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2015 Otterbein University Academic Honors Convocation Program, Otterbein University

Honors Convocation

No abstract provided.

Wilk, Amy Jo, B. 1970 (Fa 805), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

Folklife Archives Finding Aids

Finding aid only for Folklife Archive Project 805. This collection, “Voices from the Homestead,” contains digital interviews with various individuals, primarily in Metcalfe County in south central Kentucky, who participated in the homestead movement during the 1970s. Other counties included in the project are Green, Cumberland, Warren, and Fayette. The movement is characterized by the leaving of individuals from urban settings to settle into a more rural atmosphere. All interviews were conducted by Amy Wilk. All interviews are in digital format.

The Liberal Arts And The Wealth Of Nations, Louis D. Johnston

Phi Beta Kappa Lectures

Sixty-eight students from the College of Saint Benedict and Saint John's University have been invited into the Theta of Minnesota Chapter of Phi Beta Kappa at CSB and SJU.

The students will be formally inducted into the chapter during a ceremony at 5 p.m. Wednesday, April 22, in Alumnae Hall, Haehn Campus Center, CSB. The public is welcome to attend the induction ceremony, which will be followed by an invitation-only dinner for the Phi Beta Kappa members and guests.

Louis Johnston, associate professor of economics at CSB and SJU, delivered the keynote address, "The Liberal Arts and the Wealth of …

Traveling Exhibit Native Voices: Native Peoples’ Concepts Of Health And Illness, Patricia Bradley, Laura J. Hall, Gale Hannigan

Posters and Presentations

This exhibit, organized by the National Library of Medicine and hosted at UNM, explores the intersections of health, illness, and culture among Native American, Alaska Native, and Native Hawaiian communities. Through oral histories, healers, elders, and other key figures recount the impact of epidemics, land loss, and cultural disruption on Native health. The exhibit presents an inspiring narrative of resilience, endurance, and self-determination. Curated locally by Patricia Bradley, Laura J. Hall, and Gale Hannigan, it was displayed at the Domenici Center for Health Sciences Education. April 22, 2015 - October 18, 2015

Wmu Board Of Trustees Formal Session April 22, 2015, Wmu Board Of Trustees

WMU Board of Trustees Meetings

WMU Board of Trustees Formal Session documents for April 22, 2015 include:

• Agenda
• Property Purchase with Eaton Corporation
• Residency Policy - for Admissions and/or Tuition and Fee Purposes
• Student Room and Board Rates 2015-16
• Personnel Report
• Gift Report
• Grant Report
• Program recommendation

"Too Young To Fall Asleep Forever": Great War Commemoration And National Identity In Interwar England And Germany, Angela Clem

History Honors Projects

This thesis compares English and German commemorative practices after the Great War. In England, commemoration strengthened national identity by giving value to communal suffering and creating an almost-mythical figure in the Unknown Warrior, an anonymous soldier buried in Westminster Abbey. In contrast, German commemoration met with political instability, hyperinflation, and the infamous “war guilt clause” of the Versailles Treaty, which rejected a national mode of commemoration. Despite these differences, both countries constructed a new “language of loss” physically (through memorials) and metaphorically (through war literature), forever shaping their respective national identities and collective memories.

Northern Ireland Spring Break In Post-Conflict Society, Ohio University College Of Arts & Sciences

All Forum Articles

No abstract provided.

The Prospector, April 21, 2015, Utep Student Publications

The Prospector

Headline: Help Mother Nature Bloom

Does The Sex Difference In Competitiveness Decrease In Selective Sub-Populations? A Test With Intercollegiate Distance Runners, Robert O. Deaner, Aaron Lowen, William Rogers, Eric Saksa

Open Access Publishing Support Funded Articles

Sex differences in some preferences and motivations are well established, but it is unclear whether they persist in selective sub-populations, such as expert financial decision makers, top scientists, or elite athletes. We addressed this issue by studying competitiveness in 1,147 varsity intercollegiate distance runners. As expected, across all runners, men reported greater competitiveness with two previously validated instruments, greater competitiveness on a new elite competitiveness scale, and greater training volume, a known correlate of competitiveness. Among faster runners, the sex difference decreased for one measure of competitiveness but did not decrease for the two other competitiveness measures or either measure …

