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Greenways are important landscape ecology strategies. Landscape ecology and greenway planning were central to Julius Fábos's professional life and scholarship. This essay is a memorial to the late Julius Fábos (1932–2022), a Professor Emeritus at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst. It traces Julius early upbringings in Hungary before and during World War II, his academic career in the United States, and his contributions to the Iberian Greenway Planning movement. Although Julius Fábos's work was conducted primarily in Northeastern United States, it spread worldwide due to his unparalleled vision, leadership, and joie de vivre. Iberian landscape planning benefited greatly from Julius Fábos recurrent visits to Southern Europe, and indirectly from having students study with him at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst. After a thirty-five year teaching career, he launched a series of conferences aimed at disseminating knowledge on ecological thinking. The 7th Fábos Conference on Landscape and Greenway Planning took place 30 June–3 July 2022 in Budapest, Hungary. Julius Fábos's successful academic career offers many opportunities for inspiration and self-reflection, especially in the post-pandemic uncertain times of today. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Autobiographical in nature, this essay shares my remembrances of what it was like to be a graduate student during the late 1960s and early 1970s when both sport history and sport studies were in their infancy. I believe I am the only person to complete a graduate degree with both Marvin Eyler and Guy Lewis, two founders of the North American Society for Sport History (NASSH) and the organization's first and second presidents. Immensely helpful and complementary were Dave Wiggins's, "Marvin Eyler and His Students: A Legacy of Scholarship in Sport History" (2005), and Robert Barney and Jeffrey Segrave, "From Vision to Reality: The Pre-History of NASSH and the Fermentation of an Idea" (2014). Following then, is my attempt to reconstruct my experiences and accomplishments at Lock Haven State College, University of Massachusetts, University of Maryland, and University of Washington, which in many ways paralleled the formative years of NASSH and sport studies. In so doing, I include significant interactions with my three closest graduate student friends—William J. Morgan, Alan G. Ingham, and Stephen H. Hardy, who went on to distinguished careers and leadership positions in sport philosophy, sport sociology, and sport history, respectively. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Sometimes the biggest impact an academic librarian can have is with students not yet in post-secondary education. This outreach librarian describes the joys and struggles in connecting with kids before [...]

The western Chipman domain of the east Athabasca mylonite triangle in northern Saskatchewan, Canada, displays a large positive aeromagnetic anomaly that is the result of retrograde magnetite production during exhumation. Petrologic, magnetic coercivity, and hysteresis analyses indicate that multidomain magnetite is the primary magnetic phase in rocks of the region. Measurements of magnetic susceptibility from the western Chipman domain document five orders of magnitude variation, while rocks from the eastern Chipman domain are paramagnetic. The distribution of Koenigsberger ratios is approximately a mixed bimodal lognormal distribution with peak ratios at 0.039 and 0.73, suggesting that magnetic susceptibility is more significant than remanent magnetization. However, remanent magnetization is an important contributor to total magnetization. Petrographic observations indicate that magnetite is primarily produced from the breakdown of hornblende. The consumption of hornblende is also texturally associated with the production of actinolite and the hydration-related breakdown of granulite facies mineral phases such as garnet and clinopyroxene. Based on the proximity of the positive aeromagnetic anomaly to the Cora Lake shear zone, late-stage deformation along the shear zone during exhumation of the east Athabasca mylonite triangle may have structurally controlled the infiltration of fluids resulting in the heterogeneous production of magnetite. These results document the utility of integrating aeromagnetic, petrologic, and rock magnetic data to transcend observational scales and better understand regional tectonometamorphic history. Key words: rock magnetism, lower crust, aeromagnetic anomaly, retrograde hydration, magnetite. Le domaine de Chipman occidental du triangle mylonitique de l'Athabasca oriental dans le nord de la Saskatchewan (Canada) presente une importante anomalie aeromagnetique positive qui est le resultat de la production de magnetite retrograde durant l'exhumation. Des analyses petrologiques, de coercivite magnetique et d'hysteresis indiquent que la magnetite multi-domaines est la phase primaire de magnetite dans les roches de la region. Des mesures de la susceptibilite magnetique du domaine de Chipman occidental documentent des variations sur cinq ordres de grandeur decimaux, alors que les roches du domaine de Chipman oriental sont paramagnetiques. La distribution des rapports de Koenigsberger est approximativement log-normale bimodale mixte avec des pics a 0,039 et 0,73, ce qui donne a penser que la susceptibilite magnetique est plus importante que la magnetisation remanente. La magnetisation remanente est toutefois une composante importante de la magnetisation totale. Les observations petrographiques indiquent que la magnetite est principalement produite par la decomposition de hornblende. La decomposition de hornblende est egalement associee, sur le plan textural, a la production d'actinolite et a la decomposition reliee a l'hydratation de mineraux du facies des granulites, comme le grenat et le clinopyroxene. Etant donne la proximite de l'anomalie aeromagnetique positive a la zone de cisaillement du lac Cora, la deformation tardive le long de la zone de cisaillement durant l'exhumation du triangle mylonitique de l'Athabasca oriental pourrait avoir exerce un controle structural sur l'infiltration de fluides entrainant la production heterogene de magnetite. Ces resultats documentent l'utilite d'integrer des donnees aeromagnetiques, petrologiques et de magnetisme des roches pour transcender les echelles d'observation et en arriver a une meilleure comprehension de l'histoire tectonometamorphique regionale. [Traduit par la Redaction] Mots-cles: magnetisme des roches, croute inferieure, anomalie aeromagnetique, hydratation retrograde, magnetite., Introduction Aeromagnetic surveys are a fundamental source of data used to aid in the interpretation of subsurface or unexposed geology within the upper crust (e.g., Hoffman 1987; Blakely et al. [...]

This article describes the process used to develop a new measure of college knowledge and the findings from an initial study to examine the measure's construct validity. We employed common test construction (item response theory, classical test theory) and factor analytic (exploratory factor analysis, confirmatory factor analysis) approaches to analyzing the data from 519 graduating high school seniors; these analyses support the construct validity of the measure. We discuss the importance of college knowledge in the college decision-making process and implications for school counseling practice and research. Keywords admissions, college knowledge, college transition, financial aid, The construct of college knowledge has become a cornerstone for effective college counseling and refers to the knowledge, information, and skills that students, parents, administrators, teachers, counselors, and other stakeholders [...]

AHMM has significant expertise in designing architecture for educational purposes. Ellis Woodman is an architecture critic and curator and the Director of the Architecture Foundation in London. He surveys this aspect of the practice, particularly in relation to the freeing up and creation of accessible, social space to learn within. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In recent years, consumers are increasingly opting for natural and organic food. This has led many food producers to switch from using artificial ingredients to using natural ones. In some cases, however, questions arise about the authenticity of those ingredients. Lili He, an associate professor in the Department of Food Science at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst, focuses on developing and applying advanced analytical techniques to solve critical and emerging issues in food science. Recently, that focus has turned to using surface enhanced Raman spectroscopy (SERS) in the detection, analysis, and identification of both natural and artificial food colorants. Dr. He recently spoke to Spectroscopy about that work., You have developed a SERS-based method that is capable of detecting and identifying common food colorants (1). What motivated you to undertake this work? Currently in the United States, there [...]

BARBARA KRAUTHAMER has been named dean of the College of Humanities and Fine Arts at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst. Currently professor of history, dean of the graduate school [...]