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Social Sciences Highlights
Total Listing: 59    (Listed by the order of record adding time, Descending)
( 1 )   Recorded at: 12/16/2009      
Title Choosing and reading online news: How available choice affects cognitive processing
Journal Journal of Broadcasting & Electronic Media, 2008;52(1):69-85, Wise K, Bolls PD, Schaefer S
Description This study examined how the number of choices from which a person can select online news affects cognitive resource allocation while reading a chosen story. Results showed greater resource allocation to stories selected from an extensive, as opposed to a limited, number of options
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Student Samantha Schaefer participated in this study through the Discovery Fellows program at the University of Missouri. She is currently a senior majoring in Strategic Communication at the Missouri School of Journalism
 
( 2 )   Recorded at: 12/16/2009      
Title Eye deceptions: The evolution of George D. Green's painting from the late 1970's to the present
Journal Undergraduate Research Journal for the Human Sciences, 2008;7A, Dalton K, Fritz K, Klein D, Meyer R, Schanzenbach L (Cempellin L, Ed.).
Description This students’ collaborative paper, originated during the Spring 2008 seminar Between Object and Process, is the most extensive publication on George D. Green to date. Originally, each of the students chose to write either on similar paintings from the same period or on one painting from different periods, thereby studying both the short-term and the long-term evolution of Green’s art throughout his career. While the students worked on stages of their individual papers, Dr. Cempellin has progressively inserted parts of their work into what became the collective paper and edited the overall work to its current shape. The artist was indirectly interviewed by the students through questions and comments posted on a discussion board and email communication mediated by the Faculty. The online publication of this project has been sponsored and made possible by the “Undergraduate Research Journal” (director: Dr. Dorothy I. Mitstifer), and the artist George D. Green has graciously granted images’ reproduction permission for this Academic purpose
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( 3 )   Recorded at: 12/16/2009      
Title Economic philosophy of Major League Baseball franchise: Win, gain and spend
Journal Missouri Journal of Health, PE, Recreation & Dance, 2008;18:34-42, Chen S, Rhodes P, Nail N, Salazar W
Description This study examined the operational model of the Major League Baseball (MLB) franchises by analyzing the teams? financial-, marketing-, and performance-related data from 2002-2005. The results indicated that only a small amount of top tier teams practice the winning maximization model. The negative consequences on “too much spending (on players’ salaries) but not winning” were the foci of discussion. Recommendation for implementing a strict salary cap was introduced to ease those negative consequences
Faculty Steve Chen is an assistant professor of Sport Management
Student Nick Nail was a junior sport management major when he originated the research idea for a class final project. Paul Rhodes was a senor of sport management who helped Nick completing this research project. Both of Nick and Rhodes graduated in the summer of 2008 and worked in the sport-related field
 
( 4 )   Recorded at: 12/16/2009      
Title Enjoyment of advergames results in more positive brand attitudes when the game and the brand are thematically related
Journal Journal of Interactive Advertising, 2008;9(1)., Wise, K., Bolls, P.D., Kim, H., Venkataraman, A., Meyer, R
Description This study examined how the relevance of a branded game to a particular brand affected the transfer of attitudes from game to brand. Results showed that the transfer of positive affect from a branded online game to a brand was stronger when the concept of the game related to the brand
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Student Ryan Meyer participated in this study as a student member of the PRIME Lab. He will begin graduate studies in Strategic Communication at the Missouri School of Journalism in January 2009
Fund The study was funded by the Center for the Digital Globe (CDiG) at the University of Missouri
 
( 5 )   Recorded at: 12/16/2009      
Title Should student athletes get paid?
Journal The Sport Digest, 2008;16(3):Retrieved from http://www.thesportdigest.com/article/should-student-athletes-get-paid, Sturgill S, Chen S
Description This study examined a heated debate topic, whether or not student athletes should get paid by their institution for their athletic services. The authors provided several comments from both the proponent and opponent group to help the readers understand about various concerns related to paying the collegiate student athletes. In conclusion, the need and reasons for maintaining the current scholarship system and student-athletes’ amateur status were discussed
Faculty Steve Chen is an assistant professor of Sport Management
Student Stephanie is a senior in Physical Education major. She will begin her student-teaching internship in 2009. She initiated and worked on this topic for her Sport Sociology class project
 
( 6 )   Recorded at: 12/16/2009      
Title “Red Sticks” and stones may break my bones: The massacre at Fort Mims
Journal The War of 1812 Magazine, 2008;9, Shields MD
Description On August 30, 1813, more that 700 warriors (or “Red Sticks”) from the Creek Nation attacked Fort Mims in Alabama. Over 450 settlers and soldiers were killed that day, leading to a two-year war between the United States and Creek Indians. What led to the bloody, tragic day? Did the overwhelming number of the “Red Sticks” stifle any effort by the settlers to hold out? Was there ever any chance of survival in the fort? Were the Red Sticks more unified with a common cause, allowing them to fight with purpose? What made them so unified? What was their common cause? Was it because of geography? Did terrain play a role in the battle’s outcome? Had the fort gate had been closed would the outcome have been different? These hypotheses are tested in the article, which explains the one-sided nature of the conflict
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Student Morgan De Ann Shields is an undergraduate student at LaGrange College where she is a junior, majoring in political science. An earlier version of this paper was presented at the annual meeting of the Alabama Political Science Association in the Spring of 2008 in Mobile, Alabama
 
( 7 )   Recorded at: 12/16/2009      
Title Language gain, language loss: The production of K’iche’tellano in highland Guatemala
Journal International Journal of Language, Society and Culture, 2008;26:25-33, Bitar M, Pimentel C, Juarez A
Description This ethnographic study examines the emerging language practices of a local Maya community in Nueva Santa Catarina Ixtahuacán, Guatemala. Data was collected through ethnographic research tools including formal and informal interviews and participant observation. Racial formation theory was used to demonstrate how state apparatuses have contributed to the formation of racial categories such as Ladinos and Indians. Hybrid language practices were found that reflect the ongoing racial projects and linguistic transformations that Maya peoples undergo. The term “K’iche’tellano,” was used to refer to the participants’ mixed language code; a term that captures the competing, yet complementary interaction between the two languages: K’iche’ and Castellano (Spanish from Spain)
Faculty Dr. Ana Juarez is an associate professor of anthropology, and Dr. Charise Pimentel is an assistant professor of curriculum and instruction
Student Martha Bitar participated in the REU field school in Guatemala during her freshman year. Martha is currently enrolled as an undergraduate junior in international business and anthropology at Texas State University in San Marcos. In addition to this publication, the research was also presented at the Annual Meeting of the Society for Applied Anthropology
Fund The research was supported by a National Science Foundation grant awarded to Dr. Ana Juarez
 
( 8 )   Recorded at: 9/23/2009      
Title Longitudinal comparison of body mass index and percent body fat changes in Charlotte-Mecklenburg Police Department
Journal Medicine & Science in Sports & Exercise, 2009;41(5):3046, Boulos MS, Boyce RW, Jones GR, Boone EL
Description Body composition is of primary concern in careers with high physical demands such as police. We compared body mass index (BMI) classifications of obesity with percent body fat (BF) in police over 12 years with gender comparisons. BMI and BF showed considerable disagreement as to who was classified as obese over time and there were gender differences
Faculty Robert W. Boyce, Ph.D., is an Associate Professor in the Department of Health and Applied Human Sciences, University of North Carolina at Wilmington
Student Matt Boulos is a senior in the Exercise Science concentration in Health and Physical Education. He plans to continue his schooling to become a Doctor of Osteopathic Medicine. Matt applied to the Honors/CSURF Program at UNCW and was awarded $1000 for travel to present his work at the American College of Sports Medicine Annual Meeting in Seattle Washington in 2009
Fund No funding was provided
 
