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Sunderland midfielder Liam Bridcutt insists the players are up for the fight of keeping the club in the Premier League following their sluggish defeat to Norwich on Saturday.
Norwich secured a 2-0 victory thanks to first-half goals from Robert Snodgrass and Alexander Tettey.
Sunderland's disappointing day was compounded by the late sending off of Marcos Alonso.
Gus Poyet's side remain in the bottom three and face a tricky test at title-chasing Liverpool on Wednesday.
"We need to be ready to fight and stick together," said Bridcutt. "We have to forget this result and move on and be ready for Liverpool on Wednesday.
"The boss has told us how disappointed he is and we know what we need to do. A positive we can take is that our next game is only a few days away."
The former Brighton man admitted the Black Cats were not expecting such a stern test at Carrow Road and was quick to offer an apology to the club's supporters.
"Of course we are disappointed with the result, it was a big game," he added.
"It turned out to be tougher than we expected and it was one of those days for us - nothing went our way and Norwich were at us from the get-go.
"I'm sorry for the fans who made the trip to Norwich, it is a long, long way from Sunderland and they deserved much more than that.
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It Happened to Me: I'm a fat, black woman who does yoga
In a move that will come as a surprise to none, I did read and re-read the post about a skinny white woman who had the great misfortune of being in a yoga class with a "fairly heavy" black woman. You know what's right up there with poverty and famine? Being fat, black and in downward facing dog, that's what. Or so it would would seem based on the visceral reaction that Jen Caron had upon seeing a fat person doing yoga. Can you even imagine such horror?
Thanks to the misleading title I was curious because I thought this would be an insightful piece on why African American women are a rarity in yoga classes. I thought that this piece would speak to me especially because I live in Upstate NY where seeing black people anywhere is like seeing a unicorn. What followed was the most insulting, bigoted piece of writing written by a woman who I could only assume hails from Mars judging by her reaction to seeing a black person. I wanted to ask if this was her first time seeing someone who isn't perfectly white and thin. As Ms. Caron takes pity on the unfortunate souls like myself I wondered about the pathetic, sheltered existence this woman has lived in order to end up with such a myopic view of the world and people around her. So much so that after being ENRAGED I had to wonder if she doesn't realize how incredibly offensive she is.
I mean, really:
"I was completely unable to focus on my practice, instead feeling hyper-aware of my high-waisted bike shorts, my tastefully tacky sports bra, my well-versedness in these poses that I have been in hundreds of times My skinny white girl body Surely this woman was noticing all of these things and judging me for them, stereotyping me, resenting me - or so I imagined"
She's fucking with us, right?
I do yoga almost daily and for the most part I enjoy Bikram instead of Vinyasa. I appreciate the way Bikram is the same thing, every time - down to the dialogue - and I can see the incremental steps my body makes to change and shape as I move through a rather difficult practice. I am grateful to have yoga as it has saved me from myself. The practitioner is forced to turn inward in order to be better on the outside. Done correctly, it is a beautiful thing. I have also found that my awareness has shifted from watching the movements of others to only worrying about myself, my mat and my body. Which begs the question of whether or not Ms. Caron is actually an experienced yogi. I mean, any true person who practices regularly is very well aware that you should only be focusing on what's happening on YOUR mat. I am forced to question her authenticity because how is she all up in the business of the woman behind her when she needs to be focusing on herself?
I have been the only black person in a class. I have/am the largest person in the room. I have been that very self-conscious person who goes straight to the back of the room. I have been in a position where it feels like everyone's eyes are burning a hole into my head as they watch me attempt to move between poses. I've been there, huffing and puffing, wanting to escape from the confines of that room. I have wanted to tell my yoga teacher to fuck off. Even as recently as Saturday during a Baptiste yoga class where I sat next to a friend who could do a full split as I struggled to hoist up my (fat, meaty) thigh in a three-legged dog. I have been there and oh, God, does it hurt to feel like the whole class is watching. Having been in such a hole with my own practice I have only learned to pull myself from it and tell people that it does, in fact, get better. Which is why when I tell people who are both thinner and whiter than myself that they should try yoga, I do so knowing that the first time can SUCK. It can be difficult. Body parts that you didn't know you have can ache but you do it and you live. This reaction to belittle someone based on their race and size is the very opposite of what yoga should be and, Ms. Caron, it kind of makes you look like a bit of a racist.
"I thought about how that must feel: to be a heavyset black woman entering for the first time a system that by all accounts seems unable to accommodate her body. What could I do to help her? If I were her, I thought, I would want as little attention to be drawn to my despair as possible - I would not want anyone to look at me or notice me"
Ms. Caron, I will tell you exactly how it must feel to be a "heavyset black woman" to have such a horrific first world problem as you have described. First of all, thank you for noticing that I am both black and fat. I am also often the only person in a room and the largest. I've been in the lowest of lows before coming into a studio but I really don't need your pathetic looks and 10 paragraphs of pity. I can talk down to myself every time I look at my reflection, I don't need to be looked down upon by a teary-eyed, skinny, white chick. No ma'am.
But thank you for worrying about me but I don't really need for you to save me from the plight of the Upward Facing Dog. I don't enter a yoga practice with you on my mind. I no longer enter wondering what others might be thinking of me as I position my mat directly in front of the mirror. I'm also not thinking of you as I move through the warm up but thank you for noticing my hips, thighs, and ass. If I caught you staring at me during utkatasana I would simply smirk because I know that you can see me balance and flex despite the extra weight around my mid-section. I could be offended by you and your constant eyeballing or I could do what I always do in yoga which is to focus on myself. Which - since we're doling out helpful advice - perhaps you want to try more of that next time you're on your mat. So, why I thank you for your concern over how my Body Mass Index might affect my ability to reverse my warrior. I an assure you that I will be OK.
I can gain flexibility. I can lose weight. I can get stronger and train myself to move with my breath and find balance both on and off of my mat. But you, my dear Ms. Caron, will always be an ignorant asshole. Please tell me, as I am curious, how it feels to be void of self-awareness but full of such incredible stupidity.


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Bathroom - help with layout please
New build, home plan to live/ retire so not concerned with resale. Purposely had bathroom to be spaciously large. House is framed, ordering cabinetry, need to finalize master bath custom vanity.
Note floorplan square each a foot (although will be wood) so as can see, original plan had 12 foot long vanity and center was intended as sitdown makeup area
I do NOT want that.
I want double vanity down to 8' based on our current 6' leaving 4' in corner. Plumbings in but they can just adjust pipe so sinks will be closer together but left with corner to be revised..
CLOSET - One thought was build out as linen closet to match other one on opposite wall - not hurting for storage with giant clothes closet on back wall of vainty which we'll only use fraction of so will include storage shelving. opposite side.
