scholarly journals He’s ready for his closeup: Peter the Anteater’s guide to the library

2020 ◽  
Vol 81 (3) ◽  
pp. 125
Author(s):  
Nicole Arnold ◽  
Stacy Brinkman ◽  
Lily Correa ◽  
Carolyn Downey
Keyword(s):  
University Of California ◽  
Library Services ◽  
The Past ◽  
The University

The scene opens with a laptop kiosk. In the foreground, a furry head comes into focus with the text: “With an essay to write, a laptop would come in handy!” Meet Peter, the anteater puppet who discovers a laptop kiosk in the library and learns to check one out and return it. In the past year, the libraries at the University of California-Irvine have created several videos with Peter to raise awareness of library services and resources.

Alkaloid Synthesis: Mearsine (Taylor), Cephalotaxine (Li), Cocaine (Shing), Quinine (Hatakeyama), Cleavamine (Bennasar), Strychnine(Vanderwal)

2013 ◽  
Author(s):  
Douglass F. Taber
Keyword(s):  
Hong Kong ◽  
Malonic Acid ◽  
Selective Hydrogenation ◽  
Aqueous Ammonia ◽  
Conjugate Addition ◽  
University Of California ◽  
The Past ◽  
Chinese University ◽  
Alkaloid Synthesis ◽  
The University

Richard J. K. Taylor of the University of York employed (Tetrahedron Lett. 2011, 52, 2024) the Jørgensen protocol to add 2 to 1, to give the enantiomerically enriched cyclohexenone 3. Condensation of 3 with aqueous ammonia led directly to (-)-mearsine 4. Wei-Dong Z. Li of Nankai University found (Org. Lett. 2011, 13, 3538) that the intermediate from Dibal reduction of the lactone 5 underwent Nazarov cyclization, giving the α-hydroxy cyclopentenone 6. After acetylation, deprotection gave an amine that cyclized with high diastereocontrol, leading to (±)-cephalotaxine 7. Tony K. M. Shing of the Chinese University of Hong Kong cyclized (Org. Lett. 2011, 13, 2916) the aldehyde 8 by exposure to 9. The product 10 was carried on to (-)-cocaine 11, as well as several hydroxylated cocaine derivatives. Susumi Hatakeyama of Nagasaki University found (Tetrahedron Lett. 2011, 52, 923) that exposure of the simple prochiral aldehyde 12 to catalytic proline transformed it, after reduction, into the cyclized diol 13 in high ee. The diol 13 was readily carried on to quinine 14. M.-Lluïsa Bennasar of the University of Barcelona devised (Org. Lett. 2011, 13, 2042) Pd-catalyzed conditions for the cyclization of 15 that selectively delivered the unstable kinetic product 18. Selective hydrogenation of the more reactive bridgehead alkene then led to cleavamine 17. The alkene 16 is also prochiral, so it is possible that a catalyst could be found that would deliver 17 in high ee. The synthesis of the heptacyclic alkaloid strychnine 23 would, in the past, have been a major undertaking. Christopher D. Vanderwal of the University of California, Irvine, prepared (Chem. Sci. 2011, 2, 649) 23 in just six linear steps. The dienyl aldehyde 18 was available in two steps from tryptophyl bromide. Exposure to t -BuOK cyclized 18 to 19. N-deallylation followed by alkylation with 20 provided 21, setting the stage for a truly spectacular Brook rearrangement/conjugate addition, to give the Wieland-Gumlich aldehyde 22. The known condensation with malonic acid completed the preparation of 23.