( 9 )   Recorded at: 12/29/2008      
Title Do differences in attitudes explain differences in national climate change policies?
Journal Ecol Econ, 2008;65:315-324, Tjernström E, Tietenberg T
Description In meeting the threat posed by climate change nations have responded quite differently. Using an extensive data set this study explores factors that affect individuals' attitudes towards climate change and how those attitudes ultimately affect national climate change policy. The results show that attitudes do indeed matter in implementing policy and that attitudes are shaped not only by how individuals react to the specific attributes of climate change, but also by information, by the openness of society and by attitudes toward the trustworthiness of government.
Faculty This was a senior scholar project completed by Emila Tjernström, a senior economics major, under the mentorship of Tom Tietenberg, the Mitchell Family Professor of Economics.
Student Following a year traveling on a Watson Fellowship studying sustainable development among nomad communities in Asia and Africa, Emilia is currently teaching in the United World College program in Costa Rica and in the process of applying to graduate programs.
 
( 10 )   Recorded at: 12/29/2008      
Title The collateral source rule: statutory reform and special interests
Journal Cato J, 2008;28:81-95, Schap D, Feeley A
Description The collateral source rule is a common law (i.e., judge-made law) norm that permits an injured party to recover damages from both the injurer and private insurance. Published work in the law and economics literature indicates that despite an appearance that the rule permits unwarranted double recover, the rule is indeed generally efficient. Its efficiency properties notwithstanding, the rule has been modified by statute in many jurisdictions in recent decades. The authors report the results of their exhaustive survey of statutory law concerning the collateral source rule in the fifty states, District of Columbia, Puerto Rico and Virgin Islands. The categorized findings reveal significant exceptions to the collateral source rule introduced into statutory law to the apparent benefit of the special interests identified
Faculty David Schap is a professor of economics
Student Andrew Feeley is a 2006 honors graduate of Holy Cross. Research for the article was initially undertaken during the summer of 2005 while Andrew was employed as a summer research assistant at Holy Cross and furthered during the following academic year, secondary to Andrew’s honors thesis research. Andrew works in Worcester, MA with the personal lines rotation program of the Hanover Insurance Group and anticipates a long career in the insurance industry
Fund Funding for Andrew’s participation was made possible by a grant from the May and Stanley Smith Charitable Trust
 
( 11 )   Recorded at: 12/29/2008      
Title Transitional Supportive Housing In a Rural Location: A Preliminary Case Study and Lessons Learned
Journal Applied Social Science, 2008;2(1):36-46, Mekolichick J, Davis J, Chouinard J
Description This paper presents initial descriptive data based on a program evaluation of a transitional supportive housing facility for survivors of domestic violence located in a small rural town in the southern United States. Assessments at both the individual and program levels included gathering qualitative and quantitative data. Discussed in conclusion are "lessons learned" and next steps for greater program success
Faculty Jeanne Mekolichick is Associate Professor of Sociology at Radford University
Student Jennifer Davis and James Chouinard help conduct the research as juniors and seniors enrolled as research interns in the Sociology program at Radford University. Currently, they are both masters students at Texas A&M in Sociology
Fund The research was supported by several Radford University Faculty-Student Collaborative Grants written by Jeanne and Jenny
 
( 12 )   Recorded at: 12/29/2008      
Title A Database Design and Development Case: Laophong Nang Veteran Association Reunion System
Journal Information Systems Education Journal, 2008; 6(14), Harris, RB, Cline MW, Cooley JW
Description This paper presents a case designed to be used for group projects in a database design and development course. The case is about the Laophong Nang Veteran Association Reunion System, which is adapted from a real-world problem with names being changed. The case provides students with a challenging real-world exercise in relational database design. The case provides enough information to be stimulating and demanding, but not so much that students are overwhelmed with the challenges in the case. The project can be structured as an overall project, multiple deliverables, or even singular tasks if aspects of the system are separated. Suggested deliverables include the design of entity-relationship diagrams, relational schema, normalized relational schema, data dictionary, SQL query, forms and reports, stored procedures and triggers, and system documentations
Faculty Ranida Harris is an assistant professor of Management Information Systems, School of Business, Indiana University Southeast
Student Michael Cline and Jeremy Cooley, both Information and Operations Management majors, co-wrote the paper after completing their semester group project in the database class. Both Michael and Jeremy are in their last semester before graduating with their Bachelors degrees in Business, with concentrations in Information and Operations Management.
 
( 13 )   Recorded at: 12/29/2008      
Title Recoverable damages for wrongful death in the states: a decennial view
Journal J Bus Val Econ Loss Anal, 2008;3:1-9, Carney C, Schap D
Description Statutory law in the states concerning recoverable damages in cases of wrongful death is surveyed comprehensively. Tabular listings include the various types of awards, limitations and procedures to be followed when calculating damages. Detailed coding permits comparison with a similar survey by Schap and Valvo published a decade earlier in the Journal of Forensic Economics. The tabled findings provide an informational base for practitioners while facilitating comparative institutional analysis by researchers
Faculty David Schap is a professor of economics
Student Conor Carney is a 2007 graduate of Holy Cross who completed the Economics Department Honors Program. Research for the article was principally accomplished during the summer of 2006 while Conor was employed as a summer research assistant at Holy Cross. Conor is presently working as a research analyst at the economic consulting firm Chicago Partners LLC in Chicago and intends to begin graduate studies in the field of economics in the fall of 2009
Fund Funding for Conor’s participation was made possible by a grant from the May and Stanley Smith Charitable Trust
 
( 14 )   Recorded at: 2/14/2008      
Title A location allocation approach to redistricting: a case study of the 2010 Nebraska unicameral
Journal Geospatial Solutions, 2007: August 20, 2007. http://govm.geospatial-online.com/gssgovm/, Burger PR, Haack, RJ, Landgrud KK, Stansberry JC
Description Geographic Information Science (GIS) was used to redistrict the Nebraska single chambered legislature based upon population estimates for the 2010 unicameral redistricting. A location allocation was conducted in ArcGIS to locate the centers of population around which the 49 legislative districts were drawn. In addition to the legally mandated criteria of equal population, compactness, and contiguity, districts were drawn to preserve county and city boundaries to the extent possible. Two plans were created. The first adjusted the current boundaries drawn in 2000 based upon shifts in the population while the second ignored the original boundaries opting instead to maximize the districts in terms of population equality and compactness. Both plans were more compact with a lower overall relative population deviation than the existing 2000 boundaries.
Faculty Paul Burger is an associate professor of geography
Student Ryan Haack, Kurt Langrud and Joe Stansberry participated on this research during the Spring 2007 semester as a class project during their senior year in partial fulfillment of their GIS / Spatial analysis program. Kurt is employed in industry and Ryan and Joe will graduate in December 2007
 
( 15 )   Recorded at: 11/21/2007      
Title Why parents choose charter schools for their students with disabilities
Journal J Educ Res Pol Stud, 2007;6(2)., Finn JE. Caldwell K, Raub T
Description This study used an open-ended structured interview to investigated parents’ of students with disabilities perceptions of charter schools and why they chose this type of school to educate their child. Findings showed a general theme of parents believing that the traditional area public school did not meet their child’s needs in terms of size, academics, and addressing the student’s unique educational needs. When commenting on the positive aspects of charter schools, parents indicated the charter school’s willingness to address the disability and strong communication with families and reported negative aspects of charter schools included high staff turnover and academic changes in short periods of time. This research is important due to new federal and state laws concerning parents rights to schools of choice and it is helpful for school administrators and teachers needed to be aware what parents require in a school for their children with disabilities
Faculty Jane Finn is an assistant professor of education
Student Kate Caldwell and Tara Raub participated in this research in their junior year. Raub is currently beginning her first year of teaching while Caldwell is still enrolled and completing her student teaching
Fund This research was supported through a Frost Center Grant.
 
