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"A Fate For Fire”: A Review Of Knife On Snow By Alice Major, Kate Rogers

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A review of Knife on Snow, by Alice Major.

Something About Mothers, Alana Firedancer

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Poem by Alana Firedancer.

Quand Le Plastique Envahit L’Écriture De Soi : L’Exemple De Karl Ove Knausgård, Camille Deschamps Vierø

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In “Quand le plastique envahit l’écriture du quotidien : l’exemple de Karl Ove Knausgård,” Camille Deschamps Vierø considers the Anthropocene through the optic of plastic in the works of the Norwegian author, Karl Ove Knausgård. Tracing plastic through Knausgård’s årstidencyklopedien, or “encyclopedia of seasons”—four autobiographical books titled for the four seasons—Deschamps Vierø shows how this operates simultaneously on the personal and planetary scales through its impossibly long decomposition time. This reading extends to environmental critiques in the text, which appear, sometimes banally and at other times socio-politically, like plastic itself, strewn through the author’s life writing.

Watercolours From The Garbage Poems, April White

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Cover art by April White. Watercolours adapted from The Garbage Poems.

Two Poems: White Sands And Superare, Lauren Camp

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Lauren Camp recycles and resettles emotion in “White Sands” and “Superare.”

Review Of Earth To Tables Legacies: Multimedia Food Conversations Across Generations And Cultures By Deborah Berndt, Lauren E. Baker, And Alexandra Gelis With The Earth To Table Legacies Collaborators, Daniel Coleman

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Book review of Review of Earth to Tables Legacies: Multimedia Food Conversations across Generations and Cultures by Deborah Berndt, Lauren E. Baker, and Alexandra Gelis with the Earth to Table Legacies Collaborators.

The Waking Glacier: A High Arctic Lyric (Excerpts), Dianne Chisholm

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These excerpts are drawn from “The Waking Glacier: A High Arctic Lyric,” a book-length series of lyrical passages that chronicle and reflect upon a tall-ship artist residency around Svalbard archipelago in Norway’s high Arctic.

Tenacious Resins And Residues: Oil Propaganda In Architectural Digest During The Energy Crises Of The 1970s, Banafsheh Mohammadi

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Architectural Digest was first published in 1920 by John C. Brasfield, a California-based publisher. In 1933, the magazine was purchased by Condé Nast and has since become a popular design magazine, particularly in North America, known for its visually vibrant and abundant advertisements. Car advertisements are among the most recurring ads featured in the magazine. Through an archival investigation of Architectural Digest magazines from 1973 to 1983, I investigate how, if at all, car advertisements in the magazine reflected the 1973 and 1979 oil crises.

The 1979 global energy crisis was a period of high energy prices and supply …

Two Poems: Detour And Galway Famine Ship Memorial, Kelly Norah Drukker

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Kelly Norah Drukker offers two poems: "Detour" and “Galway Famine Ship Memorial.”

This Did Not Have To Happen, Moira Walker

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An elegiac poem on the cost to the planet and to all life on earth of the manufacture, use, and disposal of plastic products.

Found: Three Trashed Poems, Tanis Macdonald

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Three poems about garbage, what is leftover and found.

Philip's Mountain, Georgia Maeve Tarr

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Philip’s Mountain is a collection of poems about the interface between a young woman and a trash laden mountain forest in Cape Breton, Nova Scotia. It explores the desire to trace ecological and cultural memory by rummaging through an increasingly impermeable layer of waste.

Video Poem: What Remains, Edie Steiner

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What Remainsis a three-minute poetry film I created to address the issue of “becoming-with” (Wright 2014). In the film, I document two large-scale, public-art spectacles I witnessed in Toronto, as historical markers of collective becoming-with. I contrast super-8mm film footage of the 1984 outdoor public performance “Shibola” at the Bell Trinity Square building in Toronto, by the Japanese Butoh dance group Sankai Juku, with digital video of “A Tribute to Toronto,” Judy Chicago’s 2022 Smoke Sculpture on the Toronto waterfront. I then intercut these images with digital recordings of ruins and relics, both ancient and modern, merging as …

Review Of Ecologies Of A Storied Planet In The Anthropocene By Serpil Oppermann, Mailyn Abreu Toribio

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A review of Ecologies of a Storied Planet in the Anthropocene, by Serpil Oppermann.

