{ "objects": [{ "title": "Doing Science in the University: Practical Considerations", "presenter": "James A. 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Evaluating the Question and Pursuing the Answers", "presenter": "John Milhelich", "affiliation": "Sociology, Anthropology, and Justice Studies", "date": "2002-04-09", "academic_year": "2001/02", "record_type": "event", "type": "Text", "format": "record", "original_link": "http://www.uidaho.edu/class/mric/archives/pre-2010/spring2002", "object_location": "", "reference_url": "/digital/mric/items/mric2001-02-007.html" }, { "title": "Pacifists, Revolutionaries and Terrorists: The Rocky Road of Comparative History", "presenter": "Dale Graden", "affiliation": "History; Latin American Studies", "date": "2002-04-16", "academic_year": "2001/02", "record_type": "event", "type": "Text", "format": "record", "original_link": "http://www.uidaho.edu/class/mric/archives/pre-2010/spring2002", "object_location": "", "reference_url": "/digital/mric/items/mric2001-02-008.html" }, { "title": "Would the Real Forest Stewards Please Stand up?", "presenter": "JD Wulfhorst; Julia Parker", "affiliation": "Rural Sociology; Natural Resources; Counseling & School Psychology", "date": "2002-04-23", "academic_year": "2001/02", "record_type": "event", "type": "Text", "format": "record", "original_link": "http://www.uidaho.edu/class/mric/archives/pre-2010/spring2002", "object_location": "", "reference_url": "/digital/mric/items/mric2001-02-009.html" }, { "title": "Multicultural Ethical Dilemmas in Counseling", "presenter": "Jerry Fischer", "date": "2002-04-30", "academic_year": "2001/02", "record_type": "event", "type": "Text", "format": "record", "original_link": "http://www.uidaho.edu/class/mric/archives/pre-2010/spring2002", "object_location": "", "reference_url": "/digital/mric/items/mric2001-02-010.html" }, { "title": "Interdisciplinary Research at the University of Idaho", "presenter": "Charles R Hatch", "affiliation": "Research & Graduate Studies", "date": "2003-01-28", "academic_year": "2002/03", "record_type": "event", "type": "Text", "format": "record", "original_link": "http://www.uidaho.edu/class/mric/archives/pre-2010/spring2003", "object_location": "", "reference_url": "/digital/mric/items/mric2002-03-001.html" }, { "title": "Crisis in the Public Realm", "presenter": "Nels Reese", "affiliation": "Architecture", "date": "2003-02-04", "academic_year": "2002/03", "record_type": "event", "type": "Text", "format": "record", "original_link": "http://www.uidaho.edu/class/mric/archives/pre-2010/spring2003", "object_location": "", "reference_url": "/digital/mric/items/mric2002-03-002.html" }, { "title": "Villa Bitricci Viva Las Vegas", "presenter": "David Giese", "affiliation": "Art", "date": "2003-02-11", "academic_year": "2002/03", "record_type": "event", "type": "Text", "format": "record", "original_link": "http://www.uidaho.edu/class/mric/archives/pre-2010/spring2003", "object_location": "", "reference_url": "/digital/mric/items/mric2002-03-003.html" }, { "title": "Directing Nikolai Gogol's Class Russian Satire in Moscow -- (Idaho!)", "presenter": "Nike Imoru", "affiliation": "Theatre Arts", "date": "2003-03-04", "academic_year": "2002/03", "record_type": "event", "type": "Text", "format": "record", "original_link": "http://www.uidaho.edu/class/mric/archives/pre-2010/spring2003", "object_location": "", "reference_url": "/digital/mric/items/mric2002-03-004.html" }, { "title": "Preserving Our Jazz Heritage: The International Jazz Collections", "presenter": "Lewis Ricci", "affiliation": "International Jazz Collections", "date": "2003-03-11", "academic_year": "2002/03", "record_type": "event", "type": "Text", "format": "record", "original_link": "http://www.uidaho.edu/class/mric/archives/pre-2010/spring2003", "object_location": "", "reference_url": "/digital/mric/items/mric2002-03-005.html" }, { "title": "Conceptualizing Time in Spatial Terms (or Not)", "presenter": "Kurt Queller", "affiliation": "English", "date": "2003-03-25", "academic_year": "2002/03", "record_type": "event", "type": "Text", "format": "record", "original_link": "http://www.uidaho.edu/class/mric/archives/pre-2010/spring2003", "object_location": "", "reference_url": "/digital/mric/items/mric2002-03-006.html" }, { "title": "My Three Decades of Scholarly Activities at UI - From Environmental Studies to Nanomaterials Research", "presenter": "Chien Wai", "affiliation": "Chemistry", "date": "2003-04-01", "academic_year": "2002/03", "record_type": "event", "type": "Text", "format": "record", "original_link": "http://www.uidaho.edu/class/mric/archives/pre-2010/spring2003", "object_location": "", "reference_url": "/digital/mric/items/mric2002-03-007.html" }, { "title": "Why General Education and What Can (or Can't) We Do About It.", "presenter": "Bill Voxman", "affiliation": "Mathematics", "date": "2003-04-08", "academic_year": "2002/03", "record_type": "event", "type": "Text", "format": "record", "original_link": "http://www.uidaho.edu/class/mric/archives/pre-2010/spring2003", "object_location": "", "reference_url": "/digital/mric/items/mric2002-03-008.html" }, { "title": "Autonomous Vehicles", "presenter": "Dean Edwards; Joe Feeley; Richard Wall", "affiliation": "Mechanical Engineering; Electrical Engineering", "date": "2003-04-15", "academic_year": "2002/03", "record_type": "event", "type": "Text", "format": "record", "original_link": "http://www.uidaho.edu/class/mric/archives/pre-2010/spring2003", "object_location": "", "reference_url": "/digital/mric/items/mric2002-03-009.html" }, { "title": "How to Kill Bacteria in 100 Simple Steps", "presenter": "Ken Bayles", "affiliation": "MMBB", "date": "2003-04-22", "academic_year": "2002/03", "record_type": "event", "type": "Text", "format": "record", "original_link": "http://www.uidaho.edu/class/mric/archives/pre-2010/spring2003", "object_location": "", "reference_url": "/digital/mric/items/mric2002-03-010.html" }, { "title": "New Challenges/Developments in Investment Analysis", "presenter": "Mario Reyes", "affiliation": "Business", "date": "2003-04-29", "academic_year": "2002/03", "record_type": "event", "type": "Text", "format": "record", "original_link": "http://www.uidaho.edu/class/mric/archives/pre-2010/spring2003", "object_location": "", "reference_url": "/digital/mric/items/mric2002-03-011.html" }, { "title": "Bats, cats, and rats: what they can tell us about making humans live longer, healthier lives", "presenter": "Steve Austad", "affiliation": "Biological Sciences", "date": "2004-01-27", "academic_year": "2003/04", "record_type": "event", "type": "Text", "format": "record", "original_link": "http://www.uidaho.edu/class/mric/archives/pre-2010/spring2004", "object_location": "", "reference_url": "/digital/mric/items/mric2003-04-001.html" }, { "title": "Lost in Space-Organization of Spatial Memory and its Potential Role in Architectural Design", "presenter": "Steffen Werner", "affiliation": "Psychology and Communication Studies", "date": "2004-02-03", "academic_year": "2003/04", "record_type": "event", "type": "Text", "format": "record", "original_link": "http://www.uidaho.edu/class/mric/archives/pre-2010/spring2004", "object_location": "", "reference_url": "/digital/mric/items/mric2003-04-002.html" }, { "title": "Using Mathematics to Approach Big Questions", "presenter": "Mark Nielsen", "affiliation": "Mathematics", "date": "2004-02-10", "academic_year": "2003/04", "record_type": "event", "type": "Text", "format": "record", "original_link": "http://www.uidaho.edu/class/mric/archives/pre-2010/spring2004", "object_location": "", "reference_url": "/digital/mric/items/mric2003-04-003.html" }, { "title": "An Interdisciplinary Approach to Teaching Research Methods", "presenter": "Molly Stock", "affiliation": "Forest Resources; Computer Science", "date": "2004-02-17", "academic_year": "2003/04", "record_type": "event", "type": "Text", "format": "record", "original_link": "http://www.uidaho.edu/class/mric/archives/pre-2010/spring2004", "object_location": "", "reference_url": "/digital/mric/items/mric2003-04-004.html" }, { "title": "An Ear for Jazz", "presenter": "Dan Bukvich; Alan Gemberling; Robert McCurdy", "affiliation": "Lionel Hampton School of Music", "date": "2004-02-24", "academic_year": "2003/04", "record_type": "event", "type": "Text", "format": "record", "original_link": "http://www.uidaho.edu/class/mric/archives/pre-2010/spring2004", "object_location": "", "reference_url": "/digital/mric/items/mric2003-04-005.html" }, { "title": "Scientist or Entrepreneur--In Search of My True Identity", "presenter": "Matthew Morra", "affiliation": "Soil & Land Resources Division", "date": "2004-03-02", "academic_year": "2003/04", "record_type": "event", "type": "Text", "format": "record", "original_link": "http://www.uidaho.edu/class/mric/archives/pre-2010/spring2004", "object_location": "", "reference_url": "/digital/mric/items/mric2003-04-006.html" }, { "title": "An Interdisciplinary Program in Product Realization", "presenter": "Steve Beyerlein; Don Elger; Linda Morris", "affiliation": "Mechanical Engineering; Business", "date": "2004-03-09", "academic_year": "2003/04", "record_type": "event", "type": "Text", "format": "record", "original_link": "http://www.uidaho.edu/class/mric/archives/pre-2010/spring2004", "object_location": "", "reference_url": "/digital/mric/items/mric2003-04-007.html" }, { "title": "The Academic Study of the Bible: Intersection of Disciplines", "presenter": "Jance Capel Anderson", "affiliation": "Philosophy", "date": "2004-03-23", "academic_year": "2003/04", "record_type": "event", "type": "Text", "format": "record", "original_link": "http://www.uidaho.edu/class/mric/archives/pre-2010/spring2004", "object_location": "", "reference_url": "/digital/mric/items/mric2003-04-008.html" }, { "title": "Between Disciplines: Subject(s) to Exchange", "presenter": "Stephan Flores", "affiliation": "English", "date": "2004-03-30", "academic_year": "2003/04", "record_type": "event", "type": "Text", "format": "record", "original_link": "http://www.uidaho.edu/class/mric/archives/pre-2010/spring2004", "object_location": "", "reference_url": "/digital/mric/items/mric2003-04-009.html" }, { "title": "Tools for Music: Bringing Modern Technology to the Art of Reedmaking", "presenter": "Susan Hess; Tom Hess", "affiliation": "Music; Biological and Agricultural Engineering", "date": "2004-04-06", "academic_year": "2003/04", "record_type": "event", "type": "Text", "format": "record", "original_link": "http://www.uidaho.edu/class/mric/archives/pre-2010/spring2004", "object_location": "", "reference_url": "/digital/mric/items/mric2003-04-010.html" }, { "title": "Developing the New Living Learning Center", "presenter": "Dan Schoenberg", "affiliation": "Auxiliary Services", "date": "2004-04-20", "academic_year": "2003/04", "record_type": "event", "type": "Text", "format": "record", "original_link": "http://www.uidaho.edu/class/mric/archives/pre-2010/spring2004", "object_location": "", "reference_url": "/digital/mric/items/mric2003-04-011.html" }, { "title": "Discovering the International Law Nexus with Idaho: The College of Law's Annual International Law Symposium", "presenter": "Russell Miller", "affiliation": "Law", "date": "2004-04-27", "academic_year": "2003/04", "record_type": "event", "type": "Text", "format": "record", "original_link": "http://www.uidaho.edu/class/mric/archives/pre-2010/spring2004", "object_location": "", "reference_url": "/digital/mric/items/mric2003-04-012.html" }, { "title": "Probing the Earth’s Interior with Galápagos Volcanoes", "presenter": "Dennis Geist", "affiliation": "Geology", "description": "The Galapagos Islands are best known for their biota, but they also form one of nature's premier natural laboratories for studying the earth's deep interior. The islands are situated adjacent to a giant spreading crack that forms a boundary between two of the earth's tectonic plates, where a characteristic type of magma is produced from the shallow mantle. In contrast, the magmas that have constructed the Galapagos Islands are thought to be derived from a plume upwelling from the earth's deep mantle, and they have a different characteristic composition. The compositions of the erupted lavas can therefore be used as a tracer, to show extensive mixing between the mantle plume and the upper part of the earth's mantle. Once magma is produced, it ascends builds up beneath the volcanoes, causing their surfaces to bulge. We use precision GPS measurements that are telemetered to the University of Idaho to measure this swelling. Sierra Negra volcano is currently (as of September 1) expanding at 77 cm/y, which we attribute to over 10 million cubic meters of magma pushing up from a depth of only 2 km.", "date": "2004-09-07", "academic_year": "2004/05", "record_type": "event", "type": "Text", "format": "record", "original_link": "http://www.uidaho.edu/class/mric/archives/pre-2010/fall2004/geist", "object_location": "", "reference_url": "/digital/mric/items/mric2004-05-001.html" }, { "title": "Promoting Biomedical Research in Idaho", "presenter": "Mike Laskowski", "affiliation": "Biology; WWAMI", "description": "Three years ago the state of Idaho was offered a unique opportunity to enhance its biomedical research. The National Institutes of Health (NIH) requested proposals to build a statewide research network to increase the number of grant awards in states like Idaho that traditionally receive a small share of research grants. Because of unprecedented cooperation between the three universities, UI, ISU and BSU, Idaho received $8.3 M in funding over three years. Under the BRIN (Biomedical Research Infrastructure Network) Program, researchers, students and postdoctoral fellows realized improved research facilities, release time from teaching, start up costs and seed grants to improve the output of biomedical research. During this time Idaho doubled its NIH grant support, leading the nation in rate of growth. Building on this success we applied for and recently received $16M over five years to extend the research network to the other colleges and universities in the state. The long term goal of these programs is to create sustainable growth in research. That means technology transfer, jobs and a developing bioscience industrial base. Central to this mission is building a core strength in bioinformatics and a high speed telecommunications network that will surmount geographic barriers. Cooperation and collaboration are the operative terms that will be necessary if Idaho is to capitalize on this opportunity to promote future research in the state.", "date": "2004-09-14", "academic_year": "2004/05", "record_type": "event", "type": "Text", "format": "record", "original_link": "http://www.uidaho.edu/class/mric/archives/pre-2010/fall2004/laskowski", "object_location": "", "reference_url": "/digital/mric/items/mric2004-05-002.html" }, { "title": "Visual Culture and Culture Studies", "presenter": "Ivan Castaneda", "affiliation": "Art & Design", "description": "Since its beginning in Britain in the 1950's, the field of Cultural Studies has in many ways defined what a possible interdisciplinary discipline might be. Unfortunately, the project of cultural studies has been splintered and diluted in many of its manifestations in American academic institutions. Visual Culture, a relatively new and still burgeoning discipline, has possibly (or could possibly) embrace and disseminate many of cultural studies' most important contributions as an interdisciplinary field. I will outline and discuss the intersections between cultural studies and visual culture while raising some possible future contributions of the latter in terms of some ofthe most important cultural questions in our world today.", "date": "2004-09-21", "academic_year": "2004/05", "record_type": "event", "type": "Text", "format": "record", "original_link": "http://www.uidaho.edu/class/mric/archives/pre-2010/fall2004/castaneda", "object_location": "", "reference_url": "/digital/mric/items/mric2004-05-003.html" }, { "title": "Financial Engineering: The Process of Measuring and Controlling Risk", "presenter": "Terrance Grieb", "affiliation": "Business & Economics", "description": "Risk management is at the core of successful business operations. This discussion will explore the current methods for identifying risk exposures and implementing strategies to control market risk. A specific discussion of measuring and hedging interest rate and insolvency risk for a financial institution will be used to demonstrate current theory and practice in this area, and to develop the foundation for ongoing research.", "date": "2004-09-28", "academic_year": "2004/05", "record_type": "event", "type": "Text", "format": "record", "original_link": "http://www.uidaho.edu/class/mric/archives/pre-2010/fall2004/greib", "object_location": "", "reference_url": "/digital/mric/items/mric2004-05-004.html" }, { "title": "Equine Cloning: Past, Present and Future", "presenter": "Dirk Vanderwall", "affiliation": "Animal and Veterinary Science", "description": "The ability to clone mammals using somatic cell nuclear transfer (e.g., Dolly the sheep) has been recognized as a scientific milestone, because it demonstrated that a fully differentiated somatic cell from the body can be genetically “reprogrammed” back to the undifferentiated state of a one-cell zygote (embryo), which can then initiate and undergo complete embryonic/fetal development resulting in the birth of an animal genetically identical to the original cell donor. Potential uses of equine cloning include: 1) preservation of genetics from individual animals that would otherwise not be able to reproduce such as geldings (castrated males), 2) preservation of genetic material of endangered and/or exotic species such as Przewalski’s horse and 3) because of the companion animal role that horses fill for some individuals, it is likely that some horse owners will have individual animals cloned for emotional fulfillment. Of these, cloning geldings to produce reproductively intact males for breeding purposes will likely be the first direct application of equine cloning. Although some breed associations (e.g., The Jockey Club, American Quarter Horse Association) do not presently allow the registration of cloned animals, for some equine sporting activities (dressage, show-jumping) breed registry status is irrelevant, which eliminates that regulatory impediment to the use of cloning technology. 2003 was a notable year for equine cloning. We reported the birth of three mule foals cloned from a fetal fibroblast cell line (Science 2003;301:1063) and Galli et al. (Nature 2003;424:635) reported the birth of a horse foal cloned from an adult fibroblast cell line. Despite the recent success of equine cloning, like other species, the efficiency of equine cloning is low; less than 3% of cloned embryos produced with our current cloning system result in offspring. Based on experience with other species, the primary problem contributing to the inefficiency of cloning is “cloned offspring syndrome”, which is characterized by a high incidence of embryonic, fetal and/or placental developmental abnormalities that result in extremely high rates of embryonic loss, abortion and stillbirths throughout gestation; and compromised neonatal health after birth. Cloned offspring syndrome has been especially problematic in cattle and sheep where problems are manifested throughout gestation and the neonatal period. The embryonic/fetal and/or placental developmental abnormalities that result in abortion, stillbirth or compromised neonatal health are thought to reflect incomplete or abnormal genetic reprogramming of the donor nucleus, specifically related to critically important imprinted genes. Future work in the area of equine cloning will be directed at understanding the factors that contribute to the current inefficiency of the cloning process, which clearly has relevance to the clinical (future) application of this emerging technology.", "date": "2004-10-05", "academic_year": "2004/05", "record_type": "event", "type": "Text", "format": "record", "original_link": "http://www.uidaho.edu/class/mric/archives/pre-2010/fall2004/vanderwall", "object_location": "", "reference_url": "/digital/mric/items/mric2004-05-005.html" }, { "title": "Thelma and Louise meet the Hilton sisters at the court of Louis XIV: Editing the Memoirs of Hortense and Marie Mancini", "presenter": "Sarah Nelson", "affiliation": "Foreign Languages and Literatures", "description": "Since 1992, an important project of canon expansion has been underway, under the auspices of the University of Chicago Press and with considerable financial backing from the National Endowment for the Humanities. \"The Other Voice in Early Modern Europe\" is a series of primary source texts written predominantly by women in Italy, France, Spain, Germany, Holland, Belgium, the Scandinavian countries, Poland, and Russia between 1400 and 1750. The purpose of the series is to enlarge the canon of historical, literary, and philosophical authors and texts, by making available in inexpensive and easily accessible English editions, texts that had previously been untranslated and unavailable in modern editions, some existing only in manuscript. The volumes of the series are published simultaneously in hardcover and paperback; they are a boon to students of western culture in general, whether in school or out, although they are intended especially for assignment in college classrooms. In my talk I will discuss my involvement with this project, which includes not only the publication of the texts in the \"Other Voice\" series but also an effort at integration of these texts into college and secondary curricula. Over the past several years one of the series editors, Albert Rabil, has been organizing NEH summer institutes on early modern women writers in Europe for college and high school teachers (college teachers in 2001 and 2003; high school in 2002 and 2004). In July 2003, I attended one of these institutes at the University of North Carolina in Chapel Hill; following on that experience, I was given the opportunity to translate and edit the texts for one of the projected volumes in the series, the memoirs of the sisters Hortense and Marie Mancini. After a ten-minute presentation of the \"Other Voice\" series and the related project of curricular development, I will devote the rest of my talk to a discussion of the Mancini sisters and the interest of their memoirs for modern readers. Published in 1675 and 1677 respectively, the memoirs of Hortense and of Marie Mancini represent nearly the earliest examples in France of women’s accounts of their own lives, published under their own names and during their lifetimes. Furthermore, the lived experience that the two sisters recount conforms to no contemporary mold: nieces of the powerful Cardinal Mazarin and members of the court of Louis XIV, they fled their unhappy marriages and chose the unheard-of alternative of independent travel and a life on the road. In choosing to publish their memoirs, Hortense and Marie extend their acts of self-determination to the discursive realm. As both make clear at the start of their memoirs, they write in order to rehabilitate their reputations; in other words, by telling their own stories in print, they are reclaiming the right to define their public images themselves. Moreover, the publication of their personal stories is very much a strategic action with repercussions both within the circle of their own lives and beyond it, in the broader culture of their time. It is a maneuver in their drawn-out struggles with their husbands—indeed, Hortense’s text was actually entered as evidence, first by her side and later by her husband’s, in their legal battles; but because of their prominence, it is also a contribution to the public debate on marriage. The two memoirs offer a rare look at the negotiation of personal independence within the confines of early modern aristocratic women’s lives.", "date": "2004-10-12", "academic_year": "2004/05", "record_type": "event", "type": "Text", "format": "record", "original_link": "http://www.uidaho.edu/class/mric/archives/pre-2010/fall2004/nelson", "object_location": "", "reference_url": "/digital/mric/items/mric2004-05-006.html" }, { "title": "A Periodic Table of the Moles: Building Bridges to Native American Students", "presenter": "Nick Natale", "affiliation": "Chemistry", "description": "The public image of chemistry is not so positive. What's the first word you associate with \"chemical\"? (usually: toxic). The American Chemical Society's (ACS) National Chemistry Week (NCW) was an idea invented by George Pimentel and implemented by Helen Free, to get the word out on the positive contributions of chemists and chemistry. For the last decade we have been involved with NCW, highlighting positive things that chemistry contributes. For example, one place chemistry is usually mentioned in a positive light is on the sports page, and our program \"The Chemistry of winning Teams\" reminded the general public that chemistry is involved in making protective sports equipment. Native Americans are underrepresented in science and engineering. When we were planning our National Chemistry Week activities for 2001, we put some thought into how to include Native American students and teachers in our activities. Using a Tony Hillerman murder mystery novel as a lead reference, we developed a theme as a focus for our activities \"A Periodic Table of the Moles\". The mole is the unit which chemists use to discuss molecules, and has also become the unofficial mascot of the ACS. The mole is also an animal in Native American creation stories. Southwest tribes have gained renown for their skill as sculptors, and small mole sculptures are available of numerous minerals, all of which have well known chemical compositions. We've collected quite a few of these sculptures, and arranged them in an approximate periodic table to emphasize the chemical nature of materials, this is on permanent display in Renfrew Hall. We have involved HOIST students in our programs, and one of our students, Feather Broncheau, became the first Native American UI student to make a presentation at a National ACS Meeting. This year's NCW theme is health. We've worked with Solo Greene of the Nez Perce Environmental Restoration and Waste Management program, to chemically analyze one of the traditional herbal medicines. What I think is noteworthy is that we involved Nez Perce students Jacob Taylor and Trina Villalobos in the study. The long range goal is to mentor students to become teachers and role models. I'll show you lots of pictures of moles, and how a chemist goes about studying the chemical composition of an herbal medicine.", "date": "2004-10-19", "academic_year": "2004/05", "record_type": "event", "type": "Text", "format": "record", "original_link": "http://www.uidaho.edu/class/mric/archives/pre-2010/fall2004/natale", "object_location": "", "reference_url": "/digital/mric/items/mric2004-05-007.html" }, { "title": "The Benefits and Challenges of Launching a New Interdisciplinary Ph.D. Program", "presenter": "Lisette Waits", "affiliation": "Wildlife Resources", "description": "To achieve biodiversity conservation and sustainable production in anthropogenically fragmented landscapes, scientists need to be trained in a holistic fashion that emphasizes integration and interdisciplinary collaboration. Traditional graduate programs in conservation biology, forestry, and agriculture fall short of this goal as they train scientists with research skills in narrowly defined disciplines and rarely, if ever, facilitate integration across disciplines. We present an NSF funded experiment in graduate education that develops and evaluates an integrative educational model with an emphasis on developing interdisciplinary research skills and knowledge in the biological, physical and social sciences. This educational program involves researchers from 7 departments and 3 colleges at the University of Idaho plus four research areas at the Tropical Agricultural Research and Higher Education Center (CATIE) in Costa Rica. Eighteen PhD students have been recruited to form 5 interdisciplinary teams that are addressing research questions in conservation biology and sustainability of agricultural and forestry production in temperate and tropical ecosystems. Team members representing biological, physical and social sciences work together to develop and implement interdisciplinary research projects. The structure, challenges and successes of this new graduate program will be highlighted.", "date": "2004-10-26", "academic_year": "2004/05", "record_type": "event", "type": "Text", "format": "record", "original_link": "http://www.uidaho.edu/class/mric/archives/pre-2010/fall2004/waits", "object_location": "", "reference_url": "/digital/mric/items/mric2004-05-008.html" }, { "title": "Turning Your World Upside Down: A Sabbatical Adventure", "presenter": "Margrit von Braun", "affiliation": "College of Graduate Studies", "description": "The opportunity to take a sabbatical leave is one of the privileges of an otherwise wonderful job. The term “sabbatical year” is derived from an ancient practice whereby every seventh year vineyards and fields remained fallow and debtors were released from their obligations. In modern times, the sabbatical leave is defined (by Webster’s) as “a leave of absence, often with pay, usually granted every seventh year, as to a college professor, for travel, research, or rest.” At UI, the definition includes “study, work, or travel” (note the absence of “rest”!) in order to “enhance the faculty member’s value to UI.” I will describe some of the wonderful adventures I had in Spring 2004 with a small subset of the 3000 photos I took. My travels took me from a modern university in southern Thailand to Nelson Mandela’s self-described university in prison on Robben Island in South Africa. I also discovered connections among a lead smelter in the Russian Far East, one in Zambia, and Idaho’s own Bunker Hill site that surprised me and validated years of work. As a Humble Explorer of Planet Earth, I was reminded that serendipity is better than planning and that, in the words of Michael Faraday, “nothing is too wonderful to be true.”", "date": "2004-11-02", "academic_year": "2004/05", "record_type": "event", "type": "Text", "format": "record", "original_link": "http://www.uidaho.edu/class/mric/archives/pre-2010/fall2004/vonbraun", "object_location": "", "reference_url": "/digital/mric/items/mric2004-05-009.html" }, { "title": "What’s a Poem Worth?", "presenter": "Robert Wrigley", "affiliation": "English", "description": "There is considerable evidence to suggest that poetry may well be the least practical art in existence, though its impracticality, from the poet’s point of view, at least, is self-inflicted. It is a fact that no one in the United States of America can make a living writing poems. Some poets have made something like a living on what’s called “the reading circuit,” speaking their poems to audiences, becoming something more like itinerant performers of poetry than writers of it. But no genuine poet, writing with high literary standards, in this nation, has ever been able to support him/herself on what the world of publishers and readers will pay for the art. And yet, people keep on writing poems. People in ever-growing numbers want to be poets. And sales of poetry books are higher than ever American history. Why? Perhaps it is because there is no one more deeply and significantly in touch with language than poets. The poet’s language is, after all, the same language we use to woo and to wound, to sing and to curse, to sell and to offer salvation. It is, therefore, the poet’s job to redeem the language, to keep it honest, to show how important each individual word can be.", "date": "2004-11-30", "academic_year": "2004/05", "record_type": "event", "type": "Text", "format": "record", "original_link": "http://www.uidaho.edu/class/mric/archives/pre-2010/fall2004/wrigley", "object_location": "", "reference_url": "/digital/mric/items/mric2004-05-010.html" }, { "title": "Ambassadors Lewis & Clark: Was the Corps of Discovery the Agent of Discovery?", "presenter": "Dennis Colson", "affiliation": "Law", "date": "2005-01-25", "academic_year": "2004/05", "record_type": "event", "type": "Text", "format": "record", "original_link": "http://www.uidaho.edu/class/mric/archives/pre-2010/spring2005", "object_location": "", "reference_url": "/digital/mric/items/mric2004-05-011.html" }, { "title": "Caught in the Mousetrap: Media Deregulation, Disney and You", "presenter": "Rebecca Self", "affiliation": "Journalism and Mass Media", "description": "In economics classes, we teach our students that deregulation, free trade agreements and open markets are the keys to unfettered economic success, but what are the social, cultural and personal consequences when a small handful of massive media conglomerates control most of the information the American public reads, sees and hears? Taking the Walt Disney Company as an example, we'll discuss the ways people and corporations meet, what happens in those interactions and why.", "date": "2005-02-01", "academic_year": "2004/05", "record_type": "event", "type": "Text", "format": "record", "original_link": "http://www.uidaho.edu/class/mric/archives/pre-2010/spring2005/self", "object_location": "", "reference_url": "/digital/mric/items/mric2004-05-012.html" }, { "title": "How Much Do I Have to Know to Design a Bridge?: Engineering Around Ignorance", "presenter": "Richard Nielsen", "affiliation": "Civil Engineering", "description": "An ever-present challenge in structural engineering is the need to design something without knowing exactly how it will be used throughout its lifetime, what loads it will have to carry, or that it will even be built the way it was designed. In spite of the ignorance engineers face, they have designed successful structures for centuries. Ongoing research into loads and accelerating advances in computational methods have significantly reduced the amount of ignorance that an engineer must account for in his or her designs, but it is debatable as to whether or not these improvements have increased the reliability of built structures. This evolving understanding of engineering has a direct effect on us both in terms of safety and economics, which is illustrated by an on-going research effort focused on the Perrine bridge in southern Idaho.", "date": "2005-02-08", "academic_year": "2004/05", "record_type": "event", "type": "Text", "format": "record", "original_link": "http://www.uidaho.edu/class/mric/archives/pre-2010/spring2005/neilsen", "object_location": "", "reference_url": "/digital/mric/items/mric2004-05-013.html" }, { "title": "An Ear for Jazz", "presenter": "Dan Bukvich", "affiliation": "Lionel Hampton School of Music", "date": "2005-02-22", "academic_year": "2004/05", "record_type": "event", "type": "Text", "format": "record", "original_link": "http://www.uidaho.edu/class/mric/archives/pre-2010/spring2005", "object_location": "", "reference_url": "/digital/mric/items/mric2004-05-014.html" }, { "title": "Fire and Myth", "presenter": "Lauren Fins", "affiliation": "Forest Resources", "description": "Images of fire are deeply rooted in the mythos of cultures around the globe. Of the many forces of nature, our relationship with fire is perhaps the most elemental and yet complex. Fire is both a creator and destroyer of worlds, requiring myth to help explain both its gifts and its perversely volatile nature. Prometheus in ancient Greek lore, the Phoenix in Arabian lore, and the image of a burning bush in Judeo-Christian tradition are but a few familiar fire images. Fire is used in music to convey uncontrollable passion. Witness the urgency in Jim Morrison's call to \"Light My Fire.\" Even today, the mythic figure of Smokey Bear looms large. In this image-rich presentation, Dr. Fins will explore our complex love/hate relationship with fire, including the socio-political-economic forces that made fire, particularly wildfire the enemy for much of the 20th century.", "date": "2005-03-01", "academic_year": "2004/05", "record_type": "event", "type": "Text", "format": "record", "original_link": "http://www.uidaho.edu/class/mric/archives/pre-2010/spring2005/fins", "object_location": "", "reference_url": "/digital/mric/items/mric2004-05-015.html" }, { "title": "We Are What We Teach: Politics, Political Science, and the Environment", "presenter": "Pat Wilson", "affiliation": "Political Science", "date": "2005-03-08", "academic_year": "2004/05", "record_type": "event", "type": "Text", "format": "record", "original_link": "http://www.uidaho.edu/class/mric/archives/pre-2010/spring2005", "object_location": "", "reference_url": "/digital/mric/items/mric2004-05-016.html" }, { "title": "Creating Community Conversations Through the Use of Participatory Videography", "presenter": "Lorie Higgins", "affiliation": "Agricultural Economics and Rural Sociology", "description": "This presentation describes and shows a video depicting three Palouse farm families. The video represents an exploratory use of visual and participatory methods for investigating and addressing issues of central concern to rural communities. As a research endeavor, this project seeks to understand the state of family farming, and how farmers themselves view it. As a community-centered, or applied research, effort the project offers family farmers a mechanism for acting on their knowledge.", "date": "2005-03-22", "academic_year": "2004/05", "record_type": "event", "type": "Text", "format": "record", "original_link": "http://www.uidaho.edu/class/mric/archives/pre-2010/spring2005/higgins", "object_location": "", "reference_url": "/digital/mric/items/mric2004-05-017.html" }, { "title": "Cautionary Tales of Adoption: Addressing the Litigation Crisis at the Moment of Adoption", "presenter": "Liz Brandt", "affiliation": "Law", "description": "Litigation between adoptive parents and unwed fathers is on the rise. Public (and political) attention was brought to the issue by the Baby Jessica case in the early 1990's. Even prior to that case, however, the United States Supreme Court had struck down state adoption statutes because they failed to protect the due process rights of unwed fathers in establishing relationships with their children. State legislatures have tended either to ignore or pay lip-service to the commands of the Court. Thus, state legislation intended to address the issue has only contributed to the increase in adoption litigation. In Idaho we have recently had two prominent cases in which adoptive placements have been disrupted because the interests of committed unwed fathers were violated. I will outline the constitutional problem, discuss a set of guidelines that would protect the legitimate interests of unwed fathers and propose a way for courts to resolve disputes that do arise quickly.", "date": "2005-03-29", "academic_year": "2004/05", "record_type": "event", "type": "Text", "format": "record", "original_link": "http://www.uidaho.edu/class/mric/archives/pre-2010/spring2005/brandt", "object_location": "", "reference_url": "/digital/mric/items/mric2004-05-018.html" }, { "title": "A Sense of Direction", "presenter": "Robert Caisley", "affiliation": "Theatre Arts", "description": "From text analysis and production design, to working with actors in rehearsal ... here's one director's approach to the process of staging a play for an audience.", "date": "2005-04-05", "academic_year": "2004/05", "record_type": "event", "type": "Text", "format": "record", "original_link": "http://www.uidaho.edu/class/mric/archives/pre-2010/spring2005/caisley", "object_location": "", "reference_url": "/digital/mric/items/mric2004-05-019.html" }, { "title": "Sex and the Citizen: Doctors, Reproductive Manuals, and Fashionable", "presenter": "Sean Quinlan", "affiliation": "History", "description": "In the early years of the Napoleonic Consulate and Empire (1799–1815), there appeared an extraordinarily popular (and salacious) medical literature on human sexuality, reproductive strategies, and child-rearing. These best-selling works, which formed a kind of medical ‘grub street’, included J.-A. Millot’s The Art of Making the Sexes at Will (1800), L.-J.-M. Robert’s Essay on Mega-Anthropogenesis (1801), and anonymous texts like The Propagation of the Human Species (1799) and Philopaedia, or the Art of Having Children without Passions (1808). Using printed and manuscript sources from the period, this presentation explores this literature, showing how medical writers addressed these ‘how to’ sex manuals to the new fashionable and urbane elites of Napoleonic society. Their authors promised to explain the so-called ‘mysteries of generation’, enabling parents to propagate healthy, vigorous, patriotic, and politically moderate children for the Napoleonic state. Often written by outsiders to the Paris medical establishment, these manuals appealed to an engaged reading public who wanted to raise new French citizens attached to the principles of 1789 but who were opposed to radical Jacobinism, reactionary royalism, and religious revivalism. These readers (primarily women, if contemporary critics are to be believed) hoped to raise their children within the context of particular civic and moral values. Largely secular in outlook, though not hostile to religious sentiment, these readers looked to scientific materialism and domestic paternalism to maintain patriotic virtue and republican sentiment. Medicine thus provided a common, ‘objective’ language to discuss divisive political and social questions. As the analysis further demonstrates, however, these reproductive manuals fit into a long-standing Enlightenment tradition of medical books about sex and reproduction, many which were hilarious, subversive, and pornographic in scope in tone. In this manner, the reproductive manuals of the Consulate and Empire toyed with erotic traditions that undermined the conservative values they sought to maintain.", "date": "2005-04-12", "academic_year": "2004/05", "record_type": "event", "type": "Text", "format": "record", "original_link": "http://www.uidaho.edu/class/mric/archives/pre-2010/spring2005/quinlan", "object_location": "", "reference_url": "/digital/mric/items/mric2004-05-020.html" }, { "title": "Muscle Men, Fat Mice and the Supersize Culture", "presenter": "Rod Hill", "affiliation": "Animal and Veterinary Science", "date": "2005-04-19", "academic_year": "2004/05", "record_type": "event", "type": "Text", "format": "record", "original_link": "http://www.uidaho.edu/class/mric/archives/pre-2010/spring2005", "object_location": "", "reference_url": "/digital/mric/items/mric2004-05-021.html" }, { "title": "Describing Your Way to Decryption", "presenter": "Al Carlson", "affiliation": "Computer Science", "date": "2005-04-26", "academic_year": "2004/05", "record_type": "event", "type": "Text", "format": "record", "original_link": "http://www.uidaho.edu/class/mric/archives/pre-2010/spring2005", "object_location": "", "reference_url": "/digital/mric/items/mric2004-05-022.html" }, { "title": "Teaching, Mentoring and Research - Compatible Priorities", "presenter": "Thomas Bitterwolf", "affiliation": "Chemistry", "date": "2005-09-06", "academic_year": "2005/06", "record_type": "event", "type": "Text", "format": "record", "original_link": "http://www.uidaho.edu/class/mric/archives/pre-2010/fall2005", "object_location": "", "reference_url": "/digital/mric/items/mric2005-06-001.html" }, { "title": "The Ethics of Wolf Control", "presenter": "Michael Nelson", "affiliation": "Philosophy", "description": "The wolf control debate has continued for many years. Although, in some respects, the debate seems to be at an impasse, it also has the potential to take on a fresh character as wolves recover throughout the lower 48 states. At a superficial level, the debate is fueled by rhetoric, argument, and political action (or inaction) of various kinds. At a deep level, the debate is motivated by groups with apparently conflicting worldviews. In some very important ways and for many participants in the debate, there is a pathological mismatch between these deeper motivations and the more superficial fueling. The mismatch is likely to be so great that it prevents anyone from adequately understanding how the worldviews actually conflict and how they may be more similar than is currently possible to appreciate. The purpose of this talk is to use formal (but accessible) philosophical tools to identify these unappreciated mismatches. This type of analysis provides the most promising means for identifying and dispensing with false conflicts, and for clarifying genuine conflicts. Although this analysis is, by itself, insufficient for solving this controversy, it is an essential, and previously under-appreciated, component of the ultimate solution. Except for those interested in conflict for its own sake, analyzes like that presented here would advance the interests of all participants in this debate.", "date": "2005-09-12", "academic_year": "2005/06", "record_type": "event", "type": "Text", "format": "record", "original_link": "http://www.uidaho.edu/class/mric/archives/pre-2010/fall2005/nelson", "object_location": "", "reference_url": "/digital/mric/items/mric2005-06-002.html" }, { "title": "Lessons Learned from a Frozen Continent: Performing Research in Antarctica", "presenter": "Von Walden", "affiliation": "Geography", "description": "Apsley Cherry-Gerrard, the youngest member of Robert Falcon Scott's ill-fated journey to Antarctica, once said, \"Polar Exploration is at once the cleanest and most isolated way of having a bad time which has been devised.\" Come experience what it takes to perform research in Antarctica today, nearly 100 years after the South Pole was first reached. Learn about on-going research at the UI to understand the climate of this frozen continent.", "date": "2005-09-20", "academic_year": "2005/06", "record_type": "event", "type": "Text", "format": "record", "original_link": "http://www.uidaho.edu/class/mric/archives/pre-2010/fall2005/walden", "object_location": "", "reference_url": "/digital/mric/items/mric2005-06-003.html" }, { "title": "A City at War: Political Culture in Guilin during China’s Anti-Japanese War, 1938-1944", "presenter": "Pingchao Zhu", "affiliation": "History", "description": "Japanese full-scale invasion of China in 1937 led to the Japanese control of most of the strategically important locations in northern, central, and coastal China . The ruling Nationalist government fled to relocate in inland area in Chongqing . Communist forces remained in rural northern land far way from major battle grounds. Southwestern China , including the city of Guilin , however, was spared of the Japanese occupation between 1938 and 1944. It was in this fourth zone that many China 's leading intellectuals and some foreign scholars and journalists were able to stay active in China ’s war efforts. This talk examines the six years of cultural glamour in the city of Guilin and how it was transformed from a provincial town to a cosmopolitan cultural center in China ’s war of resistance against Japan . Important contributing factors, namely the role of the regional warlord, composition of intellectuals from “out of town” and their literary production, and activities of the international groups will be discussed.", "date": "2005-09-27", "academic_year": "2005/06", "record_type": "event", "type": "Text", "format": "record", "original_link": "http://www.uidaho.edu/class/mric/archives/pre-2010/fall2005/zhu", "object_location": "", "reference_url": "/digital/mric/items/mric2005-06-004.html" }, { "title": "Mining and Mine Rescue", "presenter": "Michael Weaver", "affiliation": "Idaho Geological Survey", "date": "2005-10-04", "academic_year": "2005/06", "record_type": "event", "type": "Text", "format": "record", "original_link": "http://www.uidaho.edu/class/mric/archives/pre-2010/fall2005", "object_location": "", "reference_url": "/digital/mric/items/mric2005-06-005.html" }, { "title": "The Never-Ending Dream of Mankind: The Theory of Everything", "presenter": "Ruprecht Machleidt", "affiliation": "Physics", "description": "One of the most impressive results of modern science is the tremendous progress that has been made in the understanding of nature and the universe in fundamental terms. The so-called \"Standard Model\" of physics shows how the many phenomena of this world can be explained on the basis of just a few fundamental principals. These recent advances may suggest that the development of a \"Theory of Everything\" is just an idea of modern times. That is not true. In fact, almost as long as humans have done science, they have tried to find general principals underlying all nature. Ancient Greek philosophers have played an outstanding role: There are amazing parallels between the ideas of Plato and the theories of modern particle physics. Thus, in this colloquium, I will review the basic ideas and changing perceptions of the intellectually most challenging dream of mankind pervading history from the antiquity to modern days: the final theory of all of nature.", "date": "2005-10-11", "academic_year": "2005/06", "record_type": "event", "type": "Text", "format": "record", "original_link": "http://www.uidaho.edu/class/mric/archives/pre-2010/fall2005/machleidt", "object_location": "", "reference_url": "/digital/mric/items/mric2005-06-006.html" }, { "title": "Mural Messages from Venezuela: El Presidente Hugo Chávez Frías y La Revolución Bolivariana", "presenter": "Dale Graden", "affiliation": "History", "description": "Elected to the presidency of Venezuela in 1998 and 2000, survivor of an attempted coup d’état on an April weekend in 2002, President Hugo Chávez has been an outspoken advocate of social reform in his country and other countries in South America and the Caribbean Basin. These include urban and rural land reform, increased taxation on oil companies operating in Venezuela, the creation of “Bolivarian universities,” improved health care and access to housing in lower-class barrios, among others. In the words of President Chávez, “Socialism is love. We must reclaim socialism as a thesis, a project and a path, but a new type of socialism, a humanist one, which puts humans and not machines or the state ahead of everything.” Murals have informed and entertained observers around the world for the past 31,000 years. Since 1900, numerous talented muralists have expressed political and social ideals through images and phrases, particularly in South America. In countries where many citizens have had minimal formal education, murals are a rich and influential form of communication. Eighty percent of Venezuela’s 25 million inhabitants are marginalized. Murals painted on walls in cities and pueblos throughout Venezuela send messages to these people and to the world. Suggested Readings: Alma Guillermoprieto, \"Don't Cry For Me, Venezuela,\" New York Review of Books, 6 October 2005 http://www.nybooks.com/articles/18302 Alma Guillermoprieto, \"The Gambler,\" New York Review of Books, 20 October 2005 http://www.nybooks.com/articles/18355 John Dinges, \"Soul Search,\" Columbia Journalism Review, July/August, 2005 http://www.cjr.org/issues/2005/4/dinges.asp", "date": "2005-10-18", "academic_year": "2005/06", "record_type": "event", "type": "Text", "format": "record", "original_link": "http://www.uidaho.edu/class/mric/archives/pre-2010/fall2005/graden", "object_location": "", "reference_url": "/digital/mric/items/mric2005-06-007.html" }, { "title": "A Point of View on Being an Expert and Just Being", "presenter": "Sanford Eigenbrode", "affiliation": "PSES", "description": "As scientists, we believe in and employ rational methods to develop an understanding of nature that allows explanation and prediction, but that is always restricted somehow in scope. In interdisciplinary collaborative research aimed at understanding problems involving complex systems, we must relax the restrictions on scope and in so doing lose explanatory and predictive power. Living in the world as human beings we have the potential and perhaps the obligation to be open to everything without trying to confine or explain. The presentation will explore the complementarity among these different points of view.", "date": "2005-10-25", "academic_year": "2005/06", "record_type": "event", "type": "Text", "format": "record", "original_link": "http://www.uidaho.edu/class/mric/archives/pre-2010/fall2005/eigenbrode", "object_location": "", "reference_url": "/digital/mric/items/mric2005-06-008.html" }, { "title": "Good Work, Smart Workers, Engaged Learners, and Active Citizens", "presenter": "Jim Gregson", "affiliation": "Adult, Career, and Technology Education", "description": "Expanding upon John Dewey’s notion of learning through occupations, and his progressive critique of both education and work, I will present a democratic vision for interdisciplinary and multidisciplinary approaches to learning in the context of higher education. This presentation will be conceptual (e.g., post-Fordism, post-industrialism), theoretical (e.g., critical theory, postmodernism), empirical (e.g., research findings related to integration, experiential approaches), and practical (e.g., implications for curriculum, instruction).", "date": "2005-11-01", "academic_year": "2005/06", "record_type": "event", "type": "Text", "format": "record", "original_link": "http://www.uidaho.edu/class/mric/archives/pre-2010/fall2005/gregson", "object_location": "", "reference_url": "/digital/mric/items/mric2005-06-009.html" }, { "title": "Evolutionary Lag: What Is It and What Does It Tell Us about the Design of Human Behavior?", "presenter": "John Byers", "affiliation": "Biology", "description": "I first became interested in evolutionary lag when its presence was thrust upon me during my long-term study of pronghorn. Several aspects of pronghorn behavior do not make sense when viewed from a current perspective, but make prefect sense when viewed as adaptations to the recent past. There are examples in many other species of the persistence of behavioral traits long after the selective forces that brought them about are gone. Humans are such a species. We retain many behavioral traits that are adaptations to a stone-age or pre-stone-age time. Several of these traits are not adaptive in modern society, but we are not likely to loose them soon.", "date": "2005-11-08", "academic_year": "2005/06", "record_type": "event", "type": "Text", "format": "record", "original_link": "http://www.uidaho.edu/class/mric/archives/pre-2010/fall2005/byers", "object_location": "", "reference_url": "/digital/mric/items/mric2005-06-010.html" }, { "title": "The Performer as Collaborator: The Process of Commissioning Music", "presenter": "James Reid", "affiliation": "Lionel Hampton School of Music", "description": "Until the 19th century, composers were almost always performers as well. In the late 19th century a dichotomy developed between musicians that were composers and those who were performers. In today's classical music world a performer will often collaborate with a composer in the creation of a new work. I will explore how these collaborations work and I'll play excerpts from three pieces for guitar that I have commissioned.", "date": "2005-11-15", "academic_year": "2005/06", "record_type": "event", "type": "Text", "format": "record", "original_link": "http://www.uidaho.edu/class/mric/archives/pre-2010/fall2005/reid", "object_location": "", "reference_url": "/digital/mric/items/mric2005-06-011.html" }, { "title": "Perception as Reality: When, How and Should Researchers Aggregate Perception", "presenter": "Scott Metlen", "affiliation": "Business", "date": "2005-11-29", "academic_year": "2005/06", "record_type": "event", "type": "Text", "format": "record", "original_link": "http://www.uidaho.edu/class/mric/archives/pre-2010/fall2005", "object_location": "", "reference_url": "/digital/mric/items/mric2005-06-012.html" }, { "title": "26 