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Unseen (poem) by Rachel Walker
No full textVideo recording of Rachel Walker, BAAC district secretary and campus co-lead at the Plano Campus.
Please see Dr. Whitney\u27s January 2022 About Us recording for more information on the BAAC and an introduction to Black History Month events at Collin College
Cougarcast: Author Brando Skyhorse
No full textInterview with author Brando Skyhorse, author of Take this Man, Collin\u27s Book-in-Common for 2017-2018
Panel: Eugenics, Whiteness, and the Marginalization of African-American Workers
No full textSession Chair, Rachel Gunter, Collin College Katherine Walters, Texas State Historical Association, “Saving White Supremacy: Women Primary Suffrage in Texas” Michael Phillips, Collin College, “A Serviceable Villain: Eugenics and the Fear of the ‘Underman’ in Texas Thought and Culture” Keith Volanto, Collin College, “‘Up in Arms’: Local Protests vs. the Placement of Black CCC Camps in Texas” (presented by Kyle Wilkison, Collin College
Pulitzer Prize Winner Philip Shultz
No full textPulitzer Prize winner and author of My Dyslexia Philip Schultz visited Collin College on March 5-7, 2013 for live discussions, writer\u27s workshop and signing events
Women, Soldiers, and Immigrants: Woman Suffrage in Texas
No full textJoin us as Collin College celebrates the Centennial of the 19th Amendment during Women’s History Month!
On August 26, 1919, the Susan B. Anthony Amendment was officially became the 19th Amendment of the United States Constitution barring any state from denying the right to vote “on account of sex.” Some states granted full woman suffrage before the 19th Amendment, but many American women were first able to vote in 1920. Collin College is hosting several events to commemorate the centennial of the 19th Amendment and the Texan women who were part of the fight for voting rights.
On Tuesday, March 23rd at 1-2:15p.m., Dr. Rachel Gunter of Collin College will give an talk titled “Women, Soldiers, and Immigrants: Woman Suffrage in Texas,” via Zoom. Dr. Gunter’s research focuses on woman suffrage and how it affected the voting rights of multiple groups including immigrants, African Americans, soldiers, and veterans in Texas
2023-2024 Book-in-Common Teaching Guide
No full textEDITOR’S INTRODUCTION
As always, the 2023-2024 Teaching Guide exemplifies the Collin College Book-in-Common Committee’s commitment to the goal of a year-long, college-wide engagement with an important book and its author. Highlights of this year’s Guide include:
Resources for connecting with local Native American History and Heritage Responses to the text including original artwork, explorations of the major themes in Night of the Living Rez, and connections to political science and social science concepts. Videos on modern-day reservation life and interviews with the author. Classroom, lab and library resources including Videos on modern-day reservation life, interviews with the author and extensive library and historical references. Support for a variety of teaching modalities including class discussion, journaling and reflection, extended student research, essay and research paper assignments, annotated bibliographies, and creative assignments.
The materials contained here will deepen our thinking and strengthen our teaching. Please join me in thanking the contributors who have generously made this year’s Guide a reality.
--Marta Moor
2024-2025 Book-in-Common Teaching Guide
No full textEDITOR’S INTRODUCTION
As always, the 2024 - 2025 Teaching Guide exemplifies the Collin College Book-in Common Committee’s commitment to the goal of a year-long, college-wide engagement with an important book and its author. This dystopian novel discusses themes of art, culture, survival, relationships, health, and memory. Highlights of this year’s Guide include: New for 2024 – 2025 Fall 2024 Assessment-aligned activities for COAT Core Objective Personal Responsibility Review the interactive teaching strategies and access scaffolding activities Responses to the text including explorations of the major themes in Station Eleven, reflection prompts, subject assignments, and connections to art, biology, and social science concepts. Links to videos on book themes and interviews with the author. Classroom activities organized by discipline. Support for a variety of teaching modalities including class discussion, journaling and reflection, extended student research, essay and research paper assignments, and creative assignments. The novel Station Eleven, which was a finalist for the National Book Award and the PEN/Faulkner Award, won the 2015 Arthur C. Clarke Award, the Toronto Book Award, and the Morning News Tournament of Books.