Review Of Empty Spaces By Jordan Abel, Brennan Mccracken

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A book review of Jordan Abel's Empty Spaces.

Trespass To Chattel And The Fourth Amendment, Will Baskin

Texas A&M Journal of Property Law

Like an adolescent maturing into adulthood, Fourth Amendment search doctrine has gone through phases. Scholars may debate the underlying principles that have governed each phase, but they agree that two Supreme Court decisions dominate the doctrine as it stands today: Katz v. United States and United States v. Jones. The younger of these two rivals, Jones, has caused its share of consternation. Courts have struggled to consistently apply its trespass-based test, despite the test’s seemingly simple formulation. This Note considers the Jones test in the context of personal property, or chattel, making two arguments: first, careful adherence to common-law principles …

World Wide Whac-A-Mole: The Inadequacies Of The Dmca To Protect Copyright Holders Online And Why Artificial Intelligence Is The Solution, Nathania Davis-Fox

Texas A&M Journal of Property Law

Congress created the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA) at the dawn of the internet age 25 years ago. It addressed the needs and concerns of Online Service Providers (OSPs) in the nascent cyber landscape, but the DMCA must now be reformed to meet the needs of Web 2.0. The DMCA’s refusal to condition §512(c) safe harbor protection on OSPs’ platform monitoring is no longer practical. This now produces results contrary to the Copyright Act’s purpose of encouraging the creation and dissemination of new works. Copyright owners are fighting a losing battle against infringing OSP users and the DMCA’s notice-and-takedown procedures …

We Are All Strays Now (Now), Grace Moore

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Drawing on ideas of kinship and straying, this piece of creative non-fiction considers my relationship with a "neighbourhood cat," dying from a coronavirus, just prior to the beginning of the Covid-19 pandemic. It addresses how we make kin with strays, and the ways in which animals insert themselves into human lives.

Three Days In April, Erna Buffie

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Three Days in April was written in April 2022. It is a kind of personal meditation on the impact of climate change and the death of Dr. David Barber, environmental scientist and global expert on the Arctic.

Mining Waste In The Himalayas, Leslie Leong

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Materiality is a key aspect of the fourteen artworks I created over one month as Artist-in-Residence at Sagarmatha Next, the experience centre for sustainable tourism in the Khumbu region of Nepal. My intention with the residency is to create work from the human discards that accumulate in the area around Mount Everest, known as Sagarmatha in Nepali. The artwork I created during this residency are deeply rooted in the materiality of their components and serve as powerful commentaries on environmental issues, the passage of time, and the potential for transformation inherent in discarded materials. Through the deliberate use of waste, …

My Art Is Garbage, Beth Shepherd

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In “My Art is Garbage,” I describe three recent art projects where garbage is both a theme and an artistic medium used to critique the overuse of and inability to reuse or safely dispose of plastics we use every day. The first work, Untitled (Plastic Film Balls), uses non-recyclable single-use household plastic made to form an installation of shimmering balls and alludes to the environmental footprint of the artworld. Plastic Shores, a series of monotype prints, reminds us that plastics in the environment are deleterious to species that we see every day. Finally Plastic Pests, a series …

Beach Finds, Gina M. Granter

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This photo series, Beach Finds, is all from the beach of my hometown in Rocky Harbour, Newfoundland, from walks I took in the early spring of 2021. Particularly after storms, there would be an abundance of garbage washed ashore. I found a stick from a Buried Treasure ice cream treat that I had not seen since the 1980s; fabric flowers that had blown from the town’s seaside cemeteries into the water and back to land; hand-woven fishing nets that were now grounded; a tampon applicator that reminded me of the first one I ever saw as a child, on …

Ksu Opera - Spring Performance

Bailey School of Music Concert Programs

What Magic Reveals and A Game of Chance

Antisense Oligonucleotide-Mediated Tra2Β Poison Exon Inclusion Induces The Expression Of A Lncrna With Anti-Tumor Effects., Nathan Leclair, Mattia Brugiolo, Sunghee Park, Maeva Devoucoux, Laura M Urbanski, Brittany Lynn Angarola, Marina Yurieva, Olga Anczuków

