University Of Massachusetts Research Articles

V. DAUGHTERS’ AND SONS’ EXPOSURE TO CHILDREARING DISCIPLINE AND VIOLENCE IN LOW‐ AND MIDDLE‐INCOME COUNTRIES

Monographs of the Society for Research in Child DevelopmentVolume 81, Issue 1 p. 78-103 GENDER IN LOW- AND MIDDLE-INCOME COUNTRIES V. DAUGHTERS’ AND SONS’ EXPOSURE TO CHILDREARING DISCIPLINE AND VIOLENCE IN LOW- AND MIDDLE-INCOME COUNTRIES Kirby Deater-Deckard, Corresponding Author Kirby Deater-Deckard Corresponding author: Kirby Deater-Deckard, Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences, University of Massachusetts, 441 Tobin Hall, Amherst, MA 01003. email: kdeaterdeck@umass.eduSearch for more papers by this authorJennifer E. Lansford, Jennifer E. LansfordSearch for more papers by this author Kirby Deater-Deckard, Corresponding Author Kirby Deater-Deckard Corresponding author: Kirby Deater-Deckard, Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences, University of Massachusetts, 441 Tobin Hall, Amherst, MA 01003. email: kdeaterdeck@umass.eduSearch for more papers by this authorJennifer E. Lansford, Jennifer E. LansfordSearch for more papers by this author First published: 29 March 2016 https://doi.org/10.1111/mono.12227Citations: 2 This article is part of the issue “Gender in Low- and Middle-Income Countries,” Bornstein, Putnick, Lansford, Deater-Deckard, and Bradley (Issue Authors). For a full listing of articles in this issue, see: http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/mono.v81.1/issuetoc. Read the full textAboutPDF ToolsRequest permissionExport citationAdd to favoritesTrack citation ShareShare Give accessShare full text accessShare full-text accessPlease review our Terms and Conditions of Use and check box below to share full-text version of article.I have read and accept the Wiley Online Library Terms and Conditions of UseShareable LinkUse the link below to share a full-text version of this article with your friends and colleagues. Learn more.Copy URL Share a linkShare onFacebookTwitterLinkedInRedditWechat Citing Literature Volume81, Issue1Gender in Low- and Middle-Income Countries; Issue Authors - Bornstein, Putnick, Lansford, Deater-Deckard, and BradleyMarch 2016Pages 78-103 RelatedInformation

Black Resonance: Iconic Women Singers and African American LiteratureEmily J.Lordi. New Brunswick: Rutgers University Press, 2013.

Black Resonance: Iconic Women Singers and African American Literature Emily J. Lordi. New Brunswick: Rutgers University Press, 2013.I thought I knew something about the history of music and artists like Mahalia Jackson and Bessie Smith; I thought I was well versed in the writings of Ralph Ellison and James Baldwin. I was wrong. Thankfully, Emily Lordi's brilliant Black Resonance: Iconic Women Singers and African American Literature took me to school. Not only does the book expand one's understanding of a myriad of iconic writers and singers, chronicling their collaborative histories, but also it offers profound and important readings of their insurgent works and their voices of freedom.At its core, Black Resonance is an examination of the shared histories, overlapping cultural discourses, and interconnections between the sonic and literary, between the artist and the writer, between song and text. Ever since Bessie Smith's improbably powerful voice conspired with the emerging 'race records' industry to make her 'the first real superstar in African American popular culture,' writes Lordi, black writers have memorialized the sounds and detailed the politics of women's singing (1). Pushing back at the conventions that separate popular culture and high culture, activism and cultural production, intellectual musings and the sonic boom, Lordi, a professor of English at University of Massachusetts, Amherst, offers a series of examples that contest and undercut the binaries and boundaries that anchor discourses around culture.Challenging the myth of the muse and the privileging of certain forms of expression, Black Resonance moves the conversation about this history, a series of artists, and our collective discourse around art, agency, and activism. It is not simply interesting intersecting vectors between writers and artists or the ways that writers, from Richard Wright and Ralph Ellison to James Baldwin and Nikki Giovanni, engaged the work of singers, from Bessie Smith and Mahalia Jackson to Billie Holiday and Aretha Franklin (and vice versa). According to the author, writers and singers are equal partners in the creation of aesthetics (5) and in the production and articulation of freedom Dreams (See Robin D. G. Kelley's Freedom Dreams: The Black Radical Imagination, 2002). Lordi remarks thatI stage them as collaborators, in the etymological sense of 'laboring together,' as they develop analogous expressive techniques. It is necessary that they know each other, or that vocalists sing about writers, in order for writers and singers to collaborate in this way. Their collaboration is not literal; nor is it perfectly symmetrical. Writers discursively co-create musical meaning when they write about singers. (5)In a chapter on Ralph Ellison and Bessie Smith, Lordi highlights the dialectics operating with their work, and their deployed aesthetics, narratives, and tropes, challenging the discursive privileging of the white gaze and its flattening of their meanings. …