Ibsen Our Contemporary

2014 ◽  
Vol 30 (3) ◽  
pp. 243-248
Author(s):  
Richard Hornby
Keyword(s):  
Social Problem ◽  
University Of California ◽  
Keynote Address ◽  
Emeritus Professor ◽  
Avant Garde ◽  
The Past ◽  
Theatre Company ◽  
The University ◽  
The Grotesque

In this article Richard Hornby argues that Ibsen's plays are badly performed today, or not performed at all, because of directors' refusal to take them with appropriate seriousness. The tendency is to stage the plays' reputation as simplistic social problem plays rather than as the complex, challenging, bizarre dramas that Ibsen actually wrote. In particular, directors avoid the grotesque elements that are the true ‘quintessence of Ibsenism’, and that are often remarkably similar in style to that of avant-garde playwrights today. Richard Hornby is Emeritus Professor of Theatre at the University of California, Riverside. For the past twenty-eight years he has been theatre critic for The Hudson Review, and is author of six books and over two hundred published articles on various aspects of theatre. This essay was delivered as the keynote address at the fourteenth annual Ibsen Festival of the Commonweal Theatre Company, Lanesboro, Minnesota, in April 2011.

scholarly journals Very Complex Matter: Collaborations in Art and Geobiology

Artnodes ◽  
2017 ◽  
pp. 67-75
Author(s):  
Meredith Tromble
Keyword(s):  
Early Life ◽  
Scientific Practice ◽  
University Of California ◽  
The Past ◽  
Physical Theater ◽  
The University ◽  
Complex Matter

Geobiologist Dawn Sumner, known for her research on early life in Antarctica, her contributions to the Mars Curiosity science team, and for co-founding KeckCAVES at the University of California Davis, has also spent the past decade working in collaboration with artists. This paper addresses the relevance of these art/science collaborations to her scientific practice through an analysis of four of her projects: Collapse (suddenly falling down) with Sideshow Physical Theater; Dream Vortex with Meredith Tromble; Life Extreme with Philip Alden Benn; and The Vortex with Donna Sternberg and Meredith Tromble. The experiences gained by Sumner and her collaborators show that there are many different ways in which artists and scientists can learn from each other. Echoing throughout the collaborations is the realisation that turning ideas into form yields a result that can stimulate the next cycle of creativity.

Conspiracy Rises Again

Qui Parle ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 28 (2) ◽  
pp. 307-333
Author(s):  
Poulomi Saha
Keyword(s):  
San Francisco ◽  
Central Valley ◽  
The United States ◽  
University Of California ◽  
British India ◽  
Philosophical Concept ◽  
The Past ◽  
Revolutionary Violence ◽  
The University ◽  
Indian Students

Abstract This essay takes up conspiracy as a discursive, political, and philosophical concept. By tracing the ideological and textual kinship between anticolonialism in India and Ireland and radicalism in the United States, it illuminates transcolonial circuits of a curiously shared revolutionary project. Rather than simply offer a historical account of those interconnections, it theorizes a practice of reading revolutionary violence as perpetual, repetitive haunting, a politics of the undead. It argues for a historiographical live burial by which violences of the past reappear to disrupt the imperial promise of futurity and continuity. From the 1916 “Hindu-German Conspiracy Trial” in San Francisco, during which members of the Ghadr Party—consisting of diasporic Indian students at the University of California, Berkeley, and Punjabi farmers in the Central Valley—were accused of conspiring with German diplomats to arm anticolonial revolt in British India, this essay tracks forms of radical sympathy that emerge, flourish, and stutter in an era of ethnonationalist constriction.

scholarly journals Securing Confidence With Data Escrow

2018 ◽  
Vol 22 (2) ◽  
pp. 1-6
Author(s):  
Donna M. Schaeffer ◽  
Patrick C. Olson
Keyword(s):  
Computer System ◽  
News Media ◽  
General Public ◽  
Information Age ◽  
Identity Theft ◽  
University Of California ◽  
Security Risks ◽  
The Past ◽  
Electronic Transactions ◽  
The University

In the past several years, the general public has had concerns about hacking and identity theft. Headlines in news media include computer system breaches at popular and respected companies like Target and universities like The University of California at Berkeley. This paper explores options available for providing the general public with the benefits of the information age while mitigating against the security risks. We begin with a discussion of it is reasonable for the general public to expect organizations engaged primarily in commerce to provide for their cybersecurity. We then look at how electronic transactions are currently secured. We conclude with a consideration of the “protocols” or “institutions” that might provide for security for consumers.

