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Fish & Wildlife News: Fall 2022, Matt Trott

Fish and Wildlife News

No abstract provided.

Relevance Of Digital Measures To People With Early Parkinson’S For Monitoring Meaningful Symptoms In The Watch-Pd Study, Jennifer R. Mammen, Et Al.

College of Nursing Faculty Publications

No abstract provided.

Redbird Impact, Vol. 5, No. 2 (Fall 2022), Center For Civic Engagement

Redbird Impact

No abstract provided.

Analysis Of Phenotypic Expression Associated With Different Genotypes Of The Blue/Brown Eyes Single Nucleotide Polymorphism, Jade Riddle, Taylor Mckinney

Fall Showcase for Research and Creative Inquiry

No abstract provided.

Animal Frequency In The Presence & Absence Of Human Disturbance, Jade Riddle, Angel Stanley, Teresa Orellana

Fall Showcase for Research and Creative Inquiry

No abstract provided.

The Genetics Of Skin Cancer: What Genes Drive The Development Of Basal Cell Carcinoma, Squamous Cell Carcinoma, And Melanoma?, Cassandra Poole, Abagail Pack, Elizabeth Whitehead, Virginia Marshall

Fall Showcase for Research and Creative Inquiry

Skin cancer is one of the most common forms of cancer worldwide. The American Academy of Dermatology estimates that 9500 people in the United States are diagnosed with skin cancer every day, and that 1 in 5 Americans will be diagnosed with skin cancer by age 70. With such a high prevalence of disease, understanding how skin cancer develops and how it can be treated is extremely important. This project aims to analyze the genes involved in the development of the three most common forms of skin cancer: basal cell carcinoma, squamous cell carcinoma, and melanoma.

Fy2023 Faculty Salaries $30-$50,000, Clemson University

Salary Reports

No abstract provided.

Successful Research Driven Projects In The Science Classroom, Sowmya Anjur

Faculty Publications & Research

No abstract provided.

Recipient Of The 2022 Alumni Distinguished Leadership Award, Sona Nadenichek Golder '89

Alumni Distinguished Leadership Award

Sona N. Golder, Ph.D. currently holds dual appointments as a professor in the Department of Political Science at The Pennsylvania State University and a professor in the Department of Comparative Politics at the University of Bergen. She has distinguished herself in research, scholarship, teaching, grant activity, publications, and professional service in the field of Political Science.

Dr. Golder’s publications illustrate her commitment to advancing the field of Political Science through both research and teaching. Notably, Dr. Golder has published two important and well-regarded textbooks, Principles of Comparative Politics and Foundations of Comparative Politics, that show students how to take a …

Recipient Of The 2022 Alumni Titan Award, Robert M. Chang '89

Alumni Titan Award

Robert M. Chang is the Founder & CEO of Sidetime, a modern software platform focused on enabling access to mentoring, experience, and expertise with the goal of strengthening communities, access, and opportunities for underrepresented groups and expanding charitable giving. He is an experienced cross-industry operator-investor with leadership roles at venture-backed startups, Fortune 50 companies, and non-profit institutions, including The Home Depot and the Harvard School of Public Health. He is an active early-stage impact investor and advisor, a partner at Bitspiration investing in early-stage science and technology ventures based in the Central and Eastern Europe (CEE) region, and a former …

Recipient Of The 2022 Alumni Titan Award, Jasmine Kwasa '09

Alumni Titan Award

Jasmine Kwasa, PhD, is a National Institutes of Health post-doctoral fellow and Special Faculty at Carnegie Mellon University (CMU). Originally from the south side of Chicago, Jasmine developed a passion for creating outreach, access, and exposure opportunities for underrepresented groups at IMSA after she attended EXCEL. Graduating in 2009, she went on to study biomedical and electrical engineering at Washington University in St. Louis on a full ride as an Ervin Scholar, and went on to earn her M.S. and Ph.D. from Boston University and CMU, respectively. Her dissertation focused on the cognitive neuroscience of attention in young adults …

Following The Current: A Bioregional History Of The Fox River From The Pleistocene To The Present, Dr. Jackie G. Vanzahms

History of the Environment

In fall 2022, IMSA’s Mod 8 History of the Environment class wrote a book. Specifically and collaboratively, we wrote a bioregional history of the Fox River watershed. Although there are several waterways in the Midwest with the same name, our Fox River originates near Colgate, Wisconsin, northwest of the city of Milwaukee. From its headwaters, the Fox runs due south and then southwest more than 200 miles, before reaching its confluence with the Illinois River near Ottawa. This includes the section flowing two-miles due east of IMSA’s campus, through the city of Aurora. All told, the entire Fox River watershed …

Evaluating Our Reliance On Rare Earth Minerals And Platinum Group Metals Over The Period Of 2012 To 2021, Ryan Smith

