Franklin Pierce Law Center: Leading the Way in Legal Education for New Hampshire

[Excerpt] This issue of the Pierce Law Review is the first devoted entirely to the practice of law in New Hampshire. This venture is appropriate because the Franklin Pierce Law Center is the only law school in the State. We are truly New Hampshire’s law school. Our Trustees, faculty, staff, and students feel this responsibility profoundly. Pierce Law serves as both a state law school and a national and international school. While we send a greater percentage of our graduates out of state than any other law school in the country except one, our alumni comprise fully one-third of the lawyers in New Hampshire. (I should point out, too, that we have almost one thousand alumni in over one hundred countries.

Dissociating eye-movements and comprehension during film viewing

Master of ScienceDepartment of Psychological SciencesLester LoschkyFilm is a ubiquitous medium. However, the process by which we comprehend film narratives is not well understood. Reading research has shown a strong connection between eye-movements and comprehension. In four experiments we tested whether the eye-movement and comprehension relationship held for films. This was done by manipulating viewer comprehension by starting participants at different points in a film, and then tracking their eyes. Overall, the manipulation created large differences in comprehension, but only found small difference in eye-movements. In a condition of the final experiment, a task manipulation was designed to prioritize different stimulus features. This task manipulation created large differences in eye-movements when compared to participants freely viewing the clip. These results indicate that with the implicit task of narrative comprehension, top-down comprehension processes have little effect on eye-movements. To allow for strong, volitional top-down control of eye-movements in film, task manipulations need to make features that are important to comprehension irrelevant to the task

Notes on the morphology of the nervous system of the Carolina Locust, \u3cem\u3eDissosteira carolina\u3c/em\u3e L. [and] North American species of the Genus Sceliphron

This insect belongs to the Orthopterous family Acridiidae, or short horned grasshoppers, a generalized group of insects whose anatomy, both external and internal, does not show any great degree of specialization

Refractory High-Entropy Alloys: Design, Fabrication, Characterization, and Nanoparticle Synthesis

High-Entropy Alloys have been a highly researched area of metals ever since their introduction in 2004 by Brian Cantor and Jien-Weh Yeh. In the continued research of High-Entropy Alloys (HEAs), a specific area concerning Refractory High-Entropy Alloys (RHEAs) has emerged for their high-temperature applications. Although RHEAs have maintained high strength and toughness at high temperatures, their low ductility still needs to be addressed. A dataset was created to find correlations between various characteristics of RHEAs and their composition. A set of seven compositions were selected and fabricated. Mechanical tests were run on the seven compositions, and a proposal was written for neutron diffraction tests at Oak Ridge National Lab. In-situ neutron diffraction was performed during mechanical testing on the seven compositions. X-ray diffraction was performed on as-cast samples and post-mortem samples of each composition. The microstructural analysis led to one out of the seven RHEAs being confirmed to contain Transformation Induced Plasticity (TRIP). The six remaining RHEAs were confirmed as a single-phase BCC. Nanoparticles were fabricated from three of the confirmed single-phase compositions and characterized using X-ray diffraction and Scanning Electron Microscope (SEM) Imaging. All three were found to be a single-phase FCC nanoparticle

Math and the Mouse: Explorations of Mathematics and Science in Walt Disney World

Math and the Mouse is an intensive, collaborative, project-driven, study away course that runs during the three-week May Experience term at Furman University and has many of the attributes of a course-based undergraduate research experience in mathematics. We take twelve students to Orlando, Florida to study the behind-the-scenes mathematics employed to make Walt Disney World operate efficiently. Students learn techniques of mathematical modeling (mostly resource allocation, logistics, and scheduling models), statistical analysis (mostly probability, clustering, data collection, and hypothesis testing), and ow management (queuing theory and some beginning ow dynamics) in an applied setting. Through planned course modules, collaborative activities, conversations with guest speakers, and three group projects, one of which is of the students\u27 choosing, this academic experience provides an engaged learning experience that shows how material from eleven academic courses comes together in connection with real-world applications