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Russian Court Sentences Anti-Putin Activist to 8 Years for Drugs
A Russian court jailed opposition activist Taisiya Osipova for eight years on drug-related charges, defying public outcry and calls for a more lenient verdict by prosecutors and Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev.
The judge didn't find enough mitigating factors in a review of Osipova's case to give her less than a minimum sentence of eight years in prison for attempting to sell drugs, Olga Shilina, a spokeswoman for Zadneprovsky District Court in the northwestern city of Smolensk, said by phone today. Prosecutors had sought a four-year term.
Osipova was arrested in 2010 after police found drugs in her house and received a 10-year sentence in 2011. After then-President Medvedev called the verdict "too harsh," a regional court annulled the ruling and ordered a new trial in March.
President Vladimir Putin, who reclaimed the Kremlin after March's presidential elections, has hardened his response to the biggest unrest since he came to power in 2000. A Moscow court on Aug. 17 sentenced performers of the Pussy Riot punk band to two years in prison for a protest against Putin. Anti-corruption activist and protest leader Alexey Navalny as well as Alexander Lebedev, the billionaire newspaper owner who supports the opposition movement, face criminal charges.
A member of an opposition coalition called the Other Russia and the wife of one of the group's senior members, Osipova was included by anti-government protesters in February on a list of "political prisoners" along with former Yukos Oil Co. owner Mikhail Khodorkovsky.
Osipova contended that the drugs were planted by police in her home during a raid. The Other Russia group said that Osipova was targeted because of her husband, Sergey Fomchenkov, and her refusal to testify against him. Osipova has been kept kept in custody even though she has diabetes and a young daughter who was five years old at the time of her arrest, according to a website in her support.
Medvedev's position on Osipova's case remains unchanged, Interfax reported, citing his spokeswoman, Natalya Timakova.


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The Happiness of Cities: Do Happy People Take Happy Images?
Twitter #DataGrants Award to UCSD, CUNY to Measure Happpiness from Tweeted Images in U.S. Cities
San Diego, April 21, 2014 -- A team of researchers from the University of California, San Diego and The Graduate Center, City University of New York (CUNY) is one of only six groups to win one of Twitter's inaugural #DataGrants. To do so, they beat out more than 1,300 rival proposals from around the world.
The pilot program, announced in February, will give the six winning teams free access to Twitter's public and historical datasets for the purpose of advancing their respective research efforts.
The project will tackle a simple question: Is it possible to measure the overall happiness of metropolitan areas based on the study of images shared on Twitter? "Can visual characteristics of images shared on social media tell us something about the 'moods' of cities?" said principal investigator Mehrdad Yazdani, a data scientist with the Software Studies Initiative (SSI) at the Qualcomm Institute, the UC San Diego division of the California Institute for Telecommunications and Information Technology (Calit2). "We will analyze one million tweeted images over the course of one year in specific U.S. cities, and test for correlations with other measures of happiness in the same cities."
Since only six teams were awarded grants, the Twitter program became one of the most competitive research contests, with the winners representing less than one-half of one percent of the submitted proposals. "We believe that images can transcend the limitations of language," said Yazdani. Co-PI Lev Manovich, a CUNY Graduate Center professor of computer science who established the Software Studies Initiative at the Qualcomm Institute in 2007, adds: "By studying large sets of images shared on social media, we hope to develop new ways to understand the well-being of a society, and the what, when and where of a society's needs."
In addition to Yazdani and Manovich, the winning team includes Nadav Hochman, a Ph.D. candidate in the History of Art and Architecture at the University of Pittsburgh, who is currently working with Manovich as a visiting scholar at CUNY; and Jay Chow, web developer at the San Diego-based startup Katana Connect, who is also a UCSD alumnus (BA, '12) from the Interdisciplinary Computing and the Arts program, and a volunteer researcher in SSI at the Qualcomm Institute. (SSI originated in the institute, where Manovich remains an academic participant, in addition to running a parallel group at The Graduate Center, CUNY.)
Existing measures of happiness are based on traditional surveys and other data sources, including statistics about crime, health and well-being. To the best of the team's knowledge, no similar study has been done with images shared on social media, but it's a logical extension of work done by Manovich's teams on both coasts. Earlier in 2014, they released a study of 3,200 Instagram 'selfies' (self portraits) across six cities (http://selfiecity.net) In 2013, they analyzed and visualized 2.3 million Instagram photos from 13 cities in their Phototrails (http://phototrails.net/ ) project. (For the Phototrails, the team downloaded data and images using the Instagram API; for Selfiecity, they used Gnip, the largest provider of social media data in the world.)
"We will systematically evaluate many visual features of the tweeted images," explained principal investigator Yazdani, an alumnus (Ph.D., '12) from the Electrical and Computer Engineering department in UC San Diego's Jacobs School of Engineering. The researchers will use standard measures used in image processing and computer vision, such as color measures, edge orientations, and texture characteristics,
"We can then test if the characteristics of such images can be correlated with measures of social health such as the Gallup well−being index and Health Ranking," added Yazdani. "For example, do cities that are more 'happy' have more selfies, and do people smile more when taking selfies?"
In addition, the researchers will study image content using machine learning techniques. They will also closely look at selfies shared on Twitter using the methodology developed in the Selfiecity project, including proportions of smiling faces, and the ratio of selfies to all other images.
"We are thrilled with the response from the research community," noted Twitter on its Engineering Blog April 17. "We received more than 1,300 proposals from more than 60 different countries, with more than half of the proposals coming from outside the U.S." Twitter made only two grants to U.S. institutions; the other four went to teams in Japan, Australia, the Netherlands and United Kingdom.
For Twitter, the #DataGrants program aims to be a public service as well as a showcase for the value of its data. According to the social network, users are sending more than 500 million tweets every day – an average of 5,700 tweets per second (based on data from August 2013).
Twitter's announcement came just days after the company announced that it has acquired Gnip, a Colorado-based startup that has been an outside partner and go-between for external companies that wanted access to Twitter's data. (The Software Studies Initiative has already been using Gnip since September 2013.) In announcing its first #DataGrants, Twitter noted that "as we welcome Gnip to Twitter, we look forward to expanding the Twitter #DataGrants program and helping even more institutions and academics access Twitter data in the future."
The other recipients of Twitter #DataGrants will use the data in research ranging from health and the environment to disaster response and sports. The only other U.S.-based team is a partnership of Harvard Medical School and Boston Children's Hospital, which will use Twitter data for monitoring of foodborne, gastrointestinal illness. Another health-related project will be carried out at the University of Twente in the Netherlands, where researchers will explore the diffusion and effectiveness of campaigns using Twitter to encourage early cancer detection. Japan's National Institute of Information and Communications (NICT) aims to integrate its data from Twitter into a disaster information analysis system, and Australia's University of Wollongong proposes an environmental study using geo-social intelligence to model urban flooding in the Indonesian capital, Jakarta. Finally, the University of East London in the U.K. will explore how tweets may affect or reflect the performance of sports teams.
The majority of scientists who study social media data today are from computer science. The team from the Software Studies Initiative is the only one of the winning teams with members who have strong backgrounds in arts, design, and humanities.
