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2022-April-11-First And Triumph, University Marketing And Communication, East Tennessee State University

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(April 14, 2022) For many current ETSU students, fellow student Bryce Hopkins might have been the first person they got to interact with from the campus community. Bryce is a member of both the Preview and Orientation Leaders Organization (POLO) and the Expedition Leaders, two organizations that help prospective students transition in to college life. To Bryce, serving with these organizations has a personal meaning.

“I'm a first-generation college student,” said Bryce. “So, what I like to tell people that is whatever background you're coming from, ETSU is going to be an accepting place for you. The reason I tell …

2022-April-11-Helping Friends At Home, University Marketing And Communication, East Tennessee State University

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JOHNSON CITY –  (April 11, 2022) Just two months ago, Yaroslav (Yaro) Hnatusko, an MBA student and graduate assistant at East Tennessee State University, was visiting his family and friends in Ukraine, the country of his birth. Everything was peaceful at the time. “Now,” he said, “it’s a war zone in my back yard.” His loved ones and fellow Ukrainians are fighting for their lives – and to help each other – during the invasion by Russia. 

Yaro is working with his brother, Stan, to help coordinate a relief effort spearheaded by Stan’s employer, Atlant, Ukraine’s largest distributor …

2022-April-11-Etsu Holding Film Screening Workshops, University Marketing And Communication, East Tennessee State University

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JOHNSON CITY, Tenn. (April 11, 2022) – The East Tennessee State University Center for Cinema will host a screening of the documentary movie “Above All Else” by John Fiege. The screening will take place on Saturday, April 23, at 7 p.m. in the Martha Street Culp Auditorium. This screening will conclude a weekend of film and audio production workshops hosted at ETSU. 

On Friday, April 22, from 1-3 p.m., ETSU will host a field production audio workshop, presented by Kory Pereira of Soularity Sound. Following the workshop will be a hands-on project with Dr. Fred Alsop from 4-6 p.m.  

On …

2022-April-08-Student Exhibitions On Display At Reece Museum, University Marketing And Communication, East Tennessee State University

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JOHNSON CITY, Tenn. (April 8, 2022) – The East Tennessee State University Department of Art and Design and the Reece Museum present the Spring 2022 BFA Senior Exhibition on display through April 22. The exhibition features 10 Bachelor of Fine Arts students: Mads Brewer, Dana Brown, JJ Cox, Jenesis Fisher, Erin Fitzgerald, Emily Flores, Keely Melton, Sierra Stanley, Eric Terry and Haeden Willis. A reception happens Tuesday, April 12, from 5-7 pm at the Reece Museum.

Exhibitions on display through April 22

Here’s a look at the displays:  

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  “The Derivative” is a recreation of a family computer room in which …

An Exploratory Analysis Of Stress, Burnout, And Depression In The Iecmh Workforce, Thomas Boyer, Jessica Pooter-Rodriguez Ms., Hannah Winston Ms., Diana Morelen Dr.

Appalachian Student Research Forum

A growing trend in the psychological literature has consistently found a strong association between stress, burnout, and depression, especially in populations who are exposed to a high amount of occupational stress. And, while the relationship between stress and burnout has been distinct and strong, the same cannot be said for burnout and depression. Historically, burnout and depression have shared such a strong conceptual relationship that the literature disagreed as to whether they were truly separate mechanisms. However, while the two constructs do present behavioral similarities the underlying mechanisms which direct their presentation are subtly different. Depression is defined as a …

Evaluating The Efficacy Of Thiel Cadavers Versus Low Fidelity Simulation Plastic Mannequins For Teaching Intubation Skills In Medical Education, Naveed Noordin, Shivan Berwari, Robert Becker, Tom Kwasigroch Phd, Ella Pavlyuk, Derek Wenger, Samuel Rojas

Appalachian Student Research Forum

Most medical students across the U.S. currently receive intubation skills training on low fidelity simulation (LFS) plastic mannequins. A limitation of these LFS models is that they do not allow students to attain complete familiarity and proficiency with intubation in a real-world clinical setting. For several years now, ETSU has been utilizing the Thiel embalming technique, which allows for greater joint flexibility and preservation of soft tissues compared to traditional embalming techniques. Our study set out to evaluate the efficacy of Thiel cadavers versus LFS plastic mannequins in assessing whether one model was more suitable in teaching intubation skills. After …

