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College Faculty In The News: April 23, 2021, University Of Dayton

College of Arts and Sciences Newsroom

News agencies across the region, the nation and throughout the world often reach out to our faculty experts for their perspectives on today's issues. This media coverage highlights the service, research and scholarship taking place in the College of Arts and Sciences. Find links to a number of recent stories below.

Hawks' Herald -- Apr. 22 , 2021, Roger Williams University

Hawk's Herald

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Earth Law And The Rights Of Nature A New Generation Of Laws Built For Nature, Lindsey Kayman, Paul Bartlett, Milena Popov, Grant Wilson

Open Educational Resources

Earth Law and the Rights of Nature: A New Generation of Laws Built for Nature

Wilson, Grant, Kayman, Lindsey, Bartlett, Paul, and Milena Popov John Jay College of Criminal Justice, Earth Law Center, Environmental Education Fund

Forget doom and gloom. Let’s educate students about the Rights of Nature, an inspiring, evolving legal development which is gaining traction in the US and around the world, and which can promote the cultural shift needed to address our overlapping intersecting environmental crises — climate change, accelerating species extinction, and ecosystem collapse. The Rights of Nature is one aspect of Earth Law. Some of …

2021 Romero Human Rights Award Flyer: Aura Lolita Chávez Ixcaquic, University Of Dayton

Reports and Promotional Materials

The 2021 Romero Human Rights Award honors Aura Lolita Chávez Ixcaquic, an environmental justice advocate and human rights defender from Guatemala for her struggle to preserve indigenous land from corporate exploitation and activism for women's and indigenous rights.

The ceremony program included: a song and prayer in the spirit of St. Oscar Romero and a Mayan spiritual reflection and counting-of-time ritual; a reflection on the legacy of St. Oscar Romero by Mauricio López Oropez, former executive secretary of the Pan-Amazonian Ecclesial Network; a speech and award presentation by University President Eric Spina; an acceptance speech by the honoree, highlighting the …

Executive Committee - Agenda, 04/20/2021, Academic Senate Executive Committee

Academic Senate Agendas

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Dolls4peace Memorial: Liberatory Community Art Action And Praxis, Rochelle Royster

The Lender Center for Social Justice

Royster discusses the Dolls4Peace memorial as a form of liberatory community art and praxis, showing how creative expression fosters healing, resistance, and social justice in community contexts.

Electric Airplanes: Bridging The Technological And Regulatory Gap, Kyle Durch

Richmond Journal of Law & Technology

Business success depends on two overarching factors: (1) filling a market niche, and (2) doing it better than the competition. Just such a market gap exists in aviation. Fuel prices rise over time, and the maintenance costs for aging aircraft contribute to skyrocketing costs for training pilots. While shifting pilot training to simulators and allowing the use of alternative types of aircraft to satisfy training requirements addresses some of the cost of aviation, the basic truth remains that flying is expensive and involves burning a large amount of fossil fuel. However, battery breakthroughs usher in a new reality, one which …

Clean Water For All: Examining Safe Drinking Water Act Violations Of Water Systems And Community Characteristics, Junghwan Bae

USF Tampa Graduate Theses and Dissertations

Drinking water systems in the United States confront several challenges such as aging infrastructure, polluted source water, and fragmented systems. The burdens, however, are not equally distributed across the nation. Disadvantaged communities such as communities of color are disproportionately affected by drinking water-related problems.

This study focuses on drinking water quality violations and slow enforcement actions of Safe Drinking Water Act (SDWA) during 2016 to 2018. The EPA’s Safe Drinking Water Information System (SDWIS) was used to obtain violation records and characteristics of community water systems. The data set in this study contains 21,845 community water systems. Based on the …

Summit: The Uas Writing Center's Collection Of Exceptional Academic Works For 2020/2021, Rayne Billings, Olive Brend, Jessy Goodman, Celestina Cruz, Anastasia Erickson, Berni Hein, James Hoagland, Braden File, Alicia Steiner

Summit

We at the UAS Writing Center are once again pleased to announce the completion of the second edition of our undergraduate academic writing journal, Summit: The UAS Writing Center’s Collection of Exceptional Academic Works for 2020/2021. This year’s edition is dedicated to Allison Neeland, our past Specialist, for all her support and dedication to the Writing Center. We also extend a hearty congratulation to UAS senior Celestina Cruz for winning the 2020/2021 Ernestine Hayes Award for Excellence in Academic Writing. Also included in the journal are the works of five other student writers: Rayne Billings, Anastasia Erickson, Berni Hein, James …

Ud In The News April 10-16, University Of Dayton

News Releases

Local media covered UD's COVID-19 vaccination clinic for students. Faculty and staff discussed COVID-19 vaccines, job searches, infrastructure and police body cameras, among other topics.