Yazdani, Manovich and Hochman also just had another achievement – a paper accepted to the 8th International Conference on Weblogs and Social Media (ICWSM 2014), where it will be the only paper using ideas and methods from the humanities and media art, as opposed to computer science and social sciences, which are more typical for this conference. At the June 2014 ICWSM conference in Ann Arbor, Michigan, they will present their paper, "On Hyper-Locality: Performances of Place in Social Media." The study explores large numbers of Instagram images documenting a month-long residency of the famous street artist Banksy in New York City during October 2013. For the paper, the Qualcomm Institute's Yazdani did data analysis, including feature extraction, clustering, and classification.
As Lev Manovich put it on Friday, April 18: "It's been a good week!"
It has also been a good year for Manovich and his colleagues on both coasts. They received extensive exposure for their Selfiecity.net project, which has now generated more than 110 original news articles in U.S. and international publicationsin the two months after the project was released in mid-February, including an article in New York Times. The project was also featured on the BBC, Discovery Channel and leading TV networks in a number of countries.
The #DataGrants award has already resulted in an interesting consequence for two of the winning teams. Manovich's group was approached by the team at the Harvard Medical School to collaborate on a separate project that would involve the large dataset from Selfiecity.net. "The selfies and underlying data would be part of a global public health study," said Manovich. "We are delighted to start working with them, because they are leaders in using social media for public-health research."
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Project Lead: Andrew Byrnes
Amount: $10,000
Description: The Department of Defense designated Dugway Proving Ground Utah as a Major Range and Test Facility Base for Chemical, Biological, Radiological, and Improvised Explosive Testing. Dugway provides developmental and operational outdoor field testing using chemical and biological simulants as well as having developmental laboratories and chamber testing using a full array of actual chemical and biological agents. Our UVU students have an opportunity now and in the future to partake in paid and unpaid internships while assisting and working directly with allied professionals and the Nation's top scientific minds in this important research using state of the art equipment and facilities. Students will be trained and supervised by DHS CSAC Scientists, DPG personnel and UVU liaison faculty from Emergency Services.
Project Lead: Jessica Hill
Amount: $9,800
Description: The Association of American Colleges & Universities (AACU) suggests 10 high impact practices gathered from the National Survey of Student Engagement (NSSE; AACU, 2015). We propose that while UVU implements most of these practices well, there is a weakness associated with the implementation of undergraduate research. Typically, many faculty use the traditional apprenticeship model of scholarship, which consists of one faculty member mentoring a small group of one to five self-motivated, higher-achieving students. Instead of this typical model, we will implement larger-scale faculty supervised research experiences with a peer-mentorship component. This will be in the context of a learning community between general psychology and a lower-level research course in psychology. Specifically, we will recruit a targeted subset of 25 PSY1010 students enrolled in a large hybrid section being implemented in the fall. Over the summer, students who are at risk will be recruited via the Stoplight System for participation taking into consideration gender, ethnicity, first-generation status, and age. During the off-day for the hybrid course, students will meet for an hour to learn the basics of research human behavior. Throughout the semester, they will conduct four mini-projects that will allow them to explore their own questions and ideas within specific boundaries. In addition to the learning community structure, we will include a peer mentorship component. Five senior behavioral science students, who have had at least one year of research experience, will be compensated to act as mentors to the at-risk students. The senior student will meet individually with each of their five assigned students for two hours during the week to assist them with coursework for either course or research.
Project Lead: Linda Shelton
Amount: $3,624
Description: Research shows that high impact educational practices give positive experience to all kinds of students. If we hope to offer undergraduate research as one of those practices, it should not just be for upper division students in specialized courses. First year students in freshman English who need to connect with a community of scholarly writers can gain the skills needed for that kind of writing with a high impact experience at UVU's Capitol Reef Field Station. English 2010 students often view research writing as drudgery with little connection to their real world. This project gives them an opportunity to personally experience their research subject. Students choose a topics related to the Capitol Reef area and environmental studies in general such as air pollution, water conservation, the geology, wildlife, plants, history, sustainable energy sources, etc. After writing preliminary findings on their topic, students take a field trip to the Capitol Reef Field Station and compare those findings with an up-close and personal experience. They plan the itinerary of the trip to focus on their research topics. While at the field station, they receive instruction on site about sustainability on the Colorado Plateau and share with each other research finds. After the trip, they revise their initial papers to reflect new insight about their topic. The striking features of the Capitol Reef area motivate students to learn to become stewards of that land and bring that educated stewardship back to their home communities.
Project Lead: Eddy Cadet
Amount: $10,000
Description: Haiti is among one of the poorest nations in the Western Hemisphere. With a population of over 8 million, it is one of the most densely populated countries in the world. There are major concerns regarding water quality in Haiti. Because of the overwhelming poverty and poor sanitary conditions through the country, concerns for water quality have focused on biological contamination of the water supply, ignoring other risk factors that may contribute to morbidity and mortality. A key water quality concern not connected to infectious disease is the accumulation of toxic trace metals in stream sediments and water resources. Trace metals are naturally occurring elements which when present in the environmental in elevated quantities can be carcinogenic to humans and cause harm to the ecosystem. In addition to agricultural practices, which utilize animal wastes as fertilizer, there are numerous industries, including mining operations in Haiti, all of which are important sources of trace metal contaminants. Many of these operations are located near water resources. To date there is a scarcity of studies focusing on trace metal contamination of the water supply. The purpose of this investigation is to evaluate the occurrence and distribution of trace metals in surface and ground waters supplies and stream sediments in the Northern Peninsula of Haiti. Findings of this study will be used as baseline data for future work, increase awareness among governmental officials of risks associated with certain operations and for better management of the water supply. Triplicate surface water, ground and sediment samples will be collected by 7 UVU students from 21 sites identified using existing water resource maps. Samples will be filtered on site, placed in polyethylene containers, and stored at 4 C. In UVU laboratories, samples will be acid digested using EPA Methods in a MARS unit then analyzed in the ICP-OES.
Project Lead: Steven Emerman
Amount: $10,000
Description: This project on hydropower for rural electrification in Haiti is a combined effort of Profs. Eddy Cadet (Earth Science), Steven Emerman (Earth Science), Michael Minch (Philosophy), Kevin Shurleff (Chemistry), and their students. Two recent engineering and computational innovations by UVU faculty and students have the potential for vastly reducing the cost of installation of hydropower in Haiti and the rest of the developing world. Prof. Shurtleff and his students have shown that the use of wind and solar energy to compress air can generate electricity for $20 per megawatt-hour, in contrast to the conventional World Bank practice of funding photovoltaic cells for $156 per megawatt-hour. The use of falling water to compress air would be even simpler and cheaper, but the measurements of stream discharge that are critical for the development of hydropower require a manpower of hydrologic technicians that is prohibitive in remote and impoverished areas of the world. However, Prof. Emerman and his students have mined the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) database of nearly four million simultaneous measurements of stream stage (height of the water surface above a fixed level) and discharge to develop a new classification of rivers so that stream discharge can now be estimated from stream stage alone. The initial objectives of this project are to (1) develop and evaluate a prototype compressed-air hydropower station along a mountainous reach of the Provo River in Utah, (2) organize local residents to monitor stream stage at ten stream sites in rural Haiti. The citizen hydrology in Haiti will be facilitated by Prof. Cadet, a native of Haiti, and Prof. Minch, who is well-connected with NGOs in Haiti. Completion of the initial objectives will be the basis for a USAID rgrant proposal for installation of a compressed-air hydropower station at one of the stream sites in rural Haiti.
