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Chassidy Sumler Named Miss Uab At 2014 Scholarship Pageant, Staff

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Day-Night Differences In Neural Activation In Histaminergic And Serotonergic Areas With Putative Projections To The Cerebrospinal Fluid In A Diurnal Brain, Alexandra Castillo-Ruiz, Andrew J. Gall, Laura Smale, Antonio A. Nunez

Faculty Publications

In nocturnal rodents, brain areas that promote wakefulness have a circadian pattern of neural activation that mirrors the sleep/wake cycle, with more neural activation during the active phase than during the rest phase. To investigate whether differences in temporal patterns of neural activity in wake-promoting regions contribute to differences in daily patterns of wakefulness between nocturnal and diurnal species, we assessed Fos expression patterns in the tuberomammillary (TMM), supramammillary (SUM), and raphe nuclei of male grass rats maintained in a 12:12 h light-dark cycle. Day-night profiles of Fos expression were observed in the ventral and dorsal TMM, in the SUM, …

My Sociology: The Challenge Of Transforming Classroom Culture From A Focus On Grades To A Focus On Learning, David L. Strickland, Carol J. Strickland

The Journal of Public and Professional Sociology

This paper documents the pedagogical remodeling of an Introduction to Sociology course. The challenge is to transform the classroom culture, and ultimately the college culture, from a focus on grades to a focus on learning. This transformation is accomplished through a series of learning activities embodied in My Sociology resources, which have been designed to be not merely learner-centered but ego-centered. Seasoned professors have often commented that students seem to perk up when the lesson is about them. Taking advantage of this energy, the discussion of sociology in this course begins with a treatment of the self, and then branches …

When And Where I Enter: Teaching The Concepts Of Critical Pedagogy And Applied Sociology Through Study Abroad Programs, Karen Young, Martha Hughes

The Journal of Public and Professional Sociology

Participation of students in study abroad programs which focus on teaching the core concepts and principles in a different country enhances a student's understanding and appreciation of the host country's culture and brings alive the concept of globalization in a way that no other classroom experience in America could ever do. The University System of Georgia's European Council study abroad programs have for years offered in-depth immersion programs which have proven to be exciting, effective and reliable models for increasing a student's awareness and actively stimulating their capacity for higher learning, often leading to an increase in participatory community activism …

Challenging Whiteness In Higher Education Classrooms: Context, Content, And Classroom Dynamics, Denise Woodall

The Journal of Public and Professional Sociology

Abstract

The following exploratory research is an examination of professor experiences with teaching on the topic of white privilege. Drawing from critical race pedagogical theory and real classroom experiences, the various solutions professors found to be useful are reported. Data were compiled from a sample of published literature on challenging whiteness and in-depth interviews from four professors at Southern colleges who have written on this topic. The results of this research illuminate some of the various classroom dynamics, course design ideas, teaching techniques, theoretical utilities, and future professional directions for challenging white privilege. Although the scope of this study is …

Volume 105 Issue 6, Southwestern Oklahoma State University

The Southwestern - Archive

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University Of Southern Maine Advance It-Catalyst: Project Description, Samantha Langley Turnbaugh, Joyce Gibson, Andrew Anderson, Dahlia Lynn

Women ADVANCE at USM Initiative

Through the Women ADVANCE at USM Initiative (WAUI) the University is committed to creating a culture and environment for attaining and sustaining a diverse faculty population (especially women and under-represented minorities) that reflects the community it serves.

The Bates Student - Volume 143 Number 05 - October 9, 2013, Bates College

The Bates Student

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Prospectus, October 9, 2013, Ted Sutterlund, Matthew Jackson, Mace Mackiewicz, Alex Wallner

Prospectus 2013

SMOKING BAN CONSIDERED ON CAMPUS; Second annual Zombie Run slated for Oct. 19; Affordable Care Act: Are you covered?; Simple ways to stay focusted in any classroom; Obamacare may cause dizziness; No live on Mars? Maybe someday; Streaming services offer convenience; Volleyball more than just a game

The Winonan, Winona State University

The Winonan - 2010s

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The Overlooked Victims Of Domestic-Violence Cases: Pets, Leandra Preston-Sidler

UCF Forum

Many of us consider pets as family members. Some refer to pets as “children” and treat them as such. I am guilty of the latter and will do anything for my dogs, including spending too much money on their needs, letting them sleep in our bed (pillows included) and generally spoiling them rotten.

Depression And Employment Among Men: A Study Of Displaced Steelworkers, Maren Trowbridge, Dr. Marie Cronwall

Journal of Undergraduate Research

Many workers who find themselves without employment fall into serious depression. As job loss is common in our society, its human cost becomes increasingly widespread. These mental health problems reach even the well-being of the family as well as long-term financial stability. Often, those who are reemployed find themselves in less lucrative, more menial jobs that fail to provide the lifestyle or even the necessities that their previous employment provided. Thus, the underemployed frequently experience levels of depression similar to those of the unemployed (Dooley, Prause, and Ham-Rowbottom 2000).

