scholarly journals The current state of safety within the wet laboratories of a Canadian academic institution

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Helene-Rosina Ayi
Keyword(s):  
Los Angeles ◽  
International Study ◽  
Storage Conditions ◽  
The State ◽  
Hazardous Substances ◽  
Severe Injuries ◽  
Current State ◽  
Academic Laboratory ◽  
The University ◽  
The U.S

Working in an academic laboratory (lab) often involves handling hazardous substances (Shariff & Norazahar, 2012). These substances are dangerous due to their toxic, flammable, explosive, carcinogenic, pathogenic or radioactive properties (Furr, 2000). Therefore, it is crucial that those working in these environments do so safely. Recently, many researchers and students from various universities in the U.S. and globally have suffered severe injuries and fatalities from lab accidents. For example, in 2008 a lab fire at the University of California Los Angeles led to the death of a student(Van Noorden, 2011). Following this and other similar accidents that transpired afterwards, an international study was conducted to understand the state of safety within the wet labs of today’s universities(Van Noorden, 2013a). The findings revealed numerous safety gaps and an overall lack of a strong and positive safety culture within the labs (Benderly, 2013;and Schröder, Huang, Ellis, Gibson, & Wayne, 2016). Since the majority of the accidents and study reports were predominantly from the U.S., it is unknown if the same safety gaps and risks also exist in the wet labs of Canadian universities. Therefore, this research study examined the state of safety within the wet laboratories of a medium-sized Canadian university. This was achieved by: 1) conducting an inventory of the labs’ hazardous substances to identify their labeling and storage conditions, 2) inspecting the labs to identify potential hazards or risky conditions, and 3) surveying lab personnel to understand how safety is perceived and practiced. The results show several safety deficiencies and a negative perception on certain safety elements among the lab personnel. As in universities in the U.S. there is an overall need to enhance thecurrent culture of safety at this Canadian university.

scholarly journals The current state of safety within the wet laboratories of a Canadian academic institution

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Helene-Rosina Ayi
Keyword(s):  
Los Angeles ◽  
International Study ◽  
Storage Conditions ◽  
The State ◽  
Hazardous Substances ◽  
Severe Injuries ◽  
Current State ◽  
Academic Laboratory ◽  
The University ◽  
The U.S

Working in an academic laboratory (lab) often involves handling hazardous substances (Shariff & Norazahar, 2012). These substances are dangerous due to their toxic, flammable, explosive, carcinogenic, pathogenic or radioactive properties (Furr, 2000). Therefore, it is crucial that those working in these environments do so safely. Recently, many researchers and students from various universities in the U.S. and globally have suffered severe injuries and fatalities from lab accidents. For example, in 2008 a lab fire at the University of California Los Angeles led to the death of a student(Van Noorden, 2011). Following this and other similar accidents that transpired afterwards, an international study was conducted to understand the state of safety within the wet labs of today’s universities(Van Noorden, 2013a). The findings revealed numerous safety gaps and an overall lack of a strong and positive safety culture within the labs (Benderly, 2013;and Schröder, Huang, Ellis, Gibson, & Wayne, 2016). Since the majority of the accidents and study reports were predominantly from the U.S., it is unknown if the same safety gaps and risks also exist in the wet labs of Canadian universities. Therefore, this research study examined the state of safety within the wet laboratories of a medium-sized Canadian university. This was achieved by: 1) conducting an inventory of the labs’ hazardous substances to identify their labeling and storage conditions, 2) inspecting the labs to identify potential hazards or risky conditions, and 3) surveying lab personnel to understand how safety is perceived and practiced. The results show several safety deficiencies and a negative perception on certain safety elements among the lab personnel. As in universities in the U.S. there is an overall need to enhance thecurrent culture of safety at this Canadian university.

Education and the University of North Carolina Pre-Flight School

Home Front ◽  
2017 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
North Carolina ◽  
Military Training ◽  
The United States ◽  
Colleges And Universities ◽  
The State ◽  
Chapel Hill ◽  
Trained Teachers ◽  
The University ◽  
The U.S

Primary and secondary schools were hard hit by the war, with a dearth of supplies and trained teachers. Many colleges and universities, vacated by men off to war, would have had to close were it not for the U.S. military training units at the schools. Each institution in the state had some sort of government activity on their campuses, but the preeminent center was the Navy Pre-Fight School at UNC-Chapel Hill, where two future presidents of the United States, George H. W. Bush and Gerald Ford trained.

