A Student\u27s Guide to Overcoming the Pressure to Succeed in Higher Education [brochure and video]

All college students experience some sort of internal and/or external pressure to reach their definition of success. Family members, friends, professors, future employers, coaches, student organizations, and most importantly, students themselves expect certain behaviors to lead to a successful collegiate career (Newton, 2000). This video highlights the experiences and viewpoints of one student’s struggle with residual stress and offers support resources found on most campuses across the country. With the prevalence of stress and anxiety related disorders found within today’s collegiate population (Levine, 2005), this video hopes to raise awareness and assist struggling students who are seeking relief by providing possible options

Modern Languages and the Digital: The Shape of the Discipline

This article is the result of a Writing Sprint that was scheduled to celebrate Academic Book Week in November 2015. The article brings together scholars who use digital tools for their research, for online publishing, and/or who research the field of Digital Humanities. The debate within the article focuses on how digital technologies are changing the shape of Modern Languages research and teaching. The main questions explored in the article include data-driven projects in Modern Languages, digital archives in Modern Languages, the digital as object of study, digital ethnography, users and interfaces, and finally the Modern Languages research process

Finishing the euchromatic sequence of the human genome

The sequence of the human genome encodes the genetic instructions for human physiology, as well as rich information about human evolution. In 2001, the International Human Genome Sequencing Consortium reported a draft sequence of the euchromatic portion of the human genome. Since then, the international collaboration has worked to convert this draft into a genome sequence with high accuracy and nearly complete coverage. Here, we report the result of this finishing process. The current genome sequence (Build 35) contains 2.85 billion nucleotides interrupted by only 341 gaps. It covers ∼99% of the euchromatic genome and is accurate to an error rate of ∼1 event per 100,000 bases. Many of the remaining euchromatic gaps are associated with segmental duplications and will require focused work with new methods. The near-complete sequence, the first for a vertebrate, greatly improves the precision of biological analyses of the human genome including studies of gene number, birth and death. Notably, the human enome seems to encode only 20,000-25,000 protein-coding genes. The genome sequence reported here should serve as a firm foundation for biomedical research in the decades ahead

Linking Internet Texts and Practices: Challenges and Opportunities of Interdisciplinarity in an Ethnographically Inspired Study of "Local Content"

Ethnographic and ethnographically inspired approaches are becoming increasingly popular in studies of digital media and digital culture, and are being used by scholars from a variety of disciplinary backgrounds, as well as in interdisciplinary projects. Nonetheless, specific methodological tensions and dilemmas can arise in the encounter between different research traditions. One area of such tension relates to how texts are approached, and how they are linked to other types of data. This article reports on related methodological questions which arose in interdisciplinary research into how residents of a favela, or shantytown, in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil used the internet, and particularly blogs, to represent the area where they lived. Overall the article argues that the interdisciplinary nature of the research provided an opportunity to adapt and develop methodological concepts and approaches from different traditions (including anthropology, internet ethnography, new literacy studies and internet studies) in response to the characteristics of the field site. These were brought together in the idea of ‘following the content’, which also included the concept of the ‘content event’, inspired by new literacy studies and employed to connect texts and practices

Contingut local al Brasil : marc conceptual i implicacions metodològiques

Peer reviewedAquest article presenta el treball en curs d'una recerca de doctorat sobre l'ús d'internet a les faveles de Rio de Janeiro, al Brasil, i posa una especial atenció en el contingut d'internet produït i compartit per la gent que hi viu. La recerca proposa aplicar el concepte de contingut local més enllà de l'abast de les polítiques i els projectes d'inclusió digital, en el contingut generat en les pràctiques diàries d'ús d'internet. L'article presenta una perspectiva general de l'accés a internet al Brasil i la discussió de les qüestions conceptuals i metodològiques que ha suscitat l'interès en el contingut local, entès com "l'expressió del coneixement d'una comunitat posseït i adaptat localment -on la comunitat és definida per la seva ubicació, la seva cultura, la seva llengua o la seva àrea d'interès-", segons la definició proposada per Ballantyne (2002).This article presents work in progress from PhD research investigating the use of the internet in the favelas (shantytowns) of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, with a particular focus on the internet content produced and shared by those who live there. The research proposes to apply the concept of local content beyond the scope of digital inclusion policy and projects, to content generated in everyday practices of internet use. The article presents an overview of internet access in Brazil and discussion of the conceptual and methodological issues raised by the interest in local content, understood as "the expression of the locally owned and adapted knowledge of a community - where the community is defined by its location, culture, language, or area of interest" according to a definition proposed by Ballantyne (2002).Este artículo presenta el trabajo en curso de una investigación de doctorado sobre el uso de internet en las favelas de Río de Janeiro, en Brasil, y pone una especial atención en el contenido de internet producido y compartido por la gente que vive allí. La investigación propone aplicar el concepto de contenido local más allá del alcance de las políticas y los proyectos de inclusión digital, en el contenido generado en las prácticas diarias de uso de internet. El artículo presenta una perspectiva general del acceso a internet en Brasil y la discusión de las cuestiones conceptuales y metodológicas que ha suscitado el interés en el contenido local, entendido como "la expresión del conocimiento de una comunidad poseído y adaptado localmente -donde la comunidad es definida por su ubicación, su cultura, su lengua o su área de interés-", según la definición propuesta por Ballantyne (2002)