University Of Wisconsin-Milwaukee Research Articles

Aristotle’s Μετεωρολογικά: Meteorology Then and Now by Anastasios A. Tsonis and Christos Zerefos

Aristotle’s Meteorologica is one of the least studied of Aristotle’s major works, and scholars who do study it often concentrate on its logical and theoretical aspects rather than on the empirical science contained in it. The two authors of this study are professional meteorologists from Greece: Anastasios Tsonis, emeritus distinguished professor in the Department of Mathematical Sciences at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, and Christos Zerefos, head of the Research Centre for Atmospheric Physics and Climatology at the Academy of Athens and professor of atmospheric physics at the Universities of Athens and Thessaloniki. They are interested in Aristotle’s work as a contribution to science and not just as an essay in the logic of scientific inquiry. This book thus fills a gap in the resources available for the study of Aristotle’s Meteorologica. I shall provide an overview of the book and then offer a critical assessment of it.

Prior Learning Assessment

Higher education continues to experience challenges arising from changing demographics and perceptions of the value of higher education. Prospective students want flexibility in how they pursue higher education. Programs must adapt to meet the changing needs and expectations of the audiences they serve. This is equally true for programs offered by library and information science schools. In an increasingly competitive educational environment where traditional student populations are shrinking, higher education institutions must be agile and proactive (Grawe, 2021).
 Prior Learning Assessment (PLA) or Credit for Prior Learning (CPL) recognize the students may bring knowledge and skills that are not documented as credit-bearing learning experiences from higher education institutions. The idea of PLA and CPL is not new. The Council for Adult and Experiential Learning (CAEL) (https://www.cael.org/) has advocated for PLA and CPL for more than 40 years. Learning can take place through nontraditional instructional outlets. Work-related and military experiences also provide learning opportunities for which evidence may be available. Central to PLA and CPL is rigorous assessment. This assessment can take multiple forms, including portfolio evaluation, examinations for learning achievement, or equivalency determination of non-credit learning experiences. A recent study on PLA for adult learners concluded that PLA is associated with better student outcomes, including higher credential completion, cost savings and time savings (Klein-Collins et al., 2020). The panel topic addresses the conference theme by focusing on learning, practice and competencies.
 Many students applying to undergraduate or graduate programs at LIS schools bring work or non-credit experiences in areas such as information technology, librarianship or archival studies that are germane to the areas they plan to study. Should these applicants be provided the opportunity to demonstrate the knowledge they bring for admission consideration, course exemptions or credit recognition?
 The objective of this juried panel is to begin a dialogue on the place of PLA in library and information science programs. After a brief introduction to PLA concepts, the panelists will discuss PLA initiatives in their schools. This will be followed by a discussion with the audience during the second half of the panel on questions that arise when considering the adoption of PLA. These questions include:
 
 What are the potential benefits of, and concerns with, offering PLA options to prospective undergraduate and graduate students?
 Which programs offered by LIS schools lend themselves to PLA?
 How much credit should be provided to students for demonstrating prior learning?
 What are the most effective approaches for assessing prior learning?
 Can PLA make LIS programs more inclusive, and can it serve as an effective recruitment tool?
 
 The following presenters will participate on the panel:
 Dietmar Wolfram (Moderator), Head of School and Associate Dean, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee’s School of Information Studies (SOIS) will provide a brief overview of PLA and methods of assessment.
 Louise Spiteri, Professor, School of Information Management, Dalhousie University will discuss how Dalhousie’s School of Information Management (SIM) moved from an ad hoc process to an official PLA process for admission assessment for their Master of Information (MI) program, and how this has allowed SIM to broaden the students entering the program. The presentation will also discuss the experience of students who have entered this way.
 Sarah Beth Nelson, Assistant Professor, School of Information Studies, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, has led the University of Wisconsin System School Library Education Consortium where students can submit a portfolio to demonstrate prior learning in order to be exempted from three of the courses required for school library licensure.
 Chad Zahrt, Assistant Dean, School of Information Studies, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee will outline how SOIS has been providing elective credit for non-credit workshops in relevant information technology areas to incoming students in the Bachelor of Science in Information Science and Technology program.
 Tomas A. Lipinski, Professor, School of Information Studies, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, will describe how SOIS is addressing the challenge of recognizing the knowledge of incoming MLIS students who bring substantial experience working in the field and how this may be assessed.

