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The Parthenon, March 3, 2015, Codi Mohr

The Parthenon

The Parthenon, Marshall University’s student newspaper, is published by students Monday through Friday during the regular semester and weekly Thursday during the summer. The editorial staff is responsible for the news and the editorial content.

Federal Collaboration In Science For Invasive Mammal Management In U.S. National Parks And Wildlife Refuges Of The Pacific Islands, Steven C. Hess, Darcy Hu, Rhonda Loh, Paul C. Banko

Wildlife Damage Management Conference

No abstract provided.

Cseas Weekly Bulletin (March 2, 2015), Center For Southeast Asian Studies

CSEAS Bulletin

No abstract provided.

Current, March 02, 2015, University Of Missouri-St. Louis

Current (2010s)

No abstract provided.

Social Science Division Meeting Minutes 03/02/2015, Social Science Division

Social Science Division

No abstract provided.

Notice Of Non-Compliance 55-026, Jean Cocco, Abdool Aziz

Legislative Branch Publications

No abstract provided.

Usa Today Editor Honored With Silver Em, Staff Report

University of Mississippi News

Fred Anklam Jr. worked on landmark series examining Mississippi schools, covered U.S. House for national paper

Mitochondrial Dna Suggests A Western Eurasian Origin For Ancient (Proto-) Bulgarians, D V. Nesheva, S Karachanak-Yankova, M Lari, Y Yordanov, A Galabov, David Caramelli, Draga Toncheva

Human Biology Open Access Pre-Prints

Ancient (proto-) Bulgarians have long been thought to as a Turkic population. However, evidence found in the past three decades show that this is not the case. Until now, this evidence does not include ancient mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) analysis. In order to fill this void, we have collected human remains from the VIII-X century AD located in three necropolises in Bulgaria: Nojarevo (Silistra region) and Monastery of Mostich (Shumen region), both in Northeast Bulgaria and Tuhovishte (Satovcha region) in Southwest Bulgaria. The phylogenetic analysis of 13 ancient DNA samples (extracted from teeth) identified 12 independent haplotypes, which we further classified …

Climate Variability And Human Migration In The Netherlands, 1865-1937, Julia Jennings, Clark L. Gray

Anthropology Faculty Scholarship

Human migration is frequently cited as a potential social outcome of climate change and variability, and these effects are often assumed to be stronger in the past when economies were less developed and markets more localized. Yet, few studies have used historical data to test the relationship between climate and migration directly. In addition, the results of recent studies that link demographic and climate data are not consistent with conventional narratives of displacement responses. Using longitudinal individual-level demographic data from the Historical Sample of the Netherlands (HSN) and climate data that cover the same period, we examine the effects of …

Death In Life: Approaches To The Contemporary Denial Of Death In Theoretical & Experimental Psychology And Continental Philosophy, Madeline R. Runstrom

College of Liberal Arts & Social Sciences Theses and Dissertations

Using an interdisciplinary approach, this thesis explores the theme of death in life. This thesis particularly examines the work of Phillipe Ariès, Ernest Becker, Terror Management theorists (TMT), Martin Heidegger, and Friedrich Nietzsche. These thinkers are united in their diagnosis of a severe and unhealthy contemporary denial of death. Death has never been repressed as thoroughly as it is in the current era in western culture, to the point that the exclusion of death may well be the characteristic that centrally distinguishes, and threatens the welfare of, our age. However, as I show in Chapter One, in a number of …

Spring 2015

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Notes from the interim dean; French and accounting add up to fulfilling career; DePaul, Rush University launch the Center for Community Health Equity; Center for Latino Research celebrates three decades of accomplishments; Digital academic journals yield direct connections with readers; Faculty collaboration enhances the student experience; Faculty publications; Map of the month demonstrates modern geography; In brief; Graduate Research Funding supports fledgling scholars

Scholarworks Statistics - March 2015, Scholarworks

ScholarWorks Reports

For the month of March 2015, ScholarWorks recorded a total of 33,127 full-text downloads and 13,656 page views.

Evaluation Of Desiccated And Deformed Diaspores From Natural Building Materials, Tamas Henn, Robert Pal

Biological Sciences

With the increasing sophistication of paleoethnobotanical methods, it is now possible to reconstruct new aspects of the day-to-day life of past peoples, and, ultimately, gain information about their cultivated plants, land-use practices, architecture, diet, and trade. Reliable identification of plant remains, however, remains essential to the study of paleoethno-botany, and there is still much to learn about precise identification. This paper describes and evaluates the most frequent types of deformed desiccated diaspores revealed from adobe bricks used in buildings in Southwestern Hungary that were built primarily between 1850 and 1950. A total of 24,634 diaspores were recovered from 333.05 kg …

Phase I Archaeological Survey Of The Lawrence University Banta Bowl, Outagamie County, City Of Appleton, Wisconsin, Peter N. Peregrine

Archaeological Reports

No abstract provided.

