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Energy And The Environment: Electrical Services Engineering Students Work With Local School Pupils, Joseph Teehan

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As part of their module Energy and the Environment, first year students in the B Tech Electrical Services Engineering had the option to engage with first year secondary school pupils in Synge Street CBS, to support them in the classroom in learning science and engineering concepts.

Light Therapy Treatment Using Quiet Motors And Remote Control, Gavin Duffy

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A final year Electrical Engineering student worked with Camphill Community to develop a quiet motor system to adjust the blinds in a light therapy treatment room for people with cerebral palsy.

Cars: College Awareness Of Road Safety, Catherine Bates

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This is a collaborative project with the Garda Road Safety Unit and the DIT Programme for Students Learning with Communities which involves students from different disciplines apolying their specialist subject skills to issues of road safety.

Early Development Of Professional Skills Benefits Students & Community Partners, Clare Corish, Daniel Mccartney

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The BSc (Hons) Human Nutrition & Dietetics programme requires the early development of professional skills. In the Stage 2 module "Professional Practice Studies", academic staff and students worked with Dublin City Council and older people in the North Central area to facilitate the development of these skills.

Primary School Children's Vision Screening Project, Veronica O'Dwyer, Sandra Harrington

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In the final year of the BSc in Optometry, students work with children in local schools to do vision screenings, supervised by DIT lecturers. This project enhances students’ experience of working with children, and ensures that any local children with eye problems are swiftly referred to a specialist.

Students Re-Designing Rooms In The Building In Collaboration With The Young People Of Smpyp, Tracey Dalton 0695365

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This was a live project for students

which involved collaboration with the young people of the youth project .

This involved meetings, taking a brief, surveying, photographing and presenting their finished proposals to their ‘clients’.

It gave the students an indication of how to work with real clients and to give back to the community through creativity.

It also gave students an awareness of using budgets in projects.

Early Development Of Professional Skills Benefits Students & Community Partners, Clare Corish, Daniel Mccartney

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Poster advocating Early Development of Professional Skills Benefits Students & Community Partners

Smarter Travel Survey., Dublin Institute Of Technology, David O'Connor

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Poster displaying details of Smarter travel survey. Dublin City Council is seeking to have Drimnagh designated as a Smarter Travel town. Smarter Travel towns are areas where latest practices and investments in sustainable travel are piloted and reviewed. One of the initiatives being explored is a Personalised Travel Plan (PTP), whereby local people are encouraged to improve their travel behaviour via direct marketing. As part of UniverCities (part of the Creative Dublin Alliance) and Students Learning with Communities (SLWC) initiatives, DIT School of Spatial Planning agreed to carry out a survey of the local community to gauge interest in and …

Shopping Travel Behaviour In Dublin City Centre Survey., Dublin Institute Of Technology, David O'Connor

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Poster displaying details of DIT School of Spatial Planning staff and students collaborating with the Irish Environmental Network and the Dublin Cycling Campaign to conceive and design this survey. All partners benefitted from the generation of information about shopper travel behaviour as well as about the perceptions of various interest groups. This information is being utilised to raise awareness of city centre environmental issues, ultimately leading to improved urban design which will benefit all city centre users.

Burning Candles At Both Ends, Brenda Duggan

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Poster displaying details of project carried out by DIT students in fire safety week 2009. As part of 2009 Fire Safety Week, the Department of the Environment, Heritage and Local Government and the Department of Design in DIT devised a challenge for students with the aim of promoting awareness of fire safety, particularly as students move from home into rented accommodation. Third Year students of Visual Communication were invited to submit a project as part of their assessment on the theme of “Burning the Candle at Both Ends”. Initially working individually, and later in teams, students were asked to produce …

Early Childhood Education Students Give Drama Workshops To Nursery Children, Jass Mcevoy

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Poster with details of DIT students' workshop with nursery school children. 1st and 2nd year Early Childhood Education students prepare and facilitate drama classes in St Brigid’s Day Nursery local to the College as part of their Drama Education course. The nursery children range in ages of two to four years and are grouped into small groups of 6 to 9 children in each group. The sessions last for 30-50 minutes and for the duration of the drama education class teachers hand over completely to the students.

Good Design Stems From Effective Collaboration Between The Designer And The Client., John Green

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Poster with professional practice advice on graphic design. This programme aims to augment the visual skills developed at undergraduate graphic design level, with a range of conceptual, technical and management skills that are appropriate for the professional practice of graphic design.

Manufacturing And Design Engineering Students : Database With Main, Leah Mitchell

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Poster displaying details of project in conjunction with Men Alone In No-Man’s Land (MAIN), a support group for men in Dublin city. Third year students in the B Eng (Honours) Manufacturing and Design Engineering course at Bolton St completed a project in conjunction with Men Alone In No-Man’s Land (MAIN), a support group for men in Dublin city.

St. Brigid's Nursery- Second Year Architecture, Patrick Flynn

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Poster with details of students' project on locating a nursery school in inner city Dublin. St Brigid’s Nursery school is currently located in Mountjoy Square. The second year architecture students explored the possibility of designing a new custom built nursery school on the existing site and a number of new locations in the North East inner city. The sites were chosen in conjunction with Dublin City Council

Bsc Spatial Planning And Environmental Management Public Spaces Survey, David O'Connor, Dublin Institute Of Technology

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Poster displaying Public spaces survey. As part of the module on Data Collection and Analysis, in March 2010, 2nd year BSc Spatial Planning and Environmental Management students carried out an ethnographic survey of four key public spaces within the LifeLine catchment. Using a mixture of questionnaire survey and observational data, students measured usage levels, behavioural patterns and user opinions about the spaces.

