Bowling Green State University Research Articles

Advocate for staff because it benefits students

Bernard Little has personal experience with the power that student affairs professionals have to lift people up and out of difficult beginnings. When he left “the hood in Cleveland, Ohio,” where he was raised by a single mother with six other siblings, he had $90 in his pocket that would have to last through his first semester at Bowling Green State University. There, student affairs professionals invested in him and made such a difference in his life that he went on to earn a doctorate and embarked on a career in student affairs. After 17 years working in higher education, Little recently became Vice President of Student Affairs and Diversity at Prairie State College in Chicago Heights, Illinois.

Vicenarian of workplace incivility: a bibliometric analysis and systematic review

PurposeThe purpose of this paper is twofold: first is to map and analyse prominent contributions, current dynamics, patterns, gaps and research prospects in the field of workplace incivility (WI); second is to provide a coherent theoretical research framework for future research.Design/methodology/approachThis study adopts a two-step analysis approach by combining bibliometric analysis and systematic literature review to explore the research topic of WI, besides, using multiple methodologies including bibliometric, network and content analyses.FindingsThis study found that L. M. Cortina and M. S. Hershcovis are the top two most influential authors among all authors in the sample publications. Journal of Occupational Health Psychology is one of the top-ranking journal that often publishes this topic of articles. USA and The Bowling Green State University are the most influential country and institutions, respectively. Besides, burnout and retention are also common keywords were identified based on keywords co-occurrence map, showing that WI has a major impact on burnout and employee retention. Based on the above analysis, this paper constructed a theoretical research framework of WI.Research limitations/implicationsThis paper only draw data from one database—Scopus—which cannot provide broad coverage of the research topic. WI research trends and trajectories may be assessed to enable academics and practitioners better understand the current and future trends and research directions. Future studies in this field might use the findings as a starting point to highlight the nature of the topic.Originality/valueThis study is the first to use an systematic literature review (SLR) to evaluate the association between WI and other organizational behaviour. The study contributions are fourfold, extending the work and overcoming the methodologies of prior research that only focussed on characteristics of incivility in nursing. In addition, this paper presents an in-depth analysis of this topic and provides a comprehensive theoretical research framework for future study.

Erratum: Stakeholders and Invasive Asian Carp in the Great Lakes

Correction| May 24 2023 Erratum: Stakeholders and Invasive Asian Carp in the Great Lakes Shannon Orr Shannon Orr 1Political Science, Bowling Green State University, OH, USA Email: skorr@bgsu.edu Search for other works by this author on: This Site PubMed Google Scholar Email: skorr@bgsu.edu Case Studies in the Environment (2023) 7 (1): 1422170c. https://doi.org/10.1525/cse.2023.1422170c Connected Content This is a correction to: Stakeholders and Invasive Asian Carp in the Great Lakes Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementary Data Peer Review Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Email Tools Icon Tools Get Permissions Cite Icon Cite Search Site Citation Shannon Orr; Erratum: Stakeholders and Invasive Asian Carp in the Great Lakes. Case Studies in the Environment 23 January 2023; 7 (1): 1422170c. doi: https://doi.org/10.1525/cse.2023.1422170c Download citation file: Ris (Zotero) Reference Manager EasyBib Bookends Mendeley Papers EndNote RefWorks BibTex toolbar search Search Dropdown Menu toolbar search search input Search input auto suggest filter your search All ContentCase Studies in the Environment Search Keywords: Asian carp, stakeholders, environmental policy The manuscript contains the statement, “Since that time, they have been slowly swimming their way north and can now be found in 46 states, and most worrisome, just a few miles away from the Great Lakes—the largest freshwater ecosystem in the world with a commercial fishing industry worth more than US$7 billion” (p. 1). There have been recorded captures of grass carp in all of the Great Lakes except for Lake Superior [1]. However, there has only been three captures of any other type of carp (Bighead) and thus doesn’t fit the description. Not all have swum there; some were introduced [2]. The sentence should state, “Grass carp can now be found in 46 states, and most worrisome, in the Great Lakes—the largest freshwater ecosystem in the world with a fishing industry worth more than US$7 billion.” The manuscript contains the statement, “Such hopes however proved... View Original Article You do not currently have access to this content.

