ARCADIA UNIVERSITY CAPSTONE REPORT 2008

Table of Contents
Undergraduate Capstone Activities Biology and Psychobiology Business Administration and Economics Chemistry and Physics Communications Computer Science and Computing Technology Mathematics Education English Fine Arts Health Administration History International Studies Liberal Studies Modern Languages Philosophy Political Science Psychology Sociology, Anthropology, and Criminal Justice Theatre Arts Graduate Capstone Activities Business Administration Counseling Psychology Special Education Education English Forensic Science Genetic Counseling Public Health and Health Education Humanities International Peace and Conict Resolution Physical Therapy Medical Science Students Honors Convocation Address by Jared Collett 08 History of Capstone Project at Arcadia University Faculty Proles

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Message from the President

I am very pleased to introduce this volume commemorating our Senior Capstone Projects. We take great pride in celebrating the accomplishments of our graduating students as they present their culminating work to the University community. The importance of the Capstone Project is demonstrated by its place as a requirement of all graduating students. At many universities the completion of this type of project is voluntary or limited to select programs. Even before the Arcadia Promise of a distinctively global, integrative and personal learning experience was formalized, the Capstone Projects provided our students the opportunity to go beyond the classroom, laboratory or studio space to explore their discipline under the mentorship of dedicated faculty members. The magnitude of the level of the accomplishments by our graduates is highlighted as many of our students take the opportunity to present their work beyond the physical connes of campus in local and national art exhibits, presentations at professional conferences, and formal published papers. I would like to recognize and congratulate each and every one of our graduates in the celebration of the successful completion of their Capstone Projects.

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From the Oce of Research, Creative, and Scholarly Activities

The requirement for all of our undergraduate and graduate students to complete a Senior Capstone Project is a fairly recent tradition on campus. While some programs such as Fine Arts have a long history of providing opportunities for their students to present their accomplishments in a formal setting, the University-wide requirement was implemented within the past 20 years. Still, as traditions go, this one has become entwined in the fabric of the Arcadia experience along side the less academic pursuits of Mr. Beaver and Spring Fling. This rite of passage involves more than the graduating students and faculty mentors. In many programs underclassmen become involved in the process. For example, students in general psychology interview seniors about their research experience; juniors in the Fine Arts programs clear and paint the galleries in Spruance and Murphy in preparation for the Senior Thesis Art Exhibit. Whether the work is showcased in the form of oral talks, poster presentations, or creative exhibits, the audience is comprised of fellow students, faculty and sta. Of even more importance is the fact that these events are open to the public and are well attended by friends and family members. If you were to ask a recent graduate about the memories of their last semester as a student, you are likely to hear of the capstone experience. The journey begins for the student lled with anticipation and uncertainty, continues through a process of hard work and long hours, and culminates in an overwhelming sense of accomplishment. We are proud that the Capstone Experience provides students with the opportunity to integrate the knowledge and skills developed through their coursework in the completion of their projects.

John R. Homan, Ph.D.

Dean of Graduate Studies

Undergraduate Presentations
Biology & Psychobiology
The Capstone Project in Biology and Psychobiology involves the completion of a faculty-supervised laboratory, eld or library project investigating a topic in Biology or Psychobiology. This involves a written thesis and a formal presentation of a thesis poster. Auger, Elizabeth. (2008). Using Progressive Rod-Cone Disorder (PRCD) as a Canine Model for Retinitis Pigmentosa. (Biology) Boardmen, Michele F. (2008). Neuronal Dierentiation of PC12 Cells Induced by Nerve Growth Factor. (Biology) Chowns, Jessica. (2008). Interference with Functioning of TRPV1 Impairs the Sensation of Pain. (Biology) Crouse, Justin. (2008). Comparative Study on Eects of Conservation of American Wildlife with a Concentration on the Whitetail Deer. (Psychobiology) Curreri, John. (2008). Weather and Activity Levels of Cheetahs at the Philadelphia Zoo. (Biology) Demianczyk, Derek. (2008). Role of the DNA Insulator Protein, CTCF, in Apoptosis and Abdominal Segmentation in Drosophila melanogaster. (Biology) Eberling, Charles. (2008). Brain-Derived Neurotrophic Factor (BDNF) and Its Links to Schizophrenia. (Biology) Eibin, Abigail J. (2008). Is Kin Selection the Driving Factor of Altruism in a Pair of Captive Goeldis Monkeys (Callimoco goeldii) at the Philadelphia Zoo? (Psychobiology) Emes, Bethany J.-J. (2008). Using Physical Anthropology in Determining the Identity of Unknown Skeletal Remains. (Biology) Engle, Kelly M. (2008). Assessment of Bioko Island (Equatorial Guinea, Central Africa) Forest Patrol Census. (Psychobiology) Evans, Kathleen M. (2008). Bioko Island Field Census Analysis on the Blue Duiker, Cephalophus monticola, and Ogilbys Duiker, Cephalophus ogilbyi. (Psychobiology) Frederick, Kelly L. (2008). Development of an Ischemic and Hemorrhagic Brain Injury in the Neonatal Rat. (Biology) Geoghan, Alaina. (2008). Verication of Putative CTCF Binding Sites Within the Genome of Drosophila melanogaster. (Biology)

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Gulkis, Lauren. (2008). Improving Genetically Engineered Microorganisms (GEMs) for Bioremediation of Naphthalenepolluted Environments. (Biology) Hunsinger, Bridget. (2008). Increased Intramuscular Fat in Aging Population Linked with Increased Presence of Cytokines in Skeletal Muscle. (Biology) Jackson, Krystle C. (2008). Targeting Mutant P53 to Reactivate Its Tumor Suppressor Functions through Molecular Therapy. (Biology) KC, Santosh. (2008). Cardioprotective Eects of Erythropoietin after Myocardial Infraction. (Biology) Keegan, Julie A. (2008). The Role of Cortical Spreading Depression on Migraine Parthogenesis. (Biology) Kellett, Emily M. (2008). Ancient DNA: Sources, Methods of Study, Information Obtained, Problems Experienced, and Details Oered on Progression of Infectious Diseases Throughout History. (Biology) Kosza, Andrea L. (2008). Genetic Abnormalities that Alter Mitochondrial Function and Interrupt Calcium Signaling Pathways in Bipolar Disorder. (Biology) Lenker, Hallie. (2008). The Eects of Physical Activity on Cognitive Processing. (Psychobiology) Lipsi, Emilie R. (2008). Neuronal Dierentiation of PC12 Cells Induced by Nerve Growth Factor. (Biology) Lockard, Danielle M. (2008). The Role of 1-Antitrypsin in the Parthogenesis and Treatment of Emphysema. (Biology) McCaw, Caitlin. (2008). Pollutants Compromising the Endocrine System May Aect the Ability of Polar Bears to React to External Stresses. (Biology) Mortimer, Stephanie M. (2008). Neuropathology and Genetic Components of Alzheimers Disease. (Biology) Moxham, Kathryn S. (2008). Temperature-Dependent Sex Determination in Turtles. (Biology) Mullennex, Jacqueline D. (2008). The Role of Cytokines in Psoriasis. (Biology) Pan, Tina. (2008). Detecting the Dendroclimatological Potential (Ability to Provide Weather Data) In Trees Native to Southeastern Pennsylvania Forests. (Biology)

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Patel, Dipen. (2008). The Eects of Prey Depletion on Decreasing Populations of Royal Bengal Tigers. (Biology) Patel, Swapnil. (2008). Mycobacterium tuberculosis Latency Antigens Are Crucial for the Development of a Vaccine Against the Reactivation of Tuberculosis. (Biology) Pessolano, Ashley. (2008). Novel Immunomodulatory Treatments for the Prevention of Organ Rejection. (Biology) Plunkett, Andrew. (2008). Fluridone as a Safe, Eective Alternative to Using the Herbivorous Weevil for Controlling the Invasive Aquatic Species Eurasian milfoil. (Psychobiology) Scheinfeld, Benjamin A. (2008). The Examination of Neurons Overdosed with IFN to Determine Apoptotic Activation. (Biology) Shallcross, Kim A. (2008). The Eects of Food Preference of Optical Foraging in Sprague Dawley Rats. (Psychobiology) Sims, Tiany Lynn. (2008). Skin-To-Skin Contact Stimulates Healthy Growth and Development in Premature Infants. (Biology) Snow, Christine. (2008). Hereditary Mutations in the BRCA1 and BRCA2 Genes are Associated with Increased Incidence of Breast and Ovarian Cancers. (Biology) Spoganetz, Michael. (2008). Construction of a Microsatellite DNA Library for Bioko Primates: An Aid in Genetic Conservation Eorts. (Biology) Staley, Marie. (2008). Verication of Putative CTCF Binding Sites Within the Genome of Drosophila melanogaster. (Biology) Strittmatter, Andrew P. (2008). Relationships Between Pectoralis Minor Muscle Length, Overuse, Shoulder Dominance, and Subacromial Impingement Syndrome in Overhead Athletes. (Biology) Tansey, Eileen P. (2008). Forensic Entomology: Various Arthropods and Their Eect on Decomposition. (Biology) Thomas, Raymond. (2008). The Use of Interleukin-12-Based Therapy as a Foundation for the Replacement of Conventional Cancerous Tumor Treatments. (Biology) Todorow, Lisa. (2008). Current Treatment Options for Phenylketonuria: Large Neutral Amino Acid Supplementation. (Biology)

Torpey, Alicia Rae. (2008). The Signicance of p53 in the Treatment of Human Cancers. (Biology) Twers, Stephanie. (2008). The Genetic Variation of the Catechol-O-Methyltransferase Gene in Relation to Schizophrenia. (Biology) Vorobyeva, Anna G. (2008). Modied Kinetics of STAT1 Activation in IFN -Treated CNS Neurons Suggests an Alteration in the Negative Feedback Mechanism. (Biology) Wallace, Dustin. (2008). Ancient Ancestors: Mitochondria and the Cell. (Biology) White, Meaghan. (2008). The Eects of Resistance Training on Sarcopenia in Older Adults. (Biology) Zacharias, Sarah E. (2008). Causes and Eects of Leptin Resistance on Human Obesity. (Biology)

Business Administration and Economics

The Capstone Experience in Business Administration and Economics seniors provides students with the opportunity to apply analytical skills to operate a business via a computer simulation. As a member of a team they run their rm by setting forth organizational strategy and making operational decisions. They make marketing, operations, nancial, and human resource decisions. Each set of decisions represents a quarter of a year of operations and during the semester we simulate running the rm for three or four years (i.e., 12 to 16 decisions sets). At the end of their rst year of running the rm each team prepares a business plan. The plan describes the rst year of operations, analyzes the industry, and sets forth what the rm plans to accomplish in the next two years of operations. The students present the business plan to a panel of academic and business executives. At the end of the second year of running the rm each team prepares a public annual report and a management report that discusses what they set out to accomplish, what happened, their analysis of what happened, and what they plan to accomplish in the next two years. After the third or fourth year of operations each rm prepares a poster of their enterprise that is used for public display.

Bella, Andrew; Dylag, Heather; Gerhart, Lindsay; Rutkowski, Christina; Verdecchio, Rebecca. (2008). Firm A1: SES Feliciano, Damaris; Kelly, Jessica; Tarasova, Svetlana; Taylor, Stephanie; Watson, Jennifer. (2008). Firm A2: Micro-Tech, Inc.

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Giddy, Casey; Marciante, Peter; Settefrati, Annalise; Smith, Eric. (2008). Firm A3: Pace Technologies Andrews, Kristina, Lee, Jennifer; Marzarella, Kristin; Patel, Careena. (2008). Firm A4: PALM Incorporated. Beiter, Eric; Murphy, ChaNel; Ogunti, Michael, Zavala, Manuel. (2008). Firm A5: BMOZ Brandenburger, Lorraine; Dietz, Garrett; Guidotti, Nicholas; Spangenberg, Kenneth. (2008). Firm A6: Initech, Inc. Edjo, Anphisa; Ferguson, Baron; McNulty, Michael; Ramsden, Michael. (2008). Firm A7: BAMM Corp. Casino, Dan; Gary, Anna; Newsom, Stuart; Peters, Brendan. (2008). Firm A8: Axio, Inc. Franko, Jacqueline; Hess, Sarah; Provalna, Katryena; Shaner, Holly. (2008). Firm SD: Tone Inc. Bush, Eileen; Cann, Alexandra; Chobert, Steve; Leone, Michelle; Rashid, Erum. (2008). Firm B1: JustBeOne. Celentano, Amanda; Elliott, Eric; Kelly, Christopher; McCaig, Sean; Smith, Tim. (2008). Firm B2: Ib2een. Fang, Qin; Handlon, James; McCullough, Katie; Mosetter, Stephanie. (2008). Firm B3: SCP. Ghimire, Bindu; Matias, Rafael; Raynor, Anne Marie; Zuckowski, Jaclyn. (2008). Firm B4: Smart, Inc. Cataline, Patrick; Gaines, Beverly; McGowan, Erin; Titkaite, Agne. (2008). Firm B5: P & L Incorporated. Bross, Steve; Damato, Corissa; Dawes, April; Weiss, Laura. (2008). Firm B6: Widgets, Inc.

Carp, Evan. (2008). Bioinorganic Anticancer Medications: Present to Future. Forst, Eric. (2008). Can Water Clusters Help Solve the Hydrogen Storage Problem?

Communications
In the Capstone Experience in communications, all students complete four dierent categories of exercises on a common theme; an investigative report, a position paper, a research project and a creative project. In the completion of these projects, the students work systematically to hone their writing skills, their analytical abilities and their creative potential. In their creative projects, which are presented to the campus community, the students express personal choices about topics, issues and questions. The students explore issues of personal concern but prepare a professional creative project that extends well beyond the boundaries of the personal. The culminating work is presented as a portfolio that demonstrates the students abilities to handle issues and problems in the workplace.

Adams, Maryah. (2008). The Visible Eects of an Invisible Genre. Barnes, Brittany. (2008). Judith Butlers Theory of Gender Performativity. Borger, Jennie. (2008). Here they arethe Beatles! Bowles, Jaymie. (2008). Racial Stereotypes of African Americans in Advertisements and Commercials. Brown, Kevin. (2008). Dangers of Facebook. Brown, Kristen. (2008). Grrrl Zines: Growling Back at Mainstream Culture. Burke, Sean. (2008). Masculinities in Western Film. Celebre, Katie. (2008). Representation of Drugs in Popular Cinema. Chrest, Amy. (2008). Mothers in Hitchcock. Clark, Aaron. (2008). Measuring the Eects of Media on Teens and how it Shapes their Sexuality.

Chemistry and Physics

The Capstone Experience in Chemistry involves the oral presentation of a library research project and the completion of a laboratory investigation. The results of their work are delivered in both a written paper and a poster presentation. McCandless, Michelle. (2008). Characterization of the Classical and Quantum Random Walks of the HCL Pentamer. Carpenter, Bridget. (2008). Novel Nucleoside Complexes with Copper (II) Perchlorate.

Cruz, Aureole. (2008). The Writers Club: Grati and Mural Art.

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Demming, Britt. (2008). New Media, New Culture. Dunaief, Catherine. (2008). Political Opinion. Fones, Tyson. (2008). Representations of Sex and Violence in Horror Films. Foti, Kaitlyn. (2008). Is Newspaper a Dying Medium? Frana, Tara. (2008). Princess Dianas Media Involved Life and Death. Geary, Angela. (2008). Sex in the Daytime: A Look at Sex in Soap Operas and the Eects on the Adolescent Audience. Gray, Renneth. (2008). Understanding Hip Hop Then and Now. Hoch, Annamae. (2008). Religion and the Media: A love-hate relationship. Homan, Ben. (2008). The Societal Eects of Reality TV. Lee, James. (2008). Female Representation in Horror Cinema. Long, Devin. (2008). Alcohol Advertising and Eects on Youth. Maycott, Melissa. (2008). War Journalism: A Questionable Profession. Mederer, Elizabeth. (2008). War and Death Photography: A Literary Review. Musselman, James. (2008). Press and Power Relationships: A Closer Look into Herman and Chomskys Propaganda Model. Piunt, Michelle. (2008). Plastic Surgery and Media Normalization. Rambo, Dana. (2008). Ethics in Photojournalism. Servello, Kimberly. (2008). Reality Television. Smith, Collin. (2008). Cell Phones and You: An Analysis on the Eects of Teens. Thomas, Dawn. (2008). New Media in Christian Worship Services.

White, Michelle. (2008). Plugged-in and Click-Crazy: Students and the Role of New Media in Higher Education. Williams, Evan. (2008). Wikipedia Examined: Citations about the Un-citable Source.

Computer Science and Mathematics Computing Science and Computing Technology

The Capstone Experience for students in Computer Science and Computing Technology is based on a two-course sequence, usually taken in the senior year, in which the student learns how to carry a project from inception through specication, prototyping, renement and implementation. The rst course is largely didactic; in the second, students work in groups to complete a project for a non-college related client. The culmination of the capstone experience is the production of the documentation associated with the project (including manuals, code and examples of execution) and an oral presentation of the work. Alexander, Bryan; Faries, Bill; Mankus, Trevor. (2008). Alfredos Pizza: Website for Online Ordering. Wilson, Laurissa; McGrath, Ryan; MacDonald, James; Falch, Victor. (2008). The Infonect Group: Interactive Communications with Customers. Martin, Kate; Spencer, Michelle. (2008). Arcadia Universitys Enrollment Management: Recruitment Scheduling Database System. Barbor, Kevin; Ochonicki, Adam; Shah, Nikunj. (2008). FMC: Mobile Device Search System.

