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Medical School Watercooler Newsletter - March 15, 2020, Lindsey Lyle

Watercooler Newsletter

This is the March 15, 2020 edition of the Frederick P. Whiddon College of Medicine's Newsletter - Watercooler.

Contents Include:

Class of 2020 celebrates Match Day results

USA medical students rally to donate ‘match money’

USA College of Medicine mourns loss of internal medicine professor

Traditional Funeral And Burial Rituals And Ebola Outbreaks In West Africa: A Narrative Review Of Causes And Strategy Interventions, Chulwoo Park

Faculty Publications

Introduction: In West Africa, traditional funerals and burials have proven main contributors to the spread of infectious diseases, such as Ebola, plague, the Marburg virus, and others. Although the World Health Organization has provided guidelines for the safe burial process after learning of the culture of the afterlife in Ebola-affected areas, little effort has been made to integrate theoretical interventions and models for changing West Africans’ funeral behavior. This research was conducted to study 1) the background of traditional burial rituals, 2) interventions to contain Ebola outbreaks in West Africa, and 3) a strategic approach to future disease outbreak in …

Public Opinion Of The Police In 1930s America: A Qualitative Historiographical Study, Willard M. Oliver

Qualitative Criminology (QC)

"Public opinion polls largely developed post-WWII and questions about the police did not appear until the late 1960s. Since then, over 100+ studies have assessed the modern-day public opinion of the police, but none have looked to public opinion from an earlier time period. This study uses a qualitative historiographical approach for assessing public opinion of the police in the 1930s by drawing on the primary source of a letter exchange between two of that eras greatest pulp writers: Robert E. Howard and H.P. Lovecraft. Findings suggest similarities between the 1930s and present day public opinion of the police."

Sledge, William Leonard, B. 1948 - Collector (Sc 3514), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

Manuscript Collection Finding Aids

Finding aid only for SC 3514. Script and photographs from two womanless wedding shows held in the Alvaton School gymnasium in Alvaton, Warren County, Kentucky in the 1960s. The images are stored in the WKU Photo Archives.

German Immigration And Its Ties To Landscape Change In Nebraska, Lindsey Labrie

Honors Program: Senior Projects (Public)

This thesis uses a multidimensional approach to frame the different waves of German immigration within the context of land use change in Nebraska. By recounting the historical challenges and struggles Germans faced in their homelands, this thesis provides similarities between historical immigration patterns throughout the state. Observing the timing of these movements of people paints a clearer picture of how these immigrants might have helped change the farming and cultural landscapes of Nebraska. Knowing and recognizing historical immigration in Nebraska cultivates a deeper appreciation for the current relations between immigrants and Nebraska’s physical landscape.

The Significance Of Freud’S Theory The Uncanny In Nella Larson’S Passing: A Psychoanalytic Study, هدى عبدعلي حطاب, صهيب كمال محمود الكمال

Alustath Journal for Human and Social Sciences

This study closely investigates the elements of Sigmund Freud’s theory “The Uncanny” in one of Larson’s most famous novels. Although the novel touches upon racial issues, the study explores the mysterious relationship between Irene and Clare based on the main features of Freud’s “The Uncanny,” which are represented by hidden sexual desire, envy, supernatural power, and double characters. The aspect of the sexual desire is indicated in the novel by sexual undertones expressed by Irene towards Clare’s physical features. Envy in the novel is expressed by Irene who shows resentful longing aroused by Clare’s possessions and qualities due to her …

Community Plenary: Growing Special Collections And Archives For Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, And Accessibility / Moderator: Eboni Johnson, Amy Margaris, Eric Wagenfeld, Tim Keller, Runxiao Zhu, Eboni Johnson

Teaching and Learning with Objects for Colleges Symposium for Librarians, Archivists, and Community Curators

No abstract provided.

Planning For Student Initiative: Creating A Digital Textbook, Ronald Vaughan Morris

The Councilor: A National Journal of the Social Studies

Undergraduate students enrolled in a university class created an elementary social studies book delivered to computers, personal communication devices, and tablets. Students worked in an interdisciplinary team to create the interactive platform. The students worked with both university and community partners to create the text. The study presented described both the content and the process of student generation of material followed by community member review, and the revision cycle used by the students to create features and components of the text materials. A variety of false starts and marketing challenges reflect the obstacles undergraduate students face when creating marketable products …

Lunch And Learn Small Discussion Groups, Alexia Hudson-Ward, Laura Perrings, Ken Grossi, Ed Vermue, Anne Cuyler Salsich, Megan Mitchell, Heath Patten, Angela Vanden Elzen

Teaching and Learning with Objects for Colleges Symposium for Librarians, Archivists, and Community Curators

Mini-conversations in which attendees self-select. There will be a discussant at each table to assist in guiding the dialogues.

