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Recreational Activity Handbook, Aisha Naz Ansari, Sadia Muzaffar Bhutta

Institute for Educational Development Pakistan (IED-PK) Archives

A thoughtfully designed resource for children in areas where attending school in person has become more challenging.

Annual Report 2025 Cime Pakistan & East Africa, Cime

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Urgent Expertise, Explored Together: A Scholarly Communication Peer-Mentoring Group, Alex Crowley, Lily Susman, Rosemary Farrell, Michael Kahn, Carrie Jedlicka, Eric Silberberg, Michelle Ehrenpreis, Marta Bladek, Jill Cirasella

Publications and Research

In Spring 2025, the authors participated in a structured peer-mentoring program designed to deepen their knowledge of scholarly communication topics and issues. In this article, based on our panel at the 2025 LACUNY Institute, we share our perspectives on the program and discuss how current events are making scholarly communication expertise more essential than ever.

Multiplicity, Belonging, And Free Speech In Us Higher Education: Thriving Through Current Crises, Naomi Zack

Publications and Research

New realities in U.S. higher education present a multifaceted crisis for students, faculty, administrators, and society at large. This book provides incisive diagnoses of pressing problems and prescriptions to reinstate and support U.S. higher education as an intellectually and ethically valuable institution.

Childhood Adversity, Stress Management, And Reactions To Sensitive Content: A Latent Profile Analysis Of Undergraduates, Jessica D. Cless, Carol A. Johnston, Briana S. Nelson Goff, Olivia K. Edwards

Human Development and Family Science Faculty Publications

Current rates of adverse childhood experiences (ACEs) in undergraduate students point to a need for evaluating the impact of these events on student well-being, particularly in the context of courses that contain sensitive and trauma-based content. The current latent profile analysis study included 94 students and sought to identify patterns of exposure to adversity, stress management, and self-reported experiences in a trauma-based undergraduate course. Profile results indicated three distinct groups, interpreted as low-ACE exposure, moderate-ACE exposure, and high-ACE exposure. Student perceptions of sensitive course content were generally favorable across groups, suggesting that despite varying levels of prior adversity and stress …

Hope For Louisiana’S Coast: From Catastrophic Loss To Transient Gain, Richard Condrey, Brian D. Marx, Frank Saforo, Rudy Bartels

Faculty Publications

Louisiana’s fifty-billion-dollar coastal restoration plan relies on selected interpretations of a small dataset of coastwide land measurements. In the 1990’s, the plan’s founders used a mathematically impossible interpretation of an improbable manipulation of the initial (1932-1990) dataset to justify their misconceptions regarding natural conditions; delta-switching; and a failing, 60-year restoration goal. In 2017, the dataset was updated to 2016 and used to suggest that land loss had slowed to -28 km2/yr (-1 football field/100 min) since 2010. We find that the dataset does not support this suggestion. Rather, we find the dataset supports our hypothesis that increasing precipitation in the …

The Bone Lady: Life As A Forensic Anthropologist: Book Review, Dakota Taylor

Nebraska Anthropologist

Review of The Bone Lady: Life as a Forensic Anthropologist (2000) by M. H. Manhein.

The Black-Market Commodification Of Human Organs And Bones: A Marxist Perspective, Erik Schulz

Nebraska Anthropologist

The trade and treatment of human remains, while seemingly straightforward, have increasingly become subjects of ethical and moral debate. Over time and in light of recent events, questions have emerged regarding the appropriateness of how human remains are handled and exchanged. This paper examines these issues through the lens of Marxist framework and the perspective of forensic anthropology. The objective is to provide contextual understanding and encourage a reevaluation of current practices, particularly within academic settings, to ensure that human morals, dignity and ethical standards are upheld.

Review Of The Land Of Open Graves: Living And Dying On The Migrant Trail, Maggie M. Klemm

Nebraska Anthropologist

The Land of Open Graves: Living and Dying on the Migrant Trail (2015), authored by Jason De León, is a crucial and important read which examines the United States’ contemporary immigration policy. The federal government program, Prevention through Deterrence, aims to prevent illegal immigration through expanding border enforcement. Instead of deterring people, this program pushes them to the hostile terrain of the Sonoran Desert. The author of this text argues that the desert is utilized as a tool of border enforcement as it perpetrates violence to those who attempt to cross the border, as well as their loved ones. …

Review Of Digging For The Disappeared: Forensic Science After Atrocity, Abigail Vaughn

Nebraska Anthropologist

Since the field's development, individuals and communities involved in and affected by international forensic investigations have been confronted with many political and ethical dilemmas. The book, Digging for the Disappeared: Forensic Science After Atrocity (2015), by Adam Rosenblatt, attempts to identify and articulate the various debates surrounding humanitarian forensic work. In doing so, the author focuses on four key areas; the purpose of such investigations, the stakeholders and expectations involved, and what may realistically be accomplished. While sympathetic to the perspective of forensic practitioners, Rosenblatt presents the positions of all parties in an unbiased manner, introducing the reader to …

