The Challenge of Educating in a Highly-Connected and Multitasking World

Today’s students are more connected and more integrated with their world than any past generation and information is readily available today from a multitude of sources. To what extent have these advances improved our students’ ability to become learned pharmacy professionals who are informed not only of the current world and its events but the profession itself

Role of the Genomics Revolution in Pharmaceutics

Highlights the examples of Thiopurine S-methyltransferase (TPMT) and Warfarin as a means of describing some of the problems that are common to many pharmacogenetic cases. The pharmacogenetic literature contains many examples of confusing, or even contradictory, studies that arise due to unknown environmental factors that result in poor outcomes; drugs whose metabolism/transport are affected by multiple genes in multiple pathways; and clinically important genes that have many rare allelic variants with similar phenotypes variation in the frequencies of allelic variants among ethnic groups that mask the role of any one variant. These issues are common to most gene/drug dynamics and do not preclude the importance of pharmacogenetic studies. They do call for more realistic assessments of the role of genetic testing for the practicing clinician as this field develops

Literacy by subscription: writing instruction in turn-of-the-century American periodicals.

This dissertation examines popular periodicals in the late 19th- and early 20th-century America as pivotal artifacts in the history of literacy education. It first reviews current histories of literacy, writing instruction, and magazines at the turn of the century, and then concentrates on the formation, circulation, and function of agricultural journals and of two women\u27s periodicals, Harper\u27s Bazar and The Ladies\u27 Home Journal, between 1880 and 1910. In analyzing this collection of periodicals, this dissertation outlines both how magazines provided audiences with explicit instruction in reading and writing practices, and how editors and readers constructed unique, contextually-specific, definitions of advanced literacy. Finally, this dissertation argues that periodicals not only illustrate a collection of literacy practices and pedagogies vital to expanding our understanding of how people have engaged questions of literacy in different historical contexts, but also that popular magazines offered readers identities to assume in their reading and writing experiences. Following the introduction which surveys the scholarship on literacy history and argues for the importance of magazines in this history, the dissertation is divided into four chapters. The first three chapters each examine Harper\u27s Bazar, The Ladies\u27 Home Journal, and the agricultural publications, respectively. Chapters Two and Three concentrate on how these two different, but influential, women\u27s magazines deployed two separate conceptions of literacy, with Harper\u27s Bazar framing ideal literacy practices as part of the communal learning present in women\u27s clubs, and with Ladies\u27 Home Journal urging its readers to see themselves as critical buyers and sellers in a literary marketplace. Next, Chapter Four examines how farm magazines articulated an imperative for farmers to contribute to the press in advancing agriculture as a profession and defined good writing as a forum for education. Finally, the conclusion integrates the previous discussions of both the women\u27s and agricultural journals to demonstrate how all of these popular publications articulated literacy identities for their audiences that granted writers authority as mentors in their textual communities and emphasized the value of readers\u27 contributions

London calling : John Harington’s exegetical domestication of Ariosto in late sixteenth-century England

Sir John Harington's 1591 translation of ‘Ludovico’ Ariosto's Orlando Furioso has been much maligned for its free translation, digressive notes, and the translator's obtrusive presence. This essay addresses the question of Harington's accommodation of his audience using Paul Ricoeur's notion of ‘linguistic hospitality’ to consider how Harington invites English readers to engage with the Italian poem. Harington's exegetical notes and paratextual aids serve as a privileged site or ‘third text’ between the source and target texts to adapt Ariosto for English readers. The translator's anglicising strategies are grounded in contemporary Elizabethan reading practices, while also emulating the exegetical apparatus that accompanied the Italian reception of Ariosto's poem. Domestication strategies Harington employs include the anticipation of his audience's cultural biases, an emphasis on historical events of interest to English readers, and the inclusion of personal details that create cultural bridges between the reader, the translator, and the Italian author

Building a mystery : Giorgio de Chirico and Italian renaissance painting

In an infamous 1926 article in La révolution Surréaliste, André Breton roundly condemned Giorgio de Chirico, faintly praising his early ‘metaphysical’ works, yet rejecting the artist’s later production. This judgment has had a marked impact on later criticism, which often separates the artist’s work into his early ‘metaphysical’ period and his production after 1919, when he proclaimed himself a pictor classicus advocating a ‘return to craft’ that focused on painting as a technical skill and the copying of Renaissance masters. Building on work of recent scholars, this essay investigates de Chirico’s relationship to Renaissance painting, arguing that his interest in early modern Italian masters predates his 1919 break with the avant-garde. Through an examination of de Chirico’s writings and early metaphysical canvases, the artist’s interest in Renaissance paintings is shown to be a constant thread throughout his early career, rather than a reactionary rejection of contemporary artistic currents

When advocacy becomes (in)voluntary: A thematic analysis of disability focused organizations

Only 19.1% of people with disabilities are currently employed (Bureau of Labor Statistics, 2022b). Stigma associated with disability often forces people with disabilities to have limited options in terms of employment. This has caused organizations like Bitty & Beaus Coffee and The Prospector Theater to make it their mission to hire people with disabilities. To better understand how these organizations are communicating about disability online a thematic analysis of the Instagram pages of Bitty & Beaus Coffee and The Prospector Theater was conducted. The findings suggest that these organizations use the image and likeness of the employees with disabilities to garner positive reactions from their audience, while not providing many opportunities for these employees to discuss their own disability or employment. Most importantly, the findings built off Peterson & McNamee’s (2017) involuntary membership framework to introduce the potential for an added subsection entitled, (in)voluntary advocacy. This subsection posits that individuals may be put in circumstances to have to advocate for causes as part of their membership in an organization