Alexia Hudson-Ward: Situating Our Work Within the Mission in a Liberal Arts Setting
Strategies on how to strategically communicate and steward the importance of this work to the faculty and senior leaders of our institutions as a mission-centered imperative.

Laura Perrings: Educational Opportunities Provided by Rare Book School
Learn more about the educational opportunities provided by Rare Book School, such as the Lang Fellowship.

Ken Grossi and Ed Vermue: Building Professional Community
We all need "our people." This dialogue will explore …

"Date With An Object" / Moderator: Megan Cook, Megan Cook, Barbara Prior, Ken Grossi, Anne Cuyler Salsich, Heath Patten, Ann Sherif

Teaching and Learning with Objects for Colleges Symposium for Librarians, Archivists, and Community Curators

This fun and engaging session will include a "speed visiting" format where participants will move from station to station in groups, to talk out concepts of teaching with various objects. The featured items will be provided by the Oberlin College Libraries' Department of Special Collections and the Oberlin College Archives.

Megan Cook: Medieval and early printing
Barbara Prior: Artist books
Ken Grossi & Anne Salsich
Heath Patten: Reception and perception with visual technology
Ann Sherif

Panel Discussion: Active Learning With Objects / Moderator: Ed Vermue, Angela Vanden Elzen, Danielle Skeehan, Joseph W. Ho, Jennifer Fraser, Ed Vermue

Teaching and Learning with Objects for Colleges Symposium for Librarians, Archivists, and Community Curators

The panel will be comprised of library and faculty leaders discussing creative methodologies in objects-based pedagogy inside and outside of the classroom.

Port Douglas, Emerald Creek Falls, And Tropical Cyclones, Christina E. Swafford

2019-20 Postcards

Postcard from Christina Swafford, during the Linfield College Semester Abroad Program at James Cook University in Cairns, Australia

Short And Long Period Growth Markers Of Enamel Formation Distinguish European Pleistocene Hominins, Mario Modesto-Mata, M. Christopher Dean, Rodrigo S. Lacruz

KIP Articles

Characterizing dental development in fossil hominins is important for distinguishing between them and for establishing where and when the slow overall growth and development of modern humans appeared. Dental development of australopiths and early Homo was faster than modern humans. The Atapuerca fossils (Spain) fill a barely known gap in human evolution, spanning ~1.2 to ~0.4 million years (Ma), during which H. sapiens and Neandertal dental growth characteristics may have developed. We report here perikymata counts, perikymata distributions and periodicities of all teeth belonging to the TE9 level of Sima del Elefante, level TD6.2 of Gran Dolina (H. antecessor) and …

Is Law A Discipline? Forays Into Academic Culture, Gene R. Shreve

Cleveland State Law Review

This Article explores academic culture. It addresses the reluctance in academic circles to accord law the full stature of a discipline. It forms doubts that have been raised into a series of four criticisms. Each attacks an academic feature of law, inviting the question: Is law different from the rest of the university in a way damaging its stature as an academic discipline? The Article concludes that, upon careful examination of each criticism, none establishes a difference between law and other disciplines capable of damaging law’s stature.

Women's Use Of Intimate Apparel As Subtle Sexual Signals In Committed, Heterosexual Relationships, Lyndsey K. Craig, Peter B. Gray

Anthropology Faculty Research

Current literature on women’s sexual signaling focuses on modes of attracting potential, new sexual partners, but says little about women’s subtle sexual signals in committed, romantic relationships. Subtle sexual signals are inherently private and are only visible to the intended audience; a woman might use these signals to elicit or accept a sexual response from her partner or to increase her overall attractiveness, or attractivity. In this study, we sought to identify women’s use of intimate apparel as a proceptive or receptive behavior as well as the effects of relative mate value, relationship commitment, relationship satisfaction, and sexual functioning. A …

Professional Identity Formation Through Pro Bono Revealed Through Conversation Analysis, Linda F. Smith

Cleveland State Law Review

Law school is supposed to teach legal analysis and lawyering skills as well as mold law students’ professional identities. Pro bono work provides an opportunity for law students to use their legal knowledge and skills and to develop their identities as emerging legal professionals. As important as both pro bono work and identity formation are, there has been very little research regarding how pro bono contributes to students’ identity formation. This Article utilizes a data set of over forty student-client consultations at a pro bono brief advice project that have been recorded and transcribed. It uses conversation analysis to study …

Structural Competency: Curriculum For Medical Students, Residents, And Interprofessional Teams On The Structural Factors That Produce Health Disparities, Joshua Neff, Seth M. Holmes, Kelly R. Knight, Shirley Strong, Ariana Thompson-Lastad, Cara Mcguinness, Laura Duncan, Nimish Saxena, Michael J. Harvey, Alice Langford, Katiana L. Carey-Simms, Sara N. Minahan, Shannon Satterwhite, Caitlin Ruppel, Sonia Lee, Lillian Walkover, Jorge De Avila, Brett Lewis, Jennifer Matthews, Nicholas Nelson