Project Lead: Kim Nielsen
Amount: $10,000
Description: This project establishes a student-oriented infrastructure of atmospheric pollution monitoring at the Capitol Reef Field Station. The project commits towards public awareness, extensive student projects, incorporation into curriculum, and encourage usage of obtained data across disciplines. This engaged seed project would provide students with excellent opportunities to develop/propose their own projects and pursue internal funds such as SAC and URSCA, while providing an opportunity for faculty to seek external funding from agencies such as National Science Foundation, Environmental Protection Agency, and the National Park Foundation. The pollutants to be measured include the ozone and particulate matter (most harmful to pulmonary function in animals), and Carbon dioxide and methane (greenhouse gasses). The pristine environment of Capitol Reef National Park, and the location of the field station permit monitoring of both sound and light pollution, as both quiet and dark environments are nearly extinct in the US. The traditional pollutants and sound pollution will be measured using a variety of gas/pressure sensors, while the sky brightness pollution will be monitored by a sensitive all-sky imaging system similar to a system recently designed by Prof. Nielsen (under a SAC award). Students will construct all instruments. The instruments provide a plethora of data to be used in classrooms (both physics and across disciplines like earth science and mathematics) and research project for students interested in instrument development, air pollution, and global changes. The presence of the instruments at the field station will add to the inventory and are aligned with the mission of both the field station and the park. With the newly established high-speed Internet at the field station, data will be uploaded to mobile app platforms, the park visitor center and UVU main campus where real-time monitoring displays inform the public, and students and faculty about the research activities.
Project Lead: Janice Sugiyama
Amount: $10,000
Description: Last year, thanks to GEL funding, we developed a cost-effective and highly sensitive method to screen mosquito blood meals and determine the species ingested. So far, we can differentiate between the 5 most likely mammalian hosts for mosquito feeding: human, horse, cow, deer, and dog. We are now in the process of analyzing over 800 trapped mosquitoes from various locales of Salt Lake and Utah counties to track feeding patterns. We also plan to follow-up the development of our assay in hopes of publishing our novel findings in a peer-reviewed journal, and expand this line of research by applying for external funding.
Mosquitoes contribute to more human deaths per year than any other source via blood meal transmission of vector-mediated pathogens. The continued goal of this proposal is to collaborate with Utah and Salt Lake county mosquito abatement offices and determine mosquito-feeding preferences in Utah. Understanding local mosquito epidemiology is the most effective means of preventing vector-mediated disease.
Project Lead: John Newman
Amount: $7,000
Description: A team of fourteen UVU students will perform and design a theatrical adaptation of Jean Lee Latham's novel, Cary On, Mr. Bowditch, at twelve school in and around Utah Valley, performing for over 3000 elementary and secondary school students and providing interactive workshops for 300 students in their classrooms. This will be the Noorda Center's first theatre production focused n a STEM theme. The pre- and post-show workshops represent a new approach in educational outreach for a theatre production.
This will be the first time that the Jean Lee Latham's 1955 Newbery Medal wining book will be performed on stage. The title character in the play is a lesser-known American hero. As Nathaniel Bowditch grows up in Salem, Massachusetts, he dreams of studying at Harvard. However, when he is indentured at the age of twelve to serve nine years as a bookkeeper, Nat teaches himself navigation, astronomy, mathematics, and the languages necessary to read the major books in those fields. Once he completes his indenture, Nat signs on as a ship's clerk and mate. As he teaches astronomy and mathematics to sailors who can barely count on their fingers, Nat is able to raise their vision and increase their skills so that they are able to become officers and improve their futures. The play demonstrates how learning and applying mathematics can improve young people's vocational opportunities. The play features scenes in which Nat's calculations ensure the safety of his crew and all crews who use his almanac. The performances will been enhanced by video projects of Nat's calculations and diagrams and supplemented by outreach materials for teachers. The performances will be augmented by classroom workshops, taught by UVU students in role, in which scenes from the play will be expanded to explore the mathematical concepts that Nathaniel Bowditch taught.
Project Lead: Andrew Byrnes
Amount: $10,000
Description: Communications equipment, acquired through this proposal, will provide the student the experiences with real world situations, using current communications technology, needed to create more competent and safe emergency responders to serve the community and the greater region. It will also provide the student with an appreciation and a feeling of responsibility and stewardship for valuable community funds and resources.
In accordance with the UVU Engagement Model, students will develop professional skills and technical competence by using this equipment. These skills will then allow them to better serve the communities in which they will be working and create a mutually beneficial engaged relationship. Within four years, 79% of all RCA graduates are working in our communities as emergency service professionals. (RCA Graduate Study, 2013)
Project Lead: Claudia Lieberwirth
Amount: $8,390
Description: The project will create the first Neuroscience Outreach Program in the Alpine School District and provide UVU undergraduate students with the opportunity to obtain a more in-depth knowledge about the brain. It will also engage UVU undergraduate students by developing engaged teaching skills, obtaining research experience, and acquiring applied research skills—experiences and skills that are necessary for admission to and success in graduate and professional programs. Thus, this project has three distinct components: (1) Recruiting of high school science classrooms in the Alpine School District and teaching Neuroscience educational classes in these classrooms. (2) Recruiting UVU undergraduate students, who are interested in science. These students will be trained to teach these Neuroscience educational classes in a high school classroom setting, before they go to local high schools to conduct the Neuroscience outreach. (3) Recruiting UVU undergraduate students who are interested in obtaining research experience. Specifically, we will assess the science attitudes of high school students before and after the high school classroom educational classes. Further, we will compare the science attitudes between female and male high school students. Knowledge about potential gender differences in science attitude may allow us to develop necessary steps to alleviate such attitude differences.
Project Lead: Timothy Doyle
Amount: $9,975
Description: The purpose of this study is to expand UVU's high-frequency ultrasound technology to develop new laboratory and clinical techniques for autoimmune diseases. By demonstrating that high-frequency ultrasound is sensitive to T-cell activation, it would be possible to use this technique to explore the mechanisms of T-cell-mediated autoimmunitiy for various diseases, test new autoimmune therapies in cell cultures, and provide a more definitive diagnosis of autoimmune disease from T cells isolated from a patient's blood sample. The project is also an exceptional vehicle for engaging students in medical research; for expanding on UVU's collaboration with the University of Utah's Medical Center and Huntsman Cancer Institute; and for having the potential to give new technology to the worldwide community to improve the health of hundreds of millions of people afflicted with an autoimmune disease.
Project Lead: Violeta Vasilevska
Amount: $9,110
Description: The Seed GEL Grant is requested to help fund a one-day conference on Math and Forensics for high school students from the surrounding area. The proposed title of the conference is "Crime doesn't pay, but it does add up: Applications of Math to Forensic Science."
