I am a master's student in mathematics at Yeshiva University since January 2024, where I continued to participate in instructional efforts as an assistant and later an adjunct instructor since Summer 2024. I received my undergraduate and other master's degrees from Peiyang ('Tientsin,' 'Tianjin') University, Clemson University, Hult International Business School, and University of Pennsylvania respectively. Previously, I worked on software documentation (or technical writing), software development and K-8 computer science education; I had tutored voluntarily students at different age levels (pre-K, secondary, and adults). Since recently, my leisure time is occasionally spared on some efforts in healthcare fundraising. Back at Clemson, I used to be a research alumnus and teaching assistant of Dr. Joshua A. Levine's, when I was well drawn into clinically-sited research.

My mathematical mindset leans naïvely away from a graph-theoretic view or one from structured datasets, but more into an uniform or "unbiased" assumption between any pair of locations in the physical universe that are implicitly Euclidean, as least for our people's understandings; such view of mine might sustain in/with me (or it won't), for which any otherwise-topology-inducing metrics are considered simultaneously.

In Spring 2025, I'm taking Network Science, Numerical Methods, and Differential Equations while preparing for a topic for thesis.

In Fall 2024 I took Computational Topology, Mathematical Logic (through audits at CUNY), and Mathematics of Finance courses, while instructing the single-variable calculus session at Yeshiva; throughout the week I sometimes looked at the mathematics seminars at CUNY-Graduate Center.

In Summer 2024 I was studying a 2023 workshop on Structural Equation Modeling while taking Intro to American Politics and Legal and Ethical Environment of Business along with a few vacational and academic visits to the Science Museum of Long Island (Manhasset, N.Y.), downtown Princeton and University, N.J., University of Lynchburg and Liberty University [.png], VA, and the New England area [.png] respectively. Attended MAA's OPEN Math workshop on inclusive, active learning for the week of June 3rd as well as attending Team-Based Inquiry Learning for the week of June 24th. Scheduled to tentatively teach MAT 1412: Calculus I during the July semi-asynchronous session. From July to August I was also teaching/hosting a (homeschooling) course for adolescent literacy on dialogic reading, on an important category of texts which would help adolescent as well as adult/senior or second-language learners of English contextualize much conversationally, both in oral and written forms.

At about 2 p.m. eastern time on Monday, April 8, the 2024 Total Eclipse was predicted to cross North America hopefully through clear skies.

In Spring 2024, I was taking Ordinary Differential Equations, Introduction to Analysis, Functions of a Complex Variable, and Linear Algebra (audit) while hosting a weekly recitation.

In Fall 2023, I was taking Abstract Algebra I, Mathematical Statistics I, and auditing Calculus I, Calculus II, and Calculus III, all at the Department of Mathematics at West Chester University, while tutoring math and computer science topics for five hours a week there.

As of June 2023, I had already graduated from Graduate School of Education of University of Pennsylvania and become more or less an alumnus, and temporarily moved away from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

Before I completed my studies at Clemson in general, a few weeks before my scheduled graduation, I wrote some suggestions that I concluded from any "mistakes" or mostly honest experiences that I'd been through. It was based on my three semesters of role being a Graduate Teaching Assistant by December 2016, in which I put some thoughts for sincerity. I phrased these words based off not merely how I felt, but rather pragmatic facts plus constructive suggestions, which I thought would be helpful for both myself, if I were to start another assistant role, and for other ongoing students at Clemson.   (There may be parts where examples, language usage, and ordering or descriptions are not optimal, for I was basically writing each of the sections as stand-alone argument with its associated instances which were drawn from my memory.)   Since writing this summary, I have learned and grown; but I've chosen not to change any part of this document because I want to post it the way it initially was, back in December 2016.

In Summer 2016, I was fortunate to attend Open Science Grid's User School on high-throughput computing (my final project) organized and fully-funded jointly by the Department of Computer Sciences, University of Wisconsin-Madison.

According to Aristotle's Categories (Categoriae, circa 350 BCE), a [wanted to talk about 'mental' or 'psychological' states] state is the kind of quality that differs from a "condition" for its being more stable and lasting longer; by today's terms, this shadows mostly on those 'mental' or 'psychological' states of ours. As a result, arguably, it is ebullient, and generally good, for a person to be in one state. I strive to make every day a productive and self-manifesting one, keeping in mind my long-term goals (for my career, etc.) [delete "as I could think of"]; professional academic degrees normally differ from more scholarly ones in terms of focus and purpose for which the latter points to scholarship and institutional research, and is mostly intensive, theory-based, and heavily research focused. In contrast to this, thinking professionally while working on academics prepares domain practitioners to solve practical problems using existing knowledge; some professional degrees suit those who are interested in pursuing senior leadership positions in the professional practice (e.g., elementary education). Depending on what the inquirer hopes to achieve professionally, they may not need to pursue a narrow, specific academic track, and vice versa.

"In the professional arts ignorance means lack of skill; in the moral and political sphere it means vice," remarked Socrates earlier than 2,400 years ago, "Ignorance is vice, virtue is knowledge." He thought men by and large failed and erred because of ignorance. This kind of reminders might also be useful for addressing and/or resolving any types of what might be referred to as selected ignorance esp. in any post-trumatic situations in present-day 21st century, even when there is a defensive reason or excuse behind it. Then, fast forwarding into the turn of the twentieth century, ignorance seemed to have become the first requisite—necessary need—of history as it "simplifies and clarifies, selects and omits, with a placid perfection unattainable by the highest art," according to English critic Giles Lytton Strachey (Eminent Victorians, 1918)—in comparison to Socrates' "simple ignorance". And now, toward my second decade post-graduate, I began to care more about solving hard problems that are meaningful in a way that it retaliates out of any damages (which could, sadly and unwillingly to admit, bring about inspirations) to the societies and, hopefully, eventually lead me to redemption and rebirth—alongside with co-operating, elevating our colleagues and the next generation aside me. And I try to make my places better. For instance, I might have sensed the presence of unsettling issues in criminal laws and practices which, in ways, have shaken our contemporary moral conscience, which is why as a response I adopted the retaliation over damages, mentioned above, as one general rule of thumb of my work.

I read about Mark Twain's once talking about progress, hinting that "the secret to getting ahead is getting started," and I think here what we mean by a start or a beginning don't need to be too perfect nor inclusive: a "kick start" can often times be a clumsy but workable one that is accompanied by mistakes, frustrations, and those "wrestlings" of fundamentals, in which regard Twain further amended that to get started we might want to "break the complex, overwhelming tasks into small manageable tasks, and starting on the first one," synonymous to the divide-and-conquer algorithmic paradigm, originally in military terms.

Teaching/TAs Pakin, S. (January 2017). Comprehensive \(\LaTeX\) Symbol List

Ongoing Research Projects   (If you have worked/studied with me in a class or upon a funded project, feel free to contact me for research opportunities.)

Topic: [.. neighborhood and open (sub)sets ..]  |  [domain]  |  (..)

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Notes:  Open (sub)sets should imply some metric, because one needs a metric/distance to define open sets. However reading that book by Baum's the "system of neighborhoods" did not have a basis for how "distance" is measured; in fact, the definition of topological spaces comes after it. What this author wrote, I quote here, is that a neighborhood of x is those points which "lie close to" x (and they shall all be in X). Namely, this is vague, but it weakly inspired me to think about defining neighbors without a metric, which is impossible I think. Besides, I looked at this because of a homework problem of my (computational) topology class now. I didn't take a formal course on general topo., as I might've shared with you about my engineering/computer science background.. (Oct. 17, 2024)
      This inquiry is to think about (and understand) what it means to be a neighborhood or "epsilon neighborhood," to an element \(x \in X\) with or even without a topological space pre-conceived in the first place. After all, to me, it reads like that conventionally open subsets are an "induced definition" from a metric/metric space. Moreover and more specifically, before talking about "neighborhood," can/should the inquirer attempt to define what it means to be a single "neighbor" or "neighboring element," to any given element (and intuitively all/some neighbors collectively become a neighborhood)?

(from cover of Introduction to Topology 3rd ed./1990 by Bert Mendelson)

(depiction of second part of Theorem 4.6 "point-wise continuity"
in Figure 7 from excerpt from Mendelson's 3rd ed.)

(pp. 35) In calculus, the first occurence of the word "continuity" is with reference to a (single-variable, real-valued) function \(f: \mathbb{R} \rightarrow \mathbb{R}\) where both domain and co-domain are the real numbers set.
Note that, by definition, such function \(f\) is continuous at location \(a \in \text{domain} = \mathbb{R}\) if for any given \(\epsilon > 0\) (radius in co-domain) there exists \(\delta > 0\) (radius in domain) such that $$ |x - a| < \delta ~~\Rightarrow~~ |f(x) - f(a)| < \epsilon $$ namely regarding any small, symmetrical variation about \(f(a)\) in the co-domain, their pre-image or inversely-imaged points in the domain are guaranteed to be enclosed/bounded within a (also symmetrical) 1-ball open interval $$ (a - \delta,~ a + \delta) $$ in the domain, including the center of ball itself, \(x = a\).

Def. 4.4 (Neighborhood, and Complete System of Neighborhoods).  Let \((X, d)\) be a metric space, and \(a \in X\). A subset of this space \(N \subset X\) is called a neighborhood of element \(a\) if there exists some \(\delta > 0\) such that $$ B(a; \delta) \subset N $$ that is this subset contains some (possibly arbitrarily small) open ball centered at \(a \in X\).
Hence, bringing all possible such neighborhoods of \(a\)'s into a collection \(\mathcal{N}_a\) we get the complete system of neighborhoods of element/point \(a \in X\).

Then, utilizing "complete system of neighborhoods" we can characterize, in this other way, point-wise continuity:

Theorem 4.6 (Existence of Enclosed Forward-Imaged Neighborhood Defines Continuity).  Consider function defined from one metric space to another, denoted $$ f:~ (X, d) \rightarrow (Y, d^{\prime}) $$ then we say \(f\) is continuous at \(a \in X\)  iff  for each/any neighborhood \(M\) of \(f(a)\) in co-domain, there exists a corresponding domain-side neighborhood \(N\) of \(a\) such that $$ f(N) \subset M,~~~\text{as well as equivalently}~~~ N\subset f^{-1}(M) $$

(proof is on page 43)

(from my notes in MAT 5300 at Yeshiva; that topology is induced/generated from a
metric space, and \(\big(X, \text{its topology}\big)\) is sort of metric-free by explicit forms)

Meanwhile, on another note (Vincent on 10/17), the absence of distance when talking about neighborhoods is intentional because you don't need a distance function to define a neighborhood. For example, the book Topology by James R. Munkres says a neighborhood of a point \(x\) is any open set containing this point; Munkres also points out that other authors simply use the term "neighborhood" of a point \(x\) to mean any set that contains an open set \(U\) such that \(x\) is an element of \(U\).       In either case, there is no reference to distance, but there is a reference to a topology. It may be that Baum's book is using the "system of neighborhoods" definition to, in some way, motivate the future topological definition for neighborhood. This could be why it comes before the definition of a topology. Regardless, the absence of a distance is actually important because it keeps everything in a general setting. Not every space needs a distance function and studying these spaces will require definitions that don't force (require) a metric.

