Honorable Mention Research Articles

Campus No. 5

It contains: UCA FEST: "United for culture" ;U Social Business Innovation ; III Congress of Human Talent Management Five key factors for the creation of business value ; Chair of support for microenterprise ; Chair of Accounting and Auditing ; Global Money Week ; Conference on Business Reflection, Business & Society ; Honorable Mention to the best graduation jobs of Bachelor's degrees in Business Administration and Bachelor of Marketing ; Launch web site Revista Reality Empresarial.
 Realidad Empresarial No. 5, 2018: 51-57

Problemy rewitalizacji małych miast na przykładzie Międzyrzecza

W artykule zaprezentowano metodę rewitalizacji Starego Miasta wrazz zamkiem i zespołem folwarcznym w Międzyrzeczu, zastosowaną w projekcie dyplomowym,wykonanym w 2016 roku na Uniwersytecie Zielonogórskim, w Katedrze Architekturyi Urbanistyki [1]. Projekt ten został wyróżniony w międzynarodowym konkursie konserwatorskimim. Prof. Jana Zachwatowicza, organizowanym dorocznie przez PKN ICOMOS,a także zdobył nagrodę w Konkursie o Nagrodę Ministra Infrastruktury [2]. Metoda rewitalizacjipolegała na przywróceniu generalnych cech przestrzennej struktury średniowiecznegomiasta, przy dopuszczalnej różnorodności elementów drugoplanowych kompozycji. Pojęcieróżnorodności odnosi się tu zarówno do obiektów objętych ochroną konserwatorską, jakteż do nowoprojektowanych o nowoczesnej formie, harmonizującej z otoczeniem, a takżerekonstruowanych.Wschodnia pierzeja rynku jak i duża część pierzei południowej, uległy zniszczeniu naskutek II wojny światowej i nigdy nie zostały odbudowane, a ich miejsce oraz sąsiadującychkwartałów zabudowy wypełniła zieleń. Większość mieszkańców, szczególnie młodych, akceptujetaki stan.Projekt stanowi przykład kompleksowego opracowania konserwatorskiego od skaliurbanistycznej do architektonicznej, Wykonane studium historyczno-urbanistyczne oraz staranneanalizy stanu istniejącego, w różnych aspektach pozwoliły skonstruować wytycznekonserwatorskie, które dały podstawę do projektu rewitalizacji historycznego miasta. W ramachrewitalizacji, m.in. uzupełniono strukturę miejską o brakujące kwartały zabudowy,przywrócono Rynkowi jego rangę i historyczne proporcje, zaprojektowano nową posadzkęw Rynku, ożywiono nową funkcją zabudowania folwarczne oraz zaprojektowano park krajobrazowyna sąsiadującym zdegradowanym terenie.

Pemberton Pericapsular Osteotomy for Developmental Dysplasia of the Hip and Hip Dislocation – Honorable Mention

Pemberton Pericapsular Osteotomy for Developmental Dysplasia of the Hip and Hip Dislocation – Honorable Mention

Q&A with Jasper Display Corp.

Jasper Display Corp. is a leading designer of spatial light modulators (SLMs) and micro‐displays for both LCOS and microLEDs. In 2017, Jasper and partner glω received an I‐Zone Best Prototype Honorable Mention from SID for their megapixel silicon backplane (4K × 2K) and spatial light modulator technology for microdisplays. Information Display recently had the chance to speak with Jasper's vice president of marketing and engineering, Mike Stover.

Outstanding Master's Thesis Award; Land Rights and Women's Empowerment in Rural Peru: Insights from Item Response Theory; Outstanding Master's Thesis Award, Honorable Mention; The Effect of Carbon Taxation on U.S. Crop Farm Costs; Outstanding Doctoral Dissertations; Essays on Environmental Regulation and Applied Microeconomics; Essays on Agricultural and Financial Markets in Pakistan; Essays on Agricultural Trade in Sub‐Saharan Africa

Outstanding Master's Thesis Award; Land Rights and Women's Empowerment in Rural Peru: Insights from Item Response Theory; Outstanding Master's Thesis Award, Honorable Mention; The Effect of Carbon Taxation on U.S. Crop Farm Costs; Outstanding Doctoral Dissertations; Essays on Environmental Regulation and Applied Microeconomics; Essays on Agricultural and Financial Markets in Pakistan; Essays on Agricultural Trade in Sub‐Saharan Africa