The Educational Situation In Utopia: Why What Is, Is, Jayson O. Seaman, John Quay

Kinesiology

In this response to Molly Ware’s review of our 2013 book, John Dewey and Education Outdoors, we extend her suggestion that complexity be regarded as an important, generative force in education reform. Drawing on Dewey’s 1933 Utopian Schools speech, we discuss the “level deeper” that Dewey sought as he criticized the method/subject mater dichotomy, which he saw as an artifact of social class carried forward in the form of a curricular debate rather than a natural source of tension that would be productive to democratic education. Dewey radically argued that learning itself contained similar anti-democratic potential. Eschewing the false child …

Monastic Missional Pilgrim Communities In Liquid Modern Spain, Garrick C. Roegner

Doctor of Ministry

This dissertation answers the question of how to start spiritual movements amongst young adults and university students in Spain. It begins by examining the current cultural context of present day Spain, exploring why Christianity is in decline. In the Introduction it argues for understanding Spain as being characteristic of Bauman’s liquid modernity. Here the dissertation adopts Bauman’s typologies of liquid modern society being populated by tourists and vagabonds, constantly on the move, but without destination. Chapter One discusses the need for community as the base structure for mission and the importance of missional theology (missio Dei) before suggesting missional communities …

The Paneled Lives Of Extraordinary Women: Comic Books, Superheroines, And American Women In The 1940s, Kelly Van Wyk

Honors Student Works

When scholars examine a society in search of the principles that it holds most dear, popular culture promises an attractive and engaging medium where one can search for answers. Intellectual disciplines such as art history, film studies, and literature demonstrate a constructive merging of critical thinking and entertainment media, whereas other art forms are being mapped out as academic disciplines for the first time. Comic studies, is one of these outcast art forms. Due to comics’ unserious nature and association with juvenile literature, the medium is only recently being molded into a coherent academic field, though comics have had a …

Exploring The Epistemology Of Illicit Drugs, Holly Linseman

Spectrum

In this essay I explore the epistemology of drugs in America. That is, how Americans come to know and define drugs and their users; and, in turn, how those definitions manifest in social institutions. I argue that at the present moment, the cultural environment surrounding the ways in which Americans define and experience drug use— whether it is deemed as acceptable usage or a threat—is determined by three main institutions. The first and most predominant is the criminal justice system, which operates according to a regime of “narcopolitics.”

Twins In Mesoamerica As A Symbol Of Contrasting Duality, Benjamin Rideout

Spectrum

In cultures across the Mesoamerican subcontinent, there are examples in the archaeological and ethnographic record of myths concerned with twins and sibling pairs (Minneci, 1999). Twins in particular are seen as potent mythic pairs; however, both twins and other pairs of siblings are utilized in iconography and mythology to represent connected opposites. The idea of contrasting duality, where the two halves of each pairing are independent and yet connected to one another, is vital to the Mesoamerican way of thinking. Cultures such as the Maya and the Aztec used spouses and siblings, twins in particular, to embody contrasting counterparts of …

Book Review: Fadiman, Anne. 1997. "The Spirit Catches You And You Fall Down: A Hmong Child, Her American Doctors, And The Collision Of Two Cultures." New York: Macmillan, James Naas

Spectrum

No abstract provided.

Mind The Gap: The Relevance Of Contextualization For The Training Course Fresh X-Der Kurs By Kirche2, Sandra Bils

Doctor of Ministry

In Germany, the Evangelisch-Lutherische Landeskirche Hannovers and the Roman Catholic diocese of Hildesheim are partnering in the ecumenical network. Searching for an appropriate endeavor, which supports the emergence and Kirche2 sustainment for new forms of being church, they were encouraged by the fresh expressions movement in the UK and their training model, mission-shaped ministry. The use of this foreign material in Germany needs adaptation. Hence, this dissertation enfolds the relevance of contextualization and seeks to reflect the adaptation process, following the main research question: How can the Fresh-X course by Kirche2 adapt the foreign material for the context in Germany …

Liminal Spaces: A Narrative Spirituality Of The Bible, Thomas J. Rundel

Doctor of Ministry

Liminal space is a place in-between what was and what will be. It is crucial for ongoing Christian formation. However, the Evangelical Church currently has no space for supporting those in liminality. Evangelical theology and practice actively discourage those in liminal space. As a result, Christian maturity is frustrated. Future leaders and contemplatives are endangered. This dissertation explores how the Evangelical Church could acknowledge, support, and educate those in liminal spaces.