Mapping of extensible markup language-to-ontology representation for effective data integration

<span lang="EN-US">Extensible markup language (XML) is well-known as the standard for data exchange over the Internet. It is flexible and has high expressibility to express the relationship between the data stored. Yet, the structural complexity and the semantic relationships are not well expressed. On the other hand, ontology models the structural, semantic and domain knowledge effectively. By combining ontology with visualization effect, one will be able to have a closer view based on respective user requirements. In this paper, we propose several mapping rules for the transformation of XML into ontology representation. Subsequently, we show how the ontology is constructed based on the proposed rules using the sample domain ontology in University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee (UWM) and mondial datasets. <br /> We also look at the schemas, query workload, and evaluation, to derive the extended knowledge from the existing ontology. The correctness of the ontology representation has been proven effective through supporting various types of complex queries in simple protocol and resource description framework query language (SPARQL) language.</span>

ACHIEVING QUALITY PATIENT-CENTERED CARE IN THE NURSING HOME SETTING

Abstract In 1987, The Nursing Home Reform Act was enacted as part of the Omnibus Reconciliation Act of 1987 (OBRA 87). At that time, the Health Care Finance Administration (now Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services) issued comprehensive regulations and survey processes to “ensure that residents of nursing homes receive quality care that will result in their highest practicable physical, mental, and social well-being.” Despite this landmark legislation, nursing homes struggle to provide quality care, and are additionally challenged by natural disasters and pandemics. This presentation will report on recommendations that examine, structures, policies, and care models that promote change and innovation, with a focus on safety, environmental modifications, patient centered approaches, and quality care. Dr. Colleen Galambos, a professor at University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, with expertise in nursing home care delivery and quality improvement will present the care delivery recommendations from the NASEM report.

Gait Variability is Related to Pain Interference in Children with Hypermobility Spectrum Disorder and Hypermobile Ehlers-Danlos Syndrome

<h3>Research Objectives</h3> To examine the relationship between variability of gait spatiotemporal parameters and pain interference in children with hypermobile spectrum disorder/hypermobile Ehlers-Danlos syndrome (HSD/hEDS). <h3>Design</h3> Cross-sectional, prospective study. <h3>Setting</h3> Movement Analysis for Biomedical Innovation and Technology (Mobility) Lab at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, Milwaukee, WI. <h3>Participants</h3> Thirteen children with HSD/hEDS; 3 males, 10 females; 14.2 ± 2.9 years of age, body mass index: 22.0 ± 6.4 kg/m2. <h3>Interventions</h3> Not applicable. <h3>Main Outcome Measures</h3> Coefficient of variation (CV) was used to represent the variability of gait (CV = standard deviation (SD)/mean*100). The CV of step time, step length, gait speed, and cadence from five gait cycles were calculated. CV value greater than 3 SD from the mean was excluded from the analysis. The Brief Pain Inventory interference items related to daily activities (i.e., general activity, mobility, and going to school) were analyzed using a 0-10 scale where 0 is no interference and 10 is complete interference. Associations between gait variability and pain interference scores were analyzed using Pearson's correlation (r). <h3>Results</h3> The participants had CV of step time (n=12, 5.2 ± 9.5 CV%), step length (n=13, 5.5 ± 4.2 CV%), gait speed (n=13, 4.8 ± 2.5 CV%), and cadence (n=12, 5.7 ± 10.2 CV%). Brief Pain Inventory scores comprised general activity (2.5 ± 1.9), mobility (3.4 ± 2.0), and school (2.1 ± 2.8). Greater step length variability was moderately to strongly associated with greater pain interference with general activity (r=0.65, p=0.016), mobility (r=0.61, p=0.026), and going to school (r=0.78, p=0.003). <h3>Conclusions</h3> Increased gait variability was significantly correlated to pain interference during functional activities in children with HSD/hEDS. The variability may be due to altered muscle activation, disrupted proprioceptive feedback, and the instinct to protect from injury and provocative pain. Alterations in gait parameters and increased pain interference may reduce the quality of life. Future studies are needed to examine the mechanisms contributing to gait variability to guide patient-specific interventions for children with HSD/hEDS. <h3>Author(s) Disclosures</h3> The authors have no conflicts of interest to disclose.

