Interview with John Baugh

2021 ◽  
Vol 49 (4) ◽  
pp. 459-474
Author(s):  
Tracy Conner
Keyword(s):  
Graduate Students ◽  
Faculty Member ◽  
Culturally Relevant ◽  
Black People ◽  
Critical Mass ◽  
Opportunity To Learn ◽  
Black Faculty ◽  
Black Person ◽  
Long Time ◽  
Black Language

The following interview was conducted during the COVID-19 pandemic in the summer of 2021. By that time, I had known John Baugh for about eighteen years after having taken my first class on Black English with him at Stanford. I have always been fascinated by John’s ability to merge innovative and culturally relevant, justice-focused research with liberatory outcomes for Black people and Black language. It was a rare treat for me to talk with my long-time mentor now as a faculty member. In the wake of finally having a critical mass of Black scholars in linguistics and after George Floyd’s murder and a new push to decolonize linguistics, it only seemed fitting to hear the experiences that shaped John’s life, the life of a Black man in linguistics, and how that life has given rise to his groundbreaking scholarship. There is nothing linear about his path. And as the field pushes to admit more Black graduate students and hire more Black faculty, it dawned on me that many in the field might not recognize the exceptional journey of navigating academia as a Black person. Please enjoy this candid snapshot of the life that birthed such a storied career from the upcoming president of the Linguistic Society of America: a unique opportunity to learn how to do better. Consider this a one-time invitation to the cookout.

Essays on Neurophysiology by Platon Kostyuk and His Students

2020 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Graduate Students ◽  
Scientific Data ◽  
Chronological Order ◽  
Long Time

This monograph is dedicated to the anniversary of the birth of the great Ukrainian world-famous neurophysiologist, biophysicist Academician Platon Grigoryevich Kostyuk. The monograph includes sections written by P.G. Kostyuk and his students who worked directly with him in the department or defended dissertations under his supervision. The monograph was prepared for a long time, so some authors have already passed away, like Platon Grigoryevich himself. The monograph presents memoirs and scientific data of research in modern molecular, cellular and theoretical neurophysiology and biophysics. The chapters are presented mostly in chronological order of his students’ collaboration with Kostyuk. The monograph will be especially useful for specialists in neurophysiology, biophysics, and medicine: scientists, teachers, graduate students, and students involved in biology and medicine.

scholarly journals The Romanian-Russian Relations and the New Linguistic Hegemony: Towards Natural and Necessary Synergies

2017 ◽  
Vol 6 (s2) ◽  
pp. 75-79
Author(s):  
Iancu Miruna Mădălina
Keyword(s):  
Present State ◽  
Russian Federation ◽  
Critical Mass ◽  
Major Change ◽  
Behavioral Pattern ◽  
Complex Process ◽  
State Of Mind ◽  
Long Time ◽  
The Russian Federation ◽  
Concrete Solution

Abstract It is certainly and without fail that through a simple hovering over the present state of relations between Romania and the Russian Federation, the factual balance is not an encouraging one, the state of mind of the bilateral register being continuously dominated by the same issue: ,,history is a ballast, and the frame in which the two states perceive each other has been fixed a long time ago, clogged and jammed by momentarily political statements, and deprived of any heuristic nuances” (Dungaciu, Tănăsescu, 2013). Therefore and within such optics, based on an undeniable belief that a heuristic approach of the bilateral dimension is an imperative, the present paper aims to provide a first concrete solution likely to create the critical mass necessary to achieve a complex regeneration process of normalizing Romania's relations with its neighbor to the East. Circumscribed to such a sphere of interest, the present paper assumes the fact that beyond the overwhelming historical legacy related to the bilateral register and implicitly, beyond its problematic receipt, the complex process of normalizing the relations between Romanian and the Russian Federation is unavoidably obstructed by an entire arsenal of terms such as ,, reset”, ,,thaw”, ,,recovery”, ,,blocking”, terms which maintain and support a certain negative perception, thus certifying the fact that it prevails a ,,freeze”, a ,,cooling” and an impediment in the bilateral dimension. Starting from this undeniable and undoubted reality, the axial objective of the present paper is to fundamentally reverse this lexical hegemony, thus operating substantive changes at the level of the linguistic universe specific to the bilateral register, in such a manner as to register a major change in regards to the behavioral pattern afferent to the bilateral reports.

