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Using Market Research To Teach Durable Skills, Zachary Miller, Justin R. Dodd

Pedagogicon Conference Proceedings

This paper is a case study on the use of a market research assignment to develop durable skills that directly transfer to professional environments. By engaging students in the development of a personal financial budget, the assignment provides a practical context for applying quantitative reasoning and critical thinking.

Exploring Faculty And Student Experiences With Languages: Building Durable Skills Through Multilingual Engagement, Ali Yaylali, Cui Zhang, Sara Rico-Godoy

Pedagogicon Conference Proceedings

This creative activity focuses on students’ and multilingual faculty members' real-life experiences navigating linguistic and cultural diversity. The informal dialogue across multiple undergraduate courses in a third space strengthens student learning by enhancing multiple durable skills such as intercultural communication, career readiness, and the understanding of different cultural backgrounds.

Teaching Transfer: Building Durable Skills For All Learners, Jilliane Mccardle, Jessica Spears, Ty Shouse, Amber Catron

Pedagogicon Conference Proceedings

Transfer tasks in educational settings offer opportunities for durable skill development in areas including critical thinking, problem solving, and communication. This article explores research and the implementation of transfer tasks at a university and the affiliated P12 lab school, highlighting the role in fostering authentic assessment and enhancing durable skills.

Book Clubs: Building Communication, Critical Thinking, And Leadership Skills, Erin Eliassen

Pedagogicon Conference Proceedings

This brief report describes the structure of a book club in the college classroom to build specific durable skills, reflects on an assignment in a nutrition research course, and identifies benefits of a book club in a college classroom. Applications are versatile based on course content and student learning outcomes.

Durable Skill Development Through Creative Audio Projects: Student Podcasting, Meg Gravil, Jeff Reed

Pedagogicon Conference Proceedings

Students in two classes, one face-to-face and one asynchronous online, created podcasts to meet course objectives while engaging in durable skill development. Creating podcasts enabled students to navigate cultural, developmental, and familial differences through discussion with others. Student feedback on podcasting as a course assessment was reflective and positive.

Harnessing Ai For Medical Education: A Faculty Development Series For Pre-Clinical And Clinical Educators, April Hatcher, Tama The

Pedagogicon Conference Proceedings

This manuscript describes a faculty development series designed to integrate artificial intelligence (AI) into medical education. Faculty participants discussed practical applications of AI, student perspectives on their use of AI, and innovative collaborative projects with local faculty. This short series was scaffolded as an introduction to AI for medical educators.

Tek Faculty Fellows: Building Faculty Confidence In Teaching Durable Skills Through Transdisciplinary Collaboration, Shawna Felkins, Madeline Aulisio Miller, Trey Conatser, Diane Parr

Pedagogicon Conference Proceedings

The TEK Faculty Fellows program was created to support faculty in the design of new courses or enhancement of existing courses to engage students in transdisciplinary learning and skill-building. This paper shares early evaluation findings and practical strategies to support faculty in making durable skills more visible in the classroom.

Beyond The One Shot: Plan A Library Workshop Week For Any Course, Melony Shemberger

Pedagogicon Conference Proceedings

Writing a research paper requires solid information literacy skills. This article will guide the design of a weeklong library focus into courses to strengthen students' information literacy. Lessons for embedding essential information literacy components into a course will be provided to help learners find, evaluate, and format sources and citations.

Better Practices In Feedback, Sarah Wackerbarth, Madeline Aulisio Miller

Pedagogicon Conference Proceedings

Feedback is an essential part of the learning process. This paper examines various types of feedback, identifies barriers, and presents practices for enhancing classroom feedback. A case study of quick polling in an online course demonstrates how to collect timely student feedback to improve teaching.

Competency-Based Education At Eku, Christopher Budano, Elizabeth Curran Smith

Pedagogicon Conference Proceedings

While implementation of competency-based education (CBE) courses has grown significantly in the last two decades, adoption in teacher preparation programs is in its infancy. This paper examines the creation of CBE courses in teacher preparation, providing leaders in higher education with recommendations for considering this approach at their institutions.