OPEN - Tonight thought of leaving it empty to extend seating below window also aesthetic but love idea of coach in bathroom so coach and chair?
Wondering which will look best aesthetically - which would you pick or would you do something else? Would appreciate your opinions.
This is my attempt at what room might look like both ways
Right know theres no drywall but rest of bathroom is framed out.
Vanity side will need to be ordered for that corner as finished if its not adjacent to closet or unfinished if its flush to closet.
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You probably should post this in bathrooms...they will give lots of suggestions.
The WC door should not be in swinging for safety reasons so you may have some door conflict in that area.
I like to have medicine chest type space so what we did was to keep the sinks separate and add a stack between them. The lower part of our stack is like an appliance garage with a lift door. Behind is an outlet for waterpik and rechargeable toothbrush to plug in. We use it for taller storage and for things we share. Above that is shelving for pills and things. You have plenty of room to do something similar and still have plenty of surface area around each sink.
You also have a lot of space, but less wall space so think about where and how you want to hang your towels.
i wouldn't want a sitdown makeup area either... but i do love having a tower like annie shows! be sure to put outlets in it if you get one!
i wouldn't want both a bench and a chair in my bathroom- i would choose one or the other...
i would choose to have more storage, but i tend to have alot of stuff...! but, think about where you will have your hamper, and specific things like that. some people like to keep a clothes valet and steamer in their bathroom or closet...
i like keeping my robe, pajamas, underwear, and things like that in the bathroom rather than in the bedroom or closet, but it looks like you have a door directly into the closet from your bathroom, so that might be enough for you... just remember, what might seem like a big closet might not feel so big once you're living with it!!
Thanks for suggestion - I will repost in bathroom.
Probably shouldve mentioned that I prefer the look of not separating the two vanities. I updated color pic to show intended floor with middle ottoman -trying to make the center/ core of room the "bathroom" bookended by toilet/clothes closet at one end, linen closet / ?? at opposite end.
Still glad you posted the photo Annie- I love the counter top with white sink. Doing coastal, white / navy with black accent so was thinking black or white counter but your color would be nicer to avoid the white navy black overkill and play off wood floor.
Busy - Im same with underclothes in bathroom. why I wanted closet directly connected to bathroom. Im trying to not even have dresser in bedroom. Ture on towels, saw a bar on glass shower door at hotel want to do.


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RUSHVILLE, Ind. — The Rush County Fairgrounds was hopping last week, not with show animals, pageants or rides, but with table after table of farm toys, attended by eager shoppers, young and old.
"This was one of our nicest toy shows in 12 years. All the vendors were happy and sold a lot of toys. It was a great crowd," said organizer, Mark Shepherd.
"This toy show is always good for me," said Bud Wall, a toy maker from Kokomo, Ind. "The crowd was good. Mark does a super job of promoting the show. He's one of only a few who doesn't charge admission."
A wide variety of farm-flavored goods are featured at the Rushville Farm Toy Show, including wreaths, ornaments, decorated windows, clocks, signs, and, of course, toys, both new in the box, handcrafted and custom made.
Wall designs and creates models of farm implements, such as discs, ploughs and cultivators, out of brass to 1/16th scale.
"These are not toys to be played with. Our motto on our business card is 'Big toys for big boys,'" Wall said.
His prices range from $100 to $900, he said. "Custom toys are holding their value. We are a year behind on orders. Some of the more intricate have 350 pieces," Wall said.
Wall took seven to eight orders at the Rushville show, to be delivered at next year's event.
A retired farmer, he began making models after working on the farm and studying their real-life counterparts.
"As the toy business got bigger, I retired from farming 4-5 years ago," Wall said.
Now 70, Wall said he wants to continue as long as his health permits.
"It doesn't keep me out of trouble, but it keeps me busy," Wall said smiling.
He has recently designed horse-drawn equipment. Amish workers flock the horses and hand-sew the leather harnesses. He said there are only about 2-4 custom builders of farm toys in the United States.
"We need more younger people to get into this," Wall added.
While the custom toy business is doing well, vendors of boxed new toys are experiencing a soft market in the struggling economy.
"It's been slow the last 2-3 years. I keep records, and there's a difference from 3 years ago. We still sell a little bit of this and that," said Jon Love, vendor from Losantville, Ind.
Love copies pictures from antique magazines to create his clocks, signs and pictures. He also sells Minneapolis Moline farm toys.
"I copy brochures and ads from farm magazines from the 1950s. I copy them so I don't destroy history," Love said.
"At the Hagerstown (Ind.) Flea Market, I once bought a whole stack of The Farm Mechanic, from 1918-31, to keep some lady from buying them and tearing off the covers for a framed picture."
"I laid down $100 for those. They are museum quality."
Love said he works hard to craft farm items and travel around to shows, but in the end it's all worth it.
"I enjoy the people. It's part of it. We've built up a clientele. But if you can't make money at it, you can't do it. Farmers understand that. We have a lot of retired farmers who spend (a lot) on items they wouldn't have spent 10 cents on years ago," Love said.
For his part, Shepherd is busy planning for his 13th year in the toy show business.
"I'm not worried about the toy market. I tell you what; we have a lot of good stuff for young kids and the older ones who like collecting. Some of the older folks bring their grandkids," Shepherd said. "I like to watch them come through the door and see them leave happy when they go home."
Shepherd's three-person crew – his wife, daughter and himself – spend 2-3 days setting up for the show each year.
"We're giving back to the community, and I love doing it," he explained.
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Princess Marie to become UNESCO Patron
It has been announced that Prince Joachim's wife, Princess Marie, will take upon the role of Patron of the Danish National Commission for UNESCO. The official ceremony will take place on Tuesday 17th November in the Fencing Hall in the Ministry of Education.
Princess Marie, who will be making an official visit to Hong Kong with Prince Joachim on the 21st, has already been involved with UNESCO, recently opening an environmental conference for school leaders from Europe and Asia.
This will be Princess Marie's fourth patronage, her first being the Toender Music Festival, her second the Annual Literature Prize, a patronage previously held by her father-in-law Prince Henrik and her most recent, the Syddansk University in Odense.
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- One Skein of Knitting Board Yarn Or Any DK weight yarn 260 yards
- 10" mini knitting board with tool
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- Cast On 22 needles.
Start with loop knot.
Place on first top needle. Weave down to the 2nd needle on bottom board. Continue weaving every other needle, front to back. Turn board around and continue the process to fill in all open needles, keeping yarn taut as you go around the end of board. Now, you have one loop on every needle.
Lay piece of yarn (different color) across the stitches with ends dangling below board at each end. This is your anchor yarn. Repeat the wrapping so that you have (2) loops on each needle.
