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- Title
- “You Good, Bruh?” An Exploration of the Influence of Race and Masculinity on Millennial Black Men’s Decisions to Seek Mental Health Treatment
- Author
- Cofield, Demetrius
- Date Created
- 2022
- Subjects--Topical
- Mental health, Ethnicity--Study and teaching, African Americans--Study and teaching
- Description
- In recent years there has been a significant increase in the prevalence of mental illness among millennials. However, there is still a significantly lower rate of Black millennials, specifically Black men, utilizing mental health services compared...
- Title
- “Why so serious?” : antisocial trolling behavior and its relationship with everyday psychopathy and sadism
- Author
- Siegel, AJ, Peach, Hannah D.
- Date Created
- 2023
- Subjects--Topical
- Online trolling, Antisocial personality disorders
- Description
- Trolling is an antisocial form of online communication in which users, known as trolls, initiate negative and taunting interactions to disrupt digital communication. While trolling is a common online practice ranging from innocent to potentially d...
- Title
- “To Push or Not to Push?”; Exploring Lived Experiences of Former Women Track and Field Student-athletes Who Trained and Competed Through Pain and Injury.
- Author
- Erega, Arna
- Date Created
- 2021
- Subjects--Topical
- Mental health
- Description
- Athletes are aware that with involvement in the sport they are exposed to the risk of getting injured. Suffering an injury can be one of the most stressful experiences in a student-athlete’s athletic career and can cause a series of psychological,...
- Title
- “THEIR LIVES ARE SO MUCH BIGGER OUTSIDE OF MY LITTLE CLASSROOM:” ENGLISH LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT TEACHERS’ EXPERIENCES WITH MULTILINGUAL STUDENT ADVOCACY DURING MANDATED SCHOOL CLOSURES
- Author
- Pazzula Jimenez, Michelle
- Date Created
- 2023
- Subjects--Topical
- Education, English language--Study and teaching--Foreign speakers
- Description
- The effects of the COVID-19 pandemic changed the way education transpired for teachers and learners worldwide. Widespread virtual learning brought deeper academic and social inequities among K-12 diverse learners to light. Multilingual learners an...
- Title
- “Sixth grade is too late”: A case study of diversity education for elementary grades
- Author
- Norwood, Jessica
- Date Created
- 2020
- Subjects--Topical
- Multicultural education, Education, Elementary
- Description
- Recent high-profile events and rhetoric surrounding White supremacist ideology in conjunction with recent data about White Americans’ understanding of structural racism has illustrated the problematic nature of White Americans’ conceptions of race...
- Title
- “Seeing it in Action is More Beneficial Than Learning About it in School”: A Multi-Case of Clinical Experiences and Culturally Responsive Literacy Instruction
- Author
- Schmidt, Leslie
- Date Created
- 2021
- Subjects--Topical
- Education, Elementary
- Description
- This multiple case study explored the characteristics of clinical experiences that support preservice teachers' understandings of culturally responsive literacy in elementary classrooms. In particular, this study focused on capturing the voices an...
- Title
- “Re-membering” History to Counter Miseducation: Explorations of Curriculum Development and Culturally Responsive Pedagogy in Urban Education
- Author
- Teasdell, Annette
- Date Created
- 2021
- Subjects--Topical
- Education
- Description
- ABSTRACTANNETTE TEASDELL. "Re-membering" History to Counter Miseducation: Explorations of Curriculum Development and Culturally Responsive Pedagogy in Urban Education. (Under the direction of DR. GREG WIGGAN) Excellence in education is based on a ...
- Title
- “Protoplasm feels": the role of physiology in Charles Sanders Peirce's evolutionary metaphysics
- Author
- Pearce, Trevor
- Subjects--Topical
- Philosophy, Metaphysics
- Description
- This essay is an attempt to explain why Charles Sanders Peirce’s evolutionary metaphysics would not have seemed strange to its original 1890s audience. Building on the pioneering work of Andrew Reynolds, I will excavate the scientific context of P...
- Title
- “Making peace” with bodies and sexual selves : changes during COVID-19 among adults in the United States
- Author
- Bowling, Jessamyn, Basinger, Erin, Montanaro, Erika
- Subjects--Topical
- COVID-19 (Disease), Body image
- Description
- The COVID-19 pandemic has negatively impacted the physical and mental health of many and has necessitated widespread societal shifts, including changes to work and family activities. These changes have impacted individuals’ identity, including the...
- Title
- “MY BABY COULD LIVE THE BEST LIFE”: FAMILY PERSPECTIVES ON SERVICES FOLLOWING A PRENATAL DIAGNOSIS OF DOWN SYNDROME
- Author
- Martin, Zachary
- Date Created
- 2018
- Subjects--Topical
- Special education, Education, Early childhood education
- Description
- Screenings and diagnostic tests provide individuals the opportunity to receive a prenatal diagnosis of Down syndrome as early as the first trimester of pregnancy. Post-diagnosis, families are presented with opportunities for services and supports ...