Design of a 2-mm Wavelength KIDs Prototype Camera for the Large Millimeter Telescope

A new camera is being developed for the Large Millimeter Telescope (Sierra Negra, Mexico) by an international collaboration with the University of Massachusetts, the University of Cardiff, and Arizona State University. The camera is based on kinetic inductance detectors (KIDs), a very promising technology due to their sensitivity and especially, their compatibility with frequency domain multiplexing at microwave frequencies allowing large format arrays, in comparison with other detection technologies for mm-wavelength astronomy. The instrument will have a 100 pixels array of KIDs to image the 2-mm wavelength band and is designed for closed cycle operation using a pulse tube cryocooler along with a three-stage sub-kelvin 3He cooler to provide a 250 mK detector stage. RF cabling is used to readout the detectors from room temperature to 250 mK focal plane, and the amplification stage is achieved with a low-noise amplifier operating at 4 K. The readout electronics will be based on open-source reconfigurable open architecture computing hardware in order to perform real-time microwave transmission measurements and monitoring the resonance frequency of each detector, as well as the detection process.

Catalyzing Bio-Aromatics

The scores of companies developing biobased routes to industrial chemicals are all ambitious. They have to be if they think they can compete with products that have been entrenched for decades. But few dream as big as Anellotech. The Pearl River, N.Y.-based start-up is developing a way to turn lignocellulosic biomass into the aromatic building blocks benzene, toluene, and xylene, known collectively as BTX. If successful, the technology could help bring the world biobased versions of important aromatic-derived chemicals such as polyester, nylon, epoxy, and polyurethane. Anellotech’s technology is based on the work of George W. Huber, done while he was a professor of chemical engineering at University of Massachusetts, Amherst. Despite this academic pedigree, nothing about the technology—other than the feedstock—would seem exotic to chemical makers. Cellulosic biomass is ground into a powder and fed into a fluidized bed reactor. Pyrolysis breaks the organic material into a gas composed

Giving Patients With Serious Mental Illness Mobile Boost to Quit Smoking

Even as new technologies emerge, therapists ought to be engaged with patients when considering current mobile strategy options.

