An Exercise In Linking Ethics In The Classroom To The Real World

As academics we are faced with a series of challenges in teaching about ethics in the classroom.  We are expected to engage our students and help them become more proactive in the process of learning; link the classroom with the “real world”; and provide them the opportunity to develop both career-related skills and the opportunity to explore potential careers if they are to have a successful professional future.  The following exercise addresses these challenges.  The exercise involves the student identifying significant, discipline-based ethical issues; and contacting and discussing these issues with a professional in their career field.  The exercise also includes a reflective component and an opportunity for the students to share their findings with their peers.  This exercise helps to increase the relevance of the ethical material presented in class by putting this knowledge in the specific professional context to which the student aspires, and results in bridging the “classroom” with the “real world.”   A description and rationale for the exercise; materials; student feedback and benefits; and suggestions for faculty are included

Employee Layoffs And Earnings Management

This paper analyzes the accounting choices of firms in periods surrounding large work-force reductions (layoffs). Layoffs provide an incentive for managers to use accounting choices to manage earnings. Accrual analysis is performed on a sample of firms that announce large layoffs. Discretionary accruals are regressed on indicator variables for years associated with large layoffs. The results indicate that firms make accounting choices to reduce reported income in the years in which they announce large layoffs

2014 Ruby Yearbook

A digitized copy of the 2014 Ruby, the Ursinus College yearbook.https://digitalcommons.ursinus.edu/ruby/1117/thumbnail.jp

The Lantern, 2013-2014

• Strikes • Pietro di Venezia • To the Lover of Small Things • Jim\u27s Big Day • Akademiks • Redamancy • A Love Poem for Arctia Caja • Mother River • The Lyrics to Your Song • Nerves • Gemini Season • White Interface • The Last Time I Played with Dolls • The Mechanic • My Goldfish • Put Down Your Hammer • Strip • Hollywood • Identity • The Grey Zone • Sophia • When I Became a Poet • Unbroken • The Veteran Aeronaut • I Have Running Water but They had the Stars • Not A Nigga • Mother, Adam, Eve • From Fragile Seeds: A Palindrome • Conspiring, The Spires • Finally Working Out What Goes Where (God, For Example, is in His Kingdom) • Identity Crisis • Affection • Patience • An Enchanting Lost Cause • False Starts • Soggy Rice, Lukewarm Water • The Glow • Heat • 9-14 • Filigree • Diane Arbus • Touched • Dying Alive • Just Another Drunkard on the Train • Dinner • The French Legionnaire • Conspiracy and Theory • 1249am • Colored Pencils • Sea Glass • Roundtrip • The Muse Heard Music • Lacrimosa • The Allegory of the Maze • The Stars on Stuart Road • To Isabella • For Want of a Potato Chip • Termite Nests • Saving a Rose • Today and Yesterday • A Foggy New York • Cat; Wurtzburg • Embrace • Faces • Geisha • Pacis Leo • Patterns • Te-Whanganui-a-Tara (The Dock)https://digitalcommons.ursinus.edu/lantern/1180/thumbnail.jp

A Wrinkle in Time

A Wrinkle in Time was an entry in Myrin Library\u27s 7th Annual Edible Books Festival at Ursinus College.https://digitalcommons.ursinus.edu/ebf/1094/thumbnail.jp

Employee Layoffs And Earnings Management

This paper analyzes the accounting choices of firms in periods surrounding large work-force reductions (layoffs). Layoffs provide an incentive for managers to use accounting choices to manage earnings. Accrual analysis is performed on a sample of firms that announce large layoffs. Discretionary accruals are regressed on indicator variables for years associated with large layoffs. The results indicate that firms make accounting choices to reduce reported income in the years in which they announce large layoffs.</jats:p

Abstract 55: Spatiotemporal Heterogeneity of Platelet Activation and Thrombus Architecture Regulates Plasma Protein Accessibility During Thrombus Formation in Vivo

While often described as a linear process in which platelets react in a uniform manner, recent in vivo studies demonstrate that the platelet response to vascular injury is quite heterogeneous. Here, we utilized confocal fluorescence intravital microscopy to provide a detailed description of the heterogeneous nature of thrombi formed in vivo while asking the following questions: 1) does platelet accumulation and activation during thrombus formation follow specific spatio-temporal patterns that result in subpopulations of platelets with different activation states; 2) does the architecture of the hemostatic mass depend on the mechanism of injury; and 3) does heterogeneity within the platelet mass result in discrete regions of a thrombus that are more or less accessible to plasma and its constituents? We found that regardless of the mode of injury, stable thrombi were composed of two distinct and contiguous populations of platelets defined both by their activation state and their packing density. Closest to the site of injury was a population of fully activated, stably adherent, degranulated platelets, which was covered by multiple layers of loosely adherent platelets that had not undergone granule release. Increased packing density of platelets within the thrombus core was associated with reduced plasma volume in this region as well as limited accessibility of large plasma borne tracer molecules and proteins. Taken together, these findings clearly demonstrate the heterogeneous nature of thrombus formation at the molecular and structural levels. Further, the finding of reduced plasma volume and protein accessibility to the thrombus core has implications for delivery of pro- and anti-thrombotic blood factors and therapeutic agents to this region of a thrombus.</jats:p