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A Note From The Co-Editors, Jada C. Johnson

Ideas: Exhibit Catalog for the Honors College Visiting Scholars Series

An introduction to the second issue of the third volume of Ideas Magazine, concerning the research and work of M. Adam Howard.

Epistemic Bubbles In Affluent Schools, Virginia M. Pieczynski

Ideas: Exhibit Catalog for the Honors College Visiting Scholars Series

This essay explores the teachings of Dr. Adam Howard, an educator and researcher focused on the relationship between privilege and identity in educational systems, through the lens of the epistemic bubble. It reviews what epistemic bubbles are, how they are formed, and how and why we should combat them, drawing from Dr. Howard’s experiences with similar structures in affluent schooling.

The Meritocracy Trap, Adam G. Ma

Ideas: Exhibit Catalog for the Honors College Visiting Scholars Series

The idea of merit has always been a core value to most if not all cultures in the world. It's use and its value has changed over time and many believe it has created a culture that works to break down others through competition, rather than to build each other up. While the simple idea of earning your status and your property though your work and talent may seem like to most practical system, it can lead to some dangerous traps.

Get Home Safe: Art As Resistance, Human Rights Education, And Liberation In Incarcerated Spaces, Marissa Gutierrez-Vicario

Biennial Conference: The Social Practice of Human Rights

Abstract:

In this presentation, Marissa Gutierrez-Vicario will speak about her work with Art and Resistance Through Education (ARTE), a New York-based non-governmental organization that works to amplify the voices of young people for human rights change through the visual arts. ARTE works in public schools, with community organizations, and in carceral facilities. As part of ARTE’s work, the presentation will discuss the joys and challenges of delivering human rights education and arts-based curriculum inside of jail facilities in a post-pandemic world, while simultaneously advocating for abolition as part of the mass incarceration movement within the United States. Also throughout the …

Deaf Inclusion And Accessibility In The Dance Field, Samantha M. Doyle, Caroline S. Clark

Symposium of Student Scholars

Over the past ten years, the dance field in the United States has shifted towards practicing diversity and inclusion. However, there are still underrepresented groups in dance, such as the Deaf community. There is a current lack of pedagogical content to help dance teachers and choreographers be inclusive to Deaf dancers. This research addresses the gap by discussing issues and access for Deaf and hard-of-hearing (HOH) dancers in the dance classroom and on stage. To do so, I present a literature review and analysis of current scholarship with a goal of bringing awareness to the current lack of accessibility to …

Adapting Applied Behavior Analysis In Autism Intervention To Improve Individualized Education For Children With Autism, Elisabeth Alonso

Symposium of Student Scholars

Applied Behavior Analysis (ABA) intervention for children diagnosed with autism provides detailed assessments of the clients’ abilities and guides skill acquisition with the goal of transitioning the client, often into a typical school classroom. The lack of accessible autism training and access to knowledgeable ABA professionals in school settings prevents teachers from engaging with their students on the autism spectrum. Furthermore, this gap in training does not equip teachers to follow through with the research-based interventions to improve students’ quality of life. Teachers must have an understanding of ABA in layman’s terms to improve the child’s classroom functioning. This research …

Parental Leave Policy And It's Impacts On Educators In Public Schools., Tahy Addison

Symposium of Student Scholars

Parental Leave and it’s impacts on educators within public schools. Tahy Addison Candidate for the B.S. in Human Services with a concentration in Nonprofit Management and Social Innovation Department of Social Work and Human Services

Dr. Jennifer A. Wade-Berg, Research Mentor

Abstract

Public Law 103-3 cited as the Family and Medical leave Act of 1993, was enacted to grant family and temporary medical leave under certain circumstances. The Family Medical Leave Act (FMLA) was created for Americans who feel that their career takes valuable time away from their children and loved ones. FMLA allows eligible employees up to 12-weeks of …

Incorporate Art Standards In Kindergarten Curriculum, Christina Mattocks

Scholars Week

No abstract provided.

Modeling, Analysis, And Control Of Student Loan Debt Using Epidemiological Models, Kavya Ravishankar, Padmanabhan Seshiayer

Annual Symposium on Biomathematics and Ecology Education and Research

No abstract provided.