The main goals of the conference are (1) to show high school participants the importance of forensics and the role of math in forensics, (2) to provide UVU math and forensics students with an opportunity to lead workshops in their fields of study, and (3) to recruit students to UVU.
Project Lead: Alessandro Zanazzi
Amount: $9,953
Description: In this project, several UVU students will be engaged in an attempt to answer some of the most critical questions in paleoclimate and human evolution. The study will be conducted at the archeological site of Isernia La Pineta (Italy) which records the first settlement of early humans on the continent. The main goal of the project is to study the climate and environment of this site via carbon and oxygen isotope analysis of mammalian tooth enamel. The data collected in this project will be used to try to answer the following three specific questions:
1) How was the environment in southern Italy 600 thousand years ago, particularly with respect to C3 and C4 plant abundance, mean annual temperature, and mean annual precipitation?
2) How seasonal was the climate with respect to changes in temperature and precipitation?
3) How did the climate and environment affect the human migration to the European continent? The answers to these questions will provide significant insights into the environments in which early humans evolved and into the cause of the late human colonization of the European continent.
Project Lead: Todd Low
Amount: $9,000
Description: The Wolverine Racing Team at Utah Valley University would like to continue their involvement and participation at the 2015 "World of Speed" on the Bonneville Salt Flats. Data logging and engine data analysis is absolutely necessary for any future improvement for the land speed car. The installation and wiring of various sensors along with modern, state of the art equipment will put our students/Racing Team near the front of the competition. The modern technology on many of today's automobiles involves sophisticated computers and sensors. Data Logging and engine analysis is the new norm in the automotive performance world. The Wolverine Racing Team needs more exposure to the high tech world of data logging and all of the information and opportunities it can bring. The Gel Grant "Logging on the Salt" will provide a springboard to launch our students into the world of data logging and engine analysis. During the training in the automotive department, the students learn about various sensors and what they do and how they are used. When the race team installs sensors on the engine and surrounding areas, they actually get to see and experience how sensors work. The students will have to calibrate and verify the accuracy of the sensors in order to use the data that they will collect. Each student on the race team will get to experience in specific areas and understand the system as a whole. Students will receive extra training in order to be able to analyze the data and make accurate adjustments. The students will be getting hands-on practice using some very sophisticated equipment.
Project Lead: Doug Gardner
Amount: $10,000
Description: A growing body of empirical research supports the premise that literacy gains are greatest when reading becomes an interactive, social, interpersonal activity. Read-a-Difference is a holistic effort to promote literacy using empirically informed practices, and with an aim towards building intrinsic motivations. This approach is marked by:
1. A focus on social: Read-a-Difference will launch a social media campaign wherein individuals are challenged to share why reading matters to them in a short video and post it to social media.
2. Proximal incentives: Rather than rewards that have little to do with reading (e.g., a pizza party), Read-a-Difference will launch a reading challenge partnering with local schools, with incentives built around meeting, interacting with, and having a literacy-centered experience with prominent local authors.
3. Exposure rather than pages: The literacy contest will emphasize diversity of reading rather than quantity of pages. Students will track reading based on the number and variety of genres which they have read (e.g., poetry, mystery, comic, science fiction, etc.) rather than number of pages. Evidence shows that this gives students the opportunity to discover what appeals to them, while not disadvantaging slower or less advanced readers.
4. Interaction: UVU Elementary Education majors will mentor and interact with the students to build a social element to the reading experience and reinforce the link between reading and relationships.
5. Research: We will conduct research to gauge learning and attitudinal changes to assess the efficacy of our model.
Project Lead: Jenni Bloomfield
Amount: $10,000
Description: The Spanish GED Preparation course as offered by the UVU School Community University Partnership aims to eliminate barriers for the local Latino population to open the doors to continuing their education, starting with obtaining the GED certificate. Two important barriers our program will continue to address are cost and availability. We operate this course for free on Saturday mornings; no other Spanish GED Preparation course in Utah Valley bridges this important gap.
We will achieve our goal by using small groups tutored by trained UVU students with knowledge in academic success. We measure success in the program by student attendance, successful completion of all class work, and, most importantly, successful completion of the GED. Each student creates their own educational goal and deadline by which they want to achieve that goal. Our purpose is to help each student achieve their personal academic goals, as well as help grow the educated population of Utah Valley by focusing on underrepresented groups who desire to improve their family's future and the future of their communities.
Project Lead: Luke Peterson
Amount: $10,000
Description: PlayStreet Provo is a cooperative effort between the Office of New Urban Mechanics and the Public Service Academy at UVU, Downtown Provo, Inc., and the City of Provo, to resurrect Downtown Provo as a place of community, commerce, and civic engagement.
Last year, thanks to GEL Funding, the Public Service Academy was able to conduct a pro bono study on behalf of Downtown Provo, Inc., to identify ways to drive greater commercial and civic activity in downtown.. We identified a Play Street as the optimal method for reintroducing the idea of pedestrian/urban exploration back into the local culture, and on July 19, held a pilot PlayStreet on 100 West in Provo. That event drew over 6,500 visitors who learned about how to become more involved, walked the streets, and engaged in civic and STEM-education centered games.
We seek GEL funding to take PlayStreet Provo to the next level. This grant would be utilized in order to create a full PlayStreet event on Provo Center Street, with the aim of bringing 15,000+ visitors to downtown Provo, with a full complement of educational and civic activities from UVU faculty and students, and community partners.
Project Lead: Kate McPherson
Amount: $10,000
Description: Kate McPherson, along with longtime scholarly collaborator Kate Moncrief, Chair and Professor of English at Washington College, Maryland, have accepted the position as editors for the Shakespeare Life & Times (SLT), a major aspect of the Internet Shakespeare Editions (ISE).
The ISE is a well-established digital humanities project operated out of the University of Victoria, British Columbia. The SLT is an online encyclopedia of Shakespeare's life, stage, society, history, ideas, and literature, and it is the most visited part of the ISE. Kate Moncrief and I now have creative and intellectual leadership on the project, in order to restructure it, appoint and liaise with contributors, and employ student research interns to help update the site. This is a long-term commitment that offers many opportunities for undergraduate research, both inside and outside of the classroom.
As the new editors, we have been tasked to fully update the site, which was originally established in 1999. We will be commissioning new articles and revisions to existing articles to reflect new developments in Shakespeare studies. By leveraging our existing connections as editors within the Shakespeare scholarly community (we have published three edited collections together since 2007), within our networks in Shakespeare Association of America, as well as the biannual Blackfriars Conference at the American Shakespeare Center, we will be bringing the SLT into the 21st century with the help of students and colleagues at Utah Valley University and Washington College.
Project Lead: David Connelly
Amount: $10,000
Description: The Fourth International Women of the Mountains Conference will be organized by the Utah International Mountain Forum (UIMF), a coalition of UVU student clubs with the advice and cooperation of faculty, staff, as well as figures in the national and international Sustainable Mountain Development (SMD) community. UIMF was created after successful contribution to the Second Women of the Mountains Conferences. The second conference was hosted by UVU in Orem, UT in 2011. The third one was held in Puno, Peru in 2012.
