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The Center for Effective Teaching and Learning at Cal State LA (CETL) was tasked to create a certificate program to address inclusive teaching that we could offer to faculty online at scale. The Inclusive Teaching Program recognizes college faculty as independent experts and self-directed learners who desire space and community to think about their roles as the single greatest influencers of student success. We ground our program design in Wlodkowski and Ginsberg's (2017) framework of adult motivation to learn, while being cognizant that highly professional people (who include faculty) are among the most resistant to change (Argyris, 1991). The program takes an expansive view of, and broadly frames, the concept of inclusivity (Holladay et al., 2003; Rios & Wynn, 2016). The resulting seven-module course deeply engages instructors in the following areas: teaching identity, working with our diverse and unique population of students, leading difficult discussions, acknowledging implicit bias, and practicing faculty care and self-care. We share a novel infrastructure for creating educational development that tackles difficult topics while helping faculty make meaningful changes to their teaching.

An animal's stress response requires different adaptive strategies depending on the nature and duration of the stressor. Whereas acute stressors, such as predation, induce a rapid and energy-demanding fight-or-flight response, long-term environmental stressors induce the gradual and long-lasting activation of highly conserved cytoprotective processes.sup.1-3. In animals across the evolutionary spectrum, continued activation of the fight-or-flight response weakens the animal's resistance to environmental challenges.sup.4,5. However, the molecular and cellular mechanisms that regulate the trade-off between the flight response and long-term stressors are poorly understood. Here we show that repeated induction of the flight response in Caenorhabditis elegans shortens lifespan and inhibits conserved cytoprotective mechanisms. The flight response activates neurons that release tyramine, an invertebrate analogue of adrenaline and noradrenaline. Tyramine stimulates the insulin-IGF-1 signalling (IIS) pathway and precludes the induction of stress response genes by activating an adrenergic-like receptor in the intestine. By contrast, long-term environmental stressors, such as heat or oxidative stress, reduce tyramine release and thereby allow the induction of cytoprotective genes. These findings demonstrate that a neural stress hormone supplies a state-dependent neural switch between acute flight and long-term environmental stress responses and provides mechanistic insights into how the flight response impairs cellular defence systems and accelerates ageing. The release of tyramine during the flight response in nematodes activates the DAF-2/insulin-IGF pathway to downregulate cytoprotective mechanisms and shorten lifespan., Author(s): María José De Rosa [sup.1] , Tania Veuthey [sup.1] , Jeremy Florman [sup.2] , Jeff Grant [sup.2] , María Gabriela Blanco [sup.1] , Natalia Andersen [sup.1] , Jamie Donnelly [...]

In 'Country Transpositions' (WW, Aug 2019) and 'More Country Transpositions' (WW, Nov 2019), Darryl Francis and I attempted to find the best transposals for every country in the world. If [...]

In the last Word Ways (Vol 52, Issue 3, 2019) Darryl Francis and I attempted to find transposals for the names of countries of the world. 'Country Transpositions' exhibits our [...]

JEFF GRANT writes: In 'Mirror Palindromes' in the latest Word Ways, Darryl Francis expands Dmitri Borgmann's concept of 'mirror palindromes' (Language on Vacation, 1965) with new long examples such as [...]

My article 'Transposing Rates' in the November 1987 Word Ways has examples for 63 of the 120 possible transposals of the letters AERST. Further research expanded the collection to 85 [...]

We love transpositions, especially of complete sets of words and names, or nearly complete sets. Word Ways has previously published, amongst others, transpositions of the names of days of the [...]

The FISCALISED ten-square first appeared in the November 2004 Word Ways article 'A Further Modified Ten-Square', and later in 'The Best Ten-Squares' (Word Ways, May 2006). I have recently updated [...]

There are quite a few common 9-letter words pronounced with a single syllable, for instance: SCHLEPPED, SCHMOOZED (or SCHMOOSED), SCRATCHED, SCREECHED, SCROUNGED, SCRUNCHED, SPLOTCHED, SQUELCHED, STRAIGHTS, STRENGTHS, STRETCHED Here are [...]

A Latin square is an n x n array filled with n different symbols each occurring only once in each row and once in each column, like a sudoku puzzle. [...]