“Peer Reviewer of the Year” 2018: Honorable Mention

“Peer Reviewer of the Year” 2018: Honorable Mention

Writing the Northwest: A Reporter Looks Back by Hill Williams

441 Reviews Haycox had begun to expand his work by writing novel-length magazine serials, and in time, stand-alone novels. Late in his too-short career, Haycox began to scratch against the walls of the formula western. Richard Etulain, an established scholar of Western literature who has produced over fifty books, discusses in Ernest Haycox and the Western how Haycox struggled to become a more artful writer. Etulain evaluates this effort and has chosen not to be a serious critic but instead to be a kind of writing instructor afterthe -fact. Much of the text evaluates various Haycox stories — how a character is weak, a plot thin, a purpose muddled. Because it is not easy to find many Haycox stories outside of a few large Western-literature library collections, there will not be ready means for anyone to actually examine the stories Etulain grades. He also posits that Haycox’s cowboys endure a “Hamlet complex” when they cannot decide between the dark-haired woman with “elemental ” needs and the blonde one who must be won. Hamlet might not have suffered so had that been his dilemma. In 1923, Haycox graduated from the University of Oregon, where his writing mentor, Professor W.F.G. Thatcher, had encouraged him to write commercially. Through yearsofcorrespondence, Thatcher remained Haycox’s confidant and adviser. In the excoriating essay “Status Rerum,” written by fellow Oregonians H.L. Davis and James Stevens, however, this same Thatcher is mocked as an “honorable mention in the list of winners in a Chicago tire-naming contest.” All the region’s writers were mocked as producers of, well, horse manure. This reader was frustrated by Etulain’s use of the term “regionalism” to separate Haycox from Stevens and Davis. Etulain writes, “Haycox was not interested in becoming a regional writer.” Instead, he was “avoiding the regional path and embracing the Western” (p. 46). The semantics here are foggy. What does he mean by regional? No writer wants to be called regional, but good writers, like Davis and Stevens, observed their regions closely, published in respected national magazines, and created universal literature. Etulain , in an epilogue, does get around to defining regionalism. It is a fine critical epilogue that discusses Haycox in more contemporary terms than had the preceding text, which could have been written in the mid 1950s, just after Haycox ’s death and after his last novel appeared. Daniel Lamberton Walla Walla University WRITING THE NORTHWEST: A REPORTER LOOKS BACK by Hill Williams Washington State University Press, Pullman, 2017. Illustrations, maps, bibliography, index. 186 pages. $22.95, paper. Hill Williams is a curious man. Over more than four decades as a newspaper reporter, his curiosity gave readers insights on the world from Seattle’s Skid Road to the World War II– ravaged island of Saipan. As the Seattle Times science reporter from 1967 to 1991, Williams did not confine himself to interviewing scientists in lab coats. He went to sea in a Native American whaling canoe, watched a nuclear bomb test in Nevada, and walked through hot ash in the crater of Mount St. Helens a year after the mountain’s catastrophic 1980 eruption. In this thoroughly readable memoir, his third book, Williams tells how he covered some of those stories and sets them in their historic background. He also takes us into the world he grew up in — southeastern Washington during the Great Depression, when newspapers printed from lead type were king of the information world. There, his first newspaper job — doing work that no longer exists — was in the print shop of the weekly Pasco Herald, owned by his father. His description of the newspaper-creating process in that era is a gem of time travel. Williams began his reporting career on the Kennewick Courier-Reporter in 1948, moved into daily journalism a year later when the Tri-City Herald began publishing, and joined the Seattle Times in 1952. Surprisingly, he has little to say about the early days of the Hanford Nuclear Reservation, although he later covered numerous nuclear-related stories. Williams’s science writing — and his book — seem to benefit from his lack of a scientific 442 OHQ vol. 119, no. 3 degree. (He is...

A Companion to the English Novel ed. by Stephen Arata et al.