The Fourth conference will be hosted by UVU, October 7-9, 2015, and will bring six leading women scholars and entrepreneurs – two each from Asia, Africa, and Latin America – to discuss problems of gender and sustainable mountain development (SMD) in addition to officials from the United Nations, the World Bank, the State Department, Ambassadors of the mountain nations accredited at the United Nations and the United States. Leading academics, businesspeople and women leaders from the state of Utah, Rocky Mountain States and abroad will be invited to attend. The conference has the support from the Mountain Partnership secretariat under the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations in Rome, Italy.
The 2015 conference represents a significant opportunity for engaged learning at multiple levels and will notably advance UVU's role as a participant in the international dialogue on gender and SMD issues. It'll also allow for the first time to feature UIMF as a major contributor to the U.N. gender agenda in the 2015 Report of the Secretary General of the U.N. on SMD.
Project Lead: Kevin Shurtleff
Amount: $8,800
Description: During the Fall 2013 and Spring 2014 semesters, my team of students researched, designed, and built a low cost, balloon lofted, wind powered, air compressor, compressed air storage, and air powered electricity generation system. During the Fall 2014 and Spring 2015 semesters, my team of students will demonstrate and test our new wind technology. In addition, my team of students will begin a new project to research, design, build, demonstrate, and test an innovative, low cost, solar thermal phase change air compressor system by applying the science, technology, engineering, math, and business principles they've learned. The wind and sun powered air compressors will be integrated with the compressed air storage, and air powered electricity generating system built previously, resulting in a more stable supply of sustainable, renewable electricity that is much lower in cost than other electricity generating technologies.
Project Lead: Fred Davis
Amount: $10,000
Description: This project is based upon students using the skills they have learned at UVU to compete against other schools nationally. To prepare for these competitions, students are mentored by local construction companies to learn management skills which will not only help students win in the competition, but also help them gain a job upon graduation. As UVU does well in these competitions, national caliber companies are attracted to UVU to garner these students into their companies. We feel that this attention is a direct result of our student success at competitions: UVU won 1st and two 2nd place awards in the 2014 ASC Regional/National Competition, and also won 2nd Place Nationally in the NAHB 2013 Competition. This educational experience greatly benefits local contractors by enlarging the pool of prepared students that they can hire to fill the decreasing numbers of workers in the industry today. These contractors then volunteer to mentor our students and, more recently, are providing funds for the students to compete and further preparing them for employment. It is our hope that as we continue to compete successfully we can encourage local companies to invest in an endowment that will produce funds to further support competitions at a national level and support student engagement with companies that will hire our graduates.
Project Lead: Reed Criddle
Amount: $10,000
Description: The Utah Valley University Chamber Choir will embark on a 10-day performance tour to Spain in May 2015. The purpose of this tour is to honor an invitation from the Conservatorio Superior De Cordoba in Cordoba, Spain, including engaging in an educational-musical exchange with their resident choir, Coro Ziryab, and conductor, Javier Saenz-Lopez Bunuel. We would offer workshops to their conservatory students on the performance of American choral literature, and they in turn would engage with us in helping us to better perform music of Spain.
In preparation for the tour, the students of the Chamber Choir are learning repertoire from Spain that spans the Renaissance to the modern era. Throughout the 2014-2015 school year, they will present seven service concerts to the Utah Valley community (thousands of local community audience members will benefit from these performances), which will showcase music of Spain. As part of our preparations, we also plan to visit several Spanish-immersion elementary schools in Orem and Provo, including Canyon Crest Elementary, Timpanogos Elementary, Cherry Hill Elementary, and Orchard Elementary schools. For those public school children, we will give presentations and performances on Spanish music as a service to our local community.
Project Lead: Amy Markgraf-Jacobsen
Amount: $10,000
Description: This inquiry based learning project proposes to develop a lecture demonstration that explores the current tension between the value of an arts education within a system that promotes STEM learning. Dance lecture demonstrations are a specific modality combining lecture presentations with live dance creating a visual and visceral representation of concepts discussed. Using a lecture demonstration format, the dancer/presenters will illustrate the process through which dance and science create an interchange; illustrating that through dance implicit STEM concepts are rendered explicit and visible. Enhanced student learning outcomes are achieved through participation in research required to produce the lecture demonstration resulting in a richly engaged learning experience as dance students function as team members alongside faculty in developing the presentation. Project directors seek to develop this creative research module into a component of the Contemporary Dance Ensemble(CDE) curriculum providing a meaningful way for CDE dancers to investigate issues that have community impact through dance. This project directly comments on an issue that is of central importance to the global community; how do we take advantage of the interconnection between the arts and sciences to produce deeper learning. Target communities served include educators and students at the international, national, local and campus level.
Project Lead: Grant Richards
Amount: $9,948.50
Description: This project will directly engage UVU students with at-risk students and families in the Alpine and Provo School Districts. These families will be struggling with truancy, academic and behavioral problems. They will be referred to the UVU program by the schools and the courts. Using skills they are learning in their mediation classes, first semester mediators will be working to create a positive environment for communication between the parents and teen. Students in the advanced mediation class will work directly with school administrators, counselors and the courts.
Project Lead: Barton Poulson
Amount: $5,000
Description: The Utah Data Dive (see UtahDataDive.org) represents the culmination of several years
of effort by me and my students to develop a program of community-engaged analytics
to UVU and its community. A data dive is an event that brings together a diverse group
of volunteers to work intensively on data provided by local, service-oriented, non-profit
organizations. Our goal is to hold the Utah Data Dive in the spring of 2015. We aim
to promote this event to students across the UVU campus – especially the departments
of Behavioral Science, Mathematics, Computer Science, and Information Systems and
Technology – and from local universities such as BYU and the U of U. We will also
identify training resources that are already available on campus and to develop new
materials for online training. I will work closely with our data ambassadors to identify
potential local nonprofits in early 2015. We will then schedule the Utah Data Dive
for early April of 2015, running from Thursday night to Saturday afternoon on the
campus at UVU.
Project Lead: Eddy Cadet
Amount: $10,000
Description: Introduction of the common carp in the early 1900s along with water runoff from the water shed and industrial discharges have caused some detrimental changes to the ecosystem of Utah Lake. Two major impacts include decreases in biodiversity (e.g. June Sucker) and the accumulation of trace metals and PCB contaminants into lake sediments and fish. In an effort to mitigate these effects, in 2009 the Department of Water Quality (DWQ) launched a carp removal program. The goal was to remove 6 million carps from Utah Lake by 2017, in hopes of improving water quality and ecosystem conditions of Utah Lake. To date, approximately 2.5 million carps have been removed. The purpose of this study is to evaluate the impact of carp removal on PBC concentration of Utah Lake soil sediments and four fish species, 2) to assess the metal and PCB concentration of plants, 3) to increase community awareness, and 4) to engage Earth Science students in the scientific investigation of a major environmental concern.