( 16 )   Recorded at: 11/19/2007      
Title Make the results come alive
Journal Quirks Marketing Res Rev, October 2006;58-66, Murray M
Description Communicating results, effectively, is a key to successful commercial marketing research projects
Faculty Her faculty mentor was Patrick Quinlan, professor of accountancy and business administration
Student Ms. Murray performed a written evaluation of the current version of PowerPoint for a publication reaching 12,000 research professionals. Her article covered PowerPoint basics through advanced features of this widely used member of the Microsoft application suite with an emphasis on utilizing PowerPoint in the communication of qualitative and quantitative research results. This work, conducted in 2006, was in partial fulfillment of her departmental honors program. She is currently employed with Hart Associates, an advertising agency in Toledo, Ohio.
Fund Her research was funded by the Accountancy and Business Administration Department of Adrian College
 
( 17 )   Recorded at: 11/6/2007      
Title Regina: Revisiting the education of upper-class women in the Middle Ages
Journal Lucerna, Fall 2006:48-56, Peters S. Reading
Description Recent evidence is presented that medieval women in the upper class were well educated, and possibly as literate as upper-class men. This evidence includes an analysis of books owned, commissioned, and written by medieval women. Additionally, the author argues that by applying the revisited definition of medieval literacy found in “Varieties and Consequences of Medieval Literacy and Illiteracy” by Franz H. Bäuml specifically to women, a more accurate view of women’s education and literacy in the Middle Ages may be established
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Student Sarah Peters began this research as an independent study project in her junior year. She continued the research as a Senior Honors Thesis. The author will be attending The Ohio State University in the fall 2007 to commence her studies in the MA/PhD History Program.
Fund This was supported by a University of Missouri-Kansas City SEARCH Grant
 
( 18 )   Recorded at: 11/6/2007      
Title State adult correctional facilities for women and men: A comparison of communication and visitation policies
Journal Correct Comp, 2007;32:1-4, 25-26, Hoffmann HC, Dickinson GE, Dunn CL
Description This research is an exploratory analysis of the policies of male and female correctional institutions regarding inmates’ correspondence, visitation and telephoning. Data were gathered via mailed surveys in 2005 from state correctional facilities for adult women and men in maximum security institutions. The survey return rate was 84 percent (N=162). The findings suggest that prison communication policies may be somewhat less restrictive on women than men. These results are informative as many state legislatures are becoming increasingly attentive to strategies that might reinforce inmate relationships with family and friends so as to reduce recidivism rates. Doing so improves the likelihood of prisoners’ post-release success, lessening the financial strain of incarceration on state budgets, while simultaneously increasing community safety
Faculty Heath Hoffmann and George Dickinson are professors of sociology
Student Chelsea Dunn was a double major in sociology and English and is finishing her first year of law school at the University of Richmond School of Law
Fund The Department of Sociology and Anthropology provided support for this project
 
( 19 )   Recorded at: 11/6/2007      
Title Communication policy changes in state adult correctional facilities from 1971-2005
Journal Crim Justice Rev, 2007;31:1-18, Hoffmann HC, Dickinson GE, Dunn CL
Description The objective of this research is to document correctional institutions’ policies regarding inmates’ correspondence, visitation and telephoning between 1971 and 2005. Data were gathered via mailed surveys in 1971, 1981, 1991, and 2005 from state correctional facilities for adults in maximum security institutions. The survey return rates were 93 percent (N =64) in 1971, 96 percent (N=66) in 1981, 81 percent (N=91) in 1991, and 84 percent (N=162) in 2005. The findings suggest that prison communication policies are becoming more restrictive on visitation and inmates are assuming more of the expenses for correspondence. At the same time, policies regarding telephone usage seem to have gotten more lenient with the financial obligations falling solely on the inmates. These results are informative as many state legislatures are becoming increasingly attentive to strategies that might reinforce inmate relationships with family and friends so as to reduce recidivism rates, lessening the financial strain of incarceration on state budgets
Faculty Heath Hoffmann and George Dickinson are professors of sociology
Student Chelsea Dunn was a double major in sociology and English at the College of Charleston and is finishing her first year of law school at the University of Richmond School of Law
Fund The Department of Sociology and Anthropology provided support for this project
 
( 20 )   Recorded at: 11/6/2007      
Title Electoral politics: The Senate, nomination reform, and presidential candidates
Journal MI J Poli Sci, 2007;2(7):9-28, Rodd L
Description Every four years, senators make up a large percentage of the candidate pool in presidential elections despite the apparent poor performances of contenders with legislative backgrounds. Previous studies on the subject have supported the theory that candidates who are current or former senators perform poorly because they lack executive experience and have taken traceable stands on critical issues, thereby disadvantaging hopeful candidates. This study reexamines that hypothesis, analyzing general election data from 1856 and primary election data from 1952. The findings suggest that both conventional wisdom and previous academic studies have falsely identified Senate experience as a liability to presidential candidates in general elections, and that being a current or former senator has no real impact on how well a candidate will do in the crucial New Hampshire primary or in the general election
Faculty Dr. William Cunion, assistant professor of political science
Student LeighAnn Rodd wrote the paper under the direction of her adviser. Although a junior at the time, her paper was written as the thesis for her Senior Culminating Experience requirement. She is currently completing her undergraduate degree in Political Science, presently doing an internship with The Daily Show in New York City. She plans to attend graduate school at New York University next fall.
 
( 21 )   Recorded at: 4/18/2007      
Title A Plague of Plagues: The Problem of Plague Diagnosis in Medieval England
Journal Journal of Interdisciplinary History, 2007; 37: 371-393, Theilmann, John, Cate, Frances
Description This article examines the recent hypothesis that the "great plague" of 14th century England was not Yersinia pestis, but some other disease. After analysis of the historical literature and descriptions of the etiology of Yersinia pestis in the biological and medical literature, the authors concluded that the disease was indeed the plauge. It was also concluded that some of the deaths assigned to the plague by earlier researchers probably came from other diseases (e.g. influenza).
Faculty John Theilmann is professor of history and politics at Converse College
Student Frances Cate participated in the project as an independent resarch project during her senior year. She is currently a medical student at the Medical University of South Carolina.
 
