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Exploring Host Range of Klebsiella pneumonia
Get PDFBacteriophages, or phages, are viruses that target bacteria. Lytic phages cause the bacteria to lyse (cell death). Klebsiella pneumoniae is a bacterium that is associated with severe urinary tract infections. Some K. pneumoniae are hypervirulent—causing difficult-to-treat infections. Lytic phages of K. pneumoniae can functionally limit bacteria populations. This project explores this dynamic. Strains of K. pneumoniae were mixed with soft agar and poured onto LB plates. The viruses were then spotted in the soft agar cultures. Lysis of bacteria causes clearings after virus introduction. Successful phages could be used in a clinical setting as infection treatment
Promoting Wellbeing & Quality of Life Through Behavioral Support: My Internship Journey at Misericordia’s PEP Program
No full textThis URES presentation describes an overview of my internship at Misericordia\u27s PEP program, Personal Effectiveness Program. It describes my daily activities and how I overall learned that importance of empathy and connection in the field of psychology
Tensions Within Digital Whisper Networks: The Role of Social Media in Framing Narratives of Sexual Misconduct on University Campuses
Get PDFWhisper networks have long served as informal communication channels for warning individuals about perpetrators of sexual misconduct, particularly in environments where survivors face barriers to formal reporting. With the rise of social media, these networks have expanded beyond private conversations, transforming into public platforms that challenge institutional responses to sexual violence. This study examines the role of anonymous, student-driven social media pages in shaping perceptions of sexual misconduct on university campuses. Through both qualitative and quantitative analyses of Instagram profiles from ten U.S. universities, we explore how these whisper networks validate survivor experiences, advocate for policy changes, and critique institutional accountability. Based on our analysis, we introduce the concept of “digital whisper networks.” Our findings highlight the influence of social media in reshaping discourse around sexual violence, shifting narrative control from perpetrators and institutions to survivors and allies, yet also revealing the complexities and tensions that arise within these networks
The Atlantic
Get PDFLowell’s letters to Sedgwick portray two people with extremely different tastes and views on poetry, and even what exactly they considered poetry to be. Lowell’s letters to Sedgwick are infused with her voice, and charisma, and her strong belief in her work—especially that of free verse, modern and imagist forms of poetry. Whereas Sedgwick despite also having a passion for poetry had a favor for a more traditional sense. Lowell often commented that her poems would probably not be published with quips at Sedgwick\u27s choice of poems he chose to take and how he chose to describe them. However, they both shared a love for poetry and through their correspondence continued to work together to publish and appreciate poetry even through disagreement. The letters our group has selected to transcribe and include within our edition reflect these clashing views—Lowell is someone who is quite aware of Sedgwick’s tastes, something he does not attempt to hide in his correspondences. Yet despite knowing that her work does not often align with his more traditional and often stricter tastes, Lowell continues to offer up various pieces of her work for publication in The Atlantic throughout many years
In Living Memory: Curatorial Perspectives of Jewish Heritage in Holocaust Public Histories
Get PDFHolocaust Museums present a history of the genocide of European Jews, while Jewish Museums represent the long history and diverse cultures of Jewish life. By examining Holocaust public histories in Poland and the United States, this dissertation outlines the historical and memorial conditions that inform museum exhibits, as well as the curatorial approaches that synthesize historical information, spatial contexts, and material culture into exhibition narratives and historical representation. This dissertation employs exhibition analysis to explain existing curatorial approaches in Holocaust public histories and identifies curatorial principles and methods of display that might translate to new exhibits. Informed by the models of Holocaust representation in Jewish Museums, I argue that the curatorial framework of Jewish heritage best illustrates the complexity of Holocaust experiences and transforms the interpretive relationship between identity and loss. In Oświęcim, Poland, the Auschwitz Jewish Center presents the four hundred years of local Jewish life in the town, the direct impact of Auschwitz-Birkenau on the local Jewish community, and the recovery of Jewish spaces in the era of renewal. The museum and its curated spaces reflect living memory and a changing presence of Jewish heritage in Oświęcim. The Auschwitz Jewish Center is further contextualized by an examination of Holocaust memory in Poland and exhibition analysis of the Auschwitz-Birkenau State Museum and POLIN: Museum of the History of Polish Jews. In New York City, the Museum of Jewish Heritage – A Living Memorial to the Holocaust represents the Holocaust through the lens of Jewish history, memory, culture, and identity. The museum adds to the cultural landscape of Jewish heritage in the city and inspires a living memory of the Holocaust. The Museum of Jewish Heritage is contextualized by Holocaust memory in the United States and the complexity of the Jewish American diaspora, as well as exhibition analysis of the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum and the Illinois Holocaust Museum & Education Center. Regardless of location, I argue that Jewish Museums produce different exhibits based on their situational contexts and because of different curatorial approaches, yet these museums share a common perspective of living memory and exhibit Jewish life and loss by interpreting the complexity of Jewish heritage
The Divine Light Illuminates The Intellect: The Role of Divine Illumination in The Theology of Meister Eckhart
