The Center for Urban and Regional Affairs (CURA) is an all-University applied research and technical assistance center at the University of Minnesota that connects faculty and students with community organizations and public institutions working on significant public policy issues in Minnesota. The CURA Reporter is published twice annually to provide information about CURA's programs and projec...

A study examined college students' academic delay of gratification, that is, their preference for an immediately available option (go to a concert the day before a test) or a delayed alternative (stay home studying for a test) . Differential explanations of academic delay of gratification between task, performance approach, and performance-avoid goal-oriented college students (n=102) also were ...

Center on Teaching & Learning, University of Oregon, Eugene, OR, USA; Department of Education and Child Studies, University of Leiden, Leiden, The Netherlands; Department of Educational Psychology, University of Minnesota, Twin Cities, Minneapolis, MN, USA; Department of Psychology and School of Education and Social Psychology, Northwestern University, Evanston, IL, USA; Department of Education...

Tamotsu Tsukahara1*, Yoshikazu Matsuda2, Hisao Haniu3 and Kimiko MurakamiMurofushi4 1Department of Hematology and Immunology, Kanazawa Medical University, Japan 2Clinical Pharmacology Educational Center, Nihon Pharmaceutical University, Japan 3Department of Orthopaedic Surgery, Shinshu University School of Medicine, Japan 4Endowed Research Division of Human Welfare Sciences, Ochanomizu Universi...

Jesús García Laborda, Demetrios G Sampson, Ronald K. Hambleton and Eduardo Guzman University of Alcalá, Alcalá de Henares-Madrid, Spain // University of Piraeus & Center for Research and Technology, Hellas, Greece // Educational Assessment, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, USA // University of Malaga, Malaga, Spain // [email protected] // [email protected] // [email protected] // gu...

This project is the outgrowth of the Enhanced AHEC Academic Community Partnership for Health Professions Workforce and Educational Reform. The Enhanced AHEC project has involved faculty from MUSC, USC, Greenville University Center, technical education institutions, the AHEC system, representatives from the State Budget and Control Board, the Commission on Higher Education, DHEC, DHHS, SCMA, SCH...

Fan Cheng, Patricia J. McLaughlin, William A. Banks, and Ian S. Zagon Department of Neural and Behavioral Sciences, The Pennsylvania State University College of Medicine, Hershey, Pennsylvania; and Geriatric Research Educational and Clinical Center, Veterans Affairs–Puget Sound Health Care System and Division of Gerontology and Geriatric Medicine, Department of Internal Medicine, University of ...

* The authors would like to thank those whose comments improved the quality of this document. Isolde Birdthistle, Edward De Vos, Ronald Slaby, Joan Vaz Serra Hoffman, Cheryl Vince-Whitman and Debbie Whitcomb from the Educational Development Center of Harvard University made valuable suggestions. Rafael Lozano of the World Health Organization and Carlos Castillo of the Pan American Health Organi...

In an era of increased emphasis on medication safety practice, a gap exists in the translation of research to clinical practice for administering intravenous continuous infusion medications. An educational initiative was designed for medical-surgical nurses in a tertiary care center to standardize operational procedures in a clinical model focusing on evidence-based practice.

psychoeducational workshop that was rapidly developed and disseminated to an affected community in response to the attack on the World Trade Center (WTC). The workshop provided conceptually, empirically, and experientially grounded training to community and educational personnel on responses to disaster and trauma, resilience, tolerance, and compassion fatigue. [Brief Treatment and Crisis Inter...