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Theatre And Eating Disorders, Jeniece K. Salness

Honors Theses

Theatre is an excellent tool for education and instilling the will and ideas to make societal changes. Using the techniques and theories of Augusto Boal, Dr. Christine Iaderosa at Western Michigan University created musical titled “Food Prisons” to address the social stigmas and issue involved with eating disorders and disordered eating. These techniques positively model the actions and effects involved in eating disorders to show alternative routes to eating disorders and the effects eating disorders have on the person and those around them. The show was positively received when it was performed in 2012 when the audience and cast were …

Deriving Significance From The Capstone Experience, Christina G. Clark

Honors Theses

This thesis is a cumulation of my experience as a participant of Western Michigan University's COM 4500: Public Relations Program Development and an observer after completion of the course. I took the course in the fall of 2011 and in the spring of 2012 interviewed previous clients. I was most curious with what the process of the course was like for the clients and what recommendations they had for the future. The biggest take-away from my interviews is the notion that the capstone course is essentially the finish line for the students and the starting point for the clients.

This …

Mobile Device Security: Current Challenges And Existing Solutions, Hugo J. Martinez

Honors Theses

The mobile device industry has increased exponentially over the past couple decades. This has created a great demand for the devices along with great dependence on their capabilities. There is an assortment of mobile devices among which can be found laptops, tablets, smartphones, and personal music players. All these provide a way of making personal productivity and business capabilities greater. While businesses and the public benefit from the capabilities of these devices, not everyone notices how valuable the information that they handle is. Today’s mobile devices handle information such as contacts, banking details, GPS location, and personal and corporate e-mail …

Disability Determination Services And The State Of Michigan Media Project, Eric Hartstein

Honors Theses

I designed two informational brochures as part of a media project for both the State of Michigan Internship Program (SoMIP) and Disability Determination Services (DDS), which were both host agencies for my student internship during the spring 2012 semester. The purpose of the project is to raise awareness about the programs among college students, as well as to recruit talented students to become future interns for either of the programs. I chose this project because I felt that brochures would be a simple and effective way to distribute information regarding the programs across campuses statewide. I corresponded with both WMU …

Western News, April 12, 2012 , Western Michigan University

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Story highlights: Upton announces VetSucess program; WMU named to community service honor roll; On Campus with Margaret von Steinen.

Promising Connections: Uniting Writing Teachers, Elizabeth Brockman, Ken Lindblom

Teaching/Writing: The Journal of Writing Teacher Education

This article considers work that has brought writing teacher educators together in professional, social, and academic forums and looks towards the future of Teaching/Writing: The Journal of Writing Teacher Education.

Inaugural Issue (Spring 2012): Full Issue

Teaching/Writing: The Journal of Writing Teacher Education

The inaugural issue of Teaching/Writing: The Journal of Writing Teacher Education includes invited articles by key figures within writing teacher education.

The Western Michigan University Magazine, Spring 2012, Western Michigan University

Western Michigan University Magazine (1997-present)

• University news
• Oprah’s favorite guest
• Alumni and development changes
• Classnotes and obituaries
• College news
• Distinguished alumni winners
• The art, science and business of medicine: A founding dean, a $100 million anonymous gift and a downtown Kalamazoo home will help the WMU School of Medicine leverage the city’s life science heritage.
• Fostering success: After four years of wrapping its arms around former foster care youth, WMU has turned conventional wisdom on its ear and built a year-round home for a vulnerable population.
• Growing ever greener New academic initiatives and more than 30 years of energy-conservation efforts put WMU in forefront of …

Multiphoton Fluorescence Spectroscopy To Monitor The Folding/Unfolding Of The N-Terminal Domains 5-6 Of Wilson Disease Protein, Ibtesam Y. Alja'afreh, Ramakrishna Guda, David Huffman