Life After Death Redux: Anticipating the Posthumous Geographies of Dr. Bobby M. Wilson

Life After Death Redux: Anticipating the Posthumous Geographies of Dr. Bobby M. Wilson Nik Heynen (bio) I met Dr. Bobby M. Wilson at an Antipode reception at the Las Vegas AAG meeting in 2009. I had seen him at previous Antipode receptions and other AAG events but I was always too nervous to approach him. Before I met him, I had the great pleasure of having some mentoring from Dr. Harold Rose at my first job, at the University of Wisconsin Milwaukee. Dr. Rose talked to me as much as I would come around; I pestered Dr. Rose plenty. He’d often tell me stories about coming up in the discipline and he often invoked an important relationship with Dr. Wilson that I found inspiring. Dr. Wilson and I got to know each other better over a small-group week-long workshop in Vancouver in 2012. That meeting ultimately led to an edited book Trevor Barnes and Eric Shepherd published titled Spatial Histories of Radical Geography. Since Dr. Wilson and I were both traveling back to the South from Vancouver, we spent five or six hours getting to know each other in a bar at the Vancouver airport. Ultimately, he was not able to write his chapter for that book because of events going on in his life (his first wife passed away in 2012 and as I later found out, he was starting to grapple with his own health issues). He had planned to write about being at Clark when Antipode was founded as a graduate student. I never tired of seeing him reenact making copies of the first issues on the risograph machine they used in the basement of the geography building at Clark; he’d wind up his arm and turn it round and round. During that airport session, Dr. Wilson mentioned he was writing a new book. Having helped start UGA’s Geographies of Justice and Social Transformation Series, I pitched the idea of him considering UGA Press for his book. He liked what I was saying. That conversation led to an ongoing relationship that, in part, revolved around that book which is titled Consumer Political Economy and African-America: Slavery to Postmodernity. In that same airport chat, I told him that I had paid well over 100 dollars for my copy of America's Johannesburg, which was hard to come by when I bought it, and I suggested we do a reissue of it at UGA. He liked that idea a whole lot. Signaling his humble spirit though, I remember him asking me if I thought anybody would buy it. It was a very strange experience to be in such awe of somebody, while trying to assure them that their work was timeless and required greater circulation. While getting the reissue of America's Johannesburg accomplished took a lot of effort because while they did not intend to reissue it, Rowman & Littlefield, who held the copyright, was unwilling to let it go to UGA Press. At various times I felt like it was not going to happen, which made us work harder to make it happen. I suggested he ask Dr. Ruth [End Page 210] Wilson Gilmore to write a new forward to help situate the book for new (and previous) readers given her importance and stature in the field. He liked that idea a lot also. Dr. Wilson was really happy when it came out. When it was all said and done, this was one of the moments in my time at the UGA Press series that makes me the happiest upon reflection given the joy and gratitude he expressed. When I met Dr. Wilson at that 2009 AAG Antipode reception, I also, for the first time, met Dr. Clyde Woods, as they were standing together talking. Did I mention I felt nervous and intimated? S-h-e-e-e-e-t. That meeting takes on a new and complicated significance when I think about things that have occurred since Dr. Wilson’s passing. Dr. Wilson submitted Consumer Political Economy and African-America: Slavery to Postmodernity to UGA Press not too long after we talked in 2012. It made me feel like I truly...

