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Writing the Book Proposal for The Innovators: How Creative Mavericks Solve Tough Business Problems
Get PDFThis project presents the process I used to write the book proposal for The Innovators: How Creative Mavericks Solve Tough Business Problems. Acquisitions editor, Edward Stone, invited me to write a book on organizational creativity. Although a few older books are on the market, my book presents a comprehensive view of creativity with two parts. Part 1 covers the creative process, and Part 2 teaches the creative methods. I used mind maps to organize each chapter of the book proposal. The final outcome of the Master’s project is the table of contents that I submitted to Edward Stone and the book proposal we are submitting to Business Expert Press in May 2020
Empty Airports: Are Tourism Economies Ready for Take-off?
No full textEmily Pyne, HTR318: Cultural TourismFaculty Mentor(s): Professor Kathleen O\u27Brien, Hospitality and Tourism
Throughout the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic, many countries have suffered due to their economic reliance on tourism funds. As a result of the global shutdown and closing of borders, countries in which tourism is the chief income source have taken a direct hit. I focus my research on the effects of airport shutdowns in Aruba, the Bahamas, Maldives, and Belize. Each of these countries rely on tourism as the main source of revenue. I research the economic state of the countries directly before the pandemic compared to the current state, and speak to resorts or citizens who have been directly affected. My preliminary findings show a stark contrast in pre-pandemic vs. post-pandemic that I believe the final results will confirm.https://digitalcommons.buffalostate.edu/srcc-sp21-busfashhosp/1010/thumbnail.jp
Understanding the Effect of COVID-19 on Student Experiences
No full textSteven Swiatek, Ryan Kelly, Emily Walker, PSY488: Teaching AssistantshipFaculty Mentor(s): Professor Kimberly Kamper-DeMarco, Psychology, Professor Howard M. Reid, Psychology
The Coronavirus (COVID-19) has had a significant impact on numerous populations globally. College students are in a challenging position due to the pandemic as they are facing illness, loss, relocation and economic hardship. Due to the initial quarantine, students had in-person classes and social events canceled, and many left campus dorms (Tasso, Hisli Sahin, & San Roman, 2020). Classes have yet to resume in-person, which may have caused many students to remain at home. These unexpected events are likely to have social and psychological impacts on students. Social support is a major factor that can help minimize the stress caused by the novel challenges of this pandemic. Quarantine, curfews, and social distancing shape social networks and in turn the likely overall impact of the pandemic on an individual (Elmer, Mepham, & Stadtfeld, 2020). More specifically, by looking at the number and quality of these social interactions, it should be possible to determine whether/how they are associated with ratings of social isolation, anxiety, and depression. The objective of the proposed research study is to gain an understanding of how COVID-19 has affected college students in various aspects of their life (e.g., mental wellbeing, relationships, physical activity, learning). This will be accomplished by having college students complete a Qualtrics survey which includes a number of questions assessing different aspects of their lives, and how they have been affected by COVID-19. Correlations will be utilized to examine these relationships.https://digitalcommons.buffalostate.edu/srcc-sp21-psychsocsci/1032/thumbnail.jp
Does Cell Communication Modulate Volume Changes?
No full textAlexandra Bone, BIO495: Independent ProjectFaculty Mentor(s): Professor Derek Beahm, Biology
Cell volume is fundamentally important to normal cell function. Volume changes arise when normal or pathological conditions create an osmotic imbalance across the plasma membrane, resulting in water influx or efflux until the inside of the cell is osmotically matched to the external environment. Knowledge of cell volume regulation has been obtained primarily through studies on isolated single cells. However, most cell types communicate with each other directly through gap junction channels that allow the cells to share small molecules including water, ions, metabolites, and signaling molecules. Gap junctions provide a transport pathway between cells that does not involve the plasma membrane. We are interested in understanding if and how gap junction communication affects the rate and extent of cell volume changes. An important part of the project is to measure volume changes in individual cells within a cell population. Fluorescent stains and confocal microscopy were used to generate 3-dimensional models of cell monolayers before and after exposure to osmotic challenges. Data is presented on the use of nuclear cross-sectional area and cell height as indirect measures of cell volume. We found that cell height changes correlated well with cell shrinking and swelling induced by exposing homogeneous cell populations to hypertonic and hypotonic media, respectively. Additional data will be presented on volume changes of cells in heterogeneous populations before and after the application of gap junction blockers. These data contribute to ongoing efforts to better understand the role of gap junction communication in cell volume dynamics.https://digitalcommons.buffalostate.edu/srcc-sp21-physgeosci/1011/thumbnail.jp
Book Layout Design with Adobe Creative Suite: Designing an Archaeology Manuscript
No full textXinyi Mo, Graphic DesignFaculty Mentor(s): Professor Susan Maguire, Anthropology, Professor Lisa Marie Anselmi, Anthropology
During fall 2020, Emily Cendrowski and I received Early Undergraduate Research Opportunity [EURO] awards to design a manuscript layout for an edited volume on New York State Archaeology with Buffalo State professors Susan Maguire, Ph.D. and Lisa Marie Anselmi, Ph.D. Using Adobe Photoshop and InDesign, we worked together to create a template for layouts for each chapter of the book. Specifically, the layout process involved inserting and formatting the final text and images, which will subsequently be reviewed and revised in Adobe Photoshop prior to publication. Through creative problem-solving, it was possible to attempt a variety of possibilities to explore which would be the most visually appealing and professional in appearance. This project gave us both the opportunity to better understand the fields of anthropology and book publishing.https://digitalcommons.buffalostate.edu/srcc-sp21-arts/1002/thumbnail.jp
