I Like Black in My Dorm Room

Paint it black and put it in Tuck\u27s room, the friends of Oak Hall\u27s Tuck Barber, architecture sophomore, are fond of saying. Any Visitors to her room will quickly see why this statement originated

Elwha nearshore ecosystem restoration: dam removal and shoreline armor removal

Along the central Strait of Juan de Fuca, a century of sediment disruption associated with two large dams resulted in high rates of shoreline erosion and subsequent shoreline armor placement along the Elwha River nearshore. The Elwha River Dam Removal and Ecosystem Restoration Project, completed in 2014, was the largest intentional dam removal and ecosystem restoration project undertaken in the U.S. to date. In 2016-017, using state and federal conservation funding, Coastal Watershed Institute (CWI) purchased a 26 acre parcel adjacent to the river delta and began to restore the shoreline, floodplain and uplands at the site of a former mouth of the Elwha River at the eastern extent of the historic Elwha River delta to link nearsore ecosystem restoration with watershed-scale restoration. CWI partnered with the Lower Elwha Klallam Tribe and private land owners to remove ~7,000 cubic yards of derelict armor from approximately 3/4 mile of shoreline. This presentation will discuss project elements and provide progress to date of this multi-year multi-phase river delta and coastal floodplain restoration project along with associated biophysical response monitoring. The presentation will also discuss the coupling of nearshore restoration with watershed-scale restoration to benefit five species (7populations) of migratory salmon, 4 species (6 populations) of migratory trout and char native to the Elwha, in addition to the forage fish that Elwha fish and Salish Sea outmigrants depend upon

The importance of behavioral integrity in a multicultural workplace

The notion of “behavioral integrity” describes the extent to which one person perceives that another lives by his or her word, keeps promises, and lives by professed values. Effective management leadership depends on how employees perceive their manager\u27s behavior on these points, because this drives credibility. Since most managers are neither saints nor demons, employees judge their managers’ integrity by interpreting a mixed set of managerial actions and behavior. This study examines how different employee groups might understand and react differently to cues about their manager’s consistency. We surveyed 1,944 employees at 107 hotels and found that the observer’s race affects his or her perceptions of behavioral integrity. African American employees in this study were especially sensitive to violations and affirmations of behavioral integrity. Moreover, African American employees scored their African American managers more harshly than they did their non-African American managers. The study also found that senior managers’ integrity trickles down to affect behavior and attitudes throughout the organization. These results suggest a need for executive training and vigilance focused on the issue of behavioral integrity, because managers’ integrity affects the attitudes, conduct, and loyalty of all employees

The Iowa Homemaker vol.35, no.9

Rainwear Trends, Betty Gregory, page 2 Turntable Potters-Wheel, Donna Schneider, page 7 Veishea has Changed, Martha Elder, page 8 Picnic, Marilyn Ogland, page 10 Destination - Europe, Jane Takehara, page 12 It’s Spring! Spots Must Go, page 13 “I Like Black In My Dorm Room”, Anne Parks, page 1

Examining College Students’ Attitudes Toward Poverty During the Adult Role of the Community Action Poverty Simulation

Family and Consumer Sciences (FCS) and Extension professionals need to understand the lived experience of poverty because it affects every aspect of an individual’s life. Poverty is related to inadequate nutrition and food insecurity, lack of access to health care, insufficient child care, unsafe neighborhoods, lack of affordable housing, under-resourced schools, and a lower quality of life. Attitudes toward poverty vary widely among Americans and can be categorized as either internal/individual attributions (e.g., laziness, welfare dependency, etc.) or systemic/structural attributions (e.g., unemployment, inflation, etc.). Individuals holding internal attributions toward poverty are more likely to have negative feelings toward impoverished individuals. As such, efforts to educate FCS college students, Extension agents, and all Americans on the day-to-day reality of those in poverty are important. Extension-sponsored Community Action Poverty Simulation (CAPS) programs are effective in changing participants’ attitudes toward poverty. This research used Reflexive Thematic Analysis to analyze 56 reflection papers written by college students enrolled in a family resource management course. Three themes emerged from the research: (a) empathy, (b) a turn from internal attributions, and (c) systematic attributions. This research has implications for Extension and FCS professionals offering CAPS programming in higher education settings