Conversations with Gábor J. Székely

Gábor J. Székely was born in Budapest, Hungary on February 4, 1947. He graduated from Eötvös Loránd University (ELTE) with an M.S. degree in 1970, and a Ph.D. degree in 1971. He received his Candidate Degree from the Hungarian Academy of Sciences in 1976, and the Doctor of Science Degree (D. Sc.) from the Hungarian Academy of Sciences in 1986. Székely joined the Department of Probability Theory of ELTE in 1970. In 1989, he became the founding chair of the Department of Stochastics of the Budapest Institute of Technology (Technical University of Budapest). In 1995, he moved to the United States as a tenured full professor at Bowling Green State University (BGSU) in Bowling Green, Ohio. Before that, in 1990–1991, he was the first Lukacs Distinguished Professor at BGSU. Székely had several visiting positions, for example, at the University of Amsterdam in 1977 and at Yale University in 1989. Between 2006 and 2022, he served as a Program Director in the Statistics Program of the Division of Mathematical Sciences at the U.S. National Science Foundation. Székely has about 250 publications, including 6 books in several languages. In 1988, he received the Rollo Davidson Prize from Cambridge University, jointly with Imre Z. Ruzsa for their work on algebraic probability theory. In 2010, Székely became an Elected Fellow of the Institute of Mathematical Statistics mostly for his works dealing with physics concepts in statistics like energy statistics and distance correlation. He had the fortune to know and work with world-class mathematicians and statisticians like (in chronological order of their first meetings): P. Erdős, A. Rényi, Y. Linnik, B. de Finetti, A. N. Kolmogorov, H. Robbins, G. Pólya, L. Shepp, G. Wahba, C. R. Rao, B. Efron, P. Bickel and E. Seneta.

A Deserving Brother: George Washington and Freemasonry by Mark A. Tabbert

Reviewed by: A Deserving Brother: George Washington and Freemasonry by Mark A. Tabbert Andrew M. Schocket A Deserving Brother: George Washington and Freemasonry. By Mark A. Tabbert. (Charlottesville and London: University of Virginia Press, 2022. Pp. xxviii, 271. $34.95, ISBN 978-0-8139-4721-1.) Mark A. Tabbert, the author and compiler of this volume, and longtime George Washington scholar Edward G. Lengel, who contributed its introduction, define eighteenth-century Freemasonry and George Washington’s engagement with it as much by what they were not as by what they were. In this respect, while swatting the swirling popular myths concerning its subject, A Deserving Brother: George Washington and Freemasonry falls squarely within mainstream scholarship. Freemasonry emerged from artisanal guild rites in seventeenth-century Scotland, which shaped its terminology and iconography. But by the 1800s, the organization was no longer particularly [End Page 344] Scottish, and it appealed to members of the gentry rather than to craftsmen. Freemasonry did entail a few secret rituals, and a pamphlet or two appeared during the 1700s warning of masonic conspiracy. But despite the fervid imaginings of more recent novels and movies, including the National Treasure film franchise, Freemasonry operated more as a benign, fairly passive, and loose network of men’s social clubs. Freemasonry was aligned with a vaguely non-sectarian Christianity but did not promote deism. Notwithstanding the bizarre Anti-Masonic conspiracy theories of the 1820s and 1830s, Freemasonry seems not to have taken up much mental bandwidth among Revolutionary-era Americans. Similarly, while George Washington was an early member of a masonic lodge in Fredericksburg, Virginia, he was probably not among its founders. He reached the highest of the society’s three levels—“Master Mason”—but never led a chapter (p. 4). Though he supported the establishment of masonic lodges in the Continental army, Washington did not join one, nor did he join—or, it seems, attend—the many lodges across the new nation that invited him. He was neither officially asked to head a national association of freemasons, nor did he decline such an office. Washington appeared to value his Freemasonry brotherhood, but no evidence indicates that he gave fellow masons a leg up when considering appointments or promotions. He included freemasons in the ceremonial laying of the Capitol’s cornerstone, but he did not push for masonic imagery to be included in the Great Seal of the United States and other official insignia. Echoing this analysis, Tabbert describes this handsomely published book, which includes dozens of glossy, full-color photographs of images and artifacts, as much by what it is not as by what it is. Unfolding in five chronologically arranged chapters corresponding with stages of Washington’s life and a fascinating epilogue on freemasons’ commemoration of Washington to the present, A Deserving Brother makes no explicit attempt to biographize. Instead, Tabbert aims to “present all known physical evidence” associated with Washington’s Freemasonry (p. xviii). Each chapter begins with a succinct, clear narrative covering Freemasonry and Washington’s involvement during the period under examination. With considerable authority (Tabbert has long served as the George Washington Masonic National Memorial’s director of archives and exhibits), the volume claims to include the transcribed text of every written source and the image of every artifact that has a strong provenance directly associating Washington with Freemasonry. Most of these are lightly contextualized, usually with enough explanation for readers to understand the logic of the sources, but not extending to broader analysis of their meanings for Washington, Freemasonry, or eighteenth-century Anglo-American society. A Deserving Brother is not an edited papers project along the lines of the many heavily footnoted volumes presenting the archives of prominent early Americans. That is not to say that this book should be ignored by scholars. For historians considering Washington’s life, Freemasonry, the history of voluntary associations, or the material culture of the memory of the Founders, there is much here of potential research value, surprise, and occasional delight. [End Page 345] Andrew M. Schocket Bowling Green State University Copyright © 2023 Southern Historical Association