It then follows two immediate questions: (i) when I see/read the word "open set" first I recall it is a "subset," and it needs to reside in an underlying topo. space (and that requires a metric/metric space);
      \(\longrightarrow\) I'm not sure how your book defines it, but, typically, a topological space doesn't require a metric space. The relationship between the two is that a metric space is a specific topological space. The metric on the space is used to define open sets and these open sets are used to form the topology. Every metric space is a topological space, but not every topological space is a metric space.

(ii) doesn't Cartesian product (itself) already imply being Euclidean? -- if the answer is yes, then the n-space (e.g., xy-plane, xyz 3-space) is already "rigid," meaning each point's coordinate exists in the first place, then any other "metric" defined on top of it is more like a re-definition of distance to me..
      \(\longrightarrow\) The Cartesian product does not imply being Euclidean. This entirely depends on whether or not you can put a Euclidean distance on the space. Not every space has a Euclidean distance on it because some spaces don't even have a metric.

Well, by my interpretation by far, a metric is actually "utilized" to define open sets, which induces the formation of topology (i.e., I have a topo. space then as a result). Still, even if some metric had already been chosen, I wonder if there should/needs to be a metric space there, in the first place...

(Materials Collected)

(StackExchange-Mathematics) Open Ball in a Metric Space vs. Open Set in a Topological Space

Kronecker Product (Wikipedia).

(StackExchange). diff. between Euclidean and Catesian spaces.

Bapat and Kurata. (2019). On Cartesian Product of Euclidean Distance Matrices. Linear Algebra and its Applications, 562 pp. 135-153.

Henderson, H. V., Pukelsheim, F., & Searle, S. R. (1983). On the History of the Kronecker Product. Linear and Multilinear Algebra, 14(2), 113-120.

Munkres, J. R. (1984). Elements of Algebraic Topology. CRC Press.

Schäcke, K. (2013). On the Kronecker Product.

Waner, S. (2002). Lecture 5: Tensor Fields [notes]. Introduction to Differential Geometry and General Relativity.

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"CONSTRUCTING ALGEBRAIC CLOSURES" by Keith Conrad of UConn's

Elkies, N. (n.d.). "Algebraic and Integral Closures." Math 250: Higher Algebra (Fall 2004).

Fischer, H. (n.d.). "Algebraic Closure." Math 412/512 at Ball State University.

Topic: Self-Repetition: Reasons Behind People's Repeating Ourselves | Social Psychology, Literacy, Communication Studies, Rhetoric

(virtual presentation at IICAH2025  |  slides [.pdf])

Abstract: Sometimes we overexamine ourselves, at the individual level and in regular, modern days, and this phenomenon seems to have become more and more prevalent (and with higher frequency) toward the end of the second decade of the twenty-first century when I was entering graduate school the second time. In a recent work on the "theory of self-repetition" (to be presented hopefully January 2025), the author/presenter (myself) lays out some ground work by observation and analysis with a particular lens into instructional scenarios and dialogues in American higher education institutions. A simplest question is: if this were a pseudo-necessity, why did some people start conversing so, when some of them were even very intelligent and descriptive conversationalists? And is there any good sides or benefits gained from doing so?
      Today's discourse styles have framed us into a constraint of self-repetitions, in either virtual or traditional, in-person dialogues. Much of this was induced by our disolving attention span and patience, and yet there is something else that invaded into our discourse and became part of the hindrance to effective speech. This short article presents a tentative "theory" of why we are repeating and telling ourselves things with certainty, mostly in words, that we already knew implicitly and were already able to conceptualize in other forms of meaning-making. Such misplaced, pseudo-necessity can be surprisingly costly in contexts like collegiate classrooms. Beyond, the same question for individuals, what about at the group level for the general public? The author further concludes that this self-repetitive, sometimes toxic pattern is part of what he calls the "common knowledge predicament" in that all of us suffer more or less from the lack of understanding, or even misunderstood conventions, among a supposedly mutually-repsected population who are, counterintuitively, subject to the illiteracy epidemic.

Topic: Topologically Persistent Scalar Field Deformation | Computational Topology, Persistent Homology
Description: The concept of Contour Trees (Reeb Graphs for manifolds) for scalar field topology is fundamental, and their usefulness induces many potential applications. I plan to begin with a quick backup on seam carving based on the 2007 paper. Then I move on to ask the question that can the "content-aware" seam carving also be "aware" of topology as well, in any sense?

Topic: Inverse Transform of the Moment Generating Function | Complex Variables, Theoretial Statistics
Description: Moment Generating Functions (MGFs) are insightful in probability theory and statistics, sharing the identical form of a two-sided Laplace transform. In a typical progression of the introduction of MGFs, a look-up table is usually present for the purpose of finding the corresponding probability distribution, from which an MGF is calculated by summation or integration. Starting from the definitions of integral transform and the exponential Fourier transform, I plan to delve into the general case of MGFs, and then try to inversely transform it back to the probability distribution via complex integration.

Topic: Bifurcations of Equilibrium States in the Vector Field Modeling of Catastrophic Events | Vector Calculus, Meteorological and Atmospheric Sciences

with a Brief Survey of the Modeling of Cyclones

(idea sketch submitted to [Joint NZMS-AustMS-AMS 2024
Meeting; portal] already declined;  January 2025 poster slide)

Description:  In catastrophe theory, an "evolutionary process" can be modeled by "a vector field in phase space" where each point of the phase space defines/corresponds to the "state of the system" (Arnold, V. I. & transl. Wassermann, G. S. and Thomas, R. K., 1986, pp. 14). Suppose a multivariate vector field starts at an equilibrium state (a.k.a. fixed point) and the field is inherently continuous, then a local bifurcation occurs when some of the parameter(s) change, causing the stability of such equilibrium to change. This article attempts to formulate the evolutionary process with the special attention on bifurcations, and use it to model typhoons and hurricanes. Case analyses include the 2005 Hurricane Katrina in Louisiana, the 2018 Florence in Carolinas, and also the 2024 North Atlantic hurricane season and the tropical storm Beryl. Quantitatively, an eigenvalue analysis and test is used to determine bifurcating occurrences; in order to maximize practical insights, the author discusses, empirically, the benchmark for different levels of bifurcations associated with various disastrous magnitudes.

When the differences of atmospheric (air) pressure are demonstrated as a violent, strong rotational column, which is then in contact with both ground and cloud, we describe such configuration by the common synonymous terms of a tornado, twister (e.g. in 2024 film Twisters), whirlwind, or cyclone. Although usually some/any differences in temperature arose at first and is cause to differences in pressure, ...

Conceptually, if ever meaningful, if the spatial locality of a cyclone were a geometric object, then it might be modeled, along-side with or on top of the vector field itself, a so-called "twister curve" $$ C:~~ \mathbf{r}(t) ~=~ \begin{bmatrix} ~e^{-t} \cdot \cos(100 t)~ \\ e^{-t} \cdot \sin(100t) \\ e^{-t / 100} \cdot \sin(t) \end{bmatrix},~ t\in (0, \infty) \subseteq \mathbb{R} $$ so that it starts at \(\mathbf{r}(0) = (1, 0, 0)\) and "ends" at $$\begin{align*} \mathbf{r}(\infty) & ~=~ \begin{bmatrix} \displaystyle\lim_{t\rightarrow \infty}~e^{-t} \cos(100t) \\[.45em] \displaystyle\lim_{t\rightarrow \infty}~e^{-t} \cos(100t) \\[.39em] \displaystyle\lim_{t\rightarrow \infty}~e^{-t} \cos(100t) \end{bmatrix} \end{align*}$$ ----------------

If we know/put an underlying vector (wind) field where it is situated in space, say \(\mathbf{F}(x, y, z) = \big[F_x, F_y, F_z]^{\text{T}} \), then the interactivity between this cyclone object and the field is of physical meaning/interest of research, such as taking the line integral following this parametrized object for its length as well as computing its "work" against and through the wind and gravity.

       
Left third: Cone-shaped probable path of the storm center around Saturday June 29, 2024 (5 PM AST). USA Today.
Rightmost: Hurricane Beryl makes landfall in Mexico Friday morning July 5, 2024. CNN Weather.

Roberson, J. et al. (Mar 16, 2025). At Least 35 Dead in Massive Storm as Tornadoes and Wildfires Sweep Across U.S. TIME.

Wikipedia. Tornado.

Lorenz, E. N. (1963). Deterministic Nonperiodic Flow. Journal of Atmospheric Sciences, 20(2), 130-141.
When Edward Lorenz the meteorologist was studying a simplified version of the model of atmospheric convection, he discovered/wrote up the so-called Lorenz chaotic attractor which is a nonlinear system of three DE's each w.r.t. the same variable time \(d/dt\).

Pinsky, T. (2024). New Knots in the Lorenz Equations. Notices of the American Mathematical Society, Volume 71 (10).

Sheets & Williams. (2001). Hurricane Watch: Forecasting the Deadliest Storms on Earth. New York: Vintage Books.
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Tennant, A. (Director). (2020). The Secret: Dare to Dream [Film]. Savvy Media Holdings etal.

Lorenz System (Wikipedia)

Mailnews | JpGU (Japan Geoscience Union)

GEWEX (Global Energy and Water Exchanges) program

Topic: Asymmetric Tensor Field Analysis for Tropical Storm Data with a Parallel Formulation of the Bifurcations of Equilibrium States | Tensor Calculus, Empirial Data Analysis, Meteorological and Atmospheric Sciences   (abstract submitted to DDP 2024, pre-accepted)

Description:  Vector and tensor fields can be natural mathematical grounds for the modeling of pressure-induced natural disasters including tropical storms and hurricanes. Given a vector field, we say its constituent empirical data points are part of an associated "phase space" in which each point corresponds to the state of system. Because of the multivariate nature of the vector field, one way to begin the analysis is to find any equilibrium states, also known as fixed points, and look for potential "local bifurcations" and their associated parameters which could cause changes in the "stability" of a given equilibrium state. This work attempts to parallelize the vector field configuration with one under tensor fields by computing velocity gradients from the vector field into spatially salient, asymmetric tensor fields. With the special attention on bifurcations, such modeling used to be known as the model of evolutionary process of a catastrophic event. Empirical study attempts to inspect the 2005 Hurricane Katrina which took place in Louisiana for which wind field datasets are available which would make room for observations and insight.

This is inspired by the "catastrophe theory" formulation which is close to "dynamical systems" nowadays. Such data have some potentials: on one hand, it can turn theoretical, defining and extracting a topological space (with a customized metric) from the vector field data; on the other, it can become "computational" by using things like topological data analysis (TDA) and "predictive analytics" for weather prediction, which should've been a well-developed domain already (i.e., in weather reports, meteorology, etc.).

