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Institutional Effectiveness In Practice At Historically Black Colleges And Universities, Taneika S. Thompson May 2025

Institutional Effectiveness In Practice At Historically Black Colleges And Universities, Taneika S. Thompson

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Initially perceived as a compliance-driven, accreditation mandate, institutional effectiveness (IE) evolved into a comprehensive framework often encompassing institutional research, evaluation and assessment, and strategic planning. This study investigated the expanding role of IE at historically black colleges and universities (HBCUs) by examining how individuals in IE positions approached their work and whether those efforts contributed to knowledge creation at their institutions. Considering the alarming rate of closures among institutions of higher education (IHEs) and the finite number of HBCUs, this research is timely as it explored IE as a mechanism to drive institutional innovation and support financial sustainability. By interviewing …

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Plio-Pleistocene Hydroclimate In Southern Africa: Insights From Proxy Records And Climate Models, Claire B. Rubbelke May 2025

Plio-Pleistocene Hydroclimate In Southern Africa: Insights From Proxy Records And Climate Models, Claire B. Rubbelke

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In the recent decade, a number of extreme weather events have highlighted the vulnerability and unpreparedness of communities in Southern Africa (SA) to anthropogenic climate-change related weather events. Such occurrences are only expected to increase in frequency, however projections of the future mean state of hydroclimate in SA are uncertain; there is broad agreement of earth system models that Africa as a whole will become hotter and drier by 2100, however, projected changes to regional hydroclimate are ambiguous. Insights from past intervals of warm climates, like the Pliocene, or intervals of rapid climate change, like the Mid-Pleistocene Transition, can reveal …

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The Monumental Challenges Of Pastmaking, Tyler Davis Youngman May 2025

The Monumental Challenges Of Pastmaking, Tyler Davis Youngman

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Pastmaking is a process in which agents exercise power to make or use documents depicting a past that can be given or taken as historical truth. Such documents often possess narrative elements perceived for use in heritage formation, collective remembering, and identity maintenance practices such as storytelling. Pastmaking encompasses the performative creation of historical knowledge. The implications of pastmaking prompt considerable pause about: (1) who gets spoken for in (re-)tellings of prior events, (2) how agents arrive at consensus to determine what is historically known, and (3) how knowledge is lost or gained when historical narratives get (re-)written, a particularly …

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Curricular Reconciliation: Equitable, Inclusive, And Accessible Approaches To Professional Writing Through Coalition-Led Technical Communication, Lerie M. Gabriel May 2025

Curricular Reconciliation: Equitable, Inclusive, And Accessible Approaches To Professional Writing Through Coalition-Led Technical Communication, Lerie M. Gabriel

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This dissertation examines the process of revising a core professional writing course to integrate anti-ableist and anti-racist pedagogies throughout its design. Focusing on the pragmatic and theoretical aspects of this collaborative curriculum redesign, this dissertation examines how an intersectional, Black feminist approach to professional and technical communication curricula disrupts neoliberal legacies. In addition to limiting students’ critical thinking skills, interdependence, and imagination of workplace ethos, these legacies affect instructors' experience of teaching professional and technical writing (PTW), particularly those individuals who hold (multiply) marginalized identities. Through archival research and interviews, this dissertation contextualizes these revisions by exploring the rhetorical history …

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In Favor Of The Mother-Artist: The Case For Self-Actualization In Motherhood, Lottie Elizabeth Caiella May 2025

In Favor Of The Mother-Artist: The Case For Self-Actualization In Motherhood, Lottie Elizabeth Caiella

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This thesis paper discusses the symbiotic relationship between the roles of mothering and being an artist and makes the case for why art made by mothers can have a lasting impact on both society as well as within the family dynamics of the artists’ lives. The obstacles that stand in the way of mothers pursuing art, or even pursuing becoming her full self, are many. This paper reimagines what the role of Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs might look like from the lens of a caretaker, and how it can be an overall triumph for society from a wider perspective. This …

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Scrolling Through Chaos: Examining Tiktok For Sensemaking And Resiliency Information Behaviors During Lebanese Crises, Christy Khoury May 2025

Scrolling Through Chaos: Examining Tiktok For Sensemaking And Resiliency Information Behaviors During Lebanese Crises, Christy Khoury