Screening For Adverse Childhood Experiences In Primary Care., Mary Ameh

Appalachian Student Research Forum

Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs) include childhood exposure to abuse or violence, a parents' divorce, mental illness, substance use disorder, and are identified as risk factors for negative life outcomes. While ACEs screenings are commonly used in mental health and pediatric settings, screening for ACEs in primary care settings is less prevalent. The purpose of this project is to integrate screening for ACEs into a primary care setting and make appropriate referrals for follow-up, thus reducing potential negative life outcomes. The process was designed for a primary care practice located in Winston-Salem, North Carolina. Part one assessed level of awareness …

Improving Coordinated Mental Health Care Through An Enhanced Referral Process: A Quality Improvement Project, Courtney Burleson, Lisa M. Haddad

Appalachian Student Research Forum

As the incidence of major depressive disorders continues to rise, the need for depression screening in primary care is imperative. The objective of this quality improvement (QI) project is to increase depression screening and enhance the current referral process in an urban primary care setting in the southeast United States. To achieve a projected increase in identified depression within the current and future adult patient population, workflow processes have been restructured to incorporate consistent depression screening using the Patient Health Questionnaire-2 (PHQ-2) and -9 (PHQ-9). Revised clerical workflow processes include initiating PHQ-9 questionnaires for all new patients, while clinical workflow …

Low Birth Weight And Its Associated Risk Factors In The United States Using National Survey Of Children Health Data 2016-2020, Olamide Asifat, Adedeji Adenusi, Sheryl Strasser, Yan Cao, Shimin Zheng

Appalachian Student Research Forum

Background: Low birth weight (LBW) is defined by the World Health Organization as birth weight of less than 2500g, and it is one of the leading causes of infant morbidity and mortality globally. LBW is indicative of poor prenatal care and nutrition in pregnancy, impacting on non-communicable disease risk burden throughout life. The main objective of this study was to examine the association between maternal socio-demographics and lifestyle behaviors with birth outcomes to elicit risk patterns among mothers of infants of LBW in the United States.Methods: National Survey of Children Health data for the years 2016-2020 were used in …

2022-April-07-Gatton Ranks Among Top In Southeast, Bill Gatton College Of Pharmacy, East Tennessee State University, University Marketing And Communication, East Tennessee State University

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JOHNSON CITY (April 7, 2022) – East Tennessee State University Bill Gatton College of Pharmacy is listed among the “Best Pharmacy Schools” by U.S. News & World Report, ranked in 2020.

Gatton College of Pharmacy, the nation’s only private college within a public university, is ranked No. 71 out of 134 schools, which makes it:

• • among the top five private pharmacy schools in the Southeast (Alabama, Florida, Georgia, Mississippi, North Carolina, South Carolina and Tennessee).
  • among the top 10 public pharmacy schools in the Southeast.
  • among the top five pharmacy programs founded after 2005 in the U.S.
  • second best …

2022-April-07-'Dying Out Loud' Platformer Dave Warnock Coming To Etsu, University Marketing And Communication, East Tennessee State University

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JOHNSON CITY, Tenn (April 7, 2022) – East Tennessee State University’s Secular Humanist Alliance (SHA) student group will host the event “Dave Warnock, an Atheist with ALS – Book Reading and Q&A” in the Martha Street Culp Auditorium located at the D.P. Culp Student Center on Monday, April 11, from 7-8:30 p.m. 

The event is free and open to the public, and will feature Dying Out Loud (DOL) platformer Dave Warnock, who will discuss his book “Childish Things: A Memoir” in which he details his experiences with evangelical Christianity, living with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) – commonly known …

2022-April-07-Etsu Planetarium Playing Important Regional Role, University Marketing And Communication, East Tennessee State University

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JOHNSON CITY, Tenn. (April 7, 2022) – As audience members make their first “flight” to Mars, Dr. Gary Henson often makes note of the audible gasps that fill the room. 

