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Community Contribution As A Pathway To Purpose: Activism And Role Modeling In Lgbtq+ Adults, Emily M. Wahl

University of Montana Conference on Undergraduate Research (UMCUR)

Community resilience has been identified as a protective factor against the negative psychological effects of minority stress among LGBTQ+ individuals (Meyer, 2015; Ilac, 2025; McConnell et al., 2018). Less research has examined how community resilience factors contribute to positive psychological functioning. Rather than solely focusing on buffering distress, the present study explores whether engagement in activism and identification of one’s self as a role model may help transform faced adversity into a sense of life purpose.

This analysis used survey data originally collected to examine multiple community resilience factors in LGBTQ+ adults (N=420). Participants ranged from age 18 to 75 …

College Students Dealing With Mental Health, Aubr J. Bouldes

Undergraduate Research Conference

This study examines the mental health challenges college students face, and these issues can be examined through the lens of the ecological framework and the ABCX stress model. The ecological framework situates students within multiple, interacting systems—microsystem (family, peers, campus), mesosystem (connections among these groups), exosystem (institutional policies, financial aid), and macrosystem (cultural norms, societal expectations)—to illustrate how mental health outcomes are shaped by layered environmental influences. Complementing this perspective, the ABCX stress model provides a structured approach to understanding how stressors (A), available resources (B), and individual or family perceptions (C) interact to produce varying levels of crisis (X). …

From Couriers To City-Dwellers: The Changing Human–Pigeon Relationship Through Historic Pigeon Messaging, Urban Perceptions, And Training Practices, Mallory Peterson

University of Montana Conference on Undergraduate Research (UMCUR)

Their coos echo off the walls of skyscrapers and their wings beat faster than the cadence of footsteps. Whether dodging cars or pecking at food scraps, pigeons are a constant character of urban environments. Their unique history has allowed them to raise their young under bridges and on windowsills. Pigeons and humans are inextricably intertwined, to the joy and dismay of many. Once celebrated as couriers, pigeons carried messages of war, love, and survival across vast distances, shaping human connection and history. Today, they are more often dismissed as pests, their presence flattened into the city noise.

This narrative piece …

The Impact Of The Protracted Conflict In Ukraine On Communication And Cultural Strategies For Refugees And Other Stakeholders, Kimberley Barker, David A. Victor, Christine R. Day

Global Advances in Business Communication

The Impact of the Protracted Conflict in Ukraine on Communication and Cultural Strategies for Refugees and Other Stakeholders

This research analyzes the complex challenges related to the impact of the protracted conflict in Ukraine on communication and cultural strategies for refugees and other stakeholders. The scope of those involved include the refugees, host families, related communities, paid or volunteer staff from governmental and non-governmental agencies, educational professionals, prospective employers, and colleagues.

On February 24, 2022, Russian armed forces enter Ukraine at the eastern border, their common border with Russia. This precipitates a massive refugee movement of millions of Ukrainians fleeing …

Meet Your Neighbor: A Houseless Services Program Proposal In Missoula, Montana, Victoria K. Hausman

University of Montana Conference on Undergraduate Research (UMCUR)

Within the last three years, Missoula, Montana, has developed a culture of pervasive, systemic, and negative actions against people experiencing houselessness. The transition from funding multi-tiered approaches, including encampments, shelters, transitional housing, and permanent supportive housing, has been replaced by decreased resource-availability and an over-funded policy enforcing fines, misdemeanors, and arrests on anyone unsheltered and experiencing houselessness. At the root of this public sentiment is stigma, which manifests itself at all levels of the socio-ecological system and negatively impacts the health, housing, employment, social, mental, and physical outcomes of people experiencing houselessness. To combat stigma, Meet Your Neighbor is a …

Hubungan Antara Kepemimpinan Transformasional, Komitmen Organisasional, Organizational Citizenship Behavior Dan Pemberdayaan Dengan Kinerja Dosen Politeknik Kesehatan Kementerian Kesehatan Di Jawa Timur, Susi Milwati

