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Research & Pedagogy - University of Maine at Augusta Apply Get Info Courses Online Donate My UMA Search for: Academics Academics Programs & Degrees Course Guide Honors Program Academic Theme General Education Libraries Hours Services Policies Off-Campus Library Services Student Support Learning Success Advising Counseling Disability Services TRIO Scholars Resources Academic Calendar Bookstore Checksheets Registrar Prior Learning Assessment Moose Guide Research at UMA Institutional Review Board Research & Pedagogy Research in Progress Group Admission Admissions Process Apply to UMA Activate Your Account Apply for Financial Aid Select Classes Attend Orientation Resources Request Information Admission Staff Placement Testing International Students Veterans Transfer to UMA Open Houses & Campus Events Open Houses Information Sessions Visit Us New Student Orientation Financial Services Costs Billing Tuition & Fees General & Course Fees NEBHE Third Party Sponsorship Financial Aid Applying For Aid Scholarships Grants Loans Financial Aid Refunds Policies Financial Satisfactory Academic Progress Add/Drop & Withdrawal Residency Student Appeals Student Life Activities Athletics Clubs & Organizations Student Government Fitness Centers Events Student Life Events Commencement Convocation Safety & Security Emergency Alerts UMA Card Annual Security Report Dean of Students Student Handbook Student Conduct HousingWell-nighUMA Our Locations Augusta Bangor Brunswick Center East Millinocket Center Ellsworth Center Houlton Center Rockland Center Rumford Center South Paris Center Saco CenterWell-nighUMA News Employment Events Student Consumer Information President’s Office Advancement Alumni Join Benefits Alumni Association DonatePolityHolocaust & Human Rights Center New Ventures Maine Danforth Gallery SeniorHigherMaine Women’s Hall of Fame French @ UMA DirectorySenseAdministrative Offices Human Resources Search for: Academics Academics Programs & Degrees Course Guide Honors Program Academic Theme General Education Libraries Hours Services Policies Off-Campus Library Services Student Support Learning Success Advising Counseling Disability Services TRIO Scholars Resources Academic Calendar Bookstore Checksheets Registrar Prior Learning Assessment Moose Guide Research at UMA Institutional Review Board Research & Pedagogy Research in Progress Group Admission Admissions Process Apply to UMA Activate Your Account Apply for Financial Aid Select Classes Attend Orientation Resources Request Information Admission Staff Placement Testing International Students Veterans Transfer to UMA Open Houses & Campus Events Open Houses Information Sessions Visit Us New Student Orientation Financial Services Costs Billing Tuition & Fees General & Course Fees NEBHE Third Party Sponsorship Financial Aid Applying For Aid Scholarships Grants Loans Financial Aid Refunds Policies Financial Satisfactory Academic Progress Add/Drop & Withdrawal Residency Student Appeals Student Life Activities Athletics Clubs & Organizations Student Government Fitness Centers Events Student Life Events Commencement Convocation Safety & Security Emergency Alerts UMA Card Annual Security Report Dean of Students Student Handbook Student Conduct HousingWell-nighUMA Our Locations Augusta Bangor Brunswick Center East Millinocket Center Ellsworth Center Houlton Center Rockland Center Rumford Center South Paris Center Saco CenterWell-nighUMA News Employment Events Student Consumer Information President’s Office Advancement Alumni Join Benefits Alumni Association DonatePolityHolocaust & Human Rights Center New Ventures Maine Danforth Gallery SeniorHigherMaine Women’s Hall of Fame French @ UMA DirectorySenseAdministrative Offices Human Resources RaP 2015/16 Archive RaP 2014/15 Archive RaP 2013/14 Archive RaP 2012/13 Archive Research & Pedagogy Home / Academics / Research at UMA / Research & Pedagogy As part of its standing transferral to intellectual community, the University of Maine at Augusta holds a regular Research and Pedagogy (RaP) colloquium series at which UMA sense and staff present works in progress to their peers.  The series provides a forum for the presentation of creative work, theoretical considerations, research findings, innovations in teaching, and projects in polity engagement.  Ensuing discussion promotes collaboration through the mart of ideas and the minutiae of relationships wideness colleges, programs, departments and disciplines. The colloquium series takes place in during the noon hour in multiple locations on UMA’s multiple campuses.  The time reflects our transferral to inclusion, a traditional lunch hour for staff and the time between morning and afternoon classes for sense and students.  