Search

Results: 4475
Interview with Mark Cooke
Mark Cooke
Jan 01, 0001
In his March 25, 2015 interview with Jenna Kasmarik, Mark Cooke details the role Title IX has played in athletics at Winthrop. Cooke details changes in recruitment and facilities. He also shares why he's stayed at Winthrop for...
Published by: Winthrop University
Mark Twain Circle of America Welcomes Winthrop Professor as President
Winthrop University
Jan 01, 0001
The Mark Twain Circle is the most important academic association of Twain scholars and enthusiasts with more than 200 members internationally. Bird's first book on Twain, "Mark Twain and Metaphor," published in 2007.
Published by: Winthrop University
Dispossession, exploitation or employment? Youth livelihoods and extractive industry investment in Sierra Leone
Roy Maconachie
Oct 01, 2014
The impacts that increased transnational extractive industry investments are having on local populations in natural resource-rich regions of sub-Saharan Africa are diverse, far-reaching and complex. A surge of recent investment...
Published by:
You’re in the Army Now:
Alex Neads
Dec 31, 2020
Military integration is intended to facilitate postconflict stabilization by creating unified armed forces from formerly antagonistic armed groups. However, integrated armies often struggle to overcome the factional identities...
Published by:
Dispossession, exploitation or employment? Youth livelihoods and extractive industry investment in Sierra Leone
Roy Maconachie
Oct 01, 2014
The impacts that increased transnational extractive industry investments are having on local populations in natural resource-rich regions of sub-Saharan Africa are diverse, far-reaching and complex. A surge of recent investment...
Published by:
English Professor John Bird Discovers Never-Before-Published Mark Twain Children's Story
Winthrop University
Jan 01, 0001
Called "The Purloining of Prince Oleomargarine," it is the story of a young boy who eats a flower sprouted by a magical seed and gains the ability to talk to animals. Bird said he spotted Twain's notes on the story while...
Published by: Winthrop University
One-Room Schoolhouse Scholar Mark Dewalt Appears in Documentary
Winthrop University
Jan 01, 0001
"Country School: One Room - One Nation," written and produced by award-winning filmmakers Tammy and Kelly Rundle ("Villisca: Living with a Mystery" and "Lost Nation: The Ioway"), will be screened Nov. 19-21 at the State...
Published by: Winthrop University
You’re in the Army Now:
Alex Neads
Dec 31, 2020
Military integration is intended to facilitate postconflict stabilization by creating unified armed forces from formerly antagonistic armed groups. However, integrated armies often struggle to overcome the factional identities...
Published by:
Mark Evans '06 Offers Incoming Students Good Advice at Convocation Ceremony
Winthrop University
Jan 01, 0001
Mark Evans '06, the supply chain manager for the Americas division of BSN Medical, delivered the Aug. 22 Convocation keynote address. Convocation serves as an official welcome to freshmen and their induction into the Winthrop...
Published by: Winthrop University
Politics, development and the instrumentalisation of (de)centralisation in Sierra Leone
Felix Marco Conteh
Mar 27, 2017
The politics of decentralisation reforms in Sierra Leone are unpredictable and instructive. This article, based on fieldwork, analyses party politics within the context of decentralisation, arguing that the imperatives of...
Published by:
Politics, development and the instrumentalisation of (de)centralisation in Sierra Leone
Felix Marco Conteh
Mar 27, 2017
The politics of decentralisation reforms in Sierra Leone are unpredictable and instructive. This article, based on fieldwork, analyses party politics within the context of decentralisation, arguing that the imperatives of...
Published by:
Delivering Higher Education in Public Health Emergencies
Thomas Songu
Jan 01, 2022
With the general closure of universities and schools in Sierra Leone due to the COVID-19 pandemic, digital learning has become a credible alternative to maintain students in educational, training, and research links. The study...
Decoding 5HMC as an Active Chromatin Mark in the Brain and its Link to Rett Syndrome
Pinar Ayata
Jan 01, 0001
Functions of the nervous system are accompanied at the cellular level by changes in gene expression, regulated by transcription factors and epigenetic mechanisms, such as histone modifications and DNA methylation, that are...
Published by: Rockefeller University
How the Environment Shapes Tactile Sensing
The mechanical properties of a sensor strongly affect its tactile sensing capabilities. By exploiting tactile filters, mechanical structures between the sensing unit and the environment, it is possible to tune the...
Published by:
‘The real life of language’
Mick Gowar, Mark Wormald
Sep 10, 2018
Mark Wormald and Mick Gowar both teach in universities in the city of Cambridge – Mark at Pembroke College, and the Faculty of English, University of Cambridge; Mick at the Cambridge School of Art, and Faculty of Arts, Law and...
Published by:

|<

<

1

2

3

4

5

>

>|