References

Kate Bilo Weather. (August 9, 2024). Latest on Debby's remnants here in Philadelphia area as of 10am Friday. Instagram.

Steed, C. A., Jankun-Kelly, T. J., & Swan, J. E. (2009, October). Illustrative Visualization Techniques for Hurricane Advisory Information. In OCEANS 2009 (pp. 1-9). IEEE.

Kindlmann, G. (2004). "2.1.1 Tensor Algebra Basics" in Visualization and Analysis of Diffusion Tensor Fields. Available from ProQuest Dissertations & Theses Global. (305102531). Retrieved from https://ezproxy.yu.edu/login?url=https://www.proquest.com/dissertations-theses/visualization-analysis-diffusion-tensor-fields/docview/305102531/se-2

Arnol'd, V. I., Davydov, A. A., Vassiliev, V. A., & Zakalyukin, V. M. (June 2006). Mathematical Models of Catastrophes. Control of Catastrophic Processes. Encyclopedia of Life Support Systems (EOLSS).

Topic: [... (the clap-hand sign in Naruto jutsus) ...] | XX   (...)

Notes:  ..take the notorious "Impure World Reincarnation" summoning jutsu (口寄せ・穢土転生 or Kuchiyose: Edo Tensei by Romaji) as example, notice various water-style jutsus in Naruto anime series would require/end with the "clap hand" sign, with at least one common characteristic being a relatively high consumption of Charkra and the fluidity of Charkra property. I observed this ending sign mostly in water styles, notably the techniques by Kisame using a large volume of water. It is said that claps, not among the twelve seals, are not an actual seal in itself but rather an activating sign as the last, ending sign of a seal, such as Edo Tensei mentioned above and the Reaper Death Seal, the latter applied by both the Fourth and the Third Hokages.

     

['impure' means being morally corrupt/wrong usually with mixed, foreign matter; and 'adulterated' meaning being in poorer/inferior quality with added substance(s).]

(Reference Materials Used)

Hand Seal - Clap Hands (Narutopedia, Fandom)

Giuliana, G. T. (2021). "Japanese Memory and Ideology in Western-Inspired Shōnen Animes." Western Japaneseness: Intercultural Translations of Japan in Western Media (Chapter 6). Vernon Press.
- "Authentic Japaneseness" seems nowhere to be found: we eat Westernized sushi, we watch censored animes often without knowing about the censorship, and many studies about Japan actually create a Westernized vision of it through artificial resemblances that invented Japaneseness (pp. 104).
- Japaneseness seems to be "absent even in Japan," in that Japanese cities are full of Western signs and citations, Japanese people undergo eyelid surgery, English words are constantly used in the Japanese language, and all Japanese cultural productions are influenced by the need to spread globally and so often repeat a simplified and stereotyped vision of Japan itself (pp. 105).
- "I cannot have much hope for the future of Japan; as days pass, I feel more and more deeply that if things should proceed this way, 'Japan' might end up disappearing." (Yukio Mishima, Japanese author and poet, 1925-1970)
- The idea of a "nationality-ness" as a set of "local" and "pure" unique cultural elements that have belonged and will belong forever only and exclusively to a certain group of humans born in a particular space of the earth, and that have never been influenced by other cultures, is in many cases ideological.
- ..both in nature and in culture, all the stabilized forms are born from the flux of the everchanging and continually disappear within this flux (Italian anthropologist Francesco Remotti). It is argued that consequently identities are constructions as a matter of names, of decisions, of cuts, of both arbitrary separations and assimilations, the result of an inevitable fictional and representational need.
- Identities are always born from an alterity, and are always struggling to hide the endless operations that createthe two sides of identity and alterity.
(about Naruto:)
- .. with a fade-out effect, in which figures such as his father (Minato) and teacher (Kakachi, etc.) appear "within" him, with the most striking example in episode 163. Furthermore, Naruto also uses the techniques of his father and master's; in fact, his name "Naruto" itself is the name of a character invented by his master in a book, and he will claim this origin and try to live as the character.
- (Even) the guilts that he carries are not his own, but rather those of the demon (nine-tail fox) that lives inside of him and is the reason of him being refused as an equal by society.
- Sasuke, in parallel and possibly like-wise, will never follow an "independent" path but all his actions are made in the function of his brother and the clan, to which he belongs (that is his personal pride and his social shame). At the end of his fight against Itachi, years later, Itachi will even symbolically give his eyes to Sasuke, granting him all his powers.
- The form of Sasuke's sharingan will change to include two distinct forms: his own and the one of his brother's. Whenever Sasuke opens his eyes, the figure and memory of Itachi will be re-evoked.
- ... the lack of individuality also emerges from an enunciative point of view, by noticing how the combination of internal narrators and flashbacks, and also of the intertextual and intratextual dimensions, prevent the protagonist from fully speaking for himself: the references to a dimension far from the I-here-now are incessant.
- (Therefore) the story of Naruto is NOT a story of individuals, but of clans, villages, fathers, brothers, masters, descendants, of ancient guilts and traumas, of traditions to keep and change, of memory and of a community. Present peace "must be obtained by the new generations fighting against the past, literally examplified by fighting against the troublesome technique of "Edo Tensei" which can give life to the dead. The youths are expected to win with the knowledge, teachings, values of the past.

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Topic: On Selected Ignorance and Selected Oblivion | Psychology, Political Philosophy
Description: How does currency work in United States (e.g., subconscious choice of not to know certain rules in the economical system for a variety of purposes)? What happened in Albania in 1991? Sometimes, in retrospect, the very fact that we are openly aware of certain things in the world (or vice versa) is, as I argue, a "selected choice" that is based on our subjective consciousness mostly. After conceptualizing a particular piece of knowledge, such as the Watergate scandal during the Nixon presidency, we may grow into oblivion as time goes by, our memories fade away, and our dialogues dissipate. So there is a distinction between ignorance and oblivion, both inherently subjective and "selected" as constrained in this context, although they inevitably are intertwined as well.

Topic: On the Analogous Correspondence Between Min-Max Optimization and Trolley Dilemma: A Mathematical Formulation with a Case Study on Shisui Uchiha's Tragedy | Political Science, Ethics
Description: The saddest part of the story in Naruto Shippuden may arguably be the mixed tragedies on Itachi Uchiha and Shisui Uchiha's, which resemble the trolley dilemma that asks the question on whether we should choose the Uchiha Clan (a small group within a larger group) or the whole village (the larger group). I hope to revisit this dilemma with this case study because, fundamentally, this is not fair for anyone to decide between the well-known two choices, such as compromising a single man's life. In my 2023 conference presentation, I sketched a diagram modeling/arguing that a population is "victimized" or "under risk" when it is faced with any type of trolley dilemma; people in authority would be forced to make a decision either to hurt, kill or inhibit part of the population, or a single/few individual(s). The first part of this project is to clarify this model I proposed initially, to lay some groundwork for analysis.
       The second part of this project is about the "goal of crime" in such situations, which I argue is to compromise as many human lives as possible; this strongly analogizes with the min-max or "minimax" mathematical optimization term, where the "min" part refers to the efforts paid by those like Shisui Uchiha and/or the Third Hokage who wanted to minimize the damage, whereas "max" corresponds to any evil forces and causes whose actions were the damage on people. These two seemingly competing parts point to the two separate tracks in the (alternative) trolley dilemma model I rephrased tentatively, and sadly if there were the only two tracks, the best scenario would be to hurt the single/few individual(s). This part aims at formulating this min-max problem in a more mathematical manner and interprets the four alternative solutions to the Trolley Dilemma using the new formulation. Based off game theory there has been a minimax theorem that a two-variable function \(f = f(x_1, x_2)\) might satisfy $$ \max_{\forall x_1} \min_{\forall x_2}~ f ~=~ \min_{\forall x_2} \max_{\forall x_1}~ f $$ however only "under certain conditions" for both domains \(x_1\in D_1\) and \(x_2\in D_2\) where these variables are feasible, as well as the property of the function or data.

Topic: A Postmortem Analysis for the Fourth Hokage: Minato Namikaze's One-Man Crisis Response to the Nine-Tailed Demon Fox's Attack  |  Ethics, East Asian Literature and Anime  |  (abstract submitted to MediAsia2024 and not selected; -)

Description: Minato Namikaze's crisis response to that Tobi/Madara-initiated Nine Tail Attack has been a lingering, underappreciated effort in the Naruto Shippuden animation series. As some fans/readers may remember, this was in the middle of Shippuden and it was told in a retrospective way. In this article, I intend to apply the "failure or not" type of arguments to analyze, in retrospect, what actually took place during that catastrophic incident portrayed in the Naruto Shippuden series which struck the Hidden Leaf Village at the time when Naruto was born. I inspect the many thoughts that could have crossed Minato's mind in those briefest, and quickest, moments, when he needed to make quick and important decisions.

Narutopedia. (n.d.). Minato Namikaze (profile). Fandom. Retrived on July 24, 2024 from https://naruto.fandom.com/wiki/Minato_Namikaze

Topic: Tilted Relativity of the Gender Dynamics in Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby | Gender and Sexuality, Domestic Welfare
Description: [TBD]

Topic: A Matrix Eigenanalysis Approach to Conflicting Visions | Political Science, Applied Linear Algebra
Description: Decision making, such as a legislative vote or an action of a head of state, takes place "yet in the atmosphere that may be dominated by a particular vision, or by a particular conflict of visions" (chapter 1 The Role of Visions; Sowell, T., 2007). If decision-inducing events can be modeled by matrices and/or vectors of a matrix, then matrix eigenanalysis may describe well those particular vision(s) and events which stand out in a collection of visions and events.

Topic: Dying of Loneliness versus Dying Overjoyed—A Case Study on Robin Williams' 2014 Suicide | Psychology, Social Welfare
Description: [TBD]

Topic: [Self-Defense and Biophysiological Energy] | Experimental Physics, Biotechnology
Description: Using knowledge of biology and human physiology, this project intends to develop a prototype of a "small battery"to ionize the air and moisturize the space around the designated spot near the human hand. Conceptually, I want to take advantage of human bloo flows to generate energy, which is inspired by many products in the biotech industry. I have sketched some diagrams and written down some thoughts about how this device may work.

Topic: On Politically Correct versus Politically Healthy Ideologies | ([TBA])
Description: [TBD]

Topic: [TBD: Citadel, Solstice, Serendipity: ...] | TBA
Description: [TBD: The Moon, the Star, and the Sun; ◯ ✕ △; Cash, Gold Bars, and Toilet Paper; Breakfast, Lunch, and Dinner; ..]
(e.g., fortress of a city center)

    Solstice means (i) either of the two points on the ecliptic at which its distance from the celestial equator is greatest and which is reached by the sun each year about June 21 and December 21; and (ii) the time of the sun's passing a solstice which occurs about June 21 to begin summer in the northern hemisphere and about December 21 to begin winter in the northern hemisphere.

