Exhibit: Documenting the Presence of Hispanic and Latinx Students at the University of Kentucky

From December 6-7, 2022, at the request of Hispanic Studies Department faculty Heather Campbell-Speltz, University Archivist Ruth Bryan and Hispanic Studies Librarian Taylor Leigh presented to students in classes SPA 211 and 208 an exhibit of items from the University Archives in the UK Libraries Special Collections Research Center that document the presence of Hispanic and Latinx students at the University of Kentucky. Starting with the first student from Latin America to graduate from the Agricultural and Mechanical College in 1878 (the precursor to today’s university) and going through some of the activities of the Latino Student Union in 2022, the exhibit was organized into five stations: “Enrollment ‘Firsts’ and Statistics,” “1940s-1950s,” “1960s,” 1970s-1990s,” and “2000s-2020s.” Within each station, documents such as newspaper clippings, yearbooks, brochures, pamphlets, flyers, annual reports, and a table and chart of student enrollment data bring to light some of the Hispanic/Latinx student-led and student-serving organizations and student leaders. In order to share the exhibit with more people, this document includes scans of and citations from all the items from the exhibit, as well as the English and Spanish text of the scavenger hunt that students used to explore the exhibit. This exhibit would not have been possible without the work of Daniela Gamez Salgado, whose intensive research and 2019 article, The History of Latino Students at the University of Kentucky, 1865-2019 (Oswald Research and Creativity Competition. 19. https://uknowledge.uky.edu/oswald/19) provided the initial sources and guidance for the exhibit. If the reader of this document finds that the items the exhibit curators chose to highlight ask more questions than provide answers, it is because the contributions, leadership, and struggles of Hispanic and Latinx students, faculty, and staff at the University of Kentucky are generally hidden. There are many more stories to be found in the archives and through oral histories and other sources

The Social Costs of Dangerous Products: An Empirical Investigation

Defective consumer products impose significant costs on consumers and third parties when they cause fatalities and injuries. This Article develops a novel approach to measuring the true extent of such costs, which may not be accurately captured under current methods of estimating the cost of dangerous products. Current analysis rests on a narrowly defined set of costs, excluding certain types of costs. The cost-of-injury estimates utilized in this Article address this omission by quantifying and incorporating these costs to provide a more complete picture of the true impact of defective consumer products. The new estimates help to gauge the true value of the civil liability system

The Social Costs of Dangerous Products: An Empirical Investigation

Defective consumer products impose significant costs on consumers and third parties when they cause fatalities and injuries. This Article develops a novel approach to measuring the true extent of such costs, which may not be accurately captured under current methods of estimating the cost of dangerous products. Current analysis rests on a narrowly defined set of costs, excluding certain types of costs. The cost-of-injury estimates utilized in this Article address this omission by quantifying and incorporating these costs to provide a more complete picture of the true impact of defective consumer products. The new estimates help to gauge the true value of the civil liability system

Impact of ocean stratification on submarine melting of a major Greenland outlet glacier

Submarine melting is an important balance term for tidewater glaciers1,2 and recent observations point to a change in the submarine melt rate as a potential trigger for the widespread acceleration of outlet glaciers in Greenland3-5. Our understanding of the dynamics involved, and hence our ability to interpret past and predict future variability of the Greenland Ice Sheet, however, is severely impeded by the lack of measurements at the ice/ocean interface. To fill this gap, attempts to quantify the submarine melt rate and its variability have relied on a paradigm developed for tidewater glaciers terminating in fjords with shallow sills. In this case, the fjords’ waters are mostly homogeneous and the heat transport to the terminus, and hence the melt rate, is controlled by a single overturning cell in which glacially modified water upwells at the ice edge, driving an inflow at depth and a fresh outflow at the surface1. Greenland’s fjords, however, have deep sills which allow both cold, fresh Arctic and warm, salty Atlantic waters, circulating around Greenland, to reach the ice sheet margin3,6,7. Thus, Greenland’s glaciers flow into strongly stratified fjords and the generic tidewater glacier paradigm is not applicable. Here, using new summer data collected at the margins of Helheim Glacier, East Greenland, we show that melting is driven by both Atlantic and Arctic waters and that the circulation at the ice edge is organized in multiple, overturning cells that arise from their different properties. Multiple cells with different characteristics are also observed in winter, when glacial run off is at a minimum and there is little surface outflow. These results indicate that stratification in the fjord waters has a profound impact on the melting dynamics and suggest that the shape and stability of Greenland’s glaciers are strongly influenced by layering and variability in the Arctic and Atlantic waters. 