Learning In The Open: Empowering Employability And Social Justice Through Open Pedagogy, Karina Christopher

Pedagogicon Conference Proceedings

Open Pedagogy (OP) is a practice which enhances comprehension and employability skills by allowing teachers and learners to be co-creators in learning experiences and scholarship. This didactic practice is used in a variety of degree programs. This article provides examples of OP adopted in multiple food and nutrition courses.

I Know I’Ve Written This Before: Encouraging Students’ Use Of Feedback Through Intentional Laboratory Course Design, Cynthia Tran

Pedagogicon Conference Proceedings

This work outlines improvements in student receptivity, incorporation, and production of constructive feedback in upper-level forensic science laboratory courses. Through single-loop revisions, real-time instructor input, and peer review, students practiced engaging with feedback to build foundational skills, improve performance, and increase reflection and engagement. These adaptable approaches promote feedback literacy.

Case & Effect: Building Durable Skills Through Strategic Partnerships & Curriculum, Jonathan Vorbeck, Stephanie Ashley

Pedagogicon Conference Proceedings

Drawing on two undergraduate case studies, this paper illustrates how campus-wide collaboration and innovative curricular design integrate durable skills. Strategies emphasizing civil discourse, networking, and professional facilitation offer practical approaches for embedding sustainable, workforce-ready skills across disciplines while engaging students in meaningful, real-world experiential learning.

Encouraging Adaptability And Resilience In The College Classroom, Amanda Joyce

Pedagogicon Conference Proceedings

Employers often view Gen Z as lacking resilience, yet research shows they thrive in supportive, growth-oriented environments. This piece explores how educators can foster adaptability and resilience in students, helping them succeed in the modern workforce.

Cultivating Advocates: The Impact Of Early Student Advocacy On Future Professional Engagement And Community Involvement, Leah Simpkins, Geela Spira, Julie Duckart, Megan Speck Craig

Pedagogicon Conference Proceedings

It is important for students to understand what community advocacy is early on in their college experience and how it can impact future career achievements and advocacy for their profession. Early advocacy involvement for the profession is key to a lifelong progression championing advocacy. Development of advocacy occurs in segments

Navigating Shadows: The Intersection Of Lgbtqia+ Stigma, Substance Abuse And Mental Health In College Life, Erin Stevenson, Stephanie Saulnier

Pedagogicon Conference Proceedings

This study explores the impact of stigma on LGBTQIA+ college students’ mental health and substance use, highlighting pedagogical implications. Survey data from college students reveal the impacts of enacted, perceived, and internalized stigma. Findings underscore the need for inclusive educational practices that support identity development, resilience, and student well-being.

Simulating Success: Career-Ready Skill Development Through Interactive Learning, Thomas E. Stevens

Pedagogicon Conference Proceedings

Online education presents challenges of engaging students and cultivating career-ready (“durable”) skills. Simulation-based learning in an online, synchronous environment may enhance student engagement while developing real-world skills. This study examines how simulation-based exercises can impact learning outcomes in online paralegal education and assist instructor assessment of those outcomes.

The Critical Role Of Faculty As Buffering The Impact Of Discrimination On College Student Aspirations, Kristen Campbell

Pedagogicon Conference Proceedings

Research reveals discrimination's negative impact on university students. Yet, positive faculty relationships can counter these effects. This research explores how trust in faculty buffers discrimination's impact. Results show discrimination correlates with stress and diminished belonging but trust in faculty mitigates these effects, emphasizing faculty's role in fostering supportive campus environments.

What Beginning Law Students Learn When Ai Gets Personal, Kristina Swanson

Journal Articles

From the Introduction

While legal writing and research professors wrestle with artificial intelligence (AI)'s impact on the skills we teach, one thing is clear: beginning law students cannot discern whether AI answers to legal questions are correct. AI-generated responses to legal questions sound right and are designed to bolster the beleaguered law student's confidence. Deliberately programmed to hook customers, AI-generated answers often begin by praising the brilliant question and expressing electronic empathy for the difficulty the student may have had answering it. The end result: students with the wrong legal answer and misplaced confidence.