“It makes the investment in the full-dome technology well worth it,” he said. 

An associate professor in the Department of Physics and Astronomy, Henson is the director of the East Tennessee State University Planetarium, a spacious theatre capable of stunning visual graphics thanks to a state-of the-art, full-dome digital projection system. 

The planetarium is playing an important role on ETSU’s campus, as well as in the region.

Visit the …

Non–Destructive Imaging Of Phytosulfokine Trafficking Using A Fiber–Optic Fluorescence Microscope, Bernard Abakah, Thomas Ntim, Edward Offei, Christopher Erb, Jessica Morgan, Dian Liu, Joanna Jelenska, Jennifer L. Morrell-Falvey, Jean Greenberg, Robert Frank Standaert

Appalachian Student Research Forum

Plants secrete peptide ligands and use receptor signaling to respond to stress and control development. Understanding the signaling mechanisms and associated molecular trafficking is key to improving plant health and productivity for food, fiber and energy applications. However, one of the challenges to elucidating communication pathways in plants is to study the trafficking of molecules and signals iteratively and non-destructively.

This study focuses on using fiber-optic fluorescence microscopy to image live plants iteratively and non-destructively after delivering both labeled and unlabeled phytosulfokine (PSK) into the plant. PSK is a sulfated peptide hormone involved in the regulation of plant cell division …

2022-April-05-Etsu Hosting Q And A On Ukraine Crisis, University Marketing And Communication, East Tennessee State University

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JOHNSON CITY, Tenn. (April 5, 2022) – The unfolding crisis in Ukraine continues to hold the world’s attention and generate questions about the conflict, forces and ideas propelling it. On Tuesday, April 12, a panel of experts from East Tennessee State University will assemble to address questions from the public and provide vital context.  

The event, free and open to the public, happens at 7 p.m. in room 311 on the third floor of the D.P. Culp Student Center.  

“This will provide an engaging opportunity for members of the public to get important questions answered by scholars who are intimately …

2022-April-05-Etsu's Reece Museum Wins Awards, University Marketing And Communication, East Tennessee State University

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JOHNSON CITY, Tenn. (April 5, 2022) – The Reece Museum at East Tennessee State University was the recipient of two Tennessee Association of Museums (TAM) Awards of Excellence at the recent TAM conference.

Performers and attendees participate in a jam session

The TAM awards were presented to museums across the state for exceptional projects, programs and events held in 2021. The Awards Ceremony took place in Jonesborough at the McKinney Center at Booker T. Washington School on March 16. The Reece Museum received a Temporary Exhibit Award of Excellence for the “Illustrating Dante’s Divine Comedy” exhibition and a Special Event …

The Reece Museum Presents: Local Art In The Age Of The 2020 Global Pandemic, The Reece Museum, East Tennessee State University

The Reece Museum Exhibition Publications

Local Art in the Age of the 2020 Global Pandemic is an exhibition of forty works of art that were made in 2019-2020 by artists living or working in Tennessee’s First Congressional District during the early days of the pandemic experience. This special collection provides an emotive snapshot of artistic expression during the age of the novel coronavirus pandemic, and is part of the permanent collection of the Reece Museum at East Tennessee State University.

Gov. Bill Lee’s “Safer at Home” order was issued on March 30, 2020. Almost overnight, our daily lives became unrecognizable as routines, social interactions, and …

2022 April 4 - Faculty Senate Agenda And Minutes, Faculty Senate, East Tennessee State University

Faculty Senate Agendas and Minutes

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2022-April-04-Etsu Hosting String Band Summit, University Marketing And Communication, East Tennessee State University

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JOHNSON CITY, Tenn. (April 4, 2022) – The String Band Summit conference, held at East Tennessee State University from April 8-10, allows participants to experience and consider music from a broader perspective. The conference, hosted by ETSU’s Bluegrass, Old-Time, and Roots Music Studies and the Department of Appalachian Studies, was inspired by a number of related events, such as the International Country Music Conference and the Banjo Gathering, as well as informal meetings between students of string band music, organizers said.  

