Learners reconceptualising education: Widening participation through creative engagement?

This paper argues that engaging imaginatively with ways in which statutory and further education is provided and expanding the repertoire of possible transitions into higher education, is necessary for providers both in higher education and in the contexts and phases which precede study at this level. Fostering dispositions for creativity in dynamic engagement with educational technology together with the consideration of pedagogy, learning objects, inclusion, policy and the management of change, requires innovative provision to span the spaces between school, home, work and higher education learning. Reporting on The Aspire Pilot, a NESTA-funded initiative at The Open University, the paper offers the beginning of a theoretical frame for considering learning, learners and learning systems in the information age prioritizing learner agency. It will report emergent empirical findings from this inter-disciplinary project, with a significant e-dimension, which seeks to foster the creativity of 13-19 year olds in considering future learning systems, developing provocations for others to explore creative but grounded possibilities. It explores implications arising from this project for approaches that may facilitate widening participation in higher education

The Ursinus Weekly, February 23, 1948

AVC-PAC to produce UMT open forum; guests, Dr. Baker to offer both views • Rehearsals begin for production of Gilbert-Sullivan classic • Ray Eberle\u27s band to perform for junior prom on April 16 • Students to attend model convention • Sophs name band for annual dance • Second discussion on U.M.T is chapel service feature • Chem society visits fibre plant, plans other trips this semester • Silent picture melodrama wins plaudits of enthusiastic Curtain Club audience • Debaters triumph in season\u27s first match • IRC guest to talk on on influence of liberalism and third party • English Club hears book review • FTA hears talk by Dr. Sturgis • Red Cross program carded • Bakes elected to athletic council • Women plan card party • Well-stocked library offers student varied, diverting entertainment • Mr. Charles Miller gives up librarian post after serving college since 1938 • Dr. Miller writes article for international journal • Thirteen-game card arranged for grizzly baseballers this season • Bearettes outscore Chestnut Hill five in close tilt, 27-23 • Hoopsters wallop Crusader five, 52-45, as Jaffe, Forsyth pace bruin scorers • Twelve teams open battle in intramural basketball • Belles top Albright 38-37 on Calhoun\u27s last minute tally • F&M turns back second half bruin rush to win, 60-59 • Suburban league pace set by Ursinus grads • Matmen rally to squash Drexel, 21-15; victories by Collins, Mitchell turn tide • Girls JV basketball club beats Chestnut Hill, Albright reserves • Marion Bosler only winner as mermaids lose to Pennhttps://digitalcommons.ursinus.edu/weekly/1632/thumbnail.jp

The Ursinus Weekly, May 26, 1947

Dr. T. A. Distler\u27s speech to highlight seventy-seventh annual commencement • Negro recital ends varied Y programs presented in \u2746-\u2747 • WAA names M. Bosler, H. Anderson, E. Moyer as top junior athletes • Athletic Committee chairman addresses letter winners at Varsity Club banquet • Alumni form Washington unit • Gym to be completed within three months; Construction has begun • Hobo hop attracts enthusiastic crowd • Lantern will include increased material • Holiday runs Pennsylvania-Dutch article • A. Ivins chosen Rosicrucian president at final meeting • K. Kron voted pre-med president • Students hear Romeo and Juliet • M. Sare to head Alpha Psi; Six new members initiated • Debating Club elects officers; Dorothy Dean chosen president • Campus briefs: French Club banquet; Men\u27s May pageant • Students may observe unique bio specimens • Commendation • On sports and bus-rides • At the Library • Alumni-Society notes • Juniata rips Bears; Five miscues cost Landes pitching win • Tennis team trounces tribe racquetmen, 8-1; Loses to Swarthmore • Albright cindermen swamped, 79 1/2-46 1/2; Gurzynski crew nabs ten first places • Owlettes crush Bear coeds in return net engagement • Muhlenberg game cancelled • Kennedy stars again • New grid mentor addresses large group of candidates • Erma Keyes one-hitter tops Garnet for fifth straight • Bearette golfers finish season • Cricket team stunned by Fords in match at victors\u27 grounds • Final examination schedule: Spring term, 1947https://digitalcommons.ursinus.edu/weekly/3122/thumbnail.jp

