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''Menger Hotel,'' San Antonio, Texas
No full textThis view of the famous Menger Hotel in San Antonio was taken by A. F. Dignowity, the son of author, daguerreotypist, and physician Anthony Michael Dignowity. Dignowity operated for a relatively short period of time, and his work is uncommon. Source: Lawrence T. Jones III.Attributed to: Dignowity, A. F. (Anthony Francis), 1844-1921. Verso: [handwritten in ink] ''Menger Hotel'' San Antonio Texas
Journalism Excellence, Philanthropic Generosity, Literary Scholarship and Human Rights Activism Recognized at Lawrence University’s 155th Commencement
No full textFor the 25th — and final — time, Lawrence University President Richard Warch will lead the procession of seniors and honored guests to the stage where he’ll award honorary doctorates, confer bachelor’s degrees and congratulate students for completing their undergraduate education Sunday, June 13 during the college’s 155th commencement. Graduation ceremonies begin at 10:30 a.m. on the Main Hall green.
Warch will retire as Lawrence’s second-longest serving president at the end of the month. He is currently the longest-standing president of any college or university in Wisconsin and believed to be one of only 20 current presidents in the country who have served their present institutions for 20 years or more.
An expected 303 seniors, Lawrence’s largest graduating class since 1977, will receive Bachelor of Arts and/or music degrees. In addition, Lawrence will award honorary doctorate degrees to John Carroll, editor of the Los Angeles Times, Jonathan Fanton, president of the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation, Stanley Fish, dean of the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences at the University of Illinois-Chicago and Samantha Power, lecturer in public policy at the John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University.
Also, Professor of Music Robert Levy, who is retiring after 25 years as director of bands at Lawrence, will receive professor emeritus status and awarded an honorary master of arts degree, ad eundem.
A baccalaureate service, featuring Daniel Taylor, Hiram A. Jones Professor of Classics delivering the address “Making Connections,” will be held Saturday, June 12 at 11 a.m. in the Lawrence Memorial Chapel.
All four honorary doctorate degree recipients, along with President Warch, Lawrence Board of Trustees Chair Jeffrey Riester and student representative Andrea Hendrickson, a senior from Tillamook, Ore., will address the graduates during commencement. Both the baccalaureate service and commencement ceremony are free and open to the public.
Carroll, whose distinguished journalism career spans more than 40 years and includes seven Pulitzer Prizes, will receive an honorary doctor of laws degree. Named editor of the Los Angeles Times in 2001, he helped the paper earn five Pulitzers earlier this year, the second most ever won by a newspaper in a single year. The New York Times was awarded seven Pulitzer’s in 2002 for its coverage of the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks.
After beginning his career as a reporter for the Providence Journal in Rhode Island, Carroll was drafted into the Army and served in Alaska, writing for the base’s newspaper. He joined the Baltimore Sun as a reporter in the late 1960s, covering the Vietnam War and the Nixon administration. He became the subject of a front-page story in The New York Times after having his press credentials suspended for writing a story detailing U.S. plans to abandon Khe Sanh. Without his knowledge, the Army had imposed an embargo on news coverage of Khe Sanh. Following protests from media colleagues and a Congressional investigation, the Army restored Carroll’s credentials.
He spent seven years as a city editor and metropolitan editor at the Philadelphia Inquirer before being named editor of the Lexington Herald-Leader in Kentucky. Carroll returned to the Baltimore Sun as its editor in 1991, guiding it to Pulitzer Prizes in 1997 and ‘98 before taking editorial leadership of the Los Angeles Times.
Fanton, who will receive a honorary doctor of laws degree, has served as president of the Chicago-based MacArthur Foundation since September 1, 1999. With assets of nearly 180 million in support of public education, community development, system reform in mental health and juvenile justice, human rights, biodiversity preservation, reproductive health and international peace and security. It also supports public radio and television and the making of independent documentaries as well as support for exceptionally creative individuals through its famed “genius grant” Fellows program.