Research and Creative Activities Poster Day

Denaturation of the N-terminal domains 5-6 of Wilson Disease protein has been monitored through its mutant WLN5-6Cys51 by circular dichroism (CD), one and two-photon fluorescence spectroscopy after binding it to the thiolreactive dye 7-diethylamino-3-(4‘-maleimidylphenyl) -4-methylcoumarin (CPM). Far-UV CD measurements have shown that the mutations and the binding of the dye did not affect the secondary structure of the protein as the unfolding transition remained constant. The fluorescence maximum of the dye changed with the denaturant concentration and followed the trend obtained from CD and shown that one dye labeled protein can be used to monitor the unfolding of protein. Interestingly, …

Haworthnews (04/2012), Western Michigan University

Haworth College of Business News

• Local food professional recognized for support of WMU food marketing program
• WMU places fifth at Supply Chain Challenge
• Cultivating innovation through SMIC is topic of May Keystone breakfast
• Rising to the challenge
• Private: PRISM April Faculty/Staff Accolades – May HCOB Newsletter
• Private: May Faculty and Staff Accolades
• Instagram hits the $1B jackpot!
• Advertising team places third in district competition
• Accounting organization co-hosts regional meeting

Prism #62, April 2012, Office Of The Provost

Prism: Western Michigan University's Newsletter for Academic Affairs

No abstract provided.

Fort St. Joseph Post - Spring 2012, Department Of Anthropology

Fort St. Joseph Archaeological Project

Vol. 3. No. 1

For friends of Western Michigan University’s Fort St. Joseph Archaeological Project

Table of Contents:

• Welcome to the Project!
• Society for Historical Archaeology 2011
• Direct from the Lab...
• Fur Trade Booklet Now Available!
• A Report on the 2011 Field Season
• French Cloth Seal Recovered at Fort St. Joseph, Michigan
• The Digital Archaeological Record
• Public Outreach: An Important Job
• A Student’s Experience with Outreach
• 2011 was the Best Year Yet!
• Comments from 2011 Open House Surveys
• Fort St. Joseph Archaeological Open House: A Colonial Militia Muster on the Eve of Revolution
• Where Are They Now?
• 2011 Field Season …

Participant/Observer Vol. 5. No. 1 Spring 2012, Anthropology Department

Participant/Observer

A Newsletter for Friends of the Western Michigan University Department of Anthropology

Table of Contents:

• Anthropology Unveils New Archaeology Labs
• Letter from the Chair
• 2011 Farmstead Archaeology Project Season
• Finding Fossils in New Ways: Using GIS and Remote Sensing Approaches in Paleoanthropology
• WMU Archaeologists Invade Baltimore for the Annual Conference on Historical and Underwater Archaeology
• El Sol Students Get a Firsthand Look at Anthropology
• The 36th Annual Western Michigan University Archaeological Field School
• WMU Now Offering Virtual Lectures on Fort St. Joseph Archaeology Programs
• Fur Trade Booklet Now Available!
• Sweet Memories in Japan
• Gender, Sexuality, and the Body Lecture Series …

Interpreting And Implementing English Language Arts State Standards/Expectations In Secondary Classrooms, Amanda Stearns-Pfeiffer

Dissertations

In my dissertation, I investigate the way in which English Language Arts (ELA) state standards are being interpreted and implemented, and how this implementation process affects the curricular decisions teachers make. This project focuses generally on the standards movement in American education, and more specifically on the ways teachers navigate the standards in their own classrooms.

The goal of this study is to problematize and better understand the end-result of current standards as they are conceived of by the final arbiters and interpreters of those standards – classroom English language arts teachers. Much work has been done in creating standards, …

A Study Of Support Services And Their Relationship With School Effectiveness In American Public Schools: Findings From The School And Staffing Survey (Sass) 2007-2008, Diane J. Gibbs

Dissertations

This study inquires into support services in schools and their relationship to school effectiveness by using data from the National Center for Education Statistics 2007–2008 School and Staffing Survey (SASS). Students’ ability to learn is impacted by their physical and mental health. It is more difficult to measure the influence of nonacademic factors on academic achievements than traditional academic factors. This study focuses on (a) the extent support services, beyond regular classroom instruction, are provided, (b) how provision is affected by school background, (c) whether and, if so, how providing support services relates to school effectiveness, and (d) whether and, …

