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Early Adventures of a Home Economist: Ava B. Milam’s Integration of Science and Home Economics at Oregon Agricultural College, 1911-1921

Creator:: McHugh, Kathleen M.
Abstract:: Across from the Memorial Union on Oregon State University’s campus sits Milam Hall, the former site of the Department of Home Economics. The building is named for Ava Milam Clark, the dean of home economics for thirty-three years, from 1917 to 1950. I aim to understand Ava Milam’s early career...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: : Early Adventures of a Home Economist: Ava B. Milam’s Integration of Science and Home Economics at

Disciplining the reception of Darwin : the botanical and sociological work of Lester Frank Ward

Creator:: Zimmerman, Katharine
Abstract:: The publication of Charles Darwin’s On the Origin of Species, truly a synthesized work of natural history, coincided with the emergence of specialized disciplines in the 19th century. This thesis aims to explore the relationship between the specialization of knowledge, in the form of disciplinization, and the reception of new...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: Science on November 7, 2006 Title: Disciplining the Reception of Darwin: the Botanical and Sociological

William Ernest Castle, American geneticist : a case-study in the impact of the Mendelian research program

Creator:: Taylor, H. Terry
Abstract:: In their modern context questions of heredity have come to be closely aligned with theories of evolution because all such theories require the presence of heritable variation. Thus the need for an understanding of a source of variation and a mechanism for its inheritance became very apparent with the general...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: reception of Mendel. Theories discussed include those of Charles Darwin, August Weismann, Hugo de Vries

On his own terms : William James, identity, and the development of American Psychology

Creator:: Stoller, Kevin R.
Abstract:: William James came of age at a time of great social and intellectual change in the United States. During this period, new professional identities proliferated, and a new culture of professionalization developed with important ramifications for conceptions of individual and social identity. Professionalization was also closely related to key intellectual...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: Browne, Charles Darwin: Voyaging, A Biography (New York: Knopf, 1995), p. xi and David Levering Lewis

A study of the animals inhabiting laminarian holdfasts in Yaquina Bay, Oregon

Creator:: Markham, John Charles
Abstract:: During the six-month period of July through December, 1966, a study of animals inhabiting laminarian holdfasts in Yaquina Bay, Oregon, was carried out to determine what animals live in this habitat and to gain some idea of the factors which influence their presence and distribution. This study deals with yet...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: glandula Darwin, it is possible that some were actually B. cariosus (Pallas); large numbers and frequent

An experimental determination of the absorption bands of methyl chloride and dueterium oxide in the region lying between 1 and 2 microns

Creator:: Holmquist, Robert Edwin
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: corresponding trace is shown in Fig. 4. Nielsen and Barker (5) have reported. and. analyzed this band. The

Revisiting hypertext communities of practice

Creator:: Breitenfeldt, Jeffrey
Abstract:: This thesis is an exploration of writing from two communities of practice addressing different aspects of hypertext--an electronic medium used to link text, images, and other content such that it can be accessed by users non-sequentially. In particular, I examine multiple narratives of hypertext development and key theoretically oriented approaches...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: exceeding speed and flexibility” (qtd. in Nielsen 30). The main contribution of the Memex, Bush argued

Translingual Science Communication: From Local Publications to the STEM Writing Classroom

Creator:: Werndli, Alexander J.
Abstract:: In order to assist WAC/WID practitioners and science writing faculty in incorporating translingual perspectives in disciplinary writing instruction, this study extends translingualism to language practice in the sciences by conducting a corpus study of Al-Awamia, a Moroccan agronomic journal. Mapping rhetorically significant changes across abstracts authored in English, French, and...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: recognition: Dr. Ana Milena Ribero, Dr. Sarah Tinker Perrault, Dr. Vicki Tolar Burton, and Dr. Jacob Darwin

Whitman and technology: a modern romance

Creator:: Turner, David N.
Abstract:: Walt Whitman looked to the natural world, which he considered an original example of divine creation, for insights into the methods and patterns of the Creative Force; the poet then intuited connections between these divine natural patterns and human existence and spirituality. Convinced of the divinity of the human body,...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: world again serves to convey the extent to which the two are related. As John B. Mason notes of the

The light within us : Quaker women in science

Creator:: McCabe, Leslie N.
Abstract:: This thesis explores the role of Quaker women in science in an attempt to arrive at some understanding of what motivated Quaker women in nineteenth century America to go into the sciences. George Fox founded the Society of Friends in the mid-seventeenth century in England and the Quaker theology centered...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: "Quaker Responses to Darwin," Osiris 16 (2001), 321-342. Also, "Why were a number of Quakers drawn to

ScholarsArchive@OSU

Early Adventures of a Home Economist: Ava B. Milam’s Integration of Science and Home Economics at Oregon Agricultural College, 1911-1921

Disciplining the reception of Darwin : the botanical and sociological work of Lester Frank Ward

William Ernest Castle, American geneticist : a case-study in the impact of the Mendelian research program

On his own terms : William James, identity, and the development of American Psychology

A study of the animals inhabiting laminarian holdfasts in Yaquina Bay, Oregon

An experimental determination of the absorption bands of methyl chloride and dueterium oxide in the region lying between 1 and 2 microns

Revisiting hypertext communities of practice

Translingual Science Communication: From Local Publications to the STEM Writing Classroom

Whitman and technology: a modern romance

The light within us : Quaker women in science

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