Review Of The Land Of Open Graves: Living And Dying On The Migrant Trail, Lillie Turpin

Nebraska Anthropologist

Jason De León’s The Land of Open Graves: Living and Dying on the Migrant Trailis (2015), a raw and unwavering multidisciplinary exploration of the human cost of United States border policies, and this review reflects on his ability to meld ethnography, archaeology, forensic science, and narrative. De León exposes the brutal realities of the Sonoran Desert, where the U.S. policy of Prevention Through Deterrence (PTD) turns the landscape itself into a weapon. PTD directs illegal immigration away from more populated areas and instead towards the harsh deserts found occupying the border. De León holds a commitment to honoring the …

Should Human Remains Be On Display In Museums?, Erik Schulz

Nebraska Anthropologist

The debate of should human remains be displayed in museums, exhibits, classrooms, and other public areas has been a topic of discussion in recent years. This article aims to explore the positives and negatives of displaying remains through scientific racism, decolonization, ethics, and forensic anthropology. Although these characteristics may not always be present in a collection, they are common concerns, and they are also not the only concerns for displaying remains. The objective of examining this issue from multiple perspectives is to propose viable solutions for the ethical and appropriate display of human remains. This research will be geared more …

Georgia Southern Football Gameday Programs, Zach S. Henderson Library Special Collections

Finding Aids

The Georgia Southern Football Gameday Programs collection contains official publications produced for Georgia Southern University football games, most recently titled, Georgia Southern End Zone: The Official Publication of Eagle Football. The collection also features official gameday programs from away games, published by the hosting teams as well as special-issue editions from the postseason. These materials, spanning 1985-2009, document team rosters, coaches, statistics, and game information, offering a comprehensive record of Georgia Southern football events both at home and on the road.

Redwood Writing Project 2025 Full, Redwood Writing Project 2025

Celebrating Writers and Writing in our Communities

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Reflections, Symon Mendoza

Celebrating Writers and Writing in our Communities

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Female Athlete Trailblazers, Maple Myers

Celebrating Writers and Writing in our Communities

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Mental Disorders In Media And My Experience, Sarah Barsanti

Celebrating Writers and Writing in our Communities

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The Aga Khan Health Services - International Newsletter No. 21, Aga Khan University

The Aga Khan Health Services Archives

• Dr. Mahler visits Aga Khan University

• Dutch Medical Team and Aga Khan Health Services Collaborate

• Hopkins Holmberg Appointed Executive Director

• Research on Delivery Traditions in Kisumu

• Health and Nutrition Workshop for Day Care Teachers in India

• Rotary Club Presents Wheel Chairs to Dar-e-Salaam Hospital

• Student Nurses Teach Nutrition to Mothers

• Upgrading of Janbai Maternity Home Completed in Karachi

• First Midwifery Graduation at University Campus

• Dr. Cheves McCord Smythe

• Islamic Medicine After Ibn Sina

• Premier Tobacco and Pakistan Petroleum Support Aga Khan University

• Community Health Programme Launched in …

An Integrated Approach Can Improve China’S Food Additives Security, Qian Li, Jingru Hou, Jennifer S. Stevenson, Cihui Liu

Faculty Articles

In China, the development of food additives remains a critical challenge in food additives security research. We discuss an integrated approach that can improve China’s food additives security, including technical management, standards implementation, and punitive damages regime. Through this integration, we identify that technical management, standards implementation, and punitive damages regime are each complementary to each other. Technical management helps reduce the inherent risks of food additives beforehand. Standards implementation helps prevent and control risks of food additives use halfway. Punitive damages regime helps relieve secondary risks arising from food additives use. Crucially, this integration enhances the suitability of food …

Lost Fatherhood: Including Fathers In The Post-Dobbs Abortion Debate, Linda L. Schlueter

Faculty Articles

Scientific studies over the last five decades show the negative impact an abortion can have on the men who fathered the aborted children. These studies demonstrate that those men-even if they supported the woman's decision to have an abortion-can experience a variety of psychological problems including depression, anger, hopelessness, helplessness, broken or damaged relationships, feelings of emasculation, and loneliness. Despite these compelling studies, little or no real attention is given to involving men in the legal debate regarding abortion. The abortion debate presents a legal Rubik's Cube of thorny issues that can affect the mother, the father, and the unborn …

Do Bankruptcy Judges Belong In Chambers? Rethinking Inherent Civil Contempt Power In Bankruptcy, Abigail B. Willie

Faculty Articles

The bankruptcy court is the face of the federal judiciary to much of the American public. Almost as many cases are filed in bankruptcy courts every year as are filed in the federal district courts and circuit courts combined. And in each bankruptcy case, there are often dozens or more affected parties. As such, it is critical that the public has confidence in the role of the bankruptcy court and its judges. Yet, since the creation of the Bankruptcy Code in 1978, the non-Article III bankruptcy system has faced seemingly never-ending challenges to subject matter jurisdiction in the bankruptcy context …