Transforming embodied experiences of academic conferences through creative practice : Participating in an instant choir at the nordic geographers’ meeting in 2019

Author's accepted version (postprint).This is an Accepted Manuscript of an article published by Sage in Cultural Geographies on 18/08/2021.Available online: https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/pdf/10.1177/14744740211039831acceptedVersio

Linewidth of single photon transitions in Mn12_{12}-acetate

We use time-domain terahertz spectroscopy to measure the position and linewidth of single photon transitions in Mn$_{12}$-acetate. This linewidth is compared to the linewidth measured in tunneling experiments. We conclude that local magnetic fields (due to dipole or hyperfine interactions) cannot be responsible for the observed linewidth, and suggest that the linewidth is due to variations in the anisotropy constants for different clusters. We also calculate a lower limit on the dipole field distribution that would be expected due to random orientations of clusters and find that collective effects must narrow this distribution in tunneling measurements.Comment: 5 pages, accepted to Physical Review

Building a Culture of Critical and Creative Thinking. Creating and Sustaining Higher-Order Thinking as part of a Quality Enhancement Plan

[EN] Creating and Sustaining Higher-Order Thinking as part of a Quality Enhancement Plan at a US UniversityThe TH!NK initiative at North Carolina State University seeks to bridge the gap between evidence-based research on teaching and actual teaching practices in the classroom. Through this work, the culture of teaching and learning on our campus is being transformed from teacher-centered to student-centered instruction that promotes higher-order thinking across a diverse array of disciplines. Participating faculty engage in intensive faculty development; create discipline-specific classroom activities and assignments; become adept at providing students feedback on their thinking skills; and engage in a learning community to share and provide peer feedback on pedagogical innovations. The primary student learning outcome (SLO) is for students to apply critical and creative thinking skills and behaviors in the process of solving problems and addressing questions. Methods to achieve the institutional transformation include implementation of a comprehensive faculty development focused on the use of evidence-based pedagogy that promotes higher-order thinking, and rigorous outcomes assessment to provide means for continual improvement. The program has expanded into multiple phases, and involves strategies to create a more sustainable culture of critical and creative thinking through formal and informal learning and scholarship.Allen, T.; Queen, S.; Gallardo-Williams, M.; Parks, L.; Auten, A.; Carson, S. (2019). Building a Culture of Critical and Creative Thinking. Creating and Sustaining Higher-Order Thinking as part of a Quality Enhancement Plan. En HEAD'19. 5th International Conference on Higher Education Advances. Editorial Universitat Politècnica de València. 1391-1398. https://doi.org/10.4995/HEAD19.2019.9536OCS1391139

Elwha River restoration: evolution of habitats and nearshore ecosystems during large-scale dam removal project

Located on the North Olympic Peninsula, the Elwha River nearshore is a critical component of the Salish Sea. It is depended on by no fewer than six federally listed salmon species including chum, and numerous forage fish such as surf smelt and sand lance. The Elwha nearshore is impaired ecologically due to extensive shoreline armoring and in-river channelization and dams. The Elwha nearshore is undergoing an unprecedented restoration event with the removal of two large in river dams from September 2011 to 2014, exposing 21 million cubic meters of sediment. According to Foley et al. 2016, as of December 2016, approximately 70% has been eroded of which 90% transported to the Strait of Juan de Fuca equating 13.23 million cubic meters of sediment that has been delivered to the sediment starved Elwha nearshore. The Coastal Watershed Institute and partners lead long-term studies of the Elwha nearshore ecological function. In this presentation, we provide an overview of fish use of the Elwha and comparative nearshore areas, and observations of nearshore ecological function response of the juvenile fish migration and forage fish spawning to dam removal. Despite the sediment delivery from the dam removal, nearshore restoration is incomplete due to remaining shoreline armoring and lower river alterations. These are the focus of ongoing community collaboration and large-scale restoration projects presented by Michel et al. Finally, we provide an overview of linkages of the nearshore restoration event for the larger Elwha and Salish Sea ecosystem