( 22 )   Recorded at: 4/18/2007      
Title Reforming reforms: changing incentives in education finance in Vermont
Journal Educ Fin Pol, 2006;1(4):441-464, Schmidt SJ, Scott K
Description We estimate the effects the change from Act 60 to Act 68 aid formulas will have on spending inequality in Vermont. Act 68 reduces tax prices for education spending in all towns, but reduces them disproportionately for wealthy towns. The resulting increase in inequality is small relative to existing inequality. It is difficult to maintain finance systems that give wealthy towns strong incentives to spend less or subsidize poorer towns. Using state revenues to subsidize schools achieves nearly as much equality as more transparent mechanisms, at lower political cost
Faculty Stephen Schmidt is associate professor of economics
Student Karen Scott participated in this research in the summer after her sophomore year, and is presently employed in industry
 
( 23 )   Recorded at: 2/22/2007      
Title Where’s the narrator? Rewriting MacIntyre’s narrative concept of selfhood
Journal Dialogue, 2006;48(1):10-17, Earlenbaugh JP
Description Alasdair MacIntyre’s narrative concept of selfhood as expressed in After Virtue is evaluated and analyzed. It is ultimately argued that his view of the narrative concept of selfhood fails to explore the role of a narrator, assumed to be implicit in any narrative concept. Once this role has been taken into account, this new narrative concept of selfhood entails a drastically different relationship between the self and society, than the one first outlined by MacIntyre
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Student Joshua Earlenbaugh authored this work at the end of his junior year. He is now preparing for graduate school in philosophy
 
( 24 )   Recorded at: 2/21/2007      
Title An investigation of Internet commodities exchange at ABC Food Markets
Journal Ind Manage Data Syst, 2006;106:213-223, Aghazadeh S M, Seyedian M, Cimino A, Garguiolo F, Hart K
Description A case based research approach is used to evaluate the Internet Commodities Exchange (ICE) system to explore the business-to-business (B2B) purchase and sale of supplies and services over the Internet. Two surveys were conducted to measure ICE quality. The findings may be used to direct management teams in designing and implementing future generation of ICE
Faculty Seyed-Mahmoud Aghazadeh and Mojtaba Seyedian are both professors of business
Student A. Cimino, F. Garguiolo, and K. Hart participated in this research to fulfill the requirement of the Production and Operations Management course. All three are currently employed in industry
 
( 25 )   Recorded at: 12/12/2006      
Title Government intervention in street vending activities in Guayaquil, Ecuador: A case study of vendors in the municipal markets
Journal en Problemas Del Desarrollo: Revista Latinoamericana De Economia, 2006;37(144):145-170, Lawrence PG, Castro S
Description In the past three decades, important questions about the “urban informal sector” in developing nations have been raised, such as: how should governments approach a growing informal sector? Does affirmative government intervention raise the incomes of participants in this sector who directly “benefit” from such intervention? Does helping this sector lead to an increase in rural to urban migration? We examine some of these issues by profiling the participants in this sector and analyzing the impact of government policies to organize street vendors in the city of Guayaquil, Ecuador
Faculty Pareena G. Lawrence is associate professor of Economics and Management at The University of Minnesota, Morris
Student Sandra Castro started work on this research project in Spring semester of her junior year and continued it into her senior year as her “undergraduate research project.” She is currently employed at a not-for-profit corporation aimed at low-income families and other vulnerable persons in local communities
Fund The research was supported by University of Minnesota’s Undergraduate Research Opportunity Program
 
( 26 )   Recorded at: 12/12/2006      
Title Kant’s assessment of motivation in the fulfillment of social obligations
Journal Penn Bioethics, 2006;2(2, Knupp J
Description This paper explores the motivations of physicians who promote the health of their communities through the fulfillment of social obligations beyond the boundaries of their own patients. Based on the assumption that physicians do have social obligations, this paper looks at the normative, motivational question, namely “How should physicians be motivated to fulfill social obligations?” The paper traces the Kantian view of morality and motivation. The distinctions between required, merely permissible, and forbidden actions are drawn
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Student This work was authored by Jackie Knupp during her senior year at the University of Richmond as part of her honors thesis in Leadership Studies. She has deferred an acceptance to UNH-MC Medical School and is currently interning with the March of Dimes under the Truman Foundation’s Summer Institute. Her faculty mentor was Terry L. Price, also of the University of Richmond.
Fund This work was funded by the Jepson School of Leadership Studies at the University of Richmond
 
( 27 )   Recorded at: 7/21/2006      
Title “Not Tonight”, An Original Play
Journal , , Miller C
Description This undergraduate authored play was written in 2004 by Ms. Cory Miller in a Playwriting class taught by Professor Franklin Ashley at the College of Charleston. With the encouragement and support of Professor Ashley, Cory entered the play into the Kennedy Center American College Theatre Festival were it was selected as a finalist and was presented as a staged reading in Palm Beach as part of the Kennedy Center's Southeastern Conference. At that conference the play won second prize for the entire Southeast and the College of Charleston was asked to open this year's conference in Jacksonville on Feb. 8, 2006. Cory continued to work on the play with Professor Ashley and Gary Garrison from New York University on revisions. Professor Ashley directed the new version of the play which was performed in Charleston, South Carolina Feb 2nd – 4th, 2006, at the Chapel Theatre. "Not Tonight" then went on to open the Kennedy Center’s Southeastern Conference in Jacksonville, FL, Feb. 8, 2006 as a full production
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( 28 )   Recorded at: 7/21/2006      
Title Hollywood vs. Hicksville: Warner Bros. and Disney in the 1930s
Journal Cartoons: An International Journal of Animation, 2005:2:42-44, Knoell TL
Description The study of the Disney and Warner Bros. cartoons from 1928 to 1940 as historical artifacts as opposed to simply entertainment led to a much more nuanced understanding of not only the development of animation but also the conventions and underlying messages regarding one’s place in society. The historical record contained in seven minute segments of celluloid allows us a view into the minds of Depression-era Americans and lends validity to cartoons as much more than mere child’s play
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Student Tiffany L. Knoell is currently a student at Utah Valley State College.
Fund This research, gathered for her senior thesis, was funded by a Presidential Scholarship from UVSC
 
( 29 )   Recorded at: 7/21/2006      
Title IPO returns: Pre and post dotcom bubble
Journal J Bus Econ Res, 2005;3(11):1-5, Kayne D, Laux J
Description This study inspects the relative first-day returns of tech/internet initial public offerings (IPOs) before, during, and after the 1999-2000 dotcom "bubble" to investigate whether market inefficiency and agency conflicts were resolved. Using IPOs during the 1990 to 2004 period, we discover significant reversals in underpricing of internet IPOs following the large-scale investigation of IPO valuation practices
Faculty Judith Laux is professor of economics and business at Colorado College
Student Danny Kayne is a 2005 graduate of Colorado College whose career aspirations relate to stock market and company research. Danny completed this research as part of his Senior Thesis in Economics during his senior year. Both authors presented their findings at the 2005 European Applied Business Research Conference in Athens, Greece, where they received a "Best Paper" award.
Fund A Colorado College Venture Grant, the Knight Chair for the Study of Free Enterprise, and a Chapman Research Grant provided support for this research and the associated travel
 