Topic: ["Technical Idea of Translating Written Images to LaTeX Code"]  |  xxx  |  (..)

Description:  Here I'd like to make a brief follow up, from one of the things mentioned during spring office hours with you: when we talked about writing on i-Pad, the white board, versus type-setting directly into the computer, we thought could a program be developed to do image processing to translate/transform 2-D images into TeX source code.

I didn't think too much afterwards on this; but every once in a while, I felt quite okay to just keep the PDF generated from written content on i-Pad; furthermore, I also type down TeX code into the computer, when I need to for notes (for writing a report, article or book, it'd eventually use TeX or other formatting tools). Here I think my overall though/answer is that there is no answer to this question, or in other words I think there is very little meaningfulness in developing such program/software at first -- my reason is because (i) the research question "hand-writing recognition" as part of digital image analysis/understanding is what I studied quite a bit as an undergraduate previously, and my impression is it's mainly for certain particular applicable scenarios when a human reader is not available, which is scarcely the case in real life;

(ii) I noted the software I use, GoodNotes (https://www.goodnotes.com), already provides a "search for words" feature in a generated PDF file, whenever the written images/objects are not too ambiguous to recognize by an algorithm, usually a trained database with a classifier; if I disabled this option, the file size will be smaller, which is what I normally choose;

(iii) still, between two input methods, I enjoy sometimes type-setting TeX source code (with regular alphabet words) on the keyboard, as long as it does not go beyond too tedious or too time-costly -- of course, every information-input medium has its characteristics, and here type-setting allows me to be fixated into this "linear stream" fashion of using a finite set of keys (i.e., all available buttons on a computer, which by convention don't change), and such fixation, when lucky, induces some sense of focus and "structure" of the way I write. At least, I as the typer need to sit in some place / posture and look into a screen not too distant from the keyboard, etc., and this has a little pedagogical benefits too, arguably.

In all, I think it's better to clarify the difference between active versus passive automation, with perhaps many other factors in this context, that not only my "signature identity" will be compromised, but also gradually my confidence in maintaining my authenticity and uniqueness (at the "human artifacts" level rather the genre level) -- because over time I might start thinking now that whatever I jotted down, by hands, will be "taken away" by recording cameras and then via an algorithm, behind which there's a humongous database (trained into the algorithm), then in the end what's the point of giving away my original thoughts? It's a bit similar to Copyright Law's protection of originality, etc.

...

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Topic: [Crime "as" versus "of" Opportunity]  |  Criminal Psychology
Description: [TBD]
Mayhew, P. (1976). Crime as opportunity (Vol. 34). London, UK: HM Stationery Office.
Wikipedia contributors. (2024, June 26). Killing of Laken Riley. In Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia.
U.S. Customs and Border Protection. Criminal Noncitizen Statistics (for Fiscal Years 2017 - 2024)

Topic: ["The Image of God" /// Inversely-Surjective Mappings and the Openness of Their Domains]  |  Applied Analysis, Mathematical Ethics, [...]  |  (..)

Description:  I learned and thought about the notion of the "image of God" from time to time when I went to church, so far as how people and creatures in general are contingent [i.e., subject to change] on God's existence; borrowing mathematical terms, the inverse image \(f^{-1}(\text{God}) = \{\cdots\}\) could give anything, but what is it (e.g., the entire living things, or just human beings, or something else)? And what does it mean if some thing(s) are not in this inverse map? This was the applied inspiration of this project, although I plan to discuss inversely-onto mappings in general, meaning \(f^{-1}\) is surjective provided it exists.

.....Man "as" the image of God and Man is in His own image. For instance, assume a domain set \(D = \) "humanity" and a surjective map \(f: D \rightarrow \{ \text{God} \}\) with a singleton co-domain, conceptually, that for each man\(a \in D\), there "exists" a trace/link verified by the evaluation of \(f(a)\) from God. The Adam (...) gave birth to his son Seth "in his [Adam's] own likeness" and "after his image," (Genesis 5:3) God also had made Adam and Eve "to bear his image and likeness."

Topic: Can Programming Languages Inspire Good Habits?—Abstraction, Memory Management, and More | Programming Langauges, Computer Science Education

(manuscript submitted to [CppCon 2024] currently under review;
submitted to ECE2025 (IAFOR.org); JoEducation at IAFOR; IJCSES; writing for JoCSE)

Abstract: In most modern programming languages, abstraction goes hand in hand with scoping, the semantic expression of visibility of the code, and C++ has been one of the dominant languages which always decided to implement such abstraction within scopes as opposed to introducing "external" garbage collectors like the ways in Microsoft's C#, Java, and even the generally-purposed Python. This fascinated me while the author was a collegiate learner about over a decade ago, although any technical or philosophical advantages of such design choice were not observed nor reasoned through. I try to give a retrospective sketch with some brief analysis on some pedagogical advantages and the meaningfulness of garbage memory management that are based off scoping, the idea of which sprang initially from a dialogue with my former research advisor in regards of the concerning of, if not worrying for, students' career choices as well as well-being of each-other as human beings in any society. It is argued that to teach young programmers to write organized code in C++ potentially ignites dialogues on the development of healthy personality and rigorous character, sociopolitical awareness, and good habits, envisioning a fostering outlook for aspiring active and responsible thinkers for beginner-level computer programmers.

References

Stroustrup, B. (1982). Classes: an abstract data type facility for the C language. ACM Sigplan Notices, 17(1), 42-51.
(it describes an early version of "C with Classes," the immediate ancestor to C++, five years before the release of C++ and published at Sigplan Notices in January 1982)

Stroustrup, B. (Feb 4 2025). "21st Century C++." Communications of the ACM (Software Engineering and Programming Languages).

Topic: xx  |  Image Processing Algorithms, etc.

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- some picture?

Description:  This

Topic: Whole Language Approach and Multimodality for Situational Learning  |  Language and Literacy, Adult Literacy, Teaching and Learning

(accepted to ACEID 2025 as poster for March 2025)

Description:  This project is framed as a new/customized method of teaching the American English language to adult learners. The inventing of Americanism featured, through colonists since the early Seventeenth Century, the other stream of the English language. Scholarly works and publishers had foreseen much enrichment and adaptations both of the English dictionaries and into the daily usage of real lives. The Twenty-first Century witnesses the Internet with the emerging abundance of multimodal educational materials on platforms such as YouTube, thanks to which visual clues became infinitely accessible, although hardly polished, enhancing English instruction during those more "unconventional" moments of teaching time. In this study the author makes the leverage of the once-prevalent whole language approach to teaching English to the curriculum design of the American English language class for adult learners. With an understanding of modern genres as guidance, the author proposes several aspects of curriculum with an emphasis on multimodality, dialogic texts, as well as conventional choices of vocabulary in both personal and business settings. First, I derive a sequential set of topics in an original design of such a course for adult English learners, including evaluated materials such as writing assignments and field trips. I argue, based off observational and empirical hypotheses, that it is beneficial combining multimodality and multiliteracies with the whole language approach in foster for the contextualization of English learners, relatively and in parallel to a standard literacy acquisition lesson plan. Situational or in-situ learning is crucial in the aims for accelerating the English learning outcome for, say, immigrants and foreign national students.

Topic: "Who's In My Seat?" – On What We Can Learn from God's Complaint About Morons Who Don't Understand Asymmetries in Sociobehavioral Patterns, Neuroscience, and Our Inherently Physical Universe  |  Positive Psychology, Self-Help, Dark Comedy and Satire, Physics, Systematic Theology

(manuscript submitted to TIBS and timed-out; submitted again (declined)
submitted again to International Journal of Press/Politics with Manuscript ID: RA-IJPP-Oct-2024-260
submitted again to Journal of Argumentation in Context by 12/1/24, rejected;
accepted to IJFMR Jan. 2025)

Background and Description:  In the past few years I accumulated some ideas and interests related to political philosophy, in short, based upon/because of my special life trajectory through which my observations were unfortunately scarce and informative to my ideological thoughts; once I connected each of these thoughts with what I studied formally in graduate school (social science) and the books I read from time to time, it became this idea here which I wrote in summer of 2024. I was hoping to address, in response partly to the issues on criminal justice on American campuses, the lack in conceptions on what was meant to be important, as well as what centrism should really be differentiated from neutrality (and goodness). The manuscript was written by backing up the thesis statement with several aspects, albeit not comprehensive in any systematic way; I thought of attaching this idea with the notion of "wokeness," but perhaps that would better be a separate topic and what I couldn't handle well.

In consideration of the usefulness of this manuscript of mine, I think it can serve as an informative text to draw references from and/or as a side angle for some people's either staying "in the middle" politically just for the purpose of itself, or making scholarly/political arguments that ahere bizzardly to a centric stance without prioritizing morality, social welfare, mutually-economic interests, and many more things of significant importance.

To reflect, the societal part of life has impressed upon us that our human activities and products are various, but not uniformly monotonic. However, the social movements, explicitly or informally driven by an overly politically correct lifestyle and sociopolitical outlook, add excruciating pressure as well as encourage people amorphously to be balanced and in particular "be in the middle" most of the time. In this article the author argues that when we stay, or even force ourselves, in the middle of something, even if the arrogant assumption was made that centrality or "middle-ness" seems to imply importance, we are missing points on the fact that the so-called "centers" of human civilization as well as the physical universe may not be us, but rather something higher than us and bigger than our own existence and where God is potentially positioned either constantly or occasionally.

—D.T.S. on Thursday October 3, 2024

Journal Papers https://orcid.org/0009-0004-6833-4063

Sün, D. T. (2025). "Who's In My Seat?": On What We Can Learn from God's Complaint about Morons Who Don't Understand Asymmetries in Sociobehavioral Patterns, Neuroscience, and Our Inherently Physical Universe. International Journal For Multidisciplinary Research, 7(1). E-ISSN: 2582-2160. [.pdf]

Conference Presentations, Short Articles, etc.

