Showing 5081 - 5090 of 5831 Items

Crazy American

Date: 2022-01-01

Creator: Emma Quan Dewey

Access: Open access

Crazy American is an evening-length dance solo choreographed and performed by Bowdoin's first Dance honors student, Emma Quan Dewey. This dance is an embodied exploration of her mother's family migration history from South China to the Philippines to the US, and how it places her and her family within structures of US imperialism, racial hierarchies, and Chineseness itself. Based on ethnographic, historical, theoretical, and embodied research, Crazy American examines the intimate ways these structures play out at the level of the body, and seeks to imagine new possibilities for moving through systems and stories of power.


Modeling Oyster Growth Dynamics in FLUPSY Systems to Develop a Decision Support Tool for Seed Management

Date: 2023-01-01

Creator: Gretchen Clauss

Access: Open access

As the Gulf of Maine warms and lobsters move north to colder waters, Maine’s working water front has begun to diversify. There is a thriving new ecosystem of aquaculturists looking to keep Maine’s waterfront traditions alive in a lasting, sustainable way. One of the most popular aquaculture industries is oyster farming. With an increasing number of oyster farms developing in Midcoast Maine each year, we seek to develop a decision support tool to aid farmers in seed management. Oyster farmers can choose weather or not to use an upweller on their farm, and our goal is to provide guidance on this choice, as well as on upweller management. We begin by culminating and synthesizing data from previous literature and oyster farmers. We then use this data to first build a basic analytical model of a cohort of oysters based on an exponential growth model. We expand this model to include biological differences among oysters as well as management practices. Finally, we walk through a case study, illustrating how our tool could be used to make seed management decisions on an individual farm scale.


Lake water chemistry and local adaptation shape NaCl toxicity in Daphnia ambigua

Date: 2024-01-01

Creator: Mary Alta Rogalski, Elizabeth S Baker, Clara M Benadon

Access: Open access

Increasing application of road deicing agents (e.g., NaCl) has caused widespread salinization of freshwater environments. Chronic exposure to toxic NaCl levels can impact freshwater biota at genome to ecosystem scales, yet the degree of harm caused by road salt pollution is likely to vary among habitats and populations. The background ion chemistry of freshwater environments may strongly impact NaCl toxicity, with greater harm occurring in ion-poor, soft water conditions. In addition, populations exposed to salinization may evolve increased NaCl tolerance. Notably, if organisms are adapted to their natal lake water chemistry, toxicity responses may also vary among populations in a given test medium. We examined how this evolutionary and environmental context may interact in shaping NaCl toxicity with a pair of laboratory reciprocal transplant toxicity experiments, using natural populations of the water flea Daphnia ambigua from three lakes differing in ion availability. The lake water environment strongly influenced NaCl toxicity in both trials. NaCl greatly reduced reproduction and r in lake water from a low-ion/ calcium-poor environment compared with water from both a calcium-rich lake and an ion-rich coastal lake. Daphnia from this coastal lake were most robust to the effects of NaCl. A significant population x environment interaction shaped survival in both trials, suggesting that local adaptation to the test waters used contributed to toxicity responses. Our findings that the lake water environment, adaptation to that environment, and adaptation to a focal contaminant may shape toxicity demonstrate the importance of considering environmental and biological complexity in mitigating pollution impacts.


Henry Wadsworth Longfellow to William Wood, Brunswick, 1835 Feb 27 regarding his impending departure from Bowdoin [4p.]

Date: 1835-02-27

Creator: Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Access: Open access

Letter from Henry Wadsworth Longfellow to William Wood regarding his impending departure from Bowdoin.


Map of Brunswick and Topsham, Maine

Date: 1877-01-01

Access: Open access

Lithograph panoramic view looking north.


Miniature of Exploring Solution-Based Co-Crystal Growth of Curcumin as an Approach for Alzheimer’s Therapeutics
Exploring Solution-Based Co-Crystal Growth of Curcumin as an Approach for Alzheimer’s Therapeutics
Access to this record is restricted to members of the Bowdoin community. Log in here to view.

      Date: 2025-01-01

      Creator: Nadia E. Puente

      Access: Access restricted to the Bowdoin Community



        Miniature of Dynamic Multi-Objective Optimization With Applications to AI for Social Good
        Dynamic Multi-Objective Optimization With Applications to AI for Social Good
        Access to this record is restricted to members of the Bowdoin community. Log in here to view.

            Date: 2025-01-01

            Creator: Sajel Surati

            Access: Access restricted to the Bowdoin Community



              Miniature of Settling down to a long winter's nap: Seasonality and temperature on evergreen entrance into winter dormancy
              Settling down to a long winter's nap: Seasonality and temperature on evergreen entrance into winter dormancy
              Access to this record is restricted to members of the Bowdoin community. Log in here to view.

                  Date: 2025-01-01

                  Creator: Roger M. Wilder

                  Access: Access restricted to the Bowdoin Community



                    Miniature of Using Fluorogenic Monosaccharides to Detect and Identify Glycan-Degrading Enzymes
                    Using Fluorogenic Monosaccharides to Detect and Identify Glycan-Degrading Enzymes
                    Access to this record is restricted to members of the Bowdoin community. Log in here to view.

                        Date: 2025-01-01

                        Creator: Esteban Tarazona Guzman

                        Access: Access restricted to the Bowdoin Community



                          The Collision of Oil and Anticolonial Nationalism in the Persian Gulf

                          Date: 2025-01-01

                          Creator: Vaughn Vial

                          Access: Open access

                          In the 1950s and 1960s, Arab nationalism swept across the Arabian Peninsula from Egypt and the Levant, carried by migrants, refugees, and in magazines and newspapers that circulated across national borders. In the Gulf countries this wave of Arab nationalism collided with a flow more material in nature: the movement of enormous amounts of carbon energy in the form of oil. In Arab nationalism, oil workers at Aramco in Saudi Arabia and Bapco in Bahrain found not only a direction for political change but a means of overcoming religious and national divides with their fellow workers. Strikes and labor actions soon ensued at a scale that was unprecedented in these countries. This project explores how the confluence of oil flows and anticolonial nationalism both imbued this moment with the potential to effect egalitarian political change and, simultaneously, limited that potential.