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USA Archaeology Museum Newsletter - January 2024
Get PDFIn this edition of the museum\u27s newsletter: Remembering Our Ancestors with Deanna Byrd, Choctaw Nation Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Day of Service They Are Not Forgotten: Working With Historic Cemeteries with Jennifer Melcher, UWF Archaeology Institute Unwritten: Archaeology & Oral History of Jim Crow Mobile Giving to the Archaeology Museu
CoTL 2024 Conference Program
Get PDFThe program for the 2024 Conference on Teaching and Learning.https://jagworks.southalabama.edu/cotl2024-program/1000/thumbnail.jp
Medical School Watercooler Newsletter - June 27, 2024
Get PDFThis is the June 27, 2024 edition of the Frederick P. Whiddon College of Medicine’s newsletter - Watercooler.
Contents Include Turbeville retires from Whiddon College of Medicine USA Medical Alumni Association hosts reunion weekend Internal medicine graduates and residents honored Pathology faculty present amyloidosis research at international meeting
WAH 005B Thelma J Todd 5-3-2024
Get PDFIn this interview, Thelma Todd is interviewed by Vickie Graham and Mara Kozelsky at Ms. Todd’s home. The interview begins with questions about the Anna T. Jeanes School. In her discussion of the fire in 1954, Ms. Todd describes how the community came together to relocate classes, and protected the children from white opposition to the Brown vs. Board of Education decision and the threat of arson. Other topics included the physical layout of the campus, and Anna T. Jeane’s Rosenwald connection. Ms. Todd relates her research into genealogies of Black families who live in the Fairhope and Daphne area. She also shares the history of the Twin Beech AME Zion Church and the Lebanon Chapel AME church. Finally, she describes her memories of living under segregation in Fairhope, AL
Archaeology & Oral History of Down the Bay by Philip Carr, Ph.D., Rachel Hines, Ryan Morini, Ph.D.
Get PDFTalk recorded on April 2, 2024. The USA Archaeology Museum\u27s exhibit, Unwritten: Archaeology & Oral History of Jim Crow Mobile demonstrates the best of archaeology and oral history, and that the sum is greater than its parts. Revealing the impact of what it means to be left out of the commonly told history, and showing the resilience of community members during and after Jim Crow, this exhibit and ongoing projects allow us to understand our present as a product of the past, and consider how we can make a better future. The Owens Family, one of the three families highlighted in Unwritten lived at 906 S. Franklin Street for six decades and through three generations. When archaeologists excavated their property during the I-10 Mobile River Bridge Archaeology Project, it provided a rare opportunity to learn about one family through historic documents and the things they left behind. About: Philip J. Carr, Ph.D. serves as the Chief Calvin McGhee Professor of Native American Studies, Professor of Anthropology, and Director for the Center for Archaeological Studies. He grew up enjoying finding things and finding things out, and with a passion for learning about the Indigenous People of the United States. Becoming an archaeologist, investigating the human past, working with Native Peoples of the Southeast U.S., people who live on the Gulf Coast, students, and colleagues bring him great joy. Rachel Hines is the Public Outreach Coordinator for the Center for Archaeological Studies at the University of South Alabama. She earned a masters in Historical Archaeology from the University of West Florida. She has a decade of experience as an archaeologist in different parts of the country and is most passionate about connecting communities with local cultural resources. Ryan S. Morini, Ph.D. is the Director of Community Oral History Collections at the Doy Leale McCall Rare Book & Manuscript Library
sdRNAs Participate in the Maintenance and Onset of Prostate Cancer
Get PDFWhat is an sdRNA? Noncoding RNA (ncRNA) is a class of RNA that includes microRNA (miRNA) and small nucleolar RNA (snoRNA). Fragments excised from ncRNAs are known as noncodingderived RNA (ndRNA). A certain class of ndRNAs that are derived from snoRNAs have been denoted as Small Nucleolar Derived RNAs (sdRNAs). Our lab has previously hypothesized and demonstrated that sdRNAs display regulatory functions on target genes, similar to the functions of miRNAs. sdRNAs are almost identical to microRNAs and differ mainly in their source of origin.
Our lab has shown that sdRNA-93 is frequently misexpressed in breast cancer cell lines and directly contributes to the cellular pathology present in breast cancer. We showed that sdRNAs play a role in the molecular events responsible for malignancy and that sdRNAs may represent entirely new tools for diagnostic and prognostic determination.