Before joining the MacArthur Foundation, Fanton served as president of New York City’s New School University (formerly known as New School for Social Research) from 1982-99. As president, he led the integration and enhancement of the seven divisions of the university, the expansion of the Greenwich Village campus and development campaigns that increased the university’s endowment from 80 million.
During his presidency, the New School merged with the Mannes College of Music, established a drama school in partnership with the Actor’s Studio, merged with the World Policy Institute, added a jazz and contemporary music program, a teacher education program, a creative writing program and an architecture department at Parsons School of Design.
Fanton began his career teaching American history at his alma mater, Yale University, where he earned his bachelor’s degree and Ph.D. He served as a special assistant to Yale President Kingman Brewster from 1970-73 and as associate provost from 1976-78. He then moved to the University of Chicago, where he spent the next four years as vice president for planning and also taught American history.
A board member of Human Rights Watch, the largest U.S.-based human rights organization and the Chicago Historical Society, Fanton is the author of “The University and Civil Society, Volumes I and II” and co-edited the books “John Brown: Great Lives Observed” and “The Manhattan Project: A Documentary Introduction to the Atomic Age.”
Fish will receive a doctor of humane letters. Considered one of America’s most distinguished scholars of English literature, law and literary theory, particularly the subjectivity of textual interpretation, he has served as a dean and distinguished professor of English, criminal justice and political science at UIC since 1999.
During an academic career spanning more than 40 years, Fish has held numerous major positions, including the Kenan Professor of English at Johns Hopkins University (1974-85) and the Arts and Sciences Distinguished Professor of English and Law at Duke University (1985-98). A USA Today article described Fish as “an erudite scholar who capably makes difficult subjects understandable… a brilliant original critic of the culture at large.”
Fish as written nearly a dozen books, among them “John Skelton’s Poetry,” “Surprised by Sin: The Reader in Paradise Lost,” the second edition of which received the Hanford Book Award in 1998, “Self-Consuming Artifacts,” which was nominated for a the National Book Award in 1972 and “There’s No Such Thing as Free Speech, and It’s a Good Thing, Too,” which earned the 1994 PEN/Spielvogel-Diamonstein Award. In the past 30 years, more than 200 articles, books, dissertations and review articles have been devoted to his work.
Fish is a frequent guest on shows ranging from the “MacNeil/Lehrer Newshour” to CNN’s “Firing Line” to “Hardball with Chris Matthews.” In 2003, the Chicago Tribune named him its “Chicagoan of the Year” for culture.
A graduate of the University of Pennsylvania, Fish earned his Ph.D. from Yale University and began his teaching career in the English department at the University of California-Berkeley.
Power, a human-rights activist, lawyer, scholar and award-winning author, will receive an honorary doctor of humane letters degree. Hrecent book, “A Problem from Hell: America and the Age of Genocide,” which examines U.S. responses to genocide in the 20th century, was awarded the 2003 Pulitzer Prize for general non-fiction, the 2003 National Book Critics Circle Award for general non-fiction and the Council on Foreign Relations’ Arthur Ross Prize for the best book in U.S. foreign policy.
She also co-edited the 2000 book, “Realizing Human Rights: Moving from Inspiration to Impact,” a collection of essays by leading activists, policy makers and critics who reflect upon 50 years of attempts to improve respect for human rights.
In 1998, she founded Harvard’s Carr Center for Human Rights Policy, which trains future leaders for careers in public service with a focus on the most dangerous human rights challenges, including genocide, mass atrocity, state failure and the ethics and politics of military intervention. She served as the Carr Center’s executive director until 2002.