scholarly journals The Impostor Phenomenon Among Black Doctoral and Postdoctoral Scholars in STEM

10.28945/4613 ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 15 ◽  
pp. 433-460
Author(s):  
Devasmita Chakraverty
Keyword(s):  
Culturally Relevant ◽  
Research Policy ◽  
Comparative Method ◽  
Critical Mass ◽  
Structured Interview ◽  
Interview Data ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Impostor Phenomenon ◽  
Time Data ◽  
Underrepresented Groups

Aim/Purpose: This study examined experiences related to the impostor phenomenon among Black doctoral and postdoctoral scholars in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM). Background: Research on the impostor phenomenon is usually focused on undergraduates, especially for Blacks, with sparse research on Black doctoral and postdoctoral scholars. This phenomenon was originally investigated among Whites. Due to fewer studies on Blacks, culturally-relevant understanding of the impostor phenomenon is limited. Methodology: This study used surveys and interviews (convergent mixed-methods) to examine the impostor phenomenon among U.S.-based doctoral and postdoctoral scholars (together referred to as “trainees”) in STEM. Participants took a survey (that used the Clance Impostor Phenomenon Scale or CIPS to individually compute impostor phenomenon scores) and a one-on-one, semi-structured interview. Survey (with CIPS scores) and interview data were converged from the same participants, who were recruited from a national conference focused on minorities in STEM (convenience sampling). Using constant comparative method and analytic induction, interview-data were categorized into themes. Contribution: Findings documented race-based impostor-experiences, possibly culturally relevant to other groups of underrepresented minorities (URMs). Findings have implications for research, policy, and practice. These include future initiatives to broaden participation in STEM careers among the underrepresented groups, support those who might experience this phenomenon and transition challenges in academia, and create greater awareness of the challenges trainees face based on their background and life experiences. Findings: Surveys indicated moderate to intense impostor phenomenon among 15 participants at the time data were collected. Interviews with the same participants found six themes linked to the impostor phenomenon: 1) Being the only-one, 2) Lack of belonging, 3) Stereotyping, micro-aggression and judgment, 4) External appearances, 5) Feeling like the “diversity enhancers,” and 6) Complications of intersecting identities. Recommendations for Practitioners: Practitioners should consider the tensions and complications of Black identity and how it ties to training experiences in STEM as well as how race-based impostor phenomenon could shape an individual’s interaction with faculty, mentors, and peers. This knowledge could be helpful in designing professional development programs for Blacks. Recommendation for Researchers: Study findings could have research implications on the way doctoral and postdoctoral training is reimagined to be more inclusive and welcoming of diversity across multiple axes of gender, race/ethnicity, class, first-generation status, ability, sexual orientation, and country of origin, among others. Impact on Society: Black trainees could be vulnerable to leaving STEM fields due to their underrepresentation, lack of critical mass, racial discrimination, and other unpleasant experiences. Conversations around training, development, and means to address psychological distress could focus on culturally-relevant experiences of the impostor phenomenon. Future Research: Future research could look at the experiences of other underrepresented groups in STEM such as Native Americans and Hispanics as well as among faculty of color and individuals from other fields beyond STEM.

Debate: a tool for teaching graduate students.

1996 ◽  
Vol 271 (6) ◽  
pp. S45 ◽  
Author(s):  
F Moody-Corbett
Keyword(s):  
Graduate Students ◽  
Graduate Program ◽  
Student Participation ◽  
Critical Evaluation ◽  
Opportunity To Learn ◽  
Background Knowledge ◽  
Methods Of Evaluation ◽  
Neuroscience Method

The introduction of a formal debate was used to stimulate discussion of neuroscience in our graduate program. The debate had several advantages for encouraging student participation. Several students actively participated in the debate: four debaters and five judges. Faculty coaches helped provide background knowledge and guidance before the debate but were not debaters. Faculty directed the judges in methods of evaluation but were not judges. It was felt that this method of teaching was not only fun, but also provided an opportunity to learn current topics in neuroscience, method of presentation, and critical evaluation.

