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This chapter reviews patterns of violence in New Orleans and discusses it in terms of the Chain of Violence principle described in Iadicola and Shupeu27s Violence, Inequality and Human Freedom. The chapter concludes with a discussion of the current strategies of intervention outlined by the city of New Orleans in the NOLA FOR LIFE: A Comprehensive Murder Reduction Strategy and the limitations of the strategy based on the insights of the theoretical model outlined by Iadicola and Shupe

Many students who are in the mild or moderate special education program are not able to transition into the adult world smoothly when they exit high school. These students need a formal transition planning process to assist them. Some important decisions that need to be made are whether students will go to college or receive a type of job training, and where they will live. The research study investigated what special education teachers know about resources for the transition of students who have a mild or moderate disability from high school to adult life. Results show that teachers who teach special education, differ in their procedures about when a vocational rehabilitation agency representative should come to the Annual Case Review. Teachers do agree that the level of cognitive disability depends on how much assistance is needed from the rehabilitation agency

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Of interest to all engineering disciplines, well-designed formative feedback has the potential to enhance both instructor teaching and student learning. Delivering fundamental courses year after year can ultimately lead faculty to use stale notes or slides from past years. This approach may save time but does not meet the shifting needs of our students who have high expectations from their instructors. One simple method to improve teaching is to employ muddiest point reflections. Muddiest point reflections involve simply asking students to anonymously reflect on what was u22muddyu22, i.e. confusing, during class and to rank their level of confusion which not only addresses students falling behind, but also shows students a commitment to their education especially when the instructor puts direct student quotes on the screen. Initially, developing a formative feedback process takes some effort, but once established, using a formative feedback process requires little effort. The formative feedback process includes four steps: 1) acquiring data from student reflections; 2) assessing and characterizing student responses in order to diagnose the learning issues that can impede students from achieving their learning goals; 3) designing and synthesizing the type and mode of formative feedback that best addresses the learning issues; and 4) selecting a formative feedback delivery method that quickly communicates to students the information and/or resources that they can use to enhance progress toward their learning goals. This paper presents and discusses the nuts and bolts of implementing the feedback process when using end-of-class u22Muddiest Pointu22 (MP) student reflections. These are collected following a class topic and are collected for the purpose of identifying - and quickly correcting - points of confusion that students individually report (their muddiest point). In addition, we report on several instructor perceptions of their teaching that result from using u22muddiest pointsu22 for the first time. These instructors deployed MP in a systematic way in fall 2015 in several different materials science courses across the country. Finally, we share strategic examples from each instructor of how using muddiest points in fall 2015 caught a misconception or point of confusion in their teaching that probably would not have been otherwise known

Opus: Research and Creativity at IPFW supports the university’s academic mission to raise its national and international profile through open access to the academic and creative accomplishments of IPFW faculty and students

Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) is when organizations take actions that are perceived to further the good of society that go beyond just company self-interest and legal requirements. CSR involves companies engaging in behaviors that benefit humanity in the more general sense. CSR is often organizations looking to accomplish a triple bottom line that includes the economic interests of the firm, social good, and environmental well-being. Such actions can vary widely but include charity donations, supporting local communities, using eco-friendly materials, volunteering organizational time and resources to social causes, and even safeguarding human rights in areas with unstable governments. Corporate Social Responsibility can be focused on the needs of local communities but for multinational organizations spread across many different countries CSR is inherently international in nature. Organizations can be doing CSR actions in countries spread across the globe. Leaders can play a crucial role in how and even whether an organization engages in CSR, with leadership CSR behaviors effected by a leader’s personality and individual characteristics. CSR can also be controversial in nature as people with different perspectives or values may not agree on what corporate behaviors are indeed responsible and there are prominent examples of organizations that have engaged in what has been termed “greenwashing,” doing corporate actions that look environmentally responsible to the public but in fact have little positive impact, being little more than public relations stunts. CSR is a major concept in international business and an area almost all organizational leaders need to engage with

Sherrie Steiner, assistant professor of sociology, along with several undergraduate students, presented at the 2016 Annual Meeting of the North Central Sociological Association in Chicago, Illinois. Steiner, Sierra Marsh (sophomore, sociology), Isaac Puffs (junior, sociology and psychology), and Jacob Wegner (junior, general studies with a sociology minor) prepared a presentation entitled “Risk Perception in Light of the Disruption of the Quotidian.” The presentation focused on how the perceived order of everyday life creates a sense of control and diminishes perceived risk

In a recent study, a lower bound is established on the blow up time for solutions of a chemotaxis system, with nonlinear chemotactic sensitivity u(u+1)m−1, set in the three-dimensional unit ball. Here, u is the density of a cell or organism that produces a chemical, with density v, and moves preferentially toward regions of higher concentration of v according to the flux . With χu3e0, v is referred to as a “chemoattractant” and, in the case m=1, the system reduces to a version of the Keller–Segel model. Solutions that blow up in finite time have been previously established for the system on a ball in Rn provided n≥2, mu3e2/n. For technical reasons, the lower bound proven for the blow up time applies in such cases when n=3and m≤2. We extend the analysis and resulting lower bound to such a model in general convex domains, with n≥2 and any m

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My name is Alex Welker. I am a sophomore majoring in History at IPFW and presenting at this conference is the first honor of note I have received with any school relevance that was not made during an arts and crafts portion of the day. I really enjoy studying history, especially war and battlefield strategies, and I hope to present several more papers at future conferences

