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We Can Do Campus Recreation In The Woods!, Erin Sherrets

Runkle Woods Symposia

Hiking, disc golf, trail running, oh my! There are many recreational opportunities in the woods on campus. Learn all about enjoying nature while moving your body, whether it's alone or with an organized group.

Revisiting The Cretaceous-Paleogene Boundary In Western Kentucky, Usa, Jarred Asselta

Scholars Week

This study revisits a Cretaceous-Paleogene (K-Pg) sedimentary section in western Kentucky to determine the nature of this boundary and the depositional environments. Although previous pollen work identified the boundary over four decades ago, to our knowledge no work has been carried out at this important K-Pg boundary site. A combination of stratigraphy and sedimentology were used to characterize the section in detail. Bulk and oriented samples were collected for grain-size, geochemical, and petrographic analysis. We relocated the site and measured 1.5m of section that includes the K-Pg boundary. Four distinct units were identified and from base to top of section …

Mapping Of Non-Native Invasive Plant Species Using Remote Sensing And Gis: Assessment Of Human Impact On Kudzu (Pueraria Montana) Spread, Harshitkumar Godhasara

Scholars Week

Remote sensing methods provide tools to identify and map non-native plants. Biophysical characteristics of plants can be utilized to recognize and distinguish non-native invasive plants from other native plant species. Kudzu is an invasive plant, which causes economic loss and decreases biodiversity. Moreover, kudzu doubles emission of nitric oxide and increases ozone pollution. The impact of human activities on the spread of noxious plant species like kudzu can be assessed utilizing remote sensing and geographic information systems (GIS) tools. Kudzu spread in the USA was mapped using in situ data including the actual coordinates of kudzu sites. Geographic distribution of …

Relationships Between Different Management Practices And Selected Soil Health Indicators, Erika Lambert, Jack Howard, Sammuel Tapp

Scholars Week

Relationships Between Different Management Practices and Selected Soil Health Indicators

Jack Howard, Erika Lambert, Samuel Tapp, Corey Hale, Mallorie Snider, Dr. Brian Parr, and Dr. Iin Handayani

Hutson School of Agriculture, Murray State University

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Soil health is essential for growing crops productively. Healthy soils help to reduce erosion, improve nutrient cycling, and lower input cost. Understanding how crop rotations and tillage systems affect soil is key to preserving soil while also improving agricultural income and efficiency. This study was conducted in Calloway County, Kentucky to observe the effects of different management practices over nine sites of management on the …

English-For-Teaching In Higher Education: Discourse Functions And Language Exemplars, Eun-Young Julia Kim

MITESOL Journal: An Online Publication of MITESOL

Increasingly more colleges and universities in non-English speaking countries are requiring instructors to teach in English. Although existing research addresses various issues related to using English as a medium of instruction in higher education, few studies have specifically addressed how to provide language scaffolding to college instructors who are asked to teach their subjects in English for the first time. The study builds on Freeman et al.’s (2015) discourse functions for English-for-teaching and presents a refined functional framework to suit college-level classes. It provides authentic language samples to help instructors prepare to teach in English based on the analysis of …

Personal Perspectives On The Ever-Changing Wsu Woods, James Runkle

Runkle Woods Symposia

My personal acquaintance with the woods started when I interviewed in the spring of 1979, when the false Solomon’s seals were in full bloom. Since then, I have been in the woods on more than a thousand separate days. I am fascinated to learn more about it each time I visit and to monitor its changes over the course of a day, from day to day, season to season, year to year and decade to decade. In my talk I acknowledge longer changes, such as the regrowth after glacial retreat and likely changes over the last 10,000 yrs due to …

Introductory Remarks, Volker Bahn

Runkle Woods Symposia

This presentation is the introduction to the 4th annual Runkle Woods Symposium. With comments from Volker Bahn, it welcomes all and discusses some prevailing themes from the event.

Atp Synthase: Investigating Its In Vivo Rotation And Testing The Inhibitory Effects Of Diarylquinolines, Sarah Hassan Radwan

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Approaching Industrial And Environmental Reform For Shaq Al-Thu'ban Marble And Granite Industrial Cluster, Rania Ahmed Hamza Sayed Eid

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Nationalist-Populist Rhetoric & The Demise Of Dutch Multiculturalism: What Future For Muslim Minorities, Mare S. Visser

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Assessment Of Solid Waste Management In Egypt During The Last Decade In Light Of The Partnership Between The Egyptian Government And The Private Sector, Sohair Mourad Milik

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Corporal Punishment In Schools, Nevine Henry Wasef

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Colonizing The Gaza Strip: Two Phases Of Governance: A Critique Of The Idea Of State, Philip Risk

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Flexible Pavement Design Aashto 1993 Versus Mechanistic-Empirical Pavement Design, Ashraf Ayman Aguib

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Financial Instability: Is Regionalism The Answer?, Marco Vasconi

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Migration Of Egyptians To Italy: What Are The Push-Pull Factors And What Happens To The Family Left Behind?, Karim K. Zikry

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The Right To Self-Determination Of Indigenous Peoples Under International Customary Law, Rosa M. Navarro

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Understanding The Poem Of The Burdah In Sufi Commentaries, Rose Aslan

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Jbs-Usa 20th Anniversary Trip To Sweden Sign-Up Deadline: July 31, 2018

Newsletter of the Jussi Björling Societies of the USA & UK

Members and friends of JBS-USA will soon be enjoying the camaraderie of each others’ company, AND the sights and sounds of a musical trip to Sweden, with visits to Stockholm, Strömsbruk, and Borlänge, August 30 to September 5, 2018. The Registration deadline is July 31st, but note that costs of train tickets may go up as the summer progresses.

