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the reason for this lies within the fundamental differences between high school and higher education anderson said the change occurs during the transition because in high school a student is provided with specific deadlines and responsibilities if those expectations are not met parents may get called and teachers may get involved however in college students are not pestered by well-meaning professors and they are entirely responsible for their decisions without immediate intervention or consequences a college student suffering from adhd may be unable to focus or complete assignments in a timely manner especially larger projects with extensive windows for completion the ability to sustain your focus on a project over the course of a few weeks is something that requires dedicated prolonged focus day after day and that's probably one of the biggest things that people with adhd struggle with anderson said thats also something that can ramp up in college inside and outside of the classroom adhd makes it difficult for students to maintain focus when there are other things competing for their attention anderson said which can also make it difficult for them to retain information one of the common misconceptions about the disorder is that it can be developed and built through unproductive or negative habits despite not being able to pinpoint the exact cause of adhd anderson said its complicated origins stem from genetics and other psychological contributors the idea that it's a product of your own bad habits is not supported anderson said anyone struggling with adhd shouldnt buy into ideas that its somehow their fault because of the decisions that they made thats definitely not the case the complexities of the disorder may not be fully understood but it is evident that the effects of adhd can be monitored and controlled using a variety of different techniques whether a person uses brown noise to stimulate the auditory system or medication to eliminate the effects of hyperactivity anderson said methods are constantly evolving
when nautical archaeology graduate student stephen decasien was invited by a colleague to be part of the battle of the egadi islands project he was ecstatic the site off the coast of western sicily is the only known ancient naval battlefield ever discovered nautical archaeologists have recovered 26 roman and carthaginian naval rams and other artifacts from a battle on the mediterranean sea that took place in 241 bce during the first punic war one of decasiens research interests naval rams are ancient bronze weapons that were fitted to the bows of greek and roman warships and used to ram holes into the hulls of enemy ships unfortunately for the new jersey native the invitation to the historic site came in fall 2019; before he could get to sicily the worldwide pandemic began and travel became impossible it was a sorely missed opportunity and he didnt forget it aninsane idea then in spring 2021 in a class led by dr christopher dostal director of the texas a&m conservation research laboratory and the center for maritime archaeology and conservation (cmac) decasien was learning about casting techniques and ways to conserve metal objects i thought to myself if i couldnt see any rams due to covid maybe i could make my own he said i pitched my insane idea to dr dostal with no proposal or plan on how wed do it and without hesitation dostal replied lets do it! dostal an assistant professor of nautical archaeology in the college of arts and sciences specializes in historical-period maritime archaeology the conservation and preservation of waterlogged artifacts and digital imaging and 3d modeling of archaeological artifacts it was a pretty bold idea dostal said stephen was in my conservation ii course and we were experimenting with a version of lost-wax casting that uses 3d printing instead of silicone molding when he had the idea to do one on a grand scale lost-wax casting is a process whereby a bronze metal sculpture is cast from a clay wax or wooden mold the practice dates back more than 5 000 years and had developed independently in several regions at our lab the things we cast are almost always smaller than a deck of cards so i thought if we do this where are we going to cast it dostal said and how are we going to pay for it the latter turned out to be fairly easy im lucky enough to hold the institute of nautical archaeology faculty fellowship which allowed me to help fund this project dostal said i told stephen i was into the idea but he should know that he was taking on a huge project to his credit this was a passion project and he put in a lot of work there are many things we dont know about the construction of ancient rams and sometimes we simply have to learn by doing
the process decasien with support from dostal and glenn grieco director of the cmac ship model laboratory followed a three-step process to create the ram first he constructed a wooden ship bow to serve as the beeswax models core; second he created the beeswax model; and third was the lost-wax casting which was done at pyrology foundry and studio in bastrop texas the foundry used a similar method to the one used in antiquity decasien said several channels were added to the beeswax model to allow the molten bronze to be poured in for casting the model was placed in a casting slurry which created a protective shell around it this shell was heated to melt the beeswax out leaving the shell empty with the channels still intact molten bronze was poured in the shell filling the areas where beeswax once was the bronze was allowed to cool and then the shell was broken open leaving an exact replica of the beeswax model in bronze behind the result is the first new naval ram made using ancient techniques in more than 1 500 years it was so notable popular mechanics published an article about it earlier this year and like any good ag would do decasien stamped the ram with the texas a&m mark the project gave the researchers more insight into the lives of ancient peoples decasien said noting its safe to assume that naval rams were likely expensive time-consuming to build and crafted to the highest standards in antiquity the reconstructed ram also reinforced the notion that naval rams were part of anindustrialized weapon system he said it tells us more about the socioeconomic implications of building ancient navies and the ways in which peoples living around the ancient mediterranean basin conducted naval warfare