Days through Lower and Upper Dolpo--Nepal's Forbidden Tibetan Region", "presenter": "Phil Druker", "affiliation": "English", "date": "2006-01-24", "academic_year": "2005/06", "record_type": "event", "type": "Text", "format": "record", "original_link": "http://www.uidaho.edu/class/mric/archives/pre-2010/spring2006", "object_location": "", "reference_url": "/digital/mric/items/mric2005-06-013.html" }, { "title": "Insight Through Illusion: Gaining an Understanding of the Brain by Studying Its Mistakes", "presenter": "Brian P. Dyre", "affiliation": "Psychology; Communication Studies; Neuroscience", "date": "2006-01-31", "academic_year": "2005/06", "record_type": "event", "type": "Text", "format": "record", "original_link": "http://www.uidaho.edu/class/mric/archives/pre-2010/spring2006", "object_location": "", "reference_url": "/digital/mric/items/mric2005-06-014.html" }, { "title": "How Einstein Rocked the World of Physics in 1905: A 100 Year Celebration", "presenter": "Phil Deutchman", "affiliation": "Physics", "date": "2006-02-07", "academic_year": "2005/06", "record_type": "event", "type": "Text", "format": "record", "original_link": "http://www.uidaho.edu/class/mric/archives/pre-2010/spring2006", "object_location": "", "reference_url": "/digital/mric/items/mric2005-06-015.html" }, { "title": "The Courts and the Media: A Troubled Symbiosis", "presenter": "Don Burnett", "affiliation": "Law", "date": "2006-02-14", "academic_year": "2005/06", "record_type": "event", "type": "Text", "format": "record", "original_link": "http://www.uidaho.edu/class/mric/archives/pre-2010/spring2006", "object_location": "", "reference_url": "/digital/mric/items/mric2005-06-016.html" }, { "title": "An Ear for Jazz", "presenter": "Dan Bukvich", "affiliation": "Lionel Hampton School of Music", "date": "2006-02-21", "academic_year": "2005/06", "record_type": "event", "type": "Text", "format": "record", "original_link": "http://www.uidaho.edu/class/mric/archives/pre-2010/spring2006", "object_location": "", "reference_url": "/digital/mric/items/mric2005-06-017.html" }, { "title": "Annabel and Bart: Diaries, Letters, Watercolors, Photographs, and Fields", "presenter": "Joy Passanante", "affiliation": "English", "date": "2006-02-28", "academic_year": "2005/06", "record_type": "event", "type": "Text", "format": "record", "original_link": "http://www.uidaho.edu/class/mric/archives/pre-2010/spring2006", "object_location": "", "reference_url": "/digital/mric/items/mric2005-06-018.html" }, { "title": "The Perils of Patronage", "presenter": "Kurt Olsson", "affiliation": "English", "date": "2006-03-07", "academic_year": "2005/06", "record_type": "event", "type": "Text", "format": "record", "original_link": "http://www.uidaho.edu/class/mric/archives/pre-2010/spring2006", "object_location": "", "reference_url": "/digital/mric/items/mric2005-06-019.html" }, { "title": "The Effects of Competition on Moral Reasoning: Why the Atlanta Braves are Concerned", "presenter": "Sharon Stoll", "affiliation": "HPERD", "date": "2006-03-21", "academic_year": "2005/06", "record_type": "event", "type": "Text", "format": "record", "original_link": "http://www.uidaho.edu/class/mric/archives/pre-2010/spring2006", "object_location": "", "reference_url": "/digital/mric/items/mric2005-06-020.html" }, { "title": "Lessons Learned from Conducting Interdisciplinary Doctoral Research in Agricultural and Natural Resource Systems", "presenter": "Wayde Morse; Max Nielsen-Pincus", "affiliation": "CSS; Forest Resources", "date": "2006-03-28", "academic_year": "2005/06", "record_type": "event", "type": "Text", "format": "record", "original_link": "http://www.uidaho.edu/class/mric/archives/pre-2010/spring2006", "object_location": "", "reference_url": "/digital/mric/items/mric2005-06-021.html" }, { "title": "War and Peace: What We Can Learn from the Microbial World", "presenter": "Patricia Hartzell", "affiliation": "MMBB", "date": "2006-04-04", "academic_year": "2005/06", "record_type": "event", "type": "Text", "format": "record", "original_link": "http://www.uidaho.edu/class/mric/archives/pre-2010/spring2006", "object_location": "", "reference_url": "/digital/mric/items/mric2005-06-022.html" }, { "title": "Study Abroad Experiences for University of Idaho Students", "presenter": "Irina Kappler-Crookston", "affiliation": "Foreign Languages and Literatures", "date": "2006-04-11", "academic_year": "2005/06", "record_type": "event", "type": "Text", "format": "record", "original_link": "http://www.uidaho.edu/class/mric/archives/pre-2010/spring2006", "object_location": "", "reference_url": "/digital/mric/items/mric2005-06-023.html" }, { "title": "From Interdisciplinarity to Intercivilization: Europe and the Early Islamic World", "presenter": "S. (Ghazi) Ghazanfar", "affiliation": "Economics", "date": "2006-04-18", "academic_year": "2005/06", "record_type": "event", "type": "Text", "format": "record", "original_link": "http://www.uidaho.edu/class/mric/archives/pre-2010/spring2006", "object_location": "", "reference_url": "/digital/mric/items/mric2005-06-024.html" }, { "title": "Mathematical Structures and Some Ties to Music and Art", "presenter": "Clancy Potratz", "affiliation": "Mathematics", "date": "2006-04-25", "academic_year": "2005/06", "record_type": "event", "type": "Text", "format": "record", "original_link": "http://www.uidaho.edu/class/mric/archives/pre-2010/spring2006", "object_location": "", "reference_url": "/digital/mric/items/mric2005-06-025.html" }, { "title": "The Power of Play", "presenter": "Candida Gillis", "affiliation": "English", "description": "Humans are playful alone, in groups, or as whole societies. We play role-playing games, board games, videogames, games of chance, sports; we dance. We play with musical instruments, paint, string, sticks, stones, and language. While we define and choose our play, play may also define us, for play is embedded in and reflects our cultures’ values, histories, and structures. Because play potentially evokes intense, personal engagement and stimulates the imagination, it can enhance teaching, learning, creativity, and discovery. It can also help balance professional activities with less intellectualized life pursuits and energize solutions for social, scientific, and artistic problems. Although it may support injustice and incivility, play has the potential to foster social cohesion and connection, compassion, and inclusiveness. This Humanities program will explore the nature, history, and uses of play--the power of play--to shape, transform, celebrate, delight or diminish individuals, institutions, and societies, and to enrich our personal, social, and professional lives.", "date": "2006-09-05", "academic_year": "2006/07", "record_type": "event", "type": "Text", "format": "record", "original_link": "http://www.uidaho.edu/class/mric/archives/pre-2010/fall2006/play", "object_location": "", "reference_url": "/digital/mric/items/mric2006-07-001.html" }, { "title": "Learning by Trials and Errors: UI Clinical Legal Education", "presenter": "Pat Costello; Maureen Laflin; Monica Schurman", "affiliation": "Law", "description": "Did you know that the largest law firm in north Idaho is located at the UI College of Law College? Third year law students under the supervision of law faculty represent clients with real cases in matters from divorce to civil rights violations, from immigration to taxation. Clinic Director Maureen Laflin and Professors Pat Costello and Monica Schurtman will provide a brief overview of the College's clinical programs and then focus on teaching skills through simulation and actual practice.", "date": "2006-10-17", "academic_year": "2006/07", "record_type": "event", "type": "Text", "format": "record", "original_link": "http://www.uidaho.edu/class/mric/archives/pre-2010/fall2006/costello", "object_location": "", "reference_url": "/digital/mric/items/mric2006-07-002.html" }, { "title": "In History's Shadow: The Life and Lost Legacy of Captain John Codman (1814-1900)", "presenter": "Brandon Schrand", "affiliation": "English", "description": "If something could connect the otherwise disparate fields of nineteenth-century economics, maritime history, Brazilian studies, Crimean war studies, Melville scholarship, equestrian literature, Mormon history, and immigration policy it might be the life of Captain John Codman (1814-1900). Largely forgotten, John Codman—a Bostonian sea captain and author—cast a long and impressive shadow on the nineteenth century. His was a household name. But following the front page story in the New York Times that reported his death, Codman’s legacy has, at best, been squared away into footnotes, and at worst, vanished. I am preparing to write his biography, In History’s Shadow and will present a slide-show and lecture that highlights my project.", "date": "2006-10-24", "academic_year": "2006/07", "record_type": "event", "type": "Text", "format": "record", "original_link": "http://www.uidaho.edu/class/mric/archives/pre-2010/fall2006/schrand", "object_location": "", "reference_url": "/digital/mric/items/mric2006-07-003.html" }, { "title": "Bringing an Interdisciplinary Perspective to Transportation - or Why Engineers Shouldn’t Do It Alone", "presenter": "Michael Kyte", "affiliation": "NIATT", "description": "Road building, or highway engineering, has long been the responsibility of civil engineers. Over the past thirty years, road building has morphed into transportation, a domain that involves not just engineers but professionals from a wide range of disciplines. I will share three example projects which were eventually successful largely because of the interdisciplinary teams that were brought together to work on them: (1) not building the Mt Hood Freeway in Portland, Oregon during the 1970's, (2) expanding the capacity of transportation systems using technology in the 1990's, and (3) transportation at the edge of Moscow, Idaho in the early part of the 21st century.", "date": "2006-10-31", "academic_year": "2006/07", "record_type": "event", "type": "Text", "format": "record", "original_link": "http://www.uidaho.edu/class/mric/archives/pre-2010/fall2006/kyte", "object_location": "", "reference_url": "/digital/mric/items/mric2006-07-004.html" }, { "title": "Water of the West: Towards a Sustainable, Interdisciplinary Water Resources Program", "presenter": "Jan Boll", "affiliation": "Biological and Agricultural Engineering", "description": "The Water of the West Initiative (WoW Initiative) was awarded on April 17, 2006. The WoW Initiative will launch a Water Resources Graduate Program (WR Program) in an innovative direction that will lead the region in the education and training of tomorrow’s water resources professionals. This program will facilitate research and education to influence both the scientific understanding of the resource and how it is managed, and advance the decision-making processes that are the means to address competing societal values. We will highlight the five elements in the WoW Initiative: (1) an integrative problem-solving framework; (2) broadening WR education; (3) new faculty necessary to bring a concurrent J.D. degree into the WR Program and strengthen the Law, Policy, and Management option area of the WR Program; (4) administrative structure of the program; and (5) graduate student assistantships. Collectively, the WoW Initiative will provide the resources to launch the proposed WR Program. The WoW Initiative has the support of six colleges at the UI: Agricultural & Life Sciences; Engineering; Law; Science; Letters, Arts & Social Sciences; and Natural Resources. It is a university-wide initiative strengthened by collaboration with the Idaho Water Resources Research Institute.", "date": "2006-11-07", "academic_year": "2006/07", "record_type": "event", "type": "Text", "format": "record", "original_link": "http://www.uidaho.edu/class/mric/archives/pre-2010/fall2006/boll", "object_location": "", "reference_url": "/digital/mric/items/mric2006-07-005.html" }, { "title": "Revision in a Time of Revision: A Discussion of How the Creative Process is Stimulated and Stymied by Personal and Political Crisis", "presenter": "Kim Barnes", "affiliation": "English", "description": "\"Trust the process\" is the mantra I repeat again and again to my writing students, author friends, and myself. But what happens when the process is interrupted by unforeseen--and potentially informing and revisionary--events? This very informal discussion will involve my own observations and examples of how my writing process has been affected by personal and political upheaval. A Q&A will follow the short presentation.", "date": "2006-11-14", "academic_year": "2006/07", "record_type": "event", "type": "Text", "format": "record", "original_link": "http://www.uidaho.edu/class/mric/archives/pre-2010/fall2006/barnes", "object_location": "", "reference_url": "/digital/mric/items/mric2006-07-006.html" }, { "title": "The Building Sustainable Communities Initiative: A New University and Community Partnership", "presenter": "Steve Hollenhorst; Steve Drown", "affiliation": "Conservation Social Sciences; Landscape Architecture", "description": "Funded as a part of President White's Strategic Re-Investment Initiative, the project involves creation of three interdependent programs: 1) an academic program in bioregional planning and community design, including an interdisciplinary graduate degree, graduate certificate, and courses for other majors; 2) a Learning and Practice Collaborative that engages UI faculty and students to assist communities with sustainable community planning and development; and 3) a Collaborative for Effective Planning and Governance that delivers non-credit training to improve the competencies of local elected leaders and professionals to plan and manage community resources for sustainable futures. We will discuss the implications of the initiative for Idaho and the region, plans for implementation, and opportunities for faculty, staff, student, and community involvement.", "date": "2006-11-28", "academic_year": "2006/07", "record_type": "event", "type": "Text", "format": "record", "original_link": "http://www.uidaho.edu/class/mric/archives/pre-2010/spring2007/hollenhorst", "object_location": "", "reference_url": "/digital/mric/items/mric2006-07-007.html" }, { "title": "The Ecology of War", "presenter": "Gary Machlis", "affiliation": "Natural Resources", "description": "The restoration of severely degraded ecosystems represents one of the grand challenges of the 21st century. Among human activities, war is common, almost constant, and far-reaching in its impact on the environment. This seminar presentation introduces the interdisciplinary ecology of warfare, provides a set of historical and contemporary examples from around the world, and explores the research needs and policy implications that emerge from the ecological study of warfare.", "date": "2007-02-06", "academic_year": "2006/07", "record_type": "event", "type": "Text", "format": "record", "original_link": "http://www.uidaho.edu/class/mric/archives/pre-2010/spring2007/machlis", "object_location": "", "reference_url": "/digital/mric/items/mric2006-07-008.html" }, { "title": "Teaching on Tribal Lands", "presenter": "Georgia Johnson", "affiliation": "Curriculum and Instruction", "description": "Core Discovery courses have been a provocative interdisciplinary learning experience for a range of U. of I. students; when two students who had an excellent experience in their Core Discovery courses approached the faculty of American Indian Studies to work with them on a proposal for a Core course involving tribal histories and cultures, we entered into a very challenging and unique curricular, pedagogical and epistemological teaching and learning space. Our discussion will briefly describe the genesis, construction, and instruction of teaching on tribal lands.", "date": "2007-02-27", "academic_year": "2006/07", "record_type": "event", "type": "Text", "format": "record", "original_link": "http://www.uidaho.edu/class/mric/archives/pre-2010/spring2007/johnson", "object_location": "", "reference_url": "/digital/mric/items/mric2006-07-009.html" }, { "title": "Why Biodiesel? — Biodiesel and Its International Impact", "presenter": "Brian He", "affiliation": "Biological and Agricultural Engineering", "description": "Global oil reserves are in decline, markets are becoming more competitive, many of the oil producing countries are becoming unstable and global warming issues are looming large on the horizon. As these problems escalate and diesel prices exceed three dollars a gallon in the U.S., biodiesel is getting unprecedented attention. Biodiesel from vegetable oils has been shown to be the best supplement to fossil-based fuels due to environmental advantages, renewable resource availability, and ability to lessen the dependence on imported oils. Biodiesel is one of the hottest topics globally. What so good about biodiesel? Can it be all biodiesel? What is the status of biodiesel production & utilization in the U.S. and rest of the world?", "date": "2007-03-06", "academic_year": "2006/07", "record_type": "event", "type": "Text", "format": "record", "original_link": "http://www.uidaho.edu/class/mric/archives/pre-2010/spring2007/he", "object_location": "", "reference_url": "/digital/mric/items/mric2006-07-010.html" }, { "title": "Risk of Fear vs. Fear of Risk: A Physical Scientist Trying to do Social Science", "presenter": "Mickey Gunter", "affiliation": "Geological Sciences", "description": "Hopefully, this title might pique the curiosity of those who think I just study rocks (actually, I study minerals!). My interest in this subject stems from a lecture I prepared for Geology 101 back in the early 90’s titled “Asbestos: A metaphor for risk perception.” That lecture grew into a seminar and later a publication in the Journal of Geoscience Education. Asbestos is the fibrous form of certain minerals and thus occurs naturally. All of us breathe thousands of asbestos fibers every day, yet many have heard the phrase and believe that “one fiber you kill you.” Numerous civil lawsuits have been argued on this point. I have discussed the health effects of mineral dusts in an integrated science course taught in the mid 1990’s, an honors class in risk perception, and a core integrated science class on minerals and human health. The thread that runs through this issue is that we, as humans, have an inherent trait that makes it difficult for us to ascertain real from imagined risks. For instance, we fear flying and will often drive to avoid the perceived increased risk of flying. Sadly, these sorts of decisions kill us. A prime example of this is the fact that Americans shunned air travel after the events of 9/11/2001 and the result was a significant increase in the number of deaths from auto accidents. I will discuss several other similar examples along with the cold hard facts of what we will die from and how there is often an inverse correlation between what will kill us and what we fear we kill us. Last, I will offer the premise that we as a society might be causing more negative health effects from stress brought on by worrying about all the insignificant risks we face on daily basis. Hopefully, you’ll leave this talk and think more about how much you eat and how far you drive your car and stop worrying about bird flu, mad cow disease, or tainted spinach!", "date": "2007-03-20", "academic_year": "2006/07", "record_type": "event", "type": "Text", "format": "record", "original_link": "http://www.uidaho.edu/class/mric/archives/pre-2010/spring2007/gunter", "object_location": "", "reference_url": "/digital/mric/items/mric2006-07-011.html" }, { "title": "Internationalizing the University of Idaho—Opportunities and Challenges", "presenter": "Mike Whiteman", "affiliation": "International Programs", "description": "We would like to visit with those in attendance about ways in which faculty can become involved in the process of internationalizing the campus. This will include discussion of faculty-led study abroad opportunities, the FIDA program through which faculty and staff can undertake study abroad programs, faculty exchange opportunities through our international partner institutions, Fulbright opportunities, serving as faculty advisors for international undergraduate and graduate students and incorporating international dimensions into courses and research projects.", "date": "2007-03-27", "academic_year": "2006/07", "record_type": "event", "type": "Text", "format": "record", "original_link": "http://www.uidaho.edu/class/mric/archives/pre-2010/spring2007/whiteman", "object_location": "", "reference_url": "/digital/mric/items/mric2006-07-012.html" }, { "title": "What would you prefer: taking a statistics course, or a root canal?", "presenter": "Brian Dennis", "affiliation": "Fish and Wildlife; Statistics", "description": "What course is more reviled by college students than the introductory statistics course? Why are departments of statistics less common than other science departments at research universities? Why do graduate students (not to mention, professors!) in many disciplines confess insecurity, apprehension, and confusion about the statistical analyses in their research? Why do so many university departments try to teach their own statistics courses? This presentation will explore these questions in relation to the unique interdisciplinary role of statistics in modern life. The presentation will offer an opportunity for the university community to discuss the future of statistics at UI.", "date": "2007-04-03", "academic_year": "2006/07", "record_type": "event", "type": "Text", "format": "record", "original_link": "http://www.uidaho.edu/class/mric/archives/pre-2010/spring2007/dennis", "object_location": "", "reference_url": "/digital/mric/items/mric2006-07-013.html" }, { "title": "The Use of Human Cadavers in Undergraduate Coursework", "presenter": "Candi Heimgartner", "affiliation": "Biological Sciences", "description": "Only 37% of four-year educational institutions in the US currently use human cadavers as study specimen in undergraduate coursework, one of which includes the UI. This discussion will encompass the use of human cadavers in undergraduate courses across the US, the application of the 1988 Uniform Anatomy Act to educational body donation and the specifics of the undergraduate anatomy cadaver lab based at the UI. Following the discussion, opportunities will be provided for attendees to view UI cadavers as well as specimen typically used in undergraduate coursework at other institutions.", "date": "2007-04-17", "academic_year": "2006/07", "record_type": "event", "type": "Text", "format": "record", "original_link": "http://www.uidaho.edu/class/mric/archives/pre-2010/spring2007/heimgartner", "object_location": "", "reference_url": "/digital/mric/items/mric2006-07-014.html" }, { "title": "The Solar System as a Laboratory—Exploration of the Giant Planets", "presenter": "David Atkinson", "affiliation": "Electrical and Computer Engineering", "description": "The NASA Galileo mission to Jupiter in 1995 heralded a new era in the exploration of the outer solar system. For the first time, a planetary probe entered, descended under parachute, and directly sampled an atmosphere in the outer solar system. In 2004 the NASA/European Space Agency Cassini orbiter and probe arrived at Saturn, and in January, 2005 the European Space Agency Huygens probe descended to the surface of Titan, Saturn’s largest moon. Titan is a world with remarkable parallels to the Earth. Although much colder than Earth, Titan possesses a dense Nitrogen atmosphere, and, besides Earth, is the only body in the solar system with a surface comprising both solid ground and lakes. Shrouded in a global haze evidencing a sophisticated hydrocarbon chemistry, the surface of Titan cannot be seen in visible light and, until Huygens’ arrival, had not been well studied. Throughout the descent of the Huygens probe, the structure, chemistry, and dynamics of Titan’s atmosphere were directly sampled and studied, and the surface of Titan imaged. How do we benefit from these Gigadollar (multi-billion dollar) space ventures, and what can detailed studies of the planets tell us about Earth? In this talk I will present both the Galileo mission to Jupiter and the Cassini mission to Saturn and Titan, with a particular emphasis on the atmospheric probes, and I will discuss how knowledge gained from planetary exploration translates into a better understanding of Earth’s atmosphere, weather, chemistry, history, and, possibly, future..", "date": "2007-04-24", "academic_year": "2006/07", "record_type": "event", "type": "Text", "format": "record", "original_link": "http://www.uidaho.edu/class/mric/archives/pre-2010/spring2007/atkinson", "object_location": "", "reference_url": "/digital/mric/items/mric2006-07-015.html" }, { "title": "WID, GAD, WHAT? A Bangladesh Gender Audit Case Study", "presenter": "Jeannie Harvey", "affiliation": "UI Women's Center", "description": "Aid to developing countries totals in the billions of dollars and nearly every major industrialized country has a government agency that provides assistance to poorer countries, with projects focused on health, governance, education, economic development, and the environment. Women in Development or WID and Gender and Development or GAD, initiated in the 70’s and 80’s, critiqued development for maintaining gender inequalities. Their proposal to mainstream gender challenged development organizations to integrate women into all aspects of development. Gender analysis tools were developed to assist organizations in mainstreaming gender. One tool called a gender audit, would help organizations reduce once and for all, the inequalities that continued, through in-depth self-assessment. This is the study of one gender audit process conducted in the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) office in Dhaka Bangladesh from June 2003 through July 2004. The goal of the study is to gain a greater understanding of how a gender audit actually helps an organization to mainstream gender. What does a gender audit offer an organization? Using case study methods and a qualitative research approach, data generation and analysis utilizes Atlas.ti computer software to develop a full story of this gender audit process. In-depth interviews were conducted with participants of the gender audit process. With little published research on the effectiveness of gender audits and no other completed audits within the USAID system of more than 100 global offices, this study attempts to fill a gap for academics and development practitioners. It offers a thorough exploration of the literature and theory related to gender audits, and will provide recommendations about potential uses of a revised gender audit process for USAID. Finally, the study will help us to understand how a gender audit aids an organization to mainstream gender.", "date": "2007-05-01", "academic_year": "2006/07", "record_type": "event", "type": "Text", "format": "record", "original_link": "http://www.uidaho.edu/class/mric/archives/pre-2010/spring2007/harvey", "object_location": "", "reference_url": "/digital/mric/items/mric2006-07-016.html" }, { "title": "The Role of the Scientist in the Debate on Bovine Somatotropin and Organic Milk", "presenter": "Mark McGuire", "affiliation": "Animal and Veterinary Science", "description": "The Idaho dairy industry is the 4th largest in the nation and a significant economic force contributing 11.5% of the state's gross domestic product in 2005. Milk produced on the farm is typically sold to food processors as a commodity with bonuses paid for milk \"quality,\" based upon composition. Recently, some processors have begun to sell dairy products labeled as \"organic\" or \"rbST-free,\" and some grocery chains are requiring milk to be \"rbST-free.\" To many consumers, the presence of these labels suggests that the product is of higher quality or provides greater health benefits, particularly if one notices the price on the shelf. As such, this labeling has caused some to question the health and safety of conventional milk. These labels, however, refer to agricultural practices and choices made by farmers and food producers - not necessarily to the healthfulness or safety of the product. Indeed, substantial published refereed research clearly demonstrates that neither \"organic\" nor \"rbST-free\" milk is different from conventional milk. In other words, as far as scientists and analytical chemists can tell, products produced conventionally are the same as those produced \"organically\" or without the use of rbST. Thus, although there may be other implications of organic or rbST-free milk production, carrying labels as such only creates the illusion that the product provides additional nutrients or is safer. Indeed, dairy management practices are poorly understood by society. This should not be a surprise, as less than 0.1% of the U.S. population is involved in milk production and processing. For example, some interested in \"organic\" milk believe they are supporting a more sustainable, family-farm approach to dairying. Yet the reality is that two commercial companies represent 80% of the organic retail space in grocery stores. Scientists need to clarify that these labels are not founded on health and safety issues but have been created to provide consumers with an indication of a handful of agricultural and industrial practices used in the production of the milk. This likely occurs at the expense of the lion's share of dairy producers (mostly family farm-based businesses), as little money is actually paid to the producer for accepting management strategies (such as denying the use of rbST or implementing \"organic\" practices) that limit profitability. Accuracy in labeling is of economic significance to the consumer as well because the retailer can charge higher milk prices based on an inaccurate or misleading labels providing no benefit to the consumer. Thus, labeling of milk should be based upon a scientific need rather than for the marketing advantage of the processor or grocer.", "date": "2007-09-04", "academic_year": "2007/08", "record_type": "event", "type": "Text", "format": "record", "original_link": "http://www.uidaho.edu/class/mric/archives/pre-2010/fall2007/mcguire", "object_location": "", "reference_url": "/digital/mric/items/mric2007-08-001.html" }, { "title": "The New Surveillance Law", "presenter": "Richard Seamon", "affiliation": "College of Law", "description": "This summer Congress enacted a law that approves a central feature of the President's Terrorist Surveillance Program. The law drew support from both Republicans and many Democrats. Some argue, however, that the law is an unconstitutional law that ratifies excessive presidential surveillance power. This talk discusses the new law and its constitutionality.", "date": "2007-09-11", "academic_year": "2007/08", "record_type": "event", "type": "Text", "format": "record", "original_link": "http://www.uidaho.edu/class/mric/archives/pre-2010/fall2007/seamon", "object_location": "", "reference_url": "/digital/mric/items/mric2007-08-002.html" }, { "title": "Sustaining Ecosystems and People: A Multidisciplinary 'Policy Sciences' Framework", "presenter": "Jay O'Laughlin", "affiliation": "Policy Analysis Group", "description": "People expect natural resource systems to provide an array of ecological and environmental goods, services, and values as well as food and fiber commodities. Policies that harmoniously balance environmental conservation and economic development of resources to meet human needs are necessary but elusive. The sustained yield commodity production goal that served land and resource managers for centuries evolved following the 1987 international call for sustainable development. A more fully integrated “sustainability” approach will be next. Toward that end, the ecological, economic, and social dimensions of sustainability can be assessed using scientific methods, but integration remains problematic. Biologist E.O. Wilson’s Consilience (1998) took a step, arguing for synthesis of knowledge; I continue in that direction. The larger the spatial scale at which one conceives sustainable resource management, the more difficult the quest becomes. When coupled with ecological and economic dimensions, stakeholders’ perceptions of the fairness of resource management proposals can help identify paths toward sustainability. Inclusive forums where stakeholders interact with land and resource managers in collaborative learning exercises can be an appropriate starting point, but durable issues remain: Who represents future generations? How can broad social perspectives be reconciled with local concerns?", "date": "2007-09-18", "academic_year": "2007/08", "record_type": "event", "type": "Text", "format": "record", "original_link": "http://www.uidaho.edu/class/mric/archives/pre-2010/fall2007/olaughlin", "object_location": "", "reference_url": "/digital/mric/items/mric2007-08-003.html" }, { "title": "Interactions of Asbestiform Minerals in the Lungs: How a Geochemist and a Mineralogist Got Funding from the National Institutes of Health", "presenter": "Scott Wood", "affiliation": "Geological Sciences", "description": "How asbestiform minerals evolve by reaction in the lung remains poorly understood. It is well known that the proportion of amphibole to chrysotile asbestos found in the lungs of miners and millers is generally much higher than in the material to which they were exposed. This phenomenon is normally explained by either more effective clearance mechanisms or lower biodurability (faster dissolution) of chrysotile in the lungs, both explanations being reasonable. The goals of our study are twofold; 1) determine the rate of dissolution of tremolite asbestos in simulated lung fluid (Gamble's solution) as a function of pH and organic ligand concentration in order to compare with previous measurements of the dissolution rate of chrysotile; and 2) use geochemical modeling techniques to determine whether transformations of chrystotile or tremolite to other minerals are thermodynamically possible in the lungs. Our dissolution rate measurements confirm that the dissolution rate of tremolite is several orders of magnitude lower than that of chrysotile under lung conditions at similar pH. They also show that some carboxylic acids in Gamble's solution can increase the rate of dissolution of tremolite substantially. Our thermodynamic and kinetic modeling suggests that, especially under closed or nearly closed conditions, phases such as amorphous silica, talc, carbonates and hydroxylapatite could form from either tremolite or chrysotile. To our knowledge, this is the first time that transformation of asbestiform minerals to another mineral form has been suggested and could have important implications for treatment and prognosis of asbestos-related diseases.", "date": "2007-09-25", "academic_year": "2007/08", "record_type": "event", "type": "Text", "format": "record", "original_link": "http://www.uidaho.edu/class/mric/archives/pre-2010/fall2007/wood", "object_location": "", "reference_url": "/digital/mric/items/mric2007-08-004.html" }, { "title": "Making a Habit of Success: Rhetorics of Self-Help in the New Economy", "presenter": "Jodie Nicotra", "affiliation": "English", "description": "Though some have called habit a \"dead metaphor,\" it certainly seems to be the new It-term in self-improvement. In recent years, a virtual cottage industry of self-help books based on the concept of habit has sprung up. Stephen Covey's The Seven Habits of Highly Effective People is probably the most familiar of these, but it is only one of dozens that promise to either rid their readers of \"bad\" habits (smoking, procrastination, eating too much sugar, etc.) or to help them develop \"good\" ones. With their focus on habit, these popular books present an interesting view of identity and the self. Far from being something transcendental and enduring, identity is presented in habit-based self-help books as something plastic, something that can be broken down into component parts, then re-modulated and retrained. And the retraining itself has a specific purpose-with the help of these books, individuals learn techniques for inserting themselves more smoothly into the operations of what has been called 'late capitalism' or 'the new economy.'\" I contrast these purpose-driven notions of habit with a vision of a more ethical self-one in which habit is used as a means to develop the capacity to respond fully and authentically to the world.", "date": "2007-10-02", "academic_year": "2007/08", "record_type": "event", "type": "Text", "format": "record", "original_link": "http://www.uidaho.edu/class/mric/archives/pre-2010/fall2007/nicotra", "object_location": "", "reference_url": "/digital/mric/items/mric2007-08-005.html" }, { "title": "Impact of Climate Change on Snake River Plain Water Supply", "presenter": "Russell Qualls", "affiliation": "Biological and Agricultural Engineering", "description": "Climate change would affect southern Idaho irrigation water supplies. While the effects might be climate change-driven, the actual irrigation impacts would be mediated by basin hydrology, water storage and control infrastructure, institutional arrangements governing water use and allocation, changes to competing demands for power generation and in-stream flows, and farmer reactions to changing water supplies. The basin hydrology is simulated by means of a snowmelt runoff model, SRM, to estimate changes to the timing and magnitude of the inflow from watersheds into the river system. MODSIM is used to simulate reservoir operation and prior-appropriation doctrine water allocation given the hydrologic inputs. Modeled inflow changes are based on simulated snowmelt runoff changes resulting from climate change scenarios referenced to the years 2030 and 2080. For each of these reference time frames, results from three different General Circulation Models (GCMs) were implemented, representing the range of \"Wet\", \"Middle\", and \"Dry\" conditions simulated by all the models included in the IPCC Fourth Assessment Report (AR4) for the mid-range (A1B) emissions scenario. Modsim model results include both the average and time-distribution of expected irrigation water shortages by river reach and tributary within the Snake River Basin. Presently water supplies in the basin are abundant, and storage and distribution systems are robust, so water shortage is significant only in occasional dry years. Our results indicate that climate change may have either a beneficial or deleterious effect on the supply of agricultural irrigation water. The models corresponding to the \"Wet\" and \"Middle\" (i.e., average or median) climate change scenarios both indicate that there will be a surplus of water relative to current climate conditions. Even though the simulated runoff occurs somewhat earlier in the melt season, the existing system of reservoirs is sufficient to provide a surplus of water even in the dry summer months. The \"Dry\" model scenarios for 2030 and 2080 both produced a small deficit in irrigation water supply, which basin-wide amount to 1.7% and 2.7%, respectively, of the delivery provided by the current climate. These shortages are not uniformly distributed across the basin. Instead, they are increased or decreased at specific locations or nodes corresponding to end-users throughout the basin as a result of complex interactions among the amount and timing of runoff, water rights seniority of the end-users, and the spatial distribution of storage and transport infrastructure throughout the system. Despite the deficit to water supply resulting from the most extreme climate change scenario, the supply functions which provide the price-quantity relationships for water in the system were virtually identical between the baseline current climate, and the worst-case 2080-Dry scenario. Increased water demands for downstream and in-stream uses, such as hydropower and endangered salmon passage, could make the impact much greater, which would also be true in the present climate.", "date": "2007-10-16", "academic_year": "2007/08", "record_type": "event", "type": "Text", "format": "record", "original_link": "http://www.uidaho.edu/class/mric/archives/pre-2010/fall2007/qualls", "object_location": "", "reference_url": "/digital/mric/items/mric2007-08-006.html" }, { "title": "Pluto and the Platypus: Tales of an Odd Ball and an Odd Duck", "presenter": "Matthew Slater", "affiliation": "Philosophy", "description": "In the past 15 years, our knowledge of the solar system has increased significantly. Many large bodies in the Kuiper Belt and beyond have been discovered. Just a year ago, in light of these discoveries, the International Astronomical Union voted to \"demote\" Pluto from planet to \"dwarf planet\". Many described this move as reflecting our discovery of Pluto's proper categorization. I argue that things are nowhere near this simple. We might better regard it as a classificatory decision. Many interesting questions arise from this stance (what constrains such decisions? what do they reflect about the objects so classified?). Perhaps we can learn from another protracted episode of the taxonomic confusion: the furor surrounding the platypus.", "date": "2007-10-23", "academic_year": "2007/08", "record_type": "event", "type": "Text", "format": "record", "original_link": "http://www.uidaho.edu/class/mric/archives/pre-2010/fall2007/slater", "object_location": "", "reference_url": "/digital/mric/items/mric2007-08-007.html" }, { "title": "Microelectronics", "presenter": "Aicha Elshabini", "affiliation": "Engineering", "description": "The trends in electronic products are toward miniaturization and increased circuit density. These trends necessitates high density interconnects. Among the packaging technologies such as laminate, ceramic, and thin film, low temperature cofired ceramics (LTCC) offer an excellent combination of properties for RF/microwave applications as well as for high speed digital products. Some of the key properties include the ability to create three dimensional interconnections with high conductivity, the capability of embedding passives, high thermal conductivity, low dielectric loss, and hermeticity. However, to date many vendors are still primarily using vias larger than 100 microns in diameter. Previous work by the researchers, as well as by others, has demonstrated the ability to form microvias as small as 50 microns in LTCC. Some limited work has also been reported on the fill process for these vias using primarily silver inks. Optimization of this fill process using both gold and silver inks is critical for the wide spread adoption of microvias in high volume LTCC manufacturing lines. This presentation will report on the capability and process for filling microvia interconnects below 100µm as well as the capabilities for alignment of green tape layers during the stacking operation for both silver and gold conductors. The critical process parameters for mechanically punching and filling 50 and 75 µm vias will be discussed. The impact of punch handling at installation will also be addressed along with the installation of punch tooling. Via quality of the green punched layers addressing the potential for slugs as well as cross sections of fired vias will also presented. The electrical performance of the surface components as well as the embedded microvia connected components has been documented. The 75 µm via geometry resulted in no continuity defects while some isolated failures were associated with the 50 µm geometries. The alignment error of via stacks among the printed layers appears to be less than 25 µm though misalignment on the order of 30 to 50 µm was noted between the unprinted and printed layers.", "date": "2007-10-30", "academic_year": "2007/08", "record_type": "event", "type": "Text", "format": "record", "original_link": "http://www.uidaho.edu/class/mric/archives/pre-2010/fall2007/elshabini", "object_location": "", "reference_url": "/digital/mric/items/mric2007-08-008.html" }, { "title": "A Pilgrimage Around Mt. Kailash - Tibetan Buddhism's Most Holy Mountain", "presenter": "Phil Druker", "affiliation": "English", "description": "Mt. Kailash (22,028 ft, 6714 m) in western Tibet is the most sacred mountain and pilgrimage destination for Hindus and Tibetan Buddhists. For these two religions, this glacier covered mountain is the “navel of the world.” Completing the kora—the pilgrimage—around this holy, unclimbed mountain is said to erase the sins of a lifetime (or even many, many lifetimes). In September and October, 2006, I traveled from Kathmandu, Nepal, to Mount Kailash: a trip that involved 4 days of driving about 1100 km (700 miles) over the Himalaya and then across “the roof of the world” through western Tibet. On the three-day pilgrimage around Mt. Kailash, I hiked with Tibetan and Indian pilgrims over Drolma Pass (18,200, 5550m) and visited various monasteries along with other holy sites. In this presentation, I’ll show photos from this trip, discuss the pilgrimage in terms of Tibetan Buddhism, and touch on the political situation in Tibet.", "date": "2007-11-06", "academic_year": "2007/08", "record_type": "event", "type": "Text", "format": "record", "original_link": "http://www.uidaho.edu/class/mric/archives/pre-2010/fall2007/druker", "object_location": "", "reference_url": "/digital/mric/items/mric2007-08-009.html" }, { "title": "Reflection on Symmetry", "presenter": "Monte Boisen", "affiliation": "Mathematics", "description": "Symmetry plays an important role in many disciplines including art, science and engineering. Over the last two centuries, a great deal of mathematics has been developed to tackle problems in these fields. At the same time that mathematics has enhanced our understanding of symmetry, symmetry has enhanced our understanding of mathematics. This interplay will be explored.", "date": "2007-11-13", "academic_year": "2007/08", "record_type": "event", "type": "Text", "format": "record", "original_link": "http://www.uidaho.edu/class/mric/archives/pre-2010/fall2007/boisen", "object_location": "", "reference_url": "/digital/mric/items/mric2007-08-010.html" }, { "title": "A Truly Extreme Climate The Pangean Megamonsoon", "presenter": "Judy Parrish", "affiliation": "Geological Sciences", "description": "During the Triassic Period, 240 million years ago, most of the continental land mass was part of one giant continent that stretched from pole to pole. This geography created an enormous climate system, called the Pangean megamonsoon, that affected climate worldwide. The climate was marked by strong seasonality, especially in precipitation. Geologists have documented the evolution of this climate system using rocks, fossils, geochemistry, and climate modeling. Although we understand many aspects of the climate well, some mysteries remain.", "date": "2008-01-29", "academic_year": "2007/08", "record_type": "event", "type": "Text", "format": "record", "original_link": "http://www.uidaho.edu/class/mric/archives/pre-2010/fall2007/parrish", "object_location": "", "reference_url": "/digital/mric/items/mric2007-08-011.html" }, { "title": "On the Track of the Beast: Uncovering Aleister Crowley's Intelligence Connections", "presenter": "Rick Spence", "affiliation": "History", "description": "Aleister Crowley, the self-proclaimed Great Beast 666, attained his greatest fame, or infamy, as the preeminent occultist of the 20th century. However, Crowley also played another, and heretofore unappreciated, role during his long career (1875-1947): informer, provocateur and all-around asset for British intelligence. Professor Spence will describe how he negotiated the peculiarities and pitfalls of researching in a \"culture of secrecy\"--intelligence agencies and occult organizations--to reveal Crowley's hidden exploits. He'll also discuss how Crowley's activities fit a wider pattern of intertwining connections between the occult and secret services.", "date": "2008-09-09", "academic_year": "2008/09", "record_type": "event", "type": "Text", "format": "record", "original_link": "http://www.uidaho.edu/class/mric/archives/pre-2010/fall2008/spence", "object_location": "", "reference_url": "/digital/mric/items/mric2008-09-001.html" }, { "title": "How Many Biologists Does It Take to Change a Mathematician?", "presenter": "Steve Krone", "affiliation": "Mathematics; Initiative for Bioinformatics and Evolutionary Studies", "description": "Interactions between mathematicians and biologists (and others) are central to the success of UI's Initiative for Bioinformatics and Evolutionary Studies (IBEST). More generally, such interactions are changing and enriching both biology and mathematics. I will discuss some of my own experiences and observations from the interdisciplinary arena.", "date": "2008-09-16", "academic_year": "2008/09", "record_type": "event", "type": "Text", "format": "record", "original_link": "http://www.uidaho.edu/class/mric/archives/pre-2010/fall2008/krone", "object_location": "", "reference_url": "/digital/mric/items/mric2008-09-002.html" }, { "title": "The Fate of Lead and Zinc in Soils Down-river from Mining Occurring in the Coeur d’Alene River Valley", "presenter": "Daniel G. Strawn", "affiliation": "Plant, Soil, and Entomological Sciences", "description": "The Fate of Lead and Zinc in Soils Down-river from Mining Occurring in the Coeur d’Alene River Valley The lower Coeur d’Alene (CDA) River Basin floodplain lies downstream of Idaho’s historic Silver Valley, one of the richest lead and silver mining regions in the world, and now one of the largest Superfund sites in the U.S. The Basin encompasses 19,200 acres, of which 95% have Pb, As, Cd, and Zn concentrations that exceed the EPA’s cleanup criteria, due to alluvial deposition of mine tailings and mill wastes. Contaminants in the soils have caused waterfowl mortality, decreases in aquatic species populations and diversity, and metal leaching to river and groundwater. The region hosts rural communities, includes tribal lands, several thousand acres of agriculture land, and is a recreational attraction. Thus metal-contaminated soils within the CDA Basin pose significant human exposure risks. In this presentation an overview of the contaminant cycling in the soils developing in the CDA basin will be presented. Because soils are integral components of the ecosystem, the fate of the contaminants and potential toxicity is dependent on their speciation in the soils. In the soil chemistry laboratory we are currently investigating the speciation of Pb and Zn in these soils, and assessing their relative solubility, which controls transport and bio-uptake. We are discovering that Pb and Zn are intimately associated with iron and manganese oxide solid phases. Our results will allow land and resource managers to do better risk management and more efficiently implement remediation.", "date": "2008-09-23", "academic_year": "2008/09", "record_type": "event", "type": "Text", "format": "record", "original_link": "http://www.uidaho.edu/class/mric/archives/pre-2010/fall2008/strawn", "object_location": "", "reference_url": "/digital/mric/items/mric2008-09-003.html" }, { "title": "The History and Technology of the Hammond and other Electronic Organs", "presenter": "Bob Rinker", "affiliation": "Computer Science", "description": "The Hammond Organ sound has become an icon in the world of Rock and Jazz music. It is as popular today as it has ever been. While it is easy to replicate \"the sound\" today using sophisticated Digital Signal Processing, \"back in the day\" (the 1930's!) the sound was created electromechanically and amplified with tubes. Many people are familiar with the sounds, but they don't understand or appreciate the very \"old school\" technology used in their creation (motors, tonewheels and tube amps!). We will discuss the history of the original technology, focusing on the original Hammond tonewheel organ, and continue the history through the keyboards of today.", "date": "2008-09-30", "academic_year": "2008/09", "record_type": "event", "type": "Text", "format": "record", "original_link": "http://www.uidaho.edu/class/mric/archives/pre-2010/fall2008/rinker", "object_location": "", "reference_url": "/digital/mric/items/mric2008-09-004.html" }, { "title": "Ideas, Innovations, and Entrepreneurship", "presenter": "Linda Morris", "affiliation": "Business & Economics; VIEW Entrepreneurship Program", "description": "University research is a key component in our nation's innovative capacity. However, the process of moving technologies from the research laboratory to the marketplace is often inefficient and complex after sponsored funding ends. The sponsored funding provides initial support to formulate and test the idea, but falls short of a funding period for testing and revision of workable prototypes. Our intent is to introduce the idea of gap funding or \"proof of concept\" funding via support through the UI Foundation. The Idaho Innovation Fund would support researchers in analysis of the business idea via a collaborative effort with the Vandal Innovation and Enterprise Works (VIEW) Entrepreneurship Program and the UI Office of Technology Transfer.", "date": "2008-10-07", "academic_year": "2008/09", "record_type": "event", "type": "Text", "format": "record", "original_link": "http://www.uidaho.edu/class/mric/archives/pre-2010/fall2008/morris", "object_location": "", "reference_url": "/digital/mric/items/mric2008-09-005.html" }, { "title": "Do Dead People Speak Different Languages: An Interdisciplinary Séance", "presenter": "Melanie-Angela Neuilly", "affiliation": "Sociology, Anthropology, and Justice Studies", "description": "Even though death is inevitable, it could be argued that it is not universal. For example, whereas French people are seemingly incredibly clumsy, Americans are world-renown for their blood-thirst (lethal non-motor vehicle accident rates in France are close to double that of the United States, while homicide rates in the U.S. can be as much as ten times those of France). Having spent some time with the dead in France and in the United States, the author has begun to disentangle the complex net of constructions at play in mortality statistics. In doing so, she has had to put on a variety of disciplinary hats, be they from the legal field, political science, medicine, sociology, anthropology, criminology, or psychology. Some may have fit better than others, but in the end, the answer was clear: Dead people do speak different languages.", "date": "2008-10-14", "academic_year": "2008/09", "record_type": "event", "type": "Text", "format": "record", "original_link": "http://www.uidaho.edu/class/mric/archives/pre-2010/fall2008/neuilly", "object_location": "", "reference_url": "/digital/mric/items/mric2008-09-006.html" }, { "title": "The Natural History and Culture of Chocolate", "presenter": "Lauren Fins", "affiliation": "Forest Resources", "description": "Money may not grow on trees, but chocolate does...and chocolate is big business. In 2004, the world consumed almost 12 billion pounds of chocolate confections, 29% of which was consumed by Americans at an average of almost 12 pounds of chocolate per person per year. The source of this gustatory delight, the chocolate tree (Theobroma cacao), originated in the upper Amazon basin, but is grown for commercial chocolate production in tropical regions around the globe. It is a small, broad-leaved, evergreen botanical wonder that is very particular about temperature and moisture, grows best in the damp and shaded understory of tropical rainforests, and generally refuses to produce its seed-containing pods beyond 20º from the equator. Its flowers are pollinated by midges that live in litter beneath the forest canopy. Chocolate trees can be grown sustainably under the shade of taller fruit-producing trees, such as citrus species, but they are often grown in single-species production