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In Ten Days, My Instructional Teaching Choices Affect My Teaching Practices
Full text linkMy Self-Study Research is on how my instructional teaching choices influence and affect my personal teaching style. In my presentation I describe how moving around the classroom can influence learning and create a collaborative environment within the classroom. Emphasis on classroom movement while also bringing in the importance of voice inflection
Isolation of Novel Thermophilic Actinomycetes from Hot Soils of Centralia, Pennsylvania
Full text linkTrophically-acquired herbicide exposure in the wolf spider Pardosa milvina (Araneae: Lycosidae)
Full text linkMy senior research explores the effects of herbicides on the wolf spider Pardosa milvina. P. milvina were fed herbicide-tainted prey to see if there would be any changes in survival rate, weight gain or loss, and predatory behavior after consumption
How Upstream Tributaries Affect Downstream Sediment Chemistry
Full text linkSuspended sediment samples were collected at various locations along the North Branch of the Susquehanna River. Each sample was collected at the stream mouth where the flowing water enters the Susquehanna River. Each sample was filtered to analyze fine (clay-size) particles. The samples were analyzed using X-Ray Diffraction (XRD) and X-Ray Fluorescence (XRF). This research was an attempt to identify trends in sediment mineralogy and chemistry along the North Branch of the Susquehanna River. Each of the sediment samples contained minerals illite, quartz, and kaolinite. Samples collected from streams flowing over Devonian age bedrock contained one unidentified additional mineral. From this study, the effects of acid mine drainage from the stretch of the river through the Wyoming Valley, Carboniferous age rock, could be observed with increased Fe2O3 values. Additionally, samples from the most upstream locations were enriched in SiO2 which corresponded to Al2O3 decreases. Overall, different sampling techniques may have obscured the expected sampling trends in this study, however, there were several distinct relationships between underlying bedrock geology and mineralogy/chemistry
Ethics and Leadership in Music Education
Full text linkTeachers face moral and ethical dilemmas and decisions on a daily basis. Yet,they are expected to make difficult and sometimes uneducated decisions between competing ethical demands. This study aims to determine the quality of ethics education in undergraduate music education curriculum to determine how best to teach pre-service educators to be ethical and ultimately effective leaders. This study was conducted through use of a survey. The survey was sent to 467 current PCMEA members and 25 Music Education Coordinators. Survey responses indicated that ethics education varied drastically between programs, leaving some students unprepared to make ethical decisions within the profession of music education. Furthermore, there is a discrepancy between what Music Education Coordinators reported to be teaching and what students felt they had learned. As such,it is the author\u27s contention that a reevaluation of ethics-related curriculum in pre-service music education programs takes place in order to produce ethical and prepared future music educators
Shortlist to Nominee
Full text linkMoving from the shortlist to the nominee on the United States Supreme Court is impacted by many things. It is well established that factors such as Ivy League law school attendance, age, race, gender and presidents viewing nominations as a representation of their policy preferences. This study aims to further analyze how institution of legal education, race and gender impacts the likelihood that someone who is on the shortlist to becoming the actual nominee. In this context, shortlist is referring to a list of selected candidates from which a final choice is made. Actual nominee refers to the candidate that is selected off of the shortlist to be confirmed in front of the Senate. To test the hypotheses that top 3 law school, race, and gender lead to being moved from shortlist to nominee, cases from President Hoover to President Trump were compiled into a Harvard dataset. The results of a logistic regression showed one hypothesis to be true, with the other two not being supported. These results suggest that attending a top three law school, Harvard, Yale or Columbia, is the most important factor in the likelihood of becoming a Supreme Court Justic
Histone H2B Repression (HBR) Domain Regulates Cell Cycle Progression and DNA Damage Response in the Yeast \u3cem\u3eSaccharomyces\u3c/em\u3e \u3cem\u3ecerevisiae\u3c/em\u3e
Full text linkIn eukaryotic genomes, DNA is packaged with a group of proteins called histones to form chromatin. The basic repeating subunit of chromatin, the nucleosome core particle (NCP), is made up of two copies each of the canonical histones H2A, H2B, H3, and H4. Though compaction allows large amounts of DNA to fit into the relatively small space of the nucleus, it establishes a physical barrier to the DNA template. Because of their close association with DNA, histones play integral roles in DNA-templated processes (e.g. transcription, DNA repair, and DNA replication). The N-terminal domain of histones H2B (amino acids 3-37) makes close and intimate contact with DNA and has been shown to repress the transcription of a large set of genes in the yeast genome. Indeed, the relevant residues on H2B comprise a small portion of the N-terminal ‘tail’ (amino acids 30-37). This domain is termed the histone H2B repression (HBR) domain. Previous studies have implicated these domains in regulating transcription as well as the cellular response to DNA damage. Here we define a novel role for this domain in regulating cellular division, DNA double-strand break repair, and DNA replicatio
How have Past Experiences Affected Students and Teachers in the Classroom?
Full text linkHow has past experiences affected students and teachers in the classroom
Using the Multiple Intelligences in Classroom Instruction
Full text linkThe purpose of this self-study was to use the Multiple Intelligences to guild my teaching practice. I used my knowledge of these intelligences to help myself better understand my students and my instruction. Through observations and reflections of my teaching and my student\u27s needs, I was able to make changes to my teaching based on the multiple intelligences. I made observations of my lessons through self-reflections as well as reflections made by my cooperating teacher. Over the course of my placement, I began to craft instruction that targeted the strengths and weaknesses of my students to help them be successful. It helped my practice in changing my approach to differentiated instruction