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Excerpt from 2024 Keynote Address by Wade Rouse
No full textAn excerpt from the show-stopping keynote address by author Wade Rouse. He received a standing ovation and a request for a reprise/sing-along of a middle school performance of Delta Dawn
Jillson, Willard Rouse, 1890-1975 (MSS 682)
No full textFinding aid only for Manuscripts Collection 682. Writings and supporting materials of Willard Rouse Jillson, State Geologist of Kentucky, author and historian. Includes manuscripts, page proofs, photographic negatives, and promotional pamphlets for his books
Gloves Off: Women’s Self-Defense
No full textEditor’s note: Wendy L. Rouse is the author of the recent book Her Own Hero: The Origins of the Women’s Self-Defense Movement (New York University Press). Most of the research from this article below comes from that work
Alvinonemertes christianeae Sagorny & Döhren & Rouse & Tilic 2022, gen. et sp. nov.
No full textAlvinonemertes christianeae gen. et sp. nov. urn:lsid:zoobank.org:act: B7C6217E-4889-4C9B-AEB8-B306A24FD93B Fig. 8F Diagnosis Alvinonemertes christianeae gen. et sp. nov. can be attributed to the genus Alvinonemertes gen. nov. based on the strong support for a sister group relationship between the five species of this genus. Etymology For Christiane Wallnisch, lab technician at the Institute of Evolutionary Biology, University of Bonn. Acknowledging her support in the histology lab over many years. Christiane is a masterful histologist and has not only trained the first and the last author in histological sample preparation but has also sectioned most of the nemerteans included in this study. Material examined Holotype COSTA RICA • spec. (ethanol; entirely used up in DNA extraction; only image and DNA available); methane seep Jaco Scar; 9.11507° N, 84.83978° W; depth 1887 m; 22 Oct. 2018; Shana Goffredi and Drew Bewley leg.; collected by HOV Alvin, Dive 4976; associated with experimentally deployed wood; SIO-BIC N253. Paratype COSTA RICA • 1 spec. (ethanol; entirely used up in DNA extraction; only image and DNA available); non-seep seamount Quepos Plateau; 8.58548° N, 84.54836° W; depth 2184 m; 26 Oct. 2018; Lisa Levin and Todd Litke leg.; collected by HOV Alvin, Dive 4980; associated with a naturally occurring wood fall; SIO-BIC N261. Description Specimens 4–5 mm long and 0.5 mm in diameter. Body rounded. One pair of cephalic furrows. Head not demarcated from rest of body, rounded. Body coloration translucent white. Internal organs well visible through body wall (Fig. 8F). Ecology This species was collected on naturally occurring and experimentally deployed wood (Pereira et al. 2022), including the same deployment associated with a paratype of the scaleworm Peinaleopolynoe elvisi Hatch & Rouse in Hatch, Liew, Hourdez & Rouse, 2020 (MZUCR 1000-01 ex SIO-BIC A9752). Remarks The new species is attributed to the genus Alvinonemertes gen. nov. based on the executed phylogenetic analysis. In the concatenated analysis, A. christianeae gen. et sp. nov. is sister to the newly described species A. claudiae gen. et sp. nov. from the North western Pacific. Together, both species are sister to A. tatjanae gen. et sp. nov. from the North western Pacific. This well-supported clade is firmly nested within the new genus Alvinonemertes (Fig. 7).Published as part of Sagorny, Christina, Döhren, Jörn von, Rouse, Greg W. & Tilic, Ekin, 2022, Cutting the ribbon: bathyal Nemertea from seeps along the Costa Rica margin, with descriptions of 2 new genera and 9 new species, pp. 132-174 in European Journal of Taxonomy 845 (1) on pages 156-157, DOI: 10.5852/ejt.2022.845.1959, http://zenodo.org/record/725885
The Queer History of the Suffrage Movement
No full textWendy Rouse spoke about the traditional narrative of suffrage history that sanitized the private lives and public personas of individual suffragists, contributing to the historical erasure of the lives and loves of prominent queer suffragists. Her talk will explore how suffragists both reinforced and challenged heteronormative views of gender and sexuality while highlighting the role of queer suffragists in the movement.
