Kundiman Fellow (Fellowship)

Rana was accepted as a 2019 Kundiman Fellow. She will be attending the retreat at Fordham College this summer. Kundiman is a national nonprofit organization dedicated to nurturing generations of writers and readers of Asian American literature

The Oregon Digital Newspaper Program’s Commitment to Open Access

The Oregon Digital Newspaper Program (ODNP) at the University of Oregon Libraries is an initiative to digitize historic and current Oregon newspapers, making them freely available to the public through a keyword-searchable online database. The ODNP is committed to open access and has included collaboration and data sharing with larger programs like the Library of Congress’ Chronicling America historic newspaper website. Since 2015, the ODNP has increased its open access mission by archiving and hosting born-digital newspaper content, as well as continuing digitization of historic newspapers from microfilm and print. This article outlines the ODNP’s past and current open access efforts, inclusion of diverse content, and open source, sustainable applications, websites, and workflows

The Role of Treating Musculoskeletal Disorder and Stress in Dental Hygiene Students

This feasibility trial examined the potential of a 10-week adapted yoga intervention protocol for pain and stress management among dental hygiene students. Yoga has demonstrated to be effective in the prevention and treatment of pain and stress, both of which have been implicated as significant negative moderators of student performance and experience. Students self-selected into a yoga treatment or control condition. They completed stress and pain measures at the beginning, midpoint, end, and 1-month following treatment. Results suggested that a yoga intervention was feasible for this population and that active yoga practice can lower stress across multiple domains. A X-week yoga protocol appears to be an accessible option for dental hygiene programs that seek to support their students in improving their overall wellbeing

Design Thinking in Inter-professional Contexts

Design Thinking (DT) is a method for the practical, creative resolution of problems and the creation of solutions, with the intent of an improved future result. It is a human-centred approach that focuses on users and their needs, encourages brainstorming and prototyping, and supports out-of-the-box thinking that takes wild ideas and transforms them into real-world solutions. In this interactive session, participants will work collaboratively to identify and apply the phases 1-3 of the design thinking process to a problem of practice

Factors that Influence Eating Behaviors in Road Racing Cyclists

The present study investigated how four constructs (fitness orientation, body dissatisfaction, overweight preoccupation, and executive set-switching) may moderate the risk for disordered eating symptoms among a sample (n = 85) of amateur road racing cyclists. The study examined these constructs with road racing cyclists in the State of Oregon during race year 2018. It was hypothesized that the internalization of an athletic lifestyle, body dissatisfaction, and overweight preoccupation would more strongly predict symptoms of disordered eating in this population than inefficient executive function characteristics such as faulty set-switching. Using 3 subscales of the Multidimensional Body-Self Relations Questionnaire (MBSRQ) and The Trail Making Test B as the independent variables, and the Eating Attitudes Test (Eat-26) total score as the dependent variable, relationships were evaluated with a linear regression. The results indicated that among the participants, the MBSRQ subscale Overweight Preoccupation significantly predicted EAT-26 scores (β = .573, p \u3c .001), while MBSRQ-Fitness Orientation, MBSRQ-Body Areas Satisfaction, and Trail Making Test B showed no significant linear relationships with EAT-26 outcomes. This effect appears to be best explained by an internalized archetypal image of a lean, strong, racing cyclist, even if scores on the EAT-26 did not generally meet the threshold for disordered eating

What Is the Impact of Neurofeedback on Anxiety?

Anxiety is a normal emotion that everyone experiences from time to time. Anxiety can impact people negatively and cause debilitating symptoms. Neurofeedback (NFB) has been shown to be effective in a multiple of ways, but research with anxiety is lacking. This study explored the impact of a brief NFB intervention on anxiety. Two participants completed the study. Neither participant showed reliable change from baseline to post-assessment. A phenomenological qualitative analysis was used to gain a greater understanding of NFB’s impact on each participant and their anxiety. One participant reported NFB had a positive impact on anxiety symptoms. Both participants participated during a stressful time of the year for them, and reported NFB might have had an impact on their stress. Both participants liked training in the morning and both liked the training itself, particularly being able to play a video game. These findings suggest NFB can be a fun and engaging intervention to help people reduce their anxiety