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Plymouth Unity Social Harvest Image 28
No full textPlymouth State students collaborated with the MCCS department to organize Halloween activities in Plymouth, NH. They applied basic dialogic principles to their communicative engagement, and gained event planning experience. Activities included painting pumpkins, face painting, giving out candy, giving out festive cookies, and engaging in dialogue with the community. Photographer: Billy Lundyhttps://digitalcommons.plymouth.edu/socialharvest102018/1027/thumbnail.jp
Plymouth Unity Social Harvest Image 29
No full textPlymouth State students collaborated with the MCCS department to organize Halloween activities in Plymouth, NH. They applied basic dialogic principles to their communicative engagement, and gained event planning experience. Activities included painting pumpkins, face painting, giving out candy, giving out festive cookies, and engaging in dialogue with the community. Photographer: Billy Lundyhttps://digitalcommons.plymouth.edu/socialharvest102018/1028/thumbnail.jp
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No full textPlymouth State students collaborated with the MCCS department to organize Halloween activities in Plymouth, NH. They applied basic dialogic principles to their communicative engagement, and gained event planning experience. Activities included painting pumpkins, face painting, giving out candy, giving out festive cookies, and engaging in dialogue with the community. Photographer: Billy Lundyhttps://digitalcommons.plymouth.edu/socialharvest102018/1040/thumbnail.jp
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No full textPlymouth State students collaborated with the MCCS department to organize Halloween activities in Plymouth, NH. They applied basic dialogic principles to their communicative engagement, and gained event planning experience. Activities included painting pumpkins, face painting, giving out candy, giving out festive cookies, and engaging in dialogue with the community. Photographer: Billy Lundyhttps://digitalcommons.plymouth.edu/socialharvest102018/1050/thumbnail.jp
A Novel Approach to Biomonitoring: Identifying Communities At-risk from Salinization Using HSP70 Expression in Stonefly Nymphs
No full textAs the Northeastern United States continues to develop, the need for increased applications of salt on roads, sidewalks and parking lots will follow. The increased incidence of severe weather impacts from climate change is likely to exacerbate these applications, potentially heightening the frequency and severity of impacts upon the health of local freshwater ecosystems. Mayflies and stoneflies are halosensitive bioindicators that provide important indications of water quality degradation; similarly, heat shock proteins (HSPs) have been used as biomarkers tracking molecular responses to disturbance. Developing a method using aquatic phases of these organisms for ecological risk assessments will provide time for critical decision making prior to species loss. We quantified the heat shock response of mayflies and stoneflies to sub-lethal doses of sodium chloride (NaCl) to provide an early identifier of at-risk communities. To develop a reliable molecular approach for detecting NaCl stress, we (1) evaluated HSP70 expression across the insect body to better understand how NaCl stress is introduced to macroinvertebrate nymphs; (2) explored dose-response curves of HSP70 expression under laboratory conditions of heat and NaCl treatments; (3) quantified HSP70 expression from field collected specimens to assess levels of ecological stress across the state. This led to a proof of concept protocol which also involved the temporal course of the heat shock response in macroinvertebrates experiencing salt and temperature stress. We gathered stonefly nymphs from a local NH stream from May - July 2017 and assayed their expression levels of HSP70 following exposure to NaCl and increased temperature. Western blotting was used to quantify differences in expression in nymphs across stresses, with results suggesting a window of 24-72 hours in which expression peaks
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No full textA class of students creating peace wall tiles in the Museum of the White Mountains\u27 open lab.https://digitalcommons.plymouth.edu/peacewall/1035/thumbnail.jp
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No full textA class of students creating peace wall tiles in the Museum of the White Mountains\u27 open lab.https://digitalcommons.plymouth.edu/peacewall/1036/thumbnail.jp
Schools as Miniature Communities: Understanding the Effect of Community Schools on Communities
No full textResearch on the effectiveness of community schools has indicated positive results in increasing students\u27 academic achievement and attendance, and in decreasing dropout rates (Blank, Jacobson, & Pearson, 2009). However, \u27tvhile the literature claims that community schools affect students, families, and communities (Blank, Melaville, & Shah, 2003; Dryfoos, 2002; Minzey & Olsen, 1969; Olsen, 1945), there is no evidence indicating how those communities are affected (Heers, van Klaveren, Groot, & Brink, 2011). The purpose of this study was to describe and explain the ways community schools impact the communities they serve. The findings from the case study indicated that a) a public school can act as a community school, and b) a community school can facilitate the intellectual, social, economic, health and well-being, and environmental development of its community. Results from this study indicate that setting, trusting relationships, learning, and community engagement are the four pillars that any school can incorporate to become a community school. While a community school has the potential to facilitate sustainable community development, the researcher also found that the intentions of the people working in the school and the community in which that school is embedded are critical to materialize this vision
