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Time-Lapse Imaging of Colorectal Cancer Tumors
Get PDFThis project was aimed to test and validate a newly constructed live-cell imaging system that allows for imaging and live cells and tissues. This system is comprised of an incubation chamber that controls that temperature and pH of live cell culture while on a microscope
Undoing the Absence of Asexuality in the Classroom
Get PDFAsexuality exists at the margins of sexuality, often invisible to and misunderstood outside—and even within—the LGBTQIA+ community. As an identity that generally refers to those who experience low/no sexual attraction, asexuality challenges the broadly held notion that everyone experiences sexual attraction. Given the centrality of sexuality to a great deal of feminist scholarship, the absence of asexuality in many feminist classrooms is striking. Moreover, decades of feminist and queer research and pedagogy have demonstrated the vast, liberatory potential of centering the margins as we seek to understand the social world. With that lineage in mind, asexuality presents a rich, relatively neglected realm for highlighting marginalized standpoints and encouraging critical inquiry. In this article, I will discuss the potential consequences of the general exclusion of asexuality from course materials. I will also highlight how undoing the absence of asexuality in feminist curricula allows students and instructors to challenge mainstream paradigms of gender and sexuality—and to better examine the intersections of sexuality, gender, dis/ability, race, and various other vectors of power
Teaching Through Absence: Using an Absence Lens as a Feminist Pedagogical Tool
Get PDFA significant number of teaching resources and materials fail to account for important viewpoints and identities. These viewpoints and identities may then become misrepresented, excluded from the classroom, or ignored by the instructor. In response to this absence, pedagogues may utilize an absence lens to focus on what is not present in materials rather than what is. This piece introduces the special issue “Teaching Through Absence: How We Teach Absence and What Absence Teaches Us,” which seeks to address how we can better teach viewpoints, identities, and issues often absent from scholarship and course materials. It further aims to address how graduate student instructors are currently using an absence lens in their classrooms and ways other feminist pedagogues can adopt this approach in their teaching
The Imperialist Pursuit: Effects of Natural Resource Extraction in Bougainville Papua New Guinea
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Knowledge and Use of Paced Bottle-Feeding Among Mothers of Young Infants
Get PDFObjective: To describe mothers’ awareness and use of paced bottle-feeding (PBF) and to investigate whether the use of PBF was associated with maternal characteristics and infant feeding practices.
Methods: Cross-sectional, online survey. Participants were mothers of infants \u3c 12 months of age (n =197). Participants self-reported their awareness and use of PBF, demographic characteristics, and infant feeding practices.
Results: Of the 41% of participants who indicated they had or maybe had heard of PBF, 23% used PBF and 35% sometimes used PBF. Use of PBF was not associated with mother or infant characteristics. Participants who used PBF were significantly less likely to encourage their infant to finish the bottle (odds ratio,0.04; 95% confidence interval, 0.01−0.79).
Conclusions and Implications: Paced bottle-feeding was associated with lower likelihood of one dimension of pressuring feeding practices, encouraging infant bottle-emptying. More research is needed to determine the effectiveness of PBF in promoting healthy feeding outcomes