University campus parking: It’s all the rage

Transportation planners, engineers, and researchers have long lamented the highly emotional public responses generated by changes to parking policies. We know that reducing the supply and increasing the price for parking—while intended to advance sustainability and other important community goals—seems to fuel an angry response, but this knowledge is often vague and anecdotal. This study combines qualitative coding of open-ended survey responses with quantitative analyses of sociodemographic and commute characteristics using descriptive statistics and binary logistic regression models to reveal a strong correlation between parking and anger among University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee (UWM) campus users. Higher probabilities of anger are also positively associated with annual household incomes below $50,000, bus pass holders, and residential locations outside of the immediate UWM neighborhood. Qualitative themes from angry comments include frustrations about parking price, supply, and duration; questions about the motivations for university parking policies; and a sense of entitlement among campus users to free and inexpensive parking options. The study interprets these variables and themes together to provide insights into the complicated relationship between parking and anger and the importance of analyzing angry feedback to inform future policies.

Centering DEI in Cartographic and Primary Source Literacy Instruction

Providing primary source information literacy instruction is one of the main goals at the American Geographical Society Library (AGSL) on the campus of University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee (UWM), where we host visits from classes in a broad range of disciplines each semester. The AGSL’s collections have a long history that is the product of colonialism, patriarchy, racism, and other issues. The class visits to the AGSL are an excellent opportunity to highlight the collection and to teach students to think critically about primary source materials. In line with the values of the AGSL staff and the UWM Library’s Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) initiatives, staff decided it was time to reframe the way the AGSL approaches information literacy instruction. The Public Services Librarian developed a primary source literacy and cartographic literacy program where students begin to teach themselves through the use of guided questionnaires and group discussions prompting the students to think critically about cartographic resources. This article will describe the AGSL’s approach to cartographic and primary literacy source instruction with classes in multiple disciplines and in both undergraduate and graduate levels.

With Care to Ms. Maudelle Bass Weston, and: No Longer Peter Cohen's Property #16, and: Cradling My Ancestral Mother #2

With Care to Ms. Maudelle Bass Weston, and: No Longer Peter Cohen's Property #16, and: Cradling My Ancestral Mother #2 Alayna N. Pernell (bio) Click for larger view View full resolution [End Page 89] Click for larger view View full resolution [End Page 90] Click for larger view View full resolution [End Page 91] Alayna N. Pernell Alayna N. Pernell (b. 1996) is an interdisciplinary artist and educator from Alabama. Pernell's practice considers the gravity of the mental wellbeing of Black people concerning the physical and metaphorical spaces they inhabit. She is currently the Associate Lecturer of Photography and Imaging at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. Copyright © 2022 University of Wisconsin Board of Regents

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Effect of the J-Shaped Wind Turbine Airfoil Opening Ratio and Thickness on the Performance of Symmetrical Airfoils

Abstract In this work, the effect of the inner opening ratio on the J-shaped airfoils aerodynamic performance was studied and documented for symmetrical airfoils. Three different airfoil thicknesses were investigated: small (NACA0008), medium (NACA0015), and large (NACA0024). For each airfoil thickness, effects of three inner opening ratios were analyzed: one-third, one-half, and two-thirds. The performance of each opening ratio was compared with the performance of the solid airfoil “zero opening ratio” for different angles of attack between 5 deg and 20 deg. All designs were simulated using the computational fluid dynamics (CFD) technology against experimental results for solid NACA4412 airfoil in the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee (UWM) wind tunnel facility and other published experimental data. It was found that large eddy simulation yields accurate solutions with a smaller number of mesh cells compared to the k–ω turbulence model but with much longer computational time. The lift-to-drag ratio for all studied airfoils has a maximum value for solid airfoils compared to those equipped with openings. For airfoils equipped with 00.00% opening ratio “solid,” NACA0015 airfoil has the maximum lift-to-drag ratio. Furthermore, it was found that NACA0008 equipped with a 33.33% opening ratio has the best performance of all studied J-shaped airfoils.

