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    Ellen Wilson Leadership Center

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    The Ellen Wilson Leadership Center is the epicenter of leadership initiatives at Bryant University. Its core mission is to build extraordinary, ethical, and inclusive leaders capable of impacting the world. Anchored in the new Business Entrepreneurship Leadership Center (BELC), the center builds upon Bryant’s legacy of leadership and empowers all students to explore and enrich their leadership potential in ever greater ways during their college experience and well beyond. The center serves as a robust hub for groundbreaking research in leadership and management topics, including an undergraduate leadership summit and programming such as a lecture series and Leaders in Residence. Key Initiatives Ellen Wilson Leadership Fellows Women’s Leadership Institute Leadership certification available for all Bryant students Forté partnership Rich co-curricular programming, such as book groups and author seminars Experiential opportunities and learning labs Annual Undergraduate Leaders’ Summit Robust Leader in Residence program Mentorship matching and networking Undergraduate research opportunities Ellen Wilson Leadership Fellows Throughout their four years at Bryant, Ellen Wilson Leadership Fellows have access to intensive co-curricular leadership training, stipends, and other opportunities. The program awards $5,000 stipends annually to 20 incoming first-year students who show strong leadership skills or an interest in building skills. The stipend can be used to fund leadership growth opportunities such as academic research, unpaid internships, attending conferences, and study abroad programs. Wilson Fellows learn about leadership from faculty, Leaders in Residence, alumni mentors, their peers, and staff. This transformative opportunity helps shape their long-term path after Bryant — to be part of a community that focuses on leadership as a subject and on developing strong, bold, inclusive, ethical leaders for the future. The goals of the program are to support a sense of confidence, empowerment, and belonging at Bryant; to enable the pursuit of greater leadership opportunities; to build confidence in the classroom and a stronger sense of self-knowledge; and to help students apply their growing leadership skills to a variety of situations and life experiences.https://digitalcommons.bryant.edu/belc/1000/thumbnail.jp

    Vol. 5, issue 3

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    Geek the Library Jazz and world music collection Laptop Central … as busy as ever! Bryant’s newest author… John Duke Logan, class of 2016! 2 portable glass boards! Spotlight on Student Employee Melanie DeBarros — Class of 2014 Information Services Technology Fair What’s NEW in Graphic Novels ... The Architecture of Bryant - Past and Present Information Literacy Month Proclamation - 201

    “Only the National Socialist”: Postwar US and West German Approaches to Nazi “Euthanasia” Crimes, 1946-1953

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    The article discusses post World War II U.S. and West German judicial approaches to Nazi euthanasia crimes. The article focuses on two euthanasia defendants, Karl Brandt and Viktor Brack. The author talks about these crimes, which included lethal injections given to mentally disabled people in 1939. The author examines how the U.S. made the charge of conspiracy and crimes against humanity legally dependent on Nazi warmaking. The author explains that Germans tended to charge euthanasia patients under the German law of homicide, rather than conspiracy. The article also discusses the International Military Tribunal at Nuremberg, Germany

    Tipped-in poems in Poems by William Cullen Bryant

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    This edition contains four additional tipped-in poems by the book's author. Poems appear to be cut from various newspapers of the period. Signature by book's owner located on title page.Bryant, William Cullen, 1794-1878

    Robert E. L. Strider, President of Colby College, Receiving Honorary Degree

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    Photo of Robert E. L. Strider, President of Colby College, receving honorary degree from Bryant President E. Gardner Jacobs on July 29, 1967. The gentleman assisting with the conferral is Dr. Charles H. Russell, Vice President for Academic Affairs. Strider\u27s citation: President of one of New England\u27s leading colleges, accomplished eduator, academic authority on the 17th century, author and civic leader, you are renowned in the field of education. You have served as assistant in undergraduate courses at Radcliffe and at Harvard University, your alma mater, as a member of the faculty of Connecticut College, as Dean of the Faculty at Colby College, and since 1960 as President of that instituion. You are a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and you have filled leading offices in numerous commissions on higher education nationally and in New Egland. Recognizing your abilities as an educator and administrator, Concord College, Nasson College, and the University of Maine have conferred upon you honorary doctorates. Bryant College is pleased to add to these honors by conferrng upon you the degree of Doctor of Science in Business Administration, honoris causa.https://digitalcommons.bryant.edu/hist_photos/1109/thumbnail.jp

    [Memo from James G. Bryant, Regional Representative, United States Employment Service, regarding travel permits for itinerant laborers]

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    A memo from Regional Representative James G. Bryant, United States Employment Service, to all USES managers regarding travel permits for itinerant Japanese workers in the U. S. The memo describes the procedure to follow when these traveling workers apply for work permits and when a change of address occurs. The procedure ensures that these itinerant workers are able to be tracked when they move to new areas.The War Relocation Authority (WRA), together with the Wartime Civil Control Administration (WCCA), the Civil Affairs Division (CAD) and the Office of the Commanding General (OFG) of the Western Defense Command (WDC) operated together to segregate and house some 110,000 men women and children from 1942 to 1945. The collection contains documents and photographs relating to the establishment and administrative workings of the (WDC), the (WRA) and the (WCCA) for the year 1942

    Lecture, cooking demo, and dinner: Cooking with a Conscience

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    This is the archive of a lecture, cooking demo, and dinner given by Bryant Terry, nationally recognized eco-chef, author, and food-justice activist, co-author, with Anna Lappé, of Grub: Ideas for an Urban Organic Kitchen and author of the recently released Vegan Soul Kitchen. With the help of a Kellogg Foundation Food and Society Policy Fellowship, Bryant has started the Southern Organic Kitchen Project in order to educate primarily African-Americans living in the Southern United States about the connections between diet and health

    Letter Written by George Lyon to the Bryant College Service Club Dated March 27, 1944

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    *[Transcriber has assumed a language barrier to the author and has omitted “[sic]” notations] [Transcription begins] Gloversville N.Y.March 27.Clara BlaneyGen. ChairmanBryant Service Club Dear Mrs. Blaney, I was very pleased to receive your letter of the twenty first and also somewhat surprised as I had not heard from you for so long and did no know if the club was still operating or not. When I first received your letter I did not have Walters presant address and so did write untill I could send it to you. I also write him tonight and told him aboute your letter also the packages you have sent him but I do not know if he has received them or not as he has been to so many places since Thunderbird Field. at his last Base his mail got send to some other base and I do not know if he has received any of it or not. Walters presant address is a [?] Sgt. Walter J. Lyon 11069773Section 1 Flight CC.C.T.D. P.A.A.F.   Pyote, Texas Thanking you for your very nice letter and with best wishes for your continued success. [?] Very Truly Yours George Lyon [Transcription ends

    National Vanguard Articles, 2010-2023

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    This dataset encompasses text data from all 2,932 National Vanguard articles published from 2010 until early 2023. The National Vanguard is an American white nationalist organization related to the National Alliance. These organizations have been referred to as white supremacist, white nationalist, and neo-Nazi groups. The data include the title, author, year, date, and text. The data are in CSV format

    Re-Making Kozarac: Agency, Reconciliation, and Contested Return in Post-War Bosnia.

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    A presentation by author and anthropologist Sebina Sevic-Bryant. Discussion following. 102 Anheuser-Busch Hal
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