Book Reviews

2012 ◽  
Vol 50 (1) ◽  
pp. 184-187
Keyword(s):  
Los Angeles ◽  
Business Cycle ◽  
Department Chair ◽  
The Great Depression ◽  
Basic Model ◽  
Equilibrium Level ◽  
The Business Cycle ◽  
The University ◽  
The U.S

Patrick Pintus of Aix-Marseille School of Economics, Aix-Marseille University reviews “Expectations, Employment and Prices” by Roger E. A. Farmer. The EconLit Abstract of the reviewed work begins: Presents a Keynesian economicsbased analysis of the business cycle and how to control it, focusing on the inefficiency of the equilibrium level of unemployment. Discusses the basic model; an extension to multiple goods; a model with investment and saving; a new way to understand business cycle facts; the Great Depression--telling the Keynesian story in a new way; the wartime recovery--a dynamic model where fiscal policy matters; the U.S. economy from 1951 to 2000--employment and gross domestic product; money and uncertainty; money and inflation since 1951; and how to fix the economy. Farmer is Professor and Department Chair of the Department of Economics at the University of California, Los Angeles. Bibliography; index.

Globalization of Racism

2016 ◽  
pp. 132-155 ◽  
Author(s):  
Zachary S. Ritter
Keyword(s):  
International Students ◽  
Los Angeles ◽  
Campus Climate ◽  
Cross Cultural ◽  
Racial Stereotypes ◽  
Cultural Learning ◽  
College Level ◽  
Intellectual Diversity ◽  
The University ◽  
The U.S

International higher education literature often extols a great deal of intellectual diversity, cross-cultural learning opportunities, and revenue that international students from China, Japan, and Korea bring to the U.S. every year. However, little attention is paid to the racial stereotypes international students bring to the U.S., how this affects campus climate, and what can be done to encourage cross-cultural understanding. Forty-seven interviews with Chinese, Japanese, and Korean graduate and undergraduate international students were conducted at the University of California, Los Angeles, regarding these students' racial stereotypes and how contact with diverse others challenged or reinforced these stereotypes over time. Results indicated that a majority of students had racial hierarchies, which affected with whom they roomed, befriended, and dated. This research shows that there is a need for policy and programmatic changes at the college level that promote international and domestic student interaction.

“No Task for the Amateur or Hothead”

2015 ◽  
Author(s):  
Robert Mickey
Keyword(s):  
Public Education ◽  
Black Education ◽  
The State ◽  
Board Of Education ◽  
Negative Consequences ◽  
University Of Mississippi ◽  
The University ◽  
Party State ◽  
Weak Party ◽  
The U.S

This chapter examines the U.S. Supreme Court's ruling in Brown v. Board of Education, which struck down state-mandated segregation in public education, and its implications for southern authoritarian enclaves. With the Brown shock, Mississippi's rulers faced their first major black insurgency in decades. A standoff between the state's governors and the White Citizens' Council (WCC) forces led to a stalemate over the development of an effective coercive apparatus, with negative consequences for managing the desegregation crisis at the University of Mississippi. The chapter first considers the state of black education prior to Brown before discussing the crisis, triggered by the university's refusal to admit James Meredith—who was black— and Mississippi's resistance to the decision. It shows how a combination of intraelite dissensus and weak party–state capacities help explain the enclave's navigation of the desegregation crisis at the University of Mississippi.

