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21. Cadet Involvement in the UNG Honors Program and the Office of Nationally Competitive Scholarships
No full textWhile being in the Honors Program here at the University of North Georgia I have noticed that many Cadets do not participate in the Honors Program. Of the Cadets who do join the Honors Program, most drop the Program before they reach graduation. Additionally, through a partnership with the Office of Nationally Competitive Scholarships, I have come to know that Cadets are less likely to apply for scholarships. I am seeking to understand why Cadet involvement in these two offices is significantly lower than their civilian counterpart’s participation. This is a work in progress, but in my primary research, I have identified multiple lines of inquiry that have helped to enlighten some of the issues that are affecting the level of Cadet participation. I predict that the cause of this underrepresentation is a complex mix of Cadet perceptions of their role on campus, career goals, and time management. My intended research design calls for a literature review and a questionnaire to be given to the Corps of Cadets. The questionnaire is intended to collect data highlighting Cadet demographics, sentiment, and how Cadets view their place on campus. With this data, paired with the analysis of the literature review it is my hope that both the Honors Program and the Office of Nationally Competitive Scholarships will be able to increase Cadet Participation in their respective organizations.
Key Words: Cadets, Honors, National Scholarships
17. Side directed mutagenesis studies of PyrD and PyrR genes involved in riboflavin biosynthesis
No full textRiboflavin (vitamin B2) is the precursor of the flavin cofactors, flavin mononucleotide (FMN), and flavin adenine dinucleotide (FAD). Plants and many microorganisms, synthesized riboflavin but animals must obtain it from dietary sources (Power, 2003). The deaminase and reductase steps in riboflavin biosynthesis are catalyzed by the bifunctional enzyme RibD in Escherichia coli. Plants have two homologs of RibD: PyrD (At4g20960) and PyrR (At3g47390). The plant PyrD protein is known to be a degenerate deaminase-reductase in which the reductase domain has lost critical substrate binding residues and hence activity. The plant three-domain PyrR protein has lost the zinc-binding residues and is recently shown lacks deaminase activity. Although the missing zinc finger binding residues of reductase domain in PyrD, and changes in critical substrate binding residues in the reductase domain of PyrR are shown using sequence alignments but have not studied experimentally that the loss of function of deaminase and reductase activity in PyrR and PyrD, respectively, are due to changes in these amino acid sequences.
In this project, we are using side directed mutagenesis approach to change the critical substrate-binding residues of the deaminase domain of the PyrR gene and the addition of missing Zinc finger binding residues in the PyrD gene. We have used the E. coli RibD gene as a benchmark. To test the mutated PyrD and PyrR we have created a riboflavin auxotrophic E. coli RibD deletant mutant (ΔribD::Kan), which also carriers a riboflavin transporter (RibM) from C. glutamicum. Cloning of mutated PyrD and PyrR are in progres
2E: Predictors of Happiness: Religion and Spirituality
No full textThe study of happiness is not a new field of research; it is something researchers have been doing for years. The literature reviewed and research to be conducted in this project focus on the relationship between happiness and different measures of reported religious affiliation and spirituality. The purpose of this project is to respond to the need for further research in this field; to research the relationship between religion and happiness. Previous research has often shown a positive correlation between the variables when using the standard measures of happiness and religiosity. When using lesser known measures, the correlation is less often positive, and sometimes negative. My research adds to the growing body of studies done on this topic by using the General Social Survey to measure degrees of happiness, religion, and relate variables. It will involve the use of an ordinary least squares regression and a two-tailed hypothesis test to gauge the correlation between the variables. I expect to find a positive correlation between happiness and religion, and to account for and attempt to explain any mediating variables
Exploring Immigrant (In)Security: Arizona, California, New York, and Texas
Get PDFThis paper examines the devolution of immigration enforcement practices in four states: Arizona, California, New York, and Texas. The author analyzes Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) deportation and apprehension statistics, as well as individual state ordinances to determine whether an immigrant has an increased chance of being deported based on where they live. States cannot change federal immigration statutes, but they can pass legislation that can limit enforcement and accommodate or deter coming migrants. Such laws directly impact the quality of life an immigrant leads in a given state. The diverse range of ordinances across the U.S. has created an uneven landscape of “sanctuary” and “risk” zones, where an undocumented immigrant’s chance of being detained or deported vary significantly. This has caused both legal and illegal immigrants to flock to designated sanctuary states and cities; their clustering in particular areas ultimately influences the public policy decisions of state legislatures
Book Review: Digital Renaissance: What Data and Economics Tell Us about the Future of Popular Culture by Joel Waldfogel
Get PDFBook Review: Murder on Shades Mountain; the Legal Lynching of Willie Peterson and the Struggle for Justice in Jim Crow Birmingham by Melanie S. Morrison
Get PDFThe Innovative Power of Partnership
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Ching Mey See (Editor), Leadership Training in University-community Engagement, 2016, 92 pages. ISBN: 978-967-461-042-5 (Print), e-ISBN: 978-967-461-052-
Una Vista de La Sagrada Familia
No full textThis took 2 days to complete. Painted with watercolor, this painting is a view of La Sagrada Familia in Spain. I chose to do this because I enjoy painting architecture and landscapes