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Being (and Feeling) Gogol: Reading and Recognition in Jhumpa Lahiri’s The Namesake
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The True Romance of W.E.B. Du Bois’s Dark Princess
W.E.B Du Bois’s 1928 novel Dark Princess has had a long and contradictory reception. On the one hand, scholars admire how it offers a prescient model of the possibilities in our own time of intergroup solidarity as well ... -
Back Story – Summer 2014
(UMBC Magazine, 2014-07-02) -
Creation in shifting to digital
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Greater aridity increases the magnitude of urban nighttime vegetation-derived air cooling
(IOP Publishing, 2021-02-15)High nighttime urban air temperatures increase health risks and economic vulnerability of people globally. While recent studies have highlighted nighttime heat mitigation effects of urban vegetation, the magnitude and ... -
Faith, Science, and Trust: African American Clergy & Community Conversation on COVID-19
(UMB Digital Archive, 2021-01-22)Is it safe to participate in a COVID-19 clinical trial? How can we be sure that all groups are represented in vaccine research? And will there be equitable distribution once the vaccine is available? These were some of ... -
Jobs at Risk of Automation in the USA: Implications for Community Colleges
(Taylor & Francis, 2021-01-25)Advancing technologies such as artificial intelligence and robots are steadily replacing jobs in the USA. Continuous skill-upgrading and re-skilling are critical for workers to remain employable throughout their careers. ... -
Examining Civic Outcomes Between 2- and 4-Year Colleges: A Case Study of Two Postsecondary Institutions
(SAGE, 2021-01-11)While postsecondary education appears to promote civic mindedness and engagement, relatively little is known about the association between civic outcomes and types of postsecondary education, as well as across different ... -
Using Archival Research to Develop Historical Thinking Skills in an Introductory Interdisciplinary Course
Though the value of working with historical primary sources to conduct independent research is wellestablished in the literature, opportunities for this kind of research are usually confined to classes for advanced majors. -
Turkish Teachers, Migrant Knowledge, and ‘the Qurʾan School Problem’ in West Germany
(2020-08-14)Beginning in early 1976, West Germans learned through media reports of the existence in the country of what were referred to, somewhat misleadingly, as “Qurʾan schools.” These were extracurricular courses where Muslim ... -
Why Change Now? Cognitive Reappraisal Moderates the Relation between Anxiety and Resistance to Sunk Cost
(Springer Nature, 2021-01-06)To minimize distress associated with choices with uncertain consequences, individuals with high levels of anxiety may continue with familiar choices rather than seek out novel choices. As a result, they might be more ... -
‘Hand & Soul’: The Fin de Siècle Sociopoetics of Way & Williams and the Auvergne Press
(Springer Nature, 2021-01-05)This chapter looks at two small presses in Chicago in the late nineteenth century in terms of how their organizational infrastructure impacted the aesthetics and literary qualities of the books published. Way & Williams ... -
Keys to Improving Outcomes of Tree Planting Campaigns
(International Union for Conservatoin of Nature, 2020) -
Using Physiological Cues to Determine Levels of Anxiety Experienced among Deaf and Hard of Hearing English Language Learners
(ACM, 2020-10)Deaf and hard of hearing English language learners encounter a range of challenges when learning spoken/written English, many of which are not faced by their hearing counterparts. In this paper, we examine the feasibility ... -
Measurement Invariance of Psychotic-Like Symptoms as Measured With the Prodromal Questionnaire, Brief Version (PQ-B) in Adolescent and Adult Population Samples
(Frontiers, 2021-01-21)Valid measurement of group differences in self-reported psychotic-like experiences (PLEs) requires knowing any group-specific measurement properties of the instruments. We investigated the measurement invariance of the ... -
Black Power in Washington, D.C., 1961-1998
In late 1967, Stokely Carmichael, the nation’s foremost Black Power advocate, surveyed the landscape of U.S. politics looking for a place where concerted black organizing could have its deepest impact. He chose Washington, D.C. -
Marital quality, gender, and later-life depressive symptom trajectories
We analyze six waves of data (2006–2016) from the Health and Retirement Study (n = 4,342) to examine how marital quality is associated with depressive symptom trajectories among a group of continuously married older adults. ... -
What is the Shape of Water?
The audience enters a pitch black room with thousands of invisible organisms floating above their heads in a skylight aquarium. They’re invited to speak, and if they do their voice drops to a chant-like rumbling sound that ...
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