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A Quantitative Analysis Of Pre-Service Teachers Beliefs Towards Implementing Multicultural Curriculum, Camila Basterrechea

Undergraduate Research at FIU (URFIU) Conference

While the number of individuals that pursue a higher education degree has increased, white students still makeup the majority of students with 58%, while blacks make up 15%, Hispanics 17%, Asian/Pacific 7%, and American Indian/Alaskan at .8% (NCES, 2018). One possible means to bridge this racial gap, is to utilize multicultural curriculum. Multicultural education is an idea, movement, and process that is designed to increase educational quality for all students (Banks, 1995). Implementing multicultural curriculum in the classroom allows student to connect the content with their lives. This method of inclusive teaching increases student engagement and interest by providing them …

Democratizing Science Communication Training Access For Stem Graduate Students, Idarabasi Akpan

Undergraduate Research at FIU (URFIU) Conference

INTRODUCTION: STEM graduate students are the future of science communication and will serve as science ambassadors. Increasingly, communicating science to the public is recognized as the responsibility of professional scientists; however, these skills are not always included in graduate training. This study provides a comprehensive analysis of what science communication training is like from the point of view of today’s STEM graduate students. METHODS AND DATA SET: A survey was distributed across the US in 2018. We received 143 complete responses from STEM graduate students in 24 states, two US territories, and three international locations. We have a gender ratio …

Toxic Masculinity Explication: A Youtube Analysis, Emily Boulos

Undergraduate Research at FIU (URFIU) Conference

Toxic masculinity is the phenomenon in which boys and men are expected to behave according to strict norms, severely restricting their ability to express their full range of emotions (Liu, 2016). Toxic masculinity, specifically men’s emotional suppression, can reinforce rape culture, misogyny, and homophobia (Banet-Weisler & Miltner, 2015). Our goal with this project is to explicate toxic masculinity by analyzing social media.

We decided to study YouTube comments. We established criteria for selecting videos which we believed would have comments displaying toxic masculinity. The videos were from mainstream sources, published recently, and about topics likely to elicit discussions about topic …

Leadership Reputation In Latin America, Mauricio Zuluaga Salas

Undergraduate Research at FIU (URFIU) Conference

Corporate leadership reputation can determine the success or failure of any company. The way a company’s workers, stockholders, and stakeholders view its leadership will determine to what level a company can advance in its specific industry. However, our knowledge of the factors that assist company leaders in developing their reputations is limited. Moreover, factors that impact leadership reputations may occur at different levels of analysis, aside from characteristics of leaders themselves. To address these issues, this study tries to determine how different factors at the individual-, company-, and country-levels actually affect corporate leadership reputation. We intend to examine factors such …

The Nexus Of Gender Equality And State Fragility, Eva Colon

Undergraduate Research at FIU (URFIU) Conference

State fragile is a current epidemic in the global world. Although modern development attempts to intervene, the developing world struggles with state failures and state collapse. The objective is to explore past and current strategies used in fragile states to strengthen elements that make up state capacity such as economic development and rule of law. Nevertheless, a substantial part of the research also aims to discover whether these strategies are effective in the context of facilitating the creation of gender equality. Several states classified as fragile tend to be detrimental to Women’s rights. As a result, I will probe how …

Hispanic College Women’S Perceptions Of Appropriate Sexual Initiation Communication Strategies With Men, Karina Valentin

Undergraduate Research at FIU (URFIU) Conference

Research on sexual activity in college students focuses on the initial sexual cues both men and women use during sexual intercourse. While these initiations can overlap in both genders, less research has focused on how these perceptions vary by racial or ethnic minorities. The current study uses qualitative methods to interview 36 Hispanic women to find their perceptions and opinions on sexual initiation. Some broad themes were uncovered on Hispanic college women’s perceptions of (1) when sexual activity should be initiated by the man; (2) which behaviors are appropriate for men to use when initiating sex; (3) how religious beliefs …

Abstract, Michelle Chang

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Emotion regulation plays an essential role in an individual’s well being. Recent research on regulation of positive emotions has linked savoring to better mental health outcomes, such as fewer depressive symptoms. In light of gender difference in depression, the current study aimed to examine the degree to which a certain savoring strategy (i.e., positive mental time travel) influences depression, and whether gender plays a role in this association. In this study, the sample size consisted of 546 college students (135 males; 411 females) who completed online questionnaires about their reactions to different emotional situations and their depressive symptoms. Our results …

