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Ecocultural adjustment: revisiting acculturation through a Peace Corps sojourn by Parks, Melissa M.

“…This performative autoethnography examines extant theories of cultural adjustment through an ecocultural lens. I revisit my 26-month sojourn with the US Peace…”
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Explicating Ecoculture: Tracing a Transdisciplinary Focal Concept by Parks, Melissa M.

“…Ecoculture is an emerging focal concept reflecting the inextricability of nature and culture. It is applicable to and employed in many disciplines, yet it is…”
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Public Perception of Female Fertility: Initial Fertility, Peak Fertility, and Age-Related Infertility Among U.S. Adults by Jensen, Robin E., Martins, Nicole, Parks, Melissa M.

“…Perceptions of fertility are thought to impact reproductive behaviors, yet little is known about how lay people conceptualize the female fertility timeline. In…”
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Chemistry in the mail: Stamps from around the globe and public science communication in the twentieth century by Krall, Madison A., Parks, Melissa M., Krebs, Emily, Mann, Benjamin W., Maison, Kourtney, Jensen, Robin E.

“…Postage stamps are designed to convey messages that reverberate symbolically with broad swaths of the public, and their content has been employed as a window…”
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Medicalization's Communicative Infrastructure: Seventy Years of "Brain Chemistry" in the New York Times by Jensen, Robin E., Maison, Kourtney, Mann, Benjamin W., Krall, Madison A., Parks, Melissa M.

“…Medicalization theory aims to delineate how and why non-medical issues become demarcated within the realm of medical jurisdiction. The theory postulates that…”
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Seedlings in the Corporate Forest: Communicating Benevolent Sexism in Dow Chemical’s First Internal Affirmative-Action Campaign by Cullinan, Megan E., Maison, Kourtney, Parks, Melissa M., Krall, Madison A., Krebs, Emily, Mann, Benjamin, Jensen, Robin E.

“…Organizational affirmative-action programs have often failed to reach their goals, especially in the context of STEM professions and companies. Our study…”
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Strategic Place-Making and Public Scientific Outreach in the American Chemical Society’s National Historic Chemical Landmarks Program by Mann, Benjamin W., Krall, Madison A., Parks, Melissa M., Krebs, Emily, Maison, Kourtney, Jensen, Robin E.

“…This article investigates place-making—a process involving appeals to embodiment, materiality, and spatial arrangement—as a means for building communicative…”
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Mapping Nature's scientist: The posthumous demarcation of Rosalind Franklin's crystallographic data by Jensen, Robin E., Parks, Melissa M., Mann, Benjamin W., Maison, Kourtney, Krall, Madison A.

“…Nature, the journal that in 1953 published James Watson and Francis Crick's double-helix model of DNA, also published numerous pieces about crystallographer…”
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Explicating Ecoculture by Parks, Melissa M.

“…Ecoculture is an emerging focal concept reflecting the inextricability of nature and culture. It is applicable to and employed in many disciplines, yet it is…”
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Cosmovisions and Farming Praxis: An Investigation of Conventional and Alternative Farmers along the Willamette River by Parks, Melissa M., Brekken, Christine Anderson

“…Governments and environmental groups seeking to solve agri‐environmental issues, many of which are localized, must understand how farmers choose production…”
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Mapping Nature ’s scientist: The posthumous demarcation of Rosalind Franklin’s crystallographic data by Jensen, Robin E., Parks, Melissa M., Mann, Benjamin W., Maison, Kourtney, Krall, Madison A.

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"No(t) camping": engaging intersections of housing, transportation, and environmental justice through critical praxis by McGreavy, Bridie, Kelley, Scott, Ludden, Jason, Card, Daniel, Cogbill-Seiders, Elisa, Derk, Ian, Gordon, Constance, Haynal, Kaitlyn, Krzus-Shaw, Kassia, Parks, Melissa M., Petts, Ashleigh, Ross, Derek G., Walker, Kenneth

“…The Environmental Justice working group took an engaged and intersectional approach, focusing on interconnections between affordable housing, transportation,…”
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