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Physics Academic Program Review, 2014, College Of Science And Mathematics, Wright State University

Academic Program Review Reports - All

This 15 page report reviews Wright State University's Physics programs, specifically looking at the time from Fall 2009 to Fall 2014.

Evoking History Through Sound: A Soundscape Concept For Ghosts Of The Horseshoe, Connor Patrick Bain

Senior Theses

Sound has always been treated as a second citizen in our society. Our society places so much emphasis on the visual that hearing, a sense that we cannot ever shut out from our minds, is taken for granted. This thesis argues that you can never ignore sound and proposes a design cycle for creating a soundscape for a critical interactive, then implementing that cycle for "Ghosts of the Horseshoe."

May 5, 2015 Finance & Facilities (F&F) Committee Meeting, Evp For Administration

Finance and Facilities Committee

Documents related to the May 5, 2015 Board of Regents' Finance and Facilities Committee Meeting. (Agenda, Minutes, eBook, Notice)

The Next Time The World Is Going Downhill: America And The 1983 Ethiopian Famine, Bethany Sharpe

disClosure: A Journal of Social Theory

In 1983, a massive famine struck Ethiopia. Bred by a complex array of factors, thousands of men, women, and children experienced the painful effects of this humanitarian disaster as bodies weakened and widespread death took place. Throughout the famine, an unlikely partnership took place between the Communist leader Chairman Mengistu Haile Mariam and the staunchly anti-Communist White House.[1] The partnership allowed each nation to pursue strategic foreign policy goals; the United States sought to undermine the socialist PMGSE through humanitarian aid while Mengistu attempted to salvage his government’s international reputation. Soon, global attention swirled around the issue and unlikely …

Acquanetta Warren, Wilmer Amina Carter Foundation

Bridges Digital Archive: Audio and Video Recordings

Acquanetta Warren discusses how she first became involved in local politics, in her struggles with the Compton School Board, how the 1992 Rodney King Uprising drove her to move to Fontana, her involvement in Fontana local politics, and her ultimate path to becoming Mayor of Fontana.

The Harikari Club: German Prisoners Of War And The Mass Escape Scare Of 1944-45 At Internment Camp Grande Ligne, Quebec, Martin Auger

Canadian Military History

No abstract provided.

Words Of Valediction And Remembrance: The Beny-Sur-Mer Canadian War Cemetery, Normandy, France, Eric Mcgeer

Canadian Military History

No abstract provided.

A Most Irrevocable Step: Canadian Paratroopers On D-Day, The First 24 Hours, 5-6 June 1944, Bernd Horn, Michel Wyczynski

Canadian Military History

No abstract provided.

The Rcaf And The Creation Of An Rcn Air Arm: A Study Of The Command And Control Of Maritime Air Assets, Richard Goette

Canadian Military History

No abstract provided.

In The News: Posted May 4, 2015, Michael Duricy

Marian Library Blog Archive

Read recent items about Mary in both Catholic and secular news, as International Marian Research Institute news and updates.

Getting On The Agenda: The Influence Of Local Civil Society Organizations During Pre-Negotiation, David R. Andersen-Rodgers

Journal of Global Initiatives: Policy, Pedagogy, Perspective

This article examines the types of strategies that different local civil society organizations use to get their issues addressed during a peace negotiation. Previous research has shown that the inclusion of civil society groups in a negotiation improves the likelihood for a durable peace. This paper argues that during conflict civil society organizations make a number of strategic choices that then affect their ability to get their societal interests placed on the agenda. These strategies are partially dictated by when and why the civil society group organized, the levels and types of advocacy that they choose to engage in during …

Analyzing Reproductive Policy: Patriarchal Legitimization And Women In Latin America, Shannon C. Magni

Honors Scholar Theses

This paper examines the way in which gendered violence is carried out as a way for the formal state and the Catholic Church to negotiate power. While examples of a much larger trend, three Latin American countries are discussed in detail. The first case occurred in Nicaragua, where a 9-year-old victim of rape was denied an abortion by both the state and the Church. The second case examined is the use of rape as a torture tactic by the military junta in Argentina during the Dirty War from 1976 to 1983. The final case examined is that of the forced …

