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Robb, Paul, September 16, 2016 [Interview]
No full textPaul Robb was interviewed on September 16, 2016, by Michael Birkner about his childhood during the Depression, his education, hearing about Pearl Harbor, and his World War II service as a Seabee in North Africa and in the Pacific Theatre.Roosevelt, Eleanor; Biemesderfer, Charles L.; Braddock, James J.; Truman, Harry S.World War I
Michael Rodriguez interviews fiction writer Michael Kimball
No full textAuthor Michael Kimball talks about moving away from Michigan to become a successful writer, his education, the fiction reading series he has started in Baltimore, the life-story-on-postcard project, and his book "Dear everybody." Kimball is interviewed by Michigan State University Librarian Michael Rodriguez for the Michigan State University Libraries' Michigan Writers Series
Benchmarking the Molecular Mechanics−Valence Bond Method: Photophysics of Styrene and Indene
No full textWe have recently studied the excited states of the simplest aryl olefin styrene (Bearpark, M. J.; Olivucci, M.; Wilsey, S.; Bernardi, F.; Robb, M. A. J. Am. Chem: Sec. 1995, 117, 6944-6953) at the CASSCF/4-31G level of theory. Full geometry optimization was shown to be essential in characterizing decay funnels for internal conversion (activated) and intersystem crossing (activationless) processes in this molecule. Here, we demonstrate that the CASSCF potential energy surfaces for styrene excited states can be simulated to an acceptable level of accuracy using a hybrid molecular mechanics-valence bond method (MMVB), which is many orders of magnitude less expensive computationally than CASSCF. The nonradiative deactivation of styrene and indene from Si is compared. Because ethylene torsions are restricted, the mechanism proposed for styrene S-1 decay (involving S-1/T-2, T-2/T-1, and T-1/S-0 surface crossings) is much less likely to occur in indene. The existence of both S-2/S-1 and S-1/S-0 conical intersections is consistent with the lack of fluorescence observed after exciting indene to S-2 in the gas phase and suggests that rearrangement reactions may be due to vibrationally excited S-0*
Oral history interview with Michael Royce, Tacoma, Washington
No full textMichael Royce discusses his time as a civil rights activist in the South and shares his thoughts on college life during the tumultuous 1960s. Drafted into the army following his graduation from college in 1968, Royce reflects on his military experience at Fort Lewis and talks about his involvement with the Lewis-McChord Free Press, an underground anti-war newspaper.The Michael Royce oral history interview forms the core of a class project by Beula Robb for the Community History Project under the supervision of Professor Michael K. Honey. The contents of Beula's project are contained in a looseleaf binder, which includes the original sound recording and transcript of the interview, Beulas research paper, and related research materials. Also included are thirty original copies of The Lewis-McChord Free Press newspaper, dated between January 1971 and October 1973, as well as an instruction booklet published by the GI Alliance containing organizational strategies and tactics. Selected issues of The Lewis-McChord Free Press are available online from the Antiwar and Radical History Project at this address: http://depts.washington.edu/antiwar/photo_gipapers.ph
Michael Rodriguez interviews author Paul Clemens
No full textAuthor Paul Clemens talks about his book "Made in Detroit," the genre of memoir, and writing about race. Clemens is interviewed by Michigan State University Librarian Michael Rodriguez for the MSU Libraries' Michigan Writers Series. Held in the MSU Main Library
The data on children’s media use: An interview with Michael Robb
No full text Since 2003, nonprofit organization Common Sense Media has studied the ways in which kids are growing up in the digital age. In this interview, research director Michael Robb shares recent findings about the media habits of young children, tweens, and teens. While the news coverage of these issues tends to be hyperbolic and alarming, Robb explains, the evidence gives a more balanced picture of kids’ lives today. </jats:p
Michael Rodriguez interviews author Tom Springer
No full textAuthor Tom Springer is interviewed about his writing career and his newest book "Looking for hickories". Springer talks about his career following after earning an Environmental Journalism degree from Michigan State University. He calls his genre "creative non-fiction" and explains how he weaves his memories into his books about life in rural and wild Michigan. Part of the Michigan State University Libraries' Michigan Writers Series. Springer is interviewed by Librarian Michael Rodriguez
Michael Rodriguez interviews author Gary Gildner
No full textAuthor Gary Gildner explains why he left his tenured teaching position to move to Idaho to became a full-time writer of poetry. Gildner talks about donating his personal papers to Michigan State University Libraries' Special Collections, his writing style and how he approaches writing. Gildner is interviewed by MSU Librarian Michael Rodriguez for the MSU Libraries' Michigan Writer Series. Held at the MSU Main Library
Product Distributions from Molecular Mechanics−Valence Bond Dynamics: Modeling Photochemical [4 + 4] Cycloadditions
No full textThe purpose of this paper is to study the model [4 + 4] photocycloaddition of butadiene + butadiene by using direct dynamics calculations-with no geometric constraints-to describe motion along excited-state reaction paths and subsequent decay to the ground state. We use the molecular mechanics-valence bond (MMVB) potential, which is calibrated against previous CASSCF calculations for this system (Bearpark, M. J.; Deumal, M.; Robb, M. A.; Vreven, T.; Yamamoto, N.; Olivucci, M.; Bernardi, F. J. Am. Chem. Sec. 1997, 119, 709-718). Our dynamics calculations show that efficient nonradiative decay of butadiene + butadiene in the presence of two different S-1/S-0 conical intersections can account for the formation of many products. The major product predicted by MMVB is consistent with the limited experimental data available
Gold standard of UK degrees is lost in translation
No full textInflated marks, overworked staff and politically compromised courses are the price of exploiting offshore UK registered students, says Michael Day
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