The materials contained here will deepen our thinking and strengthen our teaching.
It is my great honor to follow Marta Moore (retired) as the editor of the Teaching Guide. You will note that I have maintained Marta’s wonderfully useful and collaborative guide in its original layout and design. Thanks, Marta!
Melissa JohnsonProfessor of HistoryiCollin Campu
Leveraging Distortions: Explanation, Idealization, and Universality in Science by Collin Rice: Reply by the Author
No full textReplies to Jay Odenbaugh, Jennifer Jhun, and Catherine Elgin by Collin Rice author of "Leveraging Distortions: Explanation, Idealization, and Universality
Bostrycapulus latebrus Collin 2005, SP. NOV.
No full textBOSTRYCAPULUS LATEBRUS SP. NOV. <p> <i>Synonymy</i></p> <p> <i>Crepidula aculeata</i> - Hoagland, 1977 [in part]: 364.</p> <p> <i>Crepidula</i> cf. <i>aculeata</i> - Mexico. Collin, 2003a: 541– 593. Collin, 2003b: 618–640.</p> <p> <i>Holotype:</i> FMNH 282358, shell and ethanol-preserved soft parts. Shell illustrated in Figure 11; length = 15.0 mm, width = 11.9 mm, height = 4.1 mm. Frozen tissue is also deposited at the FMNH under the same lot number.</p> <p> <i>Type locality:</i> just north of La Paz, Baja California Sur, Mexico, along the coast of Ensenada La Paz near El Comitán. Collected from rocks in the low intertidal zone.</p> <p> <i>Other material from the type locality:</i> FMNH 282193 (paratype), FMNH 282194.</p> <p> <i>Diagnosis: B. latebrus</i> can be distinguished from other species of <i>Bostrycapulus</i> by DNA sequence data and by its direct development from large eggs with embryos that retain larval features (unlike <i>B. pritzkeri</i>). The shell morphology and anatomy of <i>B. latebrus</i> do not differ from that described above for <i>B. aculeatus</i>. Diagnostic DNA sequence differences distinguishing <i>B. latebrus</i> from all other <i>Bostrycapulus</i> species are in the following positions in the COI sequences submitted to GenBank (position 1 = position 1537 of the <i>D. yakuba</i> mitochondrial genome, GenBank # X03240): 3 (g), 108 (c), 144 (g), 192 (g), 243 (a), 270 (c), 306 (g), 327 (g), 423 (c), 522 (t).</p> <p> <i>Distribution:</i> material whose identity can be verified as <i>B. latebrus</i> has only been collected near La Paz, Mexico. Shells that may be from this species occur commonly along the Pacific coast of Baja California and have been reported from as far north as southern California. However, observations of development and DNA data are necessary before their identity can be verified.</p> <p> <i>Description:</i> shell morphology and anatomy are the same as for <i>B. aculeatus</i>, although the shells of the live-collected material were all smaller than large examples of <i>B. aculeatus</i> and <i>B. odites</i>. The protoconch distinguishes this species from <i>B. calyptraeformis</i> and <i>B. odites</i>, and <i>B. pritzkeri</i>, but cannot be used to clearly distinguish it from the other species of <i>Bostrycapulus</i>. <i>B. latebrus</i> has direct development from eggs with a diameter of 488 Mm. The embryos develop into intracapsular ‘veligers’ with a very small but distinct un-pigmented velum, a small round head vesicle and a single embryonic kidney on each side. An operculum is present but is lost before hatching. Embryonic shell sculpture consists of widely spaced rows of fine granules similar to the larval sculpture of <i>C. lingulata</i> (Collin, 2000b). Embryos hatch as crawling juveniles. Maximum shell length 16 mm (<i>N</i> = 20).</p> <p> <i>Etymology:</i> The species name <i>latebrus</i> is Latin, meaning ‘hidden’ or ‘obscure’, referring to both the difficulty of distinguishing this from the other species of <i>Bostrycapulus</i> and also to the fact that shells are often so encrusted with epibionts that they are effectively hidden in the field.</p> <p> <i>Notes:</i> <i>C. californica</i> Tryon, 1886 is a <i>nomen nudum.</i> However, it may possibly have been applied to this species in the previous literature. Fossil shells with similar morphology occur in the Pliocene and Pleistocene of California, USA and Baja California, Mexico.</p>Published as part of <i>Collin, Rachel, 2005, Development, phylogeny, and taxonomy of Bostrycapulus (Caenogastropoda: Calyptraeidae), an ancient cryptic radiation, pp. 75-101 in Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 144 (1)</i> on pages 97-98, DOI: 10.1111/j.1096-3642.2005.00162.x, <a href="http://zenodo.org/record/5433494">http://zenodo.org/record/5433494</a>
Bostrycapulus pritzkeri Collin 2005, SP. NOV.
