DISTURBED WATERS – A MONTANA CHEMIST SEARCHES FOR THE SOURCE OF A PERSISTENT POISON

In December 2008, when Montana\u27s great Clark Fork River tested its historic banks for the first time in 100 years, a crowd of hundreds gathered to watch the removal of Milltown Dam at the confluence of the river with the Big Blackfoot. After a century of pollution from Butte\u27s copper mines, the river was undergoing the nation\u27s largest­yet restoration project, the Upper Clark Fork River Superfund Complex. But in a windowless laboratory a mile away, University of Montana chemist Heiko Langner had troubling news. Toxic methylmercury flowed through the river at concentrations of concern, undetected and undermining the project. It didn\u27t come from Butte, but from a mysterious source closer to Langner\u27s Missoula lab. This story follows Langner\u27s journey as he searches for the surprising source of the toxin, and his struggle to get it cleaned up

Book Review: Trouble in the Forest: California’s Redwood Timber Wars by Richard Widick

Book Review: Trouble in the Forest: California’s Redwood Timber Wars by Richard Widic

Being Shaped by the Neighborhood: Stimulating Missional Commitment through Dwelling in the Word, Reflection, and Shared Hospitality

The purpose of this project is to examine whether a missional experiment can develop into a committed missional endeavor through these three practices: hospitality, reflection upon the action taken, and dwelling in Scripture. In order to stimulate missional commitment, a team of leaders from Coast Vineyard in San Diego (hereafter, Coast) have engaged their neighbors in the context of a local library by practicing shared hospitality, followed by times of reflection and dwelling in Scripture. In order to evaluate and assess whether the three practices had formed the leaders, I utilized markers provided by Alan Roxburgh and Fred Romanuk as guidelines: confidence, missional culture being embedded in the leaders, and the internalization of missional frameworks.1 From this point forward in the project, the meetings of the team of leaders was framed around three interview questions: 1) What are we doing? 2) What do you hear God saying? and 3) What stories can you share about our neighbors? These questions were posed first in June 2013 as a baseline for the data, and then repeated over three meetings in 2014, culminating with the leaders writing a report for the pastoral team at Coast based on the data. In June 2014, the team members were hosted by neighbors who had participated in the activities hosted by Coast leaders at the library, and each leader reflected on the practice in light of Scripture and their experience. There are six sets of data evaluated here: the baseline, three meetings, the report and the reflection on being hosted, to measure whether the three practices of shared hospitality, dwelling in the Word, and reflection stimulated missional commitment in a group of leaders at Coast. Content Reader: Mark Lau Branson, EdD Footnotes 1 Alan Roxburgh and Fred Romanuk, The Missional Leader: Equipping Your Church to Reach a Changing World (San Francisco: Jossey-Bass, 2006), 102

An evolutionary psychology perspective on responsibility attributions for infidelity and relationship dissolution

This study investigated responsibility attributions for a partner\u27s emotional infidelity and for a partner\u27s sexual infidelity, and the likelyhood that the victim or partner would end the relationship. This study found a significant relationship between responsibility attributions for a romantic partner\u27s unfaithfulness and the likelihood the relationship would end: the stronger the attributions of personal responsibility the more likely the relationship would dissolve

2120 Learning Lab, University Library, Indiana University Purdue University Indianapolis

The IUPUI University Library has created an instructional space designed especially for library classes. Library instruction includes students from all levels at IUPUI, but focuses in particular on incoming freshmen, teaching core skills that will help them complete a degree at IUPUI and equip them for a career in the 21st Century workplace. Unique in its design, the classroom’s mobile workstations and wireless configuration make it possible to quickly rearrange furniture and equipment to accommodate an array of teaching and learning styles.