Fall Showcase for Research and Creative Inquiry

Rare Earth Elements (REE’s) are minerals used in our everyday lives. They can be found in our household appliances, phones, computers, cars, as part of wind turbines and solar panels. The US relies on imports of these rare earths from several other countries (e.g. China, Estonia, Malaysia, and Japan) as we cannot mine a majority of the minerals (e.g. cerium, lanthanum, europium, etc) domestically. Since the year 2012, the US has imported approximately 3,000 metric tons of rare earths, and in recent years, this number significantly increased. As of 2021, the US now imports approximately 43,000 metric tons of rare …

Teaching Energy Economics In The Gcc: A Synergistic Approach Between Engineering And Economics, Yishu Zhou, Joseph D. Smith, Gregory M. Gelles

Economics Faculty Research & Creative Works

Issues related to safe and abundant energy production have been prominent in recent years. This is particularly true when society considers how to increase the quality of life by providing low-cost energy to citizens. A significant concern of the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) relates to the environmental effects of energy production and energy use associated with climate change. Efforts to reduce fossil fuel use and increase the use of renewable energy, together with the price volatility of fossil fuels, have seriously impacted the economics of many oil-producing countries, particularly the Gulf States, which has led to efforts to make their …

Effect Of Cocaine On Potassium-Evoked Release Of Glutamate From Fetal Rat Brain Synaptosomes, Donald H. Penning, Brian Jones, Mohamed Fayed, Xiaoxia Han, Chaya Brodie

Research Administration Articles

Introduction: Cocaine use during pregnancy can affect fetal brain development. A fetal brain injury could happen from the direct effect of cocaine on the developing brain or from the reduction of placental perfusion from vasoconstriction, which may lead to hypoxia-ischemia. A potential mechanism for brain injury could be due to a neurotransmitter imbalance within the brain, especially glutamate. In an immature rat brain synaptosome model, we explored the additive effect of cocaine alone on glutamate release and the effect of cocaine combined with simulated hypoxic depolarization using potassium as a surrogate.

Method: Rat pups' brains were dissected and placed on …

Recipient Of The 2022 Alumni Trailblazer Award, Joseph W. Turek '90

Alumni Trailblazer Award

Dr. Joseph W. Turek, MD, Ph.D., MBA is an academic pediatric cardiac surgeon at Duke University in Durham, North Carolina. Since 2017, Dr. Turek has served as chief of pediatric cardiac surgery and executive co-director of Duke Children’s Pediatric & Congenital Heart Center. Prior to Duke, he served in a similar leadership role at the University of Iowa Stead Family Children’s Hospital from 2012-2017.

A native of Petersburg, Illinois, Dr. Turek attended IMSA in the second graduating class. He then graduated from Northwestern University with a degree in biochemistry and received his M.D./Ph.D. (pharmacology) from the University of Illinois in …

How The Pavement Strength Changes With Time: Ai Ideas Help To Explain Semi-Empirical Formulas, Edgar Daniel Rodriguez Velasquez, Vladik Kreinovich

Departmental Technical Reports (CS)

In this paper, we use AI ideas to provide a theoretical explanation for semi-empirical formulas that describe how the pavement strength changes with time, and how we can predict the pavement lifetime.

A Profile Of Freshman Inquiry Students Fall 2022, Portland State University. University Studies Program, Rowanna L. Carpenter

University Studies Assessment Research

In order to better understand the students who enroll in Freshman Inquiry (FRINQ) courses and identify areas where they may need support, University Studies (UNST) began collecting and compiling data on these students. This report presents a profile of FRINQ students from Fall 2022. It presents an overview of all students enrolled in FRINQ during Fall 2022 and then summarizes information from the Prior Learning Survey. It is organized around three areas that contribute to student success: academic preparation and concern; financial and physical wellbeing; and connectedness to campus.

Crafting The Intimate Body, Catherine Harper Professor

Arts and Design

The intimate body—essentialized in Judy Chicago’s The Dinner Party, complicated in Helen Chadwick’s Eat Me—is revisited through discourse on intersex, debate around trans identities and contemporary feminisms, via the subversive actions of radical crafting and visual, textual, material and performic queering.

Harding Magazine Fall 2022 (Vol. 30, No. 3), Harding University

Harding Magazines

Publication distributed to alumni and friends of the university.

Spatial Variation In Hard Bottom Coral Communities Of The Coastal West Florida Shelf, Nicole Blank, Sandra D. Brooke, Brian K. Walker

Marine & Environmental Sciences Faculty Articles

Hard bottom coral and sponge communities differ along portions of the West Florida Shelf (WFS) in species occurrence, diversity, and/or size. However, the composition and spatial distribution of these communities are not well understood. Community transitions have been proposed in the central portion of the WFS around Tampa Bay, Cedar Key, and as far south as Charlotte Harbor, but supporting data are sparse. Fifteen sites in three regions of Florida were surveyed for species distribution, density, and demographics. Distinct communities were found between St Teresa, Hudson, and Tarpon Springs. Coral and sponge densities were highest off Tarpon Springs followed by …

Bisc 504: Biometry, Jason Hoeksema

GMAS Course Syllabi

No abstract provided.