“The Role Of Gaba Electrical Networks In Brain Stimulation Reward”, Seth Gunderson, Dr. Scott Steffensen

Journal of Undergraduate Research

The basis for my project is predicated on the rewarding properties of alcohol and other substances of abuse. We set out to further our understanding the neural system that is involved in intracranial self stimulation (ICSS) and how this system is mediated by γ-aminobutyric acid (GABA) neurons. Studies involving intravenous self administration (SA) of opiates and psychostimulants have identified specific neural substrates that mediate the reinforcing actions of these drugs and they constitute part of the same central nervous reward system that has evolved for mediating natural motivated behaviors, the mesocorticolimbic dopamine (DA) system.1,2

Job Loss And Health Status Among Laid Off Steel Workers, Brock O'Neil, Dr. Marie Cornwall

Journal of Undergraduate Research

Job loss is a stressful life event that results in many changes in life. For some time, researchers have noted that there is a strong relationship between job loss and declines in health outcomes (Brenner 1979). When two things are related, such as job loss and poor health outcomes in this study, it is difficult to establish which one causes the other. That is, does job loss result in poor health or does poor health cause one to lose work? A number of researchers have examined this problem and have demonstrated, quite convincingly, that job loss does lead to declines …

Adaptive Effects Of Ventral Tegmental Area Gaba Neurons To Alcohol, Jeffrey Sparenborg, Dr. Scott Steffensen

Journal of Undergraduate Research

I set out to discover the substrates of the brain that are involved with chronic use of alcohol. My mentor Scott Steffensen had previously found that the GABA neurons in the midbrain, more specifically, in the ventral tegmental area (VTA) of the midbrain were susceptible to ethanol administration. This information is only a piece, however, of the puzzle that will eventually show the full picture of how ethanol disrupts our brain’s function. The next piece that my ORCA aimed to delineate was to see what mechanisms in the VTA were changing when the brain became addicted to alcohol i.e., what …

Law School To Host Screening Of New Independent Thriller, Jenny Kate Luster, Kate Casey

University of Mississippi News

Film explores growing global concerns over privacy and technology

The Intersection Of Preservice Teachers’ Confidence, Perceptions, And Ideas For Using Instructional Technology For Teaching And Learning, Louis Nadelson, Darcie Bennett, Ezra Gwilliam, Catherine Howlett, Steve Oswalt, Jaime Sand

Curriculum, Instruction, and Foundational Studies Faculty Publications and Presentations

The evolving landscape of instructional technology is influenced by access to a wide range of technology tools that can be accessed to enhance teaching and learning. Technological tools such as smart phones, apps, tablets, social media, and YouTube exemplify the kinds of resources that are readily availabl e for teaching and learning. Further, the development of different course delivery systems and the exposure to concepts such as flipped classrooms and electronic portfolios have extended the use of mainstream technology into new instructional applications. The ongoing evolution of technology hardware, software, and instructional applications has numerous educational implications. In an effort …

Emu Today, October 9, 2013, Eastern Michigan University

EMU Today

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Self-Efficacy For Metalinguistic Control And Its Relationship To Writing Quality, Michael S. Dempsey

College of Education and Human Sciences: Dissertations, Theses, and Student Research

Currently influential models of writing processes, such as Flower and Hayes (1980) and Hayes (1996) do not attend explicitly to metalinguistics—writers’ ability to monitor and control linguistic skills. Dimensions of metalinguistic ability—metaphonology, metasyntax, metasemantics, metapragmatics, and metatext—arguably are central to the writing process and to writers’ success as they compose. The purpose of this study was to discover if a relationship existed between metalinguistic self-efficacy and (1) ratings on essays written by participants and (2) participants’ self-reported average grade on college papers. Essays were rated using two rubrics, one analytic and the other holistic, which were developed from metalinguistic constructs. …

The Daily Gamecock, Wednesday, October 9, 2013, University Of South Carolina, Office Of Student Media

October

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Spectator 2013-10-09, Editors Of The Spectator

The Spectator

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The Antelope, University Of Nebraska At Kearney

The Antelope

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Visual Perspective And The Characteristics Of Mind Wandering, Brittany M. Christian, Lynden K. Miles, Carolyn Parkinson, C. Neil Macrae

