Yuletide Celebrations In Other Lands

Mary Rothacker describes Christmas customs in the countries of the foreign student

Implementation of Universal Alcohol Screening at a College Health Clinic

Objective: To increase alcohol screening in college students at a northwest college health clinic, using an evidence-based screening instrument, the Alcohol Use Disorders Identification Test- Consumption (AUDIT-C). Method: This quality improvement project involved implementation of universal screening for alcohol use using a pre-implementation/post-implementation random audit of the health record for evidence of alcohol or drug screening. A survey of the Alcohol Use Disorders Identification Test-Consumption (AUDIT-C) screening instrument was administered, as part of the registration process, to students seen for a routine health encounter throughout the data collection phase. Students were offered education and referral guided by the Screening, Brief Intervention, and Referral to Treatment (SBIRT) approach. Results: The number of students screened for alcohol use increased, from three charts (6.66%) prior to the five-week period of implementation, to 100%. Conclusion: Universal screening and referral for high-risk alcohol use in a college health setting has the potential to improve long term outcomes for students if factors such as timing of the screen, staff work-load, provider work-flow, and support for referrals are considered prior to implementation

Miniwanca Inspires Fellowship Winners

Mary Rothaker tells about the activities of Danforth winners at St. Louis and Camp Miniwanc

Spring School on Language, Music, and Cognition: Organizing Events in Time

The interdisciplinary spring school “Language, music, and cognition: Organizing events in time” was held from February 26 to March 2, 2018 at the Institute of Musicology of the University of Cologne. Language, speech, and music as events in time were explored from different perspectives including evolutionary biology, social cognition, developmental psychology, cognitive neuroscience of speech, language, and communication, as well as computational and biological approaches to language and music. There were 10 lectures, 4 workshops, and 1 student poster session. Overall, the spring school investigated language and music as neurocognitive systems and focused on a mechanistic approach exploring the neural substrates underlying musical, linguistic, social, and emotional processes and behaviors. In particular, researchers approached questions concerning cognitive processes, computational procedures, and neural mechanisms underlying the temporal organization of language and music, mainly from two perspectives: one was concerned with syntax or structural representations of language and music as neurocognitive systems (i.e., an intrapersonal perspective), while the other emphasized social interaction and emotions in their communicative function (i.e., an interpersonal perspective). The spring school not only acted as a platform for knowledge transfer and exchange but also generated a number of important research questions as challenges for future investigations

Critical Reviews & The New York Times Assignment

What is the role of criticism in any art form? What is the purpose? Is it to enlighten the artists involved? The audience? Using sample Plays and Playwrights from this term, students will go on a deep dive into the archives of the New York Times theatre reviews. Comparing reviews on the same play with different productions shows different points of view

Group Playwriting Project

This assignment is designed for any lecture based course that does not inherently have collaborative work or assignments as part of the curriculum. For any student taking a theatre arts course, understanding how it is to work with others and create something is one of the biggest lessons that can be learned. To take the pressure off the idea of performance , this playwriting assignment starts with the role of the Playwright and how to create from the ground up

[Insert Play Title Here] COLLAGE Assignment

Approaching analysis of Dramatic Literature can easily be accomplished via class discussion and through writing. Since plays are “written to be performed”, other approaches of analysis must be explored. The collage assignment and synthesis focuses on the visual aspects of the writing and how the playwright offers clues as to what can or should be focused on

Evaluating burnout in nursing faculty

Use of ProQOL to evaluate level of faculty burnout in the face of current demands in nursing academia with a discussion of literature supported interventions to prevent and address burnout

Third-order TRANSPORT: A computer program for designing charged particle beam transport systems

TRANSPORT has been in existence in various evolutionary versions since 1963. The present version of TRANSPORT is a first-, second-, and third-order matrix multiplication computer program intended for the design of static-magnetic beam transport systems. This report discusses the following topics on TRANSPORT: Mathematical formulation of TRANSPORT; input format for TRANSPORT; summaries of TRANSPORT elements; preliminary specifications; description of the beam; physical elements; other transformations; assembling beam lines; operations; variation of parameters for fitting; and available constraints -- the FIT command