Publication Type: Informal Discussion Roundtable
Abstract: This roundtable discussion will center on the potential for developing an interpretive sociology of loss and memory following extreme ethno-political violence.  Using primarily the case of Bosnia and interviews with seventy refugees about their families and communities both before and after ethnic cleansing, I explore the nature of loss
and the meaning individuals make and transmit about loss across generations and geographical space. I first examine how individuals, families, and their remnants interpret the kind of losses that are the outcome of ethnic cleansing and genocide (e.g., the loss of lives of family and friends, the loss of home, homeland, and identity, the loss of childhood and innocence, the loss of trust in neighbors, teachers and intellectuals, employers, government authorities, etc.).
 
I then explore the patterned ways individuals and communities shift in their thinking about a collective identity or what it means to have lived in Bosnia and how they move on in life after extreme ethno-political violence. I focus in particular on what I term “memory projects” (efforts to keep selective memories and meanings alive). Both in Bosnia and in the Bosnian diaspora, memories of life before the war and during the war are constructed in families and communities and transmitted to new generations distant in time and space from the war years.  I examine the intent of various memory projects and practices as well as the meanings individuals make or derive from
participating in such projects (e.g., commemorations and fundraisings for both refugee communities and for Bosnia, the formation of Bosnian dance troupes, soccer teams,  and other cultural groups in refugee communities, religious institution building, homeland visits to relatives and friends as well as to memorial sites and museums, the creation of Bosnian and ex-Yugoslav groups on Facebook, the participation of Bosnian-American college youth in the Save Darfur campaign, etc.). Finally, I ask how the Bosnian refugee memory
projects might compare to other communities following extreme ethno-political violence (e.g., Jewish youth participating in the Save Darfur campaign, in March of the Living, or in Birthright Israel, Armenian Genocide Remembrance Day, etc.).  Do patterns exist and  can we make some generalizations about memory, identity, and community life in the aftermath of extreme ethno-political violence?

Publication Type: Conference Paper/Unpublished Manuscript
Abstract: This study provides an examination of differences in students' perceptions of DARE officers across six metropolitan areas in the United States.

Publication Type: Conference Paper/Unpublished Manuscript
Abstract: Recent efforts to track the location and orientation of a Wii remote controller lead to a system of quadratic equations. Current implementations rely on numeric methods to approximate the solutions to this system. This results in difficulties with performance and stability. However, it is possible to reduce the problem to solving single-variable quartic equations, which can be handled using classical formulas. This approach is fast and stable. The geometric interpretations of the quartic polynomials, and their cubic resolvents and discriminants, are also explored.

Publication Type: Poster
Abstract: The Rocky Mountains Research Center, Center for Integration of Research and Practice, National Development and Research Institutes, Inc. This poster will describe the development of the CJ-CODSI, an instrument for screening co-occurring mental disorder and substance use in prison populations. Instrument development will be described and preliminary psychometric data will be provided based on a pilot study.

Publication Type: Student Paper
Abstract: A brief overview of the decomposition of quandles, a group-like structure, of order six consisting of a review of the number of quandles of order six followed by a look at how many of those can be decomposed.