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Food Deserts: How To Make Them Green, Minoo Tehrani, Andreas Rathgeber, Lawrence Fulton, Bryan Schmutz

Business Faculty Publications

Despite tremendous progress in addressing food insecurity, hunger and malnutrition are still widespread across the globe. Different factors, such as low levels of income and education, lack of access to food markets and transportation, high unemployment and population rates, and abandoned homes in a neighborhood, are among the factors that have been attributed to the creation of food deserts in emerging and developed countries. Some of the leading causes of death in the U.S. are heart attack, obesity, and diabetes. These major causes of death have a higher rate among the Black, Latin, and Hispanic populations. Access to healthy and …

How Does The Bangkok Post Transform Press Into News Stories?, Jenjira Jitpaiboon, Jonathan Newton, Passapong Sriprachan

PASAA

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Unveiling The Distinction Of Near Synonymy : A Corpus-Based Analysis On Attempt, Endeavor, Strive, And Try, Piyapong Laosrirattanachai, Piyanuch Laosrirattanachai

PASAA

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Coherence In L2 Narrative Paragraphs Through The Lens Of Rhetorical Structure Theory, Suppathat Wuthikhamprapan, Prapatsorn Tiratanti

PASAA

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A Course In English Language Teaching, Third Edition, Poonyavee Navetra

PASAA

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The Effects Of Input Modification On L2 Reading Comprehension And Incidental Vocabulary Learning, Weilong Huang, Sarut Supasiraprapa

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Thai Efl Teachersʼ And Studentsʼ Beliefs About Oral Corrective Feedback, Kittiya Phisutthangkoon

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A Study Of The Interplay Of Efl Teachersʼ Professional Development, Job Satisfaction And Teaching Commitment By Considering The Mediating Role Of Their Job Enthusiasm, Tayebeh Nezamdoost Moazez, Farnoush Ahangaran, Aram Pouyan

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Grammatical Constructions Written By Thai Efl Learners In A National Competition Context, Abhinan Wongkittiporn

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How To Remember Names Lesson Plan, Madison Paige Davis

ENGS 15.11: Design and Education

This is an introductory lesson intended for any high school- or college-aged student who wants to learn how to deepen connections with others, whether for personal or professional relationships. Through a combination of lecturettes, discussions, reflection time, and activities/ quizzes, students will learn and apply their knowledge about the benefits, science, history, and strategies of remembering people’s names so that they are able to use names in future conversations. The final activity will be a simulation of real life scenarios where students will have to either remember and use a stranger’s name or practice asking for their name, whether they …

Designing Your Next Read: How Psychology Shapes The Way We Choose Books, Stephanie M. Xu

ENGS 15.11: Design and Education

Designing Your Next Read invites students to explore the psychology behind everyday choices through the familiar act of picking a book. Using the lens of design psychology, the lesson examines why decision-making often feels overwhelming and how small shifts in perception, environment, and heuristics can make choices easier and more enjoyable. Students engage in interactive exercises, including a book-browsing activity, mini-lectures on choice biases, and a “Book Blurb” exercise, to reveal how heuristics such as availability, affect, and familiarity shape responses.

Through guided discussion and reflection, students connect psychological theories like the paradox of choice and decision paralysis to their …

Grounded In Motion: Finding Calm Through Daily Stretching, Everett H. Tai

ENGS 15.11: Design and Education

This lesson targets undergraduate students, reframing stretching as an essential, evidence-based habit for long-term wellness and stress management. The lesson's primary goal is to empower students to confidently design and consistently apply a personalized routine that protects their mobility and independence. Students will master the core science, understanding that dynamic stretching may augment performance pre-exercise, while shorter static stretches can be performed without compromising muscle performance, and post-exercise stretching can reduce muscle pain perception. This lesson emphasizes proper execution, requiring students to warm up first with 5 to 10 minutes of light activity with focus on technique. This practical knowledge …

From Chaos To Cohesion: Building A Brand Kit, Brooke Kries

ENGS 15.11: Design and Education

From Chaos to Cohesion: Building a Brand Kit is a lesson designed for undergraduate students to show how a strong visual identity supports an organization’s mission and goals. Utilizing interactive instruction, guided exercises, individual exploration, and peer discussions, students will learn how elements, such as typography, logos, and color can shape public perception and align with audience expectations. By the end of the lesson, students will have created a sample brand kit and graphic to reflect an organization’s purpose and tone.

This lesson integrates marketing theory, real-life examples, and independent hands-on learning to encourage creativity, collaboration, and strategic thinking. Students …

When Dollar General Comes To Town, Benjamin Williams

ENGS 15.11: Design and Education

Since 2008, Dollar General has grown from 8,222 to 18,130 locations, becoming a staple of rural communities across America. These discount stores have had, and continue to have, a widespread impact on these communities. This lesson aims to inform students of these impacts, while also addressing how towns are responding to the entrance of Dollar Generals. The lesson will equip students to consider the different perspectives involved in this trend. Key concepts that will be discussed include food deserts, rural transportation difficulties, labor costs, and pricing competition.

