Undergraduate science students took an Inquiry course in their second (sophomore) year. The course was designed to explore the social life of scientific knowledge. They were given a set of eight assessment options: personal logs, targeted oral examinations, commentaries, mini-lectures, individual explorations, research proposals, book reviews, and problem-solving exercises. Each option had a sp...

Parallel programming concepts are often introduced in upper-level undergraduate curriculum as a part of OS or other advanced programming courses. With the wide availability and prevalence of multi-core processors, it is imperative that students learn good programming practices to effectively use the increasing number of cores in computing environments. Parallelism concepts must be introduced so...

Over the past decade or so, many private and publicly held companies have moved away from providing employees with company-funded pensions upon retirement to a retirement system that requires both employee and company contributions to fund an individual’s retirement. These so-called 401(k) retirement plans usually require the employee to choose among different investment vehicles, including mut...

Tell us about your early days. I was born and raised in Buffalo, NY, and as the locals in my community would emphasize, “South Buffalo,” which is a very proud, hard-working, and predominantly Irish-Catholic community. I attended the local all girls’ high school, Mount Mercy Academy, where I learned a great deal about the importance of outreach, mentorship and leadership. This is also where my s...

In an investigation of sex differences in adaptation to college, real and ideal self-concept and symptoms of depression were studied longitudinally in a sample of 287 students. Survey data were collected at a summer orientation and one semester into freshman year. No sex differences in self-concept were found before college, but males' real self-concept became more positive over the transition....

MEDICAL HISTORY The patient has no significant medical or surgical history. She is a sophomore in high school and receives grades of As and Bs. She plays varsity and club volleyball and works part time at a restaurant. She has no allergies, takes nomedications, and her immunizations are up to date. As a prerequisite to playing a high school sport, she underwent Immediate PostConcussion Assessme...

A topic of long-standing interest for university administrators and faculty is how to help rst-year college students succeed academically. On average, only 73.6% of college freshman return for their sophomore year (National Center for Higher Education Management Systems [NCHEMS], 2007). Although academic success in college requires some preexisting capabilities, these abilities do not always di...

Seniors Hold Last Banquet O'Connor's Restaurant at 6 p.m. will be the scene of the Senior Clasps banquet, announces John Orser. President. Walter Knotts, Associate Professor of English, will he guest speaker and faculty guest will be Violet Larney, Associate Professor of Mathematics and Mr. Larney. Turkey and roast beef dinners will be served. Donna Hughes is General Chairman; Mary Eileen Doarv...

The educational system has been greatly affected by the COVID-19 pandemic which lead to cancellation of face-to-face classes from different learning institutions in whole world. Using descriptive and phenomenological approach, this study determined programming proficiency level sophomore computer science students where laboratories were not available online through management was just one optio...

We share, through this case study, how our converged learning model formed the basis for NJIT’s Pandemic Recovery Plan and describe mission while ensuring safety well-being of campus community, endured. Having proven successful on a small scale, was expanded, by necessity, to most freshman sophomore level classes in Fall 2020, with junior, senior, graduate courses added Spring 2021. Through mod...