Wendy Rouse is an Associate Professor of History at San Jose State University whose scholarly research focuses on the history of women and children in the United States during the Progressive Era. The author of Her Own Hero: The Origins of the Women’s Self-Defense Movement, she is currently researching the lives of queer suffragists.
This event was sponsored by the Department of Gender and Women’s Studies, the Center for the Humanities, the Suffrage Centennial Committee, the Gender and Sexuality Center, and the Women’s Center
Constructing Spatial Narratives: Considerations and Practices Across Communities
No full textThis panel considers how critical, innovative approaches with GIS draw our attention to new pathways of digital mapping. How can the practice of digital mapping within a critical lens produce new cartographies for spaces of possibility? How can spatial narratives restore the tarnished lineages of cultural geographies obscured from history? The projects represented on this panel are connected through a theoretical grounding that harnesses the power of imagining cultural recovery of landscape as a means of redress from historical obscurity. These projects represent a form of social justice that responds to how injustice is identified only through social memory; in this way mapping can contribute as an artifact of cultural restoration and catalyst for further action. link:https://vimeo.com/439454686 Christy Hyman- organizer, panelist Alli Crandell- panelist Sue Bergeron- panelist Jesse Rouse-panelist Shane Lynch- panelist Jamila Moore Pewu-panelist Hilary Green- discussant, Chai
Genotype-by-sequencing facilitates genetic mapping of a stem rust resistance locus in Aegilops umbellulata, a wild relative of cultivated wheat
No full textCitation: Edae, E. A., Olivera, P. D., Jin, Y., Poland, J. A., & Rouse, M. N. (2016). Genotype-by-sequencing facilitates genetic mapping of a stem rust resistance locus in Aegilops umbellulata, a wild relative of cultivated wheat. Bmc Genomics, 17, 10. doi:10.1186/s12864-016-3370-2Background: Wild relatives of wheat play a significant role in wheat improvement as a source of genetic diversity. Stem rust disease of wheat causes significant yield losses at the global level and stem rust pathogen race TTKSK (Ug99) is virulent to most previously deployed resistance genes. Therefore, the objective of this study was to identify loci conferring resistance to stem rust pathogen races including Ug99 in an Aegilops umbelluata bi-parental mapping population using genotype-by-sequencing (GBS) SNP markers. Results: A bi-parental F-2:3 population derived from a cross made between stem rust resistant accession PI 298905 and stem rust susceptible accession PI 542369 was used for this study. F2 individuals were evaluated with stem rust race TTTTF followed by testing F-2:3 families with races TTTTF and TTKSK. The segregation pattern of resistance to both stem rust races suggested the presence of one resistance gene. A genetic linkage map, comprised 1,933 SNP markers, was created for all seven chromosomes of Ae. umbellulata using GBS. A major stem rust resistance QTL that explained 80% and 52% of the phenotypic variations for TTTTF and TTKSK, respectively, was detected on chromosome 2U of Ae. umbellulata. Conclusion: The novel resistance gene for stem rust identified in this study can be transferred to commercial wheat varieties assisted by the tightly linked markers identified here. These markers identified through our mapping approach can be a useful strategy to identify and track the resistance gene in marker-assisted breeding in wheat
Daily Reflections (Meditations) on the Scriptures from the Roman Catholic Lectionary.