a second chance at sicily in summer 2022 another opportunity arose for decasien to study those 2 000-year-old naval rams lifted from the mediterranean sea floor he spent a month in sicily working as a member of the rpm nautical foundation team under the supervision of the soprintendenza del mare the regions department of cultural heritage and identity once he earns his doctorate decasien said he plans to be a researcher and teacher i hope to find an academic job where i can share my passion of ancient greek and roman maritime history with other enthusiastic scholars and students as well as continue my research on ancient naval warfare he said noting the ram project couldnt have been done anywhere else but texas a&m our professors and graduate students are driven to change how scholars and the general public view the human past through archaeological discoveries and teaching this type of project would have been impossible anywhere else as housed in our department we have some of the foremost scholars in pre-classical and classical seafaring shipbuilding techniques conservation and the reconstruction of ships this story was originally published by texas a&m today
hiroko kitajima associate professor in the department of geology and geophysics at texas a&m university has been recognized with the asahiko taira international scientific ocean drilling research prize for her excellence in scientific discovery and research specifically in the field of experimental rock and soil mechanics funded by the integrated ocean drilling program management international and jointly sponsored by the american geophysical union and the japan geophysical union the taira prize is awarded annually to an outstanding individual who is within 15 years of receiving their phd and has made significant contributions to the field of ocean drilling kitajima who earned her phd in geology from texas a&m in 2010 joined the texas a&m faculty in 2014 after a two-year stint as a research scientist with the geological survey of japan in between she completed a two-year national science foundation-margins/geoprisms postdoctoral fellowship at pennsylvania state university (2010-2012)
a 2021 texas a&m presidential impact fellow kitajima holds the francesco paolo de gangi/heep endowed professorship in theoretical geophysics and is a member of the center for tectonophysics kitajimas research focuses on the micromechanics of shear deformation and compaction as well as the interaction of fluid flow rock and sediment deformation particularly under loading conditions affiliated with earthquakes in subduction zones she has sailed on the joides resolution on three previous international ocean discovery program expeditions as part of a decade-long iodp project the nankai trough seismogenic zone experiment (nantroseize) as well as aboard the chikyu at the japan agency for marine-earth science and technology (jamstec) my endeavor to understand the mechanics of earthquakes particularly in subduction zones initiated when i came to texas a&m university for my graduate study kitajima said in response to receiving the prize conducting experimental rock deformation research using ocean drilling cores was one of the reasons why i chose texas a&m
kitajima's honors to date include several fellowships and a 2019 nsf faculty early career development (career) award supporting her research that involves replicating the temperatures and pressure conditions present in japans subduction zones using iodp samples in an effort to better predict earthquakes for mitigation purposes i am greatly honored to receive the asahiko taira international scientific ocean drilling research prize kitajima said i would like to give a special thanks to harold tobin for his kind citation as well as his mentorship for many years i am grateful for the support from the ship operational offices for the joides resolution at iodp-tamu and for chikyu at the japan agency for marine-earth science and technology without their support none of the scientific ocean drilling research would have been possible kitajima was presented with the award at the agu fall meeting held dec 12-16 in chicago
september 2 2022 dr gregory pappas featured for research from the national humanities center the national humanities center is featuring the work of dr gregory pappas in a section featured research: the examined life dr pappas is a fellow from the class of 2021-2022 with the national humanities center and his featured research project is injustice: an inter-american and community of inquiry approach according to dr pappas this research […] the national humanities center is featuring the work of dr gregory pappas in a section featured research: the examined life dr pappas is a fellow from the class of 2021-2022 with the national humanities center and his featured research project is injustice: an inter-american and community of inquiry approach according to dr pappas this research project emerged as a citizen concerned with the never-ending problems of injustice found all over the united states reflecting on recent stresses to the social fabric he began to wonder what are the common tendencies (national habits) and obstacles that continue to undermine our ways of tackling injustice in the us our historical failures drawing on his background in american pragmatism and latinx and latin american philosophers dr pappas is conducting community-based participatory research with three resilient and self-sustaining communities: detroit (boggs center adjuntas puerto rico (casa pueblo) and chiapas mexico (zapatistas communities) these american grassroot communities show an approach to societal change that dr pappas calls radical democracy completing a great deal of meaningful local and communal hard work to effect societal change this connection to local communities is vital to the project if universities in the twenty-first century are to serve the public good they must not just export or apply self-produced knowledge but create knowledge with those outside them faculty news
