Keith W. Olson, The G.I. Bill, the Veterans, and the Colleges (Lexington, The University Press of Kentucky, 1974, $9.25). Pp. x, 139. - Sar A. Levitan and Karen A. Cleary, Old Wars Remain Unfinished. The Veteran Benefits System (Baltimore, Johns Hopkins University Press, 1974, $10.00; £4·75). Pp. xi, 190. - John Helmer, Bringing The War Home. The American Soldier in Vietnam and After (London, Collier-Macmillan, 1974, £6·50). Pp. xv, 346.

1976 ◽  
Vol 10 (1) ◽  
pp. 122-124
Author(s):  
E. Ranson
Keyword(s):  
American Soldier ◽  
Johns Hopkins University ◽  
Veteran Benefits ◽  
The University

Surinam Plantations in Dutch Archives

Itinerario ◽  
1982 ◽  
Vol 6 (1) ◽  
pp. 121-126
Author(s):  
Peter Boomgaard
Keyword(s):  
West Indies ◽  
Good News ◽  
University Of Minnesota ◽  
Indian History ◽  
East Indies ◽  
Plantation Economy ◽  
Indonesian Archipelago ◽  
Johns Hopkins University ◽  
The Caribbean ◽  
The University

The 1979 issue of Itinerario, (no. 2) opened with “A note on Suriname Plantation Archives at the University of Minnesota”, in which Richard Price of the Johns Hopkins University reported his discovery of some 2,000 manuscript pages on a number of Surinam plantations in the James Ford Bell Library at the University of Minnesota, Minneapolis. This, of course, is very good news. It is perhaps still better news that the Dutch archives contain vast and almost untapped (resources on a 200-odd plantations! I am, however, certainly not the first tone to make this ‘discovery’: Mrs. M.A.P. Meilink-Roelofsz not only mentioned it in her Ph.D. dissertation “Asian trade and European influence in the Indonesian Archipelago between 1500 and about 1630”, but she even ordered part of the archives herself. It must be the unbridgeable gap between scholars interested in the East Indies /and those who study West Indian history, that her enthusiastic remarks on the availability of plantation material went unheeded. When nine years later Th. Mathews published his article “Los estuadios sobre historia economica del Caribe (1585 - 1910)”2, he mentioned the Dutch West Indies as a blank on the Caribbean map as far as economic (plantation) history is concerned. Since Mathews wrote his article the historiographic situation has improved only slightly, and it is an ironic comment on Surinam historical scholarship that tiny Curaçao's XlXth century plantation economy by now has found its historian, while the Surinam plantations are still in search of an author.

Library Impact Practice Brief: Freshman Fellows: Implementing and Assessing a First-Year Primary-Source Research Program

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Margaret Burri ◽  
Joshua Everett ◽  
Heidi Herr ◽  
Jessica Keyes
Keyword(s):  
Primary Source ◽  
Structured Interview ◽  
First Year ◽  
Special Collections ◽  
Johns Hopkins University ◽  
College Career ◽  
Library Impact ◽  
Teaching Learning ◽  
The University ◽  
Impact Framework

This practice brief describes the assessment project undertaken by the Sheridan Libraries at Johns Hopkins University as part of the library’s participation in ARL’s Research Library Impact Framework initiative to address the question “(How) do the library’s special collections specifically support and promote teaching, learning, and research?” The research team investigated how the Freshman Fellows experience impacted the fellows’ studies and co-curricular activities at the university. Freshmen Fellows, established in 2016, is a signature opportunity to expose students to primary-source collections early in their college career by pairing four fellows with four curators on individual research projects. The program graduated its first cohort of fellows in spring 2020. The brief includes a semi-structured interview guide, program guidelines, and a primary research rubric.

Introduction to Learning Management Systems

2011 ◽  
pp. 1280-1286 ◽  
Author(s):  
Diane D. Chapman
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
Liberal Arts ◽  
Educational Institutions ◽  
Traditional Learning ◽  
State University ◽  
Yale University ◽  
Cornell University ◽  
Johns Hopkins University ◽  
Penn State ◽  
The University

Formal university-based distance education has been around for over 100 years. For example, Cornell University established the Correspondence University in 1882, and Chautauqua College of Liberal Arts in New York was awarding degrees via correspondence courses in 1883 (Nasseh, 1997). Soon many other educational institutions, including the University of Chicago, Penn State University, Yale University, and Johns Hopkins University were offering these non-traditional learning options for their students. With the entry of the personal computer into homes and workplaces in the 1980s, learning started to become more technologydriven. However, it was not until the 1990s, with the proliferation of the World Wide Web, that the concept of technology-enhanced education began to change drastically.

scholarly journals Cheryl A. Rubenberg 1946–2017

2018 ◽  
Vol 52 (1) ◽  
pp. 170-172
Author(s):  
Valerie J. Hoffman
Keyword(s):  
International Relations ◽  
Political Science ◽  
Associate Professor ◽  
American Government ◽  
Business Interests ◽  
Johns Hopkins University ◽  
Florida Atlantic University ◽  
International University ◽  
Florida International University ◽  
The University

Cheryl A. Rubenberg, independent analyst and former associate professor of political science at Florida International University, died on 16 June 2017 at age seventy-one. Born and raised in Pennsylvania, she earned her bachelor's in political science from Hunter College, her master's in international relations from Johns Hopkins University, and her Ph.D. in international relations from the University of Miami (1979). After a year at Florida Atlantic University, she joined the political science faculty at Florida International University. A student who took her class on American government wrote that Professor Rubenberg “changed my life forever” by exposing the business interests that motivate leaders of American government and media.