Jurnal Pendidikan Humaniora

Tujuan penelitian adalah mengetahui hubungan langsung dan tidak langsung yang signifikan antara kepemimpinan transformasional, komitmen organisasional, OCB, dan pemberdayaan dengan kinerja dosen di Politeknik Kesehatan Kemenkes di Jawa Timur. Penelitian ini digolongkan sebagai penelitian kuantitatif dengan rancangan penelitian survey. Instrumen penelitian menggunakan kuesioner yang diukur eksistensi variabelnya dengan uji validitas dan uji reliabilitas. Berdasarkan rancangan penelitian, data dianalisis dengan dua pendekatan yaitu analisis deskriptif dan analisis inferensial. Hubungan antar variabel dimodelkan dengan menggunakan Structural Equation Modeling (SEM) dengan software AMOS 18. Pada penelitian ini kinerja dosen menjadi variabel endogen yang memiliki hubungan struktural dengan kepemimpinan transformasional, komitmen organisasional, OCB dan …

Pengaruh Strategi Pembelajaran Meringkas Dan Format Presentasi Terhadap Hasil Belajar Penalaran Argumentatif Pada Matapelajaran Sejarah Di Sma, Susanto Yunus Alfian

Jurnal Pendidikan Humaniora

Penelitian kuasi eksperimen ini bertujuan untuk menguji pengaruh strategi pembelajaran meringkas dan format presentasi terhadap hasil belajar penalaran argumentatif sejarah di SMA. Rancangan penelitian yang digunakan adalah rancangan faktorial yang terdiri dari pretest-perlakuan-posttest. Subjek dalam penelitian ini adalah siswa dari empat kelas pada empat SMA negeri di Kabupaten Malang. Instrumen yang digunakan untuk mengukur hasil belajar penalaran argumentatif sejarah adalah tes uraian yang terdiri dari 10 soal. Analisis data dilakukan dengan menggunakan ANCOVA 2X2. Dua variabel bebasnya adalah strategi pembelajaran meringkas yang terdiri dari graphic organizer dalam bentuk sebab akibat dan written summarizing dan format presentasi yang terdiri dari format …

Pengembangan Panduan Pelatihan Self Advocacy Siswa Smp, Hariadi Ahmad

Jurnal Pendidikan Humaniora

Individu sebagai makhluk sosial mempunyai dorongan untuk berinteraksi. Dalam interaksi sosial, individu memerlukan keterampilan sosial yang baik. Self advocacy sebagai salah satu bagian keterampilan sosial sangat perlu diajarkan kepada siswa. Siswa merupakan individu yang sedang mengalami perubahan fisik, psikis, fase transisi, kebimbangan jati diri, dan identitas diri. Penelitian ini adalah penelitian pengembangan panduan pelatihan self advocacy siswa SMP yang bertujuan menghasilkan panduan yang memenuhi akseptabilitas dan efektif meningkatkan self advocacy siswa SMP. Model pengembangan menggunakan model Borg & Gall (1983). Hasil uji ahli dan uji pengguna terhadap panduan telah memenuhi kriteria akseptabilitas, dan hasil pretest serta posttest siswa yang diukur …

Mental Healthcare Providers' Clinical Approaches To Climate Concerns, Lauren N. Schulte

University of Montana Conference on Undergraduate Research (UMCUR)

Previous research has established that climate change poses a serious threat to physical and mental health. Increases in climate change-related mental health concerns, including traumatic stress, anxiety, and depression, highlight the need for climate-aware approaches to mental healthcare. Many mental healthcare providers already report encountering clients with climate-related concerns, but few feel adequately prepared to support these clients. Additionally, providers have expressed the need for further information, training, treatment, and assessment options to assist individuals with climate-related mental health concerns. The present study aims to investigate existing therapeutic strategies used to address climate-related concerns in clinical settings. Data collection from …

Mighty Mobile Microgrids, Nathaniel T. Adams, Charlie F. Marten, Delia J. Schmidt, Buddy G. Wilson, Oliver A. Suhrbier, Katherine B. Labuda

