated, screen-based user interfaces the main focus has been on the cognitive skills of humans. This article takes as a basic preamble that a shift from keyboards to tangible interaction design requires one to study the skills built through bodily movement. The emerging field of Anthropology of Movement can help in studying and understanding human movement. With inspiration from anthropology, philosophy and sociology, I have analyzed a short video sequence of a plant operator operating very tangible machinery. …

A Student, A Product, A Process: A Fresh Look At ‘Design Games’ In The Habraken Tradition, Brendon Clark, Sofie Widding

Nordes Conference Series

In the changing climate of design education, programs attempt to prepare their students for professional practice in an uncertain job market. Educators attempt to equip their students with the skill sets and the development model to effectively contribute to innovative work practice wherever they may end up. Here we revisit Habraken’s ‘concept design games’ to explore the value of the ‘developing/playing combination’ of design games, and how that tradition has been mixed with participatory design traditions. Through an example of a student-managed design project developing a board game for a client, we explore the role design games and designing games …

Social Process And Product’S Domestication, Heidi Grönman

Nordes Conference Series

It is well established in literature of domestication studies that homes evolve differently depending on who lives in them and how people negotiate domestic order. Respectively, it is emphasised that social processes play crucial role in domestication of products. This article describes social processes interpreted from data collected in Helsinki area, Finland. The data consists of biographies and photographs of items that interviewees presented as ‘designed functional products’. Emphasis on social processes in domestication studies can be seen as an argument against studies that see consumers as mere passive adapters. The character of consumer might be more versatile. In this …

Products And Practices. Selected Concepts From Science And Technology Studies And From Social Theories Of Consumption And Practice, Elizabeth Shove, Matt Watson, Jack Ingram

Nordes Conference Series

Design researchers and practitioners are increasingly interested in how designed artefacts shape and are shaped by the contexts in which they are used. Despite a long if selective history of theoretical engagement between design and social science, there has yet to be an effective exchange of ideas on this subject in particular. In this article, we present a selection of concepts drawn from recent debates in science and technology studies and consumption theory. We introduce notions of acquisition; scripting; appropriation; assembly; normalisation and practice with the aim of initiating an inter- disciplinary conversation about how designed artefacts are configured and …

Transdiscipline Vs. Culture Loss, Erika Marlenecortés López

Nordes Conference Series

We live a reality of fear and hope...globalisation is considered contradictory on different aspects, it persuites human unification and homogenization of lifestyles, production, consumption and exchange all over the world, and everything it implies.

Of Machines And Man: Exploring Growth And Decay Of Movement For Interaction Design, Larisa Sitorus, Esti Utami Handarini

Nordes Conference Series

In this article we explore Ingold’s notion of growth and decay of movement, an approach of understanding the relationship between human and the environment. We presented two instances regarding human and machine movement from our exploration during a brief ethnographic study at a local pot warehouse. This is followed by further analysis of two video clips, where we explore the richness of human movement as a relationship between the actor and the environment; we then analyze how the task is done differently in the machine’s case. In the last part of this article, we raise issues regarding the appropriation and …

Teaching Design Research In The Studio, Ben Matthews, Jacob Buur

Nordes Conference Series

Design education is diversifying as it responds both to the needs of industry, and to the long-standing demands for design (as a discipline) to take its place as a legitimate academic field in its own right. In this article we describe an attempt to integrate design research into a studio-based design education by giving students the opportunity to analyse data collected during their own projects. In the three-week project, students were given short courses in research methods and analysis, and an initial research question to frame their inquiry. Each group of students produced a short research article as their deliverable …

Pvn-Cat-202-Gq-014-001-Cncmps, Jocelyn Anthony

Four Valleys Archive

No abstract provided.

