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In the Tapestry that is Pingree's intellectual and spiritual life, Eugene England's influence not only figures as a prominent color, but helps to shape the pattern for the weave itself. The model that Gene helped fashion, then, deeply impressed Pingree in the principles of learner-teacher interdependence, interdisciplinary inquiry, and the value of attending to the \"whole person.\" Pingree learned to live adventurously through travel when she joined Gene and his family--and a remarkable group of other students and faculty--on a six-month Study Abroad to London in 1985.

Institutions of all types attend to their educational missions, but at a research university, the focus on good teaching feels countercultural. Teaching centers on research university campuses face unique challenges as they work to fulfill their mission of improving teaching and student learning. Institutional requests for faculty development programs that sponsor or support pedagogical innovations in general education, blended and online learning, first-year seminars, learning and teaching commons, and new classroom spaces have mushroomed over the last few years. The instructional consultants at the Schreyer Institute have implemented a variety of methods to increase faculty awareness and use of services. A key factor in the success of SciFri is building trust and community among faculty, all of whom are time-poor and overcommitted but care deeply about teaching. The common thread running through these narratives is the creativity and adaptability needed to make a teaching center flourish at a research university.

This dissertation explores how personal identity is constructed and marked through distinctive bodily and linguistic features, as well as the cultural and philosophical problems posed when such \"signs\" are blurred through replication. Personal identity is most often \"read\" in the concrete facts of the human body--in faces, gestures, shapes, voices, even disfigurements. Names, too, acting as the body's linguistic equivalent--categorize and reflect essence through language. If personal identity is thus defined, what are both the threats and the attractions of figures who appropriate those marks through replication? I use the term \"replication\" deliberately; its etymology reveals that over the centuries its meaning has evolved from notions of \"answering\" and \"folding back\" to more contemporary uses of the term to connote mechanical and asexual reproduction. My study analyzes characters and relationships which parallel this process--striving towards dialogue yet ending with solitude and incompleteness. Mark Twain, Sherwood Anderson, Eudora Welty and Carson McCullers depict a bizarre array of replicative forms: twins (both physically conjoined and separate), townspeople with (mutations of) the same name, would-be lovers mimicking each others' gestures, parents shaping children into \"copies\" of themselves, even characters who share the same bodily aberrations. In a way that is startlingly concrete, these figures duplicate the \"signs\" which usually have marked a singular identity, thus complicating cultural beliefs about the possibility (and necessity) that persons are distinct entities. Paradoxically, these figures of replication both invoke and unravel certain ideologies in which identifiability is most important--individual agency and domesticity, in particular. The ensuing confusions emerge, then, not because these replications pose a diametrical opposite to an ideal, but because they embody it all too tangibly. These paradoxical processes are deeply intertwined with the context from which these authors write. Late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century American culture teems with energies and anxieties that make identifiability both more difficult and more crucial: increased racial tensions in the wake of the Civil War and vast amounts of immigrations, technological advances that made it more possible to enact replicative processes, and growing urban population which increasingly erased individual identity into masses.

In the early 1830s, as spectators lined up in towns across the United States for the celebrated event, they found for sale a publicity pamphlet purporting to give “an historical account,” based on “actual observations,” of the human exhibit they were about to see. The cover and title page greeted them with a familiar sight: an eagle, sporting a banner reading “E Pluribus Unum” in its beak, with the motto “‘United We Stand’” inscribed below (see Figure 5.1). Such an image, of course, was unmistakably American: though the nation was only a few decades old, already these symbols circulated widely,

Pingree reviews Creating the Future of Faculty Development: Learning from the Past, Understanding the Present by Mary Deane Sorcinelli, Ann E. Austin, Pamela L. Eddy, and Andrea L. Beach.

The Juno Microwave Radiometer (MWR) is a six-frequency scientific instrument designed and built to investigate the deep atmosphere of Jupiter. It is one of a suite of instruments on NASA’s New Frontiers Mission Juno launched to Jupiter on August 5, 2011. The focus of this paper is the description of the scientific objectives of the MWR investigation along with the experimental design, observational approach, and calibration that will achieve these objectives, based on the Juno mission plan up to Jupiter orbit insertion on July 4, 2016. With frequencies distributed approximately by octave from 600 MHz to 22 GHz, the MWR will sample the atmospheric thermal radiation from depths extending from the ammonia cloud region at around 1 bar to pressure levels as deep as 1000 bars. The primary scientific objectives of the MWR investigation are to determine the presently unknown dynamical properties of Jupiter’s subcloud atmosphere and to determine the global abundance of oxygen and nitrogen, present in the atmosphere as water and ammonia deep below their respective cloud decks. The MWR experiment is designed to measure both the thermal radiation from Jupiter and its emission-angle dependence at each frequency relative to the atmospheric local normal with high accuracy. The antennas at the four highest frequencies (21.9, 10.0, 5.2, and 2.6 GHz) have ∼12° beamwidths and will achieve a spatial resolution approaching 600 km near perijove. The antennas at the lowest frequencies (0.6 and 1.25 GHz) are constrained by physical size limitations and have 20° beamwidths, enabling a spatial resolution of as high as 1000 km to be obtained. The MWR will obtain Jupiter’s brightness temperature and its emission-angle dependence at each point along the subspacecraft track, over angles up to 60° from the normal over most latitudes, during at least six perijove passes after orbit insertion. The emission-angle dependence will be obtained for all frequencies to an accuracy of better than one part in 10 3 , sufficient to detect small variations in atmospheric temperature and absorber concentration profiles that distinguish dynamical and compositional properties of the deep Jovian atmosphere.