Voices Of Rebellion: A Lesson On Feminism, Identity, And Popular Music, Michelle Vasquez

ENGS 15.11: Design and Education

This lesson focuses on the rise of the feminist punk rock movement Riot Grrrl, and the political, social, and cultural conversations brought about by the band that created the genre, Bikini Kill. Students will explore the history of the genre and how its emergence had a great influence on political movements, female empowerment, the 3rd-wave of feminism, as well as the punk rock scene as a whole. Through engaging discussions, lyrical and performance analysis, and scholarly research on popular music, the lesson will highlight the ways in which artists have represented, subverted, and critiqued societal norms and politics surrounding gender …

Mangroves: A Lesson On Modeling Changing Shorelines, Willa Skye

ENGS 15.11: Design and Education

This lesson is an overview of storm barriers, specifically mangroves and how they maintain shorelines. It is meant to offer a visual experience of coastline protection and provide a background for deeper understanding about intertidal zones and their conservation. Students will spend time creating a solution to a flooding problem by making a mock coast and storm barrier. To wrap-up the lesson, students will pair up, then reflect on their model and then individually write or draw their takeaways.

Sit Down, But Not For Too Long, Laura Yam

ENGS 15.11: Design and Education

This lesson introduces undergraduate students to the concept of hostile architecture through an in-depth exploration of anti-homeless bench design in urban environments. It aims to help students identify both visible and disguised design features that deter unhoused individuals from using public spaces, while encouraging critical reflection on the ethical, social, and cultural implications of these practices.

The Philosophies Of Swedish Mushroom Hunting, Kelly Zreloff

ENGS 15.11: Design and Education

This lesson invites students to explore Swedish mushroom hunting as both a cultural and environmental philosophy. Through a mix of mini lectures, storytelling, and outdoor experiential learning, students first learn about Allemansrätten (Sweden’s Right of Public Access) and how mushroom hunting evolved from post-war necessity to modern well-being practice. Students then reconstruct “a day in the forest” to reinforce the lecture’s key points about stewardship, secrecy, and serenity before participating in a quiet “hunt” activity in Pine Park.

By engaging curiosity first and empathy second, students come to understand that mushroom hunting is not only about harvesting food but about …

Your Words Matter, Sophie Thai

ENGS 15.11: Design and Education

This lesson focuses on helping students understand the profound impact that affirmations and gratitude can have on their mindset and well-being. Applicable for everyone, students are encouraged to take their learnings and practice them in real life, hoping to promote a shift in perspective. Students will be able to recognize the benefits of their words and the way they speak to themselves, and understand how they can make changes in their lifestyle.

In this lesson, students will have a chance to reflect and learn about the science behind affirmations and gratitude while being introduced to strategies used to implement them …

The Hemi-Hand, Shane Bauer, Supriya Ganti, Madelyn Goebel, Harry Leiter, Danny Will

ENGS 89/90 Reports

Current rehabilitation devices, such as splints and therapeutic gloves, aid spastic hemiparetic patients but are often impractical to don independently due to constant muscle contraction. Therefore, hemiparetic patients need a user-friendly method of extension in their affected hand to improve motor coordination, prevent contracture, and maintain muscle balance. The purpose of the device is to make hand expansion technology available to a wider range of individuals. We achieve this by creating a customizable device which both simplifies the donning process, and effectively expands the customers contracted hand. The device uses a base for stabilization, and a detachable cone. The cone …

Control System Development To Improve Outcomes In Policing Of Gun Crimes, Raylene Guo, Sara Magdalena Gómez, Sean Lee, Hongke Lu, Mihir Singh, Scottie Yang

ENGS 89/90 Reports

Law enforcement officials struggle to identify perpetrators of shootings quickly, reliably, and effectively. Data indicates that certain areas are more prone to shootings. Most shootings occur in dense urban areas that makes it difficult to discern relevant individuals related to a shooting and perpetrators of shootings often flee the scene of the crime. We created a cost effective control system that rapidly and accurately identifies individuals in the area in which a gunshot is fired. In order to accomplish this, we integrate existing acoustic sensor technology with cellular phone identification techniques. The acoustic sensors detect and distinguish gunshots and then …

Stolmate 2.0: Independent Takeoff And Landing Measurements For Private Pilots, Dakota Black, Arun Guruswamy, James Quirk, Sydney Savarese, Veronica Yarovinsky

