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Author Will Weaver will give Commencement keynote
No full textAuthor and outdoorsman Will Weaver will provide the keynote address during the Commencement ceremony on Saturday, May 16, at the University of Minnesota, Morris. The annual tradition for graduating seniors, family and friends will begin at 1:30 p.m. on the campus Mall
Letter from Roy E. Weaver to Tsuneo Iwata, April 21, 1942
No full textLetter of gratitude from Roy E. Weaver, president of First National Bank, Turlock California, to Tsuneo Iwata, president of Turlock Social Club, in regards to mass removal.The Nisaburo Aibara Collection features materials from the Turlock Social Club, a local Japanese-American community group active between 1939 and 1970. It contains documents regarding the Stockton, Turlock and Merced Assembly Centers and Japanese American Citizens League chapters. The Collection also features correspondences with reactions, responses, and preparations for the forced evacuation. Additionally, the Collection has records on the Central California Cantaloupe Company, Turlock Farm Corporation, Turlock Japanese Society, and family records and funeral service programs of Japanese-American residents of Turlock
Mrs. Chas H. Weaver postcard to Franklin County Woman Suffrage Association, October 1, 1914
No full textMrs. Chas H. Weaver wrote this letter to the "Suffrage Headquarters," the Franklin County Woman Suffrage Association, on October 1, 1914, requesting literature concerning women's suffrage.
The Franklin County Woman Suffrage Association was formed in 1912, after the Ohio Constitutional Convention elected to bring to a vote the question of removing the words "white male" from the state constitution with regard to voting rights. Headquartered in the Chamber of Commerce building in Columbus, Ohio, the organization put out regular publications, organized public speeches and meetings, distributed literature and held parades in support of the suffrage movement. Women's suffrage in Ohio was defeated in a special election in 1912 and again in 1914 and 1916 before a resolution narrowly passed in 1917 allowing municipal voting by women in Columbus. In 1920, the 19th Amendment passed, extending the vote to women and prohibiting state and federal government from denying suffrage on the basis of sex
Author Will Weaver discusses his book Barns of Minnesota at the University of Minnesota Crookston Bookstore.
No full textButt, Leanne. (2005). Author Will Weaver discusses his book Barns of Minnesota at the University of Minnesota Crookston Bookstore.. Retrieved from the University Digital Conservancy, https://hdl.handle.net/11299/220556
Back to the Future : Revisiting the climate change crisis a decade later
No full textDr. Weaver has served on numerous national and international committees, including being a Lead Author in the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. Dr. Weaver is a fellow of the Royal Society of Canada, the Canadian Meteorological and Oceanographic Society, the American Geophysical Union, the American Meteorological Society and the American Association for the Advancement of Science. He has been recognized with a CIAR Young Explorers award as one of the top 20 scientists in Canada under the age of 40 (2002), a Guggenheim Fellowship (2008) and the A.G. Huntsman Award for Excellence in Marine Science (2011). His books include Keeping our Cool: Canada in a Warming World (2008) and Generation Us: The Challenge of Global Warming (2011). Dr. Weaver was the leader of the Green Party of BC.Non UBCUnreviewedFacult
UA94/6/1 Ercell Jane Egbert: An Appreciation
No full textWeaver, Bill. Ercell Jane Egbert: An Appreciation. The author, a former student, teaches in the History Department and is Staff Assistant in the Graduate College at Western Kentucky University. Grateful appreciation is expressed to Mrs. Cleo Carner, Mrs. Virgie Morse, Miss Fannie Holland, Miss Sara Tyler and Miss Julia Neal for sharing their information
Citation quality and knowledge creation in tourism