plantations where native forests have been cleared, where large doses of fertilizer and pesticides are used on a regular basis, and where slave and child labor reduce costs to candy producers who sell chocolate confections at very low prices. This presentation will examine T. cacao through a variety of lenses...from seed to confection...from the \"botany of desire\" to the social implications of indulgence.", "date": "2008-10-21", "academic_year": "2008/09", "record_type": "event", "type": "Text", "format": "record", "original_link": "http://www.uidaho.edu/class/mric/archives/pre-2010/fall2008/fins", "object_location": "", "reference_url": "/digital/mric/items/mric2008-09-007.html" }, { "title": "2001: A Film Music Odyssey", "presenter": "James Murphy", "affiliation": "Lionel Hampton School of Music", "description": "Music is very important to the total impact of the art form we know as film. Years of work and millions of dollars are invested in the production of a major motion picture and yet its music is often changed at the last moment. This audio-visual presentation will explore some of the fundamentals of film music and highlight some segments of Alex North's discarded score for Kubrik's 2001: A Space Odyssey.", "date": "2008-10-28", "academic_year": "2008/09", "record_type": "event", "type": "Text", "format": "record", "original_link": "http://www.uidaho.edu/class/mric/archives/pre-2010/fall2008/murphy", "object_location": "", "reference_url": "/digital/mric/items/mric2008-09-008.html" }, { "title": "Studying Bovine Mastitis: How Can That Help Us Understand Human Toxic-Shock Syndrome and Staphylococcal Food Poisoning", "presenter": "Gregory Bohach", "affiliation": "Microbiology, Molecular Biology, and Biochemistry", "description": "Staphylococcus aureus is an important pathogenic bacterium for humans as well as a variety of animals. Recently, it has received renewed public attention because of the occurrence of highly virulent strains within communities that are resistant to methicillin. In a typical year, S. aureus causes up to 9 million treated human infections with an economic impact of nearly $7 million. In addition, S. aureus is the leading agent of bovine mastitis, an infectious disease that causes $2 billion in lost revenue to the dairy industry in the U.S. alone. We have been interested in understanding the role of protein exotoxins produced by staphylococci and related organisms. In particular, a group of toxins known as superantigens are recognized for their large-scale activation of the immune system. This property is responsible for their ability to cause a serious disease known as toxic shock syndrome as well as staphylococcal food poisoning. Interestingly, many strains of S. aureus, including those that colonize humans and animals, produce one or more superantigens. Considering their widespread occurrence, we have been exploring the hypothesis that 'superantigen production by bacteria causes an effect on the immune system that down regulates local immunity and promotes colonization and/or persistence'. Using a variety of animal models, we have confirmed that the toxins repress the immune response, including to S. aureus. Several cell types, consistent with immunosuppression, are induced in vitro and in vivo. In addition, bacteria that express superantigens are more able to colonize and cause infections compared to isogenic strains in which the toxin genes are deleted. Combined, these results indicate that a selective advantage is provided to bacteria capable of expressing superantigens. The well-known ability of superantigens to induce severe shock-like symptoms in toxic shock syndrome and other adverse effects are likely secondary effects of the immunosuppression. The occurrence of these severe secondary effects also suggests that S. aureus likely acquired these toxin genes relatively recently. If so, it is also likely that further co-evolution of the bacteria with their respective hosts will lead to toxins that are more efficient at inducing immunosuppression and less likely to induce shock.", "date": "2008-11-04", "academic_year": "2008/09", "record_type": "event", "type": "Text", "format": "record", "original_link": "http://www.uidaho.edu/class/mric/archives/pre-2010/fall2008/bohach", "object_location": "", "reference_url": "/digital/mric/items/mric2008-09-009.html" }, { "title": "In the Mood: Creating Architectural Atmospheres", "presenter": "Randall Teal", "affiliation": "Art & Architecture", "description": "Architectural drawing did not fully emerge until the Renaissance. When it did, it proved to be beneficial to architects because it allowed them to explore and develop building designs on paper before anything was actually built. However, this “progress” also had its drawbacks, in that it also enabled designers to become detached from the buildings they were representing. As a consequence, bodily experience of the built environment was frequently forgotten. The effects of this loss can still be felt today in our cities which are regularly populated by objects that are less buildings than they are built drawings. Following in this legacy it becomes important that designers remember that a building is a three dimensional space for human encounter and not merely a formal composition. Reestablishing human encounter in architectural representation begins with an understanding that when people enter a place, they experience it primarily as a mood in which they are immersed, and only secondarily as the actual elements that comprise this mood. Drawing on writings in philosophy and architectural theory, as well as examples of exercises that I use in my architectural studio courses, I will explore the challenges presented by architectural representation, and how mood can easily get lost when representation and building become undifferentiated in the designer’s mind. I will also suggest how viewing architecture as an embodied experience or atmosphere points the way toward a more holistic way of approaching design.", "date": "2008-11-11", "academic_year": "2008/09", "record_type": "event", "type": "Text", "format": "record", "original_link": "http://www.uidaho.edu/class/mric/archives/pre-2010/fall2008/teal", "object_location": "", "reference_url": "/digital/mric/items/mric2008-09-010.html" }, { "title": "Overconfidence and Some Behavioral Consequences", "presenter": "Jeff Bailey", "affiliation": "Business & Economics", "description": "In many situations, people tend to be overconfident in their beliefs and judgments. In this colloquium, I will show that there are three main ways in which overconfidence has been defined and investigated. The three forms of overconfidence to be discussed are embodied in Lake Wobegon effects, over-estimation effects, and over-precision effects. Overconfidence is often associated with serious, negative behavioral consequences. Why then, is this judgment error so persistent? Overconfidence also has some positive consequences for both individuals and groups.", "date": "2008-11-18", "academic_year": "2008/09", "record_type": "event", "type": "Text", "format": "record", "original_link": "http://www.uidaho.edu/class/mric/archives/pre-2010/fall2008/bailey", "object_location": "", "reference_url": "/digital/mric/items/mric2008-09-011.html" }, { "title": "The Art of Stage Kissing", "presenter": "Kelly Quinnett", "affiliation": "Theatre and Film", "description": "Exploring intimacy through the craft of acting. How truthful can you really get? How is one stirred emotionally but able to craft through the world of a play.", "date": "2008-12-02", "academic_year": "2008/09", "record_type": "event", "type": "Text", "format": "record", "original_link": "http://www.uidaho.edu/class/mric/archives/pre-2010/fall2008/quinnett", "object_location": "", "reference_url": "/digital/mric/items/mric2008-09-012.html" }, { "title": "The Analogical Modeling of Language", "presenter": "Steve Chandler", "affiliation": "English; Neuroscience", "description": "Linguistics is the study of the nature of language. As a psycholinguist, I am particularly interested in trying to understand how language is acquired and represented in the brain. The predominant theories of how language is represented in the brain posit acquisitional processes in which the brain abstracts generalizations about one's language away from instances of linguistic experience and forms physical, neurological, representations of those generalizations. Those resident linguistic generalizations become in turn the brain's basis for producing and comprehending subsequent instances of linguistic usage. That is, they become the neurological basis for speaking and understanding your language. For much of the past 20 years, I have participated in a research group that posits a very different view of the nature of linguistic generalizations. Rather than positing resident linguistic generalizations that have been abstracted away from one's linguistic experiences, the Analogical Model posits that throughout one's lifetime people simply accumulate memories for instances of linguistic experiences. Their subsequent use of the language-whether production or comprehension-involves comparing the current communicative act with that collection of instances of previously experienced communicative acts and identifying-on the fly-one or more patterns inherent in that collection which best interprets or achieves the current communicative act. Our reading of the research literature is that the empirical evidence continues to confirm the predictions of the Analogical Model over those of the competing theories.", "date": "2009-09-08", "academic_year": "2009/10", "record_type": "event", "type": "Text", "format": "record", "original_link": "http://www.uidaho.edu/class/mric/archives/pre-2010/fall2009/chandler", "object_location": "", "reference_url": "/digital/mric/items/mric2009-10-001.html" }, { "title": "Buying Local: The Economics of Import Substitution", "presenter": "Stephen Cooke", "affiliation": "Agricultural Economics; AERS", "description": "Export enhancement and import substitution are both commonly employed community economic development strategies. The treatment of import substitution has been less rigorous with this strategy relegated to folk economic and qualitative treatments. This presentation describes both strategies symmetrically in both the Leontief and Keynesian models. It is found, predicated on the assumptions of the models and on the existence of unrealized comparative advantages in the regional economy, that import substitution is at least as good an economic development strategy as export enhancement. For either large changes or the cumulative effects of small ones, import substitution creates more economic activity.", "date": "2009-09-15", "academic_year": "2009/10", "record_type": "event", "type": "Text", "format": "record", "original_link": "http://www.uidaho.edu/class/mric/archives/pre-2010/fall2009/cook", "object_location": "", "reference_url": "/digital/mric/items/mric2009-10-002.html" }, { "title": "Harnessing Evolution: The Application of Artificial Evolution to Practical Problems", "presenter": "Terry Soule", "affiliation": "Computer Science", "description": "Natural evolution has generated an amazing array of organisms to solve the very difficult problems associated with survival. Using a computer to imitate the fundamental aspect of evolution: reproduction, inheritance, and selection, it is possible to harness the evolutionary process to evolve solutions to complex problems. Because of its generality artificial evolution has been applied to a wide range of problems, from robotic navigation, to the generation of cooperation, to games, and even the creation of art. In this presentation I will present a few of the applications of artificial evolution being pursued at the University of Idaho.", "date": "2009-09-22", "academic_year": "2009/10", "record_type": "event", "type": "Text", "format": "record", "original_link": "http://www.uidaho.edu/class/mric/archives/pre-2010/fall2009/soule", "object_location": "", "reference_url": "/digital/mric/items/mric2009-10-003.html" }, { "title": "Hold Infinity in the Palm of Your Hand and Eternity in an Hour", "presenter": "Robert Ely", "affiliation": "Mathematics", "description": "How do we come to understand the infinite? After pondering some paradoxes together, we'll briefly trace the development of human thinking about infinity from Zeno's day to Cantor's. We'll examine how this development illuminates the cognitive moves that learners must make in order to negotiate the pitfalls of the infinite, including the metaphors of object-creation and their accompanying ontological anxiety.", "date": "2009-09-29", "academic_year": "2009/10", "record_type": "event", "type": "Text", "format": "record", "original_link": "http://www.uidaho.edu/class/mric/archives/pre-2010/fall2009/ely", "object_location": "", "reference_url": "/digital/mric/items/mric2009-10-004.html" }, { "title": "Culture Clash: The Political Economy of Local Land Use Conflicts", "presenter": "Steven Peterson", "affiliation": "Business & Economics", "description": "Several regional land use conflicts have emerged over the last decade, deeply dividing the communities of Moscow and Pullman. These conflicts can be framed as both differences in economic perspectives and cultural clashes. Both themes will be explored in selected local issues, including the proposals to build two super Wal-Marts on the Palouse and the Hawkins development. These have broader national and international implications. Finally, a brief look at the current state of the Palouse economy will be presented along with prospects for the future.", "date": "2009-10-06", "academic_year": "2009/10", "record_type": "event", "type": "Text", "format": "record", "original_link": "http://www.uidaho.edu/class/mric/archives/pre-2010/fall2009/peterson", "object_location": "", "reference_url": "/digital/mric/items/mric2009-10-005.html" }, { "title": "Daniel Defoe, Colonialism and Space", "presenter": "Ian Chambers", "affiliation": "History", "description": "Historian and theorist Henri Lefebvre has written that even if there is no general code of space, inherent to language or to all languages, there may have existed specific codes, established at specific historical periods and varying in their effects. If so interested ‘subjects’, as members of a particular society, would have acceded by this means at once to their space and to their status as ‘subjects’ acting within that space and (in the broadest sense of the word) comprehending it. Building on Lefebvre, and other theorists, I have developed the concept of ‘spatial persona,’ that is, the linkage of a person’s identification with a specific location, or locations, as a means of verifying identity and informing the act of contact. My paper examines the development of the British spatial persona in the early eighteenth century, as seen through the works of Daniel Defoe. I initially turn to Defoe’s Tour, selecting several moments to detail the British spatial persona in the metropolis. I then travel across the Atlantic to show how the British spatial persona was played out during the colonial experience, both in fiction as seen in Defoe's Robinson Crusoe and in the real-life experiences of British settlers in the American Southeast as seen in the following quotation from Philip Thicknese, a British colonist who briefly settled in the new colony of Georgia in 1736, and commented in his memoirs: the Indians sometimes visited my Island for a day or two, and then I had plenty of venison, which they boil’d down, and eat dipped in wild honey, this was a true Robinson Crusoe line of life. Philip Thicknesse. * *Lefebvre, Henri, (Trans. Donald Nicholson-Smith), The Production of Space, (Blackwell, 1991), p. 17", "date": "2009-10-20", "academic_year": "2009/10", "record_type": "event", "type": "Text", "format": "record", "original_link": "http://www.uidaho.edu/class/mric/archives/pre-2010/fall2009/chambers", "object_location": "", "reference_url": "/digital/mric/items/mric2009-10-006.html" }, { "title": "In Your Face (and Voice) – Can Digital Facial and Voiced Expression Tools Enhance the Social Sciences?", "presenter": "Akira Tokuhiro", "affiliation": "Mechanical Engineering; CAES", "description": "Research on communication dynamics has shown that human beings, across nations and cultures, ‘talk’ to each other using facial and voiced expressions, gestures, body language and of course, by listening. In fact, facial expressions can be as much as 70% of the information (content) that is transmitted and received. Further, it’s likely that the ‘state-of-being’, ‘state-of-mind’ or ‘emotional state’ is expressed via communication; that is, facial and voiced expressions can directly represent human emotions. Most of us ‘understand’ facial and voiced expressions effortlessly. With the recent accessibility of digital images and audio, the speaker and his students realized a natural foray into the social sciences using ‘tools’ well-developed in the digital signal process engineering. The ‘team’ developed an initial multi-modal emotion recognition system using cues from digitally recorded facial images and voiced recordings. This is achieved by extracting features from each of the modalities using signal processing techniques, and then classifying these features with the help of artificial neural networks (ANN). The features extracted from the face are the eyes, eyebrows, mouth and nose; this is done using image processing techniques such as seeded region growing algorithm, particle swarm optimization and general properties of the feature being extracted. In contrast, features of interest in speech are pitch, frequencies and spectra along with some statistical properties and also the rate of change of these properties. These features are extracted using techniques such as Fourier transform. In the course of research the team developed a toolbox that can read an audio and/or video file and ‘perform emotion recognition’ on the face in the video and speech in the audio channel. The features extracted from the face and voices are independently classified into emotions using two separate feed forward types of ANNs. This toolbox then presents the output of the artificial neural networks from one/both the modalities on a synchronized time scale. Some interesting results from this research is consistent misclassification of facial expressions between two databases (one European, one Asian), suggesting a cultural basis for this misinterpretation. Addition of voice component has been shown to partially help in better classification.", "date": "2009-10-27", "academic_year": "2009/10", "record_type": "event", "type": "Text", "format": "record", "original_link": "http://www.uidaho.edu/class/mric/archives/pre-2010/fall2009/tokuhiro", "object_location": "", "reference_url": "/digital/mric/items/mric2009-10-007.html" }, { "title": "Constructing Tribal Architectures in Native American Communities", "presenter": "Anne Marshall", "affiliation": "Architecture & Interior Design", "description": "Native American communities aiming to construct tribal architectures face a variety of challenges. Some are related to underlying issues of discourse and scholarship. Scholars have written very little critical literature about 20th- and 21st-century Native American architecture. Architectural education is based on a European model and rarely includes Native American architecture. These conditions result in additional issues related to practice. Very few Native American people practice within the profession of architecture. As a result, most design professionals are non-Native. Because these architects have fundamentally different worldviews and styles of communication, cross-cultural communication is often a challenge for both architects and clients. Authority on architecture for tribal communities can be ambiguous. Other issues include administrative barriers and the challenges of creating meaningful tribally-specific architectures when there is no system of translating historical built forms into contemporary architecture.", "date": "2009-11-03", "academic_year": "2009/10", "record_type": "event", "type": "Text", "format": "record", "original_link": "http://www.uidaho.edu/class/mric/archives/pre-2010/fall2009/marshall", "object_location": "", "reference_url": "/digital/mric/items/mric2009-10-008.html" }, { "title": "‘Clownish’ Figures in Aristophanes: Some Considerations on the Language of Aristophanes’ Criticism", "presenter": "Rosanna Lauriola", "affiliation": "Classics; History", "description": "One of the on-going debates on ancient Greek Literature is that pertaining to Aristophanes’ comedy. What is the aim of the invectives leveled against prominent members of 5th century Athenian society in a genre which is expected to make people laugh is the question most debated by scholars, when they ask whether Aristophanes is to be taken seriously in his attacks on the contemporary politicians (the demagogue Cleon and other corrupt leaders), on the tragic poet Euripides, on the rival comic playwrights, on the new intellectuals (the Sophists) and their fellows. The debate has produced a polarized view, in that some scholars tend to see a complete identification of comedy and politics, others a complete divorce. Hence for some, Aristophanes’ comedy was intended to have a strong effect on the political and social status of Athens, by promoting a civic awareness of the surrounding reality, for others Aristophanes meant only to amuse and to grant, through his fantastic inventions, a means of evading reality by freeing the audience’s mind from pressure and anxiety. Similar polarized view is applied to the invectives Aristophanes expressed against the contemporary comic playwrights. Indeed, despite the variety of Aristophanes’ targets, scholars mostly tend to focus on politicians and comic playwrights, and they thus tend to discuss the issue of Aristophanes’ seriousness with reference to these categories of persons. On the basis of some statements of the poet himself, whose voice is often recognizable as surfacing behind a character throughout the comedy, it actually seems that Aristophanes’ comedy is by purpose ‘serious-comic’(spoudaiogeloion), in that it aims not simply to provoke laughter; indeed it aims to promote in the citizens some kind of self-criticism and awareness through laughter. Thereby, the serious component of Aristophanes’ plays can be regarded as a pervasively embedded trait, inseparable from humor. Moreover, it concerns not only politicians and comic playwrights, but all the other persons whose actions are perceived by Aristophanes as responsible for the crisis of the contemporary Athens. One of the strategies that Aristophanes uses to realize a ‘serious-comic’ poetry is a subtle and witty use of specific terminology (lexicon) that consists of laughable (geloion) words, or, still better, words that are meant to provoke mere laughter only on the surface, while communicating serious concerns and criticism (spoudaion). So far existing scholarship has emphasized a specific trait of Aristophanes’ lexicon, that is the occurrence of terms that the poet would used as catchwords to specifically address his criticism to circumscribed categories of persons that constitute his typical targets. Hence one can speak of a lexicon pertaining to Aristophanes’ literary criticism of the comic and tragic playwrights, or of a lexicon pertaining to his criticism of prominent figures of the polis’ administration, etc. Beside this undoubted trait of Aristophanes’ lexicon, there is, however, another trait that has received little attention: the use of the same kind of words to qualify, to the same degree, different categories of persons, words that are laughable on surface, yet able to communicate a precise serious criticism, which is always the same independently from the individual target.", "date": "2009-11-10", "academic_year": "2009/10", "record_type": "event", "type": "Text", "format": "record", "original_link": "http://www.uidaho.edu/class/mric/archives/pre-2010/fall2009/lauriola", "object_location": "", "reference_url": "/digital/mric/items/mric2009-10-009.html" }, { "title": "Feedbacks between Insect Outbreaks and Climate Change", "presenter": "Jeffrey A. Hicke", "affiliation": "Geography", "description": "Insects kill vast numbers of trees in Idaho, the United States, and North America. Climate change, in the form of higher temperatures and drought, is one driver of these outbreaks. The severity and extent of these disturbances imply large impacts to exchanges of carbon between the land and atmosphere, which lead to effects on future climate change. In this talk, I will describe research to establish the influence of climate on outbreaks of mountain pine beetle outbreaks, the insect that causes the most extensive tree mortality in the West. I will also discuss studies to quantify the impacts of these killed trees on atmospheric carbon dioxide and thus future climate change. A better understanding of the future of these forest disturbances and their impacts will improve decision-making of land managers, policymakers, and the public on Western forest issues.", "date": "2009-11-17", "academic_year": "2009/10", "record_type": "event", "type": "Text", "format": "record", "original_link": "http://www.uidaho.edu/class/mric/archives/pre-2010/fall2009/hike", "object_location": "", "reference_url": "/digital/mric/items/mric2009-10-010.html" }, { "title": "Understanding Knee Injuries", "presenter": "Kathy Browder", "affiliation": "HPERD", "description": "Anterior cruciate ligament (ACL) injuries continue to be one of the most common knee injuries in the United States, resulting in healthcare costs in the billions for surgery and rehabilitation alone. And yet, with 20 years of research on ACL injuries, we still understand little about the exact causes of these injuries. The good news is that even with our lack of understanding about specific causes, several promising training programs have been developed to prevent ACL injuries. During this session, we will discuss the causes of ACL injuries and the characteristics of good prevention programs.", "date": "2009-12-01", "academic_year": "2009/10", "record_type": "event", "type": "Text", "format": "record", "original_link": "http://www.uidaho.edu/class/mric/archives/pre-2010/fall2009/browder", "object_location": "", "reference_url": "/digital/mric/items/mric2009-10-011.html" }, { "title": "Launchbaugh", "presenter": "Karen Launchbaugh", "affiliation": "Rangeland Ecology & Management Department", "description": "This presentation, aimed at the undergraduate audience, will look at the hypotheses offered by the famous theoretical physicist, Stephen W. Hawking concerning radiation that might come from Black Holes. If this radiation occurs, it would mean that Black Holes are not so black after all. The talk will be a qualitative discussion (mathematics kept to a minimum) about Professor Hawking’s main ideas that come from General Relativity and Quantum Physics. Using these ideas, he creates the notion that Black Holes might radiate energy away like a hot object and evaporate! This hypothetical phenomenon is called: “Hawking Radiation.” It is also fascinating to see how Newton’s Classical Physics, Einstein’s General Relativity, and Quantum Physics each treat the idea of “vacuum” differently.", "date": "2010-02-02", "academic_year": "2009/10", "record_type": "event", "type": "Text", "format": "record", "original_link": "http://www.uidaho.edu/class/mric/archives/pre-2010/spring2010/launchbaugh", "object_location": "", "reference_url": "/digital/mric/items/mric2009-10-012.html" }, { "title": "Deutchman", "presenter": "Phil Deutchman", "affiliation": "Physics", "description": "This presentation, aimed at the undergraduate audience, will look at the hypotheses offered by the famous theoretical physicist, Stephen W. Hawking concerning radiation that might come from Black Holes. If this radiation occurs, it would mean that Black Holes are not so black after all. The talk will be a qualitative discussion (mathematics kept to a minimum) about Professor Hawking’s main ideas that come from General Relativity and Quantum Physics. Using these ideas, he creates the notion that Black Holes might radiate energy away like a hot object and evaporate! This hypothetical phenomenon is called: “Hawking Radiation.” It is also fascinating to see how Newton’s Classical Physics, Einstein’s General Relativity, and Quantum Physics each treat the idea of “vacuum” differently.", "date": "2010-02-09", "academic_year": "2009/10", "record_type": "event", "type": "Text", "format": "record", "original_link": "http://www.uidaho.edu/class/mric/archives/pre-2010/spring2010/deutchman", "object_location": "", "reference_url": "/digital/mric/items/mric2009-10-013.html" }, { "title": "Scott", "presenter": "Mike Scott", "affiliation": "Fish and Wildlife", "description": "This presentation, aimed at the undergraduate audience, will look at the hypotheses offered by the famous theoretical physicist, Stephen W. Hawking concerning radiation that might come from Black Holes. If this radiation occurs, it would mean that Black Holes are not so black after all. The talk will be a qualitative discussion (mathematics kept to a minimum) about Professor Hawking’s main ideas that come from General Relativity and Quantum Physics. Using these ideas, he creates the notion that Black Holes might radiate energy away like a hot object and evaporate! This hypothetical phenomenon is called: “Hawking Radiation.” It is also fascinating to see how Newton’s Classical Physics, Einstein’s General Relativity, and Quantum Physics each treat the idea of “vacuum” differently.", "date": "2010-02-16", "academic_year": "2009/10", "record_type": "event", "type": "Text", "format": "record", "original_link": "http://www.uidaho.edu/class/mric/archives/pre-2010/spring2010/scott", "object_location": "", "reference_url": "/digital/mric/items/mric2009-10-014.html" }, { "title": "Lawrence", "presenter": "John Lawrence", "affiliation": "Business & Economics", "description": "Cases are commonly used to teach business concepts to business students. Cases help to create a student-centered classroom dynamic and help students understand the need for and appreciate the value of business theories, frameworks and tools as they are introduced to and asked to apply these theories, frameworks and tools. But teaching with cases is only part of the opportunity for faculty members. Writing cases represents an accepted and encouraged component of research at numerous business schools, and the process of researching and writing these cases can provide valuable outreach to regional businesses and nonprofits. Today’s presenter has worked with a number of local and regional organizations (e.g., Cowgirl Chocolates, Pacific Cataract & Laser Institute, Pacific Northwest Fiber, Palouse Ice Rink Association, and The Backyard Harvest) through the case research and writing process. He will talk about the multiple opportunities that case research presents and discuss how faculty from across campus can become involved in this very rewarding form of research, teaching and outreach.", "date": "2010-03-02", "academic_year": "2009/10", "record_type": "event", "type": "Text", "format": "record", "original_link": "http://www.uidaho.edu/class/mric/archives/pre-2010/spring2010/lawrence", "object_location": "", "reference_url": "/digital/mric/items/mric2009-10-015.html" }, { "title": "Rudd", "presenter": "Matthew Rudd", "affiliation": "Mathematics", "description": "Partial differential equations can be hard to explain and even harder to solve, especially when they are nonlinear. In at least one case, however, the solution can be constructed simply, without even mentioning any pesky indices; until now, this particular problem has been notorious for its difficulties. After explaining this further, I will talk about some related open questions and ongoing work.", "date": "2010-03-02", "academic_year": "2009/10", "record_type": "event", "type": "Text", "format": "record", "original_link": "http://www.uidaho.edu/class/mric/archives/pre-2010/spring2010/Rudd", "object_location": "", "reference_url": "/digital/mric/items/mric2009-10-016.html" }, { "title": "Adams", "presenter": "Doug Adams", "affiliation": "English", "description": "This presentation is designed to exam, in an introductory way, how the knowledge of language and particularly its prehistory, can illuminate our knowledge of cultural or physical prehistory (i.e., archeology). If we know what the speakers of a proto-language, an abstract entity outside of both time and space, talked about, can we connect it with a particular archeological culture, firmly root in both time and space, but mute.", "date": "2010-03-30", "academic_year": "2009/10", "record_type": "event", "type": "Text", "format": "record", "original_link": "http://www.uidaho.edu/class/mric/archives/pre-2010/spring2010/adams", "object_location": "", "reference_url": "/digital/mric/items/mric2009-10-017.html" }, { "title": "Bergmann", "presenter": "Verna Bergmann", "affiliation": "Student Health Services", "description": "From a dietitian’s perspective, what happens to food from the field to the table has significant implications for our health. We must become aware of the connection between the dirt in the field to the food that grows in the dirt to the food on the table and to the eater, to understand the impact on our health. Many steps along the way can have a positive or negative impact on the final outcome on the health of us, our environment and our planet. Lifestyle changes implied in local, seasonal, sustainable food systems are critical in making the long terms changes needed for improved health. The fabric of the grass root movement for sustainable food systems is a key ingredient to life style change that can have long term implications for improving our health. During this session, we will begin to connect the dots between the health of our soil, our food and ourselves.", "date": "2010-04-06", "academic_year": "2009/10", "record_type": "event", "type": "Text", "format": "record", "original_link": "http://www.uidaho.edu/class/mric/archives/pre-2010/spring2010/bergmann", "object_location": "", "reference_url": "/digital/mric/items/mric2009-10-018.html" }, { "title": "Nicotra", "presenter": "Jodie Nicotra; Rochelle Smith", "affiliation": "English; Library", "description": "Prompted by the current economic crisis, the concomitant loss of faith in traditional economic institutions, and the increasing rejection of the dominant tropes of consumer capitalism (planned obsolescence, waste, convenience, efficiency, anonymity), the DIY ethic can be seen in everything from the overhaul of domestic economies (the renewed interest, especially among young people, in backyard gardens, sewing and knitting, cooking “from scratch,” barter economies, and crafting products from recycled household materials) to the rise in popularity of websites like neighborhoodfruit.org, veggietrader.com, Etsy.com and craftster.org. We look at gleaners and “upcyclers,” particular manifestations of this resurgence, both groups seeking to change their relationships to the consumption and waste that are hallmarks of late capitalist western society, both groups challenging and in some ways reinforcing dominant paradigms. We particularly wish to investigate the narratives that these practitioners construct about themselves in relation to the mainstream economy, and the communication technologies that foster the spread of these narratives.", "date": "2010-04-13", "academic_year": "2009/10", "record_type": "event", "type": "Text", "format": "record", "original_link": "http://www.uidaho.edu/class/mric/archives/pre-2010/spring2010/nicotra", "object_location": "", "reference_url": "/digital/mric/items/mric2009-10-019.html" }, { "title": "Hormel", "presenter": "Leontina Hormel", "affiliation": "Sociology and Anthropology", "description": "“Women as Activists and Citizens in Lviv and Kharkiv During Ukraine’s 2004 Orange Revolution” is a collaborative endeavor with Alexandra Hrycak, associate professor of sociology at Reed College. In this project we examine women (ages 18-73) who were active in supporting the pro-West candidate Viktor Yushchenko during the 2004 Orange Revolution, a revolution that erupted as a result of corruption and fraud during Ukraine’s presidential elections. The revolution was a surprise to many who saw the Ukrainian public as passive and unperturbed by “politics as usual.” Much like this passive public, women in Ukraine have been invisible – viewed as private characters with little interest in politics and engaged citizenship. In fact, since the revolution, women have yet to feature prominently in research surrounding the Orange Revolution. Yet, our study finds that women across a variety of ages – through doing the “housework of politics” - enabled communication and mobilization for Orange revolutionary action. We find these clues through focus groups with women activists in two culturally divergent cities in Ukraine – the “pro-West” city of Lviv and the “pro-East” city of Kharkiv (conducted in 2005). Through these focus groups we find an empowered sense of women’s identities and a far less polarized vision for Ukraine’s future, despite the widespread media attention to a “divided Ukraine.” This presentation will also explore factors surrounding women’s activism and citizenship that may have led to the pro-East candidate Viktor Yanukovych’s victory in the recent 2010 presidential elections.", "date": "2010-04-27", "academic_year": "2009/10", "record_type": "event", "type": "Text", "format": "record", "original_link": "http://www.uidaho.edu/class/mric/archives/pre-2010/spring2010/Hormel", "object_location": "", "reference_url": "/digital/mric/items/mric2009-10-020.html" }, { "title": "Sharon Fritz", "presenter": "Sharon Fritz", "affiliation": "Psychology", "description": "Alcohol is the number one health problem on college campuses. Excessive drinking among college students is associated with a variety of negative consequences that include fatal and nonfatal injuries; alcohol poisoning; blackouts; academic failure; violence, including rape and assault; unintended pregnancy; sexually transmitted diseases, including HIV/AIDS; property damage; and career and legal consequences that could jeopardize future job prospects. A decade of data collection and research has informed and guided Institutions of Higher Education’s efforts to reduce the risk of excessive drinking among college students. This presentation will provide a summary of alcohol use by University of Idaho students and explore various interventions being implemented to reduce the consequences of high-risk drinking.", "date": "2010-05-04", "academic_year": "2009/10", "record_type": "event", "type": "Text", "format": "record", "original_link": "http://www.uidaho.edu/class/mric/archives/pre-2010/spring2010/Copy%20of%20feature%201", "object_location": "", "reference_url": "/digital/mric/items/mric2009-10-021.html" }, { "title": "David Sigler", "presenter": "David Sigler", "affiliation": "English", "description": "The concept of masochism was coined in 1886 by the sexologist Richard von Krafft-Ebing, in tribute to the contemporary Austrian novelist Leopold von Sacher-Masoch. Since then, masochism has been debated by sexologists, psychologists, psychoanalysts, historians, sociologists, and literary scholars alike. This talk will maintain that, even in our enlightened post-Foucauldian times, our understanding of masochism has remained trapped, unwittingly, within the problematic frameworks imposed by Krafft-Ebing. In response, my talk will propose a literary approach to masochism—one that seeks to understand the perversion as a textual and narrative circumstance, and one centered around acts of reading—and will trace such an approach through the work of Sigmund Freud, Gilles Deleuze, and Jacques Lacan.", "date": "2010-09-07", "academic_year": "2010/11", "record_type": "event", "type": "Text", "format": "record", "original_link": "http://www.uidaho.edu/class/mric/archives/2010-2011/sigler", "object_location": "", "reference_url": "/digital/mric/items/mric2010-11-001.html" }, { "title": "M. Duane Nellis", "presenter": "M. Duane Nellis", "affiliation": "President, University of Idaho", "description": "President M. Duane Nellis will discuss using satellites and geographic information systems (GIS) to make decisions about the natural spaces around the globe. He is recognized nationally and internationally for his research utilizing satellite data and geographic information systems to analyze various dimensions of the earth’s land surface. Dr. Nellis is recognized for his research and teaching through numerous awards, such as receiving national honors from the Association of American Geographers in 2001, the AAG’s John Fraser Hart Award for Excellence in Research, and the Outstanding Contributions Award by the AAG’s Remote Sensing Specialty Group. He served as president of the Association of American Geographers, one of the largest professional geography organizations in the world. He also is past president of the National Council for Geographic Education; past president of Gamma Theta Upsilon, the International Geographic Honor Society; and, he served as one of 10 members of the National Council of Colleges of Arts and Sciences Research Universities Committee.", "date": "2010-09-14", "academic_year": "2010/11", "record_type": "event", "type": "Text", "format": "record", "original_link": "http://www.uidaho.edu/class/mric/archives/2010-2011/nellis", "object_location": "", "reference_url": "/digital/mric/items/mric2010-11-002.html" }, { "title": "Documentary Production and the Potential for Interdisciplinary Collaboration", "presenter": "Denise Bennett", "affiliation": "Journalism and Mass Media", "description": "In 2005 cameras began documenting four high school football players in Washington state. From freshman through senior year the players reveal themselves talking about everything that obsesses high school boys: winning and losing, parties and girls, resulting in the twenty nine minute film \"Pups\". On July 11, 2010 \"Pups\" won the All Sports Los Angeles Film Festival's award for Best Documentary Short. In this presentation Producer-Director-Editor/Instructor Denise Bennett will show the film, discuss the production process and festival screenings as well as start a discussion about the interdisciplinary possibilities for documentary collaboration campus wide.", "date": "2010-09-21", "academic_year": "2010/11", "record_type": "event", "type": "Text", "format": "record", "original_link": "http://www.uidaho.edu/class/mric/archives/2010-2011/bennett", "object_location": "", "reference_url": "/digital/mric/items/mric2010-11-003.html" }, { "title": "Chris Williams", "presenter": "Chris Williams", "affiliation": "Statistics", "description": "Where is the best place to live? How can we efficiently estimate disease prevalence? How do you make the perfect cocktail? These questions are among the many exciting problems that statisticians work on. In this talk I will use the questions above to illustrate the enjoyable collaborations that statisticians have in many fields, and also to highlight some important themes in statistical research.", "date": "2010-09-28", "academic_year": "2010/11", "record_type": "event", "type": "Text", "format": "record", "original_link": "http://www.uidaho.edu/class/mric/archives/2010-2011/williams", "object_location": "", "reference_url": "/digital/mric/items/mric2010-11-004.html" }, { "title": "Stephen Mulkey", "presenter": "Stephen Mulkey", "affiliation": "Environmental Science", "description": "While the reality of anthropogenic climate change continues to be a topic of public debate, action is urgently needed if we are to avoid profoundly negative effects of climate change on the wellbeing of current and future generations. Ethical, economic, and legal aspects of climate change are some of the important determinants of policy as we attempt to deal with complex aspects of mitigation and adaptation. Although science is an appropriate starting point for developing effective policy, it does not determine normative choices. I will explore ethical issues as they pertain to the communication and use of science by policy makers. I will develop a framework for understanding how ethics can guide our understanding of normative issues related to climate change. Economic assessment of damages and risk management are central to this discussion.", "date": "2010-10-12", "academic_year": "2010/11", "record_type": "event", "type": "Text", "format": "record", "original_link": "http://www.uidaho.edu/class/mric/archives/2010-2011/mulkey", "object_location": "", "reference_url": "/digital/mric/items/mric2010-11-005.html" }, { "title": "Renfrew Dedication", "presenter": "Jean'ne Shreeve", "affiliation": "Chemistry", "description": "The University Interdisciplinary Colloquium (UIC) began as the "Tools R Us" Humanities Fellows Lecture Series in the fall of 2000. An important influence in the early years of the series was Dr. Malcolm M. Renfrew, both as a mentor to the directors and as an audience constant. This Tuesday, the UIC will be renamed in Dr. Renfrew's honor as part of the celebration of his 100th birthday. Dr. Jean’ne Shreeve, Professor of Chemistry, will speak about Renfrew’s career and contributions. Those who attend will have an opportunity to speak with Dr. Renfrew in conversation following Dr. Shreeve's presentation.", "date": "2010-10-19", "academic_year": "2010/11", "record_type": "event", "type": "Text", "format": "record", "original_link": "http://www.uidaho.edu/class/mric/archives/2010-2011/renfrew", "object_location": "", "reference_url": "/digital/mric/items/mric2010-11-006.html" }, { "title": "Edward O.Garton", "presenter": "Edward O. (Oz) Garton", "affiliation": "Wildlife Ecology; Statistics; Fish and Wildlife", "description": "Can scientists forecast the future? Will we use their forecasts to make the right decisions? Will our beliefs affect what we see happening? The reintroduction of wolves to Yellowstone National Park and River of No Return Wilderness in Central Idaho and wolves' rapid population growth have become a flash-point for disagreements amongst people passionately valuing natural systems and their resources in different ways. I was asked by the National Park Service in 1989 to forecast the impact on the Northern Yellowstone elk herd of a wolf reintroduction to Yellowstone National Park. Let's look briefly at the basis for those forecasts, the results of the reintroduction, its success and use this interesting story to address these 4 questions.", "date": "2010-10-26", "academic_year": "2010/11", "record_type": "event", "type": "Text", "format": "record", "original_link": "http://www.uidaho.edu/class/mric/archives/2010-2011/garton", "object_location": "", "reference_url": "/digital/mric/items/mric2010-11-007.html" }, { "title": "Flow Oscillations in Wavy Walled Tubes for Gas Separations and other Native Activities", "presenter": "Aaron Thomas", "affiliation": "Chemical Engineering", "description": "This presentation begins with a brief overview of research involving oscillatory flows as a novel mechanical separation mechanism for gas species. Flow oscillations cause species that are present in a mixture to transport at different rates and thus give rise to a separation. The phenomena observed for flow oscillations in gas separations are also applied to the separation of biological materials on the microscale. Work is currently being conducted on demonstrating the separation that can be achieved on the mixtures of DNA samples with varying numbers of base pairs. Furthermore, this talk will address STEM education and the Native American/ Alaska Native communities. For many Native American/ Alaska Native students, they have lived much of their life on the reservation or in their respective villages. Moving away from a close-knit environment of family, elders, and culture to pursue higher education is a daunting proposition. Activites at the University of Idaho aimed to help recruit and retain students in higher education and the STEM fiels will be presented.", "date": "2010-11-02", "academic_year": "2010/11", "record_type": "event", "type": "Text", "format": "record", "original_link": "http://www.uidaho.edu/class/mric/archives/2010-2011/aaronthomas", "object_location": "", "reference_url": "/digital/mric/items/mric2010-11-008.html" }, { "title": "Willingness To Pay For Animal Welfare In Dairy Production: Evidence From Experimental Auctions", "presenter": "Levan Elbakidze", "affiliation": "Agricultural Economics and Rural Sociology", "description": "Concerns pertaining to bioethics in agricultural production have been on the rise in recent years. This study uses non-hypothetical experimental auctions to elicit willingness to pay (WTP) for humane animal care certified cheese and ice cream. We use 2nr price and random Nth price auctions as well as Open Ended Choice Experiments in multi-product, multi-quantity, and multi-round context. Unlike previous applications of experimental auctions this study estimates WTP for multiple quantities rather than WTP for a single unit of a given product. The results contrast participants’ bids across different auction mechanisms and different products. Differences in bidding patterns are detected between auction mechanisms as well as products. Some WTP premium price for humane animal care certified ice cream is detected. However, no WTP premium price for humane animal care certified cheese is detected. The limitations and caveats of estimation results will be discussed.", "date": "2010-11-09", "academic_year": "2010/11", "record_type": "event", "type": "Text", "format": "record", "original_link": "http://www.uidaho.edu/class/mric/archives/2010-2011/elkabidze", "object_location": "", "reference_url": "/digital/mric/items/mric2010-11-009.html" }, { "title": "Douglas Lind", "presenter": "Douglas Lind", "affiliation": "Philosophy", "description": "What is it to be a good judge? Unlike most professions, in countries like the United States there is no course of study designed to prepare one for the profession of judging. Most judges (but not all) attend law school. But excellence in the practice of judging requires much more than knowledge of the law. How do judges learn the skills and techniques necessary for their work? To a great extent, they learn by example and ‘on the job’. Yet they also learn by taking courses through judicial institutes and colleges. While most judicial program teachers are judges themselves, sometimes judicial institutes go outside the profession for their teachers. Sometimes they go even to philosophy. This presentation offers a glimpse into how the discipline of philosophy factors in the education of judges.", "date": "2010-11-15", "academic_year": "2010/11", "record_type": "event", "type": "Text", "format": "record", "original_link": "http://www.uidaho.edu/class/mric/archives/2010-2011/lind", "object_location": "", "reference_url": "/digital/mric/items/mric2010-11-010.html" }, { "title": "Cattle: the Silent Reservoir of E. coli O157:H7", "presenter": "Carolyn Bohach", "affiliation": "Food Science; INBRE Program", "description": "Escherichia coli O157:H7 (O157) is a food-borne pathogen that causes hemorrhagic colitis and the hemolytic uremic syndrome, a life-threatening sequelae. Most infections are linked to the consumption of contaminated undercooked ground beef or uncooked vegetables contaminated with bovine waste. O157 are ubiquitous on the farm and can survive in raw manure, soil, and water. Although O157 have been cultured from a variety of animals, healthy ruminants are the silent reservoir. The O157 survive passage through the ruminant gastrointestinal tract and animals can be transiently colonized with this human pathogen. Successful strategies to control or reduce the carriage and prevalence of O157 in cattle would reduce the risk of human disease. Ongoing research to systematically analyze the bacterial factors that contribute to the ability of O157 to colonize cattle will presented. Virulence factors important in clinical disease, the O-antigen, and the role of the plasmid will be included. In addition, insights about how the bacteria sense their environment (the farm or the gastrointestinal tract) will be discussed.", "date": "2011-02-01", "academic_year": "2010/11", "record_type": "event", "type": "Text", "format": "record", "original_link": "http://www.uidaho.edu/class/mric/archives/2010-2011/carolynbohach", "object_location": "", "reference_url": "/digital/mric/items/mric2010-11-011.html" }, { "title": "The Tangled (and sometimes Violent) Web of Dalai Lama Politics", "presenter": "Nick Gier", "affiliation": "Philosophy", "description": "While much work has been done on religiously motivated violence in the Abrahamic (Judaism, Christianity, Islam) religions, very little attention has been focused on the Asian religions. As with the Abrahamic religions, the fusion of religious and national identity in Hindu and Buddhist fundamentalism has led to violence committed in the name of religion. In this talk I will discuss the relations between Tibetan Buddhist lamas and secular authorities, especially those connected with Mongolian militarism. I will then focus on the problems inherent in a political philosophy based on a doctrine of reincarnated religious leaders. A case study of the Bhutanese lama-king Shabdrung (1594-1651), who at one time had three recognized incarnated descendants, demonstrates the fragility of this doctrine of political and religious legitimacy. The current Dalai Lama has been very frank about the problems of reincarnated religious leaders in Tibetan history, and his decision to break the ties between religion and politics is both courageous and wise. It may even pave the way for a resolution of the impasse between the Dalai Lama and the Beijing government.", "biography": "Professor Emeritus, Philosophy", "date": "2011-04-12", "academic_year": "2010/11", "record_type": "event", "type": "Text", "format": "record", "original_link": "http://www.uidaho.edu/class/mric/archives/2010-2011/nickgier", "object_location": "", "reference_url": "/digital/mric/items/mric2010-11-012.html" }, { "title": "Eric Aston", "presenter": "Eric Aston", "academic_year": "2010/11", "record_type": "event-issues", "type": "Text", "format": "record", "original_link": "http://www.uidaho.edu/class/mric/archives/2010-2011/ericaston", "object_location": "", "reference_url": "/digital/mric/items/mric2010-11-013.html" }, { "title": "Holly Wichman", "presenter": "Holly Wichman", "academic_year": "2010/11", "record_type": "event-issues", "type": "Text", "format": "record", "original_link": "http://www.uidaho.edu/class/mric/archives/2010-2011/hollywichman", "object_location": "", "reference_url": "/digital/mric/items/mric2010-11-014.html" }, { "title": "Kent Nelson", "presenter": "Kent Nelson", "academic_year": "2010/11", "record_type": "event-issues", "type": "Text", "format": "record", "original_link": "http://www.uidaho.edu/class/mric/archives/2010-2011/kentnelson", "object_location": "", "reference_url": "/digital/mric/items/mric2010-11-015.html" }, { "title": "Lisa Carlson", "presenter": "Lisa Carlson", "academic_year": "2010/11", "record_type": "event-issues", "type": "Text", "format": "record", "original_link": "http://www.uidaho.edu/class/mric/archives/2010-2011/lisacarlson", "object_location": "", "reference_url": "/digital/mric/items/mric2010-11-016.html" }, { "title": "Matthew Wappett", "presenter": "Matthew Wappett", "academic_year": "2010/11", "record_type": "event-issues", "type": "Text", "format": "record", "original_link": "http://www.uidaho.edu/class/mric/archives/2010-2011/matthewwappett", "object_location": "", "reference_url": "/digital/mric/items/mric2010-11-017.html" }, { "title": "Nancy