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Giftedness In Dance: Equitable Audition Procedures & Program Development, Lauren Case Aug 2023

Giftedness In Dance: Equitable Audition Procedures & Program Development, Lauren Case

Masters Theses & Specialist Projects

This study explored the perspectives of dance specialists and gifted and talented resource teachers in a large school district in the southeastern region of the United States. Six educators who teach dance, work in auditioning and identification of gifted and talented dancers, and provide service options for gifted and talented identified dance students were interviewed in this qualitative study which focused on best practices in gifted and talented dance identification. Dance specialists’ perspectives of audition structures and characteristics of dance giftedness were examined. Three themes emerged from interviewees in this field of education: audition structures, opportunities and access of dance …


Ua35/7 Commencement, Wku Gatton Academy Of Mathematics & Science In Kentucky May 2022

Ua35/7 Commencement, Wku Gatton Academy Of Mathematics & Science In Kentucky

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Commencement program listing graduates with order of exercises for Gatton Academy of Mathematics & Science.


Ua35/7 Preparing Students For Infinite Possibilities 2007-2021, Wku Gatton Academy Of Mathematics & Science In Kentucky Jan 2021

Ua35/7 Preparing Students For Infinite Possibilities 2007-2021, Wku Gatton Academy Of Mathematics & Science In Kentucky

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Report of awards, research projects, study abroad opportunities and alumni achievements.

  • Hannah Fugate
  • Naomi Kellogg
  • Niven Achenjang
  • Tyler Jury
  • Paul Hudson
  • Luke Yap
  • Chris Obermeyer
  • Vishnu Tirumala
  • Hannah Pennington
  • Shelby Rader
  • Sarah Schrader
  • Ryan Gott
  • Alex Pena
  • Jenna Ellis
  • Elaine Flynn


Ua35/7 Commencement Program, Wku Gatton Academy Of Mathematics & Science In Kentucky May 2019

Ua35/7 Commencement Program, Wku Gatton Academy Of Mathematics & Science In Kentucky

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Commencement program listing graduates with order of exercises for Gatton Academy of Mathematics & Science.


Ua35/7/3 Gatton Academy Of Mathematics & Science In Kentucky Oral History, Wku Archives Jan 2019

Ua35/7/3 Gatton Academy Of Mathematics & Science In Kentucky Oral History, Wku Archives

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No abstract provided.


Ua35/11 Honors Program, Wku Archives Jan 2013

Ua35/11 Honors Program, Wku Archives

WKU Archives Collection Inventories

Records created by and about the Honors Program. Includes brochures, awards programs, student handbooks, newsletters and research publications.


Ua35/11 Student Honors Research Bulletin, Wku Honors Program Jan 1997

Ua35/11 Student Honors Research Bulletin, Wku Honors Program

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The WKU Student Honors Research Bulletin is dedicated to scholarly involvement and student research. These papers are representative of work done by students from throughout the university.

  • Bullington, Brittany. A History of the Piano Girl and Her Accomplishments: Women and Music in Nineteenth-Century England
  • Ellis, Joseph. The Howl of the Mob: Adapting to Violence in Somalia
  • Farrar, Mary. Expectations of Family Physicians: Perceptions of the Doctor and Patient
  • Freeman, Tracy. Martha Gellhorn: The Hemingway Years
  • Guillory, Anne. The Flemish Mare: Anne of Cleves
  • Jordan, Pat. Marketing a Deadly Addiction to Youths
  • Marx, Sarah. Comic Books: Carnage in Living Color
  • May, …


Ua35/11 Student Honors Research Bulletin, Wku Honors Program Jan 1996

Ua35/11 Student Honors Research Bulletin, Wku Honors Program

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The WKU Student Honors Research Bulletin is dedicated to scholarly involvement and student research. These papers are representative of work done by students from throughout the university.

  • Brooks, Lynnette and Cindy Calisi. The Effect of Selenium Supplementation on the Immune Response of Mice with Experimental Chagas' Disease
  • Hildreth, John. Teasing the Muse
  • Jenkins, Rhonda. Steinbeck's Portraits of Prostitutes: Progression of an Author's Vision
  • Kirkham, Michelle. The Prenatal Use of Crack Cocaine: How It Affects Children and How Schools Can Respond
  • Gibson, Jeanette and Juli McCay. Circadian Rhythm of Brain GABA Levels in the Cockroach, Leucophaea Maderae
  • Patterson, Dana. Home Schooling …


Ua35/11 Student Honors Research Bulletin, Wku Honors Program Jan 1995

Ua35/11 Student Honors Research Bulletin, Wku Honors Program

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The WKU Student Honors Research Bulletin is dedicated to scholarly involvement and student research. These papers are representative of work done by students from throughout the university.

