Two projects designed to improve the quality, scope and/or efficiency of programs at William & Mary were made possible this semester with support from the provost’s Creative Adaptation Fund.. Her advisor and seminar faculty was Dorothy E. Johnson who was writing and 2013. While younger students typically participate in creative art within the classroom, most school age students take advantage of this time for an inclusive opportunity with typically developing peers. Creative Adaptations: Making Glass in Eighteenth-Century Peterstal and Wistarburg. Adaptations and History George V. Lauder, Armand M. Leroi and Michael R. Rose The historical definition of adaptations has come into wide use as comparative biol- ogists have applied methods of phylogen- etic analysis to a variety of evolutionary problems. Before the European “way of war” emerged in the sixteenth cen- the relationship between sensory adaptation and negative adaptation? Four members of the W&M Neurodiversity Working Group, which is leading that project, are pictured here (left to right): Cheryl Dickter, Karin Wulf, Josh Burk and Janice Zeman. Why adaptation to the challenges of war has proven difficult is the result of a num-ber of complex factors. Here we point out a number of difficulties in applying historical methods In A Theory of Adaptation, Linda Hutcheon posits a theory of analyzing “adaptations as adaptations” that provides an answer to the question: how can adaptations be theorized without resorting to fidelity discourse? 2011 BHC Meeting. Print. Why is the Harlem Renaissance of major importance in American History? Organisms are adapted to their environments in a variety of ways, such as in their structure, physiology, and genetics. 2nd Ed. Adaptation, in biology, the process by which a species becomes fitted to its environment; it is the result of natural selection’s acting upon heritable variation over several generations. Hutcheon, Linda. The first adaptation of Charles Portis’s novel starred John Wayne and while noted for its excellence as a film, it certainly toned down the violent imagery and brutality in the book. New York: Routledge. Creative Adaptation Four projects at W&M received support from the provost's Creative Adaptation Fund this year, including one that is focused on the development of a neurodiversity curriculum for the W&M Washington Office. About the Author Laurence Raw has published extensively in the field of film adaptations and performance. In 1738, Caspar Wistar, an immigrant from the Palatinate, founded the United Glass Company at Wistarburg, New Jersey. The Roy Adaptation Model History The Roy Adaptation Model for Nursing had its beginning when Sr. Callista Roy entered the masters program in pediatric nursing at University of California Los Angeles in 1964. There are relatively easy adaptations to the creative art activities to make them accessible to students who are blind or visually impaired. Rosalind J. Beiler. A Theory of Adaptation. Ironically, for much of history adaptation has rarely been a part of the military equation. Adaptations often sit within cycles associated with a particular time and place, as with the heritage film in Britain in the 1980s, or the cycle of Jane Austen adaptations in the late 1990s (see cycle). With contributions from a variety of specialists in media studies, literature, history and anthropology, this book breaks new ground in adaptation studies. Much of the critical discourse around creative adaptations of history, which might include anything from films set in the past to historical novels or a web-series like Oh Hi There History, relates to how closely these texts mirror historians’ findings and methods of analysis.