Msc Food Safety- Carmichael House, Food Safety Audit, Greg Burke, Dublin Institute Of Technology

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Poster displaying details of Carmichael House food safety audit which was to audit the food service operation of a registered charity, operating in a listed building and expanding both the range of foods provided and the numbers being catered for. Address all areas and specify appropriate prioritised recommendations

Reaction Time Measurement Application: Road Safety, Aidan O'Dwyer

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Poster displaying details of Reaction time measurement application in road safety.

Product Design And Enable Ireland, Assistive Technology And Design For All., Bernard Timmins, Dublin Institute Of Technology

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Poster displaying details of Assistive technology. The ultimate objective of assistive technology is to contribute to the effective enhancement of the lives of people with disabilities and elderly people, helping to overcome the barriers they experience in society, increasing their experience of independence, and positively contributing to their social inclusion.

Student As Teacher: Computing Projects In Local Schools., Ciaran O'Leary, Dublin Institute Of Technology

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Poster displaying computing ininner city Dublin schools.

Parental Problems, Case Plan Requirements, And Service Targeting In Child Welfare Reunification, Amy C. D’Andrade, R. Chambers

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Only about half of parents attempting to reunify with their children in foster care succeed in their efforts. Parents are ordered by the court to use treatment services in order to resolve their problems. These treatment services thus play a critical role in reunification, and in fact the use of services appropriately matched to parents' problems has been found to be associated with a greater likelihood of reunification. However, there is little in the literature regarding the specific requirements of reunification case plans, and whether they are accurately targeted at reunifying parents' problems. This mostly descriptive study uses case file …

2010-2012 Annual Report, Society Of American Archivists Student Chapter

Annual Reports

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The Ongoing Assembly Of A Central Cluster Galaxy: Phase-Space Substructures In The Halo Of M87, Aaron J. Romanowsky, J. Strader, J. P. Brodie, C. Mihos, L. R. Spitler, D. A. Forbes, C. Foster, J. A. Arnold

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The halos of galaxies preserve unique records of their formation histories. We carry out the first combined observational and theoretical study of phase-space halo substructure in an early-type galaxy: M87, the central galaxy in the Virgo cluster. We analyze an unprecedented wide-field, high-precision photometric and spectroscopic data set for 488 globular clusters (GCs), which includes new, large-radius Subaru/Suprime-Cam and Keck/DEIMOS observations. We find signatures of two substructures in position-velocity phase space. One is a small, cold stream associated with a known stellar filament in the outer halo; the other is a large shell-like pattern in the inner halo that implies …

Radially Extended Kinematics In The S0 Galaxy Ngc 2768 From Planetary Nebulae, Globular Clusters And Starlight, D. A. Forbes, A. Cortesi, V. Pota, C. Foster, Aaron J. Romanowsky, M. R. Merrifield, J. P. Strader, L. Coccato, N. Napolitano

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There are only a few tracers available to probe the kinematics of individual early-type galaxies beyond one effective radius. Here we directly compare a sample of planetary nebulae (PNe), globular clusters (GCs) and galaxy starlight velocities out to approximately four effective radii, in the S0 galaxy NGC 2768. Using a bulge-to-disc decomposition of a K-band image we assign PNe and starlight to either the disc or the bulge. We show that the bulge PNe and bulge starlight follow the same radial density distribution as the red subpopulation of GCs, whereas the disc PNe and disc starlight are distinct components. We …

Support For The Beginning Special Educator Through High Quality Mentoring, Jennifer C. Madigan, G Scroth-Cavataio

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Approximately 50% of school districts across the nation have reported barriers in obtaining highly qualified teachers (U.S. Department of Education, 2009). Beginning special education teachers report that they often feel they lack the prerequisite skills for working with their students, particularly students from culturally and linguistically diverse backgrounds. Special educators often feel unsupported and overwhelmed by the continuous changes in districts related to No Child Left Behind (NCLB). Additionally, nationwide alternative programs are being developed as a means for special education teachers to clear their credential outside of the university setting. The need for support of these teachers in today's …

Fear Of Being Useful, Paul Jay, Gerald Graff

English: Faculty Publications and Other Works

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The Thirty Years' War: Europe's Tragedy, Robert Bireley S.J.

History: Faculty Publications and Other Works

The article reviews the book "The Thirty Years' War: Europe's Tragedy," by Peter H. Wilson. Full text available at http://www.jstor.org/stable/10.1086/669393.

Aligning Public Health, Health Care, Law And Policy: Medical-Legal Partnership As A Multilevel Response To The Social Determinants Of Health, Elizabeth Tobin Tyler

Pro Bono Collaborative Staff Publications

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State And Local Responses To Climate Change Through Hazard Adaptation Measures: White Paper Synthesizing Innovative State And Local Climate Change Adaptation Strategies, Marine Affairs Institute, Roger Williams University School Of Law

Sea Grant Law Fellow Publications

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Unols Vessels And U.S. Exports Regulations: Seeking A Coherent Solution, Sea Grant Law Fellows

Sea Grant Law Fellow Publications

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Legal Beagle Blog (January 2012), Roger Williams University School Of Law Library

Law Library Newsletters/Blog

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