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Roger Voisin Memorial Trumpet Competition 2022, Marc Reese, Jon Robertson, Lynn University Philharmonia

Roger Voisin Memorial Trumpet Competition

Founder and Artistic Director

• Marc Reese

Judges

• Craig Morris
• Judith Saxton
• Jose Sibaja

Composer

• John Harbison
• Commissioned Work: Nuns Fret Not after William Wordsworth for Two Trumpet Trios

Pianists

• Sheng-Yuan Kuan
• Lisa Leonard

Competition Schedule

• January 14, 2022 at 1:00 PM - Semi-finals
• January 14, 2020 at 7:30 PM - Judges' Recital (Canceled)
• January 15, 2020 at 7:30 PM - Final Round and Awards Ceremony

Ronald G. Eaglin Subject Files, Office Of The President

University Archives Finding Aids

No abstract provided.

Volume Cxxxx, Number 1, January 14, 2022, Lawrence University

The Lawrentian

No abstract provided.

Thomas Jefferson University Research - Convergent Thinking, Creative Application

Thomas Jefferson University Research Magazine

One way we accomplish our distinctive programmatic approach to research is by organizing as multidisciplinary centers and institutes around specific challenges. Led by visionaries and staffed by experts, these entities enable us to more quickly move discovery to translation and application; and they are excellent environments for training colleagues and students to address the practical challenges the world presents.

Can Textiles Improve Emotional Wellbeing?

Thomas Jefferson University Research Magazine

“As a textile designer, I am very interested in challenging perceptions of what a textile can be,” says Kristen Tynan, whose master’s thesis, “Seeking Solace,” explored the creation of textiles that provide specific tactile benefits.

It’s known that tactile stimuli help calm negative emotional sensations. Thus, children may seek a favorite blanket or toy, and adults may use more reflexive, inconspicuous strategies like light foottapping or employ stress balls and fidget spinners. But those tools are primarily stand-alone objects marketed toward children or people with neurological challenges such as autism spectrum disorders.

Jeffsolves With Student Innovation

Thomas Jefferson University Research Magazine

The JeffSolves MedTech program teams industrial design and medical students to develop innovative solutions to specific healthcare problems. Having chosen particular, concrete challenges faced by medical patients, student teams collaborate to conduct in-depth user research and problem identification, develop potentially marketable solutions and create prototype products. “The solutions these teams create are consistently remarkable and effective,” says Bon Ku, MD, assistant dean for health and design at Sidney Kimmel Medical College.

A Design For Mitigating Patient Hypothermia

Thomas Jefferson University Research Magazine

General anesthesia during surgery can impair the body’s autonomic temperature regulation and lead to patients having dangerously low body temperature. That, in turn, increases an array of clinical risks, including poor wound healing and infection, excess blood loss, cardiac arrhythmias and impaired renal function. Unfortunately, current surgical gowns— which have very little thermal capability—provide no significant protection against heat loss.

For that reason, a cross-disciplinary team of Jefferson students and faculty—with expertise in anesthesiology, mechanical engineering, textile engineering, textile technology and fashion design—is creating a new type of patient garment that is intended to mitigate the problem of surgically related …

Does Art Reduce Bias Among Healthcare Providers?

Thomas Jefferson University Research Magazine

Katherine Cambareri, who earned an MPH from Jefferson in 2019, works as a clinical research coordinator at Children's Hospital of Philadelphia. She is also a serious photographer and deeply interested in exploring the synergies between public health and art.

In 2016, Cambareri created a photographic exhibition by documenting the clothes worn by survivors of sexual violence when they were assaulted. The exhibit’s photographs—individually straightforward, collectively powerful—were created with the intention of increasing understanding of sexual assault and challenging false assumptions of those who blame the victim. The exhibition titled “Well, What Were You Wearing?” has been presented across the country …

Invasive Plants For Commercial Use

Thomas Jefferson University Research Magazine

Invasive plants can have an array of negative ecological effects. In Northeast deciduous forests, for example, invasive plants outcompete natives, disrupt soil nutrient cycling and spread disease that affects humans as well as other plants.

“Invasives are creating increasingly difficult problems across the United States,” says Anne Bower, PhD, professor of biology. “While there are some public and nonprofit efforts to address those problems, we also need to employ free market incentives to overcome this major ecological challenge.” Dr. Bower, Mary Ann Wagner-Graham, PhD, assistant professor of biology, and Becky Flax, MS, assistant professor of textile design, have been working …

Putting Light To Work

Thomas Jefferson University Research Magazine

Jefferson researchers are using light in new ways: using blue light to drive chemical processes, and creating products that illuminate in ultraviolet light. Their work reflects a convergence of disciplines such as physics, chemistry, textile engineering and nanotechnology that is driving applications with practical benefits for people and the environment.