Reviewed by: A Companion to the English Novel ed. by Stephen Arata et al. Anne H. Stevens A Companion to the English Novel, ed. Stephen Arata, Madigan Haley, J. Paul Hunter, and Jennifer Wicke. Chichester, UK: Wiley Blackwell, 2015. Pp. xiv + 497. $199.95. Does the world need another companion to the English novel? With so much material already out there, a new and expensive reference work might seem inessential. The ninetieth installment in the Blackwell Companions to Literature and Culture series, A Companion to the English Novel is a helpful addition to the numerous reference works on British fiction, however. Its most striking and distinguishing features are the coverage of British fiction into the twenty-first century and the high caliber of its contributors, including such luminaries as Patricia Meyer Spacks, J. Paul Hunter, and John Richetti. Its twenty-nine chapters in seven sections include concentrations on notable decades in the history of the novel, key subgenres, and theories of the novel. Each chapter is written in a lively and accessible style and is followed by a list of references. Many chapter titles are straightforward—"The 1740s," "Gothic," "London"—while several others reflect a more distinctive take on their subject matter, such as Deidre Lynch's "A Character of Character, in Five Metaphors" and Nancy Armstrong and Leonard Tennenhouse's "The Network Novel and How It Unsettled Domestic Fiction." This variety of chapter titling reflects the hybrid nature of the collection: at times it reads like a reference work aimed at providing general knowledge of crucial topics in the history of the English novel, while at other times it more closely resembles a specialized monograph. Both beginning researchers and seasoned specialists should find something to interest them. [End Page 171] Readers of The Scriblerian will be particularly interested in the healthy assortment of chapters that discuss novels of the long eighteenth century. The first two chapters in the volume discuss key decades in our century, Ms. Spacks's "The 1740s" and Lynn Festa's "The 1790s." Because of its placement at the head of the volume, Ms. Spacks's essay seems to indicate a starting-point of sorts, and few would disagree with the significance of the 1740s in the genre's development. However, its placement underplays the significance of novelists before the 1740s, the writers of picaresque, scandal, and amatory fictions that dominated the late seventeenth- and early eighteenth-century literary marketplace. In contrast, Ms. Festa's chapter casts a wider net, admirably suggesting that we recognize that "exhausted or unsuccessful forms—the literary dead end, the technical failure, the aesthetic mistake, the one-hit wonder, the honorable mention, and the also-rans—are also part of the history of the novel, enabling us to read literary history with an eye not just to progress and supersession, but also to the persistence of tapped-out genres and the agency of forms that proved not to have a future." Unfortunately, those suggestions are not taken up by many of the other contributors, most of whom concentrate on the forms and authors who were most successful. Mr. Richetti's "Realism and the Eighteenth-Century Novel" refreshingly begins with a discussion of Don Quixote, a text neither English nor eighteenth-century but one that merits inclusion in their discussion. Alongside these chapters, many others discuss eighteenth-century texts within larger contexts. One that productively crosses period boundaries is Mark Blackwell's "Experimental Fictions," which discusses eighteenth-century it-narratives alongside high modernist landmarks. In a broader sense, one of the greatest strengths of this collection is its ability to bring together marquee-name eighteenth-centuryists and scholars of later periods while simultaneously and happily including essays that connect eighteenth-century novels to works of later eras. Besides the aforementioned chapters, Laurie Langbauer's "Romance," Cynthia Wall's "London," and John Paul Riquelme's "Gothic" all address eighteenth-century texts and topics in relation to such larger contexts. Too often discussions of the eighteenth-century novel seem to be relegated to eighteenth-century venues, so it is a pleasure to see our period represented not in a token way but as central to ongoing...

