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“They Not Like Us” - Who Actually Won The Drake Vs. Kendrick Beef?, Israel Mbatai

Dean James E. McLeod Freshman Writing Prize

In the spring of 2024, two of hip-hop's biggest names, Drake and Kendrick Lamar, ignited a rap battle that dominated headlines, playlists, and streaming platforms. What started as humorous lyrical jabs quickly escalated into character defamation and conspiracy theories within three swift weeks. Fans quickly picked sides as streams skyrocketed, and media platforms blew up. Yet beneath the hype, this was not just another clash of egos; it was a cultural spectacle between two influential giants. This paper argues that while Drake and Lamar have been cast as the central figures of this lyrical war, neither of them truly comes …

Understanding The Role Of Hope On The African American Identity Through James Vanderzee's Wedding Day Harlem, 1926, Kerri Greene

Dean James E. McLeod Freshman Writing Prize

This essay explores how hope among migrants of the Great Migration was shaped by positive depictions of African Americans in photography, particularly through the work of Harlem Renaissance photographer James VanDerZee. It argues that these images offered migrants a vision of their desired futures, but true hope depended on the actions taken to realize those visions.

Can You Hear The Music? Reexamining The Gender Gap In Physics, Camille Johnson

Dean James E. McLeod Freshman Writing Prize

Examining the gender gap in physics through looking at physics’ reliance on “physical intuition” and how it impacts women in physics. Among STEM disciplines, physics stands out for its persistent and striking gender imbalance. While gender disparities exist across all science fields, physics consistently reports some of the lowest levels of female participation. According to a 2017-2021 study by the American Physical Society, only 23% of bachelor’s degrees were awarded to women, in stark contrast to 42% in math, 52% in chemistry, and 64% in biological sciences. This sharp divide highlights how physics remains uniquely gendered, even within the broader …

If Father Was Mother: Gendering Leadership In The Film Conclave, Theseus Kreicbergs

Dean James E. McLeod Freshman Writing Prize

An exploration of Roman Catholic gender roles and their related real-life discourses via the 2024 film Conclave, based on the novel by Robert Harris

Leveraging Ownership: Comparative Analysis Of Old North And Pruitt-Igoe, Ben Stephens

Dean James E. McLeod Freshman Writing Prize

This paper compares the failed top-down development of St. Louis' Pruitt-Igoe with the community-based efforts of the Old North neighborhood.

Translanguaging: Leveraging Theoretical Shifts Toward Social Change, Sara E. Vogel, Ofelia Garcia

Publications and Research

Translanguaging posits that all people make meaning, communicate, and learn by orchestrating heterogeneous features from a unitary repertoire in ways that defy named languages and other socially constructed language categorizations. In this chapter, we share insights about translanguaging theory for applied linguistics by revisiting themes we surfaced in an encyclopedia article we authored a half-decade ago, specifically reconsidering our 2017 tenets in light of scholarship that has (a) deepened translanguaging's relationships to dismantling social and political hierarchies; (b) emphasized how translanguaging has been used to highlight the heterogeneity of all language-in-use, and not just the practices of those people recognized …

Increasing Humanities And Stem Pipelines: Associations Between Student Characteristics And Academic Outcomes, David Wutchiett, A. W. Logue, Zun Tang, Vita Rabinowitz

Publications and Research

Humanities and STEM disciplines may face shortages of college graduates, particularly from underrepresented demographic groups. Using multilevel generalized linear models, we evaluated associations between student characteristics and 6-10-year academic outcomes in humanities and STEM pipelines from associate’s major declaration through post-enrollment wages among 92,169 first-time community college students. Nonarts humanities majors were more likely to graduate and begin graduate study. STEM majors earned higher wages after terminating their studies. To increase the output and diversity of the humanities and STEM pipelines, students’early selection of humanities-related majors should be increased, and STEM students’persistence and degree completion should be prioritized.