Marches Through the Institutions: University Activism in the Sixties and Present

2011 ◽  
Vol 116 (1) ◽  
pp. 88-101 ◽  
Author(s):  
Christopher L. Connery
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Student Support ◽  
University Of California ◽  
Student Movements ◽  
The Past ◽  
Differential Character ◽  
The Sixties ◽  
The 1960S ◽  
The University ◽  
Oppositional Politics

Student movements in United States during the 1960s enjoyed massive student support and participation, and resulted in significant changes within US universities. In part, it is the legacy of these victories that has been at stake, whether acknowledged as such or not, in the University of California student and faculty movements over the past two years. This essay considers the character of recent student and faculty opposition, both in relation to the earlier movement and to the differential character of oppositional politics in the two periods.

Bridging the Gaps

2011 ◽  
pp. 319-328
Author(s):  
Caroline Collins ◽  
Olga. A. Vásquez ◽  
James Bliesner
Keyword(s):  
Middle Class ◽  
Broad Spectrum ◽  
Theoretical Framework ◽  
Educational Resources ◽  
University Of California ◽  
The Past ◽  
Employment Gaps ◽  
Teaching Research ◽  
The University

The following case study chronicles the activities of a community-university partnership that supports the University of California, San Diego’s threefold mission of teaching, research, and service while directing educational resources to underrepresented communities. This partnership, instantiated in a research project widely known as La Clase Mágica, involves a broad spectrum of institutional units seeking to bridge the digital, cognitive, and employment gaps that exist between middle-class mainstream communities and those at the margins. The case study examines the project’s history and philosophy, theoretical framework, commitment to collaboration, assessment, and impact over the past two decades.

The Power of Sex: English Plays by Women, 1958–1988

1991 ◽  
Vol 7 (27) ◽  
pp. 238-245 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sue-Ellen Case
Keyword(s):  
Critical Theory ◽  
Social Contexts ◽  
University Of California ◽  
Feminist Critique ◽  
Women Playwrights ◽  
The Past ◽  
The Social ◽  
Women's Lives ◽  
The University

Reading backwards, through the feminist critique, Sue-Ellen Case explores the role of sexuality in women's lives as portrayed in the work of British women playwrights during the past three decades. She illustrates the way in which the oppressive uses of sexuality in the patriarchy, identified by the social movement as rape and pornography, have been dramatized through dramatic narrative and character construction. In contrast to this representation of oppression, she discusses how the liberating role of pleasure and of women reclaiming their own desires provide a revolutionary feminist stage practice, in both heterosexual and lesbian social contexts. Sue-Ellen Case is Professor of English at the University of California, Riverside, and her works includeFeminism and TheatreandPerforming Feminisms: Feminist Critical Theory and Theatre.

The Prosser Letters: Scholar as Dean

2017 ◽  
Vol 10 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Christopher J. Robinette ◽  
Kyle Graham
Keyword(s):  
University Of California ◽  
Legal Process ◽  
The Past ◽  
Ethnic Biases ◽  
The University ◽  
Professional Accomplishment

AbstractExamining a previously unexplored trove of letters, this article sheds new light on the thinking and work of William L. Prosser, the past century’s leading torts scholar. In these letters to family written while dean of the University of California, Berkeley School of Law, Prosser candidly describes his approach to scholarship; the development of his casebook, the second edition of Prosser on Torts, and some of his most well-known and influential articles. Moreover, Prosser provides his often-cynical impressions of the legal process; his views of his peers at Berkeley and at other institutions; and his work as dean. The letters also demonstrate some of Prosser’s limitations, including his craving for attention, a sometimes petty personality, and racial and ethnic biases. In all, the letters capture a scholar at the zenith of professional accomplishment in his field, who nevertheless showed signs of the insecurity that would later trigger his resignation from the Berkeley deanship and retreat from the forefront of torts scholarship.

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