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Proceedings of the Tenth Annual Indiana STEM Education Conference: Generational Advances through STEM Education
Get PDFThe Proceedings of the Tenth Annual Indiana STEM Education Conference are edited by the Center for Advancing the Teaching and Learning of STEM (CATALYST, https://www.education.purdue.edu/catalyst/) at Purdue University. The theme for the 2025 conference is Generational Advances through STEM Education. This year’s conference provides opportunities to learn about effective STEM education strategies, curriculum, and resources to engage students by considering the advances and impact of STEM
Financial Impact of Beef Cow Culling: Canadian Analysis
Get PDFCulling decisions within beef production systems are not reversible, and as such, data can help decision-makers double-check heuristics to avoid costly mistakes. In this essay, we use financial methods to examine cow culling decisions, evaluating their impact on overall herd profitability. To do so, we use production and financial data from 16 “typical farms” within the Canadian Cow-Calf Cost of Production Network to explore the financial impact of different culling strategies. This essay builds on prior literature by using Canadian data, as there may be differences in costs and productivity across production regions. We identify four culling scenarios that vary based on productivity by dam age and replacement heifer source. We compare a breeding female’s value when nonpregnant to the value of a bred replacement heifer using net present values and the equivalent annual annuity of these decisions and calculate the return on assets to measure the impact of these decisions on profitability. Results confirm that the current practice of replacing all nonpregnant cows with homegrown or purchased-bred heifers is financially optimal in the current high-price environment. The return on assets model finds that replacing open cows with hom
Book Review of Voices of a New Generation
Get PDFThe book offers an ample narrative archive that can serve as a source for scholarly inquiry, especially for scholars interested in Fine Arts, Contemporary Music, Fashion Design, Culinary Arts, and Film and Theatre Arts. The book can also serve as a resource for K12 social science teachers interested in personal narratives to supplement course lessons. However, as a college professor of Ethnic Studies, I would advise the book to be used in conjunction with scholarship on deviant and model minority myths. After all, affective stories without theory and context can change hearts, but they do not offer abstract tools for reimagining systems that can change stories
LEaPP Advanced Code Sight Word Vocabulary Screener
Get PDFThe LEaPP Advanced Code Sight Word Vocabulary Screener can be used to determine which words a learner has in their sight word vocabulary. These words are organized according to the concepts on the LEaPP Scope and Sequence Progress Monitoring Form, starting with advanced concepts. The list contains phonetic and non-phonetic words that are frequently used in early reading text and each set has an established criteria for mastery. The accompanying PowerPoint deck allows for quick examination of a learners’ sight word vocabulary. This document contains instructions for use and the record form
CLCWeb Call for Papers: World Literature as World Crisis: Discussing World Literature to Change the World
Get PDFIt is easier to imagine the end of the world than the end of capitalism--this slogan has been associated with different contemporary thinkers, most notably Fredric Jameson, a comparatist whose passing in 2024 was itself felt by many as the end of an era. In Jameson’s thought, however, there is an even more binding slogan, urging us to always historicize. One way to historicize the imagery of the end under capitalism would be to trace its workings in the idea of world literature. Historically, world literature has been grasped as a force of mediation in a disintegrating world, and in some discussions, including one instigated by Jameson, it has even been related to the critical stage of capitalism.
This special issue of CLCWeb unearths a surprising discourse of crisis in what has been canonized as the debate on world literature. Europe-wide since the Revolutions of 1848, the discussion on world literature has become a global concern of literary authors and scholars alike. Starting with the events of 9/11 and the ensuing Global War on Terror, those involved in the debate have acknowledged the impact of global crises on their interest in world literature. But world literature has always been contemplated as a possible cure to a potentially global crisis, from the crisis of post-Napoleonic Europe in the age of Goethe to the most recent global health crisis. Almost invariably, the possibility of world literature has been imagined along with the end of the world, if not the end of capitalism.
For J. W. von Goethe himself, world literature gave Europe the opportunity to reimagine itself after the Napoleonic Wars; for disciples of Goethe such as Fritz Strich and Erich Auerbach, world literature provided an opportunity for the world to reconstitute itself after the two World Wars. For Karl Marx, on the other hand, world literature was a symptom of--rather than the cure for--the creative destruction of the modern world; and for Marxists, notably Fredric Jameson and Aijaz Ahmad, the bipolar world of the Cold War was resisted by a third-world literature. A world literature in translation was championed by Maxim Gorky following the October Revolution, and by René Etiemble following the revolution of May ’68. In the aftermath of May ’68, Edward Said translated Auerbach’s seminal essay on Goethe’s world literature; in the midst of the Global War on Terror, Said went on to publish the translation of Pascale Casanova’s provocative book on world literature. Gayatri Spivak offered her own provocation in response to the War on Terror, and Emily Apter even wrote the book Against World Literature--before the COVID-19 pandemic revived world literature for the likes of Orhan Pamuk and David Damrosch.