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The rise of the video-sharing application TikTok was rapid during the COVID-19 pandemic, as government-mandated isolation drove many to find comfort and fun indoors. Originally, the application was known for its entertaining content but has grown to be a space where conversations about critical, international events occur. With its unique application structure and behavior norms comes the opportunity to examine the application as a source of crisis discourse. This dissertation leverages a sociotechnical perspective and mixed methods analysis to investigate multimodal crisis discourse and information behaviors on the application concerning two recent Lebanese crises: the August 4, 2020, Port of …

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On The Embeddability Of Small Cubic Graphs Into The Torus, Marie Kramer May 2025

On The Embeddability Of Small Cubic Graphs Into The Torus, Marie Kramer

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The embeddability of graphs into different surfaces has been studied for nearly a century. In 1930, Kuratowski famously proved that a graph is planar if and only if it does not contain the complete graph K5 or the complete bipartite graph K3,3 as a topological minor. In particular, K3,3 is the only cubic obstructions for the plane. This sparked interest in two different directions: What are analogous results for other surfaces, and what can be said about embeddings of K5 and K3,3 into other surfaces? Regarding the first question, it was shown in the 1970s and 80s by Glover, Huneke, …

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The Formation And Control Of Wrinkling Topographies On 4d Printed Substrates, Johnson Nana Agyapong May 2025

The Formation And Control Of Wrinkling Topographies On 4d Printed Substrates, Johnson Nana Agyapong

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Mechanical instability-driven wrinkling atop shape memory polymer (SMP) substrates is a cost-effective surface patterning alternative to soft lithography that offers spatiotemporal control of surface topography for applications in thin film metrology, biomimicry, microfluidics, and cell studies. The wrinkle morphologies demonstrated to date have been predominantly simple aligned wrinkles on the surface of 2D geometries, so there remains a need for a straightforward SMP strain programming strategy that can achieve simple and complex wrinkle morphologies on 2D and 3D geometries. To address this need, we integrated a single-step SMP fabrication approach, programming via printing (PvP), with mechanical-instability-driven wrinkling to fabricate 2D …

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Stranded In Transit: Migrants' Borderland Experiences En Route To Europe, Ibrahim Emre Yanik May 2025

Stranded In Transit: Migrants' Borderland Experiences En Route To Europe, Ibrahim Emre Yanik

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This dissertation explores the lived experiences of migrants stranded in prolonged transit amid the intensifying securitization of the European border regime. While contemporary policy frameworks aim to deter unauthorized migration through externalized controls, digital surveillance, and restricted legal pathways, these measures have instead produced new forms of precarity, immobilization, and liminal existence. Focusing on Istanbul as a key site of transit and containment, the research examines how migrants navigate conditions of legal uncertainty, economic marginalization, and social isolation while resisting the structural constraints imposed upon them. Drawing on ethnographic fieldwork conducted in Istanbul—including semi-structured interviews and participant observation—this study adopts …

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Body Size Trends Of Late Devonian Dacryoconarid Tentaculitoids And Protocol Development For I/Ca Analysis In Corals By La-Icp-Ms, Ashley Prow-Fleischer May 2025

Body Size Trends Of Late Devonian Dacryoconarid Tentaculitoids And Protocol Development For I/Ca Analysis In Corals By La-Icp-Ms, Ashley Prow-Fleischer

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Paleoclimatology provides context for understanding the timescales and animal responses to environmental change under modern climate change scenarios. The key drivers of climate variability are identified using proxies for environmental conditions. Biological archives are especially useful for linking changing conditions to ecosystem responses. This dissertation establishes the foundation for utilizing dacryoconarid microfossils as biostratigraphic indicators of environmental change in the Paleozoic. It also presents a protocol for measuring iodine-to-calcium (I/Ca) ratios—an established proxy for localized hypoxia—in coral skeletons using laser ablation inductively coupled plasma mass spectrometry (LA-ICP-MS). Studying Paleozoic microfossils presents challenges due to the high degree of induration of …

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Frustration And Functionality : Geometry And Topology In Mechanical Metamaterials, Sourav Roy May 2025

Frustration And Functionality : Geometry And Topology In Mechanical Metamaterials, Sourav Roy

