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Grand Challenge in the Archives: Exploring Bias through Experiential Learning
Get PDFConsiderations of diversity, equity, inclusion, and accessibility can inform and enhance all aspects of archival work, even and especially our most challenging. When tasked with creating a new course for the University of Rhode Island’s General Education Program, I focused on how to engage students from various disciplinary backgrounds with archives on a deeper level. The result is Bias: Interrogating the Archive (LTI 350G), which debuted in fall 2021. While based on my ongoing work on bias and silences in the documentary record, the course highlights the wider real-world implications of bias. A successful example of incremental growth, LTI 350G is built upon the more modest educational opportunities I have created for students around the topic in the past.
While LTI 350G may be too niche to serve as a model for many other archival professionals, the format of the semester-length course provided a number of opportunities to integrate inclusion in a meaningful way. My hope is that this attention to accessibility and inclusion may inspire similar consideration in other areas of the archival endeavor. More practically, I offer the experiential learning activities designed for the course. All can be adapted for use in more typical class or group visits to archives. They are discussed at the end of the chapter with particular attention paid to the activity most directly concerned with teaching students to recognize bias in records
Groundbreaking Insights on Trauma and Justice: A Review of Sexual Violence, Dissociation, and Inequality: A Guide to Understanding Traumatic Memory by Muriel Salmona
Get PDFUsage Statistics: Project COUNTER R5 tr_b1 Report FY2024 - Book Requests (Excluding OA_Gold) by Title
No full textProject COUNTER R5 Report TR_B1 for the University of Rhode Island for the period from July 1, 2023 - June 30, 2024. The TR_B1 report is defined as Book Requests (Excluding OA_Gold). This report presents an annual total only and only includes those platforms successfully configured for automated harvesting via SUSHI.
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09. Recursion Method
No full textPart nine of course materials for Nonequilibrium Statistical Physics (Physics 626), taught by Gerhard Müller at the University of Rhode Island. The available PDF includes both the lecture notes, additional materials, and exercises without solutions
Atmospheric concentrations of per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances in Michigan\u27s ambient air using passive sampling
No full textAs a part of Michigan\u27s efforts to identify and address per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) contamination statewide, more knowledge of atmospheric PFAS concentrations is needed to better understand their atmospheric transport and impact on other environmental media. This research aimed to measure atmospheric concentrations of PFAS in Michigan\u27s ambient air using low-cost and easy-to-use passive samplers and identify relationships with environmental factors. Passive samplers, consisting of polyurethane foam (PUF) discs and sorbent-filled polyethylene tubes (radiello-XAD samplers), were deployed for a month at 27 sites across Michigan and analyzed for both ionic and volatile, neutral PFAS. Short chain perfluorocarboxylic acids (PFCAs), specifically perfluoropropanoic acid (PFPrA) (d.f. 60 %) and perfluorobutanoic acid (PFBA) (d.f. 96 %), and perfluorooctane sulfonic acid (PFOS) (d.f. 63 %) were the most frequently detected compounds, with the ∑3PFAS ranging from non-detect to 15.5 pg/m3 for the PUFs and from non-detect to 248 pg/m3 in the radiello-XAD samplers. 6:2 fluorotelomer alcohol was also frequently detected (d.f. 45 %) and had a positive correlation with both population density (r = 0.52, p \u3c .05) and industrial sites\u27 density (r = 0.48, p \u3c .05). Detection of specific compounds on each type of sampler provided insight into the preferential transport pathway of atmospheric PFAS. For example, PFOS was observed mostly in the gas-phase, predominantly captured by the radiello-XAD samplers, while PFBA was mostly in the particle-phase, predominantly captured by the PUFs. This study highlights the importance of developing detection tools for measuring atmospheric PFAS across a vast geographic area to identify contributing factors to ambient concentrations.
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