Opportunities and Challenges Ahead for University-Based Evaluator Education Programs, Faculty, and Students

2021 ◽  
Vol 42 (3) ◽  
pp. 428-438
Author(s):  
John M. LaVelle ◽  
Stewart I. Donaldson
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Graduate Students ◽  
Faculty Member ◽  
Knowledge Base ◽  
Research Agenda ◽  
Program Design ◽  
The United States ◽  
Education Programs ◽  
Current State

The profession of evaluation continues to grow, generating more demand for evaluation services than can be fulfilled by the supply of well-trained evaluation practitioners. In this brief forum article, we discuss the current state of evaluator education in the United States and the ways in which university-based programs support the development of evaluation practitioners and scholars. We then discuss the opportunities and challenges university-based programs face, focusing on program design, the challenges of being an evaluation-focused faculty member, and the specific needs of evaluation graduate students. We conclude by providing a research agenda for evaluation scholars interested in advancing the knowledge base about university-based evaluator education.

Who is robot Grace?

2021 ◽  
pp. 71-73
Author(s):  
Dmitriy Sergeevich Kovalev
Keyword(s):  
Hong Kong ◽  
Humanoid Robot ◽  
Da Vinci ◽  
Opportunity To Learn ◽  
Modern World ◽  
Specific Work ◽  
Highly Qualified ◽  
Qualified Personnel ◽  
Long Time ◽  
Da Vinci Robotic System

In the modern world, against the background of the flourishing of scientific and technological progress, more and more industries appear in which traditional and specific work is no longer performed by people, but by robots. Automated mechanisms turned out to be able to replace the functions of loaders, vehicle drivers, and assemblers on the conveyor. For a long time medicine remained an exclusively "live" industry, in which the presence and participation of competent and highly qualified personnel was necessary. However, in the last century already, mankind had the opportunity to learn about the da Vinci robotic system, capable of performing the most complex and high-precision operations, and recently, specialists from Hong Kong have developed a robot nurse Grace, designed to perform the functions of paramedical personnel. The impetus for the creation of a robot nurse was the coronavirus pandemic, in which medical workers took the whole blow, and, unfortunately, proved to be very vulnerable to infection. Against the background of the colossal rate of infection of the medical staff, very often medical workers became victims of this dangerous disease; there was simply no one to look after the patients, and the remaining staff was unable to cope with the enormous workload. Therefore, Hong Kong scientists came up with the idea of giving a "medical orientation" to the previously developed humanoid robot Sophia, dressing it in a medical uniform and equipping it with the necessary skills.

Report of the Northeast Modern Language Association

PMLA ◽  
1976 ◽  
Vol 91 (4) ◽  
pp. 533-534
Author(s):  
Ernest H. Hofer
Keyword(s):  
Graduate Students ◽  
Faculty Member ◽  
Rhode Island ◽  
Modern Language Association ◽  
Modern Language ◽  
Language Studies ◽  
Spring Issue ◽  
The University ◽  
University Of Vermont

The Northeast Modern Language Association had a very productive year. Membership now numbers 1,000 (roughly), and although the strike caused obvious difficulties for members located in Canada, even that “blank” seems now to have regained constituency. Modern Language Studies, the periodical sponsored by the Association and published at the University of Rhode Island, appeared with predictable regularity—a fall issue, a spring issue—under the editorship of Edna Steeves (for English manuscripts) and Armand Chartier (for modern language manuscripts). Happily, the arrangement will continue an additional two years, at least, for the agreement between the University of Rhode Island and NEMLA has been extended through 1978, including a partial subsidy by that University. A faculty member of NEMLA, for $6.00 ($3.00 for graduate students), has received two issues of MLS and the chance to attend the conference, scheduled this year at the University of Vermont, Burlington. (Membership dues will rise to $10.00 for faculty and $5.00 for students this September.)

The Blacker the Village, the Sweeter the Juice

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Marcus Anthony Hunter ◽  
Zandria F. Robinson
Keyword(s):  
Black People ◽  
Critical Mass ◽  
The Village

Using the life and times of pioneering antilynching activist and sociologist Ida B. Wells, this chapter begins the exploration of chocolate cities as black villages. One of the defining attributes, the village illustrates how a critical mass of black people living, working, and striving alongside one another creates ripples that affect the politics and movement of black people near and far.