The Ursinus Weekly, October 13, 1947

Bears chalk up second straight win, defeat Haverford 6-0: Blydenburg takes pass for touchdown; Gridders maintain unscored-upon pace • General Arnold visits Ursinus for Founders\u27 Day ceremony • Leroy Grayson heads new inter-frat council • Nite game bus tickets available • Swarthmore man guest at AVC meeting tonite • Indian will address forum, Y, on relief • Annex student directs new campus orchestra • Dance and pep rally boost morale on eve before game • Curtain Club holds reception; New members admitted to ranks • Beaver students in food-saving plan similar to Ursinus\u27 • Philosophy student discovers panacea for all problems after two-week study • Hohlfeld to discuss problems of education in British Guiana • Campus briefs: Recorded concerts; Zeta Chi meeting; Inter-frat Council • Annex-dotes • Alumni-society notes • Radium expert enlivens address with experiments, illustrations • Bears to face heavy Moravian 11 Friday • Soccer team bows to Lafayette, 4-1, in opening contest • Campus football resumes, Luther Wilt heads league • Bearettes win practice match • Brotherhood to lead services • Player of the week • Speakers obtained by pre-legal group • Debates start next month • Former Army nurse returns to campus after extensive service in Europe, Asia • Betsy Greene heads English Clubhttps://digitalcommons.ursinus.edu/weekly/3123/thumbnail.jp

The Ursinus Weekly, November 17, 1947

Glee Club concert to feature diverse program of choral, instrumental music • Bob Shebley\u27s band scheduled to perform for senior prom • Dr. Miller addresses Ursinus IRC on topic of Argentine fascism • Aspects of communism presented at Y forum by U. of P. professor • Attendants chosen for May Day court • Curtain Club\u27s play cast is completed • Handel\u27s Messiah to be presented here with chorus of 118 and three soloists • Veterans discuss PCA riot; plan for dance December 3 • Alumni join in pep rally to launch Old Timers\u27 Day • Delta Tau to make theater trip • Educational film to be presented Wednesday • Local IRC officers attend Middle Atlantic assembly • Fireside chats to be held at faculty members\u27 homes • Invitations issued to universities for collegiate bridge tourney • German Club to hear Dr. Rice • 1948 May queen • Loss of all-American Simons to deal severe blow to 1948 soccer squad • Cage mentor Seeders foresees rosy season • Lehigh victor, 2-1, over bruin booters • Brewers bottle up Curtis attack in play-off to win league title • Hockey team sinks Bryn Mawr varsity; Moyer, Harting star • F & M tops bears, 27-0, scoring four touchdowns • Hockey varsity faces loss of six veterans • Soccer team racks up initial triumph; alumni whitewashed, 6-0, in annual tilt • Harriers overwhelmed in debut; Shaw paces informal bear squad • Penn defeats hockey third team • School maintenance forces will move to new building • Beardwood society to hear baking industry discussedhttps://digitalcommons.ursinus.edu/weekly/1627/thumbnail.jp

Methods for analyzing the concentration and speciation of major and trace elements in marine particles

Particles influence trace element and isotope (TEI) cycles through both their elemental composition and fate and their role on the partitioning of dissolved elements through scavenging and dissolution. Because of their complex compositions, a diverse suite of methods is required to analyze marine particles. Here we review some of the varied approaches used to study particle composition, speciation and fate. We focus on high throughput analytical methods that are useful for the international GEOTRACES program, and we also describe new spectroscopic techniques that are now being applied to study the spatial distribution and chemical speciation of TEIs in marine particles

