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Prevention Of Healthcare Associated Infections, Reese Gream, Ellie Edgine, Rayanna Geilhausen

Scholars Week

This presentation includes research on tactics that can be used in outpatient clinics to help decrease healthcare associated infections. We implemented evidence-based practice to improve the cleanliness of patient care areas and high-touch surfaces.

Meds-To-Beds Improving Medication Adherence, Hannah Draper, Regan Ashby, Ryan Rieke

Scholars Week

The Meds-to-Beds program improves medication adherence by delivering prescribed medications directly to patients before hospital discharge, ensuring timely access and reducing barriers such as transportation or pharmacy delays. By incorporating bedside education from pharmacists, patients gain a clearer understanding of their medications, which enhances confidence and proper use. This coordinated approach has been shown to decrease readmission rates and improve overall patient outcomes.

Implementing A Health Literacy Assessment To Reduce Readmissions, Saiylor M. Beecham, Jewel Render, Bethany Pruitt

Scholars Week

This presentation examines the impact of limited health literacy on patient outcomes, highlighting its role in medication errors and hospital readmissions. Grounded in Dorothea Orem’s Self-Care Deficit Theory, it emphasizes the importance of implementing standardized, non-stigmatizing health literacy assessments to improve nurse-patient communication and patient understanding. Evidence-based strategies such as teach-back methods and plain language education are recommended to enhance patient safety and reduce preventable readmissions.

Oliver, Sarah Rush

James Madison Undergraduate Research Journal (JMURJ)

In my audio piece, Oliver, I wanted to tell the story of adopting my dog in a way that felt personal but still relatable. Soundwriting is an approach to writing that treats audio as a form of research, storytelling, and communication. It encourages writers to think about how sound shapes narrative, how voice carries meaning, and how small production choices affect the way listeners engage with a piece. This approach let me do something writing alone can’t always achieve: create a more immersive experience, where tone, pacing, and the natural qualities of voice help listeners feel present in the story.

Dr. Hans Globke : AktenauszüGe, Dokumente, Reinhard Strecker

Hannah Arendt Marginalia - All

Hamburg : Rütten & Loening, ©1961.

Call # : DD247.G45 S77

Contains underlining, marginal lining and endpaper notes

PDF Information : 44 Pages, 14.5 MB

Lawyers’, Law Professors’ And Law Students’ Free Speech: The Rule Of Law, Civility, And Informed Engagement, Eli Wald

Journal of Civil Rights and Economic Development

(Excerpt)

The Article is organized as follows. Part I summarizes the traditional doctrine governing lawyers’ free speech, as well as the related doctrines of free speech, academic freedom, and tenure on college campuses. Part II explores twenty-first century developments that have thrown these old established doctrines into a state of flux.

Part III consists of three sections. The first suggests a new understanding of lawyers’ free speech, arguing that unprecedented twenty-first-century attacks on the rule of law justify recognizing a third, narrowly tailored restriction on lawyers’ free speech. In addition to the traditional restrictions grounded in protecting clients from lawyers’ …

Some Thoughts About Free Speech And Hostile Environment Discrimination On College Campuses, Mark Tushnet

Journal of Civil Rights and Economic Development

(Excerpt)

Section I examines which kinds of utterances may be considered in determining whether a hostile environment exists, and how those utterances may be taken into account. After distinguishing between targeted utterances directed at an identifiable individual and general statements that disparage a racial or nation-origin group, this Section focuses on targeted utterances.

Section II then turns to general statements, typically of a more clearly political sort. After describing the quite limited nature under which individuals can be held liable for general statements, the Section argues that such statements can be part of the “dossier” relevant to hostile environment discrimination, …

The First Amendment, Student Protest On Campus And The Law, Gene Policinski

Journal of Civil Rights and Economic Development

(Excerpt)

After a brief background on the history of student protest and free expression, this Article examines campus speech policies developed in response to student protests in the 1960s, and present examples of how these codes and regulations recently have been reviewed and revised in light of campus protests and disruptions, with many involving the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.

