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College Of Education News, Georgia Southern University

College of Education: News & Publications (2003-2023)

• COE faculty named Inclusive Excellence Fellow
• Toledo is College of Education’s ‘Instructor of the Year’
• Beverly Miller receives the College’s Commitment to Diversity Award

Sun Belt Conference Honors A Record 213 Eagle Student-Athletes For Work In Classroom, Georgia Southern University

Athletics: News & Publications

• Sun Belt Conference Honors A Record 213 Eagle Student-Athletes For Work In Classroom

On \Delta^(K)-Colouring Of Powers Of Paths And Cycles, Merlin Thomas Ellumkalayil Ms, Sudev Naduvath

Theory & Applications of Graphs

In an improper vertex colouring of a graph, adjacent vertices are permitted to receive same colours. An edge of an improperly coloured graph is said to be a bad edge if its end vertices have the same colour. A near-proper colouring of a graph is a colouring which minimises the number of bad edges by restricting the number of colour classes that can have adjacency among their own elements. The δ (k) - colouring is a near-proper colouring of G consisting of k given colours, where 1 ≤ k ≤ χ(G) – 1, which minimises the number of bad …

Newsroom, Georgia Southern University

Newsroom (2006-2023)

• Georgia Southern celebrates new park recognizing National Pan-Hellenic Council organizations
• Georgia Southern education faculty receives 2021 Inspiring Programs in STEM Award from INSIGHT Into Diversity

College Of Education News, Georgia Southern University

College of Education: News & Publications (2003-2023)

• Call for presenters for 2021 Trauma Informed Education Symposium
• Three faculty awarded research assistance in competitive selection process
• College of Education 2021 Jack Miller Award winners announced
• Georgia Southern education faculty receives 2021 Inspiring Programs in STEM Award from INSIGHT Into Diversity

Points Of Pride, Georgia Southern University

Points of Pride (2013-2023)

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• Athletics
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On Graphs With Proper Connection Number 2, Jill Faudree, Leah Berman, Glenn Chappell, Chris Hartman, John Gimbel, Gordon Williams

Theory & Applications of Graphs

An edge-colored graph is properly connected if for every pair of vertices u and v there exists a properly colored uv-path (i.e. a uv-path in which no two consecutive edges have the same color). The proper connection number of a connected graph G, denoted pc(G), is the smallest number of colors needed to color the edges of G such that the resulting colored graph is properly connected. An edge-colored graph is flexibly connected if for every pair of vertices u and v there exist two properly colored paths between them, say P and Q, such …

Cosm Diversity & Inclusion Newsletter, Georgia Southern University

COSM Diversity & Inclusion News

Welcome

The Diversity & Inclusion newsletter is delivered monthly via email during the fall and spring semesters and is always available on the new COSM D&I webpage. Send contributions and suggestions to any of the COSM D&I Ambassadors listed at the bottom of this newsletter and on the webpage.

Faculty Handbook, Georgia Southern University

Faculty Handbooks

Faculty Handbook for Georgia Southern University for the 2021-2022 academic year. The Faculty Handbook is published online by the Office of the Vice President for Academic Affairs and archived in Digital Commons@Georgia Southern.

Cosm Diversity & Inclusion Newsletter, Georgia Southern University

College of Science & Mathematics: News & Publications (2012-2022)

Welcome

The Diversity & Inclusion newsletter is delivered monthly via email during the fall and spring semesters and is always available on the new COSM D&I webpage. Send contributions and suggestions to any of the COSM D&I Ambassadors listed at the bottom of this newsletter and on the webpage.