The Studio of Literature: An Interview with Tom Lutz

The Studio of Literature:An Interview with Tom Lutz Jeffrey J. Williams (bio) Tom Lutz started with a simple idea: newspapers were shrinking their review pages and there was no West coast version of the New York book reviews, so, a longtime resident of Los Angeles, he founded the LA Review of Books (LARB). Since its first appearance as a Tumblr account in 2011, it has quickly grown to a major site, now publishing more than 1500 new pieces per year, sponsoring several channels (such as Avidly, which covers television), a book club, a print quarterly, a radio show, and a blog, and enlisting an extensive network of donors and members. Lutz has crossed between academic and public spheres throughout his career, with two university press books and two trade books. His first book, American Nervousness: An Anecdotal History (Cornell UP, 1991), traces the motif of nerves that runs through a wide range of American literature and culture circa 1903, in figures such as Teddy Roosevelt and Hamlin Garland. He continued to look at the realm of feeling in the trade book, Crying: The Natural and Cultural History of Tears (Norton, 1999), which covers a capacious range, this time from the ancients to the contemporary U.S. In his third book, Cosmopolitan Vistas: American Regionalism and Literary Value (Cornell UP, 2004), he returned to academic precincts, showing that American literature has long been caught in the tension between inclusiveness and selectivity. Moving back to a wider public, Doing Nothing: A History of Loafers, Loungers, Slackers, and Bums in America (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2006), examines the idea of slacking—and work—in a tour through American figures from Ben Franklin to the Beats, along with likeminded writers such as Samuel Johnson. Born in Connecticut in 1953, Lutz had a fitful academic start, working jobs from cook to contractor to musician before he went to college. He attended the University of Dubuque and University of Massachusetts, from which he received his BA in 1980. He went on to do his PhD in Modern Thought at Stanford University (1988), from there taking a position at the University of Iowa, where he was a professor from 1988-2006. After a year visiting at CalArts, he moved to UC-Riverside in 2006 to chair the creative writing program, although he resigned the chairmanship in the face of massive budget cuts to the California system in 2011 (see http://chronicle.com/article/Mad-as-Hell-in-California-and/127760/). [End Page 543] While still teaching at Riverside, he has devoted a good deal of work since then to editing LARB. This interview took place on 7 February 2015 at the offices of LARB in Atwater Village, Los Angeles, CA. It was conducted and edited by Jeffrey J. Williams, Professor of English and of Literary and Cultural Studies at Carnegie Mellon University, and transcribed by Souri Somphanith, an MA student at Carnegie Mellon. Jeffrey J. Williams: You founded LARB three or four years ago and it has become a major clearinghouse reviewing literature. How did you come to start LARB? Tom Lutz: LARB started somewhat accidentally. Howard Junker, who ran ZYZZYVA, which is a Bay Area literary magazine that was very hip in the 90s, asked me if I would be interested in taking over for him because he was getting ready to retire. “Zyzzyva” is the last word in the dictionary—it’s a beetle—and the journal is a classic literary quarterly, publishing fiction, poetry, and non-fiction. He had published a fun piece of mine on academic interviews. I wrote it when I was at CalArts for a talk I wanted to give on experimentalism. JJW: What year was this? TL: It was around 2008 or 2009. Anyway, Junker liked that piece and he was reading Doing Nothing, and he asked if I was interested in taking over the journal. I thought it would be a great thing to have a literary journal—one that has some reputation already—for our creative writing department and for our graduate students, so I said to my colleagues, “What do you think about us doing this as a collective?” There were about a dozen of us...

Mentor Extraordinaire

Mentor Extraordinaire Angelo D. Robinson (bio) As a student of Professor Joseph T. Skerrett from fall 1995 to summer 2001, I studied three courses with him, including his phenomenal seminar on Richard Wright, Ralph Ellison, and James Baldwin. From my initial visit in consideration of the graduate program to my departure, he was the most prominent figure in my academic training at the University of Massachusetts Amherst. He saw his responsibility to me and other graduate students as sharing knowledge and offering constructive criticism without apology, straight and to the point. With this pedagogical philosophy, he inspired us to do our best with kindness and a pleasant professional demeanor. During my third year of graduate school, I was not only a student of Prof. Skerrett but an employee as well in my role as assistant editor at MELUS, along with managing editor Arlene Rodriguez. During this time, I was fortunate to see and learn from Prof. Skerrett, the literary editor and journal businessman, by participating in the process of producing and distributing a quarterly academic publication. When it later became time to select a dissertation director, the choice was, as they say, “a no brainer.” Though intense and stressful at times, it was a positive experience thanks to Prof. Skerrett’s calm and guidance. His wisdom and direction also served me well on the job market. Regarding the interview process, Prof. Skerrett prepared me well for this daunting and intimidating process, including CV and cover letter consultation. On one campus interview, his teaching presentation recommendation set me miles ahead of the competition and landed me the job offer! Once I began my teaching career, Prof. Skerrett continued to mentor me. His encouragement and advice was priceless to a sometimes bewildered beginning professor. His insight on course development and overall pedagogical advice graciously guided me through the phase of junior faculty to the demands of service, teaching, and research in pursuing tenure. As a result of his care and attention, I thought that all dissertation directors acted in this way, but each time I relate to a colleague or friend that I have consulted with Prof. Skerrett in this way, they share that they are amazed, surprised, and often envious at my relationship with my former professor and advisor so many years after being one of his students. For this and so much more, I will always appreciate and cherish Prof. Skerrett as my teacher, advisor, mentor, and friend. [End Page 5] Angelo D. Robinson ANGELO D. ROBINSON, recipient of the PhD in English at the University of Massachusetts (Amherst), is Associate Professor of English at Goucher College in Baltimore County. Copyright © 2016 Johns Hopkins University Press

