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Spatial Segregation among Phacelia bipinnatifida Morphotypes in Shakerag Hollow
Get PDFPhacelia bipinnatifida, also known as scorpionweed, is a biennial wildflower that lives in old-growth cove forest sites such as Shakerag Hollow. Polymorphisms exist in certain flower populations, with varying characteristics being present in different groups of one species. Polymorphisms, observed as morphotypes, exist in P. bipinnatifida through a variation in flower color (blue and purple), scent, spotted leaves, and stamen length. Populations of each morphotype are spatially segregated as large patches in the Shakerag Hollow landscape. The objectives of this research are to 1) determine why these Phacelia bipinnatifida patches stay true to morphotype with each successive two-year (biennial) cohort, and 2) identify the ecological processes responsible for maintaining the homogeneity of a morphotype patch despite the
opportunity for gene flow between patches. To accomplish these objectives, complementary ecological and genetic research will be conducted. The ecological analyses focus on pollinator fidelity to one morphotype and soil composition as agents of spatial morphotype segregation. Genetic research will evaluate single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) through microsatellite data that will determine the degree of gene flow between the two morphotypes. After considering the ecological and genetic data, we will be able to determine the cause of this novel sympatric morphotype segregation
Comparative Analysis of India and China’s Economic Development: Strategies and Sustainability
Get PDFExamining the remarkable economic growth of China and India, this presentation explores their transformative journeys from planned to market-oriented economies. Both nations play pivotal roles in shaping global trade, influencing geopolitics, and driving innovation. The research delves into the distinct economic growth strategies of both nations, analyzing the factors contributing to their success and the challenges hindering sustained growth. I argue that policy, trade, investment, and infrastructure have played pivotal roles in their economic development, but unique challenges such as income inequality, environmental sustainability, political reforms, and demographic shifts pose obstacles to continued growth.
Employing a multidisciplinary approach, the study draws insights from history, economics, and political science, guided by theoretical frameworks including Globalization Theory, Developmental State Theory, and Structural Transformation Theory. These frameworks provide a lens to analyze the interconnections between globalization, state-led development, and the structural transformations influencing the economic growth trajectories of China and India.
The presentation aims to contribute a nuanced understanding of the challenges and opportunities faced by these nations on the global stage, offering valuable insights into their economic growth trajectories.Emmanuel Asiedu-Acquah and Kartik Misr
Yielding To It
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“We make out of the quarrel with others, rhetoric, but of the quarrel with ourselves, poetry.”
—William Butler Yeats
“The personal lyric says to the self in its suffering: I will not abandon you. Nor will I ask you to abandon yourself and the felt truth and particulars of your experience.”
—Gregory Orr
“What is the knocking?
What is the knocking at the door in the night?
It is somebody wants to do us harm.
No, no, it is the three strange angels.
Admit them, admit them”
—D.H. Lawrence
This manuscript was first conceived, without words, in delusion—inside ultramarathons of personal conquest and years of disorder and distraction, around internal frenzy and desperation. Before these words were born upon the page, they relentlessly collided with my ego. They were repeatedly deflected by fear and forsaken for a fabricated anthem of willpower and pride. Such stories are boring. They cannot absorb the raw nature of human complexity. They cannot process its language, nor communicate its somatic understanding to a reader. My route to poetry was not a blazed trail nor a mapped greenway. Before entering this MFA program, it was more of an aimless, lifelong bushwhack—navigating blindly through the intersection of ancestral trauma and privilege—finally emerging into faith that D. H. Lawrence was not wrong: yield yourself to the wind, allow yourself to be borrowed by it for long enough, and the three strange angels will find you.
