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Table Of Contents, The Cleveland Bird Calendar

Cleveland Bird Calendar

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The Weather, William A. Klamm

Cleveland Bird Calendar

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Cover, The Cleveland Bird Calendar

Cleveland Bird Calendar

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Noteworthy Records, The Cleveland Bird Calendar

Cleveland Bird Calendar

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Field Notes, Lee Cavanno, Victor Fazio Iii, Anders Fjeldstad, Joyce Fjeldstad

Cleveland Bird Calendar

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Table Of Contents, The Cleveland Bird Calendar

Cleveland Bird Calendar

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The Weather, William A. Klamm

Cleveland Bird Calendar

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Cover, The Cleveland Bird Calendar

Cleveland Bird Calendar

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Field Notes, Larry Rosche, Ray Hannikman, Florian Graff, Andrew Fondrk

Cleveland Bird Calendar

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The Weather, William A. Klamm

Cleveland Bird Calendar

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Table Of Contents, The Cleveland Bird Calendar

Cleveland Bird Calendar

No abstract provided.

Noteworthy Records, The Cleveland Bird Calendar

Cleveland Bird Calendar

No abstract provided.

Cover, The Cleveland Bird Calendar

Cleveland Bird Calendar

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Noteworthy Records, The Cleveland Bird Calendar

Cleveland Bird Calendar

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Field Notes, Jean Hoffman, Ray Hannikman

Cleveland Bird Calendar

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Table Of Contents, The Cleveland Bird Calendar

Cleveland Bird Calendar

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The Weather, William A. Klamm

Cleveland Bird Calendar

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Cover, The Cleveland Bird Calendar

Cleveland Bird Calendar

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Barriers And Facilitators To Lung Cancer Screening In Arab/Middle Eastern And North African (Mena) Communities, Sara Komaiha, Mustafa Sharba, Ahmad Dulli, Faten Abda, Rawan Antar, Dana Sunbulli, Jad Fawaz, Ragad Almsaddi, Jawad Saad, Yasmin Snounu, Morhaf Al Achkar

Medical Student Research Symposium

Background: Lung cancer remains the second most prevalent cancer worldwide, with an estimated 2.21 million new cases in 2025. Screening rates for colorectal and cervical cancers are consistently lower among Middle Eastern and North African (MENA) populations compared to White populations, suggesting similarly low participation in lung cancer screening (LCS). This study explores multilevel determinants of LCS engagement.

Methods: Using the Socio-Ecological Model and the Health Belief Model frameworks, this qualitative study examines how individual, interpersonal, and community factors shape screening behaviors. Screening-eligible adults and key LCS stakeholders, including clinicians, administrators, and community leaders, are recruited for focus groups and …

Impact Of Reproductive Medical Conditions On Fertility Struggles In Metropolitan Detroit Women, Tonia Jones, Indrea Joplin, Anil N. F Aranha, Melanie Hanna-Johnson, Md

Medical Student Research Symposium

Title: Impact of Reproductive Medical Conditions on Fertility Struggles in Metropolitan Detroit Women

Tonia Jones, MPH¹, Indrea Joplin, BS¹, Melanie Hanna-Johnson, MD², Anil Aranha, PhD^1,2

Medical Education¹, Internal Medicine², Wayne State University School of Medicine, Detroit, Michigan.

Background and Purpose: Internationally, 48 million couples and 186 million individuals experience infertility, defined as difficulty with conception, gestation, or delivery. Medical conditions such as endometriosis, uterine fibroids, and polycystic ovarian syndrome (PCOS) may contribute. Our purpose was to assess their significance among women in Metropolitan Detroit experiencing infertility.

Methods: Data were …

The Constitution Of 1787 Had No Bill Of Rights: What Were The Framers Thinking?, James L. Huffman

Mercer Law Review

In this Article, I recount the brief history from the Philadelphia Convention, during which scant attention was paid to a bill of rights, to the ratification of the Bill of Rights only four years later. Although the delegates to the convention made frequent reference to individual liberty as central to their mission, and several of the newly enacted state constitutions included bills of rights, there was no serious consideration given to including a bill of rights in the constitution proposed for ratification by the states. In response to the occasional suggestions during the convention for specific rights guarantees, most of …

No Principal Left Alone: Exploring Elementary Principals' Relationships With Their Full-Time Assistant Principals, Shauna Worthington

Theses and Dissertations

Elementary school principals are often the only administrator in their building; therefore they are left to face the adverse circumstances of their job without the support of an administrative colleague at their school. However, U.S. nationwide data suggests that school districts are more frequently hiring elementary assistant principals. This paper explores perceptions of elementary principals about the nature and dynamic of their relationships with their full-time assistant principals, including accompanying benefits and challenges. This qualitative inquiry utilizes an exploratory, descriptive, phenomenological approach and features the results of in-depth interviews with 20 elementary school principals in two large suburban public school …

Entwurzelt, Melanie Fischer

Theses and Dissertations

Entwurzelt (Uprooted) is an installation that explores the emotional landscape of displacement-trauma, grief, and the search for belonging in the aftermath of war and unrest. The vessels in this installation evoke the presence of a forest--each one a symbolic tree, rooted in memory and shaped by personal and collective histories. Being torn from the familiar means leaving behind everything except memories and carrying a void that may never be fully filled. Yet, in unfamiliar places, fragments of comfort can be found--echoes of what once was. For me, the forest is more than a memory--it is a bridge between past and …

Pronouns On The Clock: The Eleventh Circuit’S Broad Limitation Of Teacher Speech In Wood V. Florida Department Of Education, Carter E. Pannell

Mercer Law Review

Few settings test the limits of free speech more sharply than public schools, where questions of personal identity, government authority, and constitutional rights often intersect. Because the government has an interest in regulating what its employees do and say, First Amendment protections afforded to government employees are diluted in comparison to those afforded to private citizens. A contemporary example of this tension is the question of whether the government may regulate a public-school teacher’s use of pronouns or titles in their own classroom.