Unicase (University Of Northern Iowa Corpus Of Academic English), Jacob Rigal

Three Minute Thesis (3MT®) at UNI

ESL students and all language learners need access to authentic language use. Unfortunately, teachers and textbook writers often just make up what how they think people talk. This research will collect speech as it used around campus in order to make examples of authentic academic spoken English easily accessible to students, teachers, and researchers. Eventually, this corpus will be part if a free, open source web application based on the data. My thesis will discuss the various ways people use English at UNI to do things such as agree, disagree, and ask for clarification. It will offer recommendations for further …

Epistemic Bubbles In Affluent Schools, Virginia M. Pieczynski

Ideas: Exhibit Catalog for the Honors College Visiting Scholars Series

This essay explores the teachings of Dr. Adam Howard, an educator and researcher focused on the relationship between privilege and identity in educational systems, through the lens of the epistemic bubble. It reviews what epistemic bubbles are, how they are formed, and how and why we should combat them, drawing from Dr. Howard’s experiences with similar structures in affluent schooling.

Dent-Als: Dentistry’S Virtual Reality Serious Gaming Solution For Advanced Life Support Training, Jesse Manton

Faculty Showcase

THE GOAL: To develop a novel virtual reality (VR),interactive dental clinical environment wherein learners can engage with various clinical scenarios involving patient avatars, dental personnel and medical equipment consistent with a real-world dental office.

THE PURPOSE: To utilize this VR environment for training dental learners to develop skills for recognizing a patient requiring urgent or emergent care and initiating evaluation and management in dental setting, a requisite skill for all dentists in clinical practice.

THE POTENTIAL: A VR based learning environment allows learners to access these resources from remote locations, providing a cost effective and easily distributed simulation training solution. …

Revenue Classification Shifting: Does Ceo Gender Matter?, Wenjing Ouyang

Faculty Showcase

Instead of managing bottom-line earnings, firms may use revenue classification shifting to inflate core earnings due to its less risky, less costly, but viable features. Using a sample of 36,427 US firm-year observations from 1993-2019, we show that female CEO-led earnings management suspect firms, i.e., those that just beat important earnings threshold, engage in less revenue classification shifting than those with male CEOs in the pre-SOX period, but increase revenue classification shifting after SOX. Further analyses indicate that these firms substitute revenue classification shifting for real earnings management under a stricter monitoring environment after SOX. The results are robust to …

Inviting Faculty To Assess Undergraduate Student Learning Of The Core Competencies With Canvas Outcomes And Rubrics, Jessica Grady

Faculty Showcase

This project set up the infrastructure to pilot the use of Canvas to gather course-level data on student performance on University-wide Learning Outcomes (ULOs). Faculty were recruited to score student work using established rubrics that they embedded into their Canvas courses. The goal was to lay the groundwork for a decentralized model of assessing ULOs that can produce core competency results at the program level (versus a centralized university level) that faculty are more likely to use to inform their teaching and improve student learning.

A Sports Performance Major At Pacific, Lou Matz

Faculty Showcase

Myles Brand, the first President of the NCAA to be a former faculty member and university president, offered a provocative defense of the role and value of intercollegiate athletics in universities. He argued that they are substantively similar to traditional performing arts, such as dance and music, and so should be accepted by faculty as a legitimate part of a university’s educational mission. I contend that Brand did not bring his persuasive analogical argument to its logical conclusion: intercollegiate athletics should become a part of the academic curriculum by contributing to a new, first-of-its kind 'Sports Performance’ major. In my …

Transpacific Literary And Cultural Connections: Latin American Influence In Asia, Jie Lu

Faculty Showcase

This critical interdisciplinary volume investigates modern and contemporary Asian cultural products in the non-westernized transpacific context of Asian and Latin American intellectual and cultural connections. It focuses on the Latin American intellectual, literary, and cultural influences on Asia, which have long been overshadowed by the dominance of Europe/North America-oriented discourse and by the predominance of academic research by both Asian and western intellectuals that focuses only on the West. Moving beyond the western intellectual paradigm, the volume examines how Asian literature, films, and art interact with Latin American literature and ideas to reexamine, reconsider, and re-explore issues related to the …

Full Program, Academic Affairs

Faculty Showcase

No abstract provided.