House Church Leaders: A Multisite Case Study, Lance Croy

PhD in Organizational Leadership

The purpose of this qualitative study was to examine house church leaders in situ within three typologies of home gatherings. Billings (2011) identified three stages of house church formats: (a) Oikos, where the congregants assemble in the home for a complete meal, including the Eucharist; (b) Domus, where the curate renovates and dedicates rooms in their homes for Christian usage; and (c) Aula, where rented facilities house larger gatherings, the liturgy becomes more formalized, and the Eucharist is no longer a full meal (Billings, 2011). House church leaders and congregants sampled fit the three typologies while addressing a gap in …

Regulation And Function Of The Mec-8/Rbpms Rna Binding Protein In Vivo, Xiaoyu Liang

Biological Sciences Theses and Dissertations

Alternative splicing is a major form of post-transcriptional regulation of gene expression which plays a pivotal role in cell/tissue- specific identity, diversity, and function. The mechanisms of alternative splicing are well studied; however, the functional consequences of the spliced transcripts are relatively less demonstrated. Therefore, many efforts are needed to understand the physiological relevance of alternative splicing. RNA binding proteins are critical regulators of alternative splicing, their malfunction disrupt the normal networks, and further underlies many diseases. To understand how alternative splicing contributes to the physiological functions in the cells or tissues, we explored the regulatory networks of RNA binding …

Factors Influencing Uptake Of Human Papilloma Virus (Hpv) Vaccine Among Parents Of Adolescent Girls, Irene Nzisa Martin

Master of Medicine in Paediatrics and Child Health

Background: Cervical cancer is one of the most common preventable cancers causing morbidity and mortality in women especially in Sub-Saharan Africa. Three HPV vaccines have been approved for vaccination against HPV globally with Cervarix and Gardasil currently available in Kenya. Despite availability of free HPV vaccination and increased media campaigns the proportion of adolescent girls vaccinated against HPV remains low. Understanding the determinants of HPV vaccine uptake will inform strategies to improve the uptake at Aga Khan University Hospital, Nairobi. Objectives: The aim was to identify the factors influencing HPV vaccine uptake among parents of adolescent girls. The secondary objective …

A Novel Bayesian Framework Infers Driver Activation States And Reveals Pathway-Oriented Molecular Subtypes In Head And Neck Cancer, Zhengping Liu, Chunhui Cai, Xiaojun Ma, Jinling Liu, Lujia Chen, Vivian Wai Yan Lui, Gregory F. Cooper, Xinghua Lu

Engineering Management and Systems Engineering Faculty Research & Creative Works

Head and neck squamous cell cancer (HNSCC) is an aggressive cancer resulting from heterogeneous causes. To reveal the underlying drivers and signaling mechanisms of different HNSCC tumors, we developed a novel Bayesian framework to identify drivers of individual tumors and infer the states of driver proteins in cellular signaling system in HNSCC tumors. First, we systematically identify causal relationships between somatic genome alterations (SGAs) and differentially expressed genes (DEGs) for each TCGA HNSCC tumor using the tumor-specific causal inference (TCI) model. Then, we generalize the most statistically significant driver SGAs and their regulated DEGs in TCGA HNSCC cohort. Finally, we …

Convergence: Eos News And Updates, October 2022, Unh Institute For The Study Of Earth, Oceans And Space

Convergence: EOS News and Updates

No abstract provided.

Open Access Week 2022, William Flores

Library Display Posters

No abstract provided.

Inventory Of Novel Approaches To Seed Quality Assurance Mechanisms For Vegetatively Propagated Crops (Vpcs) In Seven African Countries, Emanuel Sulle, Rebecca Pointer, Lava Kumar, Magreth Mc Ewan

East Africa Institute

This paper provides an inventory of novel approaches to and mechanisms for quality assurance of the seeds of vegetatively produced crops (VPCs). It explores to what extent seven African countries (Ethiopia, Kenya, Malawi, Nigeria, Tanzania, Uganda and Zambia) are decentralising and integrating VPC seed systems, in terms of regulations governing the sector, methods of seed production, and methods of seed inspection and certification. It consolidates existing data and presents new data on decentralised seed quality assurance (SQA) approaches for VPCs in these seven selected countries. It makes relevant information readily available for policy dialogue on appropriate and inclusive SQA approaches, …

Issue 3, Thriving Athletes, Joey Leszczynski

Thrive

No abstract provided.