An interprofessional, intercultural, immersive short-term study abroad program: public health and service systems in rome

The purpose of this paper is to describe a short-term study abroad program that exposes engineering and nursing undergraduate students from the United States and Italy to an intercultural and interprofessional immersion experience. Faculty from Purdue University and Sapienza Università di Roma collaborated to design a technical program that demonstrates the complementary nature of engineering and public health in the service sector, with Rome as an integral component of the program. Specifically, the intersection of topics including systems, reliability, process flow, maintenance management, and public health are covered through online lectures, in-class activities and case study discussions, field experiences, and assessments. Herein, administrative issues such as student recruitment, selection, and preparation are elucidated. Additionally, the pedagogical approach used to ensure constructive alignment among the program goals, the intended learning outcomes, and the teaching and learning activities is described. Finally, examples of learning outcomes resulting from this alignment are provided

Power to the Panza: The Politics of Panza Positive Cultural Production, a Performance

Abstract: The Panza Monologues is a solo performance piece both written by Virginia Grise and Irma Mayorga and also composed from contributions by Chicanas in San Antonio, TX gathered by Grise and Mayorga. In live production of the piece, Grise is the solo actor and Mayorga serves as director, dramaturge, and designer. As a whole, the play focuses on stories that hinge on the metaphor of “la panza” to articulate and describe the multiple conditions of Chicanas’ lives in terms of their physical, social, racial, and class dimensions. The piece has been performed in various locations from its inception in 2004 to the present. For their NACCS 2008 Annual Conference presentation, Grise and Mayorga composed a “performative conversation” for a session that offered (1) the genealogy of the piece’s development, (2) the differences between Grise and Mayorga’s theatrical training and work as activists, which in turn yields their aesthetic and Chicana feminist strategies employed in the performance, (3) an articulation of the play’s driving ideas and tenets in relation to Chicana/o cultural production, the socio-political conditions in San Antonio, TX, and feminist art practices, and (4) select monologues from The Panza Monologues script presented between Grise and Mayorga’s discussion of Chicana cultural expressions. This format sought to compose a presentation that experimented with the possibilities of discussing cultural production in the academic conference setting. Therefore this essay utilizes a “script” format that attempts to capture the dialogical style of Grise and Mayorga’s presentation. The essay culminates with a manifesto for “Panza Positive Cultural Production” that enumerates Grise and Mayorga’s observations and recommendations for producing Chicana/o teatro that is socially responsible and attentive to Chicana artists, Chicana/o peoples, and practice within Chicana/o cultural organizations

There’s no apprenticeship for Alzheimer’s: The caring relationship when an older person experiencing dementia falls

© Cambridge University Press 2011Older people experiencing dementia are twice as likely to fall with consequences of serious injury, reduction in everyday activity, admission to long-term care and mortality. Carers of people with dementia are themselves at greater risk of physical and mental ill health, which increases as the dementia progresses. Unsurprisingly, carer burden also increases when a care-recipient falls. The aim of this study was to explore the experiences of falling of community-living older people with dementia and their carers. A qualitative approach was taken using interpretative phenomenological analysis. Nine older people with predominantly Alzheimer's disease and their ten carers were recruited from a large mental health National Health Service trust and participated in one-to-one and joint in-depth interviews. Three dyads participated in repeat interviews. Three focus groups were also carried out, with nine older people experiencing memory problems and 12 carers from a local Alzheimer's Society branch. The antecedents, falls events and consequences of falls were discussed. This paper reports specifically on the impact of falls on the caring relationship. Three themes emerged: ‘learning as you go’, ‘we're always together’, ‘nobody was interested’. The findings demonstrate how falling accentuates the impact of dementia on the dyad. Spouse-carers' discussion of their own falls emphasise the need for joint assessment of health and wellbeing to reduce carer burden and preserve the couplehood of the dyad.The South West London NHS Mental Health Care Trust which part-funded this researc

Performance Management in Action

Outlines how collecting and sharing data enables educators to assess student performance in real time and predict and address issues early in order to improve achievement levels and graduation rates. Profiles successful programs in three urban districts

A Multi-wavelength Survey of AGN in Massive Clusters: AGN Detection and Cluster AGN Fraction

We aim to study the effect of environment on the presence and fuelling of Active Galactic Nuclei (AGN) in massive galaxy clusters. We explore the use of different AGN detection techniques with the goal of selecting AGN across a broad range of luminosities, AGN/host galaxy flux ratios, and obscuration levels. From a sample of 12 galaxy clusters at redshifts 0.5 < z < 0.9, we identify AGN candidates using optical variability from multi-epoch HST imaging, X-ray point sources in Chandra images, and mid-IR SED power-law fits through the Spitzer IRAC channels. We find 178 optical variables, 74 X-ray point sources, and 64 IR power law sources, resulting in an average of ~25 AGN per cluster. We find no significant difference between the fraction of AGN among galaxies in clusters and the percentage of similarly-detected AGN in field galaxy studies (~2.5%). This result provides evidence that galaxies are still able to fuel accretion onto their supermassive black holes, even in dense environments. We also investigate correlations between the percentage of AGN and cluster physical properties such as mass, X-ray luminosity, size, morphology class and redshift. We find no significant correlations among cluster properties and the percentage of AGN detected.Comment: 68 pages, 22 figures, 15 table

State Highlights 2/1/1956

This is the student newspaper from Western State High School, the high school that was on the campus of Western Michigan University, then called State Highlights, in 1956

UNLV Lady Rebels 1988-1989

1988-1989 Lady Rebel Outlook Behind the Scenes Lady Rebel Philosophy Meet the Lady Rebels This is UNLV Rosters 1987-1988 Opponents The Bert Leavitt Memorial Scholarship The Record Book Thomas and Mack Center Opponent Publicists 1988-1989 Schedul