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Title: A New Story : Unifying Derry-Londonderry, Northern Ireland U.K.'s Competing Narratives
Description: Can Derry not only to successfully rewrite its past, but redirect its economic and social future?
Date Created: 2012
PID: grinnell:330

Title: Big Meat, Small Towns: The Meatpacking Industry’s Shift to Rural America and the Reemergence of Company Towns, Meatpacking Industry's Shift to Rural America and the Reemergence of Company
Description: This study explores the reemergence of company towns in American society through the analysis of slaughtering communities in rural Iowa.
Date Created: 2012
PID: grinnell:122

Title: Conversations in the Humanities Lunches, Book Talks
Description: Interest form for participating in book talks sponsored by the Center for the Humanities.
Date Created: 2012
PID: grinnell:5096

Title: Cumulative Effects of Systematic Discrimination Against Transgender Americans
Description: Aurora Quinn-Elmore's submission to the 2012 Peace Studies Student Conference
Date Created: 2012
PID: grinnell:101

Title: Personal Problems Are Political Problems: The Gendered History of Disordered Eating, Gendered History of Disordered Eating
Description: This essay seeks to provide a re-articulation of eating disorders’ history using feminist historiography.
Date Created: 2012
PID: grinnell:110

Title: Public Humanities in a Digital World : A Report in Progress from the University of Iowa, Humanities for Life, A Report in Progress from the University of Iowa
Description: Poster advertising a talk by Jon Winet on October 30, 2012, sponsored by the Center Humanities in their series, Humanities for Life.
Date Created: 2012
PID: grinnell:5140

Title: Reduced pollinator service and elevated pollen limitation at the geographic range limit of an annual plant
Description: We examine the contribution of plant pollinator interactions to the geographic range limit of the California endemic plant Clarkia xantiana ssp. xantiana. We show that pollinator availability declined from the center to the margin of the geographic range consistently across four years of study.
Date Created: 2012
PID: grinnell:26667

Title: Reflexive Curation: Accident, Risk, and Medium in the Collectively Curated Collection, Accident, Risk, and Medium in the Collectively Curated Collection, Reflexive Curation
Description: The systems we use to record, communicate, and safeguard knowledge and experience, including our increasingly distributed and coordinated systems of curation, themselves increase complexity and risk, which will not be reduced, overall, by new or additional knowledge or technology. We must be careful not to overestimate what we think we know about the functioning of these complex systems, or to extrapolate too confidently from current trends.
Date Created: 2012
PID: grinnell:5074

Title: Rise of Majority-Minority Districts in Rural Iowa: How Changes in Meatpacking Impacted Rural Schooling, How Changes in Meatpacking Impacted Rural Schooling
Description: This study analyzes several rural school districts in the state of Iowa that have experienced relatively sudden demographic shifts in recent years with schools shifting from an almost totally white, English speaking population to a continually growing number of Hispanic and ESL/LEP students.
Date Created: 2012
PID: grinnell:121

Title: Scholarly Communication and Liberal Arts College Libraries
Description: Scholarly communication, in addition to referring to the disciplinary practices that structure the dissemination of scholarly knowledge, has become shorthand for two meanings: on the one hand, it refers to an analytic "author/reader" framework that seeks critical understanding of the entire life cycle of scholarly knowledge and the connected roles of researchers, teachers, students, funders, libraries, publishers, and other kinds of agencies in the creation, dissemination, critique, reuse, and preservation of knowledge.
Date Created: 2012
PID: grinnell:5075