Sün, D. T. (Mar. 2025). A Follow-Up Reflective Argument on Collegiate Mathematics Literacy in the Jewish Education Context: One Year After the Assisted Linear Algebra Classroom. 2nd Mina Rees NY Women and Math Conference. [slides]

Sün, D. T. (2025). Whole Language Approach and Multimodality for Situational Learning: On a New Method of Teaching the American English Language to Adult Learners. The 11th Asian Conference on Education and International Development (IAFOR). Available at aceid.iafor.org/presentation/submission89890 [poster]

Sün, D. T. (2025). Theory of Self-Repetition: A Brief Dive into the Reasons Behind People's Repeating Ourselves Regarding the the Implicitly Known.  IAFOR International Conference on Arts & Humanities.  Available at iicahhawaii.iafor.org/presentation/submission87380 [slides]

Sun, D. T. (Nov. 2024). Brief Introduction to the Contour Trees. In-Class Presentation of MAT 5390 of Yeshiva University. [annotated slides]

Sun, D. (Mar. 2024). A Brief Analysis on an Experimentation-Driven Undergraduate Linear Algebra Instruction. Mina Rees NY Women and Math Conference. [slides]

Sun, D. (Nov. 2023). Fourier Inversion of Moment Generating Functions (short report). EPaDel-NJ Fall 2023 Section Meeting. [slides]

Sun, D. (Oct. 2023). Properties of the Gamma Function. Friday Lunch with the Mathematics Student Association at West Chester University. [slides]

Sun, D. (May 2023). A Brief Survey of Elementary Algorithmic Literacy. Workshop of Decision Education Research. Alliance for Decision Education. [manuscript, poster]

Sun, D. (2023). Group-Contextualized Identity Politics and the Trolley Dilemma: The Failure of Kotoamatsukami and the Silent Struggles of Itachi and Shisui Uchiha in the Preindustrial Animation Naruto Shippuden. The Asian Conference on Ethics, Religion & Philosophy. https://doi.org/10.22492/issn.2187-476X.2023.9 [slides]

Evans, C. & Sun, D. (Nov. 2022). Kevin Henkes and His Works–A Congenial Invitation. Author/Illustrator Study of EDUC 5335 Literature for Children and Adolescents. [slides, video, writeup]

Sun, D. (Dec. 2021). Algorithmic Problem-Solving. Saturday Math Tutoring at Minds Matter Philadelphia. [slides, video]

Sun, D. (Dec. 2021). Genres, the Adolescent Writer, and Situated Context of Reading. Inquiry III of EDUC 629. [slides]

Hartsfield, H. J. et al. (December 7, 2021). "Flexible Dimensionalities": An Examination of Multicultural Education Through Intersectional Lenses. [book reflection, premable, notes, slides]

Sun, D. (Apr. 2016). Seam Carving vs. Contour Tree: Topology-Aware Scalar Data Resizing? Visual Computing (VC) Lunch at School of Computing. [poster]

Sun, D. (Oct. 2015). Seam Carving: Magic to Steal Pixels Away Secretly. Three Minute Talks by School of Computing Graduate Student Association (SOCGSA). [abstract]

3-D Mesh Model Manipulation: A Prototype  (sketched in JavaScript, Sep. 2017 to Feb. 2018)

Interface	Two Sockets	The "Lid"

Projet: Scientific Data Reorganization and Exploration (2016). Final Project of CPSC 881 at Clemson University

'hand' and Its Reeb Graph	Fuel Injection from Combustion	Chemical Simulation	Foot from MRI

'mtMitchell'	'mtRainier' (150\(\times\)193) with Countour Trees Visualizations

Magnitudes of \(0^{\text{th}}\)- and \(1^{\text{st}}\)-Order Derivatives and L.I.C. (Line Integral Convolution)	Streamlines Across the Domain	Streamlines at Tubes for ROI's

Projects: Rendings of Boston Teapot and Stanford Bunny (2015). Projects of CPSC 605 at Clemson University.

via Phong Shader	via Environment Lighting	Shadow Map	Multiple Objects/Techniques

Projects: OpenCL-Based Particle System/Cellular Automata Rendering (2015). Projects of CPSC 678 at Clemson University.

Basic Layout of Sprinkler	Declaring 'clEnqueueNDRangeKernel' for Kernel Execution	Wave Effect with/without Alpha Blending

Project: Image Colorization Using Similar Images  by Huang, S. & Sun, D. (2015). Final Project of CPSC 863 at Clemson University. [writeup, slides]

Phase I: Identifying Superpixels	'Turbopixel' at ~40 Pixels Per Cell	Phase II: Mixed Gabor-SURF 172-D Feature	Leveraging Multiple Examplers

M.S. Thesis

Sun, D. (2017). Volumetric Seam Carving. All Theses. 2675. http://tigerprints.clemson.edu/all_theses/2675 [slides, notes]

Operator: Seam Removal Algorithm: Max-Flow/Min-Cut Successive Removals

B.Eng. Thesis

Sun, D. (2014). Multi-view 3D Object Retrieval via Multi-path Sparse Coding. Tianjin University Bachelor's Theses [abstract].

Eighty View-angle Models of ETH Dataset

Data Collection Setup

Dictionary's Basis Vectors Illustrated in 2D

Plotting the Precision-Recall Curve

Additional Journal Resources (cont.)

Journal of the Physical Society of Japan
Archive for Mathematical Logic, Springer
Western Journal of Communication and Southern Communication Journal (Taylor & Francis)
Journal of Communication by International Communication Association & Oxford Academic (portal)
Political Philosophy journal launched in 2024 with the Open Library of Humanities (OLH)
Bulletin of Symbolic Logic, Cambridge Core (the online content delivery service for Cambridge University Press's collection of journals and books across the sciences, social sciences and humanities subject areas). ISSN: 1079-8986 (Print), 1943-5894 (Online)
The Journal of Symbolic Logic, Cambridge Core. ISSN: 0022-4812 (Print), 1943-5886 (Online)
The Mathematical Gazette, Cambridge Core. ISSN: 0025-5572 (Print), 2056-6328 (Online)
Mathematical Structures in Computer Science, Cambridge Core. ISSN: 0960-1295 (Print), 1469-8072 (Online)
Proceedings of the Edinburgh Mathematical Society, Cambridge Core. ISSN: 0013-0915 (Print), 1464-3839 (Online)
Proceedings of the Royal Society of Edinburgh Section A: Mathematics, Cambridge Core. ISSN: 0308-2105 (Print), 1473-7124 (Online)
The Review of Symbolic Logic, Cambridge Core. ISSN: 1755-0203 (Print), 1755-0211 (Online)
Legal Theory, Cambridge Core. ISSN: 1352-3252 (Print), 1469-8048 (Online)
Philosophy, Cambridge Core. ISSN: 0031-8191 (Print), 1469-817X (Online)
Think, Cambridge Core. ISSN: 1477-1756 (Print), 1755-1196 (Online)
Royal Institute of Philosophy Supplements (Supplement to 'Philosophy'), Cambridge Core. ISSN: 1358-2461 (Print), 1755-3555 (Online)
Annals of Mathematics, Princeton University & Institute for Advanced Study
Journals [Philo. Transac. A] by The Royal Society, a Fellowship of many of the world's most eminent scientists and is the oldest scientific academy in continuous existence.
Oxford Academic, academic research platform (with journals) by Oxford University Press (OUP).

Personal Reading Bibliography

(2016). The Constitution of the United States and the Declaration of Independence. Racehorse Publishing.
(2008). The Declaration of Independence and the Constitution of the United States. Bantam Classic.
Achorn, E. (2023). The Lincoln Miracle–Inside the Republican Convention That Changed History. Atlantic Monthly Press (New York).
Alderton, D. (2023). Dear Dolly: Collected Wisdom. HarperCollins Publishers.

Allenby, R B J T (1995). Linear Algebra. Edward Arnold.

Andreescu, T. et al. (2004). Old and New Inequalities. GIL Publishing House.

Applebaum, A. (2020). Twilight of Democracy: The Seductive Lure of Authoritarianism. Anchor.
xx

Aristotle & transl. Roberts, W. R. & transl. Bywater, I. (1984). The Rhetoric and the Poetics of Aristotle. The Modern Library/McGraw-Hill, Inc.

Barany, E. & Krakowsky, M. (2024). Tween/Teen Learners: Ideation vs. Experience. On This Night We Are All Teachers (Haggadah Companion), Issue IV, Passover 5783.
▪ ..
▪ ..
▪ ..
▪ ..
▪ ..

Balak, P. (2024). "Righteous Anger." The Torah of Character with Rabbi Dr. Mordechai Schiffman.
▪ .. accuse Bilam of virtue signaling. Beneath the veneer of divine devotion lay internal turmoil.
▪ Bilam's character flaws are particularly exposed in his interactions with his donkey. Bilam's anger is on full display, when after his donkey refused to proceed for the third time, "Bilam was furious and beat the donkey with his stick" (Num. 22:27). It is precisely in frustrating situations when character is tested. Bilam failed.
▪ .. (Aristotle) found a place for anger when harnessed against injustices. A life devoid of anger at best reflects a pollyannish worldview, and at worst exposes an apathy towards an unredeemed society.
▪ God models for us the subtlety and nuance of virtuous anger. God utilizes anger to assist the righteous, to correct injustices, and to protect the vulnerable.
▪ Instead of striking his trusted, defenseless, and helpless animal, Bilam should have reacted with compassion and empathy.

Baron, C. et al. (2024). On All Other Nights: A Passover Celebration in 14 Stories. Amulet Books.
Barth, J. (1958). End of the Road. Avon Books.
Bergmann, G. (1959). Meaning and Existence. The University of Wisconsin Press.
Boswell, J. (1917). Boswell's Life of Johnson (abridged and edited). Charles Scribner's Sons.
Cederholm, D. (2022). Twenty Bits I learned About Making Websites. SimpleBits, LLC.

Commager, H. S. (1960). The Era of Reform: 1830-1860. D. Van Nostrand Company, Inc.

Coke, C. (Director). (1985). Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice [Film; DVD release]. BBC Video.
Sir Conan Doyle, A. (1964). A Study in Scarlet & The Sign of Four. Doubleday & Company, Inc. Garden City, New York (A Dolphin Reprint). OCLC: 62620172
Sir Conan Doyle, A. (1963). The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes. Berkley Books.
Sir Conan Doyle, A. (1994). The Hound of the Baskervilles. Dover Publications, Inc.
Crilly, T. (2022). 50 Math Ideas You Really Need to Know. Greenfinch.

Current, R. N. (1955). Daniel Webster and the Rise of National Conservatism. Little, Brown and Company.

Davis, J. H. (2010). Ordinary Gifted Children: The Power and Promise of Individual Attention. Teachers College Press.
Dickens, C. (1981). Hard Times (for These Times). Bantam Books.

Dumas fils, A. & transl. Schilinger, L. (2013). The Lady of the Camellias. Penguin Books

Dunham, W. (1994). The Mathematical Universe: An Alphabetical Journey Through the Great Proofs, Problems, and Personalities. John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

Dupré, B. (2022). 50 Philosophy Ideas You Really Need to Know. Greenfinch.
Eisenhart, M. A. & Finkel, E. (1998). Women's Science: Learning and Succeeding from the Margins. The University of Chicago Press.

Farrell, S. (2024). "Humanity's Essence: We Are Made for Service." Creations Magazine Vol 38 Issue 4(5).
▪ on being "designed to be in service" to others and to the universe itself
▪ everything is "created to support and nurture both its parts and the overall entity"
▪ "essence of universe" -- mirrored in every fragment of its vastness, suggesting a universal architecture designed for service and support
▪ (Braden) .. his explorations ... compelling narrative: "we are not mere observers but active participants in the universe's unfolding story"
▪ Service, it appears, is not just an act of altruism but a fundamental expression of our true essence and mission.
▪ Volunteering and community service provide avenues to enrich our livesand the world.

