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Spotlight on Climate Change
No full textFor important contributions to the impact of climate change we\u27re putting the spotlight on Professor H. Allen Curran\u27s research on coral garden reefs under threat...*photo: Healthy Staghorn Coral (Acropora cervicornis) at Coral Gardens Reef, Belizehttps://scholarworks.smith.edu/gallery/1012/thumbnail.jp
History and Politics of Medication Abortion in the United States and the Rise of Telemedicine and Self-Managed Abortion
Get PDFThis article examines the decades-long campaign to increase access to abortion pills in the United States, including advocates’ work to win U.S. Food and Drug Administration approval of mifepristone and misoprostol for abortion, the continuing restrictions on mifepristone and the multiple strategies advocates have pursued to challenge these restrictions, including lobbying the FDA to remove the restrictions, obtaining a limited research exemption from FDA restrictions and suing the FDA during the COVID pandemic. The article pays particular attention to influence of research conducted on the safety and efficacy of medication abortion as well as research on the impact of increased availability of abortion pills through telemedicine during the pandemic. The article also addresses self-managed abortion, where people obtain and use mifepristone and/or misoprostol outside of the formal healthcare system, and documents the growing network of organizations providing logistical, medical and legal support for people self-managing abortion. The article concludes with reflections on the role abortion pills might play in the post-Roe era amid increasingly divergent abortion access trends across different regions of the United States
My Language Is a Jealous Lover
No full textMany great writers have been fluent in multiple languages but have never been able to escape their mother tongue. Yet if a native language feels like home, an adopted language sometimes offers a hospitality one cannot find elsewhere.My Language Is a Jealous Lover explores the plights and successes of authors who lived and wrote in languages other than their mother tongue, from Samuel Beckett and Vladimir Nabokov to Ágota Kristóf and Joseph Brodsky. Author Adrián N. Bravi weaves their stories in with his own experiences as an Argentinian-Italian, thinking and writing in the language of his new life while recalling that of his childhood. Bravi bears witness to the frustrations, the soul-searching, the pain, and the joys of embracing another language.https://scholarworks.smith.edu/itl_books/1001/thumbnail.jp
From Status to Gender in Meiji Japan
No full textChapter for the forthcoming publication, The New Cambridge History of Japan: Volume 3, The Modern Japanese Nation and Empire, C.1868 to the Twenty-First Century, edited by Laura Hei
Does Public Art Matter?: Visual Art as Placemaking
No full textThe relationship between art and engagement may be simpler and more relevant than it may seem.
Through questioning the above statement, I began to see the truth in it. Through dialogues with activists and community members, art has explicitly been said to what is needed in times or localities of social strife. As an art major and community engagement concentrator, this posed as a challenge for my capstone project. I realized as an artist and community engager, I needed to push my practice beyond the bounds of making a piece and how the practice of making art could serve a group of people. While working with the school LightHouse, art’s potential to serve strengthening a community’s connection and individuals\u27 sense of self became quite clear. What became central to my project with them was the question: how can art serve placemaking
Visualizations for User-supported State Space Exploration of Goal Models: Supplemental Material
No full textSupplemental material for the research paper entitled, Visualizations for User-supported State Space Exploration of Goal Models . This paper presents a technique for valuation-based filtering and coloring to assist users in understanding a solution space and selecting custom states from it. This supplement contains the data from our initial evaluation and associated models
People Move, Policies Don’t: Discursive Partition Against Climate-Impacted Dwellers in Urbanizing Bangladesh
Get PDFIn Bangladesh, internal climate displacement will continue pushing millions to the urbanizing centres where migrants make homes in informal settlements. These settlements, too, are sites for climate hazards such as heat stress and flooding, affecting climate-displaced and economic migrants alike. The demands of growing migrant populations and long-term informal settlement dwellers converge around rights to secure land and housing, acknowledged in policies at both national and urban scales. Yet, settlements continue to face evictions, revealing a significant mismatch between policy aspirations and concrete urban planning strategies. Based on our ongoing research in the informal settlements of Dhaka, Bangladesh, we point to a structural condition we call discursive partition which continues to exclude climate-impacted dwellers from urban resilience policies despite their formal recognition in national climate policies. Based on evidence of how climate-impacted dwellers themselves lead urban adaptation, we point to three critical revisitations for just climate adaptation plans
Textbook Affordability at Smith College: Affirming Smith\u27s Commitment to creating an inclusive, equitable and accessible educational community
Get PDFThe U.S. Public Interest Research Group’s (PIRG) Education Fund, notes that “in 2020, 65 percent of students surveyed reported skipping buying a textbook because of cost” (Vitez & Nagle, n.d.). The costs of course materials are rising at astronomical rates. According to the Student PIRGs, “the cost of textbooks and course materials has increased at three times the rate of inflation since the 1970s” (Xie, 2023). Textbooks are unnecessarily expensive and are increasingly a barrier to education access and student success. Extensive research has demonstrated that while publishers can get away with (and profit off of) high prices, students who need these resources to complete their education are suffering
Evaluation of EDISON\u27s Data Science Competency Framework Through a Comparative Literature Analysis
Get PDFDuring the emergence of Data Science as a distinct discipline, discussions of what exactly constitutes Data Science have been a source of contention, with no clear resolution. These disagreements have been exacerbated by the lack of a clear single disciplinary \u27parent.\u27 Many early efforts at defining curricula and courses exist, with the EDISON Project\u27s Data Science Framework (EDISON-DSF) from the European Union being the most complete. The EDISON-DSF includes both a Data Science Body of Knowledge (DS-BoK) and Competency Framework (CF-DS). This paper takes a critical look at how EDISON\u27s CF-DS compares to recent work and other published curricular or course materials. We identify areas of strong agreement and disagreement with the framework. Results from the literature analysis provide strong insights into what topics the broader community see as belonging in (or not in) Data Science, both at curricular and course levels. This analysis can provide important guidance for groups working to formalize the discipline and any college or university looking to build their own undergraduate Data Science degree or programs
The JWST PEARLS View of the El Gordo Galaxy Cluster and of the Structure It Magnifies
Get PDFThe massive galaxy cluster El Gordo (z = 0.87) imprints multitudes of gravitationally lensed arcs onto James Webb Space Telescope Near-Infrared Camera (NIRCam) images. Eight bands of NIRCam imaging were obtained in the “Prime Extragalactic Areas for Reionization and Lensing Science” (“PEARLS”) program. Point-spread function-matched photometry across Hubble Space Telescope and NIRCam filters supplies new photometric redshifts. A new light-traces-mass lens model based on 56 image multiplicities identifies the two mass peaks and yields a mass estimate within 500 kpc of (7.0 ± 0.30) × 1014 M ⊙. A search for substructure in the 140 cluster members with spectroscopic redshifts confirms the two main mass components. The southeastern mass peak that contains the brightest cluster galaxy is more tightly bound than the northwestern one. The virial mass within 1.7 Mpc is (5.1 ± 0.60)×1014 M ⊙, lower than the lensing mass. A significant transverse velocity component could mean the virial mass is underestimated. We contribute one new member to the previously known z = 4.32 galaxy group. Intrinsic (delensed) positions of the five secure group members span a physical extent of ∼60 kpc. 13 additional candidates selected by spectroscopic/photometric constraints are small and faint, with a mean intrinsic luminosity ∼2.2 mag fainter than L *. NIRCam imaging admits a fairly wide range of brightnesses and morphologies for the group members, suggesting a more diverse galaxy population in this galaxy overdensity