Take your knit hook and lift bottom loop over the top. Pull down gently on your anchor yarn to secure the stitches. They will be loose for the first 3-4 rows. Repeat the wrap around all needles, and hook bottom loop over top again. Weave a full circular again.
Hook over.
Knit in this pattern (Stockinette Stitch) until the scarf measures 28" or (90) rows.
Bind Off your stitches using a crochet hook. This means, you start at back end (not yarn end)-slip crochet hook into st 1, front and back, and st 2 front. Remove the loops from board, and pull loop closest to hook thru the other 2 loops. Continue to lift the next 2 loops from the board, and then pull the loop closest to hook thru the other 2 loops.
Continue until you have only one loop on your hook. Cut your yarn, and pull it thru the last loop.
Do the same thing to the stitches on the anchor yarn. This will give you a nice even finish on both ends of the knitting. Now, remove the anchor yarn.
Fringe: Cut your yarn into 7" lengths. Take 2-3 of them together, and fold in half. With your crochet hook, pull the folded ends thru edge stitches at end of scarf. Slip ends of fringe thru loop, and pull snugly.
Do this to both ends.
- Trim the edges of fringe, and your scarf is ready to wear.
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text: Sony is warning shareholders to expect poor financial results for its fiscal year ending March 31, 2014. The electronics giant previously expected to pull in an operating income of 80 billion yen ($782 million) over the financial year, but is today adjusting that figure down to just 26 billion yen ($254 million). The sharp reduction — the new operating income estimates are 68 percent down from a February forecast — can be attributed to a pair of somewhat unexpected events. Roughly 30 billion yen ($293 million) of the drop is due to "additional expenses" from Sony's exit from the PC business. The company announced it's to sell its PC division to a Japanese investment fund earlier this year. The second charge is due to what Sony calls "demand for physical media contracting faster than anticipated," especially in Europe.


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Toronto, ON (Sports Network) - Marco Scutaro scored on a wild pitch in a two- run ninth, as the Toronto Blue Jays captured a 3-2 win over Tampa Bay in a game that featured three home plate umpires.
Tampa Bay's J.P. Howell (6-4) notched the final out of the eighth and stayed on in the ninth to close out the game. After getting the first out of the ninth, though, Rod Barajas launched a home run over the wall in left to tie the game.
"It's nice when you get called on," said Barajas. "It definitely shows that somebody believes in you, somebody has confidence you can do something to help the ball club late in the game."
Howell then walked three of the next four hitters, loading the bases with two outs. With a 1-2 count on Randy Ruiz, Howell bounced a wild pitch off catcher Gregg Zaun's shinguards and into the air, allowing Scutaro to race home and score the winning run.
"You give up a home run, you walk a guy and it looks like you're scared," said Howell. "That's what you have to look at, you have to say you can't do that. You have to move on. I think I did, but the results didn't come."
Crew chief Jerry Crawford, who was originally the home plate umpire, was hit by a foul ball in his face mask and had to leave after the second inning. Tom Hallion, who started the night at second base, relieved him but was hit full force by a Kazmir fastball in the chest in the sixth, forcing him to the ground for several minutes before he walked off the field.
After a 21-minute delay to tend to his injury, he came back out as the third base umpire. Brian O'Nora, who was at first base, became the last home plate umpire of the night. Scott Barry, who began the night at third, ended up at first base after being the only umpire of the night not to call balls and strikes. Crawford did not return to the game after his injury.
Jose Bautista went 2-for-4 with an RBI double for Toronto, which finished 3-6 on a nine-game homestand. Marc Rzepczynski carried a no-hitter into the sixth and surrendered two runs on three hits and five walks in the start. The left- handed rookie struck out seven.
Brandon League (2-5) grabbed the victory for throwing a scoreless ninth inning.
Gabe Kapler's two-run homer accounted for all of Tampa Bay's offense, as the Rays squandered a chance to sweep Toronto on the road for the first time since July 29-31, 2003.
Scott Kazmir was in line for the win before the comeback, allowing one run on four hits and a walk while fanning a season-high 10 in six innings. Howell's blown save was his seventh of the season. The Rays had won four of five coming into the contest.
Each team squandered a bases-loaded opportunity in the first three innings, and both squads combined for just one hit through the initial four frames.
After Rzepczynski kept his no-hitter intact through five, the Blue Jays put runners on second and third with one out in the home half. Kazmir, though, induced a pop up and a strike out to keep the game scoreless.
Tampa Bay finally broke through in the sixth, as Pat Burrell singled with two outs for the team's first hit, and Kapler followed with a blast over the left field wall for a 2-0 edge.
Kevin Millar hit a one-out double in the bottom of the sixth, and two batters later Bautista roped an RBI double to left to make it a 2-1 game.
Russ Springer pitched a scoreless seventh, and Grant Balfour allowed runners to reach the corners with two outs in the eighth before Howell struck out Travis Snider to end the frame, setting up the dramatic ninth inning.
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A contented sigh escaped Matthew's lips as he wrapped his arms around you, pulling you closer to his bare chest. A gentle hum reverberated through your body in response to your lover's bare warmth. You silently began to paint untraceable patterns on his chest using your fingernails. Tentatively, you voiced a question that had been nudging at you for far too long. A relentless, pin sharp thorn in your side.
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"Why?" You demanded
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"You could do so much better than me. You could find someone prettier, kinder, smarter."
"(Name), why are you so worried?"
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"You're just so kind, so gentle, so human. But I'm coarse, abrasive, ugly and cold."
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"You're gorgeous." A chaste kiss on your forehead.
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"You're gentle." One on each eyelid.
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"You're gentle. You're kind." His long fingers trailed across your waist and stomach, his mouth following their path.
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"You're gorgeous. You're smart. You're gentle. You're kind."
He reached your face and placed one last kiss on the very tip of your nose before staring into your eyes intently.
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1.) There are things in some of the side folders in my gallery that are not in my main, featured gallery (mostly old works that I am embarrassed about or quickies I did not feel were up to snuff). bjpentecost.deviantart.com/gal…
2.) In my folder entitled "Essays and Articles," I have two submissions that, while written informally, contain a number of art tips that I have collected/discovered over the years. I wrote it a long time ago so I will be going back over it to add, subtract, amend.
3.) This is my most accurate portrait to date: bjpentecost.deviantart.com/#/a… It was painted in traditional water color on paper.
4.) Pretty much everything you could ever possibly want to know about me can be found here: bjpentecost.deviantart.com/art… (updated) Although if you have any additional questions, I'd be happy to answer them.
5.) I use Photoshop, Zbrush, and Blender. Most of my work is done in Photoshop. I will be posting a tutorial of my work progress soon. (When I get the time. I have been horrendously busy lately.)