The N-Terminus Of Mif Controls The Flexibility Of Specific Β-Sheet Residues Resulting In Dynamic Regulation Of Cd74 Activation, Georgios Pantouris

Faculty Showcase

Macrophage migration inhibitory factor (MIF) is a pleiotropic protein with catalytic, CD74, CXCR2, CXCR4, and nuclease activities that contribute to the pathology of various inflammatory disorders, cardiovascular diseases, and cancer. The majority of MIF-triggered pathological conditions are associated with the activation of CD74, MIF’s cell surface receptor. The mechanistic details of MIF-induced activation of CD74 were mostly unknown until recently where it was shown that intramolecular dynamic signals transmitted from an allosteric center regulate the CD74activation site on MIF’s surface. Via backbone dynamic signals, the same center also controls the enzymatic pocket of MIF and more specifically the catalytically active …

Tiger Strides: Walk With Me Summer 2021 Library Fellowship, Lisa Cooperman

Faculty Showcase

Pacific Advanced Collaboration Summer Fellowships are interdisciplinary, technology-enhanced experiences rooted in the collaborative ideals of Project Based Learning. Sponsored by the University Library, teams embark each summer on short, but intensive inquiries into complex, open-ended questions. The Summer 2021 fellowship centered on student-led investigations into the cultural histories of the Stockton campus. Research revealed a theme of student driven initiatives that propelled social change. To connect classmates past and present with their findings, the fellows devised and published a phone app for an augmented reality walking tour of selected campus sites. Supported by faculty and staff team with expertise in …

Metabolic Responses To Prolonged Fasting In A Naturally Obese Marine Mammal, Jane Khudyakov

Faculty Showcase

Many animals undergo fasting in order to survive during periods of severe weather, food scarcity, migration, or reproduction. While most animals decrease their metabolism while fasting, northern elephant seals fast for several months while undergoing energy-intensive activities such as molting and reproduction. Seals fuel their energy needs with large fat stores that they accumulate while foraging at sea, resembling human patients with diabetes and obesity (insulin sensitivity, high levels of glucose and fat) while fasting. While some of the hormone signals involved in fasting have been identified, the molecular mechanisms that regulate healthy metabolic adaptations to fasting in seals are …

Sabbaticals Are About Space...Sometimes Vector Space, Anthony Dutoi

Faculty Showcase

A sabbatical is supposed to be about having the space to do the research you would usually not be able to get to. My plan was to wander around in 2D spaces, selling my ideas to other groups, connecting my projects with theirs, and connecting myself with their grad students (for both short- and long-term gain). Well, my physical space became limited to that of a spare bedroom, but it was quiet. And, fortunately, I am a theorist.

I spent my pre-tenure years investing heavily in specific way of re-writing the equations that dictate how electrons behave, which should be …

Kam Minority Heritage Archive, Marie Lee

Faculty Showcase

In collaboration with the library, this project created an online archive of cultural heritage of the little-known Kam minority people in remote Guizhou Province in China. The archive consists of photographs, video recordings, audio recordings and field notes created by Marie Lee from 2009 to 2014 for the Kam Heritage Project. The archive is hosted at Pacific’s Scholarly Commons. Currently, there are over 3,000 photographs and videos uploaded in the archive. There have been over 43,000 downloads from viewers from all over the world, the majority coming from the education sector in the USA.

Survey Of Medical Marijuana Knowledge And Attitudes In A Dental School, Dara Szyliowicz

Faculty Showcase

Medical Marijuana (MM) use is increasing, requiring healthcare professionals, such as dentists, to increase their working knowledge of MM. Previous studies have indicated that MM education is lacking in current healthcare education.

Methods: A 50-question survey was created to assess, in detail, dentists' knowledge, practice, and attitudes toward MM, and to identify possible correlations between answers. The survey was modeled after a previous survey conducted amongst practicing pharmacists. All faculty dentists, faculty dental hygienists, students and residents at the Arthur A. Dugoni School of Dentistry, University of the Pacific, were invited by email to participate.

