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An Observation of the Two River\u27s Greenway
Get PDFThis piece offers a history of the the Two Rivers Greenway in downtown Binghamton, NY based on project plans and the author\u27s personal observations
Expanding the ranks of atrocity prevention: bringing a prevention lens to professional graduate education
Get PDFExpanding the Ranks of Atrocity Prevention Actors asks readers to imagine a world in which all professionals are instilled with the value of their responsibility to prevent mass atrocities and equipped with the knowledge and skills to effectively contribute to atrocity prevention. Featuring the introduction of a Professional Responsibility to Prevent (PR2P) framework, Expanding the Ranks offers insight into how an atrocity prevention perspective can be effectively integrated into accreditation standards and professional codes of ethics across a wide range of professions
Food Insecurity Within Broome County And Its Effect on Academic Performance in Children
Get PDFFood insecurity is a growing concern among children within the US, as the number of households who are food insecure has grown in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic. Food insecurity in children can lead to a multitude of cognitive complications. My research investigates the relationship between food insecurity and academic performance in elementary schools in Broome County. To uncover how food insecurity and academic performance are linked, interviews were conducted with school staff (teachers, administrators, a food service manager), the socioeconomic status of the area was analyzed, standardized testing scores were compiled, and the food offerings in the area were explored. The results indicate that an area with higher food insecurity and higher poverty could result in lower academic performance, as observed through test scores and observations of school staff. The results could also highlight that an area with lower food insecurity results in higher academic performance. This demonstrates the need to provide supplementary food for children in schools to maximize their ability to succeed academically.https://orb.binghamton.edu/research_days_posters_2021/1004/thumbnail.jp
Hispanic Immigrants\u27 Access to Health Care in the United States: Through the Lens of Ethnicity, Income, and Length of Stay in the U.S.
Get PDFThis presentation discusses documented adult Hispanic immigrants and their access to healthcare in the United States. Immigrants have lesser access to health care and poorer quality care than their natural-born counterparts. This is due to many different factors that I discuss here, such as income level, how long they have been in the United States, country of origin, and ethnicity. A lot of research has been done on the topic of immigrant health care access, but each study tends to focus on one variable that affects access or quality of care. By using surveys such as the National Health Interview Survey, I argue that all of these factors intersect and negatively impact immigrants and their health care experience in the United States. Lower income levels mean lesser access to health insurance and to quality physicians, medications, and treatment. The longer an immigrant is in the United States, the more accustomed they are to the American healthcare system and culture as a whole, making it significantly easier for them to navigate. An immigrant’s country of origin can put them at a higher risk for certain diseases and illnesses and can also greatly affect the level to which an immigrant can trust health care workers. Hispanics immigrating to the U.S. often face multiple of these barriers at once, making it almost impossible to receive adequate care. Equal access to health care for immigrants is important to everyone in their area, as their health affects the community as a whole. All things considered, health care is a basic human right and there are significant barriers between immigrants and quality health care that U.S.-born citizens do not have to face.https://orb.binghamton.edu/research_days_posters_2021/1059/thumbnail.jp
The Aestheticization of Politics in Socialist Realism
Get PDFIn the early twentieth century, the dominant art style of the Soviet Union was Avant-Garde. Its experimentalism in both form and materials was revolutionary in spirit and its radical aesthetics were championed by the state following the Russian Revolution of 1917. However, with the rise of Joseph Stalin and a more oppressive regime, a suspicion of abstract forms and intellectualism associated with the movement emerged and the state began to regard this art as dangerous and censored it. Instead, state-sponsored artist unions promoted Socialist Realism, which was embraced insofar as it idealized the USSR and promoted ideologies of nationalism, socialism, and conformism. The primary way Socialist Realism served the state was that it appealed to viewers through emotions and sentiment. In so doing, it can be seen as an aestheticization of politics. Instead of deploying political rhetoric or making policy arguments, it supported Soviet authority by fostering a sense of unity and belonging, and by portraying scenes that furthered the objectives of the state. The aestheticization of politics has the effect of doing political work without people being aware of it, and in this way political debate becomes displaced by feelings of patriotism and community. Scholars have studied this phenomenon in relation to Soviet Realism and fascist politics, but we can observe similar practices today. It is important to consider that modern politics do not only operate through policy and legislation but also through aesthetics and powerful non-rational emotional appeals and symbols. This project will analyze exemplary Social Realist paintings that were particularly favored by Stalin, to reveal the ways in which they function as a subtle yet very powerful instrument of politics. Then it will apply these insights to current instances of the aestheticization of politics, to show both how it functions and how pervasive it is.https://orb.binghamton.edu/research_days_posters_2021/1066/thumbnail.jp
Parallel Barriers: A Self Study in the Struggles in Implementing a YPAR Project with High-Risk High School Students