  • Allen, Melody. Women in Control of Courtship in As You Like It, The Merchant of Venice and All's Well That Ends Well
  • Amlani, Islamshah. Electron Stimulated Desorption of Alkali Halides
  • Brillhart, Kelly. Women Without Men: Hemingway's Female Characters
  • Burton, Lori. Financial Statements with Environmental Concerns: An Exploratory Study of the Impact on the Auditor's Role and Responsibilities
  • Combs, Vicki. Dancing the Descent: Energy and Entrophy in William Carlos Williams
  • Davis, Julie. Prelude to …


Ua35/11 Student Honors Research Bulletin, Wku Honors Program Jan 1992

Ua35/11 Student Honors Research Bulletin, Wku Honors Program

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The WKU Student Honors Research Bulletin is dedicated to scholarly involvement and student research. These papers are representative of work done by students from throughout the university.

  • Balyeat, Douglas. Expectations Gap: Where Were the Auditors?
  • Brown, Kaye. Larry McMurtry: Saddle Up or Leave the Old West Behind
  • Fridy, Geraldine. Stephen Crane's Maggie. Another Example of Patriarchal Misogyny?
  • Hazelwood, Shirley and Kay Redfern. Effectiveness of Psychosocial rehabilitation Programs: Do They Make a Difference in the Re-hospitalization of the Mentally Ill?
  • Johnson, Sean. Effects of Time-out as a Procedure to Decrease Maladaptive Behavior
  • Leibering, Elisa, Michelle Nye and LauraLee Wilson. Euthanasia: Legal, …


Ua35/11 Student Honors Research Bulletin, Wku Honors Program Jan 1991

Ua35/11 Student Honors Research Bulletin, Wku Honors Program

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The WKU Student Honors Research Bulletin is dedicated to scholarly involvement and student research. These papers are representative of work done by students from throughout the university.

  • Alkolibi, Fahad. Bowling Green Urban Heat Island
  • Chattin, John. John Grimes' Abandoning of Religion in James Baldwin's Go Tell It on the Mountain
  • Clark, Michelle. Abortion and the Moral Status of the Fetus
  • Garrett, Kristy. The Making of a Serial Killer
  • Lilley, Elizabeth. Is Environmental Recovery Possible in Prince William Sound Following the Alaskan Oil Spill?
  • McMurtry, Brian. Biblical Imagery and Symbols in El Arbol De Oro
  • Metzger, Kim. The Rise and Fall …


Ua12/2/1 College Heights Herald, Vol. 65, No. 39, Wku Student Affairs Feb 1990

Ua12/2/1 College Heights Herald, Vol. 65, No. 39, Wku Student Affairs

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WKU campus newspaper reporting campus, athletic and Bowling Green, Kentucky news. This issue contains articles:

  • Bricking, Tanya. Bill Aims to Rid Regent Selections of Politics
  • Summers, Kaye. University Wants to Look Into Waste Management
  • Kendall, Dale. Juggling Jobs for Ukrainians: Group Prepares for Immigration of 78 Soviets
  • Ausenbaugh, Laura. Loan Default Rate Here Below National Average
  • Play to be Performed Tonight – Theatre & Dance
  • Public Relations Student Society of America Takes Second in National Campaign – PRSSA
  • Franchising Seminar to be Held Thursday
  • Poynter, Chris. Professor Julia Roberts Gets $750,000 Grant
  • Houchens, Gary. College Republicans Gear Up for Re-Election …


Ua35/11 Student Honors Research Bulletin, Wku Honors Program Jan 1989

Ua35/11 Student Honors Research Bulletin, Wku Honors Program

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The WKU Student Honors Research Bulletin is dedicated to scholarly involvement and student research. These papers are representative of work done by students from throughout the university.

  • Coates, Alan. Management's Attitude Toward Collective Bargaining
  • Frew, Becky. The Effects of Personality Type and Social Support on Instances of Job Stress
  • Green, Laura. Earth Sheltered Housing
  • Gregory, Vicky. Fraud and Abuse by Medical Providers in Medicare and Medicaid
  • Hignite, Susan. Japanese Students in Kentucky Classrooms
  • Hodum, Martha. The Mathematically Gifted Child
  • Jones, Rodney. Superman to Censorship: America's Romance with the Comic Book
  • Marrs, Shawn. Romanticism and Unromanticism in Sir Gawain and the …


Ua35/11 Wku Student Honors Research Bulletin, Wku University Honors Program Jan 1988

Ua35/11 Wku Student Honors Research Bulletin, Wku University Honors Program

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The Western Kentucky University Student Honors Research Bulletin is dedicated to scholarly involvement and student research. These papers represent work done by students from throughout the university.

