Wmu Essential Studies Program: Creating Awareness For The New Required Curriculum,
2020
Western Michigan University
Wmu Essential Studies Program: Creating Awareness For The New Required Curriculum, Catherine Lemus
Honors Theses
In the Fall semester of 2020, the WMU Essential Studies (WES) Program officially launched. This new program replaces the previous WMU General Education curriculum which was over 30 years old with curriculum concepts over 100 years old. While the WES program was not allocated any financial or human resources by Western Michigan University as its inception, it required assistance in creating messaging and content to help educate multiple audiences including current and prospective students, WMU faculty, WMU staff, and local community members. Catherine Lemus stepped in the role of WES Strategy and Marketing Assistant with the guidance of Prof. Greg …
2020-December-09-University High Romps In Win Over Kachea,
2020
East Tennessee State University
2020-December-09-University High Romps In Win Over Kachea, University School, East Tennessee State University, University Marketing And Communication, East Tennessee State University
ETSU News
No abstract provided.
2020-December-09-Renaissance Child Winter Enrichment,
2020
East Tennessee State University
2020-December-09-Renaissance Child Winter Enrichment, University Marketing And Communication, East Tennessee State University
ETSU News
JOHNSON CITY (Dec. 9, 2020) – Children in grades K-6 are invited to attend the Renaissance Child Winter Enrichment program at East Tennessee State University from Monday-Wednesday, Dec. 21-23.
This three-day STEM (science, technology, engineering and mathematics) experience, hosted by the ETSU Office of Professional Development, includes a field trip to the ETSU Planetarium with an emphasis on the winter sky and space.
Counselors have planned a variety of holiday arts and crafts, games and winter fun enrichment activities for campers, with outdoor play included as weather allows.
Campers may be dropped off at Sam Wilson Hall at 8 a.m. …
Remote Careers And Entertainment: The Shift From Gaming Console Entertainment To Pc Capabilities,
2020
Western Michigan University
Remote Careers And Entertainment: The Shift From Gaming Console Entertainment To Pc Capabilities, Jacob Sanderson
Honors Theses
This study arose from a conversation with my roommate about the state of the gaming industry in terms of devices on which consumers play. We perceived a shift in our attitudes towards gaming PCs due to Covid-19 and other aspects. I wondered if this affected a wider population. If this change in attitude was widespread, it would affect different companies in the gaming industry as well and would alter consumer behavior related to large purchases in the gaming industry.
To examine these issues, I conducted five in depth interviews and administered a survey developed through Qualtrics to two WMU business …
2020-December-08-Intersection Of Covid-19 And Substance Use Disorders,
2020
East Tennessee State University
2020-December-08-Intersection Of Covid-19 And Substance Use Disorders, University Marketing And Communication, East Tennessee State University
ETSU News
Kate Beatty and Michael Meit
JOHNSON CITY (Dec. 8, 2020) – Dr. Kate Beatty and Michael Meit, faculty in the East Tennessee State University College of Public Health’s Center for Rural Health Research, have co-authored an article in the Journal of Appalachian Health.
The article, “Rural Appalachia Battling the Intersection of Two Crises: COVID-19 and Substance Use Disorders,” discusses rural Appalachia’s great risk of unforeseen side effects of the COVID-19 pandemic, including increased mortality from substance use disorders.
Dr. Margaret Miller, alumna of East Tennessee State University’s MD/MPH program, is lead author of the article. Dr. Rebekah …
2020-December-08-New Clemmer College Dean,
2020
East Tennessee State University
2020-December-08-New Clemmer College Dean, University Marketing And Communication, East Tennessee State University
ETSU News
JOHNSON CITY – (Dec. 8, 2020) Following a national search, Dr. Janna Scarborough has been named dean of the Clemmer College at East Tennessee State University.
Scarborough joined the ETSU faculty in 2006 and has served as interim dean for the past 20 months. For six years, she served as chair of the Department of Counseling and Human Services and also held an associate dean appointment in the Clemmer College before assuming the interim deanship in March 2019.
Last year, she spent a semester as a Presidential Fellow working closely with President Brian Noland and the ETSU senior administration team. …
2020-December-07-Bailey Davis To Become First Graduate Of Rehabilitative Health Sciences Major,
2020
East Tennessee State University
2020-December-07-Bailey Davis To Become First Graduate Of Rehabilitative Health Sciences Major, University Marketing And Communication, East Tennessee State University
ETSU News
h2 class=""> Bailey Davis A native of Crossville, Tennessee, Davis will become ETSU's first student to complete the RHSC-BS major.
JOHNSON CITY (Dec. 7, 2020) – When Bailey Davis graduates on Dec. 12, 2020, she will become the first East Tennessee State University student to complete a bachelor of science in the new rehabilitative health sciences major.
