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Examining Alumni Perceptions of Social and Cultural Capital Accumulation Through Ursinus's Summer Fellows Program
Sydney Dickson
Jan 01, 0001
A common offering among undergraduate institutions is an intensive summer research program, which allows students to complete a project independently without any other academic obligations. These programs are designed to foster...
independent undergraduate summer research programs alumni ethnography Social Capital cultural capital outcomes assessment Anthropology Educational Assessment, Evaluation, and Research Higher Education Liberal Studies Social and Behavioral Sciences
Published by: Ursinus College
Academic Habitus and the Summer Fellows: an Ethnographic Exploration of Students' Accumulated Economic, Social, and Cultural Capital
Sydney Dickson
Jan 01, 0001
The summer of 1996 saw the beginnings of what would become a unique part of the Ursinus College experience, a program that remains distinctive among undergraduate institutions; interested students of all majors were invited to...
Summer Fellows program Ursinus College Collegeville Pennsylvania Students Anthropology Higher Education Liberal Studies Social and Behavioral Sciences Sociology
Published by: Ursinus College
Geographies of commemoration
Memorialising lives, deaths and events in landscapes can be authorised, official and highly regulated, or spontaneous, unsanctioned and anti-authoritarian. Interpreting and connecting two sites spanning the Pacific Ocean, this...
Effects of Different Land-Use Types on the Space Use of the Woodland Box Turtle
Sydney Grant
Jan 01, 0001
Human land use change has resulted in extensive habitat loss, degradation, and fragmentation, threatening biodiversity worldwide. The population of woodland box turtles (Terrapene carolina carolina) has declined because of land...
Published by: Winthrop University
Monographs of the RIMR. Vol. 8, 1918
The Rockefeller University
Jan 01, 0001
Botulism: A Clinical and Experimental Study by Ernest C. Dickson
Published by: The Rockefeller Institute for Medical Research
COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY IN THE NEXT DECADE
The Rockefeller University
Jan 01, 0001
A series of lectures by Dr. Sydney Brenner
Published by: The Rockefeller University
Biology, English Majors Capture Top 2009 Student Life Awards
Winthrop University
Jan 01, 0001
Rhine Gourrier, an English major from Columbia, took the Mary Mildred Sullivan Award. Biology major Glenn Edward Spurlin III of Rock Hill won the Algernon Sydney Sullivan Award.
Published by: Winthrop University
Survival of the Toughest: An Ethnographic Study of a Collegiate Wrestling Team
Sydney A Dodson-Nease
Jan 01, 0001
The purpose of this ethnographic study of the Vespey College Wrestling is to obtain a better understanding of the wrestlers' perspectives on cultural behaviors and norms that appear to oppose masculinity. This ethnographic study...
wrestling masculinity and sports team bond Sports ethnography communication Social and Behavioral Sciences
Published by: Ursinus College
Mothers and Whores
Sydney White
Sep 25, 2012
This research paper argues that the intimate link between popular culture stereotypes and the media manifests in, and influences, the experience of women in politics. It analyses two major stereotypes and applies these themes to...
Published by: Memorial University of Newfoundland
Insights into the growth morphology of calcite cement
John Anthony Dawson Dickson
Dec 13, 2022
The classic work on the morphology of limestone calcite cements done in the 1960s is extended here by utilising growth zones to reconstruct the growth of cement crystals. Only cement composed of fitted polyhedral monocrystals...
Member identity in fitness centres and its consequences
Purpose: The purpose of this study was to examine the effect of member identity and its dimensions of power, urgency, external legitimacy, internal legitimacy and interest, on satisfaction and behavioural intentions in...
Behavioural intentions Fitness centres Member identity satisfaction stakeholders /dk/atira/pure/subjectarea/asjc/1400/1406 name=Marketing /dk/atira/pure/subjectarea/asjc/1400/1403 name=Business and International Management /dk/atira/pure/subjectarea/asjc/2000/2003 name=Finance /dk/atira/pure/sustainabledevelopmentgoals/responsible_consumption_and_production name=SDG 12 - Responsible Consumption and Production
Socio-demographic factors associated with normal linear growth among pre-school children living in better-off households
This study examined the socio-demographic factors associated with normal linear growth among pre-school children living in better-off households, using survey data from Ghana, Kenya, Nigeria, Mozambique and Democratic Republic...
Walkability and Greenness Do Not Walk Together
Background: The existing environment literature separately emphasizes the importance of neighborhood walkability and greenness in enhancing health and wellbeing. Thus, a desirable neighborhood should ideally be green and...
Minstrelsy and Contemporary Media
Sydney Rotman
Jan 01, 0001
Blackface minstrelsy was the most popular form of entertainment in the United States for over 50 years. While minstrelsy has seemingly faded from popular view, it has instead evolved and is still present in contemporary media....
Minstrelsy Blackface Post-racial Hip-hop Comedy Media Contemporary American Popular Culture American Studies
Published by: Ursinus College
Mothers and Whores
Sydney White
Sep 25, 2012
This research paper argues that the intimate link between popular culture stereotypes and the media manifests in, and influences, the experience of women in politics. It analyses two major stereotypes and applies these themes to...
Published by: Memorial University of Newfoundland
Winthrop Students Awarded Scholarships for Community Service and Academics
Winthrop University
Jan 01, 0001
Two Winthrop University students have received scholarships this year from the Algernon Sydney Sullivan Foundation to help further their college education.
Published by: Winthrop University
Service, Leadership and Academics Honored at Student Life Awards
Winthrop University
Jan 01, 0001
Colleen Rice and Timothy Mention won the Mary Mildred Sullivan and Algernon Sydney Sullivan Awards. The award is given annually to students who have given great service to the university and plan to continue that great service...
Published by: Winthrop University
Walkability and Greenness Do Not Walk Together
BACKGROUND: The existing environment literature separately emphasizes the importance of neighborhood walkability and greenness in enhancing health and wellbeing. Thus, a desirable neighborhood should ideally be green and...
A Note on the Wage Effects of the 1972 Raising of the School Leaving Age in Scotland and Northern Ireland
In this note, we use the UK Labour Force Survey to estimate the wage return to an additional year of schooling for Scotland and Northern Ireland exploiting the 1972 Raising of the School Leaving Age (RoSLA). Prior literature on...
Two Students Earn Highest GPA in Winthrop's May Graduating Class
Winthrop University
Jan 01, 0001
The Tillman Award winners were Rebecca Weaver Meares, a business administration major from Rock Hill, and Sydney Laura Shealy, an integrated marketing communication major from Lexington, S.C. Winthrop President Anthony DiGiorgio...
Published by: Winthrop University
Percentage of High Schoolers' with Daily Soda Consumption by State Compared to the Percentage of High Schoolers with Obesity by State
We will be presenting a poster on the percentage of high schoolers' with daily soda consumption by state compared to the percentage of high schoolers with obesity by state.
Published by: Winthrop University
The geography of abortion
Abortion has historically been ignored in geography. Although bodies and pregnancy have been increasingly studied since the 1990s, a reticence around abortion remains. In recent years, however, this has begun to change. This...
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