Deringer", "presenter": "Nancy Deringer", "academic_year": "2010/11", "record_type": "event-issues", "type": "Text", "format": "record", "original_link": "http://www.uidaho.edu/class/mric/archives/2010-2011/nancyderinger", "object_location": "", "reference_url": "/digital/mric/items/mric2010-11-018.html" }, { "title": "Tim Link", "presenter": "Timothy Link", "academic_year": "2010/11", "record_type": "event-issues", "type": "Text", "format": "record", "original_link": "http://www.uidaho.edu/class/mric/archives/2010-2011/timlink", "object_location": "", "reference_url": "/digital/mric/items/mric2010-11-019.html" }, { "title": "Tracy Craig", "presenter": "Traci Craig", "academic_year": "2010/11", "record_type": "event-issues", "type": "Text", "format": "record", "original_link": "http://www.uidaho.edu/class/mric/archives/2010-2011/tracycraig", "object_location": "", "reference_url": "/digital/mric/items/mric2010-11-020.html" }, { "title": "Governing in an Era of Crisis: The Rule of Law and Emergency Powers", "presenter": "David Adler", "affiliation": "Political Science; McClure Center for Public Policy Research", "description": "This subject reflects my research and writing and I hope it will facilitate understanding of an ancient theme: How to govern in accord with constitutional and legal principles (considered universal and perennial) while addressing emergencies (considered idiosyncratic and immediate) that escape or defy law. It’s a problem that gripped the ancient Athenians as well as the Romans, and it has been a subject of enduring interest in the Anglo-Saxon world of law. Indeed, it has absorbed the wit and energy of scholars and statesmen for centuries. It is a familiar subject to Americans who, since our founding, have faced emergencies that have outrun the law. It became a prominent issue during the Cold War, as presidents and their supporters urged unbridled executive power to confront the Soviet bogeyman. Since 9/11, the issue of the scope of presidential power has become the issue of the season, as presidents and their champions have urged the removal of restraints from the exercise of executive power. We find the arguments in the Torture Memos and in the rationales invoked by the Obama Administration. So, this is a theme that resounds across the centuries and represents philosophical, political, legal and constitutional questions of great moment for the republic. Among others, we may raise the question: Is it possible to suspend liberties in times of crisis in order to preserve the nation without surrendering American Constitutionalism? Can those liberties, once sacrificed, be restored? Can we save Democracy through un-Democratic means?", "date": "2011-11-15", "academic_year": "2011/12", "record_type": "event", "type": "Text", "format": "record", "original_link": "http://www.uidaho.edu/class/mric/archives/2011-2012/david-adler", "object_location": "", "reference_url": "/digital/mric/items/mric2011-12-001.html" }, { "title": "Brandon Schrand", "presenter": "Brandon Schrand", "academic_year": "2011/12", "record_type": "event-issues", "type": "Text", "format": "record", "original_link": "http://www.uidaho.edu/class/mric/archives/2011-2012/brandon-schrand", "object_location": "", "reference_url": "/digital/mric/items/mric2011-12-002.html" }, { "title": "The Ubiquity of Magic in the West", "presenter": "Garth Reese", "affiliation": "Library", "description": "In this presentation, I will show how central “magic” and its fellow occult sciences – alchemy and astrology – were to early modern thinkers, and thus why they should be central to our examination of the early modern world. Magic was explicitly theological and even orthodox in the minds of many early modern scholars, and their magical pursuits were not exceptional for the time period. In failing to comprehend this, historians, theologians, and religious studies scholars compromise the understanding of not only early modern magic, but also early modern religion and early modern culture in general. We contemporary people like to think of ourselves as “beyond such superstition,” and yet not only are we not beyond it, much of it was not superstition. By pretending that these essential spokes are invisible or altogether absent, we risk the stability of the larger wheel and ultimately we risk losing an accurate portrait of ourselves.", "date": "2011-09-13", "academic_year": "2011/12", "record_type": "event", "type": "Text", "format": "record", "original_link": "http://www.uidaho.edu/class/mric/archives/2011-2012/garth-reese", "object_location": "", "reference_url": "/digital/mric/items/mric2011-12-003.html" }, { "title": "James A. Foster", "presenter": "James A. Foster", "academic_year": "2011/12", "record_type": "event-issues", "type": "Text", "format": "record", "original_link": "http://www.uidaho.edu/class/mric/archives/2011-2012/james-a-foster", "object_location": "", "reference_url": "/digital/mric/items/mric2011-12-004.html" }, { "title": "Jan Johnson", "presenter": "Jan Johnson", "academic_year": "2011/12", "record_type": "event-issues", "type": "Text", "format": "record", "original_link": "http://www.uidaho.edu/class/mric/archives/2011-2012/jan-johnson", "object_location": "", "reference_url": "/digital/mric/items/mric2011-12-005.html" }, { "title": "Katherine Aiken", "presenter": "Katherine Aiken", "academic_year": "2011/12", "record_type": "event-issues", "type": "Text", "format": "record", "original_link": "http://www.uidaho.edu/class/mric/archives/2011-2012/katherine-aiken", "object_location": "", "reference_url": "/digital/mric/items/mric2011-12-006.html" }, { "title": "Marty Peterson", "presenter": "Marty Peterson", "academic_year": "2011/12", "record_type": "event-issues", "type": "Text", "format": "record", "original_link": "http://www.uidaho.edu/class/mric/archives/2011-2012/marty-peterson", "object_location": "", "reference_url": "/digital/mric/items/mric2011-12-007.html" }, { "title": "Nancy Chaney", "presenter": "Nancy Chaney", "academic_year": "2011/12", "record_type": "event-issues", "type": "Text", "format": "record", "original_link": "http://www.uidaho.edu/class/mric/archives/2011-2012/nancy-chaney", "object_location": "", "reference_url": "/digital/mric/items/mric2011-12-008.html" }, { "title": "Sally and Delphine", "presenter": "Sally and Delphine", "academic_year": "2011/12", "record_type": "event-issues", "type": "Text", "format": "record", "original_link": "http://www.uidaho.edu/class/mric/archives/2011-2012/sally-and-delphine", "object_location": "", "reference_url": "/digital/mric/items/mric2011-12-009.html" }, { "title": "Sanford Eigenbrode", "presenter": "Sanford Eigenbrode", "academic_year": "2011/12", "record_type": "event-issues", "type": "Text", "format": "record", "original_link": "http://www.uidaho.edu/class/mric/archives/2011-2012/sanford-eigenbrode", "object_location": "", "reference_url": "/digital/mric/items/mric2011-12-010.html" }, { "title": "Stephen Drown", "presenter": "Stephen Drown", "academic_year": "2011/12", "record_type": "event-issues", "type": "Text", "format": "record", "original_link": "http://www.uidaho.edu/class/mric/archives/2011-2012/stephen-drown", "object_location": "", "reference_url": "/digital/mric/items/mric2011-12-011.html" }, { "title": "Hollywood, Press and Politics", "presenter": "Glenn Mosley", "affiliation": "Journalism and Mass Media", "description": "\"Hollywood, Press and Politics\" focuses on the evolving relationship between the American people and two of their major institutions: politics and the media. In a semester-long course, Glenn Mosley and his students examine the conflicting images of politicians and journalists in movies and television. Mosley will discuss the influence of these images on the American public's perception of these institutions in the 20th and 21st centuries.", "date": "2012-09-18", "academic_year": "2012/13", "record_type": "event", "type": "Text", "format": "record", "original_link": "http://www.uidaho.edu/class/mric/archives/2012-2013/hollywood-press-and-politics", "object_location": "", "reference_url": "/digital/mric/items/mric2012-13-001.html" }, { "title": "Wildland Fire in a Changing World", "presenter": "Penelope Morgan", "affiliation": "Forest, Rangeland, and Fire Sciences", "description": "Many large wildfires have burned across the West in recent decades, often threatening people and property. We will have more large fires and smoke in the future. Why? Because we live in a fire environment. In most of the world, biomass accumulates faster than it decomposes, and the excess biomass can fuel fires that ignite under hot, dry, windy conditions. Fire management is challenging, for many fire effects are good, and others are bad. How can fire science help us? What can you do to protect your home and encourage sound fire management? How do we educate leaders and work with leaders in wildland fire here at the University of Idaho, where we have been national leaders for more than 35 years? Come join the conversation! Suggested reading: July 2012 editorial from the Denver Post written by Tony Cheng, Colorado State University: http://www.denverpost.com/recommended/ci_20911969 To learn more about University of Idaho Fire Program: http://www.uidaho.edu/cnr/frfs/fire", "date": "2012-09-25", "academic_year": "2012/13", "record_type": "event", "type": "Text", "format": "record", "original_link": "http://www.uidaho.edu/class/mric/archives/2012-2013/wildland-fire-in-a-changing-world", "object_location": "", "reference_url": "/digital/mric/items/mric2012-13-002.html" }, { "title": "The Roberts Court in the Obama Era", "presenter": "Don Crowley", "affiliation": "Political Science", "description": "The presentation will cover some general trends on the Roberts Court and then highlight a few of the most controversial decisions from last term. Prof. Crowley will review the decision upholding the Affordable Care Act (NFIB v Sebelius) and the decision overturning most of the Arizona Immigration Law (Arizona v U.S.) The presentation will conclude with a quick preview of important cases to watch for in the next term, which begins Oct. 1.", "biography": "Professor of Political Science, Director of the Martin School", "date": "2012-10-02", "academic_year": "2012/13", "record_type": "event", "type": "Text", "format": "record", "original_link": "http://www.uidaho.edu/class/mric/archives/2012-2013/the-roberts-court-in-the-obama-era", "object_location": "", "reference_url": "/digital/mric/items/mric2012-13-003.html" }, { "title": "The Post-Fukushima World: Lessons Learned, Energy Resources and Security", "presenter": "Akira Tokuhiro", "affiliation": "Mechanical Engineering", "description": "The Japanese Fukushima Dai-ichi and Dai-ni nuclear power station with four General Electric Boiling Water Reactors respectively co-located side-by-side on the north-central eastern coast of Japan withstood a 9.0 earthquake and a large-scale tsunami on March 11, 2011. All six units were constructed via a GE/Hitachi/Toshiba collaboration from 1967 to 1979. In spite of the immediate shut down of all units due to the earthquake, and decay heat cooling for 30-45 minutes, loss-of-offsite-power by the impact of the tsunami initiated an “beyond design basis (nuclear power plant) accident.” Several hydrogen explosions later, several core “meltdowns” and 1½ years since 3/11, the utility (TEPCO) and the Japanese Government are still dealing with a dramatic shift in the national energy portfolio and ‘recovery, restoration and remediation’ that may last up to 40 years. The colloquium will provide a quick perspective on the Fukushima natural disaster, the nuclear power plant accident and the potential global implications in coming years.", "biography": "Akira Tokuhiro is Professor of Mechanical and Director of the Nuclear Engineering Graduate Program in Idaho Falls. He has a Ph.D. in Nuclear Engineering (Purdue), MS in Mechanical Engineering (U. Rochester), B.S.E. in Engineering-Physics (Purdue). Dr. Tokuhiro has 10 years of international experience in advanced nuclear reactor research and development (Paul Scherrer Institute and Japan Atomic Energy Agency), as well as experience at Argonne National and Battelle Columbus Laboratories. He was previously on the Mechanical and Nuclear Engineering faculty at Kansas State University and University of Missouri-Rolla (UMR). He was also director of the UMR Reactor and licensed as a senior reactor operator. His interests are in reactor engineering and design, thermal-hydraulics, ultrasonic and laser-based velocimetry, coupled thermohydraulics and reactor physics, application of gel materials, facial and voice expression biometrics and energy dynamics modeling and simulations. His research group consists of about 10 full-time and six part-time graduate students, working on seven Department of Energy sponsored projects.", "date": "2012-10-09", "academic_year": "2012/13", "record_type": "event", "type": "Text", "format": "record", "original_link": "http://www.uidaho.edu/class/mric/archives/2012-2013/the-post-fukushima-world", "object_location": "", "reference_url": "/digital/mric/items/mric2012-13-004.html" }, { "title": "Legacy of the Past and Promise of the Future: America's Land Grant Universities", "presenter": "M. Duane Nellis", "affiliation": "President, University of Idaho", "description": "As the Civil War raged and our Union was in jeopardy, President Lincoln signed the Morrill Act of 1862, which established land-grant colleges in each state. It put new universities where the people were, and opened the doors to more than just the elite of societies. Equally significant, the act established institutions that provided not only theoretical knowledge, but also the specialized training in agriculture, engineering, manufacturing and other applied fields indispensable for the rebuilding of the nation after the ravages of war. Only eight months later, Congress passed, and President Lincoln signed, legislation calling for the founding of the National Academy of Sciences, which became a guiding force in the evolution of American science and technology. Through these dual actions, access to education and the advancement of knowledge became central to our nation's success.", "date": "2012-10-30", "academic_year": "2012/13", "record_type": "event", "type": "Text", "format": "record", "original_link": "http://www.uidaho.edu/class/mric/archives/2012-2013/americas-land-grant-universities", "object_location": "", "reference_url": "/digital/mric/items/mric2012-13-005.html" }, { "title": "From Ethics to Economics: A Jurisprudential Search for Enduring Principles", "presenter": "Don Burnett", "affiliation": "College of Law", "description": "In a society governed by the rule of law, rather than by the mere preferences of powerful individuals, the law must embody principles broad enough to be coherent, specific enough to be effective, and flexible enough to cope with the pressures of social and technological change. Early Western jurisprudence was characterized by a search for immutable truths drawn from antiquity or revealed through ecclesiastical study. During the late Renaissance and the Industrial Revolution, immutability yielded to utilitarianism – promoting the “greatest good for the greatest number -- as the highest object of the law. In the mid-nineteenth century, utilitarianism evolved, or devolved, into positivism (a view that the law, having no conceptual anchor, is nothing more than a set of enforceable commands), followed by sociological jurisprudence (which treated law primarily as a process by which social forces are expressed and accommodated), and then, in the twentieth century, by “realism” (which reprised the positivist idea that law simply expresses power and cannot be expected to constrain it). This synthesis of law and power proved unsatisfactory. The Holocaust, the emergence of murderously despotic regimes in Europe and Asia, and the devastation wreaked by a second world-wide war, all contributed a rejection of rootless law. The jurisprudential pendulum swung back to a search for legal principles and institutions -- exemplified by the codification of universal human rights and the creation of war crimes tribunals – that would shape and sustain a durable commitment to the rule of law. This search, which continues to the present day, has advanced along many intellectual paths, two of which will be examined here: (1) the articulation of general principles of ethical behavior in the learned professions, such as the practice of law, coupled with situation-specific guides to appropriate conduct; and (2) the “law and economics movement,” which seeks to develop principles to advance the oft-competing goals of efficiency and equity, and to provide methods for gauging the actual impacts of statutes, regulations, and judicial decisions in particular contexts. In this “Humanities Exploration” program, prominent milestones along each intellectual path will be examined, and members of the audience will be challenged to think about how they would create a set of principles that do not merely evince their own personal preferences, but rather are sufficiently coherent, specific, and flexible to identify a general concept of justice, to achieve it in specific cases, and to stand the test of time.", "date": "2012-11-06", "academic_year": "2012/13", "record_type": "event", "type": "Text", "format": "record", "original_link": "http://www.uidaho.edu/class/mric/archives/2012-2013/ethics-to-economics", "object_location": "", "reference_url": "/digital/mric/items/mric2012-13-006.html" }, { "title": "John Wayne, Transnational Masculinity and Hollywood’s Globalization in the 1950s", "presenter": "Russell Meeuf", "affiliation": "Journalism and Mass Media", "description": "Often considered the embodiment of a patriotic, conservative, American masculinity, John Wayne was also perhaps the most visible icon of cinematic manhood around the world. Starting in the late 1940s, Wayne became not only one of Hollywood’s most bankable performers in the US but also one of the most popular international movie stars, with huge fan bases in Europe, Japan, Australia, South America, and parts of Africa. Wayne’s international circulation, then, exemplifies the increasing globalization of the major Hollywood studios in the decades after World War II and the role that U.S. popular culture played in reshaping international constructions of gender and identity. After all, Wayne’s rise to international prominence in the 1950s coincided with massive economic and cultural shifts within the US film industry as declining domestic attendance pushed the industry to further internationalize its operations. All the while, U.S. foreign policy and modernization theory optimistically promoted new policies and discourses of global trade and modern identity. Far from a simple icon of American patriotism, John Wayne was one of the most globally-visible models of modern manhood and subjectivity within Hollywood’s international projection of modernity and capitalism. Examining a range of issues still relevant to global media today, from cultural globalization, to runaway production, to the role that Hollywood plays in international constructions of gender, this presentation explores the international history of a star who has been stubbornly defined only in the context of U.S. national culture.", "date": "2012-11-13", "academic_year": "2012/13", "record_type": "event", "type": "Text", "format": "record", "original_link": "http://www.uidaho.edu/class/mric/archives/2012-2013/john-wayne", "object_location": "", "reference_url": "/digital/mric/items/mric2012-13-007.html" }, { "title": "Laughter and Learning: Why Happy Students are Better Students", "presenter": "Matthew Wappett", "affiliation": "Center on Disabilities and Human Development", "description": "This interactive presentation will highlight the effects of lifestyle stress on cognitive and social functioning, and will review the research-based evidence for using laughter as an antidote to stress. This presentation will provide opportunities to practice several methods of laughter and relaxation that participants can add to their stress management toolbox.", "biography": "Associate Director, UI Center on Disabilities and Human Development; Advisor, UI Laughter Club", "date": "2012-11-27", "academic_year": "2012/13", "record_type": "event", "type": "Text", "format": "record", "original_link": "http://www.uidaho.edu/class/mric/archives/2012-2013/laughter-and-learning", "object_location": "", "reference_url": "/digital/mric/items/mric2012-13-008.html" }, { "title": "A Geographer's Perspective on the American West and the World", "presenter": "Gundars Rudzitis", "affiliation": "Geography", "description": "This presentation will discuss the initial formation of the role of amenities and associated migration in the American West as a counterpoint to neoclassical and other development models that are rooted within a framework privileging economic materialism and consumerism.The significance of the amenity/quality-of-life approach is that it broke out of a reductionistic, algorithmic and economic view of life. It aims at providing an alternative to our increasingly economistic way of viewing life. The quality-of-life approach points towards place, community, and, as importantly, democracy rooted in people living in real places. It is a place-based approach that recognizes a geography-of-limits, specific to places and regions worldwide.The presentation also addresses why and how we have to experiment with new institutions to develop alternatives to current development trends worldwide, to create and transform spaces and global networks of production and consumption. The author concludes by calling on scholars and others add new dimensions of theoretical inquiry that will provide new insights on the diverse forms taken by the process of development.", "date": "2012-12-04", "academic_year": "2012/13", "record_type": "event", "type": "Text", "format": "record", "original_link": "http://www.uidaho.edu/class/mric/archives/2012-2013/a-geographers-perspective", "object_location": "", "reference_url": "/digital/mric/items/mric2012-13-009.html" }, { "title": "A Perfect Storm in Nigeria", "presenter": "Ian von Lindern; Margrit von Braun", "affiliation": "TerraGraphics Environmental Engineering, Inc", "description": "A perfect storm of environmental, cultural and economic conditions precipitated an unprecedented epidemic of lead poisoning in Nigeria. Due to the soaring price of gold, subsistence farmers employing their wives and children in primitive artisanal mining could triple family income. However, prevailing Sharia practices required that the ore be brought into the home to crush and grind. The ore was often more than 10% lead, resulting in mass poisoning of more than 30,000 people and the deaths of 400-500 children. Since 2010, Médecins Sans Frontières and TerraGraphics Environmental Engineering have collaborated in cleanup and medical treatment, decreasing mortality rates from >30% to <2%. Daunting cultural, logistic, socio-economic challenges were encountered in adapting sophisticated engineering and medical protocols to remote locations with little resources or infrastructure.The cleanup involved more than 350 villagers, 80 local government personnel, and 28 international advisors, including 19 Idaho residents and 10 University of Idaho alumni and students.", "date": "2013-01-15", "academic_year": "2012/13", "record_type": "event", "type": "Text", "format": "record", "original_link": "http://www.uidaho.edu/class/mric/archives/2012-2013/a-perfect-storm-in-nigeria", "object_location": "", "reference_url": "/digital/mric/items/mric2012-13-010.html" }, { "title": "Idaho's $11,000/worker Wage Gap: Why? Which sectors are responsible? What can we do about it?", "presenter": "Steve Cooke", "affiliation": "Agricultural Economics", "description": "In 2005, the Rocky Mountain states (Colorado, Idaho, Montana, Utah and Wyoming) average annual wage per job was about $4,000 less than the U.S. average. In 2009, Idaho’s average wage per job was $10,700 less. Idaho’s wage gap was the result of a positive sector bias on employment growth in influential low-wage sectors and negative sector bias on employment growth and the low level of wages in the influential high-wage sectors. The economy of the Rocky Mountain region can be characterized as caught in a low-skill/low-wage equilibrium trap.", "date": "2013-01-22", "academic_year": "2012/13", "record_type": "event", "type": "Text", "format": "record", "original_link": "http://www.uidaho.edu/class/mric/archives/2012-2013/idahos-wage-gap", "object_location": "", "reference_url": "/digital/mric/items/mric2012-13-011.html" }, { "title": "Measuring Risks and Opportunities in Foreign Policy: How Do We Decide What Matters Going Forward?", "presenter": "Richard LeBaron", "affiliation": "Visiting Distinguished Practitioner of International Affairs; Martin Institute of International Studies", "description": "U.S. foreign policy has changed dramatically since the end of the Cold War. With that change comes an opportunity to revisit priorities and strategies. The discussion centers around a key question: Absent an overarching existential risk or an ideological foe, what intellectual frameworks can we employ to ensure security and seize new opportunities?", "date": "2013-01-29", "academic_year": "2012/13", "record_type": "event", "type": "Text", "format": "record", "original_link": "http://www.uidaho.edu/class/mric/archives/2012-2013/foreign-policy-risks-opportunities", "object_location": "", "reference_url": "/digital/mric/items/mric2012-13-012.html" }, { "title": "Community Art Abroad: Experiences from Sowing Seeds Artist Residency, Jetpur Village, Rajasthan, India", "presenter": "Stacy Isenbarger", "affiliation": "Art & Design", "description": "This presentation will address various approaches made to connect through the unique language of art when 13 International artists worked collaboratively with a small village in Rajasthan, India. Layered cultural perspectives and perceived ranges of successful connections made to this non-academic art audience will be addressed. A focus will also be on Stacy Isenbarger’s multipart installation in Jetpur. Working with the village youth, she broke boundaries in her own artistic practice and explored the language of visual art and performance to connect as a non-Hindi speaking outsider.", "date": "2013-02-05", "academic_year": "2012/13", "record_type": "event", "type": "Text", "format": "record", "original_link": "http://www.uidaho.edu/class/mric/archives/2012-2013/community-art-abroad", "object_location": "", "reference_url": "/digital/mric/items/mric2012-13-013.html" }, { "title": "Creative Collaborations Between Performers and Composers", "presenter": "Miranda Wilson; Daniel Bukvich", "affiliation": "Lionel Hampton School of Music", "description": "Prof. Wilson will describe how performers invest tremendous authority in the printed page when it comes to dead composers, but when the composer is living and the composition is incomplete, there is some fluidity and flexibility in what’s written because the performer will often make suggestions that influence the final version. Wilson will illustrate how a performer can be creative by forming an interpretation of the printed page by performing a portion of a Bukvich composition.", "date": "2013-02-12", "academic_year": "2012/13", "record_type": "event", "type": "Text", "format": "record", "original_link": "http://www.uidaho.edu/class/mric/archives/2012-2013/creative-collaborations", "object_location": "", "reference_url": "/digital/mric/items/mric2012-13-014.html" }, { "title": "Sport, War, and Peace:Preview of the 2013 Borah Symposium", "presenter": "Bill Smith", "affiliation": "Martin Institute of International Studies", "description": "For 75 years, the Borah Symposium at the University of Idaho has considered a wide range of issues related to the causes of war and the conditions necessary for peace in the international system. From April 1-3 2013, the symposium will consider the role of sports in this context. How does sport fit into larger patterns in global events, and why are major international organizations turning to sport to accomplish their goals?", "biography": "Director, Martin Institute and Program in International Studies", "date": "2013-02-26", "academic_year": "2012/13", "record_type": "event", "type": "Text", "format": "record", "original_link": "http://www.uidaho.edu/class/mric/archives/2012-2013/sport-war-peace", "object_location": "", "reference_url": "/digital/mric/items/mric2012-13-015.html" }, { "title": "Centrality of Engagement at the University of Idaho", "presenter": "Priscilla Salant", "affiliation": "Office of Community Partnerships", "description": "With roots in Ernest Boyer’s 1990 signature work, Scholarship reconsidered: Priorities of the professoriate, engagement is a way of teaching and conducting research rather than a separate, siloed activity. It means using outreach and collaborative partnerships to achieve learning outcomes and develop useful scholarship. Many of the university’s largest grant proposals were successful in part because of their strong engagement efforts. Making engagement central to our teaching, research and outreach requires strong leadership, flexible administrative processes, and appropriate incentive structures.", "biography": "Priscilla Salant directs the university’s Office of Community Partnerships and chairs the Outreach and Engagement Council. She has over 20 years of experience building connections between universities and their statewide constituents, with a focus on rural economic development. Her work is guided by a core belief that by engaging with statewide constituents, universities produce more useful research and students have better learning outcomes.", "date": "2013-03-05", "academic_year": "2012/13", "record_type": "event", "type": "Text", "format": "record", "original_link": "http://www.uidaho.edu/class/mric/archives/2012-2013/centrality-of-engagement", "object_location": "", "reference_url": "/digital/mric/items/mric2012-13-016.html" }, { "title": "Inventing Idaho", "presenter": "Keith Petersen", "affiliation": "Idaho State Historical Society", "description": "Did you attend Idaho public schools? Do you pay county taxes? Do you use Idaho water? Have you ever found yourself wondering why the University of Idaho is in Moscow, or why Idaho leans so heavily Republican? If you answered “yes” to any of those questions, you are living with the results of decisions made during Idaho’s territorial era of 1863-1890, perhaps the most significant quarter-century in Idaho history. On March 4, 2013, Idaho launched its commemoration of the 150th anniversary of Idaho territory, recognizing the day that President Abraham Lincoln created Idaho territory. This is the first of three MRIC presentations dealing with Idaho in the territorial era.", "biography": "Keith Petersen is the Associate Director of the Idaho State Historical Society and Idaho’s State Historian. Petersen is the author of numerous articles and books on Idaho and the Northwest, including This Crested Hill: An Illustrated History of the University of Idaho; River of Life, Channel of Death: Fish and Dams on the Lower Snake; and Company Town: Potlatch, Idaho, and the Potlatch Lumber Company. The first-ever recipient of the Idaho Humanities Council’s Award for Outstanding Achievement in the Humanities, he is also the only author to have twice received the Idaho Book Award for the Outstanding Book on Idaho. Petersen is currently writing a biography of Northwest road-builder John Mullan, who hoped to become Idaho’s first territorial governor. His research into Mullan and Idaho’s territorial history has taken him to repositories from coast to coast.", "date": "2013-03-19", "academic_year": "2012/13", "record_type": "event", "type": "Text", "format": "record", "original_link": "http://www.uidaho.edu/class/mric/archives/2012-2013/inventing-idaho", "object_location": "", "reference_url": "/digital/mric/items/mric2012-13-017.html" }, { "title": "Making the Idaho Landscape of 1863", "presenter": "Adam M. Sowards", "affiliation": "History", "description": "This year we celebrate the 150th anniversary of Idaho becoming a territory. The year 1863, then, marks the beginning of many historical developments in our state. Yet the territory—the landscape itself—was not new in 1863. Indeed, environment and culture, people and the land, had intermingled since time immemorial to create this place many of us now call home. This talk explores some of the main factors that shaped the landscape of Idaho leading up to its territorial period and suggests what meaning past Idahoans made of nature and what that might mean for us today. Biography: Adam M. Sowards is an environmental historian who focuses on North America, especially the West. A prize-winning historian, he has primarily published on the American conservation movement and forest history. Besides writing a textbook on North American environmental history, Sowards is currently interested in how environment and culture affect scientific inquiry. Sowards has been at the University of Idaho since 2003 and has been active in interdisciplinary teaching, research, and service.", "date": "2013-03-26", "academic_year": "2012/13", "record_type": "event", "type": "Text", "format": "record", "original_link": "http://www.uidaho.edu/class/mric/archives/2012-2013/idaho-landscape", "object_location": "", "reference_url": "/digital/mric/items/mric2012-13-018.html" }, { "title": "Lawless Idaho: The People v. John Williams (1866)", "presenter": "Dennis Colson", "affiliation": "Law", "description": "On March 4, 1863, Congress passed An Act to Provide a Temporary Government for the Territory of Idaho. The purpose of the Act was to bring the law to Idaho: statutes, prosecutors, courts, prisons. However, according to the judgment of the Territorial Supreme Court in The People v. John Williams (1866), instead of bringing the law to Idaho, the Act created a period of lawlessness lasting from the creation of the Territory until February 4, 1864, when the first Territorial Assembly passed An Act Concerning Crimes and Punishments. How could this be?", "biography": "Dennis Colson is the author of Idaho's Constitution: the Tie That Binds (1991), which describes and interprets the proceedings and debates of the 1889 Constitutional Convention. Colson earned his J.D., summa cum laude, at the University of Denver, practiced in Los Angeles and Denver, and taught at the University of Toledo College of Law. He joined the University of Idaho faculty in 1975, retiring in 2007.", "date": "2013-04-02", "academic_year": "2012/13", "record_type": "event", "type": "Text", "format": "record", "original_link": "http://www.uidaho.edu/class/mric/archives/2012-2013/lawless-idaho", "object_location": "", "reference_url": "/digital/mric/items/mric2012-13-019.html" }, { "title": "A Brief History of Particle Physics: Electron to Higgs Boson", "presenter": "Phil Deutchman", "affiliation": "Physics", "description": "This presentation, aimed at a general audience, will be a guided tour through the history of particle physics, starting with the discovery of the electron in 1897 up to the recent discovery of the Higgs Boson. The talk will be a qualitative and schematic discussion (mathematics kept to a minimum) emphasizing only the main and simplest ideas in the exciting history of particle physics. The so-called “Standard Model” will be introduced with an emphasis on the role the Higgs Field plays in providing mass to the fundamental particles that have been discovered.", "biography": "Phil Deutchman taught physics at the undergraduate and graduate levels at the University of Idaho for 34 years before retiring in 2002. He conducted research in Nuclear and Particle Theory. His interests are in understanding the fundamental ideas, interpretations and phenomena described by Quantum Physics and Relativity. His hope is to convey the pleasure and excitement contained in these ideas to audiences curious about such notions.", "date": "2013-04-10", "academic_year": "2012/13", "record_type": "event", "type": "Text", "format": "record", "original_link": "http://www.uidaho.edu/class/mric/archives/2012-2013/higgs-boson", "object_location": "", "reference_url": "/digital/mric/items/mric2012-13-020.html" }, { "title": "The People of the Godmobiles", "presenter": "D. Nels Reese; Mary Ann Reese", "affiliation": "Architecture; Agricultural and Life Sciences", "description": "Our speakers were children and grandchildren of itinerant tent evangelists who traveled the Western United States preaching the gospel and founding some 20 churches from Arizona to California, Oregon, Washington, Idaho and Montana. Their congregations met and worked together from the 1920s to several surviving today. The evangelists and many of their congregants chose to wear their faith on their automobiles. From 1917 to the present, they artfully painted Bible verses on their cars and trailers in a specially-designed old-English font readable at highway speeds. Church leaders never solicited money, were unsalaried, and “lived by faith.” The Reese brother and sister will share what it was like growing up with The People of the Godmobiles, title of their book project and potential Web and museum exhibits.", "biography": "D. Nels Reese taught urban planning and design at the University of Idaho between 1987 and 2008. Before that he was the university’s director of facilities for seven years. Mary Ann Reese edited the College of Agricultural and Life Sciences magazine, Programs & People, and other college publications from 2003 to 2012. Both siblings worked in Europe, Nels as art director for Army in Europe magazine and Mary Ann as staff writer and then London Bureau Chief of the Stars and Stripes newspaper. Their academic backgrounds include American Studies, and they will present a talk later this week at the Pacific Northwest American Studies Association Conference in Seattle", "date": "2013-04-16", "academic_year": "2012/13", "record_type": "event", "type": "Text", "format": "record", "original_link": "http://www.uidaho.edu/class/mric/archives/2012-2013/people-of-the-godmobiles", "object_location": "", "reference_url": "/digital/mric/items/mric2012-13-021.html" }, { "title": "Dilemmas of Classification: What Counts as Art?", "presenter": "Rochelle Smith; Kristin Henrich", "affiliation": "Library", "description": "Is photography art? Knitting? Woodworking? Fashion? Rochelle Smith and Kristin Henrich will discuss the dilemmas of classification, a subject that extends well beyond libraries. As our main example, we will be look at the border between art and craft, which may seem clear at first glance but in fact has a complex and convoluted history in western culture, a fact reflected in library classification systems like Dewey Decimal and Library of Congress, both of which were developed in the late 19 th Century.", "biography": "Rochelle Smith is an associate professor, reference and instruction librarian and library liaison for humanities and history. Kristin Henrich is an assistant professor, reference and instruction librarian and library liaison to the College of Art and Architecture.", "date": "2013-04-23", "academic_year": "2012/13", "record_type": "event", "type": "Text", "format": "record", "original_link": "http://www.uidaho.edu/class/mric/archives/2012-2013/what-counts-as-art", "object_location": "", "reference_url": "/digital/mric/items/mric2012-13-022.html" }, { "title": "On Stage with a Jazz Combo", "presenter": "Vern Sielert; Vanessa Sielert; Dan Bukvich; Dave Bjur; Jon Anderson; Alan Gemberling", "affiliation": "Lionel Hampton School of Music", "description": "Have you ever wondered what goes on inside a jazz ensemble? This presentation will put the audience on stage to observe and listen to the improvisation process that is at the heart of jazz. Members of the Palouse Jazz Project will explain their roles in laying down a beat, providing accompaniment, and offering a personalized interpretation of the rhythms, chords and melodic line. This session is intended to prepare audiences for the 2013 Lionel Hampton Jazz Festival, which begins Feb. 20.", "biography": "The Palouse Jazz Project performs original jazz compositions and arrangements. Established in 2006, the PJP is a dynamic sextet that performs around the Northwest. The group specializes in standard jazz repertoire and original compositions. Each member of the ensemble also serves on the faculty at the University of Idaho. PJP members are (from left): Vern Sielert, trumpet; Vanessa Sielert, saxophone; Dan Bukvich, drums; Dave Bjur, bass; Jon Anderson, piano, and Alan Gemberling, trombone.", "date": "2013-02-19", "academic_year": "2012/13", "record_type": "event", "type": "Text", "format": "record", "original_link": "http://www.uidaho.edu/class/mric/archives/2012-2013/on-stage-with-a-jazz-combo", "object_location": "", "reference_url": "/digital/mric/items/mric2012-13-024.html" }, { "title": "Useful Fictions: Mathematics, Literature and Pedagogy", "presenter": "Walter Hesford; Robert Ely", "affiliation": "English; Mathematics", "description": "While chatting in the dark corridors of Brink one day, Rob the Math prof and Walter the English prof discovered that they both thought the concept of useful fictions important to their fields and that awaking students to this concept helped cultivate their understanding and engagement. In our presentation, they will explore, among other things, what Leibniz’s infinitesimal calculus and Cervantes’ Don Quixote, both works of the early modern period, have in common.", "biography": "Robert Ely earned a master’s degree in mathematics and a Ph.D. in curriculum and instruction, both from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. He joined the UI faculty in 2007. His research addresses student reasoning in math and how it relates to the historical development of math. Walter Hesford earned a bachelor’s degree from Trinity College (Hartford) and a master’s and Ph.D. from Harvard, all in English. He came to the University of Idaho in 1979, when Letters and Sciences were in the same college. He usually writes about early American literature, ethnic American literature, and how biblical literature influences American literature.", "date": "2013-04-09", "academic_year": "2012/13", "record_type": "event", "type": "Text", "format": "record", "original_link": "http://www.uidaho.edu/class/mric/archives/2012-2013/useful-fictions", "object_location": "", "reference_url": "/digital/mric/items/mric2012-13-025.html" }, { "title": "On the Shifting Language of Disability", "presenter": "Kurt Queller; Sophie Raineri", "affiliation": "English; Modern Languages & Cultures; Paris Ouest - Nanterre La Défense", "description": "Why do terms for disability keep changing? According to the “euphemism treadmill” theory, cyclic replacement happens reactively, as negative connotations accrue to each new “euphemism.” Analyzing corpus data within a Cognitive Linguistics framework, the present study significantly revises this model. New terms originate proactively, in attempts to “reframe” disability. The ‘{X}-impaired’ construction frames it as quantifiable deviation from clinically established norms, objectifying the disabled as clients of a clinical establishment (cf. Foucault’s Birth of the Clinic). Promoting a newer ‘social’ model of disability, the 1970s Disabilities Rights Movement pioneered the ‘{X}-challenged’ construction. It invokes a rhetoric of “challenge” drawn from progressive educational theory (especially Freire’s Pedagogy of the Oppressed), reframing disability as a struggle for personal and social self-actualization. While parodying the euphemism treadmill, subsequent humorous ‘PC’ extensions (…“vertically challenged” [=short], “navigationally impaired” [=bad driver]…) also playfully reflect and critique ‘identity politics’ and its role in contemporary American society.", "biography": "Kurt Queller earned a B.A. in History, then an M.A. in Speech & Hearing Science at the University of Illinois (Champaign-Urbana); his doctorate in Linguistics is from Stanford. He has taught English and Modern Languages (mostly German) at the UI since 1993. His research focuses on how words acquire new meanings through inferential reasoning by hearers in specific conversational contexts. Publications also include analyses of Greek inter- and intratextuality in the gospel of Mark, and (with Ellen Kittell) of gender inclusivity in medieval northern French town ordinances. \n \n Sophie Raineri graduated from Paris 3-Sorbonne Nouvelle with a Ph.D. in English Linguistics. In 2011 she joined the English Department at Paris Ouest—Nanterre La Défense as an assistant professor. She has geared her research around the interplay between form, meaning and function in grammatical constructions. Given her interest in the tension between conservatism and creativity in language, she also explores how constructions develop and change over time. The languages she studies – often from a contrastive perspective – are primarily English and French.", "date": "2013-08-27", "academic_year": "2013/14", "record_type": "event", "type": "Text", "format": "record", "original_link": "http://www.uidaho.edu/class/mric/archives/2013-14/language-of-disability", "object_location": "", "reference_url": "/digital/mric/items/mric2013-14-001.html" }, { "title": "The Southern Nez Perce Trail", "presenter": "Dennis Baird", "affiliation": "Library", "description": "The Southern Nez Perce Trail runs east from Harpster, Idaho, across the Bitterroot Mountains, ending near present-day Darby, Mont. This presentation will discuss the history (8,000+ years) of this important and still quite visible trail, as well as its role in the lives of the Nez Perce people. Many photos and maps will be used to place the trail in perspective. The presentation also examines the trail’s present status and future.", "biography": "Dennis Baird is the co-leader of the Selway-Bitterroot Wilderness History Project. He attended Michigan State University and the University of Hawaii, and obtained graduate degrees from the University of Michigan and Michigan State University, where he witnessed the very first Earth Day in Ann Arbor. While in high school and college, he traveled extensively in Europe and Southeast Asia, as well as serving for a year in Vietnam. When he finished school, he taught at Southern Illinois University and became involved in conservation, helping to establish the first wilderness area in Illinois. After moving to Idaho in 1974 to work at the University of Idaho Library, Dennis joined efforts to establish the Selway-Bitterroot Wilderness and the Frank Church River of No Return Wilderness. In addition to pursuing his passions for historical preservation and fine wine, Dennis continues to advocate for wilderness protection in Idaho. He retired from the Library in 2007 as Social Science Librarian Emeritus with rank of professor. He is author of several books on forest and Nez Perce history.", "date": "2013-09-03", "academic_year": "2013/14", "youtube": "https://youtu.be/50yQ7qi5-Gk", "record_type": "event", "type": "Text", "format": "record", "original_link": "http://www.uidaho.edu/class/mric/archives/2013-14/southern-nez-perce-trail", "object_location": "", "reference_url": "/digital/mric/items/mric2013-14-002.html" }, { "title": "Chemical Analysis of Artifacts Recovered from Regional Excavations", "presenter": "Ray von Wandruszka", "affiliation": "Chemistry", "description": "About three years ago, the Department of Chemistry started a collaboration with Mark Warner (Sociology/Anthropology) on the chemical analysis of archaeological artifacts recovered from various locations in the Pacific Northwest. We deal with historic, rather than prehistoric, materials, and most items analyzed in the laboratory are bottles and containers with mysterious contents. The work is mostly carried out by undergraduate researchers, who sign up for it via an Undergraduate Research (Chem 491) course. The course primarily involves analytical chemistry, but archival and ethnographic investigations also play an important role. The work has turned out to be highly motivating to undergraduates, who find this kind of chemical detective work intriguing. It also has definite didactic value, since it exposes students to techniques and insights that they would never come across in a standard “recipe-based” laboratory. Sometimes there are Eureka moments, while at other times the conclusion is “that’s just dirt.”", "biography": "Ray von Wandruszka earned a B.Sc. (Hons), University of the Witwatersrand in Johannesburg, South Africa, and his Ph.D. from the University of Wyoming. After working as post-doctoral associate and post-doctoral lecturer at the University of Georgia, he returned to the University of the Witwatersrand as a lecturer and senior lecturer of chemistry. He came to the University of Idaho in 1988 and was promoted to professor in 1998. Since 2006, he has been chair of the UI’s Department of Chemistry, where he specializes in analytical and environmental chemistry.", "date": "2013-09-17", "academic_year": "2013/14", "youtube": "https://youtu.be/r5rksZzoHuU", "record_type": "event", "type": "Text", "format": "record", "original_link": "http://www.uidaho.edu/class/mric/archives/2013-14/chemical-analysis-of-artifacts", "object_location": "", "reference_url": "/digital/mric/items/mric2013-14-003.html" }, { "title": "Visualizing Vibrato", "presenter": "Leonard Garrison", "affiliation": "Music", "description": "Throughout history and in many cultures, musicians have used vibrato as an expressive device. Psychologist Carl Seashore wrote, “A good vibrato is a pulsation of pitch, usually accompanied with synchronous pulsations of loudness and timbre, of such extent and rate as to give a pleasing flexibility, tenderness, and richness to the tone.” A vibrato is a marker of one’s personal style, but there are boundaries of good taste, parodied by Burt Lahr as the Cowardly Lion in The Wizard of Oz. A vibrato can be too fast, too slow, too wide, too shallow, too irregular, or too mechanical. What are these boundaries? Technology provides tools to measure a vibrato’s speed and extent and to analyze how excellent musicians employ it.", "biography": "Leonard Garrison shares years of research analyzing thousands of recordings of musicians using vibrato. He has previously presented this topic at the National Flute Association and the British Flute Society. In 2006, Garrison joined the faculty of the Lionel Hampton School of Music, where he teaches flute and aural skills. He is flutist in the Northwest Wind Quintet, the Scott/Garrison Duo, and the IWO Flute Quartet, and principal flutist of the Walla Walla Symphony. He holds a Doctor of Music degree from Northwestern University. Garrison received Master of Music and Master of Arts degrees from The State University of New York at Stony Brook and his Bachelor of Music from the Oberlin Conservatory of Music.", "date": "2013-09-24", "academic_year": "2013/14", "record_type": "event", "type": "Text", "format": "record", "original_link": "http://www.uidaho.edu/class/mric/archives/2013-14/visualizing-vibrato", "object_location": "", "reference_url": "/digital/mric/items/mric2013-14-004.html" }, { "title": "Is Law a Profession or a Discipline?", "presenter": "Barbara Cosens", "affiliation": "Law", "description": "Law can be thought of as both a profession and a discipline and can function as either in an interdisciplinary research project. The key for interdisciplinary collaboration is to know which to apply. In the academic setting, law is more frequently approached from the professional viewpoint in outreach or service, and from the viewpoint of a discipline in interdisciplinary research. The current review of the Columbia River Treaty and the involvement of the Universities Consortium on Columbia River Governance in engaging and informing basin stakeholders illustrates the role of law in outreach in what is nevertheless, a highly interdisciplinary project. The same treaty review process is part of a case study for an interdisciplinary research project on adaptive governance. The resilience and law project, supported by the National Socio-Environmental Synthesis Center (SESYNC) under funding from the National Science Foundation DBI-1052875, is bringing together an interdisciplinary team of legal scholars, ecologists and climate scientists to explore governance of major North American water basins in the face of uncertainty and changing climate. This project illustrates the role of law as a discipline in an interdisciplinary project.", "biography": "Barbara Cosens is a professor with the University of Idaho College of Law and the Waters of the West Graduate Program, which includes options for concurrent J.D./M.S. and J.D./Ph.D. degrees. She teaches Water Law, Water Policy, Law and Science, and a leads a team taught course in Interdisciplinary Methods in Water Resources. Her research interests include the integration of law and science in water resource management and dispute resolution, water management and resilience, and the recognition and settlement of Native American water rights. She is co-chair on a project funded through the NSF synthesis center, SESYNC: Adaptive Governance in Regional Water Systems to Manage Resilience in an era of Changing Climate. She is a member of the Universities Consortium on Columbia River Governance.", "date": "2013-10-15", "academic_year": "2013/14", "youtube": "https://youtu.be/onqveG6mLKk", "record_type": "event", "type": "Text", "format": "record", "original_link": "http://www.uidaho.edu/class/mric/archives/2013-14/is-law-aprofession-or-a-discipline", "object_location": "", "reference_url": "/digital/mric/items/mric2013-14-005.html" }, { "title": "Accountable Care Between the Local and the National Landscapes", "presenter": "Rula Awwad-Rafferty; B.J. Swanson", "affiliation": "Art & Architecture; Gritman Medical Center", "description": "The Affordable Care Act was signed into law on March 23, 2010 and upheld by the U.S. Supreme Court on June 23, 2012. It is now the law of the land. Now, our challenge as scholars, professionals, businesses, and community leaders is to design our shared future instead of trying to repeal or un-fund ACA. Three focus areas of the national dialogue over health care are: protecting the individual, enhancing wellness and prevention, and caring for communities. Change creates many opportunities to make things better through innovations, collaborations and translations. This presentation offers a long view of the factors affecting our quality of life and strategies for how to get there.", "biography": "Rula Awwad-Rafferty is a professor in the UI’s College of Art and Architecture and chair of the board of the International Environmental Design Research Association (IEDRA). A published author focused on community-based design research and advocacy, she is an NIH Scientific Board reviewer, a general member of the Gritman Medical Center Board and a Moscow Human Rights commissioner. Dr. Awwad-Rafferty also serves on the UI President’s Diversity Council, co-chairing the Campus Culture, Climate, and Continuous Improvement Subcommittee. She holds bachelor’s and master’s degree in architecture and an interdisciplinary Ph.D. B.J. Swanson is chair of the Gritman Medical Center Board of Directors. A lifelong resident of Latah County, she graduated from Deary High School and the Pacific Coast Banking School at the University of Washington. Ms. Swanson was the vice president of AmericanWest Bank in Moscow, retiring in 2011 after 46 years in banking. Since then, she served as executive c\\director of Latah Economic Development Council and is now the business loan underwriter for Latah Federal Credit Union. She serves on the Idaho Workforce Development Council and on the boards of the Idaho Hospital