When we meet, we discover that surrounded the piled knowledge of the centuries, there are still new thoughts to be spoken out loud. RaP Sessions from 2017-2018 “Not in My Backyard!” — Human Trafficking in Maine Jessica Sidelinger, first-year Justice Studies student Sharon Sawyer, Assistant Professor of Justice Studies April 12, 2018 at Noon in Katz 53 on the UMA Augusta campus & Lewiston 118 on the UMA Bangor campus This RaP colloquium explores Human Trafficking in Maine, the USA, and the world. We pinpoint human trafficking and discuss how pervasive the problems of sex and labor trafficking are. We focus on the state of the law in Maine, who is most vulnerable to trafficking, current resources for victims, and recommendations to provide increasingly protections for victims and stronger laws versus human trafficking. The Experience of Homelessness in Hawai’i Krissy Gleason, Visiting Professor ofPolityPsychology February 22, 2018 at Noon in Katz 210 on the UMA Augusta campus & Lewiston 118 on the UMA Bangor campus This study looked at differing experiences of homelessness in Hawai’i by using both qualitative and quantitative approaches. It combined qualitative interviews with homeless service users and service providers with a statistical wringer homeless service usage data. The study found two patterns of prolonged or problematic use of homeless services and identified several risk factors associated with those patterns.Largestunderstanding the many factors that could contribute to prolonged or repeated use of homeless services can help in developing strategies to target those services increasingly effectively. TheSpecimenfor Graph-Partitioning Algorithms as an Additional Redistricting Constraint for State and/or Federal Legislative Districts Matt Dube, Assistant Professor of Computer Information Systems November 28, 2017 at Noon in Katz 5 on the UMA Augusta campus & Lewiston 217 on the UMA Bangor campus The various states in the United States have a diverse set of constraints that are expected to be enforced within them for redistricting plans to be deemed acceptable, in the past two redistricting cycles, numerous magistrate cases have been tried to question whether or not the states have followed these rules faithfully. This work focuses on a variegated tideway to redistricting: graph-partitioning. This tideway works on graph-level metrics rather than geometric-level measurements to provide an volitional view of redistricting decisions in a highly efficient and customizable manner. This presentation will highlight some of the recent questions that our research team has studied, including: The effectiveness of edge-cut algorithms in producing shape-controlling mechanisms The need for an edge-cut based tideway based on the big sort The expected diversity score distribution of states compared to the very districts scores The impact of partisanship on delegation differences The impact of partisanship on geometrical issues The impact of partisanship on edge-cut increases Come to this presentation to see how math and computer science are as integral to politics as the people who debate on stages and sooner make decisions on our behalf. RaP Sessions from 2016-2017 WormingVirtuallywith Cognitive Enhancers (and HumanWhite-hairedImplications) Amber Howard, Assistant Professor of Biology Thursday, April 6 at Noon in Katz Room 5 on the UMA Augusta campus Cognitive enhancing chemicals, such as psychotropic medications or herbal supplements, are often taken to treat an variety of mood and perception disorders and have been used in children, adolescents, middle-aged adults, and the statesman population. Many of these drugs or supplements are chronically administered for the remainder of one’s life, despite a lack of vestige concerning cognitive drugs and impact on lifespan. Some level of cognitive ripen is to be expected during the natural white-haired process, however there is controversy regarding what differentiates dementia from normal age related decline. The work stuff conducted at UMA is multifaceted and uses the genetically matching roundworm model C. elegans to assess the lifelong impact of chronic or sporadic use of selected cognitive enhancing drugs and supplements. Normal populations and neurological disease strains are used to model the human white-haired process and drug usage. An Objective MathematicalTidewayto the Identification of Potential Gerrymanders Matt Dube, Assistant Professor of Computer Information Systems Thursday, April 13 at Noon in Katz 5 on the UMA Augusta campus For the past two centuries, the decennial redistricting