Philanthropy, community, and grant writing

Includes bibliographical references.The Child Development Lab at Northern Illinois University has had a history of helping Bachelor degree candidates receive their diplomas with the completion of the internship/practicum at their lab. While using their facilities as research for multiple classes, it was discovered that they were in need of new playground materials. It was decided something would be done to help gain financial funding for this project. Multiple sources were considered and using a grant database to find a grant suitable for the lab’s needs proved to be the best idea. After the attendance of grant application training, an interview with the associate director of the lab (expert informant on the subject), research of playground equipment, and many grant searches, past grant guidelines from Hasbro Foundation were determined as the most fitting source. A grant application was written to complete the process

AEDA, a Unique Data and Information Management System for the Environmental Sciences

The Agricultural and Environmental Data Archive (AEDA) combines the advances in Open Linked Data with Research Data Management approaches to manage a variety of digital objects from documents, images and video to GIS layers and scientific datasets. The subject focus of the Freshwater Biological Association (FBA) initiative is inland waters, their catchments and the agricultural and other environmental influences on their biology, chemistry and ecology. AEDA consists of a data model that meets the needs of long-term digital curation whilst complying with the requirements of the EU INSPIRE Directive on data sharing and compatibility. AEDA also uses a specific controlled vocabulary in order to ensure that all data and other digital information stored within it uses a common language and can therefore be published as Open Linked Data and made available via AEDA’s Linked Data API (currently in development). AEDA represents a combined data and information archival and publication platform

A study of the emotional background of thirty-six children who were referred to the Habit Clinic for child guidance because of poor adjustments in school

Thesis (M.S.)--Boston University, 1948. This item was digitized by the Internet Archive

“The Map-makers’ Colors”: Maps in Twentieth-Century American Poetry in English

This article offers a selection of notable American poems about maps and grapples with their place in a century unique for the number, range, and quality of such poems. Though others preceded her, Elizabeth Bishop takes center-stage for “The Map” (1934; Winslow, 1935, 78–79), which recognizes that poets and cartographers create selective, generalized, and simplified views of the world. As the opening poem of her Pulitzer Prize-winning collection (1955), “The Map” continues to inspire other poets to critique the map’s spatial representation in terms of physical geography and intimacy, time and scale, politics and race, as well as science, art, and exploration. “The Map” was soon followed by two influential but very different map-poems: “Cartography” by Louise Bogan (1938) and “Map of My Country” by John Holmes (1939: Part I). In his subsequent collection Map of My Country (1943: Parts I–XII), Holmes argued that a poem maps a person’s identity better than its graphic cousins do. Yet other poets found inspiration and an analogue of their experience in a particular map, cartographer, or painter of maps. Since the 1960s, visual poets have shaped poems into maps of American locales, thus complementing more “conventional” uses of maps to trigger poetic memoirs of place. The sexual revolution has popularized the body-as-map metaphor prominent in Bogan’s “Cartography.” Since 1980, map-fixated collections have been on the rise, encouraging poets of the twenty-first century to consider what maps say about place, culture, history, ourselves