Publication Type: Conference Paper/Unpublished Manuscript
Abstract: Both needing care and providing care have become more common stages of the life course. Family members are increasingly likely to provide health care for disabled or frail older adults and the provision of this care has important implications for public policy, families, and individual lives. Because it is often assumed that members of minority groups have more access than Whites to familial care provision, empirical studies that compare caregiving patterns by racial/ethnic group membership are necessary. This project uses two waves of the National Survey of Families and Households (NSFH), 1987-1988 and 1992-1994. Using logistic regression analysis, Whites providing care are older and more likely to be female than those not providing care at wave 1. For Blacks, the only variable that matters is sex; women are much more likely to provide care than men. At wave 2, Whites providing care are more likely to be women, with more education, and in worse health. For Blacks, however, again the only independent variable that matters is sex.

Publication Type: Conference Paper/Unpublished Manuscript
Abstract: The media are one vehicle for shaping attitudes about age and ageing, and have been often blamed for perpetuating ageism and cultural stereotypes about seniors, particularly older women (Cohen, 2002). Yet, while a few studies have been concerned with how gender inequalities are portrayed by the North American media, little is known about the media portrayals of older men and older women in the post-soviet world, where both the cultural norms concerning the elders, and the traditional roles of elderly men and women in families, organizations, and societies may be different from the North. Very few cross-cultural comparisons of the media portrayals of seniors have been conducted so far (Harwood and Roy, 1999), and none of them has considered the portrayals of intra- and intergenerational gender inequalities in the news media. The purpose of my paper will be to compare the contemporary portrayals of older men and older women in the Toronto Globe and Mail and of the Moscow Nezavisimaya Gazeta, and to discuss whether the cultural attitudes towards male and female seniors that these portrayals reinforce (or resist) are the same or different in the two countries. Are older men and older women in Canada and in Russia portrayed similarly, or are some older adults portrayed differently from others, and in what terms? When a story involves both seniors and non-seniors, how are older men and older women portrayed in comparison to younger people? The analyses of whether in different cultures male and female seniors are portrayed in similar or different roles, and whether the news media in different societies may depict intra- and inter-generational gender inequalities in different terms, will be very insightful for scholars concerned with the cultural aspects of globalization. Canada and Russia are chosen to reflect the diversity and similarity of the West and of the post-communist space: these two largest countries of the North American and Eurasian continents have obvious political, economic, institutional and cultural differences, and yet share important similarities regarding the heterogeneity of their populations, and the northern dimension of their geography. The Globe and Mail and Nezavisimaya Gazeta are selected for analysis because they are referred to (and portray themselves) as national newspapers respectively in Canada and in Russia. Thus this study may provide some general insights into the portrayals of seniors and inequality in Canadian and Russian media, to serve as benchmarks for further investigation. The method used will be thematic analysis of all articles focusing on seniors and their issues published in The Globe and Mail in 2004 and in Nezavisimaya Gazeta in 2005. Findings will compare how various characteristics (such as economic, social, health, and political status) differentiate among the portrayals of older men and older women and the roles in which they are presented in the two newspapers. Certain groups of seniors may experience feelings of disempowerment, exclusion, and segregation which may be largely ignored by the media, and therefore rendering them invisible to the public. I will situate the results of my analyses within the context of research literature on ageing, gender, inequality, and globalization. Implications for addressing ageism through social and media policies in Canada, in Russia and elsewhere will be discussed.

Publication Type: Conference Paper/Unpublished Manuscript
Abstract: The development of senior officers? understanding of civil-military relations principles is dependent on the attention that professional military education (PME) institutions devote to this aspect of professional development. The recent ?revolt of the generals? indicates an uneven application of principles taught in the various opportunities for PME that officers have throughout their careers. The ?revolt? may, even more disturbingly, indicate a vacuum in the development of officers in this critical area of professional behavior. This paper will examine the scope and depth of officers? education in civil-military relations at the Army?s senior PME institution, the US Army War College. The author will consider as well the foundation received at earlier junctures of PME for US army officers. The author seeks to discover if common principles are taught and reinforced throughout an officer?s cycle of professional development. Do the various US Army PME institutions coordinate their instruction in this area? What gaps still exist in officers? professional development? What can be done to shore up civil-military relations education within and between institutions?

Publication Type: Conference Paper/Unpublished Manuscript
Abstract: Many colleges and universities are now requiring that their senior mathematics majors take a capstone or senior seminar course near the end of the major sequence. This course usually requires that the students do independent research. In this talk, I give ideas for senior capstone projects that I have used when I have taught the course. I will discuss topics that my students have researched such as chaos, alternate geometires, applications of statistical methods, random walks, and proofs of irrationality - just to name a few.

Publication Type: Conference Paper/Unpublished Manuscript
Abstract: Reviews the impact of long seniority on Supreme Court justice's pattern of agreeing with American public opinion