Next, this Article also examines the ongoing impact of federal legislation—specifically Titles VI and IX of the Civil Rights Act of 1964—on campus speech. In addition, this section addresses public attitudes regarding campus protests and related on campus issues, as well as an …

Diversity Is More Than Non-Discrimination: Groupthink In Higher Education, Adam Goldstein, Sean Stevens, Nathan Honeycutt

Journal of Civil Rights and Economic Development

(Excerpt)

In this Article, we seek to advance three claims. First, intellectual diversity is an essential bulwark against groupthink. Second, conflating intellectual diversity and non-discrimination undermines both concepts. Third, intellectual diversity should be pursued for its own sake and recognized as a separate and important goal of higher education.

We begin by sharing a set of definitions to identify the problem more precisely. Next, we examine the stakes of groupthink setting in. Then, we will introduce some of FIRE’s research on campus climate, which suggests the presence of an existing monoculture. Through the lens of a case study at Harvard …

Free Speech, The University, And The Wrong Turn In The Road, Donald Downs

Journal of Civil Rights and Economic Development

(Excerpt)

I introduce this Article by examining the present state of campus free speech policy and politics. I pose questions raised by the demonstrations that erupted in the wake of the war between Israeli and Iranian proxies on October 7, 2023. I then present a skeletal model of the liberal university, followed by a discussion of how illiberal forms of free speech logic have influenced and shaped thinking in higher education and elsewhere since the 1960s. I conclude with a critique of higher education’s turn turning away from a liberal model of discourse.

Volume 37, Spring 2026, Issue 3

Journal of Civil Rights and Economic Development

No abstract provided.

Officers Of Administration And Faculty

Journal of Civil Rights and Economic Development

No abstract provided.

Table Of Contents

Journal of Civil Rights and Economic Development

No abstract provided.

Nabb’S 50th – From My Ibba Perspective, Vernon Kleen

North American Bird Bander

No abstract provided.

Species Snapshot: American Bittern (Botaurus Lentiginosus), Steven Gabrey

North American Bird Bander

No abstract provided.

Eastern Regional News, Annie Lindsay

North American Bird Bander

No abstract provided.

Literature Reviews, Claire Stuyck

North American Bird Bander

No abstract provided.

2024 Atlantic Flyway Review (Fall Migration), Neil A. Gifford, James Junda, Sue Finnegan, Katie Garst, Maren Gimpel, Ted Hicks, Cailin O’Connor, Connie Skipper, Annie Lindsay, Matthew Rogosky, Alison Fetterma, Michelle Davis, Aaron Given, Sarah Harper (Diaz), Rick Ludkin, Anna Tran Nguyen

North American Bird Bander

No abstract provided.

Wing Length And Mass Ranges Of Resident Birds At Two Sites In Costa Rica, Cyndi M. Smith, Douglas M. Collister

North American Bird Bander

At two sites in Costa Rica, we banded 3,200 individuals of 137 resident species: 2,647 of 103 species at Las Caletas (2002-2008) and 553 of 66 species at La Selva (2011-2012). Thirty-three species were captured at both sites. We present summary statistics for wing length and body mass for 133 species. We analyze both metrics by sex class where sample sizes permit. Data are presented by species in three ways: (1) the interquartile range (IQR: range of the middle 50% of the data), (2) the range of all data, and (3) plus-or-minus two standard deviations (SD) of the mean (intended …

Results Of A 19-Year Study On Ruby-Throated Hummingbirds In The Deep North Woods Of The State Of Maine, Robert P. Yunick

North American Bird Bander

Over the period of 2003-2021, 28 visits were made in early June and/or early August to hummingbird feeder locations along the shores of Mooselookmeguntic Lake, Rangeley Plantation, near Oquossoc, Franklin County, Maine, to capture, band and gather data on Ruby-throated Hummingbirds (Archilochus colubris) on their breeding grounds. A total of 2,288 birds were banded along with 190 return captures made in years after banding. Adult males in Jun (n= 819) outnumbered adult females (n=672) by 1.22:1, while in August females (n=426) outnumbered males (n=122) by 3.49:1. Immature males in Aug (n=147) outnumbered immature females (n=102) by 1.44:1. The oldest recaptured …

Gestalt Und Gedanke., Bayerische Akademie Der SchöNen KüNste

Hannah Arendt Marginalia - All

München, R. Oldenbourg, 1951-1966.

