\u27A slap in the face\u27: Morehead laments plan to cut funds - for Kentucky Folk Art Center

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Accelerating waters: an Anthropocene history of Colorado's 1976 Big Thompson Flood

2016 Summer.Includes bibliographical references.Scale matters. But in the Anthropocene, it is not clear how environmental scholars navigate between analytical levels from local and regional phenomena on the one hand, to global Earth-system processes on the other. The Anthropocene, in particular, challenges the ways in which history has traditionally been conceived and narrated, as this new geological epoch suggests that humans now rival the great forces of nature. The Big Thompson River Flood of 1976 provides an opportunity to explore these issues. Over the Anthropocene's "Great Acceleration" spike, human activities and environmental change intensified both in Colorado's Big Thompson Canyon and across much of the world. The same forces that amplified human vulnerability to the catastrophic deluge on a micro-level through highway construction, automobile vacationing, and suburban development were also at work with the planetary upsurge in roads, cars, tourism, atmospheric carbon dioxide, and flooding on the macro-level. As a theoretical tool, the Anthropocene offers a more ecological means to think and write about relationships among time and space

The Enduring Frontier: Joseph and Ercell Flood and Homesteading in Postwar Idaho, 1941-1976

This thesis argues that the frontier, if defined as the availability of free land, was in fact not closed in 1890 as proclaimed by the famous Turner thesis. Furthermore, this paper reinforces historian Brian Q. Cannon’s work, which argues that the federal homestead program did not end in the 1930s—as many prominent western historians assert—but rather, in 1976 in the lower 48 states and 1986 in Alaska. To strengthen these claims, this essay uses the agricultural experiences of Joe and Ercell Flood as a case study of those who took advantage of the post-World War II homestead law which allowed veterans to farm on newly-expanded reclamation projects throughout the West. The thesis uses materials obtained from family sources, including oral histories, government documents, videos, and memoirs, as well as information from newspaper archives, federal statutes, and magazine archives. The thesis begins in chapter one by introducing the topics of the frontier, homesteading, and reclamation, in addition to the historical background that led up to this postwar homesteading experience. Chapter two looks at the Flood family’s undertakings from 1941—the United States’ entrance into World War II—to 1956—the attainment of a land patent to their farm on the Minidoka Project in Idaho. Chapter three picks up the story after the Floods obtained title to the land in 1956—looking at the struggles that farmers faced and what it took to survive—and ends in 1976—the year Joe and Ercell retired and the homestead law was repealed. Chapter four concludes the work as it delves into the historical significance of homesteading into the latter half of the twentieth century

Nitric oxide-dependent vasodilation is compromised in isolated pulmonary arteries from COX knockout mice

Cyclooxygenase (COX) has two isoforms and is essential for prostanoid synthesis. COX-1 is constitutive whilst COX-2 is induced in inflammation. Two COX products, prostacyclin (PGI2) and thromboxane (TxA2), regulate vessel tone; PGI2 mediates vasodilation and platelet inhibition, and TxA2 opposes this. PGI2 therapies are used in pulmonary arterial hypertension (PAH). Endogenous TxA2/PGI2 has been linked to PAH in animal models, but the mechanism and isoform involved is debated. We hypothesized that pulmonary artery (PA) from COX-1–/– and COX-2–/– mice would have altered vasodilatory function compared with wild-type (WT; C57Bl6) mice. Vasomotor responses to contractile and relaxant agents were measured by myography. PA from all mice responded similarly to contraction by high potassium or the TxA2 mimetic, U46619. Relaxation to PGI2 receptor or PPARβ/ agonists was also similar in all PAs. However, COX-1–/– and, to a lesser extent, COX-2–/– PA had impaired vasodilation to acetylcholine (ACh), which stimulates endothelial nitric oxide (NO) release, and COX-1–/– PA also dilated less to sodium nitroprusside (SNP); an NO donor that works on smooth muscle (Fig 1). These data indicate an interaction between COX and NO sensing pathways in pulmonary vessels, and have implications for our understanding of PAH.Non peer reviewedFinal Accepted Versio

In Kentucky, Ivanka Trump touts \u27booming\u27 economy

Article published in the Lexington Herald Leader on October 27, 2018 by Will Wright. Discusses Ivanka Trump\u27s visit to Morehead State with Governor Bevin.https://scholarworks.moreheadstate.edu/college_histories/1264/thumbnail.jp