process has produced a litany of puzzle-esque shapes that cobble together the United States House of Representatives, 1/2 of the visualization making soul of our republic. Over the centuries, interested parties have engaged in efforts to purposefully create these pieces in such a manner as to create advantages (or disadvantages) for candidates, parties, and/or other interests. This process has been coined gerrymandering. At the judicial level, many cases are heard every ten years that rencontre the efficacy of these human-drawn lines and human-executed procedures. Many wildly shaped districts have survived in areas where the physical and political geography play no role in the decision. In this work, we develop mathematical approaches to provide objective tools to workmate in magistrate decisions well-nigh this matter, ranging from statistical modeling to discrete mathematics to spatial information science. Specifically, we explore the pursuit topics: Is the current Republican majority the byproduct of gerrymandering (intentionally or unintentionally)? Does the type of redistricting legation play a role in the distribution of the delegation sent to Congress? What should the constructive delegation partisanship of a state squint like (independent of incumbency)? How can we pinpoint packing and cracking mathematically? Is there a largest volitional to geometric tensile for eye-balling a district’s legality? Is geometric tensile plane a good standard at all, namely do all geometrically meaty shapes virtuously reflect their local environment? How could a magistrate use this work to ensure pearly play in representation? Is there a “Goldilocks” tideway to redistricting, where the word-for-word extent of the district paints one picture, whereas anything radially smaller or larger presents an entirely variegated picture statistically? < All Cannabis is Medicinal: Understanding the Body’s Endocannabinoid System and how ‘Marijuana’ Heals. Carey Clark, Associate Professor of Nursing Thursday, March 9 at Noon in Katz Room 5 on the UMA Augusta campus This presentation will focus on the use of cannabis as a healing herbal medicine. Dr. Carey S. Clark, Associate Professor of Nursing and President Elect of the American Cannabis Nurses Association, will explore the nuts of the body’s endocannabinoid system and how an endocannabinoid deficiency can lead to many diseases and illnesses as the soul moves out of homeostasis. Dr. Clark will explore the roots of cannabis prohibition, the latest literature virtually cannabis as a healing tool for specific illnesses, and the methods patients can use for cannabis ingestion. Third Woman, Third Wheel: Gender and Translation in Natalie Clifford Barney’s Women Lovers, or The Third Woman Chelsea Ray, Associate Professor of French and Comparative Literature Monday, March 13 at Noon in the Katz studio (Katz 53) on the UMA Augusta campus In this talk, Dr. Chelsea Ray discusses the recent publication of her translation of Natalie Clifford Barney’s Women Lovers or the Third Woman. This long-lost novel recounts of passionate triangle of love and loss among three of the most daring women of belle époque Paris. In this barely disguised roman à clef, the legendary American heiress, writer, and arts patron Natalie Clifford Barney, the dashing Italian baroness Mimi Franchette, and the trappy French courtesan turned princess Liane de Pougy share erotic liaisons that unravel all taboos and end in devastation as one unexpectedly becomes the “third woman.” Never surpassing published in English, and only recently published in French, this modernist experimental work has been brought to light by Chelsea Ray’s research and translation. Enhancing Pedagogy and Research with Pre-attentiveNatureMatt Dube, Assistant Professor of Computer Information Systems Thursday, March 16 at Noon in Katz 5 on the UMA Augusta campus Biological adaptations triggered by survival mechanisms such as locating supplies and observing predators have a substantial impact on us, plane in the modern day where our supplies is for the most part located at the grocery store and our predators are controlled for. These biological adaptations influence our vanquishment of all kinds of sensed inputs, but most notably vision under the name pre-attentive attributes. In this RaP talk, we will journey into the world of the subliminal principles that guide how a student or a reader unknowingly and uncontrollably can be compelled to focus on precisely what we want them to pay sustentation to in our slides or manuscripts, mirroring our intended message with our conveying mechanisms. Whether a teacher, student, researcher, or public speaker, there will be