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UK Libraries\u27 Wildcat Histories: Preserving Student Activist Social Media Content

In this presentation, we describe the current web archiving program at the University of Kentucky Libraries; provide an overview of the Wildcat Histories activist student organization social media preservation project, funded by Project STAND; discuss the technical aspects of the Wildcat Histories project; and the project\u27s current status and lessons learned

Preservation Perseverance: Archiving Social Media Content, A University of Kentucky/Latino Student Union Collaboration

The voices of activist student leaders and organizations are crucial to preserve, whether it be in a formal archives or as part of an archiving process undertaken by individuals and groups to preserve their legacies. Increasingly, these voices are found in social media and other online and web platforms that are difficult to preserve. Wildcat Histories is a year-long, grant-funded collaboration between the University of Kentucky Libraries and the University of Kentucky Latino Student Union (LSU) to research the best technologies for (as of July 2023) and then carry out the preservation of activist student organization social media content. The authors present an overview and current status of and next steps for the project, including examples of preserved LSU social media platforms. They then describe the current technical aspects and communication and outreach activities of the project. They end with reflection questions for others considering taking on similar projects

Dark matter to dark energy transition in k-essence cosmologies

We implement the transition from dark matter to dark energy in k-essence cosmologies for a very large set of kinetic functions $F$, in a way alternative to recent proposals which use generalized Chaplygin gas and transient models. Here we require that the pressure admits a power-law expansion around some value of the kinetic energy where the pressure vanishes. In addition, for suitable values of the parameters of the model, the speed of sound of the dark matter will be low. We first present the discussion in fairly general terms, and later consider for illustration two examples.Comment: 5 pages, revte

COLLEGE STUDENT'S HEALTH, DRINKING AND SMOKING PATTERNS: WHAT HAS CHANGED IN 20 YEARS?

Problem: Post-secondary institutes are increasingly trying to address the issue of problem drinking. The purpose of this study was to determine how patterns in alcohol use and smoking by college students, as well as their illness patterns, have changed over 20 years. Methods: A cross-sectional serial survey design was used for this descriptive study. Data were collected during the 2011-2012 academic year from a convenience sample of students enrolled in a personal health course at a large Midwestern university. Data were compared to findings from the 1991-1992 academic year for the same course. Self-reported survey data regarding illness and alcohol and tobacco use were collected using the Student Health and Lifestyle Questionnaire. Results: Compared to 20 years ago, more males reported abstaining and fewer were classified as heavy or binge drinkers. However, the opposite was true of women, who reported less abstention and trends towards heavier drinking. The choice of alcoholic beverage changed from beer to consuming more hard liquor. Smoking was significantly decreased along with self-reported upper respiratory infections and episodes of acute illness. Conclusions: Smoking prevention efforts appear to be having a positive effect on campus health, but more gender-specific efforts may be needed to reduce the risk behavior of drinking.Indiana University, Bloomington, INCitation of printed article: Hensel, Desiree, Todd, Katherine Leigh, Engs, Ruth C. "College Student's Health, Drinking and Smoking Patterns: What Has Changed In 20 Years?" College Student Journal, Fall 2014, 48 (Issue 3): 378-385This document is the ca. 2013 draft located at IUScholarworks:http://hdl.handle.net/2022/26577. It was published as: Hensel, Desiree, Todd, Katherine Leigh, Engs, Ruth C. "College Student's Health, Drinking and Smoking Patterns: What Has Changed In 20 Years?" College Student Journal, Fall 2014, 48 (Issue 3): 378-385