Establishing an interdisciplinary research team for cardio-oncology artificial intelligence informatics precision and health equity

Study objectiveA multi-institutional interdisciplinary team was created to develop a research group focused on leveraging artificial intelligence and informatics for cardio-oncology patients. Cardio-oncology is an emerging medical field dedicated to prevention, screening, and management of adverse cardiovascular effects of cancer/cancer therapies. Cardiovascular disease is a leading cause of death in cancer survivors. Cardiovascular risk in these patients is higher than in the general population. However, prediction and prevention of adverse cardiovascular events in individuals with a history of cancer/cancer treatment is challenging. Thus, establishing an interdisciplinary team to create cardiovascular risk stratification clinical decision aids for integration into electronic health records for oncology patients was considered crucial. Design/setting/participantsCore team members from the Medical College of Wisconsin (MCW), University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee (UWM), and Milwaukee School of Engineering (MSOE), and additional members from Cleveland Clinic, Mayo Clinic, and other institutions have joined forces to apply high-performance computing in cardio-oncology. ResultsThe team is comprised of clinicians and researchers from relevant complementary and synergistic fields relevant to this work. The team has built an epidemiological cohort of ~5000 cancer survivors that will serve as a database for interdisciplinary multi-institutional artificial intelligence projects. ConclusionLessons learned from establishing this team, as well as initial findings from the epidemiology cohort, are presented. Barriers have been broken down to form a multi-institutional interdisciplinary team for health informatics research in cardio-oncology. A database of cancer survivors has been created collaboratively by the team and provides initial insight into cardiovascular outcomes and comorbidities in this population.

TOGO NISHIURA November 10, 1931 — February 12, 2021

It is humbling to write an obituary for Togo Nishiura, knowing that I can but touch on so few of the aspects of such a fully lived and loved life. He was a complex man who lived a simple life devoted to his mathematics, beliefs, family and friendships. I first met him as an undergraduate at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee and he has encouraged and supported me since I was a graduate student and the activities of the Real Analysis Exchange since its inception.

Reactions to University Campus Commute Mode Shifts During COVID-19

This study summarizes University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee (UWM) campus commute mode shifts during COVID-19. The greatest shifts were to telecommuting and away from public transit. These shifts were uneven across the campus population: respondents with lower incomes and lower automobile access were less likely to shift to telecommuting. Open-ended responses provide insights into commuters’ reactions to their mode shifts: most new telecommuters enjoyed not having to travel to work, and concern about COVID-19 transmission was only one of several factors pushing commuters away from public transit.

Three-Dimensional Motion of the Shoulder Complex during Activities of Daily Living in Youths with Hypermobile Ehlers-Danlos Syndrome

<h3>Research Objectives</h3> To investigate the sternoclavicular, acromioclavicular, and glenohumeral joint motion necessary to perform common activities of daily living in youths with hypermobile Ehlers-Danlos syndrome (hEDS). <h3>Design</h3> Cohort, prospective, cross-sectional. <h3>Setting</h3> Motion Analysis Lab at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. <h3>Participants</h3> Five female and 4 male youths (mean±SD age: 14±2.9 years) with hEDS. <h3>Interventions</h3> Participants completed a single experimental session. Participants performed four unilateral activities of daily living (ADLs): reach across body, reach behind back, comb hair, and drink from cup. A 15-camera Vicon motion capture system recorded three-dimensional thorax and upper extremity motion. Joint angles and ranges of motion were computed for the sternoclavicular, acromioclavicular, and glenohumeral joints. <h3>Main Outcome Measures</h3> Three-dimensional sternoclavicular, acromioclavicular, and glenohumeral joint motions. <h3>Results</h3> The sternoclavicular joint moved through both elevation (max: -8±6.5°) and depression (max: 11±4.7°), while maintaining some degree of retraction (max: -44±4.4°) throughout the four ADLs. The acromioclavicular joint maintained some degree of upward rotation (max: 56±8.3°), protraction (max: 62±8.1°), and posterior tilt (max: 28±14.3°) regardless of the activity. Finally, glenohumeral joint motion was the most diverse, requiring it to perform adduction (max: 19±6.4°), abduction (max: -64±11°), internal rotation (max: 19±6.4°), external rotation (max: -91±33°), flexion (max: 55±9.8°), and extension (max: -46±9.2°). <h3>Conclusions</h3> Although hEDS has the potential to significantly disrupt shoulder complex motion, our results suggest that youths with hEDS can perform certain ADLs largely without operating at extreme shoulder joint positions. Moreover, children with hEDS perform these ADLs using similar scapular and glenohumeral kinematics to that reported for able-bodied individuals. <h3>Author(s) Disclosures</h3> No conflicts of interest to disclose.

