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Excel@Carolina Summer Research Presentation: Engaging Adolescents and Young Adults with Cancer via a Social Support App (Lazard)
Working with the principal investigator and associate professor at the UNC Hussman School of Journalism & Media, Allison Lazard, Ph.D., and team, I served as a research assistant during the summer of 2020 in effort to find ways to facilitate meaningful connections on peer-to-peer social support apps for adolescents and young adults (AYA) with cancer. An often underserved and neglected population, AYAs with cancer tend to struggle to find the appropriate support they need, which can lead to feelings of isolation and inadequate mental health. Many AYAs wish they had found online support way before they did. After analyzing 45 AYA interviews, Lazard and the team have compiled primary findings that can be summarized in this presentation and brief for advocacy groups (designed and co-written by me).
This project has received grant funding through the American Cancer Society, as identified below:
American Cancer Society (ACS) 133694-PEP-19-154-01-PCSM. “Engaging Adolescents and Young Adults with Cancer via a Social Support App.” $144,000. 11% Effort in Years 1-2
Dr. Allison Archer - Faculty Author Interview
Dr. Allison Archer, Assistant Professor of Leadership Studies, discusses her recent article in the Journal of Politics, entitled “Political Advantage, Disadvantage, and the Demand for Partisan News.” Dr. Archer’s research interests include political communication, political psychology, and experimental methods. As a former journalist, she is largely interested in questions that are related to the media and politics
Young adults cancer misinformation
Data publicly available for Lazard et al.
Most US young adults use smartphones and social media regularly; it is possible young adults with cancer have high exposure to cancer misinformation. We conducted an online survey with 396 young adults with cancer, ages 18-39, to better understand their exposure to advice for treatments and cures, in general, as well as exposure and reactions to cancer misinformation on social media
Dorothy Allison, 24th Annual ODU Literary Festival
Dorothy Allison is the author of Bastard Out of Carolina, a finalist for the 1992 National Book Award, Cavedweller (Dutton, 1998), a national bestseller and a New York Times Notable Book of the Year, as well as the memoir Two or Three Things I Know for Sure (Dutton, 1995). Her poetry The Women Who Hate Me (1990), short fiction Trash (1989), and essays Skin: Talking About Sex, Class and Literature (1995) are available in small press editions from Firebrand Books. Ms. Allison\u27s first novel, Bastard Out of Carolina, was made into a highly acclaimed film, directed by Angelica Huston. Two or Three Things I Know for Sure was translated into a short documentary that took prizes at the Aspen and Toronto film festivals, and was an Emmy-nominated feature on PBS\u27s POV
Wayne Allison
Photograph - Wayne Allison, member of the Book Sub-Committee, part of the Town of Athabasca 75th Anniversary Committee, Athabasca, Alberta. The Book Sub Committee produced the book "Athabasca Landing: An Illustrated History
Dr. Scott Allison and Dr. Al Goethals – Faculty Author Interview
Dr. Scott Allison, Professor, Department of Psychology and Dr. Al Goethals, Professor, Jepson School of Leadership Studies discuss their recent book, Heroes: What They Do and Why We Need Them. Published by Oxford University Press, the book offers a stimulating tour of the psychology of heroism, shedding light on what heroism and villainy mean to most people and why heroes — both real people and fictional characters — are so vital to our lives. For more information on the book and project, connect to the “Heroes” blog
Allison Joseph, 25th Annual ODU Literary Festival
Allison Joseph is the author of What Keeps Us Here, as well as Soul Train and In Every Seam. Her honors include the 1992 Women Poets Series Competition Award, the 1992 John C. Zacharis First Book Prize, an Illinois Arts Council Fellowship in Poetry for 1996, and a 1997 Literary Award from the Illinois Arts Council. Her interests include contemporary American poetry - especially the work of women and minorities - popular culture, literary magazine publishing, and the teaching of creative writing. Currently she is an associate professor at Southern Illinois University, Carbondale, where she serves as editor of Crab Orchard Review and director of the Young Writers Workshop, a summer creative writing conference for high school students. She is on the Board of Directors of The Associated Writing Programs
William Allison
Portrait (half-length) of an old man with a bushy moustache; identified as William Allison, a clerk and author of "Life of Francisco Perea" and articles for Old Santa Fe Magazin
Dispelling the Myths Behind First-author Citation Counts
We conducted a full-scale evaluative citation analysis study of scholars in the XML research field to explore just how different from each other author rankings resulting from different citation counting methods actually are, and to demonstrate the capability of emerging data and tools on the Web in supporting more realistic citation counting methods. Our results contest some common arguments for the continued
use of first-author citation counts in the evaluation of scholars, such as high correlations between author rankings by first-author citation counts and other citation
counting methods, and high costs of using more realistic citation counting methods that are not well-supported by the ISI databases. It is argued that increasingly available digital full text research papers make it possible for citation analysis studies to go beyond what the ISI databases have directly supported and to employ more
sophisticated methods
Best-Selling Author and Professor Beth Allison Barr Speaker for GWU Lecture Series
Best-selling author and history professor Beth Allison Barr is the guest speaker for the Mary Washburn Wilson Lecture Series at 1 p.m. on Nov. 14 and 15 at Gardner-Webb University. Barr is the author of “The Making of Biblical Womanhood: How the Subjugation of Women Became Gospel Truth,” which is a USA Today Bestseller and Christianity Today 2022 Book Award Finalist in history and biography.https://digitalcommons.gardner-webb.edu/gardner-webb-newscenter-archive/3542/thumbnail.jp
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