'The rats are still with us': Constructing Everyday Life at the Anacostia Museum in Washington, DC

How did the black cultural politics of the 1960s prompt the Smithsonian to break with tradition and establish the first experimental black community-based museum in Washington DC? Using a historical perspective, I examine how political-economic and institutional forces combine with more ideological concerns to construct flexible representations of race, urbanism, and community over time. I follow these developments across three decades to examine how internal and external factors shape the exhibition of group identity and collective pasts. Drawing on primary and secondary sources, including interviews with museum staff, newspaper articles, and Smithsonian archives, I illustrate how activist-minded staff at a local museum worked to construct an image of group identity and urban culture through curation, while negotiating symbolic, political, economic, and institutional pressures on cultural production.Key words: community museums, racial identity, memory, urban, everyday lif

An Educational Audiology Model for Mississippi: Telepractice for Direct Service Provision

Hearing loss among school-aged children is becoming increasingly prevalent (CDC, 2019). Having hearing loss in a classroom setting can negatively affect a child’s language development, academic achievement, and social communication. Educational audiology plays a vital role in the academic success of children with hearing loss by providing a full range of audiology services to students, as part of a multidisciplinary team, to facilitate listening, learning, and communication access. By performing specialized assessments, monitoring personal hearing instruments, recommending, fitting, and managing hearing assistive technology, providing support services, and advocating on behalf of students with hearing loss, educational audiologists help to bridge the academic gap between students with hearing loss and their peers. In Mississippi, however, educational audiology services are severely lacking, with only two known working educational audiologists in the state who cannot feasibly provide services to every child with hearing loss in Mississippi schools. To meet the increasing need, this pilot study establishes an educational audiology model in which both telehealth and direct educational audiology service provision are delivered to one school district within the state. As technology advances, audiologists have successfully delivered services to students remotely (Steuerwald et al., 2018, Lancaster et al., 2008, Govender & Mars, 2017), saving both parties time and resources while effectively providing necessary care to students with hearing loss. The author intends to identify a new model for educational audiology service provision which will work to serve a greater number of students with hearing loss in the state

Farewell Medicine

Development and positive action born of grief and loss are themes throughout this study of the historical cultural and spiritual significance of Adinkra symbolism and art. I\u27ve taken an inter-disciplinary approach to the subject. This work involves creative writing, textile art and historical and cultural studies. In this work, Adinkra\u27s association with funerals and mourning is emphasized in order to provide a medium and conceptual framework for processing and representing aspects of the legacy of suffering and resistance created by the Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade. The art of Adinkra provides fertile ground for this exploration of the links between image and narrative and personal memory and collective history

Integrated Multimodal Genomic Analyses Reveal Novel Mechanisms of Glucocorticoid Resistance in Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia

Acute lymphoblastic leukemia (ALL) is the most common childhood cancer. Much has been discovered in recent decades regarding ALL biology, and the outcome of patients with ALL has vastly improved, especially in pediatric ALL patients. Despite very promising overall cure rates, patients who relapse have a greatly decreased prognosis with survival rates ranging from 30-60%. These numbers stand to improve even further with new targeted therapies that seek to improve or maintain cure rates while reducing treatment related toxicities which affect patients both acutely and chronically. Glucocorticoids (GCs) are essential components of modern chemotherapeutic intervention for ALL. Resistance to glucocorticoids is an important factor in determining early treatment response and overall patient survival. Reduction of glucocorticoid induced toxicities, such as osteonecrosis, can significantly affect patient quality of life and are associated with high dose glucocorticoid treatment in pediatric patients. Both endogenous and exogenous glucocorticoids exert their mechanism of action through various pleiotropic effects that regulate numerous cellular functions and can cause selective cytotoxicity in lymphoid malignancies. The complex mechanism of action of glucocorticoids is evident in the number of diverse clinically relevant molecular pathways that have been previously associated with resistance to glucocorticoids in ALL.The identification of genomic and epigenomic mechanisms of glucocorticoid resistance are important for improving ALL treatment outcomes. We used an agnostic genome-wide method to interrogate multiple types of genomic information (mRNA and miRNA expression, DNA methylation, SNPs, CNAs and SNVs/Indels) in primary human acute lymphoblastic leuk

Service Journalism Versus Hard News Reporting

Last year, a journalism class from Iowa State University visited the Meredith offices for one of the class periodic exposures to the real world of journalism