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Item 1800 to 0: Pathways to a Zero-Carbon US Power Grid(2021-05) Pateder, SaagarA zero-carbon electricity sector is crucial to avoiding the worst consequences of climate change, and there remains substantial work to be done. Just building more renewable power generation capacity is not a viable strategy, as the seasonality and intermittency of such sources would harm overall grid reliability. I examine the storage, generation, and transmission technologies that will be necessary to scale the zero-carbon power grid while maintaining overall system reliability, along with the role for negative-carbon technologies. I also turn to published studies from academia and government to showcase how these technologies can work in tandem to enable overall decarbonization of the power sector. Finally, I examine various policies that can accelerate adoption of these technologies and drive decarbonization.Item 1863 in 1963(2013-01-01) Green, LaurieItem The 1980 Moscow Olympics and my Family(2014-02-24) Straw, AndrewItem The 21st century classroom : integrating educational technology with 21st century competencies in support of workforce development(2011-05) Bailie, Christine M.; Treisman, Philip Uri; King, Christopher T.Information and communication technology demands are increasing across a range of occupations, creating intense global competition for highly-skilled workers. In order to meet the economic needs of the next century, education reform must prioritize student-directed learning that fosters innovation and creativity, enabling the United States to compete internationally in attracting and creating high-quality jobs for its citizens. Our system must strive to create lifelong learners and ensure equity in preparing all students for college- and career-readiness, which increasingly, are considered one in the same. Manor New Technology High School, in Central Texas, has successfully used technology immersion and project-based learning to expand the opportunities for its minority-majority population. Emphasis is placed on teaching students how to learn and in making authentic learning connections with the world through applied, and interdisciplinary coursework. An understanding of how educational technology can be used to create better student outcomes, through investment in teacher peer-to-peer supports to effectively integrate technology into instruction, has led to a sustainable and scalable model of technology immersion at Manor Independent School District. Through its partnerships with local businesses and not-for-profit organizations, Manor New Technology High School is graduating highly skilled and college-bound students, while concurrently promoting sector-based economic development within the high-tech industry. State educational agencies are ill-equipped to meet the challenges of workforce development; therefore, new mechanisms and incentives should be created to encourage and enable school districts to pursue 21st Century competencies (analytic skills, interpersonal skills, ability to execute, information processing, and capacity for change), which are enabled through the “invisible tool” of educational technology in the classroom.Item 32(1979) Rapoport, BernardItem 38 Nooses: Lincoln, Little Crow, and the Beginning of the Frontier’s End by Scott W. Berg (2012)(2014-01-31) Ballard, HannahItem 50th Anniversary of the Vietnam War from a Vietnamese American Perspective(2015-11-23) Bui, NancyItem A long quavering chant : peonage labor camps in the rural-industrial South, 1905-1965(2013-05) Reynolds, Aaron Kyle; Jones, Jacqueline, 1948-; Bsumek, Erika; Sidbury, James; Falola, Toyin; Bremen, BrianThis dissertation is a study of social and environmental conditions inside rural industrial labor camps throughout the U.S. South between 1905 and 1965. The use of peonage labor, i.e., the coercion of labor against ones’ will through indebtedness or violence impacted nearly a fourth of rural workers in the postbellum south, particularly in isolated railroad construction sites, lumber operations, turpentine camps, and commercial vegetable farms. Though employers’ various peonage labor regimes changed within the context of the camps’ physical environment and evolved over time, they continually took advantage of marginalized social groups, immigrants, African-Americans, and the poor. The relative inability of workers, their families, and reformers to prosecute employers and foremen for labor abuses stemmed from the collusion of local law enforcement and the indifference of federal government officials. Ultimately, broader market forces of globalization and technology changed peonage labor regimes, not the enforcement of federal statues outlawing the practice.Item A Review of Community-Based Interventions and Educational Initiatives for Overdose Prevention & Treatment for Opioid Use Disorder in the United States(2024) Kulkarni, Sachi; Gonzalez, Sonia K.Opioid use disorder (OUD) is a major health challenge facing the United States today, with 80,411 people dying from opioid-involved overdoses in 2021, accounting for 75.4% of overdose deaths. OUD disproportionately affects American Indian/Alaska Natives, people who live in rural areas, and young people ages 18-25. Each of these groups requires a distinct approach to reduce overdose deaths and OUD. This literature review included 22 papers to elucidate the specific aspects of successful community-based interventions and educational initiatives for overdose prevention deployed in the United States. Cultural sensitivity, peer involvement, and advancements in technology such as telehealth were found to be crucial next steps and key aspects of successful interventions.Item An “Act of Justice”?(2013-01-05) Walker, Juliet E. K.Item African American History Online(2012-02-14) Neuberger, JoanItem African Americans in Ghana: Black Expatriates and the Civil Rights Era by Kevin K. Gaines (2007)(2011-04-06) Parrott, JosephItem Afropolitan projects : creating community, identity, and belonging(2017-05) Adjepong, Anima; Carrington, Ben, 1972-; Falola, Oloruntoyin; Gonzalez-Lopez, Gloria; Pierre, Jemima; Rodríguez, NéstorDespite a dramatic growth in the numbers of African immigrants to the United States, until recently, this population has been marginal in studies about voluntary migration and race. Likewise, in mainstream scholarship about black identities, Africa appears as a site of imagination and struggle whilst contemporary Africans are frozen in an unchanging, parochial age. My dissertation addresses the marginalization of Africa and Africans in both race and migration studies through an ethnographic case study of a community of Ghanaians in Houston, Texas. The research considers how questions of religion, race, class, and sexual politics shape the community’s boundaries of belonging. I explore how answers to these questions inform members’ relationship with Ghana, Africa, Houston, and the United States more generally. The ways in which the community addresses these issues are part of what I call its Afropolitan projects, which advance a modern non-victimized narrative about Ghana and Africa more generally, and sustain the community’s identity as progressive, modern Ghanaians. By outlining the contours of one community’s Afropolitan projects, my research offers an urgent contribution to understanding contemporary African and black identities. The dissertation argues that within the intentionally curated community of Ghanaians in Houston, members engage Christianity, sexual and racial politics, and class respectability to claim their place in the United States and to a culturally complex and cosmopolitan Ghanaian/African identity. These practices of belonging are produced through community members’ experiences as Christians, postcolonial Africans, and American residents and citizens. My analysis reveals how this particular Afropolitan project complicates possibilities for the community to find solidarity with working class and queer black/African people and instead aligns itself with heterosexual respectability and middle-class progress. By examining this black/African community formation through a theoretical lens that complicates flattened conceptualizations of community, this project proposes new ways of building solidarities across difference within the black diaspora.Item After September 11(2011-09-12) Neuberger, JoanItem After the Responsible Stakeholder, What? Debating America’s China Strategy (February 2019)(Texas National Security Review, 2019-02) Brands, Hal; Cooper, ZackItem After WWII: A Soviet View of U.S. Intentions(2014-11-20) Lawrence, Mark AtwoodItem After WWII: George Kennan’s “Long Telegram”(2014-11-13) Lawrence, Mark A.Item Age of Fracture, by Daniel T. Rodgers (2011)(2015-03-02) Babits, ChrisItem The Age of Reagan: A History, by Sean Wilentz (2008)(2010-11-05) Briscoe IV, Dolph