2020-2021 John Oliveira String Competition - Semi-final and Final Rounds

Semi-finalists (Listed alphabetically) Kayla Bryan, violin Benjamin Kremer, violin Sebastian Orellana, violin Davron Ziyodjonov, cello Final Rounds Saturday, March 20, 2021 at 7:30 P.M. | Live-streamed from Amarnick-Goldstein Concert Hall Benjamin Kremer, violin Davron Ziyodjanov, cellohttps://spiral.lynn.edu/conservatory_john-oliveira/1006/thumbnail.jp

Navigating care for rare diseases: Caregiver and patient advice for families and clinicians managing care for vascular malformations

OBJECTIVE: Families affected by rare diseases face many challenges finding adequate care and often report poor communication with clinicians. In the current study, we explore patient and caregiver advice for families and clinicians in the context of complex vascular malformations (VMs), a condition that is frequently misunderstood and misdiagnosed. METHODS: We performed semi-structured interviews with 21 adult patients with complex VMs and 24 caregivers of children with VMs. We analyzed the transcripts using thematic analysis. RESULTS: Participants advised patients and caregivers to advocate for care, address mental and emotional well-being, seek social support, and promote self-management and self-care. Participants advised clinicians to show care and concern, show commitment, empower and validate, communicate information clearly, address mental/emotional well-being, acknowledge the broad impact of disease and treatment, acknowledge your limitations, work as a team, and commit to learning. CONCLUSION: Participants\u27 advice revealed challenges related to family-centered communication and patient and caregiver quality of life and demonstrated the importance of self-advocacy and social support. PRACTICE IMPLICATIONS: The result of this study can help newly-diagnosed families overcome challenges related to care and communication. Clinicians can also use the results to support families by offering them our accompanying handout to validate families\u27 experiences and relay this advice

Does Your Course Effectively Promote Creativity? Introducing the Mathematical Problem Solving Creativity Rubric

As believers in the power of blending the creative with the quantitative, we design our courses with an eye towards developing creative problem solvers. However, when it comes time to evaluate our course\u27s success in developing creative problem solvers we come away with a plethora of qualitative evidence and yet we are left hungry for the quantitative evidence we desire as mathematicians. In this article we describe the development of the Mathematical Problem Solving Creativity Rubric and its pilot use in a freshman-level Mathematical Modeling and Introduction to Calculus course at the United States Military Academy. We not only come away with the necessary quantitative evidence to satiate our hunger for now, but with a rubric that will allow us to do so in future semesters and courses