Spider In The River: A Comparative Environmental History Of The Impact Of The Cache La Poudre Watershed On Cheyennes And Euro-Americans, 1830–1880, John J. Buchkoski

Department of History: Dissertations, Theses, and Student Research

This thesis is a case study of the Cache la Poudre watershed in Colorado in the mid-nineteenth century and how it contributed to cultural transformations of both Cheyennes and Euro-Americans. This research follows the relationship that developed between Cheyennes and rivers since they inhabited Mille de Lacs in Minnesota in the seventeenth century. It examines the creation of settler-colonialism through the formation of boundaries and colonies in Colorado through the use of rivers. This further illustrates the connectedness of both Euro-Americans and Cheyennes to the rivers and argues that there were battles over these rivers and not only over the …

Under Siege: Conspiracy, I-Pistemology And Resistance Through Hip Hop In Killarmy's Silent Weapons For Quiet Wars, Marcus Keith Hassell

Electronic Theses and Dissertations Archive

This dissertation examines and explicates the convergences of conspiracy theory, Islam, terrorism, and hip hop culture in rap group Killarmy's Silent Weapons for Quiet Wars to gain a deeper understanding of knowledge production post 9/11 through a process Liesbet Van Zoonen has labeled I-pistemology. The influences of Five Percent Nation ideology, popular culture, and conspiracy theory impact Killarmy's tools of rhetorical resistance, or what Tricia Rose calls the "hidden transcript" of rap music. Furthermore, Silent Weapons for Quiet Wars was at the center of controversy during the Beltway sniper attacks of 2002 prompting journalists to admonish Five Percent ideology through …

April 21, 2015, The Daily Mississippian

Daily Mississippian (all digitized issues)

No abstract provided.

2015 Abstract Booklet, Undergraduate Research Center, Minnesota State University - Mankato

Undergraduate Research Symposium

Complete Schedule of Events for the 17th Annual Undergraduate Research Symposium at Minnesota State University, Mankato.

Factors Affecting Success And Failure Among Drug Court Participants In The United States: An Examination Of Program Completion And Post-Program Outcomes, Sami Polenberg

Open Access Theses

Drug courts represent a growing trend in the United States toward treatment-oriented alternatives to incarceration for non-violent drug offenders. Using data from the Multi-Site Adult Drug Court Evaluation (MADCE), this study evaluates whether drug courts serve their intended purposes. That is, whether drug court participants have lower rates of relapse, recidivism, and re-arrest than non-participants. This study also evaluates factors which may affect success and failure among participants and post-program outcomes, including age, race/ethnicity, gender, social support, treatment motivation, and substance use history. Results indicate that drug court participants have lower rates of relapse, but not recidivism or re-arrest, than …

2015-04 Library Impact Statement For Apg 399 Sex And Reproduction In Our Species, Joanna Burkhardt

Collection Development Reports and Documents

Library Impact Statement submitted in response to new course proposal for APG 399 Sex and Reproduction In Our Species. The class was supported with no need for additional resources. Responding library faculty: Joanna Burkhardt. Requesting faculty: Holly Dunsworth.

2015-04 Library Impact Statement For Apg 304 Coastal Archaeology, Joanna Burkhardt

Collection Development Reports and Documents

Library Impact Statement in response to new course proposal for APG 304 Coastal Archaeology. This class was supported with no need for additional resources. Responding library faculty: Joanna Burkhardt. Requesting faculty: Kristine Bovy.

2015-04 Library Impact Statement For Apg 399 Sex And Reproduction In Our Species, Joanna Burkhardt

Library Impact Statements

Library Impact Statement submitted in response to new course proposal for APG 399 Sex and Resproduction in Our Species. This class was supported with no need for additional resources. Responding library faculty: Joanna Burkhardt. Requesting faculty: Holly Dunsworth.

2015-04 Library Impact Statement For Apg 414 Culture And Cognition, Joanna Burkhardt

Library Impact Statements

Library Impact Statement submitted in response to new course proposal for APG 414 Culture and Cognition This class was supported with no need for additional resources. Responding library faculty: Joanna Burkhardt. Requesting faculty: Carlos Garcia-Quijano.