Ebony Patterson’S …Things Come To Thrive…In The Shedding…In The Molting… (2023) As Intervention, Renee Mcgarry

Publications and Research

This paper examines the use of horticulture and botany in Ebony Patterson's 2023 exhibition at the New York Botanical Garden, …things come to thrive…in the shedding…in the molting… as it relates to the history of NYBG, the Bronx, and the populations that historically and currently reside in the borough. Using plants, blown glass, and glittering styrofoam forms, Patterson productively intervenes in the relationship between an historic, prestigious institution and a changed borough that, since the 1990s, has been walled off from the Garden. The exhibition highlights the tension between community and institution and offers up a new way of understanding …

Tsai Today (2025), Southern Methodist University, Dedman School Of Law, Tsai Center For Law, Science And Innovation

Tsai Today

No abstract provided.

Rowling Record 2025, The Robert B. Rowling Center For Business Law & Leadership

Rowling Record

No abstract provided.

The Quad (The 2025 Alumni Magazine), Southern Methodist University, Dedman School Of Law

The Quad (Law Alumni Magazine), 1988-present

• Celebrating a Century of Legal Excellence
• Dedman Family Honored
• Jurist in Residence: Chief Judge Jeffrey Sutton
• International Alumni Spotlight: Mauricio Celis '19
• Honoring Chief Justice Nathan L. Hecht '74
• Trailblazer lecture series
• Faculty Spotlights: Professors Hillel J. Bavli, Christine Hurt, Marc I. Steinberg, and Jenia Iontcheva Turner

Opportunities For Inter-Cultural Awareness In The Education Of Dental Hygienists, Elizabeth J. Sandell, Lynnette Engeswick

Elementary and Literacy Education Department Publications

Professional standards require that dental hygienists deliver culturally appropriate services and demonstrate respect for patients whose cultural beliefs and values may conflict with normative clinical recommendations. The present study provided a snapshot of undergraduate students in one dental hygiene education program about the students' Intercultural competence (ICC): "the capability to understand and adapt behavior to cultural differences and commonality accurately." Rather than a longitudinal study of a student cohort, investigators sought to understand if program outcomes were congruent with the stated visions and missions of the university, co llege, and department. The participants completed an Informed Consent before taking the …

Foreign Language Instruction In Germany And The Influence Of Multilingualism On Literacy, Rachel Pokornowski

International Professional Development Partnerships (IPDP) Consortium

As part of Buffalo State University’s IPDS (International Professional Development Schools) Germany program, I was granted the opportunity to spend two weeks observing in various schools around Stuttgart, Germany. This study focuses on the methods and practices used to teach English (foreign language) in German schools, and the quick rate at which students appear to pick up the language. The findings of this study could be beneficial to schools in the United States as they may consider using similar practices to teach foreign languages, which would in turn increase students’ literacy skills.

Intriguing Factors In Chilean Classrooms, Estefany Vargas

International Professional Development Partnerships (IPDP) Consortium

This project reports on student interactions in formal and informal settings at three schools in Santiago, Chile. Of specific interest was the relationship between culture and off-task behaviors in the Chilean context. Observations were conducted during classroom visits and recess as part of the IPDS Chile program. To gather additional information, group conversations with the students and teachers took place. Reflection was used to analyze the information gathered and consider the implications for my practice as a future educator.

Germany: Developing Positive Self-Efficacy, Jarrett Whipple

International Professional Development Partnerships (IPDP) Consortium

Through the Buffalo State University IPDS program, I spent two weeks in Germany observing at a wide variety of primary and secondary schools across several different classes. While initial observations were conducted in the Black Forest, most of my observations were conducted in Stuttgart in the Merz, Hegel, and Immanuel Kant Gymnasiums. This study explores how student self efficacy may be supported and developed through both schools and classroom instructional practices. This research can have positive benefits across grade and class types, as student self perception is relevant across grade levels and subject areas.