“My colleague Roy Andrade organized meetings with other students studying string band music at nearby institutions,” Lee Bidgood, …

2022-April-02-Etsu Rotc Cadets Will Be Commissioned May, University Marketing And Communication, East Tennessee State University

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JOHNSON CITY, Tenn. (May 2, 2022) – Cadets in the Army ROTC Program at East Tennessee State University will be commissioned as second lieutenants at a 1 p.m. ceremony at the Brown Hall Auditorium on ETSU’s main campus on Friday, May 6.

Retired Lieutenant General Ronald Hite, an ETSU alumni and Washington County native, is the guest speaker. Hite’s awards are many: two Distinguished Service Medals, four Legion of Merit honors and the Bronze Star, among others. A faithful supporter of ETSU, Hite retired from the Virginia-based Cypress International as chairman and CEO in 2005 following his years of military …

2022-April-01-Etsu Health Obgyn Accepting New Patients, University Marketing And Communication, East Tennessee State University

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JOHNSON CITY – Women’s health care has been a passion for most of Crystal Green’s career. Of her 13 years in nursing, she has spent 12 in women’s services, the last three of which have been as a nurse practitioner in obstetrics and gynecology.

She is accepting new patients at ETSU Health OB/GYN.

“I became a nurse practitioner to be able to provide quality, patient-centered care on a higher level,” Green said. “I have always been a nurturer at heart. Being the caring, considerate person that I am, I believe we should treat our patients as we would want …

2022-April-01-Renaissance Child Camps Celebrate 20th Anniversary At Etsu, University Marketing And Communication, East Tennessee State University

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JOHNSON CITY, Tenn. – East Tennessee State University’s Office of Professional Development invites children and youth to participate in a series of events scheduled this summer in conjunction with the 20th anniversary of the Renaissance Child Camps.

The camps offer a variety of education, hands-on and interactive sessions for children in first grade through high school. The first Renaissance Child Camps were held in the summer of 2002, and the program has grown in popularity since that time. The camps aimed at providing participants with a variety of academic, creative and physical activities are based on the STREAM (science, technology, …

2022-April-01-Etsu College A Hub For Some Of The Fastest-Growing Health Professions, University Marketing And Communication, East Tennessee State University

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JOHNSON CITY, Tenn. (April 2022) – “When students decide they want to go into health care, they typically think of two things – a physician or a nurse. However, if you look at what comprises the health care team, it’s allied health professionals making up two-thirds of the team, and that’s a wide description of everybody else besides nurses or physicians,” says Dr. Don Samples, dean of the College of Clinical and Rehabilitative Health Sciences at East Tennessee State University.

“It’s the physical therapists, the occupational therapists, the speech-language pathologists, the respiratory therapists, the radiographers, the nutritionists and social workers,” …

Illuminated Magazine, School Of Graduate Studies, East Tennessee State University

Illuminated: Graduate Student Research Magazine

From The Graduate School; Musical Performance, Scholarship, and Writing in a Technical Description of Mash, [Thomas Cassell, MA, Appalachian Studies]; Where are they now? [Featuring: Vandyck Adade-Yeboah]; Improving the Sentence Writing Skills of Students with IDD Using Time Delay, Sentence Frames, and Story-Based Lessons, [Thai Williams, Special Education, MEd]; Where are they now? [Featuring: Eric Magrum]; Where are they now? [Featuring: Danielle Pulliam]; Where are they now? [Featuring: Curtis Bradley]; ETSU’s 2021 3MT® Competition; Assessing the Barriers to Developmental Advising in Higher Education Institutions, [Alicia Abney, Educational Leadership, EdD]; Where are they now? [Featuring: Angela Duggins]; Reconnecting to …

2022-April-01-Board Of Trustees Meeting, University Marketing And Communication, East Tennessee State University

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ETSU Board of Trustees to hold quarterly meeting April 22

JOHNSON CITY — East Tennessee State University’s Board of Trustees will hold its quarterly meeting and several committee meetings on Friday, April 22.

All meetings will be conducted in person at the D.P. Culp Student Center, East Tennessee Room.