Enhancing Student Engagement And Learning In The Chemical Engineering Laboratory Through Contextually Relevant Experiments & Novel Pedagogies, Daniel Anastasio

Doctoral Dissertations

This dissertation describes the implementation of several new experiments in the chemical engineering teaching laboratory at the University of Connecticut that were developed to showcase chemical engineering fundamentals in a context that more completely reflects modern chemical engineering. Several experiments themed around membrane desalination were developed to highlight the interplay between fluid mechanics and mass transport in these processes. A third membrane-based experiment shows how salinity gradients can be used to generate power, linking concepts relevant to process thermodynamics and efficiency. Another experiment uses a 3D printer to teach students design considerations for laminar flow reactors, drawing on theory relevant …

"Writing On The Soil": Literature's Influence On African Land Rights, Ng’Ang’A Muchiri

Open Access Dissertations

My research underscores complex interactions between African artistic production, nationalism, gender inequality, and land rights. I deploy East Africa’s literary oeuvre—including novels, short stories and a Swahili play—to explore mutually informing social and artistic contexts that inspire phenomena as diverse as administrative land policies and utopian reformist schemes. I read transnational fiction against colonial photography and political manifestos, to address the “cross-pollination” of ideas and discourses. “Writing on the Soil” argues that postcolonial theory needs re-orienting towards materialist criticism and political conversations regarding resource inequality as suggested by texts that reflect on the material structures of neo/colonial domination in Africa. …

“Seize The Time:” The Role Of Political Development In Building A Formerly Imprisoned Black Intellectual’S Subjectivity And Praxis, Sophia Hansen-Day

Tapestries: Interwoven voices of local and global identities

This article is featured in the journal Tapestries: Interwoven voices of local and global identities, volume 4.

Might For Right: Martial Arts As A Way To Understand The Black Panthers, Richard S. Raya

Tapestries: Interwoven voices of local and global identities

This article is featured in the journal Tapestries: Interwoven voices of local and global identities, volume 4.

"Ours To Displace, Ours To Protect": The Borderlands Of American Indian Histories, Whiteness, And The Wilderness Ideal, Victoria A. Lewis

Tapestries: Interwoven voices of local and global identities

'"Ours to Displace, Ours to Protect": The Borderlands of American Indian Histories, Whiteness, and the Wilderness Ideal' is featured in the journal Tapestries: Interwoven voices of local and global identities, volume 4.

Shakespeare Disenchanted: From Chivalric Court To Elizabeth's And James I'S Courts, David George

Selected Papers of the Ohio Valley Shakespeare Conference

No abstract provided.

Role Of The Church In Fighting Hiv-Aids Stigmatization Among Women In Kenya, Christine Adhiambo Ouko

Master of Art Theology Thesis

Ouko, Christine Adhiambo. “Role of the Church in Fighting HIV-AIDS Stigmatization among Women in Kenya.” MA thesis, Concordia Seminary, 2015, 116 pp.

Practical Theology, a discipline under which this thesis is based, is the application of God’s word in real life problems. HIV/AIDS stigmatization is a persistent and pernicious problem to any effective response to the pandemic. It is, therefore, a perennial danger confronting the church. The peril is acute when women and children struggle in alienation and despair in familial, social, and religious places believed to be lifesaving stations. Apparently, it is not easy to bear the burden of …

War, Kyle Pritz

Akadimia Filosofia

This paper is an effective meditation on the morality and justification of war. Moreover, this paper explores the ways in which war is a pointless concept, an endeavor that can never be justified and is certainly not brought on by the everyday person. Rather, war is an exercise of power that only benefits the rich elite and the powerful authority figures of the world. We must strive to reveal the underlying truth in our social reactions, that we always have the power to find peace and resolve differences. Only then can we finally move beyond war.

2015 May 9-10

Commencement Programs

No abstract provided.

Ian Worthington, By The Spear: Philip Ii, Alexander The Great, And The Rise And Fall Of The Macedonian Empire. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2014. Pp. 416. Cloth (Isbn 978-0-19-992986-3) $34.95., Paul Keen

New England Classical Journal

No abstract provided.