John Milligan, PhD, assistant professor of chemical and biological sciences, is leading development of environmentally sustainable ways to spur chemical reactions using blue LED light. The work is an example of the “photoredox” subfield of organic chemistry, which has proven to be an increasingly effective method for building organic molecules. …

Architecture, Design And Corporate Modernism

Thomas Jefferson University Research Magazine

How have business strategies, modern architecture and urban conditions helped shape American corporations’ ambitious branding goals? Grace Ong Yan, PhD, assistant professor of interior design, addresses that question in her book Building Brands: Corporations and Modern Architecture.

Ong Yan is an architectural historian who explores modernism and how media and the built environment intersect. Earlier in her career, she practiced interior design and architecture with Renzo Piano Building Workshop; Pei, Cobb, Freed and Partners and the Gensler New York branding studio. Her book unites her scholarship and design expertise to consider the role of architectural branding in the design of …

Architects Of A Sustainable Hemp Industry

Thomas Jefferson University Research Magazine

For centuries, the hemp plant has been recognized as a robust and renewable source of raw material for a host of purposes. However, for decades United States law conflated hemp with marijuana, and it fell out of use. Now, with such restrictions lifted, hemp has a bright future as a sustainable, high-value raw material for consumer and industrial products.

“Realizing that potential will require a lot of fundamental planning and development work, conceiving and establishing systems and platforms essential for building robust agricultural- and manufacturing-focused hemp industries,” says Ronald Kander, PhD, associate provost for applied research and dean of Kanbar …

New Space And New Name For Materials Testing Lab

Thomas Jefferson University Research Magazine

Jefferson’s technical facilities for research, development and testing of new fabrics may be unsurpassed in higher education: Grundy Materials Evaluation Laboratory has been assessing new and newly combined materials for more than 40 years. This year, it will have a new name and a new home. Thanks to the support of noted textile design alumnus Jeff Bruner ’73, the Jeff Bruner Materials Characterization Laboratory will open in the state-of-the-art Kay and Harold Ronson Health and Applied Science Center this spring.

The Lab’s main mission remains the same: to offer experiential learning, introducing students to technology and processes for evaluating materials. …

Functional Fabrics: From Mining Oceans To Walking In Space

Thomas Jefferson University Research Magazine

Thomas Jefferson University traces its ancestry, in part, to the 1884 founding of the Philadelphia Textile School, the nation’s first center for textilefocused education. That institution continued to be a pioneer in textile science, technology and innovation for more than 130 years. Today, that legacy is visible in an array of nationally and globally recognized textile-related academic and research programs—notably including research, analysis and development of “functional fabrics” that serve a broadening range of purposes.

Jefferson is one of the few academic institutions possessing the full scope of expertise and technical facilities needed to reduce fundamental ideas to practice. As …

Rediscovering Hemp: New Materials, Manufactured Products And Therapeutics

Thomas Jefferson University Research Magazine

Through much of recorded history, the hemp plant was recognized as a sustainable, renewable resource with myriad practical applications. Its fibers are strong, resilient and possess unique chemical properties; its seeds and leaves are nutritious; and parts of the plant have medicinal benefits. However, for more than 50 years, its use in the United States was severely restricted by policymakers who equated all hemp products with just one: marijuana.

That situation has changed over the past decade. Today, most restrictions on hemp have been lifted, and states are legalizing marijuana and its byproducts for medicinal or recreational purposes. That evolution …

Fusing Discovery, Imagination And Application, Mark L. Tykocinski, Md

Thomas Jefferson University Research Magazine

Thomas Jefferson University is a unique institution, marked by dualities: simultaneously new and deeply experienced; steeped in tradition and heedless of traditional boundaries; professionally focused and committed to knowledge-creation.

We conduct research both for itself and as an essential part of the educational process. In doing so, we fuse discovery, imagination and application—weaving together the pursuit of basic knowledge with its innovative translation and creative application. We strive to redefine the term “humanly possible” in disciplines ranging from immunology and vaccine development to design and creation of functional fabrics.

Thomas Jefferson University Research - Fusing Discovery, Imagination And Application

Thomas Jefferson University Research Magazine

These 60 pages offer just a glimpse of the range and depth of studies undertaken across the Thomas Jefferson University research enterprise.

To learn more about Research at Jefferson, go to Jefferson.edu/Research2020.

Natcher, William Huston, 1909-1994 (Mss 142), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

Manuscript Collection Finding Aids

Finding aid only for Manuscripts Collection 142. Correspondence, journals, scrapbooks and printed matter documenting the career of Natcher, a Representative from Kentucky who served in the United States Congress from 1953-1994. Click on “Additional Files” below for a separate inventory of photographs and an index of names and subjects in the photographs.