Mathematics
The Capstone Experience for students in Mathematics involves an independent research project associated with one out of three possible advanced courses in mathematics (MA 352 Dierential Equations, MA 330 Graph Theory, or MA 343 Mathematical Statistics II). Students work under the guidance of the mathematics faculty member teaching the selected course. The research project involves a bibliographic component as well as a mathematical reasoning one, usually based on published research papers. The students write a paper and an give an oral presentation of their work. Baez, A.; Burnette, C.; Powell, E. (2008). The Maximum Geodetic Number of a Graph.

White, Alia. (2008). Sexualizing the Other: Black Women in Film

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Barbor, K.; Clydesdale, L.; Sweeney, C. (2008). M-Step Competition Graphs. Champi, A.; Schrier, C. (2008). Credit Scores, Race, and Income. Evans, M. (2008). Insurance Capitol Structures: Stocks vs. Mutuals. Heim, K. (2008). Missing Data Techniques. Maurer, A. (2008). Single Case Studies.

Adams, Kaitlyn. (2008). Ecosystems: Study of ecosystems including standards, vocabulary, research and a nal projects. (Elementary Education) Bates, Stephanie. (2008). Critter Categories: Integrated Unit exploring the classication of animals. (EC/Elementary Education) Bonifer, Ashley. (2008). British National Curriculum: A Discussion of British National Curriculum based on teaching abroad in Canterbury, UK. (Elementary Education) Caiazzo, Kristen. (2008). The Diary of Anne Frank: A journal writing and letter writing unit featuring a character analysis of this Holocaust Remembrance play. (English) Campellone, Kristin. (2008). Civil War, Reconstruction, and the Basis of Economics: Ideas for reconstruction of the South and the ideas of wants vs. needs. (Social Studies) Clarke, Michelle. (2008). Reviewing Money: Review of concepts related to money using dierentiation of instruction, collaborative learning, and hands on activities. (Elementary Education) Console, Eric. (2008). Fractions: Hands on introductory lesson on fractions. (Elementary Education) DeAngelis, John. (2008). Slides, Flips, & Turns: Shape your Figures. Hands on geometry gures used to teach. (Elementary Education) Dudiak, Katheryne. (2008). Writing Portfolio: Sample of 6-9 week writing unit. (Elementary Education) Eife, Nicole. (2008). Types of Clouds: Cross Curriculum Unit: Science and Poetry. (Dual Major: Elementary Education and Early Childhood Education) Evans, Jennifer. (2008). Place Value: Hands on everyday math. (Dual Major: Elementary Education and Early Childhood Education) Fornwald, Laura. (2008). Probability Fair: 6th grade lessons on probability with interaction with kindergarten students. (Elementary Education) Freas, Jessica. (2008). Electricity: Integrated Unit about electric circuits. (Elementary Education) Frymire, Amy. (2008). Concrete Poems: Writing process and presentation of poetry. (Elementary Education)

Education
The culminating experience for all Education majors seeking instructional certication in Elementary Education, Early Childhood Education, Special Education, Secondary Education, and Art Education is a semester long 14 week intensive full-time teaching experience in a school district. In addition to the traditional 14-week experience, students are given an alternative option to do student teaching overseas. As an extension of the universitys globalization program, student teachers have the opportunity to complete half (seven weeks) of their student teaching practicum in either London or Canterbury. Student teachers are able to broaden their perspectives on education, experience a comparison between the National Curriculum and the Pennsylvania Standards, learn additional teaching strategies, and gain an understanding of professional teaching requirements in the United Kingdom. All students seeking certication in Elementary Education, Early Childhood Education, Secondary Education, Special Education, and Art Education are required to compile student teaching portfolios. The portfolios contain evidence of their work in the cooperating school, lessons taught, units designed in areas consistent with school district requirements and standards identied by the state of Pennsylvania. They contain the student teachers philosophy of education, summary of student teaching experience, instructional materials and lesson plans, descriptions and results from work on special projects, work created for their students, and various representations of student assessments. At a culminating reception, students present a piece of their work or a special project implemented at the school in which they taught. This project is a thoughtful representation (presented in poster session format) of an exemplary lesson or unit developed and taught by the student teacher which reects their philosophy of education. The students supervisor, cooperating teacher from the school district, and the director of student teaching all take part in the assessment of their work at the presentation.

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Granato, Katie. (2008). Writing a Narrative: 5th unit on the writing process. (Elementary Education) Granger, Lisa. (2008). The Land Around Us: Social Studies Unit incorporating neighborhood surroundings all the way to world concepts. (Dual Major: Elementary Education and Early Childhood Education) Henry, Michael. (2008). Science Exploration: Experimentation with water and mud. (Elementary Education) Hughes, Carol. (2008). How Things Measure Up: Unit including measurement, comparisons, and estimation. (Elementary Education) Humes, Kelly. (2008). Writing Across the Board: Various writings. (Elementary Education) Hunkins, Neil. (2008). Dierentiation of Instruction: 12th Grade Oedipus Project. (English) Johnsen, Andrew W. (2008). Early United States Government: Bringing 1800s election into modern times with posters, speeches, and skits. (Social Studies) Kozakowski, AnneMarie. (2008). Destination: Exploration. 6th grade culmination lesson: literature and seven continents. (Dual Major: Elementary Education and Early Childhood Education) Landt, Corinne. (2008). Curriculum Development in the UK: Comparison between US and UK Elementary Curricula. (Elementary Education) Lytle, Bethany. (2008). Connect with Africa: Seven sample lessons from a unit on Africa. (Elementary Education) Malkiewicz, Laura. (2008). Grab Your Passport: Integrated Unit introducing pre-k students to Australia. (Dual Major: Elementary Education and Early Childhood Education) McCauley, Meghan. (2008). Fractions Made Fun: Learning basic mathematics principles of fractions through play and interactions. (Elementary Education) McMullen, Shannon. (2008). Cowboys of the Wild West: Writing tall tales & commercials to integrate literacy and social studies. (Elementary Education) Papa, Lee. (2008). Plant Growth and Development: Exploration of basic parts of plants & the life cycle. (Elementary Education) Peak, Jennae. (2008). Reection and Symmetry: Everyday math program. (Elementary Education)

Petro, Alison. (2008). The Layers of the Rainforest: Student research and poster presentation about the rainforest. (Elementary Education) Pompei, Nicole. (2008). Math: Double Digit Addition: Development of games and hands on activities to practice/reinforce skills. (Elementary Education) Robb, Patricia. (2008). Name Poetry: The Nature of Fantastic Poetry. Anthology of name poetry, couplets, acrostics, & other types of poetry. (Dual Major: Early Childhood Education and Elementary Education) Roppoli, Jessica. (2008). The Colonists Unite: Development of posters and protests of the Stamp Act. (Elementary Education) Saavedra, Brenda. (2008). Dr. Seuss: 1st Grade Writing Lesson. Rhyme Recognition using Green Eggs and Ham. (Elementary Education) Salvadore, Nina. (2008). Chemical Tests: 3rd grade science exploration of various chemical properties. (Dual Major: Early Childhood Education and Elementary Education) Slivka, Kimberly. (2008). A Chair for my Mother: Integrated Literacy Unit for A Chair for my Mother. (Elementary Education) Sparks, Caitlin. (2008). The Water Cycle: 1st grade unit to understand the water cycle. (Elementary Education) Stamler, Jara. (2008). Lost in Space: Cross Curriculum Unit using book The Magic Bus. (Elementary Education) Venditto, Geraldine. (2008). World War I: Discovery learning and small group discussion. (Social Studies) Villanova, Jeanine. (2008). Dr. Seuss Toy Cleaner Machines: Students design machines through brainstorming, planning, and construction. (Elementary Education) Zelazny, Christina. (2008). Architecture: Study of various elements of architecture. (Art Education) Ziccardi, Lauren. (2008). Flat Stanley Unit: Writing Unit with cross curriculum math unit. (Elementary Education)

English
The Capstone Experience in English involves the completion of an essay of interpretation of a complex text of their choosing. In the past, students have chosen novels, collections of poetry,

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dramas, lyric poems, lms, or graphic novels. The interpretation is built through textual evidence, literary theory, library research, and/or personal experience. In addition to their written work, students give a formal public presentation of their work.

Schall, Dan. (2008). The Rime of the Ancient Mariner by Samuel Taylor Coleridge. Scoles, Anthony. (2008). The Old Man and the Sea by Ernest Hemingway. Trytek, Alyssa. (2008). Louise Erdich. Witte, Michelle. (2008). The Crying of Lot 49I. by Thomas Pynchon.

Brennan, Christine. (2008). The Oresteia by Aeschylus, translated by Ted Hughes. Bucknor, Donna. (2008). Network (lm). Caiazzo, Kristin. (2008). A Streetcar Named Desire by Tennessee Williams. Cerota, Brittany. (2008). The Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass by Frederick Douglass. Curtis, Bridget. (2008). Breakfast at Tianys by Truman Capote. Drake, Jenny. (2008). A work of ction. (Creative Writing) Gamon, Joel. (2008). A work of ction. (Creative writing) Hall, Eddie. (2008). Dracula by Bram Stoker. Harrigan, Vanais. The Liberated Bride by A. B. Yehoshua. Huggins, Melissa. (2008). Selected fairy tales, traditional and modern. Hunkins, Neil. (2008). Fight Club by Chuck Palahniuk. Leatherdale, Kathleen. (2008). Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West by Gregory McGuire. Medio, Kimberley. (2008). White Elephants and World Class Hotel by Reetika Vazirani. Menardi, Michelle. (2008). Sula by Tony Morrison. Mederer, Beth. (2008). On the Road by Jack Kerouac. Newsham, Michael. (2008). The Dark Tower series by Stephen King. Pannella, Dana. (2008). My Antonio and O Pioneers! by Willa Cather. Rotondo, Kristen. (2008). Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows by J. K. Rowlings. Saile, Amanda. (2008). The Harry Potter series by J. K. Rowlings.

Fine Arts
There are currently three components to the senior Capstone Experience in Fine Arts. First, all students are required to participate in a senior seminar course. This 2-credit class was designed to enrich the senior thesis experience by providing students with a forum to discuss the philosophy of art, what it means to be an artist, and how their individual skills might best be applied to the larger art community. Second, students engage in more specic research in the senior studio course. Oered in the fall semester, this 2-credit class gives students time to thoroughly investigate possible thesis topics while developing their research and writing skills. Ideally, students will complete the bulk of the work for their thesis papers in this class. Unlike the senior seminar, sections of the senior studio class are concentration-specic, coordinated by the appropriate faculty mentors. The third and last component of the senior ne art capstone is the 4-credit senior thesis. Generally taken during the spring semester, this class consists of supervised preparation of a culminating visual work (for studio artists) or an oral presentation (for art history students) in the students major studio or research areas. Because planning and mounting an exhibition of their work is an important part of the senior thesis class, studio students work is exhibited throughout the art department on thesis day. Art history students presentations are held during exam week.

Amelia, Tara. (2008). College Bites Cookbook. (Graphic Design) Anderson, Adam. (2008). Self Portrait. (Painting) Andraka, Britt. (2008). Study in Solitude. (Painting) Barniskis, Nancy. (2008). Nature and the Individual Photographer. (Photography) Belden, Chris. (2008). Philly is Bleeding! (Graphic Design)

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Craig, David. (2008). Testament: A Preview of a Graphic Novel. (Graphic Design) Crivelli-Kovach, Jessica. (2008). Figures. (Photography) DePalma, Stephanie. (2008). Trapping Mechanisms in Carnivorous Plants. (Scientic Illustration) Fitzgerald, Tim. (2008). A New Vision. (Photography)

Memories from Families with members with Alzheimers Disease. (Graphic Design) Schlauch, Angela. (2008). Niche Convergence in Marsupial and Placental Mammals. (Scientic Illustration) Scott, Chris. (2008). Accumulating Love and Accepting Fear: Spiritual Art Therapy. (printmaking/Pre-Art Therapy) Stong, Jerey. (2008). Vampires and Werewolves. (Illustration)

Gillam, Becca. (2008). Untitled. (Pre-Art Therapy) Greskiewicz, Matthew. (2008). The Art of Muscle: A look at Bodybuilding and the Aesthetic Ideal. (Drawing) Iraheta, Sarah. (2008). Pura Vida, Photographs in Costa Rica. (Photography) Jastrzembski, Jamie. (2008). Impetuous Self. (Photography) Johnson, Gregory. (2008). Theater Art: Poster Design for the 20082009 Arcadia Theater Season. (Graphic Design) Kim, Crystal. (2008). Momento Mori. (Photography) Kitzinger, Amy. (2008). Family Identity. (Painting) Marrone, Tony. (2008). Carte Couture: This Seasons Must-Have Handmade Cards. (Graphic Design) Moett, Jessica. (2008). Wind In Your Tails: Animal Rescue Promotional Materials. (Graphic Design) Murt, Stacey L. (2008). Designing with Sustainability: Pulped Papers. Pechalonis, Katie. (2008). The Little Guinea Pig in the Big World: A Childrens Book. (Graphic Design) Pelham, Melinda E.. (2008). O Baby: Pure, Gentle, Organic Baby Products. (Graphic Design) Polaski, Laura M.. (2008). Underthings and Bare-ings: Exposing Typefaces. (Graphic Design) Popelak, Katie. (2008). Stillness. (Painting) Rupp, Bettina. (2008). The Space Between Us. (Painting) Sandy, Ryan. (2008). The Paradox of War. (Painting) Sekerke, Amanda. (2008). Forget Me Not: A Collection of The Senior Capstone Seminar is a two-semester, two-course, eight credit project, that entails the writing of a substantial research project, typically 30-50 pages, on the model of a journal article from a historical periodical. Students choose their own research topics. Essays may either involve original research, using a combination of primary and secondary sources, or be a critical Arnold, Elizabeth; Downey, Heather; Leslie, Pamela; McCoy, Monifa. (2008). Sunshine Fitness Center (Fitness/Rehab center). Ellis, Kelly; Marcinek, Mike; McGough, Rose; Trower, Camela. (2008). Employee First, LLC (Overlap Wellness Program & Employee Assistance Services). Adams, Katelyn; Kraemer, Kat; DiGioacchino, John. (2008). Bella Visage (Cosmetic Surgery). Torrey, Kimberly. (2008). Pictorial to Modern: Seeing Deeper and Finding the Fantastic. (Photography) Weber, Katie. (2008). Fairy Tale Interpretation: Grimms The Frog Prince as a Personal and Psychological Journey. (Pre-Art Therapy)

Health Administration
The Capstone Project in Health Administration is designed to apply the information that the student has learned during their education in Health Administration to a real world opportunity to start a health care enterprise. The Health Administration Seniors present a business plan for a healthcare enterprise to a panel of current healthcare and other business executives. The presentations are the culmination of team projects worked on in the Health Administration course HA490.

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review of the literature on a topic of historiographical controversy and disagreement. Much attention is given to the process of writing and research and thus to the nature of historical explanation. Students rst learn how to choose a topic that is viable in terms of the availability of adequate sources. Students are then required to produce a detailed provisional outline, that includes (provisional) title, thesis, sections and subsections with their respective headings, and annotated bibliography. Students then present their progress reports in Power Point presentations in the latter part of the rst semester. These presentations are subjected to critical evaluation by both the Instructor and fellow seminar members. At the end of the rst semester, each student submits a detailed outline, with as much rst draft writing as possible. In the second semester, students discuss, in the rst part of the semester, various assigned readings, which have been chosen by the Instructor to illuminate ideas and solve problems that arose in the course of the rst semester. Then they begin presenting progress reports. A completed rst draft of the senior essay is due the Friday before spring break. Upon returning from spring break, students work on the improvements suggested by their Instructor and fellow seminar members. In the latter part of the semester, they make presentations in class as trial runs for their presentations in Senior Capstone Week. These presentations are subjected to critical discussion by both Instructor and fellow students. Upon completion of the oral presentation in Senior Capstone Week, students then complete the writing of the senior essay by the Monday of exam week.

Squire, Jonathan. (2008). The Rise and Fall of Willow Grove Park. Stern, William. (2008). The decline of Rome and the abandonment of Britain. Venditto, Gerri. (2008). The Battle of Little Big Horn: Native Americans and the Beginning of the End. Zurbach, Michaela. (2008). World War II on the Eastern Front: Stalingrad.

International Studies
The Capstone Experience in the International Studies major consists of a two-semester seminar culminating in a library research paper that is summarized in a poster presented during thesis day at the end of the spring semester. The main goal of these seminars is to help students synthesize the work they have done while studying abroad in the context of their course work on the Glenside campus. During the fall semester, students explore topics of interest through library and internet searches. Seminar meetings serve as a forum for sharing ideas with faculty and classmates. During the second semester, students write their nal paper based on the research they did in the fall. Once again, classmates and faculty members serve as critics and supporters of the students work. DeRentz, Ryan. (2008). Understanding the Veil: American Hypocrisy as Catalyst for Expatriation. Goetzke, Amy. (2008). The Necessity for UN Reform.

Campellone, Kristin. (2008). World War II in the Pacic: the sinking of the Indianapolis. Davis, Karstie. (2008). The failure of the Roanoke colony. Dominick, Anthony. (2008). World War II in the Pacic: the battle of Guadalcanal. Green, Sterling. (2008). Hank Aaron: A black man breaks the Babes record. Johnsen, Andrew. (2008). U.S. Cartoon propaganda in World War II. Nerney, Brian. (2008). The 1921 Irish-British Treaty. Podlesnik, Kim. (2008). The Detroit riots, 1967. Rooney, Caitlin. (2008). Female body image and the mass media. Schwarz, Zachary. (2008). FDR: The man behind the image.