Some logological analysis of the seven days of the week and the twelve months of the year has already appeared in Word Ways. In 'A Challenge' (Nov 1975) Dmitri Borgmann [...]

Many words contain a trigram comprising three consecutive letters of the alphabet, the most common being DEF (defeat, defrost, indefinite, etc.) and STU (stubby, astute, gesture, etc.). Alphabetic tetragrams are [...]

A stinky pinky * is defined in Dave Morice's Dictionary of Wordplay (2001) as a two-word rhyming phrase such as flower power. Web3 and Random House give it a more [...]

Darryl Francis's article New Pair Isograms in the February 2012 Word Ways brought back memories from my early days of dabbling with word play. After discovering the beautiful symmetry of [...]

Scrabble players like words that can have a letter hooked at the front or end, because it often allows an otherwise unplayable bingo (bonus word) to be placed on the [...]

Ode to Present the Present PRESENT = HERE. PRESENT = NOW. PRESENT = A GIFT. QED: Here = Now = a Gift!--Anil (1974) The present present we present is an [...]

Near the beginning of Jim Puder's palindromic poem 'The Devil's Dyad' in his article 'Lycanthropus Palindromis' (WW, May 1998), the names Monday, Wednesday and Saturday are used, and in the [...]

Whether you call them repeaters, double-ups, reduplications, or technically, tautonyms, words like FROUFROU, HINAHINA and GUITGUIT are fascinating. From ATLATL to ZOOZOO, and KAVAKAVA to TUCUTUCU, from DIVIDIVI to QUINAQUINA, [...]

My article 'Transposing Rates' in the November 1987 Word Ways has examples for 63 of the 120 possible transposals of the letters AERST. Further research has expanded the collection to [...]

There are lots of palindromic words that start with de- and end -ed. Here are some short ones listed in The Palindromicon II (Jeff Grant and Dan Tilque, Word Ways [...]

Word squares have been around for centuries. I have constructed a few over the years, and admired the efforts of others too. Here are some of my all-time favorite squares, [...]

My article 'Transposing Rates' in the November 1987 Word Ways has examples for 63 of the 120 possible transposals of the letters AERST. Further research has expanded the collection to [...]

It is nearly 85 years since the first ten-square was published. American National Puzzlers' League member Paul M. Bryan (Tunste)exhibited a tautonymic square in the September 1921 Enigma. The example [...]

In the November 1979 issue of Word Ways we exhibited a 2064-point single-move Scrabble score using open sources. This was an improvement on an earlier 2037-point effort devised by Josefa [...]

Nigel Richards of New Zealand won the 9th World Scrabble Championship in Mumbai, India, becoming the ninth different World Champion since the event began in 1991. The fact that no-one [...]

The Antarctic Dictionary, A Complete Guide To Antarctic English by Bernadette Hince was published by CSIRO Publishing, Australia in 2000. This work has been meticulously researched, with more than 15,000 [...]

Palindrome Park is a very special place. It was established by billionaire nature-lover and palindrome fanatic Otto Markram at his retreat near Tassessat in the remote Air Mountains of Morocco. [...]

Nautonyms are words pronounced but not spelt tautologically, like RETREAT (14-106). Susan Thorpe (14-172, 15-169) cited Oxford [OED] to support her candidates KICKY, LILY, NINNY, PIPPY, SISSY and TITTY to [...]

My wife Pat and I first travelled to Perth in Western Australia (WA) to visit our daughter and her husband in 2012. This led to 'Palindromes From Perth' (Word Ways, [...]

In 'A Palindromic Alphabetic Insertion' (WW, Nov 1982), we displayed a set of 3-letter palindromes of the form A-A, covering every combination from AAA, chief signet-bearer in the land of [...]

When I started work at a bank after leaving school, one of the other tellers had the surname CARRINGTON and the manager was Mr WARRINGTON. A few years later I [...]

In the same vein as Tristan Miller's 'Ichthyomithonymy' in the August Word Ways, your challenge is to identify whether the bold type names in the following list of palindromes belong [...]

According to Guinness World Records (2008), the highest single-turn Scrabble score in a real game is 392 points achieved by Karl Khoshnaw (UK) on 11 April 1982 when he played [...]