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Encouraging Students To “Think Like A Scientist” Through Picture Books Designed To Support Research-Based Science Education, Emily Mae Starr

Children's Literature (MA) Theses

The purpose of this thesis was to develop a series of nonfiction picture books, Think Like a Scientist, to help children see themselves as scientists by stepping into the shoes of real-life scientists. Each book in the series focuses on a crosscutting concept (one of the three dimensions of the Next Generation Science Standards) and how three scientists used the concept when making revolutionary discoveries. Novel to the series are strategically spaced questions that encourage readers to interact with the text by engaging in the same thought processes as real scientists. The series is intended support research-based elementary science …

Setting The Field: A Framework For Leadership Success On And Off The Sports Field...And Why It Matters, Mary Semler

Teaching and Learning (MA) Theses

ABSTRACT

Navigating the difficulties of adolescence and young adulthood has been an age-old subject studied in fields like psychology, sociology, biology, and education, to name a few, as well as significantly addressed in literature and other aspects of culture. But, there is an important and often-overlooked area where much can be done to help this age group thrive and go on to become productive and successful adults, good citizens and quality stewards of the world in which they live. It is the participation in athletic-team sports at school.

Because of the hyper-pace of life today resulting from ever-advancing technology, our …

Breaking Barriers: Creating Inclusive Dance Spaces For High School Students With Cerebral Palsy, Samantha Michelle Barnewolt

Dance (MFA) Theses

Abstract This thesis explores the power of positive mindsets as it relates to creative movement development in dance for students living with Cerebral Palsy (CP) who also use motorized wheelchairs. This research dives into the development of movement mantras used to break negative mindsets and create thinking strategies that encourage movement development for varied bodies. As a result of collaborative efforts between the researcher, a student living with CP, and students living without CP, this study reveals that through the removal of mental barriers which complicate the accessibility of intentional movement in dance, students with CP may overcome obstacles that …

Honor Thyself, Alonzo O. Williams

Dance (MFA) Theses

The black male experience and identity in America are filled with complexity. We struggle to know ourselves. We work to see the way of love and the peace of an unviolated free spirit. We want to engage with ourselves with the highest degree of freedom and comfort, not to continue to question our identity in a life-threatening white patriarchal masculinity ideal. Honoring oneself from the lenses of the Reconstruction era of the United States is essential. Reconceptualizing this history explores the significance of emphasizing Reconstruction in my life as a black male to go through a process of self-discovery and …

Creating A Middle School Makerspace In An International Baccalaureate School, Brad White

Liberal Studies (MA) Final Essays

The availability of a makerspace lab is a new initiative at The Academy for Discovery at Lakewood (ADL), a Norfolk City Public School. The academy follows the International Baccalaureate Middle Years Program curriculum. This project gives background on the makerspace movement and details the steps that were taken to design and equip the lab environment, as well as provide teachers with professional development on how the lab can be used to support rigorous course curriculum. This project also includes considerations for further action, including the creation of a student survey regarding opinions on what value the makerspace lab contributes to …

Beginnings, Elizabeth Becker

Dance (MFA) Theses

Researcher Elizabeth Becker uses personal experiences of pregnancy alongside scholarly research on the developmental movement patterns of the human embryo, fetus, and newborn’s first year of life to explore the multiplicity of these movement patterns within and outside the womb. Becker explores the relationship between the fertilization, germinal, embryonic, and fetal stages in relation to a newborn and its mother. These movement patterns within the beginning stages of life are valuable to research because they simulate neurodevelopmental patterns, which help wire the central nervous system in early childhood. These movements also help lay the foundation for sensory-motor development and life-long …

Ann Hopkins Papers., Beth S. Harris

Finding Aids: Guides to the Collections

This is a collection of personal and professional papers related to the Hopkins v. Price Waterhouse (Wash., D.C. Federal District Court) and Price Waterhouse v. Hopkins (U. S. Supreme Court) cases. The final decision capped a seven-year battle against Hopkins’ employer for gender discrimination and her final victory in 1990 helped to expand workplace discrimination laws to include gender stereotyping.

The collection date ranges from 1967-2001 and includes correspondence, court documents, materials related to the book So Ordered: Making Partner the Hard Way (University of Massachusetts Press, c1996), newspaper and periodical publications, photographs, and a scrapbook.

Additional personal correspondence (1965-1989) …

Sustainability Literacy In French Literature And Film: From Solitary Reveries To Treks Across Deserts, Annette Sampon-Nicolas

French Faculty Scholarship

This essay explores the imperative to embrace a new model of education that will engage students in learning about the interconnectedness of our multi species world, sustainability, and global solidarity -- the belief "that unity of humankind can be established on the basis of some basic or core human values" (Korab-Karpowicz 305). Foreign language courses -- in particular advanced-level offerings that address literacy, critical thinking, and cultural comparisons -- are ideal settings for educating for sustainability literacy. Such literacy is essential to our collective twenty-first-century global identity, but it requires transformative educational practices. As we design foreign language courses, we …

Julia Randall Papers, Beth S. Harris, Megan Stolz

Finding Aids: Guides to the Collections

This collection has manuscripts, teaching papers, and correspondence of poet Julia Randall. The correspondence include letters to or from colleagues, alumnae, and friends.

