On the regularity of special difference divisors

In this note we prove that the difference divisors associated with special cycles on unitary Rapoport-Zink spaces of signature (1,n-1) in the unramified case are always regular.Comment: 3 page

Rapoport Center Investigates Afro-Colombian Territorial Rights

Latin American Studie

Addressing cultural, social and environmental sustainability in architecture. The approach of five contemporary Australian architects

Regionalist architecture offers a promising and conscientious response to the present scenario of growing trend toward cultural, social and technical globalization. It has a great potential to preserve local cultural identities, despite the spread of global culture, to define possible relationships between construction and natural, cultural, political, economic and social factors, to combine traditional approaches and technical skills creatively and to suggest a new role for designers, as active subjects in dialogue with the manufacturing sector. An exemplary regionalist approach to contemporary architecture is given by a niche of Australian architects sensitive to the relation between communities and technical skills, dwelling patterns and building techniques, who tend to reduce the environmental load of construction through the use of local resources, who adopt community design processes and combine tradition with creative innovation. Glenn Murcutt, Richard Leplastrier, Peter Stutchbury, Gregory Burgess and Troppo Architects, who, learning from Aboriginal people's sacred respect for the land, balance the tension between global needs and local expressions, by listening to people and place, preserving traditional lifestyle preferences and combining new technologies with historic building types

The STCC Science Teaching Intern Project

The Springfield Technical Community College (STCC) Science Teaching Intern Project was implemented as a pilot study to give community college students an opportunity to experience science teaching. At the same time, it provided seventh graders in inner city middle schools opportunities to interact with college students and to take advantage of science resources not usually available to them. Interns attended weekly meetings and participated in an all-day science field trip at the college. Most participants also made observations in a middle school science classroom and presented a science activity in the classroom. Not only did the project provide a partnership between STCC and two Springfield public schools, but it also involved interaction with the University of Massachusetts School of Education, since a doctoral candidate provided expertise in education methodology and in evaluation of the project. The project was evaluated by the interns, the two K-12 teachers, the seventh graders, and by the doctoral candidate. There was clear enthusiasm for the project provided by all the sources. The conversion of this project into a one-credit course is currently under development

In Praise of Margaret Howard

Professor Nancy Rapoport joins a group of distinguished colleagues in paying tribute to Professor Margaret Howard

Remittances and their effects in Nepal: a microeconomic study

Some of the important questions that have motivated my project, in the context of Nepal, include the following: “Do remittances facilitate consumption smoothing (Yang and Choi, 2005), or investments in human and physical capital (Rapoport and Docquier 2004), or help households overcome liquidity constraints (Taylor and Rozelee, 2003)?