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Festival of Christmas (2023)
Get PDFSNC Music Department presents: the Festival of Christmas Concert, featuring Concert Choir, Bell Choir, Chamber Choir, Concert Band, String Orchestra, Wind Ensemble, & the Jazz Ensemble (2023)
A low-cost confocal microscope for the undergraduate lab
No full textWe demonstrate a simple and cost-efficient scanning confocal microscope setup for use in advanced instructional physics laboratories. The setup is constructed from readily available commercial products, and the implementation of a 3D-printed flexure stage allows for further cost reduction and pedagogical opportunity. Experiments exploring the thickness of a microscope slide and the surface of solid objects with height variation are presented as foundational components of undergraduate laboratory projects, and demonstrate the capabilities of a confocal microscope. This system allows observation of key components of a confocal microscope, including depth perception and data acquisition via transverse scanning, making it an excellent pedagogical resource.https://digitalcommons.snc.edu/faculty_staff_works/1058/thumbnail.jp
Jonathan Mallek: Young Alumni Award
Get PDFJonathan Mallek is honored with the Young Alumni Award for his mindset and commitment to serving others
String Quartet - Featuring SNC Student Composers (2023)
Get PDFSNC Music Department presents: the String Quartet - featuring SNC Student Composers (2023)
Effects of Writing about Egalitarianism on Perceptions of a Company’s Diversity
No full textDiversity is an ambiguous concept and can be defined in various ways. In this study we examined how writing about egalitarianism affects how people perceive the diversity of companies with high numerical representation (demographics indicating a diverse workforce) compared to companies with high employee inclusion (diverse employees report feeling accepted). Data was collected from 174 undergraduate students (87.9% White, 75.3% female). Participants ranked six values in terms of personal importance. Participants were randomly assigned to write for five minutes about what role egalitarianism (or their top-ranked value) has played in their life. Next, participants rated the diversity of three hypothetical companies that varied in their level of numerical diversity and how accepted their employees feel. Results of a dependent samples t-test indicated that people ranked egalitarianism significantly higher than the average of the other five values. There was also a significant difference in company diversity ratings. Participants rated the high acceptance-low numeric company as significantly more diverse than the high numeric-low acceptance company. That effect differed depending on whether participants wrote about egalitarianism. Although the interaction effect was only marginally significant when people did not write about egalitarianism, there was no difference in how they perceived the companies’ diversity. However, when people wrote about egalitarianism they rated the high numeric-low acceptance company as less diverse than the low numeric-high acceptance company. The results provide a promising outlook for diversity efforts in helping people to look at employees’ feelings of inclusion.https://digitalcommons.snc.edu/collaborative_presentations/1119/thumbnail.jp
“There’s theology and then there’s the people I love. . .”: Authority and Ambivalence in Seminarians’ Attitudes Toward Same-Sex Relationships, Marriage, and Ordination
No full textDrawing from 102 in-depth interviews conducted with first-year Master of Divinity (M.Div.) students at a Mainline Protestant seminary, this paper examines how students describe and account for their positions on homosexuality, same-sex marriage, and the ordination of gay and lesbian clergy. We found that students on “both sides”—i.e., those who lean affirming and those who lean non-affirming—invoked three primary authorities in their accounts: Biblical authority, Godly authority, and the authority of lived experience, as demonstrated in the lives of gay and lesbian people. We also found that nearly one-third of the students in our sample expressed uncertainty, ambivalence, and/or contradictions in their responses. Through a close analysis of these accounts, we show that ambivalence and uncertainty are rooted in attempts to navigate and “reconcile” the pulls of these different authorities and that attitudinal certainty is often accomplished by privileging one authority over others.https://digitalcommons.snc.edu/faculty_staff_works/1065/thumbnail.jp
Fall/Winter 2022: Music Professor Turns to Technology to Inspire Burgeoning Pianists
Get PDFPiano students around the world are benefiting from new teaching techniques developed by João Paulo Casarotti (Music). In 2009, he began to research new ways of incorporating technology into his music classroom, and 13 years later, that research has led to an innovative, tech-laced piano lab on the St. Norbert College campus.https://digitalcommons.snc.edu/snc_magazine_archives_2019-2023/1292/thumbnail.jp
Fall/Winter 2023: Convocation Welcomes the Newest Green Knights
Get PDFConvocation speaks to the importance of a grand entrance: Students were invited to make their presence known on campus and ring the college’s 100-plus-year-old bell.The ceremony was the formal launch of their lives as forever Green Knights. Later that weekend, they attended Mass of the Holy Spirit, enjoyed games and a full picnic spread, and stayed for a concert and fireworks show before classes kicked off the next day.https://digitalcommons.snc.edu/snc_magazine_archives_2019-2023/1016/thumbnail.jp
