W. SUN*{, G. XU{, P. GONG§ and S. LIANG" {Department of Geography and Planning, Grand Valley State University, Allendale, MI 49401, USA. e-mail: [email protected] {Department of Geography and Planning, Grand Valley State University, Allendale, MI 49401, USA. e-mail: [email protected] §Department of Environmental Science, Policy & Management, University of California, Berkeley, 151 Hilgard Hall, CA94720...

The Institution Grand Valley State University is a comprehensive regional university located on the banks of the Grand River twelve miles west of Grand Rapids, Michigan. The university was founded in 1960 as a state supported institution for higher education to serve the populace of central western Michigan, specifically Ottawa, Kent, and Muskegon Counties. Increases in enrollments over the pas...

Most recently, the Flipped Classroom model has drawn the attention of many educators as an effective means of organizing and developing individual competencies. The goal in the university setting at Grand Valley State University, College of Business (GVSU) is to improve cognitive practice and increase learning in the value creation process and the zone of proximal development (ZPD) environment....

[*] Prof. A. J. Matzger, Dr. A. G. Wong-Foy, J. K. Schnobrich Department of Chemistry, University of Michigan 930N. University St., Ann Arbor, MI 48109 (USA) E-mail: [email protected] Prof. D. W. Gidley, Dr. M. Liu, Dr. W. E. Frieze Department of Physics, University of Michigan 450 Church St. Ann Arbor, MI 48109 (USA) E-mail: [email protected] Prof. R. S. Vallery Department of Physics, Grand Val...

by Lewis Yablonsky, Emeritus Professor of Sociology and Criminology, California State University-Northridge (Published in the American Sociological Association, "Sociological Practice Newsletter" 8/2000 on my acceptance of THE WILLIAM FOOTE WHYTE CAREER AWARD FOR SOCIOLOGICAL PRACTICE at the ASA Meetings 8/2000 in Washington, D.C.; and was the basis for a lecture on 1/25/01 presented at Grand V...

Department of Anthropology, Northeastern Illinois University, 5500 N. St., Louis Avenue, Chicago, IL 60625, USA Department of Biomedical Sciences, Grand Valley State University, Padnos Hall, Allendale, MI 49506, USA Department of Evolutionary Anthropology, Duke University, 130 Science Drive, Box 90383, Durham, NC 27708, USA City University of New York and NYCEP, Division of Vertebrate Paleontol...

Grand challenges in organismal biology Kurt Schwenk,* Dianna K. Padilla, George S. Bakken and Robert J. Full Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of Connecticut, Storrs, CT 06269-3043, USA; Department of Ecology and Evolution, Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, NY 11794-5245, USA; Department of Biology and Center for Biodiversity Studies, Indiana State University, Terre ...

CARL R. RUETZ III*, JOEL C. TREXLER†, FRANK JORDAN‡, WILLIAM F. LOFTUS§ and SUE A. PERRY¶ * Annis Water Resources Institute, Grand Valley State University, 740 West Shoreline Drive, Muskegon, Michigan 49441 USA; † Department of Biological Sciences, Florida International University, Miami, Florida 33199, USA; ‡ Department of Biological Sciences, Loyola University, New Orleans, Louisiana 70118, U...

The objectives of this study were to determine how often Grand Valley State University (GVSU) students’ frequent fast food restaurants, as well as look at the different fast food establishments in the surrounding campus area in an effort to expose the most patronized types of fast food. The main goal was then to investigate patterns between males and females related to menu choices and taste pe...

I develop theory about two kinds of individual level integration expertise, portable and local. I discuss the implications of the difference between these kinds of expertise for the management of knowledge in complex integrative processes, and for the development of organizational flexibility. I define portable integration expertise as re-deployable from problem to problem, even though the prob...