No full textEmphasis on research quantity over quality in the modern corporatised university disincentivises mindful research where citations accurately reflect source content. To indicate the extent of this problem in tourism, this research analyses the 155 citations in peer-reviewed journals to Weaver's (2011) article “Can sustainable tourism survive climate change? published in Journal of Sustainable Tourism, which questions conventional wisdom on the need for tourism to prioritise climate change action. Over one-third (36.8%) of citations were ‘knowledge impeding’ due to inaccurate content citation, while none were ‘knowledge developing’ through application, testing or alteration of Weaver (2011) content. The remaining citations accurately cited source content and were therefore ‘knowledge facilitating’. No statistically significant relationship pertained between citation quality and journal quality, or between the former and concurrent reference to Scott's (2011) rejoinder “Why sustainable tourism must address climate change” published in Journal of Sustainable Tourism, a rejoinder. Significant relationships were identified with publication time and journal specialisation, with more recent years and non-tourism journals having lower quality citations; specifically, 64.0% of citations in 2016–2020 non-tourism journals were knowledge impeding. Recommendations include author disclosure statements confirming citation accuracy, random pre-publication audits of accepted papers, and provision of ‘good citation’ guidelines on journal websites.No Full Tex
Relationship between mercury concentration and size of long-jawed orb weaver spiders
No full textMethylmercury (MeHg) is an environmental contaminant that poses a serious threat to humans and wildlife. There are approximately 9 million water bodies in the United States alone that have all been contaminated with MeHg. Since there are so many water bodies, it is difficult to know the level of contamination for each, and whether or not they pose a threat to humans and/or wildlife. Ecologists use biosentinels, or a species that reflects the MeHg contamination of the aquatic ecosystem, in order to determine the level of contamination. In the present study, the author proposed the long-jawed orb weaver spider (Tetragnatha sp.) as a potential biosentinel for MeHg contamination of water bodies. The author collected spiders from 15 ponds in September and October of 2013, where she found a positive correlation between MeHg concentration and size of long-jawed orb weaver spiders. The author then found a positive relationship between MeHg concentration of the spiders and the overall MeHg contamination of the aquatic ecosystem, thus suggesting the long-jawed orb weaver spider is an effective biosentinel. This study proposes that long-jawed orb weaver spiders could be used as an efficient bioseninel to determine MeHg contamination in many of the 9 million water bodies across the United States
Weaver-Hightower Gives Summer Commencement Address
No full textUniversity of North Dakota Associate Professor of English Rebecca Weaver-Hightower will give the main address at UND’s Summer Commencement Friday, August 5, beginning at 3 p.m., in the Chester Fritz Auditorium. About 435 students are eligible to graduate when UND President Robert O. Kelley presides over his fourth summer commencement ceremony. UND annually graduates more than 2,700 students in ceremonies in May, August and December.
Live broadcast and recordings: The ceremony will be broadcast live on Grand Forks Cable Channel 3 and rebroadcast on the same channel Aug. 9-12 at 12:30 a.m., noon and 8 p.m.
UND also provides a live video stream of commencement to allow family and friends to participate in commencement, even if they cannot attend in person. This feed is provided in Adobe Flash Video format, so users may need to download the Free Flash Player.
The stream will begin broadcasting about 2:30 p.m. (CDT) on Friday, August 5. The ceremony begins at 3 p.m.
DVDs of the ceremony are available at the UND Bookstore. To purchase a copy, contact the bookstore at 701-777-4980.
If users have trouble seeing the video, they should contact UND tech support and chat with a representative, or call 701-777-6305.
If users are unable to view the commencement ceremony live, an archived video will be available by Tuesday, August 9.
