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The Effects Of Metolachlor Exposure In Thp-1 Alveolar And Monocyte And Macrophage Cellular Functions, Jared Parmater

Annual Graduate Student Symposium

The goal of this study is to examine and analyze the effects of a widely used herbicide, Metolachlor, on the normal functions and processes of human alveolar monocytes and macrophages. Specifically, it will examine the functions of phagocytosis, apoptosis and the production reactive oxygen species within these cells.

Assessing Vulnerability Mapping Of Nitrate Contamination Among The Private Well Owners Of Black Hawk County, Ia, Junu Shrestha, Sushil Tuladhar

Annual Graduate Student Symposium

The main objective of this study is to find potential sites that might be vulnerable to nitrate contamination by doing weighted overlay analysis using ArcGIS Software and compare those sites with current nitrate contaminated sites.

Spatiotemporal Analysis Of Wildfire Activity In The Tundra Biome Using Modis Data (2000-2014), Arif Masrur

Annual Graduate Student Symposium

Although tundra wildfires have an important impact on arctic ecosystems, there is comparatively little knowledge about their geography and characteristics. I have been using MOSID-derived active fire data to analyze spatial and temporal patterns of tundra wildfires between 2000 and 2014.

Student Disability Services Campus Newsletter, Spring 2015, University Of Northern Iowa. Office Of Student Disability Services.

Student Disability Services Newsletter

Inside this issue:

-- Letter from the Coordinator...
-- Test your knowledge of Student Disability Services!
-- Deaf vs. deaf
-- Light It Up Blue!
-- Graduate Student Feature: Shelley Hartman
-- The Role of Emotional Support Animals
-- Keep: Your Life Organized
-- We’re On Facebook!
-- Graduate Student Feature: Steve Smith
-- A Day in the Life of SDS Student Workers
-- The Role of Emotional Support Animals cont.
-- Graduate Student Feature: Jenny Lynes

Geography News, V38n1, Spring 2015, Geographic Alliance Of Iowa.

Geography News

Inside This Issue:
--Coordinator's Corner
--Teaching the Holocaust Today: Why and How
--National Parks and Bioblitz
--2015 Workshops

Ica Newsletter, Spring 2015, Iowa Communication Association.

ICA Newsletter

Contents:

--President's Message
--2014–2015 ICA Executive Committee
--Stech, Richter Serve As Teaching Consultants
--Meet Your Fellow ICA Member
--Loras Wins National Championship, Neuhaus Named Coach of Year
--Judy Vogel 2015 Citation Award Winner
--Iowa Journal of Communication to Receive CSCA Award
--Stech Earns PhD in Education
--Cherjovsky Chapter Published
--Davis Named Superior IHSSA Judge
--ICA Outstanding New Teacher Award
--Gill Receives Recognition Award
--Call for Nominations: Outstanding Adjunct Teacher Award
--Call for Article Submissions for Iowa Journal of Communication
--ICA Top Student Paper Award
--Call for Speakers: G. Jon Hall Online GIFT Forum
--BVU News
--ICA News

Biology News, Spring 2015, University Of Northern Iowa. Department Of Biology.

Biology News

Contents:

-- Greetings from the Department of Biology
-- Biology Students and Alumni
-- Faculty awards
-- Department News
-- Biology students travel to University of Kentucky to attend the NCUR Annual Conference
-- Tigers Visit UNI Biology Department
-- Nobel Conference
-- UNI/Iowa Community Colleges STEM Day
-- Carver Grant Purchases SynDavers
-- Steve O'Kane teaches in Korea
-- Biology Living and Learning Community
-- Hallway displays
-- Forensic DNA analysis at Linn-Mar High School
-- Undergraduate Research in Biology
-- New Faculty
-- Reconnect with the Department of Biology
-- You Can Make a Difference!
-- Scholarships and …

Iowa Composers Forum Presents A Cedar Falls Festival Of New Music, March 27-28, 2015 [Program], University Of Northern Iowa. School Of Music.