6.) I am visually impaired. My vision is 20/400 without glasses. Even with corrective lenses, I still cannot see very well as I suffer from exophoria (among other possible issues which no doctor in the state of FL seems to be able to identify).
7.) I am VERY interested in the transhumanist/H+ movement though I think Ray Kurzweil is mostly an over-optimistic quack.
8.) My new favorite medium is 3D printing. I will be offering this guy: www.shapeways.com/model/203711… for sale soon. First, I must order a test print. I always order a test print before offering my stuff for sale just in case. Sometimes, issues can arise. For example, with my dragon skull, Shapeways' "thin walls fix" screwed up some of the geometry so I had to go back and fix it manually. Unfortunately, Shapeways sent out some of those defective models. XC The blemishes were minor and I haven't heard anything from any unhappy customers but still. So this guy will not be going on sale until I can afford to order a test print first. Also, I may be making some design changes, namely to make him look more like he used to: bjpentecost.deviantart.com/art… The lid and the handles won't be added though. I tossed those. Unnecessary and adds tot he cost. I may make another dragon jar with the tail as the handle, someday, when I get the time. Very busy. -____o;
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Nicholas Winninger, a first year MBA student in the Graduate School of Management, won at both the Marquette ImpactNext Business Plan Competition and the Rice University Business Plan Competition this past spring. He was accompanied by College of Engineering students Devin Turner and Charlie Beckwith who created FocalCast, a versatile presentation app, the primary venture of their company Narsys LLC. Together they won the Graduate Student Team prize and the Top Overall Business Model Prize at Marquette's Impact Next competition receiving $3,000 in prize money. Later that same week, they traveled to Rice University in Houston to compete in the "Richest and Largest Business Plan Competition". There they competed in a rigorous week-long competition against 42 international ventures selected from a pool of over 600 applicants. As a result, they won the $3,000 Gimmal Group Outstanding IT Prize and the Trailblazer Capital Start-up Entrepreneur Investment Prize for $50,000. Since their success, the group has been featured in a variety of publications including the Journal Sentinel and the Milwaukee Business Journal. Moving forward, the venture has been approached by numerous accelerators offering to help grow the company.
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place for his poster in the Biofluids category of the World Congress of Biomechanics (WCB) MS poster competition in Boston. Josh's poster was titled Impact of stent platform on wall shear stress distributions after implantation: Insights from computational fluid dynamics simulations using optical coherence tomography and coronary CT angiography. In addition to Josh and Dr. John LaDisa, Associate Professor of Biomedical Engineering at Marquette, the coauthors on this work were Hiromasa Otake MD and Ken-ichi Hirata MD of Kobe University Graduate School of Medicine in Japan. The WCB is a prominent meeting held every 4 years in a different international location, and features the best work in many areas of biomechanics from around the globe.
1st year Mechanical Engineering master's student Merit Schumaker presented his paper entitled Mesoscale Simulations of Dry Sand at the Society for Experimental Mechanics conference this June. Merit explains that there is an interest in producing accurate and reliable computer simulations to predict the dynamic behavior of heterogeneous materials and to use these simulations to gain further insight into experimental results. In so doing, a more complete understanding of the multiple-length scale involved in heterogeneous material compaction can be obtained. In this work, planar shock impact experiments were simulated using two different hydrocode formulations: iSALE and CTH. The simulations, which were based on a Georgia Tech experimental setup, consisting of a flyer of different thicknesses impacting dry sand over a range of impact. Average particle velocity traces obtained from the computer simulations were compared to experimental measurements. The mesoscale simulations compare well with the dynamic behavior of dry sand. Improvements on these simulations with the inclusion of these mesoscale phenomena were presented with this paper. Upon completion of his master's degree, Merit hopes to begin a career in Aerospace or Mechanical Engineering for government contractors or various government agencies in and around Washington DC, with hopes of someday returning to academia as an instructor.
Jeff LaJeunesse, a first year M.S. student in Mechanical Engineering, recently presented a paper at a conference for the Society for Experimental Mechanics. His work, summarized in his paper entitled Simulating the Planar Shock Response of Concrete, sought to create computational simulations that predicted the shock response of high strength concrete under blast loading. Experimental test data was obtained from an Air Force Research Laboratory senior research engineer, Dr. Bradley Martin, at Eglin Air Force Base in Florida. Simulations were performed using a hydrocode software in which material response under shock loading can be observed and characterized. Computational simulations involving concrete, and other granular materials, have been of great interest to the Air Force due to the vast use of concrete in roads, bunkers, etc. After finishing his master's work at Marquette, Jeff will consider pursuing a doctorate degree in mechanical engineering or entering industry in a related field.
This May, 4th year Interdisciplinary Ph.D. student Hugo Maxwell Pereira presented an academic poster at the annual meeting of the American College of Sports Medicine in Orlando, FL. His presentation, entitled Cognitive Stress and Visual Gain Affects Force Fluctuations at Low Forces looks at further investigating sex difference in neuromuscular physiology. Understanding sex differences in neuromuscular physiology will improve exercise prescription for training and rehabilitation. This study investigated different levels of cognitive demand imposed during sustained elbow flexor contraction in different intensities. Results showed that that increased cognitive demand impaired steadiness of the elbow flexor muscles in women, especially at very light contractions. The amount of visual feedback also influenced steadiness in women; however, manipulating the visual feedback did not offset the decline in steadiness when cognitive demand was imposed. These results highlight the influence of cognitive demand in the control of force especially in women. Understanding these sex differences will help to prevent work related injuries during light contractions under dual task activities that requires cognitive demand.
This June, first year Computational Sciences Ph.D. student Drew Williams, will be presenting a poster at the Rehabilitation Engineering and Assistive Technology Society of North America Conference in Indianapolis, IN. His research and poster, entitled Smartphone-based Light Intensity Calculation Application for Accessibility Measurement, is part of the Access Ratings for Buildings project, in conjunction with UWM and funded by the National lnstitute of Disability and Rehabilitation Research. Drew and his team have developed a light meter that runs as an application on a smart phone and determines whether or not a particular environments' lighting is accessible for users as outlined by ADA guidelines. As the application can assist building and business owners in determining if their buildings and businesses are accessible for disabled users quickly and easily, without the need to buy additional hardware, this in turn can greatly improve the quality of life for those with differing abilities, allowing them to visit a wider variety of establishments. Last year, as a Computational Sciences master's student at Marquette, Drew won an A.T. Anderson Memorial Scholarship from the American Indian Science and Engineering Society. Upon completing his Ph.D., Drew hopes to become a research scientist, creating accessible human-computer interfaces.
