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Charles W. Bolen Faculty Recital Series: February 28, 2025
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February 28, 2025
Friday Evening
7:30 p.m
Guest Artist Recital: April 1, 2025
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April 1, 2025
Tuesday Evening
8:00 p.m
Junior Recital: April 13, 2025
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April 13, 2025
Sunday Afternoon
3:00 p.m
Senior Recital: April 13, 2025
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April 13, 2025
Sunday Afternoon
2:00 p.m
Polycaprolactone—Based Block Copolymers for Nanopatterning Oxide Materials via Sequential Infiltration Synthesis
No full textSequential infiltration synthesis (SIS) has emerged as a powerful technique to integrate inorganic materials into polymeric templates for fabricating functional hybrid and inorganic-only nanostructures. While several polymers, including self-assembled block copolymers (BCPs), have been widely used as templates for inorganic and hybrid oxide nanostructures, biocompatible polymers such as polycaprolactone (PCL) have not been explored for nanopatterning. In this work, we investigate SIS in polystyrene-block-polycaprolactone (PS-b-PCL) BCPs to demonstrate the feasibility of PCL as a guiding polymer for selective infiltration of Al2O3. Fourier transform infrared (FTIR) spectroscopy confirmed the strong interaction of TMA–H2O precursors with the oxygen-containing functional groups of PCL, while scanning electron microscopy (SEM) revealed well-defined Al2O3 nanostructures after SIS and polymer removal. By varying the number of SIS cycles and processing temperatures, we observed systematic changes in the inorganic content and nanostructural fidelity, highlighting the tunability of the process. Notably, significant Al2O3 incorporation occurred during the first SIS cycle due to strong PCL–precursor interactions, even at temperatures as low as 60 °C, making the process relatively low-resource and efficient. These findings demonstrate that PCL is a promising guiding polymer for SIS, with potential to extend beyond conventional polymers such as polymethylmethacrylate. This work opens new opportunities for fabricating oxide nanostructures with applications in nanopatterning, dielectric layer, and bio-related nanomaterials
From Columbia to USC, Palestine will be Free: Capturing the Palestinian Student Narrative
No full textIn 2024, student groups across colleges organized encampments demanding their institutions cut financial and academic ties with Israel and the Israeli military, a call rooted in resistance to the ongoing occupation and violence against Palestinians. These student-led actions were met with harsh retaliation from university administrations and state authorities, including graduation deferments, suspensions, censorship, and arrests. Clear attempts to silence dissent and suppress Palestinian solidarity. This study centers the voices of Palestinian college students by examining their lived experiences and counter-narratives in the face of backlash, anti-Palestinian rhetoric, and institutionalized acts of disenfranchisement. Their stories reveal how repression of pro-Palestine advocacy is not only a direct assault on political expression, but also a force that undermines Palestinian students’ social belonging, psychological well-being, and academic progress. By amplifying these narratives, this qualitative analysis challenges higher education institutions to reckon with their complicity in silencing Palestinian resistance and to reimagine a campus climate that affirms justice, solidarity, and the right to speak truth to power
At the Mercy of All Things: Nurturing Experimental Queer Writing on Embodied Mothering
No full textThis dissertation is an exploration of the ability of experimental queer writing to grow and transform expressions of mothering and care. The moves made here—both in the scholarship and anchor texts examined herein and in my own contributions to this effort—work to dethatch those toxic dominating narratives on motherhood, enforced and reinforced by our current Western society and culture, that contaminate and restrict our constructions of what it means to be and do mother. The collective work of experimental queer writers makes possible more nuanced, realistic, messy, complex, varied, embodied, liberating, and literally and figuratively dirty renditions of mothering and care. The ultimate goal of this dissertation is to articulate this effort and advocate for its enactment as resistance, revolution, and transformation. After identifying experimental writing and the practice of queering as the roots of my endeavors, I explore the discourses surrounding motherhood, analyze examples of experimental queer writing that center mothering and care, apply this growing conceptualization of care to my pedagogy, and then contribute my own shoots of experimental queer writing
Blue Notes, March 21, 2025 (issue 2025-05)
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Senior Recital: April 19, 2025
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April 19, 2025
Saturday Afternoon
12:30 p.m