Association, the Idaho Health Facilities Authority, Palouse Surgery Center, and Palouse Health Properties.", "date": "2013-11-19", "academic_year": "2013/14", "youtube": "https://youtu.be/FATLbvXfM3Q", "record_type": "event", "type": "Text", "format": "record", "original_link": "http://www.uidaho.edu/class/mric/archives/2013-14/accountable-care", "object_location": "", "reference_url": "/digital/mric/items/mric2013-14-006.html" }, { "title": "A Child's Place Is... At Home or in Day Care? Germany's Political Struggle With Family Policies and Programs", "presenter": "Sandra Reineke", "affiliation": "Political Science", "description": "Prof. Reinke examines the policy processes surrounding family policies and programs in contemporary Germany. She builds on previous studies in the area of gender and politics that study the possible impact of a federal ministry for women’s affairs (WPA) in selected European countries on a variety of policy issues. In her study, she expands on the underlying theories to include an examination of “discursive opportunity structures” as a variable that explains family policy change across countries. For this purpose, she selected two political events that offered discursive opportunity: German reunification (1990) and the European Union’s Amsterdam Treaty (1997) to explain the role of the WPA in family policy change in contemporary Germany.", "biography": "Sandra Reineke earned her BA at Freie Universität in Berlin and her Ph.D. from Indiana University, both in political science. Her research and teaching interests are in the fields of political philosophy, international relations, and comparative politics, focusing on feminist political theory, citizenship and democratic theory, and gender, primarily in Western Europe and North America. Her book, entitled Beauvoir and Her Sisters. The Politics of Women's Bodies in France, was published in 2011 by the University of Illinois Press. Dr. Reineke has also published scholarly articles in the area of bioethics and biomedical policy making as well as on the French philosopher Simone de Beauvoir. She is currently working on a book-length manuscript about reproductive technology policies in Western Europe and North America. Dr. Reineke also serves as coordinator of the UI Women's and Gender Studies Program.", "date": "2014-04-15", "academic_year": "2013/14", "youtube": "https://youtu.be/Qlv5FTD1Zbk", "record_type": "event", "type": "Text", "format": "record", "original_link": "http://www.uidaho.edu/class/mric/archives/2013-14/a-childs-place", "object_location": "", "reference_url": "/digital/mric/items/mric2013-14-007.html" }, { "title": "Agriculture & Climate Change: REACCHing out to K-12 Classrooms", "presenter": "Jodi Johnson-Maynard; Kat Wolf", "affiliation": "Agricultural and Life Sciences", "description": "Recognizing that understanding and change often start with younger generations, we will teach students in kindergarten through college about the relationship between agriculture and climate change. The education team of the Regional Approaches to Climate Change in Pacific Northwest Agriculture (REACCH-PNA) project is developing curriculum for K-12 students and designing workshops for teachers to bring agriculture and climate change into public schools. The team conducted a survey of elementary and secondary teachers to assess levels of knowledge about climate change and agriculture, willingness to integrate and their curriculum needs. The team used the results of this survey to define activities. The team’s ultimate goal is to produce citizens and professionals equipped to address the challenges that climate change could pose for agriculture and agriculture’s role in providing food, energy and ecosystems.", "biography": "Kat Wolf is an assistant professor of Agricultural Education in the College of Agricultural and Life Sciences. Her teaching responsibilities focus on Secondary Agricultural Education and her research on methodology of teacher preparation and teacher belief systems. She earned a B.S. in Animal Science & Vocational Agriculture from the University of Wyoming, an M.S. in Agricultural Education from the University of Arizona and Ph.D. in Agricultural Education from The Ohio State University. Jodi Johnson-Maynard is an associate professor of Soil Science in the College of Agricultural and Life Sciences. Jodi researches and teaches sustainable agriculture and has integrated experiential learning into several of her college level courses. She has a B.S. in Environmental Science from the University of California, Riverside, a M.S. in Soil Science from the University of Idaho, and a Ph.D. in Soil and Water Science from UC, Riverside.", "date": "2013-11-12", "academic_year": "2013/14", "youtube": "https://youtu.be/PrTVzAqCRoQ", "record_type": "event", "type": "Text", "format": "record", "original_link": "http://www.uidaho.edu/class/mric/archives/2013-14/agriculture-and-climate-change", "object_location": "", "reference_url": "/digital/mric/items/mric2013-14-008.html" }, { "title": "What Hollywood has taught us to think (be it intentional or not): A Theory of Archetypes in Film Music", "presenter": "James Murphy", "affiliation": "Music", "description": "Is the National Rifle Association correct in its assertion that violence in our society is attributable to our entertainment media? Is it possible that music can be a co-conspirator in subliminal messaging of Hollywood films? Certain emotions, characters, and ethics have been linked, possibly intentionally, with specific elements of film music. While the use of bird calls and other simulated sounds of nature have been common but superficial vocabulary in “art” music for centuries, similar techniques used in the music of a Hollywood film frequently tell the audience how to respond to the images seen on the screen. In some demonstrable cases, the musical narrative has been moralistic, and the results of these efforts have been quite effective. This audio-visual presentation is designed to demonstrate some tricks of the trade, and to invite discussion among members of the audience about memorable moments in film music.", "biography": "James L. Murphy joined the faculty of the Lionel Hampton School of Music at the University of Idaho in 1999, initially as director of the school, and since 2008 continuing as coordinator of graduate studies in music. His teaching duties include various courses in music theory and music in film. Film music has been a research passion for Dr. Murphy for more than 30 years. His emphasis is in the theory and criticism of music as it has appeared in theatrically-released features, shorts and cartoons.", "date": "2013-10-01", "academic_year": "2013/14", "youtube": "https://youtu.be/ixksA-yu1fA", "record_type": "event", "type": "Text", "format": "record", "original_link": "http://www.uidaho.edu/class/mric/archives/2013-14/archetypes-in-film-music", "object_location": "", "reference_url": "/digital/mric/items/mric2013-14-009.html" }, { "title": "A Sense of Home in Topaz: Placemaking in a Japanese-American Internment Camp", "presenter": "Shauna Corry", "affiliation": "Architecture & Interior Design", "description": "Topaz Camp, sited in the west-central desert of Utah, was one of ten relocation centers for Japanese-Americans during World War II. Although thousands of lives were negatively affected in terms of economic and cultural implications, how the internees adapted to and controlled elements of their immediate surroundings in an effort to increase the quality of their lives is of interest to scholars in the design disciplines. This presentation focuses on a qualitative analysis of the interior environment, and highlights elements of placemaking as it relates to personal and national identity, and the ability of the human spirit to adapt to challenging living conditions.", "biography": "Dr. Shauna Corry graduated from Utah State University in 1984 with a B.S. in Household Economics and Management with an Emphasis in Housing and interiors. She continued her education at Washington State University, earning an M.A. in Home Economics with an Emphasis Interior Design in 1990 and an Interdisciplinary Ph.D. in Environment and Behavior in 2002. Dr. Corry received the University of Idaho’s Hoffman Teaching Award in 2007 and has been honored with nine Alumni Awards of Excellence for mentoring UI students. She has taught at the university level for 24 years, and along with her students, has completed countless volunteer hours in addressing the need for functional and supportive spaces in communities. Dr. Corry has taught at North Dakota State University where she served as coordinators of Interior Design and Facility Management, and at the University of Idaho since 2001. Dr. Corry currently serves as Interior Design Program Head in the College of Art and Architecture.", "date": "2014-01-28", "academic_year": "2013/14", "youtube": "https://youtu.be/jBzdmCbM3eY", "record_type": "event", "type": "Text", "format": "record", "original_link": "http://www.uidaho.edu/class/mric/archives/2013-14/a-sense-of-home-in-topaz", "object_location": "", "reference_url": "/digital/mric/items/mric2013-14-010.html" }, { "title": "Exploring the Role of Co-Ethnic Business Networks in International Trade", "presenter": "Eric Stuen", "affiliation": "Economics", "description": "International transactions are inhibited by incomplete information about market opportunities and by difficulty enforcing contracts in various legal regimes. To what extent do ethnically homogeneous business networks facilitate international trade? This presentation will describe current research on that question as well as the empirical methods involved in answering it. It will be the point of departure to discuss determination of cause and effect in non-experimental contexts. The presentation will discuss statistical issues with the use of proxy and instrumental variables, as well as panel data. The program should be of interest to researchers across many of the sciences.", "biography": "Eric Stuen earned a bachelor’s degree from Pacific Lutheran University and master’s and doctorate degrees from the University of Colorado at Boulder, all in economics. His doctoral dissertation research studied the importance of Ph.D. students to the conduct of science at U.S. universities and how changes to visa and immigration policies for foreign graduate students may affect scientific research. This research received funding from the National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) and the National Science Foundation. An analysis of the effects of immigration policy on science and innovation by Stuen and his co-authors was recently published in Science. His work was short-listed for a “best paper” award from Britain’s Royal Economic Society and has been discussed in the New York Times and Science Careers, among other media outlets. His current research interests include the economics of immigration, international trade and wine. He has been a faculty member in the Department of Business since 2008.", "date": "2014-03-11", "academic_year": "2013/14", "youtube": "https://youtu.be/Oj_RIZuUZAE", "record_type": "event", "type": "Text", "format": "record", "original_link": "http://www.uidaho.edu/class/mric/archives/2013-14/co-ethnic-business", "object_location": "", "reference_url": "/digital/mric/items/mric2013-14-011.html" }, { "title": "Commemorating Catastrophe: Remembering the First World War 100 Years On", "presenter": "Jay Winter", "affiliation": "History; Yale University", "description": "The University of Idaho’s 2014 Borah Symposium will examine how World War I changed the face of modern warfare. The symposium theme is “The Legacy of WWI: The Making of the Modern World.” In honor of the 100-year anniversary of the beginning of the Great War, the symposium will look at the collision of old ideas of valor and idealism with modern technology, which led to the greatest loss of life in recorded history up to that point. Additionally, World War I reconstructed the map of the world by creating new unstable countries that would be the source of future conflicts.", "biography": "Jay Winter is the Charles J. Stille Professor of History at Yale University. He was a Fellow of Pembroke College, Cambridge, and Lecturer, then Reader in Modern History at Cambridge from 1979 to 2001. He won an Emmy award as co-producer and historian of “The Great War and the Shaping of the Twentieth Century,” an 8-hour television series shown on the BBC and PBS in 1996. He is the author of Sites of Memory, Sites of Mourning: The Great War in European Cultural History (1995), published in French in 2007. With Antoine Prost, he is author of The Great War in History (2004) and René Cassin and the Rights of Man: From the Great War to the Universal Declaration (2013). He is editor-in-chief of the three-volume Cambridge History of the First World War, published in French in 2013 and in English in 2014.", "date": "2014-04-01", "academic_year": "2013/14", "youtube": "https://youtu.be/Ez4V_srUlQg", "record_type": "event", "type": "Text", "format": "record", "original_link": "http://www.uidaho.edu/class/mric/archives/2013-14/commemorating-catastrophe", "object_location": "", "reference_url": "/digital/mric/items/mric2013-14-012.html" }, { "title": "Teaming up for Conservation in Costa Rica: An interdisciplinary approach to understanding trade-offs between conservation and development", "presenter": "Kate Cleary; Lisette Waits", "affiliation": "CATIE (Tropical Agricultural Research and Higher Education Center); Fish and Wildlife", "description": "Tropical forests cover less than 23 percent of the earth’s surface, but contain over 50 percent of its biodiversity, providing essential ecosystem services to the entire globe. Unfortunately, these amazing forests are becoming increasingly scarce as human population growth drives the conversion of tropical forests to agriculture and urban development. An interdisciplinary team of students and faculty is addressing this challenge with our joint research project in the San Juan-La Selva Biological Corridor (SJLS) in Costa Rica. The team is composed of forest ecologists, wildlife biologists, conservation geneticists and sociologists, all working to answer a small piece of the complex question of whether the SJLS is “working” for both human communities and populations of native plants and animals. This presentation will describe the organization of our team through the UI’s IGERT program, explain linked research designs, and report some of our most interesting results to date. The presenters will also share exciting photos of tropical wildlife and stories about conducting field research in the tropics.", "biography": "Kate Cleary is a Ph.D. candidate in the joint doctoral program between CATIE (Tropical Agricultural Research and Higher Education Center) and the University of Idaho. Her current research uses a landscape genetics approach to assess the effects of land use change on functional connectivity for frugivorous bats. In 2013, Kate received a Fulbright Scholarship to complete a portion of her Ph.D. in Costa Rica. Before beginning her Ph.D., Kate earned a MSc. in Fish and Wildlife Biology through the Peace Corps Masters International program at Colorado State University. Through this program, she served as a Peace Corps volunteer in Guatemala, where she worked as a biologist and environmental educator in a national park and collected data on the bird community. Kate's hope for all her research projects is that they will contribute to finding a balance between conservation and development in rural landscapes. Lisette Waits grew up in rural Georgia with dreams of one day becoming a scientist and studying wild animals. After obtaining a doctorate at the University of Utah studying the genetic diversity and evolution of grizzly bears, she traveled to the Universite Joseph Fourier in France to study the conservation genetics of brown bears in France and Scandinavia. Since joining the faculty at the University of Idaho in 1997, Lisette has focused on the conservation genetics, molecular ecology and landscape genetics of wild populations with particular focus on endangered carnivores. Lisette is a co-founder of the Laboratory for Ecological, Evolutionary and Conservation Genetics and the Center for Research on Invasive Species and Small Populations. She has been a member of a number of interdisciplinary research teams including two NSF-IGERT projects. Lisette’s current research projects use molecular genetic techniques to study a variety of threatened or vulnerable species in Europe, Asia, North and South America.", "date": "2014-02-11", "academic_year": "2013/14", "youtube": "https://youtu.be/hejQ2Gh_6BE", "record_type": "event", "type": "Text", "format": "record", "original_link": "http://www.uidaho.edu/class/mric/archives/2013-14/conservation-in-costa-rica", "object_location": "", "reference_url": "/digital/mric/items/mric2013-14-013.html" }, { "title": "Dance Your Ph.D.", "presenter": "Belle Baggs; Lee Fortunato", "affiliation": "Movement Science; Biological Sciences", "description": "Belle Baggs and Lee Fortunato will examine the connection between Biology and Dance through an interdisciplinary project called “Dance Your Ph.D.” Doctoral students from Dr. Fortunato’s Professional Development class have been paired up with Dance Composition II students to develop choreography that demonstrates biology research ranging from neuroscience to plant phylogenetics. This project is based upon John Bohannon’s idea; now a national contest sponsored by Science Magazine and the American Association for the Advancement of Science ( AAAS).", "biography": "Elizabeth A. (Lee) Fortunato (Ph.D. 1994, UC San Diego) is a professor in the Department of Biological Sciences and the WWAMI Medical Program. Dr. Fortunato has worked in the field of human cytomegalovirus (HCMV) pathogenesis since 1995. She is well versed in host/pathogen interaction studies, including interactions with the cell cycle machinery, DNA repair machinery and with the cellular DNA itself. Her work focuses on elucidating the mechanism behind the development of CNS defects in the congenitally infected infant. Dr. Fortunato has been continuously funded since starting at the University of Idaho in 2000, initially by The March of Dimes and subsequently by the National Institutes of Health (NIH), where she has received major funding for her work continuously since 2002. Dr. Fortunato is currently a standing member of the NIH NIAID Virology B study section. In her “spare” time, she spends time on her “other” passion, dance. She has been training since the age of four and still takes technique class almost every week and performs with the UI Center for Dance whenever her schedule allows. Belle Baggs is a clinical assistant professor of dance in the Department of Movement Sciences. She is a dancer, choreographer, teacher, and advocate for the arts. She received her Master of Fine Arts in Modern Dance from University of Utah through an awarded University Teaching Assistantship. She also received her Certificate of Laban Movement Analysis from the Integrated Movement Studies program under the directorship of Peggy Hackney. Her professional career has been dedicated to performance and the building of community and social change through innovative choreography. Her research is based in somatic practices integrated in contemporary modern dance techniques, dance pedagogy methodologies, creative process inquiry, performance improvisation and interdisciplinary collaborations. She is a founding member of the BASK art collective, group of artists engaging in extended community projects considering social projections and sources of empowerment for women in the Arts.", "date": "2014-04-22", "academic_year": "2013/14", "youtube": "https://youtu.be/Rtl8zqfkGCw", "record_type": "event", "type": "Text", "format": "record", "original_link": "http://www.uidaho.edu/class/mric/archives/2013-14/dance-your-phd", "object_location": "", "reference_url": "/digital/mric/items/mric2013-14-014.html" }, { "title": "Egypt: Art Between Revolutions", "presenter": "Dean Panttaja", "affiliation": "Theatre Arts", "description": "This talk will examine the nature of art, artists, and societal impact between the first and second revolutions. It will provide a glimpse into the complexity of an awakened artist class, increased free speech, evolving limitations on art, and the hopelessness of instability in the creative process. Prof. Panttaja will provide a pedagogical and practical viewpoint from a semester-long sabbatical in Cairo, Egypt.", "biography": "Dean Panttaja is a professor of design, technology, and management in the Department of Theatre Arts. His professional scenic and lighting designs have been produced both nationally and internationally. In his 30-year career as an artist and arts educator, he has served as chair of the Department of Theatre Arts and producing artistic director of the Idaho Repertory Theatre. He has received the Idaho Commission on the Arts Fellowship for Theatre and a Design Fellowship with the Kennedy Center for the Arts. His design credits include work at the Malak Gabr Theatre (Cairo), Falaki Theatre (Cairo), the Kennedy Center, Colorado Shakespeare Festival, Tacoma Actors Guild, Santa Barbara Repertory Theatre, Pacific Art Center, Idaho Shakespeare Festival, Idaho Repertory Theatre, Idaho Theatre for Youth, Spokane InterPlayers, Coeur d'Alene Summer Theatre, Festival Dance and Performing Arts, Showtime, and Dark Horse Films.", "date": "2013-10-29", "academic_year": "2013/14", "youtube": "https://youtu.be/qDIrQcEYa4g", "record_type": "event", "type": "Text", "format": "record", "original_link": "http://www.uidaho.edu/class/mric/archives/2013-14/egypt-art-between-revolutions", "object_location": "", "reference_url": "/digital/mric/items/mric2013-14-015.html" }, { "title": "Understanding the Emotional Timeline Following Terrorist Acts", "presenter": "Traci Craig", "affiliation": "Psychology and Communication Studies", "description": "The Boston Marathon Bombings of Monday, April 15, 2013, resulted in a quick succession of events with heavy media coverage. Media coverage of events that are framed as terrorism likely creates a unique emotional trajectory. A survey was distributed asking individuals for their recollection of their emotional and behavioral responses at three points in time marked by media headlines. The results explore the ways in which affective and behavioral responses upon encountering news of the bombing, impacted emotional responses when the suspects were identified, and then again when authorities took the life of one suspect and detained and charged the other.", "biography": "Traci Craig graduated from Purdue University in 2002 with a Ph.D. in social psychology and joined the University of Idaho faculty in the same year. She is currently serving as chair of the Department of Psychology and Communication Studies as well as an Administrative Fellow for the College of Letters, Arts and Social Sciences. Her research interests focus on issues of language and decision-making, gender and diversity, and group dynamics. Today’s presentation reflects some of her newer work, undertaken with Dr. Annette Folwell in Communication Studies, examining the timeline of affect following terrorist acts.", "date": "2014-03-25", "academic_year": "2013/14", "youtube": "https://youtu.be/6EwC2Ktd-Zk", "record_type": "event", "type": "Text", "format": "record", "original_link": "http://www.uidaho.edu/class/mric/archives/2013-14/emotional-timeline", "object_location": "", "reference_url": "/digital/mric/items/mric2013-14-016.html" }, { "title": "Entwining Art, Science & Aesthetics", "presenter": "Gerri Sayler", "affiliation": "Art", "description": "Is it possible that art inspired by science is redefining art, as well as the concept of aesthetics, too? The popularization of science-inspired art in recent years suggests this is so. As disciplines, art and science are amazingly similar in how individuals seek to know about our world and contribute in some way to the understanding of it. Sayler will briefly discuss her artwork within this milieu, in which the locus of magic for her dwells somewhere between the physical and metaphysical. She will also provide a glimpse of the ways modern science is shaping the expression of other contemporary artists, who are driven by its beauty, complexity and mystery.", "biography": "During the past six years, Gerri Sayler has created site-specific installations for museums and galleries using fibers as sculptural media. Inspired by the region’s landscapes and natural history, her work draws on textures, line and repetition to explore cycles of nature and the nature of time. Her solo exhibit history includes Suyama Space/Seattle, Boise Art Museum, Northwest Museum of Arts and Culture, University of Wyoming Art Museum and Missoula Art Museum. She has been commissioned to create a large-scale installation in January inspired by the cataclysmic history of the Yellowstone Caldera. The artist graduated from the University of Idaho in 2007 with a B.F.A in Studio Art summa cum laude; she also holds a B.S. in Journalism from the University of North Dakota.", "date": "2013-12-03", "academic_year": "2013/14", "youtube": "https://youtu.be/e4FLb9xSxAQ", "record_type": "event", "type": "Text", "format": "record", "original_link": "http://www.uidaho.edu/class/mric/archives/2013-14/entwining-art-science-and-aesthetics", "object_location": "", "reference_url": "/digital/mric/items/mric2013-14-017.html" }, { "title": "Fire as a Teacher: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Wildfire", "presenter": "Crystal Kolden", "affiliation": "Geography", "description": "Wildfire is often described as a catastrophe, a disaster, a disturbance, and other menacing and negative terms. In reality, wildfire is a natural occurrence that is central to the functional ecologies of most global ecosystems, and it is our human perspectives and inabilities to deal with wildfire and its impacts that are the disaster. While there are numerous suggestions from the media, politicians, and citizens for how to deal with the wildfire “problem,” science offers a clearer picture of the path forward. Utilization of the best available climate and science information, as well as learning from past fire events, can help communities redefine their relationship with wildfire and begin to embrace it across fire-prone landscapes.", "biography": "Crystal Kolden earned a bachelor’s degree in history from Cornell University, a master’s in geography from the University of Nevada and a Ph.D. in geography from Clark University. Her background includes over a decade of employment with the U.S. Forest Service (including time as a wildland firefighter) and the U.S. Geological Survey. Her research focuses on science applications and technology transfer for public policy makers and land use managers, working primarily in the western United States and Alaska. She is interested in large-scale abiotic and disturbance factors such as wildfire, invasive species, and climate change. Dr. Kolden joined the University of Idaho Geography Department in 2010.", "date": "2014-02-04", "academic_year": "2013/14", "youtube": "https://youtu.be/KTcofKuVL6s", "record_type": "event", "type": "Text", "format": "record", "original_link": "http://www.uidaho.edu/class/mric/archives/2013-14/fire-as-a-teacher", "object_location": "", "reference_url": "/digital/mric/items/mric2013-14-018.html" }, { "title": "Gender Equity and Science: Institutional and Cultural Issues", "presenter": "Francesca Sammarruca", "affiliation": "Physics", "description": "In spite of years of continued (slow) growth, participation of women in STEM disciplines remains low. In particular, the physics workforce in academia and national laboratories is one area in which women are significantly underrepresented. Prof. Sammarruca will present an analysis of recent data and reports and discuss institutional and cultural barriers, as identified through the stories of female scientists.", "biography": "Francesca Sammarruca has been a Physics Department faculty at the University of Idaho since 1992. She holds physics degrees from the University of Pavia in Italy and the Virginia Polytechnic Institute. Her scholarship is in the area of theoretical nuclear physics. Over the years, she has been concerned with the issue of participation of women in physics. In 2010, she received a University of Idaho Outstanding Service Award in recognition of her efforts towards gender equity.", "date": "2014-01-21", "academic_year": "2013/14", "youtube": "https://youtu.be/22NtygldomY", "record_type": "event", "type": "Text", "format": "record", "original_link": "http://www.uidaho.edu/class/mric/archives/2013-14/gender-equity-and-science", "object_location": "", "reference_url": "/digital/mric/items/mric2013-14-019.html" }, { "title": "Illuminating the Arts:The Synergistic Relationship Between Arts and Science", "presenter": "Spencer Martin; Bob Rinker", "affiliation": "Lionel Hampton School of Music; Computer Science", "description": "In the summer of 2012, a group of Computer Science students and faculty met with Marching Band Director Spencer Martin to discuss ways to use Light Emitting Diode (LED) technology in halftime performances. Shows that fall incorporated microprocessor-controlled LEDs placed on the drum line. In 2013, the project expanded to more instruments and wireless control. The hardware has been used in other performances, including dance concerts and the Jazz Festival. Students have been involved in conceptualization and construction of components, providing them with an interdisciplinary experience. The presenters will discuss their experience with the project from arts and sciences perspectives.", "biography": "Spencer Martin is director of athletic bands, which includes the Vandal Marching Band. He holds bachelor’s and master’s degrees from the UI in percussion performance and pedagogy. He has served as a clinician, adjudicator, and guest conductor in Idaho, Montana, Wyoming, Oregon, Washington, Alaska, and Hawaii. Bob Rinker earned bachelor’s and master's degrees from the University of Idaho in electrical engineering and his Ph.D. in computer science from Colorado State University. He is the last active faculty member who was part of the Computer Science Department when it was founded in 1981. Bob's research interests include computer architecture, reconfigurable computing and embedded systems.", "date": "2014-05-06", "academic_year": "2013/14", "youtube": "https://youtu.be/lzviLlQqY-0", "record_type": "event", "type": "Text", "format": "record", "original_link": "http://www.uidaho.edu/class/mric/archives/2013-14/illuminating-the-arts", "object_location": "", "reference_url": "/digital/mric/items/mric2013-14-020.html" }, { "title": "Impact Network Analysis: A Framework for Optimizing Climate Change Adaptation", "presenter": "Karen Garrett", "affiliation": "Plant Pathology; Kansas State University", "description": "Optimizing adaptation strategies requires a system-level understanding of how climate change adaptation activities support agricultural outcomes. An “impact network analysis” (INA) can be implemented to evaluate the integrated effects of research results and new technologies, communication networks, decision networks, and ecological/transport networks. For example, an INA can be used to evaluate the likely outcomes of different strategies for management of a disease or pest under climate change. The driving factors of epidemic networks may vary widely from one system to another, whether movement is by human transport, vectors, wind, rain, or other means. However, if the general structure of an epidemic network is known, it can be used to identify key locations for sampling and mitigation, as well as being incorporated in a broader INA. Examples of the application of an INA to stored grain networks and smallholder farm seed systems will be discussed.", "biography": "Karen Garrett is a Professor in the Department of Plant Pathology at Kansas State University. Garrett studies the ecology of plant disease and other plant stressors, ecological genomics, and biodiversity resource science in projects supported by the US NSF, USAID, USDA, DOE, PBCRC, and CGIAR, in Australia, Bolivia, China, Ecuador, Ghana, India, Indonesia, Kenya, Panama, Peru, the Philippines, Tanzania, the US, and Zambia. These projects include studies of the effects of environmental trends and variation on plant disease and pests in agricultural and natural systems, strategies for durable disease and pest resistance in crop plants, epidemiological modeling in complex host assemblages, and strategies for sustainable disease and pest management for resource-poor farmers. For more information about research in her lab, see: http://www.ksu.edu/pdecology", "date": "2014-03-04", "academic_year": "2013/14", "youtube": "https://youtu.be/sJt0SdRRYjo", "record_type": "event", "type": "Text", "format": "record", "original_link": "http://www.uidaho.edu/class/mric/archives/2013-14/impact-network-analysis", "object_location": "", "reference_url": "/digital/mric/items/mric2013-14-021.html" }, { "title": "Elites, Social Mobility and Income Distribution in the U.S.: Challenges to the American Dream", "presenter": "Ivar Nelson", "affiliation": "University of Idaho Press", "description": "In the context of the current national debate on widening income distribution in the United States over the last forty years, this presentation examines the relationship between economic and political stability, and social mobility. Is the American Dream becoming history?", "biography": "Ivar Nelson has been a university press director, Foreign Service officer and founder of Bookpeople of Moscow. His interest in social mobility and elites started with his research at Uppsala University and subsequent honors thesis at Harvard College on the peaceful transfer of power in Sweden in the 19th century.", "date": "2013-12-10", "academic_year": "2013/14", "youtube": "https://youtu.be/RSJosjcSawU", "record_type": "event", "type": "Text", "format": "record", "original_link": "http://www.uidaho.edu/class/mric/archives/2013-14/income-distribution-in-the-us", "object_location": "", "reference_url": "/digital/mric/items/mric2013-14-022.html" }, { "title": "John Reed: American Communist or American Spy?", "presenter": "Richard Spence", "affiliation": "History", "description": "Portland-born John Reed is an icon of American radicalism. He was witness to the Bolshevik Revolution, and his Ten Days That Shook the World remains an important account. He became a founder of the U.S. Communist Party, died in Moscow, Russia, and was honored by the Soviets with a grave along the Kremlin Wall. \n \n But was Reed really what he seemed? Was he, in, fact a long-time agent of American agencies and interests? Did some of his Soviet comrades discover or suspect this and did that lead to his premature death? \n \n The answers may lie in the curious relationship between Reed and Weston Estes, a U.S. Army intelligence officer who infiltrated the radical movement of which Reed was a part. In 1920, Estes helped free Reed from a jail in Finland, and Reed then assisted Estes in entering Soviet Russia on a secret mission, a mission that may have sealed the fate of both men.", "biography": "Richard “Rick” Spence is a professor of History and has taught at the University of Idaho since 1986. He specializes in Russian, intelligence and military history. His course offerings include Modern Espionage, Anti-Semitism and the Holocaust, History of Secret Societies, and the Occult in History. He has served as a consultant to the International Spy Museum, the History Channel and documentary film and television programs in Russia. His research on John Reed will form part of a new book, American Spies in Revolutionary Russia.", "date": "2013-10-08", "academic_year": "2013/14", "youtube": "https://youtu.be/ddywrDRcUmo", "record_type": "event", "type": "Text", "format": "record", "original_link": "http://www.uidaho.edu/class/mric/archives/2013-14/john-reed-communist-or-spy", "object_location": "", "reference_url": "/digital/mric/items/mric2013-14-023.html" }, { "title": "Lest we forget: Influenza, the Great Pandemic of the Great War", "presenter": "Scott Minnich", "affiliation": "Microbiology", "description": "When one considers that great plagues of history, rarely is the influenza epidemic of 1918 mentioned. Yet when one considers the statistics regarding the greatest number of deaths over a given time period, the 1918 influenza epidemic, or Spanish flu, ranks No. 1. Mortality rate estimates range from 20 million to more than 100 million deaths during the year it circumscribed the globe. Coming at the end of World War I, it killed more individuals than the war itself (estimated at 9.2 combat deaths and 15 million total deaths). More than 25 percent of the U.S. population was infected during this year. This presentation will review the history of the 1918 epidemic and its influence on public health policy. Additionally, our present-day understanding of flu epidemiology and forensic methods to recover the 1918 virus provide a contextual basis for present concerns regarding Avian flu and emerging virus strains.", "biography": "Scott Minnich is a professor of microbiology at the University of Idaho. He received his Ph.D. in Microbiology from Iowa State University in 1979. He pursued post-doctoral studies in microbial and molecular genetics at Purdue and Princeton universities. Dr. Minnich's present research is centered on the molecular pathogenesis of Yersinia pestis (bubonic plague) and hemorrhagic E. coli. He is course chair for the WWAMI microbiology and infectious disease class for first-year medical students and is Associate Director for the NIH-funded Idaho INBRE program. From October 2003 to May 2004, he served as a subject matter expert with the Iraq Survey Group WMD Inspection Team headquartered in Baghdad. About the Borah Symposium The University of Idaho’s 2014 Borah Symposium examines how World War I changed the face of modern warfare. The symposium theme is “The Legacy of WWI: The Making of the Modern World.” View Schedule of Events", "date": "2014-04-08", "academic_year": "2013/14", "youtube": "https://youtu.be/yUdSM5Pjyzg", "record_type": "event", "type": "Text", "format": "record", "original_link": "http://www.uidaho.edu/class/mric/archives/2013-14/Lest-we-forget", "object_location": "", "reference_url": "/digital/mric/items/mric2013-14-024.html" }, { "title": "Spinning Manure into Plastic", "presenter": "Erik Coats; Armando McDonald", "affiliation": "Civil Engineering; Forest, Rangeland, and Fire Sciences", "description": "More than 9 million dairy cows generate an estimated 226 billion kg of wet manure annually in the U.S. To help mitigate dairy greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions associated with manure degradation, manure can be processed via anaerobic digestion (AD) to CH4 and ultimately electricity. However, on-the-ground AD realization has been impeded by process stability/reliability concerns and poor economics. Considering these challenges but recognizing that AD represents a fundamentally sound manure management approach, an interdisciplinary research team has investigated an integrated process that will improve manure management economics and reduce dairy GHG emissions. This talk focuses on a critical element within this process: synthesizing bioplastics on fermented manure. Drs. Coats and McDonald have collaborated to advance fundamental operating criteria for the process, and are currently conducting investigations in an effort to ultimately commercialize this technology.", "biography": "Erik R. Coats, P.E., Ph.D., is an associate professor of Civil Engineering at the University of Idaho. Prior to earning his doctorate, Dr. Coats spent 13 years working as a professional engineer designing municipal water and wastewater systems. Dr. Coats is a licensed professional engineer in Oregon, Washington, and Idaho. At the UI, Dr. Coats has focused his efforts on advancing microbial processes for resource recovery from organic-rich waste streams, and on developing an enhanced understanding of microbial wastewater treatment processes. Dr. Coats’ research team also has conducted extensive research into the wastewater treatment process known as enhanced biological phosphorus removal (EBPR), with a particular emphasis on process optimization to reliably achieve better quality effluent. Armando G. McDonald is a professor of renewable materials chemistry in the Department of Forest, Rangeland and Fire Sciences at the University of Idaho. Dr. McDonald started at UI in December 2001 and came from New Zealand Forest Research, where he was a group leader of the Materials Discovery Group. During his 16 years at Forest Research Armando's research focus on understood the influences of wood chemistry/biochemistry on wood and composite properties and value added bio-based chemicals, fuels, and products. While at UI his teaching focuses on bio-composites, bio-based products and processing, and biomass lingo-cellulosic chemistry.", "date": "2014-02-25", "academic_year": "2013/14", "youtube": "https://youtu.be/lFcO8E4_4iE", "record_type": "event", "type": "Text", "format": "record", "original_link": "http://www.uidaho.edu/class/mric/archives/2013-14/manure-into-plastic", "object_location": "", "reference_url": "/digital/mric/items/mric2013-14-025.html" }, { "title": "Open Access: The new frontier of scholarly research and education", "presenter": "Annie Gaines; Karen Launchbaugh", "affiliation": "Library; Natural Resources", "description": "The skyrocketing cost of scholarly journals is one of the most difficult and pressing problems faced by academic librarians today. At the same time, researchers have the obligation and desire to publish their findings in reputable scholarly journals but often face long lag-times for publication and hefty page charges. Modern technologies offer a potential solution. One approach being pursued by many scholars and librarians is that of open access publishing. Open access publishing, the practice of making scholarly research freely available to the public without barriers, is a publishing practice recently adopted by the Rangeland Center when it decided to create its own journal, the Journal of Rangeland Applications. Representatives from both the Library and the Rangeland Center will describe the process of creating the journal on the Open Journal Systems platform while maintaining a rigorous peer-review process, and discuss the importance of making scholarly research and educational materials freely available to the public. This project reflects a powerful collaboration between librarians and researchers to overcome modern publishing challenges and make information widely available to those who need it.", "biography": "Karen Launchbaugh is a professor of rangeland ecology and management in the College of Natural Resources. She earned a B.S. in Rangeland Management at North Dakota State University, an M.S. in Rangeland Science at Texas A&M University, and her Ph.D. in Rangeland Science, Utah State University. Annie Gaines has been the Scholarly Communications Librarian at the University of Idaho Library since June of this year. She earned a B.A. in Art from the University of Oregon and a Master's in Library and Information Science from Drexel University. Her research interests include open access, remix culture, and intellectual freedom.", "date": "2013-10-22", "academic_year": "2013/14", "youtube": "https://youtu.be/_mOGji-296g", "record_type": "event", "type": "Text", "format": "record", "original_link": "http://www.uidaho.edu/class/mric/archives/2013-14/open-access", "object_location": "", "reference_url": "/digital/mric/items/mric2013-14-026.html" }, { "title": "Palouse Jazz Project", "presenter": "The Palouse Jazz Project", "affiliation": "Lionel Hampton School of Music", "description": "Have you ever wondered what goes on inside a jazz ensemble? This presentation will put the audience on stage to observe and listen to the improvisation process that is at the heart of jazz. Members of the Palouse Jazz Project will explain their roles in laying down a beat, providing accompaniment, and offering a personalized interpretation of the rhythms, chords and melodic line. This session is intended to prepare audiences for the 2013 Lionel Hampton Jazz Festival, which begins Feb. 19.", "biography": "The Palouse Jazz Project performs original jazz compositions and arrangements. Established in 2006, the PJP is a dynamic sextet that performs around the Northwest. The group specializes in standard jazz repertoire and original compositions. Each member of the ensemble also serves on the faculty at the University of Idaho. PJP members pictured above are (from left): Vern Sielert, trumpet; Vanessa Sielert, saxophone; Dan Bukvich, drums; Dave Bjur, bass; Jon Anderson, piano, and Alan Gemberling, trombone.", "date": "2014-02-18", "academic_year": "2013/14", "youtube": "https://youtu.be/--4RQRa5Zx4", "record_type": "event", "type": "Text", "format": "record", "original_link": "http://www.uidaho.edu/class/mric/archives/2013-14/palouse-jazz-project", "object_location": "", "reference_url": "/digital/mric/items/mric2013-14-027.html" }, { "title": "Radiation Therapies for Cancer", "presenter": "Ruprecht Machleidt", "affiliation": "Physics", "description": "Nuclear physics has many applications. Unfortunately, the more controversial ones, like nuclear weapons and nuclear reactors, are the best known and to some people the only known ones. However, there are hundreds of nuclear physics applications that are a blessing to mankind. In particular, uses of nuclear physics in medicine save and improve thousands of lives every day. The treatment of cancer by proton and heavy-ion beam radiation is one of the greatest success stories that, regrettably, your family doctor and even your medical “specialist” probably never heard of. Therefore, I will tell this story in this colloquium.", "biography": "Ruprecht Machleidt has taught physics at the University of Idaho since 1988. He earned his M.S. and Ph.D. degrees from the University of Bonn, Germany. Before coming to Idaho, he was on the faculty at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), the Virginia Polytechnic Institute (VPI) in Blacksburg, Virginia, and the University of Bonn. He has conducted nuclear physics research at numerous institutions around the world including the Los Alamos National Laboratory, New Mexico, the Canadian Laboratory for Nuclear and Particle Physics “TRIUMF,” Vancouver, B.C., and the Niels Bohr Institute in Copenhagen, Denmark. His field of research is theoretical nuclear physics with particular emphasis on the theory of the forces that hold the atomic nucleus together. Nuclear medicine is Machleidt’s hobby.", "date": "2013-09-10", "academic_year": "2013/14", "record_type": "event", "type": "Text", "format": "record", "original_link": "http://www.uidaho.edu/class/mric/archives/2013-14/radiation-therapies-for-cancer", "object_location": "", "reference_url": "/digital/mric/items/mric2013-14-028.html" }, { "title": "Big Interdisciplinarity: Regional Approaches to Climate Change for Pacific Northwest Agriculture", "presenter": "Sanford Eigenbrode", "affiliation": "REACCH", "description": "Responses to issues affecting interacting human, managed and natural systems often entail large-scale, long-term collaborative science, outreach and education. In practice, projects engaged in what might be termed “big interdisciplinarity” necessarily include simultaneous multidisciplinary, interdisciplinary, transdisciplinary and participatory activities, which together constitute a project’s dynamic “architecture of adaptive integration” (AAI). Regional Approaches to Climate Change (REACCH) is a large ($20M) USDA-funded, multi-institutional project addressing sustainability of wheat production systems under current and projected climates for the inland Pacific Northwest. The talk by REACCH director Sanford Eigenbrode will review the genesis, goals and activities of REACCH, the challenges and successes of the collaboration, and how its AAI is evolving as the project matures.", "biography": "University Distinguished Professor Director, REACCH", "date": "2014-04-02", "academic_year": "2013/14", "youtube": "https://youtu.be/4D0RUGFZE6E", "record_type": "event", "type": "Text", "format": "record", "original_link": "http://www.uidaho.edu/class/mric/archives/2013-14/Regional-Approaches-to-Climate-Change", "object_location": "", "reference_url": "/digital/mric/items/mric2013-14-029.html" }, { "title": "Time for a change: Why rule-based ethics are problematic for the NCAA", "presenter": "Sharon K. Stoll; Justin Barnes", "affiliation": "Movement Science; Journalism and Mass Media", "description": "This session will discuss the fallacy that rule-based ethics can mythically solve ethical violations of rules within the NCAA. The current rule deontic philosophy utilized by the NCAA and other organizations generally leads to ethical dilemmas being resolved in court or protracted legal maneuvering, i.e., Lance Armstrong and USADA. When this occurs, ethics become legalized and are classified in yes or no terms. However, ethics can be useful and practical when all collateral fibers of an issue are considered. Unfortunately, as now formulated, the NCAA may never reform itself nor use a different basis of reasoning. The NCAA is unwieldy in its administrative structure and its ethical position is questionable considering its argument that athletes in revenue producing sport are amateurs. We will discuss some present solutions offered by experts in the fields whereby ethics could actually be practiced.", "biography": "Justin Barnes is an assistant professor of advertising in the School of Journalism and Mass Media. Before joining the faculty at the University of Idaho, Dr. Barnes was a clinical assistant professor in the Sport Management Program at Washington State University. Dr. Barnes previously worked in New York City for Ruder Finn, Inc., where he assisted clients in public relation, advertising, branding, and integrated marketing campaigns. His most recent research projects address the impact of athletic success on the perception of a university’s academic quality, enhancing the goals of general education through a pedagogical approach, and women’s corporate advancement through golf participation. Sharon K. Stoll is Director of the Center for ETHICS* at the University of Idaho. She is considered one of the leading authorities in competitive moral education intervention techniques for college-aged students in America. A former public school teacher, coach, and athlete, Dr. Stoll holds a Ph.D. in Sport Philosophy from Kent State University, and is the creator and director of one of the few programs in America that is directed toward moral education with competitive populations. Dr. Stoll is well known for her knowledge in teaching and methodology as applied to pedagogy in moral education and character development. Many of Dr. Stoll's students have developed measurement evaluation tools and other curriculum designs that are impacting the knowledge of moral development in sport. She is the author of eight books including, \"Who Says It’s Cheating?