Faculty Research 2025

Upregulated expression of the oncogenic splicing factor TRA2β occurs in human tumors partly through decreased inclusion of its autoregulatory non-coding poison exon (PE). Here, we reveal that low TRA2β-PE inclusion negatively impacts patient survival across several tumor types. We demonstrate the ability of splice-switching antisense oligonucleotides (ASOs) to promote TRA2β-PE inclusion and lower TRA2β protein levels in pre-clinical cancer models. TRA2β-PE-targeting ASOs induce anti-cancer phenotypes and widespread transcriptomic alterations with functional impact on RNA processing, mTOR, and p53 signaling pathways. Surprisingly, the effect of TRA2β-PE-targeting ASOs on cell viability are not phenocopied by TRA2β knockdown. Mechanistically, we find that the …

Rising Tides And Shifting Sands: Inadequacies In American Climate Responses And An Urgent Call For A Federal Climate Adaptation Policy, Armand J. Avila

Texas A&M Journal of Property Law

Climate change is an increasingly prevalent issue in policy discussions across the United States. Its effects can be observed and measured across ecosystems, industries, and legal jurisdictions, and it is felt in the homes of the people who live and work at the forefront of its impacts. Yet, the federal government’s current policies incentivize states, localities, and private citizens to make poor climate decisions and to put themselves at risk, leading to population growth and property development in some of the most at-risk areas of the country. At the same time, the federal government operates on an outdated disaster response …

The Impact Of Artificial Intelligence On Lending: A New Form Of Redlining?, Sadie Cavazos

Texas A&M Journal of Property Law

The issue of biased lending is longstanding and has faced much legislation over the past few decades. When issues of discrimination in the housing market became center stage in the 1960s, Congress passed multiple acts to combat what became known as “redlining,” or systematically denying credit to minority groups of people. Acts such as the Fair Housing Act and the Equal Credit Opportunity Act worked to eliminate this discrimination, but that does not mean bias does not still exist. However, lending companies, due to the efforts of the above-enumerated acts, can no longer act on these biases. But with the …

Flowing Justice: Quantifying Water Rights In The Wake Of Arizona V. Navajo Nation—Navigating The Legal Oasis For Native American Water Sovereignty, Sydney Shearouse

Texas A&M Journal of Property Law

Climate change has spurred a meteoric rise in environmental disputes particularly in arid climates where water shortages have become increasingly commonplace. Water rights controversies rise to the fore of public discourse as awareness and acceptance of climate change—and its impact on scarce resources—have become a near universal norm. These water shortages impact everyone. However, Native American tribes are uniquely impacted as their water rights are not clearly defined in the treaties that established the various reservations. The Supreme Court decided in Winters v. United States (1908) that there is a fiduciary duty owed to Native American tribes by the federal …

Requiem For A Gull: Two Poems, Joanna Streetly

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A seabird’s death is mourned through “Requiem for a Gull” by Joanna Streetly, while "Dip & Skim" exlores the omnipresent nature of waste.

Reflexiones Sobre Comunicación, Colaboración Y Convergencia, Primera Edición: Modelos Estratégicos Para Educación E Investigación Stem [Ebook], James Lipuma Ph.D., Cristo Leon Ph.D., Victor Hugo Guzmán Zarate Ph.D., John Wolf Ph.D.

STEM for Success Resources

Este libro explora más de cinco años de experiencia investigativa y práctica en torno a los sistemas de aprendizaje y educación, especialmente relacionados con Ciencia, Tecnología, Ingeniería y Matemáticas (STEM). Es una recopilación de ideas sobre cómo comunicarse con los actores clave para incrementar la colaboración e impulsar la convergencia. La presente colección de artículos se basa en investigaciones empíricas primarias que, en conjunto, abarcan varios años y numerosos proyectos financiados, y presenta marcos conceptuales para reflexionar sobre la transferencia de conocimiento en STEM y la formación del carácter estudiantil, así como sugerencias prácticas para la praxis cotidiana. A lo …

Lisa Rogers, Lisa Rogers, Institute Of Child Nutrition

Oral History Project (all interviews)

Lisa Rogers is a native of of Tennessee. Lisa’s professional journey includes roles in advertising, library services, and recruitment prior to getting into child nutrition. Lisa joined the Institute of Child Nutrition as a Library Specialist, eventually becoming the Associate Director of the Training Division. Lisa retired on June 30, 2023.