A Soldier In The Dark: Navigating Gaul Through The Eyes Of Caesar And His Men, Thomas Christian Mcmahon

World Languages, Literatures and Cultures Undergraduate Honors Theses

An investigation into the veracity of Caesar's account of the Battle of Alesia as told in Commentarii de Bello Gallico.

Hayek Deserves A New Paradigm, Not Old Ideological Categories: Response To Searles, David S. Wilson, Robert Kadar, Steve Roth

Biological Sciences Faculty Scholarship

Like Harrison Searles, we’re confident that modern evolutionary science provides a useful toolkit for economics and public policy. Some progress has been made advancing a new paradigm. Searles rightfully calls attention to the pioneering work of Friedrich Hayek. We are in a much better position to approach these topics now than during Hayek’s time. We think that modern multilevel selection theory and complexity theory lead to conclusions different than those that Searles and others draw from Hayek’s work. But we suggest dropping terms such as “evolutionary left” as a first step toward acknowledging that new paradigms cannot be shoehorned into …

Swords Into Stethoscopes: How The U.S. Military Could Conduct Medical Diplomacy, Oliver Kendall

Political Science Honors Projects

Since the early 1960’s, Cuba and China have won international appreciation by sending doctors abroad to help where they are needed. While there was surprise in some quarters when U.S. military personnel were deployed to combat Ebola in the last months of 2014, the Department of Defense actually has a long history of medical activity. In its current form, DoD medical outreach cannot likely garner soft power in the way that the Chinese and Cuban programs can, but with a few modifications, the U.S. military could be a serious conductor of medical diplomacy that would save countless lives and benefit …

The Soldier And The Cigarette: 1918-1986, Joel Richard Bius

Dissertations

The military-industrial complex has been the topic of intense conversation among historians since President Dwight Eisenhower first gave the phrase life in January 1961. The term typically conjures up images of massive weapons procurement programs, but it also ironically involved one of the world’s most highly-engineered consumer products, the manufactured cigarette. “The Soldier and the Cigarette: 1918–1986” describes the unique, often comfortable, yet sometimes controversial relationships among the military, the cigarette industry, and tobaccoland politicians. The dissertation argues that the federal government’s first cigarette warning in 1964 changed a relationship between soldiers and cigarettes that the Army had fostered for …

Situating Urban Moving Images: Illuminating Place, Annie Dell'aria

Graduate Student Publications and Research

No abstract provided.

“Cahokia And The Trans-Appalachian West In The American Revolution”, Andrew Cooperman

The Confluence (2009-2020)

The Battle of Fort San Carlos in 1780 was of great importance in the Revolutionary War. Andrew Cooperman argues that a force of Americans and Illinois French Creoles foiled British plans to sweep through the Mississippi Valley

Disciplines Of Memory, Zones Of Life: Archival Bodies In Biopolitical Times, Rachel Ann Walsh

Stony Brook Theses and Dissertations Collection, 2006-2020 (closed to submissions)

Working at the sometimes embattled intersections of critical race theory, biopolitics, and trauma and memory studies, my dissertation examines the relationship between the narratives of historical traumas and the biopolitical zoning of life in twentieth-century literature and post-9/11 film. My use of the term “zone†alludes to Roberto Esposito’s imagining of biopower’s optimization of life as an immunitarian enclosure, or the privatization of life and its sustaining resources, and its consequent foreclosure of the ethical obligations of communitas. Foregrounding the geographical, temporal, and affective meanings of “zone†and “zoning†each chapter examines zones that are relegated to the peripheral “elsewheres†…

The Implications Of Self-Driving Cars On Insurance, Amanda Lobello

Honors Projects in Mathematics

Self-driving cars, also known as autonomous vehicles, are being researched and tested by automakers, technology industry leaders, and other institutions. Lawmakers and politicians are discussing the legislation that will affect the fate of such technology. Primary benefits include safety, mobility, free time, less traffic, and green effects. However, there are also obstacles to the implementation of self-driving vehicles including consumer acceptance, legal liability, and cost. With the potential shift in responsibility from driver to automaker, rating factors for insurance may change, weighing more heavily on the model of the car as a factor. The fate of auto insurance is in …