アメリカの工学教育におけるサービスラーニング導入事例

Service-learning refers to a type of learning that allows students to learn in an active manner based on problem solving through service activities that address the needs and issues of the community. Here, I will present the following three cases: EPICS at Purdue University, SLICE at the University of Massachusetts, Lowell, and HESE at the College of Engineering, Pennsylvania State University. Some common characteristics among these three service-learning programs are: they are specialized engineering courses, they are interdisciplinary in nature, the programs are well established within the educational institution, and they are continuously offered. This paper proposes that it may also be beneficial to actively integrate the concept of service-learning into engineering education, as part of interdisciplinary projects.

Assessment of Bridge Joint Performance in the Northeastern States

The University of Massachusetts, Amherst conducted a research project to determine the best practices for bridge expansion joints and headers in the northeastern United States. This research included understanding how joints and headers are used and maintained, and what factors and practices have affected joint and header performance positively and negatively. The initial research included reviewing the literature on previous joint research and compiling information on the existing bridge joint inventory in Massachusetts. Next, information was collected on bridge joints, headers, and practices within the Massachusetts Department of Transportation (DOT), by meeting with and interviewing personnel from each of the six district offices. These meetings identified significant variation in joint preferences and performance between districts within a single DOT. A survey on the use and performance of joints and headers that included questions specific to installation, repair, maintenance, and overall practice was created and distributed to transportation agencies in Connecticut, Maine, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New York, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, and Vermont. The 26 survey responses were compiled and summarized. This paper describes regional practice in the northeastern United States based on the results of this research.

Development and Factor Analysis of the Protective Factors Index: A Report Card Section Related to the Work of School Counselors

Gwen Bass is a doctoral researcher at the Ronald H. Fredrickson Center for School Counseling Outcome Research at the University of Massachusetts. Ji Hee Lee is a doctoral student at Korea University in South Korea and Center Fellow of the Ronald H. Frederickson Center for School Counseling Outcome Research at the University of Massachusetts. Craig Wells is an Associate Professor at the University of Massachusetts. John C. Carey is a Professor of School Counseling and the Director of the Ronald H. Frederickson Center for School Counseling Outcome Research at the University of Massachusetts. Sangmin Lee is an Associate Professor at Korea University. Correspondence can be addressed to Gwen Bass, School of Cognitive Science, Adele Simmons Hall, Hampshire College, 893 West Street, Amherst, MA 01002, gjbass@gmail.com. Gwen Bass, Ji Hee Lee, Craig Wells, John C. Carey, Sangmin Lee Development and Factor Analysis of the Protective Factors Index: A Report Card Section Related to the Work of School Counselors

Transitioning Between Editors: Describing the Process

Transitioning Between Editors: Describing the Process

The Law & Society Reader II. Edited by Erik Larson and Patrick Schmidt. New York: New York University Press, 2014. 440 pp. $29 paper.

