scholarly journals Citizen Science and Youth Audiences: Educational Outcomes of the Monarch Larva Monitoring Project

2008 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Dina L. Kountoupes ◽  
Karen Oberhauser
Keyword(s):  
Citizen Science ◽  
Large Scale ◽  
Data Entry ◽  
Science Research ◽  
Monarch Butterfly ◽  
The United States ◽  
Promising Practices ◽  
University Of Minnesota ◽  
Natural Settings ◽  
The University

Citizen science projects in which members of the public participate in large scale science research programs are excellent ways for universities to engage the broader community in authentic science research. The Monarch Larva Monitoring Project (MLMP) is such a project. It involves hundreds of individuals throughout the United States and southern Canada in a study of monarch butterfly distribution and abundance. This program, run by faculty, graduate students, and staff at the University of Minnesota, provides research opportunities for volunteer monitors. We used mixed methods to understand contexts, outcomes, and promising practices for engaging youth in this project. Slightly over a third of our adult volunteers engaged youth in monitoring activities. They reported that the youth were successful at and enjoyed project activities, with the exception of data entry. Adults innovations increased the success and educational value of the project for children without compromising data integrity. Many adults engaged in extension activities, including independent research that built on their monitoring observations. This project provides an excellent forum for science and environmental education through investigation, direct and long-term interactions with natural settings, and data analysis.

scholarly journals Go West: surgical fellowships in the US

2008 ◽  
Vol 90 (8) ◽  
pp. 272-274
Author(s):  
Matt Freudmann ◽  
Lucy Wales
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Vascular Surgery ◽  
Surgical Training ◽  
The United States ◽  
University Of Minnesota ◽  
The West ◽  
Transplant Centre ◽  
Transplant Center ◽  
The Us ◽  
The University

As a final-year trainee in vascular surgery, I was working at the West London Renal and Transplant Centre for Professor Nadey Hakim and Vassilios Papalois. I am very grateful to both of them for encouraging me to apply for a visiting fellowship to the United States, enabling me to experience some of the benefits of surgical training abroad and to broaden my perspectives in transplantation. I was awarded a visiting fellowship to the University of Minnesota Transplant Center by Professor David Sutherland, head of the division of transplant surgery.

scholarly journals Educating nurse leaders to think globally with international collaborative learning

2019 ◽  
Vol 39 (4) ◽  
pp. 186-190
Author(s):  
Helga Bragadóttir ◽  
Teddie Potter
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Sensitivity ◽  
The United States ◽  
Nurse Leaders ◽  
Global Awareness ◽  
University Of Minnesota ◽  
Nursing Administration ◽  
Graduate Courses ◽  
Short Article ◽  
Rapid Pace ◽  
The University

Given the rapid pace of change and globalization, leaders in healthcare must be educated to think globally even if they only act locally. This short article discusses the experience of a collaborative online international learning (COIL) project between the University of Iceland (UI) and the University of Minnesota (UMN) in the United States. The project was embedded into graduate courses in nursing administration and leadership. COIL courses require substantial collaboration but, when done well, COIL transforms teaching so that global awareness of students and faculty is enhanced and widens their horizons as well as their cultural sensitivity.

Functional Limitations of Patients with End-Stage Ankle Arthrosis

2005 ◽  
Vol 26 (7) ◽  
pp. 537-539 ◽  
Author(s):  
Julie Agel ◽  
J. Chris Coetzee ◽  
Bruce J. Sangeorzan ◽  
Matthew M. Roberts ◽  
Sigvard T. Hansen
Keyword(s):  
Medical Center ◽  
Functional Limitations ◽  
Population Sample ◽  
Operative Management ◽  
The United States ◽  
University Of Minnesota ◽  
Previous Trauma ◽  
End Stage ◽  
The University ◽  
Foot Fractures