All Astir

All Astir Mary K. Bercaw Edwards The Eleventh International Melville Conference, "Melville's Crossings," held at King's College London on June 27–30, 2017, was a resounding success. Janet Floyd, Wyn Kelley, and above all Edward Sugden did a superb job of organizing the conference. In this issue of Leviathan, we are honored to include the plenary addresses of Hester Blum and Anna Brickhouse. We also present President Arimichi Makino's address, five conference reports, and a photo gallery. (More photos are available under the "Photos" tab on the Melville Society website at <http://melvillesociety.org/>.) Click for larger view View full resolution Statue in the entrance hall of King's College London holding the "Melville's Crossings" conference program. Photo courtesy of Colin Dewey. [End Page 69] We wish to thank the plenary speakers for their wonderful talks; President Makino for his address; Søren Frank, Wyn Kelley, Kathryn Mudgett, James Noel, and Caitlin Smith Oyekole for their conference reports; and Hester Blum, Colin Dewey, Maryse Jayasuriya, Shoko Tsuji, and Brian Yothers for their photography. The Melville Society's Hennig Cohen Prize committee is very pleased to announce that this year's Hennig Cohen Prize for the best article, book chapter, or essay on Herman Melville goes to Matthew Knip for "Homosocial Desire and Erotic Communitas in Melville's Imaginary: The Evidence of Van Buskirk" in ESQ: A Journal of Nineteenth-Century American Literature and Culture 62.2 (2016): 355–414. The committee writes in praise of Knip's article: Knip reconsiders Melville's conceptions of desire and community on the basis of a study of the diaries of Philip C. Van Buskirk, an American sailor whose writings extensively describe the sexual practices of working-class sailors in the 1850s. Through incisive readings of Typee, White-Jacket, Billy Budd, and "John Marr," Knip critiques accounts of Melville that rely on "anachronistically heterosexualized sailors" or present homoerotic desire as either repressed or expressed only privately. Knip argues that Melville's portrayals of homosocial desire "as a binding paradisiacal glue" are rooted not only in his powerful imagination, but also and crucially in his inhabitation of seafaring communities in which social masturbation and sex between men were often accepted as matters of course that did not constitute sexual identity. Knip's essay is an outstanding work of cultural history and a compelling contribution to our understanding of Melville's social thought. In addition, the Hennig Cohen Prize Committee has decided to award an Honorable Mention to Kelly Ross for "Babo's Heterochronic Creativity" in Levia-than 18.1 (March 2016): 5–21. Congratulations to Matthew Knip and Kelly Ross! Shortly after the conference, the first webpage on Herman Melville in Denmark went live: Herman Melville: Værk, liv og forskning (<http://melville.dk/>). Søren Frank, whose conference report is included in this issue, writes: "I am aware that most of you may have some slight difficulties in reading Danish, but I nevertheless thought that you would all appreciate such good news concerning the global promotion of Melville's works. Work on the webpage was initiated by me in 2015 when I taught a class on Melville, and back then all the students in my class contributed one way or the other to the webpage. Since then, three of the students and myself have continued to work on the site." The site was officially launched on August 18, 2017, with a reception at Comparative Literature, Southern Denmark University. Frank adds: "who knows, perhaps at some point some of us and/or others may get to establishing a Danish Melville Society (no promises, though)." [End Page 70] In another instance of Melville's global popularity, Gordon Poole, one of the co-directors of the 2011 Rome conference, gave a talk and reading of Melville's poetry as part of a five-year project entitled "MOBY DICK: avventure, divagazioni e altre strategie sul tema di Melville" ("Moby-Dick: adventures, digressions, and other strategies on the theme of Melville"). Organized by Giovanni Andrea Semerano and Luigi Francini, the event takes place over a five-year period, 2016–2021, in Tuscania, an hour's drive north of Rome, Italy. It includes research, exhibitions, retrospectives...