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This dissertation is concerned with a study of the effect of geometry in complex few body mechanical systems. The problems that we set out to solve lie on the interface of soft condensed matter physics, geometry and topology. In the first problem, I developed an effective elasticity theory of thin mechanical metamaterial sheets. This work explored the elastic response of thin metamaterial sheets draped on a uniformly and weakly curved substrate. The model spells out an elegant screening law that shows that a metamaterial alleviates elastic stresses by actuating the soft modes accessible to it. In the second problem, we …

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Anticipating The Adoption Of Quantum Computing Technology By Organizations, Kenneth Shui May 2025

Anticipating The Adoption Of Quantum Computing Technology By Organizations, Kenneth Shui

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This study investigated the challenges that may influence the successful adoption of adiabatic quantum computers based on an analysis of three case studies of organizations that adopted technologies adjacent to adiabatic quantum computers. Through the lens of the affordance framework, a mixed methods approach identified common challenges and themes when adopting different forms of classical computing. The qualitative method involved analyzing pre-existing documentation on classical computing technologies through a reflexive narrative review of the case studies. For the quantitative aspect, an A/B testing approach was used to compare the performance of D-Wave adiabatic quantum computers in solving a well-established computer …

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Pluricomplex Green Functions And Transform Methods For The Laplacian, Jesse Joel Hulse May 2025

Pluricomplex Green Functions And Transform Methods For The Laplacian, Jesse Joel Hulse

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There are two research themes within complex analysis presented. The first is developing generalizations of the Unified Transform Method as a novel way to compute fluid flows and numerically solve boundary value problems for holomorphic functions and solutions to the Laplacian and complex Helmholtz equation. The second is finding a formula for the pluricomplex Green function with two poles of equal weights for the bidisk. The Unified Transform Method (also sometimes known as the Fokas Method) is a technique for numerically solving boundary value problems for linear and integrable nonlinear PDEs. Crowdy reformulated the Unified Transform Method in the complex …

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Understanding Shell Adhesion Mechanics For Soft Gripper Design, Chenxu Zhao May 2025

Understanding Shell Adhesion Mechanics For Soft Gripper Design, Chenxu Zhao

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This dissertation investigates the adhesion mechanics of hyperelastic hemispherical shells with finite thicknesses undergoing large deformation against rigid planar substrates. By integrating theoretical modeling, numerical simulations, and experimental validation, a comprehensive understanding of the adherence-detachment behavior of soft elastomeric shell structures is established. The study also applies these insights to the design of soft robotic grippers based on tunable adhesion. To understand the dry adhesion of a free soft shell against a rigid substrate, first, a graphical-numerical modeling framework based on the energy approach is developed and used to predict shell adhesion with a wide range of surface energy, thickness, …

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Elucidating Climate Dynamics From Holocene Reconstructions In Alaska, Greenland, And The North Atlantic, Briana Edgerton May 2025

Elucidating Climate Dynamics From Holocene Reconstructions In Alaska, Greenland, And The North Atlantic, Briana Edgerton

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Arctic amplification is a combination of ice-ocean-atmospheric feedbacks that causes the northern high latitudes to be extremely sensitive to climate change. These processes combined with anthropogenic warming are currently driving Arctic temperatures to increase at a rate almost four times faster than global average. However, it is unclear how current and future climate change in the Arctic compares to the natural variability of the climate system over longer timescales. The Holocene (11,700 years ago to present) provides abundant well-preserved, sub-millennial to centennial-scale records of climate, and encompasses periods of relatively rapid warming and cooling which can be compared to anthropogenic …

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Biodegradable And Bioactive Polyurethane Foams To Improve Traumatic Wound Healing, Natalie Petryk May 2025

Biodegradable And Bioactive Polyurethane Foams To Improve Traumatic Wound Healing, Natalie Petryk

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Every year, 1.5 million people die from uncontrolled bleeding in traumatic wounds, such as gunshot wounds. Gauze dressings have remained the gold standard of treatment for traumatic wounds, but gauze must be removed, resulting in wound rebleeding. Furthermore, gauze removal within an approved time frame is not always possible in remote settings, like on a battlefield, presenting a critical need for a safe and effective dressing that can control bleeding over prolonged periods. To overcome these limitations, this work focuses on a novel biomaterial to be used as a permanent dressing to stop bleeding and facilitate healing. In previous work, …