Sabbatical As Sacred Time: Contemplative Practice And Meaning In The Neoliberal Academy, Leeray M. Costa

Gender & Women’s Studies Faculty Scholarship

What if we considered the sabbatical as a sacred time for renewal and wholeness? How might this understanding of sabbatical change the way we see ourselves as teachers, scholars, and human beings? How might it shape the way we approach our teaching and scholarship in more creative, holistic, and meaningful ways? And what implications might the idea of sabbatical as sacred time and as contemplative practice have for how we as faculty negotiate the challenges of the contemporary neoliberal academy? These are some of the questions I explore in this essay.

How First Generation Students Acclimate To The College Campus, Emani Richmond

Communication Studies Student Scholarship

This population of first-generation students is ripe for study because of their growing prominence on college campuses across the nation. The existing literature on FGS takes a more specific approach through looking at individual measures that are taken to support FGS such as the role of “academic self-concept,” how FGS negotiate the multiple identities they represent while in college, and how to retain students from low-income backgrounds (DeFreitas & Rinn, 2013; Orbe, 2004; Thayer, 2000). These studies are valuable because they bring information to the people that support FGS in assisting support staff with the understanding of their unique hurdles …

Charles Lewis Cocke Papers, Beth S. Harris

Finding Aids: Guides to the Collections

Personal and professional papers of Charles Lewis Cocke, educator, founder and first president of Hollins University, and Baptist layman.

Darlings In Love: A History Of Romance Between Women At Hollins In The Early 20th Century, Antonia Nagle

Hollins Student Conference (2012-2016)

This paper and accompanying sources hope to provide a detailed examination of the world of darlings at Hollins between the years 1900 and 1921, using primary sources gathered from The Spinster, the college’s yearbook. As a small, single-sex institution established in 1842, Hollins has a history of romantic relationships between students. Students who participated in these relationships between the years of 1900 and 1921 were called “darlings.” These same-sex relationships flourished at Hollins in the early 20th century and were a well-known and accepted part of life at Hollins. For this study, over a hundred primary sources were gathered …

The Cyborg Griffin: A Speculative Fiction Literary Journal, Hollins University

Cyborg Griffin: a Speculative Fiction Literary Journal

Notes:

copyrighted

Hollins Student Publication

Scope: short stories, artwork, poetry, essays, and comics

Paper copies shelved in University Archives.

The Cyborg Griffin: A Speculative Literary Journal, Hollins University

Cyborg Griffin: a Speculative Fiction Literary Journal

Notes:

copyrighted

Hollins Student Publication

Scope: short stories, artwork, poetry, essays, and comics

Paper copies shelved in University Archives.

Higher Education, Higher Costs: An Income-Contingent Approach, Catherine Hensly

Undergraduate Research Awards

An examination of different methods of paying for higher education with an emphasis on an income-contingent approach. The paper applies this method to a real-world institution, Radford University in Virginia. The limitations of this method and gender disparities in higher education are also considered. The author's entry essay for the 2014 Undergraduate Research Awards is included.

The Cyborg Griffin: A Speculative Fiction Literary Journal, Hollins University

Cyborg Griffin: a Speculative Fiction Literary Journal

Notes:

copyrighted

Hollins Student Publication

Scope: short stories, artwork, poetry, essays, and comics

Paper copies shelved in University Archives.

The Cyborg Griffin: A Speculative Fiction Literary Journal, Hollins University

Cyborg Griffin: a Speculative Fiction Literary Journal

Notes:

copyrighted

Hollins Student Publication

Scope: short stories, artwork, poetry, essays, and comics

Paper copies shelved in University Archives.

John Rutherford Everett, Beth S. Harris

Articles about Hollins and Special Collections

Biographical article on Hollins University's fourth president, John "Jack" Everett (1950-1961).

The Cyborg Griffin: A Speculative Fiction Literary Journal, Hollins University

Cyborg Griffin: a Speculative Fiction Literary Journal

Notes:

copyrighted

Hollins Student Publication

Scope: short stories, artwork, poetry, essays, and comics

Paper copies shelved in University Archives.

