WCU students design museum exhibits

As part of the Alumni Weekend calendar of events, the WCU Museum of Anthropology and Archaeology hosted an alumni gala to celebrate the opening of the Rwanda Nziza: Beautiful Rwanda exhibit on April 27 2018 from 6:00-8:30. The event was positively reviewed by the Daily Local News

THE IMPACT OF INFORMATIONAL INTERVIEWING ON OCCUPATIONAL ENGAGEMENT AND CAREER DEVELOPMENT OF COLLEGE FRESHMEN

Abstract Occupational engagement, a component of the trilateral model for adaptive career decision, is an important construct for the modern world of work where job change is the norm and career paths are nonlinear. Since institutions of higher education dedicate significant resources to facilitate the career development of their students, it is also important to develop and evaluate cost-effective career development interventions that reflect modern career development theory and the current economic climate. The present study had the following two general research questions: Does informational interviewing have a significant impact on the career development of first year college students (i.e. occupational engagement, career decision self-efficacy, career maturity)? and Does informational interviewing lead to greater life satisfaction, satisfaction with major, and generalized higher education gains? To address these two questions, 29 college students enrolled in a first-year orientation seminar were given the task of completing eight informational interviews over the course of the spring 2011 semester and blogging about their experience, as well as completing an online questionnaire assessing their career decision self-efficacy, occupational engagement, generalized higher education gains, life satisfaction, and academic major satisfaction. Their responses were then compared to a control group of students enrolled in the same course during the spring 2011 and summer 2011 semesters, who did not complete any informational interviews. While the intervention group showed greater gains on all dependent variables compared to the control group, the results were not statistically significant. An examination of the current research design and suggestions for future research are explored

Modern Fair-Weather and Storm Sediment Transport Around Ship Island, Mississippi: Implications for Coastal Habitats and Restoration Efforts

The Mississippi – Alabama barrier island chain is experiencing accelerated sea level rise, decreased sediment supply, and frequent hurricane impacts. These three factors drive unprecedented rates of morphology change and ecosystem reduction. All islands in the chain have experienced land loss on the order of hectares per year since records began in the 1840s. In 1969, Hurricane Camille impacted as a Category 5, breaching Ship Island, and significantly reduced viable seagrass habitat. Hurricane Katrina impacted as a Category 3 in 2005, further widening Camille Cut. To better understand the sustainability of these important islands and the ecosystems they support, sediment transport dynamics must be quantified. In this study, four LiDAR datasets are used to investigate both subaerial and subaqueous volume changes during the most recent intense storm impact, Katrina, and the fair-weather period following. During the Katrina event, sediment comparable to 1.5 times the 2004 subaerial island volume was lost from the topo/bathy system. Only 1/5 of this volume was recovered between 2007 and 2010. The island returned to a net sediment loss between 2010 and 2012, although island area continued to increase. This highlights the importance of full topo/bathy datasets for morphodynamic analyses of barrier island systems. Seagrass patches around the island are primarily limited by exposure to wave energy, but are also limited by depth and rapid deposition events. Area and volume trends indicate seagrass habitat will not naturally increase, but a Camille Cut restoration may increase habitable area for seagrass if overwash processes are limited

Tests on riveted joints in sheet duralumin

In making tension tests, the slippage of the joints was noted at three points across each joint. In addition, stress strain curves were obtained for plain tension specimens, and a chemical analysis was made of the sheet