The Color Number Of Cubic Graphs Having A Spanning Tree With A Bounded Number Of Leaves, Analen A. Malnegro, Gina A. Malacas, Kenta Ozeki

Theory & Applications of Graphs

The color number c(G) of a cubic graphG is the minimum cardinality of a color class of a proper 4-edge-coloring of G. It is well-known that every cubic graph G satisfies c(G) = 0 if G

Early-Age Compressive Strength And Dynamic Modulus Of Frc Based On Ultrasonic Pulse Velocity, Daniel A. Castillo Pereira, Saman Hedjazi

Civil Engineering & Construction: Faculty Publications

Due to the increasing use of rapid construction methods and the challenges of maintaining construction schedules, a growing demand exists for procedures that can assure quality of work without sacrificing the pace of construction. The quality control of construction materials specifically, the mechanical properties of concrete are among the most important concerns in today’s construction industry. In the present study, the correlation between fiber-reinforced concrete’s compressive strength and dynamic modulus to its ultrasonic pulse velocity is investigated at early ages up to 7 days after mixing. An experimental program involving 189 FRC specimens were designed containing different types of structural …

Integrating Video Evidence In Mixed Methods Research: Innovations, Benefits, And Challenges For Research Exploring How Beliefs Shape Actions, Tashane K. Haynes-Brown, Peggy Shannon-Baker

Curriculum, Foundations & Reading: Faculty Publications

The purpose of this article is to demonstrate the benefits of using video evidence as a catalyst for innovative integration in mixed methods research. We illustrate how video data were used in the elicitation interviews of three teachers to understand their interpretations of how their beliefs align with their observed practices and how they attempted to reduce cognitive dissonance that became apparent during the video elicitation interviews. This article draws from the mixed methods case study phase of a larger explanatory sequential mixed methods study conducted in Jamaica with 248 secondary school teachers. A subsample of eight teachers participated …

College Of Education News, Georgia Southern University

College of Education: News & Publications (2003-2023)

• Georgia Southern alumna encourages rural students to take to the skies with drone technology curriculum
• 3D art students create collaborative public project for College of Education

Newsroom, Georgia Southern University

Newsroom (2006-2023)

• Georgia Southern’s STEM outreach unit has new name

College Of Education News, Georgia Southern University

College of Education News

• Georgia Southern’s STEM outreach unit has new name

College Of Education News, Georgia Southern University

College of Education: News & Publications (2003-2023)

• Georgia Southern’s STEM outreach unit has new name

Association Of Chronic Pain With Participation In Motor Skill Activities In Children With Cerebral Palsy, Haresh Rochani, Christopher M. Modlesky, Barbara Weissman, Joshua Vova, Gavin T. Colquitt

Biostatistics, Epidemiology & Environmental Health Sciences: Faculty Publications

Many children with cerebral palsy (CP) experience the secondary condition of pain, which is problematic because children with CP face barriers to participation in motor skill activities.^1,2 Motor performance in activities of daily living among children with CP is markedly lower than that among their age-matched peers.³ Because of the potential effect of pain on children with CP, we sought to examine the association between pain and activities requiring motor skill performance (ie, difficulty dressing or bathing and participation in sport) among a nationally representative sample of US children with CP.

Observation Of Field Practice Rubric: Establishing Content Validity And Reliability, Ruchi Bhatnagar, Carla L. Tanguay, Caroline Sullivan, Joyce E. Many

Georgia Educational Researcher

Most teacher education assessments are criticized for lacking validity and reliability. This study describes the process of developing the Observation of Field Performance rubric to assess initial teacher candidates’ classroom performance and establishing the content validity as well as reliability of the rubric. A panel of content area experts determined that 10 out of 12 items of the rubric were essential and the CVR was above the acceptable range for all 12 items, indicating that the rubric had a strong content validity. Additionally, the analysis of instructors’ ratings on the rubric showed that the rubric had good level of internal …

The Structure Of Functional Graphs For Functions From A Finite Domain To Itself For Which A Half Iterate Exists, Paweł Marcin Kozyra

Theory & Applications of Graphs

The notion of a replica of a nontrivial in-tree is defined. A result enabling to determine whether an in-tree is a replica of another in-tree employing an injective mapping between some subsets of sources of these in-trees is presented. There are given necessary and sufficient conditions for the existence of a functional square root of a function from a finite set to itself through presenting necessary and sufficient conditions for the existence of a square root of a component of the functional graph for the function and for the existence of a square root of the union of two components …

Learning To Teach Mathematics With Robots: Developing The ‘T’ In Technological Pedagogical Content Knowledge, Shelli L. Casler-Failing

