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  • Looking at the sunny side of life: emotion and how it affects our thinking across the lifespan
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    Psychology; Aging; Emotions
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    Mood is the filter through which we see the world. As such, it consistently accompanies us throughout our lives, sometimes with a consistent inconsistency. Working with undergraduates, Stacey Wood, Assistant Professor of Psychology at Scripps...
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    2005-04-05
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  • The pleasure of the blog: the early novel, the serial, and the narrative archive
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    Blogs; Literary form;
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    Blogs have in the last couple of years loomed large in the Western imagination, but the ideas about blogs that have circulated both through the mainstream media and through academia have been extremely limited in scope. In the popular imagination,...
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    2006-10-11
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  • Speaking through walls: political murals in Northern Ireland
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    Belfast (Northern Ireland); Northern Ireland; Northern Ireland - Symbolic representation; Street art; Mural painting and decoration; Sinn Féin;
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    From the start of The Troubles in 1969 to the signing of the Belfast Agreement in 1998, Northern Ireland was the site of a violent conflict fought out between the British State, the Irish Republican Movement, and Loyalist Paramilitary Forces....
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    2006-10-26
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  • Through the glass closet: the homosexual origins of the American right
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    Chambers, Whittaker; Homosexuality - Political aspects - United States; Cold War; Communism - United States - History - 20th century; Right and left (Political science); Gay men - Political activity; Hoover, J. Edgar (John Edgar), 1895-1972; Hiss,...
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    Whittaker Chambers was a major figure in the intellectual development of the American right in the post-war period. During his tenure at Time Magazine during the Cold War, he championed a fervent anti-communist viewpoint, identifying an existential...
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    2008-02-21
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  • Globalization, the end of apartheid, and environmental crisis in South Africa
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    South Africa; South Africa - Environmental conditions; Natural resources - South Africa; Globalization;
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    When we think of South Africa, we often think of the recent past, charged with the history of Apartheid. But South Africa is also one of the world's most important countries because of the natural resources it has provided to fuel the global...
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    2010-02-03
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  • Constitutional and / or unconstitutional war: a panel discussion in memory of Sen. Robert C. Byrd
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    Constitution Day and Citizenship Day (U.S.); United States. Constitution; Byrd, Robert C.; Constitutional law - United States; Iraq War, 2003-2011;
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    On September 17, 1787, the Constitution was approved by the Constitutional Convention and submitted to the people of the States for their deliberation and decision (through specially elected ratifying conventions). That other, earlier document of...
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    2010-09-15
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  • Nanotechnology for more efficient fuel cells: improving nanoelectrochemistry to optimize solid acid fuel cells interfaces
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    Nanotechnology; Nanotechnology - Environmental aspects; Electric batteries; Fuel cells; Power resources;
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    Fuel cells and batteries are likely to have a dominant role in the development of a sustainable global energy infrastructure. Batteries and fuel cells convert chemical energy to electrical energy through simultaneous electrochemical reactions at...
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    2012-02-01
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  • Public lands - public debates: a century of controversy
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    Public lands; United States. National Park Service; United States. Forest Service.
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    The U. S. manages a vast system of national forests, grasslands, parks, and refuges, landscapes that contain some of the most beautiful and resource-rich terrain in the country. Since their establishment beginning in the late 19th-century, these...
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    2012-10-31
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  • Sabbatical in my garage: building a relpica of an 18th century printing press
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    Printing presses; Isaiah Thomas & Co. (Walpole, N.H.); American Antiquarian Society
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    During his sabbatical in 2011-12, Professor of Literature and HMC Dean of Faculty Jeff Groves studied a rare wooden printing press, built in 1747, as a Fellow at the American Antiquarian Society in Worcester, MA. To obtain a practical knowledge of...
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    2013-02-28

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