Do Not Go Gentle: Elliot Del Borgo\u27s Symphonic Poem
No full textRachel Ward, MUS303: Music History 2Faculty Mentor(s): Professor Carolyn Guzski, Music
Inspired by the celebrated Dylan Thomas poem, Elliot Del Borgo\u27s (1938-2013) tone poem for symphonic band, Do Not Go Gentle Into that Good Night (1978) utilizes twentieth-century compositional techniques to portray the memory of two of the composer\u27s own students who died tragically in a car accident. Not quite a direct interpretation of the poem, Del Borgo uses techniques like polytonality, thematic and rhythmic motives, instrumentation grouping, and motivic layering to develop his theme of the human soul\u27s persistence and refusal to “go gentle.” Del Borgo was born in Port Chester, New York and spent most of his career teaching at SUNY-Potsdam\u27s Crane School of Music, where he had earned a Bachelor of Science degree. Del Borgo received a Master of Education degree at Temple University and a Master of Music at the Philadelphia Conservatory, where he studied music theory and composition under Vincent Persichetti, a well-known twentieth-century American composer and teacher. Throughout this piece, stylistic techniques from composers like his former professor, Persichetti, Charles Ives, and Paul Hindemith can be heard as well to further develop the overall theme of the piece. In my project, I analyze excerpts from the piece and directives from Persichetti\u27s book Twentieth-Century Harmony to demonstrate Del Borgo\u27s use of these techniques to develop the “essence” of the poem.https://digitalcommons.buffalostate.edu/srcc-sp21-arts/1011/thumbnail.jp
Hardwired: An Analysis of Television Advertising and Children
No full textAngelina Miconi, COM450: Communication and SocietyFaculty Mentor(s): Professor Michael Niman, Communication
This project examines the complex relationship between children and television. My research provides insight into the ways television advertising influences the behavior, emotions, interests, values, morals, mental health, and learning processes of children. This study focuses on the United States of America specifically because consumerism plays a central and unique role in its culture. There are many reasons why United States consumer culture is so central to its culture. By analyzing children, who are the seeds of the future, we gain insight about the future thought process of adult consumers. My work focuses on how advertising that targets children through television influences their self-esteem and social position. For example, it details how a child\u27s understanding of sex and gender are developed through toy commercials. It argues that television advertising and product placement trains children to relate certain brands to their understanding of social classes, and subcultures. Similarly, it explains how these consumerist ideologies are perpetuated by school systems. Finally, my research reveals how advertising culture promotes the values of hedonistic capitalism hidden under a veil of fun, entertainment, and instant gratification. Children\u27s use of television constructs their understanding of the world around them. The purpose of this research is to reflect on who children are as consumers, and why.https://digitalcommons.buffalostate.edu/srcc-sp21-commhum/1009/thumbnail.jp
Survival After Burn Injuries
No full textErinanne Gueli, AMT495: Applied Mathematics ProjectFaculty Mentor(s): Professor Chaitali Ghosh, Mathematics
Burn injuries continue to be one of the leading causes of unintentional death and injury in the United States, and the primary causes are fire-flame, scalds, contact with a hot object, electrical and chemicals. In the United States, around 1.1 million burn injuries require medical attention annually. Approximately 50,000 require hospitalization and approximately 4,500 of those people die. In addition, a large number of people die from burn-related infections every year. Children under the age of 15 are more vulnerable to scald burns, and fire-flame burn risk increases as age increases for the general population. Burn injuries are a major public health concern since many of the survivors sustain serious scarring, and life-long physical and emotional disabilities. Addressing these factors is important to help us understand survival in burn injuries. This project aims to identify the factors that predict the likelihood of survival in a burn center using an observational study of 1000 patients obtained from the National Burn Repository. Potential predictors such as age, gender, race, total burn surface area, burn involved inhalation injury, and flame involved inhalation injury will be considered using standard statistical analysis.https://digitalcommons.buffalostate.edu/srcc-sp21-math/1000/thumbnail.jp
The Challenge of E. Pluribus Unum: Waterfront Workers During the Civil War in Buffalo, New York
Get PDFThis work is pioneering in that it opens discussion and historical inquiry into events of civil unrest in the U.S., both during the Civil War and in 1860s Buffalo, New York. It is the position of this study that events of early civil unrest are boiling points in the development of our great melting pot. Indeed, the more historians explore and understand these moments in American history, the easier it is to see profound epochs relative to America\u27s growing pains. And, although there are many epochs that tell the story of those growing pains, The Challenge of E. Pluribus Unum: Waterfront Workers During the Civil War in Buffalo, New York , focuses entirely on the social phenomenon of Civil War-era unrest and two riots seen in 1860s Buffalo. Thus, this study works to shed light on the intrinsic relationship between specific issues of the nineteenth century, the formation of an enflamed social climate by 1860, and incidents of Northern unrest during the Civil War.