Meetings are scheduled as follows:

• Academic, Research, and Student Success Committee – 8 a.m.
• Finance and Administration Committee – 9:45 a.m.
• Audit Committee – 11:30 a.m.
• Board of Trustees Meeting – 1 p.m.

Committee meeting times are approximate and will begin following the conclusion of the previous meeting. When they become …

2022-April-01-Etsu's Spring Literary Festival Is April 12-13, University Marketing And Communication, East Tennessee State University

ETSU News

JOHNSON CITY, Tenn. (April 1, 2022) – East Tennessee State University’s annual Spring Literary Festival, packed with award-winning and nationally recognized writers, is set for later this month.

Poet Maurice Manning

“This is such a wonderful event, and I could not be happier about the talented writers who will be with us this year,” said Dr. Jesse Graves, ETSU’s poet-in-residence. “We are thrilled to be able to bring our literary community back together in the Reece Museum and the Martin Center.” 

Sponsored by the Bert C. Bach Written Word Initiative and the Department of Literature and Language, the two-day …

2022-April-01-Meet Mylan Hutchins, University Marketing And Communication, East Tennessee State University

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Help Support Day of Giving

For Mylan Hutchins, a human services major with a double minor in special education and American Sign Language (ASL), service is a calling. Originally from Chattanooga, Tennessee, Hutchins came to East Tennessee State University as one of her first steps into what has evolved into a fulfilling journey of self-discovery.

“I came to ETSU because I wanted that experience of getting away from what you’re comfortable with,” said Hutchins. “I didn’t know anyone, and everyone I did know was suddenly several hours away. It was exciting.”

It wasn’t long until Hutchins realized those steps were …

2022-April-01-Championship Game, University Marketing And Communication, East Tennessee State University

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On Tuesday, May 3 at 8 p.m., the ETSU JV Overwatch esports team will face the University of South Florida in the grand finals of the NACE Starleague Open Division.

NACE is the National Association of Collegiate Esports. They are the largest member association of varsity esports programs at colleges and universities across the U.S. Their Starleague is split in to three divisions: Varsity, Challenger, and Open. In this season, the ETSU JV team participated in the Open division.

The ETSU team is 4-2 (12-8) in the regular season and 4-1 (12-4) in the playoffs so far, for a current …

2022-April-01-University School To Hold Pickin In The Schoolyard Fundraiser At Etsu, University Marketing And Communication, East Tennessee State University

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JOHNSON CITY, Tenn. – University School will host “Pickin’ in The Schoolyard” on Saturday, April 23 on the campus of East Tennessee State University from 10 a.m.-2 p.m. 

This event is an annual fundraiser for the Junior Appalachian Musicians Program (JAM) at University School. It will include several student groups performing Appalachian music throughout the event. Members of ETSU’s Bluegrass, Old-Time, and Roots Music Studies, JAM string bands and other University School students are scheduled to perform on both the school lawn and in the gymnasium. 

JAM is an after-school music program that introduces students to the Appalachian music of …

Reshape Your Organizational Culture With A Holistic, Action-Based Framework, Wendy Doucette, Rebecca Tolley

ETSU Faculty Works

What we’ll talk about today:

• Strategies for regaining perspective and balance at a pace wholly determined by the individual which require little training and expense
• Benefits: renewed motivation, increased calm, and less reactivity at the individual level
• With transformational leadership, potential for change at the organizational level

2022-April-01-Etsu Expanding Opportunities In Health Sciences For Southwest Virginia Students, University Marketing And Communication, East Tennessee State University

ETSU News

JOHNSON CITY, Tenn. – East Tennessee State University signed two articulation agreements aimed at expanding opportunities for students who want to pursue careers in the health sciences.

One agreement provides students who achieve an Associate of Arts and Science degree at Virginia Highlands Community College (VHCC), located in Abingdon, Virginia, with the opportunity to transfer those credits to ETSU to pursue a Bachelor of Science degree in Kinesiology (Exercise Science), Public Health (Community Health concentration), or Rehabilitative Health Sciences.

“VHCC students choose ETSU to continue their educational journey, so VHCC faculty, staff, and administration were pleased to partner with ETSU …