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Hacking The Narrative: How A Philadelphia Hackerspace Uses Storytelling To Explore The Gender Gap In Technology, Stephanie Alarcon, Georgia Guthrie

Women's History in the Digital World

The Hacktory, a technology education and creative space in Philadelphia, has developed an interactive workshop, “Hacking the Gender Gap.” Attendees are asked to write stories of their positive and negative experiences with technology and post them on a physical timeline. The resulting clusters of experiences at key ages provide visual data, highlight patterns, and provide insight into how people engage with technology now and in recent history. We have run this activity with women-only and mixed gendered crowds, each time with interesting results. The stories and patterns help communicate the pervasive nature of this problem, and give form to the …

The Scarlet - Volume Xcii, No. 15 (March 21, 2013), Scarlet Staff

The Scarlet (Student Newspaper) (2011-present)

The March 21, 2013 edition of The Scarlet (est. 1939), Clark University's student-run newspaper. The Scarlet is intellectually and editorially independent of the University.

The Citizenship Project: Incorporating Civic Responsibility Into The Curriculum Through Community Policing, Sindee Kerker

Faculty and Staff Publications & Presentations

The Citizenship Project requires students to focus on a civic issue, problem or topic while engaging in experiential learning opportunities and community service work with local, community-based groups. Students work side by side with community police officers on service projects designed to improve the immediate conditions that give rise to public safety issues. Emphasis is placed on relationship building between police officers and its neighborhood citizens to form meaningful cooperative partnerships to better address and solve community problems.

Extending A Geographic Lens Towards Climate Justice, Part 1: Climate Change Characterization And Impacts, Morey Burnham, Claudia Radel, Zhao Ma, Ann Laudati

Environment and Society Faculty Publications

There has been a recent increase of interest within the academic literature on the justice issues posed by climate change and the human responses to its present and forecasted effects. This literature is partially shaped by debates from environmental justice scholarship, but also has roots in various subfields of geography. In two parts (here and in a subsequent article), we review and synthesize the recent literature by asking what climate justice concerns have been identified within three related realms: 1) the characterization of climate change itself and the assignment of responsibility for that change; 2) the differential or uneven impacts …

Creation And Implementation Of The Central Appalachian Institute For Research And Development, James L. Hurley

Morehead State Theses and Dissertations

A capstone submitted in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Education in the College of Education at Morehead State University by James L. Hurley on March 12, 2013.

Student Affairs Minutes 03/11/2013, Student Affairs Committee

Student Affairs Committee

No abstract provided.

The Advocate, March 5, 2013, Minnesota State University Moorhead

The Advocate

No abstract provided.

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Colby Magazine

Colby Magazine vol. 95, no. 2 (Summer 2006): full issue

Colby News

Colby Magazine

More Minorities on Mayflower Hill

Envisioning a College Town

Wit & Wisdom

Ground Broken for Pulver

Colby Cares X

At Reunion, Alumni Find Changes on the Hill

Farewell to Faculty

Record Number of Researchers

Colby Museum Under New Leadership

A Lasting Legacy

Justice Seeker Wins Lovejoy

Walking the Talk

Courage to Commence

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Colby Magazine

Colby Magazine vol. 94, no. 2 (Summer 2005): full issue

Green Acres: From A "Green" Summit To A Residence Hall Dedicated To Environmental Awareness To State-Of-The-Art Construction, The Colby Community Is Collaborating To Understand And Confront Environmental Issues, Stephen Collins

Colby Magazine

No abstract provided.

Alumni @ Large

Colby Magazine

Alumni notes

Newsmakers

Milestones

Susan Woodward '64: Lifelong Learner

Doug Smith '70: Payload for Peace

Janice Bispham '76: Child Support

Caleb Dolan '96: A Worthwhile Struggle

Obituaries

Mapping The Freedom To Learn: Making The Case For Student Academic Freedom In Canada, Angela Sylvia Regnier

LLM Theses

Academic freedom has been defined as having two components: the freedom to teach and the freedom to learn. However, whether there is truly a freedom to learn and how it intersects with general liberties is unresolved. Incorporating a critical pedagogical approach, this thesis explores whether Canadian post-secondary students have any such role-related rights. In aiming to map the conditions that might safeguard such a freedom to learn, certain civil liberties are examined - namely associational and expressive freedoms. A critique of contemporary jurisprudence and relevant legislation is situated within an historical and comparative context of academic freedom and students in …

