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Rabies: The Interplay Of One Virus With Medicine Throughout History, Anita Maria Roberti

Theses & ETDs

Rabies is a deadly neuropathic virus, which is transmitted through the saliva of an infected animal. It is one of the first diseases on record in ancient medical references. It was so recognizable and lethal that it had a reputation of mythic proportions throughout most of human history. In 1885, Louis Pasteur tested the first rabies vaccine on a human. The vaccine worked, and ushered in a new era of medical research. Over the years, the treatments to prevent rabies have been improved, increasing their effectiveness. Recent medical research is even attempting to make use of the virus’s unique properties …

From Total War To Total Annihilation, Katherine Dover

Vulcan Historical Review

pp. 63-77

Affinity Chromatography: A Historical Perspective, David S. Hage, Ryan E. Matsuda

David Hage Publications

Affinity chromatography is one of the most selective and versatile forms of liquid chromatography for the separation or analysis of chemicals in complex mixtures. This method makes use of a biologically related agent as the stationary phase, which provides an affinity column with the ability to bind selectively and reversibly to a given target in a sample. This review examines the early work in this method and various developments that have lead to the current status of this technique. The general principles of affinity chromatography are briefly described as part of this discussion. Past and recent efforts in the generation …

The History Of Patenting Genetic Material, Jacob S. Sherkow, Henry T. Greely

Articles & Chapters

The US Supreme Court’s recent decision in Association for Molecular Pathology v. Myriad Genetics, Inc. declared, for the first time, that isolated human genes cannot be patented. Many have wondered how genes were ever the subjects of patents. The answer lies in a nuanced understanding of both legal and scientific history. Since the early twentieth century, “products of nature” were not eligible to be patented unless they were “isolated and purified” from their surrounding environment. As molecular biology advanced, and the capability to isolate genes both physically and by sequence came to fruition, researchers (and patent offices) began to apply …

Thank Goodness They Got All The Dragons: Wildlife Damage Management Through The Ages, Maureen G. Frank, Michael R. Conover

Human–Wildlife Interactions

Whenever the needs both of humans and wildlife overlap, there is a potential for wildlife damage to occur. Wildlife damage has been an issue throughout human history. Typical history essays about wildlife damage management (WDM) examine a chronology of events on the topic. This paper takes a different approach. Looking through the history of WDM, we considered the driving factors behind changes in the management of wildlife damage. Based on the events of WDM history, we defined 4 factors that underlie major shifts in the management of wildlife damage: human population needs, economic stability, social paradigms, and tools and techniques. …

Wisconsin Roots: Making History Interviews With Richard M. Jaffee And John W. Rowe, Timothy Gilfoyle

History: Faculty Publications and Other Works

Rowe arid Jaffee share more than their long tenures as chief executives. Both have roots in southwestern Wisconsin.

Masculine Space: The Final Frontier; A Historical Analysis Of The Spatial Politics Of Gender Through The New Woman’S Access To Brassieres, Bicycles, And Higher Education In The United States From 1890-1930, Shelby Kirst Goldman

Senior Independent Study Theses

1890-1930 was a time of major social and cultural shifts as the Victorian conventions clashed with progressive and changing ideas of gender, race, and class, resulting in the liberated American New Woman. This thesis examines the transition of the opportunities for increased physical movement for women allotted by the popularization of the brassiere, bicycle, and access to higher education. Examining the brassiere and bicycles’ impact on women’s liberation lends insight into how the physical placement and movement of female bodies confronted gender norms, while expansion of women’s education made women intellectual threats to the patriarchal structure. My analysis of advertisements …

Reflections On Freedom And Criminal Responsibility In Late Twentieth Century American Legal Thought, Thomas A. Green, Merrill Catharine Hodnefield

Articles

It is now a commonplace among historians that American criminal jurisprudence underwent a dramatic change something like two-thirds to three-quarters into the last century. Roughly, this development is understood as a shift (or drift) from a more-or-less pure consequentialism to a "mixed theory" wherein retributivism played a major-at times, dominant-role. As the new paradigm remains intact, now approaching a half-century, the development qualifies as a significant historical fact. The fact applies not only to the history of justification for punishment but also to conceptions of the underlying principle of (basis for) responsibility. The two are rightly distinguished: for many scholars …

The Bitter Pill: How Second-Wave Feminism Failed, And Why It Doesn't Matter, Brianna Mcgurran

Capstones

It's not cool to be a feminist. It’s not anti-establishment to say you don’t identify with that label; now, it’s the status quo. Every time a celebrity like Katy Perry or Salma Hayek distances herself from feminism, blogs like Jezebel and Feministing pounce. But a few months ago I found out that all the back-and-forth doesn’t matter. The final verdict on second-wave feminism's success won’t be found in words spoken on the red carpet or in rejoinders on women’s blogs. The future of gender relations will be decided in an obscure corner of the Internet populated primarily by angry white …

