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Developing a Global Commons Mindset Through an Interdisciplinary Approach
No full textHigher education has responded to the need for citizens to develop a global commons mindset by working to encourage in students both a sense of civic engagement and a realization that today\u27s citizens are, by necessity, global citizens. Efforts to encourage a sense of global citizenry and civic engagement are aided by appropriately designed interdisciplinary courses. Two such courses have been developed and offered at the Stark Campus in recent years. One of these courses explores the continuing devastation of HIV-AIDS worldwide and has involved individuals from the fields of biology, history, education, and psychology in exploring the nature of the disease and its sociological implications. The second course targets the issue of genocides with a goal of expanding students\u27 understanding of the historical and psychological roots of a variety of conflicts. Both courses will be explored in terms of their goals, structure, effectiveness, and future directions.</p
Understanding Online Purchase Intentions of Licensed Sports Merchandise through Integration of Technology Acceptance Model and Trust
No full texthttps://kent-islandora.s3.us-east-2.amazonaws.com/node/9961/8853-thumbnail.jpgThis study proposed and examined a research model to explain sport consumers’ intentions to purchase licensed sport merchandise online. The model extends the TAM by adding the construct of trust in order to propose an adaptive model for the online sport context. The respondents were students (N = 266) attending a large university in the Midwestern United States. The proposed model included measures of perceived ease of use, perceived usefulness, trust, attitude, and online purchase intentions of licensed sport merchandise. Structural equation modeling was used to test the proposed modeland the relationships among constructs that were indicated by multiple measures. The results indicated that the proposed model (x2/df = 2.48, NFI = .90, TLI = .92, CFI = .94, RMSEA = .075) fit the data with a degree of reasonable fit. The findings indicate a positive influence of perceived ease of use on perceived usefulness, perceived usefulness on attitude, and trust on attitude.</p
Research in Aging
No full texthttps://kent-islandora.s3.us-east-2.amazonaws.com/ksuresearcherdirectories/3/thumbnail.jpg20 page booklet on researchers in Aging. Includes Behavioral and Societal Aspects of Aging, Biology and Physiology of Aging, Clinical Health Sciences and Aging, Technology and Aging</p
The Second Annual Water Symposium at Kent State University: Water Infrastructure and Rebounding Cities
No full texthttps://kent-islandora.s3.us-east-2.amazonaws.com/ksuresearcherdirectories/6/thumbnail.jpg16 page booklet on research in water infrastructure, water policy, ecology of water, green design, urban infrastructure and stormwater management.</p
2014 Ohio Wine Competition Official Results
No full texthttps://kent-islandora.s3.us-east-2.amazonaws.com/owc/2/thumbnail.jpgHeld on May 5-6, 2014 at Kent State University Ashtabula and sponsored by the Ohio Grape Industries Committee, the competition received a total 260 entries with 192 receiving medals. Official results include a complete list of awarded wines, both by category and medals. Best of Show Awards Overall Best of Show: 2013 Debonne Vineyards, Vidal Ice Wine, Grand River Valley White Wine: Ferrante Winery, White Catawba, Lake Erie Red Wine: 2012 Burnet Ridge, Cabernet Sauvignon “Three Kings”, North Coast Blush/Rosé: Myrddin Wine Company, “Vivien”, American Fruit Wine: Ferrante Winery, Cranberry Blanc, American Sparkling/Carbonated: Ferrante Winery, Carbonated Riesling, Grand River Valley Dessert/Fortified Wine: John Christ Winery, Ruby Port, Lake Erie</p
A Magazine Spring 2014
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War + Ink: New Perspectives on Ernest Hemingway’s Early Life and Writings
No full texthttps://kent-islandora.s3.us-east-2.amazonaws.com/hemingway/9/thumbnail.jpgCasts fresh light on the formative years of one of the twentieth century’s most important literary figures
Ernest Hemingway’s early adulthood (1917–1929) was marked by his work as a journalist, wartime service, marriage, conflicts with parents, expatriation, artistic struggle, and spectacular success. InWar + Ink, veteran and emerging Hemingway scholars, alongside experts in related fields, present pathbreaking research that provides important insights into this period of Hemingway’s life.