This April, Christina Figueroa, a 3rd year Clinical Psychology Ph.D. student, presented a posted and the Cognitive Neuroscience Society's conference in Boston. Her poster, entitled Reinforcement Learning in Individuals at Risk for Alzheimer's Disease, aimed at providing a novel method of differentiating individuals who carrier a genetic risk factor for AD from those who do not using reinforcement learning. By so doing, her findings are the first to assess this population within this cognitive domain, effectively filling a gap within the literature and helping to bridge a divide between various areas of psychological research (cognitive, clinical, and neuroscience). This conference was the first national presentation of Christina's work and publication is expected to follow in the near future. After completing her Ph.D. from Marquette, Christina plans on pursuing a career in clinical neuropsychology, either within academia or at an academic medical center.
Katie Hazlett, a 4th year Clinical Psychology Ph.D. student, presented a poster entitled Executive functioning and risk for Alzheimer's disease: Family history predicts performance on the Wisconsin Card Sorting Test (WCST) at the Cognitive Neuroscience Society's conference in Boston this April. Given the sensitivity of the WCST in the context of Alzheimer's disease (AD), examining differences in performance among at-risk cognitively intact individuals (i.e., those with positive family history (FH) of AD) would provide valuable insight into preclinical cognitive changes. The current study examined WCST performance in 24 FH- and 17 FH+ older adults. Results revealed significant group differences for multiple WCST variables, such that the FH+ group consistently exhibited poorer performance. Moreover, family history predicted performance on the WCST above and beyond the contribution of demographic variables such as age. These results speak to the potential role of executive functioning (EF) in bolstering our understanding of early cognitive markers of future decline. Expanding our understanding of the relationship between additional domains of cognitive functioning (i.e., EF) and risk for AD may allow for better prediction of cognitive decline and potential progression to AD. After graduation, Katie plans to pursue a career in neuropsychology, either in an academic setting or within an academic medical center. She was also recently selected to receive the Rev. John P. Raynor, S.J. Fellowship for the 2014-2015 academic year.
Ashley Beaudoin (left) and Lauren Thomas (right) are 2nd year Masters students of the College Student Personnel Administration program in the College of Education. Recently, they co-presented with Tina McNamara, the Director of Undergraduate Advising in the College of Education, at the National Academic Advising Association's Regional V Conference in Madison, WI. Their presentation, entitled Not Just Minions: Graduate Assistants and Practicum Students as Advising Partners, discussed different strategies for graduate students to gain meaningful opportunities and experience in academic advising that will benefit an advising office. The presentation gave an overview of the reasons a graduate assistantship position in advising was created at Marquette, the challenges associated with the assistantship, the evolution of a summer practicum experience, and the benefits of both opportunities. Marquette's Advising Assistantship Experience and Practicum Guidelines lends itself to be a model for programs at peer institutions.
Corey Haala, a Master's student in History, recently presented his research at the Midwest Labor and Working-Class History Conference at the University of Illinois-Chicago. His presentation, entitled Time for a New 'Minnesota Leader': Mounting Left-Wing Frustration with the DFL after 1944, analyzes breaks within the Democratic-Farmer-Labor Party of Minnesota in the 1970s through the lens of the revived party press of the old Farmer-Labor Party, the Minnesota Leader. It discusses how the authors of the Minnesota Leader invoked the memory of the old tradition of progressive radicalism in Minnesota to rebuild the political coalitions which instituted progressive change in the state in the 1930s. This work serves as a jumping-off point for Cory's intended Master's thesis. Upon graduation from Marquette, Cory hopes to pursue his Ph.D. in 20th-century Midwestern political history.
This April, Interdisciplinary Ph.D. student Shelley Bobb will be presented with the Marquette Alumni Leadership Excellence Award by Marquette's College of Professional Studies. Shelley previously completed a Master's in Dispute Resolution at Marquette, writing her thesis on practices that could make clinical healthcare teams do their work more effectively and prevent disputes. Over the past three years, she has been invited to give presentations of her work at several conferences, both nationally and internationally, including the University of Massachusetts Dispute Resolution Conference; The National Communications Association; Rhetoric in Society (Antwerp, Belgium); International Healthcare Communication Conference ( St. Andrews, Scotland); and International Healthcare New Practices (Belfast, Ireland). Upon completion of her Ph.D., Shelley would like to work either in a hospital setting in organizational development or consult with clinical teams to strengthen communication, leadership, and teamwork, as well as engage in qualitative research studies for healthcare teams, mediation, systems design, strategic planning, and organizational assessment.
Fr. Matthew S. C. Olver, a first year doctoral student in the Theology Department, presented a paper entitled The Downfall of Darkness: A Theological and Canonical Readings of 1 John 3:8 on March 31, 2014 at the Eschatology and Moral Order Conference hosted by the University of Chicago Divinity School, who cosponsored the event with the University of Notre Dame and the Martin Marty Center for the Advanced Study of Religion. The paper discusses the claim made in 1 John 3:8 that the reason for the incarnation of Jesus concerned the "destruction of the works of the devil." The paper set this claim within the context of the treatment of Satan in the Gospel of John and 1 John, showed their strong overlap, and situated this reading within the larger claims of the New Testament. Fr. Olver, a priest in the Episcopal Church and a recipient of a Graduate Fellowship from the Theology Department, has been a member of the Anglican-Roman Catholic Consultation in the U.S. since 2006, and assists at the Cathedral Church of All Saints, Milwaukee. His research interests are in the development of liturgy considered as theological development, ecumenism, and ecclesiology. He hopes to teach at the seminary level.
Theresa Kapke is a current Ph.D. student in the Clinical Psychology program. This March, she presented a poster, entitled Rates and Predictors of Psychopathology for Latino Youth: Influence of Paternal Acculturation, at a conference for the Society for Research on Adolescents in Austin, TX. Results from her study suggest that Latino youth demonstrate comparable rates of psychopathology to normative samples. Additionally, parental acculturation appears to predict the incidence of psychopathology in Latino youth, with youth of "traditionalist" (i.e., high orientation to Latino culture and low orientation towards Anglo culture) parents demonstrating increased odds of anxious/depressed problems. Implications include the need for outreach to Latino youth of traditionalist parents in an effort to prevent the development of psychopathology in this subpopulation. More culturally-sensitive research that is conducted with generalizable Latino samples is needed to fully support these initial findings. After she completes her degree at Marquette, Theresa plans to work as a clinical child psychologist in a community or outpatient medical center, where she hopes to be able to do clinical work and conduct research.
