Is It Raining Over The Hill? Microclimate On The Dingle Peninsula, Charlotte Ribaudo, Ilona Farkas

Academic Festival

Investigations into the effects of land use and cover (LULC) on ecosystem function are important in areas stressed by human activity. The conjoined Feohanagh, Milltown, and Owenmore River basins of the Dingle Peninsula in Ireland are similar in size but vary but vary significantly in LULC. Our current work focuses on understanding the effects of differences in LULC on the river water quality. Anecdotally reported differences in microclimate between river basins could be a confounding variable in our investigations. In this experiment weather parameters (temperature, precipitation) were correlated with water quality measurements (dissolved oxygen (DO), and conductivity) in the three …

Using Crispr/Cas9 Gene Editing To Test The Hotspot Hypothesis, Alexis Navarro, Mikayla Tucci

Academic Festival

Morphogenesis, or the development of form, is a universal process during development of multicellular organisms and is regulated by the precise spatiotemporal expression of genes within gene regulatory networks (GRNs). While advances have been made in mapping GRNs that control embryonic development in model organisms, we lack an understanding of how GRNs evolve and regulate post-embryonic morphogenesis. A theory for GRN evolution, known as the hotspot hypothesis, predicts that GRN architectures bias GRN evolution, such that the same genes will be repeatedly co-opted during convergent evolutionary events (i.e. the independent evolution of the same phenotype in multiple lineages). These genes …

The Relationship Between Self-Protective Factors And Defensiveness, Maria Pandolfo, Abbygail R. Michel

Academic Festival

The current pilot study tested five hypothetical scenarios that were designed to induce defensiveness. We created high and low-threat hypothetical scenarios within these domains: academic, health, romantic, alcohol use, and friendship. Participants were randomly assigned to read and respond to one high-threat scenario and one low-threat scenario. This poster will focus on the participants who received the high-threat scenario first. Post-scenario questions included open-ended questions about how they feel and would respond to the hypothetical scenario and Likert-scale questions about their level of defensiveness and sense of responsibility. This poster presents the results for two individual differences (i.e., spontaneous self-affirmation …

Social Work Students Attitude Towards Using Computerized Cognitive Behavioral Therapy With Children And Adolescents, Peter Milner

Academic Festival

Cognitive-behavioral therapy (CBT) is the preferred treatment for children with anxiety. It is traditionally delivered in a provider's limiting accessibility. Delivery of computerized CBT (cCBT) by a licensed provider has been shown to be effective in treating anxiety in this population. However, little is known about social work student’s attitudes towards this method of delivery.

Feminism V. Femininity & Masculinity In The Hunger Games And Ulysses, Mackenzie Eaton

Academic Festival

In patriarchal systems, individuals are socialized to view masculinity as synonymous with success, and femininity as weakness. Yet Tantra, an Eastern philosophy, suggests the human body is a microcosm of the universe and requires masculine and feminine energies to achieve existential balance. Alisa Vitti’s novel, Women Code, propounds Tantra as a tool for women to realign and gain power in their femininity. This essay will discuss the harm the evolution of feminism has caused to the feminine. Deriving examples from works written nearly 100 years apart, Suzanne Collins’ The Hunger Games and James Joyce’s Ulysses provides attestation that masculine …

It's Not Just A Game: A Comparison Of Chess And Pokémon As Play, Strategy, And Art, Seth Silvestro

Academic Festival

This project was made to observe video games through the lens of art by comparing and contrasting the centuries-old game Chess and the contemporary game series Pokémon. Chess has been around since it was first prototyped in India, to which it spread across the Old World before being finalized in Europe and becoming one of, if not the most well-known game of all time. It has a simple ruleset that allows for near infinite possibilities for each game, and in recent times has grown even larger thanks to the online world. Pokémon, on the other hand, was created in 1996 …

Classifying Action Of Internet Firewall Using Machine Learning Models, Geetanjali Kakda

Academic Festival

A firewall is a type of security mostly located at the entry and exit points of a network. This is necessary to improve the security of the network and defend against cyber threats. This study aims to classify the internet traffic using different Machine Learning classification models into four categories based on 11 features. The models applied are – K-Nearest Neighbor, SGD, Decision Tree, Random Forest , XGBoost, Support Vector Machine. The XGBoost model achieved the highest accuracy, recall, precision,F1score. Decision Tree has the least time complexity.