In June of 2018, at Sewanee: The University of The South, I walked into my first ever poetry workshop ready to conquer the art of language in the same manner I had succeeded at other feats. It was, effectively, though certainly subconsciously, another strategy of distraction. The true nature of reality and “the self” were buried beneath the underbrush of my action and capacity for self-righteous, sustained effort. They were covered by the curtains of performance and what my mother called a “high threshold of pain,” but was more likely an inability to process felt experience in my body. I have now come across only two things which I cannot fool for any extended amount of time—one is my children and the other is poetry. Both of these seem to absorb and reflect the truth of my inner condition regardless of the elaborate performance I may choreograph externally. Professor Nickole Brown pulled me out of the weeds right away in pointing out the necessity of “paying attention” to the surrounding world. The extent to which I was out of alignment with this practice of mindfulness became increasingly clear, but also I was unable to notice the smaller, ordinary miracles unfolding around me, but also was I unable to sit within my own questions and emotional discomfort long enough to move my pen. In Poetry as Survival, poet Gregory Orr explains, “When we have forgotten or repressed our own stories, or failed to value them enough to give them shape and form, we are diminished beings.” I lived in this diminished place before finding myself in a room full of poetry and people willing to wait patiently while I learned to be still, peeling back layer upon layer of societal conditioning. Learning to listen for the truth in my own experience, instead of trying to conquer poetry, I slowly began to hear with more clarity and empathy. With each poet we studied, I began to follow the “camera work” that can zoom in and out with language and syntax to expose the subject from different points of view. I eventually became more comfortable trusting associative leaps and experimenting with craft techniques such as anaphora to allow my own poems to say to speak from my subconscious, as opposed to unveiling my pre-constructed agendas. This began to give the unspoken its own voice, allowing the silences buried inside me to stir. In time and with much practice, they began to speak up, replacing my earlier need to tell only polished stories
Kiran Klubock Shukla Oral History Interview Records
No full textKiran Klubock Shukla of Charlottesville, Virginia was interviewed by Selena Piercy, a Sewanee student, on November 11th, 2023 on Zoom. While their conversation was primarily on the Black Lives Matter Movement, other topics included: Klubock Shukla’s experience residing in a diverse city, and his observations on the racially charged events in Charlottesville in 2019. We hope that this conversation will assist scholars with a further understanding of race in the United States during the early twenty-first century. Please click on the link to see the full interview.Dr. Andrew Maginn, Visiting Assistant Professor of Histor
Heather Seger Oral History Interview Records
No full textHeather Seger of Nashville, Tennessee, was interviewed by Kaila Seger, a Sewanee student, on November 28th, 2023 on Zoom. While their conversation was primarily on the Black Lives Matter Movement, other topics included how "school choice" voucher legislation can affect current educational inequities in Tennessee. We hope that this conversation will assist scholars with a further understanding of race in the United States during the early twenty-first century. Please click on the link to see the full interview.Dr. Andrew Maginn, Visiting Assistant Professor of Histor
Rubidium Fluorescence and Diode Laser Spectroscopy
No full textThe invention of inexpensive, tunable, narrow-bandwidth semiconductor diode lasers has opened up many spectroscopic analysis techniques to individual use, undergraduate research, and advanced laboratories. In this study, a finely tunable ~780 nm AlGaAs diode laser is used to observe the resonant absorption effects in the fine and hyperfine structure of Rb vapor. In particular, the 5S1/2 to 5P3/2 D2 transition line is explored and quantitatively measured. The hyperfine structure energy levels are separated by <100 MHz (∆λ = ~0.1 pm) and are revealed only through saturated absorption spectroscopy which eliminates the previously Doppler-broadened absorption peaks. Saturated absorption is achieved using a single-mode, time-dependent pump beam through the cell which saturates nearby Rb molecules, allowing the much less intense probe beam to distinguish the absorption features of stationary molecules. The temperature-dependent complex index of refraction of the vapor was also modeled using a simplified, but approximate model, assuming the 5s electron as a harmonic oscillator. This dependence was observed using a Mach-Zehnder interferometer. The behavior of the beam suggests that the index of refraction has a strong temperature dependence. The Zeeman effect of the energy levels was also observed using a controlled parallel magnetic field. The project explores a multitude of topics from linear and nonlinear optics, classical electrodynamics, and electronics, and also incorporates ideas from quantum physics
The Book of Secrets
No full textThe Book of Secrets tells the story of fathers, sons and grandsons struggling with who they are and who they are expected to be, versions of themselves that are at odds with one another. Victims of generational supposition and cultural seasons, the pith of the Preston men oozes out and creates a mess that the most unlikely of descendants will clean up
Black Life at Sewanee in 1950: A Digital Mapping of Residence and Labor
No full textThis project (link: https://storymaps.arcgis.com/stories/d692b49d72414e63bdb465218e173ee7) is a Digital History endeavor that was presented at Scholarship Sewanee 2023 but lives on as a searchable webpage for future scholars and curious observers. The page, created using ArcGis StoryMaps software, is titled "St. Mark's Community, Sewanee, ca. 1950: The black community of the University of the South at the height of racism and inequities in housing and labor." It examines and visualizes the ways in which labor relationships and social structures reinforced a racial hierarchy in Sewanee. It contains maps, one of which is the first of its kind, that provide a glimpse into the lives of the many people of color who lived and labored upon the Mountain around the year 1950.The Roberson Project on Slavery, Race, and Reconciliation, specifically two of the project's permanent members, Dr. Tiffany Momon and Dr. Andrew Maginn
Isaiah Dietrich Oral History Interview Record
No full textIsaiah Dietrich of Shorewood, Wisconsin was interviewed by Ella Dietrich, a Sewanee student, on November 26th, 2023 in person. While their conversation was primarily on the Black Lives Matter Movement, other topics included discussing how Isaiah’s faith has shaped his view on race. We hope that this conversation will assist scholars with a further understanding of race in the United States during the early twenty-first century. Please click on the link to see the full interview.Dr. Andrew Maginn, Visiting Assistant Professor of Histor