Christina Ciaozzo, a second year Clinical Psychology Ph.D. student, recently participated in a poster presentation at the Society for Research on Adolescence conference in Austin, TX. Her project, entitled Exploring the Connection Between Personality and Attachment in the Perpetration of Physical and Sexual Abuse, focused on exploring the risk and protective factors of physical and sexual perpetration in adolescent romantic relationships. According to her research, many adolescents engage in dating violence perpetration. Being involved in an aggressive incident increases the likelihood that you will experience more aggression in the future. Understanding more about the causes of aggression will help prevention and intervention efforts. To date, physical perpetration and sexual perpetration have been either lumped together or treated as completely different. This research explores how the risk factors related specifically to personality contribute to both and which risk factors are unique to each form of violence. Additionally, this research looks at how relational factors may operate as protective mechanisms for physical and sexual perpetration. After completing her degree at Marquette, Christina would like to work as a child psychologist in an outpatient medical center, where she hopes to have the opportunity to teach as well as conduct research.
Jiangbiao He, a 4th year Ph.D. student in Electrical Engineering, had the opportunity to present an academic paper at the Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers' Applied Power Electronics Conference and Exposition. His paper, entitled Loss Balancing SVPWM for Active NPC Converters, focuses on the reliability improvement and condition monitoring of electric motor drive systems, which are widely used in powertrains of electric/hybrid vehicles, aircrafts and ships, renewable energies, and medical instruments. The presentation introduced a novel control method developed for multilevel power converters widely used in power train systems, of which the system reliability can be significantly improved with such novel control method. After completing his Ph.D. degree at Marquette University in spring of 2015, Jiangbiao would like to work in industry in the area of power and automation technologies.
Maggie Nettesheim Hoffmann is a first year Ph.D. student in the History department studying the history of American philanthropy and religious movements. She is presenting her paper entitled Mammon in the Temple of the Lord: Financial Management Practices at the New York Catholic Worker, c. 1959-1980 at the American Catholic Historical Association's Spring Meeting at Xavier University on March 29, 2014.
Maggie was awarded the ACHA's Presidential Graduate Scholarship which provides travel funds for graduate students to present research at their conferences. The award amount was $500. The research she conducted is rooted in the Dorothy Day-Catholic Worker collection housed in the Marquette University Archives. She would also like to express her gratitude to Marquette archivist Phil Runkel for his assistance, knowledge, and guidance regarding the Catholic Worker collection.
Kevin Berg, a first year master's student in Civil Engineering, recently presented a poster at a conference for the University of Michigan Civil/Environmental Engineering & Michigan Section of American Water Works Association (MI-AWWA). His poster, entitled Pyrolysis of a Combined Waste Stream for Energy Recovery and Solids Reduction, describes how pyrolysis, the thermal processing of organic matter in the absence of oxygen, could be used to generate combustible gas from food waste. Overall, pyrolysis of combined waste streams can yield renewable energy in the form of combustible gas, convert waste solids into valuable products, and reduce landfill use for products with recoverable energy potential. Once he completes his graduate work, Kevin hopes to pursue work in the wastewater engineering field specializing in anaerobic treatment.
Bridget Kapler, a second year English Ph.D. student, attended the
Southeastern Society of Eighteenth Century Studies
conference in Knoxville, TN in February. Her presentation, entitled
Mapping Science and the Pseudo-Sciences: Within the Familial Structures in Maria Edgeworth's 'Belinda,' focused around the early adoptions of science into literature, with particular attention to how science is defined and approached in familial settings. In this novel, Edgeworth can be seen as a rational supporter of a modified system of domestic loyalty and the promotion of education through scientific and reasoned means, but not beyond a socially accepted brink that would challenge the dominant social structures, which means that the scientifically-minded Percival family cannot completely convince the Delacour family to act rationally and appreciate the validity of science as a means of understanding the world. Her presentation explained how to measure the success of science's integration into the British system of domestic loyalty in the early nineteenth century. After completing her Ph.D. at Marquette University in spring of 2016, Bridget would like to become a tenure track professor at a Catholic arts and sciences university.
Darren M. Henson, a Religious Studies Ph.D. student, presented "End-of-Life Decisions in Minority Populations: Insights and Critiques from the Preferential Option for the Poor and Marginalized" at the Society of Christian Ethics Annual Meeting in Seattle, WA on January 11, 2014. He also presented during a webinar on January 22, 2014 as part of the Catholic Health East / Trinity Health Series on Catholic Social Practices and the Health Care Setting.
Jakob K. Rinderknecht, a Religious Studies Ph.D. student, has been named a graduate fellow for the Collegium 2014 Summer Colloquy. Collegium is a national organization of Catholic colleges and universities within the ACCU. Each colloquy brings together faculty and advanced graduate students to discuss the Catholic academic vocation and its contemporary challenges. It will be held June 20-27, 2014 at Holy Cross College of Massachusetts.
Nathaniel Kidd, a first year Ph.D. student in Religious Studies, will be presenting a paper at a conference sponsored by the Florovsky Society at Princeton Seminary, February 14-16, 2014. His paper, entitled The Doctrine of Creation in St. Cyprian of Carthage: an Eschatological Ecology? explores expanding horizons of what we might consider the "Patristic doctrine of creation." In addition to his Ph.D. work at Marquette, Nathaniel is a priest in the Anglican Church and anticipates doing theology in and for the Church. He has already done some short-term teaching in Pakistan and hopes to maintain that relationship throughout the course of his career.
Alex Martins, a Ph.D. student in Religious Studies, recently won the 2014 CHA Graduate Student Essay Contest for his work entitled Healthy Justice: A Liberation Approach to Justice in Healthcare, and was awarded a $500 cash prize. His paper is about the issue of justice in global health from a perspective of those who are suffering because social injustice and inequalities in health. It presents that struggling against social unfairness and inequalities in health to promote population health is a battle that must begin from below to be consistent, concrete, and democratic. Alex will present his essay at the Theology and Ethics Colloquium, which will be held in St. Louis, March 10-21, 2014 that is sponsored by the Catholic Health Care Association in the U.S. CHA's Theology and Ethics Colloquium entitled, "Shifting Structures for Catholic Health Care, Paradigm Shifts for Catholic Health Care Ethics," will delve further into the profound impact of national health policy initiatives, evolving business models and new delivery systems on Catholic identity and organizational ethics.
John Neuman, a first year Master's student in Mechanical Engineering, presented a research paper at the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA) Scitech conference in Washington D.C. in January 2014. His paper, entitled The Influence of Non-Uniform Initial Conditions on Temperature Field Development in Rapid Compression Machine Experiments, explored the connection between non-uniform initial temperature fields and the development of compressed temperature fields determined from heated experiments run in a Rapid Compression Machine (RCM). It consisted of a computational fluid dynamics (CFD) simulation which explored the effects of a cool piston on the two gas regions formed in flat-piston RCM experiments. The study explored several cases in which the initial and boundary conditions replicated those seem in RCM experiments. This is significant in the combustion research field as it attempts to uncover an uncharacterized source of error between experiments run with different RCM's.
