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The Nature And Nurture Of Sports Performance, Jessica E. Salvatore

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Are world-class athletes born or raised? In this track, we will consider the nature and nurture of sports performance. The primary objective of this course is to expose students to the ways scientists try to disentangle genetic and environmental influences on human behavior. Course materials will include a variety of formats: selected chapters from David Epstein’s New York Times bestseller “The Sports Gene,” scientific articles, podcasts and videos. Students will use social media to record their reactions to course materials, and will further discuss readings/podcasts/videos with one another and the instructor via live chat sessions.

Race, Gender, Sexuality, Ability, Identity And Cycling, Erin White

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Faculty reflection on VCU Great Bike Race Book course.

Course Description: Students will think critically about the intersections of cycle culture, race, gender, sexuality and ability.

New Media Photojournalism, Gary Garbett

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Faculty reflection on VCU Great Bike Race Book course.

Course Description: Students will explore documentary photography, creative storytelling and editing experimentation solely through mobile devices.

Adaptive Response Modeling Using Gis, Jennifer M. Ciminelli

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Faculty reflection on VCU Great Bike Race Book course.

Course Description: Students will incorporate social media feeds with geospatial technology to map, analyze and deploy real-time UCI event response to sustain and respond to waste and recycling needs.

Red, White And Bicycle: Rva, France And The Bike Race, Margaret Ozierski

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Faculty reflection on VCU Great Bike Race Book course.

Course Description: Through the lens of French film and prism of French literature, students will shift cultural gears to become global citizens better adept at understanding local culture. This learning track proposes modes of analysis for the toolbox of creation: students will make new multimedia forms inspired by their encounter with French culture.

Poetics Of Public Space, Jesse Goldstein

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Faculty reflection on VCU Great Bike Race Book course.

Course Description: Blending social science observation with creative/arts projects, students will create a multimedia “rhythmanalysis” that critically reflects on the ways in which the bike race activates public spaces.

Visualizing A Wired World’S Past, Bernard Means

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Faculty reflection on VCU Great Bike Race Book course.

Course Description: This track will draw on archaeology, art and history to reveal the shared humanity of the UCI Road World Championships’ participants and the VCU community.

What Is Safe Cycling?, Julie Arendt

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Faculty reflection on VCU Great Bike Race Book course.

Course Description: Students will find and read sources about bicycle safety, observe cyclists during the race and create a Web presentation.

Teamwork And Racing, Michael Pitts

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Faculty reflection on VCU Great Bike Race Book course.

Course Description: Students will examine how individuals work as a team toward a shared goal, focusing on the “international-human” side of the race.

The Physics Of Bicycling, Muruges Duraisamy, Marilyn F. Bishop

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Faculty reflection on VCU Great Bike Race Book course.

Course Description: The science of bicycling will be explored by measuring and observing key physical principles of the cyclists

Uci And Entrepreneurship, Jay Markiewicz

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Faculty reflection on VCU Great Bike Race Book course.

Course Description: This course will guide students through the process of evaluating entrepreneurial opportunities with the intention of identifying viable businesses.

YouTube video pitches:

Winning Pitch

And the other amazing pitches in no particular order:

• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XDKBakM0XH4
• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h-RpEOObbHE
• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GdyLF_BXpTM
• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bSDuNX-_4go
• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SMEX4cSvkt4
• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ek7dvG92Lns

Anthropology Of The Crowd, Amy Rector Verrelli

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Faculty reflection on VCU Great Bike Race Book course.

Course Description: This track will study the bike race crowd using the four fields of anthropology (archaeology, biological, linguistic and sociocultural) to discover how they represent the greater diversity of humanity.

Social Media Immersion Experience, Judi Crenshaw

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Faculty reflection on VCU Great Bike Race Book course.

Course Description: An integrated social media immersion experience for students during the UCI Road World Championships.

Vcu's Faculty Status Report - November 2016, Vcu Office Of Faculty Recruitment And Retention

VCU's Faculty Status Report was presented to Faculty Senate on November 29, 2016.

A Critical Policy Analysis Of Texas’ Closing The Gaps 2015, Katherine Cumings Mansfield, Stefani Thachik

Educational Leadership Publications

This critical policy analysis uses critical race theory to provide a counter narrative to the P-16 initiative in Texas known as Closing the Gaps 2015. Findings indicate that while these reforms aim to increase educational access and achievement for people of color, they fall short of addressing systemic inequities such as enduring segregation and unconstitutional school finance policy. Using Texas as a case study illumines the ways the growing number of P-16 councils throughout the US might adapt and improve policy development and implementation to more adequately address educational inequities across racial, ethnic, and linguistic groups. The article closes …

Core Competencies For Undergraduate Community-Engaged Researchers, Grant Wolfe

Community-Engaged Research Resources

Undergraduate community-engaged research (UCEnR) is a growing trend which VCU has proactively pursued by providing grants for UCEnR projects and assimilating UCEnR into interdisciplinary curricula. However, a definitive sense of core competencies for undergraduate community-engaged researchers has not yet been established. To that end, this literature review answers the question, "What skills should UCEnR students have?"