The Jussi Björling Recording Survey — “Complete Opera”, Walter B. Rudolph

Newsletter of the Jussi Björling Societies of the USA & UK

How many of you who submitted your list of favorite opera recordings with Jussi Björling have heard his recording of Verdi’s La traviata? The recording is from August 29, 1939 (Stockholm). Here’s an interesting note. This is the only opera which received no votes, yet today it is the most performed opera in the world. Yes, that’s a comparison of no particular consequence for a variety of reasons. (1) It wasn’t common repertoire for Jussi Björling; (2) the recording is not easily available in the United States, and (3) it was not the most popular opera during Björling’s lifetime. …

Jussi Björling At Lyric Opera Of Chicago, Peter C. Hammond, Dan Shea

Newsletter of the Jussi Björling Societies of the USA & UK

Lyric Opera of Chicago was an important venue for Jussi Björling in the last half-decade of his career. Between 1955 and 1958 he sang 31 performances there in nine of his most famous roles. Of these, Il trovatore was the most frequent. He appeared in this opera nine times over three of his four Chicago seasons.

Remembering Kjerstin Dellert 1925 – 2018, Calle Friedner, Harald Henrysson, Bengt Krantz

Newsletter of the Jussi Björling Societies of the USA & UK

Kjerstin Dellert was born in Stockholm in 1925. Her career as a vocalist began when she won an Arthur Godfrey’s Talent Scouts contest in 1948 with “Someone To Watch Over Me”. Dellert made her opera debut at Stora Teatern in Gothenburg in the 1950s.

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Jbs-Usa Web Site

Newsletter of the Jussi Björling Societies of the USA & UK

Please visit our new, ever-so-improved, attractive and updated web site at jussibjorlingsociety.org. Our own Janel Lundgren put in countless and productive hours working with web designer Amory King to give us something we can both use and be proud of. Note that for the first time, both the PHONOGRAPHY and the performance Chronology can be accessed from our site. Many thanks to all those members who helped to defray the cost of this huge and welcome project.

The Jussi Björling Recording Survey – “Song” Results, Walter B. Rudolph

Newsletter of the Jussi Björling Societies of the USA & UK

In our home, not a day passes without a telephone call survey. Any purchase, chat, or other inquiry one makes on the Internet is followed by a survey. Going to the Post Office or any fast food joint always invites a survey on the receipt. Truly we could call our world today “The Survey World.”

Te Deum, Messa Da Requiem (Verdi), David Cutler

Newsletter of the Jussi Björling Societies of the USA & UK

It has been thought by some that, of all Toscanini’s performances of the Verdi Requiem, this was the most dispensable of them. This reaction is hard to believe, as it is still a vastly imposing performance with some excellent singing from voices that can easily cope with the demands, especially Jussi Björling and Zinka Milanov. Stephen Hastings, in his book The Björling Sound, describes the “spiritual concentration” of an earlier performance from Lucerne, Switzerland, recorded in the Jesuitenkirche. However that 1939 performance has, as far as I know, not been issued and it is also incomplete.

Dan Shea: Celebrating Math And Music, Kendall Svengalis

Newsletter of the Jussi Björling Societies of the USA & UK

What is it about a voice that so grips a teenage boy and holds his passionate interest for the rest of his life? And not just any voice, but the voice of that most exemplary of tenors— Jussi Björling. And not just any boy, but a future founder of the Jussi Björling Society—USA: Dan Shea.

Dan Shea In His First 80 Years, Enrique Gilardoni

Newsletter of the Jussi Björling Societies of the USA & UK

As well as the famous German soprano Gundula Janowitz, our dear friend Dan Shea was born on August 2, 1937. While Gundula did it in Berlin, Dan was born in Springfield, Massachusetts, USA.

Jbs-Usa Announces 20th Anniversary Mini-Conference And Cd, Sue Flaster

Newsletter of the Jussi Björling Societies of the USA & UK

JBS-USA is delighted to announce that the celebratory year of our 20th anniversary will kick off with a mini-conference in Washington, D.C. November 17th and 18th along with the issue of a very special members-only CD. We will begin on Friday the 17th by attending a rehearsal of Washington Concert Opera’s presentation of Bellini’s La straniera at the Lissner Auditorium. Those of us who attended this company’s Semiramide a couple of years ago, and the D.C. members who regularly attend their productions, can attest to the very high level of performance we can expect.

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