Stacy Stolzman, MPT, PhDc, is in her 3rd year of the Clinical and Translational Rehabilitative Health Sciences (CTRH) PhD Program. She presented a research poster Does Body Composition Influence Physical Fitness and Pain Reports in Adolescents? at Obesity Week 2013 in Atlanta, Georgia in November 2013. Her results indicated the distribution of body fat (gynoid versus android) can significantly influence adolescents' physical fitness values and pain intensity during flexibility testing. Pain also decreases following a maximal aerobic exercise test only at the exercising muscle independent of weight status. Stacy is the recipient of a Clinical and Translational Science Institute Pilot Grant for her PhD dissertation project and a PODS I Award through the American Physical Therapy Association. She plans to pursue a tenure track physical therapy professor position when her PhD is complete in May 2015.
Paul Monson, a doctoral student in Religious Studies, has been awarded a Charles M. Ross Trust Scholarship for 2013-14. The Charles M. Ross Trust was established under the Last Will of Charles Marion Ross, for providing graduate training for gifted students of promise who are committed to world service. In accordance with the terms of the Will of Mr. Ross, grants are usually confined to students in the fields of religion, sociology, medicine, and teaching.
Hugo Pereira, a 4th year Interdisciplinary Ph.D. student, recently presented at the Annual Meeting of the Society of Neuroscience in San Diego, CA. His presentation, Sex Difference in Motor Fatigue for Old Adults in Response to Increased Cognitive Demand, investigates different levels of cognitive load imposed during a sustained elbow flexor contraction until task failure. The results showed that old women presented greater declines in time to task failure when a cognitive load was imposed to the fatiguing contraction compared to old men. The greater decline in time to task failure with increased cognitive load was associated with lower baseline maximal strength. This results highlight the greater risk of women to fatigability with cognitive load and the influence of baseline maximal strength. Understanding these sex differences will help to better prevent functional and cognitive decline with aging.
Allen Williams, a Master's student in Civil, Construction, and Environmental Engineering, recently presented a poster presentation in the Netherlands. The presentation entitled,Optimizing Regeneration Eluate of Mainstream Municipal Wastewater Ion Exchange Columns for Ammonium Recovery, researches ammonium recovery from wastewater for beneficial use as a fertilizer. This topic is relevant to environmental engineering as it deals with energy demand and global warming. People use a vast amount of energy to make nitrogen fertilizer from nitrogen gas and then wastewater treatment plants use more energy to convert ammonium-nitrogen back into nitrogen gas. The researched technology would allow municipalities to recover the nitrogen for sale as a fertilizer. This would reduce global energy demand and therefore reduce greenhouse gases emission from coal fired power plants. It would also reduce the nitrous oxide (a greenhouse gas) emissions from conventional wastewater treatment plants using nitrification/denitrification to remove ammonium. All of this would be accomplished while still meeting regulatory requirements for discharge of nitrogen to waterways. Allen is also the recipient of the 2013 CSWEA Academic Excellence Award and 2012 FET Scholarship. He is anticipating graduation in December 2013. Allen hopes to work as an environmental engineer in manufacturing, consulting, or with a governmental agency.
Stephanie Pritchard, a Master's student in counseling has been awarded a Charles M. Ross Trust Scholarship for 2013-2014. The Charles M. Ross Trust was established under the Last Will of Charles Marion Ross, for providing graduate training for gifted students of promise who are committed to world service. In accordance with the terms of the Will of Mr. Ross, grants are usually confined to students in the fields of religion, sociology, medicine, and teaching.
Dora Clayton-Jones, a Ph.D. student in the College of Nursing presented her paper, Religiosity and Spirituality in Adolescents with Sickle Cell Disease at the Annual Interdisciplinary Conference on Health, Religion, and Spirituality at Indiana State University. Dora's research is a qualitative study. The aims are to describe religiosity and spirituality as experienced and perceived by adolescents living with sickle cell disease, to examine the role of religiosity and spirituality in coping with a chronic illness, and to examine the role of religious and spiritual development in shaping beliefs about health and illness. Dora plans to continue research with children and adolescents living with sickle cell disease. She will continue to teach pediatric nursing courses, and build upon the integration of spirituality into the nursing curriculum to include pediatric spirituality. Dora is also an Arthur J. Schmitt Fellow, and was a student speaker for the 50th Anniversary of the Arthur J. Schmitt Foundation.
Dan Garcia recently traveled to Western Illinois University to present his research, The Graduate School Search: Deciding, Applying, Thriving. The paper takes undergraduate students through the introspective process of choosing a student affairs program and graduate school that meets their personal and professional goals, provides a general outline of the application process (i.e. personal statements, the GRE, and references), and offers advice on the transition from an undergraduate to a graduate level of education. Dan is a Master's student studying in College Student Personnel Administration. He hopes to change lives by working in enrollment management and student services, while working toward his aspiration of leading a division of student affairs as a vice president.
Paul Kaefer, a Master's student in Computational Sciences, recently traveled to the IEEE International Conference on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics in Manchester, UK. There he presented a paper, Computational Awareness in a Tactile Responsive Humanoid Robot Comedian. The research was sponsored by MU's Humanoid Engineering and Intelligent Robotics (HEIR) lab and coauthored by Kevin Germino, Dustin Venske, and Dr. Andrew B. Williams. The research studied joke-telling robots that respond to audience feedback. Their goal was to have the robot change its routine based on whether or not the audience enjoyed a given joke. The significance of the research is in computational awareness, which involves enabling machines to be aware of and responsive to human behavior. Paul graduated with his Bachelor's in May 2013, Magna Cum Laude, from Marquette's Computer Engineering program. He currently works as a research assistant in MU's GasDay lab and hopes to work in data analysis or robotics upon earning his Master's.
Catlyn Origitano recently traveled to the FEAST Conference (The Association for Feminist Ethics and Social Theory), in Tempe Arizona to present her paper, Pluralistic Perspectives and Moral Imagination: A Cautionary Tale. Catlyn's paper investigates the role of imagination in our everyday moral understanding and deliberation. In particular, she critiques the idea that one can easily place herself in another person's shoes and from there discover the best course of action. While imagination does allow for such empathetic activities, Catlyn argues that we must admit that there are limitations to such exercises and that in fact they can be dangerous and harmful if by doing so we do not allow the other to speak for herself. Catlyn is currently ABD in Philosophy.