Comparison of Pre and Post-Operative Thoracohumeral Kinematics between Single and Multi-Tendon Rotator Cuff Tears

<h3>Research Objectives</h3> To conduct a biomechanical evaluation of patients with single and multi-tendon rotator cuff tears to elucidate the changes in thoracohumeral joint motion occurring within the first year of repair as compared to the non-injured arm. <h3>Design</h3> Longitudinal, prospective. <h3>Setting</h3> Mobility Lab at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. <h3>Participants</h3> Ten patients with rotator cuff tears stratified into two groups: supraspinatus tear only n=5 (single) and a supraspinatus tear plus at least one other muscle involved n=5 (multi). Mean age for the single tear group: 63.2 (±7.9 years) and multi tear group: 61.4 (±5.9 years). Mean tear size was 1.2 (±0.2 cm) for the single group and 3.0 (±1.4 cm) for the multi. Participants were evaluated pre-operatively (pre-op) and at approximately 3 months and 6 months post-operatively (post-op). <h3>Interventions</h3> Not applicable. <h3>Main Outcome Measures</h3> Peak thoracohumeral (TH) joint external rotation. <h3>Results</h3> When comparing the post-op average peak TH joint external rotation of the surgical arm to the non-injured arm within each group, both had significantly less external rotation of the surgical arm at 3 months post-op, but only the single tear group had significantly less at 6 months post-op (p = 0.00016). When comparing the average peak TH joint external rotation at each visit between groups, the multi tear group had significantly greater external rotation of the surgical arm at the pre-op (p=0.04) and 6 months post-op (p=0.01) visits. <h3>Conclusions</h3> The multi tear group had significantly higher motion pre-op and 6 months post-op than the single tear group and normalized to the non-injured arm at 6 months. These results suggest pre-op motion plays a key role in rehabilitation progress, potentially more than the number of muscle tears. <h3>Author(s) Disclosures</h3> The authors have nothing to disclose.

A Comparison of Digital Reading Behaviors Among Graduate Students in Taiwan and The USA

This is a comparative study on digital reading behaviors between students in Graduate Institute of Library and Information Studies (GLIS) in National Taiwan Normal University and School of Information Studies (SOIS) in University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. By making a connection between their habits and various forms of capital that may shape their reading behaviors, this study adopts a qualitative approach to focus on the four key concepts of Bourdieu’s practice theory: habitus, economic capital, cultural capital, and social capital to analyze the factors that influence digital-reading behaviors. The results indicate that the graduate students' digital reading behavior is influenced mostly by their family, school and library. Graduate students like to use electronic resources (online database and the Internet) to conduct academic research and still prefer print textbooks. When comes to digital reading, in GLIS, students with more than two digital reading devices tend to get free digital contents from various sources. However, in SOIS, students with more than one digital reading service tend to purchase digital contents from the Internet. Graduate students’ reading behaviours might be influenced by their economic capital.

Arts of Living on a Damaged Planet: Ghosts and Monsters of the AnthropoceneAfter Extinction

Arts of Living on a Damaged Planet: Ghosts and Monsters of the AnthropoceneAfter Extinction

Finding Synergy in Academe: An Interview With Dave L. Edyburn

Dave L. Edyburn, PhD, is a professor emeritus in the Department of Exceptional Education at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee and more recently the associate dean for research in the College of Community Innovation and Education at the University of Central Florida. His teaching and research interests focus on the use of technology to enhance teaching, learning, and performance. He has authored more than 175 articles and book chapters on the use of technology in special education, and his work represents a variety of contributions to theory, research, policy, and practice.