A native of Ireland who moved to the United States when she was nine, Power covered the war in the former Yugoslavia from 1993-96 as a reporter for U.S. News & World Report, the Boston Globe and the London-based news magazine The Economist. A graduate of Yale University and Harvard Law School, she is currently working on a book on the causes and consequences of historical amnesia in American foreign policy
Dispelling the Myths Behind First-author Citation Counts
No full textWe conducted a full-scale evaluative citation analysis study of scholars in the XML research field to explore just how different from each other author rankings resulting from different citation counting methods actually are, and to demonstrate the capability of emerging data and tools on the Web in supporting more realistic citation counting methods. Our results contest some common arguments for the continued
use of first-author citation counts in the evaluation of scholars, such as high correlations between author rankings by first-author citation counts and other citation
counting methods, and high costs of using more realistic citation counting methods that are not well-supported by the ISI databases. It is argued that increasingly available digital full text research papers make it possible for citation analysis studies to go beyond what the ISI databases have directly supported and to employ more
sophisticated methods
Undulator-Based Laser Wakefield Accelerator Electron Beam Energy Spread and Emittance Diagnostic
No full textThe design and current status of experiments to couple the Tapered Hybrid Undulator (THUNDER) to the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (LBNL) laser plasma accelerator (LPA) to measure electron beam energy spread and emittance are presented
Interview with Lawrence T. Scott on Fragments of fullerenes and carbon nanotubes: designed synthesis, unusual reactions, and coordination chemistry, edited by Marina A. Petrukhina and Lawrence T. Scott
No full textAs discussed in this interview, Fragments of Fullerenes and Carbon Nanotubes brings together international experts in the field to discuss their findings related to all aspects of this fascinating, beautiful and fairly recently discovered form of carbon. Familiarly known as "buckyballs" for their similarity in appearance to the highly symmetrical geodesic domes of Buckminster Fuller (and, also, soccer balls), fullerenes, and the related carbon nanotubes, hold out the tantalizing possibility of offering true superconductivity, with the potential to allow us to more efficiently harness our current electricity supply and to power the photovoltaic devices that could decrease our dependence upon oil and electricity. Professor Scott, widely recognized for his early and continued ground-breaking work in the "rational" synthesis of C60 (a spherical fullerene composed of 60 carbon atoms), serves as co-editor of this volume (and co-author of Chapter 9), along with his colleague, and long-time collaborator in the field, Professor Marina Petrukhina (University of Albany). With a foreword by Sir Harold Kroto, awarded the 1996 Nobel Prize in Chemistry (with Robert F. Curl and Richard E. Smalley, for their discovery of this class of compounds), this volume covers a wide range of topics including current methods of synthesis, molecular geometry, and reactivity with metals, as well as descriptions of newer members of the fullerene family of molecules and related compounds, including open geodesic polyarenes, called fullerene fragments or buckybowls.Title supplied by cataloger
Pohled T. E. Lawrence v Sedmi sloupech moudrosti na arabskou populaci ve světle postkoloniální teorie
No full textDalo by se íci, že bylo již napsáno mnohé o spisovateli a dobrodruhovi T. E. Lawrencovi. Ve dvacátém století bylo na nj bohužel nahlíženo jen ve svtle filmu Davida Leana Lawrence z Arábie. Tento film však pinesl zavádjící prvky a pro poznání díla tohoto autora se jeví jako nedostaující. Hlavn z tchto dvod se dílo Seven Pillars of Wisdom (Sedm sloup moudrosti), kterým se zabývám ve své práci dostalo do pozadí dní. Místo díla se stal stedem pozornosti Lawrence sám. Vzniklo tak mnoho spekulací kolem Lawrencovy sexuální orientace a jeho role agenta v tajných službách. To ale není hlavním tématem této práce, ale abychom pohlédli na Lawrence v úplnosti, je zde podkapitola, která odkazuje na patnou literaturu vnující se práv výše zmiované tématice. Snahou je tedy vrátit se k dílu T. E. Lawrence a analyzovat jej podle postkoloniálních teorií. Na poátku je Lawrencv struný životopis. Soustednost je upena jen na nejdležitjší fakta, která jej ovlivnila. Popsaná jsou jeho studentská léta na Oxfordu, jeho následné sobení archeologa na Blízkém Východ, v Egypt a Sýrii a dále setkání s lidmi jako byli David Hogarth i Gertruda Bellová, kteí mli vliv na tvorbu Lawrencových názor na koloniální tematiku. Doba první svtové války s sebou pinesla nové výzvy a Lawrence se stal lenem Intelligence Office v Káhie, kde pedložil svj...It can be said that The