Engaging Students Through Collaboration: How Project FUN Works

Students from three disciplines designed, developed, and implemented exercise and nutrition interventions, online modules and videos, to benefit low-income middle school students. The process used to incorporate the scholarship of teaching into a collaborative college-level application of learning is described

The social philosophy of William Godwin, with special reference to his religion

Thesis (Ph.D.)--Boston University This item was digitized by the Internet Archive

Social implications in modern drama

This item was digitized by the Internet Archive. Thesis (M.A.)--Boston Universityhttps://archive.org/details/socialimplicatio00hav

Student Affairs Practitioners’ Perceptions of the Career Development of Sorority Members

This qualitative study utilized Super’s Developmental Theory (1980) to explore practitioners’ perceptions of sorority members’ career development. Researchers interviewed five practitioners who work with sorority members in a variety of capacities. Four themes emerged: alignment of environment and values, connection between life cycle and membership, balancing multiple formal and informal roles, and impact of past experiences on future experiences. Implications included providing earlier education and support on transitioning between roles within and outside the sorority chapter, council, and community, providing structure reflection, and increasing collaboration between career centers and offices of fraternity/sorority life

Resources are vexing!

Resource use and management are central concerns to environmental geography scholars, who have mobilized diverse approaches to examine the making, circulation, and socioecological effects of resources and resource systems. Informed by our reading of the resource geography literature and our experiences editing The Routledge Handbook of Critical Resource Geography, we reflect on the role of resources in the study of human–environment interactions. First, we outline what we mean by “critical” in critical resource geography and identify approaches scholars working in this area have taken to understand resources and the worlds that are created and undone through their production, circulation, consumption, and disposal. We then identify an aporia internal to critical resource geography that derives from the field's centering of a concept—“resources”—that is fundamentally linked to the colonial and capitalist subjugation of peoples and environments. Building from this, we propose an orientation for the field that recognizes critique to be the starting point of a collective effort to “unbound” the World of Resources with the aim of making what are now familiar resource-relations unacceptable

New data technologies and the politics of scale in environmental management (forthcoming in The Annals of the American Association of Geographers)

Knowledge and scientific practice have largely been backdrops to examinations of scale and rescaling processes, including in studies of rescaling environmental management. The growing use of new data technologies in environmental management highlights the need to situate knowledge and scientific practice into the politics and production of scale. Reviewing sixty years of debate over spatial management of the highly migratory and Atlantic bluefin tuna, this piece illustrates the central, dynamic roles of knowledge and scientific practice in scalar transboundary management. Findings corroborate prior studies demonstrating that stakeholders mobilize knowledge (and uncertainty) to influence spatialized management. We examine if such practices are transformed by new data technologies, a nomenclature we adopt as “more” than big data to encapsulate and parse methods of data collection or generation, the data themselves, and the analytical techniques and infrastructures developed to “make sense” of data for management purposes. We find that as new data technologies reveal objects in space and time, they reformulate and multiply – rather than resolve and circumscribe – scalar management possibilities. They mix with historic scientific and political practices and are never “complete.” Beyond the bluefin case, findings point to the complications of turning to new data technologies – often uncritically celebrated for their potential to give clear, actionable data – to “solve” scalar dilemmas. Instead, they are positioned to become a new way of knowing the world: a new geo-epistemology that shapes experimentation and debate around the spatialized power relations determining control over contested spaces and the valuable resources within and moving through them

Addressing Health Disparities in Middle School Students’ Nutrition and Exercise

Those with low income, especially women of African American and Hispanic heritage have the greatest risk of inactivity and obesity. A 4-session (Internet and video) intervention with healthy snack and gym labs was tested in 2 (gym lab in 1) urban low–middle-income middle schools to improve low fat diet and moderate and vigorous physical activity.1 The gym lab was particularly beneficial (p = .002). Fat in diet decreased with each Internet session in which students participated. Percentage of fat in food was reduced significantly p = .018 for Black, White, and Black/Native American girls in the intervention group. Interventions delivered through Internet and video may enable reduction of health disparities in students by encouraging those most at risk to consume 30% or less calories from fat and to engage in moderate and vigorous physical activity

Frontiers. Privatize, Democratize, Decolonize: Ocean Epistemologies in the 21st Century

Knowledge, as well as knowledge gaps about the oceans, shape the ways that humans govern these spaces, which are often beyond direct human observation. Like other frontiers in Western historiography, the ocean is susceptible to imperialism, anthropocentrism, and resource-driven global capitalism. However, it is also a site of possible alternatives to these dominant approaches because it is relatively ‘undergoverned’ in comparison with land, and its material features can present challenges to enclosure and commodification. What then, is the role that knowledge plays in influencing ongoing tensions among extraction, conservation and intergenerational justice in the oceans? We offer three epistemological lenses that each focus, disperse and enrich understanding of the knowledges pertaining to ocean spaces and governance. First, we examine the role of proprietary data in shaping contemporary resource extraction and accompanying regulatory and conservation debates in the deep seabed. Second, we consider emerging new data technologies and accompanying visualization techniques that aim to democratize oceans governance by making knowledge about oceans and processes on and in them widely available. Finally, we consider decolonized, anti-anthropocentric knowledges about ocean spaces, ‘nations’ and accompanying relationships and responsibilities. In doing so, we identify a disparate array of knowledges -- that we conceptualize as an epistemological frontier -- as central to the future of oceans presently beyond full incorporation into capitalist circuits, but increasingly within their sights