Jamiolkowski, Kaitlin. (2008). The Orphans of Post-Soviet Russia. Smithmyer, Jinell. (2008). State-Sponsored Torture in the War on Terror. Thrash, Megan. (2008). The U.S. role in the Arab-Israeli Conict.

Liberal Studies
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work, a senior thesis, serves as a way for the student to share their visions as to what are the compelling issues and fundamental questions that confront humanity. While this is an individual endeavor, the student will engage with the rest of the class to share their thoughts, hone their insights, and prepare their thesis presentation. Objectives Engage with advanced material in the humanities and social sciences by the strategic utilization of scholarly sources and materials to synthesize connections between dierent disciplines and methods in the social sciences. Integrate each students own intellectual academic experience within Liberal Studies by confronting questions about the nature of humanity, and critically thinking about the current answers oered by scientists, scholars and artists. Develop a thesis project that allows the student to investigate the nature of humanity by exploring an intellectual issue of personal interest. Present the students senior thesis to the larger University community.

States, as related to questions of literature and culture. Students integrate the material learned through the undergraduate years culminating in a formal project.

Dwyer, Michelle. (2008). Los desaparecidos en Argentina y las Madres de Plaza de Mayo. (The Disappears in Argentina and the Mothers of Plaza de Mayo). (Spanish) Griem, Guillermo. (2008). Les dbuts des mouvements nationalistes en Algrie. (Beginnings of the nationalist movements in Algeria). (French). Huord, Daniel. (2008). El impacto del SIDA en el mundo y la comunidad hispana. (The impact of AIDS in the world and the Hispanic community). (Spanish) Mascall, Maci. (2008). Catalua: Historia de su nacionalismo. (Catalonia: History of its nationalism). (Spanish) Palagruto, Tammi. (2008). La educacin bilinge en los Estados Unidos. (Bilingual education in the United States). (Spanish) Young, Ryan. (2008). El inmigrante sin derechos humanos en los Estados Unidos. (The immigrant without human rights in the United States). (Spanish)

Frank, Lindsay. (2008). Gender Bias in Diagnosing Dyslexia. Lynch, Lauren Elizabeth. (2008). The Relationship Between Socioeconomic Status and Juvenile Delinquency. McGhee, Jen. (2008). The Necessity of the Living Wage. Smith, Amanda. (2008). Christian Science, Freedom of Religion, and the Health of Children. Wagner, Edward. (2008). Development in Latin America: Dream or Nightmare? Bernstein, William. (2008). Pollution is Detrimental in Society. Bruner, Guinevere. (2008). Children in Conict Areas: The Use of Children as Soldiers. Ferello, Kira. (2008). Arguments For and Against Providing Government Funds to Undocumented Immigrants for Health Care Benets. Sendall, Susan. (2008). Population Size Does Not Determine Capacity To Limit Ecosystem Degradation.

Philosophy
The Capstone course in Philosophy is designed to mentor a student through the independent study of major works selected from classical and contemporary philosophies selected according to the students individual interests. A written thesis examines the relationship between the philosophies using critical, analytical, argumentative and creative approaches. The students also present a formal oral presentation at the completion of their capstone experience. Yousef, Waleed. (2008). Open vs. Closed: Kutb and Karl Popper Goodman, Jenna. (2008). On the Erotic Relationship between Action and Contemplation Emrick, John. (2008). Three Essential Ingredients to Democracy: The Rule of Law, Civil Society, and Legitimate Elections Brennan, Benjamin. (2008). Libertarianism.

Modern Languages
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Political Science
Students in Political Science complete a supervised preparation of a portfolio documenting student learning and containing a culminating written project on a topic selected by the student. This includes opportunities for integration and reection, collaborative learning, peer review, a career workshop and public oral presentation of the senior thesis, organized into panels by similar themes. Akok, Gabriel. (2008). International Criminal Court: International Law. [International Politics Panel] Ameen, Jahaan. (2008). Establishing the Kennedy Dynasty. [United States Law and Politics Panel] Brennan, Ben. (2008). Libertarianism. [Political Theory and Philosophy Panel] Emrick, John. (2008). The Essential Ingredients for Democracy: Rule of Law, Civil Society & Free and Fair Elections. [Political Theory and Philosophy Panel] Glass, Charles. (2008). Pennsylvania, Texas, and California Tort Reform Laws: Do They Work? [United States Law and Politics Panel] Glick, Denise. (2008). Negative Tactics in Political Campaigns. [United States Law and Politics Panel] Griem, Guillermo. (2008). Colonization & the Construction of the Algerian National Identity. [International Politics Panel] McCall, Brittany. (2008). An International Comparison of the Welfare Systems of the US and Ireland. [International Politics Panel] Mostyn, Jade. (2008). Obligation and Dissent: Consent, Objection & the Rights of the Individual. [Political Theory and Philosophy Panel] Romano, John. (2008). In the Will of the People: An Examination of the Iranian Peoples Will to Shape a Government and Region. [International Politics Panel]

project work under the guidance of a psychology faculty member. Students interested in applications of psychology pursue an internship. All students complete and present a senior thesis and poster based upon either their research or a practical question from the internship.

Ayers, Luke. (2008). Stress and Drugs: Examining the Role of Stressors in the Reinstatement of Drug Seeking Behavior. (Interned at Arcadia University, Glenside, PA) Borgstrom, Sarah. (2008). Autobiographical Reasoning, Problem Solving, and Resilience: A Quantitative Examination of Autobiographical Memory Processes. (Interned at Arcadia University, Glenside, PA) Bowman, Lafeeq. (2008). Special Education Programs and Borderline Intellectual Functioning. (Interned at The Bridge Residential Treatment Program for Adolescents, Philadelphia, PA) Brandenburger, Lorraine. (2008). Regressive Autism and the MMR Vaccine. (Interned with Dr. Marlyn Vogel, Ambler, PA) Brangs, Jillian. (2008). Developmental Benets of Learner-Centered Education: Examining the Montessori Method. (Interned at Meadowlane Montessori School, Jenkintown, PA) Brener, Madeline. (2008). Perceptions by Children with Down Syndrome Across Academic Placement. (Interned at Arcadia University, Glenside, PA) Brutschea, Lorraine. (2008). Eect of Media Type & Framing on Attitudes Toward Government Surveillance. (Interned at Arcadia University, Glenside, PA). Burnheter, Michael. (2008). Coping with HIV/AIDS: Using a Multifaceted Approach. (Interned at the Mazzoni Center, Philadelphia, PA) Daily, Susanna. (2008). The Role and Ecacy of Reinforcement and Punishment in Dog Training. (Interned at Canine Partners for Life, Cochranville, PA and Perfect Pooch, King Of Prussia, PA)

Psychology
The Capstone Project in Psychology involves either an independent research project or internship and a senior thesis. Students completing an independent research

Dayton, Caitlin. (2008). Is Group CBT Benecial for Treating Paranoid Schizophrenia? (Interned at Philadelphia Center for Human Development, Philadelphia, PA) Demko, Alicia. (2008). Conduct Disorder: Biopsychosocial

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Risk Factors and Interventions. (Interned at Wordsworth, Ft. Washington, PA) Doverspike, Tania. (2008). The Eects of Background and Eyewitness Preparation on Recall. (Interned at Arcadia University, Glenside, PA) Eisennagel, Ashley. (2008). Adherence to Cardiac Rehabilitation: What is Involved? (Interned at Bucks Physical Therapy, Warminster, PA) Eisennagel, Jennifer. (2008). Can Exercise Reduce Stress? (Interned at Comprehensive Sports Care Specialists, Bensalem, PA) Elnick, Mike. (2008). Social-Smoking Cues and Urges in Light Non-Addicted Smokers. (Interned at Arcadia University, Glenside, PA). Esposito, Elisa. (2008). Attributing Responsibility to Victims of Acquaintance Rape: The Role of Traditional Femininee Stereotypes. (Interned at Arcadia University, Glenside, PA) Exley. Caryn. (2008). Biopsychosocial Rehabilitation of Chronic Back Pain. (Interned at M&M Physical Therapy, LLC, Mount Laurel, NJ) Exley, Meredith. (2008). A Biopsychosocial Approach to Chronic Pain in Spinal Cord Injury Rehabilitation. (Interned at M&M Physical Therapy, LLC, Mount Laurel, NJ) Finch, Emily. (2008). The Relationship between Parenting Styles and the Undergraduate Experience. (Interned at Arcadia University, Glenside, PA) Forte, Lucretia. (2008). Information Literacy Programs for Elementary and Middle School. (Independent Major in Library Science, Interned at Arcadia University, Glenside, PA and Coleman NW Regional Library, Philadelphia, PA) Gallen, Alaynna. (2008). Resilience: The Role of Personality and Environmental Factors. (Interned at Community Education Centers, Philadelphia, PA) Greeneld, Richard. (2008). The Eects of Exercise on Stress. (Interned at Comprehensive Sports Rehab, Bensalem, PA) Harris, Natalie. (2008). Evaluating the Ecacy of Interventions for Children with Autism. (Interned at Pennsylvania Mentor, Philadelphia, PA and BuildaBridge, Philadelphia, PA) Jackson, Tatiana. (2008). Serial Murderers. (Interned at

Womens Center of Montgomery County, Elkins Park, PA) Kahn, Hannah. (2008). Is Perfectionism a Risk Factor for Eating Disorders in Athletes? (Interned at Lakeside Girls Academy, Fort Washington, PA and Pennsylvania Mentor, Philadelphia, PA) Kirby, Paul. (2008). Cross-Contextual Habituation. (Interned at Arcadia University, Glenside, PA) Kowal, Gregory. (2008). Electromyography Biofeedback in Motor Learning: Applications in Rehabilitation and Training Programs. (Interned at Comprehensive Sport Care Specialists, Bensalem, PA, and Sports Performance Director, Cherry Hill, NJ) Maddock, Britney. (2008). Physiology and Feedback: Women May Hold the Cards When it Comes to Being in a Satised Relationship. (Interned at The Polarity Center, Oreland, PA) McCarthy, Megan. (2008). The Development of Childhood Bullying and Aggressive Criminal Behavior. (Interned at Bishop McDevitt High School, Wyncote, PA) McDonough, Katelyn. (2008). Implementation of AntiBullying Strategies in Elementary Schools. (Interned at Valley Elementary School, Bensalem, PA) Minton, Ashley. (2008). Interventions in the Treatment of Depression in the Elderly. (Interned at Eastern Shore Physical Therapy, Linwood, NJ & Outpatient Physical Therapy, Glenside, PA, and Easter Seals, Kulpsville, PA) Morgan, Gareth. (2008). The Arts and Cognitive Development. (Interned at Milestones Community Healthcare, Glenside, PA) Ostrow, Liza. (2008). Eects of Thoracic vs. Diaphragmatic Breathing on Cardiovascular Responses and Task Performance. (Interned at Arcadia University, Glenside, PA) Rahilly, Lauren. (2008). Dance/Movement Therapy: A enecial Therapeutic Experience in the Treatment of Psychological Illness. (Interned at Belmont Behavioral Health, Philadelphia, PA) Reyes, Crystaliz. (2008). An Argument for Multicultural Counseling. (Interned at Childrens Crisis Treatment Center, Philadelphia, PA) Robinson, Chelsey. (2008). Treatment Approaches for Children with Post Traumatic Stress Disorder. (Interned at Warwick Family Svcs, Inc. & Maternal Child Consortium, Hartsville, PA)

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Rusak, Molly. (2008). Multi Modal Learning: A Connection Between the Brain, Cognition and Education. (Interned at Ancillae-Assumpta Academy, Wyncote, PA) Scott, Silas. (2008). The Eect of Music on Mood in Hearing and Deaf People. (Interned at Arcadia University, Glenside, PA) Skirkie, Mary. (2008). The Physical and Psychological Health Benets of Yoga. (Interned at PA Mentor, Philadelphia, PA) Stevenson, Jamie. (2008). Directly Observed Therapy Increases Tuberculosis Treatment Adherence. (Interned at Volunteer Services, Ridley Park, PA and Cheltenham High School, Wyncote, PA) Tecosky, Sandra. (2008). Eect of Internal States on Perception of the Natural Environment. (Interned at Arcadia University, Glenside, PA) Thomas, Laura. (2008). Implications of Religiousness, Spirituality, and Cultural Beliefs on the Diagnosis and Treatment of Schizophrenia. (Interned at Milestones Community Healthcare, Glenside, PA) Zadlo, Christine. (2008). Are Mindfulness-Based Interventions an Eective Treatment for Stress, Anxiety and Depression? (Interned at Time Out Program Center for Intergenerational Learning, Temple University, Philadelphia, PA)

Contemporary Time. Ford, Jason. (2008). Race & Media: How a Society Develops. Johnson, Natalie. (2008). The Experiences of African American Women Living with HIV/AIDS. Lamothe, Megan. (2008). Exploring Issues of Masculinity in Egalitarian Relationships. Madl, Ashley. (2008). A Comparison of American and Canadian National Health Systems: An Institutionalist Perspective. Magid, Sonya E.. (2008). Worth the Weight? A Look into the Obesity Epidemic and the Stigmatization that Overweight and Obese People Face. Mancuso, Clara M. (2008). An Exploration of the Relationship between Childhood Sexual Abuse and Social Problems. Maurer, Frank. (2008). Disparities throughout the Criminal Justice System in Regards to Blue and White Collar Oenders. Mermelstein, Karen. (2008). What are the Factors that Contribute to the High Rates of Homicide among Urban African American Males in the United States? Mims-Jones, Yvonne. (2008). A Social Review of the Anti-Social Behaviors of Children who have been Diagnosed with ADHD (Attention Decit Disorder with Hyperactivity). Morgan, Lawrence Jr. (2008). How Does Due Process Compare in the Public and Private Institutions of Higher Education? Morris, Kelly A. (2008). Why are Women Committing More Crimes Today?. Murphy, Je. (2008). A First Step toward a Carbon-Neutral Arcadia University: Baseline Emissions and Suggestions for Carbon Reduction. Pennick, Shardae L. (2008). Single Parent Undergraduate College Students and Academic Success: How Can College Institutions Help?. Ross, Rebecca M. (2008). Reecting Ourselves: An Analysis of Graphics Use by Young Women on MySpace. Schnarr, William R. III. (2008). The Eects of Moral Entrepreneurs on the Expansion of SWATs Roles in Small Suburban Municipalities.

Sociology, Anthropology, and Criminal Justice

The Capstone Seminar provides students with the opportunity to integrate the diverse elements of course work in the Sociology and Criminal Justice majors into a coherent and mature conception of sociology as an approach to intellectual inquiry and an informed life. As a seminar it requires that students actively engage in advanced study, research and discussion of ideas. As the Capstone in Sociology and Criminal Justice, students are expected to draw on their sociological knowledge and background to produce a coherent piece of sociological research and writing the thesis. In addition to the thesis, students prepare an oral presentation for the University community. Barber, Stacy L. (2008). How They Aect the People on the Inside: Public vs. Private Prisons. Discher, Danielle. (2008). Females and Gang Life. Fisher, Kyle A.. (2008). A Comparison of African American Males Experience during Slavery and into Todays

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English) Shafer, Laura. (2008). School Days or School Daze: A Comparative Critique of Drug Prevention Programs and their Ecacy. Sistrunk, Jonathan. (2008). Institutionalized Oppression in the Form of the War on Drugs and the Sociological Eects on the Urban Community. Spear, Samantha. (2008). Constructing Reality: The Collateral Consequences of the War on Drugs. Sweeney, Amanda. (2008). Crime Related TV: News and Docu-Cop Programming. McIntyre, Terri. (2008). Love of the Nightingale (stage-managed production) & Chamber Music (Directed). (Theatre Arts & English) McKethan, Mellitta. (2008). Chamber Music. (Theatre Arts & English) Pipe, Amanda. (2008). Carnival (stage-managed production). (Theatre Arts & English) Roccaforte, Peter. (2008). Carnival/Tempest. (Acting) Spitko, Cynthia. (2008). Love of the Nightingale/Tempest. (Acting) Tornetta, Lisa. (2008). Old Times. (Acting) The Capstone Experience for Theatre Arts students can include directing, stage managing and designing or writing but usually are a signicant role in a faculty directed performance. All these experiences are faculty guided and student initiated. Students are required to take Advanced Workshop in Theatre Senior Thesis or Advanced Workshop in Theatre Senior Project. Bernhardt, Amanda. (2008). Love of the Nightingale. (Acting) Boccuti, Angelina. (2008). Chamber Music (Theatre Arts & English) Borger, Jennie. (2008). The Pillowman (Theatre Arts & English, Communications) Brady, Kerrylynn. (2008). Chamber Music (Theatre Arts & English) Brousseau, Nicole. (2008). Chamber Music/ The Pillowman (Theatre Arts & English) Brumbaugh, Ariel. (2008). Seeds (Wrote a one act play) (Theatre Arts & English) Duch, Anna. (2008). Chamber Music. (Theatre Arts & English) Fox, Maura. (2008). Chamber Music/The Love of the Nightingale. (Acting) Greco, Amanda. (2008). The Love of the Nightingale. (Acting) Hummer, Kathryn. (2008). Carnival/The Tempest. (Acting) Manza, Jaclyn. (2008). Chamber Music. (Theatre Arts &

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Graduate Presentations
Master of Business Administration
The MBA Capstone Experience focuses on strategic management processes and current practices of managers of multinational organizations. Students are expected to develop a nal Capstone project that integrates learning concepts and objectives from several of the courses theyve taken in the program and also demonstrates their competencies with the overall MBA program outcomes.