Call # : AC30.B34

Contains margiunalia, marginal lining and endpaper notes (page #'s, words)

PDF Information: 43 Pages, 14.2 MB

Fighting Drug Addiction In The Aftermath Of The War On Drugs: Rehabilitative Or Promoting Reoffending?, Haylee Beamer

Criminal Law Society Blog

This Article examines the evolution of drug control policy in the United States, arguing that although modern strategies target both supply and demand reduction mechanisms, they remain fragmented and insufficiently focused on rehabilitation. It traces the historical development of the War on Drugs and its lasting emphasis on punitive enforcement, highlighting the continued reliance on drug task forces and confidential informants. While contemporary reforms such as drug courts and prosecutorial diversion programs demonstrate measurable success in reducing recidivism and promoting recovery, their impact is undermined by inconsistent integration across the criminal justice system. This Article contends that a more cohesive, …

Rooted In Silence: Listening To Landscapes That Remember, Jaylen A. Wyatt

FUSION

For this American Literature assignment, the author responded to the question: “How do natural landscapes preserve memory?” To do so, he wrote a non-fiction personal essay featuring several course selections read during the semester. The author argues that ultimately we must take care of these natural landscapes, and the environment at large, so that their memory can live on.

Where Did Her Torch Glow Go?, Josephine Smith

FUSION

This project is a short video presentation with accompanying written reflection connecting the poem "The New Colossus" by Emma Lazarus, a poem about immigration to the United States, to modern events regarding immigration in the country.

An Adaptation Of The Yellow Wallpaper, Carla M. Sanz

FUSION

This project includes a 3-dimensional adaptation of Charlotte Perkins Gilman's "The Yellow Wallpaper," highlighting struggles with mental health and women’s empowerment amid patriarchal oppression. The use of a 3-D model of the story gives the viewer a visual representation of the narrator’s mental and physical decline. Representative elements of this decline include the use of a chest and a string stretched across the “ceiling” of the room, which visually convey the narrator’s feeling of being trapped. In addition, the room's tainted appearance and the visual of a woman in the walls allow the viewer to imagine the narrator's mental, emotional, …

The Human, Kaamilah Kabala

FUSION

“The Caterpillar” is a short story by American author Lydia Davis published in “The Collected Stories of Lydia Davis” in 2009. In the story, the narrator wakes up to find a caterpillar in her bed, and decides to take it outside instead of killing it. However, she loses it somewhere in a dark staircase along the way. At first she looks for it and spends her time thinking about it, but eventually she forgets about the caterpillar and moves on with her life.

This article a re-writing of the short story. The author took the story and wrote it from …

The Chaotic Silence Of Youth, Stephen A. Gobourne

FUSION

The inspiration for "The Chaotic Silence of Youth" comes from the song "How Does It Feel?" by the band Citizen, off of their 2013 album titled "Youth." This project is the result of the author's personal interpretation of youth itself, transitional periods, and experiencing life, with all of its ups and downs, using musical rhetoric as the core.

To Be Buoyant, Jess T. Forte

FUSION

This is a poem of resistance and transformation, contradicting forces that work together to shape development. Inspired by “Eleven” by Sandra Cisneros, "To Be Buoyant" is an exploration of human identity from a place of stuckness.

Waiting Rivers, Samuel B. Darden

FUSION

This piece was inspired by the poem “The Negro Speaks of Rivers,” by Langston Hughes. Assigned in my African American Literature (ENGL 2300) class, Hughes’s poem stuck with me, prompting me to create my own unique version, one encompassing all marginalized groups. This poem personifies the struggle for rights for African Americans (and others within the diaspora), and the long, arduous, and selective process of becoming recognized as equal, a fight ongoing to this day. The separation of each group (not only by race, but also by gender) is explored throughout the piece, touching on important historical movements, such …

Editorial Note And Author Biographies

FUSION

A note from the Editors on the current issue, along with author biographies.