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Title: Recruiting and Training Undergraduates Through Statistical Consulting, Statistics in the Liberal Arts Workshop (SLAW), Technical Report No. 91-006
Description: No abstract was provided for this paper.
Date Created: 1991
PID: grinnell:26698

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: Review of Complexity and the Art of Public Policy
Description: Review of the book Complexity and the Art of Public Policy: Solving Society's Problems from the Bottom Up, by David Colander and Roland Kupers (Princeton University Press, 2014).
Date Created: 2020
PID: grinnell:27807

Title: Revisiting Fisher's Tea Tasting Lady, Statistics in the Liberal Arts Workshop (SLAW), Technical Report No. 91-009
Description: Revisiting Fisher's Tea Tasting Lady
Date Created: 1991
PID: grinnell:26701

Title: River of Words, Raft of Our Conjoined Neurologies
Description: This essay addresses people's emotional reactions to the word on the page using examples from the author's son's writings. His son is autistic and unable to speak.
Date Created: 2012
PID: grinnell:3848

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

Title: Science Education and Quantitative Literacy, Statistics in the Liberal Arts Workshop (SLAW), Technical Report No. 94-002
Description: Science Education and Quantitative Literacy
Date Created: 1994
PID: grinnell:26704

Title: Setting a Course: Using Google Forms for Navigating Metadata for Digital Projects.
Description: Working with faculty and staff to create digital projects requires a complex group of skills and activities. Potential collaborators often jump to the end vision without fully grasping the need for proper description & metadata. Using Google Forms & Sheets is perceived as neutral and less frightening than working in a repository platform or using other proprietary productivity software.
Date Created: 2017
PID: grinnell:18460

Title: Signs of Life: Critical Thinking Beyond Critique in Religious Studies and the Humanities, Critical Thinking Beyond Critique in Religious Studies and the Humanities
Description: Ever since Religious Studies emerged as a distinct area of inquiry in the 1960s and 1970s, scholars in the field have worried about its academic legitimacy. To put it a bit simplistically, they've worried about what constitutes the difference between teaching religion and teaching about religion.
PID: grinnell:6379