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Sub-Saharan African Immigrants’ work culture and remittance: Do social workers know enough to care for this population?
No full textLearning objectives of presentation: Deepen knowledge and ability in working with sub-Sahara African Immigrants. Understand the significance of remittance as a stressor for many Sub-Saharan African immigrants. Analyzing the impact of immigration on the mental health of sub-Saharan African immigrants. Demonstrate awareness and incorporate the concept of cultural humility as it relates to social work practice with sub-Saharan African immigrants
Overwatered Classes
Full text linkHave you ever wondered when you started stressing so much or when you lost your focus and began grieving what once was? I have found that is part of being human, and I believe it is time to explore those topics and discuss them openly to understand ourselves, and our youth, better. My chapbook, “Overwatered Classes” discusses the impact of stress on a student’s education and how a broken system can emphasize or overlook difficulties in mental health. By comparing the natural world to students, I hope to help readers who desire to understand their world and their community in a more personal way. An abundance of societal and scholarly stress and a shortage of resources leaves students overburdened, or overwatered, with expectations that aren’t their own. My aspiration for this project is to start a dialogue about the stigma of stress impacting human experiences. While writing about my own experiences in the education system, I analyzed which of my experiences are not singular, but scarily common among students. I hope this will help me and my colleagues be better educators in the future but the poetry is for a wider audience. This chapbook is written for anyone who is ready to confront topics considering traumatic experiences, grief, and common disabilities. Some of the heavy subject matter discusses the cycle of frustration or depression with a bleak outlook but I believe it can have a positive end. “Overwatered Classes” is written for most students, educators, and anyone who seeks to understand and support those having difficulty. Most of all it is for anyone who is fighting to understand their own battles, as I once was. You can be understood and deserve patience, if not from others than from yourself.EnglishChildhood Education and Car
Salem Board Of Health, Narcan Distribution & Awareness In The Community
No full textThe goal of this project was to teach and spread awareness on effective ways to use narcan to keep people in the community safe
Guaranteed To Win: Optimal Strategies For Discrete Bidding Games
Full text linkMany of us are familiar with two player games, such as Tic-Tac-Toe or chess, where each player alternates taking turns. Players compete against each other, strategically making a move once it’s their turn. The goal of the game is simply to “win”, depending on the rules of the game. We can add an extra layer to these games that creates some mathematical questions. Instead of alternating turns, players are now “bidding” to make a move. Not only does this add more competition, strategy, and excitement to the game, but it also adds mathematical intricacies. We call these Richman games, studied by David Richman in the 1980s. In Richman games, players make a bid (or auction)[1] of a nonnegative number of chips to make a move. The player that bids the most plays their turn, and then “pays” their chips to the other player. By studying Richman games, this paper will explore the optimal bidding strategies to maximize game play. The goal of each player is to win the game - not have the most amount of chips. In order to win the game, players need to have bidding strategies to ensure they are making moves. The proportion of chips a player has in their possession at a certain point, or critical threshold, is crucial within bidding games. We will explore how to find the critical threshold for games, and how it optimizes a player’s chance of winning (also referred to as winning strategies). We will also dissect the use of the tie-breaking advantage when two players bid the game amount of chips. Through these strategies, we will explore a game of bidding Tug O’ War and applications to more extensive games, such as bidding Tic-Tac-Toe.Mathematic
The Securitization of Migration: The Case of Haitian Immigrants Since The 1970s
No full textUS immigration policies have negatively impacted Haitian migrants for decades, including, most recently, through policies like Title 42 and the Migrant Protection Protocols (MPP)--also called the Remain in Mexico Program. My paper argues that laws like these and how they are enforced are problematic and unjust because they negatively impact immigrants of color, especially Black immigrants. They exemplify the extent to which racism continues to affect immigration policy. The paper also shows how Haitian refugees as a group are systematically discriminated against based on their intersecting identities of being both migrants and Black. The paper makes a contribution to the securitization theory of migration, which argues that governments increasingly frame migration as a security threat, in part to scapegoat migrants and to distract from other issues. Relying on in-depth interviews with five Haitian migrants, the paper also shows how immigrants are forced to embark on a dangerous journey through the Mexican border because existing policies have made it impossible for them to come via other ways.Political Scienc
Evaluating Template-Switch Mutations (TSM) in E.Coli After Treatment with Dexamethasone, an FDA-Approved Anti-Inflammatory Drug
Full text linkThis presentation will provide an overview of an experiment to discover potential side-effects of current FDA-approved drugs, Dexamethasone, that can cause mutations in DNA. Mutations in DNA can change the structure and function of cells. DNA can transform into non-β form structures that stall replication and cause genomic instability. Quasi-palindromes (QP) are imperfect inverted repeats of DNA sequences which can block the DNA replication fork during DNA synthesis. If the DNA replication fork is blocked by quasi-palindrome structures, DNA polymerase can use an alternative method to continue DNA replication, called “template-switching,” which results in a perfect palindrome – a perfect inverted repeat of DNA. There is limited research for template-switch mutagenesis which tests selected FDA-approved drugs to understand the effect of TSM. The goal of this research project is to investigate the cellular effects of Dexamethasone, an anti-inflammatory glucocorticoid, which prevents the release of DNA, in quasi-palindrome mutations using E. coli as the model organism. The aim is to understand the consequence of selected drugs in template-switching quasi-palindrome mutations to increase our knowledge of the potential side effects for current FDA-approved drugs.Biolog
The Social Dimensions of STEM Culture: How Does Lack of Diversity and Inclusivity Affect a Student’s Socialization?
Full text linkDiversity and inclusivity matters in STEM and without them, STEM would fall apart. In the United States, Latine and African American students are severely underrepresented in STEM fields and they obtain fewer STEM degrees compared to their white counterparts (Hall, Nishina, Lewis 2017). The reasoning behind this can be due to societal, social, individual issues, or ethnic discrimination (Wiedemann 2019). This can affect retention rates, academic outcomes, self-efficacy, and one’s socialization (Estrada 2021). Students and educators need a sense of belonging to be able to thrive in the rigorous STEM environments. Students from underrepresented backgrounds need experiences of love, kindness, and a sense of belonging regardless of their diverse backgrounds. For many students and educators, the COVID-19 pandemic has caused a lot of stress and only increased the need for compassion and kindness. Students are working from home, “juggling pets, children, elderly relatives, economic pressures, unstable internet, health disparities, political unrest, climate disruptions, racism, violence, and death” (Estrada 2021). While efforts are being made to reduce this large disparity in STEM, it is not enough. Trends in the STEM fields can also be seen at Salem State University (SSU). This presentation will describe a study that attempts to understand how SSU fosters a more inclusive STEM environment for minorities and how students can find support from others like themselves. This study employs a mixed methodology that will study the institutional diversity statement and policy at SSU, and current students will be asked to fill out an anonymous survey on their sense of belonging, experiences at SSU, and how well students feel that they are supported. At the end of the survey, there is an option where students can participate in a personal interview to learn about their experiences on campus.Chemistry and Physic
Vol. 29 No. 2 (2023): A Call for Social Work Educators to Confront and Dismantle Systemic Racism WITHIN Social Work Programs (Issue 1)
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