Maintaining Key Services While Retaining Core Values: Nyc Transit’S Environmental Justice Strategies, Ted Wang, Alex Lu, Alla Reddy

Journal of Public Transportation

In a recession, transit agencies aim to provide key services while retaining national core values. When making service changes, federal funding recipients are prohibited from discriminating on the basis of race, color, or national origin and must not place undue burden on Environmental Justice (EJ) populations. To ensure compliance, New York City Transit developed analytical methodologies to identify impacts for the 50 proposed service rationalization initiatives, allowing for proactive mitigation. For 38 routes with span changes, load factor analysis across demographic and income categories (during periods of service elimination) demonstrated that impacts were equitably shared. For route changes, impacts were …

Full Issue 16(1)

Journal of Public Transportation

No abstract provided.

'We Are Radical': The Right To The City Alliance And The Future Of Community Organizing, Robert Fisher, Yuseph Katiya, Christopher Reid, Eric Shragge

The Journal of Sociology & Social Welfare

This paper seeks to situate current efforts of The Right to the City Alliance and selected member groups in a longitudinal and cross-sectional qualitative study of the limits and potential of contemporary organizing. For three decades politicians, policy makers, advocates, academics, and even activists have promoted community-based efforts as the primary vehicle for contemporary social change. Local organizing has been seen as the best site and strategy for initiatives as diverse as community economic development, public school reform, social service delivery, and challenging the powers that be. In almost all cases these efforts have been constrained and moderated by a …

Brown V. Board In The World: How The Global Turn Matters For School Reform, Human Rights, And Legal Knowledlge, Martha Minow

San Diego Law Review

Global perspectives can contribute to our understandings of any one nation’s laws and decisions. In this light, America’s educational landmark, Brown v. Board of Education, matters not just for the United States but around the world. Inside the United States, a cottage industry of academic scholars studies the influence of Brown where the decision’s impact reaches well beyond racial desegregation of schools. The litigation has by now a well-known and complicated relationship to actual racial integration within American schools, as the case perhaps exacerbated tensions and slowed otherwise gradual reform, and perhaps at the same time galvanized the social movement …

Assessing The Potential Contribution Of Vacant Land To Urban Vegetable Production And Consumption In Oakland, California, Nathan Mcclintock, Jenny Cooper, Snehee Khandeshi

Urban Studies and Planning Faculty Publications and Presentations

As urban agriculture grows in popularity, researchers are attempting to quantify its potential contribution to local food systems. We present the results of a vacant land inventory conducted in collaboration with the HOPE Collaborative, a multi-stakeholder, community-based initiative in Oakland, CA, USA. Vacant lots, open space, and underutilized parks with agricultural potential were identified using GIS and aerial imagery. Using visual interpretation, we identified 1201 ac (486.4 ha) of public land and 337 ac (136.4 ha) of private land that could potentially be used for vegetable production. Based on USDA loss-adjusted consumption data, we calculated the potential contribution of these …

Spectator 2013-02-27, Editors Of The Spectator

The Spectator

No abstract provided.

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Colby Magazine

Colby Magazine vol. 99, no. 4 (Winter 2011): full issue

Thank You, Professor Bassett: Former "Toads" Bid Farewell To Their Beloved Teacher And Mentor, Gerry Boyle

Colby Magazine

Charles W. Bassett, the Lee Family Professor of American Studies and English, emeritus, died Oct. 19 in Waterville. News that he was ill brought a deluge of letters from alumni who wanted to make sure that their beloved “Bassett” knew he had changed their lives.

Multidimensional Governance And The Bp Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill, Hari M. Osofsky

Florida Law Review

This Article explores the governance challenges posed by the BP Deepwater Horizon oil spill and proposes strategies for developing more inclusive, responsive institutions to help meet them. It begins by analyzing the incident through five core dimensions—vertical, horizontal, direction of hierarchy, cooperativeness, and public- private—to demonstrate the multilevel, multiactor interactions taking place in offshore drilling and oil spill regulation. It then explains the ways in which the complex interactions in these dimensions translate into four core governance challenges: scientific and legal uncertainty, simultaneous overlap and fragmentation, the difficulties of balancing efficiency and inclusion, and inequality and resulting injustice. The Article …

The Santa Clara, 2013-02-07, Santa Clara University

The Santa Clara

No abstract provided.

