On How to Create a Digital Exhibit

Digital exhibits can manifest as a response to the central question: How can we creatively transform academic library spaces to support and engage students in critical information literacy? This poster session serves as a how-to guide to creating a digital exhibit at a library. This poster includes information about the digital exhibit series created at the University of St. Augustine for Health Sciences, which aimed at cultivating a discourse among the campus community on the sociocultural impact of medicine

Information Literacy…in 3D! Using Mozilla Hubs to Enhance Teaching and Learning Experiences

Matthew Chase (he/him) from University of St. Augustine for Health Sciences will share an innovative pathway to engage students using Mozilla Hubs, a virtual 3D collaboration technology. Hubs is an open-source tool that allows users to enter highly interactable and customizable virtual spaces from their browser, mobile device, or VR headset. Participants will learn how Hubs can be effective and accessible for a variety of information literacy purposes, including synchronous and asynchronous instruction, scholarship and conferencing, and student engagement. Participants will be able to interact with some examples of Matthew’s efforts to incorporate Mozilla Hubs at his institution

Anatomy of an Exhibit: The Academic Library as Place of Self-Instruction

This exhibition project addresses the central question: How can we creatively transform academic library spaces to support and engage students in critical information literacy? The project used physical library space to install a series of exhibitions at the San Marcos Campus Library of the University of St. Augustine for Health Sciences. Guided by the theoretical frameworks of Foucauldian perspective on knowledge and discourse, Falk and Dierking’s Contextual Model of Learning, and critical librarianship, the exhibit series engages students in a self-guided journey to discover and evaluate how knowledge is constructed, produced, and disseminated. Particular focus is directed to the Fall 2019 Theatre of the Body exhibit, in which Renaissance-era anatomical illustrations are displayed in the library accompanied with information about the socio-cultural history of human anatomy as a legitimized medical and academic practice. Students, faculty, and staff learned about the history of ethics concerning the use of cadavers, the technological advancements and educational power of anatomical illustration, the overlooked gaps in history regarding anatomists of color, and other topics of human anatomy. Preliminary qualitative data showed a positive reception to this exhibition by students, faculty, and staff as an engaging, critical discourse about human anatomy.https://soar.usa.edu/casmfall2019/1004/thumbnail.jp

Memory Effects in Brownian Motion, Random Walks under Confining Potentials, and Relaxation of Quantum Systems

This dissertation is a report on a number of distinct topics in the field of non-equilibrium statistical mechanics including the evolution of classical as well as quantum systems. The evolution of an object that is described by the Ornstein-Uhlenbeck process generalized through a time-nonlocal attraction is considered. The time-nonlocality is taken to be represented in the Langevin description through the presence of memory. Analysis of the Langevin equation is performed for algebraic and delay-type memories. An equivalent \emph{bona-fide} Fokker-Planck equation is constructed. A random walker subjected to a non-standard confining potential, taken to be a piece-wise linear function, is analyzed. Matching conditions for arbitrary joining configurations are given. Exact propagators in both the time- and Laplace-domains are derived for the case of a `V\u27-shaped potential. Two illustrative applications of such calculations are presented in the areas of chemical physics and biophysics. The relaxation of quantum systems interacting with a thermal reservoir is studied. Calculations for specified bath spectral functions are presented. Our primary focus is the vibrational relaxation of an excited molecule and we provide a generalization of the Montroll-Shuler equation into the coherent domain. A related system, the Stark ladder, is briefly discussed

Anatomy of an Exhibit: The Academic Library as Place of Self-Instruction

This project sought to develop a creative and unique way to engage health sciences graduate students, using physical library space at the San Marcos Campus Library of the University of St. Augustine for Health Sciences to support an exhibit. The exhibit was developed under the guiding theoretical frameworks of critical theory, critical librarianship, and Falk and Dierking\u27s Contextual Model of Learning. This poster focuses on San Marcos Campus Library\u27s Fall 2019 exhibit on Renaissance-era anatomical illustrations and its coinciding sociocultural history of human anatomy to introduce students to a self-guided learning journey. Preliminary qualitative data showed a positive reception to the project by students, faculty, and staff as an engaging discourse about human anatomy

Library, Disrupted: Virtual Engagement with the Academic Library in the Time of Quarantine

The COVID-19 pandemic has disrupted the academic library as a place for learning, connection, and wellness. The shift to virtual services has significantly changed how students are interacting with the library space, introducing challenges and opportunities for library staff to revitalize and re-center the library beyond the physical constraints of brick and mortar. This session will provide a look at how two university libraries have responded to this call for re-centering the library as place through virtual programming and outreach services. Presenters will discuss their experiences and insights with creating new and unique virtual programming across health and wellness, teaching and learning, and community engagement. Participants will also take part during the session in creating a digital care package

Servant Leadership In Sport: A New Paradigm For Effective Coach Behavior

Coaches are searching for contemporary leadership models which resonate with the modern-day athlete. Many elements of the Servant Leadership model, such as trust, inclusion, humility and service, are well suited to enhanced coach behaviors with this cohort. The purpose of this study was to examine how coaches who were perceived by their athletes to possess servant leader characteristics were associated with their athletes\u27 use of mental skills, motivation, satisfaction and performance. Participants were 195 high-school basketball athletes from the Pacific Northwest in the USA. It was found that athletes who perceived their coach to possess servant leader qualities also displayed higher intrinsic motivation, were more task oriented, were more satisfied, were mentally tougher, and performed better than were athletes coached by non-servant leaders. Furthermore, results showed that high-school basketball athletes preferred the servant-leader coaching style to more traditional styles. Results suggest that coaches who use the methods advocated by the servant-leader model produce athletes with a healthier psychological profile for sport who also perform well

Space Solar Rectifying Antenna On Earth

The realization of solar power from space is becoming increasingly closer as a solution to solving the continued growth in energy demand. Space based solar power is also being perceived as an alternative solution for non-renewable energy resources. Future solar power satellites will be positioned in orbit around the Earth where they will collect solar radiation. That radiation will be transformed into a microwave energy beam that is targeted to a receiving rectifying antenna or “rectenna” located on Earth’s surface. The received microwave energy will be converted into direct current electricity. This presentation focuses on the microwave patch antennas used with integrated rectifiers in ground receivers on Earth. Inset feed and quarter-wave microwave patch antennas and a microwave rectifier were engineered, manufactured, and tested in-house at the University of North Dakota. The results showed a resonant frequency close to the desired 2.45 GHz, but the rectifier demonstrated 21% power conversion efficiency from AC to DC at 15dBm. The antenna and rectifier were combined and analysis was performed for the parameters of distance of the receiving rectenna from the transmitter and power output upon rectification. The innovation of this project is the “Multi-Combinational Renewable Energy Efficient Generator ” that allows such energy attachments as terrestrial solar and wind, geo-thermal facilities, energy storage systems, and the rectenna itself to be integrated into the base structure. The future Global Electrical Grid will use solar power satellites as a space electrical node and, it is hoped, the MCREEG generator will serve as a ground electrical node. Advisors: Dr. Sima Noghanian, Dr. Hossein Salehfar, Dr. Isaac Chang, Dr. James Casler, Dr. Ron Fevi