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The Shifting Politics Of Patient Activism: From Bio-Sociality To Bio-Digital Citizenship, Alison Anderson, Alan Petersen, Allegra Clare Schermuly

School of Law, Humanities and Social Sciences

Digital media provide novel tools for patient activists from disease- and condition-specific communities. While those with debilitating conditions or disabilities have long recognised the value of collective action for advancing their interests, digital media offers activists unparalleled opportunities to fulfil their goals. This article explores the shifting politics of ‘activism’ in the increasingly digitally mediated, commercialised context of healthcare, asking: what role have digital media played in the repertoire of activists’ strategies? And, to what extent and how has the use of such media impacted the very concept of activism? Building on sociological ideas on emergent forms of ‘biological citizenship’ …

Kids Killing Kids: A Look Into Mental Illness, Adolescence, And Mass Murder, Levi Cragun

Fall Student Research Symposium 2018

Violence in America has been on a decline since the 1990’s. Active shooters have seemed to be on the rise and ever present in the media (See Figure 1).

Society searches for the cause of these acts of violence. Typical answers to violence may not be sufficient to answering for violence on this scale. One hypothesis is mental illness.

Mental illness is not normally linked to violent behavior (Stuart, 2003). However, with differences in brain development and lack of literature, mentally ill adolescents may be an exception.

With this in mind, researchers ask the following questions; Are rates of mental …

Internet Use And The Transgender Experience: Does Social Media Have A Positive Effect On The Lives Of Transgender, Nonbinary, And Gender-Nonconforming People?, Llewynn Roberts

Fall Student Research Symposium 2018

How does social media, along with other internet sites, effect the lives of transgender people?

Curriculum Subcommittee Minutes, December 6, 2018, Utah State University

Educational Policies Committee

Program Proposals

• Adding an Associate of Science Degree in Veterinary Technology
• Offering a Certificate of Completion in Ranch Horse Science at the Blanding Regional Campus
• Changing the name from Master of Science International Food and Agribusiness to MS Agribusiness
• Offering a BA/BS Degree in Business Administration with Emphases
• Renaming the BA/BS Degree in Business Administration to Management
• Adding a Social Media Emphasis
• Changing the department name from Geology to Earth Sciences

Semester Course Approval Reviews

Other

• Zero Credit Course Discussion
• Changing January’s meeting date
• Future Discussion Items
• Introduction of the new catalog editor

Educational Policies Committee Minutes, December 6, 2018, Utah State University

Educational Policies Committee

• Curriculum Subcommittee report
• Academic Standards Subcommittee report
• General Education Subcommittee report
• Zero Credit Course Discussion

Curriculum Subcommittee Agenda, December 6, 2018, Utah State University

Educational Policies Committee

Program Proposals

• Adding an Associate of Science Degree in Veterinary Technology
• Offering a Certificate of Completion in Ranch Horse Science at the Blanding Regional Campus
• Changing the name from Master of Science International Food and Agribusiness to MS Agribusiness
• Offering a BA/BS Degree in Business Administration with Emphases
• Renaming the BA/BS Degree in Business Administration to Management
• Adding a Social Media Emphasis
• Changing the department name from Geology to Earth Sciences

Semester Course Approval Reviews

Other

• Zero Credit Course Discussion
• Changing January’s meeting date
• Future Discussion Items

Educational Policies Committee Agenda, December 6, 2018, Utah State University

Educational Policies Committee

• Curriculum Subcommittee
• Academic Standards Subcommittee
• General Education Subcommittee
• Zero Credit Course Discussion

December 6, 2018, Caa

Minutes

No abstract provided.

Greenwell, Doris (Fa 1237), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

Folklife Archives Finding Aids

Finding aid only for Folklife Archives Project 1237. Student paper titled “The One-Room Schoolhouse in America’s Past” in which Doris Greenwell details the significance of two schoolhouses in New Haven, Kentucky. Greenwell gathered information from two teachers, both of whom taught in one-room schools for an extended period of time. The author describes each schoolhouse as well as common characteristics of how the schools operated on a daily basis. The paper includes pictures of the Hagan School and the former New Haven School.

Mckinley, Sue (Fa 1236), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

Folklife Archives Finding Aids

Finding aid only for Folklife Archives Project 1236. Student paper titled “The Early Schools of Taylor County” in which Sue McKinley charts the rise and fall of traditional one-room school houses throughout Taylor County, Kentucky. McKinley examines the lasting influence the schoolhouses had on the community, as well as factors that contributed to the success of educational programs throughout the county. The author also describes the structure of a typical school day, the consolidation of rural schools and districts, and the importance of properly trained teachers. The paper includes black and white photographs of multiple one-room schoolhouses with a brief …

Negotiating The Personal And Professional: Ethnomusicologists And Uncomfortable Truths, Rebecca S. Miller, Svanibor Pettan, Anne K. Rasmussen, Margaret Sarkissian

