Anti-Black racism workshop during the Vera C. Rubin Observatory virtual 2021 Project and Community Workshop

Systemic racism is a ubiquitous theme in societies worldwide and plays a central role in shaping our economic, social, and academic institutions. The Vera C. Rubin Observatory is a major US ground-based facility based in Chile with international participation. The Observatory is an example of excellence and will deliver the largest survey of the sky ever attempted. Rubin's full scientific and social potential can not be attained without addressing systemic racism and associated barriers to equity, diversity, and inclusion (EDI). During Rubin's 2021 virtual Project and Community Workshop (PCW), the annual Rubin community-based meeting, an anti-Black racism workshop took place, facilitated by 'The BIPOC Project' organization. About 60 members from different parts of the Rubin ecosystem participated. We describe the motivation, organization, challenges, outcomes, and near- and long-term goals of this workshop.Comment: Contribution to appear in 'An Astronomical Inclusion Revolution: Advancing Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion in Professional Astronomy and Astrophysics', to be published by IOP ebook

Administrative Law—Contractors Not Permanently Disqualified by School Board Resolution

Caristo Construction Corp. v. Rubin, 10 N.Y.2d 538, 180 N.E.2d 794, 225 N.Y.S.2d 502 (1962)

Does Marriage Pay More than Cohabitation?: Selection and Specialization Effects on Male Wages in Germany

Empirical research has unambiguously shown that married men receive higher wages than unmarried, whereas a wage premium for cohabiters is not as evident yet. Our paper exploits the observed difference between the marital and the cohabiting wage premium in Germany and thus provides new insights into their respective sources, typically explained by specialization (husbands being more productive because their wives take over household chores) or selection (high earnings potentials being more attractive on the marriage market). We analyze the cohabiting and the marital wage premium in Germany using a shifting panel design for marriages and move-ins from 1993 to 2004 in the German Socio-Economic Panel. With non-parametric matching models we match men who get married (treatment group I) with cohabiting or single men (control groups) and men who move in with a partner (treatment group II) with singles. Matching reveals that higher wages are mostly due to positive selection - into marriage as well as into cohabitation. Supplementary analysis of intra-household time use suggests that specialization, if any, is part of the selection process from single to cohabitation to marriage.Marital wage premium, cohabitation, matching approach

The Rubin Museum of Art: Re-framing Religion for Aesthetic Spirituality.

Opened in New York on October 2, 2004, the Rubin Museum of Art (RMA)'s mission is "to establish, present, preserve and document a permanent collection that reflects the vitality, complexity and historical significance of Himalayan art."1 The seed for the RMA was planted in 1979 when the founders, Shelley and Donald Rubin, purchased their first thangka painting—an image of White Tara. The museum's location, at 150 West 17th Street, was identified in 1998, and the museum was founded in 1999, as a 501(c) (3) not-for-profit trust. The RMA's collection of approximately 1,200 objects inc1udes paintings, sculptures, and textiles that reflect the major periods and schools of Himalayan art from the twelfth century onward and stretches from Afghanistan in the west to Burma in the east. Commenting on the scope of the Rubin collection, dealer Canton Rochell has described it as "a nearly encyclopedic collection [containing] every subject, every mahasiddha, lama, bodhisattva, and-deity in every form you could imagine" (Wallis 2005, 77)

Alvin B. Rubin: Man of the Law

I knew Al Rubin from the time I came to Chicago to become amember of the faculty at the Law School of the University of Chicagoand Executive Director of the American Bar Foundation. Our acquaintancearose from some undertaking or another of the. American BarAssociation, probably the project for the Code of Professional Responsibility.At the time, as I recall, AI was still a practicing lawyer,or had recently been appointed as United States District Judge. He wasalso a lecturer at the Law School at LSU. In any event, he came across,as he then and everafter was, as a complete man of the law-learned,reflective, tough-minded, practical, and deeply concerned with the wellbeingof the community in which he lived. Would that all of us in theprofession lived up to his example

The International Criminal Court: Possibilities for Prosecutorial Abuse

The attempt to create an international criminal court assumes that in all important ways the international legal order is similar to the municipal legal orders with which US citizens are familiar, but with regard to the criminal law, that assumption is simply not true. Rubin discusses two potential fundamental discrepancies between the international legal order and an hypothesized typical municipal legal order as would exist under the current statute for the International Criminal Court

Aqueous Processes and Microbial Habitability of Gale Crater Sediments from the Blunts Point to the Glenn Torridon Clay Unit

A driving factor for sending the Mars Science Laboratory, Curiosity rover to Gale Crater was the orbital detection of clay minerals in the Glen Torridon (GT) clay unit. Clay mineral detections in GT suggested a past aqueous environment that was habitable, and could contain organic evidence of past microbiology. The mission of the Sample Analysis at Mars (SAM) instrument onboard Curiosity was to detect organic evidence of past microbiology and to detect volatile bearing mineralogy that can inform on whether past geochemical conditions would have supported microbiological activity. The objective of this work was to 1) evaluate the depositional/alteration conditions of Blunts Point (BP) to GT sediments 2) search for evidence of organics, and 3) evaluate microbial habitability in the BP, Vera Rubin Ridge (VRR), and GT sedimentary rock