Background: Arthritis and other rheumatic conditions are the leading causes of disability among adults in the United States. The purpose of this report was to describe the self-reported functional limitations of a group of patients with end-stage ankle arthrosis. Method: Patients who presented for operative management of end-stage ankle arthrosis at the University of Minnesota and Harborview Medical Center completed a Musculoskeletal Functional Assessment (MFA) as part of their preoperative clinical evaluation. Data from patients evaluated during the time period April, 1995, through May, 2004, were used for this project. Results: Four hundred and twenty-six patients with the diagnosis of end-stage ankle arthrosis completed baseline questionnaires. Six of the 426 patients received care on both ankles during the time of this project. The average age of patients at the time of completion of the questionnaire was 56.7 years. There were 241 men and 185 women. The primary underlying causes identified by the treating surgeon at the time of surgery were primary osteoarthritis with no known prior trauma (66), previous trauma (tibial fracture, foot fractures, or ankle ligamentous disruption) (296), rheumatoid arthritis (24), no known cause (21), and a variety of diseases or infections (19). In all domains, the patients with end-stage ankle arthrosis showed statistically significant differences from a general population sample. Conclusions: The effects of ankle arthritis as demonstrated by this data are severe. Most of these patients were severely limited in function. Without a data-driven understanding of the limitations the patients have, it is difficult to make an effective argument for focused research to solve the problems. Without understanding the patients' needs, it is impossible to assess the effect of treatment. The information in this paper provides a baseline understanding of effect of the current functional limitations of patients with end-stage ankle arthrosis.

Radio Journalism: An Annotated Bibliography

1946 ◽  
Vol 23 (2) ◽  
pp. 193-201
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
The United States ◽  
National Council ◽  
Ohio University ◽  
University Of Minnesota ◽  
University Of Iowa ◽  
University Of Illinois ◽  
Emory University ◽  
Broadcasting System ◽  
The University

This bibliography was prepared by a committee of the National Council on Radio Journalism, with the aid of a number of specialists. Cooperating in the work were Miss Gertrude G. Broderick, of the United States Office of Education; Mitchell V. Charnley, of the University of Minnesota; Fred S. Siebert and Frank Schooley, of the University of Illinois; Kenneth Bardett, of Syracuse University; Karl Krauskopf and Paul Wagner, of Ohio University; Floyd Baskette, of Emory University; Paul White, of the Columbia Broadcasting System; Arthur M. Barnes and Wilbur Schramm, of the University of Iowa. Dr. Schramm was chairman of the committee.

on Sorokin

1989 ◽  
Vol 3 (1) ◽  
pp. 299-302 ◽  
Author(s):  
P. A. Sorokin
Keyword(s):  
American Sociological Association ◽  
The United States ◽  
Honorary Member ◽  
International Institute ◽  
University Of Minnesota ◽  
Greek Orthodox ◽  
Arts And Sciences ◽  
Greek Orthodox Church ◽  
Sociological Society ◽  
The University

Sorokin, Pitirim Alexandrovich, born January 21,1889, in the small village of Turia in Russia [died 1968]. Student at the Teachers' Seminary in the province of Kostroma in Russia (1903–6), at the evening school in St. Petersburg (1907–9), at the Psycho- Neurological Institute in St. Petersburg (1910–14); Magistrant of Criminal Law (1915); Ph.D in Sociology (1922); Privatdozent at the Psycho-Neurological Institute (1914–16), at the University of St. Petersburg (1916–17); Professor of Sociology at the same university (1919–22); Professor of Sociology at the Agricultural Academy (1919–22), at the University of Minnesota (1924–30); Chairman of the Department of Sociology at Harvard University from 1930. Member of the Executive Committee of the All-Russian Peasant's Soviet (1917); Secretary to the Prime Minister [ Kerensky ] (1917); member of the Russian Constitutional Assembly (1918); sentenced to death and finally exiled by the communist administration (1922); emigrated to the United States (1923), naturalized (1930). Member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, the American Sociological Association; honorary member of the International Institute of Sociology of the Czechoslovakian Academy for Agriculture, of the German Sociological Society, and of the Ukrainian Sociological Society; President of the International Institute for Sociology (1936–37). Member of the Greek-Orthodox Church.

scholarly journals Citizen Science in Vegetable Garden Cultivar Evaluation in Tennessee

Horticulturae ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 7 (11) ◽  
pp. 422
Author(s):  
Virginia R. Sykes ◽  
Natalie R. Bumgarner ◽  
Stefanie Brooke Keadle ◽  
Aleksandra Wilson ◽  
Francisco Palacios
Keyword(s):  
Citizen Science ◽  
Food Production ◽  
Community Gardens ◽  
Science Research ◽  
The United States ◽  
Quality Data ◽  
Home Garden ◽  
Trial Management ◽  
High Quality ◽  
Research Faculty