University of Montana Conference on Undergraduate Research (UMCUR)

A microgrid is a collection of power-generating devices that boost power from the primary electrical grid or serve as a backup when the grid cannot provide sufficient power. Microgrid systems are used where primary grid connectivity can be unreliable due to remote location or natural disasters, serving as renewable alternatives to traditional fossil fuel power production. Recent innovations have given rise to new microgrid technology that can be conveniently deployed in times of need. Mobile microgrids– often in the form of trailers covered in solar arrays– are being used increasingly as tools in disaster response and community grid support. This …

What Makes Teachers Of Efl Professional Or Unprofessional, Muhammad Amin

Jurnal Pendidikan Humaniora

This study aimed to investigate factors attributable to English teacher professional becoming and how the factors have shaped their professionalism. The subjects of the study, called informants, were six English teachers from upper secondary level of education (Sekolah Menengah Atas (SMA) and Madrasah Aliyah (MA)) in three different regions in Indonesia: Malang, Mataram, and Lombok Barat. The research design was constructivist grounded theory. Findings of the study reveal that, prior to their teaching induction, early interests in English and high aptitude are two contributing factors. After the induction, their professional becoming is influenced by level of job satisfaction, commitment to …

Menurunkan Stres Akademik Siswa Dengan Menggunakan Teknik Self-Instruction, Faridah Nurmaliyah

Jurnal Pendidikan Humaniora

The purpose of this study was to determine: 1) a decrease in students academic stress after intervention with self-instruction techniques; 2) increase the ability of students before and after the intervention.

Developing Reading Materials For Sport Science Sophomores, Eny Suspartiana, Mirjam Anugerahwati, Suharmanto Suharmanto

Jurnal Pendidikan Humaniora

This study aims to develop reading materials for the Sport Science Sophomores of Universitas Negeri Malang due to the unavailability of the materials. The design of her research is R and D (Research and Development) simplified from Borg and Gall design (1983). The result of preliminary study showed that the available materials were not in line with the syllabus since it still reflects the teaching of General English, while the syllabus emphasizes teaching English texts related to Sport Science. The final products of this research are ‘Student’s Book and Teacher’s manual’.

Internalisasi Nilai-Nilai Perilaku Konsumsi Berwawasan Lingkungan Bagi Mahasiswa Pendidikan Ekonomi, Akhmad Syafi'i, Wahjoedi Wahjoedi, Sugeng Hadi Utomo

Jurnal Pendidikan Humaniora

The formation of values as the foundation of behavior requires special attention, because this aspect have big influence on life. The purpose of this study is to determine the formation of student consumption values become environmentally consumption behavior. This research is carried out on students of economics faculty of the State University of Malang, using a qualitative approach of phenomenology. The data are analyzed by using inductive descriptive qualitative. The results found that the values reflected in the two sides, the positive and negative. The Interest in environmentally friendly consumption behavior occurs for reasons of lifestyle, care, budget availability, future …

Pengaruh Strategi Pembelajaran Dan Gaya Kognitif Terhadap Prestasi Belajar Aplikasi Proses Keperawatan Pada Pembelajaran Klinik Keperawatan

Jurnal Pendidikan Humaniora

The main purpose of this study were to examine The effect of learning Strategy (Problem Based Learning vs Direct Instruction ) and Cognitive Style on Nursing Process Application Learning Achievement of Nursing Clinical Study. This study used quasi experiment and data collected using test, the findings of the study were : (1). There is a difference in learning achievement between the students who were taught by using PBL strategy and who were taught using direct instruction, (2). There is a different achievement in students with different cognitive style, and (3) There is no interaction between learning strategy and students’ cognitive …

Developing English Supplementary Reading Cards (Esrcs) For Young Learners To Promote Free Voluntary Reading Program, Utari Praba Astuti