( 30 )   Recorded at: 7/21/2006      
Title The demise of distance? The declining role of physical distance in knowledge transmission
Journal Growth Change, 2006;37(1):19-33, Johnson DKN, Siripong N, Brown AS
Description The transmission of knowledge diminishes with physical distance, one factor explaining the geographic clustering of scientific and industrial activity. This analysis investigates how those distances have stretched over time-- between collaborating inventors, and between inventors and the technology which inspires them. While physical distance is still a factor, it is clear that its constraining effects have weakened, especially for particular technologies, and regions of the United States
Faculty Daniel K.N. Johnson is a Mrachek Fellow and assistant professor of economics at Colorado College
Student Nalyn Siripong engaged in this research during the spring of her senior year, while Amy Brown worked on it during the summer preceding her senior year. Both pursued it as an independent study opportunity. Nalyn is now pursuing graduate work in the Health Economics Program at Chulalongkorn University, Thailand, and Amy is pursuing graduate work in the Economics Department at UCLA.
Fund The research was supported by an NSF Award for the Integration of Research and Education, along with a Mrachek Fellowship for research at Colorado College
 
( 31 )   Recorded at: 7/21/2006      
Title The influence of structural changes and international players on competitive balance in the NHL
Journal Atl Econ J, 2005;33(2):215-224, Fenn AJ, von Allmen P, Brook S, Preissing T
Description Previous sports studies on competitive balance have focused on the standard deviation of wins, but this paper uses a more sensitive measure of parity. This paper calculates the deviations of the Herfindahl-Hirschman Index of team points (dHHIp) for the years 1942-2002 in hopes of better understanding the determinants of competitive balance for the National Hockey League. There are three major factors affecting parity in the league: concentration of goals scored, the concentration of goals allowed, and the major expansion of 1967-1968. Free agency was found to be insignificant in determining competitive balance using the dHHIp model
Faculty Aju J. Fenn is the John D. and Catherine T MacArthur Professor, Department of Economics and Business
Student Thomas Preissing worked on this project for his Senior Thesis in 2003. Tom is now a defenseman for the San Jose Sharks.
Fund The project was funded by Colorado College Social Science Executive Committee
 
( 32 )   Recorded at: 7/20/2006      
Title Explaining customer satisfaction with food services: An examination of a college cafeteria
Journal Proceedings of the 2005 Atlantic Marketing Association, 2005(XXI):162-166, Andaleeb SS, Caskey A
Description With the increasing number of students now attending college, the topic of how well the campus cafeteria is meeting their needs has become increasingly important. Student complaints about the lack of food variety and the long waiting lines sparked the idea of conducting this applied research study. The results of a survey suggest that students want a healthier and more diverse selection of food, as well as a more ambient cafeteria atmosphere and improved services of the staff
Faculty Syed S. Andaleeb is professor and program chair
Student Sam & Irene Black School of Business, Penn State Behrend. Amy Caskey is a senior majoring in Marketing. The study was undertaken at her junior year as part of a class project in marketing research
Fund The research was supported by funds from the Sam and Irene Black School of Business
 
( 33 )   Recorded at: 1/6/2006      
Title An Experimental Test of the Crowding Out Hypothesis
Journal Journal of Public Economics, 2005, 89, 1543-1560, Catherine C. Eckel, Philip J. Grossman, M. Rachel Johnston (St. Cloud State University).
Description Paper reports evidence from a laboratory experiment that examines whether third-party contributions crowd out private giving to charity. The results indicate that government transfers (forced contributions) do not crowd out private giving when the source of the funding of the forced transfer is not apparent. Forced contributions do, however, crowd out private giving when the source of the funding of the forced transfer is apparent. The results have two important general implications. First, lab experiments can be used to test theories of charitable giving in situations where the assumptions of the theory can be enforced. Second, the framing of a decision can lead to very different outcomes in the lab.
Faculty Catherine C. Eckel is a professor of economics at the University of Texas-Dallas. Philip J. Grossman is professor of economics at St. Cloud State University (SCSU).
Student M. Rachel Johnston was a spring 2003 graduate of SCSU with a double major in Finance and Economics. This research was undertaken for her senior research project. She is currently employed in the private sector.
Fund The research was supported by a grant from the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation, Network on Preferences and Norms.
 
( 34 )   Recorded at: 1/6/2006      
Title Measuring Paternal Certainty Using Cross-Cultural Data
Journal World Cultures, 2004, 15, 48-59, Brad R. Huber, Vendula Linhartova, Dana Cope (College of Charleston).
Description A measure of paternal certainty for use in cross-cultural research was developed. It is a composite index based on four items: the 1) frequency of premarital, and 2) extramarital sex, and the 3) strength of the sanctions against premarital, and 4) extramarital sex.
Faculty Brad R. Huber and Dana Cope are professors of anthropology at the College of Charleston.
Student Vendula Linhartova participated in this research during her senior year. In addition to this publication, this paper was presented at the Annual Meeting of the Human Behavior and Evolution Society.
 
( 35 )   Recorded at: 1/6/2006      
Title Evolutionary Theory and Birth-Related Investments by Kin in Cross-Cultural Perspective
Journal World Cultures, 2004, 15, 60-78, Brad R. Huber, Vendula Linhartova, Dana Cope (College of Charleston), Mike Lacy (Colorado State University).
Description This cross-cultural research paper shows that an individual’s age, sex, and genetic relatedness to mother and newborn shape the amount and type of birth-related investments he or she makes. Genetic relatedness itself is a function of genealogical relationship and paternal certainty. The impact of these variables is skewed, in turn, by a society’s descent and residence rules.
Faculty Brad R. Huber and Dana Cope are professors of anthropology at the College of Charleston. Mike Lacy is a professor of sociology at Colorado State University.
Student Vendula Linhartova participated in this research during her senior year. In addition to this publication, this paper was presented at the Annual Meeting of the Society for Cross-Cultural Research.
 
( 36 )   Recorded at: 9/29/2005      
Title Nationwide Newspaper Coverage of Islam Post-September 11: A Community Structure Approach
Journal Communication Research Reports, 2005, 22(1), 15-27, John C. Pollock, Christine Piccillo, Dana Leopardi, Stefanie Gratale (The College of New Jersey).
Description Using a community structure approach exploring links between city characteristics and coverage frames, this systematic national cross-section sample of 19 major newspapers tracked coverage of Islam during the year after the 9/11 attacks. Although most (14) cities revealed favorable/neutral coverage, the higher the percent foreign born or number of Arab/Farsi speakers in a city, the less favorable the coverage of Islam, the latter accounting for 29 percent of the variance.
Faculty John Pollock is a professor of communication studies at The College of New Jersey.
Student Christine Piccillo and Dana Leopardi, both employed, are graduates of TCNJ, where they collaborated on this project in a research methods course their senior year. Stefanie Gratale joined the project for an independent study the first month of her junior year and is a senior at TCNJ.
 
( 37 )   Recorded at: 9/29/2005      
Title Multiple Intelligences and Young Adult Literature: An Extended Conversation
Journal Language Arts Journal of Michigan, 2004-2005, 20.5, 23-30, Kia Jane Richmond, Johanna Delorey (Northern Michigan University).
Description An English professor teaching a course focused on literature for young adults examined how Howard Gardner's theory of multiple intelligences influenced her choice of assignments and her responses to students' work. A student enrolled in the course reflected on her own choices in response to young adult literature and investigated the benefits of using multiple intelligence theory in the teaching of middle/high school English.
Faculty Kia Jane Richmond is an assistant professor of English and co-director of the English Education program at Northern Michigan University.
Student Johanna Delorey is an English and French secondary education major who participated in collaborative research with Richmond during the summer after the she took young adult literature course. She is currently completing her methods courses and planning to student teach in the winter of 2006.
 
