Policy Challenges and Opportunities in Closing the Racial/Ethnic Divide in Health Care

Explores challenges and opportunities in addressing racial and ethnic disparities in health care, including raising public and provider awareness; improving healthcare quality and insurance coverage; and providing access in underserved communities

The Role of Cattle Ranching in the 1656 Timucuan Rebellion: A Struggle for Land, Labor, and Chiefly Power

Late in the spring of 1656, the principle cacique of Timucua, Lucas Menendez, led a group of twenty Indians on an attack of the La Chua cattle ranch of north Florida.1 The raiding Indians murdered a Spanish soldier and two African slaves in addition to slaughtering all the cattle. Lucas Menendez spared the surprised ranch owner, Juan Menendez Marquez, but ordered him to abandon the ranch and leave Florida for Spain.2 These events, together with four other murders in the Western Timucua mission province, are known as the Timucuan rebellion

Gender Influences in the Graduate Classroom: An Investigation of Female and Male Student Perceptions

Defined by Mary Rowe (1977) as micro inequities, seemingly insignificant gender bias behaviors create an inequitable academic environment and marginalize groups and individuals in the American classroom. Popularized by Hall and Sandler\u27s 1982 report on the chilly classroom, gender bias is subtle and differs from the more obvious behaviors associated with sexual harassment. However, gender bias research appears incomplete. Study findings contradict each other, few studies explore gender bias in the graduate classroom, and fewer yet compare the perceptions of women and men concerning gender influences in the graduate classroom. This dissertation investigates perceptions of the influence of gender in the graduate classroom. Using telephone interviews to gather qualitative data, the study explores the similarities and differences in the perceptions of 42 graduates of the University of San Diego (USD) Doctor of Education (Ed.D.) Program. The research not only examines graduates\u27 perceptions of gender influences, but also considers the implications of these perceptions on a leadership studies graduate education program. The research reveals apparent similarities in female and male perceptions about graduate classroom gender influences. When grouped into broad categories, women\u27s and men\u27s responses appear similar. For example, a similar number of women and men believe gender inequities exist in the graduate classroom. Also, both women and men tend to recall out-of-the-ordinary events and not micro inequities, and tend to support their own gender while criticizing the opposite gender. The research also reveals differences in female and male perceptions of gender influence, particularly with respect to the adverse influence of male privilege in the graduate classroom. The research did not identify apparent widespread gender bias in the USD Ed.D. graduate classroom. However, the research does propose three socially constructed beliefs about acceptable behavior that may perpetuate the adverse influence of gender bias in the graduate classroom. The research also observes that graduate students may not fully understand the influence of gender on their classroom environment and suggests that a leadership studies graduate education program might benefit from a class on case studies in diversity that would include gender topics

New Evidence of Early Spanish Activity on the Lower Ocmulgee River

In 2006, Fernbank Museum of Natural History launched an archaeological project along the lower Ocmulgee River of southeastern Georgia. The ongoing effort began with a straightforward objective: recover and interpret archaeological evidence of an early seventeenth-century mission named Santa Isabel de Utinahica. Interpretations of historical accounts put the mission in or near The Forks, a reference to the junction of the Oconee and Ocmulgee Rivers that creates the Altamaha River (Braley 1995; Snow 1990; Worth 1993, 1994, 1995a). Previous tantalizing discoveries of Spanish artifacts in the area offered solid targets for investigation and the project design was simply to investigate as many candidate mission sites as possible. Spanish artifacts have since been recovered from each of the four sites we have investigated but obvious evidence of Santa Isabel\u27s location still eludes us. We have confirmed instead a Spanish presence both pre-dating and post-dating the mission. From one site there are robust indications of much earlier Spanish contact during the sixteenth century, very possibly associated with the entrada of Hernando De Soto. From another site there is equally compelling evidence of Indian refugees who abandoned coastal mission communities in the late 1600s. And from others there is Spanish material we cannot yet precisely date

Ca II and Na I Quasar Absorption-Line Systems in an Emission-Selected Sample of SDSS DR7 Galaxy/Quasar Projections: I. Sample Selection