Creating A Word Clock With An Esp 32, Devon Pope

Academic Festival

Through the use of the IDEA Lab’s equipment, an ESP 32, and Arduino IDE, a word clock was constructed that features accurate time keeping and WiFi syncing. The clock displays the exact time to the minute, and can be adjusted either manually or through an internet database with the push of a button. The clock serves as a showcase for what is possible here at SHU Idea Lab.

Roadkill, Kaitlyn Mangano, Jordan Carlucci, Mario Montuori, Jeppe Mogensen, Benjamin Agyemang, Brandon Maruri

Academic Festival

We designed a Formula SAE EV.

R Analytics Tool To Study The Performance Of The D1 Women’S Basketball Team At Sacred Heart University, Erica Juliano, Chelsea Thakkar

Academic Festival

The R Analytics tool leverages the power of the R programming language, a versatile and widely used software environment for statistical computing, to provide a comprehensive and sophisticated analysis of the team's performance. Advanced statistical techniques are employed to generate insights into the team's performance and identify areas for improvement. The tool also integrates data from multiple sources, including game statistics, player performance data and other relevant information, to create a comprehensive picture of the team's performance. The goal of the tool is to support data-driven decision making and help coaches and staff at Sacred Heart University gain a deeper …

The Effect Of Social Media On Perceptions Of Women In Sports, Grace Hand

Academic Festival

The popularity of the smartphone has led to a society where information can be accessed or shared at any time with just the tap of a finger. Social media sites like Facebook, Instagram, and Twitter have capitalized on this technology to create platforms where people can be more connected than ever before. The influence has bled into all levels of society. In terms of the sports world, social media has become an outlet for teams, athletes, and fans to grow a dedicated following of like-minded individuals. However, despite the progressive nature of these sites, they have not escaped many of …

How The Damage Of Racism In Social Media Generates Social Activism, Jessica Fontaine

Academic Festival

Social media can be a positive place where people around the world can share their stories and experiences. However, it is also a cesspool of negativity. One way this negativity has manifested itself is in the form of racism. Videos of police brutality against people of color are heavily prevalent on social media.

The killings are highly publicized, especially in recent years, and this publication has changed audience’s opinions about the police. Although incidents of police violence are shared through numerous platforms, such as newspapers and television news, social media has been the most recent and vital medium of sharing …

Room 2: Building Interactive Oer Content With Twine, Stewart Baker

Open Educational Resources Symposium

Twine is an open source, web-based tool designed to create interactive text games. Although it's typically used to create fiction, Twine can also be used as an asynchronous web-based teaching tool. This presentation will dive into the basics of what Twine can do and show you how to start writing your first Twine game—whether it's as part of an OER or just for fun.

Download the html file (the blue download button!) and open it in your browser to see what Stewart has been working on!

Room 2: Creating Interactive Open Content

Zoom Link: https://lanecc.zoom.us/j/94430798683

Room 2: Authoring To Enabling New Adopters: My Journey Creating Ancillaries For Openstax Astronomy, Andrea Goering

Open Educational Resources Symposium

It takes more than a textbook to teach a class! I'll tell you how I created OER ancillaries (including interactive lecture slides, in-class activities, and project prompts) to accompany OpenStax Astronomy. This work was supported by funding from LCC's OER Librarian. I'll briefly describe the reason for authoring this material, the collaboration process, and what we've created. I'll also discuss some side benefits of writing OER: helping to spread active and engaged pedagogies, and the chance to highlight diversity in your field that your textbook may have forgotten.

Room 2: Creating Interactive Open Content

Zoom Link: https://lanecc.zoom.us/j/94430798683

Room 1: Getting Started With Oer, Cheryl Cuillier

Open Educational Resources Symposium

Are you new to open educational resources and want to learn more? This webinar covers the basics:

• Why high textbook costs are a problem for students
• How OER differ from free resources
• How Creative Commons licenses work
• Where to find OER
• What resources are available for customizing OER
• How to incorporate open pedagogy into a class

Presenter Cheryl Cuillier shares a wealth of resources to help kick-start your adoption, adaptation, or creation of OER.

Room 1: Beginners Welcome!