( 38 )   Recorded at: 9/12/2005      
Title The Baha'i Faith & Its Relations to Judaism, Christianity, & Islam: A Brief History
Journal International Social Science Review, 2004, 79, 137-151, Adam J. Berry (Emory University).
Description The history of the Baha'i Faith since its inception in the middle of the 19th century was examined, and the interactions of its adherents with Jews, Christians, and Muslims were the focus of the research. Social, historical, theological, and political issues were also addressed. A correlation between the age of the religion in question and its general reaction to the Baha'i Faith was found; that is, Jews were more receptive and less hostile to Baha'is than were Christians, while Shi'i Muslims exhibited the most hostile reactions.
Faculty
Student Adam Berry is a 3rd-year undergraduate student of Middle Eastern Studies and Political Science at Emory University in Atlanta, Georgia, and developed this research from work undertaken for a class paper in the Fall of 2003.
 
( 39 )   Recorded at: 6/3/2005      
Title Hollywood's Triumph and Parents' Loss: An Examination of the PG-13 Rating
Journal Popular Communication,, 2004, 85-101, Ron Leone, Lynn Osborn (Stonehill College)
Description This study is an examination of the MPAA’s use of the PG-13 rating through a content analysis of ratings descriptions—sentences used by the MPAA to explain why PG-13 was assigned to a movie—for the years 2000-2002. Over the three-year period, adult content in PG-13-rated movies increased, sexual content showed a marginal increase from 2001 to 2002, and violence, when mentioned, was described as more “intense."
Faculty Ron Leone is an assistant professor of communication.
Student This article was part of Lynn Osborn's senior thesis project. She is currently applying to graduate school.
 
( 40 )   Recorded at: 6/3/2005      
Title Learning with Gertrude Stein: Playgrounds of Aggression and Grace
Journal Theatre Topics, 2004, 14, 379-396, James Peck, Kelly Howe (Muhlenberg College)
Description Possibilities of Gertrude Stein’s theatrical theory for performative pedagogy are explored. The co-authors, a professor and a student, analyze work created by students in a class partially devoted to Stein’s theater. Keeping with Stein’s love of geography, these projects accumulated into a sustained investigation of the students’ shared educational environment - a highly contested, cognitive re-mapping of home.
Faculty James Peck is an assistant professor of theatre at Muhlenberg College and visiting assistant professor of dramaturgy and dramatic criticism at the Yale School of Drama.
Student Kelly Howe co-authored this article during her senior year at Muhlenberg College. She is currently a graduate student in the program in Performance as Public Practice at the University of Texas at Austin.
 
( 41 )   Recorded at: 6/3/2005      
Title What Self Respecting Museum is Without One?: The Story of Collecting the Old World at the Science Museum of Minnesota 1914-1988
Journal Collections: A Journal for Museum and Archive Professionals, 2005, 1 (4), S.J. Redman (University of Minnesota, Morris)
Description The history of the development of the Science Museum of Minnesota’s Old World or Classical Archaeological collection was examined through archival research. The project is significant in that it allows researchers a better understanding of the nature of the museum collections. A more holistic understanding of these types of collections, specifically including how they were acquired, will prove to be a catalyst for better research.
Faculty Redman is advised by Dr. Julie Pelletier, Anthropology and Dr. Roland Guyotte, History.
Student S.J. Redman is a senior at the University of Minnesota, Morris (UMM) who researched the Science Museum of Minnesota’s collection as part of more extensive senior research project incorporating the collections of other museums in the Midwest.
Fund The research was supported by UMM.
 
( 42 )   Recorded at: 6/3/2005      
Title Nationwide Newspaper Coverage of Physician-Assisted Suicide: A Community Structure Approach
Journal Journal of Health Communication, 2004, 9, 281-307, John C. Pollock, Spiro G. Yulis (The College of New Jersey)
Description Using a community structure approach linking city characteristics and variations in media coverage, the authors examined newspaper coverage of physician-assisted suicide in a nationwide sample of 15 city newspapers over four years. Content analysis of article "prominence" (placement, headline size, story length, presence of photos) and overall article direction (favorable, unfavorable, or balanced/neutral) yielded a combined and widely varied single score "Media Vector". or measure of issue "projection" for each newspaper. A "stakeholder" factor, age (percent over 75) was associated with unfavorable coverage of physician-assisted suicide, while "access" (to both media channels and health care combined) was linked to favorable coverage, together accounting for 46.3 percent of the variance.
Faculty John Pollock is a professor of communication studies.
Student Spiro Yulis completed data collection and initial project drafts during his junior year in a communication research methods course, followed by an independent study. After finishing his Master in Health Science at The Johns Hopkins School of Public Health, Spiro was employed at The College of Medicine & Dentistry of New Jersey.
 
( 43 )   Recorded at: 11/1/2004      
Title Childbearing Women's Perceptions of Nursing Care that Promotes Dignity
Journal Explaining customer satisfaction with food services: An examination of a college cafeteria, 2004, 33, 498-507, R. Matthews, L. C. Callister (Brigham Young University)
Description Twenty first time childbearing women were interviewed about their birth experience. Nurses played a pivotal role in preserving dignity during childbirth. Participants expressed appreciation that their emotions, decisions, physical comfort, and privacy were taken seriously. Women appreciated feeling valued and respected. Dignity was enhanced by care that gave women their preferred level of control. During this significant life event for six million women who have children each year in the United States, satisfaction with childbirth is strongly influenced by perceptions of caregiver support.
Faculty Lynn Callister is a professor of nursing
Student Rachel was an undergraduate student and is currently a staff nurse at the University of Utah Medical Center.
Fund The work was funded by BYU.
 
( 44 )   Recorded at: 11/1/2004      
Title Did You Not Understand the Question or Not? An Investigation of Negatively Worded Questions in Survey Research
Journal Journal of Applied Business Research, 2004, 20, 75-86, Johnson, Jill M., Dennis N. Bristow, Kenneth C. Schneider (Saint Cloud State University)
Description Participant responses to negatively versus positively worded questionnaire statements were compared. The literature suggested that one could expect the wording of questionnaire items (i.e., negatively worded vs. positively worded) to influence participant responses to those scale items. Three hypotheses regarding the factor structure and internal reliability of the scale were empirically investigated. Results showed statistically significant differences in the psychometrics of the scale when negative or double negative wording was added to scale items.
Faculty Dennis Bristow and Kenneth Schneider are professors of marketing.
Student Jill Johnson participated in this research as part of an independent study during her senior year and is employed in industry
 
( 45 )   Recorded at: 8/18/2004      
Title Cross-Cultural Differences: An Influence on Tourism Ethics?
Journal Tourism: An International Interdisciplinary Journal, 2004, 52 (1), 39-50, Stephen W. Litvin, Pei-Sze Karen Tan, Juliana Pei-Fong Tay, Kelly Aplin (College of Charleston)
Description Tourism, as the world's most international of industries, brings people together from cultures around the world. To a large degree the impact of tourism on a host culture is affected by the ethics of these tourists. This paper evaluates tourism behaviors from an ethical perspective of undergraduate students from four nations, Australia, the United States, Taiwan, and Singapore, to determine the relative ethical standards of these future tourists and future shepherds of the tourism industry.
Faculty Stephen Litvin is an associate professor of hospitality and tourism marketing.
Student Kelly Aplin is a graduate of the College of Charleston. Karen Tan and Juliana Tay are graduates of the Nanyang Business School of Nanyang Technological University, Singapore. The Asian/Pacific portion of the project was completed by Karen Tan and Juliana Tay as their senior thesis. The USA portion was conducted by Kelly Aplin as a senior year independent study project. All students worked under the supervision of Dr. Litvin. Karen Tan is currently a teaching assistant at Nanyang Technological University and has applied to graduate school. Juliana Tay is a manager for Pan Pacific Hotels, Singapore. Kelly Aplin is currently employed in the legal field in Charleston.
 