Music Recital Programs

Program of a music recital given by faculty, students, or guest artists from the School of Music at the University of Northern Iowa.

10th Annual Research In The Capitol [Program], March 24, 2015, University Of Northern Iowa. University Honors Program., Iowa State University. Honors Program., University Of Iowa. Honors Program.

Research in the Capitol Programs

Program of research presentations given at the Capitol by students from the University of Northern Iowa, Iowa State University, and the University of Iowa.

Stem Stories, March 2015, #1, Stefani Keller

STEM Stories

Program Spotlight - Arctic and Iowa, Part II, Arctic Social and Environmental Systems Research Laboratory (ARCSES)

Hands-On Russian Culture Lessons, Ksenia S. Zhbanova, Audrey C. Rule, Michelle L. Tichy

Curriculum & Instruction Faculty Publications

The global diverse society necessitates that teachers develop cultural competency and use authentic resources for teaching. This article presents classroom-tested materials for teaching elementary students about aspects of Russian culture, developed by a native Russian and two education professors. Multiage, multi-racial American Midwestern students from a homeschooling cooperative learned vocabulary and concepts with statistically significant increases from pretest to posttest and a large effect size. The lessons began with recognition of human commonalities between Russian people and Americans, in accordance with omniculturalism theory. Lessons then highlighted and celebrated cultural differences through an exploration of Russian literature and culture. Culminating creative …

The Update, March 2015, University Of Northern Iowa. College Of Humanities, Arts And Sciences.

Update

Inside this issue:

-- UNI & the Arts: Department of Art Faculty Engage Students at Waterloo East High School
-- Department News
-- School of Music Events
-- UNI Wins Big at AAF: UNI Department of Art Students Bring Home the Gold
-- Alumni Spotlight: Department of Philosophy and World Religions: Rick Grisel
-- Alumni Spotlight: Department of Theatre: Michaela Nelson
-- Student Spotlight: Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry: Angela Weepie
-- Mesa Española, Department of Languages and Literatures
-- Student Spotlight: Department of Theatre: Cory Skold
-- Student Spotlight: Department of Computer Science: Mojtaba Alfardan
-- Physics Club, Department …

Process And Apparatus For Manufacturing Grease, Lou A. T. Honary, James E. Wesley

Patents (University of Northern Iowa)

A process and corresponding apparatus and system for use in preparing soaps from fatty acid containing oil compositions, and in turn, for preparing greases by the use of such soaps in combination with one or more base oils.

Stem Stories, February 2015, #1, Stefani Keller

STEM Stories

Student Profile - Sarah Huebner

Stem Stories, January 2015, #4, Stefani Keller

STEM Stories

Program Spotlight - Planetarium shows hosted by Earth and Environmental Sciences

Rodcon, Program, 2015, University Of Northern Iowa

RodCon Documents

Saturday, March 28, 2015 - 11:00am to 4:00pm

Program distributed at the event.

Welcome to the 2nd Annual Rod Library Mini Comic Con. The event is free and open to the public. Our goal is to provide an open forum for discussion about the theme of a networked society focused on popular culture, comics, and gaming. Our panel presentations are also focused on providing a forum for discussion about the complex issues of race, gender, class and social justice in popular entertainment. To see your entry, use the hashtag #RodCon15

At The Crossroads And Spiraling Back: A Mystory Experiment In/As Descansos, Rebecca M. Kennerly

Iowa Journal of Communication

This essay is an experiment in ethnographic writing using Bowman and Bowman's (2002) mystory method, based on my research with roadside shrines-called descansos in the Southwest-and how these sites perform in personal, popular and institutional culture. This essay also explores how my work has been influenced by one cross-country road trip to visit my friend Dan Vice, who was dying: along the way I come to terms with (among other things) our conflicted allegiances to the Catholic Church and eventual turn to a Navajo-inflected understanding of being-in-the-world which helped us, in our own way, make sense of living in the …

Diagnosing An International Health Crisis: A Structural Exploration Of Ebola 2014, Maddison Zayn Jansen

Honors Program Theses

The Ebola crisis of 2014, though concentrated most heavily in three small countries in western Africa, awoke the international community to its lack of effective health crisis infrastructure. As the disease rocked the globe, multinational groups scrambled to help those directly affected and protect the overwhelming majority of people not directly affected. Most preventative measures failed, and pre-existing initiatives to stem the flow of the disease only served to open the floodgates more. After careful examination of the literature surrounding medical, cultural, financial, national, and global circumstances enabling Ebola to flourish, as well as applying individual analysis and examination, it …

Csbs Statements, V17, 2015, University Of Northern Iowa. College Of Social And Behavioral Sciences.