Middle Grades & Secondary Education: Faculty Publications

A multiple case study was conducted to investigate how Lego robotics instruction incorporated into a middle grades mathematics methods course could inform pre-service teachers’ (PSTs) TPACK through the lens of Social Constructivist Theory. The qualitative data analysis revealed that when instruction on Lego robotics technology is integrated into semester long mathematics methods courses, PSTs are able to improve their TPACK knowledge in regard to the robotics. Overall, the findings suggest instruction of educational technology tools should be incorporated into methods courses over a longer duration of time, and in depth, to better support the development of PSTs’ TPACK. To meet …

Newsroom, Georgia Southern University

Newsroom (2006-2023)

• Georgia Southern grad student researches different planting treatment effects on Tybee Island sand dunes.

College Of Education News, Georgia Southern University

College of Engineering & Computing: News & Publications (2010-2023)

• Jenkins High Team Earns Top Honors in Georgia Southern's Engineering Design Challenge.
• First Step: Internship and interview practice pays off

Trauma-Sensitive Social And Emotional Learning Strategies For The Classroom, Gregory J. Benner

Georgia Association for Positive Behavior Support Conference

Coercive interactions contribute to social, emotional, and health challenges across the lifespan; whereas sustained positive interactions contribute to the building of youth and adult social and emotional learning (SEL) competence. The purpose of this presentation is to build your capacity to integrate and infuse trauma-sensitive social and emotional learning strategies into your classroom. You will come away with doable and simple strategies to establish the positive classroom culture you envision and to keep it going all year. Strategies for building youth social and emotional learning competencies while maintaining an engaging classroom learning environment will be demonstrated. Techniques for ending power …

Spatially Refined Time-Varying Reproduction Numbers Of Covid-19 By Health District In Georgia, Usa, March–December 2020, Chigozie A. Ogwara, Arshpreet Kaur Mallhi, Xinyi Hua, Kamalich Muniz-Rodriguez, Jessica S. Schwind, Xiaolu Zhou, Jeffery A. Jones, Joanne Chopak-Foss, Gerardo Chowell, Isaac Chun-Hai Fung

Biostatistics, Epidemiology & Environmental Health Sciences: Faculty Publications

This study quantifies the transmission potential of SARS-CoV-2 across public health districts in Georgia, USA, and tests if per capita cumulative case count varies across counties. To estimate the time-varying reproduction number, Rt of SARS-CoV-2 in Georgia and its 18 public health districts, we apply the R package ‘EpiEstim’ to the time series of historical daily incidence of confirmed cases, 2 March–15 December 2020. The epidemic curve is shifted backward by nine days to account for the incubation period and delay to testing. Linear regression is performed between log10-transformed per capita cumulative case count and log10-transformed population size. We observe …

Wagemaker Selected For 2021 Sun Belt Postgraduate Scholarship, Georgia Southern University

Athletics: News & Publications

• Wagemaker Selected for 2021 Sun Belt Postgraduate Scholarship

Faculty Senate Agenda

Faculty Senate Agendas

No abstract provided.

Modal Identification Of Gelatinous Structures Using Visio-Based Vibrometry, Kenneth Nwagu

Honors College Theses

Gelatinous-based materials show promising uses in various fields such as tissue engineering and bioengineering. However, important structural characteristics such as natural frequencies and mode shapes of hydrogels and hydrogel-based objects are difficult to measure with conventional contact or non-contact-based techniques such as accelerometers and laser vibrometers. Solutions have been made by others using 3D laser imaging, x-ray imaging and ultrasound, but these are often expensive and have challenges in scenarios such as with translucent and small gelatinous objects. The goal of this research is to advance the state-of-the-art of characterizing structural properties of gelatinous materials by using vision based vibrometry. …

Faculty Senate Agenda

Faculty Senate Agendas

No abstract provided.

Newsroom, Georgia Southern University

Newsroom (2006-2023)

• Medical, military, educational leaders, pro athlete performance trainers and actor to speak at Spring 2021 Commencement ceremonies
• Georgia Southern SARC researching salt marsh habitat loss with new aquaponics garden