Urban Forest Justice And The Rights To Wild Foods, Medicines, And Materials In The City, Melissa R. Poe, Rebecca J. Mclain, Marla R. Emery, Patrick T. Hurley

Environment and Sustainability Faculty Publications

Urban forests are multifunctional socio-ecological landscapes, yet some of their social benefits remain poorly understood. This paper draws on ethnographic evidence from Seattle, Washington to demonstrate that urban forests contain nontimber forest products that contribute a variety of wild foods, medicines, and materials for the well-being of urban residents. We show that gathering wild plants and fungi in urban forests is a persistent subsistence and livelihood practice that provides sociocultural and material benefits to city residents, and creates opportunities for connecting with nature and enhancing social ties. We suggest that an orientation toward human-nature interactions in cities that conceptualizes the …

Environmental And Occupational Interventions For Primary Prevention Of Cancer: A Cross-Sectorial Policy Framework, Carolina Espina, Miquel Porta, Joachim Schüz, Ildefonso Hernández Aguado, Robert V. Percival, Carlos Dora, Terry Slevin, Julietta Rodriguez Guzman, Tim Meredith, Philip J. Landrigan, Maria Neira

Faculty Scholarship

Nearly 13 million new cancer cases and 7.6 million cancer deaths occur worldwide each year; 63% of cancer deaths occur in low and middle-income countries. A substantial portion of all cancers are attributable to carcinogenic exposures in the environment and the workplace.

The objective of this study was to develop an evidence-based global vision and strategy for the primary prevention of environmental and occupational cancer.

The study concluded that opportunities exist to revitalize comprehensive global cancer control policies by incorporating primary interventions against environmental and occupational carcinogens.

Ecocriticism And The Global Environmental Crisis : Interview Of Paul Outka By Juan Carlos Galeano, Paul Outka, Juan C. Galeano

Landscapes: the Journal of the International Centre for Landscape and Language

Juan Carlos Galeano was born in the Amazon región of Columbia. He‘s a poet, translator and has done extensive research on Amazonian folklore. He teaches Latin American poetry and cultures of the Amazon basin at Florida State University. Paul Outka, Assistant Professor of U.S. literature at Florida State University, discusses Ecocriticism, an important and rapidly growing field of studies in North American universities. In 2009, Professor Outka‘s book, Race and Nature from Transcendentalism to the Harlem Renaissance (Palgrave Macmillan), won the 2009 Association for the Study of Literature and the Environment (ASLE) biennial award for the best theoretical book written …

Environmental Justice In The Deep South: A Golden Anniversary Reflection On Stimulus And Change, Jonathan C. Augustine

University of San Francisco Law Review

No abstract provided.

The Art And Science Of Climate Policy : Bay Area Air Quality Management District (Baaqmd), Ian Peterson

California Climate Action Planning Conference

The Art and Science of Writing Climate Policy

Academic Affairs Happenings, Volume 1, Issue 2, Office Of Academic Affairs, Roger Williams University

Academic Affairs Newsletter

The Newsletter is an ongoing publication that highlights the wide range of work in which RWU faculty and students are engaged.

Preparing For The Rising Tide, Ellen Douglas, Paul Kirshen, Vivian Li, Chris Watson, Julie Wormser

Environmental, Earth, and Ocean Sciences Faculty Publication Series

On October 29, 2012, one of the largest Atlantic basin storms in recorded history hit the East Coast. Although Superstorm Sandy centered around New Jersey and New York when it made landfall, the massive storm system spanned 1,000 miles north to south, over three times the size of a typical hurricane.

Luckily for Boston, Sandy’s storm surge hit the city near low tide, causing relatively minor coastal flooding. Had the storm hit 5½ hours earlier, 6.6 percent of the city could have been flooded, with floodwaters reaching City Hall.

Events such as Superstorm Sandy highlight the growing relevance of climate …