( 46 )   Recorded at: 8/18/2004      
Title Knowledge and Health Beliefs of Osteoporosis in College Nursing Students
Journal 2004, 23(2), 128-133, Orthopaedic Nursing Journal, Sarah Lynn Ziccardi, Carol A. Sedlak, Margaret O. Doheny (Kent Sate University)
Description Using survey methodology, 194 college nursing students’ knowledge of osteoporosis, health beliefs regarding osteoporosis, self-efficacy to perform osteoporosis-prevention activities, and actual performance of osteoporosis-prevention activities was described. Senior nursing students were found to be significantly more knowledgeable about osteoporosis and had a significantly higher mean self-efficacy score for exercise than sophomore students. There were no significant differences between the groups regarding health beliefs about osteoporosis, performance of weight bearing exercise, or dietary calcium intake.
Faculty Carol Sedlak is an associate professor of nursing. Margaret Doheny is a professor of nursing.
Student Sarah Ziccardi conducted the research during her junior year and as her senior honors thesis. Sarah is employed as a Registered Nurse at the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center, Passavant Hospital. She is a graduate student at the University of Pittsburgh majoring in Nursing Education.
Fund This research was supported by funding from the Clevleand Chapter of the National Association of Orthopedic Nurses and Kent Sate University.
 
( 47 )   Recorded at: 8/16/2004      
Title Religiosity and Sexual Responsibility: Relationships of Choice
Journal American Journal of Health Behavior, 2004, 28, 335-346, J. Kenneth Davidson, Sr., Nelwyn B. Moore, Kristen Marie Ullstrup (University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire)
Description Higher degrees of religiosity were associated with negative attitudes toward non-procreative sexual activities, guilt towards masturbation, less likelihood of engaging in sexual intercourse, and few sex partners if sexually experienced. No significant differences were found between religiosity and physiological or psychological sexual satisfaction.
Faculty J. Kenneth Davidson, Sr. is coordinator of family studies and professor of sociology at the University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire. Nelwyn Moore is professor emeritus of family studies at Southwest Texas University-San Marcos.
Student Kristen Marie Ullstrup participated in this research project through the faculty-student collaborative research program during her senior year at the University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire. She went on to graduate school obtaining a masters degree in marriage and family therapy at the Colorado State University, and is employed as a family therapist.
 
( 48 )   Recorded at: 12/16/2003      
Title Maintaining Addiction: Tobacco Cessation Policy and Substance Abuse Treatment for Youth
Journal Journal of Child and Adolescent Substance Abuse, 2003, 12, 71-86, Karel Kurst-Swanger, Danielle Stockweather (State University of New York at Oswego)
Description A survey was sent to 628 substance abuse treatment facilites. Findings suggest that youth tobacco use is assessed, however, tobacco cessation is rarely made part of treatment plans. There was no consistency in the methods used to treat tobacco addiction. Outside policy forces appear to be related to whether or not tobacco is assessed and treated.
Faculty Karel Kurst-Swanger is an assistant professor in the Department of Public Justice.
Student Danielle Stockweather participated in this research during her senior year. She went on to complete a master’s degree from John Jay School of Crime Justice and is currently employed.
Fund This study was funded in part by the United University Professionals, Professional Development and Quality of Work Life Grant Program.
 
( 49 )   Recorded at: 8/27/2003      
Title Appalachian Farming Life: Memories and Perspectives on Family Farming in Virginia’s New River Valley
Journal Brightside Press, 427 pages, Mary B. LaLone, Peg Wimmer, Reva K. Spence, Tiffany Beaver, Bobbi Jo Burnett, Jaime Iacobellis, Tracey S. McDonald, Maple R. Potts, Sarah Smith, J. Adam Sowder, Britney Walton. (Radford University)
Description The book presents the results of a 1 1/2 year research project designed to collect and preserve oral histories describing Appalachian farm life from the 1930s to the present. The research data collection and writing took place during experiential class projects for Dr. LaLone’s Economic Anthropology and other upper level Anthropology classes over 3 semesters (Spring 2002-Spring 2003). The first part of the book contains the research team's ethnographic analysis of farming life based on the oral histories, and the second part of the book contains a selection of the best excerpts from the oral histories. Students learned the skills of interviewing, transcription, data analysis, and professional writing and editing during these class experiential projects.
Faculty This publication, co-authored by Dr. Mary LaLone of Radford University’s Anthropology Program and ten undergraduate Radford University students has recently been published by Brightside Press.
Student Ten undergraduate students participated in the research and join the professor as co-authors of this book.
Fund The research was support by Radford University.
 
( 50 )   Recorded at: 8/20/2003      
Title Trouble in Paradise: Globalization and Environmental Crises in Latin America
Journal Routledge, 2003, J. Timmons Roberts and Nikki Demetria Thanos. (College of William and Mary)
Description A range of environmental problems confronting Latin America—from tropical deforestation and agricultural pesticides and erosion to urban issues such as industrial pollution and the lack of adequate sewage equipment is described. These issues are placed in their historical and social context and competing claims about how processes of economic and political globalization might be making them worse are evaluated.
Faculty Timmons Roberts is a professor of sociology and Director of the Program in Environmental Science and Policy.
Student Nikki Thanos began this research as an undergraduate research assistant during her senior year when Professor Roberts was at Tulane University, and she continued the work after graduation with support from Tulane, William and Mary, and an advance from the publisher. Recent Tulane graduate Leo Gorman co-authored one chapter. Both are employed as researchers and popular educators in Mexico City.
 
( 51 )   Recorded at: 5/27/2003      
Title Teacher Knowledge of Stimulant Medication and ADHD
Journal Remedial and Special Education, 2003, 24, 46-56, Vicki E. Snider, Tracey Busch, Linda Arrowood. (University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire)
Description This study examined general and special education teachers’ knowledge, opinions, and experience related to the diagnosis of attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) and its treatment with stimulant medication. Results of the survey suggested that teachers have a positive attitude toward the use of stimulant medication, but limited knowledge about ADHD and use of the psycho-stimulant medication.
Faculty Vicki Snider is a professor of special education.
Student Tracey Busch and Linda Arrowood participated in this research during their senior year prior to student teaching. Tracey is a learning disabilities teacher at an urban middle school in Milwaukee, Wisconsin and Linda teaches third grade in the Verona Area School District in Wisconsin.
Fund The research was supported by the NCUR/Lancy Initiative Grant Program and the University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire.
 
