An experiment in cultural interpretation and map revision from Skylab data

There are no author-identified significant results in this report

An experiment in cultural interpretation and map revision from Skylab data

The author has identified the following significant results. S190-A imagery is suitable for input to map compilation and revision at scales from 1:1,000,000 to 1:250,000

The Effects of Field-Based Learning on the Knowledge, Behaviors and Practices of Teachers and Students

The outdoor environment has the potential to serve as a teeming laboratory with numerous opportunities for students to study various science-related phenomena and processes. However important teachers deem outdoor experiences in science, they also bear doubts about their abilities to teach in these natural surroundings. Providing teachers with the training necessary to teach using field-based activities would help develop and strengthen the teachers\u27 and consequently their students\u27 interest in science, their background knowledge of basic science concepts and processes and possibly affect their behaviors towards the environment. This study was designed to measure the extent science teachers\u27 field-based learning experiences affected their pedagogical effectiveness, the frequency of their field offerings and their students\u27 attitudes, knowledge and behaviors relating to science and environmental education. The subjects of the study were middle school and secondary education teachers (N=100) and middle school and secondary level students (N=270). The teachers participated in a program entitled PLAN-IT EARTH (Pairing Learners And Nature with Innovative Technology for the Environmental Assessment of Resources, Trends and Habitats). They took part in an intense weeklong residential workshop during the summer pertaining to training techniques and activities that focused on field-based teaching techniques and innovative instructional strategies. The program design was based on a developmental framework of exploration, concept introduction and application exercises. The teachers answered a preliminary survey before beginning their training. These data were compared with questionnaires filled out after the training and five months into the program (February and March of a regular school year). Randomly selected portfolios, which all the teachers in the program were required to keep, were viewed and evaluated. Interviews were also conducted with randomly selected teachers (n=5). The middle school and secondary students completed instruments which measured their attitudes towards science, learning methods their teachers implemented, their favorite subject areas and their feelings about learning in the outdoors. Randomly selected students (n=7) were also interviewed about their favorite methods of learning science and how their perceptions of education and the environment. Results indicated that a high percentage of teachers utilized a large number of the teaching methods indicated on the survey. There was a higher ranking of extensive use of teaching methods on the posttest than were on the pretest. Teaching in the outdoors and using field trip excursions were both high ranking methods. It was concluded based on the results of the survey that teachers incorporated teaching in the outdoors more frequently after their training. Also concluded by student surveys and student interviews, was that field-based activities fostered positive attitudes about the environment and the educational means on how to improve their surroundings. Students involved in the study overwhelmingly rated science as their favorite subject and ranked field trips/field activities as their most preferred method of learning

UMD Resilient Adaptive Climate Technology ThinkTank (reACT TT): Purpose, Accomplishments and Future Directions

reACT ThinkTank is a campus-wide initiative involving faculty, staff, and students collaborating with Maryland tribal communities, who are deeply committed to a dynamic transdisciplinary approach to sustainability that includes research, consultancy advice, and education to internal and external stakeholders concerning climate change, regenerative design and renewable energy in urban environments and the building industry, and providing opportunities for action related to the University’s Land Acknowledgment

Novel pathways of antigen presentation for the maintenance of memory

Follicular dendritic cells (FDC) store native antigen for long periods In tymphoid follicles and so provide a source ofcontinued stimulation for specific B cells. The expression of MHC class II by FDC suggested they might act as antigen-presenting cells for MHC class ll-restricted T cells. We show here, however, that the MHC class II molecules found on their surface are not synthesized by the FDC but are picked up from surrounding B cells In germinal centres. Although FDC by themselves cannot present native antigen to T cells, acquired MHC class ll-peptlde complexes can be recognized by T cells. The true physiological role of FDC seems to be as long-term antigen depots. We demonstrate that antigen localized onto FDC In vivo can be retrieved by antigen-specific B cells, which In turn process and present It to T cells. Thesepresentation pathways are likely to be crucial In both the maintenance of long-term Immune responses and the continued survival of memory cell

Serious Play: Design in Midcentury America

Review of Serious Play: Design in Midcentury America, Reviewed January 2019 by Patricia Kosco Cossard, Art Librarian, University of Maryland, [email protected]

After Many Springs: Regionalism, Modernism & the Midwest

Book Review of After Many Springs: Regionalism, Modernism & the Midwest / Debra Bricker Balken--ISBN 9780300135862. Reviewed by Patricia Kosco Cossard

Innovation: Serving the Studio

This Presentation delineates the origins of the University of Maryland Libraries' Kiosk and Pop-up Library services that were created by Patricia Kosco Cossard in response to the 2012 Architecture Library Needs Assessment Report & Recommendations

Buildings Must Die: A Perverse View of Architecture

Review of Buildings Must Die: A Perverse View of Architecture, Reviewed September 2014 by Patricia Kosco Cossard, Art Librarian, Art & Architecture Libraries, University of Maryland, College Park, [email protected]