Davis, a native of Crossville, Tennessee, came to ETSU knowing she wanted to become an occupational therapist. But when she entered as a freshman, the rehabilitative health sciences major, B.S. (RHSC-BS), which is designed to prepare students for a variety of health-related professions, …
2020-December-04-Fall 2020 Virtual Commencement,
2020
East Tennessee State University
2020-December-04-Fall 2020 Virtual Commencement, University Marketing And Communication, East Tennessee State University
ETSU News
JOHNSON CITY (Dec. 4, 2020) – East Tennessee State University will host a virtual Commencement Ceremony for the Class of 2020 on Saturday, Dec. 12.
This ceremony honoring the university’s August and December graduates will be streamed live beginning at 10 a.m. at etsu.edu/classof2020. For a more personalized experience, graduates and their families and friends will select and stream a specific ceremony for their college or academic program. Viewers may also stream the ceremony and arrange a watch party on the ETSU Facebook page (facebook.com/easttennesseestateuniversity).
In addition, WCYB-TV 5 will broadcast the virtual Commencement Ceremony at 12:30 …
2020-December-03-Two German Companies Join Innovation Labs Soft Landings Program,
2020
East Tennessee State University
2020-December-03-Two German Companies Join Innovation Labs Soft Landings Program, University Marketing And Communication, East Tennessee State University
ETSU News
JOHNSON CITY (Dec. 3, 2020) – Two companies based in Germany, senswork Inc. and Steel Service Krefeld, USA, are receiving an accelerated introduction to United States business practices, regulations, and culture through the Soft Landings Designation held by the East Tennessee State University Innovation Lab.
Since 2015, the Innovation Lab, a high-tech business incubator located at 2109 W. Market St., has been a member of the International Business Innovation Association’s (InBIA) Soft Landings network that offers support for businesses entering or expanding into a new country. Soft Landings designees help companies make contacts in a new country more quickly …
2020-December-03-Uh's Kaleb Meredith In The News,
2020
East Tennessee State University
2020-December-03-Uh's Kaleb Meredith In The News, University School, East Tennessee State University, University Marketing And Communication, East Tennessee State University
ETSU News
No abstract provided.
2020-December-03-Student Pharmacist Earns American Indian Graduate Center Scholarship,
2020
East Tennessee State University
2020-December-03-Student Pharmacist Earns American Indian Graduate Center Scholarship, University Marketing And Communication, East Tennessee State University
ETSU News
JOHNSON CITY (Dec. 2, 2020) – East Tennessee State University Bill Gatton College of Pharmacy student pharmacist Chandler Parton (’22), of Fall Branch, Tennessee, has earned a prestigious, merit-based scholarship from the American Indian Graduate Center. He is a member of the Choctaw Nation of Oklahoma Tribe.
This is the second year in a row Parton has earned the $20,000 Science Post Graduate Scholarship from the American Indian Graduate Center.
The scholarship provides financial assistance to eligible American Indian and Alaska Native undergraduate, graduate and professional degree candidates to promote science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) research in and opportunities …
Flexible And Family-Friendly Policies At Utah's "Best Places To Work",
2020
Utah Women & Leadership Project
Flexible And Family-Friendly Policies At Utah's "Best Places To Work", Robbyn T. Scribner, Michelle Vargas, Susan R. Madsen
Marketing and Strategy Faculty Publications
The COVID-19 pandemic that reached Utah in March of 2020 has had an enormous impact on the way companies do business. Perhaps the biggest change for employees came in the widespread shift to remote work as a public health measure, but many companies adjusted work practices and policies in other ways to support their employees during a challenging time. Many changes focus on flexibility and family-friendly policies, which have traditionally been a double-edged sword for working women. Though such offerings have made it possible for some mothers to remain in the workforce, taking advantage of such programs has often placed …
Flexible And Family-Friendly Policies At Utah’S “Best Places To Work”,
2020
Utah Women Leadership Program
Flexible And Family-Friendly Policies At Utah’S “Best Places To Work”, Robbyn Scribner, Michelle Vargas, Susan R. Madsen
Marketing and Strategy Faculty Publications
The COVID-19 pandemic that reached Utah in March of 2020 has had an enormous impact on the way companies do business. Perhaps the biggest change for employees came in the widespread shift to remote work as a public health measure, but many companies adjusted work practices and policies in other ways to support their employees during a challenging time. Many changes focus on flexibility and family-friendly policies, which have traditionally been a double-edged sword for working women. Though such offerings have made it possible for some mothers to remain in the workforce, taking advantage of such programs has often placed …
2020-December-02-2020 3mt Winners,
2020
East Tennessee State University
2020-December-02-2020 3mt Winners, University Marketing And Communication, East Tennessee State University
ETSU News
JOHNSON CITY (Dec. 2, 2020) – Doctoral student Sharon Bigger won East Tennessee State University’s recent 2020 3 Minute Thesis (3MT®) Competition with a presentation on “Advance Care Planning Protocols and Hospitalization, Rehospitalization, and Emergency Department Use in Home Health.”