Music: Faculty Publications

The panel, “Negotiating the Personal and Professional: Ethnomusicologists and Uncomfortable Truths,” presented at the Forty-third ICTM World Conference in Astana, Kazakhstan, grew out of informal conversations common among ethnomusicologists. As practitioners in our discipline, we are involved in complex webs of experience, relationships, and representations focused around music, broadly defined. Our work is inherently social and, when in the field, we develop close relationships with our teachers and consultants as we become comfortable in our sites of research. We are grateful for priceless access to communities and individuals. The intensity and combination of certain relationships and circumstances, however, can lead …

Academic Freedom, University Of Mississippi. Faculty Senate

Resolutions

A resolution reaffirming the necessity of academic freedom and calling for the university to ensure support of academic freedom.

Faculty Assembly Powerpoint Presentation 12-5-18, Salve Regina University

Faculty Assembly Documents

FA PPT 12-5-18.pptx

Senate Meeting, December 5, 2018, Academic Senate

Academic Senate Minutes

No abstract provided.

December 5, 2018 Faculty Senate Minutes, University Of South Carolina

Faculty Senate

No abstract provided.

Cheak, Bob (Fa 1232), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

Folklife Archives Finding Aids

Finding aid only for Folklife Archives Project 1232. Student paper titled “Dream Interpretations” in which Bob Cheak provides the symbolic meaning of common motifs found in dreams. Cheak collected several interpretations from family and friends. Motifs are listed alphabetically until page 75.

Graham, Jimmie, Et Al. (Fa 1235), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

Folklife Archives Finding Aids

Finding aid only for Folklife Archives Project 1235. Student paper title “Folk Beliefs” in which Jimmie Graham and several other students gathered popular folk rhymes, poems, phrases, and epigrams/autographs (personal entries in autograph books or yearbooks). Paper includes list of both interviewers and participants.

Moore, Jan (Fa 1234), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

Folklife Archives Finding Aids

Finding aid only for Folklife Archives Project 1234. Student paper titled “Folk Architecture” in which Jan More examines the architecture styles of structures in Bartholomew County, Indiana. The paper includes black and white photographs of houses, barns, spring houses, churches, court houses, and Brown County State Park. Each photograph includes a brief handwritten description. The paper also includes a 1960 map of Bartholomew County.

Yellow Fever: Asian Representation In Western Pornography, Chye Shoong Chin

Student Scholar Symposium Abstracts and Posters

This research project seeks to explore the various implications porn films make on Asians Orientalism. Generally, Asians in pornography are composed of multiple negative archetypes, all based on the underlining purpose of servitude. Characters are portrayed through stereotypes including the use of colonial language to misrepresent Asian men and women in both straight and gay porn videos. Referred to as Orientalism, this ideology exploits Asian characters to privilege the White, male viewer. My research project investigates the following question: How are Asians represented in gay and straight pornographic films and pornographic scenes?

I will be applying scholarly arguments to various …

High Expectations And Teacher Implicit Biases In A Culture Of Care, Jacqueline K. Haynes

USF Tampa Graduate Theses and Dissertations

This graduate project was part of a group project completed by five school and district administrators in Hillsborough County, Florida. The project began because of our passion for teachers who are able to establish a culture of care in their classrooms that support students academically but transform their learning through experiences that enable them to be more highly engaged and productive students, regardless of ethnicity, socioeconomic status, perceived academic abilities, and backgrounds.

My project component looked at research on teacher expectations and their effects on student success. Why does the color of a child's skin tone trigger lower expectations by …

Using Deep Learning To Forecast Spatiotemporal Crime Patterns, Shuzhan Fan

LSU Doctoral Dissertations

The distributional patterns of crime occurrences are closely related to their spatial, temporal, and environmental contexts. It has been a hot topic for researchers and crime analysts to discover such complex relationships in order to forecast crime, both spatially and temporally. Many factors play a role in the occurrences of crimes. Conventional crime forecasting research has primarily relied on historical crime records and socioeconomic data, while ignoring the rich social media and other environmental context data. The large volume of data requires a more appropriate forecasting framework with the ability to take in massive multimodal data and possibly achieve better …

Intergenerational Narratives: The Personal Is Professional, Jodi Kushins, Amy B. Snider

International Journal of Lifelong Learning in Art Education

What began as a teacher-student relationship between educators Amy Brook Snider and Jodi Kushins has developed into a friendship and working partnership. At first, they did not consider their continuing long-distance connection as intergenerational. They shared experiences and exchanged ideas oblivious to the great difference in their ages. But as online tools, research, and communication emerged as a central focus of Jodi’s life and teaching, they became aware that this development might lead to an intergenerational digital divide between them. In order to explore their different responses to what has been called screen culture, they brought back their puppet alter …