ENGS 89/90 Reports

Takeoff and landing are the most challenging phases of flight. Short Takeoff and Landing (STOL) performance metrics quantify how efficiently an aircraft minimizes takeoff and landing distance. These measurements ensure safety and have even become the basis of STOLcompetitions, where pilots compete to minimize their takeoff and landing distance. While pilots use mathematical models to predict STOL distances, there are no available means for pilots to measure their true STOL performance instantaneously, affordably, and easily. STOLmate 1.0 laid the foundation for instantaneous, accessible STOL performance reporting; however, the current device requires labor-intensive manufacturing, has reliability issues in certain weather and …

Two-Phase Heat Exchanger Design For A Cryocooler, Matthew Timofeev, Ussaid Mustajab, Omar Sharief, Munachimso Onuoha, Ozgur Tuna Ozturk

ENGS 89/90 Reports

Recuperators are valuable components in refrigeration-cycle devices as they move heat between separate stages within the cycle, lessening the work done by compressors and improving the overall efficiency of the device. For Creare, a Hanover-based engineering firm and our sponsor, a recuperator must be designed to accommodate a mixed-gas flow at cryogenic temperatures. However, upon condensation, mixed-gas becomes a two-phase stream giving rise to heat exchange inefficiencies as the two phases separate and behave thermally distinctly. One way to address this is by incorporating a large surface area porous metal into the recuperator body to remix the two phases into …

Modular Hvac Carbon Sequestration And Utilization Module, Brian Castanon Nunez, Maryori Maloney Lopez, Alan Ngouenet, Solenne Wolfe, Lukas Song

ENGS 89/90 Reports

This project presents a modular post-combustion carbon capture system designed to integrate with existing HVAC infrastructure. Buildings contribute 39% of global energy-related carbon emis- sions, with 28% from operational sources including heating and cooling systems. Our solution addresses this significant emission source through retrofittable technology. The system employs 3M Liqui-Cel EXF membrane technology in air sweep mode, selected for cost-effectiveness, energy efficiency, and minimal spatial requirements. This design choice accom- modates remote locations and buildings with limited resources, as demonstrated in our Dartmouth Skiway case study. The membrane technology achieves 90% carbon capture efficiency with minimal modification to existing systems. …

Simulated Respiration Model For 1-3 Month Old Infants, Alliya Parvez, Ose Izokun, Rafaella Camere, Soo Park, Sophia Kiernan

ENGS 89/90 Reports

Tracheal intubation in 4 - 12 week old infants is a highly risky procedure due to their immature, narrow and weak physiology that makes them less resilient to stress and more susceptible to complications. Currently, there is a lack of clinical models that adequately mimic an infant’s respiratory response. Hence, we developed a respiratory simulation model specifically trained for infants in this age range as an educational tool. DartLung, is a simulation model that represents the changes in alveolar pressure, lung volume, airflow rate, and muscle pressure during spontaneous breathing. Our work builds upon existing respiratory models and ventilation studies, …

Subzero Systems Hyperlocal Weather Monitoring And Alert System, Evana Amok, Joshua Vorbrich, Erin Bae, Khanh Le, Chingpheng Phoun, Vuthy Vincent Vey

ENGS 89/90 Reports

Accurate, hyperlocal weather data is critical for effective winter weather management. However, the Dartmouth campus’s current solutions often lack the precision for optimal ice treatment. This results in excessive and uneven salting practices, leading to increased worker and student injuries, financial and laborious burdens, and environmental damage caused by runoff. To tackle these challenges, our team has developed a comprehensive system. The system integrates hyperlocal weather station data, a peer-reviewed ice prevention optimization formula, and a machine learning model to generate intuitive salt usage recommendations and precise ice formation forecasts. The deliverables include an integrated system featuring functional weather data …

Mindfulness In Homeless Women Experiencing Anxiety, Ally Bennion, Amanda Ho, Elina Le, Elizabeth Tsamous, Jaeda Yamasaki, Madi Ourada, Sara Nemera

Nursing Leadership in Community Engagement Projects

Mindfulness in Homeless Women Experiencing Anxiety

Half of Washington's homeless population resides in Seattle, King County (Axios, 2024). In response, seven Seattle Pacific University nursing students conducted an assessment on homeless women in Seattle. Partnering with a women’s day center, we assessed their health needs and barriers as part of a nursing leadership project. Through activities like bingo, we aimed to build trust and surveyed the women and staff on health concerns. Our findings revealed chronic anxiety as a key issue, leading to underutilization of health resources. Such resources include a mobile emergent dental van that previous nursing students earned …

Washback Of English Exit Exam (Eee) On Thai University Students’ English Language Learning, Sasima Charubusp, Orawan Wangsombat, Napatacha Sriwichai, Chanida Phongnapharuk

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The Effects Of Differentiated Pronunciation Instruction Via A Virtual Learning Environment On Primary-School Thai Efl Teachers, Sumanee Pinweha

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Thai Efl University Students’ Writing In The Digital Age : Error Analysis Revisited, Atthasith Chuanpipatpong

PASAA

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