The Test–Retest Reliability and Minimal Detectable Change of the FitLight Trainer™

Context: Reaction time is an indicator of cognitive function postconcussion and is an important measurement in return-to-play protocols. Current postconcussion assessments lack evidence regarding their reliability and do not simulate functional movement patterns and choice reactions that occur in sport performance. Objective: This study sought to establish the test–retest reliability of the FitLight Trainer™ in a nonconcussed, healthy population. Methods: Twenty-six healthy individuals from Bowling Green State University participated. Results: Good test–retest reliability was demonstrated for choice reaction time using the FitLight Trainer™ across the two testing sessions (intraclass correlation coefficient [2, 1] = .80). Conclusions: The FitLight Trainer™ provides reliable measures of reaction time in a healthy population.

Did court dismiss student's due process claim?

John Doe was a member of the Bowling Green State University chapter of the Pi Kappa Alpha fraternity. In May 2021, the university charged Doe and several other Pi Kappa Alpha members with helping to cause the hazing death of a fraternity pledge two months earlier. The victim died of alcohol poisoning.

Digitizing the Archive

This article explores how digital humanities (DH) projects, specifically the building of digital archives and digital exhibitions, can be implemented to preserve, reveal, and highlight previously invisibilized histories. This piece examines the construction of the Latino/a/x Issues Conference (LIC) archive at Bowling Green State University (BGSU), a public university in rural Northwest Ohio. This article, from the perspective of the archivist, explores the following research questions: How can DH archival projects reveal and preserve invisibilized histories of Latinx students at public universities against a series of constraints and serve as a means of (re)producing latinidad? This case study explores how to utilize the traditional form of the DH digital archive to document and preserve latinidad in institutional archives and advances the notion of digital archiving as a form of first-aid care to address the historical erasure of Latinx communities in institutional archival contexts. In doing so, this article critically examines the process of archiving the BGSU LIC as a means to consider the possibilities and limits of archival intervention, the production and preservation of memory, and the challenges and affordances of descriptive infrastructures that underlie archival work.

Did court dismiss student's due process claim?

John Doe was a member of the Bowling Green State University chapter of the Pi Kappa Alpha fraternity. In May 2021, the university charged Doe and several other Pi Kappa Alpha members with helping to cause the hazing death of a fraternity pledge two months earlier. The victim died of alcohol poisoning.

