Is the Job Market Tight for Your Grads? Beyond the ABCs of Job Search: ‘Suit’em Up’, Inside & Out, and ‘Brand’ Them

This paper focuses on ‘fear’ found most common among upper-level college students and military veterans in today’s tight job market. One principles of marketing educator’s experiential project, entitled ‘Suit’em up,’ inside & out, and ‘brand’ them is discussed at length with implementation details and perception survey findings provided along with pre-project related mini-lectures. The project moved individual participants beyond the typical ABCs of the job search process to that of creating for a mission-centric, introspective-based marketing plan with the ultimate goal of finding meaningful, lifesatisfying work. Implications for student cohorts- at large and academic, veteran, and at-large career counselors are identified

Executive Director’s Note

This edition is the first to be published under a reorganized Publications Committee with a new program and a new editor. Dr. Elizabeth C. Stevens is the editor of Rhode Island History, the scholarly journal of the Rhode Island Historical Society. She was an associate editor of the Papers of General Nathanael Greene, a thirteen-volume NEH-sponsored project at the Rhode Island Historical Society that was completed in 2005. She has also worked on another historical editing project, volume two of The Jane Addams Papers. Elizabeth has a doctorate in American Studies from Brown University (1993) and is the author of Elizabeth Buffum Chace and Lillie Chace Wyman: A Century of Abolitionist, Suffragist, and Workers’ Rights Activism. (McFarland, 2004

Condition of Social Change at El Dornajo, Southwestern Ecuador

This dissertation explores the role of internal and external conditions of social change at the site of El Dornajo in the El Oro-Tumbes region of southern Ecuador / northern Peru. The El Oro-Tumbes region lies on the boundary between the central and northern Andean culture areas. Consequently, the developmental trajectory of this region has often been seen as closely tied to that of its more complex neighbors. Indeed, as inter-regional interaction between these areas increased through time, the potential for such interactions to affect the intermediate region also increased. However, the El Oro-Tumbes region is also the epicenter of El Niño activity along the South American, coast making environmental hazards an equally plausible condition for social change. The possible role of these conditions, inter-regional interaction and environmental hazards, were examined at the site of El Dornajo, a central place in the Zarumilla River Valley during the Regional Development Period. Results indicate that neither condition was a catalyst for social change, although each played a role in the developmental trajectory of the site in ways not originally anticipated. Existing data suggest that social inequality at El Dornajo was most directly associated with land rights and regional interaction between elites that were manifest at the site in clambakes and the display of prestige goods

An In Vitro Study of Hair Cell Regeneration within the Inner Ear of the Newt, Notophthalmus viridescens

The newt, Notophthalmus viridescens, an Urodele amphibian, is capable of regenerating many body parts and tissues. The newt presented a potential alternative to the avian and mammalian animal models in which to investigate the mechanisms of the hair cell regeneration in the auditory and vestibular organs. As part of the initial study, the morphology of the seven sensory epithelia were examined using several techniques. The main aim of this study was to assess recovery of hair cells and distinguish the means by which this recovery occurred. An in vitro system was established in which to characterize hair cell recovery following ablation with gentamicin. The level of apoptotic bodies in the epithelia following treatment demonstrated that hair cells were lost via programmed cell death. There was no evidence for repair of non-lethally damaged hair cells. Hair cell recovery was found to be robust but slow. Incubation with bromodeoxyuridine revealed a stimulation of proliferation amongst supporting cells, although new hair cells did not arise from these mitotic events. Hes1, p27kip1 and Ath1, known to be expressed during developmental patterning of the sensory epithelia in the mammalian inner ear, were investigated in newt sensory epithelia. All three were shown to be present in the saccule. The presence of Ath1 and p27kip1 was examined in undamaged tissue and during the recovery period following ablation of hair cells by immunohistochemistry. Labelling for p27kip1 remained unaltered throughout the recovery period, but no labelling with antibody to Ath1 was apparent in regenerated hair cells. The effect of the limb blastemal (growth zone) environment, known to induce cell cycle re-entry of other newt cells, was also investigated by the implantation of undamaged saccules. Implanted saccules were found to survive for up to six days within the blastema

The challenge of water provision in rural Tanzania

Despite significant recent investment, levels of access to clean drinking water in Tanzania remain similar to those of 20 years ago. Why is it that although money has been flowing, water continues to trickle

Reconciling transport models across scales: the role of volume exclusion

Diffusive transport is a universal phenomenon, throughout both biological and physical sciences, and models of diffusion are routinely used to interrogate diffusion-driven processes. However, most models neglect to take into account the role of volume exclusion, which can significantly alter diffusive transport, particularly within biological systems where the diffusing particles might occupy a significant fraction of the available space. In this work we use a random walk approach to provide a means to reconcile models that incorporate crowding effects on different spatial scales. Our work demonstrates that coarse-grained models incorporating simplified descriptions of excluded volume can be used in many circumstances, but that care must be taken in pushing the coarse-graining process too far

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