2008 Capstone
Newell, Francine. (2007). Energy Management Consulting London vs. Dublin. Nguyen, Tiendung. (2008). Scooter Business in Dominica or Dublin. Pchelkin, Denis. (2007). Analysis of Convenience Store Industry in Dominica. Ragsdale, Patty. (2008). Proposal for Bloomsburys Expansion. Reinheimer, Orasa. (2007). Sub-Prime Credit Crunch. Richardson, Sue. (2008). Changing Regulations Global Accounting Professional. Robinson, Susan. (2008). International Executive Education. Romary, Jim. (2008). Extreme Sports/Extreme Tourism in Dominica. Rymsha, Erika. (2007). Sustainable Construction: London vs. Dominica. Saladuchin, Larissa. (2008). Launching a Cinema in the United Kingdom. Taylor-Macko, Christina. (2007). National Basketball Association Expansion. Tironi, Cli. (2008). Study Abroad Opportunities in London & Dominica. Tomlinson, Wendy. (2008). Pros and Cons of Developing a Theme Park in Dominica. Urban, Brett. (2007). Expanding Food Service Operations in London or Dominica. Weerasinga, Yohan. (2007). Development Professional Sports in Underdeveloped Countries. Welch, Edward. (2008). Real Estate Investment Opportunity Dominica. Wood, Katheryn Russell. (2007). Developing Private Club in Underdeveloped Country. Yantek, Sarah. (2008). Exporting Dominican Rum.

Bergey, Bryce J. (2008). Capital Investments Opportunity Dominica. Butcher, James S. (2008). Building Materials for a Green Future. Cash, Marquis. (2007). Modern Transportation System in Dominica. Chapiro, Cory. (2008). Fast Food Expansion in the UK to Promote US Tourism. Duy, Michelle. (2008). Bye-Bye Berry-RJ Manufacturing in Dominica. Engle, Jason. (2007). Introducing an Industrial Product into London vs. Dominica. Evans, Jukeya. (2008). Resort to Nature. Fanslau, Justin. (2007). Commercial R.E. Deveopment: London vs. Dominica. Fordyce, Debra. (2008). P.O.P. - A Comparison of US & UK Displays. Hill, Amber Ann. (2007). Annuities. Holloway, Richard. (2007). Challenges of an Electronic Health Record. Jawotski, Joween. (2007). BCA: Expansion Plans in Two Potential Markets. Katona, Victoria. (2007). Building on the e-Platform. Maginnis, Andrew. (2008). London Stock Exchange. McGlinchy, Shana. (2008). Wedding Planning: Going Global. Nash, Scott. (2008). The Automotive Aftermarket.

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Master of Arts in Counseling Psychology

The Capstone Project is a year-long practicum in a clinical setting. Students are placed in practicum sites (they apply to them directly) during their very last year in the program. Students are at their sites between 300 and 600hrs across two semesters, depending on their concentration. In their placements, students do a variety of activities including individual, group, and family counseling, career/vocational counseling, case management, client advocacy, and program development (the exact nature of the work reects the professional expectations of the eld students are planning to enter after graduation). Throughout the year, students also attend a practicum course/ seminar on campus where they receive group feedback (they receive individual supervision at their sites) and are able to discuss a variety of professional and ethical issues related to their practicum experience.

Finley, Lillian Thayer. (2008). Implementing a Dierentiated Model of Gifted Education: Perspectives of Elementary Principals and Teachers. Gonzalez-Lopez, Adriana. (2008). Serving Students with Emotional and Behavioral Disorders: Eects of Brief Training Meetings with Paraeducators. Hernandez, Phillip Antonio, Jr., III. (2008). School-Based Speech-Language Pathologists Reections on Their Diagnostic Practices with Latino Students. Hobbs, Debra C. (2008). A Qualitative Inquiry into the lived experiences in High School of Suburban African-American women. Nash, Kristin M. (2008). Rett Syndrome in the General Education Classroom. Robbins, Carol A. (2008). The Perceptions of Special and General Education Teachers of Inclusion With Emotional and Behavioral Disorders (EBD) as it relates to Collaboration and Student-Teachers. Silverman, Fern L. (2008). A Study of Occupational Therapy Service Negotiations in Educational Settings. Trainor, Kathy A. (2008). Professional Collaboration in an Inclusive Preschool Environment: A View Through Connected Lenses.

Beshir, Mohammed. (2008). Philadelphia Mental Health Center, Philadelphia, PA. Brittingham, Jennifer. (2008). Gwynedd-Mercy College, Gwynedd Valley, PA. Lansberry, Jennifer. (2008). Northwestern Human Services of Bucks County, Warminster, PA.

Doctor of Education in Special Education

The Doctoral Dissertation is considered the capstone project of the Ed.D. program in Special Education. Students begin developing ideas for their dissertation as early as their rst semester of doctoral work, and continue to expand their understandings of their topic of study, and design a rigorous research investigation, throughout their research and content-centered coursework. Dissertations may span the continuum of special education inuence from rigorous and comprehensive case studies or program evaluation to an original research project employing single subject design. Dissertations in this program are intended to provide students with a meaningful academic research experience that contributes knowledge to the eld of special education, contributes to improving special education practice in the eld, and documents student mastery of chosen research methods. Dissertations are evaluated on their innovation and contribution to the eld of special education; organization; written expression; research methodology; ndings; data analysis; and implications for theory and practice. Students work on high quality applied research projects grounded in data from the eld. Dissertations are individually developed, written, and assessed with the supportive guidance of a 3-member dissertation committee.

Master of Arts in Education; Master of Education

The culminating experience for all Education majors seeking instructional certication in Elementary Education, Early Childhood Education, Special Education, Secondary Education, and Art Education is a semester long 14 week intensive full-time teaching experience in a school district. In addition to the traditional 14-week experience, students are given an alternative option to do student teaching overseas. As an extension of the universitys globalization program, student teachers have the opportunity to complete half (seven weeks) of their student teaching practicum in either London or Canterbury. Student teachers are able to broaden their perspectives on education, experience a comparison between the National Curriculum and the Pennsylvania Standards, learn additional teaching strategies, and gain an understanding of professional teaching requirements in the United Kingdom. All students seeking certication in Elementary Education, Early Childhood Education, Secondary Education, Special Education, and Art Education are required to compile student teaching portfolios. The portfolios contain evidence of their work in the cooperating school, lessons taught, units designed in areas consistent with school district requirements and standards

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identied by the state of Pennsylvania. They contain the student teachers philosophy of education, summary of student teaching experience, instructional materials and lesson plans, descriptions and results from work on special projects, work created for their students, and various representations of student assessments. At a culminating reception, students present a piece of their work or a special project implemented at the school in which they taught. This project is a thoughtful representation (presented in poster session format) of an exemplary lesson or unit developed and taught by the student teacher which reects their philosophy of education. The students supervisor, cooperating teacher from the school district, and the director of student teaching all take part in the assessment of their work at the presentation. Abdul-Aleem, Muhammad. (2008). What is Matter? Introduction to the study of matter through drawing and construction of atomic models. (General Science) Arney, Teresa. (2008). The Holocaust: Students learn about the Holocaust through the experiences of soldiers and prisoners. (Social Studies) Bauer, Melissa. (2008). Ronssean: Pastel and Watercolor Jungles. Use of paint and oil pastel to replicate jungle pictures of Henri Ronssean. (Art Education) Becker, Lori. (2008). Teenagers Preparing for the Real World: A teaching unit for the book designed to allow students to appreciate this text and gain knowledge about jobs and career selection and certain values. (English) Bellezza, Suzanne. (2008). Knighthood: Students recall information about four steps to knighthood. (Special Education) Boehm, Sarah. (2008). Author Study: Integrated approach incorporating literacy based lessons and activities in a kindergarten classroom. (Elementary Education) Bubel, Nicholas. (2008). Constitutional Amendment: Exploring a group project on adding an amendment to the U.S. constitution. (Social Studies) Buardi, Lisa. (2008). How We Use and Obtain Energy & the Consequences: Students simulate drilling for oil and the economic and environmental impact. (Environmental Education) Chelder, Carly. (2008). Integrating Technology in Education: Using Wikis in Western Civilization History. (Social Studies) Christopher, Rita. (2008). Mystery Book Report: Childrens original mystery book report. (Elementary Education) Chung, Anna. (2008). Telling Time: Students introduces to telling time to the hour and half hour. (Special Education)

Craig, Catherine. (2008). Teachers help build character in their students: 2 part lesson about character and values for our life. (Special Education) Czerniak, Jason. (2008). Language Arts Lesson: Alternative Endings. Introduction of the skill of creating alternative endings of the story King Midas. (Special Education) Dahl, Kurt. (2008). Literature Study: Middle school cross curriculum unit of language and social studies. (English) Dare, Candace. (2008). Refracting Telescopes: Science lesson to learn the function and workings of refracting telescopes. (Special Education) Dickerson, Carol. (2008). Dierentiation of Instruction for Special Education Using Noodle Tools: Web-based bibliographic tool used for dierential instruction. (Lib. Science) Earle, Jerey. (2008). Evaluating the Eect of Sample Size on Probability: Students calculated the number of outcomes, number of favorable outcomes, and the requisite probability. (Mathematics) Ebner, Susan. (2008). Individual Goal Work Time: Students portrayed through a photo display working on vocational goals. (Special Education) Endicott, Amy. (2008). We have a Passion for Plants! Mini-unit focusing on plant survival needs, plant organs working together, and life cycle. (Elementary Education) English, Dionna. (2008). Learing Through Experience: Study of a novel in two historical periods. (English) Fischer, Mark. (2008). China and its Culture: Students use web quests, utilized the information, and presented by creating slogans or advertisements. (Social Studies) Fisher, Lisa. (2008). The Collector: A teaching unit on this British novel for Grade 11 featuring writing, quote selection, discussion of six themes and synthesis. (English) Foxworth, Lynda. (2008). Safeguarding Against Earthquakes: Description of earthquake safeguards and demonstration through building an earthquake resistant building. (General Science) Gundy, Juliet. (2008). Printmaking: Landscape from a birds eye view. (Art Education) Gwilliam, Kate. (2008). ABC Civil War Book: Cooperative group work to create an ABC book on the people, events, and battles of the Civil War. (Social Studies)

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Herman, Aliza. (2008). Create Recycled Art: 6th Grade Art Lesson. (Art Education) Kelly, Sean. (2008). Master Harold and the Boys: Teaching Unit on Fugands play dealing with ignorance and prejudice with a reecting writing component. (English) Kelly, Kristin Lynn. (2008). Chemistry Analysis of Stream Water: Analysis of chemical and physical properties of water. (Environmental Education) Kelsey, Beverly. (2008). The Adventures of Huck Finn Unit: Dual component unit featuring writing and small group work on all facets of this American classic. (English) Kirk, Lauren. (2008). Articles & Adjectives with the Mysterious Characters: Students use articles, adjectives, and nouns to describe themselves. (Elementary Education) Kolodziejski, Patricia. (2008). Perimeter, Area, Volume: Dierentiation of Instruction. (Elementary Education) Levinson, Joshua. (2008). FDRs First 100 Days: Students create newspaper depicting FDRs rst 100 days in oce. (Social Studies) McNaughton, Elijah. (2008). Global Warming Political Cartoons: Unit plan using groups, skill learning, and individual student ownership. (Social Studies) Morgan-Wall, Rachel. (2008). Making a Dierence: 2nd grade unit in how students make a dierence in their world. (Elementary Education) ODonnell, Heather. (2008). Graphing Systems of Inequalities: Students solve a system of inequalities for y, graph the system, note the intersection of two half planes, and write a corresponding solution. (Mathematics) Painter, Keri. (2008). Plants in the Environment: Review of parts of the plant and plant growth. (Elementary Education) Perkins, Takiyah. (2008). Whats Next? Sample of introductory unit that evolved on patterns :math journal patterns, manipulative patterns, and multisensory patterns. (Elementary Education) Reid, Rickia. (2008). Walk this Way: Slope of a Line. Students identify and understand slope. (mathematics) Reifsnyder, Lindsay. (2008). Spring in Literacy: Literacy based unit on topic of Spring integrating math, science, language arts, and creative arts. (Elementary Education)

Rice, Rebecca. (2008). Understanding Mitosis: Students put mitosis phases in chronological order and use microscopes to draw and identify the phases. (Biology) Rinehart, Rachel. (2008). Elements and Integrated Education: Creation of books. (Art Education) Rowlands, Christopher. (2008). Best Line of Fit: Students plotted points on a graph, estimated the line of best t for their data, and used for subsequent predictions. (Mathematics) Scheid, Christopher. (2008). Helpful, Harmful, Hideous Fungi: How fungi can be benecial, harmful, and hideous (molds). (General Science) Schoettle, Christine. (2008). Pi Day: Approximate the value of pi though experimentation. (Mathematics) Summers, Nancy. (2008). Wiki: Web 2.0 Internet Tool Workshop for Academic Leaders. (Lib. Science) Weinstein-Cohen, Barbara. (2008). Seed Search: Science lesson on seed concept. (Elementary Education) Young, Maxine. (2008). Education in Expressive Form. Choices and Consequences: A Cause Worth Fighting For. (English) Zar, Donna. (2008). John Audobon: Integration of Education. Creation of birds in the manner of John Audobon. (Art Education)

Master of Arts in English

Students in the M.A. in English program have two options available as their Capstone Experience. The rst option consists of the Masters Project. In this Culminating Project, students work under the supervision of an individual faculty member to prepare major project of 35 to 40 pages on topics ranging from critical writing to creative writing. Students choosing the second option complete a Masters Thesis of between 80 100 pages over two sequential semesters. Theses topics range from scholarly, theoretical, or critical areas to creative writing. In addition to their written work, students give a formal public presentation of their work.

Beck, Katrina. (2008). The Roadshow Whats it REALLY worth to you? No... Really... Cantor, Jodi Leigh. (2008). My Two Sides A Short Story. Grady, Laurie K. (2008). Crossing the Invisible Line Cormiers Use of Dichotomy in The Chocolate War Kahn, Meredith. (2008). The Wilde Irish Rose.

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Kleckner, Erica. (2008). South Asian Women and the Struggle for Assimilation in American Society. Leaver, Janine. (2008). The Portrait of the Other. Smith, Eric. (2008). There Were These Summers... Szalwinski, Ann. (2008). Beowulf. Taylor, Nicole T. (2008). Waking Up In Ascending. Turner, Brian. (2008). Three Stories: A History of Sundays, Wouldnt it Be Nice, and Bachelors on the Boardwalk.

Uhey, Ashley. (2008).

Master of Science in Genetic Counseling

Genetic counseling students are required to engage in a research project. These projects cover a wide range of topics, from laboratory based research to investigations of professional practice, and culminate in a written thesis and an oral presentation.

Brandt, Amanda. (2008). Communication of BRCA1/2 Mutation Test Results to At-risk Family Members: A Males Perspective. Charles, Melanie. (2008). How Much Do Women Know About Polycystic Ovarian Syndrome? Assessing the Knowledge and Beliefs of Women with PCOS. Coey, Lauren. (2008). The Audiological Assessment of Patients with the 22q11.2 Deletion Syndrome. Dewys, Amanda. (2008). Prenatal Genetic Counseling Referral Perceptions in Spanish and English Speaking Patients. Feret, Holly. (2008). An Assessment of Genetic Counselors Attitudes towards Individuals with Schizophrenia.

Master of Science in Forensic Science

All of the Forensic Science graduate students participate in an intensive and comprehensive internship over the course of their nal spring semester. Each student then selects an area of their internship experience to report on during the Capstone event. These presentations cover a specic area of forensic chemistry, toxicology, or biology, and provide an in-depth presentation of the application and the interpretation of specic forensic science techniques.

Bender, Amber. (2008). Bergh, Lisa Marie. (2008). Chacko, Liza. (2008). Davidson, Amanda. (2008). DiFranco, Dina. (2008). Ferriola, Deanna. (2008). Harenza, Jo Lynne. (2008). Howard, Jamila. (2008). Jacobs, Matthew. (2008). King, Naomi. (2008). Moore, Theresa. (2008). Nelsen, Lindsey. (2008). OBrien, Megan. (2008). Samano, Kimberly. (2008). Shu, Wayne. (2008). Turner, Tiany. (2008). The Assessment of Parental Attitudes, Concerns, and Understanding. Primeau, Sarah. (2008). Implicit Attitudes of Healthcare Workers Towards Facial Dysmorphology. Rennig, Corrine. (2008). A Childs Diagnosis of Marfan Syndrome: A Description of Parental Experiences. Heuer, Carolyn. (2008). Direct to-Consumer Genetic Testing: Genetic Counselors Attitudes and Practices. Howard, Erika. (2008). The Impact of Uninformative BRCA1/2 Results in African American Women: Understanding, Risk Perception, and Cancer Worry. Kowalski, Megan. (2008). Exploring the Unmet Needs and Unanswered Questions of Adolescents and Young Adults with Craniosynostosis.. MacKeverican, Beth. (2008). Huntingtons Disease: Are Supportive Services Meeting the Needs of Caregivers?

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Master of Science in Public Health; Master of Arts and Master of Science in Health Education
An independent research project is required of all students as a nal demonstration of acquired skills and knowledge. Students have the opportunity to organize, synthesize, and communicate the results of the project through an oral defense, a poster presentation, and a written thesis.

