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Symposium on American Values
No full textA group of students performing modern dance as part of Mens Sana in Corpore Sano: A Descriptive Pageant highlighting the various programs of instruction in the Division of Physical Education during the 2nd Symposium on American Values, Thursday, April 25, 1963.https://digitalcommons.cwu.edu/john_foster_photos/4190/thumbnail.jp
Symposium on American Values
No full textA group of people listening to a talk in the library during the 2nd Symposium on American Values, April 24-27, 1963.https://digitalcommons.cwu.edu/john_foster_photos/4202/thumbnail.jp
Babs Ballard Video Interview
No full textBabs Ballard talks about her life. She grew up in Cle Elum and her family had a cattle ranch. She discusses the impact World War II had on her family and the hardships it brought. She also discusses dowsing for water with a willow switch or dowsing rods.https://digitalcommons.cwu.edu/rrcehc_interviews/1020/thumbnail.jp
Fred Fischer Video Interview
No full textFred Fischer talk about growing up and Roslyn Washington. He recalls his father, who worked for Northwest Improvement Company (NWI) as a fireman on the railroad.He discusses the mines and his brief time working in the mines at the age of 19. He later went to Central Washington College of Education after a year at Saint Mary\u27s College in California on a football scholarship. He had a career as an educator and later owned an orchard.https://digitalcommons.cwu.edu/rrcehc_interviews/1026/thumbnail.jp
George Burchak Video Interview
No full textGeorge Burchak discusses his experiences as a mink farmer. George talks about growing up in the Cle Elum area and jobs he had before he started mink farming. He details how they raised the mink , including how they choose breeding stock and how they processed the fur. He had a very large farm. At the end of the interview he shows us some furs and the largest of his barns where the mink were raised.https://digitalcommons.cwu.edu/rrcehc_interviews/1027/thumbnail.jp
Presence and abundance of antibiotic resistance genes at an organic goat dairy farm
Get PDFHow does the use of antibiotics in animal husbandry impact antibiotic resistance genes (ARGs) and integron prevalence? This article examines the prevalence of nine ARGs (OXA-2, tetB, tetG, blaCMY-2, ereB, NDM, ermB, sul1, and sul2) and two class one integron sequences (intI1 and CS) at an organic goat dairy farm. To provide insight on how antibiotic use is contributing to the abundance of ARGs and integrons outside of where they are used, we made a comparison between our findings and the prevalence of ARGs and integrons at conventional farms from previously published studies. Samples were collected from an organic goat dairy farm in the Willamette Valley from the goat bedding and goat pellets, as well as non-agriculture soil from the Pacific University campus. DNA extraction, followed by PCR and agarose gel electrophoresis, was used to determine the ARG and integron presence in samples. Quantitative PCR was used to determine the ARG and integron abundance in the samples. Out of nine ARGs and two class 1 integron sequences, we found that four ARGs (tetG, ermB, sul1, and sul2) and both class 1 integron sequences (intI1 and CS) were present in the bacterial populations in our samples. tetG, intI1, and sul1 were chosen for qPCR analysis, and revealed equal or higher concentrations when compared to conventional farms. This study highlights the need to compare various practices to determine their impact on ARG prevalence
Evaluating social inclusion: An adaptable measure for use on college campuses
Get PDFGender and sexual identity discrimination are commonly reported among persons of non-heterosexual or non-cisgender identities. Sexual and gender minority (SGM) students are more likely to experience discrimination, hate crimes, poverty, sexually transmitted infections, anxiety, and depression compared to heterosexual and cisgender individuals. These marginalized experiences create a unique need for education, resources, support, and community. Greater awareness of sexual and gender minorities encourages college students to feel comfortable sharing their experiences, and openly identifying as a sexual and/or gender minority. Consequently, to retain the full breadth of diversity within university communities, centers on campus that provide programming, education, and advocacy for minority students are essential for an inclusive campus climate that nurtures diverse student populations. Given the dearth in empirical instruments to support social inclusion among Sexual and Gender Minorities on college campuses, the purpose of this research was to, 1.) Develop a meaningful measure for use in the evaluation of gender identity and sexuality among college students and their perceived social inclusion through the lens of a social inclusion center; and 2.) Include questions addressing efficacy of relevant social inclusion centers for SGM students, staff, faculty, and their allies. This research focuses on self-report data collected through the Gender and Sexual Inclusion, Knowledge, and Attitude Survey from staff, faculty, and undergraduate students from a small liberal arts college in the Pacific Northwest (N = 218)
“Scandalously bifurcated garments”: Ecocriticism, American Pioneers, and Novelizing Women of the West
Get PDFWhile the Western novel is typically associated with cowboys and overarching masculine accomplishments of “settling,” the representation of women’s work beyond narratives of being “tamed” and the settling-down of motherhood has been overlooked by writers and ecocritics alike. Ecofeminist scholarship of the late 1980s and ‘90s, primed to take up such questions, focused primarily on the relationship between women and nature in abstract terms rather than on regionally-specific interpretations. This thesis, therefore, examines the representation of female-identifying protagonists in pioneer narratives of North America in three popular novels of the last century: Zane Grey’s posthumous Woman of the Frontier (1940/1998), Mrs. Mike (1947) by Benedict and Nancy Freedman, and the Oregon-specific Little Century (2011) by Anna Keesey. Using principles from feminist and ecocritical literary theory in combination, I consider the ways in which landscape is conscripted to convey a character’s interiority—an anthropocentric tactic that ultimately equates the objectification of women with the conquest of territory. As a twenty-first century pioneer woman born and raised on a rural Oregon ranch, identifying the significance of pioneer women and interrogating their representations beyond being extensions of the tamed landscape helps rewrite the conventional masculine lens of Manifest Destiny and the “West.
Critical Periods in Vision: Why my Friend Was Wearing an Eyepatch.
Get PDFOur brain is plastic: it changes and adapts in response to our environment. While some circuits in our brain remain plastic during our whole life, others are capable of plasticity only at a certain age, and for a limited amount of time. These confined periods of intense development are called critical periods. Through the example of the visual system, we will explore the concept of critical periods in the brain, how they were discovered, what causes them, and how they contribute to the brain development in health and pathology
Digging into Gardening in Elementary Classrooms
Get PDFGarden-based learning (GBL) presents meaningful content using experiential learning which may improve student engagement. Stemming from an overarching concept of engagement, this paper focuses on the classroom-based pedagogy of experiential learning. Based on the tenets of Progressivism, the work explores the benefits of garden based learning. It includes explanation of the connection to Progressivism, extracts of several garden-based practices, and benefits of integrating GBL into the curriculum- including improved classroom climate and increased pro-environmental attitudes. Suggestions for implementing gardens in elementary schools are included. Overall, this paper supports existing theories connecting garden-based learning to authentic education and positive child growth