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Deformations Of Thin Membranes In Incompatible Geometries And Interactions In Mechanical Hysteron Systems, Zachariah Schrecengost May 2025

Deformations Of Thin Membranes In Incompatible Geometries And Interactions In Mechanical Hysteron Systems, Zachariah Schrecengost

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Soft reconfigurable systems exhibit behaviors which are highly dependent on their geometries. Thin membranes can deform in a myriad of ways as they navigate geometries different from their own in an energy efficient manner. Behaviors in mechanical hysteron systems are influenced by the geometry of the interactions and global driving. This dissertation focuses on two different types of systems which are governed in part by their geometries: thin membranes in geometrically incompatible configurations and interacting mechanical hysterons. A thin membrane forced into a conflicting geometry with an incompatible metric will deform in highly non-trivial ways. These deformations are an attempt …

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Memetics Reinformed: Three Informational Developments Of Memes, Alexander O. Smith May 2025

Memetics Reinformed: Three Informational Developments Of Memes, Alexander O. Smith

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Memetics and information have been connected since Richard Dawkins defined memes in 1976. Yet, information studies rarely contributes despite the connection. This dissertation develops a memetic program that exists within an information framework. An information-centric study of memes offers answers to questions of cultural dynamics, meaning production, and applies to questions in cultural heritage informatics and knowledge organization. This proposal offers a theoretically and empirically connected space within an information-centric development of memetics. What is provided is a three paper dissertation. These three papers include a (1) literature review and citation analysis paper, (2) a preliminary theory-method paper exemplifying a …

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Personalized Learning And Transformative Literacy Learning And Teaching: A Case Study Of Students' 20time/Passion Projects In English 8, Kim Fontana May 2025

Personalized Learning And Transformative Literacy Learning And Teaching: A Case Study Of Students' 20time/Passion Projects In English 8, Kim Fontana

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This is a narrative case study of 20time or passion projects in English 8. The study explores how traditional educational hierarchies and practices, as well as perceptions of agency and competence, may be transformed in a personalized context by examining a single case comprising 17 students drawn from four sections of eighth grade English in which students are engaged in sustained 20time or passion projects as a fundamental part of their curriculum. The data comprise teacher, student, and administrative products, participant interviews and observations, and memos. Data analysis employs general qualitative methods and critical narrative analysis. This personalized, 20time thirdspace …

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Femme Fatale: Explaining The Tactical Deployment Of Female Operatives By Terrorist Organizations, Katharine Burrage Russell May 2025

Femme Fatale: Explaining The Tactical Deployment Of Female Operatives By Terrorist Organizations, Katharine Burrage Russell

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What explains variation in women’s participation in terrorist organization? Why do some terrorist organizations deploy women in violent, operative roles, whereas other terrorist organizations only deploy men as operatives? Why do some terrorist organizations begin a conflict with only male operatives but later begin to recruit, train, and deploy female operatives? Previous literature examining the deployment of women by terrorist organizations has been largely divided into those who examine the radicalization process of potential recruits (the “supply” side of the equation) or the reasons why an organization seeks to recruit women as potential operatives (the “demand” side). Scholarship examining the …

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Behavioral Self-Regulation In Context: Timing, Types, And Changes Of Material Hardship Across Childhood, Qingyang Liu May 2025

Behavioral Self-Regulation In Context: Timing, Types, And Changes Of Material Hardship Across Childhood, Qingyang Liu

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Behavioral self-regulation in childhood lays the foundation for lifelong adaptive functioning, including academic achievement, social relationships, and psychological well-being. While early poverty is consistently linked to worse behavioral self-regulation, less is known about how the timing, types, and changes in material hardship (i.e., daily experiences of deprivation), shape children’s development of behavioral self-regulation. This dissertation addresses these literature gaps through three interconnected studies that examine the dynamic association between material hardship and behavioral self-regulation across childhood, including (1) how early exposure to distinct patterns of material hardship in infancy shapes children’s behavioral self-regulation developmental trajectory from early to middle childhood; …

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Strategic Audit: Wells Fargo & Company, Nathan Q. Gaughan May 2025

Strategic Audit: Wells Fargo & Company, Nathan Q. Gaughan

Honors Program: Senior Projects (Public)