Dartmouth Scholarship

When the mind wanders away from the here-and-now toward imaginary events, it typically does so from one of two visual vantage points—a first-person perspective (i.e., the world is seen as it is in everyday life) or a third-person perspective (i.e., the world is seen from the viewpoint of an outside observer). While extant evidence has detailed consequences that ensue from the utilization of these distinct points of view, less is known about their more basic properties. Here, we investigated the prevalence, demographics and qualities associated with the visual perspective that people spontaneously adopt when the mind wanders. The results from …

The Anchor, Volume 127.06: October 09, 2013, Hope College

The Anchor: 2013

The Anchor began in 1887 and was first issued weekly in 1914. Covering national and campus news alike, Hope College’s student-run newspaper has grown over the years to encompass over two-dozen editors, reporters, and staff. For much of The Anchor's history, the latest issue was distributed across campus each Wednesday throughout the academic school year (with few exceptions). In recent years The Anchor moved to monthly print issues and a more frequently updated website. The Anchor is now published in print twice per academic semester. Occasionally, the volume and/or issue numbering is irregular.

Computer-Based Cognitive Retraining For Adults With Chronic Acquired Brain Injury: A Pilot Study, Kitsum Li, Julie Robertson, Joshua Ramos, Stephanie Gella

Collected Faculty Scholarship

This study evaluated the effectiveness of a computer-based cognitive retraining (CBCR) program on improving memory and attention deficits in individuals with a chronic acquired brain injury (ABI). Twelve adults with a chronic ABI demonstrating deficits in memory and attention were recruited from a convenience sample from the community. Using a quasi-experimental one-group pretest–posttest design, a significant improvement was found in both memory and attention scores postintervention using the cognitive screening tool. This study supported the effectiveness of CBCR programs in improving cognitive deficits in memory and attention in individuals with chronic ABI. Further research is recommended to validate these findings …

Too Good To Be True: Rhesus Monkeys React Negatively To Better-Than-Expected Offers, Emily J. Knight, Kristen M. Klepac, Jerald D. Kralik

Dartmouth Scholarship

To succeed in a dynamically changing world, animals need to predict their environments. Humans, in fact, exhibit such a strong desire for consistency that one of the most well-established findings in social psychology is the effort people make to maintain consistency among their beliefs, attitudes, and behavior. However, displeasure with unpredictability leads to a potential paradox, because a positive outcome that exceeds one’s expectations often leads to increased subjective value and positive affect, not the opposite. We tested the hypothesis that two evolutionarily-conserved evaluation processes underlie goal-directed behavior: (1) consistency, concerned with prediction errors, and (2) valuation, concerned with outcome …

Rape And Genji’S Relationships With Women, Joseph Mark Donaldson, Dr. George Perkins

Journal of Undergraduate Research

Genji is a character is the ancient Japanese novel, The Tale of Genji. The setting of the novel is the Heian court of ancient Japan. Genji is the son of the emperor’s favorite wife. Although Genji is most favored among the emperor’s sons, and possesses remarkable qualities, his mother was of relatively low rank and Genji is at a young age deprived of his opportunity to become emperor. This happens early in the novel but the story continues the tale of Genji’s life and even includes the lives of some of his descendents.

The Neurophysiological Effects Of Carbon Monoxide On The Basal Ganglia Over Time, Dalin Pulsipher, Dr. Ramona O. Hopkins

Journal of Undergraduate Research

Carbon monoxide (CO) poisoning is one of the most common causes of death due to poisoning in the United States [1]. CO poisoning often results in neurological changes and motor and cognitive impairments due to anoxia and other related biomechanical mechanisms [2]. A major set of subcortical nuclei affected by CO poisoning are the basal ganglia, which play a key role in the regulation and coordination of movement, as well as some cognitive functions.

Orca Progress Report, Lara Schwicht, Dr. Jeffrey Lee

Journal of Undergraduate Research

This study focuses on assessment procedures used to evaluate the treatments offered to severely and persistently mentally ill patients (SPMI). By way of definition, SPMI individuals: (1) number between one and five million (NAMHC, 1995; Arns, & Linney, 1993), (2) use a significant percentage of mental health care inpatient and community services ($148 billion annually in the United States), and (3) are diagnosed with mental disorders such as “schizophrenia, schizo-affective disorder, bipolar disorder, major depression, autism, and obsessive compulsive disorder” (Carey, & Carey, 1999). The size of this patient population coupled with its financial impact on health care in North …

The Effect Of Media On Anxiety, Depression And Self-Esteem In Persons With Different Body Mass Indices (Bmi), Angel Saavedra Cisneros, Dr. Matthew Spackman

Journal of Undergraduate Research

Body image is only one of different aspects that make up what is known as “self-image.” That is, the way we view ourselves as a whole by ourselves and in reference to others. Having a healthy self-image is important to overall wellbeing in many individuals. Having a healthy body-image is a very important part of self-image healthiness; the comparisons we subject our body-image to are also important to our self image.