STEM for Success Inaugural Annual Report

Report on the work done in 2022 by STEM for Successhttps://digitalcommons.njit.edu/stemresources/1035/thumbnail.jp

Publications/Conferences and Showcases related to the Leadership and iSTEAM for Females in Elementary Schools (LiFE) project

A list of all publications and conferences for the projecthttps://digitalcommons.njit.edu/stemresources/1016/thumbnail.jp

2022 Inaugural Annual Report STEM for Success

Welcome to the Inaugural Annual Report of STEM for Success at the New Jersey Institute of Technology (NJIT). Discover how we are promoting success for all through STEM education in this comprehensive report. As a project of the Collaborative for Leadership, Education, and Assessment Research (CLEAR) housed in the College of Science & Liberal Arts (CSLA), our efforts focus on broadening participation in STEM. Explore our initiatives, partnerships, and our impact in our region. Despite the challenges posed by the global pandemic, we have remained active and dedicated to supporting K-20 learners and stakeholders interested in making a positive impact through STEM. Join us on this inspiring journey of innovation and progress.https://digitalcommons.njit.edu/stemresources/1050/thumbnail.jp

Leadership and iSTEAM for Females in Elementary Schools (LiFE): An Integrated Approach to Increase the Number of Women Pursuing Careers in STEM

2018 Poster presentation for the Leadership and iSTEAM for Females in Elementary Schools (LiFE), project, NJIThttps://digitalcommons.njit.edu/stemresources/1017/thumbnail.jp

Final Project Report NSF Award 1744490: NSF INCLUDES DDLP: Leadership and iSTEAM for Females in Elementary school (LiFE): An Integrated Approach to Increase the Number of Women Pursuing Careers in STEM

Disclaimer This Project Outcomes Report for the General Public is displayed verbatim as submitted by the Principal Investigator (PI) for this award. Any opinions, findings, and conclusions or recommendations expressed in this Report are those of the PI and do not necessarily reflect the views of the National Science Foundation; NSF has not approved or endorsed its content. The LiFE project created and studied a comprehensive program bringing together iSTEAM, holistic student growth, modern technologies, and other supports to engage girls in STEM experiences through a collective impact approach. LiFE supported STEAM clubs with role models and utilized research-based best practices in co-design and community involvement. Educators were supported with relevant professional development for hands-on STEM, and 21st-century skills, including leadership and communication. LiFE\u27s goal was to impact 200 girls in grades 3-6 from four schools in 3 NJ districts. Interest in participation in the project was greater than we expected which enabled the project to expand. NSF website:https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1744490https://digitalcommons.njit.edu/stemresources/1033/thumbnail.jp

LiFE: An Integrated Approach to Increase the Number of Women Pursuing Careers in STEM

2019 presentation of the LiFE: An Integrated Approach to Increase the Number of Women Pursuing Careers in STEM project at NSF INCLDUEShttps://digitalcommons.njit.edu/stemresources/1018/thumbnail.jp

Genetic, Pathophysiological and Clinical Aspects of Nephrocalcinosis

Nephrocalcinosis describes the ectopic deposition of calcium salts in the kidney parenchyma. Nephrocalcinosis can result from a number of acquired causes, but also an even greater number of genetic diseases, predominantly renal, but also extra-renal. Here we provide a review of the genetic causes of nephrocalcinosis, along with putative mechanisms, illustrated by human and animal data

Counterparts: Clothing, value and the sites of otherness in Panapompom ethnographic encounters

This is an Author's Accepted Manuscript of an article published in Anthropological Forum, 18(1), 17-35, 2008 [copyright Taylor & Francis], available online at: http://www.tandfonline.com/10.1080/00664670701858927.Panapompom people living in the western Louisiade Archipelago of Milne Bay Province, Papua New Guinea, see their clothes as indices of their perceived poverty. ‘Development’ as a valued form of social life appears as images that attach only loosely to the people employing them. They nevertheless hold Panapompom people to account as subjects to a voice and gaze that is located in the imagery they strive to present: their clothes. This predicament strains anthropological approaches to the study of Melanesia that subsist on strict alterity, because native self‐judgments are located ‘at home’ for the ethnographer. In this article, I develop the notion of the counterpart as a means to explore these forms of postcolonial oppression and their implications for the ethnographic encounter

Using BOX-PCR to exclude a clonal outbreak of melioidosis

Background Although melioidosis in endemic regions is usually caused by a diverse range of Burkholderia pseudomallei strains, clonal outbreaks from contaminated potable water have been described. Furthermore B. pseudomallei is classified as a CDC Group B bioterrorism agent. Ribotyping, pulsed-field gel electrophoresis (PFGE) and multilocus sequence typing (MLST) have been used to identify genetically related B. pseudomallei isolates, but they are time consuming and technically challenging for many laboratories. Methods We have adapted repetitive sequence typing using a BOX A1R primer for typing B. pseudomallei and compared BOX-PCR fingerprinting results on a wide range of well-characterized B. pseudomallei isolates with MLST and PFGE performed on the same isolates. Results BOX-PCR typing compared favourably with MLST and PFGE performed on the same isolates, both discriminating between the majority of multilocus sequence types and showing relatedness between epidemiologically linked isolates from various outbreak clusters. Conclusion Our results suggest that BOX-PCR can be used to exclude a clonal outbreak of melioidosis within 10 hours of receiving the bacterial strains