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Exhibit Review: “Fire Kinship: Southern California Native Ecology And Art”: Disrupting Traditional Hierarchies, Lina Tejeda

History in the Making

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Book Review: Cold War On Five Continents, Sviatoslav Kozlov

History in the Making

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In Memoriam: Claudette Colvin, Luke Hunter

History in the Making

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Silencing Dissent?: Campus Protest, Academic Freedom On U.S. Campuses, And The Politics Of Antisemitism Amid The Israel-Palestinian War, Marlet Felix

History in the Making

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American Fascism: How Patrick Buchanan Paved The Way For Donald Trump, Hayden Cross

History in the Making

The term fascism is often thrown around to describe one’s political opponents; it constantly appears in the news and is used heavily in contemporary political conversation. However, what is fascism? Do the people espousing fascist characterizations on their political opponents know what it means? Furthermore, in the United States, there is a prevalent belief that the nation is immune to fascism. Like the ironic title of Sinclair Lewis’ novel, It Can’t Happen Here, so aptly suggests, people believe that American liberal democracy is an unmalleable constant. During Donald Trump’s second term, concerns regarding a turn to fascism in the United …

The Soviet Dimension Of Normalization: Motivations And Obstacles Involved In The Normalization Of U.S.-China Relations, Andrea Dixon

History in the Making

The United States of America and the People’s Republic of China established full diplomatic relations on January 1, 1979, after decades of the United States failing to fully recognize the legitimacy of the government in mainland China. This “normalization” of relations between the United States and China was completed by the Carter administration and Deng Xiaoping after more than a year of negotiation between the two parties. The governments of the United States and China were motivated to normalize their relations due to many factors, and they overcame significant obstacles to do so. This paper argues that both governments evaluated …

The Connection: American Influence On Nazi Racial Hygiene, Dylan O’Connor, Elizabeth Vazquez

History in the Making

This paper analyzes the American eugenics movement’s significant role in shaping Nazi policies, by providing institutional models, ideological inspiration, scientific justification, and legal frameworks that the Third Reich expanded on to pursue its racial purification goals. First, this article traces how the eugenic movement developed from Francis Galtons’s theories to fully established organizations and independent groups such as the Eugenics Record Office and the American Eugenics Society. The paper further examines figures like Charles B. Davenport and Harry Laughlin, who influenced American sterilization laws and immigration restrictions, as well as Ernst Rubin, Eugen Fischer, and Fitz Lenz German, racial hygienists …

The Impact Of Technology On The Chinese Queer Community, Samantha Collasco

History in the Making

This project’s aim is to analyze the various ways in which the internet has influenced the Chinese LGBTQ+ community. The Chinese government has created an immense censorship over the community and any accompanying terms, therefore leading to their discrimination and marginalization within Chinese society. How has queer representation changed in China since the decriminalization of homosexuality? How has the internet affected the public perception of the LGBTQ+ community? What role does censorship play in the shaping of public perception of queer identities? How has westernization and globalization affected the attitudes towards queer identities? This work engages with the existing scholarship …

An “Ill-Regulated Woman”: The Rhetoric Of Gendered Power In The Late Republic, Samantha Guichard

History in the Making

Cicero’s attack on Clodia Metelli in Pro Caelio was not a personal animus but a carefully wrought composition of rhetoric that rendered her an ideological emblem of late-Republican instability, reaffirming male authority through the reprobation of a wealthy, autonomous woman. This is supported by demonstrating that Cicero deployed similar characterizations of women across his career; against Sassia in Pro Cluentio and through Chelidon in the In Verrem, establishing it as a structural technique rather than a one-off tactic, and that Roman anxieties about women’s independent wealth provided the cultural conditions that made such rhetoric persuasive. This study engages in close …

Eugenics Ties With Nature, Samuel Griffin

History in the Making

While Eugenics and the American West have been thoroughly studied, the connection which highlights the continuous pattern of white supremacist ideals between the two has not been examined sufficiently. Drawing on writings from Frederick Jackson Turner, John O’Sullivan, and research by Douglas Sackman. This article articulates how the 19th-century American viewed nature as something to conquer, and those who did not share this view were deemed inferior. Additionally, this work analyzes Alexandra Minna Stern’s Eugenic Nation alongside Luther Burbank’s and Dr. John Kellogg’s personal writings to highlight California’s support and participation in eugenics. By analyzing Burbank’s and Kellogg’s writings, the …