No full textBOSTRYCAPULUS PRITZKERI SP. NOV. <p> <i>Synonymy</i></p> <p> <i>Crepidula aculeata</i> - Parodiz, 1939 [in part]: 695. Hoagland, 1977 [in part]: 364.</p> <p> <i>Bostrycapulus aculeatus</i> - Olsson & Harbison, 1953: 280. Simone, 2002 [in part]: 18.</p> <p> <i>Crepidula</i> cf. <i>aculeata</i> - Australia. Collin, 2003a: 541– 593.</p> <p> <i>Crepidula</i> cf. <i>aculeata</i> - Sydney. Collin, 2003b: 618– 640.</p> <p> <i>Holotype:</i> Australian Museum #C400000, shell and ethanol-preserved soft parts. Shell illustrated in Figure 11; length = 14.8 mm; width = 11.8 mm; height = 4.1 mm. Frozen tissue of this specimen: FMNH 282361.</p> <p> <i>Type locality:</i> Edwards Reef, Sydney, Australia. 33∞51¢S, 151∞13¢E. Low intertidal zone on rocks.</p> <p> <i>Other material from type locality:</i> FMNH 282302 (paratypes).</p> <p> <i>Diagnosis: B. pritzkeri</i> can be distinguished from the other species in <i>Bostrycapulus</i> by its large, globose protoconch, and direct development from large eggs that produce embryos lacking the larval features present in other direct developing species of <i>Bostrycapulus</i>. Diagnostic DNA sequence differences distinguishing <i>B. pritzkeri</i> from all other <i>Bostrycapulus</i> species are in the following positions in the COI sequences submitted to GenBank (position 1 = position 1537 of the <i>D. yakuba</i> mitochondrial geneome, GenBank # X03240): 183 (c), 256 (c), 315 (c), 360 (c), 395 (c), 417 (g), 444 (g), 471 (g), 477 (c).</p> <p> <i>Distribution:</i> south-eastern Australia. The Australian National Museum contains shells with this morphology from the coast of New South Wales and Queensland, but the species identity of the latter material needs to be verified with additional observations of live material and genetic data.</p> <p> <i>Description:</i> shell morphology and anatomy of <i>B. pritzkeri</i> are the same as <i>B. aculeatus</i> except that the yellow or cream pigment makes a pattern of radial stripes or narrow triangles extending from the edge of the foot to the mantle edge. Direct development proceeds from large, ~545 Mm, eggs. Intracapsular embryos retain few larval characters. The velum is reduced to a simple ridge at the base of the tentacle (Fig. 6) and the food groove is absent. There is no operculum and the head vesicle is medium-sized and free of yolk. The embryonic shell has widely spaced rows of granular sculpture which are not visible on the protoconchs examined with SEM. The very large egg size results in the most globose and least coiled of any <i>Bostrycapulus</i> protoconch (Fig. 5A).</p> <p> <i>Etymology:</i> the name <i>pritzkeri</i> is in honour of R. Pritzker, president of the Pritzker Foundation. The Foundation’s support of the Pritzker Laboratory of Molecular Systematics and Evolution at the Field Museum made this work possible.</p>Published as part of <i>Collin, Rachel, 2005, Development, phylogeny, and taxonomy of Bostrycapulus (Caenogastropoda: Calyptraeidae), an ancient cryptic radiation, pp. 75-101 in Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 144 (1)</i> on pages 95-96, DOI: 10.1111/j.1096-3642.2005.00162.x, <a href="http://zenodo.org/record/5433494">http://zenodo.org/record/5433494</a>
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