Junior Recital:Julie Gray, Trombone

Kemp Recital Hall Sunday Noon March 30, 2008 12:00p.m

Welcoming new life under lockdown:Exploring the experiences of first-time mothers who gave birth during the COVID-19 pandemic

OBJECTIVES: This study aimed to explore how first‐time mothers in the UK experienced new parenthood during the coronavirus (COVID‐19) pandemic. DESIGN: This study used a cross‐sectional exploratory, qualitative interview design. METHODS: Semi‐structured interviews were conducted with ten first‐time mothers who had given birth since COVID‐19 was declared as a pandemic. Verbatim transcripts were analysed using reflexive thematic analysis. RESULT: Experiences of new, first‐time mothers during the COVID‐19 pandemic were organized around two themes. First, new mothers felt an overwhelming sense of responsibility for their baby which was heightened by the pandemic. The challenge of meeting this responsibility was heightened in the context of societal expectations to do the ‘right’ thing and uncertainty and distrust around official guidance about COVID‐19. Secondly, the expected transition into motherhood was altered by the pandemic. Disruption to the birthing experience, an inability to connect with close friends and family, and limited healthcare support was perceived to be detrimental. However, altered social expectations and the increased presence of the partner were perceived as positives. CONCLUSION: Many of the common challenges experienced by new, first‐time mothers have been amplified by the COVID‐19 pandemic. Public policy and scientific research must target this group in order to protect this population from the negative impact of the remaining COVID‐19 pandemic and any future pandemics

ABA signalling: A messenger's FIERY fate

AbstractThere is considerable circumstantial evidence that the Ca2+-mobilizing second messenger IP3 is involved in plant responses to the drought hormone abscisic acid. More direct evidence for this has now come from studies in which endogenous IP3 levels have been manipulated in plants

Senior Recital:Nick Benson, Trombone Sophomore Recital:Julie Gray, Trombone

Kemp Recital Hall Sunday Evening February 25, 2007 6:00p.m

The cycle must stop

Reports in recent years of thousands of Indians and Ladinos slaughtered in Guatemala and tens of thousands more fleeing their homes to refugee camps have provoked no outcry in the U.S. Popular resistance to the oppressive military regime is growing, yet President Reagan will ask to renew aid for the nation most notorious for human rights violations. This request should be denied and all support for this regime ended. The reasons should be clear when the Guatemala story is understood

Searching for Social Capital in U.S. Microenterprise Development Programs

This paper focuses on the claims and efforts of U.S. microenterprise development programs (MDPs) to build social capital among poor and low income entrepreneurs. MDPs offer business training and lending services to individuals operating very small businesses (with five or fewer employees and less than $20,000 in start-up capital). Advocates suggest that MDPs help promote economic development by building social capital defined as networks among small entrepreneurs and between entrepreneurs and their larger community. We begin our paper with a short review of the varied definitions and claims about the role of social capital in promoting civic and economic empowerment. Then, drawing on interviews with practitionersf rom 50 programs, we examine the nature and extent of social capital building in U.S. MDPs. We consider the degree to which our sample MDPs directly promoted networks among clients, and between clients and individuals/organiZationso utside the program. More than half of the programs tried to network clients with each other, but only afew programs focused on building networks between clients and the larger community. From a critical perspective, we discuss more expanded notions of social capital building in poor communities and the barriers to their implementation