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Navigating challenges and seizing opportunities: The transformative impact of AI on business education and teaching strategies
No full textThis article explores the transformative impact of artificial intelligence (AI) on business education and teaching strategies, focusing on the instructor’s evolving role as a coach, the use of AI as a student assistant, and the development of AI-related skills. While AI cannot fully replace human instructors—lacking the capacity for existential reflection, value transmission, and societal context—it has significant potential to enhance efficiency, enabling instructors to prioritize student creativity and critical thinking. The study highlights various AI applications, such as ClassPoint AI for interactive quizzes, GradeScope for automated grading, and PowerPoint Speaker Coach for presentation skills, as well as tools like Copilot, Perplexity AI, Quillbot, Canva, Tavily AI, Explain Paper, and Julius AI for data analysis, visualization, AI ethics, and communication skill development. Additionally, the paper emphasizes the importance of aligning AI integration with industry demands by maintaining collaboration with businesses, attending AI workshops and conferences, and organizing campus AI information sessions. These efforts ensure educators effectively incorporate AI to prepare students for a rapidly evolving business environment.https://commons.stmarytx.edu/rsc25pres/1007/thumbnail.jp
2025 Awardees
No full textEvery year, St. Mary\u27s honors their students and faculty at the showcase with awards to recognize their hard work and leadership in research on campus. These are the award winners for 2025.https://commons.stmarytx.edu/rscawards/1004/thumbnail.jp
Beyond the Barrel: Understanding the Complexities of Gun Violence in the United States
No full textThe phenomenon of gun violence is a highly politicized and contentious issue in the United States. With instances of gun violence, such as school shootings, on the rise in recent years, and the media coverage on them, I wanted to investigate the contemptible issue of gun violence between the states of the country. Namely, I aimed to investigate the influence of politics on gun violence, to see if the political nature of states has an effect on gun violence. Research Hypothesis: There is a relationship between the political affiliation of states such that the more Democratic a state is, the less gun violence they have.https://commons.stmarytx.edu/rscpos24/1049/thumbnail.jp
Mycoplasma Pneumoniae: Long-Term Effects on the Lungs
Get PDFMycoplasma pneumoniae is a bacterium responsible for causing pneumonia in the lungs. M. pneumoniae is responsible for an average of 2 million cases of bacterial pneumonia in the United States each year (ASM Journal). When M. pneumonia infects the lungs, it releases community-acquired respiratory distress syndrome (CARDS toxin), which is capable of two enzymatic functions, vacuolization and ADP-ribosylation. ADPribosylation is found in the N-terminal domain of the protein, and the glutamic acid at amino acid residue 132 is critical for enzymatic function. There is evidence that the vacuolization function is encoded by the C-terminal of the protein. Preliminary findings in our lab have indicated that after intoxication, cells can release a fragment into the extracellular environment. The extracellular fragment is approximately 30-35 kDa in size, however its function and role in disease is still unknown. We hypothesize that during infection from M. pneumoniae, this fragment is being released in the environment from CARDSintoxicated cells and affecting the surrounding cells in the lung tissue. To test this, we used conditioned media from DB (control)- and CARDS toxin-treated A549 cells to treat human differentiated THP-1 macrophages. Macrophages were then challenged using a well established inflammasome activation protocol, and the inflammatory cytokine interleukin 1beta(IL-1β) was measured by ELISA. Throughout our study, our findings will help us determine if CARDS toxin can indirectly alter the immune response during M. pneumoniae infection, resulting in altered host defense and M. pneumoniae persistence and chronic infectionhttps://commons.stmarytx.edu/rscpos24/1030/thumbnail.jp
Our AI, Ourselves: Illuminating the Human Fears Animating Early Regulatory Responses to the Use of Generative AI in the Practice of Law
No full textGenerative artificial intelligence is changing the way lawyers work, and with those changes have come questions and concerns about how it should be regulated. Those questions and concerns, particularly on the individual level, are driven by fears about the implications of the use of generative AI. This Article identifies and explores the fears that drive these regulatory responses: fear of exposing judicial fallibility, anxiety over AI replacing human lawyers, and concerns about missing out on AI’s potential benefits. Ultimately, effective regulation of the use of generative AI in legal practice needs to be attentive to the fears and hopes surrounding generative AI in law. Only by understanding the very human anxieties regarding generative AI can the profession craft effective regulatory models that address the integration of AI in legal practice
St. Mary\u27s Research Showcase 2025
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St. Mary\u27s Research Showcase 2025
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St. Mary\u27s Research Showcase 2025
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St. Mary\u27s Research Showcase 2025
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