  • Kesselring, Marcia. Attitudes Toward the Need for Computer Literacy
  • Tuck, Janna & Karen Wiggins. Methylation and Confirmation of PGE
  • Lewis, Gloria. John Donne's Attitude Toward Love
  • Johnson, Linda. International Telecommunications Trade with Japan
  • Sharpe, Greg. Precipitation Patterns in Bowling Green, Kentucky, 1980-1985
  • Smith, Sandy. Religion and the Media: Alliance or War?
  • Bell, Suzanne. Early Secret Involvement of the United States Military in Cambodia
  • Scariot, Linda. Parental Divorce and Childhood Emotional Disturbances
  • Daniel, Janice. …


Ua35/11 Student Honors Research Bulletin, Wku Honors Program Jan 1988

Ua35/11 Student Honors Research Bulletin, Wku Honors Program

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The WKU Student Honors Research Bulletin is dedicated to scholarly involvement and student research. These papers are representative of work done by students from throughout the university.

  • Bachert, Sara. Rational Portrayal of the Irrationational in The Pit and the Pendulum
  • Bell, Suzanne. Early Secret Involvement of the United States Military in Cambodia
  • Brock, Beth. The Informal Caregiving System: The Frail Elderlys' Avenue of Choice
  • Daniel, Janice. Child Sexual Abuse
  • Johnson, Linda. International Telecommunications Trade with Japan
  • Jones, LaMont. Ernie Pyle: Journalist Without Peer
  • Kesserling, Marcia. Attitudes Toward the Need for Computer Literacy
  • Lewis, Gloria. John Donne's Attitude Toward Love
  • Majdi, …


Comparative Instructor Attitudes Toward College Level English And Mathematics Experiences For Gifted High School Students, Bruce Vickers May 1987

Comparative Instructor Attitudes Toward College Level English And Mathematics Experiences For Gifted High School Students, Bruce Vickers

Masters Theses & Specialist Projects

Samples derived from a mailed questionnaire were compared. The sample represented high school, community college and university instructors of mathematics and English. The Kentucky public schools sampled were equally represented among high school, community colleges and universities. The research indicated that of those instructors sampled a very high percentage (97.7%) feel that those high school students shown to be academically gifted would benefit from a college experience before high school graduation. The attitudes of those instructors sampled indicated that multiple criteria – grades, recommendations, standardized test scores and personal interview – were considered the preferred method of selection (82.5%). The …


Ua35/11 Student Honors Research Bulletin, Wku Honors Program Jan 1987

Ua35/11 Student Honors Research Bulletin, Wku Honors Program

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The WKU Student Honors Research Bulletin is dedicated to scholarly involvement and student research. These papers are representative of work done by students from throughout the university.

  • Baum, Carole. A Glance at Phenomenology and Its Approach to Literary Criticism, 1987
  • Coble, Terrell. Personality Determinants: Research Results and Implications for Intervention, 1987
  • Crase, Kim. Recent Developments in Products Liability, 1987
  • Flora, Joan. Simms's Frontier Characters, 1987
  • Ford, Doug, David Gray and Nick Nauman. Right-to-Work Laws, 1987
  • Gray, Michael. Through Pontormo's Eyes, 1987
  • Jackson, Jewel. Is Creativity Teachable? 1987
  • Logsdon, Doug. James I as King Lear, 1987
  • Schneringer, Joseph. Weather Stations in …


Ua35/11 Student Honors Research Bulletin, Wku Honors Program Jan 1986

Ua35/11 Student Honors Research Bulletin, Wku Honors Program

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The WKU Student Honors Research Bulletin is dedicated to scholarly involvement and student research. These papers are representative of work done by students from throughout the university.

