August Carl Mahr (1886-1970)

Author Institution: Department of History, Miami University, Oxford, Ohio 4505

Mating Behavior and Male Territoriality in Enallagma vesperum (Odonata: Coenagrionidae) on Ponds in Ohio and Northern Michigan

Author Institution: Biology Department, The University of FindlayThe crepuscular damselfly Enallagma vesperum Calvert, was studied to document and clarify mating behavior. This paper is a descriptive synthesis of observations which answer basic questions regarding mating behavior of E. vesperum. Beginning in July 2004 and continuing in the summers through September 2009, approximately 140 hours of direct observation on a lake in Northern Michigan and a lake and two ponds in Ohio were logged to support the results and conclusions. The literature regarding mating behavior in E. vesperum provides little information about male territoriality. The results from this six-year study offer strong evidence of male territory selection and territory defense. Copulatory behavior and ovipositional behavior were also recorded. In most coenagrionid species, males remain in tandem with ovipositing females unless the females submerge. In this study, however, females were observed ovipositing in tandem or individually into surface vegetation

Letter from Dwight Rideout to Thomas Aceto on Recruitment of Black Students at the University of Maine

A letter from Dwight Rideout, Dean of Student Affairs at the University of Maine, to Dr Thomas Aceto, Vice President of Student Affairs at UMaine, dated September 11, 1978 on accepting every Black applicant to UMaine. He states the names of the people who served as resources for Black student recruitment.https://digitalcommons.library.umaine.edu/racial_justice/1018/thumbnail.jp

USAID and the Economic Growth Thesis: A Critical Assessment of USAID Foreign Aid Policies Post-9/11

Following 9/11, the United States asserted that terrorism and technology presented an immediate and present danger to national security. The Bush Administration responded to this threat by making development a core foreign policy priority. A central goal of this revised strategy was to create economic growth and opportunity in fragile states, thereby limiting the space where extremists and terrorists could operate. This thesis will incorporate two histories: the academic debate surrounding Lipset's "economic growth thesis" and the foreign assistance role of the United States Agency for International Development. The primary research question will consider whether evidence exists that the economic growth thesis has informed foreign aid practices, and if so, to what extent. The secondary research aim will be to assess the newly revised bilateral foreign aid policy in terms of the economic development components it possesses and its potential to achieve the objectives prescribed by the Bush Administration

Letter from Dwight Rideout to Thomas Aceto on Recruitment of Black Students at the University of Maine

A letter from Dwight Rideout, Dean of Student Affairs at the University of Maine, to Dr Thomas Aceto, Vice President of Student Affairs at UMaine, dated September 11, 1978 on accepting every Black applicant to UMaine. He states the names of the people who served as resources for Black student recruitment