Franklin, P. (1958). An Introduction to Fourier Methods and the Laplace Transformation. Dover Publications, Inc.

Galef, J. (2021). The Scout Mindset: Why Some People See Things Clearly and Others Don't. Portfolio/Penguin.

Gill, E. (1936). An Essay on Typography. Sheed and Ward.
..the impossibility of compromise; we must, in as much as we are industrialists, glory in industrialism and its powers of mass-production, seeing that good taste in its products depends upon their absolute plainness and serviceableness; and in so much as we remain outside industrialism, as doctors, lawyers priests and poets of all kinds must necessarily be, we may glory in the fact that that we are responsible workmen & can produce only one thing at a time. That if you look after goodness and truth beauty will take care of itself, is true in both worlds. The beauty that industrialism property produces is the beauty of bones; the beauty that radiates from the work of men is the beauty of holiness.

Goodman, P. (1954). The Structure of Literature. Phonix Books/The University of Chicago Press.
Goodman, P. (1954). The Structure of Literature. The University of Chicago Press.
Hanawalt, B. A. (1993). Growing Up in Medieval London: The Experience of Childhood in History. Oxford University Press.
Harnack, A. (1998). Writing Research Papers: A Student Guide for Use with Opposing Viewpoints. (Second Edition). Greenhaven Press, Inc.
Hirsch, P., & Hilton, M. (2014). Practical Visionaries: Women, Education and Social Progress, 1790-1930. Routledge.

Hunter, G. (2017). We Were the Lucky Ones. Penguin Books.

Hutchinson, C. (2023). TBA. TBA.

Hoffman, P. (1988). Archimedes' Revenge: The Joys and Perils of Mathematics. W.W. Norton & Company.

(pp. 26) Number theory is one of the oldest areas of mathematics and, in a sense, the simplest. Numbers, of course, are the universal building blocks of mathematics, yet many fundamental questions about them are still unanswered.

IntelliPro, Inc. (1992). The Calculus Explorer. Addison-Wesley Publishing Company.

Jevons, W. S. (1958). The Principles of Science: A Treatise on Logic and Scientific Method. Dover Publications, Inc.

July, M. (2007). No One Belongs Here More Than You. Stories by Miranda July. Scribner.
Kennedy, J. F. (2006). Profiles in Courage. Harper Perennial Modern Classics.

Kleinfled, E. & Kleinfeld, M. (1997). A Short Course in Matrix Theory. Nova Science Publishers, Inc.

Knopp, K. & transl. Bagemihl, F. (1952). Elements of the Theory of Functions. Dover Publications Inc.
Kyle, T. (2015). American Wife: Love, War, Faith, and Renewal. William Morrow.

Lang, S. (1964). A First Course in Calculus. Addison-Wesley Publishing Company, Inc.

Leider, A. (2012). Loans & Grants from Uncle Sam: Am I Eligible and for How Much? (Nineteenth Edition). Octameron Associates.

Lynchburg College Symposium Readings (Third Edition, 2005-2010) by Xlibris:

      

       [Volume I]  Pittas, P. A. & Gray, K. M. (2004). Addressing Education: Purposes, Plans, and Politics. Xlibris Corporation.
       [Volume II]  Freeman III, J. F. (2005). Freedom, Authority, and Resistance. Xlibris Corporation.
       [Volume III]  Rothermel, B. (2005). Shaping Truth: Culture, Expression, and Creativity. Xlibris Corporation.
       [Volume IV]  Stump, P. H. (2006). Society, Solitude, and Community. Xlibris Corporation.
       [Volume V]  Lang, D. G. (2007). War, Peace, and Empire. Xlibris Corporation.
       [Volume VI]  Peterson, K. (2007). Mathematics and the Development of the Physical Sciences. Xlibris Corporation.
       [Volume VII]  Turek, J. (2008). Income Inequality and Social Stratification: Causes and Consequences. Xlibris Corporation.
       [Volume VIII]  Freier, D. O. (2009). Shaping the Environment: Science, Technology, and Society. Xlibris Corporation.
       [Volume IX]  Werner, D. W. (2009). Science and Human Nature. Xlibris Corporation.
       [Volume X]  Nathan, M. L. (2010). Leadership, Ethics, and Their Circumstances. Xlibris Corporation.

Malouin, Paul-Jacques. (2003). "Alchimie." The Encyclopedia of Diderot & d'Alembert Collaborative Translation Project. Translated by Lauren Yoder. Ann Arbor: Michigan Publishing, University of Michigan Library.

Maimonides, M. & transl. and annot. Rosner, F. (1982). Treatise on Resurrection. KTAV Publishing House, Inc.

Mayer, R. E. (1980). Ten-Statement Spiral BASIC: From Calculator to Computer. glGencoe Publishing Co., Inc. McKellar D. (2007). Math Doesn't Suck: How to Survive Middle School Math Without Losing Your Mind of Breaking a Nail. A Plume Book.
Miller, B. (2015). Defining Moments: 100 Kingdom Thoughts for Life-Changing Living. Cross Books.
Morton, A. (2017). Diana: Her True Story–In Her Own Words. Simon & Schuster Paperbacks.
Rev. Moore, C. W. & Bittner, R. (2010). The Complete Idiot's Guide to Faith. Alpha/Penguin Group (USA) Inc.

McCormick, D. J. & illust. Summers, L. (1936). Paul Bunyan Swings His Axe. Scholastic Book Services.

Morante, E. & transl. McPhee, J. (2023). Lies and Sorcery. New York Review Books.
Malament, D. (1947). Review Digest of Plane Trigonometry. Republic Book Company, Inc.
Mark, M. (1973). Modern Ideologies. St. Martin's Press.
Merriam-Webster. (2014). Webster's Dictionary of the English Language. Bendon.
Miller, M. H. (1986). Plato's Parmenides: The Conversion of the Soul. The Pennsylvania State University Press.
Nagel, E. & Newman, J. R. (1958). Gödel's Proof. New York University Press.
Nathan, R. (1933). One More Spring. Knopf.

(JFK-Related Videos in July 2024, Prager U:)
Elder, L. (Jul 22, 2024). "John F. Kennedy: A Star Is Born." PragerU.
Elder, L. (Jul 22, 2024). "John F. Kennedy: Young President in Crisis." PragerU.
Prager, D. (Jul 18, 2024). "Ep. 350 — The Attempted Assassination of Donald Trump." PragerU.
Quiz: How much do you know about the 35th President of the United States?

Peli, P. H., & Soloveitchik, J. D. (1996). On Repentance: The Thought and Oral Discourses of Rabbi Joseph Dov Soloveitchik. Jason Aronson.

Pynchon, T. (2006). The Crying of Lot 49. Harper Perennial Modern Classics.
Ressa, M. (2022). How to Stand Up to a Dictator: The Fight for Our Future. HarperCollins.
Rosenfeld, G. D., & Ward, J. (2023). Fascism in America: Past and Present. Cambridge University Press.

Rudin, W. (1976). Principles of Mathematical Analysis (Third Edition). McGraw-Hill Book Company.

Russell, B. (1918/2004). Mysticism and Logic. Dover Publications, Inc.

Ryūnosuke, A. (1918). The Spider's Thread. Akai tori (Red Bird). [Translation and Commentary by Timothy M. Kelly (March 1999, on Edogawa Women's Junior College Journal)]
▪ Moral fable [short story, w/ animals as characters, conveying a moral] about good, evil and redemption. It is a well-known story in Japan.
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Sandel, M. J. (2005). Public Philosophy: Essays on Morality in Politics. Harvard University Press.
▪ .. new wave of soul-searching among Democrats. Exit pools found that more voters based their presidential vote on "moral values" than on any other issue-more than terrorism, the war in Iraq, or the state of the economy.
▪ In the four decades following Lyndon Johnson's landslide victory in 1964, only two Democrats won the presidency. One was Jimmy Carter, a born-again Christian from Georgia who, in the wake of Watergate, promised to restore honesty and morality to government; the other was Bill Clinton who, despite his personal foibles, displayed a keen instinctive grasp of the religious and spiritual dimensions of politics.
▪ Though the impulse is right, the hortatory [urging, exhorting or encouraging an action such as speech] fix for the values deficit comes across as stilted and unconvincing, for two reasons: (i) Democrats have had trouble articulating, with clarity and conviction, the vision of economic justice that underlies their social and economic policies; (ii) even a strong argument for economic justice does not by itself constitute a governing vision.
▪ .. asked the President why he was not asking the American people to sacrifice more so that they would feel connected with their fellow citizens fighting and dying in Iraq. Bush seemed mystified, replying, "What does that mean, 'sacrifice more'?" Brokaw offered the example of World War II rationing and restated his question: "There's a great sense, I think, that there's a disconnect between what American military people are doing overseas and what Americans are doing at home."
▪ That Democrats did not seize the theme of sacrifice, and that Bush scarcely understood the question, testifies to the dulled civic sensibilities of American politics in the early years of the twenty-first century... incumbent [necessary as a duty or responsibility] President

Scobie, O. and Durand, C. (2020). Finding Freedom: Harry and Meghan and the Making of a Modern Royal Family. Harper Large Print.
Shakespeare, W. (1995). The Merchant of Venice. Dover Publications, Inc.
Sharlin, H. I. (1979). Lord Kelvin, the Dynamic Victorian. The Pennsylvania State University Press.
Sinclair, U. (1959). Theirs be the Guilt: A Novel of the War Between the States. Twayne Publishers, New York.
Sisman, E. R. (1993). Mozart: The 'Jupiter' Symphony No. 41 in C major, K. 551. Cambridge University Press.
Sowell, T. (2007). A Conflict of Visions: Ideological Origins of Political Struggles. Basic Books; Revised edition.
Stroustrup, B. (1994). The Design and Evolution of C++. Addison-Wesley Publishing Company.
Twain, M & Frame, P. (illustrated). (n.d.). The Adventures of Tom Sawyer. Whitman Publishing Company.
Van Paassen, P. (1943). The Forgotten Ally. Dial Press (New York).
Wallace, D. F. (2010). Everything and More: A Compact History of \(\infty\). Atlas Books and W. W. Norton & Company.

Walser, R. & transl. Bernofsky, S. (2007). The Assistant. A New Directions Paperbook Original.

Weiss, F. & Grunstein, L. (2023). Because It's Just and Right: The Untold Back-Story of the US Recognition of Jerusalem as the Capital of Israel and Moving the US Embassy to Jerusalem. Geviyah Publishing Company, LLC.

Wilder, T. (1998). 3 Plays: Our Town, The Skin of Our Teeth, The Matchmader. Perennial Classics.

Wingate, P. & Griffin, A. (design and illust.) (1997). The Internet for Beginners. Scholastic Inc.

Yarington, E. F. (). The Portrayal of Woman's Sentimental Power in American Domestic Fiction–The Novels of Mary Jane HOlmes, 1825-1907. The Edwin Mellen Press.