Nuns In The Newsroom: The Sisters Of Marillac College And U.S. Sisters’ Involvement In Social Justice Reform, Elizabeth D. Nako

History & Classics Undergraduate Theses

"Nuns in the Newsroom: The Sisters of Marillac College and U.S. Sisters' Involvement in Social Justice Reform" is a senior honors history thesis project.  The Second Vatican Council (1962-1965) was guided by the spirit of aggiornamento, or “a bringing up to date” of the Catholic Church.  As a result of Vatican II documents such as Gaudium et Spes, they influenced U.S. sisters to expand their ministry from performing works of mercy to advocating for legal, economic, and social justice in addition to their charitable endeavors.  However, after doing research at the Daughters of Charity Archives in Emmitsburg, Maryland and …

Towards “That Republic In Which Complexions Do Not Matter”: Derek Walcott’S Drums And Colours Fifty Years On, Harold N. Mcdermott

Anthurium: A Caribbean Studies Journal

Derek Walcott’s three hour pageant, Drums and Colours, commissioned to celebrate the inauguration of the West Indian Federation was first performed at the West Indian Festival, April 25 – May 1, 1958. Some feel that the nationalist and didactic thrust of this early drama blunted it value as art. It is, however, the opinion of this paper that this play provides one of the earliest conceptual maps for Walcott’s orchestration of key thematic occupations such as the quarrel with history, racial and cultural syncretism and the evolution of a distinctive West Indian theatre style. Fifty years after the breakup of …

The Pacifican April 12, 2014, University Of The Pacific

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The Pacifican November 13, 2014, University Of The Pacific

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Spectrum, Volume 33, Issue 8, Sacred Heart University

Newspapers (Obelisk & Spectrum)

Highlights include: On Aug. 22, rising junior Kaitlyn Doohry was struck by a motor vehicle while walking to campus. In honor of Doohry, the H.W. Wilson Foundation has given Sacred Heart $100,000 to establish an endowed scholarship in her memory (photos) --The career center is revamping its social media sites as a way to better inform students of the services they can offer --Pete Davidson, the newest featured player on “Saturday Night Live” (SNL) was at SHU on Nov. 3 for a stand-up comedy performance held in the University Commons --This year, through the Volunteer office around 90 students will …

Spectrum, Volume 33, Issue 7, Sacred Heart University

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Highlights include:Pioneer rower Jaclyn Smith wins Gold at the Head of the Charles Regatta --President Barack Obama visits Bridgeport --Kappa Phi sorority is going national and will be called Delta Zeta --Perspectives: Are we addicted to social media? --Campus Vote Project: website’s whose mission is to help college students work with administrators and local election officials to make the process of voting easier and overcome barriers students face voting --Athlete pre-game rituals --Digging Through the Directory: Dr. Steven Michels --Art Gallery exhibition: “102 Hours” and “6,115 Minutes.” - “An iconographic storytelling of the Boston Marathon bombing and the days that …

Spectrum, Volume 33, Issue 5, Sacred Heart University

Newspapers (Obelisk & Spectrum)

Highlights include: "Women Can Have It All" series: Stacy Schieffelin, the founder and CEO of ybf(your best friend) beauty --“Go Play!” Parks Passport Program: Sacred Heart partners with Bridgeport Parks and Recreation to promote physical activity --SHU is launching a new master’s in finance and investment management degree starting fall 2015 --Perspectives: The ebola outbreak, by Ally D'Amico --Student blogger of the week: Julia Kennedy, “Rising Girlboss,” a website geared toward providing women with lifestyle tips and entertainment --How well do you know the SHU shield? --The Little Theater Presents “Almost, Maine” --Illustrations by Senior Art & Design major Maribel …

Collapse Of An Ecological Network In Ancient Egypt, Justin Yeakel, Mathias Pires, Lars Rudolf, Nathaniel Dominy

Dartmouth Scholarship

The dynamics of ecosystem collapse are fundamental to determining how and why biological communities change through time, as well as the potential effects of extinctions on ecosystems. Here, we integrate depictions of mammals from Egyptian antiquity with direct lines of paleontological and archeological evidence to infer local extinctions and community dynamics over a 6,000-y span. The unprecedented temporal resolution of this dataset enables examination of how the tandem effects of human population growth and climate change can disrupt mammalian communities. We show that the extinctions of mammals in Egypt were nonrandom and that destabilizing changes in community composition coincided with …

Lasting Impressions, Fall 2014, College Of Dental Medicine

Newsletters

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The Pacifican September 18, 2014, University Of The Pacific

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Spectrum, Volume 33, Issue 1, Sacred Heart University

Newspapers (Obelisk & Spectrum)

