17 research outputs found
Narrowing the teaching-research gap by integrating undergraduate education and faculty scholarship
No full textUnderstanding and enjoying research can be facilitated by doing research with those we teach. By engaging undergraduate students as research participants, and converting a classroom assignment into a research project, the present author was able to narrow the teaching-research gap. 'Letters of Gratitude' were written to explore the benefits of being a benefactor and highlight important course content. Results indicated that students enjoyed participating in the process and showed increased interest in research. In addition, statistical group differences in subjective well-being were found between students who participated in the experimental and control groups
Narrowing the teaching-research gap by integrating undergraduate education and faculty scholarship
No full textUnderstanding and enjoying research can be facilitated by doing research with those we teach. By engaging undergraduate students as research participants, and converting a classroom assignment into a research project, the present author was able to narrow the teaching-research gap. 'Letters of Gratitude' were written to explore the benefits of being a benefactor and highlight important course content. Results indicated that students enjoyed participating in the process and showed increased interest in research. In addition, statistical group differences in subjective well-being were found between students who participated in the experimental and control groups.</p
Narrowing the teaching-research gap by integrating undergraduate education and faculty scholarship
No full text1 Understanding and enjoying research can be facilitated by doing research with those we teach. By engaging undergraduate students as research participants, and converting a classroom assignment into a research project, the present author was able to narrow the teaching-research gap. 'Letters of Gratitude' were written to explore the benefits of being a benefactor and highlight important course content. Results indicated that students enjoyed participating in the process and showed increased interest in research. In addition, statistical group differences in subjective well-being were found between students who participated in the experimental and control groups
Letters of gratitude: Improving well-being through expressive writing
No full textResearchers have shown that about 40% of our happiness is accounted for by intentional activity whereas 50% is explained by genetics and 10% by circumstances (Lyubomirsky, Sheldon & Schkade, 2005). Consequently, efforts to improve happiness might best be focused in the domain of intentional activity: willful and self-directed activity (Sheldon & Lyubomirsky, 2007). Such activity is nested in the "sustainable happiness model" proposed by Lyubomirsky, Sheldon, and Schkade (2005) which states that happiness is in part within our ability to manage. Earlier work (Fordyce, 1977; 1983) supports the premise that individuals can sustain levels of happiness through volitional behavior. The current pilot study explored one such intentional activity - composing letters of gratitude. It was hypothesized that writing three letters of gratitude over time would enhance important qualities of subjective well-being in the author; happiness, life-satisfaction, and gratitude
University of Nebraska College of Medicine Class of 1999
No full textNeera Agrwal, Jill Adair Anderson, Nicole P. Anest, Amy Margreta Settles Badberg, Tonia Michelle Hanna Baldwin, Kimberly Ann Baptiste, Terri Renae Batterman, Matthew Alan Beacom, LeAnn Cari Smith Beran, Kaea Nanette Long Beresford, Gerry Chester Bohac, John Scott Bonta Bradley, Steven Bowdino, Anne Marie Breitinger, Nicholas Benjamin Bruggeman, Andrew James Buresh, Kenneth S. Burton, Jason Michael Citta, Andrew David Coen, Christopher Kinsman Corbit, Kerri Lynn Brown Corbit, Steven Tyler Cullen, Brent Marsden Cutshall, Murray Eugene D’Angelo, Tatyana Rashelle Demidovich, Mary Kay Drake, Christie Ann Mercer Dry, Steven Gary Dunder, Heather C. Due Eberspacher, David Ehsan, Kathryn Lynn Fick, Edward Marshall Ford, Erich Richard Fruehling, Jill Andrea Gaines, Jeffrey Scott Gilroy, Jason Edward Grennan, Jill Jene Heen Grennan, Cynthia Daun Kraus Guerue, Dawn Marie Massey Hagen, Brian Paul Hasley, Michael Edward Hauser, Scott Allen Heasty, Jay Michael Hoelscher, Nichelle Ree Horton, Matthew James Hrnicek, Kathryn Garrity Hughes, Michael