Hume’S Politics And Four Dimensions Of Realism, Keith Hankins, John Thrasher

Philosophy Faculty Articles and Research

Debates between realists and idealists in contemporary political theory have been confused by a tendency to conflate several distinct methodological theses. This article distinguishes between four dimensions of realism and shows how a novel reading of Hume’s politics can help us make sense of the importance of these theses and the relationships between them. More specifically, we argue that a theory we call normative conventionalism can be distilled from two of Hume’s more surprising and controversial essays, “The Idea of a Perfect Commonwealth” and “That Politics May Be Reduced to a Science.” This theory views norms and institutions as conventional …

2021-2022 Junior Recital - Benjamin Kremer (Violin), Benjamin Kremer, Sheng Yuan Kuan

Junior and Senior Recitals

No abstract provided.

Geographies Of Urban Unsafety: Homeless Women, Mental Maps, And Isolation, Jan Radle Roberson

Dissertations and Theses

This study explores the intersection of urban unsafety and the marginalized population of homeless women. Specifically, it investigates how homeless women identify/perceive and navigate unsafe urban space. Specific research questions include:

1. What does housing insecurity look like for an unhoused woman?

2. In what ways is mental mapping a robust tool for gathering the stories (data) of vulnerable populations such as unhoused women?

3. What does the spatialization of unsafe locations look like and are demographic groupings dissimilarly affected?

4. What are the critical reasons for unsafety identified by participants?

5. How do homeless women respond to urban unsafety; …

The Push Of A Button: Replacing Meaningful Interactions, Kevin Timmer

Faculty Work Comprehensive List

"Is there a worthy end goal that justifies the use of efficient means, or are we just hurrying for the sake of it?"

Posting about examining our fast-paced lives from In All Things - an online journal for critical reflection on faith, culture, art, and every ordinary-yet-graced square inch of God’s creation.

https://inallthings.org/the-push-of-a-button-replacing-meaningful-interactions/

Materialising Grief: The Reclamation Of Loss In Kamila Shamsie’S Home Fire, Gabriella Pishotti

Graduate Student Scholarship

Over recent decades, Sophocles’ Antigone has become widely adapted within postcolonial contexts, the tragedy’s collapsing of the boundaries between the home, nation, and law positioning it as a useful text for offering counter-discourses to a state’s ideas of justice. Kamila Shamsie’s Home Fire is one such adaptation that explores the themes of Antigone through the experiences of one British Muslim family. Drawing from Judith Butler’s scholarship on grievability and Sara Ahmed’s work on the politics of emotion, this article examines how Muslim lives are made abject by Britain’s post-9/11 Islamophobic politics and media. It then examines how Home Fire’s characters …

Un'orrida Bellezza: Religious Polychrome Sculpture In The Kingdom Of Naples (1503-1714), Lindsay Rose Elizabeth Sheedy

Arts & Sciences Graduate Student Theses and Dissertations

This dissertation, “Un’orrida bellezza: Religious Polychrome Sculpture in the Kingdom of Naples,” situates polychrome sculpture in the evolving religious and cultural landscape of Southern Italy during the Regno di Napoli (1503-1714). In this period, a series of upheavals inextricably altered the fabric of the Kingdom of Naples, including the establishment of the Spanish viceroyalty in 1503, the Counter Reformation in the mid-sixteenth century, and a series of crippling plagues. This period of change, trauma, and subjugation provoked reactions from all levels of culture, making Southern Italy a fertile laboratory of innovation and exchange. These shifts took physical form in polychrome …

The Grassroots Movement Of Food Allergens In The United States And The Governments Role From 1990-2016, Maria R. Garbo

The Exposition

This poster aims to explain the beginning of food allergens in the United States and how the governments interactions influence the history of food allergies. Using government documents and data it unravels what exactly the government did to help or lack there of in a very serious matter. Food allergens were a grassroots movement in the United States and just began to raise awareness within the last few decades.

Europe Vs. United States: Consumer Resistance To Gm Crops From 1990-2010, Lauren R. Stashak

The Exposition

No abstract provided.

Preservation, Production, & Rationing Of Food In The United States Home Front During World War Ii (1939-1945), Kaleigh Kropidlowski

The Exposition

No abstract provided.

Dollar Menu Morality: Fast Food In Twentieth And Twenty First Century America, Kassius J. Broadus

The Exposition

This is a poster for the final research paper required in HIS300W, taught by Dr. Bridget Chesterton, Fall 2021.

Food For Vitamin C, Aden Yakub

The Exposition

No abstract provided.

How Cereal Helped Shape The American Diet In The 20th Century, Maxwell T. Shoemaker

The Exposition

No abstract provided.