The importance of project management in education has become increasingly evident in our evolving technology-ridden lives. Educators are required to manage complex projects involving multiple stakeholders, resources, and...
Angela Letourneau, professor/chair of Accounting, Finance and Economics, has been selected the S.C. Professor of the Year. Letourneau plans to retire at the end of the academic year.
Gifted Black and Brown students are not voiceless; their voices are suffocated under the knee of systemic racism and white supremacy. This chapter proposes that the field of gifted education advocates for needed structural and...
Low quality healthcare services can hinder economic and social development, result in premature death and disability, and waste human capital. To compound pre-pandemic healthcare access and equity issues, the quality of care...
When educators have difficulty accessing peer-reviewed research, it is inequitable to expect them to compete with educators who have access to a plethora of resources. Inequities have been a historically-identified educational...
Angela Letourneau, accounting, finance and economics, is the 2006 Distinguished Professor of the Year. Barbarba Blackburn, curriculum and instruction, is the Outstanding Junior Professor.
This chapter describes professional learning communities, an educator practice, brought to K-20 classrooms as a pivotal practice for talented youth as student learning communities (SLCs). Several research-based models are used...
Teaching advocacy and activism is a pivotal practice for talented youth. Advocacy is broadly defined as championing a cause, from self-advocacy and community/local issues to sociopolitical and global awareness contexts. Activism...
The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill is moving rapidly toward integrating data literacy and data science in the undergraduate curriculum. This study interviewed instructors across the social sciences to identify ways...
HIV-1 actively replicates in dendritic cell (DC)-T cell cocultures, but it has been difficult to demonstrate substantial refection of purified mature DCs. We now find that HIV-1 begins reverse transcription much more efficiently...
The aim of this chapter is to respond to the emerging scholarship regarding first-time leaders and their situational and potential lifelong learning environment. While transformational leadership may be the long-term goal, this...
Consider random sequential adsorption on a red/blue chequerboard lattice with arrivals at rate 1 on the red squares and rate λ on the blue squares. We prove that the critical value of λ, above which we get an infinite blue...
BACKGROUND: While developmental processes such as axon pathfinding and synapse formation have been characterized in detail, comparatively less is known of the intrinsic developmental mechanisms that regulate transcription of ion...
Selections from the Reverend Charles Rice memorial book presented to the Rice family. Included are reflections from the following Ursinus College alumni, students, staff and faculty chosen by Tonya Rice: Christian Rice...
Letters: Appeal for Artists; Use Common Sense in Regard to Smoke Alarms; Abortion Issue Spawns Another Challenge Weeding Out the Weak at Musser After a Prosperous Decade as President, Richter Reflects on his Life at Ursinus ...
This article describes how continuous GIS-MCDM problems are commonly managed by combining some weighting method based on pairwise comparisons of criteria with an aggregation method. The reliability of this approach may be...
AIMS: To investigate the impact of unit and calorie information on drinking behaviour in an ad libitum taste test paradigm. METHODS: In this experimental human laboratory study, participants were randomized to one of four...
Consider random sequential adsorption on a red/blue chequerboard lattice with arrivals at rate 1 on the red squares and rate λ on the blue squares. We prove that the critical value of λ, above which we get an infinite blue...
Mad Studies and survivor research are emerging fields of enquiry whose goals and boundaries are continually being shaped. This paper aims to explore intersections between the two fields and argues that fostering a stronger...
BACKGROUND: Human noroviruses (HuNoVs) are a prominent cause of gastroenteritis, yet fundamental questions remain regarding epidemiology, diversity, and immunity in sub-Saharan African children. We investigated HuNoV...