  • Padilla, Anne. First and Second Language Acquisition: A Comparison
  • Scott, Angela. Salted and Unsalted Snacks: Taste Preferences of Second Grade Students in a Rural Area School
  • Fuqua, Nancy. Acceptance by High School Students of Muffins Containing Supplemental Soy Polysaccharides
  • Mans, Glee. Preference Levels of High School Freshmen for Four Cheese Food Products
  • Denney, Pam. Consumer Acceptance of UHT Choclate Lowfat Milk
  • Harris, Carla. Jacques-Louis David: Raphael of the Sansculottes
  • Vaughn, James. Corporate Reorganization …


Ua35/11 Student Honors Research Bulletin, Wku Honors Program Jan 1985

Ua35/11 Student Honors Research Bulletin, Wku Honors Program

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The WKU Student Honors Research Bulletin is dedicated to scholarly involvement and student research. These papers are representative of work done by students from throughout the university.

  • Whicker, Garth. Agriculture and the Development of Malaysia
  • McGaha. Rape, Passion, Lechery, Usury, Incest, Murder and other Matters in The Ravenger's Tragedy
  • Harrison, Robert. It was a Day of Very General Awakening . . : Reformation and Revival in Russellville, Kentucky
  • King, Betty. An Affirmative Decision for James's Isabel Archer
  • Sutton, Joyce. Sex Bias in Performance of Women
  • Logsdon, Doug. Poe's Women
  • Yoder, Nate. Emily Dickinson and Her Puritan Heritage
  • Davis, Aleen. Jay …


Ua35/11 Student Honors Research Bulletin, Wku Honors Program Jan 1984

Ua35/11 Student Honors Research Bulletin, Wku Honors Program

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The WKU Student Honors Research Bulletin is dedicated to scholarly involvement and student research. These papers are representative of work done by students from throughout the university.

  • Albin, Bettye. Hawthorne's Narrator in the Blithedale Romance: A New Cover for an Old Friend
  • Allen, Christopher. With Just Pride: The Naval History of the Warships USS Enterprise
  • Barrett, Shelly. Structuralism
  • Bolton, Joe. Wallace Stevens and Twentieth Century Aesthetics
  • Bush, Paul. The Acceptance of Grace in Flannery O'Connor's Short Stories
  • Gasparello-Moore, Nina. A Comparison of a Naïve and Simple Regression Forecasting Model for the Dow Jones Industrial Average
  • Henry, Lynn. The Bureaucratic and …


Ua35/11 Student Honors Research Bulletin, Wku Honors Program Jan 1983

Ua35/11 Student Honors Research Bulletin, Wku Honors Program

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The WKU Student Honors Research Bulletin is dedicated to scholarly involvement and student research. These papers are representative of work done by students from throughout the university.

  • Albin, Bettye. John Dryden's Criticism: The Neglected Link
  • Allen, Christopher. Martial Reflections: Ancient Cultures and Their War-Gods
  • Case, Laura. Climatic Preference
  • Deller, Kathy. Regression Analysis: The Effects of Advertising, Price, Income and Import Sales on American-Made Auto Sales
  • Downing, Elizabeth. Dorothy Leigh Sayers: Detective of Literary Theory in The Mind of the Maker
  • Elder, Janice. A Retrospective Study on Discharge Planning and Primiparas at Breckinridge Memorial
  • Flora, Joan. Narcissism and the Need for …


Ua35/11 Student Honors Research Bulletin, Wku Honors Program Jan 1981

Ua35/11 Student Honors Research Bulletin, Wku Honors Program

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The WKU Student Honors Research Bulletin is dedicated to scholarly involvement and student research. These papers are representative of work done by students from throughout the university.

  • Condis, Rebecca. Reconstituted Families: Counseling Concepts and Application
  • Miller, Brad. Does Congress Effectively Regulate the Ethics of its Members?
  • Grizzle, Dennis. Electron Microscopy of Polytrichum Moss Spores
  • Collins, Lynell. Transformational Effects on Cytoskeleton and Cell-Surface Antigens
  • Hamilton, Joy. A Summary of Flaws in Thomas Hardy's Far From the Madding Crowd
  • Martin, Lanna. Sadie F. Price: Artist, Botanist, Author and Naturalist
  • Wood, Irene. The Imagery of Smoke, Fire and Ash: A Study of the …


Ua35/11 Student Honors Bulletin, Wku Honors Program Jan 1980

Ua35/11 Student Honors Bulletin, Wku Honors Program

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Student research papers chosen by each college as best of the academic year.