Get PDFAs an emerging research epistemology, youth participatory action research (YPAR) presents youth with opportunities for empowerment and agency, and social sciences researchers with knowledge and insight from local experts. Early YPAR projects have led to improvements in schools and communities, with local youth initiating these changes. YPAR can be a powerful platform for youth agency, but it does come with challenges. This presentation is a self study reflecting the struggles that I, as a researcher-educator, faced when engaging local students who were considered “high risk” in a YPAR project. This research bridges the gap between scholars who research education from the peripheral, the teachers who are in the thick of it, and students. This study revealed the similarities in my struggles with conducting a YPAR study as a researcher and my day to day teaching as an educator. Ten students initially volunteered to participate in the YPAR study. We met once a week and corresponded through digital platforms. The goal was to develop support systems for high risk, English as a New Language (ENL) students. Throughout the project, I kept a research journal, which became the foundation for this self study. Analysis of this journal revealed seven barriers I faced as a researcher-educator: (a) uncertainty, (b) connection, (c) pressure, (d) guilt, (e) powerlessness, (f) disconnection, and (g) belonging. The barriers I faced as a researcher-educator reflected the same struggles that students faced in their own education. As the division between researchers, teachers, and students grows, we can acknowledge these parallel struggles and lean on them to connect, find common ground, and support each other in overcoming them in both contexts.https://orb.binghamton.edu/research_days_posters_2021/1068/thumbnail.jp
Motivation to Serve: What Drives People to Serve in the United States Military
Get PDFThe Department of Defense (DOD) must convince several hundred thousand people to join the military each year while, at the same time, retain thousands of personnel to sustain its active duty, reserve, and National Guard forces (Stewart, 2005). While some research endeavors have been conducted into the reasons people join the military (e.g., Woodruff et al., 2017), less is known as to the motives that people choose to leave or continue to serve in the military (e.g., Woodruff, 2017). The purpose of this qualitative study is to understand why people choose to enlist in the military, as well as to understand why people decide to stay or leave the military after serving their committed time. Data will be collected by conducting interviews with ten individuals who served in the U.S. military. The interviews will be analyzed to understand similarities and/or differences in how participants formulated their decision to join, their decision to stay or leave, and how this decision may have shifted during their time in the military. By analyzing reasons as to why people choose to join, and then stay or leave the military, the military can adapt their recruitment strategies in hopes of better fulfilling the massive recruitment quotas.https://orb.binghamton.edu/research_days_posters_2021/1076/thumbnail.jp
Parks and Recreation in Binghamton
Get PDFParks are an essential part of life and leisure for urban populations. We must study how to further improve new parks and better utilize old ones; we must study how communities use parks with observational data. This project takes a look at different parks and natural areas in Binghamton, NY and surrounding Broome County and how the local communities interact with them. Research on this subject is very limited to a few select cities in America, little research exists on parks of the Broome County area. Data will be collected through subject observation and survey questions concentrating on how often attendees go to parks and how they spend their time there. These visits will be spread out through multiple sessions over 4 weeks to gain a broader understanding of how park usage in Binghamton changes as the weather and seasons change from winter to spring. I expect to find a difference in the habits of families and young adults, with the former more likely to visit traditional parks with a playground and the latter more likely to enjoy natural areas that have more freedom of movement. In addition, as the weather changes to more consistently warm temperatures, I expect to observe a substantial increase in the quantity of attendees at traditional parks, but a more modest increase in natural areas due to most hikers and outdoors enthusiasts going to parks for the nature experience, and not just to get out of the house for a day. I hope for this research to aid in the construction of new parks and maintenance of old ones by more efficiently designing to suit the needs of the people of Binghamton.https://orb.binghamton.edu/research_days_posters_2021/1081/thumbnail.jp
Was it Something That I Said?: Conveying Emotion In Texting
Get PDFTexting is frequently used in business and day-to-day communication. Without typical speech cues such as tone of voice and facial expressions, it is more difficult to express and comprehend emotion through texting than through face-to-face communication. Previous studies have shown that negative emotion can be conveyed by punctuation marks, such as a period after a one-word reply (e.g., Okay.). In this study, we explored the format of text messages, specifically whether dividing a complete sentence into separate words in multiple texts might convey social and pragmatic information. It is hypothesized that sending a text message one word at a time conveys more intense emotion than sending the same message in a single text. The participants were asked to read text exchanges on a display that resembled mobile phone screens. Half of the critical lines were presented in a single text while the other half were presented across multiple texts, with one word per text. After reading, participants rated the intensity of emotions (frustrated, angry, disgusted) conveyed by different texting formats. The experiment is still in the stage of collecting data.https://orb.binghamton.edu/research_days_posters_2021/1112/thumbnail.jp