No full text“We hold this treasure in earthen vessels, so that the surpassing power may be of God, and not from us.” 2 Cor 4:7-8.||Many of us reading this from today's First Reading will be reminded of the hymn "Earthen Vessels," by John Foley, S.J.:|"We hold a treasure not made of gold, in earthen vessels wealth untold, one treasure only, the Lord, the Christ, in earthen vessels," from the refrain.|This reading, coming as it does fairly close to the feasts of Ascension and Pentecost, urges the readers to recognize that Jesus, while no longer with them in an identifiable human form, remains--thanks to the workings of the Spirit--within them.|Oh, but here's the rub.|God does not give us a choice of vessel in which to hold that Spirit. We are given one at birth. We might prefer it to be a gold vessel, one we'd easily deem worthy to hold the Spirit of Jesus; 14 Carats--lots of precious inlaid jewels of magnificent color. But, our vessel is of clay, and depending on its age and experience, weathered, chipped, with maybe even a crack or two.|I recall a delightful story that re-cycles into my e-mails once in a while. I do not recall its author if even one's been noted.|There was a poor woman who traveled a long way in the morning to a well where she filled two pots for the fresh water needs of her family each day.|One pot was sturdy never having been damaged. The other, while the same size, had a crack that had been repaired carefully more than once.|Each day when the woman arrived home the younger pot was still just as full as when she had left the well. The second pot in contrast, despite its best efforts, leaked water so that when they reached her home, it was barely half full.|After some time, the damaged pot lamented, "I'm so sorry that I can't help you any more than I do. I only have half the amount of water that we start with and yet you never seem to be upset with me. I don't understand."|"My goodness," she replied, "I've known and loved you for many years. I'm well aware that you've been harmed and repaired the best that we could and that you try as hard as you can to hold in as many drops of water as possible."|"What you've not seen is that I planted seeds along our route and as we have walked the drops that fell have nourished the seeds each and every day. Now, there is a beautiful flower garden all along our path, full of many kinds of flowers and wonderful colors."|"The best part is that everyone who travels the path gets to enjoy the fruits of your work. How can I thank you?"|The pot smiled and after a moment or two replied, "I'm ready. When do we leave for the well?"|Our unique life is THE most precious gift we've been given. It makes all other gifts possible. It makes us a Child of God, able to live our lives, love as the Spirit urges, and be the active force of Jesus in and to the world.|What needs to happen so that we embrace this thought completely and with conviction? Maybe we have chips that can be polished? Or cracks to which we can apply a more effective glue? Or maybe we can just relax and enjoy ourselves as we are?|I suggest some time be spent in prayer about this, prayers of gratitude, discovery, and celebration.|While we're at it, let's not forget to notice the flowerbeds we have nurtured along the path of our lives
Microrheological study of single chain dynamics in semidilute entangled flexible polymer solutions: Crossover from Rouse to Zimm modes
No full textThe dynamics of polymer chains in entangled semidilute solution have been of theoretical and experimental interest. Among a number of characteristic lengths and times of the polymer in solution, those of the correlation blob are the key to understand the applicability of the Rouse and Zimm models to rheology of the semidilute solution. Direct rheological measurements of Rouse and Zimm modes are limited as the corresponding time scale is out of the range of classical rheological techniques. We investigated the single chain dynamics of entangled poly(ethylene oxide) in semidilute aqueous solutions by high-frequency micro-rheology based on diffusing-wave spectroscopy compared to classical shear macro-rheology. Concentration dependence of the three characteristic times of the entangled polymer chains, reptation time, entanglement time, and correlation time, was studied with the help of the time-concentration superposition. At the low frequency range, dynamic moduli measured by macro-rheology and micro-rheology showed a good agreement without adjustable parameters. At the higher frequency range, we found the Rouse regime in the mean square displacement of the probe particles and in the magnitude of the complex specific viscosity of the solution. We propose a simple method to estimate the boundary of the Rouse regime. Finally, at the high frequency range, we demonstrate that the contribution of the solvent to the solution viscosity needs to be subtracted to observe the power-law behavior of the Zimm mode
A generalized rouse incoherent scattering function for chain dynamics of unentangled polymers in dynamically asymmetric blends
No full textThe chain dynamics of unentangled polymers strongly deviates from the expected Rouse behavior when they form part of dynamically asymmetric polymer blends. These are miscible systems where the two components display very different segmental mobility (or glass transition). The generalized Langevin equation formalism seems to be a suitable theoretical framework for this situation. In this work, we have used an approximation based on (i) a simplified generalized Langevin equation and (ii) the phenomenological result of nonexponential decay of the Rouse model correlators in asymmetric polymer blends. In the framework of this approximation, we have deduced an incoherent scattering function for chain dynamics of unentangled polymers in asymmetric blends. This function - which in the Rouse limit reduces to the well-known de Gennes expression - is validated by molecular dynamics simulation results of a canonical asymmetric blend: poly(methyl methacrylate)/poly(ethylene oxide). © 2013 American Chemical Society.The author thanks support from the projects IT-654-13 (GV) and MAT2012-31088.Peer Reviewe
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