A fifth grade sociometric study leaders and non-leaders.

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Health Worker Training Creates New Pathways for Delta Residents

Center for Population Studies collaborates to improve health care access in communitie

Center for Population Studies and Partners Host Hunger Summit

Summit helps nonprofits respond to COVID-19 and food insecurity in Mississipp

Alien Registration- Sweeney, Elizabeth (Portland, Cumberland County)

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Delta Students Pursue New Pathways to Health During UM Visit

High schoolers discover career opportunities through visit with Center for Population Studie

Alien Registration- Sweeney, Elizabeth (Portland, Cumberland County)

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Integrated Software System for the Collection and Evaluation of Wellness Information.

There is an absence of a complete, easy to use, software system that can evaluate all areas of wellness. Although there are software programs and equipment available to examine certain aspects of wellness, they are incomplete. The solution to the difficulties of assessing wellness is the design and development of a software system that can be used to collect and evaluate wellness information. The system allows for complete reporting as it entails the six major components to wellness: demographics, body composition, lab work, nutritional intake, physical activity, and body measures. The system allows for ease of use by providing a user-friendly environment that provides multiple methods of data entry and utilizes existing software and equipment. A complete and easy to use integrated system will promote the process of evaluating wellness and improving the user’s overall health

Playing Nabokov: Performances by Himself and Others

In 1918, in the Crimea, the adolescent Vladimir Nabokov devised a new pastime: parodizing a biographic approach by narrating his own actions aloud. In this self-conscious game, he orchestrated changes in grammatical person, gender, and tense in order to transform his present experiences into a third-person past, as remembered by a female friend in an imaginary future. Staging his own biography in this fashion allowed Nabokov to resolve the inherent conflict between his life and his art. Indeed, he went on to play the game of narrating his own biography throughout his memoir, Speak, Memory: An Autobiography Revisited, and in his fiction. Fifty years after Nabokov invented this game, he met his first real-life biographer, Andrew Field, who resisted playing it by Nabokov\u27s rules. The ensuing quarrel between subject and biographer eventually inspired three other parodic texts: Nabokov\u27s novel, Look at the Harlequins!; Field\u27s biography, Nabokov: His Life in Part, and Roberta Smoodin\u27s novel, Inventing Ivanov. Inevitably, each of these books became, like Speak, Memory before it, another performance of Nabokov\u27s self-reflexive game. Indeed, Nabokov\u27s critics, biographers, and disciples may find it almost impossible to represent his life and art without merely repeating his own representations of himself

Support Experiences of Beginning Teachers in an Alternate Route Graduate Program in Mississippi

Beginning teachers are the group of teachers most at risk of leaving the profession, while research has shown that novice teachers who receive support, such as mentorship or cohort programs, are more likely to continue to teach than those who do not. This study explored supports that beginning teachers in an alternate route graduate program in Mississippi experience and perceive as beneficial. A qualitative research design utilizing a phenomenological approach was used to explore the lived experiences of participants and supports they experience as beginning teachers. Thirteen beginning teachers, each teaching for less than three years, were interviewed using a semi-structured interview protocol. A social support framework provided a lens for examining supports and “un-supports” that these beginning teachers experienced. In vivo and pattern coding were used to generate codes based on participants\u27 words and organize them into categories. Provisional coding applied codes from the theoretical framework. Major findings were that beginning teachers benefit from a network of people supports and from a structured program that provides intentional and multiple forms of support. In addition, teachers want to help and support each other. Findings suggest that beginning teachers should be provided an intentional orientation at one’s school and connected to a wide range of people supports in one’s district. Structured programs should be established through which to scaffold supports for beginning teachers, and teachers should be provided time and space to talk to each other and collaborate