Realizing Race

2014 ◽  
pp. 100-123 ◽  
Author(s):  
Zachary Ritter ◽  
Kenneth Roth
Keyword(s):  
Los Angeles ◽  
African American Men ◽  
Cross Cultural ◽  
Media Representations ◽  
Cultural Learning ◽  
Student Groups ◽  
Film Distribution ◽  
International College ◽  
The University ◽  
The U.S

Media representations are for most of us a window on the world. We hear, see, or otherwise experience forms of culture through mass distributed imagery, music, news, fashion, and film, among other media. The U.S. is the global leader in the distribution of media, accounting for one-third of more than $30 billion annually in worldwide film distribution alone. Media representations from the U.S. are distinctive and carry signs of the country's long struggle with race and equality. International college students with little exposure to the U.S. outside of its depiction in exported media come here with racial perceptions that can be detrimental to their own and the college experiences of others, namely African American men. Girded by two qualitative studies at the University of California, Los Angeles, this chapter examines how media representations can flavor cross-cultural interactions, and what implications these interactions may have for campus climate, as well as cross-cultural learning opportunities for both international and underrepresented domestic student groups.

“No, Not One”

2015 ◽  
Author(s):  
Robert Mickey
Keyword(s):  
Black Education ◽  
The State ◽  
Board Of Education ◽  
White Supremacist ◽  
Massive Resistance ◽  
University Of Georgia ◽  
Black Protest ◽  
The University ◽  
Ruling Party ◽  
The U.S

This chapter examines how the U.S. Supreme Court's ruling in Brown v. Board of Education sparked a crisis over the desegregation of the University of Georgia (UGA) in Athens. On the eve of Brown, Georgia's ruling party remained controlled by the rural elites and white supremacist politicians composing the faction led by Governor Herman Talmadge. Through their massive resistance, enclave rulers successfully avoided the desegregation of state-supported schools for more than six years while also gaining headway in their repression of the statewide infrastructure of black protest. The chapter first reviews the state of black education in Georgia prior to Brown and the state's attempts to preempt the ruling before discussing how factional conflict affected rulers' development of new institutional defenses to ward off democratization pressures. It then considers the Talmadgeites' attacks on black protest throughout the 1950s and concludes by explaining how Georgia's rulers mishandled the UGA crisis.

scholarly journals On the tasks of the department of criminalistics in modern conditions

2021 ◽  
pp. 37-44
Author(s):  
E. P. Ishchenko
Keyword(s):  
Social Life ◽  
Legal Education ◽  
The State ◽  
Highly Qualified ◽  
Current State ◽  
The Russian Federation ◽  
Legislative Activity ◽  
The University ◽  
Law Making

The current state of Russian jurisprudence can be assessed as satisfactory, but not good or excellent. It depends on many factors, but most of all on the results of legislative activity, which leaves much to be desired. The root of the evil here is seen in the low quality of law-making, as well as in the blatant instability of the current legislation, whatever its branch we take. The majority of our legislators are random people who, for one reason or another, are among the deputies of the State Duma or members of the Federation Council of the Federal Assembly of the Russian Federation. Legal education, they usually don’t have a legislative technique not know the fate of the country and its citizens are concerned, not always, that in the context of the global economic crisis, pandemic coronavirus COVID-19 and other global disasters is extremely dangerous in its consequences. Social life multiplies the challenges. Today, more than ever before, we need the ability to think, objectively analyze what is happening, cheer for the Motherland, do not forget about honor and conscience, both while studying at the University and in practice. This is what will greatly contribute to strengthening the legal profession, increasing its prestige and significance in the life of society and the state, and will help determine the optimal criteria for the formation of the personality of a highly qualified lawyer — a graduate of the Kutafin Moscow State Law University (MSAL). 

Leader Interview: A Vision for Mental Health Care

2001 ◽  
Vol 7 (1) ◽  
pp. 7-16
Author(s):  
Mary D. Moller
Keyword(s):  
Los Angeles ◽  
Medical Center ◽  
Psychiatric Nursing ◽  
University Of California ◽  
Psychiatric Nurses ◽  
Justice Department ◽  
Past President ◽  
Nursing Career ◽  
The University ◽  
The U.S

This interview is with Jane A. Ryan, RN, MN, CNAA, immediate past president of the American Psychiatric Nurses Association. She began her nursing career in 1959 and spent 27 years in psychiatric nursing at the University of California at Los Angeles (UCLA) Medical Center Neuropsychiatric Institute, and eventually was responsible for nursing systems. Now she consults with the U.S. Justice Department on psychiatric nursing in state psychiatrist hospitals. Lisa Legge, managing editor of Creative Nursing Journal, interviewed Ms. Ryan.

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