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Barefooting The Northeast 111: A Hiker Discovers The Intensity Of Pinpricks, Grit, And Mud, Kenneth A. Posner

Appalachia

Climbing without shoes in the Catskills, then the Adirondacks, the White Mountains of New Hampshire, and Maine, he learned to focus on the here-and-now.

Over The Influence: Considering Scenarios Sponsored Adventure Influencers Find Themselves In, Mike Cherim

Appalachia

An experienced mountain guide sketches three situations—promoting clothing, going fast with minimal gear, and making the reaching of an iconic scene look easy—where social media influencers could misinform the public.

Navigation By Smartphone: A Field Geologist Argues That Devices Complement Physical Maps, Richard Allmendinger

Appalachia

An argument that smartphones—in the right hands, and with the right app—replace gadgets like alarm clocks, cameras, and weather radios and can outpace physical maps with the right apps.

Yes, Instagram Has Led To Overcrowding In Yosemite. That's Ok: A Professional Climber Reflects On The Bad And Good Of A Tourism Spectacle, Beth Rodden

Appalachia

Social media has Instagrammed the outdoors but also cultivated community. The crowds who flock to the park in February to see Horsetail Fall deserve to enjoy public lands, too.

Burning Solitudes: Mountain Storytelling In The Age Of Social Media Reproduction, Katie Ives

Appalachia

A deep exploration into the contradictions of recording mountain experiences while having them.

The Long Way Home: A Moment In Time Before Agony Ridge, Christine Woodside

Appalachia

An encounter with a father and son partway up New Hampshire’s Mount Lafayette suggests how to lead someone with kindness.

Appalachia Summer/Fall 2025: Complete Issue

Appalachia

Summer/Fall 2025 - Volume LXXVI, Number 2 - Issue #260. On the Ground and Screen: Stories of smartphones in wild places.

8th Lake Constance Guitar Research Conference, Soundboard Scholar, Daniel Marx

Soundboard Scholar

A brief report on this year's Lake Constance Conference series for researchers specializing in guitar, which took place on May 1–4, 2025.

Duo Memdi: September 13, 2025, Igor Kalnin, Rochelle Sennet

School of Music Programs

This is the fourth program of the 2025-2026 season.

Kemp Recital Hall

September 13, 2025

Saturday Evening

7:30 p.m.

Duo Memdi: Kalnin, Violin And Sennet, Piano; September 13, 2025, Igor Kalnin, Rochelle Sennet

School of Music Programs

This is the fourth program of the 2025-2026 season.

Kemp Recital Hall

September 13, 2025

Saturday Evening

7:30 p.m.

A Time For... Reckoning With Kirk's Assassination, Donald Roth

Faculty Work Comprehensive List

"For Christians, engagement with culture is about a long-slow obedience in the same direction. It’s a deep investment in the communities where the Lord has placed us."

Posting about ­­­­­­­­responding to cultural crises from In All Things, an online hub that offers insight into maintaining and faithful and orthodox Reformed Christian worldview while fearlessly engaging in every aspect of contemporary life – until all is made new.

A Time For... Reckoning with Kirk's Assassination

Angela Moody-Howard

African American Funeral Programs

Funeral program for Angela Moody-Howard. Service held on September 13, 2025 in Statesboro, Georgia

Wiley Oglesby

African American Funeral Programs

Funeral program for Wiley Oglesby. Service was held on September 13, 2025 in Statesboro, Georgia

"Elements Don’T Mix!": Unearthing Racial Scripts And A Rhetorical Economy Of Whiteness In Disney And Pixar's Elemental, Linsay M. Cramer, Gabriel A. Cruz

Communication, Media, and Culture

Using a narrative rhetorical approach, we map how Disney and Pixar’s 2023 film, Elemental, sustains a rhetorical economy of whiteness, as theorized by Asen and Kelly, which emphasizes the degree to which rhetorical constructions of racial difference are foundational to whiteness and economic systems. We identify and critique how Elemental discursively contributes to a system of exclusivity for those within the bounds of whiteness concerning economic mobility via racial scripts. Created and produced during Joe Biden’s United States (U.S.) presidential term (2021–2025), Elemental offers a metaphorical tale that engages the fractious, politically conservative anxieties concerning diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) …

Migration In The Early Chesapeake: Dorchester Co., Md, As A Case Study, 1650–1750, Thomas Daniel Knight

History Faculty Publications

This article examines the migration patterns that shaped the early settlement of Dorchester County, Maryland. Dorchester County is located on Maryland’s Eastern Shore, an area distinctive in terms of its geography, history, and culture. In U.S. history, migration has generally proceeded from eastern areas to western ones and from northern areas to southern ones, a pattern dating back to the earliest colonial settlements. Settlement in Dorchester County proceeded primarily from east to west and south to north, with additional migration streams coming from the north out of Delaware and from the west out of Somerset County. This gave Dorchester County …

Sermons And/In/As Literature, Robert Ellison

English Faculty Research

Five of the nineteen contributors to Preaching and the Sermon in the Twentieth Century are members of English departments, so it is somewhat ironic that none of their chapters could be categorized as “literary studies” (they are instead in the sections for history, book history, media studies, and digital humanities). This presentation is intended to offer a perspective that is not represented in that collection.