Consumer Claims For Insurance Company Drone Surveillance, Chad J. Pomeroy

Faculty Articles

Many people do not own their homes outright-they finance the purchase of their home by taking out a mortgage against it. This typically means that the homeowner is contractually obligated to do a number of things-like pay real property taxes, keep the property in good condition, and keep it insured, even as prices skyrocket. But even worse, the pool of providers is materially shrinking with some insurers now either not writing or limiting new policies or tightening underwriting standards in some markets. Insurance companies pull out of markets because they cannot make enough money in those markets to be profitable. …

A Workable Common Law Baseline For Regulatory Takings, Adam J. Macleod

Faculty Articles

Rights to use property are property rights. The Takings Clause of the Fifth Amendment requires governments to provide just compensation when they take property. In our constitutional republic, legislatures are competent to change the law, and legal changes sometimes alter private rights, including use rights. The Takings Clause does not forbid such legal changes. It only requires compensation for property rights taken as a result.

To give use rights the constitutional protection that the Takings Clause requires, courts need a baseline of rightful property use to show when a change in the law that adversely affects use rights amounts to …

The Uniform Code Of Military Justice At 75: Reflections On The Transformation Of The American Military Justice System, David A. Schlueter

Faculty Articles

The Eighteenth George S. Prugh Lecture in Military Legal History by Professor David A. Schlueter: The Uniform Code of Military Justice at 75: Reflections on the Transformation of the American Military Justice System

The Sovereign Acre, Match Dawson

Faculty Articles

What if the next constitutional crisis is not declared from a presidential podium but tyranny forged into a deed? Not a contested election. Not a rogue legislature. Not even a runaway court. This time, it is quieter—with a deed signed and title passed, a new sovereign is crowned in private ink. Across the country, billionaire land grabs are redrawing the map of municipal governance itself. As wealthy elites and corporate oligarchs carve out private enclaves—from the privatized contract city of Sandy Springs, Georgia, to the unsettling governance of The Woodlands, Texas—we bear witness to public sovereignty giving way to oligarchic …

How To Let A Democracy Die: “First,…Let’S Kill All The Lawyers” And Other Lessons From The Bard, Jena Martin

Faculty Articles

This article serves to provide a much-needed perspective on how international legal mechanisms (or the lack thereof) impact democratic in institutions.

From Cigarettes To Cereal: Analyzing The Rise, Peak, And Fall Of Ultra-Processed Foods And The Legal Battle Against Industry Food Deception, Charlotte F. Baird

SMU Science and Technology Law Review

This Comment explores the legal, regulatory, and public health dimensions of ultra-processed foods (UPFs) in the United States and abroad, revealing the urgent need for comprehensive reform. It traces the historical evolution of UPFs, exposing how Big Tobacco strategically pivoted into the food industry after facing public backlash and regulatory crackdowns with cigarettes and tobacco products. Using the same research tactics, behavioral manipulation, and aggressive marketing practices once employed to sell cigarettes, Big Tobacco companies repurposed their corporate expertise to engineer food designed for potential addiction, overconsumption, and profit, while often targeting children and marginalized communities. This Comment critically examines …

Incremental Innovation, George Horvath

SMU Science and Technology Law Review

Transformative innovations—the ones that use new technologies to disrupt the world—command our attention. But most new products are the result of a more mundane process of incremental iterative innovation, evolving through a long series of small modifications of existing technologies. Although both kinds of innovation can result in improved safety and utility, both can also create new dangers. We tend to be more aware of this in trans- formative innovations (as current worries over artificial intelligence show); by contrast, dangers created by incremental iterative innovation often go unrecognized, because the process itself is easy to overlook. Policymakers and regulators need …

Shutting Down The Supply Chain Pipeline Of Counterfeit Goods Running From Alibaba To Amazon, Daniel C. Chow

SMU Science and Technology Law Review

An immense supply chain pipeline constantly funnels millions of counterfeit goods from Alibaba’s e-commerce sites in China to third party sellers who sell these goods on Amazon to U.S. consumers. Amazon has acknowledged that it has a problem with counterfeits on its e-commerce sites, but its current responses to counterfeiting are primarily performative and intended to pacify disgruntled brand owners and frustrated consumers. Amazon’s responses will likely have little or no effect on counterfeits on its websites. This Article sets forth a direct and straightforward method for shutting down or seriously disrupting this pipeline based on using China’s existing laws. …

Disenchanting Consent, Ruifeng Song

SMU Science and Technology Law Review

Despite being criticized as a flawed mechanism for data protection, con- sent has witnessed a revival in the recent wave of state privacy statutes. One factor that contributed to the revival may be the widely held belief that con- sent constitutes the “cornerstone” of data privacy laws. This Article conducts a comparative historical survey to examine the validity of this belief. The findings are twofold. First, contrary to what many believe, consent has been playing a limited role in global data privacy laws. Second, consent is an inherently defective mechanism for data protection. Some of its problems have existed since …