CSBS Statements

Contents:

--- From the Desk of the Dean
--- Sabin Hall Renamed
--- A Game-Changing Gift for the Social & Behavioral Sciences
--- Podolefsky Conference Room Named
--- Where in the Worlid is CSBS?
--- Polar Opposites: CSBS is involved in places very different from ours-and each other
--- College of Social & Behavioral Sciences Loyal Roster
--- Dean's Fund Inner Circle
--- Faculty Retirements
--- Award-Winning Faculty
--- New Faculty
--- Iowa Photo Archive @ UNI
--- 2015 CSBS Distinguished Alumni Named
--- TEDxUNI
--- In Memoriam: John Baskerville
--- Student Highlights
--- Alumni Updates

Self-Reported Race/Ethnicity In The Age Of Genomic Research: Its Potential Impact On Understanding Health Disparities, Tesfaye B. Mersha, Tilahun Abebe

Faculty Work

This review explores the limitations of self-reported race, ethnicity, and genetic ancestry in biomedical research. Various terminologies are used to classify human differences in genomic research including race, ethnicity, and ancestry. Although race and ethnicity are related, race refers to a person’s physical appearance, such as skin color and eye color. Ethnicity, on the other hand, refers to communality in cultural heritage, language, social practice, traditions, and geopolitical factors. Genetic ancestry inferred using ancestry informative markers (AIMs) is based on genetic/genomic data. Phenotype-based race/ethnicity information and data computed using AIMs often disagree. For example, self-reporting African Americans can have drastically …

Special Speciation, Lyn L. Countryman, Jill D. Maroo

Faculty Publications

Considerable anecdotal evidence indicates that some of the most difficult concepts that both high school and undergraduate elementary-education students struggle with are those surrounding evolutionary principles, especially speciation. It’s no wonder that entry-level biology students are confused, when biologists have multiple definitions of “species.” We developed this speciation activity to provide clarity and allow students a hands-on experience with a speciation model.

Free Online Resources Not To Miss For Teaching Middle School Mathematics, Clayton M. Edwards

Curriculum & Instruction Faculty Publications

Do you need an infusion of richer tasks into your middle level mathematics classroom? Ask yourself the following questions:

-- Have you been using the same text for your mathematics curriculum for multiple years?

-- Has the promise of your text being “Iowa Core compatible” failed to come to fruition? • Are you a new middle school mathematics instructor and feel stuck with the materials present when you first got your job?

-- Are your middle school students generally lacking excitement towards any curricular choices you make or materials you use?

-- Do you wish your students would show and …

Upper Elementary Students Creatively Learn Scientific Features Of Animal Skulls By Making Movable Books, Juile L. Klein, Phyllis Gray, Ksenia S. Zhbanova, Audrey C. Rule

Curriculum & Instruction Faculty Publications

Arts integration in science has benefits of increasing student engagement and understanding. Lessons focusing on form and function of animal skulls provide an effective example of how handicrafts integrated with science instruction motivate students and support learning. The study involved students ages 9-12 during a week-long summer day camp. Students applied animal skull concepts of eye positions of predators and prey, relative eye sizes of nocturnal animals compared to tunnel-dwellers, shapes and functions of different types of teeth, and terminology and functions of different bones, openings, and structures of animal skulls in making moveable book pages. These pages featured pop-up …

Prairie Power Project: Determining Maximum Sustainable Production Of Biomass With A Mixture Of Prairie Species, Cynthia Cambardella, Kenneth Elgersma, Eric Giddens, Mark Myers, Mark Sherrard, Daryl Smith

Tallgrass Prairie Publications and Reports

Native prairie species mixtures appear to have great promise as bioenergy feedstocks. These perennial plants store carbon and produce greater net energy than row crops because: (1) after initial establishment they require little or no energy input such as cultivation, fertilizer, pesticides and irrigation; (2) they sequester excess CO2; and (3) all above ground biomass is used rather than just the seed. Furthermore, prairie grows well on non-prime, nutrient-poor, agricultural soils and will not displace food crops from higher quality agricultural land.