Front Matter

History in the Making

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The Changing Landscape Of Immunizations: Considerations For Camp, Lynne Rodriguez

CompassPoint

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Campwell Involves Playing Well, Alexandra Skrocki

CompassPoint

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Assessing Research Source Credibility, Kathleen B. Gaberson

CompassPoint

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Health Center Staffing Ii: Strategies For Staffing Safe And Supportive Camp Environments, Tracey Gaslin

CompassPoint

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Part Ii: Building Stronger Camp Communities Through Motivation As A Connected Process, Kelley Freridge

CompassPoint

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Spring Issue, Volume 36, Number 1

CompassPoint

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Exploring The Motivations Of Undergraduate Sport Management Students, Kyle J. Brannigan, Tyler J. Hajek

The COSMA Journal

This study explored the motivations of undergraduate sport management in four university programs. Convergent mixed-methods research through the theoretical framework of Self-Determination Theory was incorporated with an adapted questionnaire of the Academic Motivation Scale and semi-structured interviews through Thematic Analysis. Ninety-six surveys with nine interviews were deemed usable across four regionally focused, vocationally minded, and accessible universities. Overall, students reported higher levels of extrinsic motivation than intrinsic motivation. The findings suggested intrinsic motivation to know and extrinsic motivation through regulation for identification scored highest with the participants. No significant differences were found between classes and ethnicities. However, male students experienced …

The Shorthorn: August 29, 1984

The Shorthorn Newspaper Collection: 1980s

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The Shorthorn: August 1, 1984

The Shorthorn Newspaper Collection: 1980s

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Keeping The Problem Alive: Curriculum, Problematisation And The Eyfs, Claire Walsh

Plymouth Interdisciplinary Education Open Journal

This paper explores how problems are understood in debates about England’s Early Years Foundation Stage (Department for Education [DfE], 2025). Discussions of the EYFS often focus on identifying what is wrong with it and proposing ways to improve or replace it, including both critical perspectives and alternative approaches to early childhood education. While these positions appear different, the paper argues that they share a common tendency: they treat problems as things to be solved. The paper introduces the concept of solution-binding to describe this habit.

Rather than offering another critique or alternative, the paper asks what happens if problems are …

Toward A Standard Of Identity In Ai Interaction, Brian Harber

Defensive Publications Series

Systems are increasingly capable of producing outputs that appear complete and actionable. These outputs are frequently evaluated as though they fully represent the processes that produced them. This paper argues that where identity is not explicit at the interaction boundary, interpretation necessarily relies on inference. Inference enables interaction but leaves residual uncertainty regarding what participated in producing that interaction.

The paper proposes identity as a structural property of interaction rather than an inferred property of behavior or presentation. It defines the interaction-boundary condition under which identity becomes relevant and examines the implications of that condition for evaluation. The contribution is …

Mainehealth Investigator Vignettes - August 2026

Journal of Maine Medical Center

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Breaking The Parallax: Big Tech In India, Dr. Pratiksha Ashok

National Law School Business Law Review

This paper examines the role of Big Tech in India through the conceptual lens of parallax, understood as the analytical distortion that arises when platform power is assessed from shifting institutional, legal, and geopolitical vantage points. Existing scholarship and policy debates tend to frame Big Tech in India either through Global North regulatory paradigms emphasizing monopoly power, market foreclosure, and the need for ex-ante constraints or through a domestic developmental narrative that positions digital platforms as engines of innovation, inclusion, and infrastructural expansion. This paper argues that neither perspective, taken in isolation, adequately captures the legal and political economy of …

Training And Resources For Clinicians To Reduce Paperwork Burden And Improve Patient Work Capacity Documentation, Emilio Del Toro, Susan Gatti, Jennifer Kimble, Rebekah Lewis, Karen L. Fortuna, Samantha Migdail-Goyette, Gregory G. Morneau, Donald J. Medd, Ricky Snyder, Karen L. Huyck

Journal of Maine Medical Center

Problem: Inadequate patient work capacity documentation by clinicians contributes to health and economic inequity, clinical inefficiency, and worse patient health outcomes. The intersection of an aging workforce and high amounts of work disability presents an opportunity for health systems to integrate occupational health best practices across clinical settings to improve patient health and work outcomes. Clinicians, however, are often unfamiliar with navigating patient work capacity forms to help patients maintain or obtain employment. This knowledge gap further perpetuates work disability.

