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Foundations, Amy Cagle, Bo Hemphill, Cathy Lammons, Brittany Martin, Kristy Riley, John P. Rush, Mississippi State University Foundation

Mississippi State University Foundation Foundations Newsletter

This document is an issue of Foundations.

Circulation, Vol. 15, No. 1, Center For Coastal Physical Oceanography, Old Dominion University, Tal Ezer

CCPO Circulation

Spring 2008 issue of CCPO Circulation featuring article "Hydrodynamic Numerical Ocean Models Support Environmental Studies and Conservation Efforts: From an Arctic Estuary to a Caribbean Coral Reef" by Dr. Tal Ezer

Tallgrass Prairie Center Newsletter, Spring 2008, University Of Northern Iowa. Tallgrass Prairie Center.

Tallgrass Prairie Center Newsletter

Inside This Issue:

-- Lost Landscape Teachers Workshop
-- Native Seed Production Manual
-- Frost Seeding Natives
-- Spring Seminar Series: A Blooming Success
-- Recognizing Twenty Years of the Living Roadway Trust Fund
-- Prairie Arts
-- Prescribed Fire in Grasslands DVD Available
-- Seedling Identification Workshop
-- Student Employees Gain Experiences in Their Fields

Graduate Connections- April 2008

Graduate Connections: A Newsletter for UNL Graduate Students

In This Issue:

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Navigating Graduate School... 1

Mentoring Relationships that Last

Good Practices in Graduate

Education.................................. 3

The Responsible Conduct of Research

Teaching Tip ............................. 4

End of Semester Reflection

Essential Connections............... 5

Fellowship Opportunities on the Web

Professional Development........ 5

Writing a Teaching Statement

Principles of Good Writing

Interactions..................................8

NSF Doctoral Dissertation Awards

Grad Student Poster Competition Winners

Graduate Student Association News

Funding Opportunities................9

Resources for Researchers......11

NURAMP Workshops

Announcements........................11

Summer ITA Institute

SPEAK Test Dates

18^th Annual Campuswide TA Workshops

Commencement Changes …

Environmental Stewardship Of The Vermont Ski Industry And The Public's Willingness To Support, Karina V. Warshaw

Master in Public Administration Theses

No abstract provided.

Ard News April 2008

Agricultural Research Division: News and Annual Reports

Contents:

Comments from the Dean
Layman Awards
ARD “Service Objectives”
Proposals Submitted for Federal Grants January and February 2008
New or Revised Projects January and February 2008
Grants and Contracts Received for January and February 2008

Joint Force Quarterly 49 (2nd Quarter, April 2008), National Defense University Press

Joint Force Quarterly ARCHIVES

No abstract provided.

Imsa360: April 2008, Imsa Fund

IMSA Fund Reports

Message From the President

As a long-time educator in Illinois, I have admired IMSA’s role as an international leader in developing talent and leadership in science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM). I am honored and privileged to now serve as IMSA’s second president.

This first year, I have been meeting with educational leaders and policy makers across Illinois as well as IMSA students, parents, faculty, staff, alumni and donors to solicit ideas and determine our critical needs. From these conversations, I am convinced that IMSA’s service to students, teachers and schools is more relevant and important than ever. The challenges …

Of Ponds And Pot: How Rapanos Ignored Raich And The Potential Role For Cooperative Federalism, Augusta Wilson

Cornell Journal of Law and Public Policy

No abstract provided.

Fabrication Of Bioactive Osteogenic Controlled-Release Systems, Cellular Platforms, And Cellular Capsules Using Layer -By -Layer Nanoassembly, Skylar Stewart-Clark

Doctoral Dissertations

There is an ever-increasing awareness that the field of tissue engineering offers many potential solutions to clinical problems. While advances along these lines have been made, the design and implementation of an "off the shelf" tissue is yet to be realized. Thus, the objectives of this work were largely aimed at the design and fabrication of biocompatible, bioactive structures which could be integrated into existing biomaterial products.

The electrostatic layer-by-layer (LbL) self-assembly technique was used to incorporate biologically relevant molecules within controlled release systems, cell culture platforms, and 3-D cellular capsules. Two delivery systems were investigated to determine the release …

Water Current, Volume 40, No. 2, Spring 2008

Water Current Newsletter

UNL/OSU Researchers Try Promising Technique to Remove Groundwater Contamination
Water and Natural Resources Tour in June
From the Director: USGS Climate Change Research, a Critical Partnership in the Making
Meet the Faculty: Gary L. Zoubek, Paul C. Hay
Herpel Joins Water Center Staff as Outreach Specialist
Scholarship Honors Water Center's First Permanent Director
Storing a Safe Emergency Drinking Water Supply
A Long-Term Perspective on Drought
History in the Great Plains
Water Center History Books Available
Earthworms Contain Chemicals from Households and Animal Manure
UNL Researchers Determine Costs of Producing Switchgrass for Ethanol
Water Quality Challenges in the Great Plains
Water …

Statement, Spring 2008, Office Of Alumni Relations. Morehead State University

Morehead State Alumni Association Publications

Statement magazine of Morehead State University for Spring of 2008.