Inhaled Pattern Recognition Receptor Agonists Expand Alveolar Macrophages To Prevent Type 2 Allergic Lung Inflammation, Anna Claire E. Potier, Mbaya Ntita Phd, Aida Regina Juárez Cisneros, Scott E. Evans Md

Students Summer in Oncology at Anderson Research (SOAR) 2026

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Association Between Troponin Levels And Endomyocardial Biopsy Findings In Suspected Immune Checkpoint Inhibitor Associated-Myocarditis​, Arushi Rai, Kyle Beinart, David Paniagua, Keila C. Ostos Mendoza, Efthymios Triantafyllou, Sara Ebrahimi, Hyeon-Ju Ali, Efstratios Koutroumpakis, Salil Kumar, Jean-Bernard Durand, Anita Deswal, Cezar Iliescu, Nicolas L. Palaskas ​

Students Summer in Oncology at Anderson Research (SOAR) 2026

No abstract provided.

Shin-Chi’S Canoe (2008) By Nicola Campbell, Maughn Rollins Gregory

Picture Books

In the nineteenth and twentieth centuries American and Canadian government agencies and Christian churches established Indian residential schools where hundreds of thousands of children were “reeducated” in English and Christianity. They were not allowed to use their native languages or given names, to practice their religions, or to communicate with their siblings or parents. They were made to work in crop fields, kitchens, laundries, and industrial workshops. Many were physically and sexually abused. Many never saw their families again. The nine picture books reviewed here are accounts of survivors of residential schools from eight different Indigenous nations. In addition to …

Not My Girl (2014) By Christy Jordan-Fenton And Margaret-Olemaun Pokiak-Fenton, Maughn Rollins Gregory

Picture Books

In the nineteenth and twentieth centuries American and Canadian government agencies and Christian churches established Indian residential schools where hundreds of thousands of children were “reeducated” in English and Christianity. They were not allowed to use their native languages or given names, to practice their religions, or to communicate with their siblings or parents. They were made to work in crop fields, kitchens, laundries, and industrial workshops. Many were physically and sexually abused. Many never saw their families again. The nine picture books reviewed here are accounts of survivors of residential schools from eight different Indigenous nations. In addition to …

Impact Of Family And Social Determinants Of Health On Behavioral And Bmi Outcomes In Adolescents With And Without Intellectual And Developmental Disabilities: An Ecological System Perspective, Pingnan Li

Social Work Theses

Adolescence is a critical developmental period during which behavioral and physical health outcomes are shaped by social and family determinants of health; yet limited research has examined how these determinants operate among adolescents with intellectual and developmental disabilities (IDD) within a multilevel ecological framework. To address this gap, this thesis used data from Years 9 and 15 of the Future of Families and Child Wellbeing Study (FFCWS), with a final analytic sample of 3,176 adolescents at Year 15, including 150 with IDD. Descriptive analyses first examined the differences in demographic characteristics, behavioral outcomes (externalizing and internalizing behaviors), and physical outcomes …

When Benign Takes A Bad Turn: A Bleeding Hepatic Adenoma, Ryland Beede, Lillian Royston, Soumyadeep Bag, Roger D. Smalligan

UAB Huntsville Research Day - All Presentations

2026 clinical vignette poster

Shone’S Complex In A Pediatric Patient: Diagnostic Challenges And Management Considerations, Shreya Grandhi, Daniel Caicedo

UAB Huntsville Research Day - All Presentations

2026 clinical vignette poster

The Need For A Validated Psychometric Scale To Assess Multidimensional Language Barriers In Medical Education Among Arabic Speakers, Ali Alfaifi, Nasser Shubayr

