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The Grizzly, February 4, 2010

The Brandon Kamin Show Premieres • Students Leading Haiti Relief Initiatives • Berman Premieres Min(d)ing the Landscape Exhibit • Ursinus Alumnus, J. D. Salinger, Dies • TCE Air Monitoring: Ursinus Student Research with the DEP • Learning to Learn: Choosing Majors and Finding a Path at Ursinus College • Opinion: Student Perceptions of CIE: What do Students Take from Course? • Ursinus Men\u27s Rugby Looking Forward to 2010https://digitalcommons.ursinus.edu/grizzlynews/1804/thumbnail.jp

The Grizzly, October 30, 2008

Sounds of NYC Poet Tracie Morris • Plan to Vote? UC Students Take Note: Polling Location Change • Business Management Students Assist Charitable Causes • Colin Powell Publicly Endorses Obama • Young and Engaged: Planning for Life Beyond UC Years • Hingston of Philadelphia Speaks at UC • Faculty Spotlight on Philosophy Professor Kelly Sorensen • More from Students Studying Abroad: UC in Germany • Opinions: We Will Overcome: Positive Psychology in America; Logical Reason Behind Refusal to Vote; Controversy for the Republicans • Football Quarterback Nick Dye Great Leader for Young Team • Kelly Hosier: Sole, Shy Senior on UC Women\u27s Volleyball Teamhttps://digitalcommons.ursinus.edu/grizzlynews/1773/thumbnail.jp

The Grizzly, October 2, 2008

Lighting Up Laws: New Smoking Policies on College Campuses • Sexual Perversity Comes to Ursinus • Water, Water Everywhere • Users to Delete Profiles? Student Reactions to New Facebook • U.S. Credit Crisis Hits Home for Some Ursinus Students • College Students Hurt by Economic Woes • Banned Books Week • Lethal Filler Found in Chinese Dairy • Texting Responsible for Train Crash? • Hispania Dances Their Hearts Out for an Ursinus Audience • Tribute to Sub Connection Employee Patro • A Look Into the Past with the Sophomore Class President • Women in Science: Progress in the Scientific Community • Kabuki Dancer to Choreograph at UC • College Students Targets for ID Theft • Opinions: Presidential Debate 2008: The Battle in Mississippi; Open Your Eyes to the Truth About Senator Barack Obama; Political Messages Overtake Television More Than Ever • Cross Country Senior Spotlight: Christa Johnson • Cosmic Sucker Punch: UC Ultimate Frisbee Scores • Could New Turf Field be the Key to Football\u27s Future Success?https://digitalcommons.ursinus.edu/grizzlynews/1770/thumbnail.jp

The Lantern, 2009-2010

• I\u27m Pregnant. It\u27s Yours • The Nightmare • What Death Became After Cyparissus • Substances • Ain\u27t That a Man? • Portrait • The 100th Chemo • Looking into Her Toy Box with a Lover • They Used to Talk About Burning Cities • MESSAGE: Absence for Allen Ginsberg • Lunch with Candide • Behold! Man of Unbelief! Behold! • Dream #1 Final Strophe • Patience (Things You Will Discover) • Four Years • He Falls Like Leaves • The Quilt • Ariel (Turning Tricks at Fisherman\u27s Wharf, Monterey, California) • Extranjera • The Taste of Morning • Fear of Glory • The Rum Bottle\u27s Fortune • While Thinking of What to Write • Dying in Spring • Tutte le Eta di Firenze • Token • A House Grows Into Itself • Gravity • Father with the Skyy • He Says He Dreams of Me • Myth • Sun-Veins and Wishbones • Attempts at Bravery • One Boy in Four Parts • Blacktop Rollin\u27 • Getting My Feet Wet • The Long Ride After Ending • Wet Tongues and Sweaty Cotton • Norman Bates is My Mother • Sims Trek • Tomorrow Comes Today • The Writer\u27s Process • This Too Was Real • Venus from the Waves • Shark • Monday\u27s Expectations • Recognition • The Black Shoes • Climax • Andrew • Bottles • Calle de Cusco • God in the Machine • The 26th of December • Lollipop Lollipop • When Dinosaurs Roamed the Earth • Meaning • Jeffrey • Looking • Jagged Edges • Fading Storm • Shoes • Cover Image: Death by Chocolatehttps://digitalcommons.ursinus.edu/lantern/1175/thumbnail.jp