The Spinster (2010), Hollins University

The Spinster

Yearbook of Hollins University (previously College)

The Spinster (2009), Hollins University

The Spinster

Yearbook of Hollins University (previously College)

Hollins Columns (2007 May 2), Hollins College

Hollins Student Newspapers

Table of Contents:

• Campus security responds to tragedy
• Temporary appointments fill empty SGA positions
• QEP and SSLs: The ABCs of first year seminars
• Examples of QEP Seminars
• Hollins Students take a voluntary vow of silence
• Indie folk artist performs at Hollins
• Students frustrated with new email system
• Library extends hour for exams
• Spring 2007 exam schedule
• Hollins Alumni reappropriates porn
• Virginia tech victims are remembered
• Students question gun control policies
• Shapiro: A pretty good band
• Quality TV comes from "Mars"
• Media behavior shameful
• Columns Comic:
• Tennis team finished 3rd in ODAC
• In-House show offers friendly competition
• Fitness tips
• Hollins names …

Hollins Columns (2007 Apr 16), Hollins College

Hollins Student Newspapers

Table of Contents:

• Hollins elects new SGA officials
• Hollins riding places first in region, third at zone
• "Balanced Way" program offers healthy options
• Hollins golf team finished season
• "Smashed" author speaks to campus
• Renovations approved; said to start summer 2007
• Hollins professor receives George Garrett Award
• Students Participate in creating graffiti art
• Lee Smith: A true Hollins woman
• Green and gold go after the bra
• Hollins students venture "Into the Woods"
• SRLA Penny War Raises Money for SOS Fund
• A Night Out With the Drag Kings and Queens
• Porterdavis rocks our stacks
• Kurt Vonnegut: Unstuck in time at 84
• Fight …

Hollins Columns (2007 Apr 1), Hollins College

Hollins Student Newspapers

Table of Contents:

• Mrs. Degree teaches homemaking skills
• Hollins prepared for terrorist attacks
• Golf team sports Loch Ness Monster in pond
• Hollins students strip tease to success
• Out with Sodexho, in with Food Network Chefs
• Campus takes up cause to free Spears and Lohan
• 50% of Olsen Twins admitted to Hollins
• The gavel shares his life story
• "300" film embraced by Republican party
• This spring: Fugly is the New Black
• The straight and narrow path
• Columns Comic: Smokers vs. Capt Squirell
• Hollins wins Division III basketball title
• Fitness tips for bikini season

Hollins Columns (2007 Mar 13), Hollins College

Hollins Student Newspapers

Table of Contents:

• Grapheon presents 74th annual lit. fest
• Stables prevent spread of equine herpes
• Wilson Museum presents Godey's Lady's Book
• Students lend a helping hand in Lucea
• Housing Sign-ups Spring 2007
• Richard Rudolph conducts a new tune
• For students, Mrs. Dee means breakfast
• FBI Profiler speaks at Hollins
• OUTLoud sponsors drag king event
• Fans excited about "the Neon Bible"
• No excuse for smoking
• Hollins Comic: Critters vs. Smokers Part 1
• Varsity Tennis off to a promising start
• Lacrosse welcomes new members
• Fitness tips

Hollins Columns (2007 Feb 26), Hollins College

Hollins Student Newspapers

Table of Contents:

• O'Toole acquitted of misdemeanor charges
• "Vagina Monologues" takes center stage
• Spinster staff prepares for book's release
• Wasserstein Festival held at Hollins
• Vaccine mandate under security
• Travelogues
• What's new in the study abroad programs?
• From Greece
• Share participates in service project
• Poet Brian Henry visits campus
• Hollins Columns: The new regime
• Staff Spring 2007
• Hollins Comic: Another night in Tinker
• Basketball team ends season
• Swim team exceeds expectations
• Fitness tips

Hollins Columns (2006 Dec 6), Hollins College

Hollins Student Newspapers

Table of Contents:

• Faculty approves leadership program
• HUTV prepares for spring launch
• Women discuss careers in male-dominated fields
• Students debate faculty involvement in senate
• Safety tips for the holidays
• Class, students raise environmental awareness
• Students underrepresented at polls
• "The Queen" examines British politics
• Indie artist releases new EP
• Hollins Columns Manifesto
• Letter to the Editor: Message to Seniors
• Support the Basketball Team this January

Hollins Columns (2006 Nov 13), Hollins College

Hollins Student Newspapers

Table of Contents:

• Dining services address student concerns
• HPV Vaccinations available on campus
• J-Term offers new opportunities
• SGA offers student endowment
• Campus Construction
• Students speak against marriage amendment
• Curious critters cause stir on campus
• Hollins Alum leads sex discussion
• Riders focus on teamwork, skills
• Local Columnist visits class
• Intercultural center reaches out to community
• Fall Formal Enchants
• "The Prestige" creates bigscreen magic
• Virginia Coalition promote new album in Roanoke
• 7 fun ideas for bored first-years
• Join the Hollins Columns Staff for Spring '07

Hollins Columns (2006 Oct 30), Hollins College

Hollins Student Newspapers

Table of Contents:

• Looking back on Tinker Day celebrations
• Music department recovers from growing pains
• Burglaries on campus raise security concerns
• Career Development Center
• Visiting professors find a home on campus
• Ring Night tradition prevails
• "Place of Stones": Discovering the burren
• Fall formal plans to enchant students
• "Uncommon Women" hits the stage
• My Chemical Romance reinvent themselves in new CD
• Police and Mafia Clash in "The Departed"
• Hollins Columns seek Fresh Meat
• Correction: Student sets record straight