Historical Timeline - Centennial Celebration: The Mortola Years

The text of the speech made by Dr. Marilyn E. Weigold, Professor of History and University Historian, at a Centennial event commemorating the University’s late President and Chancellor, Dr. Edward J. Mortola, this document details the relationship between Dr. Mortola and Pace from 1947 to 1990. Dr. Mortola’s early years as Assistant Dean, Dean, Provost and Vice President are discussed and the dramatic expansion of Pace during his Presidency is highlighted. The opening of the Pleasantville campus, the founding of the School of Education, the Lienhard School of Nursing and the Law School are noted, along with the addition of innovative graduate programs and the attainment of University status. Dr. Mortola’s vision of Pace is analyzed within the context of his era and reference is made to the current Strategic Agenda

The transformation of the Union for the Mediterranean into an Energy Community

This article focuses on the Union for the Mediterranean (UfM), which celebrated ten years of life last year. The article examines whether the UfM may evolve into an Energy Community in order to keep together its member states when developing projects in the energy sector, in which they don’t have the same interests. To what extent can the UfM become a driver for peace, stability and prosperity in the region of the energy-rich Eastern Mediterranean? The article examines the multilateral and bilateral frameworks of cooperation in the Mediterranean basin. What is the institutional missing link that may unite these frameworks into a solid work platform? The Eastern Mediterranean Gas Forum is a recent Egyptian initiative, developed outside the multilateral framework of the UfM. This initiative questions the relevance of the multilateral institutions and the bilateral relations developed between the Mediterranean coastal countries.

The Effect of Hand Paddle and Push Up Exercises to Increase Swimming Speed in Children Aged 11-12 Years

This study aims to determine how influential the use of Hand Paddle media and Push Up Exercises are to increase freestyle swimming speed in children aged 11-12 years. This study used Quantitative research methods and Experimental research types, Freestyle swimming test using one-group pre-test post-test design for 10 treatments, This study was as many as 20 students from extracurricular swimming at SDN Pasir benteng 2 with Purposive Sampling sampling technique, The results of descriptive analysis showed a significant decrease in swimming time for both groups. The average swimming time of the Hand Paddle group decreased from 35.66 seconds in the Pre Test to 29.82 seconds in the Post Test, while the Push Up group decreased from 37.41 seconds to 35.35 seconds, These findings suggest that both interventions have been successful in increasing swimming speed.

[George M. Austin Autobiography Drafts]

George M. Austin autobiography drafts. Draft dated September 26, 1994. “First Draft” dated September 21, 1994 Draft handwritten on lined yellow paper Typed letter. To All members Society of Neurological Surgeons From Historian. Letter requests a biography and photograph

The science of faith : religious worldviews and the study of nature in the Spanish world, 1530s-1640s

The Science of Faith explores the relationship between religious worldviews and the production of natural knowledge in Spain and its American colonies during the Catholic Reformation. In contrast to the story of the allegedly negative and retrograde influence of the Spanish Church on early modern knowledge–the dissertation shows that in the post-Reformation world, Iberian Catholicism, rather than stymying knowledge, encouraged it and integrated natural sciences into its worldview. In particular, the dissertation explores the incorporation and subordination of disciplines of earth sciences, including cosmography, geography and natural histories, into various religious projects and ideologies in the Spanish world. This process included the harnessing of new scholarships, approaches and methods, the analysis of overseas empirical data, and the printing and dissemination of such literary products. The work examines the employment of natural sciences for various religious agents and ambitions in interrelated and overlapping contexts: from the pan-European phenomenon of religious and Church renewal and the more specific and localized contexts of Spanish devotion and mystical traditions, to the trans-Atlantic missionary and colonial enterprise that tried to integrate local knowledge into a global religion. I show the impact of Tridentine sensitivities on earth sciences in the Spanish domains where natural knowledge was profoundly informed by the encounter with new geographies and bio-diversity. This perspective reveals the multidimensional context of Spanish knowledge production, by recognizing the importance of specialized knowledge to other objectives than those explored in the common stories of imperial and commercial goals that dominate narratives of early modern Spain. The dissertation collapses the binaries between purportedly “traditional” religion and modern bodies of knowledge, and points to how Spanish Catholics used innovative tools for various monastic-specific agendas and to reinvent Catholicism. It thus offers a story of the coming into being of religious confessions, which recognizes natural sciences as invaluable source for the reconfiguration of faith.Histor