2015-03 Library Impact Statement For Apg 304 Coastal Archaeology, Joanna Burkhardt

Library Impact Statements

Library Impact Statement submitted in response to new course proposal for APG 304 Coastal Archaeology This class was supported with no need for additional resources. Responding library faculty: Joanna Burkhardt. Requesting faculty: Kristine Bovy.

Cseas Weekly Bulletin (April 20, 2015), Center For Southeast Asian Studies

CSEAS Bulletin

No abstract provided.

Lanthorn, Vol. 49, No. 60, April 20, 2015, Grand Valley State University

Volume 49, July 7, 2014 - June 1, 2015

Lanthorn is Grand Valley State's student newspaper, published from 1968 to the present.

Through An Officers' Eyes: An Exploratory Study Of Felonious Vs. Accidental Law Enforcement Line Of Duty Deaths, Sarah Coen

Theses & Honors Papers

The purpose of this mixed methods study is to understand when, how often, and why felonious and accidental law enforcement deaths occur in the line of duty. Every day officers put their lives in danger to protect and serve the public. While it is irrational to expect officer line of duty deaths to be zero, these deaths can be reduced research that can be done to aid in this reduction is critical. Although studies have looked at the circumstances surrounding the incidents in which officers are killed, they have yet to explore the impact of time and season that this …

2015-04 Library Impact Statement For Apg 414 Culture And Cognition, Joanna Burkhardt

Collection Development Reports and Documents

Library Impact Statement in response to new course proposal for APG 414 Culture and Cognition. This class was supported with no need for additional resources. Responding library faculty: Joanna Burkhardt. Requesting faculty: Carlos Garcia-Quijano.

Cfp For Sfa's Grad Student Conference On Food & Pop Culture, Admin

Blog Posts

The Southern Foodways Alliance is hosting a Grad Student Conference on Food and Pop Culture September 10-11, 2015. Two paragraph (200 hundred words or less) abstracts are due May 25. All the details below. Pop Goes the Corn: 2015 Graduate Student Conference on Food and Pop Culture. Presented by the Southern Foodways Alliance, the Center for the Study of Southern Culture, the Department of Sociology and Anthropology, and the Graduate School at the University of Mississippi.

Dr. Jessie Wilkerson Wins Award For Best Dissertation, Admin

Blog Posts

We're excited to congratulate faculty member Dr. Jessie Wilkerson, who just won an award for her UNC dissertation, "Where Movements Meet: Women's Activism in the Appalachian South, 1965-1980." The Lerner-Scott Prize from the Organization of American Historians is awarded for the best dissertation in US women's history.

Intercultural Ambassadors: Foreign Students’ Conflict And Expectations Revisited, Luz Elena Cortes

College of Social Sciences and Public Affairs Presentations

The recent increase of foreign students in higher education conflicts with resource budgeting and priorities. Universities are compelled to implement diverse strategies to keep them solvent. Interestingly, one of the responses to increase revenues is to recruit out-of-state students especially international students for higher tuition returns additionally, universities posit internationalization as a necessary component to becoming a “metropolitan research university of distinction” (Task Force 2006, 1). The goal is to elevate its standing in the global market of higher education. However, these efforts compromise the education of foreign students and how thesestudents are taught. By recruiting foreign students, universities transfer …

Tracking Queer Kinships: Assisted Reproduction, Family Law And The Infertility Trap, Stewart Donnell Marvel

PhD Dissertations

The global advent of assisted human reproduction has brought with it an upheaval in social, cultural and legal norms of the family. The centrality of biological reproduction to the traditional heterosexual family has been challenged by reproductive intervention, further destabilizing nuclear family norms already unmoored by same-sex marriage, single mothers, unwed fathers, and increased access to divorce, contraceptives and abortion. As these challenges have shifted EuroAmerican social norms of family, the law has increasingly been called upon to preside over the re-organization of intimate life, operating as a central vehicle to reframe the relationship of the family to the state. …

Students Receive Gilman Scholarships To Study Abroad, Ohio University College Of Arts & Sciences

All Forum Articles

No abstract provided.

Summer Courses | Tier Ii Social Sciences (2ss), Online & On Campus, Ohio University College Of Arts & Sciences

All Forum Articles

No abstract provided.

Collection Development Policy, Women's Studies, Corinne Bishop

Libraries' Documents

No abstract provided.