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Triduum Photography
Get PDFThe word Triduum comes from the Latin words for three days. Through word and image, we remember the last days of Jesus’ life and seek an encounter with the Paschal Mystery. We recall Jesus’ prayer at Gethsemane and his suffering and death on the cross. We come to the tomb in sorrow with the women to anoint our Lord in the cold stone tomb. In joy and wonder, we encounter the Risen Christ on Easter morning. Nothing will ever be the same again
Theology of Paradise Today
Get PDFThis piece discusses the shift in the Christian Church\u27s soteriology from one of paradise to one of atonement. The implications of this change in theory extend into modern day issues like racial inequality and mental health stigma. Through understanding a theology of paradise, we can catch a glimpse of how differently our world might look
The Implications of Gendered Wording in Job Advertisements at CSB/SJU and Women’s Underrepresentation in STEM
Get PDFWomen\u27s underrepresentation in STEM is due to many factors, one of which includes the mode of STEM job advertising. The scarcity of women in STEM careers might be thought to be their choice, but previous research suggests that wording in job ads influences women’s choices. Job ads can contain masculine-stereotypical wording, which has a negative impact on women’s interest in applying (Gaucher et al., 2011). Moreover, platforms like Facebook and LinkedIn are used to target men for STEM jobs opportunities, reducing women’s opportunity to apply to these jobs (Imana et al., 2021; Tamime et al., 2022).
This present study examined the percentage of male-stereotyped words (e.g., “Strong, Confident”) vs. female-stereotyped (e.g., “Kind, Caring”) words in each STEM department at CSB/SJU. All job ads posted between Fall 2021 – Spring 2023 on CSB/SJU Student Employment Office website were collected through archival research, resulting in 26 job ads from STEM departments. Overall, there were more female-stereotyped words than male-stereotyped words. Biology had more male-stereotyped words, Chemistry had more female-stereotyped words, and Environmental Studies had an equal proportion of words. Other departments (e.g., Physics, Chemistry, Computer Science, Math,) posted short job ads with multiple jobs advertised simultaneously, making analysis of wording limited. We found that most job ads on campus were reused annually, advertised through “word of mouth” or in-class, and they used the same job ads for different positions. As a result, it’s possible that job ads are not equally distributed among students as needed to ensure equal opportunity
Supercontinuum Generation with A Ti: Sapphire Laser and Photonic Crystal Fiber
Get PDFA broad spectrum of visible light was produced by focusing the 50-fs, 800-nm, 5-nJ pulses from an unamplified Ti:sapphire laser into a 20-cm-long photonic crystal fiber. A prism pair was used to compensate for material dispersion of the system. Different focusing methods were investigated including beam telescopes and lenses of various focal lengths. A 3X beam expander telescope near the laser output and a 3-cm focal length achromatic lens after the prism pair were found to work best for coupling the light into the fiber which has a core diameter of 1.7 μm
Godfrey Diekmann Center Graduate Symposium 2024: 3. Conversations on Healing Among Diverse Christian Cultures and the Implications on Pastoral Ministry
No full textPhil Polipnick (pronounced Pole-ip-nick) is a cradle Catholic from Sauk Centre, MN who is in the 4th year of deacon formation. He met his wife, Jackie Kuechle (pronounced Key-Klee) while they were students at SJU and CSB back in the late 1980s. They have six children. He owns and operates an insurance and financial services company in Central MN. Phil estimates to have over 1000 hours reading and studying on the subject of healing. It was not until his recent class on Grief, Illness, and Healing, that he was exposed to his fellow classmates who hail from a variety of diverse cultures. He realized how different our attitudes toward illness and healing can be, and how that affects our approach to pastoral ministry
Godfrey Diekmann Center Graduate Symposium 2024: A Historical Survey of the Development of Marriage Rituals in the United States
No full textColleen Darland is pursuing a Master of Arts in Theology at St. John\u27s University. In addition to her studies, Colleen works for the Diocese of Davenport as their Safe Environment and Logistics Coordinator. She is also the organist at Sacred Heart Cathedral, Davenport, !A. Colleen received a Bachelor of Arts degree, magna cum Laude, in Church Music from Wartburg College, Waverly, IA. In 2019, she wrote a series of articles for the Diocese of Davenport\u27s Liturgy Office Newsletter on music in the different seasons of the liturgical year
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Get PDFOverview of the geology, paleontology, and geoscience education opportunities of the University of Tennessee at Martin Coon Creek Science Center for visitors, researchers, and docents
Get PDFThe Coon Creek Formation is an internationally recognized Upper Cretaceous (Campanian, 76 million-years-old) marine clastic lagerstätten deposit with over 500 identified species of nearly perfectly preserved invertebrates, vertebrates, plants, and trace fossils with original shell geochemistry and paleoecological fidelity preserved. The type-locality and type-section, located in rural McNairy County, Tennessee, was preserved for research and education in 1988 when the Memphis Pink Palace Museum constructed a 232-acre geoscience education facility on the site, now run as the University of Tennessee at Martin Coon Creek Science Center. Visitors to the site participate in a wide variety of geoscience education programming and citizen science research that is based upon open-ended inquiry methodology. On the occasion of the 46th Biennial Convention, hosted at the site by the Eta Alpha Chapter of Sigma Gamma Epsilon (SGE), this paper summarizes the overall geologic setting, general paleontology, geoscience education history, and opportunities of the site for SGE field trip participants, potential researchers, visitors, and potential interns. Additionally, this paper highlights some of the numerous geoscience education programs for docents and research opportunities available for geology students who wish to participate in ongoing research at the site