Law & Society ReviewVolume 49, Issue 4 p. 1023-1025 Book Review The Law & Society Reader II. Edited by Erik Larson and Patrick Schmidt. New York: New York University Press, 2014. 440 pp. $29 paper. John Brigham, John Brigham Department of Political Science, University of Massachusetts, AmherstSearch for more papers by this author John Brigham, John Brigham Department of Political Science, University of Massachusetts, AmherstSearch for more papers by this author First published: 28 October 2015 https://doi.org/10.1111/lasr.12170Citations: 1Read the full textAboutPDF ToolsRequest permissionExport citationAdd to favoritesTrack citation ShareShare Give accessShare full text accessShare full-text accessPlease review our Terms and Conditions of Use and check box below to share full-text version of article.I have read and accept the Wiley Online Library Terms and Conditions of UseShareable LinkUse the link below to share a full-text version of this article with your friends and colleagues. Learn more.Copy URL Share a linkShare onFacebookTwitterLinked InRedditWechat Citing Literature Volume49, Issue4December 2015Pages 1023-1025 RelatedInformation

Obituary: Mitchell P. Fink

Mitchell P. Fink, MD (Fig. 1), one of the most inspiring and influential leaders in the field of intensive care medicine, died at 66 years of age on 17 November 2015 after being diagnosed this summer with an aggressive sarcoma. This devastating news has left many of us with a huge sense of loss and sadness. Fig. 1 Mitchell P. Fink Mitch graduated from the Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis, MO, in 1976 and completed general surgery training at the National Naval Medical Center in Bethesda, MD, in 1981. Thereafter, he held faculty positions at the Bethesda Naval Center and the University of Massachusetts, where he worked as surgeon and intensivist. In 1992 he moved to the Harvard Medical School, eventually becoming the Johnson and Johnson Professor in Surgery and surgeon-in-chief at the Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center. He moved to the University of Pittsburgh in 1999, where he subsequently became the inaugural chair of the Department of Critical Care Medicine. He founded several companies based on discoveries from his laboratory and, in 2007, left the university to oversee the formation of one of these ventures. In 2009 Mitch returned to academia, joining the faculty at University of California Los Angeles where he held the title of Professor of Surgery and Vice Chair for Critical Care. During his career, Mitch cared for thousands of patients with skill and compassion, amassed a great body of experimental and clinical research, trained and mentored hundreds of physicians and scientists, demonstrated wonderful entrepreneurship, and carved a vision of modern multidisciplinary critical care with lasting benefits for our entire field. For decades, academic medicine has praised the rare individual who excels as the so-called triple threat: teacher, clinician, and scientist. Mitch was all three and more, adding to these triple roles the rare gift of visionary leader in both academia and industry. I have never known anyone quite like Mitch. His extraordinary career began early with a first author paper in Nature while still in medical school. While working in Bethesda, he forged close relationships with the National Institutes of Health critical care group, conducting a number of seminal experimental studies that both helped to establish the utility of animal models to probe the host response to sepsis, trauma, and shock and to inform our current understanding of these syndromes. Later, Mitch would conduct pioneering work using cell-based models of organ dysfunction to tease out the cellular response to stress from hypoxia and endogenous and exogenous danger signals, exploring key concepts of mitochondrial dysfunction and dysoxia. In addition to his passion for experimental research, Mitch also conducted many highly cited clinical studies, co-wrote the Textbook of Critical Care, and served on the editorial boards of numerous journals including Critical Care, Critical Care Medicine, and Intensive Care Medicine. To all of his work, Mitch brought four enduring characteristics: knowledge, logic, creativity, and focus. He maintained an encyclopedic knowledge of the world, able to quote relevant papers, data, and information off the top of his head from a dizzyingly wide range of art, science, politics, and history. He also exercised crystal-clear logic, distilling the most complex problem into a series of simple steps, whether this was a complicated piece of basic science or a tough business decision facing a start-up biotechnology company. Having concisely summarized any problem, he then brought great creativity and inventiveness to probe and tackle its solution. Finally, he always kept a clear sense of purpose, making sure neither he nor his colleagues ever lost sight of the larger goals of advancing medical knowledge and saving lives. I came to know Mitch during his tenure in Pittsburgh when he oversaw one of the most prolific and successful eras in our history, serving as a wonderful mentor and colleague, and launching the first multidisciplinary department of critical care medicine in a US medical school. In our daily contact with Mitch, we saw not only his intellect and drive, but also his warmth, compassion, wit, and grace. His door was always open, ready to listen to everyone from senior colleagues to junior residents and new staff. He had words of kindness and advice to coach us through every disappointment and words of praise and respect for every accomplishment. For me, as for many, Mitch was unquestionably one of the most supportive and influential people we have ever known. Through both his words and actions, he taught us not just about medicine and science, but about life, relationships, honor, duty, and service. We have lost an immense presence. Mitch is survived by his wife, Judy, and children, Matt and Emily. We extend our deepest condolences to them. He will be deeply missed.