Forum Introduction

Forum Introduction Lauren Tilton (bio), Amy E. Earhart (bio), Matt Delmont (bio), Susan Garfinkel (bio), Jesse P. Karlsberg (bio), and Angel David Nieves (bio) Scholarship at the intersection of two capacious modes of inquiry—American studies and digital humanities—results in a range of opportunities and challenges. Methodological experimentation enables distinctive avenues of research but can be difficult to access and support. Forms of knowledge facilitated by digital technologies offer new ways of knowing but can be expensive to create and illegible with respect to current assessment structures. Such conditions are further complicated by institutional investments in digital humanities and by the very technologies that render its modes of inquiry feasible, both of which can be at odds with American studies commitments. Such concerns precede and exceed these pages. The forum presented here is designed to contribute to these ongoing conversations and debates. The essays that follow are organized into four sections: Methods, Forms of Knowledge and Practice, Working through Institutions, and Garfinkel Prize in Digital Humanities. Because digital humanities is an expansive term encompassing a plethora of approaches, Methods discusses how particular digital humanities approaches are being applied in American studies. Authors Lauren Tilton, Jen Jack Gieseking, and T. L. Cowan address computational humanities, spatial analysis, and performance studies, respectively. For those more familiar with digital humanities with a capital D and capital H (DH)—the larger institutional configuration made up of institutional structures such as academic associations, conferences, and journals—a noticeable absence is text analysis, a computational approach to parsing textual documents. We intentionally omit text analysis because DH has been dominated by and critiqued for a continuing overemphasis on this method. Our selection of approaches is an argument for a more expansive digital humanities methodological repertoire from which American studies can draw and repurpose. The second section—Forms of Knowledge and Practice—explores how different ways of knowing and organizing knowledge undergird American studies digital humanities methods and forms. Two of the essays, by Jessica Marie Johnson and Jacqueline Wernimont, ask us to consider how marginalized [End Page 629] means of knowing and practices can transform our field. Black femme digital practice offers a way to use dominant technologies to formulate, convey, and remake subjectivities and modes of knowing, while a playful and poetic digital humanities suggests we engage in this kind of work with care, openness, and vulnerability. The third piece, by Monica Muñoz Martinez, offers a case study about the power of digital public humanities to reveal silenced histories, specifically of racial violence, for publics to acknowledge and confront. Such radical resistance and new methodologies, Wernimont argues, are a kind of intellectual work too often invisible to our institutions. Each essay challenges us to grapple with how decentering dominant modes of knowing and organizing knowledge can construct new ways of knowing facilitated by the digital humanities. Working through Institutions focuses on the challenges of supporting and assessing American studies digital humanities inquiry through higher education structures. Interdisciplinary work often happens at the interstices of academic departments or institutional divisions such as a school, library, and instructional technology services. They may well provoke challenges to rigid, disciplinary assessment and promotion structures. As a result, the labor and scholarship in American studies digital humanities are often precarious and invisible to the institution. The authors in this section, Marisa Parham, Elizabeth Losh, and Amanda Phillips, Christina Boyles, Anne Cong-Huyen, Carrie Johnston, and James McGrath, examine this dynamic and offer ways to approach "mentoring" and assessment so that we can reconfigure our labor practices and build more equitable institutions. The final section features projects selected for the annual Garfinkel Prize in Digital Humanities, awarded by the American Studies Association Digital Humanities Caucus. In light of the dearth of mechanisms for recognizing innovative scholarship in forms other than books and articles, the prize was created in 2016 to highlight exceptional work at the intersection of digital humanities and American studies. Project leaders of the 2016 prize winner, Erin McElroy's Anti-Eviction Mapping Project, and the 2016 and 2017 honorable mentions, Miriam Posner and Marika Cifor's Early African American Race Film and Sara L. Schwebel's Island of the Blue Dolphins, explain how their collaborative projects...

A demonstration device for cosmic rays telescopes

We describe a hands-on accurate demonstrator for cosmic rays realized by six high school students. The main aim is to show the relevance and the functioning of the principal parts of a cosmic ray telescope (muon detector), with the help of two large sized wooden artefacts. The first one points out how cosmic rays can be tracked in a muon telescope, while the other one shows the key avalanche process of electronic ionization that effectively allows muon detection through a photomultiplier. Incoming cosmic rays are visualized in terms of laser beams, whose 3D trajectory is highlighted by turning on LEDs on two orthogonal matrices. Instead the avalanche ionization process is demonstrated through the avalanche falling off glass marbles on an inclined plane, finally turning on a LED. A pictured poster accompanying the demonstrator is as effective in assisting cosmic ray demonstration and its detection. The success of the demonstrator has been fully proven by the general public during a science festival, in which the corresponding project won the Honorable Mention in a dedicated competition.

ALiEM Blog and Podcast Watch: Toxicology.