Different iron storage strategies among bloom-forming diatoms

Author Posting. © The Author(s), 2018. This is the author's version of the work. It is posted here by permission of National Academy of Sciences for personal use, not for redistribution. The definitive version was published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 115(52), (2018): E12275-E12284. doi: 10.1073/pnas.1805243115.Diatoms are prominent eukaryotic phytoplankton despite being limited by the micronutrient iron in vast expanses of the ocean. As iron inputs are often sporadic, diatoms have evolved mechanisms such as the ability to store iron that enable them to bloom when iron is resupplied and then persist when low iron levels are reinstated. Two iron storage mechanisms have been previously described: the protein ferritin and vacuolar storage. To investigate the ecological role of these mechanisms among diatoms, iron addition and removal incubations were conducted using natural phytoplankton communities from varying iron environments. We show that among the predominant diatoms, Pseudo-nitzschia were favored by iron removal and displayed unique ferritin expression consistent with a long-term storage function. Meanwhile, Chaetoceros and Thalassiosira gene expression aligned with vacuolar storage mechanisms. Pseudo-nitzschia also showed exceptionally high iron storage under steady-state high and low iron conditions, as well as following iron resupply to iron-limited cells. We propose that bloom-forming diatoms use different iron storage mechanisms and that ferritin utilization may provide an advantage in areas of prolonged iron limitation with pulsed iron inputs. As iron distributions and availability change, this speculated ferritin-linked advantage may result in shifts in diatom community composition that can alter marine ecosystems and biogeochemical cycles.We thank the captain and crew of the R/V Melville and the CCGS J. P. Tully as well as the participants of the IRNBRU (MV1405) cruise for the California-based data, particularly K. Ellis [University of North Carolina (UNC)], T. Coale (University of California, San Diego), F. Kuzminov (Rutgers), H. McNair [University of California, Santa Barbara (UCSB)], and J. Jones (UCSB). W. Burns (UNC), S. Haines (UNC), and S. Bargu (Louisiana State University) assisted with sample processing and analysis. This work was funded by the National Science Foundation Grants OCE-1334935 (to A.M.), OCE-1334632 (to B.S.T.), OCE-1333929 (to K.T.), OCE-1334387 (to M.A.B.), OCE-1259776 (to K.W.B), and DGE-1650116 (Graduate Research Fellowship to R.H.L).2019-06-1

Biotic and abiotic retention, recycling and remineralization of metals in the ocean

Trace metals shape both the biogeochemical functioning and biological structure of oceanic provinces. Trace metal biogeochemistry has primarily focused on modes of external supply of metals from aeolian, hydrothermal, sedimentary and other sources. However, metals also undergo internal transformations such as abiotic and biotic retention, recycling and remineralization. The role of these internal transformations in metal biogeochemical cycling is now coming into focus. First, the retention of metals by biota in the surface ocean for days, weeks or months depends on taxon-specific metal requirements of phytoplankton, and on their ultimate fate: that is, viral lysis, senescence, grazing and/or export to depth. Rapid recycling of metals in the surface ocean can extend seasonal productivity by maintaining higher levels of metal bioavailability compared to the influence of external metal input alone. As metal-containing organic particles are exported from the surface ocean, different metals exhibit distinct patterns of remineralization with depth. These patterns are mediated by a wide range of physicochemical and microbial processes such as the ability of particles to sorb metals, and are influenced by the mineral and organic characteristics of sinking particles. We conclude that internal metal transformations play an essential role in controlling metal bioavailability, phytoplankton distributions and the subsurface resupply of metals

Dose modelling comparison for terrestrial biota: IAEA EMRAS II Biota Working Group's Little Forest Burial Ground scenario

Radiological doses to terrestrial biota have been examined in a model inter-comparison study that emphasised the identification of factors causing variability in dose estimation. Radiological dose rates were modelled for ten species representing a diverse range of terrestrial plant and animals with varying behavioural and physical attributes. Dose to these organisms may occur from a range of gamma (Co-60, Cs-137), beta (Sr-90) and alpha (Th-232, U-234 and U-238, Pu-238, Pu-239/240 and Am-241) emitting radionuclides. Whilst the study was based on a specific site - the Little Forest Burial Ground, New South Wales, and Australia - it was intended to be representative of conditions at sites throughout the world where low levels of radionuclides exist in soil due to waste disposal or similar activities

Mediation in the Law Curriculum

Cited by Lord Neuberger in ‘Educating Future Mediators’ at the 4th Civil Mediation Council National Conference, May 201