Madsen, Nate. (2008). Assessment of Knowledge and Perceived Risk among High School Athletic Sta Regarding MRSA. Manney, Gwendolyn T. (2008). Barriers to Breast Cancer Screening: A Study of Rural Pennsylvania Women. Meehl, Jim. (2008). The Environmental Barriers That Prevent Children from Making Healthy Food Choices. ORourke, Eileen. (2008). Childhood and Adult Immunization Beliefs: A Survey of the Healthcare Worker-Parent. Patel, Dhav. (2008). Assessment of Knowledge, Attitude, and Behavior of Health Care Workers Regarding MRSA Precautions in Us Hospitals. Sonani, Bhavin. (2008). A Program Analysis of Obesity Prevention Programs in School Aged Children. Tucker, Laura. (2008). Segregation and Health: An Analysis of U.S. and Philadelphia Housing Policies. Vidas, Denise. (2008). Assessing the Health Problems of Newly Resettled Karen and Liberian Refugees to Philadelphia. Walker, Doni. (2008). Creation and Implementation of a Safer Sex and Educational Program for Arcadia University Residential Students. Wilkerson, Kisha. (2008). Spirituality and Health: An African-American Perceptive. Wine, Dianna. (2008). An Exploration of Cancer Experience among Survivors of Multiple Cancers. Yalamanchi, Suresh. (2008). A Comparative Study of Health Care Systems in the United States and India.

Independent Fieldwork Thesis Projects

Bell, Darleen. (2008). Children and Caring for the Elderly: A Look at the Sandwich Generation. Brooks, Jackie. (2008). Evaluating Two Type-II Diabetes Programs for Adult African-Americans, and Latinos. Canete, Keila Kaviston. (2008). Exploration of Knowledge, Perceptions, and Barriers to Eating Healthy During Pregnancy. DeWitt, Megan M. (2008). Detection & Management of Elder Abuse in Physician Assistants. Dondero, Lynette M. (2008). The Mediterranean Diet and Sudden Cardiac Death. Eisenmenger, Katy. (2008). Analysis of HIV/AIDS Policy in Mozambique. Geruc, Amy. (2008). Factors Aecting Suicide Rates among High School Students. Gritsik, Marina. (2008). The Characteristics of a Relationship between MOMobile Advocates and Newly Released Mothers of Riverside. Gwaltney, Barbara. (2008). The Eect of Kangaroo Care in Neonatal Intensive Care Units. Jacks, Jessica. (2008). Assessment of Cultural Competence Levels Among Physician Assistant Students. Keer, Ulana. (2008). The Development of an Education Intervention for Human Papilloma Virus. Kinyua, Janet. (2008). Evaluation of Malaria Therapy in Pregnancy: Policy Change and Implementation in East and West Africa. Klein, Lauren. (2008). United States Organ Donation Policy: An Exploration of Policy Alternatives. Lambrecht, Valerie. (2008). The Utilization of Prenatal Care Services Among Pregnant Latina Women.

Public Health Rotations

Goldberg, Marilee. (2008). Joint Clinical Research Center, Kampala, Uganda. Grunebach, Holly. (2008). Health in Practice: STDS and the DC Department Of Heath, Washington, DC. Kinton, Anne. (2008). AMH Visiting Nurses of America Community Services, Philadelphia, PA. Suppa, Christine. (2008). AMH Visiting Nurses of America Community Services, Philadelphia, PA.

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Master of Arts in Humanities

Students in the M.A. in Humanities program complete three major tasks while enrolled in the HU698 Capstone Seminar. The Capstone Project is a scholarly paper of 23 pages that cuts across disciplinary lines and acts as a summative activity for the student. Topics vary widely depending on the students interests and concentration area in the program. In addition to their written work, students give a formal public presentation of their work.

Early Warning System: Conict Prevention in an African Context. Evans, Melanie. (2008). Youth Volunteers: Practices to Improve Involvement. Hansen, Brandon. (2008). Emergency Education as a Multi-Purpose Tool: Comparing Policies to Educate Refugee Youth and Reintegrate Former Child Soldiers. Haskollar, Elcin. (2008). Democracy and Islam X x Y x Z =? Drawing on the Insights of a Post-Modern Puzzle in Conict Resolution Studies: The Cases of Saudi Arabia, Indonesia, Malaysia, Pakistan and Turkey. Hund, Krista. (2008). A Change in Ideology? Facets of alternative development discourse within Ciudad Jurez, Mexico. Kaloustian, Silva. (2008). Ideological War: A Tiangulative Analysis of the Eect of Biofuel Policies on the Rise of Radical Islamism. Murphy, Tammy. (2008). Contemporary Latin American Indigenous Peoples Movement in Motion: A Critique of Historical Institutionalism in Light of Global, Regional and National Legal Developments. Niblock, George. (2008). US Foreign Policy and Forced Democracy: A Case Study in Iraq. Love, Candice. (2008). International Medical Graduates Obtaining Residency in the United States: Challenges Faced by Women. Olton, Gwendolyn. (2008). What about Rwanda? Colonization, exclusion, and participation in the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda. Rodes, Jennifer. (2008). Restorative Discipline: A Conict Resolution Perspective on School Discipline. Trapani, Joseph. (2008). Nuclear Weapons and National Security: A Comparative Analysis of Libya and Pakistans Quest for Nuclear Weapons.

Buesgen, Janine. (2008). Pennsylvania German Folk Theater: A Proud Past, An Uncertain Future. Krammy, Jennifer. (2008). Complexities and Changes of Women in Religious Life Post Vatican II. Rajcic, Dana. (2008). Extraordinary life and achievements of Vuk Stefanovic Karadzic (1787 1864). Reaves, Shrod. (2008). Marriage in Islam.

Master of Arts in International Peace and Conict Resolution

International Peace and Conict Resolution Master of Arts candidates are expected to return to campus in the spring of their nal semester to complete their requirements en route to degree conferral. By the time they return, students will have completed all domestic and abroad, rst- and second-year, study and eldwork requirements for the degree, save their nal two: Thesis and its Formal Presentation. These two elements combine to form the core of what is known in the IPCR Program as the Capstone Seminar. The Capstone Seminar is an organized, faculty-guided approach to synthesizing each students rst-year theory and second-year practice into a cohesive, scholarly work and consequent presentation. Students spend the 3-4 months of their nal semester composing their theses and preparing to defend them. There are two principal options for completion of thesis requirements: the Formal (Traditional) Thesis and the Creative (Non-traditional) Thesis. Each student should work with his/ her faculty adviser and the Program Director to decide which method of completion and presentation best suits his/her overall education and professional objectives.

Doctor of Physical Therapy

The Capstone Experience in Physical Therapy for the student receiving a doctorate in physical therapy (DPT) provides students with the opportunity to acquire additional knowledge in one of four aspects of professional behavior. The students select from one of four professional tracks: research, education, pro bono physical therapy, or professional writing. The experience provides the student with an in-depth experience which

Bhatti, Safeer. (2008). Controlling non state actors in rogue regimes. Burcheld, Laurel. (2008). The African Unions Continental

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emphasizes rening the knowledge and skill associated with critical thinking through research, education, pro bono physical therapy or professional writing experience. This experience provides the opportunity for faculty and students to work as peers rening a relevant question, developing a strategy to answer the question, and evaluating the adequacy of the product. In each track, the student is required to use critical thinking skills, demonstrate eective communication skills, and to manage time to meet projected deadlines. The skills needed to be eective in clinical decision-making and evidence-based practice should be rened by this experience. At the completion of their experience students present their work in either a platform presentation or professional poster presentation.

Boland, KA. (2008). Eectiveness of manual trigger point release in the treatment of symptomatic myofascial trigger point following whiplash associated disorder. Carroll, A. (2008). Early eects of body weight supported locomotor training on a patient with incomplete spinal cord injury. Chiocca, S. (2008). Clinical decision making in the treatment of a subacute right lateral elbow tendonopathy in a patient with a history of chronic left medial elbow tendonopathy. Clark, J. (2008). A dierential diagnosis of a patient with numbness and tingling in the right thumb and index nger with anterior shoulder pain. Cominsky, B. (2008). Using EBP to guide clinical decisions for a patient with an initial diagnosis of biceps tendon rupture. Dotter, J. (2008). Intervention decisions for a patient with a persistent non-union scaphoid fracture. Ducy, K. (2008). Utilization of the McKenzie Method in the treatment and management of an adult patient with an acute exacerbation of low back pain. Harrison, A. (2008). Management of a pediatric patient diagnosed with myelomeningocele status post surgical release of a tethered cord. Holensworth, L. (2008). The use of ambulation with body weight support over a treadmill after having a stroke with right side lower extremity hemiparesis. Kovach, RA. (2008). Clinical decision making in determining appropriate discharge planning for an elderly woman following a fall at home. Lopez, L. (2008). Clinical decision making determining the source of symptoms in a patient with acute low back pain. Manna, J. (2008). The eects of an inpatient exercise program for a patient with acute myeloid leukemia undergoing chemotherapy: a case report. Martin, A. (2008). Discharge planning for an elderly woman status post right pontine CVA with left hemiparalysis. Merenich, P. (2008). Physical therapy in a patient with Wernickes encephalopathy coupled with Korsako s syndrome shows no signicant change in functional status: a case study. Moyer, K. (2008). Determining appropriate discharge planning for a 59 year old female with cognitive impairments following stroke.

Physical Therapy Oral Presentations:

Luczejko, KM; Volpacchio, RA. (2008). Unilateral Removal of Whiskers Results in a Transient Change in Exploratory Behavior as Rats Complete a Texture-Discrimination Task. Edwards, L; Wright, S. (2008). Strength Training in Children with Cerebral Palsy: Factors Aecting Responses to Training. Iwanczewski, J; Nichol, A; Vander Wiele, K. (2008). A Systematic Comparison of The Central Activation Ratio and the Interpolation Technique for Estimating Central Drive: Issues of Voluntary Force and Type of Electrical Stimulus. Cotlov, C; Kloss, DM. (2008). Walking Performance in Community Dwelling African American and Caucasian Older Women. Michelsen, L; Farnsworth, B; Hartman, H. (2008). Long Term Consequences of Hip Fracture on Impairments and Mobility Stapleton, M; Wagner, D. (2008). Validation of a Measure of Voluntary Activation for the Infraspinatus During Isometric Shoulder External Rotation.

Physical Therapy Case Reports:

Adair, M. (2008). Dierential diagnosis and treatment of cervical pain following a motor vehicle accident: a case report. Barkdoll, E. (2008). Clinical decision making during examination and intervention of a middle aged woman diagnosed with hip bursitis. Bender, R. (2008). Home evaluation as an important tool in clinical decision making for discharge planning of a deconditioned 64 year old woman. Bonsall, A. (2008). Clinical decision making process in the treatment of an adult make with inconsistent knee pain.

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Olkowski, E. (2008). Cervical radiculopathy: the use of a multimodal treatment approach to improve clinical outcomes. Servello, M. (2008). Clinical decision making as it related to physical therapy eectiveness in the case of a teenage girl with peroneal palsy secondary to extreme rapid weight loss. Thankachan, S. (2008). The decision to discharge in the neurological rehabilitation setting for a patient with signicant spasticity which prevents functional ambulation. Thomas H. (2008). Determining a prognosis of a 21 year old male following a traumatic brain injury: a case report of prognostic indicators.

Giles, Garren. (2008). Pediatric GERD. Godfrey, Abigail. (2008). Osgood Schlatters Disease. Goldberg, Marilee. (2008). HIV/AIDS in Uganda. Grunebach, Holly. (2008). STDs: A Public Health Approach. Haupricht, Nate. (2008). Colon Cancer. Hine, Rachael Burns. (2008). Chronic Back Pain. Kaufman, Lori. (2008). Seizures. King, Margaret. (2008). Orbital Cellulitis.

Master of Medical Science

The senior colloquium is a Capstone presentation students do at the end of their nal year of the PA program. Cases are selected from among the many fascinating cases seen during their clinical year. Components include the patients initial presentation, physical examination ndings, diagnostic studies, diagnosis and treatment plans. A clinical synthesis is also included based on evidence-based medicine. Students generally make oral presentations to an audience consisting of, but not limited to, faculty, preceptors, colleagues, didactic students preparing to begin their clinical rotations and members of the campus and local community.

Kinton, Anne. (2008). Perianal Abscess. Laufenberg, Maggie. (2008). Childhood Lead Poisoning. Leahy, Christopher. (2008). Cauda Equina Syndrome. Marino, Patricia. (2008). Psychogenic Polydipsia. Maroney, Joseph. (2008). Schizophrenia. Marshall, Megan. (2008). Adult Intussusception. Martino, Nicole. (2008). Peptic Ulcer Disease. McKendry, Gina. (2008). Intrahepatic Cholestasis of Pregnancy.

Aspy, Briana Johnson. (2008). Tinea Corporis. McKeon, Kerianne. (2008). Ruptured Ovarian Cyst. Blass, Bonnie . (2008). Diabetic Ulcers. McNulty, Joelle. (2008). Lyme Disease. Cavanaugh, Christa. (2008). Lung Cancer. Methvin, Sarah. (2008). Pneumothorax. Chandel, Neema. (2008). Pulmonary Embolism. Meulenberg, Natalie. (2008). Tuberculosis. Chenevert, Laura. (2008). Amaurosis Fugax. Mihalik, Scott. (2008). Atrial Fibrillation. Coles, Jessica. (2008). Pelvic Inammatory Disease. Natalie, Jessica. (2008). Cholelithiasis. Collett, Jared. (2008). Gynecomastia. Nersasian, Keleigh. (2008). Kidney Stones. Doelle, Sarah. (2008). Spina Bida. ONeal, Zachary. (2008). Ectopic Pregnancy. Eckhout, Amy. (2008). Melanoma. Ostrowski, Robert. (2008). Bacterial Vagninosis. Fader, Frank. (2008). Genital Herpes. Ott, Jennifer. (2008). Metabolic Syndrome. Fazio, Kathryn. (2008). Trigeminal Neuralgia. Paronish, Kara. (2008). Acute Cystitis. Francis, Lorelei. (2008). Infertility and Clomid Therapy. Quinn, Jamie. (2008). Abdominal Aortic Aneurism. Frings, Mary. (2008). Uterine Fibroids.

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Severns, Rachel. (2008). Diverticulitis. Shively, Jeannine. (2008). Skin Abscess. Sirolli, Christopher. (2008). Acute Pancreatitis. Smith, Carrie. (2008). Incompetent Cervix. Stanford, Sara. (2008). Herpes Zoster. Storm, Mary Fran. (2008). Irritable Bowel Syndrome. Sun, Bing. (2008). Sickle Cell Anemia. Suppa, Christine. (2008). Healthcare in the USA. Thompson, Eric. (2008). Bells Palsy. Vader, Jamie. (2008). Gout. Wagner, Kearra. (2008). Pyelonephritis. Watts, Ginger. (2008). Multiple Sclerosis. Weinhold, Heather. (2008). Carotid Endarterectomy. Wells, Mark. (2008). Group A Beta Hemolytic Strep. Westerhaus, Sara. (2008). Pneumococcal Meningitis. Whalen, William. (2008). Necrotizing Fasciitis. White, Joseph. (2008). Small Bowel Obstruction. Willauer, Patricia. (2008). Deep Vein Thrombosis. Williams, Shadrienne. (2008). Peritonsillar Abscess.

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Psychology Majors Conduct Workshop on Research

Dr. Marianne Miserandino, Associate Professor of Psychology, and Psychology majors Luke Ayers, Lorraine Brutschea, and Sandra Tecosky presented a workshop on Conducting Psychology Research to students at Gwynedd-Mercy College on Thursday, November 29, 2007. They discussed why research is important in psychology, the steps involved in conducting research, and where students can present or publish the results of their research projects. The Arcadia students shared their experiences in psychology laboratory classes and with their own senior thesis research projects currently under way. They brought posters and reprints of journal articles showcasing student research work from psychology majors past and present. The goal of the workshop was to inspire psychology majors at GwyneddMercy to get involved in doing and presenting original research in psychology. Reprinted from Arcadia Bulletin December 4, 2007

Department of Physical Therapy Presents in San Francisco

Department of Physical Therapy faculty and graduate students presented posters and platforms at the Gerontological Society of Americas 60th Annual Scientic Meeting Era of Global Aging: Challenges and Opportunities, which took place November 1620, 2007 in San Francisco. Reprinted from Arcadia Bulletin December 20, 2007

Alumni in the News

As part of their creative project for their senior thesis, Corporate Communications students, Britt Demming, Aureole Cruz and Dawn Cheri Thomas designed The Media Awareness workshop titled MediaBytes, which they presented at the Lake-Lehman Junior/Senior high school, as was reported in the April 20, 2008, Post (Dallas, Pa.). Their MediaBytes workshop was targeted to middle school students and their parents to educate them about the four elements concerning the presence of media in their lives, the potential dangers, the positive elements, the creative outlets and the practice of good media citizenship on sites like MySpace. Reprinted from Arcadia Bulletin May 20, 2008

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IPCR Faculty, Students Present at Conference

Faculty and graduate students in the International Peace and Conict Resolution masters degree program are participating in the 2007 International Studies Northeast/Northeastern Political Science Association joint annual meeting, November 15-17, 2007, in Philadelphia. We are really proud to have three people from IPCR participating in this conference! notes Dr. Angela Kachuyevski, Assistant Director of the International Peace and Conict Resolution program. I will be chairing and serving as discussant for the panel on United Nations: Future Issues. Two graduate students will present their research.