Sphinx Women

Sphinx Women Anna Graeme (bio) Sphinx women find jobs on the streetas women who sell fruit and bright clothesand handmade jewelry. They smile with sharp teeth.They have angry, lovely eyes that burn likedark honey. They cover their breasts nowand keep their paws hidden under heavy skirtsand shawls. Handsewn and bleeding throughages of bronze, of analog clocks. They keep riddlesand wisdoms off their tongues. It would all be drownedout anyway. Always with the steel and the sound of the rail,charging like the Cretan Bull, beneath them.Sphinx women pay child support ten times overfor lion cubs already gone. They talk under brickledges in city rain, in hushed barbed tongues. No,years of kings and heroes weren’t much better. Butat least there had been warm bloodand good, wild words to give. [End Page 42] Anna Graeme ANNA GRAEME is a queer poet living in Ohio. She received an MFA in creative writing from Bowling Green State University. Their writing explores the spaces between myth, the natural world, and character-driven narratives. Her work has been featured in journals such as Pleiades, Southern Indiana Review, and others. Much of my work revolves around mythos. I consider these tales to be wondrous, ever-shifting amalgamations of a tool that was at one point used to explain both the world around us as well as the worlds within us. Copyright © 2023 Wayne State University Press

Notes for Notes

Notes for Notes Matthew Testa, James P. Cassaro, David R. Lewis, Samuel Judson Crawford, Rebecca Belford, and Janet McKinney Historic Jean Eichelberger Ivey recordings now online. The Peabody Institute’s Arthur Friedheim Library has digitized 234 rare recordings featuring the music of composer Jean Eichelberger Ivey (1923–2010) and some of her students in the early years of the Peabody Electronic Music Studio, the first such studio in a conservatory, which Ivey founded in 1969. The recordings in the Ivey collection contain important examples of early electronic music from the 1960s and 1970s, such as the experimental short film Pinball and various works by Ivey and her students for tape and live performers. Highlights of the collection include a 1973 television documentary about Ivey filmed at Peabody, a 1984 Ivey retrospective concert at Peabody, and video recordings of anniversary concerts by the Peabody Electronic/Computer Music Studio from the 1980s and 1990s. The Ivey recordings are available through the Friedheim Library’s streaming site at https://streaming.peabody.jhu.edu/collections/1805. For more information on access to the collection, contact peabodyarchives@lists.jhu.edu. This collection was made possible with a grant from the Council on Library and Information Resources Recordings at Risk program. Matthew Testa Peabody Institute, Johns Hopkins University The Emerging Masters Collection, 1954–1989 at the Finney Music Library, University of Pittsburgh has been digitized. Funded by a Grammy Foundation grant of $11,461, the entire collection of 420 reel-to-reel tapes has been reformatted. The core of the recordings focuses on contemporary music by composers affiliated with the University of Pittsburgh, as well as major performers of this repertoire. Works and performances by local musicians are also represented, including vocal recitals by Mildred Miller Posvar; jazz saxophonist/composer, Nathan Davis; jazz pianist, Ulf Johansson; jazz pianist/composer, Geri Allen; pianist William Doppmann; and jazz flutist, Yusef Lateef. Most interesting is the inclusion of recordings by the 415 Players, a local early music ensemble which began performing and recording at the cusp of the early music movement during the late 1960s and the 1970s. Many of the contemporary works, some which have never been commercially released, represent early efforts by composers who have gone on to [End Page 206] major careers. These include David Stock, Reza Vali, Morton Subotnick, Thomas Janson, Dennis Kahle, Dorrance Stalvey, Ingvar Lidholm, and Bo Nilsson. The collection not only codifies the performance history of the Music Department, but also provides a snapshot in time of trends in music composition, performance, and reception. As such, it demonstrates the rich musical heritage of the institution and the City of Pittsburgh, as well as furthers the study of American music. The online collection can be found at https://digital.library.pitt.edu/islandora/object/pitt%3Acollection.306. James P. Cassaro University of Pittsburgh Bowling Green State University’s Music Library and Bill Schurk Sound Archives (MLBSSA) has received a Recordings at Risk grant from the Council on Library and Information Resources (CLIR) to fund a digitization and access project for at-risk filk music materials. The grant program is made possible by funding from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. As a musical genre, filk usually revolves around science fiction or fantasy topics. The term filk is used to describe both the musical genre and the active fan community that creates and sustains the music through conventions and gatherings. The project will digitize materials from three interrelated collections that document the filk community in the 1980s, a formative time for filkers as they began record labels, founded many regional filk conventions, and drew new participants to the community. The collections include commercial master recordings from some of the earliest commercial filk record labels in the Wail Songs Collection and Buck and Juanita Coulson Collection as well as field recordings of informal music-making, interviews, and conventions from the Jennifer Donaldson Milewski Collection. The project will allow MLBSSA staff to provide on-site access to the audio materials, to enhance archival description for the collections, and to pursue permissions for wider access. As a result of the grant project, the collections will be more accessible to the filk community, the BGSU...

