“It’s About the Two Selves”: Experiences in Code-Switching between Home and Academic Environments

This qualitative research study is an exploration of how college students navigate code-switching between their home and academic environments. Data were collected from five participants using interview and small group methods. Through the lenses of Coordinated Management of Meaning (CMM) and Memorable Messages (MM) frameworks, the researcher explores how key MMs affect how participants coordinate and manage meaning in communications with others in their home and college environments. Findings were fourfold: 1) participants chose between following established and creating new rules when code-switching; 2) participants shared experiences and strategies regarding knowing when and how to code-switch; 3) preparing audiences for information disclosure was a key element of code-switching and 4) there was a need for community and a space of non-judgement for students who experience large differences between their home and academic cultures

Graphic Design, Symposium Program Contest, Jake Wolven

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Strategies for Expanding e-Journal Preservation

Columbia University Libraries/Information Services, in collaboration with the Cornell University Library (jointly referred to as 2CUL) has completed an 18 month project intended to expand significantly the preservation coverage of e-journals and to implement strategies that will sustain the initiative beyond the Project. Some expectations and outcomes have been modified during the course of the project in order to meet the underlying objectives of the proposal. During the course of the project, the project team addressed a number of challenges, and identified areas for future development

Grandiose and Vulnerable Narcissism: Where Do the Emotional Differences Lie?

Narcissism can be conceptualized as existing on a continuum between grandiose and vulnerable phenotypes (Pincus & Lukowitsky, 2010). Previous studies found differences between narcissistic phenotypes in terms of behavioral task performance (Wallace & Baumeister, 2002) and emotional reactions to threatening conditions (Besser & Priel, 2010; Zeigler-Hill, Clark, & Pickard, 2008); however, research on emotion dysregulation was lacking in narcissistic populations. Thus, the purpose of the present study was to explore the subjective and objective emotional differences between the grandiose and vulnerable phenotypes of narcissism. In a laboratory manipulation, participants (N=63) completed self-report questionnaires, read emotionally-evocative vignettes describing achievement failure and interpersonal rejection, and completed a behavioral persistence task. Electrodermal activity was also measured to explore emotional variances in narcissism. Results suggest individuals with higher vulnerable narcissistic characteristics will report more negative affectivity following either threatening situation, and higher levels of narcissism predicted an increase in positive affect following an achievement failure scenario. Furthermore, positive relationships exist between various levels of narcissism (i.e., pathological, grandiose, and vulnerable) and difficulties in emotion regulation. These findings depict how grandiose narcissism and vulnerable narcissism differ in their emotional reactivity and self-regulation when faced with threatening situations

Trading Places: Adapting Research Library Space to Evolving Scholarly Practices at Columbia University

The evolution of library space utilization at Columbia University over the past decade is characterized as a realignment of library space with changing educational and research missions through the purposeful reallocation of space from collections storage and processing to emerging, strategically important priorities. This evolution is discussed as a series of strategic trade-offs – trading places for diverse purposes, with various partners, but always toward the end of active, meaningful engagement with the research and teaching activities of faculty and students. Whether it is the conversion of collections space to increase and improve student workspace, to build needed classrooms or laboratories for faculty, to incentivize and support important new service partnerships, or even to leverage financial resources to further other organizational priorities, an intentional, flexible approach to library space planning is essential to the ongoing vitality of research library organizations and the services provided to the scholarly communities they support

State-led humanitarian evacuation: a critical history, 1942-1999

This thesis, situated within the historiography of humanitarianism, seeks to explain how humanitarian evacuation came to be viewed as a solution to problems of civilian protection during crises, and how the US and UK, who evacuated the greatest number of civilians during the 20th century, instrumentalized evacuation to further their geostrategic goals. Four cases studies focus on major evacuations of the 20th century that illustrate how evacuation became a tool of both civilian protection and international relations. Spotlighting the nexus between military actors and non-governmental organisations, the case studies critically explore the motives of evacuators, the rationale they presented to the public, and the outcomes of the evacuation projects. While recognizing that states have mixed motives for their humanitarian operations, I claim that all evacuations essentially signify a series of political failures, and that in cases where the US and UK were aggressors and rescuers, they spun their failures into narratives of rescue and redemption. In this way, I argue, the militaristic state strategically communed itself with its victims, blurring the distinctions between aggressor and victim in service to a hegemonic rescue narrative in an attempt to limit criticism in order to defend national prestige and bolster geostrategic endeavours. In illustrating these points across the use of state-led humanitarian evacuation through four case studies, this thesis makes an original contribution to the field of humanitarian history by offering a new interpretation of humanitarian evacuation that gives insight into relationships between repressive and ideological state apparatuses within a humanitarian context. I contend that state and NGO performances of hegemonic rescue narratives strengthen state apparatuses through the reproduction of American and British foundational national myths and in turn relations of power

Observations and modeling of H_2 fluorescence with partial frequency redistribution in giant planet atmospheres

Partial frequency redistribution (PRD), describing the formation of the line profile, has negligible observational effects for optical depths smaller than ~10^3, at the resolving power of most current instruments. However, when the spectral resolution is sufficiently high, PRD modeling becomes essential in interpreting the line shapes and determining the total line fluxes. We demonstrate the effects of PRD on the H_2 line profiles observed at high spectral resolution by the Far-Ultraviolet Spectroscopic Explorer (FUSE) in the atmospheres of Jupiter and Saturn. In these spectra, the asymmetric shapes of the lines in the Lyman (v"- 6) progression pumped by the solar Ly-beta are explained by coherent scattering of the photons in the line wings. We introduce a simple computational approximation to mitigate the numerical difficulties of radiative transfer with PRD, and show that it reproduces the exact radiative transfer solution to better than 10%. The lines predicted by our radiative transfer model with PRD, including the H_2 density and temperature distribution as a function of height in the atmosphere, are in agreement with the line profiles observed by FUSE. We discuss the observational consequences of PRD, and show that this computational method also allows us to include PRD in modeling the continuum pumped H_2 fluorescence, treating about 4000 lines simultaneously.Comment: 17 pages, accepted for publication in Ap