something in this presentation for you.TypesettingTalk: Finally, A Song from Silence Kati Corlew, Assistant Professor of Psychology Tuesday, September 20 at Noon in Nottage Library on the UMA Bangor campus Thursday, September 22 at Noon in Katz Library on the UMA Augusta campus “Finally, a Song from Silence (poetry from when I was young) contains a selection of these writings, addressing topics like identity development, peepers and suicide, love and heartbreak, and gender, sex, and sexuality…” Come join us in the libraries to listen to Professor Kati Corlew read from her new book, Finally, A Song From Silence: (poetry from when I was young). She will moreover be signing/selling copies. Cosponsored by WICCD (Women Invigorating the Curriculum and Celebrating Diversity) SupremeMagistratePreview and Review Jim Melcher, Professor of Political Science, University of Maine at Farmington Monday, September 26 at Noon in Katz Library on the UMA Augusta campus Interactive simulcast to Eastport 105 on the UMA Bangor campus In the spirit of Constitution Week, Professor Melcher will discuss salient cases from the 2015-2016 term of the Supreme Court, examine potentially impactful cases for the 2016-2017 term, consider developments in the relationship between the President and Senate in the SupremeMagistrateconfirmation process, and field questions from the audience. Cases from 2015-2016 that Professor Melcher will preview: Fry v. NapoleonPolitySchools (special education) Manuel v. Joliet (4th Amendment) Moore v. Texas (death penalty) Jennings v. Rodriguez (deportation hearings) Trinity Lutheran Church v. Pauley (religion, Blaine amendments and playgrounds) Cases for 2016-2017 that Professor Melcher will review: Fisher v. Texas (affirmative whoopee and higher admissions) Zubik v. Burwell (contraception mandates and religious objectors) Whole Women’s Health v. Cole (abortion restrictions) Evenwel v. Abbott (political representation) Voisine v. US (domestic violence and firearms ownership) Psychology of ClimateTranspirationKati Corlew, Assistant Professor of Psychology Monday, October 3, 10:45 – 11:45 AM Eastport Hall 103, UMA Bangor campus How do we THINK well-nigh climate change? facts, opinions, decisions, plans, behaviors How do we FEEL well-nigh climate change? impacts, trauma, stress, fear, wrongness … and what will we DO? Strategies toModernizeStudent Participation in Online Discussions. Tim Surrette, Assistant Professor of Education Monday, October 17 at Noon Eastport Hall 105, UMA Bangor campus Interactive simulcast to Katz Library on the UMA Augusta campus This presentation is aimed at people interested in exploring methods to modernize student participation/engagement during online discussions.  The presentation will introduce participants to a collaborative discussion strategy useful to online or face-to-face teaching.  Also, attendees will be encouraged to conceptualize and then discuss weightier practices related to facilitating, deepening, and expanding online student discussions. Alligators in the Parlor: Visual Technologies, Circulation, and Disruption Elizabeth Powers, Assistant Professor of English Wednesday, October 19 at Noon in Katz Library on the UMA Augusta campus Interactive simulcast to Eastport 105 on the UMA Bangor campus In an age when consumption of digital media technologies pervades our life experiences, we can proceeds new insight by examining a media technology from the past. This presentation explores the miracle of stereoscopes in the Victorian parlor. Stereoscopes offered middle-class Americans new, imagistic perspectives of the world, and initiated a national spiel on the virtue and detriment of consuming visual media. Attendees will have the opportunity to use a stereoscope and reflect on connections wideness historical moments. Cross-border ParentalSnatchingand The Problem of Domestic Violence Sharon Sawyer, Assistant Professor of Justice Studies Thursday, October 27 at Noon in Katz Library on the UMA Augusta campus Interactive simulcast to Eastport 105 on the UMA Bangor campus Why would anyone segregate to kidnap their own child and navigate international borders? Although it is wontedly unsupportable that parental abductions are mainly carried out by vindictive parents intent on using their children as pawns to do psychological harm to the “left-behind” parent, this is often not the case. Domestic violence, and the fear of it, often drives mothers over the verge with their young children. Yet, all abducting parents are treated as international criminals. How is justice weightier served when domestic violence is an issue in an snatching case? 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