The aim of this project is to identify low-redshift host galaxies of quasar absorption-line systems by selecting galaxies which are seen in projection onto quasar sightlines. To this end, we use the Seventh Data Release of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS-DR7) to construct a parent sample of 97489 galaxy/quasar projections at impact parameters of up to 100 kpc to the foreground galaxy. We then search the quasar spectra for absorption line systems of Ca II and Na I within +- 500 km/s of the galaxy's velocity. This yields 92 Ca II and 16 Na I absorption systems. We find that most of the Ca II and Na I systems are sightlines through the Galactic disk, through High Velocity Cloud complexes in our halo, or Virgo cluster sightlines. Placing constraints on the absorption line rest equivalent width significance (>=3.0 sigma), the Local Standard of Rest velocity along the sightline (>= 345 km/s), and the ratio of the impact parameter to the galaxy optical radius (<=5.0), we identify 4 absorption line systems that are associated with low-redshift galaxies at high confidence, consisting of two Ca II systems (one of which also shows Na I), and two Na I systems. These 4 systems arise in blue, L_r^* galaxies. Tables of the 108 absorption systems are provided to facilitate future follow up.Comment: 13 pages, 11 figures, 6 tables; online data included in electronic version as 1 FITS table and 2 machine readable tables; to be published in The Astronomical Journa

A phase I archaeological survey of a new site for the Environmental Toxicology and Pathology Research Center at Virginia Institute of Marine Science, Gloucester County, Virginia

A Phase I archaeological survey of a new site for the proposed Virginia Institute of Marine Science (VIMS) Environmental Toxicology and Pathology Research Center in Gloucester County, Virginia, was undertaken by staff of the William and Mary Center for Archaeological Research (WMCAR) on September 28, 1993. This investigation was intended to provide specific information concerning the nature and distribution of potential archaeological resources within the project area (approximately 11,933 m2 [39,150 ft.2]). The work included a review of the existing archaeological sites and an evaluation of extant documentary and cartographic sources pertaining to the project area

A cultural resource overview and preservation plan for the Timberneck Farm property and Catlett Islands, Gloucester County, Virginia

In January and February, 1992, the William and Mary Center for Archaeological Research (WMCAR) conducted an archaeological overview study of the Timberneck Farm and Catlett Islands in Gloucester County, Virginia under an agreement with the Chesapeake Bay National Estuarine Research Reserve in Virginia (CBNERRVA), Virginia Institute of Marine Science (VIMS). The purpose of the investigation was to assess the archaeological potential of the area and to formulate a framework for management of those cultural resources present

A phase I archaeological survey and monitoring of the fire protection/water lines, Virginia Institute of Marine Science, Gloucester County, Virginia

In February 1992, the William and Mary Center for Archaeological Research (WMCAR) entered into an agreement with the Virginia Institute of Marine Science (VIMS) to conduct a Phase I archaeological investigation of the Fire Protection Facilities/Water Lines project area on the VIMS campus. This investigation, designed by the Virginia Department of Historic Resources (VDHR) (Appendix A), is intended to provide specific information concerning the nature and distribution of potential archaeological resources within the project area in order to place the water lines without impact to sensitive archaeological resources within the Gloucester Point Archaeological District

Phase I archaeological survey of the VIMS scientific storage building parcel and phase II evaluation of site 44GL357, Gloucester Point, Virginia

On September 24, 1990, the College of William and Mary\u27s Center for Archaeological Research (WMCAR) conducted a Phase I archaeological survey of an approximately one-half-acre parcel for a proposed Scientific Storage building at the Virginia Institute of Marine Science (VIMS), Gloucester Point, Virginia (Figures 1 and 2). This area is located within the Gloucester Point Archaeological District. The purpose of the study was to provide preliminary identification and assessment of prehistoric and historic sites, or potential site locations, within the proposed project area

A phase I cultural resource survey of the proposed sites for the VIMS Environmental Toxicology and Pathology Research Center, Gloucester Point, Virginia

In July 1990, the William and Mary Center for Archaeological Research (WMCAR) of the Department of Anthropology at the College of William and Mary entered into an agreement with the Virginia Institute of Marine Sciences (VIMS) to conduct - a Phase I archaeological investigation at three proposed candidate parcels for the Environmental Toxicology and Pathology Research Center on the VIMS campus, Gloucester Point, Virginia. The purpose of the investigation was to identify the presence of archaeological resources that may exist within the each area