Scott Jackson, Lynnette Sue Jacobsen, Angela Lynn Griffeth Jenkin, Jennifer Sue Kiesel Jenson, Joel Matthew Johnson, Emily Rachael Kean, Lynne M. Knowles, Douglas A. Koch, Alan Stuart Kricsfeld, Marcy K. Krueger, Todd Robert Kumm, David Derek Lee, Kerry Ann Leslie, Keith Raman Lodhia, Bryce H. Lund, Trevor Alden Lundstrom, James Michaael Mahalek, Tarek Helmy Mahrous, Andrea G. Marsh, Patrick Ian McConnell, Lisa Dyan McMeekin, Christopher Daniel Miller, Douglas Roy Mitchell, Anne Newland, Tan M. Nguyen, Vu T. Nguyen, Kendra Elizabeth Olson, Suzan S. Pae, Jeevan Jagdish Pai, Jennifer Rose Parsa, Kimberly Peck, James Allen Plasek, Kevin J. Policky, Jason Robert Potts, Christopher Edward Price, Mark Thomas Quinlan, Frances Ann Radkey, Trisha Marie Ragland, Kevin Joseph Reichmuth, Tracy Suzanne Asche Reichmuth, Andrew Young Reynolds, Ellen Kay Gilbert Roberts, Sheila Olivia Smith Roumpf, Steven Keith Roumpf, Stacey Lee Safford, Christopher Phillip Samuels, Tricia Marie Schmit, Lance Eric Shupbach, Christopher Charles Seip, Christopher William Spilker, Gelerie Darlene Arfiles Stenbakken, Sharon Rae Stoolman, Mikela Jennifer Swenson, Allison Luanne Toepfer, James Daniel Tollman, David Z. Tusek, Marilyn Evonne Ashby Valentine, Lars Erik Vanderbur, Christopher Alan Vanderneck, Amy Elizabeth Sack Vertin, Jennifer Rebecca Walker, David D. Weeks, Pamela Sue West, Scott Wesley Wilson, Dale A. Zarubahttps://digitalcommons.unmc.edu/comclass/1080/thumbnail.jp
The impact of middle school agriculture education on student enrollment in high school agricultural education at Chisago Lakes School District
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Mining the human autoantibody repertoire: Isolation of potent IL17A-neutralizing monoclonal antibodies from a patient with thymoma
No full textDemographic and genetic variability in Cape Dwarf Chameleons, Bradypodion pumilum, withink a fragmented, urban habitat
No full textIncludes bibliographical references.Habitat fragmentation is recognized as a primary cause of biodiversity loss. To maximize biodiversity maintenance, researchers in the field of conservation biology often investigate population demography and genetic variability for species inhabiting fragmented landscapes. Findings from such work enable effective conservation management, maximizing viability for potentially imperiled populations. Previous research has relied predominately on spatial analysis when investigating population demography and genetic variability; however, temporal analysis is also important to species conservation. As of 2006, reptiles and amphibians had the highest threat status among small, terrestrial vertebrates, warranting continual investigation of herpetofaunal species inhabiting fragmented landscapes. Of the two, reptiles are the more poorly studied, though are suggested to be equally or more threatened than amphibians. The Cape Dwarf Chameleon, Bradypodion pumilum, exemplifies one potentially threatened reptile species which has suffered habitat loss, due to urbanization, inducing fragmentation and transformation among much of its habitat. As a result, many B. pumilum populations currently exist as a collection of isolated groups inhabiting critically endangered ecosystems
GATA6 mutations in hiPSCs inform mechanisms for maldevelopment of the heart, pancreas, and diaphragm
No full textDamaging GATA6 variants cause cardiac outflow tract defects, sometimes with pancreatic and diaphragmic malformations. To define molecular mechanisms for these diverse developmental defects, we studied transcriptional and epigenetic responses to GATA6 loss of function (LoF) and missense variants during cardiomyocyte differentiation of isogenic human induced pluripotent stem cells. We show that GATA6 is a pioneer factor in cardiac development, regulating SMYD1 that activates HAND2, and KDR that with HAND2 orchestrates outflow tract formation. LoF variants perturbed cardiac genes and also endoderm lineage genes that direct PDX1 expression and pancreatic development. Remarkably, an exon 4 GATA6 missense variant, highly associated with extra-cardiac malformations, caused ectopic pioneer activities, profoundly diminishing GATA4, FOXA1/2, and PDX1 expression and increasing normal retinoic acid signaling that promotes diaphragm development. These aberrant epigenetic and transcriptional signatures illuminate the molecular mechanisms for cardiovascular malformations, pancreas and diaphragm dysgenesis that arise in patients with distinct GATA6 variants