In about five minutes each, I will survey the three elements mentioned in my title:

1. Sermons and literature. This section will address how sermons can be influenced by other forms of literature, and influence …

Conference Presentation: 'Ai Disruptions In Higher Education', Cristo Leon Ph.D., James Lipuma Ph.D., Maximus Rafla

STEM for Success Resources

Power Point presentation

Time And Atmosphere, Mǎdǎlina Diaconu

Contemporary Aesthetics (Journal Archive)

Phenomenological investigation into atmospheres as spatial feelings has paid little attention thus far to their multifaceted temporality. Ambiances are not only situated but situational; they have an intermittent existence and modify time perception. Certain moods need time to evolve, and prolonged exposure to them may change their character. The passing of time itself generates atmospheres—ages are stereotypically associated with dominant moods, and seasonal rhythms influence well-being. Moreover, ambiances shape epochs and are socially contagious. While the idea that generations can be assigned a prevailing mood is not new, the terms Zeitgeist and Zeitzeichen have been framed by an idealist philosophy …

2025-09-12 Staff Congress Vision Survey Results, Morehead State University. Staff Congress.

Staff Congress Records

The Morehead State University Staff Congress Vision Survey results distributed to the members of the Staff Congress on September 12, 2025.

2025-2026 Performance Forum - September 12, 2025, Hanting Peng, Sheng Yuan Kuan, Ana-Maria Uzunova, Devin Salazar

Performance Forum

No abstract provided.

A Living Tradition: Faithfully Inhabiting And Engaging The World, Gayle E. Doornbos

Faculty Work Comprehensive List

"To inhabit a tradition well is to be invited to play with its ideas in order to respond to the demands and questions of our day."

Posting about ­­­­­­­­exercising our faith in today's culture from In All Things, an online hub that offers insight into maintaining and faithful and orthodox Reformed Christian worldview while fearlessly engaging in every aspect of contemporary life – until all is made new.

A Living Tradition

“A Field Beaten Bare Of Grass”: Samuel Youd’S The Death Of Grass (1956) And The Scouring Of The Shire, Kristine Larsen

Journal of Tolkien Research

One of the novels Tolkien admits to liking (according to his published letters) was Samuel Youd’s thriller The Death of Grass (1956), published under the pen name John Christopher. Among the novel’s aspects that might have particularly resonated with Tolkien included environmental concerns, analogs with Tolkien’s World War II experience (especially rationing), and an emphasis on fairy-story Consolation and Recovery, among others. But in addition, parallels with “The Scouring of the Shire” and other late episodes in The Lord of the Rings clearly deserve further analysis. This paper therefore engages with Youd’s novel through that specific lens.

Vivian Pinn, Vivian W. Pinn M.D.

We Are NIH Oral History Project

No abstract provided.

The Meaning Of Christian Suffering In Aquinas, Pedro Cardoso Figueiredo Santiago

Seton Hall University Dissertations and Theses (ETDs)

This thesis investigates the theological meaning of Christian suffering in the thought of Thomas Aquinas. While much attention has been given to Aquinas’s treatment of the problem of evil, little has been written on the positive and salvific meaning of suffering as it appears in his Christology, sacramental theology, and moral theology. This study aims to demonstrate that for Aquinas, suffering—when united to Christ—acquires a redemptive value that transforms human pain into a means of configuration to the crucified and risen Lord.

The first chapter develops the Christological foundation of Christian suffering. Drawing primarily from Summa Theologiae III, q. 69, …

Presentación De La Ponencia: Jugar, Observarse Y Transformarse, Cristo Leon Ph.D., Agustina Cinanni, Marcos O. Cabobianco, Romano Ponce-Diaz Ph.D.

STEM for Success Resources

Presentación de la ponencia en el 9.º Coloquio de Estudios de Juegos de Rol.

Universidad de Buenos Aires (UBA), Facultad de Filosofía y Letras, y en el Centro Cultural Paco Urondo.

Del 10 al 12 de septiembre de 2025.

Presentacion De Ponencia: Diseño Y Validación De Plantillas Digitales, Marcos O. Cabobianco, Cristo Leon Ph.D., Agustina Cinanni

STEM for Success Resources

Presentacion de ponencia: Diseño y Validación de Plantillas Digitales

Those Who Strayed: Quaker Abolitionist John Greenleaf Whittier, And The Grimké Sisters Who Broke From The Society Of Friends To Actively Oppose Slavery In The Antebellum Era, David Mark Ledlow

All ETDs from UAB

The adoption of quietist theology by the Quaker community in the early nineteenth century created a divide between Quakers and their abolitionist movement due to the differing methods to achieve an end to slavery. Quaker society began to adopt a stance that avoided all controversies and employed conservative actions to combat slavery while abolitionist began to speak out more against the evils of slavery regardless of any controversy. This divided left Quaker abolitionist like John Greenleaf Whittier and the Grimké sisters with the choice to distance themselves from the Society of Friends or the abolitionist movement. Whittier and the Grimké …

Mother Arabell Williams Thompson

African American Funeral Programs

Funeral program for Arabell Thompson. Service was held on Sept 11, 2025 in Statesboro Georgia

Yvonne Maddox, Yvonne T. Maddox Ph.D.

We Are NIH Oral History Project

No abstract provided.

Student Senate Meeting Minutes September 10, 2025, Student Senate-Winona State University

Student Senate Meeting Minutes

This document is the official Winona State University Student Senate Minutes for September 10, 2025.