- Title
- “Just because I have a medical degree does not mean I have the answers” : using CBPR to enhance patient‐centered care within a primary care setting
- Author
- Siegal, Rachel, Case, Andrew, Nance, Andrew, Johnson, Atalaya
- Date Created
- 2023
- Subjects--Topical
- Medical care, Patient-centered health care
- Description
- Patient-centered care (PCC) is a health care delivery model that is considered a means to reduce inequities in the healthcare system, specifically through its prioritization of patient voice and preference in treatment planning. Yet, there are doc...
- Title
- “It sometimes heals, but it sometimes hurts”; Exploring the issues facing first-generation and immigrant staff caring for immigrant youth in an after-school program
- Author
- Cronin, Claire
- Date Created
- 2021
- Subjects--Topical
- Multicultural education, Counseling psychology, Early childhood education
- Description
- Coming from countries across the world, immigrants have chosen to start a new life in the United States, and become part of the fabric that makes up American society. Today, immigrant children face a unique set of challenges and hardships includin...
- Title
- “It just feels right” : perceptions of the effects of community connectedness among trans individuals
- Author
- Bowling, Jessamyn, Barker, Jordan, Lace, Tatim, Gunn, Laura
- Subjects--Topical
- Transgender people, Mental health
- Description
- Trans individuals (e.g. trans men and women, non-binary, gender fluid) are at higher risk for mental health concerns, in part due to marginalization. Previous work has documented the effects of social support and community engagement on health out...
- Title
- “In the contradiction lies the hope”: White student affairs administrators’ understanding of whiteness
- Author
- Forester, Rachael
- Date Created
- 2020
- Subjects--Topical
- Education, Higher
- Description
- Among white people, there is a pervasive mentality that color-evasiveness (Bonilla-Silva, 2003) is an ideal approach to racial equity, meaning many white student affairs professionals may equate refusing to see race as synonymous with being anti-r...
- Title
- “Afraid to Breathe”: Understanding North Carolina’s Experience of the 1918-1919 Influenza Pandemic at the State, Local, and Individual Levels
- Author
- Austin, Lauren
- Date Created
- 2018
- Subjects--Topical
- History, Public health, Government policy
- Description
- This dissertation is the first comprehensive, detailed study of a single state’s experience of the 1918-1919 influenza pandemic at state, local and county, and individual levels. Its two articles provide quantitative analyses of a unique new state...
- Title
- “16 Weeks is a Lot of Time to be Away”: A Contemporary Examination of Maternity Leave Perceptions and Experiences
- Author
- Chandler , Allison
- Date Created
- 2021
- Subjects--Topical
- Communication, Sociology, Management
- Description
- In recent decades, women’s presence in the workplace has increased from only a quarter of total American workers, to nearly half of all American workers (U.S. Department of Labor, 2020). With an increasing number of women in the labor force, organ...
- Title
- study of optoelectronic properties of thin film solar cell materials Cu2ZnSn(S,Se)4 using multiple correlative spatially-resolved spectroscopy techniques
- Author
- Chen, Qiong
- Date Created
- 2015
- Subjects--Topical
- Electrical engineering
- Description
- Containing only earth abundant and environmental friendly elements, quaternary compounds Cu2ZnSnS4 (CZTS) and Cu2ZnSnSe4 (CZTSe) are considered as promising absorber materials for thin film solar cells. The best record efficiency for this type of ...
- Title
- Zika virus : medical countermeasure development challenges
- Author
- Janies, Daniel, Damodaran, Lambodhar, Schneider, Adriano
- Date Created
- 2016
- Subjects--Topical
- Communicable diseases, Zika virus
- Description
- Introduction Reports of high rates of primary microcephaly and Guillain-Barre syndrome associated with Zika virus infection in French Polynesia and Brazil have raised concerns that the virus circulating in these regions is a rapidly developing neu...
- Title
- Z-DNA binding protein 1 mediates necroptotic and apoptotic cell death pathways in murine astrocytes following herpes simplex virus-1 infection
- Author
- Marriott, Ian, Jeffries, Austin M., Suptela, Alexander J.
- Date Created
- 2022
- Subjects--Topical
- Herpes simplex virus, DNA
- Description
- The mechanisms by which glia respond to viral central nervous system (CNS) pathogens are now becoming apparent with the demonstration that microglia and astrocytes express an array of pattern recognition receptors that include intracellular RNA an...
- Title
- Your phrases matter : third waves in research approaches and new contexts for formulaic language
- Author
- Davis, Boyd H., Troutman-Jordan, Meredith, Maclagan, Margaret
- Date Created
- 2023
- Subjects--Topical
- Psycholinguistics, Dementia
- Description
- This study reports on new contexts in which formulaic language has been used in the years since 2013 when the last synthesis was carried out. The background presents an old but still useful definition and lists themes under which research was arra...