Creation Care As Caring For Human Beings: An Environmental Justice Case Study, Jeffrey S. Lamp, Ph.D., Kathryn J. Moder, Megan R. Munhoffen, Cade A. Rich, Nathan B. Von Atzigen

Research Symposium

Caring for God’s creation is a burgeoning area of interest among Christians in recent decades. In many Christian circles, however, caring for creation is not given high priority in rankings of the duties of Christian disciples in the world. This article will argue that caring for creation is a biblically mandated call for God’s people in the world and derives from the role of human beings as caretakers of creation, creation’s status as a recipient of God’s salvation in Christ, and the connection between human beings and the other-than-human creation. If creation care is understood as an act of healing …

10 Arts & Sciences, 2 Htc Students Get Ohio Leadership Awards, Ohio University College Of Arts & Sciences

All Forum Articles

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Indices To Volumes 8 - 13, Journal Of Natural Resources & Environmental Law

Journal of Natural Resources & Environmental Law

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Brownfield Initiatives And Environmental Justice: Second-Class Cleanups Or Market-Based Equity?, Kirsten H. Engel

Journal of Natural Resources & Environmental Law

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Risk Assessment, Redevelopment, And Environmental Justice: Evaluating The Brownfields Bargain, John S. Applegate

Journal of Natural Resources & Environmental Law

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Learning From Brownfields, Wendy E. Wagner

Journal of Natural Resources & Environmental Law

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Table Of Contents For Volume 13, Issue 2, Journal Of Natural Resources & Environmental Law

Journal of Natural Resources & Environmental Law

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Indices To Volumes 8 - 12, Journal Of Natural Resources & Environmental Law

Journal of Natural Resources & Environmental Law

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How The Legal System Has Failed The Environmental Justice Movement, Karen Smith

Journal of Natural Resources & Environmental Law

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Basic Brownfields, Becky L. Jacobs

Journal of Natural Resources & Environmental Law

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Table Of Contents For Volume 12, Issue 2, Journal Of Natural Resources & Environmental Law

Journal of Natural Resources & Environmental Law

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Brownfield Legislation: A Viable Option For The Southeast, Leslie Goff-Sanders

Journal of Natural Resources & Environmental Law

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Defanging Environmental Law: Extracting Citizen Suit Provisions Under Seminole Tribe V. Florida, Jefferson D. Reynolds

Journal of Natural Resources & Environmental Law

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The Amungme And The Environment: Environmental Justice History And Consumerism, Kole A. Dawson

Phi Alpha Theta Pacific Northwest Regional Conference

The Amungme are one of hundreds of Papuan people groups who lived in the Indonesian province in New Guinea for thousands of years. This group subsisted in their environment by hunting, cultivation of small crops, and practicing pig husbandry. In the late 1960s, seeking foreign capital to boost the nation’s economy, the president of Indonesia signed a contract with Freeport McMoRan Copper and Gold. Freeport began mining in the early 1970s, eventually opening one of the world’s largest gold mines. Excavating sacred Amungme sites, Freeport’s massive pollution to the land and water destroyed the indigenous people’s environment both spiritually and …

Uranium Natives: Mining For The Cold War, Angela M. Wood

Phi Alpha Theta Pacific Northwest Regional Conference

Abstract: During the Cold War the quest for plutonium to produce more bombs and beat the Soviets was the mission for the Department of Energy. There was constant fear of an atomic bomb being dropped on the U.S. The search for uranium was on. People who owned mines, however, were more concerned with production than they were with safety. Unfortunately, because most of the uranium was on Indian lands, one of the biggest casualties of the race were the native communities who especially didn't understand the nature of what they were working with. Due to their traditional relationship with the …

Civic Agriculture In Review: Then, Now, And Future Directions, Allison Kaika, Alexis Racelis

School of Integrative Biological & Chemical Sciences (Formerly Dept. of Biology)

"Civic agriculture," a term first coined by rural sociologist Thomas Lyson, refers to forms of agriculture that occur on a local level, from production to consumption, and are linked to a community's social and economic development. Sixteen years since its original articulation, the term "civic agriculture" has taken on greater significance in research, political activism, and community organizing. Grown from the roots of civic community theory, civic agriculture functions as a new branch of civic community theory that is ripe for theorization. In revisiting the foundations of the term, this review paper seeks to consolidate current and future research in …

Chimes: April 9, 2021, Calvin University

Chimes

Asian student organizations stand together against hate by Abigail Ham

Met By Love sparks revival by Michaela Giovannelli

What your profs think you should watch this weekend by Mattheus Colyn

Calvin, Spectrum Health offer vaccine to students, staff and faculty by Ezra Craker

Pause week changes pace of break-less semester by Abigail Ham

What went wrong: An overview of Chimes' disastrous bracket by Ellington Smith

Biochemistry prof's cell research earns $350,000 grant by Sarah Gibes

Six influential people you didn't know are Calvin alumni by Abigail Ham

“Say It With Flowers”: Exile, Ecology, And Edna O’Brien, Annie Williams

Critical Inquiries Into Irish Studies

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Osl Newsletter, Office Of Student Life

Newsletters

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Arlington Community Garden: The Benefits Of Community Gardens And Keeping Them Sustainable, Laurel Dalton

Showcase of Osprey Advancements in Research and Scholarship (SOARS)

Environmental Center Leadership Program Project

In a project for the Environmental Center Leadership Program, Laurel Dalton investigates the importance of community gardens, the issues they often face, and some possible solutions which were utilized for the benefit of the Arlington Community Garden at the Tree Hill Nature Center. Community gardens are a valuable resource to build community, allow participants to connect to nature, and help alleviate food insecurity. The foremost issues for the sustainability of community gardens are the lack of a sufficient, continuous workforce of paid workers and volunteers, and a lack of funding. To alleviate this issue for …