Becoming A Geologist: Florence Bascom and Johns Hopkins, 1888-1895

2000 ◽  
Vol 19 (1) ◽  
pp. 2-25 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lois Arnold
Keyword(s):  
Bryn Mawr ◽  
Field Work ◽  
Laboratory Research ◽  
State University ◽  
University Of Michigan ◽  
Master Of Science ◽  
University Of Wisconsin ◽  
Experience Teaching ◽  
Johns Hopkins University ◽  
The University

Florence Bascom (1862-1945) was a petrologist and field geologist at Bryn Mawr College who provided a basic description and interpretation of major areas of Pennsylvania and surrounding regions. This paper is the second of a two-part study that explores the question of how Bascom became a geologist. The first part dealt with Bascom's early history in Wisconsin, from the time she went to Madison at the age of 12 to her completion of a Master of Science degree in Microscopic Lithology under Roland D. Irving (1847-1888) at the University Of Wisconsin in 1887.This second part of the study begins with Bascom's experience teaching at Rockford Seminary in Illinois, where she was exposed to Mary E. Holmes (1850-1906). who had obtained a doctorate in paleontology from the University of Michigan. It then details the extension of Bascom's education from a limited laboratory-based experience to involvement in field work with George Huntington Williams (1856-1894) at Johns Hopkins University in the years 1891-1893. Johns Hopkins did not officially admit women to graduate study then. Nevertheless, on the basis of combined field and laboratory research in the Monterey district of Pennsylvania, Bascom received the first doctorate granted to a woman at the University. She was then hired as an Assistant in Geology by Edward Orton (1829-1899), at Ohio State University, a highly unusual appointment at that time. In addition to teaching, she was engaged in field and laboratory work at Ohio State until 1895, when she was hired by Martha Carey Thomas (1857-1935) at Bryn Mawr.

Book Reviews

2015 ◽  
Vol 53 (1) ◽  
pp. 115-118
Keyword(s):  
Urban Economics ◽  
University Of California ◽  
History Of Economics ◽  
Johns Hopkins University ◽  
Journal Editorial ◽  
History Of ◽  
Managerial Economics ◽  
Economics Journals ◽  
The University

Robert Moffitt of Johns Hopkins University reviews “Secrets of Economics Editors”, by Michael Szenberg and Lall Ramrattan. The Econlit abstract of this book begins: “Twenty-four papers, some originally published in the American Economist, present reflections on the practices and experiences of past and present editors of economics journals. Papers focus on economic theory and finance; the history of economics; microeconomics and industrial organization; microeconomics; the methodology of economics; managerial economics; money and banking; urban economics; the economics of public choice; the economics of sports; economic development; the economics of education; general economics; and the journal editorial cycle and practices. Szenberg is Distinguished Professor of Economics in the Lubin School of Business at Pace University. Ramrattan is Instructor of Economics at the University of California, Berkeley.”

scholarly journals Robert Williams Wood, 1868-1955

1956 ◽  
Vol 2 ◽  
pp. 326-345 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Scientific Productivity ◽  
Physical Optics ◽  
Severe Illness ◽  
University Of Wisconsin ◽  
Johns Hopkins University ◽  
Physical Laboratory ◽  
Crime Detection ◽  
The University ◽  
Experimental Researches ◽  
Scientific Achievements

When Professor R. W. Wood died on 11 August 1955 he was to the younger generation of physicists a colourful legend, a representative of the past. He was, however, by no means forgotten, as a lesser man might have been at the age of 87. Many stories were still circulating about him. When I recently paid a visit to the University of Wisconsin which Wood had left in 1901, his exploits were being discussed there as if they had just happened, instead of more than half a century before. His solid scientific achievements are now a matter of record. His active mind refused to accept retirement and he visited his old room in the Physical Laboratory at The Johns Hopkins University regularly until nearly the end, even though the infirmities of old age had gradually made themselves felt. He never gave up his curiosity about things and was still actively engaged in the revision of his book on Physical optics . Death came to him peacefully: he passed away during his sleep without any severe illness. Wood’s active period of scientific productivity coincided with the rise of atomic physics and he made important contributions toward the increasing knowledge of the structure of the atom, chiefly through his experimental researches in physical optics. He was, however, far from one-sided and penetrated into many fields. He went wherever his insatiable curiosity led him, whether this was into different branches of physics or into all sorts of other activities such as engineering, art, crime detection, spiritualism, psychology, archaeology and many others

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