Project Lead: Janice Sugiyama
Amount: $9,998
Description: The goal of this proposal is to aid understanding of the transmission dynamics of
mosquito-borne viruses. UVU biotechnology students, mosquito abatement districts of
Utah, Salt Lake and Davis counties, and the Utah Division of Wildlife Resources (UDWR)
will collaborate to identify the host species within blood meals of mosquitoes caught
in different Utah locales. This knowledge may identify regions where mosquito-host
preferences create a bridge for viral pathogens.
Project Lead: Heather Wilson-Ashworth
Amount: $10,000
Description: The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) report that the prevalence of
obesity in children and adolescents has nearly tripled in the last 30 years, and has
challenged communities to enact policy, system, and environmental initiatives focusing
on obesity education and prevention to combat this growing trend. With the CDC challenge,
a health initiative, Anatomy Academy, was developed. The curriculum, conducted by
college students (Mentors) pursuing undergraduate pre-professional degrees and students
pursuing post-secondary education in the biological health sciences, consists of classroom
activities and outdoor activities. A portion of the grant will fund Anatomy Academy
kits which are utilized in the classroom by the Students and the Mentors. Using accepted
social science methods for making quantitative statements about qualitative data,
UVU students and Dr. Wilson-Ashworth will develop an assessment tool which will allow
us to analyze the seven Mentor reflections collected during Anatomy Academy. Both
the assessment tool and the quantitative statements will be published in peer-review
journals. A portion of the grant will be utilized to fund student salaries for developing
the assessment tool as well as analyzing the Mentor reflections.
Project Lead: Heath Ogden
Amount: $4,500
Description: UVU's presence with a field station in Capitol Reef National Park (CRNP) has provided students with specialized research opportunities and valuable field experience, and not until recently, little emphasis had been placed on increasing our understanding of the insect diversity in the park. We were previously funded to complete two objectives: 1) publish an Insect Field Guide-pamphlet and 2) create an insect display (to be exhibited at UVU's Field Station) of the most common and interesting insects of Capitol Reef National Park. Both objectives were successfully completed and now there are pamphlets and displays available for visitors to the park and UVU's CRNP Field Station. The purpose of this project is to provide opportunities for student research by collecting and classifying insects from CRNP. Our goals for the project will be to 1) collect and curate insects from new areas of CRNP in order to build upon the current insect collection; 2) create the first species list with associated photos documenting the various differences in insect life in CRNP, 3) present results at a scientific meetings (e.g. ESA, UCUR).
Project Lead: Daren Heaton
Amount: $7,977
Description: Aminoglycosides are a large class of clinically important antibiotics and have been
widely used to treat serious infectious diseases such as septicemia and complicated
intra-abdominal infections for over 60 years. Recently, Prof. Chang from Utah State
prepared amphiphilic aminoglycosides by adding a simple alkyl chain (-C8 H17) to primary
alcohol groups of the naturally-occurring aminoglycosides and found that these amphiphilic
aminoglycosides possess remarkable antifungal activity contrary to its parent aminoglycosides.
However, this unusual switch of biological activity from antibacterial to antifungal
is not yet understood and presents a perfect opportunity for UVU students to investigate
its mechanism of action by screening these amphiphilic aminoglycosides with a Saccharomyces
cerevisiae library. Using GEL funding from last year, students achieved considerable
success in developing the conditions to screen for the mechanism of action of the
antifungal aminoglycosides. Our goal is to use this research as a springboard for
external funding.
Project Lead: John Newman
Amount: $7,000
Description:A cast of seven, an outreach team of two, and a stage manager will perform a bilingual play, Bocon, for up to 4,000 elementary and secondary school students and provide interactive workshops in classrooms. The central character in the play is a Latino boy who crosses the border into the United States and is stopped by a border agent. The boy tells the story of his journey using stories and characters from Latin American folklore. The play contains dialogue in both English and Spanish and is comprehensible for speakers of either language. The touring production will be created by the THEA 222R class: Theatre for Young Audiences Tour. It will be presented in the style of Teatro Campasino, a form of improvised folk theatre traditionally performed by migrant workers. The outreach duo, one of whom must be bilingual, will conduct workshops in the schools based on the themes from the play.
Project Lead: Elaine Tuft
Amount: $10,000
Description: The project for which we are seeking GEL funding is an enrichment robotics program for 5th and 6th graders in Alpine School District. The program is a partnership between Utah Valley University's School of Education, Alpine School District, and a local company Learning Through Robotics. In this program, personnel from Learning Through Robotics train UVU students (primarily elementary education majors) how to program, use, and teach classes with Lego Mindstorms robotics. The UVU students then teach the enrichment courses at the participating elementary schools. One purpose of this project is to increase elementary- and college-age students' knowledge of science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) through the use of Lego Mindstorms robotics. A second purpose is to provide UVU education students more STEM-based experience teaching children prior to receiving their teaching license, which we expect to increase their marketability. The final purpose is to improve the participating UVU and elementary students' knowledge and attitudes related to STEM subjects, particularly in relation to the Lego Mindstorms robotics.
Project Lead: Roxanne Brinkerhoff
Amount: $9,813
Description: Approximately 60% of incoming UVU students test into a remedial math course; many of these students suffer from math anxiety and a loathing of mathematics. Research shows that negative attitudes towards mathematics are fixed by the age of nine. To combat negative math attitudes, faculty members in the Developmental Math Department developed a summer youth math camp for elementary school children. Faculty members have presented exciting and fun math activities that promote learning by doing and experimenting with mathematics. The main goal of the math camp is to change math attitudes, which will affect their math performance throughout grade school. Partnering the camp with UVU education majors provides a broader scope of learning for the elementary school students, as well as increasing the impact of the camp on the community. The pre-service teachers will receive invaluable classroom training as well as ideas for engaged classroom activities. The elementary school students will gain a more inclusive math camp experience and will be exposed to adults who possess an enthusiasm for mathematics.
Project Lead: Suzanne Walther
Amount: $9,981
Description: During the spring 2014 semester we will establish two new research projects engaging ~18 students in active research related to fluvial and tectonic geomorphology. These projects will be the start on long-term research about the rates of change in arid land streams in Capitol Reef National Park and quantifying metrics of tectonic activity within the Intermountain Seismic Belt.
Project Lead: Kim Nielsen
Amount: $8,213
Description: The proposed project is a UVU Society of Physics Students (SPS) lead endeavor into high altitude research of the atmosphere and near space environment, where students will be designing, building, and launching scientific payloads on high altitude balloon platforms.
Project Lead: Steven Emerman
Amount: $4,855
Description: There is no access to drinking water that is not contaminated with arsenic for 3.5 million residents of Nepal. The dominant paradigm is that arsenic contamination is naturally occurring and is unrelated to any human activity. However, Steven Emerman and his American and Nepali students have published seven papers and one book arguing that arsenic contamination results from deforestation. The objectives of this project are to search for further evidence for the deforestation model by: 1) determining whether there is a correlation among arsenic in rivers, soils and exposed bedrock in river watersheds in Kathmandu Valley, 2) determining whether there is a difference between arsenic in rivers and soils within and downslope of Shivapuri National Park, which is still largely forested and which contains much of the headwaters of Kathmandu Valley.