Zschock, M. D. (2018). Hello, Nashville! Commonwealth Editions/Applewood Books, Inc.
Zschock, M. D. (2012). Hello, San Francisco! Commonwealth Editions/Applewood Books, Inc.

[Film] DIRECTOR (Director). (Release Year). Title of motion picture [Film]
[Film] Armstrong, V. (2014). Left Behind. Entertainment One & Stoney Lake Entertainment.
[Film] Hallström, L. (2013). Safe Haven. Relativity Media & Temple Hill Entertainment.
[Film] Kawagoe, J. (Director). (2003). Operation Return the Treasure お宝返却⼤作戦. imdb.com/title/tt0834585
[Film] DIRECTOR (Director). (Release Year). Title of motion picture [Film]

Barbera, J. & Hanna, W. (Director). (1954). Neapolitan Mouse. Fred Quimby (Producer).

Selected Biographical Profiles

Malia Mason, Contemporary Psychologist with Columbia University

  

Columbia Business School. (Dec 20, 2011). Supporting Thought Leadership: Professor Malia Mason [YouTube]

Mason, M. (Jul 20, 2010). Mindwandering. TEDxEast (TEDx Talks).

Catharine Found (1994-2011), Student and Women's Volleyball Player at Iowa City West (High School)

Moore, R. (Sept. 10, 2022). Iowa City West volleyball honors legacy of Caroline Found with annual 'Live Like Line' tournament. Iowa City Press-Citizen (Sports).

Linder, J. (Aug. 12, 2011). "West's setter and 'pulse,' Caroline Found killed in moped accident." The Gazette (Sports).

Obituary: Caroline S. Found (1994-2011), Gay & Ciha Funeral and Cremation Service.

Amélie Lemay, Alumna/Former Student (Civil Eng.) of Princeton University's

Lemay, A. (November 15, 2021). The Problem Set Process. Undergraduate Student Blog of Princeton University.

Lemay, A. (June 30, 2022). Giving a Tour of Princeton. Undergraduate Student Blog of Princeton University.

Lemay, A. (December 3, 2022). The 4 Types of Office Hours. Undergraduate Student Blog of Princeton University.

Lemay, A. (March 18, 2023). Possible with Princeton: Finding Funding. Undergraduate Student Blog of Princeton University.

Lemay, A. (June 20, 2023). The 10 Steps to My First Solar Energy Conference. Undergraduate Student Blog of Princeton University.

Lemay, A. (December 11, 2023). The Guyot Dinosaur and Other (Inanimate) Campus Companions. Undergraduate Student Blog of Princeton University
  

Lemay, A. (January 8, 2024). Appreciation for the University Chapel. Undergraduate Student Blog of Princeton University.

Sharlach, M. (June 17, 2024). Senior Thesis Spotlight: Can 'Forever' Chemicals Become Less So? All News at Princeton.edu/news

Lemay, A. (April 11, 2024). Printing My Thesis! Undergraduate Student Blog of Princeton University.

Lemay, A. (May 15, 2024). Commencement Commences. Undergraduate Student Blog of Princeton University.

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Chaya Raichik, ..
Dodgson, L. (Feb 28, 2024). "How Chaya Raichik, the woman behind Libs of TikTok, rose to fame as a right-wing figure." Business Insider.
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Ms. Anne M. Milgram, American Attorney and Academic, Presently Administrator of the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) since 2021
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CBS News & Milgram, A. (Dec 19, 2021). Full interview: DEA Administrator Anne Milgram on "Face the Nation." Face the Nation (YouTube).
Vanderbilt University (4/18/2024). Vanderbilt University hosts Summit on Modern Conflict and Emerging Threats. Vanderbilt's Third Annual Summit on Modern Conflict and Emerging Threats.
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Dr. Jordan B. Peterson, Canadian Psychologist and Author
Peterson, J. et al. (25 February 2019). Jordan Peterson Destroys Q&A. YouTube Video.
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Ms. Rose Keller, Writer and Political Science Student
Keller, R. (Nov. 10, 2022). Taking the Reins of My Own Care. Cystic Fibrosis Foundation.
Porter, T. (August 1, 2023). Bowdoin Parent Pledges to Get 65 Rose Tattoos to Raise Money for Cystic Fibrosis Foundation. Bowdoin.
Keller, R. (Dec. 2023). Kudos to Colorado for scrutinizing cost of key drug | OPINION

Ms. Stina Almqvist, Student Athelete på the Wharton School

Johnson, G. (March 13, 2025). "On the court with Stina Almqvist." Penn Today (Sports).

"Penn Women's Basketball Shootaround Press Conference" before Ivy Madness 2025

Smith, C. (March 8, 2025). "Penn men's and women's hoops both drop regular-season finales to Princeton." The Philadelphia Inquirer (College Sports, Penn).

Tannenwald, J. (March 8, 2025). "Penn women's basketball faces an unusual wait to learn if it will be in the Ivy League tournament." The Philadelphia Inquirer (College Sports, Penn).

Chang, H. (24 Feb 2025). "Swedish Survivor." The Pennsylvania Gazette.

Crawford, E. (March 2024). Three members of Penn women's basketball take home All-Ivy awards. The Daily Pennsylvanian.

Frank, M. (Dec. 2023). Stina Almqvist spent the summer playing 3x3 in her native Sweden. It prepared her for a leading role at Penn. The Philadelphia Inquirer.

Rambaud, K. (Nov. 2021). Overcoming tragedy, Stina Almqvist looks to make her mark on Penn women's basketball. The Daily Pennsylvanian.

Verlin, J. (Nov. 2023). Penn WBB beats La Salle: Stina Almqvist's hot start continues; Floor Toonders returns. City of Basketball Love.

Ms. Leah Schatz, Elementary and Secondary Educator
Penn GSE (Sep. 2023). Volunteers Needed: Penn Graduate School of Education Tutoring Initiative. The Philadelphia Higher Education Network for Neighborhood Development (PHENND).
Schatz, L. et al. (Dec. 2020). Leah Schatz and special guests have all of your favorite songs cued up!. Camp Ramah in the Poconos.
Schatz, L. & Schatz, M. (n.d.). Passover is About Memory. Holidays, Hebrew Helpers.

Catherine "Kate" Middleton, Princess of Wales

Timeline. (Sep 12, 2019). The Real Story Of Kate Middleton, Princess Of Wales | The Modern Queen. Timeline's World History Documentaries.

ITV News. (Nov 16, 2020). In full: William and Kate's 2010 engagement interview. YouTube.

Perry, S. (April 27, 2023). Kate Middleton and Prince William Make Surprise Pizza Delivery: It Was 'Surreal.' People (British Royal Family).

The Good, The Bad & The Rugby. (Sep 9, 2023). The Prince of Wales, The Princess of Wales & The Princess Royal at Windsor Castle. YouTube.

Lara, M. M. (March 19, 2024). Kate Middleton's Surgery Recovery and Photo Controversy: Everything to Know. People.

Kimble & Lara (March 22, 2024). Kate Middleton Reveals Cancer Diagnosis: Full Recap. People.

Petit & Perry (March 22, 2024). Kate Middleton Reveals She Has Cancer and Is Getting Chemo, Says It Has 'Taken Time' to Tell Her Kids. People.

Phillipp & Perry (March 23, 2024). Kate Middleton and Prince William Are 'Enormously Touched' by 'Kind Messages' amid Her Cancer Diagnosis. People.

Royalty TV. (May 31, 2024). Princess Catherine: Love of the People. YouTube.

Petit, S and Perry, S. (June 14, 2024). Kate Middleton Seen for First Time Since Cancer Announcement in New Photo, Says 'I Am Not Out of the Woods Yet'. People-Royals.

Petit, S. (June 14, 2024). See All of Kate Middleton's Trooping the Colour Outfits Through the Years. People-Royals.

Kindelan, K. (June 15, 2024). Kate Middleton: A timeline of her cancer diagnosis, surgery and absence from public duties. Good Morning America (Culture).

Hatcher, K. (August 14, 2024). Kate Middleton and Prince William Pen 'Surprise' Letter Mourning Cancer Death of Pizza Seller They Met Last Year. People (British Royal Family).

Mr. Jon Stewart, American Comedian and Political Commentator
Heer, J. (Feb. 2024). Jon Stewart Is Not the Enemy. The Nation.

Dr. Erin S. Calipari, Ameriican Pharmacologist and Faculty of Vanderbilt University
Calipari, E. S. (October 2013). Why smart statistics are the key to fighting crime [Video]. TED Conferences.
Mahler, S. V. (May 11, 2022). Erin Calipari, PhD from Vanderbilt Discusses Behavior, the Brain, and Psychopharmacology. YouTube.
(Oct 23, 2017, 7:00 AM). New faculty: Erin Calipari, assistant professor of pharmacology. Vanderbilt University Research News.
Calipari Lab | as Associate Professor at Department of Pharmacology | of Vanderbilt Institute for Infection, Immunology and Inflammation
Vanderbilt University (Oct 29, 2018). Erin Calipari Research Overview - Addiction. YouTube.
Vanderbilt University (Jan 16, 2019). Erin Calipari Full Interview. YouTube.
NewsChannel 5 (Apr 26, 2022). Drug Addiction and How It Affects the Brain [1, 2, 3, 4]. MorningLine.
NewsChannel 5 (Sep 21, 2018). Vanderbilt Works To Fight Opioid Addiction.
Calipari, E. (May 6, 2021). Dopamine in the Nucleus Accumbens Signals Perceived Saliency at WWN Neurobiology of Addiction.

Dr. Katie Bouman, American Computer Scientist and Imaging Physicist
Bouman, K. (Dec 7, 2016). "How to take a picture of a black hole." TEDxBeaconStreet
Bouman, K. (Apr 12, 2019). "Imaging a Black Hole with the Event Horizon Telescope." Caltech on YouTube.
Bouman, K. (June 7, 2019). "Imaging the Unseen: Taking the First Picture of a Black Hole." Caltech on YouTube.
Bouman, K. (Oct 16, 2019). "The Event Horizon Telescope Project." Nutanix .NEXT 2019 Europe.
laSexta.com (11/04/2019). "Katie Bouman, la joven científica que hizo posible la foto histórica de un agujero negro." DESARROLLÓ UN ALGORTIMO CRUCIAL.
Bouman, K. (Oct 12, 2022). "Capturing the First Portrait of Our Milky Way's Black Hole & Beyond." IPAM at UCLA.
Bouman, K. (n/a). Katie Bouman's Website at Computing + Mathematical Sciences (CMS) at Caltech

Ms. Ariannita la Gringa, YouTuber English/Spanish Teacher Specialist
Hordinski, M. (Aug. 10, 2022). 'Ariannita la Gringa:' UC student scores 725K Instagram followers in 4 months. Cincinnati.com The Enquirer.