The Great Divide: What Dr. Moreau Tells Us About Posthumanism And The Anthropocene, Cynthia Rosenfeld

Kaleidoscope: A Graduate Journal of Qualitative Communication Research

This critique of three films of The Island of Dr. Moreau, a classic story that keeps resurfacing in popular culture, aims to shed light on the geologic era in which we live, the Anthropocene. What do these films reveal about the Western conceptualization of the differences between “human” and “animal,” and what does this conceptualization reveal about the Anthropocene? The post-human analysis primarily employs concepts from Lacan, Derrida, and Eagleton, and includes a detailed look at the role of language. Dr. Moreau’s conceit of human uniqueness (and superiority) fosters the kind of thinking that allows humanity to ignore the …

Sets And Sensibilities: The Excavation Of Ideology In Upstate New York, Christopher P. Barton, Kyle Somerville

Northeast Historical Archaeology

A growing literature on the archaeology of farmsteads and rural domestic sites has examined commodity consumption as the means by which rural families created and maintained social networks and identities. During the nineteenth century, rural areas were increasingly influenced by the practices and values of the urban middle classes, although not every farmstead would, or could, participate in the same way. This paper examines a matching teacup and saucer recovered from the Spring House, a former commercial farmstead and hotel located southeastern Monroe County, Western New York State. The tea set is decorated with transfer print depictions of Faith, Hope, …

Philadelphia Queensware At The Mckean/Cochran Site, Appoquinimink, Delaware, Meta F. Janowitz Dr., Christy R. Morganstein

Northeast Historical Archaeology

No abstract provided.

The Westward Expansion Of Domestic Queensware: The Red Rose Transit Site, Lancaster, Pennsylvania., George D. Cress, Rebecca L. White, Ingrid A. Wuebber

Northeast Historical Archaeology

Archaeological excavations undertaken by URS/AECOM at the Red Rose Transit Site from 2008 through 2010 revealed late 18^th and early 19^th century A horizon/yard deposits, a stone-lined well, a redware kiln and evidence of brass manufacturing in the south half of Lot 104. These deposits and features located beneath 19^th century train shed tracks at the corner of Chestnut and Queen Streets produced a small quantity of domestic queensware. Lancaster was the gateway to the west in the 18^th and early 19^th century for the shipment of goods. The existence of domestic queensware at the …

“A Bright Pattern Of Domestic Virtue And Economy”: Philadelphia Queensware At The Smith-Maskell Site (28ca124), Camden, New Jersey, Thomas J. Kutys, George D. Cress, Rebecca L. White, Ingrid A. Wuebber

Northeast Historical Archaeology

Excavations at the Smith-Maskell Site (28CA124) in the Spring of 2011 by URS Corporation revealed a number of early 19th-century features behind what was once 318 Cooper Street in Camden, New Jersey. These features produced significant quantities of Federal period tea and tablewares, including a number of Philadelphia Queensware vessels. During this period Camden was beginning its transition from a scattering of sparsely populated villages to a city of summer residences and country retreats for Philadelphia’s well-to-do middle class. The likely owners of the Philadelphia Queensware found at the Smith-Maskell Site were among this prosperous middle class, and thus the …

Domestic Queensware In Kensington-Fishtown: Excavating Philadelphia's Waterfront Neighborhoods, George D. Cress, Thomas J. Kutys, Rebecca L. White, Meta F. Janowitz, Samuel A. Pickard

Northeast Historical Archaeology

Ongoing archaeological excavation undertaken by URS/AECOM along the I-95 corridor in Kensington-Fishtown in Philadelphia have brought to light 18^th and 19^th century domestic and industrial life along a three-mile section of the Delaware River waterfront. Excavation has revealed over 400 shaft features, yard deposits, and industrial foundations yielding over one million artifacts from a three mile section of the Delaware River waterfront. A small quantity of domestic queensware has been recovered from barrel and wood-lined box privies and from an early 19^th century drain feature. The recovery of domestic queensware in Kensington-Fishtown has revealed that this ware …

“Equal In Quality And Workmanship To The Best Made In Staffordshire”: Philadelphia Queensware Pottery In The Early 19th Century And How To Distinguish It From Yellow Ware, Kimberly M. Sebestyen

Northeast Historical Archaeology

World events preceding and including the War of 1812 led to American embargoes on imported British goods including popular Staffordshire earthenware ceramics, such as creamware. Philadelphia potters created domestic versions of these ceramics which have previously been misidentified. This will serve as a review of the characteristics of a Philadelphia-produced ceramic often identified as yellowware, but sold as Queensware by these potters. Review of pottery from several archaeological sites in and near Philadelphia provided a number of Queensware vessels for analysis. A comparison of these vessels provides a set of characteristics to aid in identification of additional examples of this …

Philadelphia Queensware From The National Constitution Center Site At Independence National Park, Deborah L. Miller

Northeast Historical Archaeology

No abstract provided.