IntroductionThe WestJEM Blog and Podcast Watch presents high-quality open-access educational blogs and podcasts in emergency medicine based on the ongoing Academic Life in Emergency Medicine (ALiEM) Approved Instructional Resources (AIR) and AIR-Professional (Pro) series. Both series critically appraise open-access educational blogs and podcasts in EM using an objective scoring instrument. This installment of the blog and podcast watch series curated and scored relevant posts in the specific topic of toxicology emergencies from the AIR-Pro Series.MethodsThe AIR-Pro Series is a continuously building curriculum covering a new subject area every two months. For each area, eight EM chief residents identify 3–5 advanced clinical questions. Using FOAMsearch.net and FOAMSearcher to search blogs and podcasts, relevant posts are scored by eight reviewers from the AIR-Pro editorial board, which is comprised of EM faculty and chief residents at various institutions across North America. The scoring instrument contains five measurement outcomes based on seven-point Likert scales: recency, accuracy, educational utility, evidence based, and references. The AIR-Pro label is awarded to posts with a score of ≥28 (out of 35) points. An “honorable mention” label is awarded if board members collectively felt that the blogs were valuable and the scores were > 25.ResultsA total of 31 blog posts and podcasts were included. Key educational pearls from the six high-quality AIR-Pro posts and four honorable mentions are summarized.ConclusionThe WestJEM ALiEM Blog and Podcast Watch series is based on the AIR and AIR-Pro Series, which attempts to identify high-quality educational content on open-access blogs and podcasts. This series provides an expert-based, crowdsourced approach towards critically appraising educational social media content for EM clinicians. This installment focuses on toxicology emergencies.

ALiEM Blog and Podcast Watch: Procedures in Emergency Medicine.

IntroductionThe WestJEM Blog and Podcast Watch presents high-quality, open-access educational blogs and podcasts in emergency medicine (EM) based on the ongoing Academic Life in EM (ALiEM) Approved Instructional Resources (AIR) and AIR-Professional series. Both series critically appraise resources using an objective scoring rubric. This installment of the Blog and Podcast Watch highlights the topic of procedure emergencies from the AIR Series.MethodsThe AIR Series is a continuously building curriculum that follows the Council of Emergency Medicine Residency Directors’ (CORD) annual testing schedule. For each module, relevant content is collected from the top 50 Social Media Index sites published within the previous 12 months, and scored by eight AIR board members using five equally weighted measurement outcomes: Best Evidence in Emergency Medicine (BEEM) score, accuracy, educational utility, evidence based, and references. Resources scoring ≥30 out of 35 available points receive an AIR label. Resources scoring 27–29 receive an “honorable mention” label if the executive board agrees that the post is accurate and educationally valuable.ResultsA total of 85 blog posts and podcasts were evaluated in June 2016. This report summarizes key educational pearls from the three AIR posts and the 10 Honorable Mentions.ConclusionThe WestJEM Blog and Podcast Watch series is based on the AIR and AIR-Pro series, which attempts to identify high-quality educational content on open-access blogs and podcasts. This series provides an expert-based, post-publication curation of educational social media content for EM clinicians, with this installment focusing on procedure emergencies within the AIR series.

The Role of the Public Historian: An Interview with Donna Gabaccia

Research Article| October 01 2017 The Role of the Public Historian: An Interview with Donna Gabaccia Erika Lee; Erika Lee Erika Lee is Distinguished McKnight University Professor, the Rudolph J. Vecoli Chair in Immigration History, and Director of the Immigration History Research Center (IHRC) at the University of Minnesota. She is the author of three books and dozens of articles and book chapters on Asian American and immigration history, especially the history of immigration policy in the United States. Her 2015 book, The Making of Asian America (Simon & Schuster), won the 2015 Asian Pacific American Award for literature from the American Library Association. At the IHRC, she directs the Immigrant Stories digital storytelling and archiving project (funded by the National Endowment for the Humanities) and manages the #ImmigrationSyllabus project. She was the recipient of the 2016 Pioneer Award from OCA—Asian Pacific American Advocates and the 2015 Immigrant Heritage Award from the Angel Island Immigration Station Foundation. Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Donna Gabaccia Donna Gabaccia Donna Gabaccia is Professor of History at the University of Toronto and past Director of the Immigration History Research Center at the University of Minnesota. She is the author of fourteen books and dozens of articles on immigrant class, gender, and food studies in the United States; on Italian migration around the world; and on migration in world history. Her 2015 book Gender and International Migration (Russell Sage Foundation), co-authored with sociologist and demographer Katharine M. Donato, was awarded an Honorable Mention from the American Sociological Association’s Znaniecki Prize. Her previous book, Foreign Relations: American Immigration in Global Perspective (Princeton University Press), won the 2012 Theodore Saloutos Prize from the Immigration and Ethnic History Society. Her work in public history earned her the 2013 University of Minnesota Outstanding Community Service Award for Faculty and the 2012 Society of American Archivists’ Hamer-Kegan Award for the Immigration History Research Center Project, “Digitizing Immigrant Letters.” In 2008–2009, she was President of the Social Science History Association. She is currently Chair of the Executive Board of the Toronto Ward Museum. She teaches undergraduate and graduate courses in history and women’s studies, focusing on migration, gender, and diasporas in world history, digital history, and gender in the kitchen. Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Journal of American Ethnic History (2017) 37 (1): 70–77. https://doi.org/10.5406/jamerethnhist.37.1.0070 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permissions Search Site Citation Erika Lee, Donna Gabaccia; The Role of the Public Historian: An Interview with Donna Gabaccia. Journal of American Ethnic History 1 January 2017; 37 (1): 70–77. doi: https://doi.org/10.5406/jamerethnhist.37.1.0070 Download citation file: 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 Scholarly Publishing CollectiveUniversity of Illinois PressJournal of American Ethnic History Search Advanced Search The text of this article is only available as a PDF. Copyright 2017 by the Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois2017 Article PDF first page preview Close Modal You do not currently have access to this content.