Project Lead: Weihong Wang
Amount: $8,700
Description: The wetlands around Utah Lake are critical for fish and wildlife resources, flood mitigation, and recreation, but the ecosystem is under increasing stress due to urban, industrial, and agricultural runoff from an ever-expanding population that now exceeds 500,000 people in Utah Valley. Regional land use changes have been shown to affect biodiversity, sedimentation dynamics, productivity, and nutrient recycling in lakes and wetlands. This project will investigate human impacts on Utah Lake wetlands and four popular fish species in the lake using multiple parameters which include stable isotope and trace metal analysis, sediment grain distribution analysis, and lead-210 and carbon-14 dating at multiple sites.
Project Lead: Elaine Tuft
Amount: $8,000
Description: One purpose of this proposed project is to increase elementary- and college-age students' knowledge of science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) through the use of Lego Mindstorm robotics. A second purpose is to provide UVU education students more experience teaching children prior to receiving their teaching license. The final purpose is to improve the participating UVU and elementary students' attitudes related to STEM subjects, particularly in relation to the Lego Mindstorm robotics.
Project Lead: Trudy Christensen
Amount: $5,000
Description: As part of a two-semester senior project capstone experience, a team of five UVU Digital Media (DGM) students plan to complete a service-learning project for Acacia Shade (acaciashade.org), a local non-profit organization dedicated to the welfare of children with disabilities in Ghana, Africa.
Project Lead: Nancy Peterson
Amount: $3,430
Description: The UVU Forum on Engaged Reading's unique purpose of fostering a love of reading distinguishes it from other literacy conferences occurring in the state. With a love and passion for reading, children are compensated for the hard and sometimes discouraging work in acquiring greater reading skills and achieving higher reading scores and reading levels. With a love and passion for reading, secondary students begin to see themselves as readers and thinkers with valuable insights. This annual conference inspires literacy stakeholders to sustain that arduous and imperative work of literacy achievement while adding personal inspiration and passion to validate, inspire, and empower readers to fall in love with reading again and again.
Project Lead: Jared Chapman
Amount: $2,000
Description: This year, returning UVU faculty heard a keynote address describing the importance of teaching today's students using the tools they are familiar with and an approach to learning environments called gamification. The premise of gamification is improving motivation and performance by using game mechanics in non-game contexts. This project applies gamification theory and techniques to the MGMT 3000 course.
Project Lead: Kevin Shurtleff
Amount: $5,200
Description: During the Fall 2013 and Spring 2014 semesters, my team of students will research, design, build, and test a low-cost, robust, balloon-lofted, wind-powered, air compressor, compressed air storage and air-powered electrical generator system. This method of energy production will produce sustainable, renewable energy that is much lower in cost than existing technologies making it suitable for use in poor, developing nations.
Project Lead: Robert Warcup
Amount: $3,742
Description: 'Lean' is an emerging trend in the construction industry that is continually gaining momentum. Despite the momentum however, it is estimated that more than 90 percent of all construction firms are unaware of the concept and/or do not understand its potential. This project aims to help both students and practitioners experience the potential of lean construction by learning the power of lean principles.
Project Lead: Paige Gardiner
Amount: $2,000
Description: We are writing to apply for funding for 12 students to attend the National AMA Collegiate Conference April 10-14, 2014. The four benefits our students will receive from attending the conference include the following: 1) Create a position of UVU Marketing as a leading Professional Sales Program in the West; 2) Expose UVU students to a national career fair; 3) Learn industry leading marketing strategy; and 4) Study best practices for how to run an AMA club.
Project Lead: Roberta Johnson
Amount: $10,000
Description: UVU students, in collaboration with the Alpine School District, DCFS, and MADD, conducted simultaneous programs at four sites for at-risk families. These programs have proven to be effective in increasing resilience and reducing risk factors for behavioral, emotional, academic and social problems in youth while improving family relationships and parenting skills.
Project Lead: Luke Peterson
Amount: $10,000
Description: The Public Service Academy enables UVU students to build and apply advanced knowledge in their field, while creating public value for local government, and non-profit partners. Capitalization from a GEL seed grant will permit students to receive compensation for executing these public sector projects, thereby offering the opportunity to meet their personal financial responsibilities while gaining experience in their field. Over time, as proof of performance is established, contractual dollars from public partners will replace most subsidization, making PSA a sustainable generator of advanced engaged-learning opportunities.
Project Lead: Linda Shelton
Amount: $3,624
Description: English students participate in an engaged learning project by doing primary research at Capitol Reef Field Station. These students then collaborate in group writing projects.
Project Lead: Tracy Golden
Amount: $10,000
Description: Introducing the Challenge Day program to Timpanogos High School and Orem Junior High to improve student engagement and connectedness, then to have those students go back and inspire their classmates to do the same.
Project Lead: Wioleta Fedeczko
Amount: $2,500
Description: The Conference on Writing for Social Change is an annual interdisciplinary campus event held each fall semester at Utah Valley University. The 2013 conference will be held on November 14-15. The conference encourages students, faculty, and community members to submit and present research, writing projects, and creative works that address a broad range of social change issues. Dr. Cheryl Glenn, Co-founder of Penn State's Center for Democratic Deliberation, has already agreed to be the keynote speaker. And, Utah's Mary Dickson, author of the play "Exposed" and Director of Creative Services at KUER, has agreed to be a featured speaker about Utah activism.
Project Lead: Jessica Hill
Amount: $10,000
Description: This project will be implemented in stages: (1) eye tracking equipment will be purchased, and interested faculty members and undergraduate students will be trained in the development of research projects using eye tracking technology as well as how to use the equipment; and (2) a week-long service project reaching out to local psychology high school students to encourage the perception of psychology as a science. This grant application is seeking funding for stage 1 of the project.
Project Lead: Liz Andrus
Amount: $10,000
Description: This "Grant for Engaged Learning" will pay for four UVU student mentor internships who will mentor tutor ten students each of the first year UVU PREP program, plus supplies and materials for Friday enrichment activities. UVU interns will work on the inaugural year--the work will begin in July of 2013 and occur periodically throughout the academic year then finish up June of 2014 to create a foundation for this UVU STEM project pipeline to prepare eighty (80) high achieving 7th grade students on the UVU campus for success in STEM studies in junior high, high school and beyond.
Project Lead: Doris Hudson de Trujillo
Amount: $10,000
Description: Celebrated Voices is a project that connects UVU with the expanding Latino and Hispanic students and community across the Wasatch Front through the art form of dance. The festival is designed to educate, inspire, and change perceptions through concert and workshop presentations of renowned and emerging artists of Latin, Spanish, and Hispanic descent.
Project Lead: Reed Criddle
Amount: $10,000
Description: The UVU Chamber Choir (thirty-two students, one faculty conductor, and one staff pianist) have been selected by peer-reviewed, blind-audition to be the featured performers at the National Collegiate Choral Organization National Conference in Charleston, South Caroline, October 31-November 2, 2013. This is the most prestigious event of its kind in the United States and only a few college choirs are invited at each biennial conference.