Approach: To compensate for this gap, we co-created a training for clinicians that integrates didactic learning and supplemental resources to …

From Covert Use To Structured Oversight: A Framework For Institutional Governance Of Artificial Intelligence In Graduate Medical Education, Samuel R. Briggs, Bita Behrouzi, Robert Hayden

Journal of Maine Medical Center

Problem Statement: Artificial intelligence (AI) tools are routinely used by residents and fellows across graduate medical education. The Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education has no AI-specific policy nor requirement for disclosure norms, leaving programs and attending physicians without a standard framework for supervising AI-assisted trainee work. The result is a training environment in which AI use is simultaneously widespread and under-governed by operating without the policies and supervisory frameworks needed to make that use educationally productive.

Background: AI tools are now embedded across health system workflows, and their use has expanded beyond clinical documentation into education, research, and scholarly …

Extending Cardiovascular Care Beyond The Clinic: Evaluation Of A Community Paramedicine Program To Support Patients With Medical Complexity, Kailey Kowalski, Corrigan Farnham, Darcy Chandler, Joshua Pobrislo, Elizabeth Bennett, Maxwell E. Afari

Journal of Maine Medical Center

Problem: Health care systems, especially acute care settings, are becoming overburdened with patients who are older, have medical complexity, and have limited access to health care resources. Community paramedicine (CP) programs use paramedics to offer preventive care, health education, and connections with the community that is underserved and experiencing homelessness. CP programs have emerged to reduce acute care utilization and emergency department visits, and to improve health care outcomes.

Approach: A local CP team was paired with the MaineHealth cardiovascular disease fellows' clinic to expand cardiovascular care to patients at high risk. Individuals were identified by clinicians as requiring additional …

Low-Barrier Infectious Disease Specialty Care For Patients Experiencing Homelessness, Eva J. Farkas, Thomas Reynolds, Kimberly Mooney, Adam Normandin, Taylor Nisbett, Kinna Thakarar

Journal of Maine Medical Center

Problem: Homelessness is prevalent in Maine and throughout the United States. People experiencing homelessness have unique medical needs that require both primary and subspecialist care, but they face barriers to accessing these services. Infectious diseases, including HIV, viral hepatitis, and skin and soft tissue infections, are highly morbid but are preventable and treatable. Thus, access to infectious disease subspecialty care is a high-impact target for improving the health of people experiencing homelessness. Particularly given Maine's HIV outbreak, there is an urgent need to reduce barriers to accessing infectious disease care.

Approach: In January 2022, a monthly, half-day infectious disease subspecialty …

Enhanced Rehabilitation Program In Acute Care: New Program Development And Results In Response To Delayed Hospital Discharges, David L Smith, Morgan Hall, Mary E Mcnulty, Elizabeth Pontius, Cathy Peabody, Beth Burke, Julie Fox

Journal of Maine Medical Center

Problem: The objective of this project was to evaluate and describe the flow of patients who have delayed discharge after they have participated in an enhanced therapy program. Approach: In the current practice, which started in 2021, the care coordination team identifies patients medically ready for discharge but with barriers. Working with the rehabilitation team, the care coordination team determines if the patient is suitable for the enhanced therapy program. These patients go on to receive 1 hour of physical therapy and 1 hour of occupational therapy each day, Monday through Friday, with the goal of discharge to home. Outcomes: …

A Modeling Scenario For Cooling A Hot Vehicle In Florida, Jared Bunn, Bernadette Mullins, Elizabeth Hale, Jaeyoun Oh

CODEE Journal

This paper presents a group project assigned in a Calculus 2 course that has students work to develop, analyze, and draw conclusions about a modeling scenario for cooling a hot car. Using a modeling-first approach, instructors supported the students in class throughout the beginning of the project, enabling the groups to complete the remainder of the project on their own. Students used parameter estimation to tune their models to provided data: one for windows being up, and one for windows being down. This project provides an example of how modeling can be introduced early in a calculus course, rather than …