Modeling Dynamic Stall for a Free Vortex Wake Model

Floating offshore wind turbines in deep waters offer significant advantages to onshore and near-shore wind turbines. However, due to the motion of floating platforms in response to wind and wave loading, the aerodynamics are substantially more complex. Traditional aerodynamic models and design codes do not adequately account for the floating platform dynamics. Previous research at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst developed the Wake Induced Dynamics Simulator, or WInDS, a free vortex wake model of wind turbines that explicitly includes the velocity components from platform motion. WInDS rigorously accounts for the unsteady interactions between the wind turbine rotor and its wake, however, as a potential flow model, the unsteady viscous response in the blade boundary layer is neglected. This work addressed this concern through the integration of a Leishman-Beddoes dynamic stall model into WInDS. Several improvements to the Leishman-Beddoes dynamic stall model are proposed to improve the synthesis of 2D steady airfoil data and to improve stability when couple with WInDS. The stand-alone dynamic stall model was validated against 2D unsteady data from the OSU pitch oscillation experiments and the coupled WInDS model was validated against three-dimensional data from NREL's UAE Phase VI campaign. WInDS with dynamic stall shows substantial improvements in load predictions under unsteady conditions. WInDS with the dynamic stall model should provide the necessary aerodynamic model fidelity for future research and design work on floating offshore wind turbines.

Notes on Contributors

Notes on Contributors

Destination competitiveness: evidence from Bali

Within the dynamic global tourism industry, understanding the reasons for a destination's competitiveness is essential in order to enhance its performance, facilitate more effective destination management, and inform its overall sustainable economic development. This paper applies Kim and Wicks’ (2010, July 30. Rethinking tourism cluster development models for global competitiveness, international chrie conference-refereed track, University of Massachusetts) tourism cluster development model to Bali – a small, mature destination in the developing economy of Indonesia. It demonstrates that there are complex relationships between: (i) cluster actors; (ii) barriers preventing effective networking; and (iii) the significance of these interactions for the local host community. This paper contributes to the debate by addressing new and different attributes and actors such as transnational corporations, universities, and the concept of co-opetition, as being significant attributes in Kim and Wicks’ initial model. Through a qualitative approach involving N = 23 semi-structured interviews, this paper illustrates intricate issues and relationships that are identified in Bali, a small mature destination. Purposive sampling methods were employed to generate a range of key stakeholders who informed our understanding of ‘cluster actors’ in Kim and Wicks’ terms. The systematic examination of these key tourism elements provides a detailed analysis of the destination's strengths and weaknesses, and a more nuanced understanding of what facilitates a destination's competitive position.

Atypical small acinar proliferation (ASAP): Is a repeat biopsy necessary ASAP? A multi-institutional review.