Seven Pillars of Wisdom is a work whose true potential has not yet been discovered. That the work presents itself to be of greater value than may have previously seemed goes without question. However, during the more than eighty years of its existence, it was the author and not the work that created major interest in the academic world. The complicated character of T.E. Lawrence offered itself to psycho-analyst interpretation and most critiques have been built on these premises. Other works have concentrated on major historical events in Lawrence's life creating thorough biographies and numbers of fascinating approaches, some more, some less misleading were created. However. The Seven Pillars of Wisdom (from henceforth "Seven Pillars") foremostly survived in the shadows of David Lean's film "Lawrence of Arabia" and it was only during the late seventies, that concentration on the Seven Pillars as a text had begun to be cultivated. Additionally, it has only been during the past few years that works by writers such as Gertrude Bell, T.E. Lawrence or Charles M. Doughty have begun to gain a larger public interest. The aim of this work, however, is not to analyse the historical purpose of Lawrence's presence in the Middle East, nor to align the Seven Pillars with historical facts. Such...Department of Anglophone Literatures and CulturesÚstav anglofonních literatur a kulturFaculty of ArtsFilozofická fakult
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On "General Conservation Equations for Multiphase Systems: 1. Averaging Procedure" by M. Hassanizadeh and W. G. Gray.
No full textThe author comments upon a point made in the referenced paper on general conservation equations. The author directs attention to the fact that the referenced paper's authors correctly point out that when an averaging operation involves integration, the integrand multiplied by the infinitesimal volume must be an additive quantity. The importance of this requirement is emphasized
Lawrence Durrell and the Alexandria quartet: influences shaping his fiction.
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The construction of Karen Karnak: The multi-author-function
No full textThis thesis is situated within the comparatively recent developments of Web 2.0 and the emergence of interactive WikiMedia, and explores the mode of authorship within a Read/Write culture compared to that of a Read/Only tradition. The hypothesis of this study is that the role of the audience has become merged with the author, and as such, represents new functions and attributes, distinct from a more conventional concept of authorship, in which the roles of audience and author are more separate. Read/Write and participatory culture, as defined by this study, is focused on collaboration, and includes the influences of D.I.Y. culture, Open-Source practices and the production of text by multiple authors. Multi-authorship presents a re-thinking of several concepts which support the notion of the individual author, since the focus of multi-authorship is not on attribution and ownership of a finished text, but on the continued malleability of a text. Modes of multi-authorship, demonstrated in the use of the pseudonyms Alan Smithee and Karen Eliot, represent declarative authors whose names signify multiple origins, whilst concurrently indicating a distinct body of work. The function of these names form an important context to this study, since primary research involves the construction of an experimental mode of multi-authorship utilising WikiMedia technology and the interaction of thirty nine participants, who are invited to create a body of work under the collective pseudonym Karen Karnak. The data generated by this experiment is analysed using aspects of Michel Foucault's author-function to identify and determine power structures inherent in the WikiMedia context. The interplay of power structures, including concepts such as identity, ownership and the body of work, affect the resulting mode of authorship and contribute to the construction of Karen Karnak, suggesting further areas of research into the emerging multi-author
Charge Diagnostics for Laser Plasma Accelerators
No full textThe electron energy dependence of a scintillating screen (Lanex Fast) was studied with sub-nanosecond electron beams ranging from 106 MeV to 1522 MeV at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory Advanced Light Source (ALS) synchrotron booster accelerator. The sensitivity of the Lanex Fast decreased by 1percent per 100 MeV increase of the energy. The linear response of the screen against the charge was verified with charge density and intensity up to 160 pC/mm2 and 0.4 pC/ps/mm2, respectively. For electron beams from the laser plasma accelerator, a comprehensive study of charge diagnostics has been performed using a Lanex screen, an integrating current transformer, and an activation based measurement. The charge measured by each diagnostic was found to be within +/-10 percent
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