New Campus Group Focuses on Peace

Kelley Glenn, a Political Science major, attended the Student Peace Alliance National Conference 2007, Our Generation Calls for Peace, October 19 to 21, 2007 in Waltham, Mass. Over the summer, I joined the Roosevelt Institution Student Think Tank and started the rst chapter at Arcadia University, which we call RICA (the Roosevelt Institution of Arcadia University), Glenn notes. Students associated with the Roosevelt Institution from another campus have created this National Conference. The conference speakers included Betty Williams, Arun Gandhi (Mahatma Gandhis grandson), Trish Jones and Will Spencer. I am going because it is necessary for students to care. So often people complain without any intention of creating solutions. This conference will allow student attendees to attend a series of speeches about nonviolence, create some form of solution for current aairs and address the issue of the HR 808 Bill (the House bill to establish a U.S. Department of Peace). Reprinted from Arcadia Bulletin October 23, 2007

Safeer Bhatti, a graduate student in the International Peace and Conict Resolution masters program, will participate in the International Studies Northeast/ Northeastern Political Science Association, presenting a paper titled Is the UN a Capable Third Party Mediator? Bhatti is participating in two other conferences this year. In September 2007, he presented a paper on Operation Mediation Kashmir at the Peace and Justice Association Conference. He also will attend the World International Studies Conference in Slovenia in July 2008, presenting a paper on How has the conict of Darfur impacted notions of Sovereignty?

Biology Professor and Student Publish Research Paper

Dr. R. Wesley Rose, Assistant Professor of Biology, and Anna Vorobyeva, a senior Biology major, published a research paper in the December 2007 issue of the Journal of Neuroimmunology titled Altered levels of STAT1 and STAT3 inuence the neuronal response to interferon gamma. The authors investigated the biochemical response of cultured neurons to interferon gamma, a key mediator in the immune response that combats viral infections of the brain and spinal cord. The project was undertaken in collaboration with Dr. Glenn Rall of the Fox Chase Cancer Center and was partially supported by funds from the Thomas P. Dougherty Award and from the Ellington Beavers Student Award. Reprinted from Arcadia Bulletin December 20, 2007

Caroline Carr, a graduate student in the International Peace and Conict Resolution masters program, will present a paper on the panel Gender, War and Conict. Her paper is titled Can National, Regional and Non-governmental Organizations Eectively Build Social Capital amongst Women in PostConict Societies? Reprinted from Arcadia Bulletin October 30, 2007

D.P.T. Students Break Ground in Shoulder Research

Two Doctor of Physical Therapy graduates have broken new ground with their research project on muscle contraction in the shoulder. Their research project, which they presented at the national meeting of the American Physical Therapy Association this spring, looks at the inuence of the brain and muscle mass in shoulder contractions and has implications for rehabilitation in one of the most common injuries. Matt Stapleton and Derek Wagner worked with Dr. Phil McClure, Professor of Physical Therapy, and Dr. Scott Stackhouse, Assistant Professor of Physical Therapy. Reprinted from Arcadia Bulletin April 1, 2008

Brinker, Dalson Write on Economic Citizenship in the Caribbean

Thomas M. Brinker Jr., Professor of Accounting, and Adrell Dalson, an Accounting major, published the article Obtaining Economic Citizenship in the Caribbean: Can Home Be Bought? in the April-May 2008 issue of the Journal of Practical Estate Planning. In the article, Brinker and Dalson discuss economic citizenship programs in certain Caribbean jurisdictions. Brinker also presents this topic in St. Thomas (USVI) on May 10, 2008. Reprinted from Arcadia Bulletin April 29, 2008

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Senior Presents Research Project in State Capitol

Anna Vorobyeva, a Biology major, presented her senior thesis research at the Undergraduate Research at the Capitol program in Harrisburg on April 1. Vorobyeva conducted her research with Dr. R. Wesley Rose, Assistant Professor of Biology, and Dr. Glenn Rall of Fox Chase Cancer Center. Portions of her research already have been published in the December 2007 issue of the Journal of Neuroimmunology. This project was supported in part by an Ellington Beavers Fund for Intellectual Inquiry student award to Vorobyeva and a Thomas Dougherty Endowed Faculty student research award to Rose. Speaker of the House Dennis OBrien (R-Philadelphia) welcomed students to the Capitol for the second semi-annual Undergraduate Research poster conference. OBrien noted in his welcome that nothing illustrates the importance of a college-

education more powerfully than the innovative and signicant research projects presented in this conference. This conference showcased outstanding research projects by undergrads providing an opportunity to bring together college students, faculty and Pennsylvania legislators and sta to share the experiences of students engaged in research. The event has two goals: to demonstrate that participating in research is important to the educational development of students; and to show that undergrad students can produce important and valuable research results to enrich knowledge, cultural heritage and economic well-being of our communities, out state and our nation, OBrien said.

Reprinted from Arcadia Bulletin April 15, 2008

Blustein, Robbins, Students Present at EPA Conference

Dr. Josh Blustein and Dr. Steven Robbins of the Psychology Department, along with six students, traveled to Boston this spring to attend the 79th Annual Meeting of the Eastern Psychological Association. Eight students and one alums research was presented at the conference this year. The rst poster, titled The Role of Attractiveness and Gender in Resume Evaluations: Evidence for Implicit Beauty and the Geek Stereotypes, was presented by Ashley N. Eisennagel, Jennifer L. Eisennagel, Susanna Daily, Michelle Zaknich-Keating and Robbins. This poster received the prestigious Psi Chi Regional Research Award, which included a cash prize. The second poster, titled The Eect of Food Preference on Optimal Foraging in Rats, was presented by Kim A. Shallcross, Katelyn McDonough, Lauren Rahilly and Robbins. The third poster, titled Ketamine Conditioned Analgesia Overcomes the Contextual Control of Tolerance to Ketamine, was presented by alumna Mario Zichella and Blustein. Reprinted from Arcadia Bulletin April 29, 2008

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Four Biology Students Present at Sigma XI Meeting

Dr. R. Wesley Rose, Assistant Professor of Biology, and Dr. Naomi Phillips, Assistant Professor of Biology, took four students to present results of their research at a Sigma XI meeting at St. Josephs University on April 18, 2008. Arcadia certainly had a great showing at SJU this year! Naomi, Lauren (Howard), and I were quite proud, and hope to expand Arcadias presence at next years symposium, notes Rose. Three of the juniors have on-going research projects in Phillips lab. Sam Calhoun and Teresa Coaxum are working on creating EST libraries for Brown algae (Phylogenomic discoveries in Brown Algae), while Katherine Kelly is working on a microsatellite project with Bioko primates (Before It Is Too Late: Bioko Island Monkey Population Characterization Utilizing Microsatellites). Senior Anna Vorobyeva, who is working with Rose, presented her senior thesis project, Modied kinetics of STAT1 activation in IFN gamma-treated CNS neurons suggests an alteration in the negative feedback mechanism. Reprinted from Arcadia Bulletin April 29, 2008

Communications Students Appear on NBCs 10!

Christine Mullin, Adjunct Professor of Communications took students from her CM101 class to a live taping of the 10! show at NBC studios on City Line Avenue on April 1, 2008. The guests that day included Chris Coste from the Phillies, the ringmaster and clowns from the Barnum & Bailey Circus and a singer named Jan Klose. All students appeared on the air and received prizesa CD, tickets to the circus and a DVD. Reprinted from Arcadia Bulletin April 29, 2008

Womens Athletics Awarded Sportsmanship Award

Arcadia University womens athletics programs have been honored with the 2008 Sportsmanship Award for the Freedom Conference. The award, presented by the MAC Student-Athlete Advisory Committee, was created to reward outstanding overall sportsmanship at MAC institutions. The award is voted on by each team at the end of the its season and presented to a male and female athletic program in the Freedom and Commonwealth Conferences. Seniors Amanda Celentano and Michelle Leone accepted the award on behalf of the womens program. The womens programs at Messiah College were honored in Commonwealth Conference. Reprinted from Arcadia Bulletin May 6, 2008

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Students Let Their Creativity Loose During Campus Arts Festival

Studio Sketch Productions, a student-run performance organization, held its rst annual Artists Unite Festival on April 4, celebrating the lively campus art scene. The event kicked o with a silent auction of Peculiar Plushie dolls made by students using a mishmash of materials provided by Alisa Kleckner, Adjunct Professor of Theatre Arts and Costume Shop Supervisor. The silent auction raised $1,007 to be donated in the name of Carisa Leary to the Art Department of Keystone Hospice, a hospice in Chestnut Hill for the terminally ill. Although it was cloudy day, outdoor festivities continued around the Little Theatre. Students could be found making sock puppets, drawing with sidewalk chalk, playing their guitars and singing their own songs, building a kinetic wood sculpture and hanging up their writing on the poetry wall. Reprinted from Arcadia Bulletin April 29, 2008

Faculty and Students Awarded at Honors Convocation

During Honors Convocation on Saturday, March 29, students named to the Distinguished Deans List, the Graduate Distinguished Deans List and the Deans List were recognized for their academic excellence, along with student award winners and students and faculty named to honor societies. The ceremony featured a keynote address by Jared Collett, a student in the Master of Medical Science-Physician Assistant Class of 2008. Reprinted from Arcadia Bulletin April 8, 2008

Psychology Seniors Present Research at Conference

Three senior Psychology students presented a poster of their research at the Delaware Valley Undergraduate Psychology Research Conference held this year at Widener University on April 12, 2008. Jillian Brangs, Lucretia Forte, and Jessica Griths research poster, Inuence of a confederates perceived educational status on responses to a word frequency task, demonstrated that conformity could be inuenced by the level of experience of a confederate. Dr. Les Sdorow, Associate Professor and Chair of the Psychology Department, served as their faculty adviser. Reprinted from Arcadia Bulletin April 22, 2008

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Honors Students Speak at SEPCHE Honors Conference

Seven students from Arcadia Universitys Honors Program presented their academic work at the Southeastern Pennsylvania Consortium for Higher Education (SEPCHE) Conference, on Saturday, March 29, at Chestnut Hill College. The Conference was a day-long event that showcased 108 academic papers, 28 works of art and seven musical performances by students who represented the eight institutions that constitute SEPCHE (Arcadia University, Cabrini College, Chestnut Hill College, Gwynedd-Mercy College, Holy Family University, Immaculata University, Neumann College, and Rosemont College). Brittany Emswiler is a junior Sociology Major who recently received the Howard M. Werthan Prize for excellence in the eld of Sociology. Emswiler researched the development of board games, from origins and pieces to rules and design. The entire process, including writing the rules and pitching the game to a company, was also examined. The culmination of her project was a board game with the working title Allegiance, which called upon history as well as tips and tricks of the trade in its development. Angela Tranovich, a sophomore Business Major, co-presented with Irina Samson, a sophomore Biology Major, to produce a cookbook titled Cooking for College Students. Over the course of the fall 2007 semester, Tranovich and Samson polled Arcadia students to determine their top ten favorite meals. Their goal was to create a cookbook containing versions of these recipes that were healthier, more economical and/or easier to make than the originals. Through a series of trials, Tranovich and Samson were able to create modied recipes that tasted the same asand in some cases even better thanthe originals. They hope to have the cookbook distributed to upper class Arcadia students who will be moving in to campus apartments in the fall. Lisa Robinson, a junior English Major with a minor in Theatre, presented her paper Sin, the Supernatural and Courtly Love. The paper explores how the world of the supernatural was used in literature as early as the 14th century to show hidden aspects of society. Geo rey Chaucers The Canterbury Tales is one of the pieces of literature Robinson examines in the paper. Emily Bolton, a rst-year student with a double major in International Business and Spanish, studied in Scotland during the fall 2007 semester through Arcadia Universitys FYSAE Program. Bolton presented a paper about globalization and how the world is currently being aected by this phenomenon. She discussed transnational corporations and their potentially exploitive and domineering behavior in developing and underdeveloped countries, as well as globalization successes such as South Korea. Caitlin Rooney, a senior History Major, spent her rst semester studying in Scotland through the FYSAE program. Rooneys paper examines how women, from adolescence, are ingrained with the notion that there is a standard of ideal feminine beauty that they must strive to attain. Rooney discussed the consequences of attempting to achieve this ideal. Sara E. Romasco is a junior Psychology Major who studied abroad in fall 2007 at the University of Sydney in Sydney, Australia. In her presentation, Romasco focused on Americas growing desire to be politically correct, including the eect this has on the media, censorship and the way Americans view and understand dierences such as those of sex, race, social class and sexual orientation. The history of the phrase, as well as various conceptions surrounding it, were presented and discussed. Arcadia Universitys Honors Program merges the best of the Universitys academic traditionsinnovative Honors courses combine with a community that fosters scholarly endeavors and leadership for a select group of students. These students are chosen for academic excellence, leadership, and school/ community service and they are expected to become actively involved in both the pursuit of knowledge and extracurricular activities. The program includes specially designed crosscurricular courses and study abroad experiences, as well as cultural and social activities. The Honors Program is under the direction of Williams Meiers, Associate Dean of the Honors Program, and Dr. Linda Mascavage, Associate Professor of Chemistry and Physics. Reprinted from Arcadia Bulletin April 8, 2008

Madsen Awarded Family Practice PA Scholarship

Nate Madsen, a second-year graduate student pursuing dual degrees in Public Health and Physician Assistant (M.S.P.H./M.M.S.), received a $1,000 scholarship from the Association of Family Practice Physician Assistants. The scholarship was awarded to just ve students nationally based on an essay showing their dedication to the family practice eld. Reprinted from Arcadia Bulletin October 30, 2007

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Senior Recognized for Study Abroad Achievements

Megan Thrash, a senior International Studies major, was awarded the rst annual David C. Larsen Award for International Studies on Friday, April 25, 2008, at the induction ceremony for Phi Beta Delta, the International Honor Society. Geo Haywood, Chair of the History and International Studies Department, presented the award, which recognizes academic excellence. Thrash participated in the First Year Study Abroad Experience, studying in London in the fall of 2004. She also studied for a semester in Paris and participated in Model UN experiences in Geneva, Switzerland, and Puebla, Mexico. She accepted the award in the presence of more than 40 students, faculty and sta who were inducted into the Honor Society. Although Dr. Larsen, Vice President and Director of the Center for Education Abroad

since 1988, was overseas during the ceremony, he wrote about Arcadias movement toward inspiring Arcadia students to learn about the peoples and the cultures with whom we all share this planet. The award honors Larsens contributions to international education at Arcadia University. Arcadia Universitys Epsilon Kappa Chapter was chartered in 2002 and recognizes the scholarly achievements of international students and scholars, U.S. students who have studied abroad and faculty and sta who are involved in international activities. Since its inception, more than 300 individuals have been inducted into Arcadias chapter. Reprinted from Arcadia Bulletin May 6, 2008

Fitzgerald Named Top Scholar Athlete for Mens Tennis

Arcadia senior Tim Fitzgerald has been named 2008 MAC Scholar Athlete for Mens Tennis. Fitzgerald accepted this honor at the 8th Annual MAC Awards Luncheon at Kings College. In his nal season, Fitzgerald concluded his collegiate playing career with a 22-match unbeaten streak at rst singles, captured the Freedom Conference Player of the Year title and won the rst singles crown at the conference championships. Earlier this semester, he was one of three Knights to receive Arcadias Senior Scholar Athlete Award. The 2008 recipient of the Ruth C. Grant Distinguished Achievement Award, Fitzgerald has earned Deans Distinguished List honors for all eight semesters of his undergraduate career. Reprinted from Arcadia Bulletin May 6, 2008

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Seniors Honored at 2008 ALANA Graduation Celebration

Graduating seniors of African, Latino, Asian and Native American (ALANA) descent and their families were recognized for their unique journey to graduation at the 2008 ALANA Graduation Celebration and Reception on Thursday, May 8 in The Chat. Those honored included Jamie Bowles, Lafeeq bowman, Gabriel Akok Deng, Kyle Fisher, Jason Ford, Lucretia E. Forte, Beverly K. Gaines, Ross Sterling Green, Renneth Grey, Natalie Renee Harris, Jamila Howard, Natalie Johnson, Pamela Leslie, Monifa McCoy, Mellitta Jerri McKethan, Yvonne Mims-Jones, Tina Pan, Shardae Pennick, Crystaliz Reyes, Alia White and Linda Zhou. Reprinted from Arcadia Bulletin May 13, 2008

Six Arcadia Students Present on Public Health

At the Public Health Student Poster Presentation at the College of Physicians on May 6, 2008, six students from Arcadia University presented their posters. The students had to submit abstracts in order to be accepted at the presentation. The six students that presented were: Valerie Lambrecht, The Utilization of Prenatal Care Services Among Pregnant Latina Women in Norristown, Pennsylvania Lauren Klein, United States Organ Donation Policy: An Exploration of Policy Alternatives Doni Walker, Creation and Implementation of a Safer Sex and Healthier Lifestyle Educational Program for Arcadia University Residential Students Jessica Jacks, Assessment of Cultural Competence Levels Among Physician Assistant Students at Arcadia University Megan DeWitt, Detection and Management of Elder Abuse/ Mistreatment: Physician Assistants Perceptions of Barriers & Strategies Nate Madsen, Assessment of Behavior, Knowledge, and Perceived Risk Among High School Athletic Sta Regarding the Emergence of Community-Acquired Methicillin-Resistant Staphylococcus Aureus Klein won a top honor for her poster on Organ Donation, marking the rst time that Arcadia has been recognized with a top honor at the poster session. Only four posters out of approximately 38 received special honors. Reprinted from Arcadia Bulletin May 13, 2008

Harris Receives Senior Golden Disc

Natalie R. Harris received the Senior Golden Disc Award at Undergraduate Commencement on Friday, May 16, 2008. The Senior Golden Disc Award is presented annually by the Alumni Association to a member of the senior class who, in the opinion of classmates, faculty, administration and the Selection Committee, exemplies the highest standards of leadership in activities that enhance the quality of student life and promotes the present and future welfare of the University. Reprinted from Arcadia Bulletin May 27, 2008