Carmen Hamilton is a junior at IPFW, where she majors in history and minors in psychology. She is a recipient of the Auer and Laverne Noyes scholarships and is a student-employee at the university library

I am Nathan Garstka, a senior History major at IPFW with a minor in political science. I’ve spent four years at IPFW and plan to graduate in 2016. The area of history I am most interested in is the late Roman Republic and Early Empire. Before college I went to Woodlan Jr./Sr. High School in Woodburn Indiana. At Woodlan I was in the marching band for 6 years, starting in 7th grade. We went to state finals for class D three times out of the four years I was actually in High School. After graduating college I hope to get a decent job that will allow me to travel sporadically

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The present research examined whether social anxiety moderates the potential relationship between conversation medium and interpersonal connectedness. Hypotheses predicted that individuals with high social anxiety would demonstrate greater interpersonal connectedness following instant messaging conversations; whereas, individuals with low social anxiety would report greater interpersonal connectedness following face-to-face and phone conversations. Undergraduate participants (N = 165) were randomly assigned to one of three conversation mediums (face-to-face, phone or instant messaging) during which they engaged in an interaction with an unfamiliar partner. Participants completed a measure of social anxiety before the interaction and measures of interpersonal connectedness prior to and following the interaction. Results revealed that level of social anxiety is a significant contingent condition for the association between type of conversation medium and attitude homophily (i.e., a measure of interpersonal connectedness). For individuals with low social anxiety, scores on the attitude homophily measure were significantly lower in the instant messaging condition, compared to the face-to-face and phone conditions

Successfully preparing prospective and practicing teachers to blog as a means of professional development requires more than simply introducing popular blogging platforms, teaching technical moves and assigning an arbitrary number of blog posts. To assist teacher educators who aim to engage teachers in sustained blogging to advance their professional growth, the author presents instructional methods drawn from scholarship on effective writing instruction, including the following: examining mentor texts in the form of teacher-generated blog posts; exploring writing territories (i.e., the topics, genres and audiences for whom a teacher could write); and pursuing specific purposes for writing to generate a number of focused blog posts from a single general topic of professional interest

Nonverbal immediacy behaviors are underresearched in the online teaching environment. Using social presence theory as a guiding framework, this study explores several online nonverbal immediacybehaviors: emoticons/figurative language, color, cohesion, visual imagery, and audio in course design; response latency, length, time of day, and message frequency in forums; and type and promptness of feedback via grading and email. Coding of 51 online courses found that more consistent use of nonverbal immediacy behaviors was related to students’ reports of higher course engagement. However, the nonverbal behaviors most associated with engagement were the ones not used as often. Findings indicate instructors can improve the effectiveness of online learning environments via nonverbal immediacy behaviors

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Historians long viewed the 8th century Battle of Tours as a defining event in the history of Europe, and interpretation of the meaning of this battle, both at the time it was fought and well after, has been fraught with controversy. My poster illustrates the beliefs held for centuries by many Westerners of the two dichotomous groups who fought this battle. They characterized the Muslims as expansionist and malevolent and trying to gain more territory and plunder. On the other side of the conflict, historians have viewed the medieval Christians as isolationist and respectable. These beliefs embody dogmas that are still evident among some groups even today. However, this poster suggests that even though these beliefs were upheld by scholars and in popular opinion for many centuries, these ideas are most likely false. While this particular battle happened over a millennium ago, the way it was portrayed in Christian chronicles and later Western histories as a radical encroachment of Islam on Christianity has led to the widespread idea that Western Civilization would have been completely altered if the Muslim forces would have been able to breach the European might. The majority of medieval European Christians believed that Islam was certainly capable of becoming the dominant religion in Europe if this critical battle was lost. Where cathedrals and churches dotted the landscape, medieval Christians feared that mosques and minarets would take their place if the Muslims would have been able to complete their conquest. For centuries, European historians and Western observers more broadly considered the Battle of Tours to be the climax of defeating Islamic invasion into the “civilized” West. The poster provides the background, location, and contenders of the battle, but also insists that this conflict may not have been as decisive as earlier writers have assumed. Primary sources from an anonymous Arab chronicler from 732, and two Christian writers, Isidore of Beja and St. Denis reveal perspectives from both sides of the conflict, and images from medieval European artists display a Christian bias. Ideas from secondary sources describing the battle from various angles are synthesized, and the modern relevance of this battle is challenged. This poster provides the viewer a clearer image of what happened at the Battle of Tours, and also what might have happened if Charles “The Hammer” Martel lost.http://opus.ipfw.edu/stu_symp2017/1023/thumbnail.jp

Creative project abstract: I am presenting a creative project of a short animation movie using the technique of Claymation based on the work of Tim Burton. The main purpose of this creative project proposal is to understand animating technique of Tim Burton, and how he set modeled the characters and scenarios to create cinematic storytelling. The goals of my project are: 1. Develop a character based on Jack Skellington from The Nightmare Before Christmas to implement the technique he used to animate his puppets. 2. Study and apply the illumination technique used in his movies 3. Study and apply Tim Burton’s visual affects 4. Understand and apply how he used the camera to capture the Claymation animated scenes. The conclusion of this creative project will have a great impact in my future professional work as an animator, and how to become a successful developer of characters in the gaming industry. This will help me in my further career is because developing characters and scenery will allow to further my knowledge with character development. Character development is a crucial part to video game designhttp://opus.ipfw.edu/stu_symp2017/1034/thumbnail.jp

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