Automating the process of assigning students to cooperative-learning teams

Assigning students to teams can be a time-consuming process, especially for cooperative learning teams. This paper describes the initial development and testing of a web-based system to assign students to teams using instructor-defined criteria, including criteria consistent with the cooperative learning literature. First, the instructor decides which attributes of students to measure in assigning teams. Next, students complete confidential surveys to determine their attributes. Finally, the instructor assigns a weighting factor to each attribute and the system assigns students to teams. The purpose of the system is to shorten the time to assign teams and to improve the likelihood that teams will satisfy an instructor’s criteria for team formation. The Team-Maker system provides two web interfaces—one for the instructor and one for students. The instructor’s interface is used to create the survey and, once students have completed the survey, to assign students to teams in accordance with an instructor-defined weighting scheme. The student’s interface allows each student to complete the confidential survey. Features of the team-assignment system important to forming cooperative-learning teams include: the instructor decides which attributes or skills (e.g., grades in prior courses, GPA, writing skill) are to be distributed heterogeneously across teams; the prevention, i

Energy Storage Technology Analysis using PESTLE

The electric grid is a complex and critical piece of infrastructure that requires constant balancing. At any given moment, supply and demand must be equal to one another to maintain the delicate balance and ensure continued operation. Adjustments are always made when a spike in demand occurs or when there’s an oversupply of production. During spikes of demand more power needs to be produced, and fed into the grid, and when demand drops of a scenario where too much power is being produced, plants need to be curtailed. In the United States, utilities traditionally operate and maintain peaking power plants specifically for times when demand spikes. The majority of these plants use fossil fuels to produce energy, and by extension produce carbon dioxide emissions in the process. As states enact increasingly ambitious renewable power standards, or enact cap and trade policies, utilities will have to build additional generation sources that produce their energy from renewable sources like solar or wind power, and drive towards decarbonization. Energy storage could be a technology that addresses both the decarbonization of power generation and the inherent challenges that solar and wind power face. First, solar power installations like photovoltaic (PV)solar panels only produce power during daylight, so a battery or energy storage solution paired with solar could potentially feed power into the grid when the sun goes down. Second, wind speed tends to be higher and more consistent at night, when electricity demand is low. A wind farm with an installed energy storage solution could store energy for the following days peak, and could supplement or replace a peaker plant entirely, while a PV installation could store energy before peak use time, when the sun is out. As the grid continues to be modernized towards a “smart-grid” future, energy storage could harness the power of renewable energy both on the utility side as well as with distributed generation sources such as rooftop solar, in behind the meter applications. As Katie Fehrenbacher of GigaOm once stated “A next-generation smart grid without energy storage is like a computer without a hard drive: severely limited” (Valimak, 2015). With that in mind, we set out to analyse three energy storage technologies, solid state batteries, flow batteries and pumped hydro using a PESTLE style analysis

Global patterns of kelp forest change over the past half-century

Kelp forests (Order Laminariales) form key biogenic habitats in coastal regions of temperate and Arctic seas worldwide, providing ecosystem services valued in the range of billions of dollars annually. Although local evidence suggests that kelp forests are increasingly threatened by a variety of stressors, no comprehensive global analysis of change in kelp abundances currently exists. Here, we build and analyze a global database of kelp time series spanning the past half-century to assess regional and global trends in kelp abundances. We detected a high degree of geographic variation in trends, with regional variability in the direction and magnitude of change far exceeding a small global average decline (instantaneous rate of change = −0.018 y(−1)). Our analysis identified declines in 38% of ecoregions for which there are data (−0.015 to −0.18 y(−1)), increases in 27% of ecoregions (0.015 to 0.11 y(−1)), and no detectable change in 35% of ecoregions. These spatially variable trajectories reflected regional differences in the drivers of change, uncertainty in some regions owing to poor spatial and temporal data coverage, and the dynamic nature of kelp populations. We conclude that although global drivers could be affecting kelp forests at multiple scales, local stressors and regional variation in the effects of these drivers dominate kelp dynamics, in contrast to many other marine and terrestrial foundation species