Exploring Sel In International Inquiry-Based Music Classrooms, Cameron Juzdowski

International Professional Development Partnerships (IPDP) Consortium

From March to May of 2025, I travelled to Siena, Italy to fulfill half of my student teaching requirements with The Michael and Nancy Chicola International Professional Development Schools Consortium. During this eight-week program, I taught music at the International School of Siena in elementary and secondary inquiry-based classrooms. This study examined how elements of social-emotional learning (SEL) manifested in an inquiry-based, international music classroom. Specifically, I wondered what elements of SEL could be observed within the inquiry music classes in Siena.

Christopher Columbus In The Us And Colombia, Declan Morrow

International Professional Development Partnerships (IPDP) Consortium

This survey investigated the differences in the teaching of the Italian explorer Christopher Columbus across lingual and cultural boundaries. By examining educational systems and curriculum in both the United States and Colombia, this study aimed to identify how historical narratives surrounding Columbus are framed. A focus was also placed on identifying differences between the systems and any potentially Eurocentric perspectives. The survey looked at the influences of national identity, cultural values, and historical interpretation in shaping the portrayal of Columbus in the American and Colombian classrooms. Through this cross-cultural analysis, the study contributes to a deeper understanding of how historical …

Xi: Dwelling Writing Thinking: Traces Of Being Songs Of Elduvík Hölderlin’S “In Lovely Blue…” Remembrance The Ister, Charles S. Taylor

Wine Journey: Tasting Dwelling Learning at The Kitchen Table

Lieblicher Cousin Holz / Beloved cousin Holz, welcome once again to my Gehäus! 1 2Please make yourself comfortable on this bench beside me. Remembered conversations bring us back here. New questions to share. Neither of us has a guess where we will ramble during the adventure. Thinking about your beloved Ister / Donau / Danube flowing through the Schwarzwald / Black Forest we found our way, unexpectedly, to Kant’s Erhabene / Sublime. Only after making a visit north of Norway to Svalbard. Der Ister, begins with you calling for daylight allowing you to carefully, reverently observe what will present itself …

The Extension Newsletter, Issue 116, Winter 116, Wright State University Retirees Association

The Extension Newsletter

An eight page newsletter from the Wright State University's Retirees Association.

The Special Issue “The 20th Anniversary Of Pharmaceuticals—Multi-Targeted Natural Products As Therapeutics” Editorial—Multi-Targeted Therapeutics From Natural Sources: What Do We Know?, Elena Y. Enioutina, Katheleen M. Job, Catherine M.T. Sherwin

Pediatrics Faculty Publications

Herbal and marine products in the form of extracts, infusions, and decoctions have been used for centuries in folk and traditional medicine. Preparations typically contain multiple biologically active compounds. The World Health Organization (WHO) estimated that about 65% of consumers worldwide use natural remedies containing bioactive molecules to treat various diseases [1]. Most single-molecule drugs of natural origin were developed in the middle of the 20th century through the active screening of natural products for bioactive molecules [2]. Examples include artemisinin, cyclosporine, taxol, doxorubicin, and many others. However, at the beginning of the 21st century, we saw a decline in …

Justice, Common Good, And Connectivity: A Thomistic Evaluation Of The Role Of Social Media In Shaping Global Integration, J S. Booth

Master's Theses

The growing influence of social media presents important implications for global integration and governance where platforms can rapidly be leveraged to promote cohesion, a sense of community or, sadly, as a powerful tool for societal fragmentation. The challenges and potential benefits of social media usage are examined in the context of a State’s integration responsibilities from a Thomistic ethical and moral perspective which emphasizes the need for justice and promotion of the common good. An assessment will be included on how social media platforms have been utilized to inform and mis-inform citizens under recent governmental integration campaigns and disintegration efforts …

Impact Of Apixaban, Edoxaban, And Rivaroxaban On International Normalized Ratio, David Hwang, Nicole J. Asal

Pharmacy Practice and Clinical Research Faculty Publications

Poster presented by David Hwang, URI Pharm.D. Candidate 2026, and Professor Nicole Asal at the 2025 American College of Clinical Pharmacy Annual Meeting (virtual).

