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Publication CIE Group - Spring 1975(Center for International Education, UMass Amherst, 1975-05)Group of faculty, staff and some students taken outside Montague House.Publication CIE Spring Picnic - 2012(Center for International Education, UMass Amherst, 2012-05)CIE had a tradition of holding annual picnics for the students and families. In 2012 the picnic was held at Goff Park in north Amherst.Publication Affirmations of Black Being: Explicating the Potentialities of Self-Love in Higher Education(Taylor and Francis, 2024-06-11)Research has chronicled the experiences of Black students transitioning into college and best practices for supporting Black students as they move through the collegiate context. The collegiate context is nested in white supremacy, and a microcosm of white culture. Thus, this study is rooted in the assumption that racism experienced within college is a reflection of its permanence, and sets the stage for the importance of examining Black students’ sense of self-love. In this paper, we utilize critical frameworks to examine how seven Black students conceptualize self-love within anti-Black environments. An analysis of testimonies and interviews generated by participants produced several considerations on the praxis of self-love in and beyond the educational context. Specifically, findings point to the ways Black students conceptualize self-love as affirmations of the Black being, manifesting as presence, knowing, feeling, seeing, doing, and regard.Publication Dust giant: Extended and clumpy star-formation in a massive dusty galaxy at z=1.38(2024)We present NOEMA CO (2-1) line and ALMA 870 mu m continuum observations of a main-sequence galaxy at z = 1.38. The galaxy was initially deemed a "gas giant" based on the gas mass derived from sub-mm continuum (log(M-gas/M-circle dot) = 11.20 +/- 0.20), however, the gas mass derived from CO (2-1) luminosity brings the gas mass value down to a level that is consistent with typical values for star-forming galaxies at that redshift (log(M-gas/M-circle dot) = 10.84 +/- 0.03). Meanwhile, the dust-to-stellar mass ratio remains elevated above the scaling relations by a factor of 5. In this work, we explore the potential physical picture and consider an underestimated stellar mass and optically thick dust as possible explanations. Based on the updated gas-to-stellar mass ratio, we can rule out the former; while the latter may indeed contribute to the overestimation of the dust mass, it is not sufficient enough to explain the observed physical picture overall. Instead, other plausible explanations include enhanced HI reservoirs, an unusually high metallicity, or the presence of an optically dark, dusty contaminant. Using the ALMA data at 870 mu m coupled with HST/ACS imaging, we find an extended morphology in dust continuum and clumpy star-formation in rest-frame UV in this galaxy. In addition, a tentative similar to 10 kpc dusty arm is found to be bridging the galaxy center and a clump in F814W image. The galaxy shows levels of dust obscuration similar to the so-called HST-dark galaxies at higher redshifts, thus falling into the optically faint and dark JWST color-color selection at z > 2. It is therefore possible that our object may stand as a low-z analog of the HST-dark populations. This galaxy serves as a caveat to the gas masses based on the continuum alone, with a larger sample required to unveil the full picture.Publication Mesoscopic ultrafast nonlinear optics-the emergence of multimode quantum non-Gaussian physics(2024)Over the last few decades, nonlinear optics has become significantly more nonlinear, traversing nearly a billionfold improvement in energy efficiency, with ultrafast nonlinear nanophotonics in particular emerging as a frontier for combining both spatial and temporal engineering. At present, cutting-edge experiments in nonlinear nanophotonics place us just above the mesoscopic regime, where a few hundred photons suffice to trigger highly nonlinear dynamics. In contrast to classical or deep-quantum optics, the mesoscale is characterized by dynamical interactions between mean-field, Gaussian, and non-Gaussian quantum features, all within a close hierarchy of scales. When combined with the inherent multimode complexity of optical fields, such hybrid quantum-classical dynamics present theoretical, experimental, and engineering challenges to the contemporary framework of quantum optics. In this review, we highlight the unique physics that emerges in multimode nonlinear optics at the mesoscale and outline key principles for exploiting both classical and quantum features to engineer novel functionalities. We briefly survey the experimental landscape and draw attention to outstanding technical challenges in materials, dispersion engineering, and device design for accessing mesoscopic operation. Finally, we speculate on how these capabilities might usher in some new paradigms in quantum photonics, from quantum-augmented information processing to nonclassical-light-driven dynamics and phenomena to all-optical non-Gaussian measurement and sensing. The physics unlocked at the mesoscale present significant challenges and opportunities in theory and experiment alike, and this review is intended to serve as a guide to navigating this new frontier in ultrafast quantum nonlinear optics. (c) 2024 Optica Publishing Group under the terms of the Optica Open Access Publishing Agreement
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