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Students in the News

Arcadia University PT students who are fullling their clinical rotations were part of a cover story in Advance for Physical Therapists & PT Assistants in the May 19, 2008 issue. The cover featured second-year PT student Robinson Thankachan with a patient at the Mercy Physical Therapy Clinic for the Uninsured in Philadelphia and Pam Freed, doctoral-level student at Arcadia. Thankachan is in his third week at the clinic. I did a four-month outpatient clinical before this so I feel secure here, Thankachan said. It was easy to get into the groove, and I never feel overwhelmed. The patients understand why we are here, shared Freed, who has completed an inpatient clinical and says that working in the clinic has been a good transition for her as she begins her outpatient orthopedic clinical. Also pictured in the story was Arcadia student Stephen DiGiambattista, who was shown discussing patient cases with Michael Johnson, MS, PT, OCS, director of professional development for sta providing rehabilitation, tness and wellness services at Mercy Philadelphia Hospital. Reprinted from Arcadia Bulletin May 20, 2008

Top Business Students Inducted into Honor Society

On Monday, April 14, 10 students were inducted into the Kappa Upsilon Chapter of Delta Mu Delta at Arcadia University. Delta Mu Delta promotes higher scholarship in training for business and to recognize and reward scholastic attainment in business subjects. Student business majors who rank in the top 20 percent of the junior, senior or masters classes at schools with chapters of Delta Mu Delta are eligible for invitation to membership in the Society. The Department of Business/Health Administration and Economics congratulates the 10 students who have pursued excellence in their academic preparation for careers in business and have earned invitations to Delta Mu Delta in 2008: Lorraine Brandenburger, Barry Bryan, Jacqueline Franko, Beverly Gaines, Anna Gary, Casey Giddy, Lauren Gormley, Sarah Hess, James Richards and Annalise Settefrati. Reprinted from Arcadia Bulletin June 10, 2008

Kloss Earns A. Richard Polis Graduate Scholarship Award

The A. Richard Polis Graduate Scholarship Award is given each year to a student in a full-time program who is on the Graduate Deans Distinguished Honor List and whose service to the University and to his or her academic program distinguishes him or her from others in the cohort. The award is named in honor of A. Richard Polis who served with extreme distinction as graduate dean for 20 years. This year, the award went to Dr. Deanna M. Kloss D.P.T. Kloss received her Doctor of Physical Therapy degree this past February with Distinction. She was extremely active as a member of her Physical Therapy class, in research, in outreach eorts, and in class aairs. With Department Chair Dr. Rebecca Craik and one other student, Deanna co-authored a paper on the walking performance of older women, presented at the Geriatric Society of America meeting. She has submitted a literature review to Orthopedic magazine based upon her research on the use of continuous anesthetic infusion pumps for the control of post-operative pain in knee replacement patients. She joined classmates doing pro-bono orthopedic work in Zacapa, Guatemala, and she worked on several fundraising projects during her time here. She was an ocer in the PT Student Government Organization, reecting the respect showed by her classmates. Reprinted from Arcadia Bulletin May 20, 2008

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Asman Wins Outstanding Student Librarian Award

Christina Asman, an Arcadia graduate student pursuing an M.Ed. with a Library Science concentration, received the Pennsylvania School Librarians Association (PSLA) Outstanding Student Librarian Award May 1-3, 2008 in Hershey, Pa. Award recipients must maintain a 3.0 GPA in their major, display outstanding leadership qualities and have potential to be a future leader in PSLA, demonstrate an interest in professional action, and be dedicated to the school library eld as a profession. The Pennsylvania School Librarians Association provides school librarians/media specialists with educational opportunities and current information through publications, workshops, seminars and conferences. Its members are advocates of high standards for librarianship and library media programs in the public, private and parochial schools in Pennsylvania. PSLA cooperates with state and national organizations to improve all aspects of education, and supports the inherent right of the individual to have access to ideas and information. Reprinted from Arcadia Bulletin May 27, 2008

Arcadia Students Artwork on Display in 5 into 1 + 1 Exhibition

Now in its ninth year, the 5 into 1 + 1 student exhibition presented by Philadelphia Sculptors and the Moore College of Art and Design will feature sculptures by Arcadia University students Katie Popelak, Dan Galloway and Julie McConnell. The two-part exhibition presents work by seniors and graduate students from local colleges and will take place at FLUXspace Gallery and the Moore College of Art and Design, May 31 to June 15, 2008. For more information, visit www.theuxspace.org. Reprinted from Arcadia Bulletin May 27, 2008

Arcadia Alum Takes Little Shop to the Big Stage

Theatre Arts and English major Sara Accardi is only one year out of college and already has a dream jobshe is the assistant director of theatre arts and director of upperclass oneact plays for Pennsbury High Schools theatre program. Even more remarkably, Accardis troupe was invited to present at the International Thespian Festivalone of only 10 groups chosen to perform on the main stage. Its the greatest honor you can receive at the high school level, says Accardi. Plus, it has been something these kids have tried to get for years now. While directing the Little Shop cast, Accardis Arcadia pride rubbed o on many of the students. Students have become interested in the school because of the stories I have told them from my experiences. A few times this year I have brought my students to Arcadia productions to let them witness rsthand what they can realistically accomplish after high school. In fact, a piece of Arcadia will travel with the troupe in the form of man-eating plant puppets. Arcadias Costume Shop Supervisor, Alisa Kleckner, originally built the three puppets for the Universitys 2005-06 production of Little Shop (in which Sara also performed), and they live on in Pennsbury High Schools production Reprinted from Arcadia Bulletin June 24, 2008

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Education Students Study Literacy, Swahili in Tanzania

Graduate Education students in a service learning course taught by Dr. Bette Goldstone, Professor of Education, are addressing teaching and learning in East Africa in conjunction with Arcadias Nyerere Center for Peace Research and Miracle Corners Community Center in Arusha, Tanzania. Their wiki at www.ed481arusha.wetpaint.com begins to tell their story. Their in-country eldwork in Tanzania ran from June 20 - July 7, 2008. Some of the questions we are investigating are: How does the East African culture aect educational practice? What is (are) the culture(s) in Tanzania? How is learning rudimentary Swahili similar and dissimilar to learning English? says Goldstone. Each class period, a class member prepares material around Swahili words and concepts. While in Arusha, we will be teaching in a community center, visiting other schools in rural areas, meeting a womens group, interacting with Maasai, and going on a trek into one of the nearby national parks. The purpose of this course, ED 481 International Literacy, is to address literacy teaching and learning in East Africa, particularly Tanzania, says Goldstone. Students will examine African literacy teaching texts, investigate how culture inuences what education is and how it is delivered, and reect upon African pedagogic goals in the new millennium. Students will study current research, programs and strategies used to improve English literacy that can then be implemented when working with Tanzanians at the Miracle Corners Community Center. Students will have the opportunity to work with pre-school children; adult learners of English and/or English computer skills and/or a youth group. Reprinted from Arcadia Bulletin June 24, 2008

Faculty, Staff and Students Reect on Service Trip to Guatemala

Two classes of students headed to Guatemala over spring break, one taught by Terry Greiner and a graduate Education class taught by Assistant Professor Dr. Erica Davila. ID 181.1 International Experience: Guatemala, taught by Greiner, is an example of a growing number of courses at Arcadia that include a short-term international experience. This was my third trip down and the second time Ive taken Arcadia students, she says. It was truly an amazing trip with a fantastic bunch of students! The international experience in Guatemala from March 8-16, 2008 was a service trip in which we joined a group called Hearts in Motion out of Indiana, says Greiner. They center their eorts in the southeast part of Guatemala in the state of Zacapa, which is hot, dry and mountainous and generally ignored by other service organizations working in Guatemala. In addition to Greiner and Davila, the group was accompanied by Alumni Director Georgene Pilling and Visiting Assistant Professor of Physical Therapy Kristin von Nieda. Holding and feeding malnourished children was quite an experience, Pilling says. A total of 21 undergraduate students participated: Jen Mathews, Jen Alfano, Jen Thomas, Alyssa Jerdon, Daniel Dotse, Josh Ottey, Rachel Yoder, Val Numbers, Liza Spiegel, Melissa Shukdinas, Chelsey Herman, Kelsey Conrad, Bettina Rupp, Irina Samson, Brittany Barnes, Dionna Williams, Liz Mullin, Hilda Rivera, Tina Pan, Kasey Volpe and Katie Tolbert. Reprinted from Arcadia Bulletin May 27, 2008

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Kappa Delta Pi Inducts 47

Kappa Delta Pi, the international honor society for education, initiated 47 new members on Sunday, November 25, 2007, in the Castle. The ceremony was well attended by family and friends. Congratulations to the following students: Kaitlyn Adams, Stephanie Bates, Laura Bondiskey, Aubrey Bucksner, Kelly Callahan, Amanda Cappella, Lauren Cinque, Lindsey Clydesdale, Laura Davis, Shannon Dryden, Katheryne Dudiak, Nicole Eife, Jennifer Evans, Lisa Ferretti, Lindsay Frank, Jessica Freas, Amy Frymire, Nora Garvin, Kellyann Geddes, Katie Granato, Lisa Granger, Randi Hendler, Michael Henry, Kelly Humes, Sarah Krieg, Kristen-Nicole Liberty, Laura Malkiewicz, Meghan McCauley, Julie McConnell, Shannon Mcmullen, Freida Nellis, Tammi Palagruto, Petrina Pappas, Alison Petro, Dawn Pinkney, Nicole Pompei, Allison Powell, Patricia Robb, Michael Sardarian, Kimberly Slivka, Howard Smith, Caitlin Sparks, Emma Stahlecker, Ellen Sutton, Lorenzo Thompson, Jeanine Villanova and Lauren Ziccardi. Reprinted from Arcadia Bulletin December 11, 2007

Arcadia Focuses on Environmental Issues

Arcadia joined more than 1,300 other educational institutions January 31, 2008 in a project called Focus the Nation through the efforts of Dr. Jerey Shultz, Assistant Provost for Special Projects and Professor of Education. The goal was to present information regarding global warming and other environmental crises, as well as to offer suggestions for ways of reducing negative impact on the environment. Je Murphy, a senior Individualized Environmental Sociology major who is working on his thesis, spoke on the data he is collecting and calculating on the greenhouse emissions that the campus puts out on an average. Murphy told the audience that since he came to Arcadia four years ago, a lot has changed, with the students becoming more environmentally active. It is really on the students to get things done, and if students dont bring it up, then its not going to get recognized as a problem. Murphy referenced the United Nations declaration that all nations be educated on environmental matters and the idea of sustainability meaning that our needs are met without compromising the needs of others. He noted the change in Arcadias food services and how the leftovers are being donated to soup kitchens and facilities that are using biodegradable cleaners. He closed by saying that higher education had a lot of power in the situation because of the amount of inuence they have and the number of people who are involved in the cause. Dr. Peter Siskind, Assistant Professor of History, talked about what he called the big picture politics and noted that the rate of carbon emission is accelerating over time. He polled the audience as to whether students were optimistic about change, and both sides were pretty even. Siskind suggested that there should be a tax on carbon emissions, forcing companies to reduce emissions. He ultimately surmised that new laws were the best way to bring about change, and he ended on a positive note, saying, I really think we are in the midst of a potentially positive shift. In addition to the student and faculty presenters, speakers included representatives from Phillycarshare and the Pennsylvania State Director for Smart Power, as well as Mike Weilbacher, Executive Director of the Lower Merion Conservancy and an instructor in Arcadias Science Education program. Reprinted from Arcadia Bulletin February 12, 2008

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Try Listening - You May Hear Something Surprising. Learning to Face Prejudice
Vanais Harrigan is an English major who was recently graduated from Arcadia University Much of my life has been spent in frustration over the prejudicial treatment Ive had to endure. I am black, and Ive experienced mostly racial prejudice. Ive also experienced class prejudice, though to a lesser degree. I deal with prejudice when it comes up, but still Im bewildered by its presence. What is either racial or class prejudice but an attempt to protect yourself from people with whom you might have much in common? Ive watched it work. I am black and I live in an all-white neighborhood. Ive attended predominantly white churches. So I have felt prejudice based on race. Class, too. Ive been brought up in a middle-class home, but when I cross class boundaries, I discover something much like racial prejudice: again, an at-armslength treatment characterized by superiority and fear. In my life, this treatment has run from subtle hints to blatant rejection. I had the advantage of a huge yard as a child, and this garnered many fair-weather white friends. They came over to play in my jungle gym of a yard, but rarely to eat lunch or spend the night. We lived in a corner house, from which I and my siblings waved at every resident of our street and then some. What was disappointing were the countless people who didnt wave back, the people who, when we walked around the neighborhood, stared as though at intruders. (Many of these people still do stare, questioning my belonging in my hometown, and it both hurts and angers me.) Perhaps prejudice stems from insecurity. People who fear losing control of their own circumstances seek to prescribe their own comfort zone, maintaining a conned, comfortable circle. Not very diverse circles, these, but safe. The people outside the circle may have much in common, much to contribute, much to share, and on some level the prejudiced person knows this. Still, safety is sought - from people who may share the same interests but have a dierent skin color, or from classes to which the circle-drawer once belonged but no longer wants to know. Its ironic, isnt it, that people seek separation from others with whom they surely have more in common than dierences? Ive wondered what the owners of million-dollar homes would lose if they spoke without condescension to their ooring contractor. I wonder whether they realize that, when disdaining to acknowledge this other person, At one time, my own reaction to prejudice was angry disdain. There was a time when I would proclaim, There are days when I hate white people. Some people I know dislike rich people just on principle. But that, too, is a kind of prejudice, a refusal to be open. So my nal question (and in part, Im asking it of myself ) is: With what attitude could we replace the at-arms-length treatment and the angry disdain? On the side of a Starbucks cup, I picked up a quote from John Moes book Conservatize Me, which oers advice I wish more people would heed. He writes: You can learn a lot more from listening than you can from talking. Find someone with whom you dont agree in the slightest and ask them to explain themselves at length. Then, take a seat, shut your mouth, and dont argue back. Its physically impossible to listen with your mouth open. Id like to think Im trying to take his advice quite literally. If, instead of protecting themselves from people who are presumably dierent from them, the classist, the racist, the misogynist/ misanthrope, any prejudiced persons would allow themselves to be open, a little more vulnerable, we might nd something surprising: good ideas, valuable wisdom, well-informed minds. It is what Anne Elliot, the heroine of Jane Austens Persuasion, refers to as good company. But I also agree with the novels villain, who corrects her in saying that it is the best company. Like several of Austens heroines, she must learn her way out of prejudice - and she nds she must start with allowing herself to listen without defenses, encounter others without borders. Those who seek only the company of people supposedly superior in race or in class may be missing out on whats all around them the best company of all. Reprinted from Philadelphia Inquirer June 21, 2008

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Honors Convocation 2008

Introduction by Dean of Graduate and Professional Studies
One of the best features of the Arcadia University Honors Convocation is the custom of asking a student to address this assembly. We alternate each year between graduate and undergraduate students, and this year our speaker is Jared Collett, who will graduate this May with a Master of Medical Science in Physician Assistant Studies. A native of Boise, Idaho, Jared came to Arcadia from Bringham Young University where he majored in Geography. He had started college studying Exercise Science, but found Geography to be a bridge between the natural and social sciences. This turn of mind, a turn outward to new subjects and inward to nd their syntheses seems to characterize Jared. He thinks he might enter the eld of cardiothoracic surgery as a practicing physician assistant, but he told me he might ultimately think of a PhD program in anatomy, or a masters degree in public policy, or, frankly, almost any eld that interests him. In his own works, he cant pass up an opportunity to learn. On this day that celebrates learning, I can think of no more enthusiastic a proponent to listen to. Please join me in welcoming Jared Collett to the podium. Dr. Mark Curchack Dean of the College of Graduate and Professional Studies and Associate Provost for Institutional Eectiveness

should extend beyond ones eld of study. Intellectual curiosity is a hallmark of understanding that education is more than something to attain in ones twenties before moving on in life. The answer to the question What do I need to know? is, simply put, everything. This is quite impossible to do, but ones attitude should reect a desire to learn all that he or she can. My wifes grandfather, David M. Donaldson, a well-published professor of microbiology and immunology, once humorously said, Youll never nd anyone dumber than a university professor outside of his eld of expertise. Rather than a literal indictment of dedicated scholars, his joking words were meant to illustrate the importance of learning something about everything- of expanding ones general fund of knowledge. The erudite should be able to have as meaningful a conversation about DNA transcription and translation as about Japans Meiji restoration or the despicability of Shakespeares Iago. However, being intelligent is more than having a sucient breadth of knowledge to compete on quiz shows. The Baconian adage knowledge is power has become trite not simply from literally overstating the words, but also from guratively overstating them. Knowledge itself is only potential power. Stephen L. Richards said it best: Knowledge is power, today and always, but it is power only when it is put into service. The acquisition of all the worlds learning is really futile, except in application. The best in life is that which is given to serve the noblest causes and the highest purposes. The educated mind lives the directive found on a large sign at the entrance of my alma mater: Enter to learn, go forth to serve. The intelligent mind takes the moral high ground. The student of Shakespeare who in his or her personal life would turn [anothers] virtue into pitch, to paraphrase Iagos vile words, is not in the least educated- havin not internalized that good name in man or woman... is the immediate jewel of their souls. Indeed, the dumb one is not the chemist outside the realm of chemistry, but the scholar of any eld who does not apply what he or she learns to right living. The task incumbent on all of us then is not simply to learn something, but become something. And what are we to become? In his New York Times bestseller Standing for Something, the late Gordon B. Hinckley answers this question. After a plea to incorporate into our daily lives a regular pattern of study, a regular opportunity to grow and absorb and learn from the great writers of the world, he states: I am not suggesting that we must become geniuses. Most of us will never fall within that designation. But I have concluded that the work of the world is done by basically ordinary people who have learned to work in an extraordinary way. It is done by those who have had the good sense to learn from those who have gone before them. One does not have to be a genius to get ahead. One does not have to be brilliant to make a dierence in the world, to reach out and help serve and lead others. Such service, such inspiration, and such devoted leadership often come from those who are well versed in the history of the world, and who therefore have a personal database of information from which they can draw.