Developing a Children's Literature Course to Facilitate Pre-Service Teachers' Understanding of Culturally Relevant Texts

2021 ◽  
pp. 44-67
Author(s):  
Jill M. Davis ◽  
Nicole Pearce
Keyword(s):  
Children's Literature ◽  
Faculty Member ◽  
Lived Experiences ◽  
Culturally Relevant ◽  
Children’S Literature ◽  
The Other ◽  
Seminal Work ◽  
Other World

This chapter describes the development of an undergraduate course focused on exploring children's literature using a critical lens. Descriptions of course assignments and activities are provided to illustrate how pre-service teachers engaged in learning how to identify and evaluate diverse books. Additionally, reflections provide insights into the lived experiences of the students enrolled in the class and the faculty member who created the course. The course framework emphasizes the importance of providing culturally relevant texts that reflect the cultures and identities of readers ages 3-12. This framework aligns with the seminal work of Bishop's “Windows, Mirrors, and Sliding Glass Doors” that described the importance of children accessing books that are windows into other experiences, books that mirror their own lived experiences, and sliding glass doors that children can walk into the other world created by the author.

Phrazeography and lexicography: divergency in terminology

2019 ◽  
pp. 359-365
Author(s):  
Tetiana Tsymbaliuk-Skopnenko
Keyword(s):  
Scientific Literature ◽  
Critical Mass ◽  
Word Formation ◽  
Scientific Field ◽  
Separate Branch ◽  
Semantic Concepts ◽  
Long Time ◽  
New Ideas ◽  
The Difference ◽  
Definition Of

The term divergence is used traditionally in linguistics in origin of language and dialectology to denote the distinction between certain idioms. However, the unit under consideration was used in a wider context, because it denotes the process and the consequence that are caused by the distinction of features and properties of objects – something that ultimately leads to the division of the previously indistinguishable, and hence the appearance of new ideas about the world. In word formation, divergence is understood as the differentiation of common-root derivatives in terms of content or peculiarities of their use. Researchers also use the notions of semantic divergence – the difference in the content structure of derivative units with certain semantic nuances, which shows their semantic non-identity. Phraseography – conventionally derivative unit of lexemy lexicography, in this case we must talk about creating the first term by model of the second. For a long time in the scientific literature lexicography was used to refer to the section of linguistics, within which, with the help of certain methods, both lexemes and phraseologisms are described, although these units have different nature. The growth of phraseology as a separate scientific field did not automatically lead to the fixing of the term phrazeography in the national scientific discourse. Modern search engines on the Internet provide information that in this network found over a thousand documents in the Ukrainian language, which includes the word phrazeography. Certainly, this cannot be an example of the frequency of the use of this lexeme, but this fact suggests that in the modern scientific world there is a critical mass for understanding of the phrazeography as a separate scientific field. Some important arguments against this tendency were not found, although in modern university textbook phrazeography information is presented in the section “Phraseology” or at the end of “Lexicsology”, while lexicography as a separate branch, not within the limits of lexicology, has long been entrenched in the educational and scientific literature. And it sounds paradoxical to a certain extent, because it is from phraseology (however, in symbiosis with lexicography), not only the newest Ukrainian phraseology as a science began, the description of phraseological units was one of the first tasks of Ukrainian vocabulary in general. In addition, we note that the term “science about dictionaries” is most often used in the sense of “lexicography”. Since the tradition of non-differentiation of lexicography and phraseology is very strong, it would be expedient (and simply convenient) to use this Ukrainian term for the definition of synthetic understanding of the two branches of philology as a related unity: lexicography (theoretical and practical) and phrazeography (also theoretical and practical). If we accept such a proposal, then there will be no unnecessary confrontation between lexicography and phrazeography, the uncertainty of which leads to many misunderstandings. We can conclude that there is no reason to denote by the term lexicography the whole set of scientific approaches related to the phrazeography description. In Ukrainian linguistics, it is necessary to clearly delineate the terms lexicography and phrazeography, since they, over the last time, consolidated various semantic concepts.

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