A Philosopher with a Plan: Reflections on Ifi Amadiume’s Male Daughters, Female Husbands

Research Article| September 01 2017 A Philosopher with a Plan: Reflections on Ifi Amadiume’s Male Daughters, Female Husbands Abosede George Abosede George Barnard College, Columbia University Abosede George is associate professor of history and Africana studies at Barnard College and Columbia University in New York City. She teaches courses in urban history, the history of childhood and youth in Africa, and the study of women, gender, and sexuality in African History. Her book, Making Modern Girls: A History of Girlhood, Labor, and Social Development, was published in 2014 by Ohio University Press. It received the Aidoo-Snyder Book Prize in 2015 from the Women’s Caucus of the African Studies Association, as well as Honorable Mention from the New York African Studies Association. Increasingly her research interests have turned to the 19th century in Lagos, to issues of gender, ethnicity, migration, and the records of reverse diaspora communities from the Americas, the Caribbean, and other regions of West Africa. Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Journal of West African History (2017) 3 (2): 124–130. https://doi.org/10.14321/jwestafrihist.3.2.0124 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permissions Search Site Citation Abosede George; A Philosopher with a Plan: Reflections on Ifi Amadiume’s Male Daughters, Female Husbands. Journal of West African History 1 September 2017; 3 (2): 124–130. doi: https://doi.org/10.14321/jwestafrihist.3.2.0124 Download citation file: 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 Scholarly Publishing CollectiveMichigan State University PressJournal of West African History Search Advanced Search The text of this article is only available as a PDF. © 2017 Michigan State University2017 Article PDF first page preview Close Modal Issue Section: Conversations You do not currently have access to this content.