A Master's Recital In Flute, Natalie Mahree Neshyba

Dissertations and Theses @ UNI

Natalie Neshyba presented a graduate flute recital on Friday, March 6th, 2015 at 6:00 pm in Davis Hall of the Gallagher‐Bluedorn Performing Arts Center at the University of Northern Iowa. This recital was given in partial fulfillment of the requirements for a Master of Music degree in flute performance. Dr. Polina Khatsko, pianist, performed alongside Ms. Neshyba on two selections. The program began with an unaccompanied work, Les Folies d’Espagne, by Marin Marais. Next on the program was Claude Debussy’s Sonata in G minor L140 for flute and piano, which was recently transcribed from the original violin version by Dr. …

Caged Manhood : Office Culture And How Walter Camp's Daily Dozen Revitalized The Workforce, 1903-1940, Nick Sly

Dissertations and Theses @ UNI

This thesis is examines how culture became a means to deal with the problems of over-civilization in the early twentieth century. The realities of a salaried position and corporate work spaces had dramatically changed how the middle class felt about work. Looking at the writings of Walter Camp, the human relations movement, and the exercise culture of the period one can see how the office space was not simply a place of work but a new context for constructing masculinity and a sense of worth.

Implementation Of The Environmental Issues Instruction Model By Elementary Teachers, Barbara Ann Ehlers

Dissertations and Theses @ UNI

Teachers attend many professional development experiences throughout their professional careers. Many teachers attend because they have a personal desire for professional growth. In addition, in the state of Iowa, they are required to engage in professional development to renew teacher licensure. Professional development is offered on a myriad of topics including the latest educational research on learning, innovations in curriculum, and instructional strategies to use in the classroom. However, just attending does not guarantee improved professional practice. After these experiences teachers may or may not implement the strategies, teaching methods, or information they have learned.

This qualitative study analyzed data …

Understanding By Design Unit Lesson Plans For The Next Generation Science Standards: Life Science, Arie Schiller

Graduate Research Papers

The project that I focused on for my Creative Component is the creation of Understanding by Design (UbD) unit lesson plans that address the Next Generation Science Standards (NGSS) in the topic of Evolution. When the final framework was released of the NGSS in 2011, the need for teachers to revisit and align their curriculum became a necessary step to ensure appropriate content was taught. In the fall of 2013, Keokuk Community School District decided science teachers would begin implementing the new NGSS, anticipating that the state of Iowa will adopt the standards.

This creative component includes lesson plans correlated …

The Inclusion Of Engineering Design Into The High School Biology Curriculum, Cody D. Lakose

Graduate Research Papers

The purpose of this project is to develop engineering-based lessons for a life science course,i.e. biology, in order to meet the NGSS standards as well as increase student interest in engineering by incorporating the principles of engineering design into the traditional science classroom.

Donor Development In Challenging Circumstances: Addressing Economic Troubles And Donor-Held Stereotypes To Increase Nonprofit Giving By Individuals, Jessica A. Ueland

Graduate Research Papers

The purpose of this study is to determine how a nonprofit organization can effectively increase its funding from individual donors, even when faced with two significant barriers to giving. One examined barrier to gaining individual donors is an economic recession and its potential impact on a donor's ability to give to an organization. The second examined barrier to increasing individual donations is stereotypes held by a potential donor that may prevent him or her from supporting the organization's mission and clients.

Research was done to help better understand the diverse needs of individuals in the Fargo, North Dakota area. The …