Today, all these different kinds of conditions--from imperialism, to class and world war, to institutional appropriations of worldwide protest movements, to global health crises--threaten to merge into an anthropocenic world crisis. In turn, any of these types of conditions can fuel a renewed discussion of world literature and world culture as ways of mediating this world crisis. The debate ought to therefore be approached as a debate on world history as much as world literature. The question of what is world literature should no longer be treated separately from the question of when, where, and by whom this question is posed. As a result, looking at how people have imagined world literature can help us see how they have perceived world crises; following future discussions of world literature can alert us to potential world crises they might foreshadow; and, finally, retooling world literature in this way can enable us to bring an entire humanities discipline into the age of public humanities.
With these and related goals in mind, this special issue welcomes contributions that relate the world literature debate to larger issues of world literature as, among other things, a late capitalist commodity, a site of postmodern culture wars, a stand-in for a concept of world history, a bastion of Eurocentrism, a source of anti-Eurocentrism, a project born of internationalist utopianism, and an invitation to a monolingual dystopia.
We invite original contributions with abstracts of 250 words, a 100-word bio, and 5 keywords by March 31st, 2025; and full articles of 5000–8000 words, or critical reviews of 3000 words, by September 30th, 2025.
Please contact special issue editor Dr. Jernej Habjan [[email protected]] with abstracts and questions
Bringing the manu | birds together: The Open Access Critical Friends Rōpū as a model for nationwide connection & collaboration
Get PDFGlobally, openly accessible research is growing exponentially. However, Aotearoa New Zealand (AoNZ) still has one of the lowest national open access rates, sitting at approximately 40% open. In 2023, Te Pōkai Tara (Universities New Zealand) released a statement committing to drive and support open access across the University sector. The goal, to raise the national percentage of open research to 70% by 2025. To support this initiative, the Council of Aotearoa New Zealand University Librarians (CONZUL) sponsored a project to produce a resource to guide New Zealand’s researchers through the open access publishing process. To ensure nationwide relevance, ten librarians from AoNZ’s eight universities formed the Open Access Critical Friends Rōpu. Together they produced the Open Access Toolkit for Aotearoa New Zealand Researchers. During this presentation, project team members will share their journey and learnings including strategies that libraries can use to connect and collaborate on large-scale projects. Whilst the toolkit was the major output of the project, success hinged on the whanaungatanga (relationships) and manaakitanga (respect) established amongst the rōpū (group) over the course of the ten-month project. This created an environment where members felt safe sharing knowledge and resources. Goals were set together and honesty encouraged. Inclusion was paramount and included using online tools that were accessible to all. Each member’s workload capacity and preferred roles were taken into consideration. The project concluded with individual and group reflection on project successes and lessons learned
Accelerated Libraries Digital Transformation –An AI Centric Planning
Get PDFThe presentation will explore Northwestern University Libraries (NUL) new strategic vision with artificial intelligence / machine learning (AI/ML) as a central pillar of its strategic pursuing. NUL identifies AI/ML as a logical core of the library’s vision for two reasons. First, AI/ML methods offer analytical power at massive data scales that can be immediately applied to library digital collections and research datasets, enabling scholars to investigate research questions by creating computational models from any library collection. Second, AI/ML represents a genuinely transdisciplinary set of techniques that can be adapted to create models based on any data type, from any disciplinary context, whether qualitative or quantitative, structured or unstructured, and across all media types. The presentation will share NUL strategic planning and priority realignment experiences as we set AI/ML as the core element of their organizations’ strategic visions. The presentation will explore: (1) the opportunities and limitations of an AI-driven library vision in the context of CNI/ARL AI Scenarios Planning. (2) the culture building, organizational structure, workforce development and resource alignment through internal and external funding mechanisms, required within library organizations to accomplish it. (3) The presentation will conclude with a reflection on potential new ways to be more directly aligned with emerging university-level data science and AI initiatives, and with the faculty research and teaching driving these initiatives, in the coming decade
Agricultural Research Facilities and Equipment
Get PDFThis overview document describes Purdue University’s on and off-campus research facilities and key equipment related to agriculture, air and water quality, agronomy, and environmental regulation
Business and Financial Management and Audit Control for Large Research Proposals
Get PDFOverview of the Purdue University business, financial, and human resources operations as evidence of support for faculty to manage externally funded research