Gender And The Boundaries Of National Identity: U.S. Women As A Citizen Class In The Long 1960s, Sara Bijani

Masters Theses

This text analyzes the public ideologies and institutions that underpinned women's unequal status within the national collective of United States citizens during the long 1960s, paying particular attention to the executive office of Lyndon Johnson, Congress, and the national security establishment. Women were frequently framed within these institutions as a separate special class of citizen, with rights and responsibilities not akin to those of the elite—male bodied—members of the national collective. Allowing for the imaginative construction of "women" as a subject class in U.S. society, this text argues that even with the guarantee of formal political rights in place, women …

Prospects For An International Charter "Space And Major Disaster" Remote Sensing Response To Drought Disasters - An Anhui, China Case Study, Joseph Burkhead

Masters Theses

Remote sensing is often leveraged during the response phase of disaster management to improve the situational awareness of decision-makers. The International Charter "Space and Major Disaster" (Charter) provides remote sensing support to non-spacefaring nations facing disasters such as earthquakes, floods and tsunamis. However, the Charter has never activated for a major drought disaster. Since droughts affect over half of the nearly 3 billion people that suffer from natural disasters annually, this study seeks to determine whether satellite remote sensing can be effectively employed according to the intent, capabilities, and limitations of the Charter to benefit officials responding to a major …

Identification And Characterization Of Suppressors Of Hopm1; A Plant Pathogen Effector Of Pseudomonas Syringae Pv. Tomato Dc3000, Vanessa Revindran

Dissertations

We have created a yeast model system to study the action of the plant pathogen effector HopM1 in Saccharomyces cerevisiae. Pseudomonas syringae, causative agent of bacterial speck in tomatoes, utilizes the type III secretion system to shuttle the effector proteins into the host cell.

When expressed in yeast, HopM1 is lethal on solid media at 21°C, but not at 30°C and 37°C. The same temperature sensitive ability of HopM1 to cause death on solid media is also observed in liquid. As demonstrated by SDS PAGE-Western blot analysis, HopM1 protein is present at 21°C, 30°C and 37°C. At 21°C, a full-length …

Optical And Electrochemical Sensors For The Detection Of Metal Ions And Nerve Gas Mimics Via Fluorescein And Coumarin Derivatives, Fasil Adefris Abebe

Dissertations

Trace element detection of metals, for example, iron, Copper and zinc, are important in biological systems and in the environment. Many of us are aware that our cells contain metal ions that are “tied” up in proteins. However, chelatable or “free” trace elements can also be found in small quantities, and can have a negative impact on our bodies. Despite the increasing surge in developing sensors for metals and nerve gas agents, efficient detection still remains a challenge. Among the various sensors developed so far, fluorescence sensors play an important role due to their simplicity. I design fluorescein-based chemosensors for …

Faithful Remembering: Constructing Dutch America In The Twentieth Century, David E. Zwart

Dissertations

The people of the Dutch-American community constructed and maintained a strong ethnoreligion identity in the twentieth despite pressures to join the mainstream of the United States. A strong institutional completeness of congregations and schools resulted from and contributed to this identity. The people in these institutions created a shared identity by demanding the loyalty of members as well as constructing narratives that convinced people of the need for the ethnoreligious institutions.