Faculty Research, Scholarly, and Creative Activity

Introduction: Research on disparities in health and health care has demonstrated that social, economic, and political factors are key drivers of poor health outcomes. Yet the role of such structural forces on health and health care has been incorporated unevenly into medical training. The framework of structural competency offers a paradigm for training health professionals to recognize and respond to the impact of upstream, structural factors on patient health and health care. Methods: We report on a brief, interprofessional structural competency curriculum implemented in 32 distinct instances between 2015 and 2017 throughout the San Francisco Bay Area. In consultation with …

Seeking David Fagen: The Search For A Black Rebel's Florida Roots, Frank Schubert

Sunland Tribune

No abstract provided.

Beyond Behavior: Linguistic Evidence Of Cultural Variation In Parental Ethnotheories Of Children’S Prosocial Helping, Andrew D. Coppens, Anna I. Corwin, Lucia Alcala

Faculty Publications

This study examined linguistic patterns in mothers’ reports about their toddlers’ involvement in everyday household work, as a way to understand the parental ethnotheories that may guide children’s prosocial helping and development. Mothers from two cultural groups – US Mexican-heritage families with backgrounds in indigenous American communities and middle-class European-American families – were interviewed regarding how their 2- to 3-year-old toddler gets involved in help with everyday household work. The study’s analytic focus was the linguistic form of mothers’ responses to interview questions asking about the child’s efforts to help with a variety of everyday household work tasks. Results showed …

The Weekly Challenger, March 12, 2020, The Weekly Challenger, Et Al

Weekly Challenger Newspaper Collection

The March 12, 2020, issue of The Weekly Challenger.

The George-Anne Inkwell Edition, Georgia Southern University

The Inkwell

No abstract provided.

Interdistrict Choice And Teacher Beliefs: Implications For Educational Expectations, Equity, And Policymaking, Eric P. Ambroso, Erin Rotheram-Fuller, Daniel D. Liou

Journal of Multicultural Affairs

Interdistrict choice, which allows families to choose between schools outside of their districts of residence, is currently serving more students than any other choice program in the United States. Yet, despite this popularity, there is a pressing need for more research on how interdistrict choice may affect educational equity within U.S. public schools. Drawing on the analytic framework of educational racial contract, this study examines the issue of teacher beliefs in the context of interdistrict choice at a large, urban high school in Arizona, where market-based school choice programs have been continually expanded for nearly three decades. Data were collected …

2020 March 11 - Undergraduate Curriculum Council Minutes, Undergraduate Curriculum Council, East Tennessee State University

Undergraduate Curriculum Council Minutes

No abstract provided.

Supporting The Childbearing Family: An Interdisciplinary Service-Learning Approach To Education, Rhonda K. Lanning

Nursing Education Research Conference (NERC)

This presentation describes an interdisciplinary service-learning approach to studying maternity care in which students train to become birth doulas and work in interdisciplinary teams to serve a diverse population of clients. Students describe the positive impact of the course experience in surveys, narrative reflections, and debriefings.

Bully, Bullies And Bullying: Pejorative Terminology, Alternative Descriptors, And Ethics-Based Interventions, Tom Clees, Todd J. Stephens

National Youth Advocacy & Resilience Conference

This presentation will present historical perspectives on the use of person-first terminology as related to the impact of contemporary pejorative terminology, including the terms associated with "bullying." Functional alternatives in assessing problematic behaviors will follow. Finally, ethics-based (least intrusive) social skills and behavioral interventions will be exemplified.

Mary In The News: March 10, 2020, Michael Duricy

Marian Library Blog Archive

Read recent items about Mary in both Catholic and secular news. Also, see International Marian Research Institute as well as Marian Library news and updates.

Spartan Daily, March 10, 2020, San Jose State University, School Of Journalism And Mass Communications

Spartan Daily, 2020

Volume 154, Issue 20

College Faculty In The News: March 10, 2020, University Of Dayton

College of Arts and Sciences Newsroom

Executive Director Shelley Inglis, Human Rights Center, recently spoke to numerous media outlets on several topics, including the humanitarian crisis in Syria, the effects of authoritarian governments and the long-term impact on democracy of illiberal tendencies in the U.S. and India. Follow this and other recent media coverage of the service, research, scholarship and commentary of College of Arts and Sciences programs and their faculty.

Cold Case, Hot Science, Beth Potier

UNH Today Archive

No abstract provided.

Duality In Science, Varun S. Bhatta, Sundar Sarukkai

Open Access archive

Scientific concepts are unique in the way they accrue multiple meanings. This feature will be illustrated through the powerful concept of duality in science. We discuss the multiple meanings of this concept in different domains of science and analyse the duality relations found in them. The relationship between duality and symmetry, as well as with the notion of completeness, is explored to understand the many uses of the concept of duality.