Coordinates: 44°13′51.97″N 88°25′0.74″W / 44.2311028°N 88.4168722°W / 44.2311028; -88.4168722The University of Wisconsin–Oshkosh, Fox Cities Campus (formerly the University of Wisconsin–Fox Valley) is a branch campus of the University of Wisconsin–Oshkosh and a member of the 26 campus University of Wisconsin System. It is located on 41 acres (17 ha) in Menasha, Wisconsin.Prior to its merger with the University of Wisconsin–Oshkosh in July 2018, the campus was a member of the University of Wisconsin Colleges. As of 2017, the campus enrolls 1,286 students, making it the second largest of the UW Branch Campuses.
A new aquatic myriapod-like arthropod, Waukartus muscularis, from the Silurian (Llandoverian) Waukesha marine Lagerstätte of Wisconsin with uniramous limbs also preserves details of muscle tissue and endoskeleton. Phylogenetic analyses place it in a position just stemward of crown-group myriapods, sister taxon to a clade comprising euthycarcinoids and Myriapoda, providing evidence of the ancestral morphology of the living clade. A number of key myriapod synapomorphies, including the presence of an intercalary segment with a surmised tritocerebral appendage, and the decoupling of trunk tergite and appendage expression, evolved in euthycarcinoids within the stem lineage but crownward of the Waukesha myriapod. The new taxon is an aquatic member of this stem lineage and demonstrates that the loss of exopods, which results in uniramous limbs, pre-dated the common ancestor of the amphibious euthycarcinoids and terrestrial myriapods and does not represent an adaptation to terrestrial locomotion. The Waukesha Lagerstätte is unusual among Silurian localities in preserving taxa more typical of Cambrian communities alongside those characteristic of the post-Cambrian.
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The Silurian (Llandovery, Telychian) Waukesha Lagerstätte in the Brandon Bridge Formation of Wisconsin, USA, is preserved in a dolomitic plattenkalk representing deposition in a shallow-water sediment trap on a carbonate platform. Renewed study of the deposit demonstrates biodiversity far richer than previously reported and includes both biomineralizing and non-biomineralizing organisms. At present, remains of at least 12 animal phyla are known, in addition to algae and microorganisms. Of these, remains of cnidarians, brachiopods, mollusks and echinoderms were previously unknown from this deposit. The macrobiota is dominated by trilobites, graptolites, conulariids, non-biomineralizing arthropods (some of which were previously unreported), and some worms (palaeoscolecids and annelids). New abundant evidence of microbial mats and associated microbial structures indicates a thriving microorganismal community. Evidence, including remnants of preserved microbes on macrofossils, demonstrates that microbial processes played a leading role in both burial and preservation of non-biomineralizing tissues. This process, referred to as microbial entombment, is a biologically mediated sedimentary process by which organic remains are entombed within a microbial mat.
This paper describes a universal high-impact practices (HIPs) taxonomy for intentional design of engaging educational experiences. Our taxonomy provides explicit definitions for the quality elements that make HIPs engaging, thus providing a tool to increase parity across HIP experiences. It can be applied to any educational experience and provides milestones of increasing student engagement for each of the quality elements. This taxonomy can be used during the design or evaluation of a student learning experience, and at higher levels for curricular planning, program review, resource allocation, and “badging” of HIP courses.
