Angela Letourneau, professor/chair of Accounting, Finance and Economics, has been selected the S.C. Professor of the Year. Letourneau plans to retire at the end of the academic year.
The importance of project management in education has become increasingly evident in our evolving technology-ridden lives. Educators are required to manage complex projects involving multiple stakeholders, resources, and...
BACKGROUND: Improving care at home for people with dementia is a core policy goal in the dementia strategies of many European countries. A challenge to effective home support is the occurrence of crises in the care of people...
BACKGROUND: Improving care at home for people with dementia is a core policy goal in the dementia strategies of many European countries. A challenge to effective home support is the occurrence of crises in the care of people...
Gifted Black and Brown students are not voiceless; their voices are suffocated under the knee of systemic racism and white supremacy. This chapter proposes that the field of gifted education advocates for needed structural and...
Low quality healthcare services can hinder economic and social development, result in premature death and disability, and waste human capital. To compound pre-pandemic healthcare access and equity issues, the quality of care...
When educators have difficulty accessing peer-reviewed research, it is inequitable to expect them to compete with educators who have access to a plethora of resources. Inequities have been a historically-identified educational...
Angela Letourneau, accounting, finance and economics, is the 2006 Distinguished Professor of the Year. Barbarba Blackburn, curriculum and instruction, is the Outstanding Junior Professor.
This chapter describes professional learning communities, an educator practice, brought to K-20 classrooms as a pivotal practice for talented youth as student learning communities (SLCs). Several research-based models are used...
Teaching advocacy and activism is a pivotal practice for talented youth. Advocacy is broadly defined as championing a cause, from self-advocacy and community/local issues to sociopolitical and global awareness contexts. Activism...
Greatest track team in UC history posts laudable 7-3 season record Kummler and UC share Ford grant Records, demonstrations highlight jazz seminar Election results Pre-medicals hear Bucher at banquet Evans & Dillin cop "Y"...
The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill is moving rapidly toward integrating data literacy and data science in the undergraduate curriculum. This study interviewed instructors across the social sciences to identify ways...
Africa has experienced unprecedented growth across a range of development indices for decades. However, this growth is often at the expense of Africa’s biodiversity and ecosystems, jeopardizing the livelihoods of...
Nobel Prize-winner here tonight: Dr. Linus Pauling to address special forum on "Science and international relations" Book "No more war!" Dr. Pauling's credo Local high school pupils invited to PSEA panel UC students attend...
The aim of this chapter is to respond to the emerging scholarship regarding first-time leaders and their situational and potential lifelong learning environment. While transformational leadership may be the long-term goal, this...
Selections from the Reverend Charles Rice memorial book presented to the Rice family. Included are reflections from the following Ursinus College alumni, students, staff and faculty chosen by Tonya Rice: Christian Rice...
Mad Studies and survivor research are emerging fields of enquiry whose goals and boundaries are continually being shaped. This paper aims to explore intersections between the two fields and argues that fostering a stronger...
In order for the single celled embryo of C. elegans to develop, it must have a proper anterior-posterior axis development. A gene that plays an important role in that development is pam-1 which codes for the puromycin sensitive...
Mad Studies and survivor research are emerging fields of enquiry whose goals and boundaries are continually being shaped. This paper aims to explore intersections between the two fields and argues that fostering a stronger...