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Nature Within, Nature Without in Ortiz’s “My Father’s Song”
No full textThe Acoma Pueblo people are an indigenous tribe located in New Mexico who are a historically agrarian people with a strong tradition of oral storytelling and whose culture has survived colonization by both the Spanish and Americans. The Acoma Pueblo achieved their subsistence by means of cultivating the earth and as such their culture would extoll virtues of conservation and existence in harmony with nature. Devoid of a written language, the Acoma Pueblo would transmit their ancient culture and tribal knowledge through oral tradition which has defiantly persisted to modernity. Simon Ortiz is a product of this ancient culture and bears much responsibility for bringing his culture to the literary forefront through his writings. Ortiz achieved this attention by firstly not choosing to dwell on historical persecution; rather, he allowed his stories to initiate the reader into the native perspective and culture while also drawing attention to the ignorance of traditional western analyses of native works (Native American Short Story). Ortiz’s work, “My Father’s Song”, utilizes the oral tradition of Acoma Pueblo storytelling to create an unconventional use of literary devices and structure (Native American Short Story) in order to emphasize a reverence of nature and the balance mankind must therein have with nature.Winner of the 2020 Friends of the Kreitzberg Library Award for Outstanding Research in the Freshman/Sophomore Arts/Humanities category
Water Treatment Residuals: Enhancing the Ability of Green Stormwater Infrastructure to Prevent Eutrophication
No full textAquatic ecosystems are threatened by pollution from stormwater runoff. Receiving bodies of water undergo eutrophication when exposed to stormwater runoff containing high concentrations of phosphorus. Phosphorus is a growth limiting factor for algae. Excess phosphorus propagates algal blooms that reduce dissolved oxygen to levels that are harmful to aquatic life. Eutrophication is accelerated by urbanization, which reduces natural ground cover for infiltration of phosphorus into soil and increases the quantity of stormwater runoff. This problem is addressed by green stormwater infrastructure (GSI). GSI are facilities and devices installed in areas of high-water flow that are designed to remove specific desired contaminants from stormwater runoff. GSI can be amended by aluminum-based water treatment residuals (Al-WTRs) to selectively remove phosphorus from stormwater runoff. Al-WTRs are the leftover sediment from drinking water treatment facilities and have a high affinity for binding to phosphorus. This review of literature analyzes the GSI employed by three papers, while simultaneously offering a dynamic investigation into the respective results of each study. Soleimanifar, et al. implemented Al-WTR as an additive to wood mulch to be utilized as a filtration media for stormwater runoff and conducted short term column and batch studies in addition to flow tests to demonstrate effective phosphorus removal. In the second study, Ippolito conducted a proof-of-concept greenhouse column study to determine the extent of Al-WTR effectiveness that can be applied to engineered bioretention wetland usage. In the final study, Habibiandehkordi, et al. tested how long Al-WTR could efficiently remove dissolved phosphorus from vegetated buffer strips by conducting a long-term study outside of the lab in outdoor land plots. GSI is an efficient way to mitigate stormwater runoff pollution and these studies confirm that Al-WTR enhances GSI, which selectively reduces eutrophication.Winner of the 2020 Friends of the Kreitzberg Library Award for Outstanding Research in the Senior Science/Technical category
Oral history interview with Mark Kisiel, 2017
No full textTranscript of an oral history interview with Mark M. Kisiel, conducted by Joseph Cates on 23 January 2017, as part of the Norwich Voices oral history project of the Sullivan Museum and History Center. Mark Kisiel graduated from Norwich University in 1959; the bulk of his interview focuses on his experiences as a student at Norwich University, his continuing relationship with the university after graduation, and his business career
Dole Auditorium dressing room, 10 May 2017
No full textPhotograph of a message left behind by a student member of Norwich University's theater group, the Pegasus Players, in the dressing room of Dole Auditorium, photographed by Sullivan Museum Exhibitions Associate Katherine Taylor-McBroom before construction in 2017-2019
Dole Auditorium dressing room, 10 May 2017
No full textPhotograph of messages left behind by student members of Norwich University's theater group, the Pegasus Players, in the dressing room of Dole Auditorium, photographed by Sullivan Museum Exhibitions Associate Katherine Taylor-McBroom before construction in 2017-2019
Dole Auditorium dressing room, 10 May 2017
No full textPhotograph of messages left behind by a student members of Norwich University's theater group, the Pegasus Players, in the dressing room of Dole Auditorium, photographed by Sullivan Museum Exhibitions Associate Katherine Taylor-McBroom before construction in 2017-2019
Dole Auditorium dressing room, 10 May 2017
No full textPhotograph of a message left behind by a student member of Norwich University's theater group, the Pegasus Players, in the dressing room of Dole Auditorium, photographed by Sullivan Museum Exhibitions Associate Katherine Taylor-McBroom before construction in 2017-2019
Dole Auditorium dressing room, 10 May 2017
No full textPhotograph of a message left behind by a student member of Norwich University's theater group, the Pegasus Players, in the dressing room of Dole Auditorium, photographed by Sullivan Museum Exhibitions Associate Katherine Taylor-McBroom before construction in 2017-2019
Dole Auditorium dressing room, 10 May 2017
No full textPhotograph of a message left behind by a student member of Norwich University's theater group, the Pegasus Players, in the dressing room of Dole Auditorium, photographed by Sullivan Museum Exhibitions Associate Katherine Taylor-McBroom before construction in 2017-2019
Dole Auditorium, 10 May 2017
No full textPhotograph of a message left behind by a member of Norwich University's theater group, the Pegasus Players, in Dole Auditorium, photographed by Sullivan Museum Exhibitions Associate Katherine Taylor-McBroom before construction in 2017-2019