Highlights include: New mobile app: SHU Safe --Campus security updates --Renaming the administration building Melady Hall --Homesick? Stressed? Are you involved? --Students react to ...parking on campus --The Spectrum staff shares their favorite summer memories --Students take on the Dingle Oceanworld Aquarium (photos) --The controversial Yik Yak app --Getting to know Father Buckles --Saying goodbye to the king and queen of comedy --Sept. 15 students, faculty and beloved fans rushed to the Edgerton Center for the Performing Arts theater to see the iconic Ed Asner.--Coming off an NEC Championship season last year, the SHU Pioneer football team is off to …

Material Embodiments, Queer Visualities: Presenting Disability In American Public History, Andrew B. Marcum

American Studies ETDs

This dissertation examines the presentation of disability at three of the most popular sites for the consumption of public history in the United States including the U.S. Capitol, the Franklin Delano Roosevelt Memorial, and the Smithsonian Institution's National Museum of American History. I de-construct the cultural and historical narratives and discourses of disability circulating at these sites and offer a visual culture analysis of the images, artifacts, and statuary found at each of them. My study is informed principally by the theories and methods of queer disability studies, visual culture studies, and cultural studies critiques of neoliberalism. I consider how …

The Pacifican September 11, 2014, University Of The Pacific

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Steatocystoma Multiplex: Those Little Tumours., Ellen H. De Moll, W. Clark Lambert, Lawrence Charles Parish

Department of Dermatology and Cutaneous Biology Faculty Papers

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The Pacifican August 28, 2014, University Of The Pacific

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Dining With John And Catharine Butler Before The Close Of The Eighteenth Century, Eva Macdonald, Suzanne Needs-Howarth

Northeast Historical Archaeology

The partial excavation of the homestead of Colonel John Butler in the town of Niagara-on-the-Lake has afforded the opportunity to explore the daily activities of one Loyalist family after the establishment of the British colony of Upper Canada in the 1780s. In particular, the large collection of zooarchaeological material (over 14,5000 specimens) can provide information about the availability of wild animal species, as well as the types of domestic animals that the Butlers kept on their farm. Butchering marks provide further insight into the types of meat cuts used in cooking meals for the family and guests. These are compared …

The Power Of Choice: Reflections Of Economic Ability, Status, And Ethnicity In The Foodways Of A Free African American Family In Northwestern New Jersey, Megan E. Springate, Amy Raes

Northeast Historical Archaeology

The choices people make concerning food involve decisions well beyond biological sustenance. Food procurement and consumption, as well as the way in which a dish is served, are choices that are embedded with both overt and less obvious implications of social aspirations and validations (McKee 1999; Reitz, Ruff, and Zierden 2006). Food and the means by which it is prepared and consumed embody and communicate cultural traditions, as well as factors such as social identity, ethnicity, status, class, and consumer choice. In this article, we examine the faunal remains, tablewares, and food-preparation vessels recovered during excavations within a free African …

The Senhora Who Doesn't Speak Portuguese: Following Francisco De Orellana Across The Amazon Jungle, Colleen Lynnette Pawling

Electronic Theses and Dissertations Archive

Pawling, Colleen Lynnette. MFA. The University of Memphis. August 2014. The Senhora Who Doesn’t Speak Portuguese: Following Francisco de Orellana Across the Amazon Jungle. Major Professor: Dr. Kristen Iversen.In 1542, Francisco de Orellana was swept down the Amazon River on what would become one of the most incredible—and unknown—journeys in history. Nearly half a millennium later, a 52-year-old American lawyer left everything behind to follow Orellana’s trail across the Amazon to see what changes 500 years of western intervention had caused. She discovered three different Amazonias—the first was a land of indigenous peoples torn by conflict with outside forces wanting …

Math Biology History Alumni Named 2014 Woodrow Wilson Teaching Fellows, Ohio University College Of Arts & Sciences

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Carl F. Craver And Lindley Darden: In Search Of Mechanisms: Discoveries Across The Life Sciences, Stuart Glennan

Scholarship and Professional Work - LAS

Carl Craver and Lindley Darden are two of the foremost proponents of a recent approach to the philosophy of biology that is often called the New Mechanism. In this book they seek to make available to a broader readership insights gained from more than two decades of work on the nature of mechanisms and how they are described and discovered. The book is not primarily aimed at specialists working on the New Mechanism, but rather targets scientists, students and teachers who are looking for a broad, philosophically and historically informed image of discovery in the life sciences.

In Print, Jean R. Norman

UNLV Innovation

• Smyrna’s Ashes: Humanitarianism, Genocide, and the Birth of the Middle East
• Tantivy
• Reproducing Race: The Paradox of Generation Mix
• The Bride Factory: Mass Media Portrayals of Women and Weddings