Welcome Back: The Return of Women at Cal Poly

After a nearly 30-year absence from California Polytechnic State University, female students were readmitted to campus in the fall of 1956. Why did President McPhee only start to show interest in coeducation during the mid-1950s? Also, what was the process like to readmit women onto campus, both financially and logistically? Lastly, what was the perception of women by their male counterparts, faculty, and administration and how involved were they on campus? To help answer these questions and gain broader context for the time period, one can compare Cal Poly to other institutions across the United States. For example, in 1972, which was about 15 years after the re-integration of women at Cal Poly, Rutgers University made the decision to co-educate. In contrast to Cal Poly, however, Rutgers “coeds” appeared to face more opposition from male students. While each college may have looked vastly different from Cal Poly, the changing finances of universities in reaction to the G.I. bill, or the state’s need to turn out accredited teachers to teach classrooms full of Baby Boomers in Poly’s case, eventually led to the reintegration of female students. This paper will investigate the logistic process of readmitting students, the classes taken, the reactions of male students and administration, and the involvement of coeds

The Transitioning of A Non-Functional church Into A Functional Church: The Great Commission Commandment Mandate

From conception, America has embraced the Christian church as its cornerstone. However, as noted by Barnes and Lowry, “Church attendance has decreased substantially in recent years in comparison to the 1950s and 60s. The majority of Americans do not attend church on a regular basis.” This thesis project will research churches with regards to their effectiveness and will both isolate and analyze the characteristics of churches that fit into operative categories. A survey using a quantitative research instrument, such as the Likert Measurement Scale, will examine the New Hope Missionary Baptist Association of North Carolina. The survey’s purpose will be to evaluate characteristics, philosophies, programs, teachings, and worship methods that will be useful for churches. This thesis project will provide key concepts and a step-by-step biblical guide on how to transition a non-functional church into a Bible-focused functional church

The tensions between us: Using reflective practice to explore community-led outreach versus academic-led outreach

When I taught issues of social justice, we struggled, as a class, to find ways to make a difference. Scenarios we played out would help with reform or social change but would never get to the crux of the problem – prevention. As an academic, I love teaching, but beyond that, I want to empower others to enact change. I often feel that my knowledge and experience would be useful to those who chose a different subject, or even path than university. My decision to move into outreach stems from those discussions I had with students; social justice needs to be introduced at a young age. Now I plan outreach programmes, I reflect: What if issues of social justice, were taught by universities? How do we tailor this to the needs of the local community? The want to have communities involved and even leading in the outreach planning is not without tension. My research working with Indigenous communities led me to question: Who has authority to speak for the community? How do you allow for intersectionality of ideas within communities? This article uses Rolfe et al. (2001) reflective practice methods to explore the tensions between community-led outreach and academic-led outreach

Inverting Supervised Representations with Autoregressive Neural Density Models

We present a method for feature interpretation that makes use of recent advances in autoregressive density estimation models to invert model representations. We train generative inversion models to express a distribution over input features conditioned on intermediate model representations. Insights into the invariances learned by supervised models can be gained by viewing samples from these inversion models. In addition, we can use these inversion models to estimate the mutual information between a model's inputs and its intermediate representations, thus quantifying the amount of information preserved by the network at different stages. Using this method we examine the types of information preserved at different layers of convolutional neural networks, and explore the invariances induced by different architectural choices. Finally we show that the mutual information between inputs and network layers decreases over the course of training, supporting recent work by Shwartz-Ziv and Tishby (2017) on the information bottleneck theory of deep learning.Comment: Accepted for publication by AISTATS 201

The University of New Hampshire Engaged Scholars Academy: Instilling in Faculty Principles of Effective Partnership

Over the last decade, the University of New Hampshire (UNH) has promoted mutually beneficial partnerships between faculty and community partners vis-à-vis the Engaged Scholars Academy (ESA), a faculty development program aimed at enhancing faculty understanding of the principles of partnership and engaged scholarship. This research seeks to determine whether and how the ESA has impacted faculty-community partnerships around engaged scholarship. Findings suggest that Engaged Scholar Academy participants – as compared to non-participants – have a deeper understanding of the principles of partnership, are more likely to feel their scholarship is enhanced, spend more time with partners, engage their partners throughout the process of inquiry, and focus more on sustaining partnership outcomes

Bone Remodeling Monitor

The impact of bone loss due to different mechanical loadings in microgravity is a major concern for astronauts upon reintroduction to gravitational forces in exploration missions to the Moon and Mars. it has been shown that astronauts not only lose bone at differing rates, with levels up to 2% per month, but each astronaut will respond to bone loss treatments differently. Pre- and post-flight imaging techniques and frozen urine samples for post-flight laboratory immunoassays To develop a novel, non-invasive, highly . sensitive, portable, intuitive, and low-powered device to measure bone resorption levels in 'real time' to provide rapid and Individualized feedback to maximize the efficacy of bone loss countermeasures 1. Collect urine specimen and analyze the level of bone resorption marker, DPD (deoxypridinoline) excreted. 2. Antibodies specific to DPD conjugated with nanoshells and mixed with specimen, the change in absorbance from agglutination is measured by an optical device. 3. The concentration of DPD is displayed and recorded on a PD