Jurnal Pendidikan Humaniora

In English classes, young learners are mostly put into intensive reading sessions as the main menu where the focus of the session is on young learners’ academic achievement. As a result, it is far from promoting reading English for pleasure. Like other skills in life, young learners learn to read by reading. The more they read, the better their reading competence will be. The better they read, the more enjoyable they find the reading activity. These paradigms function as the basis of pro- viding young learners with various reading materials to read and enough time to spend for reading. This …

Keberlanjutan Kemitraan Pusat Kegiatan Belajar Masyarakat, Pramuji Wibowo

Jurnal Pendidikan Humaniora

Tujuan penelitian untuk mengetahui kemitraan dalam pemaknaan lembaga mitra kerja yang telah bekerjasama dengan Pusat Kegiatan Belajar Masyarakat. Sehingga diketahui alasan mitra kerja mempertahankan keberlanjutan kemitraan. Pendekatan yang digunakan dalam penelitian ini adalah kualitatif dengan tradisi metode fenomenologi. Hasil penelitian adalah sebagai berikut. (1) Kemitraan dapat terus bertahan dan berlanjut karena adanya kepercayaan dari pihak mitra PKBM. Kepercayaan ini dihasilkan dari kepuasan kinerja, kenyamanan penyelenggaraan, dan kesesuaian latar belakang keilmuan pengurus PKBM. (2) Kepuasan dikarenakan niat awal kemitraan yang baik, penyelenggaraan program maksimum, dan kebanggaan lembaga mitra. (3) Kenyamanan disebabkan tidak ada komplain dan keluhan masyarakat, kendala dan permasalahan, saling …

Research

Appalachia

Gabriella Gurney discusses fire in the ecosystems of the Northeast.

Accidents

Appalachia

Reports of rescues and accidents in the White Mountains of New Hampshire from the cold seasons of 2025 opens with thoughts on how fast one’s hands can freeze. An experienced man, age 75, describes getting too cold on Cannon Mountain; he evaluates his own accident, and the editors weigh in at the end of the column. Two well-equipped women lose the Jewell Trail in deep snow and call for help, later sharing a six-point list of how to be safer next time. A 28-year-old man navigating high winds and deep snow by Google in a quest to see the sunrise …

Letters

Appalachia

More musings on smartphones in the mountains. Praise for Katie Ives’s Appalachia Summer/Fall 2025 story, “Burning Solitudes.” Longtime Appalachian Mountain Club members share memories of former membership practices in response to Christine Woodside’s Appalachia Summer/Fall 2025 essay, “A Look Back at the Appalachian Mountain Club’s Long-Ago Membership Practices.”

The Toll Ticks Take: Strangest Reason Yet To Give Up Red Meat, James Mason

Appalachia

A strange allergic reaction leads an experienced mountain climber back to the bite of a lone star tick.

Rewilding Teens: A Quartet Beyond Screens, Ian Ramsey

Appalachia

A teacher takes high school students into backcountry environments and remote destinations from New Hampshire to Thailand, where he walks them through “the fire of challenge” without technology.

Appalachia Winter/Spring 2026: Complete Issue

Appalachia

Winter/Spring 2026 - Volume LXXVII, Number 1 - Issue #261. Healing and Hazards: Finding and Saving Health in Wild Places

Warga Negara Dan Ekologi: Studi Kasus Pengembangan Warga Negara Peduli Lingkungan Dalam Komunitas Bandung Berkebun, Wibowo Heru Prasetiyo, Dasim Budimansyah

Jurnal Pendidikan Humaniora

This research aims to describe of the development concerns of citizens towards the environment in Bandung Gardening community who has run a series of pro-environment program. The research method uses a qualitative approach with case study method. The informants are Bandung Berkebun’s members and data collection techniques such as interviews, observation, and study the document. The results show that the Bandung Berkebun community with programs such as urban farming, urban farming school, street urban farming and urban campus has succeeded in intensifying agriculture farming town (urban agriculture) as an environmentally conscious lifestyle in Bandung. The success from the standpoint of …

