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Recent Submissions
Publication Thermomorphogenesis of the Arabidopsis thaliana Root: Flexible Cell Division, Constrained Elongation and the Role of Cryptochrome(2024-09)Understanding how plants respond to temperature is relevant for agriculture in a warming world. Responses to temperature in the shoot have been characterized more fully than those in the root. Previous work on thermomorphogenesis in roots established that for Arabidopsis thaliana (Columbia) seedlings grown continuously at a given temperature, the root meristem produces cells at the same rate at 15°C as at 25°C and the root’s growth zone is the same length. To uncover the pathway(s) underlying this constancy, we screened 34 A. thaliana genotypes for parameters related to growth and division. No line failed to respond to temperature. Behavior was little affected by mutations in phytochrome or other genes that underly thermomorphogenesis in shoots. However, a mutant in cryptochrome 2 was disrupted substantially in both cell division and elongation, specifically at 15°C. Among the 34 lines, cell production rate varied extensively and was associated only weakly with root growth rate; in contrast, parameters relating to elongation were stable. Our data are consistent with models of root growth that invoke cell non-autonomous regulation for establishing boundaries between meristem, elongation zone and mature zone.Publication Original School of Education Retreat - Colorado 1968(1968-10)In the fall of 1968 Dwight Allen, the newly appointed Dean for the School of Education (now College of Education), organized an all-School retreat at a dude ranch in Colorado. Faculty and graduate students already at the School flew on a chartered flight to Colorado. They were joined there by newly appointed faculty and incoming graduate students who had not yet arrived at UMass, including many from Stanford University where Dwight was previously a faculty member. The retreat was a strategy of the new Dean to begin the process of planning for a completely new School of Education and to jumpstart the revitalization of what was at the time a small, undistinguished school. At the retreat groups of faculty and students were formed to begin designing centers, which were intended to be flexible and more responsive new units to replace traditional departments. The retreat was the birthplace of the Center for International Development (CIE). One group was charged with starting the planning for CIE. The process started in Colorado continued when the group returned to Amherst during what the Dean announced as a planning year for the revitalization of the School of Education. During the 1968-69 Academic year the CIE Group created a detailed plan for CIE, including outlines of Master’s and Doctoral degrees, detailed course syllabi, and even the admissions criteria and process for new students. (See resulting plans in the Historical Documents section.) Who can you identify in the group picture? Dwight Allen is in the back center – see the red arrow. Is that DRE in the 4th row, lower right with sun glasses? Among others in the CIE founding group who are in the picture are Steve Guild, Dale Kinsley, Hank Holmes, Joe Blackman, Cynthia Shepard-Perry, David Schimmel, Gordon Schimmel, and George Urch,Publication CIE Gathering - Washington DC 2015(2015-03)Once again, the CIE community gathered in Washington, DC during an annual CIES conference. Attending were students and faculty at the conference as well as CIE graduates in the DC area. FHI360 kindly allowed us to gather in their building next to the Washington Hilton. Represented among the almost 70 people who attended were graduates from all five decades of CIE’s history. The earliest graduates attending were Steve Grant and Ash Hartwell both of whom graduated in 1972, while the most recent graduate was Karla Sarr who graduated in 2015.Publication CIE Gathering - Washington DC 2001(2001-03)CIE gathering took place in the AED building next to the Washington Hilton where a CIES annual conference was taking place. Students and faculty at the conference along with CIE graduates from the DC area attended the gathering. The gathering was also the fund-raising kickoff to start the CIE Endowment Fund.Publication Solving Workload Inequities: Policies and Practice(2024)In “Getting Started with Faculty Workload Equity,” we explained how to identify workload inequities and concretize those challenges for departments. Here, we identify strategies for building policies and practices that effectively target those inequities. Solving workload inequities is not easy, but it is possible.
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