Society Advocacy Continues to Make Impact Amid Uncertainty

Society Advocacy Continues to Make Impact Amid Uncertainty

Nutrient Sensor Challenge Winners Announced at ASLO Conference

The winners of the Nutrient Sensor Challenge were announced at a special awards session at the ASLO Aquatic Sciences Meeting in Honolulu, Hawaii, on Thursday, March 2. Launched in December 2014, the Nutrient Sensor Challenge aimed to accelerate the development, production, and use of affordable, reliable, and accurate nutrient sensors. These sensors will enable automated and high-resolution nutrient monitoring in aquatic environments ranging from freshwater lakes and streams to the coastal ocean. Nutrient pollution is one of the nation's most difficult environmental challenges. While nutrients are essential compounds for functioning ecosystems and the production of food, fiber, and livestock feed, excessive nutrient levels can dramatically alter aquatic environments and threaten economic and human health. An independent judging panel selected Systea S.p.A. as the winner for both Nitrate and Phosphate sensors. The Systea instruments represent a cost-effective, commercially available solution for measuring both nitrate and phosphate in an integrated package. It uses a wet chemistry approach to measure both nitrogen and phosphorus, and performed well in lab testing and across the three field deployments, including 72 days in Chesapeake Bay. The judging panel awarded an Honorable Mention for Innovation and Potential to the National Oceanography Centre (NOC) team. The NOC sensor represents a fundamentally new approach to the wet chemical in situ analyzer method, using chip-based microfluidics technology. Though some engineering challenges need to be addressed for continuous, full-scale field deployment, the sensor performed well in the lab and maintained accuracy and precision across a wide range. The sensor is also forecast to be near the Challenge goal for purchase price. For the past two years, the Challenging Nutrients Coalition has been working to facilitate the development of nutrient sensors that will provide the data needed to inform decisions to reduce nutrient loads on land, in the air, and in waterways and to track progress. The Coalition is an extensive collaboration between government agencies (including Environmental Protection Agency, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, United States Geological Survey, and National Institute of Standards Technology), NGOs, and academia that deploys open innovation and incentive prize approaches to advance nutrient pollution management and reduction. To stimulate these new innovations, the Coalition launched the Nutrient Sensor Challenge in collaboration with the Alliance for Coastal Technologies (ACT). The challenge goal was for new, more accurate, precise and reliable technologies to be commercially available by 2017 for a purchase price of less than $5,000 and with other significant savings in cost-of-ownership. After two years of development, and rigorous field and laboratory testing by ACT, the winners were selected by an independent panel of expert judges. “Many thanks go to the many technology innovators, our technical advisory committee, and independent judging panel,” said Mario Tamburri, Executive Director of the Alliance for Coastal Technologies. “The next step is to get these next-generation sensors into the hands of users to help stop the nutrient pollution problem.” All instrument performance testing results will be available to the public in a series of individual verification reports published on the ACT website in April 2017. More information on the nutrient pollution issue, the Nutrient Sensor Challenge, and the winners can be found at www.nutrients-challenge.org. Denice Shaw from EPA Office of Research and Development presenting award to Pompeo Moscetta of Systea. Amy Pelsinsky, Director of Public Relations, University of Maryland Center for Environmental Science, Baltimore, MD, U.S.A., apelsinsky@umces.edu

Influences of academic institutional factors on R&amp;D funding for graduate students

We examine the effect of academic institutional characteristics on research funding grant success for graduate students. This article draws upon the US National Science Foundation’s Graduate Research Fellowship Program (GRFP). We match a set of graduate students to their graduate programs to examine whether higher education institutional factors mediate funding assignment to award or honorable mention. We find evidence that a series of leadership, peer, programmatic, and university characteristics are associated with grant funding outcomes. Notably, faculty research and peer quality are associated with award success, while the signal of being at a public institution decreases the likelihood of award receipt. Moreover, while we find that larger programs are more likely to have graduate students that receive awards, the larger, lower-ranked programs exhibit inefficiencies in scaling the activity. This implies that these programs may face coordination costs that are detrimental to the rate of graduate student success.

Blog and Podcast Watch: Orthopedic Emergencies.

IntroductionThe WestJEM Blog and Podcast Watch presents high quality open-access educational blogs and podcasts in emergency medicine (EM) based on the ongoing ALiEM Approved Instructional Resources (AIR) and AIR-Professional series. Both series critically appraise resources using an objective scoring rubric. This installment of the Blog and Podcast Watch highlights the topic of orthopedic emergencies from the AIR series.MethodsThe AIR series is a continuously building curriculum that follows the Council of Emergency Medicine Residency Directors (CORD) annual testing schedule. For each module, relevant content is collected from the top 50 Social Media Index sites published within the previous 12 months, and scored by eight AIR board members using five equally weighted measurement outcomes: Best Evidence in Emergency Medicine (BEEM) score, accuracy, educational utility, evidence based, and references. Resources scoring ≥30 out of 35 available points receive an AIR label. Resources scoring 27–29 receive an honorable mention label, if the executive board agrees that the post is accurate and educationally valuable.ResultsA total of 87 blog posts and podcasts were evaluated. Key educational pearls from the three AIR posts and the 14 honorable mentions are summarized.ConclusionThe WestJEM Blog and Podcast Watch series is based on the AIR and AIR-Pro series, which attempts to identify high quality educational content on open-access blogs and podcasts. This series provides an expert-based, post-publication curation of educational social media content for EM clinicians with this installment focusing on orthopedic emergencies.

The Chester Penn Higby Prize for 2016

The Chester Penn Higby Prize for 2016