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Geochronology and Geomorphology of the Brule Spillway of Glacial Lake Duluth
No full textDuring the Late Pleistocene and Early Holocene, a series of dyssynchronous advances and retreats resulted in the evolution of the Upper St. Croix River Valley. Proglacial lakes forming at the margins of the retreating ice within the Lake Superior Basin and subsequent multiple drainage events through the Brule Spillway have also drastically shaped the landscape. As a result, the Brule Spillway and broader St. Croix River valley presents an important case study to spillover processes occurring in proglacial landscapes and the reorganization of regional drainage networks and creation of a new hydrogeomorphic regime. While prior literature on the Spillway exists, the paucity of data related to the timing, duration, and magnitude of these drainage events leaves many questions. As a result, this study focuses on a reach of the Upper St. Croix River Valley and Brule Spillway in order to examine the geomorphic impact downstream in the Lower St. Croix River Valley, relation to known lake levels in the Superior Basin, and lastly to test the morphology seen as a result of spillover and outburst flood events in proglacial drainage settings. Methodology to achieve this includes the use of geomorphic mapping, coring, ground penetrating radar (GPR), optically stimulated luminescence dating (OSL), 10Be cosmogenic depth profiling, radiocarbon and X-ray fluorescence (XRF).
Based on the results of this research, we are able to add further geochronologic and geomorphic constraints to how the Upper St. Croix River Valley was shaped over time as a result of both ice marginal and proglacial drainage processes. As a result, we hypothesize a series of at least two distinct incisional events within the Brule Spillway. This includes spillover resulting in the initial incision and aggradation prior to the Marquette readvance of the Superior Lobe and a second incisional event resulting from the gradual retreat of the Marquette margins lending to a transgressive ice-marginal outburst flood and the final drainage sequences through the Brule Spillway
September 2025 Library & Learning Newsletter
No full textPDF version of the September 2025 (Volume 4, Issue 2) Library & Learning Newsletter
Nursing Innovations: Quality, Safety, and Informatics in Practice
No full textAn undergraduate Nursing textbook with Quality, Safety, and Informatics topics.https://cornerstone.lib.mnsu.edu/university-archives-msu-authors/1499/thumbnail.jp
AI Literacy for Instructors Certificate Teaching Materials
No full textThese documents contain teaching materials for a four week AI literacy certificate program for instructors. The items include a syllabus, four after class worksheet assignments, and four PowerPoint presentations to guide synchronous Zoom sessions. These materials will help instructors build foundational knowledge and practical skills in the use and evaluation of generative AI (artificial intelligence). Facilitators will be able to explain how generative AI works, promote the applied use of AI chatbots for teaching purposes, and provide discussion and reflection on the ethical ramifications of AI use in higher education classrooms
Destined to Fail [book review]
No full textA deep dive into the eugenical ideas that grounded the work of influential educator and psychologist Carl E. Seashore. While Seashore was working a century ago, the author demonstrates how his ideas continue to influence education today
Volume 45, Number 2, June 2025 OLAC Newsletter
No full textDigitized June 2025 issue of the OLAC Newsletter
November 2025 Library & Learning Newsletter
No full textPDF version of the November 2025 (Volume 4, Issue 4) Library & Learning Newsletter
Truth Will Out: Combating the Rhetoric of Modern Conspiracy Theory
No full textThis essay explores modern conspiracy theories’ relationship to hatred and ignorance, and how specious ideas do not hold up to classical rhetorical analysis. It posits reasons why power embraces conspiracies that it has traditionally rejected and explains power and conspiracy theory’s symbiotic relationship in the age of misinformation. It champions rhetoric as the best tool to combat conspiracy theories.
Thesis: In order to effectively combat conspiracy theory’s undermining of human progress, we must hold conspiracists accountable for spreading dangerous lies, directly teach formal rhetoric in all public schools (and how to spot specious content), effectively foster multicultural respect and appreciation, and critique the rhetoric of conspiracy theorists in every public forum, including news media and academic worlds
OLAC Coffee Talk: Cataloging Kits: What\u27s in a Name? That Which We Call a Kit By Any Other Name Would Still Circulate
No full textThe definition of “kit” can be elusive. Catalogers need to decide whether or not to use “kit “in the MARC Leader when cataloging a group of items that circulate as one unit. Determining the material category affects the data used in other fields, such as the physical description fields. This presentation will consider the use of the term “kit”, share examples of kits and their MARC records, and demonstrate the creation of a MARC 21 record using visual materials as the format and kit as the type of record
The Rhythm of Resistance: Marginalized Bodies and Dominant Rhythmic Systems
No full textAll human beings are perceptive entities, engaging with the world through somatic and sensory experiences. These interactions allow individuals to assess, understand, and navigate their surroundings and social contexts. Our bodies, through daily experiences and interactions with the constructed environment, learn to move in harmony with or in opposition to dominant societal rhythms. However, it would be inaccurate and misleading to claim that all individuals can seamlessly synchronize with these societal rhythmic systems. For bodies marginalized by race, gender, age, disabilities, and other factors are policed, stigmatized, minimized, and enclosed, resulting in an inability for marginalized individuals to fully synchronize with dominant social rhythmic systems. Consequently, these dominant systems compel marginalized groups to alter their behaviors and kinesthetic movements to navigate a world that does not fully accommodate their rhythms. This desynchronization leaves marginalized communities with two choices, to conform to the spaces and rhythms designed for them by these dominant social rhythmic systems or create their own. Through the examination of the feminine body and marginalized bodies, I explore the opposition to the dominant social rhythmic system and the ongoing creation of new ones, framing activism and social change movements as forms of rhythmic resistance