Honorary degree: Also, the family of Kenneth Mellem, a longtime computer industry businessman and friend of the UND College of Business and Public Administration (CoBPA), will accept an honorary Doctorate of Letters on behalf of Ken, who passed away in June of 2010. The bestowing of honorary degrees, though a rarity for a summer commencement event, is a special tradition at UND, reserved for influential private and public figures over the years, including President John F. Kennedy, famed heart surgeon Michael DeBakey, philosopher Mortimer Adler, and basketball legend and UND alum Phil Jackson. Mellem, who lived in Eden Praririe, Minn., and Largo, Fla., earned a bachelor’s degree from CoBPA in 1966 and his master\u27s in 1968. He suggested and participated in the development of several new programs during his association with CoBPA, particularly the executive in residence at the University of Shanghai for Science and Technology, where he taught a course for each of the last eight years, and the annual Mellem Business Symposium held on the UND campus. Ken served three terms on the CoBPA Advisory Council and was offered emeritus status for his many contributions to the college. Chester Fritz Distinguished Professorship: Also part of this summer’s commencement ceremony, Roxanne Vaughan, professor of biochemistry& molecular biology, officially will be named a UND Chester Fritz Distinguished Professor, the University’s highest academic title. Vaughan has been instrumental in building an internationally recognized research program and is known for her collaborative efforts. She is an expert in the biochemistry of the dopamine transporter and its role in drug addiction. Continuously funded by the National Institutes of Health (NIH) since 1999, Vaughan recently accepted an invitation to serve as a member of the agency’s Center for Scientific Review (CSR) Molecular Neuropharmacology and Signaling Study Section. The NIH noted her scientific achievements, as well as the quality of her research accomplishments, journal publications and honors. Rebecca Weaver-High Tower: In her research and other scholarly work, Weaver-Hightower focuses on colonial and postcolonial studies; 19th and 20th century British and Irish literature; Australian, Caribbean, South African and Canadian literature. Her research delves into psychoanalytic and psychological criticisms; cultural studies; new historicism; visual media (including book illustrations and film) and landscape and literature as it pertains to island life culture. In 2011, during the school’s prestigious Founders Day ceremony, Weaver-Hightower was presented with the UND Foundation/Thomas J. Clifford Faculty Award for Graduate or Professional Teaching Excellence. She was recognized for her unique way of teaching and responding to students. “It’s not accurate to simply say, ‘Dr. Weaver-Hightower is a phenomenal teacher.’ She is of course, but she does more than simply teach within the confines of the classroom. Dr. Weaver-Hightower is one of those rare teachers who actually works to make her graduate students feel like they are her peers,” wrote student Jody Jensen about her mentor. Weaver-Hightower also is a published author of two books. Her most recent, “Empire Islands: Castaways, and Fantasies of Conquest in Post/Colonial Island Narratives (University of Minnesota Press, May 2007),” argues that European imperialism was enabled by a heroic genre of castaway stories that justified, or at least, made sense of, further expansion and maintenance of European conquests around the world. Weaver-Hightower was born in Rock Hill, S.C., to Jack W. Weaver and her mother, Betty Weaver. She received her bachelor’s in English from Clemson University in 1991 and her master’s in English from Winthrop University in Rock Hill in 1993. In 2002, she received her Ph.D. in English from the University of Kentucky. Her dissertation was the same topic as her eventual book of the same name, “Empire Islands.” She is married to UND Associate Professor of Education Foundation & Research Marcus Weaver-Hightower, another respected scholar and published author on campus. Before coming to UND, Weaver-Hightower was a visiting assistant professor at Michigan State University, and she has held teaching appointments at Queens College, Winthrop University, University of Kentucky and the International House English Language College in Brisbane, Australia. In addition to her books, Weaver-Hightower has written several published essays and essay-length pieces as well as a number of book reviews. She also has been invited to deliver presentations on her research at lectures and conferences around the world
Patterns of primary moult in the Weavers, Ploceidae
No full textIncludes bibliographical references.Patterns of renewal of feathers are poorly known in African birds. Moult is energetically costly and is thus an important part of a bird's annual cycle; moult needs to be fitted in with breeding activities, and in some species, migration. Ringers in southern Africa have been submitting primary moult data to SAFRING, the South African Bird Ringing Unit, since 1998, providing a large amount of data that the author has been curating and checking on an on-going basis as Ringing Coordinator. May main interest is in the weaverbirds and I have ringed several thousand Southern Masked Weavers Ploceus velatus and many other species. Les Underhill and Walter Zucchini developed a statistical model to analyse timing and duration of primary moult in a standardized way in 1988. Primary moult was analysed in the southern African weaverbird family using the Underhill-Zucchini method throughout. In some species, this method was applied to individual feathers as well as the whole wing
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