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Full Issue: Fall 2018
Get PDFDePaul\u27s new president, A. Gabriel Esteban, PhD, and his wife, Jo, talk about their lives and their first year at DePaul in this issue of DePaul Magazine. Discover their favorite places in Chicago in The Road to DePaul
The Absurd Pandemonium Surrounding SPACs: An Argument in Favor of Legislative and Judicial Restraint
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125 Years of Impact
Get PDFWith a variety of events, DePaul has had a festive and meaningful celebration of its 125th anniversary. The milestone is serving as an inflection point. It\u27s a chance to look at the many innovative people who have shaped the university\u27s past as well as an opportunity to look toward DePaul\u27s future
The Future of Healthcare is Generic: Expanding Hatch-Waxman to Equitably Regulate the Healthcare Products Industry
Get PDFThis article serves to address the statutory disconnect in the healthcare industry regarding generic products. There has been marked success in the generics market pertaining to pharmaceutical drugs, but the same cannot be said for medical devices and, in more recent times, biosimilars. The end result for consumers is higher product prices, limited access of care, and a more burdensome healthcare system. This article explores the statutory history of drug and medical device approval and production. It also explores differences between modern regulation of generic drugs and generic medical devices, focusing on key issues of FDA approval, consumer safety and risk, and liability. The article concludes with a recommendation geared towards consolidating generic healthcare product regulation under one statutory scheme, one that will promote and advance more generic product choice in the healthcare market
The crossroads of oil: perpetuation of settler colonialism based in Native American treaties and sustained through the construction and protection of oil pipelines in the American Great Lakes region
Get PDFThis thesis focuses on structures of international law and Native American treaties that were drafted throughout the eighteenth, nineteenth, and twentieth centuries and how they directly affect today’s energy infrastructure standards. These Native American land rights treaties stemming back to the mid eighteenth century were the initial legal renderings that imposed Euro-American ideals of private property ownership on the Great Lakes region, and its already established peoples, in the long process of settler-colonialism of the Americas. The two new nation-states of the United States and Canada were wrought from, and took shape on, what was already lands home to indigenous groups. The generalized rights of the US and Canadian governments to these lands and their resources has led to the socialization, acculturation, and acceptance of limitless extraction and transportation of nonrenewable resources. Tracing the historical and ‘legal’ roots of land appropriation is reflective of and vital to understanding the current battle that is taking place between multinational energy companies, the national governments of the US and Canada, and Native American tribes with environmental advocacy groups, over the continued operation of oil pipelines within the greater context of the climate crisis and the proliferation of crude oil pipelines
Eleusis contra delphi: the idea of eternal return in Nietzsche, Heraclitus, and the Greek mystery cults
No full textThis work concerns Friedrich Nietzsche’s conception of the eternal return of the same. By tracing the development of this notion in his thinking and its place in the tragic worldview, this essay will attempt to clarify the peculiar ethos presented by the concept. My analysis will primarily focus on revealing the intrinsic relationship between eternal return and the tragic worldview through a historical analysis of the Greek discourses on recurrence, with a particular emphasis on Heraclitus and the Greek mystery cults. As I shall demonstrate, one would have ground to trace the thought of eternal return to the Heraclitean fragment B52, which, through the notion of αἰών, asserts the ever-youthful and ever-repeating cycles of existence. To Heraclitus, mortal life demonstrates the belonging-together of life and death, joy and sorrow, and the ultimate rule must be sought in this recurrence of the selfsame. Against the Eleusinian mysteries of his time that promise a blessed afterlife, Heraclitus, like Nietzsche, constantly asserts the necessary attachment of life to death and strictly adheres to the Delphic proclamation, ‘know thyself,’ as an affirmation of mortality and finitude. To him, just like Nietzsche, one cannot overlook the certainty and the promise of death, which is the veiled promise of Apollonian religiosity. In the end, both eternal return and the Heraclitean αἰών come forward as the recognition of the recurrent and necessarily finite character of existence, which lies at the heart of the tragic worldview
Modeling Exciton Migration in Two-Dimensional Space
Get PDFComputational analysis through density matrix quantum mechanics was performed to model exciton migration in two-dimensional space for a zinc-substituted tetraazaphthalocyanine. The model produced resembles a two-dimensional sheet of molecules. Energy transport mechanisms, controlled by point dipole couplings, were evaluated while altering the size of the crystal lattice. It was determined that energy transport was much more significant with a decreasing size of the crystal lattice. Likewise, the result of increasing the size of the crystal lattice had the effect of dampening the rate of energy transport. It was of interest to determine, with varying crystal lattice dimensions, the time that it would take for an excitation placed at one site to migrate across the lattice and back to its original site
Passport stamps: traveling through memory and place
No full textModeled after the works of Naomi Shahib Nye, Philip Graham, Kiese Laymon, and Melissa Febos, as well as others featured in “Best American Travel Essays,” this collection is focused on the impact of the context of time on place. How does the context of someone’s personal growth affect how they see and experience a place, and what stories become unlocked at certain spaces in certain moments. Some sites included are well known to tourists, but with an individualized perspective, we can see how an individual’s personal context becomes a character in the space. Larger essays are book ended by snapshots into specific places of meaning in the larger setting, providing the reader with a greater sensational journey throughout the world, as I see it
Implementation and Assessment of a Course-Based Undergraduate Research Experience (CURE) in General Chemistry
Get PDFCourse-based undergraduate research experiences (CUREs) are growing in popularity in the chemistry community to replace traditional laboratory courses. This approach creates a research experience for a larger number of students than traditional research mentorship experiences offered at universities. CUREs can help students take ownership of projects, learn to design and troubleshoot experimental setups, problem-solve experiments that don’t have a “known answer”, and gain confidence in the laboratory. To assess the effectiveness of a general chemistry laboratory-based CURE course with DePaul students, the Experimental Design Ability Test (EDAT) and the Meaningful Learning in the Laboratory Instrument (MLLI) survey were given to the traditional General Chemistry Laboratory students and to the CURE laboratory students during the same quarter. The EDAT evaluates students’ ability to develop a hypothetical investigative design to test a claim. The MLII measures students’ expectations and thoughts about the laboratory before and after the experiments take place and whether they are integrating these thoughts with what they are doing hands-on in the laboratory course. These surveys were given at the start of the quarter and at the end of the quarter. Results of this study showed that students in the CURE course had higher experimental learning in the affective and cognitive domains compared to the non-CURE students