Conference For Undergraduate Research At Fiu 2019 Full Program, Florida International University

Undergraduate Research at FIU (URFIU) Conference

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Group And Child–Family Migration From Central America To The United States: Forced Child–Familyseparation, Reunification, And Pseudo Adoption Inthe Era Of Globalization, Carmen Monico, Jovani Mendez-Sandoval

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Intercountry adoption from Latin America became a sizable, “quiet” migration to the U.S., as evident in its historical evolution from El Salvador, Guatemala, and Honduras. The recent migration of unaccompanied minors and families traveling with children from these case countries has been characterized by child–family separation, prolonged detention and institutionalization of children, and adoption through various means. This study has been concerned with how both trends became intertwined in the era of globalization. To address this question, the authors examined intercountry adoption literature and migration-related briefs, legal claims, and news reports. The study suggests that internationally recognized child rights have …

Inequalities In Life Expectancy In Six Large Latin American Cities From The Salurbal Study, An Ecological Analysis, Usama Bilal, Marcio Alazraqui, Waleska T. Caiaffa, Nancy Lopez-Olmedo, Kevin Martinez-Folgar, J Jaime Miranda, Alejandra Vives, Ana V. Diez-Roux

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"Latin America is one of the most unequal regions in the world, but evidence is lacking on the magnitude of health inequalities in urban areas of the region. Our objective was to examine inequalities in life expectancy in six large Latin American cities and its association with a measure of area-level socioeconomic status."

The Shift Of Obesity Burden By Socioeconomic Status Between 1998 And 2017 In Latin American And The Caribbean: A Cross-Sectional Series Study, Safia S. Jiwani, Rodrigo M. Carrillo-Larco, Akram Hernandez-Vasquez, Tonatiuh Barrientos-Gutierrez, Ana Basto-Abreu, Laura Gutierrez, Vilma Irazola, Ramfis Nieto-Martinez, Bruno P. Nunes, Diana C. Parra

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"The burden of obesity differs by socioeconomic status. We aimed to characterise the prevalence of obesity among adult men and women in Latin America and the Caribbean by socioeconomic measures and the shifting obesity burden over time."

The Oversecuritization Of Global Health: Changing The Terms Of Debate, Clare Wenham

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Linking health and security has become a mainstream approach to health policy issues over the past two decades. So much so that the discourse of global Health has become close to synonymous with global health, their meanings being considered almost interchangeable. While the debates surrounding the health–security nexus vary in levels of analysis from the global to the national to the individual, this article argues that the consideration of health as a security issue, and the ensuing path dependencies, have shifted in three ways. First, the concept has been broadened to the extent that a multitude of health issues (and …

Global Corruption Baromoter Latin America & The Caribbean 2019: Citizens' Views And Experiences Of Corruption, Coralie Pring, Jon Vrushi

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"In the last five years, momentum has been building against corruption in Latin America and the Caribbean. High-level politicians were found guilty of corruption in Guatemala and Brazil, and a wave of legal action against the perpetrators of grand corruption swept across the continent, including the Lava Jato investigation, or “Operation Car Wash”, in Brazil. This presents a real opportunity for anti-corruption in the region. However, this 10th edition of the Global Corruption Barometer – Latin America and the Caribbean shows that most citizens think their governments are not doing enough to tackle corruption and that corruption levels have increased …

Mortality In Rohingya Refugee Camps In Bangladesh: Historical, Social, And Political Context, Parveen K. Parmar, Rowen O. Jin, Meredith Walsh, Jennifer Scott

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Fifty-two maternal deaths occurred between September 2017 and August 2018 in the Rohingya refugee camps in Ukhia and Teknaf Upazilas, Cox's Bazar District, Bangladesh. Behind every one of these lives lost is a complex narrative of historical, social, and political forces, which provide an important context for reproductive health programming in Rohingya camps. Rohingya women and girls have experienced human rights violations in Myanmar for decades, including government-sponsored sexual violence and population control efforts. An extension of nationalist, anti-Rohingya policies, the attacks of 2017 resulted in the rape and murder of an unknown number of women. The socio-cultural context among …