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Primary early childhood educators' perspectives of trauma-informed knowledge, confidence, and training.

There is a growing body of research documenting the impact of traumatic stress on child development, which has resulted in a call to action for trauma-informed practices as a priority, yet implementation within schools and training for educators is lacking (American Academy of Physicians, https://www.aap.org/en-us/Documents/ttb_aces_consequences.pdf, 2014). Understanding teachers' perceptions regarding current levels of knowledge, self-efficacy, and trauma-informed training can help guide future professional development experiences for both pre-service and practising teachers. This study investigated the knowledge, self-efficacy, and training of trauma-informed practices as self-reported by primary educators, serving in grades kindergarten through third-grade, within two regions of Tennessee and Virginia. The Primary Early Childhood Educators Trauma-Informed Care Survey for Knowledge, Confidence, and Relationship Building (PECE-TICKCR) scale was adapted from the TIC-DS scale (Goodwin-Glick in Impact of trauma-informed care professional development of school personnel perceptions of knowledge, disposition, and behaviours towards traumatised students, Graduate College of Bowling Green State University, 2017), validated, and created for the purpose of this study. The sample consisted of 218 primary educators who completed an online survey regarding personal knowledge, self-efficacy, and training experiences of trauma-informed practices. Correlations revealed a statistical significance between the Knowledge of Trauma factor and the Confidence in Providing Trauma-Informed Strategies factor. There was also a statistical significance between the Knowledge of Trauma factor and the Confidence in Creating Supportive relationships factor and between the Confidence in Providing Trauma-Informed Strategies factor and the Confidence in Creating Supportive Relationships factor. The findings indicated that teachers need more knowledge regarding community resources for families and students but feel confident in providing supportive relationships. Teachers also are interested in more training events related to strategies to use when working with students exposed to trauma. Implications for teacher preparation programs and professional development training for practising teachers is discussed.

