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Interview with Isabel Potter
Isabel Potter
Jan 01, 0001
In her April 22, 1980 interview with Jeff Clark, Isabel Potter shares her experience as a Biology instructor during the Depression. Potter recalls how budget changes affected her classes and the general atmosphere on campus....
Published by: Winthrop University
Digital Barriers and Individual Coping Behaviors in Distance Education During COVID-19
Isabel Gan, Rui Sun
Jan 01, 2022
Information and communication technologies (ICT) have played a pivotal role in facilitating knowledge acquisition and enabling distance education. Yet, knowledge about digital divide in distance education remains limited. This...
Counterspace Support for BIPOC Employees Within a Holistic JEDI Library Framework
This chapter presents a case study of how an academic library supports Black, Indigenous, and People of Color (BIPOC) employees with funding so these workers can find counterspaces (spaces where they can feel safe in community...
Levelling Up Language Learning
This study examines the use of gamification as an innovative assessment approach to foreign language learning with 12–14-year-old students. A mixed methodology has been applied. Quantitative data have been collected from...
Women & Science: Supporting the Advancement of Women in Science
Under the leadership of President Torsten Wiesel, Rockefeller made an institutional commitment in the mid- 1990s to increase the number of women on its faculty and to do all that it could to support women scientists, at all...
Winthrop English Majors Recognized at International Conference
Winthrop University
Jan 01, 0001
Senior Alex Muller, president of the Winthrop Iota Mu Chapter of Sigma Tau Delta and editor of the Winthrop Literary Magazine The Anthology, was awarded the $4,000 Sigma Tau Delta Senior Scholarship for his outstanding scholarly...
Published by: Winthrop University
Online Collaborative Learning Using Microsoft Teams in Higher Education Amid COVID-19
Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, most universities needed to move to online teaching and learning, in some cases with very limited knowledge or experience in running online programmes. Engaging students online has become an...
Pride and Prejudice: A Modern, Queer Retelling for the Stage
Kate Isabel Foley
Jan 01, 0001
In the course of studying LGBTQ topics in a queer drama class, I noticed that there was a glaring omission in our readings: the "B." However, this lack of bisexual representation wasn't due to a poor syllabus, but to a dismaying...
Published by: Ursinus College
Has Academic Freedom Failed? Can Liberalism Defend Academic Freedom?
Daniel Becker
Jan 01, 0001
Academic freedom has been a keystone of American higher education for over 100 years. It is the freedom of academics to instruct and research, free from interference by both their institutions, and the government. It is often...
Published by: Ursinus College
Neural activity in human ventromedial prefrontal cortex reflecting the intention to save reward.
Saving behavior usually requires individuals to perform several consecutive choices before collecting the final reward. The overt behavior is preceded by an intention to perform an appropriate choice sequence. We studied saving...
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Cross-assignment discrimination in pay
The traditional Becker/Arrow style model of discrimination depicts majority and minority workers as perfectly substitutable inputs, implying that all workers have the same job assignment. The model is only appropriate for...
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The Ursinus Weekly, April 20, 1942
Former Jap consul to address final forum Wednesday Becker and Trout elected as student government prexies Death of Dr. Sibbald comes as blow to entire campus Pennington head will speak to vespers Sunday French students to...
Published by: Ursinus College
Imprints from idea origin on innovation and the development environment
This study builds on the evolutionary and organization literatures to explore how the nature of innovation outcomes was influenced by the innovation’s original idea and the environment in which it was developed. We use data from...
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Interpreting the Ursinus Food Forest: Visualizing, Designing, and Realizing Signage at the Whittaker Environmental Research Station (WERS)
Sarah Becker
Jan 01, 0001
In the fall Ursinus will begin planting the initial species of its food forest on two acres at the Whittaker Environmental Research Station (WERS), an agricultural field currently characterized by livestock forage species, just...
Published by: Ursinus College
Convergence Rates for Quantum Evolution and Entropic Continuity Bounds in Infinite Dimensions
Abstract: By extending the concept of energy-constrained diamond norms, we obtain continuity bounds on the dynamics of both closed and open quantum systems in infinite dimensions, which are stronger than previously known bounds....
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Spectral Gap in Mean-Field O(n) -Model
S Becker, A Menegaki
Nov 17, 2020
AbstractWe study the dependence of the spectral gap for the generator of the Ginzburg–Landau dynamics for all$$\mathcal...
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What Influences the Prevalence and Intensity of Haemoparasites and Ectoparasites in an Insular Lizard?
Island biogeography theories predict that characteristics such as island size, age, and isolation interplay in host-parasite dynamics. In this study, we analyzed haemogregarines of the Aegean wall lizard, Podarcis...

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