High School Principals' Values And Their Symbolic And Cultural Leadership Approaches To Character Education In China, T.C. Kao Edd

Dissertations

Relatively little is known about the symbolic and cultural leadership practices and approaches used to imbed character education in high schools in China. In addition, there is a lack of published studies and reports investigating the revival between character and moral education in the Chinese school system. Without additional information, it is impossible to understand and develop effective leadership approaches that will shape and mold school cultures to effectively support both character and moral education. The literature reviewed in this study revealed little information about if, and in what form, there is a return to moral education focusing on traditional …

2005 Commencement Program, Whittier College

Commencement Programs

Whittier College's One Hundred Second Commencement, May 27, 2005

Commencement Address: Rueben Martinez, Owner and Founder of Libreria Martinez Books and Art Gallery

The Courier, Volume 38, Issue 26, May 27, 2005, The Courier, College Of Dupage

The Courier

Stories:

The Presidential Perspective–President Sunil Chand Comments On The Issues The College Has Faced This Year

You’ve Got Mail–The College Plans To Issue Free Student E-Mail Accounts

McKinnon Chosen As Board Chairman

So, Why Convert?--Wondering Why The College Is Converting To Semesters

The Unsexy Part Of Sex (STDs)

Honoring The College’s Best

NATIONAL CHAMPIONS!--Men's Tennis Repeats After Successful '05 Campaign

Softball Shows Heart At Nationals–Chaparrals Lose 2-1 To Eventual National Champions, Finish In Third

Athletes Of The Year

Coach Of The Year

People:

Sunil Chand

Micheal McKinnon

Larry Ward

Scott Block

Krista Woldeit

Jim Bowers

University Diversity Committee Minutes (5/26/05), Csusb University Diversity Committee

University Diversity Committee records

No abstract provided.

Faculty Retirement Recognition Dinner 2005, Western Michigan University

Faculty Recognition

Faculty Retirement Recognition Dinner Program

May 26, 2005

Honored Guests:

• Miriam Bat-Ami
• Nicholas C. Batch
• Harold L. Bate
• James J. Bosco
• Joel P. Bowman
• Susan K. Carlson
• Ellen S. Cha
• Gary T. Chartrand
• Michael J. Clark
• Arthur E. Falk, Jr.
• Nancy A. Falk
• Stephanie A. Gauper
• John S. Geisler
• Constantine J. Gianakaris
• Ross Gregory
• Diether H. Haenicke
• Jerry H. Hamelink
• Arthur W. Helweg
• Richard E. Joyce
• James H. Kendrick
• Peter Kobrak
• Jay D. Lindquist
• John L. Mason
• James F. McCarthy
• William C. Morris
• Maija Petersons
• Ben C. Pinkowski
• Robert H. Poel
• Kenneth E. Reid
• Louis B. Rizzolo
• Herbert S. Scott …

Um Students Receive Languages And Literature Scholarships, University Of Montana--Missoula. Office Of University Relations

University of Montana News Releases, 1928, 1956-present

No abstract provided.

Observer, Central Washington University

Student Newspaper

Student newspaper for Central Washington University for May 26, 2005

Forest Resource Use, Land-Use, And Ecotourism In The RíO PláTano Biosphere Reserve, Honduras, Christina Marie Friedle

Dissertations and Theses

The Río Plátano Biosphere Reserve, a tropical rainforest reserve in the northeastern corner of Honduras, is home to several subsistence-based indigenous groups, including the Miskito, Pech and Garifuna, as well as the non-indigenous Ladinos. Communities within the reserve depend on forest resources, swidden agriculture, marine resources and/or small-scale ranching as the foundations for local economies. Regulations placed on these subsistence practices, after establishment of the biosphere reserve in 1980, have created unique and new pressures and resulted in a blend of traditional and innovative resource use. A notable result is the promotion of ecotourism as a solution for meeting the …

11th Annual Governors State University Student Research Conference Proceedings, Shailendra Kumar Ph.D., Editor

Student Research Conference Proceedings

No abstract provided.

Sharing Potential And The Potential For Sharing: Open Source Licensing As A Legal And Economic Modality For The Dissemination Of Renewable Energy Technology, Jason Wiener

ExpressO

No abstract provided.

Pvn-Lot-608-F-004, Rebecca Laughner

Four Valleys Archive

No abstract provided.