Creative Writing:Poetry Dorothy Wang, chair, Kazim Ali, and Cathy Linh Che The judges have enthusiastically selected Amanda Ngoho Reavey's Marilyn as the winner of the 2017 AAAS Award for Best Book in Creative Writing: Poetry. This collection is daring in its formal restlessness, traversing the genres of poetry, memoire, and essay and bringing together the lyric and the documentary (by means of language and photographs). It is also courageous in its clear-eyes exploration of the many complex aspects of transracial adoption and in its unblinking calling out of racism in its various forms, both personal and structural. Reavey details though poetic means painful and lonely experiences of feeling untethered but, equally, flashes of beauty and tenderness that inhere in various lived moments, in nature, and in language. Marilyn also asks us to consider what has been elided—erased, ignored, unspoken, in these acts of transnational transracial adoption. This facet of the Asian diasporic experience, that of Asian adoptees who have been raised in all-white families in the United States, has rarely been explored in poetry. As a whole, Marilyn calls to mind the pathbreaking work of Bhanu Kapil and Theresa Cha. Reavey chose the verb, "ngoho" has her new name; so, too, her book itself is a motion, a movement, an uncovering, and a restructuring. Marilyn is a fearless book of poetry that expands the possibilities of English-language poetry. [End Page 465] Copyright © 2017 Johns Hopkins University Press

As a catecholamine reuptake blocker, methylphenidate (MPH) enhances noradrenergic transmission and is likely to influence norepinephrine actions in sensory systems. To characterize neurophysiological actions of MPH in the primary somatosensory (SI) cortex, we recorded basal and whisker deflection‐evoked discharge of infragranular sensory cortical neurons, before and after intraperitoneal administrations of saline and MPH (5 mg/kg) in halothane‐anesthetized rats. MPH had two types of actions on sensory‐evoked neuronal responses in the SI cortex, depending on the initial amplitude of the sensory response. When the whisker deflection induced a small excitatory response under control conditions, MPH significantly increased the amplitude of the response by ∼40%. When the whisker stimulation induced a large excitatory response under control conditions, MPH did not significantly alter the amplitude of the response, but significantly decreased the duration and the peak latency of the response, so that the response was more focused. These neurophysiological actions of MPH may underlie some of the beneficial effects of the drug on sensory processing and attention.Synapse 61:985–990, 2007. © 2007 Wiley‐Liss, Inc.

Lymphatic metastasis represents the single most important clinical prognostic factor in head and neck squamous cell carcinoma (HNSCC), but underlying genetic mechanisms remain ill defined. Genetic differences between primary carcinomas and their corresponding metastases might form a key to understanding the metastatic phenotype. In this study we aimed to characterize such differences using a genome‐wide screening measure.

As attested to by the plethora of recent publications and conference calls for papers, academic interest in the (hardly interchangeable) "transnational," the "global," and the "diasporic" has not stopped crescendoing. This theorizing about things and peoples once disparate but now seen as linked seems to be contemporaneous, or to coincide, with calls or renewed exhortations for more interdisciplinarity. Virtually no area in the humanities and social sciences has not been touched by the demand for interdisciplinarity, and why not, for what academic discipline would not or could not profit from more collaboration across institutional divides?