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ONeal, Melina, "Identifying Youth Appeals in Alcohol Alternative Social Media Content Through Framing" (2024). West Chester University Master’s Theses. 305. https://digitalcommons.wcupa.edu/all_theses/305

Steele, N. (November 17, 2022). 7 Sports Lessons to Apply to Your Public Relations Career. Progressions of the Public Relations Student Society of America (PRSSA).

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Congresswoman Elise Stefanik
CBS Mornings. (Jan 6, 2015). Elise Stefanik makes history as youngest woman elected to Congress.
Forbes. (Jun 21, 2024). Trump VP Contender Elise Stefanik Urges Religious Voters To Back Ex-President Against Biden
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Selected Quotes

A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable, but more useful than a life spent doing nothing. —George Bernard Shaw (1856-1950), Irish Playwright and Critic

A strong man is offended when you tell him a lie, while a weak man is offended when you tell him the truth. —philosophical quote

A true man hates no one. —Napoleon Bonaparte (1769-1821), Former Emperor of the French

Acquiescence is a duty, under circumstances not placed among those we are permitted to control. —Thomas Jefferson (1743-1826), American Statesman and the Third President of the United States
Arguments are either forms of attach or forms of defense. —Julia Galef (1983-), American Writer, Speaker and Cofounder of the Center for Applied Rationality
As soon as you trust yourself, you will know how to live. —Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749-1832), German Polymath and Writer
Be more concerned with your character than your reputation, because your character is what you really are, while your reputation is merely what others think you are. —John Wooden (1910-2010), American Basketball Coach
Beware of little expenses; a small leak will sink a great ship. —Benjamin Franklin (1706-1790), American Polymath, Statesman, Founding Father, Political Philosopher, etc.
Choosing to be curious is choosing to be vulnerable because it requires us to surrender to uncertainty. It wasn't always a choice; we were born curious. But, over time, we learn that curiosity, like vulnerability, can lead to hurt. As a result, we turn to self-protecting—choosing certainty over curiosity, armor over vulnerability, and knowing over learning. —from Rising Strong: The Reckoning. The Rumble. The Revolution (2015, Random House) by Brené Brown (1965-), American Scholar and Social Worker
Do not conform any longer to the pattern of this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind. —Romans 12:2
Don't waste time debating what a good man should be. Just be one. —Marcus Aurelius (121-180), Former Roman Emperor and Stoic Philosopher
Education is not something you can finish. &mdah;Isaac Asimov (?-1992), American Writer and Biochemist
Errare humanum est, sed perseverare diabolicum (to error is human but to continue in error is evil). —Lucius Annaeus Seneca (?-65 AD), Stoic Philosopher, Statesman and Dramatist of Ancient Rome
Excellence is never an accident. It is always the result of high intention, sincere effort, and intelligent execution. —Aristotle (384 BC-322 BC), Greek Philosopher and Polymath
Facts about the past, after they are interpreted, become history. The interpretation makes the past intelligible and, above all, relevant to the living. —Harold Issadore Sharlin, Historian and Former Professor of History at Iowa State University
Happiness and freedom begin with a clear understanding of one principle: some things are within your control, and some things are not. —Epictetus (c. 50-c. 135), Greek Stoic Philosopher
Happiness isn't happiness without a violin-playing goat. —Anna Scoot, Fictional Character in Notting Hill (Michell, R., 1999)
He who laughs at himself never runs out of things to laugh at. —Epictetus (c. 50-c. 135), Greek Stoic Philosopher
History is not contained in thick books but lives in our very blood. —Carl Jung (1875-1961), Swiss Psychiatrist and Psychoanalyst
History teaches us that man learns nothing from history. —Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel (1770-1831), German Philosopher

I am a great believer in luck, and I find the harder I work, the more I have of it. —Thomas Jefferson (1743-1826), American Statesman and the Third President of the United States

I didn't fail school; school failed me. School fails entrepreneurs everyday, because it's not built for entrepreneurs; it's built for workers. —Gary Vaynerchuk (1975-), American Businessman and Motivational Speaker

I think each individual, we got to look within ourselves and figure out how we can better help our team. And I think that's wehre we start. Ultimately as a leader, it's my job just to hold guys accountable, hold myself accountable, and make sure that we stay together through this tough little patch that we're having. —Russell Westbrook (1988-), American Basketball Player
I would really like to encourage, once again, entrepreneurs to enter the lithium refining business.. It's basically like printing money right now.. You can't lose. —Elon Musk (1971-), American Businessman and Investor
If I were a player, he (Allen Iverson) would be one of my best friends. —Larry Brown (1940-), American Basketball Coach
If it costs you your peace, it is too expensive. &mdah;Paulo Coelho (1947-), Brazilian Lyricist and Novelist
If you tell the truth, you don't have to remember anything. —Mark Twain (1835-1910), American Writer and Humorist

It (historian) is a very comforting profession because it is hard to be scooped and hard to be obsolete. On the other hand, it is hard to have the last word and become a classic. —Barbara A. Hanawalt (1941-), American Historian and Emeritus Professor of the Ohio State University

It is easy in the world to live after the world's opinion; it is easy in solitude to live after our own; but the great man is he who in the midst of the crowd keeps with perfect sweetness the independence of solitude. —Self-Reliance by Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882), American Essayist
Keep your mind on the things you want and off the things you don't want. —Napoleon Hill (1883-1970), American Author and Con Artist
Learning is not compulsory, but neither is survival. —W. Edwards Deming, American Business Theorist, Composer, Economist, etc.
Many a man thinks he is buying pleasure, when he is really selling himself to it. —Benjamin Franklin (1706-1790), American Polymath, Statesman, Founding Father, Political Philosopher, etc.
"Marry me to teach you how to live, and you teach me how to die," tenderly said Charlie Chaplin after he decided to propose to Oona who was thirty years his junior, who then responded with grace, "No Charlie, I will marry you to learn how to grow mature, and I will teach you how to remain young till the end." —Sir Charles "Carlie" Chaplin (1889-1977), English Comic Actor and Writer and Oona O'Neill (1925-1991), Bermudian Actress
No legacy is so rich as honesty. —William Shakespeare (1564-1616), English Playwright, Poet, and Actor
Reason has, at last, shown her captivating [attracting/holding interests and attentions; charming] face, beaming with benevolence; and it will be impossible for the dark hand of despotism [oppression, etc.] again to obscure its radiance, or the lurking dagger of subordinate tyrants to reach her bosom. The image of God implanted in our nature is now more rapidly expanding; and, as it opens, liberty with maternal wing seems to be soaring to regions far above vulgar [unrefined; lacking sophistication nor any good taste] annoyance, promising to shelter all mankind. —from "An Historical and Moral View of the Origin and Progress of the French Revolution and the Effect it has Produced in Europe" by Mary Wollstonecrasft (1759-1797), British Writer and Philosopher
The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched—they must be felt with the heart. —Helen Keller (1880-1968), American Author
The greatest teacher is not the one who imparts knowledge, but the one who inspires curiiosity. —Timotheus of Miletus (446 B.C.-357 B.C.), Greek Musician and Dithyrambic Poet

The limits of Western democracy are drawn by Israel's interests. Whatever infringes on Israel's interests is anti-democratic, antisemitic for them. —Recep Tayyip Erdoğan (1954-), Turkish Politician and the 12th President of the Republic of Türkiye

The more that you read, the more things you will know. The more that you learn, the more places you will go. —Theodor "Dr. Seuss" Geisel (1904-1991), American Children's Author and Cartoonist
The mystery of human existence lies not in just staying alive, but in finding something to live for. —Fyodor Dostoevsky (1821-1881), Russian Novelist
The nearer a man comes to a calm mind, the closer he is to strength. —Marcus Aurelius (121-180), Former Roman Emperor and Stoic Philosopher

The paradox of listening is that by relinquishing power, the "temporary power" of speaking and asserting, we are actually acquiring power—the more lasting power of understanding and trusting and building relationships. So by listening we acquire not the power "over" but the power to: to dominate connect, to speak understand, to capture along create (something) together, to command respect earn and build trust, etc. So next time you feel the urge to "make sure that you speak first" or to interrupt, just try to listen, for just a little bit longer. —Amy Cuddy (1972-), Americal Social Psychologist and Author, regarding "do good listeners have more power."

The proper study of mankind is man. —Alexander Pope (1688-1744), English Poetand Satirist

They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety, deserve neither liberty nor safety. —Benjamin Franklin (1706-1790), American Polymath, Inventor, Statesman, Diplomat, Political Philosopher, and Founding Father of the United States

Those who keep learning will keep rising in life. —Charlie Munger (1924-2023), American Businessman, Investor, and Philanthropist

To begin, begin. —William Wordsworth (1770-1850), English Poet
We always know more about the elite and about middle-class males because they leave records, are involved in disputes, run the government and the economy, and so on. We often know only bits and pieces about the poor and the women and children. The composite stories help to bring a completeness to sparse and scattered narratives that would otherwise be missing. —Barbara A. Hanawalt (1941-), American Historian and Emeritus Professor of the Ohio State University
We must all suffer from one of two pains: the pain of discipline, or the pain of regret. —Jim Rohn (1930-2009), American Entrepreneur and Author
Without belittling the courage with which men have died, we should not forget those acts of courage with which men have lived. —John F. Kennedy ("Profiles in Courage," 1956), American Politician and the 35th U.S. President
You can't control an independent heart, can't tear the one you love apart... if you love somebody, if you love someone, set them free. —Sting, Musician and Activist
You will never do anything in this world without courage. It is the greatest quality of the mind next to honour. —Aristotle (384 BC-322 BC), Greek Philosopher and Polymath

Media Coverage

Clemson Alum (2024). Academic Influences. Tiger Stories: 2024 Clemson University Oral History Project. [audio, transcribed]
Department of Mathematics (Nov. 2023). Student Research. https://www.wcupa.edu/sciences-mathematics/mathematics/studentResearch.aspx
(Nov. 2023). Student Spotlight. The Graduate School Gazette: News & Notes from the Graduate School at WCU. [gazette]
Duffy, A. (Feb. 2018). Researchers Creating App to Track, Analyze Dangerous Chronic Wounds. WPI Today. https://www.wpi.edu/news/researchers-creating-app-track-analyze-dangerous-chronic-wounds

Affiliations, Memberships, etc. (as of )

Student Member of The Providence Athenæum  Providence, R.I.
Graduate Student Member of American Philosophical Association's Eastern Division  apaonline.org
Student Member of Project Management Institute's New York City Chapter
Guardian Membership with American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (ASPCA)  www.aspca.org
Graduate Student Member of American Association of University Women  aauw.org
Student Member of American Library Association (ALA)  ala.org
Graduate Student Member of American Mathematical Society (AMS)  ams.org
Student Member of Mathematical Association of America (MAA)  maa.org
Member of the Poetry Society of America  poetrysociety.org
Member of the Poetry Society of New York  poetrysocietyny.org
Student Member of the Federalist Society  fedsoc.org Washington, DC
Student Member of American Association of Colleges and Universities (AAC&U, aacu.org), Washington, DC