Gear Up & Beyond

At Salinas High School there is a low number of high school students completing CSU/UC requirements. In the academic year of 2015, there was a total of 560 high school graduates, of these students 245 graduated with all CSU/UC requirements which is 43%. Gear Up (Gaining Early Awareness and Readiness for Undergraduate Programs) has a purpose of helping students succeed throughout high school. Gear Up promotes post-secondary education by taking field trips, working with parents, and offering tutoring before and after school as well as during lunch are some of the resources offered. Gear Up & Beyond was developed as an extension of the program, providing a supplemental support system for nine first-generation female students. This particular group faces more challenges, and benefit from focusing on the resources needed to succeed. First-generation students often lack important ‘college knowledge’ about the process of preparing, applying, and paying for college due to the lack of experience with postsecondary education in their families. This capstone project was designed to promote post-secondary education by highlighting A-G requirements and the process of applying to College. The project consisted of 14 sessions of students reviewing transcripts, careers and colleges, community service, scholarships/ financial aid, personal statements, smart goals, and a speaker. One of the strengths of the project is the posters that students prepared containing research on their desired majors that were posted around campus; and thus reached the entire student body. The program will be continued with changes students suggested, for example, conducting the meetings after school instead of during lunch, among others

Women and Cultural Production: Fiestas, Families, and Foodways in San Rafael, New Mexico

Historically, New Mexico scholars and folklorists have often omitted womens roles in Hispanic cultural production and heritage maintenance. However, women make significant contributions to the retention, transmission, and adaptation of traditional Hispanic practices. In this dissertation, I examine how particular Hispanic women, who I refer to as \u27center women\u27 (Brodkin Sacks 1988), from a small village named San Rafael, New Mexico mobilize their families and other community members in order to successfully perform traditional New Mexican events such as the annual fiesta in honor of the local patron saint, Las Posadas, a Christmas time novena, and Good Friday commemorations. These events not only illustrate women\u27s cultural competence and the work of kinship (di Leonardo 1987), they are also instances in which women demonstrate agency and innovation within traditional customs as they adapt heritage practices to attract participation from younger generations and disparate groups of family and community members. Through communal and family cultural performances, I explore changes in Hispanic New Mexican cultural production, but also intergenerational changes in women\u27s beliefs about how traditional practices relate to their lived experiences, contemporary heritage expression and preservation, and social belonging. I argue that the women with cultural competence and social capital must reproduce themselves within the community in order to continue traditional Hispanic practices and to maintain a communal character for their increasingly dissimilar village. Older and younger generations of women have qualitatively different experiences with village life, and these differences have precipitated changes in how the annual fiesta is carried out, the importance of New Mexican Catholicism within events, and even how traditional foods are prepared and consumed. I demonstrate how younger generations of San Rafael women are more likely to participate when customs are flexible, or pick and choose the practices in which they engage and to what extent.\u2

Chemodynamical Simulations of Elliptical Galaxies

We review recent developments in the field of chemodynamical simulations of elliptical galaxies, highlighting (in an admittedly biased fashion) the work conducted with our cosmological N-body/SPH code GCD+. We have demonstrated previously the recovery of several primary integrated early-type system scaling relations (e.g. colour-magnitude relation, L_X-T_X-[Fe/H]_X) when employing a phenomenological AGN heating scheme in conjunction with a self-consistent treatment of star formation, supernovae feedback, radiative cooling, chemical enrichment, and stellar/X-ray population synthesis. Here we emphasise characteristics derived from the full spatial information contained within the simulated dataset, including stellar and coronal morphologies, metallicity distribution functions, and abundance gradients.Comment: to appear in the proceedings of Chemodynamics: from first stars to local galaxies, Lyon, Franc

A contra-rotating marine current turbine on a flexible mooring : development of a scaled prototype

The contra-rotating marine current turbine concept developed by the Energy Systems Research Unit at the University of Strathclyde is aimed at extracting energy in a wide range of water depths by 'flying' a neutrally-buoyant device from a flexible, tensioned mooring. After successful proof of concept turbine trials, the development programme has moved on to investigate the performance of a scaled prototype of the complete system incorporating the turbine, submersible contra-rotating generator and mooring. The turbine/generator assembly has been tested in a towing tank, and the entire system is now undergoing sea trials. An investigation into turbine wake development (an area in which it is hoped that the contra-rotating turbine will have uniquely beneficial properties) has recently begun. Small single-rotor model turbines have been deployed in a flume. Trends observed so far are in accordance with those observed by other researchers

A Partnership Between the Graduate Resource Center and College of Nursing

As nursing professionals returning to school to pursue an advanced degree in nursing (MSN), academic writing can be a new skill that is unfamiliar to students even as they are expected to have mastered this skill prior to entering a graduate program. In Fall 2017, the College of Nursing and the Graduate Resource Center partnered to provide MSN students with writing interventions to help bridge the gap between skill level and expectations. These interventions included an online writing course, a comprehensive writing workshop based on faculty feedback that was offered during orientation and submitting a writing assignment for review through the Graduate Online Writing Lab (GrOWL). Effectiveness of the writing interventions was evaluated based on student surveys of the experience and final grades for the students’ theory paper. Overall, 24 students found the workshop helpful (strongly agreed/agreed) while 25 students found the online course helpful (strongly agreed/agreed). Students who did not find either of the two interventions helpful stated that they did not need writing support or that the interventions were remedial. The experience in general foregrounds academic writing as a necessary skill in the nursing program and highlighted campus resources for improving one’s writing

Contra-rotating marine current turbines : performance in field trials and power train developments

Development of a novel contra-rotating marine current turbine has been continuing at the University of Strathclyde. Continuous monitoring of blade bending loads during trials has enabled an investigation of blade-blade and blade-structure interactions. The former are a particular concern with a contra-rotating turbine, but there is now evidence to suggest that in normal operation these are relatively small. By contrast, blade-structure effects are clearly visible. A turbine complete with single-point mooring and submersible contra-rotating generator is presently being prepared for sea trials. Details of the machine and the test programme are described

Contra-rotating marine current turbines : single point tethered floating system - stabilty and performance

The Energy Systems Research Unit within the Department of Mechanical Engineering at the University of Strathclyde has developed a novel contra-rotating tidal turbine (CoRMaT). A series of tank and sea tests have led to the development and deployment of a small stand-alone next generation tidal turbine. Novel aspects of this turbine include its single point compliant mooring system, direct drive open to sea permanent magnet generator, and two contra-rotating sets of rotor blades. The sea testing of the turbine off the west coast of Scotland in the Sound of Islay is described; the resulting stability of a single-point tethered device and power quality from the direct drive generator is reported and evaluated. It is noted that reasonably good moored turbine stability within a real tidal stream can be achieved with careful design; however even quite small instabilities have an effect on the output electrical power quality. Finally, the power take-off and delivery options for a 250kW production prototype are described and assessed

Micellar dye shuttle between water and an ionic liquid

The reversible transfer of poly(2-ethyl-2-oxazoline)-block-poly(2-nonyl-2-oxazoline) nanocarriers comprising encapsulated dyes is demonstrated between water and an ionic liquid. This dye transfer concept is shown to be applicable for loading and delivery of dye molecules as well as to provide a protective environment for the encapsulated dye

Introduction: Inclusive Design Pedagogies and Practices

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