Sharon Bigger
Doctoral nursing student Sharon Bigger of Asheville, North Carolina, is studying advance care planning in home health and its relationship with acute care services utilization.This competition, created at the University of Queensland, Australia, provides graduate students the opportunity to develop professional presentation and research communication skills. Participants distill lengthy, complex projects into engaging, three-minute presentations designed for …
2020-December-02-Dr Jonathan Moorman Receives Va Grant To Study Covid-19,
2020
East Tennessee State University
2020-December-02-Dr Jonathan Moorman Receives Va Grant To Study Covid-19, University Marketing And Communication, East Tennessee State University
ETSU News
JOHNSON CITY (Dec. 2, 2020) – Dr. Jonathan Moorman of East Tennessee State University was recently awarded a $330,000 Biomedical Laboratory Research and Development Merit Review Award by the Department of Veterans Affairs to study immune responses to COVID-19.
The project, “Characterizing trained immune responses to COVID-19,” was one of 18 funded studies awarded from a pool of 104 applications received from VA Medical Centers across the country.
“The new project’s goals are to determine the importance of innate immune responses in responding to repeat exposure to viral antigens following COVID-19 recovery and identify ‘trained’ innate immune memory responses to …
2020-December-02-Duncan Serving On Nasem,
2020
East Tennessee State University
2020-December-02-Duncan Serving On Nasem, University Marketing And Communication, East Tennessee State University
ETSU News
JOHNSON CITY – (Dec. 2, 2020) Dr. William Duncan, vice provost for research at East Tennessee State University, has been named by the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine (NASEM) to its committee on Assessment of NIH Research on Autoimmune Diseases.
He and the other committee members have been charged with providing a general overview of epidemiologic trends in autoimmune diseases, with particular focus on the research efforts by the National Institutes of Health. They will be closely examining the NIH research portfolio with particular attention to issues such as risk factors, diagnostic tools, barriers to diagnoses, treatments and …
2020-December-02-Student Pharmacist Earns American Indian Graduate Center Scholarship,
2020
East Tennessee State University
2020-December-02-Student Pharmacist Earns American Indian Graduate Center Scholarship, Bill Gatton College Of Pharmacy, East Tennessee State University, University Marketing And Communication, East Tennessee State University
ETSU News
JOHNSON CITY (December 2, 2020) – East Tennessee State University Bill Gatton College of Pharmacy student pharmacist Chandler Parton (’22), of Fall Branch, Tennessee, has earned a prestigious, merit-based scholarship from the American Indian Graduate Center. He is a member of the Choctaw Nation of Oklahoma Tribe.
This is the second year in a row Parton has earned the $20,000 Science Post Graduate Scholarship from the American Indian Graduate Center.
The scholarship provides financial assistance to eligible American Indian and Alaska Native undergraduate, graduate and professional degree candidates to promote science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) research in and opportunities …
Influence Of Convenience, Time-Savings, Price, And Product Variety On Amazon Prime Members And Non-Prime Shoppers’ Online Apparel Purchase Intention,
2020
University of Nebraska-Lincoln
Influence Of Convenience, Time-Savings, Price, And Product Variety On Amazon Prime Members And Non-Prime Shoppers’ Online Apparel Purchase Intention, Md Rashaduzzaman
Department of Textiles, Merchandising and Fashion Design: Dissertations, Theses, and Student Research
The number of internet users and online shoppers in the United States has grown at an incredible rate over the past few decades. Greater convenience and availability of a wide assortment of apparel products at a cheaper price made online shopping very enticing to consumers. Amazon.com (Amazon) gained unprecedented popularity among consumers with its Amazon Prime program. Amazon’s retail revolutions changed consumer’s way of shopping and expectations. Both online and physical store retailers are facing tremendous pressure to fulfill that level of expectation. Thus, it is essential for retailers clearly understand the shopping expectations and preferences of Amazon Prime members …
Iba Newsletter [December 2020],
2020
Institute of Business Administration
Iba Newsletter [December 2020], Communications Department, Office Of The Registrar
IBA News
No abstract provided.
Narrowing The Wealth And Income Gap In Poland, China, And The United States,
2020
Clark University
Narrowing The Wealth And Income Gap In Poland, China, And The United States, Cyndy Carboo, Zhiling Song, Jiawei Feng, Xudong Zhu
School of Professional Studies
With the widespread of globalization, the wealth gap continues to widen globally. Due to the enormous differences in national conditions and political systems of various countries, this article selects China, the United States, and Poland as the research objects, and uses a specific time unit as the benchmark, and mainly focuses on the four directions of medical care, education, job opportunities, and pensions. A reader could understand the correlation between the wealth gap and multiple factors deeply in this article. This article analyzes the impact of income disparity on these three countries and proposes solutions to help narrow the gap …