( 52 )   Recorded at: 5/16/2003      
Title Sudan’s Islamic Revolutions as a Cause of Foreign Intervention in Its Wars: Insights from Balance of Threat Theory
Journal Civil Wars, Autumn 2002, 5:3, 1-64, William Rose, Eliza Van Dusen. (Connecticut College)
Description The uses and limits of balance of threat theory for explaining connections between Sudan’s 1885 and 1989 Islamic revolutions and the varying interventions of Ethiopia and Egypt is explored. Most but not all of the theory’s hypotheses were corroborated. As expected, significant instances of security competition were caused or were exacerbated by Sudan’s Islamic revolutions. However, the two revolutions did not cause security competition to increase nearly as much as the theory predicts.
Faculty William Rose is associate professor and chair of the Government Department.
Student The first draft of the article was Eliza Van Dusen’s research paper for Rose’s undergraduate course on war and peace. She is currently a graduate student at the University of Pennsylvania.
 
( 53 )   Recorded at: 5/16/2003      
Title Evidence-Based Medicine: Toward a New Definition of "Rational" Medicine
Journal Health: An Interdisciplinary Journal for the Social Study of Health, Illness and Medicine, 2003; 7, 353-369, R. J. Cronje, A. E. Fullan (University of Wisconsin--Eau Claire)
Description Intractable ethical and epistemic problems with applying a model of rationality that privileges quantifiable 'evidence' in medical practice-evidence often at odds with nonquantifiable patient experiences, values, and preferences-is hampering the acceptance of evidence-based medicine within the medical community. This paper considers a new model of rationality, which permits nonquantifiable patient experiences, values, and preferences to play a legitimate role in rational diagnostic and therapeutic decision-making.
Faculty Ruth Cronje is an assistant professor who teaches rhetoric and scientific communication.
Student Amanda Fullan participated in this project under the auspices of UWEC's summer research program. She is now applying for graduate study.
Fund The research was supported by a UWEC grant.
 
( 54 )   Recorded at: 5/16/2003      
Title Suicidal Statements Made by Children Who Witness Family Violence: A Black and White Comparison, in Frederick K. Blucher (Editor)
Journal Perspectives on Violence, 2002, 21-34, Ameda A. Manetta, Amy Pendergast (Winthrop University)
Description One hundred and twenty-five battered women provided information on suicidal behaviors of their children who were exposed to violence in the home. A comparative analysis revealed that 14% of African American children and 28% of white children made suicidal statements. Both African American and white children who were also hit in a physically abusive manner made suicidal statements. Racial differences indicated that African American children with a history of family suicide were significantly less likely to make suicidal statements that white children with a history of family suicide.
Faculty Ameda Manetta is an assistant professor of social work.
Student Amy Pendergast participated in the research as an independent study project in her sophomore and junior years and is currently a senior at Winthrop University.
Fund This research was supported through funds from Winthrop University.
 
( 55 )   Recorded at: 10/21/2002      
Title Not Raising a “Bubble Kid”: Farm Parents’ Attitudes and Practices Regarding the Employment, Training and Supervision of Their Children
Journal The Journal of Rural Health, 2002, 18, 57-66, Steven Neufeld, Sue Marie Wright, Jolene Gaut (Eastern Washington University)
Description Farm families in southeastern Washington were interviewed about their attitudes and practices toward farm safety and their children. This research suggests that farm parents believe that farm work is highly beneficial to their children’s development and that they are in the best position to decide when their children are ready to begin farm work. Most parents see child rearing on the farm as a lifelong education, involving informal training from an early age. Safety interventions targeted at changing parents’ practices will probably have to acknowledge farm work as positive and important for children in order to maintain legitimacy and credibility.
Faculty Steven Neufeld is the research coordinator for the Center for Farm Safety and Health. Sue Wright is an associate professor of sociology.
Student Jolene Gaut worked on this project as an undergraduate for her research in the Ronald E. McNair Program. She is currently applying to graduate programs in Sociology.
Fund The National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health Pacific Northwest Agricultural Safety and Health Center Grant funded this research.
 
( 56 )   Recorded at: 10/21/2002      
Title Digital Signatures
Journal Journal of Internet Commerce, 2002, 1, 65-73, Brandon Largent, Violet C. Rogers, Treba Ann Marsh (Stephen F. Austin State University)
Description The growing use of the Internet for business makes digital signatures a crucial issue. Three methods used in digital signatures are discussed: symmetric encryption, asymmetric encryption and signature dynamics. The need for consistent laws governing digital signatures is also discussed.
Faculty Violet Rogers is a professor of accounting and Interim Dean of the College of Business and Treba Ann Marsh is an associate professor of accounting.
Student Brandon Largent did the work during the academic year and is currently employed as an accountant.
 
( 57 )   Recorded at: 6/26/2002      
Title Gender Differences in Undergraduate Holland Personality Types: Vocational and Cocurricular Implications
Journal NASPA Journal, 2001, 39, 14-29, Joseph L. Murray, Page M. Hall. (Bucknell University)
Description Vocational and co-curricular interests of male and female undergraduate students were compared, according to John L. Holland's typology. Males were found to have stronger realistic vocational interests than females had, while females were found to have stronger social and enterprising vocational interests than males. Additionally, males were found to have stronger realistic and investigative co-curricular interests and females were found to have stronger artistic and social co-curricular interests. The findings are noteworthy in that females' preference for enterprising careers marks a shift from previous studies that showed the opposite pattern.
Faculty Joseph Murray is an associate professor of Education.
Student Page Hall worked on the project during a summer and academic year, and is now the director of an associates program at a preparatory school and studying for a master's degree in counseling at George Washington University, Washington, DC.
Fund The work was sponsored through Bucknell's Program for Undergraduate Research.
 
( 58 )   Recorded at: 3/25/2002      
Title Breast Self-exams by Teenagers: Outcome of a Teaching Program
Journal Cancer Nursing, 2001, 24, 315-9, Ruth Ludwick, Tanya Gaczkowski. (Kent State University)
Description Teaching breast self care as breast changes occur in the adolescent female can serve to influence positive behaviors like performing breast self-exams (BSE) and seeking regular professional breast exams. Health promotion behaviors are often taught in high school, but little research has been done on teaching breast health in a high school setting. Therefore, the purpose of this descriptive study was to identify the beliefs, knowledge, and practices of BSE in adolescent females. A pre and post-test design was used to determine if a teaching program would change beliefs, knowledge, and practices of BSE. Health education in high schools may be an overlooked opportunity for teaching about monthly breast self-examinations and seeking regular professional exams. This study demonstrated that a one time teaching program at three high schools did; improve knowledge and reported; practice of BSE.
Faculty Ruth Ludwick is an Associate Professor in the College of Nursing.
Student Tanya (Steinbrink) Gaczkowski performed the research as her senior thesis requirement for the Honor’s College while completing her BSN. She is now a RN.
 
( 59 )   Recorded at: 3/11/2002      
Title Writing Rights: Factors Influencing the Strength Rights Clauses in Post-Community Constitutions
Journal Journal of Political Science, 2001, 29, 1-25, John Ishiyama and Ryan Kennedy
Description An empirical investigation of the factors that affected the choice of judicial institutions, and specifically the strength of rights clauses in post-communist constitutions was undertaken. Twenty post-communist countries were examined, and the most important variable was the effective number of actors involved in the negotiation process.
Faculty John Ishiyama is an Associate Professor of Political Science at Truman State University.
Student Ryan Kennedy's stipend was funded through an institutional program. He is currently enrolled in a Ph.D. program at Ohio State University.
 
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