Dan Carey, a PhD student in Environmental Engineering, presented his paper/poster at the Water Environment Federation Technical Exhibition and Conference (WEFTEC) in Chicago, IL. His presentation entitled, Biosolid Derived Biochar to Immobilize and Recycle Ammonium from Wastewater For Agronomy, describes research which beneficially uses waste solids (eg. biosolids) from wastewater treatment facilities. In this process, biosolids are heated to a high temperature in an atmosphere that lacks oxygen; this process is often referred to a pyrolysis. The products of pyrolysis include methane, which can be used as a renewable fuel in place of natural gas, and biochar. Biochar is very similar to charcoal. The biochar is then used to capture nutrients from wastewater and recycled as a fertilizer. This research revealed that biochar produced and treated in this manner can be as effective as chemical fertilizers. Overall this process creates renewable fuel, sequesters carbon in the form of biochar, and recycles nutrients from wastewater.
Mohammad Adibuzzaman's paper entitled, Towards In Situ Affect Detection in Mobile Devices: A multimodel Approach, was presented at RACS 2013 in Montreal, Canada, where it was selected as the best paper of the conference. His paper investigates affect detection in a natural environment using sensors available in smart phones. He has found an important correlation between facial image and energy, validating Russell's two dimensional theory of emotion using arousal and valence space. In summer 2013, Adib worked for the Medical Counter Measure Initiative at the US Food and Drug Administration by an appointment to the Research Participation Programs at the Center for Devices and Radiological Health administered by the Oak Ridge Institute for Science and Education. Adib is a PhD student in Computational Sciences.
Hannah Werner recently attended the Rocky Mountain Interdisciplinary History Conference in Boulder, Colorado, where she presented her paper, Lady Florence Dixie Reconsidered: Surveying the Conventional Foundations of an Unconventional Victorian Woman. Hannah is a second year Master's student in the History department. She is studying Modern Britain, gender, and imperialism. She hopes to continue her research on women, identity, and travel within a doctoral program next fall.
Jeff Ramsey, a PhD student in Marquette's History Department, will present his paper, Big Men on Campus: The Administrative History of Title IX in the Big Ten, 1970-1976, this October in St. Louis at the Midwest Popular Culture Association/American Culture Association Annual Conference. In September, he also presented A 'New' Conference: The Incorporation of Women's Athletics into the Big Ten in the Wake of Title IX at the Northern Great Plains History Conference in Hudson, Wisconsin. Jeff is ABD and will be completing his dissertation this spring.
Marcus A. Bouterse attended the Rocky Mountain Interdisciplinary History Conference (RHIMC) at the University of Colorado-Boulder on September 21, 2013 where he presented his paper, Metaphorical Refuse and the Crystal Palace, 1851: Nature Left Defenseless against the Ambitions of England. Marcus is a second-year History MA student. He is currently is in the application process for doctoral programs in modern Britain and environmental history and intends to build on the research he presented at RHIMC.
Cheryl L. Petersen, a doctoral student in Marquette University's College of Nursing, was awarded a Graduate Student Research Travel Award to present a concurrent session lecture at the 2013 Association of Pediatric Hematology/Oncology Nurses Conference in Louisville, KY, on September 20, 2013. Cheryl is a currently completing her final year of coursework in the BSN-PhD Program. Her lecture was entitled "Care of the Spirit for Children with Cancer at the End of Life" and highlighted ways for nurses to address the spiritual needs of these special children and their families. Her mentors on this project included, Dr. Margaret Callahan, PhD, CRNA, FNAP, FAAN, Dr. Marianne Weiss, DNSc, RN, and Dr. Richard Fehring, PhD, RN, FAAN.
In August, 2013, Cheryl was chosen from over 50,000 applicants nationwide to receive a Tylenol Future Care Scholarship. This scholarship is awarded to individuals who exemplify academic excellence, leadership, and community involvement with a dedication to a health career.
The Journal of Advanced Nursing has accepted Cheryl's manuscript, "Spiritual Care of the Child with Cancer at the End of Life: A Concept Analysis," for publication. The concept analysis is currently in press.
Matthew Henningsen presented at the International Aldous Huxley Symposium at Oxford University on September 2. His paper discussed Aldous Huxley's relationship to the grotesque tradition in literature, and especially analyzed Huxley's landmark 1932 novel, Brave New World.
A.K.M. Jahangir Alam Majumder will be presenting his paper, smartPrediction: A Real-time Smartphone-based Fall Risk Prediction and Prevention System at the 10th International Conference on ACM RACs (Association for Computing Machinery Research in Adaptive and Convergent Systems) in Montreal, Canada, October 1-4, 2013. Established in 1947, The ACM is the world's leading educational and scientific computing society. In March of this year, Jahangir also presented a research paper at the 28th ACM SAC (Symposium on Applied Computing) as an ACM SIGAPP Award Recipient, in Coimbra, Portugal.
Mr. Majumder's research explores the Smartphone- and SmartShoe-based fall prevention system. In his system, the Smartphones are integrated with two powerful sensors -accelerometer and gyroscopes- with pressure sensor embedded shoes to identify abnormalities in walking patterns. The system is useful for fall prevention in the elderly, as well as gait disorders found in children, physical rehabilitation patients, and individuals with autism, among others.
On Marquette's campus, Mr. Majumder has been honored as a CSSRP summer 2013 Research Assistant, as well as with the Richard W. Jobling Fellowship. We are also pleased to announce that he recently passed his comprehensive exams as he works toward the completion of his PhD in Computational Sciences in the MSCS department.
Katelyn Lucas has been awarded a Thomas R. Pickering Graduate Foreign Affairs Fellowship. This honor is given to the most distinguished and capable American diplomats of the latter half of the 20th century. Katelyn says the fellowship presents an incredible opportunity for students. Beyond her excitement of a funded graduate degree, Katelyn is ecstatic knowing that after graduating she will be taking on a position as a Foreign Service Officer with the U.S. Department of State. In addition to financial support, The Thomas R. Pickering Graduate Foreign Affairs Fellowship Program also provides opportunity for internships and mentoring. Katelyn will also serve as a research assistant in Political Science and International Affairs.
Bethany Harding has been awarded the Filson Fellowship at the Filson Historical Society in Louisville, Kentucky. Bethany is currently working towards her Ph.D. in Early United States History.
Claire Van Fossen has been selected for the A. David Schwartz Future of Change Award, which will be presented at the 24th annual Champions for Change banquet on Wednesday evening, September 25, 2013 at Potawatomi Bingo Casino's Expo Center.
This annual award is given to an outstanding, young community leader who has made notable contributions to building a more just, caring, and healthy community in Greater Milwaukee. Claire were chosen for this award because of her inspiring work in community education and dedication to improving the academic achievement of Milwaukee's central city students. Some of her work includes serving as a Trinity Fellow and Master's Candidate in Nonprofit Management at Marquette University; a Communications and Development Manager at WINS for Children; a FemSex Co-founding Co-facilitator; a BoardCorps Member; a Secretary of the Board of Arcos Milwaukee; and a Young Nonprofit Professionals Network Member.
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