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 Pathways to Knowledge: A Lecture Series for Undergraduates and Graduate Students
Fall 2004
Tuesday, October 19, 2004
7:00-8:00 P.M.
Gifford Auditorium, H.B. Crouse
Brown Skin, B.A., Braids and Brains:
Black Undergraduate Women's Perspectives on Cultural Context
in Higher Education
Cerri Banks
Ph.D. Candidate
Cultural Foundations of Education
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In the United States, the space we call higher education, both literally and figuratively, requires particular navigation skills as students move among its cultural contexts. Academic and social success in higher education is most often connected to specific strategies that support navigation in a very narrow, traditional way. In this process, some students excel while others are deemed deficient and even unworthy of membership in the higher education system.
Based on black undergraduate women across the country, this talk will explore the multiple ways students negotiate their lives and knowledge with traditional cultural contexts in higher education, suggesting ways to make the process more expansive and inclusive to facilitate student success.
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Tuesday, October 26, 2004
7:00-8:00 P.M.
Gifford Auditorium, H.B. Crouse
Seeking Ways of Security in the Field of
International (In-) Security
Bartosz H. Stanislawski
Ph.D. Candidate
Department of Political Science
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What does the concept of international security mean these days? Why study this topic? How can data be obtained?
These are some of the basic questions one is faced with when analyzing international security problems such as proliferation of weapons of mass destruction, terrorism, or the spread of AIDS.
This presentation will address these and similar questions in the area of international security.
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Tuesday, November 16, 2004
7:00-8:00 P.M.
Gifford Auditorium, H.B. Crouse
A Hybrid Design Method for Performance-Based
Earthquake Design
Metin Oguzmert
Ph.D. Candidate
Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering
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Following the observed structural damage in the 1989 Loma Prieta Earthquake and the aftermath of seismic events in Northride and Kobe, considerable amount of effort was launched to reevaluate the principles governing modern seismic design methods. Performance-Based Seismic Engineering (PBSE) has emerged as a new alternative to the current design techniques.
In this session, the basics of PBSE will be defined and the possibility of using a new hybrid seismic design philosophy based on both displacements and energy concepts rather than forces alone will be discussed.
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