Comprised of sixteen elegantly written essays, War + Ink revisits Hemingway’s formative experiences as a cub reporter in Kansas City. It establishes a fresh set of contexts for his Italian adventure in 1918 and his novels and short stories of the 1920s, offers some provocative reflections on his fiction and the issue of truth-telling in war literature, and reexamines his later career in terms of themes, issues, or places tied to his early life. The essays vary in methodology, theoretical assumptions, and scope; what they share is an eagerness to question—and to look beyond—truisms that have long prevailed in Hemingway scholarship.
Highlights include historian Jennifer Keene’s persuasive analysis of Hemingway as a “typical doughboy,” Ellen Andrew Knodt’s unearthing of “Hemingwayesque” language spread throughout the correspondence penned by his World War I contemporaries, Susan Beegel’s account of the 1918 Spanish Flu Pandemic and its previously unrecognized impact on the young Hemingway, Jennifer Haytock’s adroit analysis of “destructive spectatorship” inThe Sun Also Rises, Mark Cirino’s groundbreaking discussion of the instantaneous “life review” experienced by Hemingway’s dying characters (an intrusion of the speculative and the fantastic into fiction better known for its hard surfaces and harsh truths), and Matthew Nickel’s detailed interpretation of the significance of Kansas City in Across the River and Into the Trees. A trio of scholars—Celia Kingsbury, William Blazek, and Daryl Palmer—focus on “Soldier’s Home,” offering three very different readings of this quintessential narrative of an American soldier’s homecoming. Finally, Dan Clayton and Thomas G. Bowie reexamine Hemingway’s war stories in light of those told by today’s veterans.
War + Ink offers a cross section of today’s Hemingway scholarship at its best—and reintroduces us to a young Hemingway we only thought we knew.</p
Research in Neuroscience
No full texthttps://kent-islandora.s3.us-east-2.amazonaws.com/ksuresearcherdirectories/1/thumbnail.jpg24 page publication highlighting researchers from neurodegeneration, neurodevelopment and pain, neuropsychology and health, Behavioral and Comparitive Neuroscience, and Regenerative Neuroscience</p
Informal Ambassadors: American Women, Transatlantic Marriages, and Anglo-American Relations, 1865-1945
No full texthttps://kent-islandora.s3.us-east-2.amazonaws.com/new_foreign_relations/5/thumbnail.jpgFrom 1865 to 1945, a number of prominent marriages united American heiresses and members of the British aristocracy. InInformal Ambassadors, author Dana Cooper examines the lives and marriages of the American-born, British-wed Lady Jennie Jerome Churchill, Mary Endicott Chamberlain, Vicereine Mary Leiter Curzon, Duchess Consuelo Vanderbilt Balsan, and Lady Nancy Astor. This cohort of women surprised their families—both British and American—by exhibiting an extraordinary degree of agency in a period that placed women solidly outside the boundaries of politics and diplomacy.
Without the formal title of diplomat or membership in Parliament, these women nonetheless exerted significant influence in the male-dominated arena of foreign affairs and international politics. As the wives of leading members of the British aristocracy, they had uncompromised and unlimited access to the eyes and ears of individuals at the highest level in Great Britain—the very decision makers who formulated and implemented foreign policy with their home country. Collectively and individually, these informal ambassadors worked to improve relations at the turn of the twentieth century, and by no coincidence, the United States and Great Britain began to view one another less as adversaries and more as allies.
Combining diplomatic history with gender and women’s history,Informal Ambassadors demonstrates not only that could women act as transnational envoys at a time when they could not apply for State Department employment but that they influenced Anglo-American relations to a degree never before considered by historians.</p