Recent Research in Singing

Recent Research in Singing Donald Simonson (bio) RECENT RESEARCH IN SINGING The following list of recent research in singing is a brief sampling of dissertations/theses published during the last year. It is by no means comprehensive and reflects only a small fraction of the available documents. If you have published recent research in singing, voice pedagogy, voice science, vocal repertoire, pedagogic methodology, or other topics of interest to the membership of NATS, please send citations and abstracts to Donald Simonson at drs@iastate.edu for review and possible inclusion in future columns. ________ Bidstrup Graham, Kelly. "From Broadway to Community, the Job of a Music Director for Musical Theatre." M.A. Thesis, University of Colorado at Boulder, 2022, 67 pages; ProQuest 2681016185. "What in the world do music directors do? Despite musical theater being a billion dollar industry, the backbone of these productions, the music director, is often unknown and even less so understood within the theatre industry. In this study I interviewed nineteen music directors from across the professional and educational spectrum in search of crystallizing a common set of best practices that can be utilized by new musical directors, but more importantly, can be used by non-music directors in the industry to improve their working relationships with music directors, in order to create more musical theater in meaningful and creative ways." (ProQuest/Author Abstract) ________ May, Nicholas A. "The Effect of Nonlinear Source-Filter Interaction on Aerodynamic Measures in a Synthetic Model of the Vocal Folds and Vocal Tract." Ph.D. Dissertation 2022, Bowling Green State University, 321 pages; ProQuest 2684505746. "According to nonlinear source-filter theory, as the strength of the coupling between the source and filter increases, typically by a decrease in the vocal tract cross sectional area, the resultant increase in the inertance of the vocal tract yields an increase in the interactions between acoustic pressures within the vocal tract and the changing glottal airflow and/or the vibratory pattern of the vocal folds. The purpose of the current research was to examine the effects of parametric vocal tract constrictions mimicking epilaryngeal tube and lip narrowing on aerodynamic and projected glottal area measures in a dynamic self-oscillating physical model of the vocal folds and vocal tract. "Multilayered silicone vocal fold models were created (after Murray & Thomson, 2011, 2012) and mounted to a simple synthetic trachea and supraglottal vocal tract model. Four constriction cross sectional areas were examined at two locations yielding 16 possible experimental vocal tract conditions. Vocal fold model adduction and tension were held constant across all experimental conditions; three constant subglottal pressures were examined. "Results indicate that: 1) mean phonation threshold pressure (PTP) at onset and offset, phonation instability pressure (PIP) onset, phonation pressure range (PPR) onset, phonation threshold flow (PTF) at onset and offset, phonation instability flow (PIF) onset and offset, and phonation flow [End Page 263] range (PFR) onset and offset were all found to generally decrease given a constriction in the epilarynx tube region; 2) mean PIP offset, and PPR offset were all found to generally increase given a constriction in the epilarynx tube region; 3) mean PTP at onset and offset and PTF at onset and offset were all found to generally decrease given a constriction in the lip region; and 4) mean PIP onset and offset, PPR onset and offset, PIF onset and offset, and PFR onset and offset were all found to generally increase given a constriction in the lip region. Thus, results indicate that both constriction magnitude and location are relevant factors in determining glottal aerodynamics and projected glottal area measures." (ProQuest/Author Abstract) ________ Moreno, Amanda Marie. "An Examination of the Effects of Body Mapping Instruction on Singers' Static Standing Posture and Posture While Singing." Ph.D. Dissertation, The University of North Dakota, 2022, 159 pages; ProQuest 2682732045. "Physical posture is one of the fundamental aspects of vocal technique, and voice pedagogues suggest that effective alignment is necessary for healthy vocal production. Body Mapping (BMG) is a somatic method that focuses on the understanding and correction of errors in a person's body map to facilitate effective movement for musical activity. Because this method has balance, physical alignment, and posture as...

Editor's Note

Editor's Note Donna M. DeBlasio This issue of Ohio History brings both sad news and good news. This issue is dedicated to Stuart Stiffler, a respected scholar of nineteenth-century library history, and Owen V. Johnson, a professor who trained hundreds of students to be professional journalists around the world. Mr. Stiffler passed away on April 21, 2022. Professor Johnson passed away on August 6, 2022. Their articles in this issue are their last published works. On behalf of Ohio History and our editorial board and staff, I would like to extend our sympathies to Mr. Stiffler's and Mr. Johnson's family and friends. On a happier note, I am pleased to report that one of our authors, Dr. Perry Bush of Bluffton College, is the recipient of the Bowling Green State University Local History Publication Award for best article dealing with the history of northwest Ohio. Dr. Bush's prizewinning article, "'We Have Them Whipped Here:' Lynching and the Rule of Law in Lima, Ohio," appeared in the Fall 2021 issue of Ohio History, which can be accessed here: https://oaks.kent.edu/ohj/ohio-history-fall-2021. Congratulations from all of us at Ohio History to Dr. Bush on this honor. [End Page 8] Donna M. DeBlasio Youngstown State University Copyright © 2022 Ohio History

How Has Food Allergy Been Perceived Among Students In Health-Related Majors?