Honors Convocation Address 2008

The Educated Mind
I would like to begin my remarks today by sharing an exercise that my wife had a few years ago when teaching English in an elementary school. After giving an assignment to her class, one boy said to her, What do I get if I do this? As a fourth grade student he lacked the foresight and world experience to understand how education would magnify his life. Sadly, I have met many who during their university studies spoke of their coursework as a thing to be done to get a degree. In the vernacular we speak of getting an education. We treat erudition as a commodity- a thing to be had rather than a continuing process of self-discovery by which we change ourselves and those around us. When we view education as a degree to get, we risk becoming on who incessantly begs, What do I need to know for the test? As James E. Faust said in a speech at BYU, Learning is more than cramming for tests. Education is more than bulimia at exam time. I am pleased to say that my experience in the Physician Assistant program here at Arcadia University has put me in association with students who are striving to learn what they will need to know for the of their careers and not merely for the next examination. Of course when learning medicine, This attitude

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In essence, Hinckley admonishes us to become ordinary people who care- men and women who care enough about others, who exemplify such civility, that we learn all we can to bless the lives of those we share this earth with. Truly this is scholarship. Education is not a thing we get, it is a reection of who we are based on what we give. I oer three suggestions that will help us apply ourselves to this form of scholarship: First, develop genuine curiosity. Curious people are better able to serve others because they tend to be innovators. Curiosity is a bulwark against the kind of intellectual stiness that causes some to mistakenly think that they have arrived. The curious are forever asking questions and continually testing new hypotheses. They tend to be builders rather than cynics. Thomas Edison is one example. In December 1914, Edisons West Orange, New Jersey, laboratory complex exploded in ames. Despite his age of 67 years and a price tag of seven million in damage, Edison vowed that very night to move on. To the New York Times he said, Ill start all over again tomorrow. In fact, he did, and within a few short months his invention factory was back to full production. The world has enough critics; it needs more curious scholars- ordinary people with inquisitive minds- who think of possibilities with optimism and then go to work in extraordinary ways. Second, learn to manage the information-righ society we live in. Never before in the history of the world has so much information been available to us within seconds. Daily we are bombarded with it, but it is imperative that we remember it is not all of equal value. Time is a great sieve that separates tings of intrinsic worth from the dross of day-to-day life. If we conne ourselves to the rhetoric of the present, we may overlook the lessons of the past. We would do well to immerse ourselves in the best books- with pen in hand as did John Adams- and savor the wisdom of great thinkers. The same principle applies to art, music, and other expressions of ideas. This is not to say that we should ignore the current literature, art, music, and other information. Rather, we must selectively lter our information lest we whittle away our useful hours gorging ourselves on intellectually empty calories. Further, by tuning out the cacophonous din for a period of time each day to meditate, we will better be able to solve problems. We frequently know what neds to be done- we are simply too distracted too often. Last, we must develop what my brother Eric calls a mind for all seasons. This is a culmination of curiosity, continual study and reection, and the right application of knowledge throughout the lifespan. Remember that we are never too old to learn new things. We are never too old to dedicate ourselves to new causes. We are never too young or inexperienced to make a dierence. Let us go forth to serve, whatever our station- undergraduate, graduate student, tenured professor, or visitor to this campus. We all have something to oer; we need only apply our minds to this end. It is my hope that we will. Thank you. Jared Collett

Jared Collett is a senior Physician Assistant student and Master of Medical Science candidate in the Department of Medical Science and Community Health. He graduated Cum Laude with a Bachelor of Science in Geography from Brigham Young University and is a member of the Gamma Theta Upsilon, the International Geographical Honor Society. He is also a licensed massage therapist and operated a chronic pain management practice while completing his undergraduate degree. Having planned on being in medicine since childhood, Collett chose to become a Physician Assistant because he felt the two-year masters degree and lifestyle of Physician Assistants would be advantageous for his family. His interests in medicine include pediatrics and surgery. He has a diverse range of other academic interests and is an Eagle Scout and father of two. Originally from Idaho, he plans to move back to the inter-mountain West to practice medicine and raise his family.

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A History of the Capstone Project at Arcadia University

In 1983, as part of their participation in a faculty development FIPSE grant, a group of faculty proposed that Beaver College develop a requirement for a senior capstone experience. This experience was modeled after one at Wooster College. The basic principle was that all majors would require seniors to work on a project that was independent in nature and reected the level of expertise expected of a senior student in that major. An additional principle was that the project would require some type of public presentation. In some majors, the work on this project would begin in the junior year, and for others, during the senior year. The nature of the public presentation also varied from major to major, but in all cases, it was accompanied by a more complete written work handed in to the department. Thus, students gave oral summaries, accompanied by slide or power point presentations, posters, art shows, plays, seminars. This 1983 proposal was submitted to a curriculum committee, which rened it. Recognizing that implementation of the proposal would consume a great deal of faculty time and energy, the committee none the less felt that a capstone requirement would address problems that were of concern to the college as a whole. One of these was a lack of community: students tended to coalesce into small knots of friends and often did not know other majors in their eld or in the wider student body. The common aspects of the capstone experience were something they could all share and discuss. The second was the absence of a sense of closure. If a student passed all of the required courses, he or she would receive a diploma and march out the door without looking back. By requiring students to engage in thinking and working as professionals in their eld would do, they would gain a sense of how much they had learned and how far they had come. The faculty agreed with this reasoning voted to make this requirement an aspect of General Education. The Fine Arts Department had been conducting a capstone art exhibit of senior work for decades, but few of the other departments had anything comparable as part of their curriculum. Therefore all departments needed to modify their curriculum in order to work toward a culminating activity. At the same time, there was an eort to encourage (but not require) an internship for seniors. Though the Psychology major had a senior seminar in place for decades, including an internship, its requirements did not include a public presentation. The Psychobiology program changed both its curriculum and the senior requirement and was the rst to newly oer a public presentation of student work. Though the Psychology major had a senior seminar in place for decades, including an internship, its requirements did not include a public presentation. The Biology Department changed its curriculum [to include a senior seminar with a requirement for a public presentation. Each student would choose a topic of current research interest, search the primary literature to trace the history of the problem, nd out what experimental approaches were being used to investigate the problem and evaluate what progress had been made toward understanding the workings of that aspect of biology. In some cases, students were actively involved in laboratory research. The culmination of the project was a written thesis submitted to the department and a public poster session in which each student presented a visual display summarizing the three aspects of the research. Students were required to stand with their posters, to explain them to visitors and to answer questions about them. The level of sophistication grew by leaps and bounds, thanks, in no small part, to the guidance and technical assistance oered by the Art Department and the Library sta. The Department of Psychology followed the next year. Some departments embedded the senior requirement in existing upperlevel courses (English Department, Education Department), others created new courses. In the Computer Science major, students obtained a specialized work-oriented internship for an existing company and then presented their work in a public venue. The Business Administration major grouped students into small, ctional companies which conducted simulations of business decisions, and then presented their work to nonctional Boards of Directors comprised of business leaders from the surrounding community. By 1989 the requirement for an undergraduate senior project or a culminating activity for graduate students had been implemented throughout the University. Sam Cameron, Barbara Nodine, and Myra Jacobsohn Departments of Psychology and Biology

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Faculty Proles
Professor Matthew Borgen Matthew Borgen is an Adjunct Professor of Fine Arts. He recently showcased his art piece The Wing Rack at the Gershman Ys First Person Arts Salon on August 13, 2007. Borgens art features a biographical multimedia illustration of his struggles in the art world, while revealing a preoccupation with its own mythologized history. To learn more about Borgens work and the exhibit he presented on Aug. 13, visit www. rstpersonarts.org. Medicine, Thomas Jeerson University, Family Planning Council and Episcopal Hospital Dental Residency Program. CrivelliKovach has published articles in Birth, The Journal of Perinatal and Neonatal Nursing, The Journal of Human Lactation, The Journal of Community Psychology, Korean Journal of the Academy of Nursing and Journal of the Osteopathic Medical Association.

Professor Scott Rawlins Scott Rawlins is an Associate Professor of Fine Arts. He has earned numerous degrees including: a B.A. in biology from Earlham College and an M.F.A. in scientic illustration from the University of Michigan. He currently is the President of the American Society of Botanical Artists. In 2007, Rawlins and Ben Smith 07 were selected by the Guild of Natural Science Illustrators to exhibit at the GNSI annual meeting in Montana. Rawlins exhibited a piece of a yellow trillium (Trillium luteum) done in colored pencil.

Dr. Warren R. Haar Warren Haar received his M.A. and Ph.D. from the University of Pennsylvania. He earned his B.S. from the University of Utah. Currently, he is the Director of International Peace and Conict Resolution (IPCR). Prior to his appointment at Arcadia Haar served as a program ocer at the Project on Ethnic Relations, an Non-Governmental Organization that conducts programs of high-level intervention and serves as a neutral mediator to prevent ethnic conict in Central and Eastern Europe, the Balkans and the former Soviet Union. His experience extends to mediation of environmental disputes as well as research and publication on the sources of environmental conict, sustainable development strategies in post-conict societies, and research methods in conict analysis. Haar did a recent presentation in March 2007 entitled Mediation and Conict Resolution Principles and the War in Iraq: A Congruence Analysis of Bushs New Iraq Strategy. It was presented at the International Studies Association conference, Chicago, Il.

Dr. Steve Robbins Steve Robbins is a Professor of Psychology, and is the co-author of the textbook Psychology of Learning and Behavior. His research has been funded by the National Institute of Drug Abuse and the U.S. Department of Veterans Aairs. He recently published two articles, one in Art Therapy, and the other in Personality and Individual Dierences.

Professor Kathryn Peterson Dr. Wesley Rose Wesley Rose is an assistant professor of Biology. He came to Arcadia in the fall of 2006. He did his post-doctoral training at Fox Chase Cancer Center. He was recently published in a front-page article about Lou Gehrigs disease (ALS) in the Philadelphia Inquirer. He also recently published a paper with Anna Vorobyeva 07 called Altered levels of STAT1 and STAT3 inuence the neuronal response to interferon gamma in the December 2007 issue of the Journal of Neuroimmunology. Kathryn Peterson is an Assistant Professor of Theatre Arts. She also is a professional actress and playwright. Peterson also is an Artistic Associate and a resident member of the Peoples Light & Theater Company in Malvern, Pa. She has produced nine plays and has had two published. Recently, her play Hearsay was put on at cadia, and her panto, Treasure Island, was produced and put on by the Peoples Light & Theater Company.

Dr. David Paulk Dr. Andrea Crivelli-Kovach Andrea Crivelli-Kovach is an Associate Professor and Director of Community Health Programs. She has earned both her B.A. and M.A. from Immaculata College, and earned her Ph.D. from Temple University. She is also a Certied Health Education Specialist and currently serves as president of the Pa Public Health Association. In addition to her faculty and administrative positions at Arcadia, she has a research and evaluation consulting business and has completed projects with Maternity Care Coalition, Philadelphia College of Osteopathic David Paulk is an Associate Professor and Academic Coordinator in the Department of Medical Science and Community Health. Recently, he did a presentation on both the professional and personal aspects of child abuse at the International Society for Prevention of Child Abuse and Neglect in Lisbon, Portugal. He spoke at the Society for Physician Assistants in Pediatrics meeting at the American Family Practice Physician Assistant Conference in Las Vegas, Nev. Paulk also has received the Distinguished Fellow of the American Academy of Physician Assistants.

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Faculty Proles
Professor Alyssa Krill Alyssa Krill is an Assistant Professor of Fine Arts here. Krills recent artwork Clinton versus Bush, received an international award and was also selected to be put in a permanent collection in the La Maison du Livre et de lAche de Chaumont, France, Contemporary CollectionLes Silos, 2007. Her other poster Say No to GMOs (or Genetically Modied Organisms) received an international award at the China International Poster Biennial 2007. Krills logo of GMOs appeared in the November/December 2007 issue of Print magazine. She also received the 2007 Gold Create Award in Creative Industry Self-Promotion and appeared in the November/December 2007 issue of Create magazine. Dr. Hugh Grady Ph.D. University of Texas M.A. University of Texas B.A. Fordham University

Professor Joanna Inman Joanna Inman is an Adjunct Professor in Fine Arts. She is also graduated from Arcadia in 1998 with a Bachelors in Art History and Painting. Inman got her Masters in Photography from the Tyler School of Art. Inman recently had an exhibition at Saint Josephs University entitled Faded, Cracked and Torn.

Dr. Emanuele Curroto Emanuele Curroto is an Assistant Professor of Physical Chemistry here. Curroto earned his Bachelor of Science in chemistry from the University of Massachusetts. He earned his Doctoral Degree in physical chemistry from Yale University. Curroto got a grant from the National Science Foundation to fund a research project of his in 2005. And in 2000-02 he was awarded the Vitetta Professorship award here at Arcadia.

Hugh Grady was born and raised in Savannah Ga. In 1969 he earned his B.A. from Fordham University where he graduated magna sum laude. Grady then earned his M.A. in 1972 from the University of Texas in Austin. Grady also worked as a teaching assistant at the University of Texas until 1978, when he earned his Ph.D. From there he taught part-time and worked at Gale Research (now known as Thompson Gale) as Senior Assistant Editor for the critical Shakespeare Anthology Criticism. In 1985, he accepted a position at Temple University as a visiting Assistant Professor of English and, in 1987, started working at Arcadia. Grady was tenured in 1994 and promoted to full professor in 1999. He served as Department Chair from July 1982 to June 1992 and September 1999 to August 2000. Grady was also awarded Professor of the Year for 2001-02. In 1990 he was cowinner of the Ellington Beavers Intellectual Inquiry Award and in 2004 was the sole winner. Also in 2004, he was awarded a National Endowment for the Humanities Summer Stipend for research. Grady has also won a Faculty Development Fund Award for the years 1990, 1998 and 2000 through 2006. Grady also has written several works on Shakespeare. He recently published an article in Shakespeare Quarterly Volume 59, issue 3 (Fall 2008), pp. 273-301. The article was titled Shakespeare and Impure Aesthetics: The Case of A Midsummer Nights Dream. In the article, Grady discusses how Shakespeare studies generally have avoided the aesthetic in the past but, recently, a number of developments suggest the return to aesthetics is on the way. His essay argues that impure aestheticsborrowed primarily from Theodor Adorno and Walter Benjamin-emphasizes the relation of alterity between art and its other and the inuence of erotic desire, the commodication of the lifeworld in capitalism. It also emphasizes arts role in ameliorating the mutilation of nature produced in modernity is a promising form for the revival to take. According to Grady, Shakespeare himself seems to share at least some of the ideas of impure aesthetics, especially in A Midsummer Nights Dream. The play is one of Shakespeares fullest explorations of aesthetic ideas, and is, thus, a metaaesthetic dramaas well as a development of the genre of comedy to unprecedented levels of aesthetic complexity and selfreection.

Professor Meredith Warner Meredith Warner is an Adjunct Professor in Fine Arts. Warner received her B.F.A. from the Tyler School of Art and her M.F.A. from the University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign. She recently had an exhibition in Montreal, Quebec, one in Chicago, Ill., and one in Philadelphia, Pa. Warner also received a Faculty Development Grant recently.

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Faculty Proles
Dr. Naomi Phillips Ph.D. University of Hawaii M.A. Sonoma State University B.A. Sonoma State University

Phillips earned her B.A. in 1985 from Sonoma State University and her M.A. also from their in 1989. She earned her Ph.D. in 1998 on Botany at the University of Hawaii. Phillips has been an assistant professor here at Arcadia since 2005. She is interested in researching many things including but not limited to algae and endangered monkeys. She explains her research interests as the following: one of the main focuses of research in the Phillips lab is on addressing systematic and taxonomic issues within brown algae. I currently have a project in collaboration with colleagues in U. Iowa, Bigelow and U Florida to use genomic techniques to determine the most expressed genes across various lineages of brown algae and closely aligned out groups (through Expressed Sequence Tags or ESTs). The EST data we will enable us to place genes (100-150) in evolutionary rate categories providing essential candidate genes for all levels of systematic inference from intra-specic to ordinal levels in brown algae. Loci will be selected genes from our novel gene bank and combined with existing chloroplast and mitochondrial markers to construct a robust multigene tip rich phylogenetc hypothesis for this important group of primary producers. The second focus of research in the lab is on conservation genetics of endangered monkey species on the island of Bioko, Equatorial Guinea. In collaboration with colleagues at University of Iowa, New York University and Drexel we are characterizing population sizes, genetic structure, and genetic health of theses endangered primates. Thanks to her on going research she has published numerous works; including articles in Genetics in 2007 and 2006, articles in the Gulf of Mexico Science in the year 2000, many articles in Phycological Research in the years 2008, 2005 and 2001. Phillips was recently awarded the Vitetta Award here at Arcadia for the years 2007-09. Among other things this award allows the recipient to reduce teaching load, develop curriculum and for professional pursuits. She also recently organized a symposium in July 2007 in Chicago. The symposium was on Borrowed Chloroplasts: Secondary Endosymbiosis and the Chromalveolates.

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