\", \"Sport Ethics: Applications for Fair Play\", and “Practical Ethics in Sport Management.” *Ethical Theory and Honor In Competition and Sport", "date": "2013-11-05", "academic_year": "2013/14", "youtube": "https://youtu.be/BeeIhdKCUfo", "record_type": "event", "type": "Text", "format": "record", "original_link": "http://www.uidaho.edu/class/mric/archives/2013-14/time-for-a-change", "object_location": "", "reference_url": "/digital/mric/items/mric2013-14-030.html" }, { "title": "Understanding Federalism: Punctuated Equilibrium and the Evolution of Political Equity", "presenter": "Brian Ellison", "affiliation": "Political Science; Martin School", "description": "It is a truism that federalism has evolved in theory and practice since the founding of the country. Federalism has changed in theory because we have changed the U.S. Constitution and our understanding of it in profound ways. Federalism has evolved in practice because we think about governing differently; good government does not mean the same thing today that it meant in 1789. The interesting question, however, is whether changes in theory lead to changes in practice or changes in practice lead to changes in theory. The purpose of this paper is to examine this question through the lens of punctuated equilibrium theory. The paper offers refinements to Baumgartner and Jones’s ideas about federalism as a system of policy venues (2009), and attempts a theoretical contribution by looking specifically at the relationship between equity and policy change in the context of an evolving federalism.", "biography": "Brian A. Ellison is a professor of political science and director of the Martin School at the University of Idaho. He previously served as chair of the Department of Government and Justice Studies at Appalachian State University, as director of the Joint MPA Program at the College of Charleston/University of South Carolina, and as director of the MPA program at Missouri State University. His primary fields of study are environmental politics, public administration and policy and federalism. Ellison has taught as either a visiting professor in China, Russia, and Armenia, and as a Senior Fulbright Scholar in Bulgaria.", "date": "2014-04-29", "academic_year": "2013/14", "youtube": "https://youtu.be/4tH_9BygMzg", "record_type": "event", "type": "Text", "format": "record", "original_link": "http://www.uidaho.edu/class/mric/archives/2013-14/understanding-federalism", "object_location": "", "reference_url": "/digital/mric/items/mric2013-14-031.html" }, { "title": "Dancing Hands, Drumming Feet and Soaring Spirit", "presenter": "Barry Bilderback; Samantha Ramsay", "affiliation": "Lionel Hampton School of Music; Family and Consumer Sciences", "description": "Dancing Hands, Drumming Feet, and Soaring Spirits is an overview of the spiritual, cultural, and agricultural practices found during the Ghanaian Ga Homowo (Hooting at Hunger) tradition. This seasonal festival, centered on grains (especially millet) celebrates ancestral history, matriarchal roles, and sustenance. Another theme that defines the festival is the celebration of life for those remaining to experience the festival for yet another year.", "biography": "Barry Bilderbackis an associate professor of music history and ethnomusicology. Since 2007, he has led seven groups to Ghana. Through the USAC program, he taught at the University of Ghana in 2010. He has published peer-reviewed articles about Ghanaian music and culture. His most recent article, “Saving the Music: Tradition, Institution, and Copyright in 21st Century Ghana,” was published in Making Connections: The Journal of Interdisciplinary Approaches to Cultural Diversity. \nSamantha Ramsay is an assistant professor of foods and nutrition. Her research expertise is child feeding and child nutrition, particularly from birth to age 8. She studies children’s eating behaviors, parental feeding practices, children’s nutrient needs, and children’s development of food preferences. For the past two years, she has been studying food and mealtime environments as well as the feeding practices of young children across the world. She joined Dr. Bilderback in Africa in June 2014.", "date": "2015-01-20", "academic_year": "2014/15", "youtube": "https://youtu.be/Cn1OgLDydK8", "record_type": "event", "type": "Text", "format": "record", "original_link": "http://www.uidaho.edu/class/mric/archive/Dancing-Hands-Drumming-Feet", "object_location": "", "reference_url": "/digital/mric/items/mric2014-15-001.html" }, { "title": "High School Journalism in America", "presenter": "Rebecca Tallent", "affiliation": "Journalism and Mass Media", "description": "Prof. Tallent will report on a multi-year research project by the Society of Professional Journalists’ Journalism Education Committee about the state of high school journalism in the United States. The project builds on a historic 1974 survey (”Captive Voices: High School Journalism in America”) and documents changes in high school journalism over the past four decades. The research also examines U.S. Supreme Court decisions that limit student journalism in secondary school. The project found evidence of lack of support for journalism classes and student publications from administrators, teachers, parents, journalism professionals and higher education journalism programs. The committee’s findings are reported in a book due for publication this year by New Forums Press: “Still Captive? History, Law and the Teaching of High School Journalism.”", "biography": "Rebecca J. “Becky” Tallent joined the University of Idaho faculty in 2006. She teaches courses in public relations and cultural diversity in the media. She has more than 12 years of experience as an energy, environmental and financial journalist plus an additional 25 years as a public relations specialist, primarily with state government agencies. She earned her Bachelor of Arts in Journalism and her Master of Education in Journalism from the University of Central Oklahoma, and her Doctor of Education in Classroom Teaching/Mass Communications from Oklahoma State University. In 2007-2008, she held a Diversity Leadership Fellowship with the Society of Professional Journalists. She was the coordinator for SPJ’s research on the state of high school journalism, working with 13 other journalism educators nationwide.", "date": "2015-01-27", "academic_year": "2014/15", "youtube": "https://youtu.be/9jft7aInpt0", "record_type": "event", "type": "Text", "format": "record", "original_link": "http://www.uidaho.edu/class/mric/archive/High-School-Journalism-in-America", "object_location": "", "reference_url": "/digital/mric/items/mric2014-15-002.html" }, { "title": "Legacy Crossing: A Town/Gown Community Vision", "presenter": "D. Nels Reese", "affiliation": "Architecture", "description": "As early as 1908, the Olmsted Brothers advised the University of Idaho to move closer to and become a part of the city of Moscow. Cost and the regional railroad yard were often impediments to this town-gown relationship. Recent railroad abandonments have now made this vision more attainable. During the last 20 years, students of the College of Art and Architecture, developers and city planning offices have grown to see the potential of this once industrial site. Incisive student work in 2007 (illustrated above), supported by the city’s planning efforts, have turned this one-time industrial area into a grand dream and potential for city and university. This presentation will illustrate both the potential of this site as well as the useful ways in which students of the academy and real-life planning can mesh in productive ways.", "biography": "D. Nels Reese taught in the UI’s Department of Architecture from 1987 to 2008. His academic work was focused on urban planning and architectural design. Previous to his teaching role, Reese served as director of Facility Planning at the university for seven years. Along with urban planning, he taught architectural graphics, history of American architecture, and American Studies. Reese received his master’s degree in urban planning from the City College of New York, where he studied with Jonathan Barnett, a noted professor of urban design. In 1992-93, Reese worked on the Bronx Center Project, which was published and shown in the national exhibition, “Urban Revisions for the Public Realm.” He also studied urban models based on the neighborhoods of New York City and led a number of study-related field trips to the Big Apple. Reese has been a member of the Moscow Planning and Zoning Commission for 18 years and concurrently serves on the Moscow Historic Preservation Commission, where he was chair for four years.", "date": "2015-02-03", "academic_year": "2014/15", "youtube": "https://youtu.be/9Pyk4bEi1Pg", "record_type": "event", "type": "Text", "format": "record", "original_link": "http://www.uidaho.edu/class/mric/archive/Legacy-Crossing", "object_location": "", "reference_url": "/digital/mric/items/mric2014-15-003.html" }, { "title": "Love and Happiness", "presenter": "Tom Drake", "affiliation": "English", "description": "Tom Drake set out to design an interdisciplinary course built around what students think about more than anything else: themselves. He wanted a class that would be both immediately valuable to them, serving their current interests, needs and desires, while simultaneously serving them throughout the entirety of their lives, regardless of their careers or life paths. Based on these criteria, he decided on a course addressing the most fundamental questions we all ask: What is love? What is happiness? How I can love and be loved? Will loving make me happy? Now in its fourth year, the course looks at what various religious, philosophical and literary traditions and sources, as well as contemporary scientific approaches and research, have to say about these questions. Ideally, the course provides students an opportunity to learn about great intellectual movements while looking into their own most intimate desires, hopes and fears.", "biography": "Tom Drake has been teaching writing, critical thinking and literature courses at the University of Idaho since 1994. Whether exploring political philosophy in literature or the nature of true love and happiness, his courses focus on making often abstract and difficult intellectual concepts accessible, relevant and applicable to all of his students.", "date": "2015-02-17", "academic_year": "2014/15", "youtube": "https://youtu.be/1-qs_SeVJC4", "record_type": "event", "type": "Text", "format": "record", "original_link": "http://www.uidaho.edu/class/mric/archive/Love-and-Happiness", "object_location": "", "reference_url": "/digital/mric/items/mric2014-15-004.html" }, { "title": "On Stage with a Jazz Combo", "presenter": "Alan Gemberling; Dan Bukvich; Brian Ward; Dave Bjur; Vanessa Sielert; Vern Sielert", "affiliation": "Lionel Hampton School of Music", "description": "Have you ever wondered what goes on inside a jazz ensemble? This presentation will put the audience on stage to observe and listen to the improvisation process that is at the heart of jazz.  Members of the Palouse Jazz Project will explain their roles in laying down a beat, providing accompaniment, and offering a personalized interpretation of the rhythms, chords and melodic line. This session is intended to prepare audiences for the 2015 Lionel Hampton Jazz Festival, which begins Feb. 25.", "biography": "The Palouse Jazz Project performs original jazz compositions and arrangements. Established in 2006, the PJP is a dynamic sextet that performs around the Northwest. The group specializes in standard jazz repertoire and original compositions. Each member of the ensemble also serves on the faculty of the Lionel Hampton School of Music. Members are (above from left): Alan Gemberling, trombone; Dan Bukvich, percussion; Brian Ward, piano; Dave Bjur, bass; Vanessa Sielert, saxophones, and Vern Sielert, trumpet and flugelhorn.", "date": "2015-02-24", "academic_year": "2014/15", "youtube": "https://youtu.be/9_BZSQlR-oM", "record_type": "event", "type": "Text", "format": "record", "original_link": "http://www.uidaho.edu/class/mric/archive/On-Stage-with-a-Jazz-Combo", "object_location": "", "reference_url": "/digital/mric/items/mric2014-15-005.html" }, { "title": "Cross-Disciplinary Research in the REACCH Project: A Longitudinal Survey of Wheat Growers", "presenter": "Kathleen Painter", "affiliation": "Agricultural Economics and Rural Sociology", "description": "What motivates farmers to apply research findings to their farming practices? How do they take in new information? How are they coping with climate change? A long-term study led by agricultural economist Kathleen Painter tracks individual farmers’ attitudes and practices as they grow wheat and other crops while working to protect the environment and the sustainability of their operations. Working with Painter, Hilary Davis, a recent MS graduate, conducted interviews with 47 wheat growers. The interviews are now in their fourth and final year. This study is part of the USDA-funded Regional Approaches to Climate Change in Pacific Northwest Agriculture (REACCH-PNA) project. REACCH-PNA brings together researchers from agronomy, hydrology, entomology, climatology, sociology, economics and education to study climate change in this region.", "biography": "Kathleen Painter is an agricultural economist at the University of Idaho, where she creates crop and livestock budgets for the state of Idaho as well as providing economic analyses as a member of multidisciplinary state and regional research projects. She also teaches farm management and enterprise budget development at the University of Idaho. Her current research projects include analyzing organic dryland wheat production for the Inland Pacific Northwest, as well as the longitudinal survey described above. She holds bachelor’s, master’s and doctoral degrees from Washington State University.", "date": "2015-03-03", "academic_year": "2014/15", "youtube": "https://youtu.be/MU0yp0xNzfU", "record_type": "event", "type": "Text", "format": "record", "original_link": "http://www.uidaho.edu/class/mric/archive/Wheat-Grower-Survey", "object_location": "", "reference_url": "/digital/mric/items/mric2014-15-006.html" }, { "title": "The Early Years of Academic Computing", "presenter": "William Y. Arms", "affiliation": "Cornell University; Phi Beta Kappa", "description": "The past 50 years have seen computing move from a fringe activity in universities to a central part of academic life. Today's university students never knew a world without personal computers, networks, email and the World Wide Web. Nowadays, the computers and software used at universities are commercial products, but this was not always the case. For 30 years, academic computing diverged from the mainstream. Universities built and operated their own state-of-the-art systems, leading the development of timesharing and local area (campus) networks. As a student, faculty member, and administrator Prof. Arms lived through many of these developments. For 17 years, he was in charge of computing at two leading universities, Dartmouth College and Carnegie Mellon. This talk tells the story.", "biography": "William Arms is professor emeritus of computing and information science at Cornell University in Ithaca, N.Y. Throughout his career, he has been a leader in implementing innovative computing in higher education, including educational computing, computer networks, and digital libraries. Earlier in his career, he was a faculty member at the British Open University, the pioneer of distance education. Prof. Arms has been influential in shaping the National Science Foundation’s digital library programs, including the Digital Libraries Initiative and the National Science Digital Library. His recent research has centered on the Cornell Web Lab, a large-scale project to analyze historic collections from the web. He holds a bachelor’s degree from Balliol College at Oxford University, a master’s degree from the London School of Economics and a doctorate from the University of Sussex, all in the United Kingdom. Prof. Arms’ father, Henry Shull, graduated from the University of Idaho in 1936 and was a Rhodes Scholar at Oxford that year. Prof. Arms also will present a public lecture, “Academic Libraries in the Digital Age,” at 7 p.m. Monday, March 30, in the courtroom of the Menard Law Building, 711 S. Rayburn St. For more details on Arms' visit and events, please click here.", "date": "2015-03-31", "academic_year": "2014/15", "youtube": "https://youtu.be/fhu4t8UMsw8", "record_type": "event", "type": "Text", "format": "record", "original_link": "http://www.uidaho.edu/class/mric/archive/Early-Years-of-Academic-Computing", "object_location": "", "reference_url": "/digital/mric/items/mric2014-15-007.html" }, { "title": "Global Pandemics and Cross-Border Medical Emergencies", "presenter": "Patricia Carrick", "affiliation": "Doctors Without Borders/Medecins Sans Frontieres (MSF)", "description": "This presentation was part of the 2015 Borah Symposium, sponsored by the Borah Foundation.", "biography": "Patricia Carrick comes from a ranching family in rural, southwestern Montana, where she works as a Family Nurse Practitioner in public health. After her daughter went to college and her mother no longer needed her, she began to work intermittently with MSF. Her first assignment was in Malawi on a large HIV project. Later, she worked on two different malnutrition projects in South Sudan, both near the contested Abyei region of northern South Sudan: one was hospital-based and one involved outreach clinics. Her assignments in Sierra Leone, near the Guinea/Liberia borders in September-October 2014 and again in January-February 2015, constitute her first experience with Ebola.", "date": "2015-04-07", "academic_year": "2014/15", "youtube": "https://youtu.be/dkV5vk8CyiY", "record_type": "event", "type": "Text", "format": "record", "original_link": "http://www.uidaho.edu/class/mric/archive/Global-Pandemics-Cross-Border-Emergencies", "object_location": "", "reference_url": "/digital/mric/items/mric2014-15-008.html" }, { "title": "One Health, One World: Let's Talk", "presenter": "Nancy Chaney; Suzanne Kurtz", "affiliation": "College of Veterinary Medicine; Washington State University; One Health Advisory Board", "description": "One Health is a concept that integrates human, animal, and environmental health. Recognizing that the health of each part of this triad is inextricably linked to the others, proponents include the American Medical Association, American Veterinary Medical Association, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the National Environmental Health Association. Complex health-related issues like climate change, food production, chemical resistance, disease transmission, environmental contamination, land use, and regulatory decisions have dire consequences that require effective communication among experts in multiple disciplines, policymakers, and the lay public. This presentation is intended to enhance awareness of One Health and to inspire efforts toward improving interdisciplinary communication and collaboration that are essential as we respond to local, national and global health challenges.", "biography": "Nancy Chaney is a member of the international One Health Advisory Board. She previously worked as a registered nurse and holds a master’s degree in environmental science from the University of Idaho. She served two terms as mayor of Moscow, and was elected to state and national policymaking positions. She and her husband, a veterinarian and professor emeritus of veterinary medicine at Washington State University, co-own a specialty veterinary business in Moscow. \nSuzanne Kurtz, Ph.D., is a clinical professor in WSU’s College of Veterinary Medicine, where she was founding director of the Clinical Communication Program. She is professor emerita of the University of Calgary (Canada). Focusing on improving communication in human and veterinary medicine, she continues to consult nationally and internationally and has worked with physicians, veterinarians, allied health professionals, students and residents, medical and veterinary faculties, government agencies, and professional organizations across the medical and veterinary specialties.", "date": "2015-04-28", "academic_year": "2014/15", "youtube": "https://youtu.be/kXIsYo_iFfE", "record_type": "event", "type": "Text", "format": "record", "original_link": "http://www.uidaho.edu/class/mric/archive/One-Health-One-World-Lets-Talk", "object_location": "", "reference_url": "/digital/mric/items/mric2014-15-009.html" }, { "title": "Studying Idaho's Archaeological Heritage", "presenter": "Stacy Camp", "affiliation": "Sociology and Anthropology; Bowers Laboratory of Anthropology", "description": "The Bowers Laboratory of Anthropology was founded to give students the opportunity to practice anthropology and archaeology in a controlled environment before entering the professional community. These roles continue to be the main focus of the laboratory today, with students collaborating with faculty on a variety of projects, ranging from artifact analysis and conservation to archival research. This tour will show some of the artifacts found through an archaeological examination of Idaho's World War II Japanese internment camp near Kooskia, as well as the Asian American Comparative Collection.", "biography": "Stacey Camp is a historical archaeologist who specializes in the archaeology of the late 19th and early 20th Century western United States. Her current research interests include the archaeology of race, racialization, and social inequality, virtual/digital archaeology and online learning pedagogy, the archaeology of institutional confinement, heritage tourism and leisure studies, Americanization campaigns aimed at immigrant populations, and archaeological applications of GIS. A University of Idaho faculty member since 2008, she earned a B.A. in Anthropology and English & Comparative Literary Studies at Occidental College and a Ph.D. in Social and Cultural Anthropology from Stanford University.", "date": "2015-05-05", "academic_year": "2014/15", "youtube": "https://youtu.be/bzx2tJvkPyI", "record_type": "event", "type": "Text", "format": "record", "original_link": "http://www.uidaho.edu/class/mric/archive/Studying-Idahos-Archaeological-Heritage", "object_location": "", "reference_url": "/digital/mric/items/mric2014-15-010.html" }, { "title": "Boys in the Woods: The CCC and idaho Forests Digital Archive and Research Portal", "presenter": "Patricia Hart; Devin Becker; Ivar Nelson", "affiliation": "Journalism and Mass Media; Library", "description": "The Civilian Conservation Corps was the first, most far-reaching, longest-lived and best-loved of the New Deal programs in a decade full of big ideas and supersized projects. The CCC remains an outstanding example of how the United States acted in time of national crisis to mitigate the catastrophic effects of economic collapse for ordinary people while producing a legacy of public benefit for all. This presentation, however, reconsiders the CCC in fresh perspective and places Idaho—specifically the CCC in Idaho forests—at the very heart of contemporary issues regarding conservation, fire ecology and resource management. Essential to the research of this project is the digitizing of thousands of photographs and documents by the University of Idaho Library Digital Initiatives, and the process of making those available to the public and scholars.", "biography": "Patricia Hart is a social and cultural historian with a focus on change in times of national crisis and the role of media in that process. Her most recent book, A Home for Every Child (University of Washington Press), addresses the 19th century origins and practice of non-relative adoption in the United States. Previous books include the edited Women Writing Women (University of Nebraska Press) and, with Ivar Nelson, Mining Town: The Photographic Collection of T.N. Barnard and Nellie Stockbridge (University of Washington Press). Ivar Nelson was born on the Mississippi River in Keokuk, Iowa; grew up in St. Louis; studied at Harvard and Uppsala University (Sweden); volunteered for the Peace Corps in Kenya and worked for the State Department. He founded BookPeople of Moscow and is delighted that it continues after 40 years under its present new ownership. A book publisher, he directed the University of Idaho Press and Eastern Washington University Press. With Patricia Hart he is the author of Mining Town. He volunteers his time when not working on the CCC project working with the Kenworthy Performing Arts Centre, Palouse Pathways and the Latah County Library Board. Devin Becker was born and raised in Fort Wayne, Ind.. He works as the digital initiatives librarian at the University of Idaho Library, maintaining and designing the library’s digital collections and website. His work has been published in American Archivist, Cutbank, Faultline, Microform and Digitization Review, Prairie Schooner, and other journals. His first book of poetry, Shame | Shame, was selected as the winner of the 2014 A. Poulin Jr. Poetry Prize and will be published by BOA Editions, Ltd. in April 2015.", "date": "2014-12-09", "academic_year": "2014/15", "youtube": "https://youtu.be/h8Ztk7m06tg", "record_type": "event", "type": "Text", "format": "record", "original_link": "http://www.uidaho.edu/class/mric/archives/Fall-2014/Boys-in-the-Woods", "object_location": "", "reference_url": "/digital/mric/items/mric2014-15-011.html" }, { "title": "Burmese Buddhist Attacks on Muslims", "presenter": "Nick Gier", "affiliation": "Philosophy", "description": "For centuries, Burmese Buddhists lived in relative harmony with the Muslims among them. All of this changed during British colonial times, when Indian administrators replaced an efficient Burmese civil service and thousands of Indian laborers were brought in to work in the rice fields and on the docks. Christian missionaries also introduced the idea of a pure religion, and a Buddhist fundamentalism arose. The Venerable Ashin Wirathu, abbot of one of Burma’s largest monasteries, has been preaching incendiary sermons against the Burma’s Muslim minority. Wirathu is calling for a boycott of Muslim businesses and a ban on interfaith marriages to preserve “racial purity.” Wirathu has inspired armed Buddhists to kill Muslims and burn their businesses and mosques.", "biography": "Nick Gier taught in the UI Philosophy Department from 1972 to 2003. He was coordinator of Religious Studies from 1980 to 2003 and a senior fellow in the Martin Institute for Peace Studies and Conflict Resolution from 1990 to 2000. He has published five books and more than 50 journal articles and book chapters. His fourth book, The Virtue of Non-Violence: from Gautama to Gandhi , was published by SUNY Press in 2004. The presentation is taken from chapter four of Gier’s new book, The Origins of Religious Violence: An Asian Perspective, published by Lexington Books.", "date": "2014-09-23", "academic_year": "2014/15", "youtube": "https://youtu.be/9dydBc45n50", "record_type": "event", "type": "Text", "format": "record", "original_link": "http://www.uidaho.edu/class/mric/archives/Fall-2014/Burmese-Buddhist-Attacks-on-Muslims", "object_location": "", "reference_url": "/digital/mric/items/mric2014-15-012.html" }, { "title": "Modeling Opinion Dynamics about climate Change", "presenter": "Bert Baumgaertner", "affiliation": "Philosophy", "description": "Effective strategies for stimulating social change depend on an understanding of the processes that govern how opinions shift in a population. In the case of global warming, current opinions are probably shifting too slowly for there to be any real deceleration of climate change, in spite of mounting evidence and the efforts of many eloquent people. One possible explanation for this is a tension between local and global exchanges of opinion. To investigate this possibility, Prof. Baumgaertner developed a model to help us understand how various factors at the individual level contribute to opinion dynamics at the population level, particularly with respect to local interactions. This research also focuses on the time scale on which our simulated populations shift their opinion. This is important for understanding whether the world population can change enough of its opinions in a short amount of time to avert catastrophic effects of climate change.", "biography": "Bert Baumgaertner is an assistant professor in the Department of Philosophy in the College of Letters, Arts and Social Sciences. He also serves as a faculty member in the bioinformatics and computational biology program. He received his Ph.D. from University of California, Davis. During his doctoral work he was an intern in the computer science department at Rutgers University, and also held a research fellowship at the Institute for Logic, Language, and Computation at the University of Amsterdam. His research focuses on applying computer models to philosophically informed issues.", "date": "2014-11-04", "academic_year": "2014/15", "youtube": "https://youtu.be/DDlla_hG62U", "record_type": "event", "type": "Text", "format": "record", "original_link": "http://www.uidaho.edu/class/mric/archives/Fall-2014/Climate-Change", "object_location": "", "reference_url": "/digital/mric/items/mric2014-15-013.html" }, { "title": "Fighting the odds: Idaho Senator Frank Church", "presenter": "Rod Gramer", "affiliation": "Journalism and Mass Media; History", "description": "Four-term Sen. Frank Church was one of the leading figures in Idaho’s first century and would make any short list of the most important U.S. senators of the past 50 years. From advocating for wilderness areas to opposing the Vietnam War to investigating the CIA, Church was a leader on a host of difficult issues – and he did so representing a state where his views were not always in the majority. In his political career and personal life, he fought the odds until his untimely death in 1984. This presentation, by one of the authors of the authoritative biography of Church, will look back at Church’s life and legacy 30 years after his death.", "biography": "Rod Gramer is president of Idaho Business for Education, a business group dedicated to improving the state’s education system. Gramer spent 38 years as a reporter, newspaper editor and television executive. He worked for The Idaho Statesman for 14 years, serving as political editor and editorial page editor. He then spent 10 years as executive news director at KTVB-TV, Boise. He was also executive news director at KGW-TV in Portland and most recently served as general manager of Bay News 9 in Tampa Bay, Florida. An Idaho native, Gramer earned a bachelor’s degree in journalism and history from the University of Idaho, where he was editor of the Argonaut. He is the co-author of Fighting the Odds: The Life of Senator Frank Church, recently reissued by Ridenbaugh Press.” He recently published a political thriller called “The Good Assassin.” Rod and his wife, Julie, also a UI graduate, have two children. They live in Boise.", "date": "2014-10-28", "academic_year": "2014/15", "youtube": "https://youtu.be/L53I2-TaTbw", "record_type": "event", "type": "Text", "format": "record", "original_link": "http://www.uidaho.edu/class/mric/archives/Fall-2014/Fighting-the-odds-Frank-Church", "object_location": "", "reference_url": "/digital/mric/items/mric2014-15-014.html" }, { "title": "Discovering Geckos' Sticky Secrets", "presenter": "Travis Hagey", "affiliation": "Biological Sciences", "description": "For hundreds of years, scientists have been intrigued by the question of why animals are shaped the way they are. Studies of ecological morphology (the relationship between an organism’s form, function, and environment) bridge multiple disciplines, including biomechanics, ecology, phylogenetics, and comparative methods. As part of his doctoral degree, Travis Hagey gathered data and tested hypotheses considering links between morphology, performance, and ecology, focusing on the adhesive abilities of geckos. Geckos are an understudied, diverse group of lizards, well known for their adhesive toe pads. Hagey proposes that geckos are an excellent interdisciplinary study system due to the breadth of morphological, performance, and ecological variation across species, the presence of many recent phylogenetic hypotheses detailing evolutionary relationships among gecko species, and the fascinating characteristics inherent in the gecko adhesive system.", "biography": "Growing up camping, helping his father rebuild classic cars and playing with Legos, Travis Hagey acquired an interest in biology and engineering early in life. Prior to high school, He was convinced he wanted to be a paleontologist. In college, his interests transitioned to evolutionary biology, leading him to complete B.S. in cellular biology from Western Washington University. As an undergraduate, Hagey completed a lizard ecology field course taught by Dr. Roger Anderson. This course set him on a herpetological research trajectory that led to his Ph.D. adviser at the University of Idaho, Dr. Luke Harmon. During graduate school, the novel adhesive system of geckos became Travis’s main research topic, incorporating biomechanics, evolution, and ecology. To fund his postdoctoral research, Travis collaborated with Dr. Matt Riley in the UI’s Mechanical Engineering department, receiving funding from the BEACON Center for the Study of Evolution in Action.", "date": "2014-09-30", "academic_year": "2014/15", "youtube": "https://youtu.be/uzmXxp_tjj8", "record_type": "event", "type": "Text", "format": "record", "original_link": "http://www.uidaho.edu/class/mric/archives/Fall-2014/Geckos-secrets", "object_location": "", "reference_url": "/digital/mric/items/mric2014-15-015.html" }, { "title": "Growth Challenges Facing the University of Idaho: Past, Present and Future with Implications for Local & Regional Economies", "presenter": "Steven Peterson", "affiliation": "Economics; Office of Research and Economic Development; University Honors Program", "description": "The University of Idaho, Idaho’s oldest university and “Flagship University” is celebrating its 125th anniversary in 2014. The UI has nearly 100,000 alumni, contributes nearly $1 billion to Idaho’s economy and attracts approximately $100 million in total research dollars per year. Yet the UI is in a “helicopter growth pattern” from nearly a decade-long period of very slow growth (if not actual decline) in student enrollments, total research dollars, and state funding. The UI faces special challenges because of its rural and isolated location, residential campus environment, land grant status and historic legacy programs. The UI’s growth challenges may affect its long-term mission in Idaho. It also has implications for the economic and population growth for Moscow and the regional economy.", "biography": "Steven Peterson is a clinical assistant professor of economics at the UI, where he has been employed for 23 years. He has conducted more than 100 economic impact or other related economic studies covering almost every aspect of Idaho’s economy. He has active partnerships across campus, including the Department of Agricultural Economics and Rural Sociology, College of Natural Resources, Office of Community Partnerships, and Agricultural Extension. Peterson has also completed about 20 local (i.e. Palouse region) studies on various aspects of economic growth and business activity. He holds an M.S., Economics, University of Idaho and a B.S., Business Administration, Lewis and Clark State College.", "date": "2014", "academic_year": "2014/15", "youtube": "https://youtu.be/jcIBaHnlJl4", "record_type": "event", "type": "Text", "format": "record", "original_link": "http://www.uidaho.edu/class/mric/archives/Fall-2014/Growth-Challenges-Facing-the-University-of-Idaho", "object_location": "", "reference_url": "/digital/mric/items/mric2014-15-016.html" }, { "title": "How to listen to Bach: preview of Idaho Bach Festival, Oct. 24-25", "presenter": "Michael Murphy", "affiliation": "Music", "description": "The music of Johann Sebastian Bach is acknowledged by professional and amateur musicians alike to be the most profound ever composed. However, the seemingly complex nature of his music can be daunting for many who would like to critically listen to its structure and meaning. This presentation will provide strategies and examples in how to listen and enjoy the music of Johann Sebastian Bach.", "biography": "Michael Murphy is director of choral activities and associate professor of conducting in the Lionel Hampton School of Music. He also serves as the artistic and music director for the Palouse Choral Society and Palouse Festival Orchestra. Dr. Murphy received his degrees from East Carolina University and Florida State University. His dissertation, “Performance Practice of Johann Sebastian Bach’s Passio secundum Johannem – A Study of Twenty-Five years of Recorded History as Influenced by the Historically Informed Performance Movement,” was awarded a grant for dissertation research. Dr. Murphy serves as an active adjudicator and clinician for workshops, festivals, honor choirs, and clinics. His international conducting credits include China, Austria, Germany, and Czech Republic. In 2015, he will travel to Sweden to represent the United States in the American Choral Directors Association's International Conductors Exchange Program (ICEP). He is the founder and co-artistic director of the Idaho Bach Festival, which this year will be Oct. 23-25. For more information, see: http://www.uidaho.edu/class/music/news/bach-festival", "date": "2014-10-14", "academic_year": "2014/15", "youtube": "https://youtu.be/MOAUVxQi6gc", "record_type": "event", "type": "Text", "format": "record", "original_link": "http://www.uidaho.edu/class/mric/archives/Fall-2014/How-to-listen-to-Bach", "object_location": "", "reference_url": "/digital/mric/items/mric2014-15-017.html" }, { "title": "Idaho Water Resources Research Institute at 50: A Half-Century of Issues, Research, and Results", "presenter": "Adam M. Sowards; Brynn Lacabanne", "affiliation": "History; Environmental Science", "description": "This year marks the 50th anniversary of the Idaho Water Resources Research Institute (IWRRI). Designed to research and resolve Idaho’s water resource issues, as well as educate the public about them, IWRRI produced path-breaking research from groundwater issues to wild and scenic rivers designation to reclamation. Although IWRRI’s research tends toward the technical and specific, by scaling outward for a wider view and tracking it over time, the presenters reveal a fascinating history of Idaho’s recent challenges and opportunities related to water.", "biography": "Adam M. Sowards is an environmental historian who focuses on North America, especially the West. His research focuses on conservation history and the intersection of environmental history and history of science. Most recently, he edited Idaho’s Place: A New History of the Gem State (University of Washington Press, 2014). Sowards has been at the University of Idaho since 2003 and has been active in interdisciplinary teaching, research, and service. Brynn M. Lacabanne will graduate in December with an M.S. in Environmental Science with two master’s certificates (Restoration Ecology and Fire Ecology). She also holds an M.S. in Geographic Information Systems (GIS) and currently works for the Idaho Transportation Department's District 3 office as a GIS analyst. She is passionate about using GIS as a tool for education, especially in the context of environmental issues.", "date": "2024-12-02", "academic_year": "2014/15", "youtube": "https://youtu.be/Cb2CZA5xskw", "record_type": "event", "type": "Text", "format": "record", "original_link": "http://www.uidaho.edu/class/mric/archives/Fall-2014/Idaho-Water-Resources", "object_location": "", "reference_url": "/digital/mric/items/mric2014-15-018.html" }, { "title": "Making Sense of the Election: Interpreting the 2014 Results, Looking Ahead to 2016", "presenter": "Don Crowley; Brian Ellison; Christina Cliff; Travis Ridout", "affiliation": "Political Science; Politics, Philosophy and Public Affairs; Washington State University", "description": "With victories in the Nov. 4 elections, Republicans will control the U.S. Senate beginning in January. The party also made gains in the House of Representatives and successfully defended several key governorships. A panel of political scientists will discuss reasons for the Republicans’ strong showing at the polls, as well as implications for governance and foreign policy during the next two years. Panelists will also examine how the 2014 results will influence the 2016 presidential election.", "biography": "Don Crowley is professor emeritus of political science at the University of Idaho and a former director of the Martin School. His research interests include privacy, the Supreme Court, and law and social change. He is the UI’s faculty secretary, a role in which he oversees and supports shared governance of the university. Christina Cliff is a lecturer in political science at the University of Idaho, where she earned her Ph.D. in 2011. She earned a bachelor’s degree from Washington State University and holds two master’s degrees from the American Military University. Her areas of interest include American politics, conflict studies and U.S. foreign policy. Brian Ellison is professor of political science and director of the Martin School at the University of Idaho. He previously served as chair of the Department of Government and Justice Studies at Appalachian State University, as director of the Joint MPA Program at the College of Charleston/University of South Carolina, and as director of the MPA program at Missouri State University. His primary fields of study are environmental politics, public administration and policy, and federalism. Travis Ridout is the Thomas S. Foley Distinguished Professor of Government and Public Policy and associate professor in the School of Politics, Philosophy and Public Affairs at Washington State University. He is co-director of the Wesleyan Media Project, which tracks all political ads aired in the United States. His research interests include political communication, voting, political participation, and elections and campaigns.", "date": "2014-11-11", "academic_year": "2014/15", "youtube": "https://youtu.be/aN0WgI4ETDM", "record_type": "event", "type": "Text", "format": "record", "original_link": "http://www.uidaho.edu/class/mric/archives/Fall-2014/Making-Sense-of-the-Election", "object_location": "", "reference_url": "/digital/mric/items/mric2014-15-019.html" }, { "title": "Advanced Magnetic Separation Nanotechnology for Used Nuclear Fuel Recycling", "presenter": "You Qiang", "affiliation": "Physics", "description": "To meet future energy needs without polluting the environment by ejecting carbon dioxide, nuclear energy is one of the best sources of clean energy. Any process for disposal of used nuclear fuel needs to have minimal impact on the environment. Plutonium and uranium recovery is performed using the PUREX process. However, this comes with certain disadvantages such as the requirement for large quantities of separation reagents and the generation of significant volumes of secondary waste that might increase the threat of proliferation. Magnetic Separation Nanotechnology developed at UI will provide an effective method for used nuclear fuel recycling, as it is a simple, versatile, compact and cost-efficient process that minimizes secondary waste and improves storage performance.", "biography": "You Qiang is an associate professor of physics and adjunct professor in the Environmental Science Program, UI. He received his MS degree in 1985 from the Harbin Institute of Technology, China, and his Ph.D. in 1997 from the University of Freiburg, Germany. Dr. Qiang’s research focuses on nanophysics, nanomagnetism and magnetic nanomaterials. He has studied magnetic nanoparticles and their applications for more than 20 years. Dr. Qiang’s current research interests are: magnetic separation nanotechnology for spent nuclear fuel recycling, nano-sensor for nuclear radiation detection and high- temperature ferromagnetic semiconductor nanomaterials for solar energy and spintronics applications.", "date": "2014-08-26", "academic_year": "2014/15", "record_type": "event", "type": "Text", "format": "record", "original_link": "http://www.uidaho.edu/class/mric/archives/Fall-2014/Nanotechnology", "object_location": "", "reference_url": "/digital/mric/items/mric2014-15-020.html" }, { "title": "What is News Literacy and Why does It Matter?", "presenter": "Steve Smith", "affiliation": "Journalism and Mass Media", "description": "Studies show that young Americans are interested in news but are unlikely to seek it out from traditional (legacy) media such as newspapers or television. In the digital age, students get their news through social media, non-legacy blogs and Internet content providers – and the Daily Show. But much of the material that passes through the digital pipeline is fact-less punditry, false assertion or outright fabrication. News literacy education is designed to help students navigate the digital universe, sorting the true from the false and finding information needed for the exercise of citizenship. Prof. Smith includes a news literacy unit in his Media and Society course, based on a curriculum developed by the News Literacy Institute at Stony Brook University. He advocates a news literacy requirement for all UI students.", "biography": "Steve Smith is a veteran news professional who last served as editor of The Spokesman-Review, the daily newspaper in Spokane. In a 38-year professional career, he was editor of newspapers in Salem, Oregon, and Colorado Springs, Colo., and worked two years as assistant to the vice presidents/news at Knight-Ridder Inc. He is a graduate of Northwestern University’s Newspaper Management Center advanced executive program and a mid-career development program at Duke University. He holds an M.A. in communication from The Ohio State University, where he was a Kiplinger fellow, and a B.S. in journalism from the University of Oregon. Smith has taught in the School of Journalism and Mass Media since 2010.", "date": "2014-10-07", "academic_year": "2014/15", "youtube": "https://youtu.be/MpqWq19ZNgU", "record_type": "event", "type": "Text", "format": "record", "original_link": "http://www.uidaho.edu/class/mric/archives/Fall-2014/News-Literacy", "object_location": "", "reference_url": "/digital/mric/items/mric2014-15-021.html" }, { "title": "Promoting Writing and Critical Thinking in Undergraduate Classrooms", "presenter": "John Bean", "affiliation": "English; Seattle University", "description": "Learning to write in a major field means learning to “think like a professional” in that discipline. Drawing on assignment examples from across the curriculum, this presentation will try to show how short writing assignments focused on authentic disciplinary problems can accelerate students’ growth from novice to expert within a disciplinary field. Using the principle of backward design of the curriculum—often facilitated by faculty-owned assessment—faculty can create assignments that gradually increase in complexity and difficulty. By scaffolding assignments within a course or curriculum, faculty can help novices learn to do undergraduate research-- to pose disciplinary questions, conduct inquiry, write literature reviews that position their work within a conversation, and produce their own idea-rich arguments.", "biography": "John C. Bean is an emeritus professor of English at Seattle University, where he held the title of “Consulting Professor of Writing and Assessment.” He has an undergraduate degree from Stanford (1965) and a Ph.D. from the University of Washington (1972). He is the author of Engaging Ideas: The Professor’s Guide to Writing, Critical Thinking, and Active Learning in the Classroom, 2nd edition (Jossey-Bass, 2011. He has published numerous articles on writing and writing-across-the-curriculum as well as on literary subjects including Shakespeare and Spenser. His current research and writing focus on the development of institutional assessment strategies that promote productive faculty conversations about teaching and learning.", "date": "2014-10-08", "academic_year": "2014/15", "youtube": "https://youtu.be/VixGK93A2kw", "record_type": "event", "type": "Text", "format": "record", "original_link": "http://www.uidaho.edu/class/mric/archives/Fall-2014/Promoting-writing-and-critical-thinking", "object_location": "", "reference_url": "/digital/mric/items/mric2014-15-022.html" }, { "title": "Remembering A. Philip Randolph: Lessons from a Lifetime of Social Activism", "presenter": "Andrew Kersten", "affiliation": "College of Letters, Arts and Social Sciences", "description": "A. Philip Randolph was born in 1889 and died in 1979. Over those 90 years, he established himself as a leading figure in the civil rights and labor movements. Although largely forgotten today, he made many contributions that have continuing influences. As a historian of social and political movements, Prof. Kersten recently has returned to Randolph, focusing on the various ways in which to view his career as well as to understand Randolph’s own words themselves. His talk will focus on Randolph’s historic contributions to American life and history as well as the historical project to recover his words.", "biography": "Andrew E. Kersten is dean of the College of Letters, Arts and Social Sciences. As an undergraduate, he attended the University of Wisconsin-Madison. He did his graduate work at the University of Cincinnati. Among his books are: A. Philip Randolph: A Life in the Vanguard, Clarence Darrow: American Iconoclast, and Reframing Randolph: Labor, Black Freedom, and the Legacies of A. Philip Randolph (with Clarence Lang).", "date": "2014-09-16", "academic_year": "2014/15", "youtube": "https://youtu.be/B0R8XUDruxc", "record_type": "event", "type": "Text", "format": "record", "original_link": "http://www.uidaho.edu/class/mric/archives/Fall-2014/Remembering-A-Philip-Randolph", "object_location": "", "reference_url": "/digital/mric/items/mric2014-15-023.html" }, { "title": "Sustainable Town Development in the Intermountain West", "presenter": "Wendy McClure", "affiliation": "Architecture", "description": "Historic mining towns in the Intermountain West persist along a spectrum that includes virtual ghost towns, towns that have been preserved by deliberate policy or neglect, and towns that are being transformed by unbridled contemporary development. Why did some towns persevere during the mining era and others fail? During the post-mining era, why have some communities been more successful at preserving their historic contexts and adapting them to fit the needs of contemporary economies and culture? What lessons might be learned to help guide sustainable development in small towns?  The presentation and discussion will use representative mining communities throughout the Rocky Mountain West to help address these questions.", "biography": "Wendy McClure is the first woman architecture faculty member at the University of Idaho to earn tenure and promotion and to serve as department chair. In 2011, she received a UI Teaching Excellence Award in recognition of her program to engage students and communities in action-based, service-learning partnerships. During her 27 years at the university, Prof. McClure developed an integrated program for teaching, scholarship and outreach, which targeted the revitalization needs of more than 50 Northwest communities. Through the venues of architectural practice, ongoing scholarship and community activism, she continues to pursue strategies for sustainable community development and revitalization.", "date": "2014-10-21", "academic_year": "2014/15", "youtube": "https://youtu.be/SV81U6mI2Ko", "record_type": "event", "type": "Text", "format": "record", "original_link": "http://www.uidaho.edu/class/mric/archives/Fall-2014/Sustainable-town-development", "object_location": "", "reference_url": "/digital/mric/items/mric2014-15-024.html" }, { "title": "The Guitar from Forest to Concert Hall", "presenter": "James Reid", "affiliation": "Lionel Hampton School of Music", "description": "Before it is heard in a concert hall, a handmade classical guitar is raw wood in a forest. A builder chooses his woods from a seller of tone woods and when a player orders a guitar, a series of decisions are made regarding the selection of woods and many other variables before a concert instrument is produced. This presentation will reveal the decisions made by a performer ordering a hand-made guitar and the relationship that develops between builder and performer. The presentation will conclude with a short performance.", "biography": "Over the past 35 years, James Reid has performed hundreds of times throughout the United States and Canada appearing in concerts for guitar societies, colleges and universities, and for arts councils. Mr. Reid is the founder of the Northwest Guitar Festival and the director of the guitar program at the University of Idaho. He has been a featured artist at numerous festivals, including the Sun Waves Guitar Festival in Miami, the Portland Guitar Festival, Guitar New Orleans, the Guitar and Lute Institute, the Elkhorn Festival, and the Fairbanks Summer Music Festival. In addition, his music has been aired on many public radio and television broadcasts in the West. Mr. Reid has released eight solo recordings most recently Guitarra Americana, which features the premiere recording of Mr. Reid’s composition Homages as well as works by Abel Carlevaro and Gwyneth Walker.", "date": "2014-11-18", "academic_year": "2014/15", "youtube": "https://youtu.be/lLwoH3S96-A", "record_type": "event", "type": "Text", "format": "record", "original_link": "http://www.uidaho.edu/class/mric/archives/Fall-2014/The-guitar-from-forest-to-concert-hall", "object_location": "", "reference_url": "/digital/mric/items/mric2014-15-025.html" }, { "title": "Trends and Expanding Opportunities in Asia", "presenter": "James Moriarty; Lauren Kahea Moriarty", "description": "Ambassadors James and Lauren Moriarty will consider three main topics: Why Asia matters; how Asia is getting more complicated; and, how the United States – including government, nongovernmental organizations, businesses and others – should respond. Mr. Moriarty will focus on trends, while Ms. Moriarty, a former dean of the Asia-Pacific Center for Security Studies, will consider opportunities for collaboration in higher education.", "biography": "James Moriarty was ambassador to Nepal in 2004-2007 and Bangladesh in 2008-2011. In 2002-2004, he was senior director at the National Security Council, where he was responsible for coordinating U.S. policy on East Asia, South Asia and the Pacific.  