Zoom Link: https://linnbenton.zoom.us/j/92808750724

Room 2: Impacts Of Open Pedagogy In Professional Learning, Susan Payne

Open Educational Resources Symposium

This presentation will highlight the use of open pedagogical practices in a year-long OER development project for K-12 educators that focused on integrating supports for students who are multilingual learners. Participants demonstrated their understanding by creating lessons that can be used by other educators, both in the classroom and in professional learning as models of high-quality, culturally responsive instructional design.

Room 2: Creating Interactive Open Content

Zoom Link: https://lanecc.zoom.us/j/94430798683

The Impact Of Brief Animal Assisted Therapy Dog Interactions On College Student Stress And Self-Efficacy Levels, Savannah Giordano, Julian Percoco

Academic Festival

The aim of the current study was to examine the potential benefits of dog therapy programs on student stress levels on a college campus. While these programs have become increasingly popular there is little evidence on the effectiveness of animal centered activities. We compared the differences on three types of assessments related to stress levels (e.g., Self-Efficacy Scale, Perceived Stress Scale and relative changes in stress hormone levels (cortisol)) for college students before and after interacting with therapy dogs for 10 minutes. Saliva samples were collected using Salimetrics’ Salivabio Oral Swab (SOS) method from student participants 15 minutes after arrival …

The Argument For Sports Fandom And Its Unrealized Societal Benefits, Daniel Gonzalez

Academic Festival

Sports fandom drives the success and continuation of sports franchises at all levels internationally, yet fans and fandom itself are often criticized. Like all things, sports fandom has both positive and negative effects; some negatives outweigh the positives, and vice versa. A lot of the positivity surrounding sports fandom is rooted in the unique connection fans seem to have to both “their” teams as well as one another. I use data and evidence from many resources to explore fandom's psychological, sociological, and economic effects on society and those within it. The main contributors to the negative stigma surrounding sports fandom …

Inequity Surrounding Insulin Prices And Its Impact On American Citizens, Natalie Kennedy

Academic Festival

Medication prices for chronic illnesses are increasing rapidly, making it extremely difficult for patients to manage and treat their disorders. While insurance can cover a significant portion of it, out of pocket costs are unaffordable for most. High market prices of insulin have created a cycle of improper diabetic management, specifically in uninsured Americans, which created an inability for proper holistic treatment for those with Diabetes Mellitus. Those who are uninsured are facing a crisis in which they are forced to decide between taking a life saving medication or paying their weekly bills. The United States is one of the …

The History Of Sports Inequality And How The Pressure On Female Athletes Affects Mental Health And Performance, Madeline Scarola

Academic Festival

While physical health is a big part of female athletes and their performance, mental health is also an extremely important factor. The pressures that society puts on female athletes to constantly prove themselves equal to men, uphold their feminine image, and still be successful renders many female athletes to develop anxiety, depression, and eating disorders that will either cause harm to their performance, increase the likelihood of injury, or make them pull out of competition completely. As more elite female athletes are bringing conversations about the pressures they face and their mental health to the forefront, hopefully it will inspire …

An Interdisciplinary View On The Legalization Of Physician-Assisted Suicide, Alis Koroglu

Academic Festival

When an individual has a terminal illness, death may not always come rapidly or peacefully. More times than not, the individual with a terminal illness goes from being a well, able-bodied individual, to then slowly degenerating into an individual living with unbearable chronic pain and dependence on others to survive. This paper evaluates the reasons why a procedure called Physician-Assisted Suicide (PAS) should be legalized in all 50 states to give individuals with a terminal illness the right to die without struggling to stay alive. For those in the state of a terminal illness, who are essentially forced to slowly …

Coronavirus Impact On Nursing, Hyzell Lim

Academic Festival

The health care system would not function efficiently as it does today if nurses were not present to perform their duties. Their role, became crucial and urgent come along the Coronavirus pandemic. The pandemic not only took a toll on the population, but nurses were also affected leading to many complications and challenges that require immediate intervention.

Financial Illiteracy, Tyler Maloney

Academic Festival

No matter the socioeconomic class, people deserve sufficient resources to have opportunities for a better life. The increase of financial procarities creates a greater strain on health, building upon the problems people in poverty already face. The cycle that further cripples generations of low socioeconomic individuals and families must be fixed. In order to end this suffering, implementation of health and educational resources must become the cornerstone.