  • Bolte, William. Use of Government Documents in Small and Medium-Sized Libraries and Future Utilization Prospects
  • Brevit, Valery. Development of the Concepts of Infinity
  • Cook, Ken. KIM-1 Calculator Interface
  • Irwin, Tom. Status Preservation in Three Characteristic Radical Right Groups
  • Logan, Ben. Jungian Psychoanalysis of the Petrarchan Lover
  • Moore, James Jr. Communication Problems and the Families of Schizophrenics
  • Nash, Jeffrey. St. Luke as Historian
  • Porto, Eugenia. In Defense of Camus
  • Roberson, Philip. The Religious Thought of Rabindranath Tagore
  • Wood, Irene. The Them of Incest in Dickens' Hard Times


Ua35/11 Student Honors Research Bulletin, Wku Honors Program Jan 1978

Ua35/11 Student Honors Research Bulletin, Wku Honors Program

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Papers representative of the variety of scholarly research conducted at WKU.

  • Adams, Kathy. The Appalachian Language
  • Barnett, Philip. A Study of Deviant Behavior of XYY Individuals in Regard to Environment and Genotype
  • Bell, Brooks. Loving, Loyal Linda Loman: An Interpretive Note
  • Danhauer, Janice. Motivating Workers Through Job Design
  • Davis, Barbara. The Transformation of a Man into a Man of Understanding in Murinbata Society
  • Davis, Diane. The Argot of the Homosexual
  • Jewell, Teresa. The Life Story of the Hero of World War I - Sergeant Alvin C. York
  • Lanham, Wayne. Das Knarrenschiff and a Ship of Fools: A Study in Influence …


Ua11/1/5 Hilltoppers In The News, Wku University Relations, Skip Church Mar 1974

Ua11/1/5 Hilltoppers In The News, Wku University Relations, Skip Church

WKU Archives Records

Hilltoppers in the News radio program regarding the student fair and science fair.


Ua77/1 Western Alumnus, Vol. 42, No. 3, Wku Alumni Association Apr 1973

Ua77/1 Western Alumnus, Vol. 42, No. 3, Wku Alumni Association

WKU Archives Records

WKU alumni magazine. Features the following articles:

  • Corts, Paul. Western's Honors Program Forges Ahead
  • Gray, David. Students Still Work Their Way
  • Mefford, David & Roy Reynolds. Reaching Out for the Good Student
  • Lawrence, Fred. Nick Rose All American
  • Yeager, Randolph. A Westerner Remembers Harry Truman
  • Scarborough, Clarice. Western Goes to Mexico
  • Dillard, Gary & Rudolph Prins. Western at Tech Aqua
  • Lawrence, Fred. Student Teaching - a la Guatemala
  • Corts, Paul. Theatre Study Goes British
  • Thompson, Kelly. The Most Unforgettable Person I Have Ever Known . . . Henry Cherry
  • Commonwealth in a Capsule - Kentucky Building
  • Adams, Ronald. Teacher Evaluation …


Ua35/11 Student Honors Bulletin, Vol. I, No. 1, Wku Honors Program Jan 1973

Ua35/11 Student Honors Bulletin, Vol. I, No. 1, Wku Honors Program

WKU Archives Records

Articles written by honors program students. They were originally research projects, class papers or essays written for academic credit, but in each case the student has done further work editing and improving his or her manuscript for this publication. The articles represent a broad range of interests and disciplines, and they indicate a healthy attempt on the part of at least some students to dig for deeper knowledge and understanding than is usually associated with undergraduate study.

  • Harris, James. The Trent Affair; Restraint vs. Irresponsibility
  • Massey, Scott. Foolishness
  • Oskins, Doug. Reuse of Sewage as a Potable Water Supply
  • Alvey, Richard. …


Ua64/4 Scrapbook, Wku Human Relations Center Jan 1967

Ua64/4 Scrapbook, Wku Human Relations Center

WKU Archives Records

Scrapbook created by the WKU Human Relations Center regarding the Summer Leadership Institute and other work done during 1966 and 1967.


Ua35/11 Perspectives On Contemporary Man, Wku Honors Program Oct 1965

Ua35/11 Perspectives On Contemporary Man, Wku Honors Program

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Lectures delivered by WKU professors to the Freshman Colloquium in the fall of 1964. The Freshman Honors Colloquium is a special course open only to freshmen students whose test scores, on the battery of tests administered to all entering freshmen, fall in the upper 15% and who graduated in the top quarter of their high school graduating class. The book lists the participants in the colloquium.

Lectures:

  • Bailey, Donald. What is a Man, According to a Biologist?
  • Nash, Ronald. A Philosopher Looks at Man
  • Tachau, Charles. A Theologian Looks at Man
  • Watson, John. A Sociologist Looks at Man
  • Shedd, Charles. …