Edible food production is a growing area of horticultural interest that can engage multiple generations of rural to urban residents with varying levels of experience. Residential or community garden food production can provide many benefits, including the production of healthy produce, establishment of community or social connections, and increased physical activity. Regardless of experience, food gardeners are interested in growing crops and cultivars well-suited to their region and which provide both productivity and crop quality. This means that cultivar selection is a common question for gardeners. However, formal cultivar evaluation is relatively rare in the non-commercial food production sector due to the number of cultivars, the challenges of replicated trial management, and the scarcity of public researchers focused on consumer horticulture. This limits the information available to support new gardeners, which lowers the chances of overall success including high-quality harvests. Such crop and variety selection questions are common for Extension personnel in the United States as well as many others who work with gardeners. Even with this high level of interest, funding for consumer garden trials is limited and the cost of replicated trials across various geographical sites is high. To fill this gap in research and address the need for high-quality data to support education, University of Tennessee Extension and research faculty have developed a citizen science approach called the Home Garden Variety Trial (HGVT) program. The HGVT is a collaborative effort between Extension and research faculty and educators, who select trials, provide seeds, and compile data, and citizen scientists around the state, who conduct the trials using their usual gardening practices in their own home or community gardens. Beginning in 2017, the collaborators have conducted five years of research involving over 450 individual gardeners in more than half of the counties in Tennessee. The HGVT is a novel and effective tool to introduce gardeners to new crops and cultivars while providing previously unavailable data to researchers. Together, researchers and home gardeners collect and compile data that supports residential and community food production success while engaging new and experienced gardeners in participatory science research.

scholarly journals From Digital Arts and Humanities to DASH

2015 ◽  
pp. 234-253 ◽  
Author(s):  
Justin Schell ◽  
Jennie M. Burroughs ◽  
Deborah Boudewyns ◽  
Cecily Marcus ◽  
Scott Spicer
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Academic Libraries ◽  
Digital Humanities ◽  
The United States ◽  
Financial Resources ◽  
University Of Minnesota ◽  
Service Model ◽  
Digital Arts ◽  
Arts And Humanities ◽  
The University

Academic libraries around the United States have been responding to an emerging style of research, the digital humanities, that promises to expand and revolutionize the humanities. Libraries are finding themselves to be generative sites of innovative partnerships and projects. Seeing a new opportunity to showcase cutting edge research and demonstrate value in an era of competitive demands for financial resources, there is significant incentive for libraries to quickly anticipate scholarly needs. Yet how do academic libraries best support a field of practice that is still developing? To address these issues, the University of Minnesota Libraries conducted a multi-year assessment of scholarly trends and practices, infrastructure needs, and roles of digital humanities centers and academic libraries, the University of Minnesota Libraries have designed and are in the process of implementing a service model as part of its Digital Arts Sciences + Humanities (DASH) program.

A Christian college in a food truck? Christian study centers and moral formation

2020 ◽  
pp. 205699712097165
Author(s):  
Andrew Hansen
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
United States ◽  
The United States ◽  
Christian College ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Christian Tradition ◽  
University Of Minnesota ◽  
Moral Formation ◽  
The University ◽  
Important Purpose

The task of moral formation has long been an important purpose of higher education in the United States. However, pluralism and lack of moral consensus within secular universities present significant challenges to accomplishing this task. One possible solution is Christian study centers, which offer thick moral cultures that can form students at secular universities within the Christian tradition. Anselm House’s Fellows Program at the University of Minnesota illustrates such a context and suggests avenues for future research.

PEDIATRICS IN THE REPUBLIC OF KOREA

PEDIATRICS ◽  
1960 ◽  
Vol 26 (4) ◽  
pp. 696-699
Author(s):  
Eldon B. Berglund
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Public Administration ◽  
The United States ◽  
Republic Of Korea ◽  
University Of Minnesota ◽  
National University ◽  
The Republic ◽  
Seoul National University ◽  
The University

In The spring of 1959, Dr. John Anderson, Professor of Pediatrics at the University of Minnesota, asked me to go to Korea as adviser in pediatrics to Seoul National University. The University of Minnesota has a contract with the United States Operations Mission (USOM) to help rehabilitate Seoul National University in the schools of Agriculture, Public Administration, Engineering and Medicine. This contract has been in effect since 1954, has involved the spending of several millions of dollars, the sending of medical advisers from Minnesota to Seoul and of medical participants, as they are called, from Seoul National University (SNU) to the University of Minnesota.

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