Food Science & Technology Alumni News, Spring 2008

Department of Food Science and Technology: Public Access Records

CONTENTS:
A message from the Department Head . . .
Graduates of the B.S. Program
Graduates of the M.S. Program
Graduates of the Ph.D. Program
Steve Beckman, Baccalaureate and Future Ph.D.
Help Us Find New Students
Recent Graduate Wee Chin Low
Dr. Taylor at Work in the Netherlands
New B.S. Students
New M.S. Graduate Students
Visiting Faculty and New Opportunities from Costa Rica
Busy Autumn for the Food Science Club
Graduate Student Spotlight: Inés Martínez
FSC Roster
Undergraduate Spotlight: Melanie Downs
New and Improved Sensory Analysis Lab
Selected Grants
New Faces
Departures
Visiting Faculty
Food Science Alumna Wins Folsom Award …

Interfaces, Volume 10, Issue 1 - Spring 2008

INTERFACES: Newsletter of the Nebraska Center for Materials and Nanoscience

CONTENTS
From the Director
Facility Focus: Nano-Fabrication Facility
Recent Achievements of Center Researchers
Magnetic Nanoclusters Put in Order – Insights with Scanning Tunneling Microscopy
NCMN Welcomes Eva Franke Schubert
Research Spotlight: Barry Cheung
UNL Hosts 54th Annual Midwest Solid State Conference
Published Books
Engineers Part of $9 Million Project Studying Cell Context of Genes

Scwds Briefs: Volume 24, Number 1 (April 2008), Gary L. Doster , Editor, Scwds Briefs, Michael J. Yabsley

Southeastern Cooperative Wildlife Disease Study: Publications

Table of Contents:

National Feral Swine Mapping System

Feral Hog Conference

Wildebeest MCF in U.S. Cattle

The Value of Wildlife Recreation

Unusual Antlered Doe

White Nose Syndrome in Bats

New Myxozoan Parasite in Ducks

Duncan New Director in Virginia

SCWDS Personnel Awards

Give Life Without Losing Life: The Casa Materna Of Matagalpa And The Struggle To Prevent Maternal Death, Lily Emiko Friedman

Independent Study Project (ISP) Collection

Maternal mortality has a face. It is the health indicator with the greatest disparity between the developed and developing worlds, disproportionately affecting poor women with low levels of education, high levels of fertility, and inadequate access to health services. It is the health inequality that most clearly shows how poor health outcomes continue to be directly linked to poverty and socioeconomic disadvantage, while the right to safe pregnancy and motherhood comes with economic privilege. As it occupies such a critical position in community health, maternal mortality has been widely studied and the target of countless health interventions aimed at its …

The Evolution Of U.S. Gene Patent Law: Finding The Balance Between Blatantly Obvious And Overly-Broad Gene Patents, Jad Allen Mills

Brigham Young University Prelaw Review

No abstract provided.

Systems Biology: The Solution To Understanding Alcohol-Induced Disorders?, National Institute On Alcohol Abuse And Alcoholism

United States Public Health Resources

With the decoding of the human genome, researchers gained access to extensive information about the molecules in the body, how they function in the healthy organism, and how they may contribute to certain diseases. However, despite this wealth of information, many questions remain about the ways in which these molecules interact to control more complex phenomena, including the development of many common disorders. Systems biology offers scientists a promising tool with which to deal with such complexities and may revolutionize the prognosis, diagnosis, and treatment of alcohol use disorders and other multifaceted disorders. These new approaches provide researchers with new …

News From Hope College, Volume 39.4: April, 2008, Hope College

News from Hope College

No abstract provided.

Gold & Blue, Spring 2008, St. Mary's University- San Antonio, Texas

Gold & Blue

This is the Spring 2008 edition of Gold & Blue which is St. Mary's University's official school publication.

Wsu Research News, Spring 2008, Office Of Research And Sponsored Programs, Wright State University

WSU Research News

A sixteen page newsletter of the WSU Research News. The WSU Research News was published monthly beginning in June of 1968 and issued by the Office of Research Development. This newsletter was created to provide information to the WSU faculty about the availability of outside funds for research and educational programs, new developments that may affect availability of funds, and general information on research and educational activities at Wright State University.

