All Hands on Deck Mentorship Program

At the beginning of our freshman year, we were assigned the project of addressing a “wicked� problem, or a problem that is unsolvable. Being tasked with this, we decided to address an issue that directly affected us, and thousands of others: stress on college campuses. With this in mind, we set out to cure the stress of an everyday college student. From here, we decided to host events that would be helpful for students in stress relief. Our idea was to hold events to help reduce stress. After conducting more than 100 interviews, we learned that students felt that these events would be more of a distraction from their stress, than a solution. We then decided that we should produce a more permanent solution to stress through mentorship. We decided to create a program in which incoming freshmen could participate to help relieve the stress of the transition. The program would be optional, yet highly encouraged. For the program, an upperclassman would be paired with freshmen based on their major. We planned to work with an Honors 2000 group, who would be our control group, and unfortunately we had very few responses. Left with no participants and what seemed to be a lack of interest, our group decided to pivot once again. We decided to create a Facebook page for Honors students, similar to “Rate my Professor�. Several people joined the Facebook page, however, no one besides our group posted. We were at another dead end, and we had no more ideas to turn to. With no idea how to proceed, we met with Dr. Majewski and learned about her interest in our mentorship idea. The program would be implemented inside of gateway residence hall. All incoming Honors freshmen, and all returning upperclassmen, would be required to participate. Freshmen would be paired with upperclassmen and they would be required to meet a couple times a semester. This program would serve to help freshmen with their stress by providing them with a mentor that can answer any question they may have. This program has been implemented in the Fall of 2019, and will continue to be implemented for other years. Our ultimate goal of “All Hands on Deck� is to provide freshmen with a less stressful first semester, and also provide an opportunity to develop lasting friendships within the Honors College

COMMERCE AND TRADE Selling and Other Trade Practices: Expand Trade Secrets Statute

The Act expands the definition of trade secret and other related terms, provide remedies for misappropriation of trade secrets, permits payment of attorneys\u27 fees in cases of bad faith misappropriation, requires preservation of secrecy in judicial proceedings, and establishes a statute of limitations for trade secret misappropriation actions

No Night For Mexican Tears: Juan Cortina and the Brownsville Raid

THEY CALLED HIM THE “RED ROBBER OF THE RIO GRANDE.... ” Whether this moniker developed from the reddish tinge of his beard, or from the red blood that he shed on either side of the border depends on who is telling the story. The image of this man that is left to posterity is muddied; obscured by the rhyme and the romance of the corrido, and subject to the whims of political lionization or character assassination. Why Juan Nepomuceno Cortina rode into Brownsville on that early autumn day in 1859 at the head of an armed band of men has been argued over ever since. Juan Cortina was, and still is, an enigmatic figure whose legacy can be seen in the “social bandits” of later generations, and the cultural, racial, and international tensions that plagued the border for decades. Cortina\u27s bold action of riding through Brownsville, and for all purposes taking it hostage, ignited an on again-off again war that lasted for years and left south Texas in a state of fear. This raid has its roots in the politics of Brownsville, racial tension and abuse, and in the aggressive, intelligent, bold, and uncompromising character of Juan Cortina

Report of the NAFO Joint Fisheries Commission-Scientific Council Working Group on Risk-Based Management Strategies (WG-RBMS)

1. Opening 2. Appointment of Rapporteur 3. Adoption of Agenda 4. Review of the recommendations from the WG-RBMS Meeting, 07-09 February 2017 5. Matters arising from the SC Meeting, 03-07 April 2017 in Vigo, Spain 6. Update on Progress to Develop Candidate Management Strategies and/or HCRs 7. Finalization of management objectives and their corresponding Performance Targets and associated Performance Statistics 8. Provision of advice concerning the direction for further Candidate Management Strategies and/or HCRs development 9. Exceptional Circumstances Protocol 10. Recommendations to forward to SC and FC 11. Other Matters 12. Adoption of Report 13. Adjournmen

Performance of an Operating High Energy Physics Data Grid: D0SAR-Grid

The D0 experiment at Fermilab's Tevatron will record several petabytes of data over the next five years in pursuing the goals of understanding nature and searching for the origin of mass. Computing resources required to analyze these data far exceed capabilities of any one institution. Moreover, the widely scattered geographical distribution of D0 collaborators poses further serious difficulties for optimal use of human and computing resources. These difficulties will exacerbate in future high energy physics experiments, like the LHC. The computing grid has long been recognized as a solution to these problems. This technology is being made a more immediate reality to end users in D0 by developing a grid in the D0 Southern Analysis Region (D0SAR), D0SAR-Grid, using all available resources within it and a home-grown local task manager, McFarm. We will present the architecture in which the D0SAR-Grid is implemented, the use of technology and the functionality of the grid, and the experience from operating the grid in simulation, reprocessing and data analyses for a currently running HEP experiment.Comment: 3 pages, no figures, conference proceedings of DPF04 tal

Development of Large Area GEM Chambers

The High Energy Physics group of the University of Texas at Arlington Physics Department has been developing Gas Electron Multiplier (GEM) detectors for use as the sensitive gap detector in digital hadron calorimeters (DHCAL) for the future International Linear Collider. In this study, two kinds of prototype GEM detectors have been tested. One has 30x30 cm2 active area double GEM structure with a 3 mm drift gap, a 1 mm transfer gap and a 1 mm induction gap. The other one has two 2x2 cm2 GEM foils in the amplifier stage with a 5 mm drift gap, a 2 mm transfer gap and a 1 mm induction gap. We present characteristics of these detectors obtained using high-energy charged particles, cosmic ray muons and 106Ru and 55Fe radioactive sources. From the 55Fe tests, we observed two well-separated X-ray emission peaks and measured the chamber gain to be over 6500 with a high voltage of 395 V across each GEM electrode. Both the spectra from cosmic rays and the 106Ru fit well to Landau distributions as expected from minimum ionizing particles. We also present the chamber performance after high dosage exposure to radiation as well as the pressure dependence of the gain and correction factors. Finally, we discuss the quality test results of the first set of large scale GEM foils and discuss progress and future plans for constructing large scale (100cmx100cm) GEM detectors