The Bible repeats three liminal themes which create a paradigm of ongoing Christian formation. The themes are desert/wilderness, pit/grave, and exile/pilgrimage. The desert/wilderness is a liminal space, the grave/pit …

Diversification And Adaptive Capacity Across Scales In An Emerging Post-Frontier Landscape Of The Usumacinta Valley, Chiapas, Mexico, Zachary Christman, H. Pearsall, B. Schmook, S. Madero

School of Earth & Environment Departmental Research

This study investigates impacts and implications of recent landscape change in rural Mexico, through a case study in the Usumacinta Valley of eastern Chiapas. It addresses types of livelihood diversification strategies associated with changing land cover from 1984–2013, and the processes and roles that vary by actors and their scales of influence. After widespread forest loss and the expansion of extensive cattle ranching during the twentieth century, the region has exhibited several new economic and livelihood strategies in recent decades. Results from a combination of satellite imagery analysis and individual interviews from a wide range of land use decision makers …

Discovery, March 2015, Office Of Vice President For Research

Research and Discovery News

• Discovery Success Recognized
• President and Provost Host Celebration Luncheon for Special Group
• Excellence in Discovery Event Photos
• Discovery Workshops for March and April
• Save the Date: April 24 Is 9th Annual Poster Day
• SFSA Winners; Twitter; and F&A Recovery

"Town Of God": Ota Benga, The Batetela Boys, And The Promise Of Black America, Karen Sotiropoulos

History Faculty Publications

No abstract provided.

2015 "Girl Rising" Film Screening, Csrw

CSRW Events

No abstract provided.

The Experiences Of Undocumented College Students Through Critical Evocative Portraiture, Erica García

Electronic Theses and Dissertations

This qualitative study explored the college experiences of five undocumented students. Using data from three in-depth interviews, the study sought to offer insights to educational leaders on the in- and out-of-class validating experiences that influenced a group of undocumented students to persist in their pursuit of a bachelor’s degree. Rendón’s (1994) theory of student validation provided the framework for the study. The qualitative method of critical evocative portraiture (Lyman, Lazaridou, & Strachan, 2013) was used to collect, analyze and present the data. Congruent with the methodology, the researcher constructed a critical evocative portrait of each of the participants. The portraits …

Exploiting Economic Potential For Goat Production: A Case For Missouri And Arkansas, Benjamin M. Onyango, Kelsey F. Cole, Elizabeth L. Walker, Catherine Hoegeman, Charlotte Clifford-Rathert

College of Agriculture

Goat production, is one of the fastest growing agricultural production systems in the U.S. This growth has created opportunities for producers, especially the small-scale farmers looking for a profitable alternative enterprise to integrate into their existing production systems, particularly in Missouri and Arkansas. Although the U.S. is not one of the primary producers of goat meat or goat products, it still stands to gain from exploring opportunities of this growing industry.

Imagining A Future In Prek: How Professional Identity Shapes Notions Of Early Mathematics, Elizabeth Graue, Anne E. Karabon, Katherine Kresin Delaney, Kristin Whyte, Jiwon Kim, Anita Wager

Teacher Education Faculty Publications

This article describes how early childhood teachers engaged in a public preK professional development program. We examine how developing teacher identities mediated engagement with the discourses of developmentally appropriate practice, early mathematics, and funds of knowledge and how they connected present practice to an imagined future. We found that helping them to connect practice experience and new mathematical content knowledge through play allowed them to envision a meaningful place for math with young children.

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DePaul Magazine

News stories: DePaul Receives Generous Gift of First-Issued Diploma; A Fond Farewell for Retiring Deans Donald Casey and Charles Suchar; In Memoriam: Connie Curran (1946-2014); Graduates Renew Connections at Reunion Weekend 2014; DePaul Women's Soccer Celebrates a Dream Season; Men's Basketball Charges to Unprecedented BIG EAST Start; Awarding Groups Recognize Women's Basketball Star Brittany Hrynko; Blue Demon Softball Looking to Repeat as Dual Champion; Wustling, Robinson Highlight Men's Soccer Season; Gallop Earns Volleyball Distinction; Current Issues in Latino America Forum Welcomes Author Alfredo Corchado; Professor Speaks at National Forum on Diversity in STEM Fields