Columbia College Chicago

About: Columbia College Chicago is a education organization based out in Chicago, Illinois, United States. It is known for research contribution in the topics: Dance & Higher education. The organization has 180 authors who have published 296 publications receiving 2700 citations.

The Science of Comedy (Sort of)

Abstract: From an academic point of view, humor studies have traditionally lived in the rather unfunny world of philosophy departments More recently, psychologists and neuroscientists have begun to study mechanisms of humor and laughter An argument can be made that approaching humor studies from the perspective of comedy creation offers practical tools for using comedy and humor in everyday communication and connection

A study on rectangular microstrip antenna with group of slots for compact operation

Abstract: The compact configuration of a microstrip antenna can be realized by embedding suitable slots on the radiating patch. In this paper, a typical configuration of slots is studied by putting group of vertical slots near radiating edge with inset feed and the experimental results are presented. © 2004 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. Microwave Opt Technol Lett 40: 396–398, 2004; Published online in Wiley InterScience (www.interscience.wiley.com). DOI 10.1002/mop.11391

Seeing Black and the Color of Representation

Abstract: This essay examines the tensions between dichotomies concerning the color black through the work of the abstract expressionist Norman Lewis and through some of Lewis’s philosophical ambitions that have found a place in the work of the contemporary artist Ellen Gallagher. Seizing an opportunity that liberated midcentury New York artists from naturalism and the shadows of European hegemony, Lewis may have found a liberation of his own in the abstraction and formalism that Gallagher now deftly manipulates. Gallagher’s work suggests a new aesthetic code that subverts the black subject in a formalist milieu and that, like Lewis’s oeuvre, presents simultaneous themes around the visibility and invisibility of blackness and speaks to an unmistakable black presence in the evolution and miscegenation of modernity.

Building Confidence in the Dirac $\delta$-function

Abstract: In this note we present an example from undergraduate quantum mechanics designed to highlight the versatility of the Dirac $\delta$-function. Namely, we compute the expectation value of the Hamiltonian of a free-particle in a state described by a triangular wave function $\psi(x)$. Since the first derivative of $\psi(x)$ is piecewise constant, and because this Hamiltonian is proportional to the second order spatial derivative, students often end up finding the expectation value to be zero --an unphysical answer. This problem provides a pedagogical application of the Dirac $\delta$-function. By arriving at the same result via alternate pathways, this exercise reinforces students' confidence in the Dirac $\delta$-function and highlights its efficiency and elegance.

Bridging the Gaps: Parental Involvement and Asian Non-native English Speakers’ Postsecondary Enrollment

Abstract: While the number of the Asian non-native English speakers (NNESs) is increasing, their postsecondary education (PSE) enrollment rate has remained low in comparison to enrollment rates of Asian native English speakers (NESs). The achievement gap in postsecondary enrollment between NNESs and NESs has widened, due not only to content areas such as reading and language arts that require higher English proficiency but also sociocultural factors, such as parental involvement. The current study aims to investigate the extent to which parental involvement factors predict the likelihood of Asian NNESs PSE enrollment after controlling for socioeconomic and linguistic factors. This study, being an expansion of previous work, which explored parental involvement and NNESs' PSE in the U.S., uses the national representative data from the Education Longitudinal Study dataset in 2002 (ELS: 2002) and a binary multilevel logistic regression model analysis. The results indicate that parental involvement is related to a greater likelihood of attending PSE institutions. Among the various forms of parental involvement, parent-student involvement and parent-school involvement have the greatest impact on Asian NNESs' PSE enrollment. The results also showed that Asian NNESs' enrollment is higher if their parents participate in school volunteer work. Limitations, future studies, and implications for educators, parents and school policy makers will also be discussed.