As deputy director of the State Department’s Office of United Nations (UN) Political Affairs in 1991-93, Moriarty coordinated U.S. policy on UN Security Council issues. Mr. Moriarty will also address “Asia’s Nation States and Other Actors: Opportunities and Challenges for the U.S.,” at 7 p.m. Sept. 10 in the Administration Building Auditorium. Lauren Kahea Moriarty is the former dean of the Asia Pacific Center for Security Studies at the University of Hawai’i, Manoa. Previously, she served as U.S. Ambassador to APEC from 2003 to 2005, becoming the first ambassador of Native Hawaiian descent in U.S. history. She has served as a senior foreign service officer in Nepal; the director of the State Department’s Office of East African Affairs; the Minister-Counselor for Economic Affairs at the U.S. Embassy in Beijing, China; and the Deputy Head at the American Institute in Taiwan.", "date": "2014-09-09", "academic_year": "2014/15", "youtube": "https://youtu.be/K4fAcQrXBss", "record_type": "event", "type": "Text", "format": "record", "original_link": "http://www.uidaho.edu/class/mric/archives/Fall-2014/Trends-and-Expanding-Opportunities-in-Asia", "object_location": "", "reference_url": "/digital/mric/items/mric2014-15-026.html" }, { "title": "What is an Educated Person (2)?", "presenter": "Ryanne Pilgeram", "affiliation": "Sociology", "description": "Eugenics, a philosophical position positing that humans, like wheat on the Palouse, could be engineered through “better” breeding, was taught at the University of Idaho (as well as many other land-grant universities) through at least the 1940s (Glenna, Gollnick, and Jones, 2007)*. This position allowed for the forced sterilization of people deemed “undesirable” and was widely popular until Hitler’s use of eugenics was shown in horrific detail. Using this idea of as a starting point, this talk considers how knowledge is produced and the responsibilities of people to be aware of their particular social position and epistemology. Encouraging learners to dwell in contradictions and be open to others’ worldview, this talk explores the importance of a liberal arts education in creating an educated populace for a healthy democracy.", "biography": "Ryanne Pilgeram is an assistant professor in the Department of Sociology and Anthropology and director of the Certificate in Diversity and Stratification at the University of Idaho. Her research and teaching focuses on social inequalities and environmental sociology. Pilgeram’s work has appeared in a variety of academic journals, most recently Rural Sociology and Environmental Communication: a Journal of Nature and Culture. She is the recipient of the UI’s 2014 Hoffman Award for Teaching Excellence. Pilgeram earned a Ph.D. from the University of Oregon in 2010 and joined the UI faculty that year. * Glenna, L. L., Gollnick, M. A., & Jones, S. S. (2007). “Eugenic Opportunity Structures Teaching Genetic Engineering at US Land-Grant Universities Since 1911.” Social Studies of Science, 37(2), 281-296.", "date": "2014-11-05", "academic_year": "2014/15", "record_type": "event", "type": "Text", "format": "record", "original_link": "http://www.uidaho.edu/class/mric/archives/Fall-2014/What-is-an-Educated-Person-2", "object_location": "", "reference_url": "/digital/mric/items/mric2014-15-027.html" }, { "title": "Brush Up Your Shakespeare! Cymbeline Then and Now", "presenter": "Stephan Flores; Matt Foss", "affiliation": "English; Theatre Arts", "description": "The presenters shall tag-team to talk about genre, gender, nationalism and performance in Shakespeare’s Cymbeline, which opens April 30 at the Hartung Theatre. Rather than say more or too much about Cymbeline, perhaps your interest in our presentation and in the performance can be coaxed with Marjorie Garber’s comments on the play: “Part history, part romance, part revenge tragedy, and part satire, incorporating pastoral themes and lyric songs of an unusual beauty, Cymbeline, King of Britain is a curious play, presenting one of Shakespeare’s most complicated and hard-to-summarize plots. ... There is nothing wrong with calling Cymbeline an experiment, unless by that we mean to undercut its standing as a play worth reading, staging, remembering, and discussing. For this is a play that tackles, and to a large extent solves, an intriguing set of problems about the relationship between political stories and psychological stories, between the sate or polity and the subject, and between the political fiction and the dream.” (Shakespeare After All)", "biography": "Stephan Flores specializes in British literature. He teaches a range of courses from the survey of early British literature, Shakespeare, Restoration and 18th Century literature, to contemporary British fiction and critical theory, including a new graduate course this semester on theories of trauma and trauma in literature. His published research focuses on the cultural analysis of drama in the long 18th century (1660-1815). His scholarship includes an edition of Orrery's Henry the Fifth (1664) in The Broadview Anthology of Restoration and Early Eighteenth Century Drama. He earned a bachelor’s degree from the University of Oregon and a master’s and doctorate from the University of Michigan. Matt Foss received an MFA in acting from Roosevelt University in Chicago and a Ph.D. in theatre studies and directing from Wayne State University in Detroit. Recent professional credits include Chicago Shakespeare Theatre, Oracle Theatre, Montana Shakespeare in the Parks, American Blues Theatre, the Jewish Ensemble Theatre and Tipping Point Theatre. Dr. Foss also performed and trained in Russia as a part of the American Studio of the Moscow Art Theatre School. In 2012, his production of Six Characters at Iowa State University received the Kennedy Center's American College Theatre Festival's National Award for Outstanding Production of a Play and Outstanding Director of a Play.", "date": "2015-04-21", "academic_year": "2014/15", "youtube": "https://youtu.be/USsdDWuuDJs", "record_type": "event", "type": "Text", "format": "record", "original_link": "http://www.uidaho.edu/class/mric/archive/Brush-Up-Your-Shakespeare", "object_location": "", "reference_url": "/digital/mric/items/mric2014-15-028.html" }, { "title": "Building Bridges Between Engineers and Planners Through Service Learning", "presenter": "Michael Lowry", "affiliation": "Civil Engineering; Bioregional Planning", "description": "Civil engineers and urban planners have overlapping careers, yet they often have vastly different educational background, unique methods for solving problems, and conflicting perspective on pressing issues. This presentation describes past experience at the University of Idaho to bridge the gap between students in engineering and planning. It will discuss the distinct learning style of these students and, in general, the challenges of teaching a diverse audience.", "biography": "Dr. Michael Lowry is an associate professor with a joint appointment in the departments of Civil Engineering and Bioregional Planning. His research focuses on capital investment decision-making and transportation planning for bicyclists and pedestrians. Dr. Lowry teaches courses related to geographic information systems, sustainable transportation, statistics, and economic analysis. He earned bachelor’s and master’s degrees from Brigham Young University and a doctorate from the University of Washington before joining the UI faculty in January 2009.", "date": "2015-04-15", "academic_year": "2014/15", "youtube": "https://youtu.be/mY8LcnEjneQ", "record_type": "event", "type": "Text", "format": "record", "original_link": "http://www.uidaho.edu/class/mric/archive/building-bridges", "object_location": "", "reference_url": "/digital/mric/items/mric2014-15-029.html" }, { "title": "ARCHIPEDIA", "presenter": "Anne Marshall; Phil Mead; Nels Reese; Wendy McClure", "affiliation": "Art & Architecture", "description": "What is revealed about Idaho’s socio-economic and cultural development by interpreting its architecture, both past and present? A team of four UI architecture faculty is pursuing answers to this question, working to complete a contract with the Society of Architectural Historians (SAH) to identify, research and interpret 100 of Idaho’s most representative buildings. Their project is part of SAH Archipedia, an interactive online encyclopedia of American architecture. This presentation will provide an overview of project’s goals and challenges, the process used by the team to determine the Idaho 100 list, and a few examples of work completed to date.", "biography": "Nels Reese and Wendy McClure are professors emeritus of architecture. They both taught urban theory and the history of cities. Phil Mead and Anne Marshall are faculty members in the program in architecture, who currently teach the history of architecture. All four, from a variety of perspectives, incorporate interpretations of Northwest architecture, culture and communities into their scholarship.", "date": "2015-03-24", "academic_year": "2014/15", "youtube": "https://youtu.be/bfGACi3Maps", "record_type": "event", "type": "Text", "format": "record", "original_link": "http://www.uidaho.edu/class/mric/archive/Copy%20of%20ARCHIPEDIA", "object_location": "", "reference_url": "/digital/mric/items/mric2014-15-030.html" }, { "title": "At War with Ernest Hemingway", "presenter": "Ron McFarland", "affiliation": "English", "description": "No major American writer wrote more – and more powerfully – about war than did Ernest Hemingway. In fact, Prof. McFarland writes, “I’d be inclined to make the universal statement, possibly setting aside Tolstoy (as Hemingway himself would likely have done).” This presentation expands on a theme from Prof. McFarland’s recently published book, Appropriating Hemingway, which examines ways in which Ernest Hemingway has been introduced or “appropriated” as an important fictional character in more than 30 novels, several short stories, graphic novels, movies, plays and poems.", "biography": "Ron McFarland has taught literature and creative writing at the University of Idaho since 1970. Although his doctoral dissertation dealt with minor 17th-century British poet Thomas Traherne, he teaches a broad array of courses ranging from 17th-century British poets like Donne and Milton to modern writers like Ernest Hemingway and contemporaries like Cormac McCarthy. In addition, he is an adviser for creative writing track majors in English and serves on committees or directs MA and MFA theses. He helped establish the University of Idaho’s highly regarded literary magazine, Fugue, more than 20 years ago.", "date": "2015-03-10", "academic_year": "2014/15", "youtube": "https://youtu.be/rO7aYWGDidY", "record_type": "event", "type": "Text", "format": "record", "original_link": "http://www.uidaho.edu/class/mric/archive/Copy%20of%20At-War-with-Ernest-Hemingway", "object_location": "", "reference_url": "/digital/mric/items/mric2014-15-031.html" }, { "title": "BRAINS Storming: New Ideas for STEM Education", "presenter": "Patricia Hartzell", "affiliation": "Biological Sciences", "description": "Last year, the Howard Hughes Medical Institute awarded a $1.2 million, five-year grant to the Biosciences Retention and Academic Innovation Network for Students (BRAINS) at the University of Idaho. Its goal is to attract and retaining more students to science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) fields. The BRAINS program has introduced a new curriculum to first-year and sophomore-level laboratory classes, with an initial focus on water-quality issues in Idaho. Prof. Hartzell, who directs the project with co-director Melinda Hamilton, will give an overview of the goals, strategies and student response to the program so far.", "biography": "Patricia “Trish” Hartzell became enthralled with microbes and microbiology as a student in California. After completing her B.S. in microbiology at California State University, Long Beach, she earned a Ph.D. at the University of Illinois. After a post-doctoral fellowship at Stanford University, she spent four years on the faculty at the University of California, Los Angeles. Prof Hartzell came to the University of Idaho in 1994. She was chair of the UI’s Faculty Senate in 2013-2014.", "date": "2015-02-10", "academic_year": "2014/15", "youtube": "https://youtu.be/fb36yYYmMdc", "record_type": "event", "type": "Text", "format": "record", "original_link": "http://www.uidaho.edu/class/mric/archive/Copy%20of%20BRAINS-Storming-New-Ideas-for-STEM-Education", "object_location": "", "reference_url": "/digital/mric/items/mric2014-15-032.html" }, { "title": "Cocaine, Cattle & Conservation: Drivers of Deforestation in Honduras", "presenter": "Spencer Plumb", "affiliation": "Natural Resources and Society", "description": "Within the last ten years, frontier forests of Central America have become a strategic distribution center for drug traffickers transporting cocaine from South America into the United States. While drug trafficking is known to have deleterious societal effects, the relationship between drug trafficking and deforestation in Central America is not well understood. This research investigates the connection between drug trafficking and deforestation in the Rio Platano Biosphere Reserve (RPBR) of Honduras. Remote sensing analyses of Landsat and SPOT images show that deforestation rates have accelerated and the size of deforestation patches have increased in the RPBR in the last ten years. Results from secondary data, key informant interviews and community surveys conducted, indicate that the direct and indirect effects of drug money laundering through cattle ranching are a major driver of tropical deforestation. Under these circumstances, market-based payments from REDD+ (Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and Forest Degradation) for forest conservation are neither politically tenable nor economically powerful enough to stop forest conversion. These results reveal new proximate and underlying drivers of deforestation in the Mesoamerican Biological Corridor. Recommendations for REDD+ include project designs that support local governance and provide development opportunities to stem land-use change driven by lucrative, albeit illegal activities.", "biography": "Spencer Plumb is a program associate for the Southern Rockies with the National Forest Foundation and a Ph.D. candidate in the Natural Resources and Society department in the UI’s College of Natural Resources. His research focuses on the institutional designs and programmatic tools that encourage effective management of ecosystem services. His research has spanned a variety of contexts, including: deforestation in Honduras, freshwater flows in the Columbia Basin and forest restoration on Federal. Plumb holds a bachelor's degree in organization communication from the University of Portland and a master's in environmental science and policy from Northern Arizona University. He is a former Doris Duke Conservation Fellow and National Science Foundation GK-12 Teaching Fellow.", "date": "2015-11-03", "academic_year": "2015/16", "youtube": "https://youtu.be/i-z4VIWN2n4", "record_type": "event", "type": "Text", "format": "record", "original_link": "https://www.uidaho.edu/class/mric/archive/2015-fall/cocaine-cattle-and-conservation", "object_location": "", "reference_url": "/digital/mric/items/mric2015-16-001.html" }, { "title": "In Search of John Mullan, the Northwest's Road Builder", "presenter": "Keith Petersen", "affiliation": "Idaho State Historical Society", "description": "John Mullan’s celebrated road, a 625-mile link that connected the Missouri and Columbia rivers and eventually became a significant component of Interstate 90, established the West Point graduate as an accomplished engineer. Although the road’s significance in settling the Northwest is mentioned in nearly every book about the region, Mullan himself has remained an enigma: A dashing young Army officer who came west and built an important highway, but then disappears from the written record. But Mullan lived to see automobiles traveling his former wagon road. Petersen traveled to repositories from coast to coast in his search for the real John Mullan. This new biography reveals a complex personality who skirted legal and ethical boundaries to gain fame and wealth. Copies of the book will be available for purchase after the talk.", "biography": "Keith Petersen retired earlier this year as the associate director of the Idaho State Historical Society and Idaho’s state historian. Petersen is the author of numerous articles and books on Idaho and the Northwest, including “This Crested Hill: An Illustrated History of the University of Idaho,” “River of Life, Channel of Death: Fish and Dams on the Lower Snake,” and “Company Town: Potlatch, Idaho and the Potlatch Lumber Company.” The first-ever recipient of the Idaho Humanities Council's Award for Outstanding Achievement in the Humanities in 1986, Petersen also received an Honorary Doctorate of Humane Letters from the University of Idaho in 2014.", "date": "2015-11-17", "academic_year": "2015/16", "youtube": "https://youtu.be/9drU4TKsDPo", "record_type": "event", "type": "Text", "format": "record", "original_link": "https://www.uidaho.edu/class/mric/archive/2015-fall/in-search-of-john-mullan", "object_location": "", "reference_url": "/digital/mric/items/mric2015-16-002.html" }, { "title": "Revolutionizing Monitoring Systems to Detect Environmental Change From Data to Actions", "presenter": "Lilian Alessa", "affiliation": "Landscape Architecture; Center for Resilient Rural Communities", "biography": "Lilian Alessa is a professor of resilient landscapes in the Landscape Architecture program and director of the UI’s Center for Resilient Rural Communities. She conducts research on human adaptation to environmental change, funded by the National Science Foundation, including Arctic Observing Network and Dynamics of Coupled Natural Human Systems projects. Canadian-born and raised, Alessa received a bachelor of science in biology and a doctorate in botany and biodiversity from the University of British Columbia. Her expertise is in social-ecological systems science and the development of highly integrated approaches to better understanding complex environmental processes, particularly through the incorporation of place-based knowledge. Alessa is a member of the National Science Foundation’s Advisory Committee for Environmental Research and Education.", "date": "2015-12-01", "academic_year": "2015/16", "youtube": "https://youtu.be/roGSeJNzuvQ", "record_type": "event", "type": "Text", "format": "record", "original_link": "https://www.uidaho.edu/class/mric/archive/2015-fall/from-data-to-actions", "object_location": "", "reference_url": "/digital/mric/items/mric2015-16-003.html" }, { "title": "Evolution and Development of Color Vision in Vertebrates", "presenter": "Deborah Stenkamp", "affiliation": "Biological Sciences", "description": "Color vision in vertebrates requires the existence of multiple types of cone photoreceptors in the retina, each of which has a different sensitivity to the visual spectrum. Spectral sensitivities are conferred by the visual pigment present within cone photoreceptors. In primates and in fishes, the diversity of cone photoreceptor types has been increased through evolutionarily recent duplications of visual pigment genes. In humans, the tandemly duplicated “red pigment” and “green pigment” genes on the X chromosome underlie trichromatic color vision. Defects in these genes result in color blindness and X-linked retinal degenerations. Treatments for some of these disorders would be facilitated by further knowledge of how differential gene expression — the production of a red pigment vs. a green pigment — is regulated in developing cone photoreceptors. Our research group has recently uncovered evidence that the expression of pigments from a similar tandemly replicated red pigment gene array in zebrafish can be regulated by the developmental signaling molecules, retinoic acid, and thyroid hormone. Our findings suggest that tandemly duplicated cone pigment genes may be amenable to therapeutic manipulation.", "biography": "Deborah Stenkamp is a professor of Biological Sciences and the current College of Science Malcolm and Carol Renfrew faculty fellow. She has maintained an NIH-supported research program in development and regeneration of the visual system, at the University of Idaho, since 1997. She earned a bachelor’s degree in biology from Whitman College and a doctorate from Johns Hopkins Medical Institutions.", "date": "2015-12-08", "academic_year": "2015/16", "youtube": "https://youtu.be/1y-lIoyaqUI", "record_type": "event", "type": "Text", "format": "record", "original_link": "https://www.uidaho.edu/class/mric/archive/2015-fall/color-vision-in-vertebrates", "object_location": "", "reference_url": "/digital/mric/items/mric2015-16-004.html" }, { "title": "The Spy Who Wasn’t There: Uncovering the True Past of ‘Atomic Spy’ Arthur Adams", "presenter": "Richard Spence", "affiliation": "History", "description": "In 1935, Soviet military intelligence sent Artur Aleksandrovich Adams on a secret mission in the United States. Over the next decade, working as a technical engineer, Adams recruited and ran a spy ring whose tentacles reached from Washington to Los Alamos. In 1944, he gave Moscow critical information on the American super-secret Manhattan Project. Evading an FBI dragnet, he returned to the U.S.S.R., where he died in 1969, a forgotten man. In fact, Adams’ work for the Soviet “secret services” began as early as 1918. An examination of available records reveals his constant re-invention of himself to disguise his clandestine work and even shows that he was less than honest with his Soviet superiors. Did “Arthur Adams” ever really exist at all, and if he didn’t, who was he?", "biography": "Richard “Rick” Spence is a professor of history. He specializes in Russian, intelligence and military history, and his course offerings include Modern Espionage, Anti-Semitism and the Holocaust, History of Secret Societies and the Occult in History. He earned a bachelor’s degree in history from California State University, Bakersfield and master’s and doctorate degrees from the University of California, Santa Barbara.", "date": "2016-01-19", "academic_year": "2015/16", "record_type": "event", "type": "Text", "format": "record", "original_link": "https://www.uidaho.edu/class/mric/archive/2016-spring/atomic-spy-arthur-adams", "object_location": "", "reference_url": "/digital/mric/items/mric2015-16-005.html" }, { "title": "Water Law Reform in a Changing Climate: Australia and the Western United States", "presenter": "Barbara Cosens", "affiliation": "College of Law", "description": "The presence of water in liquid form is the single most important factor in the search for extraterrestrial life. Here on earth, it has been said that water is the oil of the future. It is not. The fact that water is essential for life and has no substitute means that while its use can be improved and enhanced through technology, careful consideration of socioeconomic factors and governance are of equal importance. Australia and the western United States share both a legal foundation in British common law and climatic conditions of aridity. This suggests that Australia and the western U.S. might learn from each other as each prepares to adapt to the changes in water demand and supply that are beginning to play out at the intersection of climate change and growth in population. Australia was the initial ground for experimentation when it responded to the 15-year Millennium Drought with water reform. California is now ground zero. Because Idaho is the second-largest user of water for irrigated agriculture in the United States, the largest user of water for aquaculture and the most reliant on groundwater for domestic and municipal purposes, it may be able to learn from these experiments. This presentation will discuss why and how we allocate water and what that means for response to drought in Australia and the western United States.", "biography": "Barbara Cosens is a professor in the College of Law and the Waters of the West Graduate Program, which includes options for concurrent J.D./M.S. and J.D./Ph.D. degrees. She teaches Water Law, Water Policy, Law and Science, and a leads a team taught course in Interdisciplinary Methods in Water Resources. Her research interests include the integration of law and science in water resource management and dispute resolution, water management and resilience and the recognition and settlement of Native American water rights. She is co-chair on a project funded through the NSF synthesis center, SESYNC: Adaptive Governance in Regional Water Systems to Manage Resilience in an era of Changing Climate. She is a member of the Universities Consortium on Columbia River Governance. She spent spring 2015 as the Goyder Institute Visiting Professor in Public Sector Policy and Management at Flinders University researching adaptive water governance and water law in South Australia.", "date": "2016-01-26", "academic_year": "2015/16", "record_type": "event", "type": "Text", "format": "record", "original_link": "https://www.uidaho.edu/class/mric/archive/2016-spring/water-law-reporm-in-a-changing-climate", "object_location": "", "reference_url": "/digital/mric/items/mric2015-16-006.html" }, { "title": "Evolutionary Video Games As a Vehicle For Interdisciplinary Education", "presenter": "Barrie Robison; Terry Soule", "affiliation": "Biological Sciences; Computer Science", "description": "Approximately 190 million people in the United States play video games, and the rate of engagement in this form of entertainment is increasing rapidly. Video games are therefore a viable avenue for the large-scale dissemination of educational material. The “gamer” demographic also facilitates broader impacts related to diversity and recruitment in STEM fields. For example, 48 percent of gamers are women and girls, and women over 30 are the single largest demographic sector of video game players. We are working with undergraduate and graduate students from engineering, science and the arts to create evolutionary video games. Our premise is that evolutionary biology can be used to make better video games, because the enemies evolve and adapt to player defensive strategies. Because these games are built upon real models of evolution, they can be used to teach, demonstrate and study evolutionary biology. These projects also allow students to experience the discomfort and rewards of interdisciplinary collaboration and build their communication skills.", "biography": "Barrie Robison is an associate professor of biology. His research is focused on behavioral adaptation to captivity, behavioral genomics and nutritional genomics. He has been a connoisseur of video games since 1977. Terence Soule is a professor of computer science. His research focuses on evolutionary computation, the use of evolutionary models to evolve solutions to practical problems, including the evolution of cooperation.", "date": "2016-02-02", "academic_year": "2015/16", "record_type": "event", "type": "Text", "format": "record", "original_link": "https://www.uidaho.edu/class/mric/archive/2016-spring/evolutionary-video-games-as-a-vehicle-for-interdisciplinary-education", "object_location": "", "reference_url": "/digital/mric/items/mric2015-16-007.html" }, { "title": "Using the Potato to Develop an Interdisciplinary & Interactive Online Youth Education Program", "presenter": "Martha Raidl; Cassidy Hall", "affiliation": "Family and Consumer Sciences; Doceo Center", "description": "Using technology in the classroom has helped students improve their knowledge and critical thinking skills, as well as keep them engaged and interested in a variety of subjects such as math, history, geography and finance. Nationwide, more schools are receiving funding for technology in the classroom. However, many teachers are struggling to find meaningful ways to incorporate these technologies into the classroom. Two Family and Consumer Sciences Extension faculty, Martha Raidl and Rhea Lanting, worked with a College of Education technology specialist, Cassidy Hall, to address this problem by designing a youth online curriculum called “The e-Potato: A multidisciplinary and multimedia program.” It is focused around potatoes, a commonly consumed vegetable, especially by children. Originally designed as a farm-to-school program, as a way to introduce local agriculture into a nutrition program, the “e-Potato” was expanded to be used by students to cover nine disciplines: science, technology, engineering, math, history, geography, health, nutrition and agriculture.", "biography": "Martha Raidl is a professor and extension nutrition education specialist for the School of Family and Consumer Sciences. She has been employed with the University of Idaho since 1998 and is based in Boise. As a registered dietitian, she is interested in developing, testing and evaluating nutrition education materials, targeting those with Type 2 diabetes, and incorporating multimedia into nutrition education programs. Cassidy Hall is the interim director and technology integration specialist for the College of Education’s Doceo Center for Innovation + Learning, as well as a clinical assistant professor of learning technologies in the Department of Curriculum & Instruction. Hall travels throughout the state to provide professional development focused on technology integration to K-12 teachers and leads the Doceo Center efforts in supporting technology integration for faculty on campus.", "date": "2016-02-09", "academic_year": "2015/16", "record_type": "event", "type": "Text", "format": "record", "original_link": "https://www.uidaho.edu/class/mric/archive/2016-spring/using-the-potato-to-develop-an-online-youth-education-program", "object_location": "", "reference_url": "/digital/mric/items/mric2015-16-008.html" }, { "title": "Public (Mis)Understanding of America’s Courts: Whatever Happened to the Rule of Law?", "presenter": "Don Burnett", "affiliation": "College of Law", "description": "When you see or hear a media account of a court decision, you will learn who “won” and “lost” — and the story often will be accompanied by quotes of praise or condemnation from the parties and various interest groups. In a high-profile case, you also may find yourself immersed in punditry about the political implications of the decision or the perceived political leanings of the judge(s). But how much will you learn about the legal principle(s) governing the court’s decision? Has your secondary and post-secondary education prepared you to look for the “rule of law” in reports of court decisions? In today’s environment of hyper-partisanship, how fully do Americans understand (and appreciate) the role of an independent and impartial judiciary as envisioned by the framers of the Constitution? Drawing upon illustrative cases and interdisciplinary scholarship, professor Don Burnett will address these questions.", "biography": "Don Burnett came to the University of Idaho in 2001 as dean of the College of Law. He served in that capacity and as a classroom teacher until 2013, when he was appointed as interim president of the university. In 2014, he returned to the College of Law faculty, teaching classes at the college’s campus in Moscow. In addition, he serves as a program coordinator for the newly established Idaho Law and Justice Learning Center, a collaborative undertaking of the College of Law and the Idaho Supreme Court in Boise. Burnett previously served as professor and dean of the Louis D. Brandeis School of Law at the University of Louisville, as a founding judge of the Idaho Court of Appeals and as president of the Idaho State Bar. An Idaho native, he received his education at Harvard University, the University of Chicago, the University of Virginia and the U.S. Army Command and General Staff College.", "date": "2016-02-16", "academic_year": "2015/16", "record_type": "event", "type": "Text", "format": "record", "original_link": "https://www.uidaho.edu/class/mric/archive/2016-spring/whatever-happened-to-the-rule-of-law", "object_location": "", "reference_url": "/digital/mric/items/mric2015-16-009.html" }, { "title": "On Stage with a Jazz Combo", "presenter": "Alan Gemberling; Dan Bukvich; Vanessa Sielert; Vern Sielert", "affiliation": "Music", "description": "Have you ever wondered what goes on inside a jazz ensemble? This presentation will put the audience on stage to observe and listen to the improvisation process that is at the heart of jazz. Faculty members from the Lionel Hampton School of Music will explain their roles in laying down a beat, providing accompaniment, and offering a personalized interpretation of the rhythms, chords and melodic line. This session is intended to prepare audiences for the 2016 Lionel Hampton Jazz Festival, which begins Feb. 24.", "biography": "Among the faculty members scheduled to participate are: Alan Gemberling, trombone; Dan Bukvich, percussion; Vanessa Sielert, saxophones, and Vern Sielert, trumpet and flugelhorn.", "date": "2016-02-23", "academic_year": "2015/16", "record_type": "event", "type": "Text", "format": "record", "original_link": "https://www.uidaho.edu/class/mric/archive/2016-spring/on-stage-with-a-jazz-combo", "object_location": "", "reference_url": "/digital/mric/items/mric2015-16-010.html" }, { "title": "Constructing a Father’s Memory: Nancy Drew and the Hardy Boys", "presenter": "Joy Passanante", "affiliation": "English", "description": "This presentation will discuss the pleasures, challenges and surprises of writing “Through A Long Absence,” a literary memoir about Joy Passanante’s father, who died of Alzheimer’s disease four years before she began to write about him. Researched through his letters, diaries, taped interviews, paintings, music and the writer’s own memory and imagination — as well as investigations in six European countries, following his wartime footsteps with her husband, Gary Williams — the book tells the story of Bart Passanante, a first-generation American serving in the Army as a doctor overseas during World War II. In addition to describing her process in uncovering and constructing her father’s story, Passanante will read passages from her manuscript.", "biography": "Joy Passanante worked for the University of Idaho until her retirement in 2014, as a teacher of more than 20 different courses as well as an editor, communications consultant and trainer, and writer. For 12 years, she served as the university’s associate director of Creative Writing. She has published three books in addition to poems, essays and stories in various literary journals. Both her collection of stories, “The Art of Absence,” and her novel, “My Mother’s Lovers,” were finalists for several national awards. Her essays have received awards from the prominent literary journal Shenandoah and from the Magazine Association of the Southeast. She has garnered Idaho Commission on the Arts Fellowships for poetry and fiction and an Idaho Humanities Fellowship for nonfiction. She recently completed her first book of literary nonfiction.", "date": "2016-03-01", "academic_year": "2015/16", "record_type": "event", "type": "Text", "format": "record", "original_link": "https://www.uidaho.edu/class/mric/archive/2016-spring/constructing-a-fathers-memory", "object_location": "", "reference_url": "/digital/mric/items/mric2015-16-011.html" }, { "title": "Artistic Chemist or Creative Chef? | The Evolution of Personal & Professional Identity in an Interdisciplinary World", "presenter": "Lee Vierling", "affiliation": "Natural Resources and Society", "description": "A basketball player? A guitarist? A scientist? If you had asked your 6th-grade self to describe who you were — to explain your identity — how would you have responded? And what is your reply to that same question today? How we view ourselves, and how those views and descriptions change over time and with different audiences, set the stage for achieving our own potential as professionals and as people. During this colloquium, Lee Vierling will share his experiences working across a wide range of professional disciplines to solve problems, and use these experiences to discuss recent work by colleagues at the College of Natural Resources’ McCall Outdoor Science School (MOSS) to study how young learners develop their own sense of identity by practicing science. We will engage in a group exercise to understand how our own identities are shaped by those around us, and how this affects our ability to work as individuals and in teams.", "biography": "Lee Vierling arrived at University of Idaho in 2004 after stints working at the National Center for Atmospheric Research, NASA and the South Dakota School of Mines and Technology. He now serves as executive director of the UI-CNR McCall Field Campus and MOSS. He is professor and incoming department head of the interdisciplinary Department of Natural Resources and Society. He has published more than 90 scientific articles, mostly interdisciplinary in nature. In 6th grade, he wanted to become a race car driver. However, when asked to describe himself now, Vierling identifies as an ecologist, environmental scientist, remote sensing scientist, sports fan, singer and father, depending on who is asking.", "date": "2016-03-08", "academic_year": "2015/16", "record_type": "event", "type": "Text", "format": "record", "original_link": "https://www.uidaho.edu/class/mric/archive/2016-spring/artistic-chemist-or-creative-chef", "object_location": "", "reference_url": "/digital/mric/items/mric2015-16-012.html" }, { "title": "A Pedagogical Model for Team-based Interdisciplinary Doctoral Education", "presenter": "Nilsa A. Bosque-Pérez", "affiliation": "Plant, Soil, and Entomological Sciences", "description": "Interdisciplinary efforts are critical to address the complex problems our society faces. This talk will highlight a model for educating doctoral students for careers involving interdisciplinary, team-based research created as part of two National Science Foundation Integrative Graduate Research and Education Traineeship (NSF-IGERT) projects. The educational model was developed by faculty at the University of Idaho and the Tropical Agricultural Research and Higher Education Center (CATIE) in Costa Rica. The model involves: Identification of integrated research questions combining team members’ disciplines; Coursework to review theoretical underpinnings of interdisciplinarity and develop integrated research proposals to address research questions; Meetings and workshops to enhance team cohesiveness; Engagement with stakeholders; Interdisciplinary team research that yields joint dissertation chapters and publications. The model achieved a level of integration unique among graduate education programs. More than 40 doctoral students have participated over the past 15 years. Using examples from IGERT projects, the talk will emphasize the importance of interdisciplinary team research and training for graduate students.", "biography": "Nilsa Bosque-Pérez obtained her B.Sc. in agronomy and soil science from the University of Puerto Rico, Mayagüez, and her M.S. and Ph.D. in entomology at the University of California, Davis. A UI faculty member since 1997, she serves as project director and student mentor in the UI-CATIE NSF-IGERT project “Evaluating resilience of ecological and social systems in changing landscapes.” She previously served as Director of the IGERT project “Ecosystem management in tropical and temperate regions: integrating education in sustainable production and biodiversity conservation” (2001-2008). Her many awards include the UI’s Award for Excellence in Interdisciplinary or Collaborative Efforts.", "date": "2015-10-20", "academic_year": "2015/16", "youtube": "https://youtu.be/ZSi8Tlinu_A", "record_type": "event", "type": "Text", "format": "record", "original_link": "https://www.uidaho.edu/class/mric/archive/2015-fall/a-pedagogical-model-for-team-based-interdisciplinary-doctoral-education", "object_location": "", "reference_url": "/digital/mric/items/mric2015-16-013.html" }, { "title": "Everyday Lives of Extraordinary Divas", "presenter": "Carol Padgham Albrecht", "affiliation": "Lionel Hampton School of Music", "description": "What happens behind the scenes in an opera star's life? This presentation will demonstrate how genealogical and court documents from Viennese church and state archives provide a realistic view of how two prominent court opera singers, Irene Tomeoni (ca. 1763-1830) and Theresia Saal (1782-1855), negotiated their professional and personal lives. The results are not quite what one would expect — equal pay for equal work, paid maternity leave, retirement planning through real estate investment — leading us to challenge assumptions that women had no financial or legal power in patriarchal 19th-century Vienna.", "biography": "Carol Padgham Albrecht is an associate professor of music history and oboe in the Lionel Hampton School of Music. In addition to the oboe studio, she teaches courses in music history from A.D. 900 to 1900, with a particular emphasis on the music and culture of Viennese classicism. A UI faculty member since 1989, Albrecht has conducted archival work in Vienna every summer since 1998, and has written numerous papers and articles about the imperial court opera establishment there.", "date": "2015-09-08", "academic_year": "2015/16", "youtube": "https://youtu.be/RcMNBSgq-to", "record_type": "event", "type": "Text", "format": "record", "original_link": "http://www.uidaho.edu/class/mric/calendar/everyday-lives-of-extraordinary-divas", "object_location": "", "reference_url": "/digital/mric/items/mric2015-16-014.html" }, { "title": "The Evolution of Active Learning", "presenter": "Cassidy Hall", "affiliation": "College of Education; Doceo Center", "description": "While the Classroom Strategic Planning Workgroup was noticing an increased demand for both classroom technology and flexible spaces with moveable furniture, the Doceo Center for Innovation + Learning was experiencing a demand for its lab space by faculty seeking to innovate their active learning style courses. A collaborative effort between the two groups was born to attempt to make these spaces a reality on campus. The new College of Education building will fulfill a need for both types of spaces when it reopens in the fall of 2016. This presentation will describe the formation of an Active Learning Discussion Circle and how the planning of these spaces evolved.", "biography": "Cassidy Hall is the interim director and technology integration specialist for the College of Education’s Doceo Center for Innovation + Learning, as well as a clinical assistant professor of learning technologies in the Department of Curriculum & Instruction. Hall travels throughout the state to provide professional development focused on technology integration to K-12 teachers and leads the Doceo Center’s efforts to supporting technology integration for on-campus faculty. After earning a bachelor’s degree in broadcast journalism from West Virginia University, she pursued teaching certification and taught high school English for nine years. Hall received a Master’s of Education in School Library and Information Technologies from Mansfield University in Pennsylvania. * The Doceo Center is located on the “O” level (basement) of the Bruce M. Pitman Center, near the student computer lab.", "date": "2015-10-06", "academic_year": "2015/16", "youtube": "https://youtu.be/A9b1fgV4VCo", "record_type": "event", "type": "Text", "format": "record", "original_link": "http://www.uidaho.edu/class/mric/calendar/evolution-of-active-learning", "object_location": "", "reference_url": "/digital/mric/items/mric2015-16-015.html" }, { "title": "Ernest Hemingway and the Spanish Civil War", "presenter": "Dale Graden", "affiliation": "History", "description": "Next year will mark 80 years since the outbreak in 1936 of Spain’s Civil War. This brutal war lasted for nearly three years (July 1936-March 1939), claiming at least one-half million lives and sending another one-half million refugees into exile. For Ernest Hemingway, the fight against General Francisco Franco became a cause of utmost importance. In March 1937, he traveled to Madrid to observe conditions firsthand. Reporting on the war for the North American Newspaper Alliance (NANA), Hemingway penned 31 dispatches from Spain. He also helped to produce a pro-Republican film, \"The Spanish Earth.\" His experiences during the civil war provided the material for what many consider to be Hemingway’s most famous novel, \"For Whom the Bell Tolls\" (1940). This presentation touches on debates related to Hemingway’s presence in Spain and his actions on behalf of the Republic.", "biography": "Dale Graden is a professor of history at the University of Idaho. He has taught courses on the Spanish Civil War at the UI, as well as for the University Studies Abroad Consortium (USAC) at the University of Alicante, Spain.", "date": "2015-09-29", "academic_year": "2015/16", "youtube": "https://youtu.be/z1M34AV2L48", "record_type": "event", "type": "Text", "format": "record", "original_link": "http://www.uidaho.edu/class/mric/calendar/hemingway-and-the-spanish-civil-war", "object_location": "", "reference_url": "/digital/mric/items/mric2015-16-016.html" }, { "title": "Indicators of Climate Change in Idaho", "presenter": "John Abatzoglou; Timothy Link; Penny Morgan", "affiliation": "Geography; Natural Resources", "description": "Graduate students at the University of Idaho, with faculty advisors, surveyed stakeholders in Idaho to assess perceived impacts of climate change to natural resources across the state. This survey led to a set of long-term physical and biological observations that compose climate indicators for the state of Idaho. From the timing of lilac blooms and mountain bluebird nest records to the amount of snowpack and streamflow, these climate indicators provide a comprehensive picture of climate variability and change in Idaho for the past 30 to 100 years. Now published in Weather, Climate and Society, the research is coupled with outreach literature and a website soon to be made available to the public.", "biography": "John Abatzoglou is an associate professor in the Department of Geography. His research interests are in climate science and meteorology specific to the American West. He works on both theoretical aspects of climate, as well as applied climatology and climate impacts on water resources, ecology and agriculture.\nTimothy Link is an associate professor of forest hydrology in the College of Natural Resources. His research focuses broadly on how climate, vegetation, and human activities influence hydrological processes from the point to the small watershed scale. Specific research topics focus on how vegetation affects snowpack and related ecological processes, how climate changes will be manifested in the rain-snow transition zone in complex terrain, and how forest management activities affect water flow, quality, and riparian systems.\nPenny Morgan is a professor in the College of Natural Resources. She earned her bachelor’s and master’s degrees at Utah State University and her doctorate at the University of Idaho. Her current research focuses on some of the broad challenges facing people in the West: How will the changing climate influence fire occurrence and severity? Where, when and why do fires burn severely? What drives landscape dynamics, and how can we best manage landscape change? How does vegetation recover following large fires, and how does post-fire management affect weeds and other vegetation regrowth?", "date": "2015-09-15", "academic_year": "2015/16", "youtube": "https://youtu.be/jqdl2bKqV-0", "record_type": "event", "type": "Text", "format": "record", "original_link": "http://www.uidaho.edu/class/mric/calendar/indicators-of-climate-change-in-idaho", "object_location": "", "reference_url": "/digital/mric/items/mric2015-16-017.html" }, { "title": "Schitsu’umsh ł sqigwts: A 3D Approach to Indigenous Knowledge and Climate Change", "presenter": "Rodney Frey; Brian Cleveley; Steven B. Daley-Laursen", "affiliation": "Ethnography; Virtual Technology and Design; Natural Resources", "description": "Coeur d’Alene tribal professionals in natural and cultural resources and tribal elders, and University of Idaho faculty researchers in anthropology, data management, natural resources, and virtual-world technology worked as co-investigators on a project that demonstrates the value and applicability of indigenous knowledge/practice as complementary to empirical science in addressing climate change. The project focuses on the Schitsu’umsh knowledge and practice, called hnkhwelkhwlnet “our ways of life in the world,” associated with the traditional root food, sqigwts / Sagittaria latifolia (“water potato”). The hnkhwelkhwlnet insights offered are applicable to climate change, vividly demonstrating how a place-based tribe responds to changes in its environment over time.", "biography": "Rodney Frey is a professor of ethnography who has been at the UI since 1998. Over the past 40 years, he has worked collaboratively with Native communities such as the Coeur d’Alene, Crow, Nez Perce, Spokane and Warm Springs. Co-authored with members of these communities are such books as: \"As Driftwood Lodges: The World of the Crow Indians\" (1987), \"Stories the Make the World: Oral Traditions of the Indian People of the Inland Northwest\" (1991), and \"Landscape Traveled by Coyote and Crane: the World of the Schitsu’umsh – Coeur d’Alene Indians\" (2001). Frey earned his Ph.D. at the University of Colorado. He is indebted to his Native mentors Tom and Susie Yellowtail, Lawrence Aripa, Rob Moran, and Cliff SiJohn. Brian Cleveley is a virtual world developer and faculty member in the Virtual Technology and Design (VTD) program at the University of Idaho. He has been with the university since 1991. Within VTD Brian teaches virtual world development and senior capstone design. Cleveley has been working with virtual worlds for more than 17 years, exploring user presence, storytelling and the effective use of virtual worlds in non-entertainment roles (also known as serious gaming). He has been a PI and co-PI on multiple state and federal grants, as well as working with private sector and non-profit organizations. Cleveley holds bachelor’s and master’s degrees in architecture from the University of Idaho, a bachelor of Environmental Studies from the University of Manitoba and an honours diploma of architectural technologies from the Northern Alberta Institute of Technology. Steven B. Daley-Laursen is a professor in the Department of Natural Resources and Society at the University of Idaho. He served as dean of the College of Natural Resources from 2002 to 2008 and as interim president of the University in 2008-09. Since 2009, he has been senior executive in the Office of Research and Economic Development. His scholarly work has focused on the science-policy interface, modeling of forest systems, forest entomology, leadership development in environmental and higher education, frameworks for inter-institutional partnership, data management, and technology transfer methodology. He teaches courses in Natural Resource Policy and Introduction to Natural Resources and Environmental Science. He earned a master’s in forest resources management and a doctorate in forest science from the University of Idaho. Funding for this project was provided by DOI Northwest Climate Science Center and USGS National Climate Change and Wildlife Science Center, in Cooperative Agreement # G11AC20490.", "date": "2015-08-25", "academic_year": "2015/16", "youtube": "https://youtu.be/n6qgWIRpYds", "record_type": "event", "type": "Text", "format": "record", "original_link": "http://www.uidaho.edu/class/mric/calendar/indigenous-knowledge-and-climate-change", "object_location": "", "reference_url": "/digital/mric/items/mric2015-16-018.html" }, { "title": "Paleobotany & Stratigraphy of Lake Clarkia", "presenter": "Bill Rember", "affiliation": "Geological Sciences", "description": "The first discovery of fossils in the Clarkia area was in 1972 during the construction of a snowmobile racetrack. The fossils, primarily plant remains, are preserved in the sediments of a Miocene lake bed. The lake was formed 15 million to 15½ million years ago by the damming of a drainage basin very similar to the present day St. Maries River basin. The ancient lake was relatively narrow and as deep as 100 to 150 meters. Because of cold, anoxic bottom water and a high rate of sedimentation, preservation of the local biota was excellent. During the last 15 million years, this area has remained tectonically stable, resulting in little post-depositional change of any biota remains trapped in the sediments. Leaves often show original fall colors (brown, red and yellow).", "biography": "Bill Rember, affiliate professor of Geological Sciences at the University of Idaho, is director of UI’s Tertiary Research Center. He has been unearthing and studying the Clarkia fossil flora of northern Idaho for decades. Rember is an active member of the White Pine Chapter of the Idaho Native Plant Society. He promotes ongoing interest and scientific knowledge of the significant but undervalued Clarkia fossil beds.", "date": "2015-11-03", "academic_year": "2015/16", "youtube": "https://youtu.be/nbeY12gETig", "record_type": "event", "type": "Text", "format": "record", "original_link": "https://www.uidaho.edu/class/mric/archive/2015-fall/paleobotany-and-stratigraphy-of-lake-clarkia", "object_location": "", "reference_url": "/digital/mric/items/mric2015-16-019.html" }, { "title": "Reading Law in the Landscape", "presenter": "Jerrold (Jerry) Long", "affiliation": "Law", "description": "The law is commonly understood – by lawyers and non-lawyers alike – as text. And the practice of law is similarly understood as an exercise in the interpretation of text as it might apply in a particular factual context. But the law is, of course, more than just text. Law is an integral component of the physical landscape, and contemporary landscapes are shaped by law as much as any other factor. Law is also a product of the landscapes it helps create, as our cultural understandings of nature, its purpose, and our relationship with it develop as we interact with specific places and landscapes. As we seek to understand particular places and the people who are parts of those places, and specifically how we might appropriately manage natural resources and landscapes, we must learn to recognize the law as its winds its way through and creates a place. In this presentation, Prof. Long will share stories of a few places in the Greater Yellowstone area of southeastern Idaho to illustrate how we might better understand the interactions of law, culture, and the meaning of the physical landscape.", "biography": "Jerrold (Jerry) Long is a professor in the College of Law and the Waters of the West interdisciplinary graduate program. He teaches courses in property, land use, environmental, and natural resources law. Prof. Long studied law at the University of Colorado-Boulder and practiced law in Wyoming before earning a Ph.D. at the University of Wisconsin-Madison’s interdisciplinary Gaylord Nelson Institute for Environmental Studies. He has been a member of the UI law faculty since 2007.", "date": "2015-09-22", "academic_year": "2015/16", "youtube": "https://youtu.be/GrL5z_Ypask", "record_type": "event", "type": "Text", "format": "record", "original_link": "http://www.uidaho.edu/class/mric/calendar/reading-law-in-the-landscape", "object_location": "", "reference_url": "/digital/mric/items/mric2015-16-020.html" }, { "title": "Religious Struggle in the Cantatas of Johann Sebastian Bach", "presenter": "Miranda Wilson", "affiliation": "Lionel Hampton School of Music", "description": "The music of J. S. Bach has such universal appeal because it speaks to universal human experience. Suffering, alienation, death, yearning, redemption: these are the big questions Bach addresses in his sacred vocal music. This year’s Idaho Bach Festival (October 15-17) features some of Bach’s most heart-rending settings of religious texts: “Lass, o Welt, mich aus Verachtung in betrübter Einsamkeit” (“Leave me, o scornful world, in troubled loneliness”) and “Ich habe genug” (“I have enough”). This presentation will explore Bach’s musical treatment of serious religious subject matter in these compositions and will include a performance of movements from his Six Suites for Solo Cello.", "biography": "Miranda Wilson is assistant professor of cello and double bass at the Lionel Hampton School of Music, University of Idaho. She is co-artistic director of the Idaho Bach Festival.", "date": "2015-10-13", "academic_year": "2015/16", "youtube": "https://youtu.be/gZIlYIvxJFc", "record_type": "event", "type": "Text", "format": "record", "original_link": "http://www.uidaho.edu/class/mric/calendar/religious-struggle-of-johann-sebastian-bach", "object_location": "", "reference_url": "/digital/mric/items/mric2015-16-021.html" }, { "title": "Self-Confidence, Stardom and Post-Racial Culture: Gabourey Sidibe in Entertainment Journalism", "presenter": "Russell Meeuf", "affiliation": "Journalism and Mass Media", "description": "Gabourey Sidibe rose to fame in 2009 with her Oscar-nominated performance in Precious and quickly became an icon of inclusivity in Hollywood. As U.S. media increasingly touted the rise of a “post-racial” culture in the wake of the election of the first black president, Sidibe’s successes on American Horror Story, The Big C and Fox’s new hit Empire seemingly demonstrated new possibilities for those whose body size and skin tone deviate from traditional definitions of stardom. This talk explores these possibilities as well as the limitations of “post-racial” stardom by analyzing the insistent focus on self-confidence in Sidibe’s star persona. Exploring the relationship between post-racial media discourse and neoliberal individualism, the presentation will show how Sidibe’s star persona celebrates individual solutions to social problems and a colorblind model of universal womanhood.", "biography": "Russel Meeuf researches popular media and culture. In particular, his work focuses on celebrity culture, popular cinema, masculinity studies and disability studies. His writings have appeared in Cinema Journal, Celebrity Studies, The Journal of Popular Film and Television, The Journal of Communication Inquiry and other journals. Reflecting these interests, he is the author of \"John Wayne's World: Transnational Masculinity in the Fifties\" (2013). He is also the co-editor (with Raphael Raphael) of \"Transnational Stardom: International Celebrity in Film and Popular Culture\" (2013), a collection examining the phenomenon of transnational celebrity from the 1950's until the present. His teaching covers a variety of issues in media studies, including semiotics and visual communication, critical and cultural studies of mass media, representations of crime and the criminal justice system in U.S. media and the history of cinema. He is currently writing a book on contemporary film and television stars whose bodies deviate from cultural norms regarding weight, health and beauty.", "date": "2015-11-10", "academic_year": "2015/16", "youtube": "https://youtu.be/bmZcO5R4-oo", "record_type": "event", "type": "Text", "format": "record", "original_link": "https://www.uidaho.edu/class/mric/archive/2015-fall/self-confidence-stardom-and-post-racial-culture", "object_location": "", "reference_url": "/digital/mric/items/mric2015-16-022.html" }, { "title": "Regional Economic Powerhouses", "presenter": "Steven Peterson", "affiliation": "Economics", "description": "The five tribes of Idaho (Coeur d’Alene, Kootenai, Nez Perce, Shoshone-Bannock tribes, and the Shoshone-Paiute tribes) have transformed into regional economic powerhouses over the past quarter century. Their economic footprints now exceed $1 billion annually. The tribes are ranked in the top three largest employers for each of their respective regional economies. Their robust economic contributions arise from their unique role in Idaho’s economy. Each of the tribes is an independent sovereign nation that carries out functions similar to those of state governments. In addition, each is a full-scale economic development agency with unique private-public partnerships. This presentation will outline the economic activities of the five Idaho tribes, their roles in regional economies, and growth possibilities for the future.", "biography": "Steven Peterson is a clinical assistant professor of economics at the UI, where he has been employed for 23 years. He has conducted more than 100 economic impact or other related economic studies covering almost every aspect of Idaho’s economy. Steven has been working with the Tribes in Idaho for more than 20 years. He has active partnerships across campus, including those with the Department of Agricultural Economics and Rural Sociology, the College of Natural Resources, and Agricultural Extension. Peterson has also completed about 20 studies on various aspects of economic growth and business activity in the Palouse region.", "date": "2015-09-01", "academic_year": "2015/16", "youtube": "https://youtu.be/OiduJ66Qvf0", "record_type": "event", "type": "Text", "format": "record", "original_link": "http://www.uidaho.edu/class/mric/calendar/tribal-economic-impact-in-idaho", "object_location": "", "reference_url": "/digital/mric/items/mric2015-16-023.html" }, { "title": "Airport