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The Deterrence Dilemma: Is It Time For Canada To Abandon General Deterrence As A Sentencing Objective?, Caitlin Salvino May 2025

The Deterrence Dilemma: Is It Time For Canada To Abandon General Deterrence As A Sentencing Objective?, Caitlin Salvino

Dalhousie Law Journal

When Canada first codified its sentencing framework in the Criminal Code, Parliament included deterrence as a sentencing objective. The sentencing objective of deterrence encompasses two aspects: specific deterrence for the individual offender and general deterrence for other potential offenders. I engage with the concept of general deterrence and its incorporation into Canadian sentencing law throughout this article. I argue that Parliament should abandon general deterrence as a sentencing objective under the Criminal Code. After reviewing the jurisprudence on general deterrence and conducting a systematic review of its current application in Ontario sentencing decisions, I argue that general deterrence should be …

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Sodium Valproate-Induced Hyperemesis In A Patient Post-Bariatric Surgery, Mohammed Alsubhi, Khalid Alharb, Bandar Alrehaili May 2025

Sodium Valproate-Induced Hyperemesis In A Patient Post-Bariatric Surgery, Mohammed Alsubhi, Khalid Alharb, Bandar Alrehaili

Saudi Toxicology Journal

Long-term treatment of patients with medications is associated with adverse drug reactions and continues to be a challenge. Sodium valproate is commonly used to treat bipolar disorder and epilepsy. It can induce adverse gastrointestinal effects, and its absorption may vary depending on the excipient used. In this case study, a middle-aged woman with a history of bipolar disorder developed hyperemesis after the use of a generic sodium valproate formulation. The patient had undergone gastric sleeve surgery 3 years ago and lost weight. Using generic formulation of sodium valproate stimulated vomiting 3 years after the patient had been tolerating the branded …

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Is There A Relationship Between Social Support And Employment Quality?, Jenny Tran May 2025

Is There A Relationship Between Social Support And Employment Quality?, Jenny Tran

Science Symposium

In this research study, an examination is conducted on data taken from Add Health surveys to see if there is a relationship between social support and career satisfaction. Various graphs and tests were utilized to better understand how these factors might relate to one another. The goal is to see if there are any meaningful patterns that show how social life impacts people's careers.

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The Relationship Between Belief In Religion And Ethical Values, Lauren Youngquist May 2025

The Relationship Between Belief In Religion And Ethical Values, Lauren Youngquist

Science Symposium

Research suggests that individuals who hold religion to a higher importance are more likely to make ethical judgments, although there has been contradicting research showing no correlation between religion and ethics. My study fills the gap in the literature and examines the relationship between a belief in religion and ethics, specifically looking at the justifiability of certain unethical behaviors.

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Volume 2 Complete Issue, James W. Gallagher May 2025

Volume 2 Complete Issue, James W. Gallagher

The Geographical Bulletin

Volume 2 Complete Issue

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Australia An Dits Outback, Lewis Deitch May 2025

Australia An Dits Outback, Lewis Deitch

The Geographical Bulletin

So states Australian poet A. D. Hope as he vividly describes the land "Down Under.'" It is a continent of widespread aridity whose burnt red and brown colors predominate over much of the landscape. The Continent contains 2,941,526 square miles (with Tasmania, the island state, the Commonwealth comprises an area of 2,967,909 square miles): By comparison, Australia is slightly smaller than the 48 contiguous United States, and roughly the same latitudinal and longitudinal dimensions. In contrast however, the Australian continent is largely uninhabited or at best sparsely settled. The population (at the 1966 Census) of 11,550,4623 is primarily centered in …

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Volume 1 Complete Issue, James W. Gallagher May 2025

Volume 1 Complete Issue, James W. Gallagher

The Geographical Bulletin

Volume 1 Complete Issue

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Reminiscences, James W. Gallagher May 2025

Reminiscences, James W. Gallagher

The Geographical Bulletin

Most of my professional geographer acquaintances have expressed to me at one time or another that they feel they were brought into the field of geography largely as a result of one man's influence. It is presumed that most of us came into the field that way and my experience is no exception. After stumbling through a freshman year in college in 1947, with no particular professional goal in mind and sti ll looking for that one thing which would show me the direction I wanted to go for my life, I enrolled in a geography class which was being …

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