Find Your Park Friday: Meg and Megan Take Fredericksburg and Spotsylvania NMP

The Civil War Institute will be celebrating the National Park Service Centennial this spring with its brand new “Find Your Park Friday” series. Inspired by the NPS #FindYourPark campaign, the series will challenge our fellows to share their experiences exploring America’s national historical, cultural, and natural resources through trips and internships with the NPS. In our first post, CWI Social Media Coordinators Meg and Megan discuss their time interning at Fredericksburg and Spotsylvania National Military Park. [excerpt

Special Collections Roadshow — Episode Eight: Emory Upton’s Tactical Blocks

Special Collections Roadshow was created by the Civil War Institute at Gettysburg College in the Spring of 2014. Although the series usually showcases various artifacts from Special Collections at Gettysburg College, for our eighth episode we went on the road to the US Army Heritage and Education Center in Carlisle, PA

Special Collections Roadshow — Episode Ten: Union Uniform

Special Collections Roadshow was created by the Civil War Institute at Gettysburg College in the Spring of 2014. It normally showcases various artifacts from Special Collections at Gettysburg College. For our tenth episode, we went on the road to the Gettysburg National Military Park. Thank you so much to the park staff, specifically Andrew Newman for letting us film an episode on an enlisted man’s uniform in their facility! [excerpt

Special Collections Roadshow – Episode 9: Medical Kit

For our ninth episode we welcome our guest Dr. Ian Isherwood ’00 to talk about a Civil War medical kit and how to do research relating to Civil War medicine, as seen in the PBS series, Mercy Street. [excerpt

Special Collections Roadshow — Episode Seven: Housewife

Special Collections Roadshow was created by the Civil War Institute at Gettysburg College in the Spring of 2014. It showcases various artifacts from Special Collections at Gettysburg College. The seventh episode features Megan McNish ’16 comparing the housewife from Lewis Tway’s collection to another housewife we just received from Rev. Theodore Schlach’s new collection in Special Collections

Thickness determination of few-layer hexagonal boron nitride films by scanning electron microscopy and Auger electron spectroscopy

We assess scanning electron microscopy (SEM) and Auger electron spectroscopy (AES) for thickness measurements on few-layer hexagonal boron nitride (h-BN), the layered dielectric of choice for integration with graphene and other two-dimensional materials. Observations on h-BN islands with large, atomically flat terraces show that the secondary electron intensity in SEM reflects monolayer height changes in films up to least 10 atomic layers thickness. From a quantitative analysis of AES data, the energy-dependent electron escape depth in h-BN films is deduced. The results show that AES is suitable for absolute thickness measurements of few-layer h-BN of 1 to 6 layers

Health Policy: Universal Pre-existing Conditions

Next to food policy, perhaps no domestic policy issue has raised the ire of more people than that related to the healthcare system. The US Affordable Care Act, which was based in and otherwise formulated with a heavy orientation towards the shared Other-interest in health, has been rejected outright by many who see the healthcare system is only to facilitate maximizing one’s own Self-interest. The latter perspective is easily understood, as there is perhaps nothing more in one’s own Self-interest then taking care of one’s health. So, it would be easily expected that many people would consider mainly their own Self-interest, selfishly guarding their money to provide that care, and not willing to be selfless about something so essential. People focused on Self-interest want to personalize their health care, and seek the best doctors and facilities that would help serve their own health goals. It will also mean they probably would not much care to pay for anybody else’s healthcare. So, any move to a universal healthcare kind of policy and program, which recognizes that we are in effect “all in it together,” that is, there is a shared Other-interest at work, will be resisted

Searching for satisfaction : how 20something women use media to get news and advertising information

The entire thesis text is included in the research.pdf file; the official abstract appears in the short.pdf file; a non-technical public abstract appears in the public.pdf file.Title from PDF of title page (University of Missouri--Columbia, viewed on October 20, 2009).Thesis advisor: Professor Emeritus George Kennedy.M.A. University of Missouri--Columbia 2009.As traditional media companies struggle to maintain their current audience and attract young adults, it's imperative that providers understand how young women use media devices to get news and advertising information. This research addressed the issue through in-depth one-on-one interviews conducted with eight subjects in the Rochester, N.Y., area. Subjects kept media diaries for one week prior to the interviews. Subjects overwhelmingly preferred to get news through the Internet, choosing web sites that are updated frequently, offering a variety of information on many topics, along with blogs and video. In terms of gratifications and preferences for getting advertising information, subjects mostly ignored and avoided advertising on web sites as much as possible. Flyover and pre-roll video ads were the least objectionable, according to subjects. Advertisers should look for more opportunities for video ads on web sites, along with providing useful directories. Subjects also were asked to comment on two local print products and one web site produced by the Democrat and Chronicle, along with a national web site, ivillage.com. Subjects reacted more favorably to the products with local information, rather than the national web site.Includes bibliographical references