In 2023, Florida enacted a statute forbidding teachers from using pronouns or titles that differ from the …

Delusions Of Judicial Grandeur: State V. Wierson And The Return To Statutory Sanity, Max Jordan Katz

Mercer Law Review

Georgia’s insanity defenses have long reflected tension between accountability and mental illness. The State’s statutory framework, which preserves both a “mental incapacity” and “delusional compulsion” defense, reflects this tension. Yet for decades, the Supreme Court of Georgia’s decision in Bailey v. State imposed a judicial limitation: a defendant who “brought about” her own delusion through voluntary acts or omissions could not claim insanity. The court’s recent decision in State v. Wierson marks a turning point. In Wierson, the court considered whether noncompliance with psychiatric medication preempts the defendant from invoking statutory insanity defenses. Rejecting Bailey, the court reasserted the primacy …

Opium Of The Masses: An Analysis Of Archeobotanical Research In The City Of Tábor, Czechia And How It Potentially Influenced Forms Of Radical Hussism, Sasha Gladding

Undergraduate University Honors Capstones

Opium of the Masses performs in depth analysis of the Hussite Wars–a time period lasting from 1419 to 1436, Jan Hus, Hussite factionalism, and archeobotany. This analysis proposes that there are numerous possible contributing factors to the development of the radical Hussite teachings and ways of life. The instability of the Catholic hierarchy and the dissenting teachings of Jan Hus also likely were contributors to the development of the unique sociopolitical and spiritual practices of the radical Hussites. It is also possible that the Hussite factions residing in the Czech (then Bohemian) town of Tábor utilized opium as an entheogen …

Patient-Provider Communication Among Deaf English Users: Disparities And Implications For Cancer Screening, Ciara Luttrell

Undergraduate University Honors Capstones

Early detection is one of medicine's powerful tools; routine cancer screenings can help diagnose cancer early and enable immediate treatment. Cancer screening and prevention efforts have accounted for 4.75 million (80%) cancer deaths averted between 1975 and 2020 for five major cancer types (NIH, 2025). Nevertheless, this powerful tool is not shared equally. Many deaf adults who use English still experience barriers and disparities. Accordingly, the purpose of this study is to investigate how deaf English-using individuals in the United States interact with their healthcare providers and whether these interactions are associated with cancer screening interest among these populations. The …

Deliberately Silenced, Rachel Kincaid

Mercer Law Review

The Prison Litigation Reform Act is celebrating its 30^th birthday this year. It was designed to make it harder for incarcerated people to file lawsuits challenging the constitutionality of their conditions of confinement and to restrict their remedies even when they do so successfully. It has been wildly effective at achieving those objectives. It has also propped up mass incarceration and facilitated the persistence of dismal conditions of confinement in carceral facilities in the United States.

The PLRA’s exhaustion requirement—arguably its most damaging provision—silences carceral voices without regard for the merit of their complaints. It does so by mandating …

Fulbright Us Scholar Alumni Panel, Bridgit Luján, Julianne Newmark, José Cerrato, Ronda Brulotte, John Phillips

LAII Events

The Fulbright U.S. Scholar Program offers more than 300 awards worldwide (ranging from 2-12 months) for U.S. citizens to teach, conduct research, and carry out professional projects around the world. College and university faculty, postdoctoral scholars, research and development professionals, as well as artists and professional practitioners from a wide range of fields can join nearly 450,000 Fulbrighters who have come away with enhanced skills, new connections, and greater mutual understanding. At this info session, you will hear from UNM Fulbright US Scholar alumni, who will share their experiences and advice.

Panelists at this event include:

Bridgit Luján | Honors …

Claudins Interact With Lilrb Immune Inhibitory Receptors To Promote Myeloid Immunosuppression In Cancer, Xiaoye Liu, Ryan Huang, Zhiqiang Ku, Jingjing Xie, Heyu Chen, Yubo He, Qi Lou, Chengcheng Zhang, Xing Yang, Cheryl Lewis, Jade Homsi, Ankit Gupta, Lei Dong, Kenian Chen, Annabel Tu, Liming Du, Hailong Yu, Qing Hu, Meng Fang, Bufan Li, A E M Adan Khan, Caroline Simith, Samuel John, Lin Xu, Ningyan Zhang, Zhiqiang An, Cheng Cheng Zhang

The Brown Foundation: Institute of Molecular Medicine

The mechanisms underlying tumor cell-myeloid cell interactions in the tumor microenvironment (TME) remain unclear, and predictive biomarkers for patient response to myeloid checkpoint blockade are lacking. This study identified specific binding between tight junction claudins (CLDNs) and leukocyte immunoglobulin-like receptor subfamily B2 (LILRB2) and LILRB5. In multiple human cancer cohorts, the spatial proximity of LILRB2-positive macrophages to CLDN-expressing cancer cells correlated with clinical outcomes, highlighting this spatial relationship as a potential biomarker. In syngeneic LILRB2-transgenic and humanized mouse models, CLDN18.2-LILRB2 interactions triggered bidirectional signaling, enhanced the immunosuppressive activity of myeloid cells, and accelerated tumor progression. These effects were reversed by …