Atypical small acinar proliferation (ASAP) occurs in approximately 5% of prostate biopsies. Approximately 30-40% of patients with ASAP may develop prostate cancer (PCa) within a 5-year period. Current guidelines recommend a repeat biopsy within 3-6 months after the initial diagnosis. Our objective was to examine the association between ASAP and subsequent diagnosis of high-grade PCa and to evaluate the need for immediate repeat biopsy. A retrospective multi-institutional review identified 264 patients who underwent prostate biopsy from 2000 to 2013 (Brown), 2008 to 2013 (University of Massachusetts) and 1994 to 2005 (Mayo) and were diagnosed with ASAP. Patients underwent transrectal ultrasound-guided biopsies for elevated PSA and/or abnormal digital rectal exam. Clinicopathologic features were assessed, including rates of subsequent PCa detection of any high-grade (Gleason 7-10) PCa. Comparison was made between those with subsequent PCa on repeat biopsy and those with benign repeat pathology. All 264 patients included underwent repeat biopsy with a median follow-up of 5.4 years (interquartile range: 4.6, 6.7). Of these patients, 89 (34%) were subsequently diagnosed with PCa including 21 (8%) with high-grade PCa. Pre-biopsy PSA was higher among patients subsequently diagnosed with (6.7 vs 5.8, P<0.001). Of those diagnosed with subsequent PCa, 69/89 (78%) had less than or equal to Gleason 3+3 disease and only 15/89 (17%) had Gleason 7 and 6/89 (6%) revealed Gleason ⩾8-10. Radical prostatectomy was performed on 36/89 (40%) patients. Surgical pathology revealed 11 patients ⩾Gleason 8-10 PCa. Although 34% of patients with an initial diagnosis of ASAP who had repeat biopsy were subsequently diagnosed with PCa only, only 22% (8% of the total cohort) were found to have high-grade disease. Higher PSA was associated with increased risk of identifying PCa on repeat biopsy. These findings suggest that immediate repeat biopsy may be omitted in the majority of men with ASAP.

Nanoparticles Containing Peppermint Oil, Cinnamon Flavor Disrupt Biofilms

When encapsulated in silica nanoparticles, peppermint oil and cinnamaldehyde, which gives cinnamon its characteristic flavor, penetrate biofilms and potently kill drug-resistant pathogens within them, according to Vincent Rotello at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst, and his collaborators. These nanocapsules also promote fibroblast growth, which helps wounds to heal, they say, leading them to call these flavor-loaded nanoparticles a “promising natural disinfectant and wound cleanser.” Details appeared 17 June 2015 in ACS Nano (doi:10.1021/acsnano.5b01696).

The Journey by Radwa Ashour

This contribution is a translation of the opening chapter of Radwa Ashour’s The Journey: An Egyptian Woman Student’s American Memoirs [Al-Rihla: Ayyam Talibah Misriyah fi Amrika] and a brief critical introduction to the author and her works. Never before published in English translation, this first chapter shows how The Journey is a memoir deeply engaged in politics, literature, and people’s struggles. The work charts Ashour’s years studying in the United States of the 1970s, where she would graduate from the W.E.B. Du Bois Department of Afro-American Studies and the English Department of the University of Massachusetts in 1975. A political progressive and leftist writer, critic, and activist, this memoir reflects not only on her own journey and struggles but those of the people she met and engaged with in the United States, especially Black Americans. Coming from an Egypt emerging from the Six Day War, Ashour links her generation in the Arab world to politically active people in America in a language and with a spirit that bring the 1960s and 1970s alive.

The Massachusetts State Cabinet Herbarium Revisited and Revitalized: A Collection of New England Plants From the Early 19th Century

Abstract In 1867, the State Cabinet, an extensive collection of specimens representing the natural history of Massachusetts, was transferred from the State House in Boston, MA, to the new Massachusetts Agricultural College in Amherst (now the University of Massachusetts). The botanical portion of the State Cabinet has remained intact, and relatively unknown, for the last 148 years at the University of Massachusetts Herbarium. Over the course of two years we completely curated the collection, performed restoration work, and researched the history of the collectors associated with the State Cabinet with a goal of making the collection available online. We were able to assign collectors and collection dates to 84% of the collections that were missing this information. The primary collectors, Charles Jarvis (1800–1826), Edward Jarvis (1803–1884), and Henry Little (1802–1826), were a group of Harvard-educated physicians whose botanical interests were probably inspired by the instruction they received in natura...