ObjectivesFood allergy has become a serious public health concern as the prevalence of food allergies has increased significantly recently. Health caregivers have responsibilities to their patients with food allergies and their perception and awareness of the topic may impact the way they treat their patients. This project investigated how health-related majors students perceived food allergies at Bowling Green State University (BGSU) in Ohio.MethodsA total of 133 survey responses were collected in November 2021, student majors include Food and Nutrition, Nursing, Pre-Medicine/Physician Assistant, Other Clinical Care Related (i.e., Clinical Psychology, Communication Sciences and Disorders, and Medical Laboratory Science), and Others (i.e., Biology, Health Care Administration, and Gerontology).ResultsAmong them, 15% have food allergy themselves, 14.3% live with someone with food allergy, and 70.7% live without food allergy problems. More than 75% participants agreed that “food allergy is a serious problem in the U.S.”. This research shows an association between the major and their responses to the “Food allergy causes people to be treated differently” (c2(133, 16) = 26.977, P = 0.042). In the questions about “worry about for themselves or for children”, the participants without food allergy problems worried less than those with food allergy (c2(133, 8) = 22.211, P = 0.005; c2(133, 8) = 16.706, P = 0.033, respectively). Further, “most important strategies to help people with food allergies” was answered differently among majors.ConclusionsIn conclusion, education for food allergies is important for health major students to understand how food allergy influences patient treatment and to prepare their careers. Also, public education on food allergy benefits daily life for everyone.Funding SourcesBowling Green State University Center for Undergraduate Research and Scholarship.

Criminology Explains Police Violence, by Philip Matthew Stinson, Sr

But ‘who polices the police’ (p. 1)? The extent of police violence is difficult to assess. Despite growing efforts to study police violence, or police misconduct more generally, research initiatives often face a particular problem: the severe lack of available data. Philip M. Stinson, the author of the book Criminology Explains Police Violence and professor of criminal justice at Bowling Green State University, believes that the issue of violence perpetrated by police officers is still largely overlooked in the USA. While many experts conclude that police crime remains an isolated phenomenon perpetrated by only a few ‘bad apples’, Stinson suggests that there is something more complex about police work that leads some officers to commit acts of misconduct. Whether it is the sense of entitlement that comes with a badge and a gun or the significant lack of accountability officers face, the causes of police violence, he argues, need to be further explored.

Development of a pulsed, variable-energy positron beam for atomic scale defect studies.

Positron annihilation spectroscopy provides a sensitive means of non-destructive characterization of materials, capable of probing single atom vacancies in solids with 10-7 sensitivity. We detail here the development of a magnetically guided, variable energy, pulsed positron beam designed to conduct depth-dependent defect studies in metals, semiconductors, and dielectrics, which will be the first of its kind in the United States. The design of the target stage provides capabilities for measurements during in situ annealing up to 800 °C and incorporates a new approach to minimize the background due to energetic backscattered positrons. The developed beam at Bowling Green State University provides a powerful tool for characterization of thin films, devices, and ion irradiated materials.

Benediction with Self

Benediction with Self Roseanna Alice Boswell (bio) I stopped praying years ago when I lost god between my thighs& thumb. Enough divinity in the well of me for my ownchurch, I ask myself for what I want & give in moderation. My husbandrises from our bed every morning & I am thankful: thankful for the slope of his ass, his calf musclesliding into jeans, knot of hair over waistband. This worship that is his sleep-smell & tooth-crook. I know what it is to beswallowedby need & open my palm for more. The arc of my shoulderblade is my own promise. My own flood-thirst I make again & again.I dazzle myself between sheets, tell my husband to leave theblinds open––let the sun anoint everything I've touched. [End Page 96] Roseanna Alice Boswell Roseanna Alice Boswell is a queer poet from Upstate New York. A Pushcart Prize and Best of the Net nominee, Roseanna holds an MFA from Bowling Green State University and is currently a PhD student at Oklahoma State University. She enjoys haunting the Midwest with her husband and cat. Copyright © 2022 University of Wisconsin Board of Regents

Data on COVID payments' effect on overdose don't match the hype

A newly released study suggests that economic impact payments to individuals during the pandemic might have contributed to a surge in opioid overdose deaths, but the results are being portrayed to the public as having a much more dramatic impact. While the study paper from researchers at Bowling Green State University clearly states that the results don't indicate that the payments caused the rise in deaths, language in a news release from the Ohio Attorney General's Office implies a cause‐and‐effect relationship.