Wage Gap In Women's Sports, Ian Watral

Academic Festival

From the financial standpoint, to what extent do sports leagues contribute to the gendered wage gap in professional athletics, especially as they maintain and promote male performance as top viewership? Many top-tier woman athletes are far more athletic and financially deserving than a good number of male athletes we see today. For example, Serena Williams and Hope Solo. Both women are leaders not only to their team and on the field but to the entire sport for girls to look up to and the next generation of women in sports. However, their payment reflects otherwise compared to the male sports …

The Importance Of Sales Enablement In B2b Marketing Strategies, Grace Kelliher

Academic Festival

This paper examines the rapidly changing, competitive landscape of B2B sales and the challenges this environment presents to marketing and sales teams. In light of this, the paper reflects on the need for these two functions in a business to be aligned in how they communicate their company’s value to deliver a seamless buying experience to their customers. This alignment is rooted in developing marketing strategies with a strong consideration for sales enablement, defined as the processes that empower sellers to optimize the sales cycle in every interaction with customers.

To form a sound thesis around this topic, research on …

The Implications Of Successful Diversity, Equity, And Inclusion (Dei) Initiatives In The Ncaa, Jackson Tse

Academic Festival

Diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) initiatives are relatively new aspects of the NCAA, but they are becoming more important than ever. Initially introduced with the passing of Brown v. Board in 1954, DEI initiatives have grown to include legislation and organizations such as the Civil Rights Act, Title IX, and Association for Intercollegiate Athletics for Women (AIAW). These represent the first of many steps to build a more welcoming and equitable environment for the NCAA’s stakeholders, especially in regard to racial and gender diversity. Despite all of the aforementioned initiatives, there are still gaps throughout the NCAA. Positions including athletic …

The Imperative And Financially Feasible Implementations Necessary In The Battle Against Traumatic Brain Injuries In Professional Football, Brian Dahdal

Academic Festival

Every minute that society waits to bring traumatic brain injuries in professional football to the forefront is another minute of disservice to the innocent athletes that dedicate their lives for society’s entertainment. It is imperative to deduce if there exists a cost effective budgetary way for the NFL to put new resources, technologies or protocols into place to more effectively prevent and address the traumatic brain injuries that have plagued professional football players for decades, notably concussions and Chronic Traumatic Encephalopathy (CTE).

Pregnancy And The Postpartum Period - How Resistance Training Can Help, Emma Felix

Academic Festival

ABSTRACT:

The objective of this article is to describe the importance of maintaining a resistance training exercise regimen throughout pregnancy and during postpartum. To emphasize this statement, I will be delving into the common misconceptions of exercising during pregnancy and postpartum along with safety considerations to be aware of. Following this, there is also a section dedicated to how exercising during this period of anatomical change can help the patient’s psychological wellbeing as well. From here, the reader can expect to learn of common pain that occurs during the pre and postnatal period and how resistance training can alleviate said …

Causes Of The Increased Rates Of Child Marriage In The Za'atari Refugee Camp, Kylie Mccabe

Academic Festival

The rates of child marriage within the Za’atari refugee camp in Jordan have steadily increased since the camp opened in 2012. The leading explanation for this trend typically embeds itself in a lack of education, knowledge of reproductive services, financial stability, adequate police enforcement and legal jurisdiction, as well as play and socialization accessibility for children. This study seeks to enumerate the primary driving causes of the increased rates of child marriage for girls within the camp by analyzing data collected from the Inter-Agency Child Protection and Gender Based Violence Assessment in the Za’atari Refugee Camp conducted by the United …

The Effect Of Screen Time On Children And Adolescents' Physical And Mental Health Including Differences Seen In Sex And Familial Socioeconomic Status, Lauren Iacoviello

Academic Festival

Have you ever gone to a nice restaurant for dinner with family members on a weekend evening and could not help but notice the “activity” of others who are sitting around you? Especially their actions concerning none other than the device that has control over many. While screens can provide us with easier and faster communication, a great extent of knowledge, entertainment, and the sharing of resources, its consequences for a person's physical and mental health far outweighs its benefits. In this paper, the negative effects of screens on children and adolescent's future well being, with differences in gender and …