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Interview with Isabel Potter
Isabel Potter
Jan 01, 0001
In her April 22, 1980 interview with Jeff Clark, Isabel Potter shares her experience as a Biology instructor during the Depression. Potter recalls how budget changes affected her classes and the general atmosphere on campus....
Published by: Winthrop University
Digital Barriers and Individual Coping Behaviors in Distance Education During COVID-19
Isabel Gan, Rui Sun
Jan 01, 2022
Information and communication technologies (ICT) have played a pivotal role in facilitating knowledge acquisition and enabling distance education. Yet, knowledge about digital divide in distance education remains limited. This...
Counterspace Support for BIPOC Employees Within a Holistic JEDI Library Framework
This chapter presents a case study of how an academic library supports Black, Indigenous, and People of Color (BIPOC) employees with funding so these workers can find counterspaces (spaces where they can feel safe in community...
Levelling Up Language Learning
This study examines the use of gamification as an innovative assessment approach to foreign language learning with 12–14-year-old students. A mixed methodology has been applied. Quantitative data have been collected from...
Winthrop English Majors Recognized at International Conference
Winthrop University
Jan 01, 0001
Senior Alex Muller, president of the Winthrop Iota Mu Chapter of Sigma Tau Delta and editor of the Winthrop Literary Magazine The Anthology, was awarded the $4,000 Sigma Tau Delta Senior Scholarship for his outstanding scholarly...
Published by: Winthrop University
Women & Science: Supporting the Advancement of Women in Science
Under the leadership of President Torsten Wiesel, Rockefeller made an institutional commitment in the mid- 1990s to increase the number of women on its faculty and to do all that it could to support women scientists, at all...
Online Collaborative Learning Using Microsoft Teams in Higher Education Amid COVID-19
Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, most universities needed to move to online teaching and learning, in some cases with very limited knowledge or experience in running online programmes. Engaging students online has become an...
Pride and Prejudice: A Modern, Queer Retelling for the Stage
Kate Isabel Foley
Jan 01, 0001
In the course of studying LGBTQ topics in a queer drama class, I noticed that there was a glaring omission in our readings: the "B." However, this lack of bisexual representation wasn't due to a poor syllabus, but to a dismaying...
Published by: Ursinus College
Imprints from idea origin on innovation and the development environment
This study builds on the evolutionary and organization literatures to explore how the nature of innovation outcomes was influenced by the innovation’s original idea and the environment in which it was developed. We use data from...
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What Influences the Prevalence and Intensity of Haemoparasites and Ectoparasites in an Insular Lizard?
Island biogeography theories predict that characteristics such as island size, age, and isolation interplay in host-parasite dynamics. In this study, we analyzed haemogregarines of the Aegean wall lizard, Podarcis...
Immunocapture of <i>Escherichia coli</i> in a fluoropolymer microcapillary array
Isabel P. Alves, Nuno Reis
Jan 25, 2019
This study presents novel experimental insights into the direct quantitation and immunocapture of bacteria cells in a fluoropolymer microcapillary array, using Escherichia coli as work model, a pathogen responsible for around...
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Imprints from idea origin on innovation and the development environment
This study builds on the evolutionary and organization literatures to explore how the nature of innovation outcomes was influenced by the innovation’s original idea and the environment in which it was developed. We use data from...
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Macromolecular ab initio phasing enforcing secondary and tertiary structure.
Ab initio phasing of macromolecular structures, from the native intensities alone with no experimental phase information or previous particular structural knowledge, has been the object of a long quest, limited by two main...
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Microfluidic smartphone quantitation of <i>Escherichia coli</i> in synthetic urine
Isabel P Alves, Nuno M Reis
Dec 01, 2019

In spite of the clinical need, there is a major gap in rapid diagnostics for identification and quantitation of E. coli and other pathogens, also regarded as the biggest bottleneck in the fight against the spread of...

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