Editor’s Message

Editor’s Message Benjamin Fraser The current issue of Hispania marks a brief pause between the two issues containing the journal’s Transformative Pedagogy special feature. This important contribution to the journal and to the AATSP’s ongoing conversations as an organization first debuted in the March 2021 issue (104.1) and will continue in the September 2021 issue (104.3), with another set of carefully selected essays. Created and led by Managing Editor Jennifer Brady and the Guest Editorial Team of Comfort Pratt (Texas Tech University), Rachel Mamiya Hernandez (University of Hawai’i Mānoa) and Martha Vásquez (San Antonio School District), the two halves of this special feature together deliver on the promise to reflect deeply on the values that drive us as educators at all levels (K–20). As the guest editors suggested in their introduction, taking “vulnerable times” and “vulnerable communities” as central coordinates, the hope is that the selected essays “can serve as exemplars for reshaping the pedagogical practices in Spanish and Portuguese classrooms in these uncertain times that have demanded more responsive and equitable approaches rooted in social justice.” Here in this June issue (104.2), readers will find three short-form articles. In “Bad Bunny: Un artista latino que canta en subjuntivo,” Beatriz Glick finds inspiration for reaching contemporary students with popular music. In another short-form contribution, titled “O canto do mar: Jornal criativo em língua portuguesa da Universidade de Wisconsin-Milwaukee, 2017–20,” Maria Otília Lage explores the inspiration, content, process, and value of producing a collaborative publication at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. And in “Contextualizing Social Turmoil Abroad and at Home in the L2 Classroom,” Laura Graebner Shepin walks readers through an innovative unit focused on Chile and Argentina that incorporates literary, filmic and musical texts. We are also pleased to be presenting eight research articles in Spanish, English, and Portuguese whose insights are, as is so often the case, also transferable to ongoing innovation in the classroom. In “Mujeres rifle: Masculinidad femenina en el evento fotográfico de la Revolución mexicana,” Roxana A. Curiel approaches a counter-archive of historical photos through the notion of queer curatorial practice. In “Bananas, Deep Ecology, and Neocolonialism in Viento fuerte by Miguel Ángel Asturias,” Adriana Kolijn adopts an ecocritical perspective on the role of nature in the Guatemalan author’s novel. “Identidad mexicana en California en el paso del XIX al XX: La patria política frente a la patria lingüística,” by Covadonga Lamar Prieto, places manuscript analysis at the center of insights into the socio-political and linguistic aspects of identity formation. “Caught in the Ethnographic Trap: The Disenchantment of Magical Realism in Novels by Junot Díaz and Alberto Fuguet,” by Silvia Mejía, poses nuanced questions regarding the complex relationship of aesthetics to narratives of globalization. “Ela se faz presente: construindo subjetividades em Um passaporte húngaro, Elena e Os dias com ele,” by Angela Rodriguez Mooney, is a compelling analysis of three twenty-first-century documentary films, which are placed in the wider context of feminist cinema. Alicia Rita Rueda-Acedo’s “A Successful Framework for Developing a Certificate in Spanish Translation through Community Translation and Service-Learning” describes and reflects on the impact of [End Page 149] the creation of an innovative 15-credit certificate program at the University of Texas at Arlington. Leonardo de Oliveira Silva’s “O herói negro na poesia da Guerra da Tríplice Aliança: Marcílio Dias em Riachuelo” blends historiography and poetic analysis in consideration of connections between the named conflict of the 1860s and abolitionist discourse. Finally, Gabriela C. Zapata’s “Lotería in the Age of COVID-19: A Social Semiotic Analysis of Two Artistic Visions” is a highly original piece situated at the intersection of Mexican-American cultural production and the medical humanities. [End Page 150] Benjamin Fraser Editor of Hispania Copyright © 2021 American Association of Teachers of Spanish and Portuguese, Inc