Agnes Scott College (Agnes Scott) is a private women's liberal arts college in Decatur, Georgia. The college enrolls approximately 1,000 undergraduate and graduate students. Agnes Scott is affiliated with the Presbyterian Church (USA) and is considered one of the Seven Sisters of the South. It also offers co-educational graduate programs.
This article considers the integration of leadership development into a general education curriculum at a liberal arts college, and specifically how foregrounding life writing in such a class allows students to think explicitly about different kinds of leadership approaches. Relying on primary texts as distinct as TED Talks, podcasts, novels, graphic narrative, testimonio, and biofiction, students consider how narrative activism allows for the circulation of testimony. Assignments illuminate many of the larger theoretical concerns of Life Writing Studies – including agency, self-representational strategies, artistic practice, memory, and witnessing – can be useful for reconceptualising leaders and leadership development. With an emphasis on student-directed classroom discussion, critical and careful reading, deliberate textual analysis, team-based learning, and writing for a variety of audiences, the course encourages individual assessments of how life writing can challenge preconceptions and encourage connection. Through such engagement, students learn some of the ways in which a leadership model of “reflect, analyze, act” functions in terms of their own understanding of leadership and their own capacity to lead.
Introduction:Perinatal mood and anxiety disorders (PMADs) are among the most common complications of pregnancy. Yet, identification, access, and intervention lag behind need, particularly for those from historically marginalized backgrounds. Although couples-based, cognitive behavioral approaches show promise, few interventions integrate community-engaged, partner-inclusive, and in-home approaches that bolster accessibility. Methodology:This article presents the development and protocol for the New Family Wellness Project (NFWP). The six-session NFWP focuses on shared family values and communication supplemented with between-session provider check-ins, support groups, homework, and tailored case management. Twenty-two participants (8 couples; 6 mothers alone) provided quantitative and qualitative feedback on the NFWP feasibility and acceptability. Results:Participants reported very high engagement (M = 96/100) and identified the in-home and partner-inclusive format as vital. Qualitative feedback highlighted that the NFWP improved communication and enhanced reflection on family values and actionable steps to support effective co-parenting. Nearly half of the participants said they would not have participated without the in-home and couples-based format. Conclusions:Preliminary findings support the feasibility and acceptability of this community-engaged, cognitive behavioral therapy, couples-based intervention for PMADs. Future directions explore scalability on a larger scale to enhance equitable, perinatal mental health interventions for family systems.
Linear relations, defined as submodules of the direct sum of two modules, can be viewed as objects that carry dynamical information and reflect the inherent uncertainty of sampled dynamics. These objects also provide an algebraic structure that enables the definition of subtle invariants for dynamical systems. By recognizing specific categorical aspects of these objects, we prove that linear relations defined on modules of finite length are shift equivalent to bijective mappings.
We demonstrate a novel way to analyze lineup usage among sports teams, and to use bootstrap methods to validate the results. We use a weighted simplicial complex to capture information about which groups of players are in lineups together, rather than using network methods, which are restricted to pairs of players. As an example, we analyze the 2024-2025 NBA season. The results reflect different approaches to roster construction and usage. Applications include predicting improvement in team winning percentage from year to year, measuring the importance of individual players and groups of players to lineup flexibility, and the effect of a team’s lineup choices on those of its opponent, as well as applications to other sports.
We revisit the strong CP problem from the viewpoint of the infrared structure of non–Abelian gauge theories. In Yang–Mills theory, motion between topologically inequivalent vacua may be described in terms of a compact collective coordinate associated with the Chern–Simons number. Implementing an adiabatic separation between slow topological modes and fast gluonic fluctuations leads to a reduced Born–Oppenheimer Hamiltonian governing the infrared dynamics. We show that the physical parameter entering this reduced Hamiltonian is not the bare vacuum angle θ, but an effective holonomy θ_ eff that includes a Berry phase induced by the fast gluonic sector. The induced holonomy becomes a self–consistent response function of the infrared dressing, leading to a nonperturbative renormalization group flow for θ_ eff. This infrared flow admits CP–invariant fixed points toward which the effective vacuum angle is dynamically driven in the infrared limit. In this framework, CP violation is not forbidden by the fundamental theory but becomes dynamically suppressed along the infrared flow generated by adiabatic dressing. The strong CP problem is thus realized as a nonperturbative infrared relaxation mechanism governed by the Berry response of the fast gluonic sector, without the introduction of additional dynamical fields.