Get PDFThis dissertation is a study on the epistemological theory of divine illumination in the works of Meister Eckhart (c. 1260 - 1329 CE). Illumination, first asserted by St. Augustine, is the theory that the human intellect is incapable of achieving epistemic certainty regarding what it sensorily receives. To gain this certainty, the mind is reliant upon illumination, wherein the sensed object is known by the mind through the light of that object\u27s divine idea, which also serves as its ontological principle. Divine illumination was the dominant epistemology in Christian thought for centuries until it began to lose its influence in the 13th century to Aristotelian epistemology, which taught that the mind has no need of assistance for certainty. In the span of a few decades, illumination quickly lost its influence and was ultimately replaced. This dissertation examines the role of illumination throughout Eckhart\u27s body of works, looking at the function of illumination first in the prelapsarian condition of the human intellect, followed by Eckhart\u27s understanding of its role in the current postlapsarian state. Illumination, I argue, is a key facet in Eckhart\u27s theological schema, and is present in key moments of Eckhart\u27s understanding of salvation. I further argue that Eckhart transforms the doctrine of illumination from its original definition given by St. Augustine, in part to preserve the doctrine within the theological tradition. Whereas St. Augustine understood illumination as universal and necessary for human life, Eckhart argues that illumination is reserved for the Christian. Illumination, rather than being necessary for human life, now reveals the deeper, spiritual reality of things as they are in their divine ideas, by means of the very light of those ideas themselves
Into the Language Barrier: Analysis of the Debates of Charles Taylor and Jürgen Habermas with Concentration on the Importance of Philosophy of Language
Get PDFJürgen Habermas (b. 1929) and Charles Taylor (b. 1931) are two of the most important philosophers of the late 20th and early 21st centuries. Throughout their lengthy bodies of work, spanning from the 1960s and continuing today, they were frequent interlocutors, and often responded to one another’s theories and arguments. They also engaged in direct debates in edited volumes to which they both contributed, including Communicative Action: Essays on Jürgen Habermas\u27s The Theory of Communicative Action (1991), Multiculturalism (1994), and The Power of Religion in the Public Square (2011). The goal of this dissertation is to catalogue and analyze Habermas and Taylor’s debates. I do not suggest that there is a single key to understanding these debates. I nevertheless emphasize throughout this work that their positions on philosophy of language, influence their positions on nearly all other matters on which they debate. I also suggest that their explicit positions on a given topic are often closer than they themselves acknowledge. This is often because of a difference in emphasis, or because they modified their positions through their careers. I first analyze their debates on recognition relying on the volume Multiculturalism, tracing their disagreements to a difference in social ontology which is bound with their philosophies of language. I next analyze their debates on moral philosophy. Each figure’s difference here again draws on their philosophy of language, with Habermas relying on the structure of the procedure of moral argumentation while Taylor relies on a view of language intertwined with self and communal interpretation that can result in incommensurability. I then analyze their direct debates on language, noting the difference in emphasis, with Habermas focusing on the problem solving capacity of, while Taylor insists on the creative power of language. Finally, I examine some of their contemporary debates on democracy and religion, noting that the same points of emphasis for each figure are recapitulated on these somewhat more applied topics
The Night Ministry Internship Experience
No full textI am currently a social work bachelor\u27s level intern with The Night Ministry, working as an outreach case manager. My goal is to provide healthcare, housing, and human connection for individuals experiencing homelessness. I cover what I have learned so far and the work I have completed. Additionally, I provide information on important trainings I received on Housing First, Harm Reduction, and the Chicago Continuum of Care
Keep It in Your Pants: How Sexual Regulation Becomes Identity Regulation
No full textWhite Evangelicalism has been studied quantitatively for many years; however, this article examines in-depth interviews with ex-congregants of a specific church located in Chicago. Building from Orit Avasai’s framework of “doing religion,” I argue that due to a high saturation of isolation, sexual regulation and patriarchal power, this specific church’s script of religious performance claims master status in individual identity building, leading to adverse effects in adulthood. Much of the rhetoric utilized to justify the intense regulation of identity mirrors that of the New Right movement of the 1980’s, as well as modern political discourse. This study will assist in understanding the language, tools and power of those who seek social control, as emotion-filled testimonies from ex-congregants pave the way for mitigation work to begin in light of a new right-extremist landscape
Investigating Queer Asians\u27 Accultrative Resilience and Wellbeing
No full textThis dissertation examines the role of resilience factors in moderating the effects of acculturative stress on the well-being of queer Asian Americans. A total of 181 survey responses were collected from queer-identified Asian Americans over the age of 18 residing in the United States. Using hierarchical multiple regression analysis, this study explores three models incorporating two identity resilience factors (ethnic identity salience and queer identity salience), two community resilience factors (ethnic community support and queer community support), and two intersectional resilience factors (queer Asian identity salience and queer Asian community support). Well-being was assessed through life satisfaction, negative affect, and positive affect. Findings indicate that intersectional identity salience significantly moderates the relationship between acculturative stress and life satisfaction, with higher acculturative stress correlating with lower life satisfaction among those with strong intersectional identity salience. Additionally, several significant main effects were identified and discussed. This study provides extensive implications for research, clinical practice, community engagement, education, and advocacy