Characteristics Of United States Peer Mentoring Programs In Colleges And Schools Of Pharmacy, Morgan J. Murphy, Nicole J. Asal

Pharmacy Practice and Clinical Research Faculty Publications

No abstract provided.

The Economics Of Healthcare Fraud, Jetson Leder-Luis, Anup Malani

Public Law and Legal Theory Working Papers

Healthcare fraud imposes a sizable cost on U.S. public healthcare budgets and distorts health care provision. We examine the economics of health care fraud and enforcement using theory and data and connect to a growing literature on the topic. We first offer a new economic definition of health care fraud that captures and connects the wide range of activities prosecuted as fraud. We define fraud as any divergence between the care an insurer says a patient qualifies for, the care a provider provides, and the care a provider bills for. Our definition clarifies the economic consequences of different categories of …

Can Ai Hold Office Hours?, Lisa Larrimore Ouellette, Amy R. Motomura, Jason Reinecke, Jonathan S. Masur

Public Law and Legal Theory Working Papers

Rapid improvements in AI tools offer transformative opportunities in legal education, including the possibility of students using AI tools to answer questions that students might otherwise ask during office hours. But a critical challenge is the accuracy of these tools’ responses. Both general-purpose and law-specific AI models have been shown to “hallucinate” incorrect responses to a range of legal questions. Here, we evaluate the current capabilities of AI models when given the more constrained task of answering questions about a specific legal text. We provided three AI tools—OpenAI’s GPT-4o, Anthropic’s Claude 3.5 Sonnet, and Google’s NotebookLM—with the text of Masur …

From Wtp To Wtf: Valuation And Distributive Discourse, Lee Anne Fennell

Public Law and Legal Theory Working Papers

No abstract provided.

Islands Of Algorithmic Integrity: Imagining A Democratic Digital Public Sphere, Aziz Z. Huq

Public Law and Legal Theory Working Papers

This essay offers a new analytic lens for evaluating the design of digital platforms from the perspective of democratic values. It develops a model of desirable platform design, and them ask present legal interventions move is toward that aspiration. The aspirational model is not draws on an idea found in the scholarly literatures in political science and sociology about economic development . This is the notion that development policy should aim to seed “islands of integrity,” into patrimonial or nepotistic state structures as a way of building foundations for a more robust and hence public-regarding state apparatus. This literature explores …

Structural Logics Of Presidential Immunity, Aziz Z. Huq

Public Law and Legal Theory Working Papers

In Trump v. United States, the Supreme Court wrought two new presidential immunities from criminal prosecution. Supplemented by a pair of penumbral evidentiary rules, these inhibit criminal indictment or conviction of the president, and indeed many subordinate officials, across many imaginable fact-patterns. The Court justified this result on consequentialist, not originalist or precedential, grounds. But its analysis of immunity’s effects was radically incomplete. It focused narrowly on the person of the president, eschewing any attempt to situate or relate that individual’s incentives and behavior to the wider institutional contexts of the executive branch at large or the partisan-political environment of …

Stubhub For Courts? Technology, Markets, And New Solutions To Court Congestion, Ronen Avraham, William H. J. Hubbard

Public Law and Legal Theory Working Papers

Rescheduling of court hearings is ubiquitous but virtually ignored by academic scholarship. This is so, despite its contributions to court congestion, a perennial problem for courts that has been the subject of repeated, and repeatedly unsuccessful, efforts at reform. In this Article, we aim to show that rescheduling merits scholarly attention, and by diagnosing why and how it contributes to court congestion and delay, we both explain why most efforts at reducing delay fail and identify new possibilities for speeding up dockets. We draw inspiration from online platforms such as StubHub and SpareFare, technologies that have facilitated rescheduling through easy-to-use …

Owning Marriage In Robinson's Gilead Novels, Lee Anne Fennell

Public Law and Legal Theory Working Papers

No abstract provided.