Results: A total of 277 …

What's So Special About Specifications Grading? Student Perceptions Across Three Universities, Carla Strickland-Hughes

Faculty Showcase

Problems with traditional grading include creating stress for instructors and students (e.g., Kohn, 1999), demotivating students (e.g., Butler, 1988),encouraging students to adopt avoidant learning goals (Pulfrey et al., 2011),and fostering competitive rather than cooperative environments (Schinske &Tanner, 2014). Specifications (“specs”) grading (Nilson, 2014) is a system that promises to solve these problems by assessing mastery of course learning outcomes on a satisfactory/unsatisfactory basis. By recommendation, "satisfactory” scores are set at a rigorous “B” level, and higher final grades are earned from completing more and/or higher-level satisfactory work. Advocates of specs grading (Nilson, 2014) argue that several evaluative criteria underscore benefits …

3 Capd Awards Helped Generate 2 National Presentations And 5 Publications., Chi Tran

Faculty Showcase

There were 3 CAPD awards that have resulted in 2 presentations at national meetings and they also helped in the publication of 5 articles in peer-reviewed professional dental journals. There were 15 faculty, 4 pre-doctoral and 2 postdoctoral students who were involved:

CAPD.(2020) "Presentation at American Dental Education Association Meeting," award to Booth, Tran

Presentation-Greene RS, Greene SS, Tran CD. Graphic rapid extrusion: evolutionary novel electronic orthodontic management guide. Accepted for presentation American Dental Education Association. March 12, 2021 Boston, MA (Virtual)

Publication- Greene RS, Greene SS, Tran CD. Graphic rapid extrusion: evolutionary novel electronic orthodontic management guide. Journal of …

Discovery Of Novel Triplex Dna Binding Ligands, Liang Xue

Faculty Showcase

Triplex DNA formation has attracted interest in anti-gene therapy as it can interfere with many pathogenic activities, including replication halt and gene expression regulation. Triplex DNA is not as stable as duplex DNA under physiological conditions. Small molecules, known as anti-gene enhancers, have been used to facilitate the formation of triplex DNA. In the present work, I report the discovery of a novel class of small molecules that can bind to triplex DNA with high affinities but do not influence the structures of duplex DNA.

An Evaluation Of Efl Textbooks Used In Higher Education, Alma Lama, Diana Sejdiu, Eglantina Bilalli

UBT International Conference

In English as a Foreign Language/English as a Second Language (EFL/ESL) contexts, textbooks are simultaneously important. Indeed, textbooks contain the syllabus, which is being expected by teachers to follow more or less faithfully, with end-of-course exams being based exclusively on textbook content. In this study, we will investigate the selection of English language textbooks as tools used in public and private universities. We will look at the levels of content, and what textbooks include and exclude in terms of topic, linguistic information, pedagogy, and culture. We will also examine how teachers and learners use textbooks and the processes by which …

The School Principal As A Manager And A Pedagogical Leader, Lulzime Lutfiu Kadriu

UBT International Conference

The school principal plays a very important role in the proper management of the educational institution, i.e. he should actively participate in all aspects of school life, provide all the necessary information and offer support to both staff members and students.

The position of school principal unites two roles; the role of a manager and that of a pedagogical leader. This, in practice, signifies that the person working in the position of a school principal should possess management skills, elements of leadership and competence for pedagogical guidance. Pedagogical leadership is the key element for the school’s success and should be …

Awareness And Implementation Of Solid Waste Management (Swm) Practices, Emerson N. Lalamonan, Sheena Mae T. Comighud

UBT International Conference

This research used the descriptive-correlational method to determine the level of respondents’ awareness and extent of implementation of Solid Waste Management (SWM) Practices in District 2, Bayawan City Division, Negros Oriental, Philippines for SY 2018-2019 in terms of the areas of segregation, reduce, reuse, recycle, and disposal. The quantitative data were gathered from 81 teachers and 189 students. Also, a survey questionnaire was utilized by the researcher. The statistical tools used in the analysis of the data were weighted mean, mean, and spearman rank correlation. The results revealed that the level of respondents’ awareness on SWM Practices as both perceived …

Impact Of The Covid-19 Pandemic On Development And Research Of Students In Kosovo, Manjola Brahaj

UBT International Conference

The object of this research will be to identify and explain the impact that the global pandemic Covid-19 has had on the development and scientific progress of students in the Republic of Kosovo.

To achieve this objective, we will conduct a questionnaire to a sample of 1000 subjects, who will be students of different fields and different Universities in Kosovo, from which we will collect the necessary data.

The collected data will be processed to achieve the overall results and conclusions of the research.

The theoretical basis literature will also be used, which will be more in the field of …