august 19 2022 dr george appointed as first philosopher to nursing faculty at the university of calgary dr theodore george has been appointed as an adjunct professor to the nursing faculty at the university of calgary becoming the first philosopher as a member of the faculty building on a relationship with dr nancy moules a professor and associate dean of research for the nursing faculty that started in 2015 at the north […] dr theodore george has been appointed as an adjunct professor to the nursing faculty at the university of calgary becoming the first philosopher as a member of the faculty building on a relationship with dr nancy moules a professor and associate dean of research for the nursing faculty that started in 2015 at the north american society for philosophical hermeneutics dr george has been strengthening ties to the university of calgary nursing faculty dr george and dr moules are currently working together on research about the nature of grieving in the age of social media and the public sharing of formerly private grief dr george explains from a philosophical perspective there is a poverty of understanding but there is an excess of meaning in what we are studying there is data saturation when it comes to most research but when looking at something from a hermeneutics lens you really cant over-exhaust a topic adjunct faculty typically contribute through service on committees guest lectures and presentations and dr george is honored that his relationship to the faculty at university of calgary has been formalized in this manner faculty news
july 27 2022 dr daniel conway selected as fulbright scholar congratulations to dr daniel conway for being selected as a fulbright us scholar for 2022-2023 by a presidentially appointed 12-member board as a reflection of his leadership and contributions to society the fulbright program is devoted to increasing mutual understanding between the people of the united states and the people of other countries in being […] congratulations to dr daniel conway for being selected as a fulbright us scholar for 2022-2023 by a presidentially appointed 12-member board as a reflection of his leadership and contributions to society the fulbright program is devoted to increasing mutual understanding between the people of the united states and the people of other countries in being named a fulbright scholar dr conway joins the worlds largest and most diverse international educational exchange program with more than 400 000 alumnus of the program since it was established in 1946 dr conway will be hosted by deakin university near melbourne australia where he will be on research leave for the spring semester of 2023 while in australia dr conway will study and if given the opportunity assist with the efforts of local scholars and practitioners as they attempt to offer social and spiritual reparations to the indigenous peoples whom the settlers of australia mistreated and displaced the research is meant to inform and refine an understanding of the psychological and social conditions of genocide and other crimes against humanity in particular the work is to determine if and how reparations for genocidal violence might be understood to be consistent with the more familiar political goals and aspirations of modern nation states awards faculty news recently published
may 19 2022 dr linda radzik named to university professorship congratulations to dr linda radzik for being named to a university professorship for undergraduate teaching excellence (upute) selected professors demonstrate themselves as exceptional instructors and innovators in pedagogy pushing the field by exploring new teaching methods the thamann professorship in undergraduate teaching excellence made possible through an endowment from arthur j and wilhelmina dore thamann […] congratulations to dr linda radzik for being named to a university professorship for undergraduate teaching excellence (upute) selected professors demonstrate themselves as exceptional instructors and innovators in pedagogy pushing the field by exploring new teaching methods the thamann professorship in undergraduate teaching excellence made possible through an endowment from arthur j and wilhelmina dore thamann carries a three year stipend and a bursary to support teaching and expand opportunities for professional development awards faculty news