Method For Secure Ai Grounding Using Semantic Token Substitution And Client-Side Re-Hydration, N/A

Defensive Publications Series

Using generative artificial intelligence with sensitive data may present challenges, as transmitting personally identifiable information or protected health information to third-party providers can introduce security risks, and some data masking techniques can reduce reasoning capabilities. A described system uses a proxy, masking layer that can intercept data within an enterprise's secure perimeter. This layer can substitute sensitive strings with persistent, structured semantic tokens that may be enriched with non-sensitive metadata hints to help preserve context. An external artificial intelligence can perform reasoning on this abstracted data, and its tokenized response can be re-hydrated into readable text on a client device …

Stateful System For Predictive Tracking Of Dynamic Road Hazards, Tom Spigland, Assaf Eisenberg, Ziv Tzor, Avishay Ram

Defensive Publications Series

Static hazard reporting methods may be inefficient for tracking dynamic, moving hazards, such as cyclists, potentially leading to obsolete alerts. A stateful system can treat a moving hazard as a persistent object with a unique identifier. The system can ingest multi-source kinematic data to periodically update an object's state, for example, its location and speed, as an alternative to repeatedly creating and deleting static pins. Such a system may employ a prediction engine to interpolate movement, a filtering engine to manage alert relevance based on context like speed or road type, and a clustering algorithm to consolidate groups of hazards. …

Utah Secondary English Language Arts Teachers And The Use Of Body Diverse Young Adult Literature, Katy Johnson Bigham

Theses and Dissertations

Representation in young adult (YA) literature has expanded significantly in recent years, but body size diversity - specifically the inclusion of fat protagonists - is still minimal and understudied in secondary English language arts (ELA) classrooms. Research shows that diverse literature plays a crucial role in helping students see themselves and other reflected in the texts they read, as shown in the metaphor of literature as "windows, mirrors, and sliding glass doors" (Bishop, 1990). So how does this apply to the representation of body size diversity in the ELA classroom? This study explores how secondary ELA teachers in Utah perceive …

"A Politics Of Its Own": Reading Adelaide Procter's Poetry In The Context Of The English Woman's Journal, Rachel Diane Gouff

Theses and Dissertations

Victorian poet Adelaide Anne Procter, a devout Catholic and a nineteenth-century feminist and social activist, was hugely popular in her lifetime for her devotional and sentimental poetry. However, scholars who have looked closely at her work have recognized that her poetry contains moments of tension that suggest they may be more than they appear on the surface. Such tensions and ironies are often glossed over or misread by readers whose expectations of Christian devotional messaging and domestic sentiment overshadow the contradictions. In this paper, I propose that one of the most effective ways to more fully understand the nuance and …

Demographics & Diversity Training Among Counselors Serving Dhh Clients: A 2025 Field Study, Moss Maclean, Cheryl Wu

Annual Student Research Day

This project aims to determine the demographic composition and the multicultural competencies of counselors working with DHH clients. Currently, no comparable data exists. Findings indicate that most counselors are women, straight, and deaf. Common barriers to professional development include cost, transportation, access to interpreters, and access to training in ASL. Implications include the need to address barriers in existing professional development, innovative multicultural counseling training in ASL, and the need for interpreters and other cultural liaisons to facilitate home-school collaboration between Deaf schools and CLD families.

Phishing Restraint: University Simulated Phishing Campaigns, Alexander M. Abou Khir

Cybersecurity Undergraduate Research Showcase

Universities face heightened vulnerability to phishing attacks due to their open information-sharing culture and diverse user populations. This study examines how phishing exploits human factors within campus environments and evaluates three major training strategies: embedded phishing, microlearning, and role-based instruction to understand their individual and combined effectiveness. I explored studies that implement these strategies in pairs and use the strategies alone, identified trends in susceptibility reduction, behavioral reinforcement, and contextual relevance. I suggest that, while each method independently improves user awareness, multiple approaches offer stronger, more adaptable protection by addressing both psychological triggers and role-specific risks. The paper contributes a …