Recollecting Memory, Reviewing History: Trauma In Asian North American Literature, Guan-Rong Chen

English Dissertations - Archive

My dissertation focuses on representations of traumas in select eight Asian North American novels. I attempt to draw attention to this underrepresented issue of the Asian minority's traumatic experiences. Trauma in my discussion includes double consciousness, national trauma of war, white racism toward the Asian minority, children's perspectives on melancholia and loss, as well as psychosomatic trauma and violence on the female body. In Chapter One, I argue that in Jade Snow Wong's Fifth Chinese Daughter and Fae Myenne Ng’s Bone double consciousness is represented as a racial(ized) trauma that creates an ideological dichotomy between East and West, and constrains …

Airborne Laser Scanning Quantification Of Disturbances From Hurricanes And Lightning Strikes To Mangrove Forests In Everglades National Park, Usa, Keqi Zhang, Marc Simard, Michael Ross, Victor H. Rivera-Monroy, Patricia Houle, Pablo Ruiz, Robert R. Twilley, Kevin R.T. Whelan

Faculty Publications

Airborne light detection and ranging (LIDAR) measurements derived before and after Hurricanes Katrina and Wilma (2005) were used to quantify the impact of hurricanes and lightning strikes on the mangrove forest at two sites in Everglades National Park (ENP). Analysis of LIDAR measurements covering 61 and 68 ha areas of mangrove forest at the Shark River and Broad River sites showed that the proportion of high tree canopy detected by the LIDAR after the 2005 hurricane season decreased significantly due to defoliation and breakage of branches and trunks, while the proportion of low canopy and the ground increased drastically. Tall …

Effects Of Imperfect Dynamic Clamp: Computational And Experimental Results., Bettencourt Jc, Lillis Kp, Stupin Lr, White Ja

Faculty Publications

No abstract provided.

Combating Terrorism At Sea -- The Suppression Of Unlawful Acts Against The Safety Of Maritime Navigation, Helmut Tuerk

University of Miami International and Comparative Law Review

While piracy is an age-old phenomenon plaguing mankind, terrorism at sea has only manifested itself in recent times through the Achille Lauro hijacking in 1985 serving as a wake-up call. The international community has since been striving to adopt a series of legal as well as practical measures in order to prevent a recurrence of such a terrorist act because the rules of international law relating to piracy are not applicable mutatis mutandis to terrorism. The Convention for the Suppression of Unlawful Acts Against the Safety of Maritime Navigation was adopted in 1988. This Convention addressed terrorism at sea for …

The Polio Vaccine And The Restatement (Third) Of Torts: Why The Controversies?, Thuy D. Pham, Annette P. Martinez

DePaul Journal of Health Care Law

No abstract provided.

Partial Birth Biopolitics, Joshua E. Perry

DePaul Journal of Health Care Law

No abstract provided.

Using The Polar Bear Framework To Protect The Arctic Habitat, Tim P. Shields

PEEL Alumni Scholarship

Listing the polar bear as a threatened species is the predominant manner in which protection and preservation of the Arctic habitat might be achieved. The U.S. Geological Survey issued a final report on the status of the polar bear on September 7, 2007. The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, however, has missed its deadline to list the polar bear as a threatened animal. As a result, three non-profit conservation groups sued the Bush Administration on March 10, 2008, requesting that the court require the agency to comply with the timeline for completing the listing process.

The Poet As Pretender: Poetic Legitimacy In Cvetaeva, Sibelan E.S. Forrester

Russian Faculty Works

В статье рассматривается вопрос о поэтической законности в творчестве М.И. Цветаевой. Черубина де Габриак (псевдоним Е.И. Дмитриевой) служит примером женщины, наказанной (разоблачением и фигуративной казнью) за литературное самозванчество, но Цветаева ее потаенно связывает с самым выдающимся русским поэтом А.С. Пушкиным. Игра политических последствий цветаевского отношения к этим поэтам и ее собственной любви к самозванчеству многое объясняет в поэтике и в художественном отношении к гендеру у Цветаевой.

Is The Cheating Risk Always Higher In Online Instruction Compared To Face-To-Face Instruction?, Oskar Harmon, James Lambrinos, Judy Buffolino

Economics Working Papers

This article analyzes the exposure to cheating risk of online courses relative to face-to-face courses at a single institution. For our sample of 20 online courses we report that the cheating risk is higher than for equivalent face-to-face courses because of reliance on un-proctored multiple choice exams. We conclude that the combination of a proctored final exam, and strategic use cheating deterrents in the administration of un-proctored multiple choice exams, would significantly reduce the cheating risk differential without substantially altering the assessment design of online instruction.