This interview was conducted by Dr. George Garrison with Phyllis Thompson Hyatt, and Elsie White Springs for his history project on Emmett Scott High School. The school was the segregated high school for African Americans in...
Carol Marchel, an associate professor of education in the Richard W. Riley College of Education, will help develop service-learning sites at area schools as Winthrop's third Thompson Scholar.
Spanish professor Pedro Muñoz has been chosen as the new Thompson Scholar. Muñoz, a native of Spain, will spend a year researching service learning courses for at-risk Hispanic students.
The native of Kobe, Japan, said that she has grown dissatisfied with the theory textbook she has used and wants to create her own book that incorporates technology and literature by non-Western composers. Deguchi will use her...
Phil Moody, photography, has been named the inaugural Thompson Scholar. Moody will direct a digital photography project with rural S.C. students in 2006-2007.
Monolayer transition metal dichalcogenides (TMDs) are being investigated as active materials in optoelectronic devices due to their strong excitonic effects. While mechanical exfoliation (ME) of monolayer TMDs is limited to...
Bob Thompson elected by General Assembly to Winthrop's Board of Trustees. Thompson, along with Karl Folkens and Donna Tinsley, will serve six-year terms.
Toshia Shaw's talk will be at 7 p.m. on April 19 in Dina's Place. It is a free cultural event. This is the 15h installment of the Dorothy Perry Thompson Colloquium.
Helf, an assistant professor of reading in the Department of Curriculum and Pedagogy, has participated in the statewide literacy reform discussions for the past three years and followed the passage last summer of the Read to...
The lecture will be in Whitton Auditorium, located within Vivian Moore Carroll Hall. It is a free cultural event and is open to the public. The evolution of racism in America's schools is the focus of Winthrop University's 13th...
This article re-examines E. P. Thompson’s The Making of the English Working Class (London: Gollancz, 1963) as an attempt to resolve problems of Communist cultural thought that were derived from literary modernism, centring upon...
Inside this issue:
At a Glance
Letter from Kaela Frenchman '24 and Olivia DeFusco '24
Letter from Jack Thompson '24
Honoring Dr. Scott Deacle and Investment Team Updates
UCIMCO Investment Performance and Analysis
Endowment...
Epidemiological models are routinely used to predict the effects of interventions aimed at reducing the impacts of Ebola epidemics. Most models of interventions targeting symptomatic hosts, such as isolation or treatment, assume...
The aim of the current study was to examine the potential relationship between sleep patterns, cortisol levels, and anxiety profiles in adolescents with Williams Syndrome (WS) compared to typically developing...
In typical infants, the achievement of independent locomotion has a positive impact on the development of both small-scale and large-scale spatial cognition. Here we investigated whether this association between the motor and...
Wolfram syndrome (WS) is an ultra-rare progressive neurodegenerative disorder defined by early-onset diabetes mellitus and optic atrophy. The majority of patients harbour recessive mutations in the WFS1 gene, which encodes for...
Wolfram Syndrome (WS) is an ultra-rare, progressive neurodegenerative disease characterized by early-onset diabetes mellitus and irreversible loss of vision, secondary to optic nerve degeneration. Visual loss in WS is...
The appearance of circulating islet-specific autoantibodies before disease diagnosis is a hallmark of human type 1 diabetes (T1D), and suggests a role for B cells in the pathogenesis of the disease. Alterations in the peripheral...
In 1971 Natalie Zemon Davis published a seminal article in the pages of Past and Present, entitled ‘The Reasons of Misrule: Youth Groups and Charivaris in Sixteenth-Century France’. A study of the carnivalesque rituals of...
New York Times sportswriter William C. Rhoden is keynote speaker for the ninth annual Dorothy Perry Thompson Colloquium April 12. The colloquium honors late English professor Dorothy Perry Thompson.
BACKGROUND: Werner syndrome (WS) is an autosomal recessive progeroid syndrome caused by variants in WRN. The International Registry of Werner Syndrome has identified biallelic pathogenic variants in 179/188 cases of classical...
William Sterling Battis lectures Varsity letters awarded Freshmen victorious Concert by Handel Choral Society Kerr Thompson to lead 1911 football team Seminary notes Birthday surprise
Various materials have been used since ancient times to help immobilise fractures. In this review, we discuss the history and developments of these materials as well as plaster of Paris. There has been a recent trend away from...
The incidence of knee ligament injury is increasing and represents a significant cost to healthcare providers. Current interventions include tissue grafts, suture repair and non-surgical management. These techniques have...