april 21 2022 5th annual bovay workshop on engineering and applied ethics on tuesday april 26th 2022 the philosophy department at texas a&m university will be hosting the fifth annual bovay workshop on engineering and applied ethics bringing in scholars from around the country and this years conference will focus on ai and the ethical engineering of complex systems the conference will be in the ymca building […] on tuesday april 26th 2022 the philosophy department at texas a&m university will be hosting the fifth annual bovay workshop on engineering and applied ethics bringing in scholars from around the country and this years conference will focus on ai and the ethical engineering of complex systems the conference will be in the ymca building room 401 schedule of events: 8:30-9:00 breakfast (provided) 9:00: opening remarks: dr david koepsell texas a&m university 9:15: rune nyrup cambridge university towards an ethics of explainable artificial intelligence 10:15: jobst landgrebe state university of new york (suny) university at buffalo the political philosophy of ai 11:15-11:30: coffee break (provided) 11:30: barry smith state university of new york (suny) university at buffalo the machine will 12:30-2:00: lunch break (provided) 2:00: peter zuk harvard medical school neural data: not for sale 3:00: martin peterson texas a&m university ai and value alignment: a quantitative measure 3:50-4:15: coffee break 4:15: austen mcdougal stanford university cheap versus significant considerateness for extended minds 5:05: berit brit brogaard university of miami human brain organoids: scientific and ethical implications 6:30: dinner at solt a printable schedule of events with abstracts can be found here if you have any questions please contact gedalyahu wittow at ged@tamuedu events news
april 14 2022 texas a&m university philosophy graduate student conference victoria green and jyothis james have partnered with the melbern g glasscock center for humanities research to present the spring 2022 texas a&m university graduate student conference featuring dr sean kirkland from depaul university dr kirkland specializes in ancient greek philosophy and phenomenology dr kirkland has also agreed to participate in a workshop with the […] victoria green and jyothis james have partnered with the melbern g glasscock center for humanities research to present the spring 2022 texas a&m university graduate student conference featuring dr sean kirkland from depaul university dr kirkland specializes in ancient greek philosophy and phenomenology dr kirkland has also agreed to participate in a workshop with the continental study group on friday april 15 2022 featuring graduate students from across the country the presentations on april 16 2022 the philosophy department at texas a&m strives to cultivate a pluralistic and interdisciplinary academic community fostering conversation between various traditions within the discipline of philosophy as well as with scholarship in other fields of the arts and sciences thus in lieu of an overarching theme this conference will reflect and promote the pluralism embodied in texas a&ms philosophy department by accepting a range of papers from various traditions and topics the presentations will take place in the glasscock building room 311 and is open to the public events news
april 13 2022 congratulations to denise meda calderon the philosophy department is proud to announce that denise meda calderon has earned the douglas greenlee prize presented by the society for the advancement of american philosophy (saap) the douglas greenlee prize is awarded to either a graduate student of person holding a phd for no more than five years for the best paper presented […] the philosophy department is proud to announce that denise meda calderon has earned the douglas greenlee prize presented by the society for the advancement of american philosophy (saap) the douglas greenlee prize is awarded to either a graduate student of person holding a phd for no more than five years for the best paper presented at the annual saap meeting the paper is titled decolonial movidas: maría lugones notion of decolonial aesthesis through cosmologies and the abstract follows: maría lugones is well known for her decolonial feminist methodology but her notion of decolonial aesthesis has yet to be appreciated in this paper i aim to rectify this by analyzing her notion of decolonial aesthesis as a resistant permeable sensing my analysis begins with lugones decolonial methodology to articulate a seeing of coloniality which i suggest leads to her development of decolonial aesthesis as a mode of resistance to dehumanizing social reductions i argue that decolonial aesthesis as a sensuous relational mode of resistance reveals the interconnected relations operating within non-dominant socialities as cosmological activity to flesh out this point i turn to two interlocutors central to lugones intellectual genealogy: gloria anzaldúa and rodolfo kusch i conclude by interpreting lugones reading of anzaldúa as a coalitional movida performing decolonial aesthesis in addition denise has been awarded the louisville institute fellowship for 2022-2023 awards news
april 4 2022 michael portal named a fulbright scholar congratulations to michael portal for being named a fulbright scholar for 2022 the fulbright program recognizes rising scholars and provides the opportunity for them to travel to a country outside the united states to engage in research while embedded in a community the program facilitates cultural exchange through direct interaction on an individual basis in […] congratulations to michael portal for being named a fulbright scholar for 2022 the fulbright program recognizes rising scholars and provides the opportunity for them to travel to a country outside the united states to engage in research while embedded in a community the program facilitates cultural exchange through direct interaction on an individual basis in the classroom field home and in routine tasks allowing the grantee to gain an appreciation of others viewpoints and beliefs the way they do things and the way they think as the recipient of a fulbright scholarship michael portal will spend the 2022-2023 academic year conducting interdisciplinary research at the universiteit antwerpen his research concerns the flemish emphasis on samenleven (living together) and its significance for antwerps jewish communities his research project asks what is it that unites these distinct jewish communities this work extends scholarship on community formation and maintenance portal will be a research fellow at universiteit antwerpens institute for jewish studies the centre for research on environmental and social change and the urban studies institute awards news