Health Professions Education

Language barriers significantly hinder academic performance, psychological well-being, and clinical communication skills of Arabic-speaking healthcare students educated through English-medium instruction. Although existing instruments focus on clinical communication—often among physicians—critical dimensions such as academic challenges and psychological impacts remain underassessed, and tools rarely address disciplines beyond medicine (e.g., nursing, pharmacy, radiology). Studies in Arabic-speaking contexts typically employ author-developed or adapted questionnaires lacking rigorous validation. This short communication underscores the need for a comprehensive, psychometrically sound scale tailored to Arabic-speaking healthcare students. Proposed dimensions include Language Proficiency, Academic Impact, Psychological Impact, and Clinical Communication. Validation will involve systematic item development, exploratory and …

Mapping Historical Neighborhoods With Geospatial Viewshed Buffers, James B. Townsend

Dissertations, Master's Theses and Master's Reports

The concept of neighborhood has been long studied with little agreement beyond the notion that neighborhoods are somewhat self-contained areas within a wider urban environment. Despite the lack of a finite definition, there is wide agreement of the importance of studying population dynamics at the neighborhood scale. Many attempts have been made to spatially define, measure, and quantify contemporary neighborhoods, but less attention has been given to methods to spatially define historical neighborhoods. In this paper, we utilize a historical spatial data infrastructure for the city of London, Ontario to develop a viewshed methodology that recognizes that ‘neighborhood’ is unique …

Associations Between Contralesional Neuroplasticity And Motor Impairment Through Deep Learning-Derived Mri Regional Brain Age In Chronic Stroke (Enigma): A Multicohort, Retrospective, Observational Study, Gilsoon Park, Mahir Khan, Justin Andrushko, Nerisa Banaj, Michael Borich, Lara Boyd, Amy Brodtmann, Truman Brown, Cathrin Buetefisch, Adriana Conforto, Steven Cramer, Michael Dimyan, Martin Domin, Miranda Donnelly, Natalia Egorova-Brumley, Elsa Ermer, Wuwei Feng, Fatemeh Geranmayeh, Colleen Hanlon, Brenton Hordacre, Neda Jahanshad, Steven Kautz, Mohamed Salah Khlif, Jingchun Liu, Martin Lotze, Bradley Macintosh, Feroze Mohamed, Jan Nordvik, Fabrizio Piras, Kate Revill, Andrew Robertson, Christian Schranz, Nicolas Schweighofer, Na Jin Seo, Surjo Soekadar, Shraddha Srivastava, Bethany Tavenner, Gregory Thielman, Sophia Thomopoulos, Daniela Vecchio, Emilio Werden, Lars Westlye, Carolee Winstein, George Wittenberg, Jennifer Ferris, Chunshui Yu, Paul Thompson, Sook-Lei Liew, Hosung Kim

Department of Radiology Faculty Papers

BACKGROUND: Stroke leads to complex chronic structural and functional brain changes that specifically affect motor outcomes. The brain predicted age difference (PAD) has emerged as a sensitive biomarker of both sensorimotor and cognitive function after stroke. Our previous study showed a higher global brain PAD associated with poorer motor function after stroke. However, the association between local stroke lesion load, regional brain age, and motor impairment is unclear. This study aimed to investigate the associations between focal lesion damage, regional brain PAD in both hemispheres, and motor outcomes in chronic stroke, and to identify key predictors of motor impairment.

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How Does Consumer Animosity Affect Consumer Behavior? The Case Of Filipino College Students As Consumers Amid The West Philippine Sea Conflict, Reynaldo Bautista Jr., Luz Suplico Jeong, Myla Arcinas

DLSU Business & Economics Review

There are consumers who participate in political consumerism by avoiding, rejecting, or condemning products and services from countries perceived as aggressors through their military or economic action. This study examines how Filipino college students in Metro Manila, Philippines, who are frequently exposed to social media, will be affected as consumers amid the current tension in the West Philippine Sea. Using the theories of social identity, uses and gratifications, and echo chamber as frameworks, 770 college students from private and public universities in Metro Manila were surveyed. The results show that consumer animosity strongly predicts both purchase intention (β = 0.591, …