In 2021, prostate cancer was the most prevalent malignant cancer type in American men. Castration resistant prostate cancer (CRPC) lacks effective treatment options, leading to prostate cancer’s second place standing as a leading cause of cancer death in American men. Our lab identified two distinct sdRNAs (sdRNA-D19b and sdRNA-A24) that are overexpressed in prostate cancer samples compared to normal tissues. We aimed to evaluate the role these sdRNAs play in the maintenance and/or onset of prostate cancer.https://jagworks.southalabama.edu/honors_college_posters/1008/thumbnail.jp
Impostor Phenomenon, Perfectionism, Psychological Distress, and Burnout in Pre-Health Undergraduate Students
Get PDFPreparing for a career in the healthcare field is incredibly strenuous and demanding, and previous research endeavors have demonstrated that students in professional healthcare programs show an increased susceptibility to impostor phenomenon, perfectionism, psychological distress, and burnout. Previous studies have indicated a possible link between impostor phenomenon, perfectionism, psychological distress, and burnout; however, these studies only considered two or three constructs at a time in graduate students (Rosenthal, et al., 2021; Seong, et al., 2020; Garratt-Reed, et al., 2018). The current study’s purpose was to investigate the whether or not impostor phenomenon, perfectionism, and psychological distress could be potential predictors of burnout in pre-health undergraduate students at the University of South Alabama. This main purpose was studied along with four other hypotheses. To accomplish this, the study utilized the Clance Impostor Phenomenon Scale, Frost Multidimensional Perfectionism Scale, the Distress Questionnaire-5, and the Burnout Assessment Tool. The scales were distributed to undergraduate students at the university through Qualtrics and SONA softwares. It was found that there were no statistically significant differences between pre-health concentrations in any of these constructs; however, it was found that pre-health students had a statistically significant difference from non-pre-health-students in terms of the Personal Standards subscale score on the FMPS. It was found that perfectionism and psychological distress are statistically significant predictors of burnout in both pre-health and non-pre-health participants; however, impostor phenomenon is not considered to be a predictor
Impostor Phenomenon, Perfectionism, Psychological Distress, and Burnout in Pre-Health Undergraduate Students
Get PDFCareers in the healthcare field are demanding, and each stage closer to attaining the career aspirations is filled with increasing amount of stress. Previous research highlighted impostor phenomenon, perfectionism, psychological distress, and burnout in graduate students; however, this study‘s primary focus was to investigate the relationships between these constructs in an undergraduate pre-health population. This study aimed to find whether or not impostor phenomenon, perfectionism, and psychological distress could be considered predictors of burnout and whether or not pre-health students differed from non-pre-health students in their levels of these constructs.https://jagworks.southalabama.edu/honors_college_posters/1012/thumbnail.jp
Emotion Regulation and Media Use in Young Children
Get PDFChild screen time has increased tremendously in the past several years because of new technological advances. This is a great resource for some individuals on a limited basis. However, many children are being taught to regulate their emotions through media use. The initial aim of this study was to attempt to find a correlation between parent reported screen time and problematic media use. It was hypothesized that higher reported screen time would be significantly related to greater problematic media use and that higher reported screen time and problematic media use would be related to a greater negative reaction in screen time interruption.
Parents completed an online survey consisting of questions about their child’s screen time usage. Parents and their children then completed an in-person experiment. The study analysis was conducted through SPSS and made use of the Pearson’s correlation using a significance value of p \u3c .05. Upon analysis, it was found that problematic media use was significantly positively correlated to the parent reported screen time amount (r = 0.391, p = .043). However, there was no relation between parent reported screen time and a child’s emotional reaction to the device suddenly turning off
Phase Equilibria and Heat Capacities for Tetraarylphosphonium-based Ionic Liquids
Get PDFClimate change is one of the most pressing issues facing humanity in the 21st century. A major contributing factor to this problem is the continued use of fossil-fuel based sources for energy. Concentrated solar power (CST) with thermal energy storage (TES) provides a potential opportunity to support this transition away from fossil fuels but suffers from high costs and extended downtimes. Current heat transfer fluids used in these processes often consist of a mixture of alkali metal nitrates with melting points above 200°C. For CST and TES to be viable, a thermally stable, low melting fluid is needed. Ionic liquids (ILs) provide a very feasible form of TES due to their high heat capacities and low melting points. Thermally robust ILs can be synthesized by limiting the structural diversity of the species to thermally stable moieties on the cation and coupling these cations with a thermally stable anion. However, these synthetic restrictions result in salts with melting points at or above 100°C. Mixtures of these salts, with each other or with structurally similar molecular species, can yield fluids with melting temperatures low enough to be effective thermal storage fluids. In this project, the phase equilibrium of a binary mixture of tetraphenyl phosphonium bistriflimide (TPP) and benzanilide was examined to provide valuable information on eutectic behavior for organic ionic liquids with aromatic compounds. The use of digital scanning calorimetry (DSC) (Solid/Liquid Equilibrium, SLE) along with cloud-point analysis (Liquid/Liquid Equilibrium, LLE) was used to study this behavior. The phase transitions, including eutectic behavior, are expressed on a binary T-x diagram and show how the phase behavior varies with temperature and composition. Solid/liquid equilibrium behavior is compared to the ideal solution model to aid in understanding molecular level interactions in the mixture. The study showed a minimum eutectic melting temperature of below 100 °C and liquid-liquid interactions in compositions having high amounts of TPP compared to benzanilide. The findings of this study can be used to develop further ILs and their v mixtures as viable thermal energy storage fluids that could dramatically reduce the cost and difficulty of operating CST at scale