In chapter one, clarity is brought to what is otherwise a difficult time period to comprehend —the nineteenth century. Therefore, this segment offers a historiography relative to nineteenth century immigration, labor, and racial discrimination, as a way to illuminate a century of rapid change and social conflict. In chapter two, this study narrows its focus to make new connections that add a sense of realism to the material. For instance, chapter two provides an evidence based social assessment of what exactly occupied and directed the minds of riotous nineteenth century Americans. This assessment is achieved by diving into two incendiary social questions, two precedential riots, and one agitating piece of legislation. In particular, these issues and events range from the slavery question, a negative social reaction to the issue of immigration, the impact of two nativist riots (1844 & 1855), to the public\u27s reaction following the Draft Act of 1863. All of which serve as evidence in the rendering of an accurate conclusion to what occupied and directed the minds of riotous nineteenth century Americans.
Moving into the contents of chapter three, an even greater degree of realism is brought to the study as nine Northern riots become the main topic of discussion. Moreover, this section employs a new method by which the motivational grievances, violent actions, and significant outcomes of each incident, act as pillars in a separate assessment to determine what exactly was occurring to the great industrial cities of the North (1861-1865). However, part two of chapter three focuses entirely on two unheard of riots that occurred along Buffalo’s docks and Cobblestone District on August 11, 1862 and July 6, 1863. Compiled from research at the Buffalo History Museum, a frame by frame accounting of what physically occurred, in both incidents, serve as exciting stories that are punctuated with profound historical meaning. Thus what is asserted upon conclusion of this work is that Civil War-era unrest was indeed influenced by two trying social questions, two nativist riots, and the Draft Act of 1863. Likewise, that unrest seen during the 1860s can be understood as pivotal events in a climatic apex brought on by longstanding social and political issues, divisive ideologies, and acts of violence
Stravinsky\u27s Rite of Spring: Primitive Village to Concert Hall
No full textAlex Denisco, MUS303: Music History 2Faculty Mentor(s): Professor Carolyn Guzski, Music
Igor Stravinsky (1882-1972) is probably best known for his controversial ballet score Le sacre du printemps [The Rite of Spring]. The musical world of 1913 was rattled by the ballet\u27s world premiere. No one had heard anything like it before and not all understood what was so amazing about the work. By creating a musical masterpiece that was powerful and raw, Stravinsky fundamentally changed the way the performing arts express and convey emotion, ideas, and stories. Instrumental timbres were used to create a barbaric sound and the choreography by Vaslav Nijinsky was animalistic and brutal. The Rite of Spring is now regarded among the first bracing examples of musical Modernism. My analysis of this legendary work shows how Stravinsky drew on traditional rhythms and motifs from northeastern Europe, combined with the concept of taking advantage of individual instrumental timbres, to create a unique groundbreaking composition. One of the work\u27s most idiosyncratic features is the famous bassoon solo that opens the ballet, using an extreme upper register which had not been exploited by previous composers. In addition, Stravinsky absorbed direct influences from the folk music of his native Russia, and his traditional Lithuanian and Russian folk song quotations are very different from melodic themes typical of the Common Practice era in classical music. My project demonstrates that Stravinsky\u27s artistic experimentation is characterized by the imagined sounds of pagan Russian, bringing its ancient spirit to the modern concert hall.https://digitalcommons.buffalostate.edu/srcc-sp21-arts/1022/thumbnail.jp