and Realignment Project", "presenter": "Steven Peterson", "affiliation": "Economics", "description": "Airports today are much like railroads in the old Wild West in which communities connected by rail usually thrived while those not connected by rail often died. Airports are essential for modern economic development, particularly for isolated, rural regions of the United States. For Pullman-Moscow, air travel is especially important given its geographically isolated location and underdeveloped highways and limited rail service. Currently, the Pullman-Moscow Airport is at a crossroads. The total cost of the planned realignment project is projected to reach $120 million. While most of funding will be provided by federal government, the project requires sizable local matching funds. In addition, the project is complicated by the airport’s unique two-state, two-community and two-university jurisdiction. While the costs to the communities are substantial, prior analyses suggest that benefits are benefits are likely to be much higher than costs and will likely increase sharply in the future. The focus of this study was to fully assess the impact and integration of the Pullman-Moscow Regional Airport in the regional economy and its future role after the runway realignment.", "biography": "Steven Peterson is a clinical assistant professor of economics at the University of Idaho, where he has been employed for 23 years. He has conducted more than 100 economic impact or other related economic studies covering almost every aspect of Idaho’s economy. Steven has been working with the Tribes in Idaho for over twenty years. He has active partnerships across the UI campus. Peterson has also completed about 20 local (i.e., Palouse region) studies on various aspects of economic growth and business activity.", "date": "2016-08-23", "academic_year": "2016/17", "record_type": "event", "type": "Text", "format": "record", "original_link": "https://www.uidaho.edu/class/mric/archive/2016-fall/airport-and-realignment", "object_location": "", "reference_url": "/digital/mric/items/mric2016-17-001.html" }, { "title": "COVID-19 in Idaho: Modeling for Understanding and Forecasting", "presenter": "Jennifer Johnson-Leung", "affiliation": "Mathematics and Statistical Sciences", "description": "We all use models to understand the world around us and make decisions. These models may be statistical, mathematical, or (more likely) categorical. The COVID-19 pandemic has brought epidemiological modeling in its various forms to the forefront of our collective consciousness.", "biography": "Jennifer Johnson-Leung is an associate professor in the Department of Mathematics and Statistical Sciences and a member of the UI’s Institute for Modeling, Collaboration, and Innovation", "date": "2020-08-25", "academic_year": "2020/21", "youtube": "https://youtu.be/0AJyIpeV_oA", "record_type": "event", "type": "Text", "format": "record", "original_link": "https://www.uidaho.edu/class/mric/archive/2020-fall", "object_thumb": "https://objects.lib.uidaho.edu/mric/mric2020-21-001.jpg", "object_location": "", "reference_url": "/digital/mric/items/mric2020-21-001.html" }, { "title": "Evolution of the Plague Bacterium: Yersinia pestis", "presenter": "Scott Minnich", "affiliation": "Animal, Veterinary and Food Sciences; IDeA Network of Biomedical Research Excellence", "description": "Yersinia pestis, the etiologic agent of bubonic plague is the most virulent bacterial human pathogen. This presentation discusses the history of plague and how recent genomic analyses of Neolithic and Bronze Age human skeletal remains trace the evolution of a ‘mild’ pathogen to one that can cause devastating pandemics.", "biography": "Scott A. Minnich is a professor in the Department of Animal, Veterinary and Food Sciences and the IDeA Network of Biomedical Research Excellence.", "date": "2020-09-01", "academic_year": "2020/21", "youtube": "https://youtu.be/dlf95JZ3BkM", "record_type": "event", "type": "Text", "format": "record", "original_link": "https://www.uidaho.edu/class/mric/archive/2020-fall", "object_thumb": "https://objects.lib.uidaho.edu/mric/mric2020-21-002.jpg", "object_location": "", "reference_url": "/digital/mric/items/mric2020-21-002.html" }, { "title": "Predicting COVID-19 Through Wastewater Surveillance", "presenter": "Thibault Stalder", "affiliation": "Biological Sciences", "description": "SARS-CoV-2 can shed through stools and has been detected in municipal wastewater, making wastewater-based epidemiology (WBE) a promising approach to track in real time the emergence of the virus.", "date": "2020-09-08", "academic_year": "2020/21", "youtube": "https://youtu.be/wzTqw-Trvro", "record_type": "event", "type": "Text", "format": "record", "original_link": "https://www.uidaho.edu/class/mric/archive/2020-fall", "object_thumb": "https://objects.lib.uidaho.edu/mric/mric2020-21-003.jpg", "object_location": "", "reference_url": "/digital/mric/items/mric2020-21-003.html" }, { "title": "Risk of Disease and Willingness to Vaccinate", "presenter": "Bert Baumgaertner; Florian Justwan; Craig Miller; Ben Ridenhour; Juliet Carlisle", "affiliation": "Politics and Philosophy; Biological Sciences; Mathematics & Statistics; University of Utah", "description": "Researchers found an overall change in proportion willing to vaccinate of at least 30% as risk of infection increases, and that the proportion willing to vaccinate is related to ideology and the level of risk.", "date": "2020-09-15", "academic_year": "2020/21", "youtube": "https://youtu.be/NNp6fZWijHI", "record_type": "event", "type": "Text", "format": "record", "original_link": "https://www.uidaho.edu/class/mric/archive/2020-fall", "object_thumb": "https://objects.lib.uidaho.edu/mric/mric2020-21-004.jpg", "object_location": "", "reference_url": "/digital/mric/items/mric2020-21-004.html" }, { "title": "Pandemic Pedagogy in the Performing Arts, Part 1: Theatre & Music", "presenter": "Rob Caisley; Vanessa Sielert", "affiliation": "Theatre Arts; Lionel Hampton School of Music", "description": "Rob Caisley, chair of the Department of Theatre Arts, and Vanessa Sielert, director of the Lionel Hampton School of Music, describe how their students and faculty are adapting in disciplines that rely on the relationships among directors, performers and audiences.", "date": "2020-09-22", "academic_year": "2020/21", "youtube": "https://youtu.be/TZ28LYv6e7k", "record_type": "event", "type": "Text", "format": "record", "original_link": "https://www.uidaho.edu/class/mric/archive/2020-fall", "object_thumb": "https://objects.lib.uidaho.edu/mric/mric2020-21-005.jpg", "object_location": "", "reference_url": "/digital/mric/items/mric2020-21-005.html" }, { "title": "The Science Behind Vaccine Development", "presenter": "Tanya Miura", "affiliation": "Biological Sciences", "description": "In this presentation, Prof. Tanya Miura provides an overview of how vaccines work, the SARS-CoV-2 virus that causes COVID-19, and the vaccine strategies being tested against it. The unprecedented number of vaccine candidates and the speed at which they are moving through the testing pipeline has raised questions about their safety and effectiveness.", "date": "2020-09-29", "academic_year": "2020/21", "youtube": "https://youtu.be/YzQaDPLsshM", "record_type": "event", "type": "Text", "format": "record", "original_link": "https://www.uidaho.edu/class/mric/archive/2020-fall", "object_thumb": "https://objects.lib.uidaho.edu/mric/mric2020-21-006.jpg", "object_location": "", "reference_url": "/digital/mric/items/mric2020-21-006.html" }, { "title": "She Said: Publishing a 17th-Century Woman’s Correspondence Online", "presenter": "Sarah Nelson; Alessandro Martina; Olivia Wikle; Liam Marchant", "affiliation": "Modern Languages & Cultures; University of Wisconsin; Library", "description": "This presentation introduces the correspondence of 17th century Italian-French noblewoman Marie Mancini, with a dual focus on the content of the letters and on the creation of a website for their publication.", "date": "2020-10-06", "academic_year": "2020/21", "youtube": "https://youtu.be/L6Vf05_qSY4", "record_type": "event", "type": "Text", "format": "record", "original_link": "https://www.uidaho.edu/class/mric/archive/2020-fall", "object_thumb": "https://objects.lib.uidaho.edu/mric/mric2020-21-007.jpg", "object_location": "", "reference_url": "/digital/mric/items/mric2020-21-007.html" }, { "title": "Construction of Gender: A Global Perspective", "presenter": "Lysa Salsbury; Ken Faunce", "affiliation": "UI Women's Center; Washington State University; History", "description": "This talk by Lysa Salsbury (U of I) and Ken Faunce (WSU) examines current and historical constructions of gender from a global perspective, their differences and commonalities.", "date": "2020-10-13", "academic_year": "2020/21", "youtube": "https://youtu.be/9Z4Q_YleHzY", "record_type": "event", "type": "Text", "format": "record", "original_link": "https://www.uidaho.edu/class/mric/archive/2020-fall", "object_thumb": "https://objects.lib.uidaho.edu/mric/mric2020-21-008.jpg", "object_location": "", "reference_url": "/digital/mric/items/mric2020-21-008.html" }, { "title": "Reconciliation of Pearl Harbor and Hiroshima", "presenter": "Noriko Kawamura; Courtney Berge", "affiliation": "History; Washington State University; Library", "description": "How we remember World War II in the Pacific is clearly divided by national boundaries. The contrast between how Americans and Japanese remember Japan’s attack on Pearl Harbor and the U.S. use of the atomic bombs over Hiroshima and Nagasaki clearly demonstrates this point. This this talk will explore how we may be able to make conscious efforts to build bridges across national boundaries that exist in war memories.", "date": "2020-10-20", "academic_year": "2020/21", "youtube": "https://youtu.be/M_8yGIDRmSk", "record_type": "event", "type": "Text", "format": "record", "original_link": "https://www.uidaho.edu/class/mric/archive/2020-fall", "object_thumb": "https://objects.lib.uidaho.edu/mric/mric2020-21-009.jpg", "object_location": "", "reference_url": "/digital/mric/items/mric2020-21-009.html" }, { "title": "Bach and Telemann: Friends and Rivals", "presenter": "Leonard Garrison; Christopher Pfund; Miranda Wilson", "affiliation": "Lionel Hampton School of Music", "description": "Leonard Garrison, Christopher Pfund and Miranda Wilson discuss the relationship between Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750) and Georg Philipp Telemann (1681-1767). 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Over the years the festival has hosted internationally recognized guest artists alongside faculty and student ensembles. Co-Artistic Directors Miranda Wilson and Chris Pfund will introduce the compositions to be performed this year.", "date": "2021-10-26", "academic_year": "2021/22", "youtube": "https://youtu.be/XayzzibZ9rs", "record_type": "event", "type": "Text", "format": "record", "original_link": "https://www.uidaho.edu/class/mric/archive/2021-fall", "object_thumb": "https://objects.lib.uidaho.edu/mric/mric2021-22-008.jpg", "object_location": "", "reference_url": "/digital/mric/items/mric2021-22-008.html" }, { "title": "Supportive Communication in a Mediated World", "presenter": "Lucas Youngvorst", "affiliation": "Communication", "description": "This talk by Lucas Youngvorst, assistant professor of communication at the University of Idaho, outlines the foundation of social support from a communicative perspective. He offers practical insight into how to effectively seek and provide support online and offline.", "date": "2021-11-02", "academic_year": "2021/22", "youtube": "https://youtu.be/uPUnublFIIs", "record_type": "event", "type": "Text", "format": "record", "original_link": "https://www.uidaho.edu/class/mric/archive/2021-fall", "object_thumb": "https://objects.lib.uidaho.edu/mric/mric2021-22-009.jpg", "object_location": "", "reference_url": "/digital/mric/items/mric2021-22-009.html" }, { "title": "The U of I’s Quest for Carnegie R1 Status: A Progress Report", "presenter": "Christopher Nomura", "affiliation": "Office of Research and Economic Development", "description": "A University of Idaho working group developed a series of actions to improve the research culture and incentivize greater research and doctoral degree productivity. VP for Research and Economic Development Christopher Nomura provides an update on some of the actions, opportunities and developments the university is pursuing to achieve R1 status.", "date": "2021-11-09", "academic_year": "2021/22", "youtube": "https://youtu.be/1RXzjDT8jys", "record_type": "event", "type": "Text", "format": "record", "original_link": "https://www.uidaho.edu/class/mric/archive/2021-fall", "object_thumb": "https://objects.lib.uidaho.edu/mric/mric2021-22-010.jpg", "object_location": "", "reference_url": "/digital/mric/items/mric2021-22-010.html" }, { "title": "Architectural Lessons from the World's 'Happiest\" Countries", "presenter": "Phillip Mead", "affiliation": "Architecture", "description": "Scandinavian countries rank high in the World Happiness Survey. Does their internationally respected architecture contribute to their nations’ well-being? In February 2020, University of Idaho Prof. Phillip Mead traveled to Finland and Denmark during the most miserable time of the year to explore how their designs compensate. In this talk, Mead shows examples of architecture that might contribute to healthy populations and describes how positive psychologist Martin Seligman’s five pillars of flourishing may influence architecture's contribution to environmental well-being.", "date": "2021-11-16", "academic_year": "2021/22", "youtube": "https://youtu.be/WnDz6j3WkQ0", "record_type": "event", "type": "Text", "format": "record", "original_link": "https://www.uidaho.edu/class/mric/archive/2021-fall", "object_thumb": "https://objects.lib.uidaho.edu/mric/mric2021-22-011.jpg", "object_location": "", "reference_url": "/digital/mric/items/mric2021-22-011.html" }, { "title": "All in the Family: Vandal Style", "presenter": "Kathy Barnard", "affiliation": "Alumni Relations; Advancement", "description": "Kathy Barnard, assistant vice president for alumni relations and advancement communication, reflects on six years of traveling around Idaho to promote the U of I.", "date": "2021-12-07", "academic_year": "2021/22", "youtube": "https://youtu.be/_c2AXbrCLc4", "record_type": "event", "type": "Text", "format": "record", "original_link": "https://www.uidaho.edu/class/mric/archive/2021-fall", "object_thumb": "https://objects.lib.uidaho.edu/mric/mric2021-22-012.jpg", "object_location": "", "reference_url": "/digital/mric/items/mric2021-22-012.html" }, { "title": "Defending the Homeland: A New Partnership for Peace and Security", "presenter": "Lil 'Doc' Alessa", "affiliation": "Art & Architecture; Center for Resilient Communities", "description": "The phrase “homeland security” conjures up a plethora of images that range from popular television shows to armed border guards. But what do we really mean when we talk about defending the homeland and why are there so many misunderstandings about this complex and robust process? In this talk, Prof. Alessa explores the different meanings and realities of “homeland” and “security” across a plurality of concepts and constructs. As importantly, she discusses how academia can contribute in meaningful ways to ensuring that our nation remains resilient and peaceful.", "date": "2022-01-18", "academic_year": "2021/22", "youtube": "https://youtu.be/D9UgplxQwyc", "record_type": "event", "type": "Text", "format": "record", "original_link": "https://www.uidaho.edu/class/mric/archive", "object_thumb": "https://objects.lib.uidaho.edu/mric/mric2021-22-013.jpg", "object_location": "", "reference_url": "/digital/mric/items/mric2021-22-013.html" }, { "title": "Populism, Progressive Elites and the Notion of 'Caviar Left' in Peru", "presenter": "Joseph Feldman", "affiliation": "Martin Institute of International Studies", "description": "Caviar, or izquierda caviar (“caviar left”), is a term in Peru that describes privileged actors who advocate for progressive causes. The label is typically employed by right-wing commentators to criticize politicians, intellectuals, and activists. An analysis of uses of “caviar” in Peruvian newspapers draws attention to the way the term comes to refer to the pursuit of wealth and influence through an embrace of progressive ideals and projects, as opposed to merely pointing to a correspondence between social privilege and left political views.", "biography": "Joseph Feldman is a postdoctoral fellow at the University of Idaho's Martin Institute.", "date": "2022-01-25", "academic_year": "2021/22", "youtube": "https://youtu.be/pVFiy0mYoVk", "record_type": "event", "type": "Text", "format": "record", "original_link": "https://www.uidaho.edu/class/mric/archive", "object_thumb": "https://objects.lib.uidaho.edu/mric/mric2021-22-014.jpg", "object_location": "", "reference_url": "/digital/mric/items/mric2021-22-014.html" }, { "title": "The Art of Being Fashionably Late", "presenter": "Ken Udas", "affiliation": "Office of the Provost", "description": "Vice Provost Ken Udas provides an update on current capacity development activities and plans for digital learning and online programming at the University of Idaho. Udas raises some considerations of how the U of I might transition from its fashionably late arrival to online learning into being unfashionably early to the next movement.", "date": "2022-02-01", "academic_year": "2021/22", "youtube": "https://youtu.be/27xcdKXYds0", "record_type": "event", "type": "Text", "format": "record", "original_link": "https://www.uidaho.edu/class/mric/archive", "object_thumb": "https://objects.lib.uidaho.edu/mric/mric2021-22-015.jpg", "object_location": "", "reference_url": "/digital/mric/items/mric2021-22-015.html" }, { "title": "Animal Disease Regulations in Montana", "presenter": "Kerri Keller Clement", "affiliation": "History", "description": "Kerri Keller Clement, University of Idaho History Department, discusses an example of post-World War II anti-government movements based in animal disease regulations in Montana and the consequences of that resistance to government regulations in later decades.", "date": "2022-02-08", "academic_year": "2021/22", "youtube": "https://youtu.be/aro3D2oFaO4", "record_type": "event", "type": "Text", "format": "record", "original_link": "https://www.uidaho.edu/class/mric/archive", "object_thumb": "https://objects.lib.uidaho.edu/mric/mric2021-22-016.jpg", "object_location": "", "reference_url": "/digital/mric/items/mric2021-22-016.html" }, { "title": "Anachronism in Public Law and Political Theory", "presenter": "Cody Trojan", "affiliation": "Politics and Philosophy", "description": "This talk addresses how a recent Supreme Court case that granted employment protections for LGBTQ Americans helps us to appreciate fundamental dilemmas in legal interpretation.", "biography": "Cody Trojan is a postdoctoral fellow affiliated with the Department of Politics and Philosophy at the University of Idaho.", "date": "2022-02-15", "academic_year": "2021/22", "youtube": "https://youtu.be/I83ylX2eNVw", "record_type": "event", "type": "Text", "format": "record", "original_link": "https://www.uidaho.edu/class/mric/archive", "object_thumb": "https://objects.lib.uidaho.edu/mric/mric2021-22-017.jpg", "object_location": "", "reference_url": "/digital/mric/items/mric2021-22-017.html" }, { "title": "IPCC's Latest Report: Climate Change Impacts, Adaptation & Vulnerability", "presenter": "Jeffrey A. Hicke", "affiliation": "Geography & Geological Sciences", "description": "The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) provides scientific information about climate change to policymakers and the public. The Sixth Assessment Report of the IPCC Working Group II, which was released Feb. 28, 2022, discusses impacts, adaptation, and vulnerability. In this talk, Prof. Hicke draws from global and North American examples to highlight the main findings of the report.", "date": "2022-03-01", "academic_year": "2021/22", "youtube": "https://youtu.be/3wM--1o1R50", "record_type": "event", "type": "Text", "format": "record", "original_link": "https://www.uidaho.edu/class/mric/archive", "object_thumb": "https://objects.lib.uidaho.edu/mric/mric2021-22-018.jpg", "object_location": "", "reference_url": "/digital/mric/items/mric2021-22-018.html" }, { "title": "Connecting Climate and Idaho’s Economy: The Idaho Climate-Economy Impacts Assessment", "presenter": "Katherine Himes; Helen Brown; Christopher Caudill; Patrick Hatzenbuehler; Eric Winford; Kelsea Donahue", "affiliation": "McClure Center for Public Policy Research; Education, Health and Human Sciences; Fish and Wildlife; Agricultural Economics and Rural Sociology; Idaho Rangeland Center; Law", "description": "The Idaho Climate-Economy Impacts Assessment, released in December 2021, connects the latest scientific research on Idaho’s changing climate with economic risks and opportunities affecting businesses, residents, and local and state economies. It was compiled by researchers and subject matter experts representing Idaho universities and colleges, businesses, nonprofits, and tribal and other governments. This presentation uses a lightning-talk format to present findings in five key areas: human health, agriculture, fish, rangelands, and recreation/tourism. The panel is moderated by Katherine Himes, director of the McClure Center for Public Policy Research. Presenters are: Helen Brown, College of Education, Health and Human Sciences; Christopher Caudill, Department of Fish and Wildlife Sciences; Patrick Hatzenbuehler, Department of Agricultural Economics and Rural Sociology; Eric Winford, Idaho Rangeland Center, and Kelsea Donahue, a third-year student in the College of Law.", "date": "2022-03-08", "academic_year": "2021/22", "youtube": "https://youtu.be/DGdZ5jvLU1w", "record_type": "event", "type": "Text", "format": "record", "original_link": "https://www.uidaho.edu/class/mric/archive", "object_thumb": "https://objects.lib.uidaho.edu/mric/mric2021-22-019.jpg", "object_location": "", "reference_url": "/digital/mric/items/mric2021-22-019.html" }, { "title": "Community History in the Time of COVID: Stories of Moscow's Last Video Store", "presenter": "Robert Perrett; Evan Wiliamson; Hanwen Dong; Milo Muise", "affiliation": "Library; English", "description": "Over the past year, University of Idaho Library staff and volunteers have conducted an oral history project addressing the Main Street Video Co-Op, the last independent video store in Moscow. This is in support of a collection of the store’s remaining videos, which the Library acquired when the Co-Op closed in 2020. This session describes the process of conducting an oral history project during the pandemic. The presenters are Robert Perrett, Evan Wiliamson, Hanwen Dong, U of I librarians, and Milo Muise, an MFA student and Main Street Video fellow.", "date": "2022-03-22", "academic_year": "2021/22", "youtube": "https://youtu.be/jeSGd6IO6UI", "record_type": "event", "type": "Text", "format": "record", "original_link": "https://www.uidaho.edu/class/mric/archive", "object_thumb": "https://objects.lib.uidaho.edu/mric/mric2021-22-020.jpg", "object_location": "", "reference_url": "/digital/mric/items/mric2021-22-020.html" }, { "title": "An Overview of Idaho Courts", "presenter": "Judge Molly Huskey", "description": "Judge Huskey describes how Idaho's district, Court of Appeals and Supreme Court judgeships were created and how those positions are appointed. She also addressed considerations the Court of Appeals and the Supreme Court address when deciding cases.", "date": "2022-03-29", "academic_year": "2021/22", "youtube": "https://youtu.be/jC-zmyVbPWA", "record_type": "event", "type": "Text", "format": "record", "original_link": "https://www.uidaho.edu/class/mric/archive", "object_thumb": "https://objects.lib.uidaho.edu/mric/mric2021-22-021.jpg", "object_location": "", "reference_url": "/digital/mric/items/mric2021-22-021.html" }, { "title": "Protestant Educational Mission in West China: Vanguard of What?", "presenter": "Jeff Kyong-McClain", "affiliation": "History", "description": "Anglophone Protestant missionaries were enthusiastic proponents of implanting modern educational institutions in China, which they thought would uplift of the Chinese in both spiritual and civilizational terms. Historians in both China and the West have tended to approach these schools from either a highly critical perspective, seeing them as obvious parts of the Western imperialist project, or from a more positive angle, as agents of kindly modernization, bringing things like modern medicine to China, for instance. Using West China Union University as an example, this presentation considers whether instead we should see these mission schools as outposts of global modernity, which was changing all corners of the globe in similar though ambivalent ways.", "biography": "Jeff Kyong-McClain is a historian of modern East Asia. His research to date has focused on Sino-American educational exchange, and the history of higher education and social scientific academic disciplines in China. After obtaining his Ph.D. from the University of Illinois in 2009, he taught for nine years at the University of Arkansas at Little Rock before coming to the University of Idaho in 2018. At the U of I, he teaches courses in East Asian history and is director of the Idaho Asia Institute. He was born and raised in Minneapolis, and lived for three years in Chengdu, Sichuan Province, China.", "date": "2022-04-12", "academic_year": "2021/22", "youtube": "https://youtu.be/aezEXiu5KTQ", "record_type": "event", "type": "Text", "format": "record", "original_link": "https://www.uidaho.edu/class/mric/archive", "object_thumb": "https://objects.lib.uidaho.edu/mric/mric2021-22-022.jpg", "object_location": "", "reference_url": "/digital/mric/items/mric2021-22-022.html" }, { "title": "Stories of Fire: The Confluence Lab and Narrative Science Communication", "presenter": "Kayla Bordelon; Erin James; Jack Kredell; Jennifer Ladino; Teresa Cavazos Cohn", "affiliation": "Confluence Lab; English; Environmental Science; University of New Hampshire", "description": "How can we leverage the power of stories to enhance science communication efforts? This presentation offers findings of relevance to that question from our National Science Foundation - Advancing Informal STEM Learning pilot and feasibility study, “Stories of Fire: Integrated Learning Through Participatory Narratives,” which explored the efficacy of using personal narratives of wildland fire in informal STEM learning in rural Idaho. The team consists of Kayla Bordelon, Erin James, Jack Kredell and Jennifer Ladino, University of Idaho, and Teresa Cavazos Cohn, University of New Hampshire (and formerly at the University of Idaho.) The team shared two frameworks for working with stories in science communication that have emerged from this work: (1) a participatory storytelling approach that leverages the ecological knowledges embedded in stories of experience that participants bring with them to science exchanges, and (2) a “Narrative Science” approach that draws on narratology and affect studies to help scientists and science communicators develop more nuanced understandings of stories and storytelling processes and to identify the stories and emotions embedded in the scientific process.", "date": "2022-04-26", "academic_year": "2021/22", "youtube": "https://youtu.be/Mj28gxwnbf4", "record_type": "event", "type": "Text", "format": "record", "original_link": "https://www.uidaho.edu/class/mric/archive", "object_thumb": "https://objects.lib.uidaho.edu/mric/mric2021-22-023.jpg", "object_location": "", "reference_url": "/digital/mric/items/mric2021-22-023.html" }, { "title": "Animal Aristocrats: Social Class and the Buenos Aires Zoo", "presenter": "Ashley Kerr", "affiliation": "Global Studies", "description": "In the early twentieth century, the Buenos Aires Zoo was the most visited zoo in the world. In addition to teaching Argentines about animals, the zoo and its representations contributed to social debates. With respect to labor and class, Argentine authors developed the image of an aristocratic zoo populated by animals living in luxury and contrasted with “proletariat” animals like horses and donkeys. Although this image was consistent across genres and political ideologies, it (and the physical zoo itself) were put to very different uses by diverse social groups. Some supported emerging labor movements, while others engaged the same tropes to defend the status quo. This talk traces those projects and asks if there can be interspecies solidarity when it comes to workers’ rights.", "biography": "Ashley Kerr is an associate professor in the University of Idaho’s School of Global Studies. She received her PhD in Spanish from the University of Virginia. Her first book, *Sex, Skulls, and Citizens: Gender and Racial Science in Argentina* *(1860-1910)*, was named the 2020 Best Book by the Nineteenth Century Studies section of the Latin American Studies Association. Her second book, which will be published in 2025, analyzes how the Buenos Aires Zoo and its animals were used to shape Argentine society at the turn of the century.", "date": "2024-08-27", "academic_year": "2024/25", "record_type": "event", "type": "Text", "format": "record", "original_link": "https://lib.uidaho.edu/events/renfrew.html", "object_location": "", "reference_url": "/digital/mric/items/mric2024-25-001.html" }, { "title": "Reconceiving Silence: Contemporary Composing for Silent Film", "presenter": "Dylan Champagne", "affiliation": "Music", "description": "Music has accompanied film since the beginning, but with the advent of “talkies,” music’s role began to take a different shape. What does it mean to compose live music for silent era films, but from a modern vantage situated within the context of nearly a century’s worth of film music evolution? Dylan will discuss his process and thoughts about writing music for the four silent films he has scored and share some insights about the particular challenges and rewards of this art form.", "biography": "Dylan Champagne is a composer, performer, audio engineer, educator, and post-production professional. His music ranges from avant-garde to accessible, from chamber music to prog-punk, and is heavily informed by the 15+ years he spent involved in the underground San Francisco Bay Area music scene. He has been an active member of the Immersion Composition Society since 2001 and has written for film, silent film, chamber groups / mixed ensembles, British brass band, wind ensemble, orchestra, rock trio & quartet, and electronics. Champagne's music has been performed by numerous groups and performers including The Cory Band, The Berkeley Ensemble, The Torch Quartet, and duality. Champagne is a lecturer of music composition and DAW at the Lionel Hampton School of Music at the University of Idaho.", "date": "2024-09-03", "academic_year": "2024/25", "record_type": "event", "type": "Text", "format": "record", "original_link": "https://lib.uidaho.edu/events/renfrew.html", "object_location": "", "reference_url": "/digital/mric/items/mric2024-25-002.html" }, { "title": "Spin: How the World (and Almost Everything in It) Turns", "presenter": "Bill Gruber", "affiliation": "English; Emory University", "description": "Everywhere, things spin—wheels turn, motors hum, tornadoes roar. This book explains the history and basic physics of spinning objects, from yo-yos, drills, propellers, and washing machines, to ballet dancers, dust devils, and bacteria.\n\nThe book gives instructive, entertaining accounts of everyday sights: Does a curve ball really curve? Why do figure skaters tuck in their arms? Can you make a disposable pen fly? How does a falling cat always land on its feet? Answers to these questions (and many others) tell the amazing story of things that spin.", "biography": "Bill Gruber is an emeritus professor of English at Emory University. The author of numerous academic books and articles, he lives in Moscow, Idaho.", "date": "2024-09-10", "academic_year": "2024/25", "record_type": "event", "type": "Text", "format": "record", "original_link": "https://lib.uidaho.edu/events/renfrew.html", "object_location": "", "reference_url": "/digital/mric/items/mric2024-25-003.html" }, { "title": "Sustaining American Alliances in the 21st Century (Borah Symposium)", "presenter": "Christopher Darnton", "affiliation": "U.S. Naval Postgraduate College", "date": "2024-09-17", "academic_year": "2024/25", "record_type": "event", "type": "Text", "format": "record", "original_link": "https://lib.uidaho.edu/events/renfrew.html", "object_location": "", "reference_url": "/digital/mric/items/mric2024-25-004.html" }, { "title": "Relational Research and Indigenous Futures: Adventures in Changing the Conditions of Higher Education", "presenter": "Philip Stevens; Vanessa Anthony-Stevens", "affiliation": "American Indian Studies; Education, Health and Human Sciences", "date": "2024-09-24", "academic_year": "2024/25", "record_type": "event", "type": "Text", "format": "record", "original_link": "https://lib.uidaho.edu/events/renfrew.html", "object_location": "", "reference_url": "/digital/mric/items/mric2024-25-005.html" }, { "title": "Climate-Smart Agriculture and Marketing", "presenter": "Sanford Eigenbrode; Erin Brooks", "affiliation": "Agricultural and Life Sciences", "date": "2024-10-01", "academic_year": "2024/25", "record_type": "event", "type": "Text", "format": "record", "original_link": "https://lib.uidaho.edu/events/renfrew.html", "object_location": "", "reference_url": "/digital/mric/items/mric2024-25-006.html" }, { "title": "Exploring Idaho Lookouts: Legacy and Future Perspectives", "presenter": "Andrea Dutto; Michael Decker", "affiliation": "Architecture; College of Graduate Studies", "description": "This session presents two different research perspectives on fire lookouts in Idaho. The first, by Michael Decker, focuses on his fieldwork as both a firewatcher and a researcher, conducting interviews with U.S. Forest Service staff and collecting photographic documentation of lookouts in Idaho’s most remote forest areas that were used in the creation of the library-supported digital scholarship project, Keeping Watch. The second presentation, by Andrea Alberto Dutto, offers reflections on the evolution of lookout towers as an architectural typology, stemming from a design studio at the College of Art and Architecture's architecture department and further developed through bibliographic research. Together, the two presentations highlight the value of lookout towers as historical heritage in forest management and as a resource for future practices in recreation and forest preservation.", "date": "2024-10-08", "academic_year": "2024/25", "record_type": "event", "type": "Text", "format": "record", "original_link": "https://libcal.uidaho.edu/event/13041787", "object_location": "", "reference_url": "/digital/mric/items/mric2024-25-007.html" }, { "title": "The Hows, Whys, and Why Nots of Developing Educational Video Games on Campus", "presenter": "Terry Soule; Barrie Robison", "affiliation": "Computer Science; Biological Sciences", "date": "2024-10-15", "academic_year": "2024/25", "record_type": "event", "type": "Text", "format": "record", "original_link": "https://lib.uidaho.edu/events/renfrew.html", "object_location": "", "reference_url": "/digital/mric/items/mric2024-25-008.html" }, { "title": "AI Literacy for Everyone Who Learns and Inquires: AI Ethics and Inquiry", "presenter": "Bert Baumgaertner; Casey Johnson", "affiliation": "Politics and Philosophy", "description": "We can approach AI systems as if they were agents with beliefs, desires, and intentions. We do this, sometimes, when we interact with complicated tools. However, this agential stance masks some key limitations and capacities of AI systems that are more easily diagnosed from a high-level understanding of their design. Just as important, however, is that the design stance masks the values and ethical frameworks we need to evaluate uses of AI systems. Because of this, we argue that AI literacy requires collaboration between humanities and sciences. In this talk we introduce our approach to AI literacy, focusing specifically on Large Language Models (LLMs) and their general impacts on many kinds of inquiry, ranging from the everyday (how would you cook cauliflower as if it were a steak?), to the academic (what’s a good way for me to study this material?), to the basics (help me generate ideas!).", "date": "2024-10-22", "academic_year": "2024/25", "record_type": "event", "type": "Text", "format": "record", "original_link": "https://libcal.uidaho.edu/event/13041855", "object_location": "", "reference_url": "/digital/mric/items/mric2024-25-009.html" }, { "title": "Maintaining a Sustainable Wardrobe", "presenter": "Chelsey Byrd Lewallen", "affiliation": "Family and Consumer Sciences", "date": "2024-10-29", "academic_year": "2024/25", "record_type": "event", "type": "Text", "format": "record", "original_link": "https://lib.uidaho.edu/events/renfrew.html", "object_location": "", "reference_url": "/digital/mric/items/mric2024-25-010.html" }, { "title": "Making Sense of the 2024 Election Results: What Happened and Why?", "presenter": "Rebecca Scofield; Pavielle Haines; Markie McBrayer; Michael Overton", "affiliation": "History; Politics and Philosophy", "date": "2024-11-12", "academic_year": "2024/25", "record_type": "event", "type": "Text", "format": "record", "original_link": "https://lib.uidaho.edu/events/renfrew.html", "object_location": "", "reference_url": "/digital/mric/items/mric2024-25-013.html" }, { "title": "JournalMap: Using AI to Map the Where of Science", "presenter": "Jason Karl; Jeremy Kenyon", "affiliation": "Forest, Rangeland, and Fire Sciences; Library", "date": "2024-11-19", "academic_year": "2024/25", "record_type": "event", "type": "Text", "format": "record", "original_link": "https://lib.uidaho.edu/events/renfrew.html", "object_location": "", "reference_url": "/digital/mric/items/mric2024-25-015.html" }, { "title": "The Spear is Definitely a Phallus: The Sexual Power and Humor of Martial Images in Ancient Rome", "presenter": "Alyson Roy", "affiliation": "History", "date": "2025-01-28", "academic_year": "2024/25", "record_type": "event", "type": "Text", "format": "record", "original_link": "https://libcal.uidaho.edu/event/14042041", "object_location": "", "reference_url": "/digital/mric/items/mric2024-25-017.html" }, { "title": "Resistance and Rebirth: How French Students Recovered from World War II", "presenter": "Annalise Walkama", "affiliation": "Idaho Society of Fellows", "date": "2025-02-04", "academic_year": "2024/25", "record_type": "event", "type": "Text", "format": "record", "original_link": "https://libcal.uidaho.edu/event/14042065", "object_location": "", "reference_url": "/digital/mric/items/mric2024-25-018.html" }, { "title": "Playful Math", "presenter": "Robert Ely", "affiliation": "Mathematics", "date": "2025-02-11", "academic_year": "2024/25", "record_type": "event", "type": "Text", "format": "record", "original_link": "https://libcal.uidaho.edu/event/14042084", "object_location": "", "reference_url": "/digital/mric/items/mric2024-25-019.html" }, { "title": "Why Black Studies Matter", "presenter": "Janis Johnson", "affiliation": "English", "date": "2025-02-18", "academic_year": "2024/25", "record_type": "event", "type": "Text", "format": "record", "original_link": "https://libcal.uidaho.edu/event/14042121", "object_location": "", "reference_url": "/digital/mric/items/mric2024-25-020.html" }, { "title": "America 250: Opportunities and Considerations for Our Campus Community", "presenter": "Dulce Kersting-Lark; Nathan Moody", "affiliation": "Library; History", "date": "2025-02-25", "academic_year": "2024/25", "record_type": "event", "type": "Text", "format": "record", "original_link": "https://libcal.uidaho.edu/event/14042127", "object_location": "", "reference_url": "/digital/mric/items/mric2024-25-021.html" }, { "title": "Mystery Man: The Very Strange Life of Fred Lee Crisman", "presenter": "Rick Spence", "affiliation": "History", "date": "2025-03-04", "academic_year": "2024/25", "record_type": "event", "type": "Text", "format": "record", "original_link": "https://libcal.uidaho.edu/event/14042140", "object_location": "", "reference_url": "/digital/mric/items/mric2024-25-022.html" }, { "title": "What Japanese Pop Culture Monsters Say About Who We Are", "presenter": "Yasheng She", "affiliation": "Habib Institute for Asian Studies", "date": "2025-03-18", "academic_year": "2024/25", "record_type": "event", "type": "Text", "format": "record", "original_link": "https://libcal.uidaho.edu/event/14042146", "object_location": "", "reference_url": "/digital/mric/items/mric2024-25-023.html" }, { "title": "On Her Game: Caitlin Clark and the Revolution in Women's Sports", "presenter": "Christine Brennan", "affiliation": "USA Today", "description": "Oppenheimer Symposium panel featuring Christine Brennan, sports columnist, USA Today", "date": "2025-03-25", "academic_year": "2024/25", "record_type": "event", "type": "Text", "format": "record", "original_link": "https://libcal.uidaho.edu/event/14043514", "object_location": "", "reference_url": "/digital/mric/items/mric2024-25-024.html" }, { "title": "Challenges of Explaining Armed Conflict and Political Violence to Undergraduates", "presenter": "Jhon Bonilla Aranzales", "affiliation": "Idaho Society of Fellows", "date": "2025-04-01", "academic_year": "2024/25", "record_type": "event", "type": "Text", "format": "record", "original_link": "https://libcal.uidaho.edu/event/14043580", "object_location": "", "reference_url": "/digital/mric/items/mric2024-25-025.html" }, { "title": "Un/Trammeling Taylor: A Panel Discussion Between Archivers and Archival Subjects of the Taylor Wilderness Research Station Archive", "presenter": "Jack Kredell; Devin Becker", "affiliation": "Environmental Studies; Library", "description": "The newly created Taylor Wilderness Research Station Archive is a digital repository for the University of Idaho’s renowned scientific field station, TWRS, which sits in the heart of the 2,360,000-acre Frank Church-River of No Return wilderness. The Wilderness Act of 1964 preserved areas that it deemed “untrammeled by man, where man himself is a visitor who does not remain” (Wilderness Act). From an archival perspective, questions arise as to how to reconcile and present an archive of human history within/against a wilderness defined by minimal human impact. This panel discussion between two of the archive’s developers, PhD candidate Jack Kredell and Librarian Devin Becker, and two of its archival subjects, former TWRS faculty coordinator Ed Krumpe and ecohydrologist Grace Peven, explores what it means to be ‘history’ in relation to wilderness and wilderness study. The presentation will also feature interviews, visualizations, and highlights from the TWRS archives project.", "biography": "Jack Kredell is a PhD candidate in Environmental Science at the University of Idaho’s College of Natural Resources. His PhD work explores the discursive framings and feeling structures of the contemporary wildfire crisis. He has also collaborated on several public-facing archival projects funded by the library’s Center for Digital Inquiry and Learning—Storying Extinction: Responding to the Loss of North Idaho’s Mountain Caribou and Keeping Watch—that explore rural environmental change issues within Idaho and the western United States.\n\nDevin Becker is the Associate Dean for Research and Instruction at the University of Idaho Library, where he also co-directs the Center for Digital Inquiry and Learning (CDIL) and oversees the development of the digital exhibit framework CollectionBuilder. He holds an MFA in Creative Writing from the University of California, Irvine and an MLS from Indiana University. His first book of poetry, Shame | Shame, was awarded the A. Poulin Jr. Poetry Prize and published by BOA Editions, Ltd. in 2015.\n\nEd Krumpe is a recognized expert in wilderness management and natural resource planning. He served as a professor and department head in the Department of Conservation Social Sciences within the College of Natural Resources for 37 years. His work focuses on wilderness planning, public involvement in natural resource management, sustainable recreation practices, and monitoring human impacts in wildland recreation settings. He served as a faculty coordinator and advisor for the Taylor Wilderness Research Station from its formative years in 1979 until 2020. Recently he has served as Chair of the board of directors of the Selway Bitterroot Frank Church Foundation.\n\nGrace Peven is a PhD candidate in the Water Resources program at the University of Idaho in Moscow. She has spent three seasons at Taylor Wilderness Research Station exploring how groundwater from springs contributes to landscape resilience from high-severity wildfire, drought, and climate change.", "date": "2025-04-08", "academic_year": "2024/25", "record_type": "event", "type": "Text", "format": "record", "original_link": "https://libcal.uidaho.edu/event/14043614", "object_location": "", "reference_url": "/digital/mric/items/mric2024-25-026.html" }, { "title": "Managing Multiple Crises with Information and Communication Technology: Theory versus Reality", "presenter": "Tahmineh Borhani", "affiliation": "Idaho Society of Fellows", "date": "2025-04-22", "academic_year": "2024/25", "record_type": "event", "type": "Text", "format": "record", "original_link": "https://libcal.uidaho.edu/event/14043643", "object_location": "", "reference_url": "/digital/mric/items/mric2024-25-027.html" }, { "title": "Ghana's Cocoa and the Middle-Value Added Trap: More Politics than Economics", "presenter": "Constance Sorkpor", "affiliation": "Idaho Society of Fellows", "date": "2025-04-29", "academic_year": "2024/25", "record_type": "event", "type": "Text", "format": "record", "original_link": "https://libcal.uidaho.edu/event/14043647", "object_location": "", "reference_url": "/digital/mric/items/mric2024-25-028.html" }, { "title": "EASY for humans, HARD for AI: Metaphor Abstraction and Reasoning", "presenter": "Bert Baumgaertner", "affiliation": "Politics and Philosophy", "date": "2025-09-02", "academic_year": "2025/26", "record_type": "event", "type": "Text", "format": "record", "original_link": "https://libcal.uidaho.edu/event/15239107", "object_location": "", "reference_url": "/digital/mric/items/mric2025-26-001.html" }, { "title": "The Kibbie Dome Becomes History", "presenter": "Nels Reese", "affiliation": "Architecture", "date": "2025-09-09", "academic_year": "2025/26", "record_type": "event", "type": "Text", "format": "record", "original_link": "https://libcal.uidaho.edu/event/15239126", "object_location": "", "reference_url": "/digital/mric/items/mric2025-26-002.html" }, { "title": "Burn It All Down: The Feminist Imagination in 20th Century Dragon Riding Fiction", "presenter": "Rebecca Scofield", "affiliation": "History", "date": "2025-09-16", "academic_year": "2025/26", "record_type": "event", "type": "Text", "format": "record", "original_link": "https://libcal.uidaho.edu/event/15239186", "object_location": "", "reference_url": "/digital/mric/items/mric2025-26-003.html" }, { "title": "Voices and Votes: Democracy in America", "presenter": "Markie McBrayer", "affiliation": "Politics and Philosophy", "date": "2025-09-23", "academic_year": "2025/26", "record_type": "event", "type": "Text", "format": "record", "original_link": "https://libcal.uidaho.edu/event/15239241", "object_location": "", "reference_url": "/digital/mric/items/mric2025-26-004.html" }, { "title": "“Should I Stay or Should I Go?”: Air Quality and Behavioral Decision-Making", "presenter": "Chris Zajchowski", "affiliation": "Natural Resources and Society", "date": "2025-10-07", "academic_year": "2025/26", "record_type": "event", "type": "Text", "format": "record", "original_link": "https://libcal.uidaho.edu/event/15239315", "object_location": "", "reference_url": "/digital/mric/items/mric2025-26-005.html" }, { "title": "Behind the Scenes at Idaho Reports", "presenter": "Alex Ruble", "affiliation": "History", "description": "Overview: \n\nIdaho Reports has filled a unique role in Idaho’s media landscape for the past five decades. While delivery platforms, schedules, and audience behaviors have changed, the mission of Idaho’s only statewide news program remains the same.To celebrate the 60th anniversary of Idaho Public Television, this program will present a behind-the-scenes look at the West’s longest-running public policy show. Hear how Idaho Reports is adapting to the same industry shifts that all news outlets face, while navigating the unique challenges of a public media system in a rural state. As journalism continues to find its footing in an increasingly online and partisan world, Davin will offer insights into the program’s editorial decisions as it reaches audiences across the state.", "date": "2025-10-14", "academic_year": "2025/26", "record_type": "event", "type": "Text", "format": "record", "original_link": "https://libcal.uidaho.edu/event/15239342", "object_location": "", "reference_url": "/digital/mric/items/mric2025-26-006.html" }, { "title": "“Perpetual Prisoners: The Postwar Lives of Hitler’s Political Enemies”", "presenter": "Melissa Davlin", "affiliation": "Idaho Public Television", "description": "Overview: “Perpetual Prisoners: The Postwar Lives of Hitler’s Political Enemies” explores how and why former political prisoners, specifically the victims of National Socialism, were reintegrated, commemorated, and forgotten in the three postwar German states (West Germany, East Germany, and reunified Germany) between 1945 and 2010. Initially celebrated as living proof that fascism had been defeated, former political prisoners gradually came to be seen as a financial and social burden, viewed with suspicion, and silenced. This presentation examines how former prisoners and their dependents navigated the complex matrix of occupation bureaucracy in hopes of recognition in the early postwar years.", "date": "2025-10-21", "academic_year": "2025/26", "record_type": "event", "type": "Text", "format": "record", "original_link": "https://libcal.uidaho.edu/event/15239357", "object_location": "", "reference_url": "/digital/mric/items/mric2025-26-007.html" }, { "title": "Project Evergreen: An Autonomous Weed Eradication Robot", "presenter": "John Shovic; Brent Knopp", "affiliation": "Center for Intelligent Industrial Robotics", "date": "2025-10-28", "academic_year": "2025/26", "record_type": "event", "type": "Text", "format": "record", "original_link": "https://libcal.uidaho.edu/event/15239374", "object_location": "", "reference_url": "/digital/mric/items/mric2025-26-008.html" }, { "title": "The Blues and the Rule of Law: Musical Expressions of the Failure of Justice as a Catalyst for Change", "presenter": "David Pimentel", "affiliation": "Law", "date": "2025-11-04", "academic_year": "2025/26", "record_type": "event", "type": "Text", "format": "record", "original_link": "https://libcal.uidaho.edu/event/15239382", "object_location": "", "reference_url": "/digital/mric/items/mric2025-26-009.html" }, { "title": "How to Keep Wildlife Vaccines from Affecting Human Populations", "presenter": "Scott Nuismer", "affiliation": "Biological Sciences", "date": "2025-11-11", "academic_year": "2025/26", "record_type": "event", "type": "Text", "format": "record", "original_link": "https://libcal.uidaho.edu/event/15239464", "object_location": "", "reference_url": "/digital/mric/items/mric2025-26-010.html" }, { "title": "Impact of Tariffs on International Trade, U.S. Consumers and Financial Markets", "presenter": "Terrance Grieb; Steven Peterson", "affiliation": "Business; Economics", "date": "2025-11-18", "academic_year": "2025/26", "record_type": "event", "type": "Text", "format": "record", "original_link": "https://libcal.uidaho.edu/event/15239472", "object_location": "", "reference_url": "/digital/mric/items/mric2025-26-011.html" }, { "title": "Labels, Stereotypes and Bandwagons: How Social Media Shape Stereotypes and Emotions Towards Immigrants", "presenter": "Moritz Cleve", "affiliation": "Journalism and Mass Media", "date": "2025-12-02", "academic_year": "2025/26", "record_type": "event", "type": "Text", "format": "record", "original_link": "https://libcal.uidaho.edu/event/15240115", "object_location": "", "reference_url": "/digital/mric/items/mric2025-26-012.html" }, { "title": "How Ethics and Politics Affect Methods for Biological Anthropology and Archeology", "presenter": "Katharine Kolpan", "affiliation": "Culture, Society and Justice", "date": "2025-12-09", "academic_year": "2025/26", "record_type": "event", "type": "Text", "format": "record", "original_link": "https://libcal.uidaho.edu/event/15240123", "object_location": "", "reference_url": "/digital/mric/items/mric2025-26-013.html" }, { "title": "2026: The Year of Rangelands and Pastoralists: Landscapes, Livelihoods, and Legacy", "presenter": "Karen Launchbaugh", "affiliation": "Forest, Rangeland, and Fire Sciences", "date": "2026-01-20", "academic_year": "2025/26", "record_type": "event", "type": "Text", "format": "record", "original_link": "https://libcal.uidaho.edu/event/16249447", "object_location": "", "reference_url": "/digital/mric/items/mric2025-26-014.html" }, { "title": "The Mountain is Part of Us: Tourism, Community, and American Indian Sacred Land in Northern Arizona", "presenter": "William Holly", "affiliation": "History; 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The panelists will describe how their work as humanities fellows in the College of Letters and Science led to a weekly seminar series to showcase the work of their colleagues around the university. The first colloquium was September 11, 2001. Professor Emeritus Kenton Bird will moderate a discussion about the colloquium’s history and the nature of interdisciplinary collaboration at University of Idaho and elsewhere.", "biography": "Dan Bukvich has been teaching, composing, performing, and conducting at University of Idaho since 1976. Bukvich’s 50 years at University of Idaho and 47 years of full-time teaching make him the longest continually serving faculty member in the history of the School of Music. Bukvich’s other ongoing contributions to the cultural life of the campus include the Jazz Choirs Holiday Concert, Dancers Drummers Dreamers, the Renfrew Interdisciplinary Colloquium, the summer Arboretum Concert, and the Bukvich Music Composition Manuscripts Special Collection in the Main Library.\n\nRick Fehrenbacher taught medieval and Renaissance literature for 20 years at University of Idaho and served as first director of its Distance and Extended Education division. He then served as Seattle University’s associate provost for academic technology and innovation, dean of its School of New and Continuing Studies, and director of the Center of Digital Learning and Innovation. His research interests included technology and teaching, AR/VR, and the digital humanities. Many of these interests found their provenance in the “Tools Are Us” symposium in 2000-2001 that was part of his collaborations with Professors Bukvich and O’Rourke as Humanities Fellows. He is now retired and lives on Bainbridge Island, Washington.\n\nMichael O’Rourke is professor of philosophy and a faculty member in AgBioResearch and Environmental Science and Policy at Michigan State University. He is executive director of the Toolbox Dialogue Initiative Center, a research and outreach center that uses philosophical approaches to build collaborative capacity in cross-disciplinary teams around the world. His research interests include interdisciplinary theory, epistemology, and communication and epistemic integration in collaborative, cross-disciplinary research. 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