Promotional communication for a college food pantry: findings from a cross-sectional assessment of socioecological variables related to past use of a campus-based food pantry.

Objective: This study examined differences between users and non-users of campus food pantry, conducted communication audit, and made recommendations for future food pantry communication. Methods: Cross-sectional twofold study, first analyzing existing intrapersonal, interpersonal, and environmental data to test predictors of campus food pantry usage characteristics, using inferential statistics. Secondly, conducting a communication audit that evaluates the reach of student communication. Results: Significant differences were found between users and non-users of food pantry that support hypotheses in relation to gender, age, race, class, marital status, housing type, housing description, and Pell eligibility. Findings could not support hypothesized differences in first-generation status. Research question data showed there is room for tailored out-going communication v improvement and growing awareness of the campus food pantry among students. Conclusions: With respect to the predictors of food insecurity, the campus food pantry appears to be serving those in need

Listening with Fifteen Hearts: Life Stories of Women across Cultures

In this talk, McBride reflected on how gathering women\u27s stories over the past four decades has impacted her work and life. Giving special focus to Wabanakis in Maine, she touched on recurrent themes she\u27s explored with women around the world—such as work and motherhood, love and loss, strength and resilience. Women from many cultural niches have shared their stories with her, and she with readers—making connections and marking out bridges of common humanity through their words and hers, woven together on the pages of books, articles, and essays. Bunny McBride is an award winning author and veteran traveler. She has written for international newspapers and magazines about Chinese people in the aftermath of the communist Cultural Revolution, Tuareg camel nomads in the Sahara, threatened gorillas in Rwanda and lemurs in Madagascar, Sami reindeer herders in arctic Scandinavia, Maasai cattle herders in East Africa, and Mi’kmaq basketmakers in Aroostook County, Maine. With an MA in anthropology from Columbia University, she has taught at various institutions, and is currently an adjunct lecturer of anthropology at Kansas State University. She serves as president of the Women’s World Summit Foundation based in Geneva. McBride’s books include Women of the Dawn; Molly Spotted Elk: A Penobscot in Paris; Our Lives in Our Hands: Micmac Indian Basketmakers, and most recently Indians in Eden. For the National Park Service, she coauthored Asticou’s Island Domain, a 2-volume study focusing on Wabanaki life along the Maine coast. She has guest curated several major exhibits for the Abbe Museum based on her books, as well as one on the Rockefeller American Indian Art Collection. Working on a range of issues and projects with Maine tribes since 1981—including the Aroostook Band of Micmacs’ federal recognition effort—McBride received a special commendation from the Maine state legislature for her research and writing on the history of Wabanaki women. Boston Globe Sunday Magazine featured a long profile about her, and Maine Public Television made a documentary about her research and writing on Molly Spotted Elk. Beyond writing linked to Maine, McBride is coauthor of The National Audubon Society Field Guide to African Wildlife and the world’s leading cultural anthropology textbook, Cultural Anthropology, the Human Challenge, translated into Chinese and several other languages. She also has chapters in a dozen books. Her next book, From Indian Island to Omaha Beach: Charles Norman Shay, A Penobscot Indian War Hero (coauthored with her husband Harald Prins), is due to be published with University of Nebraska Press in 2014

The Potential Use of Slow-down Technology to Improve Pronounciation of English for International Communication

The focus of this research is on oral communication between L1 (first language) and L2 (second language) English users - to determine whether an algorithm which slows down speech can increase the intelligibility of speech between interlocutors for EIC (English for International Communication). The slow-down facility is a CALL tool which slows down speech without tonal distortion. It allows English language learners more processing time to hear individual phonemes as produced in the stream of connected speech, to help them hear and produce phonemes more accurately and thus more intelligibly. The study involved five tests, all concerned with the intelligibility of English speech. The first test looked at L2:L2 English communication and levels of receptive intelligibility, while Tests 2 and 3 focused on testing the slow-down for receptive communication – to help L2 users to process speech by slowing it down and thus making the speech signal more accessible. Tests 4 and 5 changed focus, testing the slow-down speech tool as a means of enhancing the intelligibility of L2 speech production, namely individual phoneme production, as little research has been carried out in this area and phoneme discrimination can greatly increase the intelligibility of an L2 speaker’s pronunciation. Test 5, the main test, used a qualitative analysis of a pre- and post test and a number of questionnaires to assess subjects’ progress in developing intelligible English phoneme production across three groups: the Test Group, who used the slow-down speech tool, the Control Group, who undertook similar pronunciation training but without the application of the slow-down tool and the Non-Interference Group, who received no formal pronunciation training whatsoever. The study also ascertained and evaluated the effects of other variables on the learning process, such as length of time learning English, daily use of English, attitudes to accents, and so forth

A Future as Big as the West Texas Sky

Commencement address given by Bunny C. Clark, Distinguished University Professor in the Department of Physics, to the Winter 2001 graduating class of The Ohio State University, St. John Arena, Columbus, Ohio, March 16, 2001

Asticou\u27s Island Domain : Wabanaki Peoples at Mount Desert Island 1500-2000; Acadia National Park Ethnographic Overview and Assessment Volume 1

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