The narratives of the Dutch-American community reflected and reinforced a shared identity, which relied on a collective memory. The framing, maintaining, altering, and remodeling of the collective memory from …

Stop Snitching: Hip Hop's Influence On Crime Reporting In The Inner City, Ladel Lewis

Dissertations

The “stop snitching” phenomenon is a social epidemic that is affecting inner cities from coast to coast. These street politics have an adverse effect on the way individuals in the inner city view cooperation with police. With hip hop culture claiming a larger stake on the global stage, and mainstream artists sparking attention by denouncing cooperation with authorities while reproving others that choose to do so, this research examines if a relationship exists between individuals that adhere to the “code of silence” and self-professed hip hoppers. While much has been written about the significance of hip hop culture on the …

Patterns Of Interaction And Mathematical Thinking Of High School Students In Classroom Environments That Include Use Of Java-Based, Curriculum-Embedded Software, Karen L. Fonkert

Dissertations

This study analyzes the nature of student interaction and discourse in an environment that includes the use of Java-based, curriculum-embedded mathematical software. The software CPMP-Tools was designed as part of the development of the second edition of the Core-Plus Mathematics curriculum. The use of the software on laptop computers in small groups of students, and in whole-class interactive lessons with a single computer at the front of the classroom was explored. Data were collected through observations, interviews, and selected items from the students’ regular assessments. During the observations, classroom discussion was audio-taped and videotaped, and field notes were taken. The …

In Their Own Words: The Lived Experiences Of Unemployed African American Men, Kenlana R. Ferguson

Dissertations

Due to staggering unemployment rates, African American men's experience with work in the U.S. has historically received widespread attention in the media and social science literature. Terms such as black male unemployment crisis, puzzle, epidemic and catastrophe have been used to describe the unemployment woes of black. Attempts at explaining why African American men are experiencing such difficulty in the world of work has been undertaken across the disciplines, however much of this work has amounted to nothing more than acknowledgement that isolating independent factors as causes does not suffice and that a more interdisciplinary framework is needed if we …

Sweetness And Strength: Codes Of Femininity And Body Image In Branded Social-Networking Messages And Consumer Responses, Anne M. Holcomb

Masters Theses

This study critically analyzes visual and text updates posted by two clothing brands to the social-networking site Facebook.com, including consumers' interaction with these marketing messages. A semiological textual analysis was conducted using Facebook updates by the Victoria's Secret PINK and Nike Women apparel brands, and the responses of fans who subscribed to these updates. Advertising aimed at women in print media has previously been analyzed in this way, revealing patterns of sexualization and objectification that can be harmful to women and men alike. My analysis builds on this tradition. Social-networking sites such as Facebook allow individual users unprecedented access to …

Western News, March 29, 2012 , Western Michigan University

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Story highlights: 'People's scholar' Boyce Watkins is 2012 diversity event speaker; New program will assist businesses; On Campus with Carolyn Wiley.

2011-12 Series - Sonya Bernard-Hollins, University Center For The Humanities

University Center for the Humanities Events

Ms. Bernard-Hollins will talk about her search for information on African American graduates of WMU and how she discovered Merze Tate, a 1927 graduate of WMU and donor to the University. Her original sources research include archives in public and university libraries, private collections, media outlets and oral histories.

Western News, March 15, 2012 , Western Michigan University

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Story highlights: Johnston, Carlson to lead governing board; WMU has best campus EV infrastructure in nation; Service anniversaries for March; On Campus with David Evans.

March 5, 2012: Rhetoric & Writing Studies/First Year Writing Position, Department Of English

Gleanings: Department of English Blog Archive

No abstract provided.

Prism #61, March 2012, Office Of The Provost

Prism: Western Michigan University's Newsletter for Academic Affairs

No abstract provided.

Haworthnews (03/2012), Western Michigan University

Haworth College of Business News

• Western Michigan University’s third annual Wounded Warrior 5K Race
• Top 6 golf tips for having a great season on the links
• Net-Inspect CEO to speak on re-growth of manufacturing
• From the classroom to the internet: marketing students turn a group project into e-business
• Kalamazoo River Valley Trail is topic of April Keystone
• Kalamazoo Marathon race director is March Keystone speaker
• MBA students take first place in finance competition
• Burnie, DeMello comment on Facebook IPO
• Rick DiBartolomeo, BBA ’81, Business, Innovation and the State of Michigan
• Dawn Foods CEO to discuss global business challenges, opportunities
• “Biggest Loser” contestant to speak in …