Project Lead: Jill Jasperson
Amount: $7,700
Description: Since 2009, I have been lead organizer and founder of the Free Legal Clinic sponsored by the Legal Studies department, Woodbury School of Business and various businesses. This is in connection with the American Bar Association's "Celebrate Pro Bono" October celebration held across the nation; this year the Free Legal Clinic is scheduled for Tuesday, October 22, 2013. We hold the largest free legal clinic in the state by hosting 25-35 lawyers and inviting the public to access free legal advice--we have experienced a history of success in the past.
Project Lead: Steven Emerman
Amount: $9,065
Description: The Utah Department of Natural Resources (UDNR) currently uses the empirical Manning Equation for estimating stream discharge through artificial slots created for diverting rivers around coal mines. However, preliminary research by UVU Earth Science students has shown that existing methods for estimating the roughness coefficient in the Manning Equation can overestimate stream discharge through slots by up to two orders of magnitude, which implies that many existing diversions in Utah have been under-designed and cannot accommodate the 100-year flood for which they were intended. The objective of this project is to use discharge measurements in artificial stream diversion, in natural slot canyons and on a laboratory hydraulics bench to develop a new empirical formula for estimating stream discharge through slot-like structures.
Project Lead: Heather Wilson-Ashworth
Amount: $10,000
Description: Anatomy Academy combats childhood obesity through educational intervention by supplementing existing physical education curricula at elementary schools with an interactive learning experience designed to engage elementary students (Students) with immediately applicable biological concepts, empower them to take a proactive role in their personal health, nurture scientific curiosity, and encourage the pursuit of higher education. The curriculum conducted by college students (Mentors) pursuing undergraduate pre-professional degrees and students pursuing post-secondary education in the biological health sciences, consists of classroom activities and outdoor activities.
Project Lead: Daren Heaton
Amount: $9,975
Description: Amphiphilic aminoglycosides are unexpectedly found to be antifungal whose mechanism of action is yet to be understood. We seek to investigate its mechanism of action by screening those amphiphilic aminoglycosides with yeast library and promote collaboration among chemistry faculty. This will serve an excellent opportunity for students to broaden and apply their classroom learning to real life challenges and help participating students develop various problem-solving skills.
Project Lead: Ken Sekaquaptewa
Amount: $10,000
Description: This multi-disciplinary project will provide a structured forum wherein current UVU students and potential students from local high schools, with a special focus upon Native American students, can receive essential leadership training and college preparatory skills through direct mentoring workshops and short-term internships on campus.
Project Lead: John Fisher
Amount: $6,590
Description: This project will train UVU students to be C-CERT members and provide them opportunities for service in the university community. As the university counterpart of CERT, Campus-Commumity Emergency Response Team (C-CERT) educates college students about disaster preparedness for hazards that may impact the university community and trains them in basic disaster response skills, such as fire safety, light search and rescue, team organization, and disaster medical operations. Using the training learned in the classroom and during exercises C-CERT members can assist others in their community following an event when professional responders are not immediately available to help. C-CERT members also are encouraged to support emergency response agencies by taking a more active role in emergency preparedness projects in their universities and communities.


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Here's how you can disable location based advertising in iOS 7.
1. Go to Settings.
2. Go to Location Services.
3. Go to System Services.
4. Toggle the Location-Based iAds switch to the Off position.
You can tell if location based ads have recently used your location. The arrow next to the switch will appear in purple.


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Research Collaboration Resources
Collaboration resources are tools and technologies that enable members of the UAB community to transparently engage with partners across campus and around the globe.
Available tools include wikis, mailing lists, blogs, content management, software development and other tools to help maintain a presence on the web.
To facilitate interaction with peers at other institutions, we interface to a number of regional and national initiatives including:
Research Computing Resources
Research Network
Network resources are the fundamental infrastructure connecting you to a world of information. High speed networks carry data rapidly across campus and connect UAB to institutions across a leading-edge national infrastructure. Dedicated network resources support transparent access to computational and collaboration resources whether they are on campus or across the nation.
Cyberinfrastructure Overview
Alabama Regional Optical Network
National LambdaRail
UAB 10GigE Research Network
Using the UAB WiFi Network
UAB IT provides a WiFi network in support of the academic, research, and administrative work of the UAB community. This WiFi network serves classrooms, common areas, green spaces, and many other popular areas around campus.
To use this network, you must have a device with a WiFi network adapter. Three WiFi networks are available:
- UABStartHere: All users will begin by connecting to this network. Upon opening a web browswer, the user will automatically be directed to a Web page where they can choose a list of options. UAB students, employees and faculty members will have the option to either configure their WiFi device using QuickConnect or log on to the open UABStartHere network. Guests will have the option to register and log on to UABStartHere. Click here for instructions for logging in to UABStartHere as a guest.
- UABSecure: This secure network is the preferred network for UAB students, employees and faculty members. Users must have a valid BlazerID and password, and have their WiFi device properly configured for this network. Instructions for configuring a WiFi device for UABSecure are listed below.
- eduroam: eduroam is a free WiFi service that allows users from participating universities to log into WiFi using their own university's credentials. UAB users can also log in to WiFi at participating universities with their BlazerIDs.
QuickConnect setup instructions for UABSecure
Windows 7
Windows 8
Manual setup instructions for UABSecure
Windows 7
Windows 8
Manual setup instructions for eduroam
Max OSX
Apple iOS
Windows 7
Issues with WiFi
If you have an issue with the UAB WiFi network please report those concerns to AskIT (email@example.com; www.uab.edu/askit; 205-996-5555)
Remote Access Technology Toolkit
The following tools and services are recommended for use when most of the participants are off campus such as during an emergency.
|How Do I Access My Computer When Off Campus
For those who are allowed to access your computer from off campus, please click on the type of machine you use for step-by-step instructions. Please note: part of these instructions must be performed from your work computer in advance (e.g. determining the IP address of your computer, and in Mac OS X 10.5.x you will need to enable screen sharing on your work machine).
|How Do I Make Phone Calls When Off Campus
UAB Cell Phone
Employees, with manager's approval, can request cell phone services.
|How Do I Hold Meetings When Off Campus
AT&T Telephone Conferencing
Telephone based conference bridge numbers provided by AT&T can be obtained through the IT billing office. Note: When on campus, there are tools that are better suited and available at no cost.
Desktop Web Conferencing / Microsoft Live Meeting
|How Do I Access Email When Off Campus
Outlook Web Access (OWA) provides the user the ability to access their email from any computer connected to the Internet.
|How Do I Access Voicemail When Off Campus
To access your voicemail off campus, dial one of these numbers and follow the prompts: 934-6245, 975-6245, or 996-6245.
Please feel free to contact us with any questions through our help desk, AskIT, by email or phone at 205-996-5555.
Mass Email Requests
Any one-time message addressed to multiple recipients that needs to be sent from a "special" address rather than a user's personal address is considered a mass email. Mass e-mails sent to all faculty, staff and students are reserved for special circumstances and require special permissions based upon organizational hierarchy. Ultimately, these requests will require approval from the Office of the Provost. To initiate the process, please complete the AskIT Mass Email Request form. Once the permissions are granted, Central IT will construct the lists and send the e-mail. When submitting your request, please indicate the required send date and allow seven business days for completion of the request. These requests are handled by Infrastructure Services.
- Approvals:
- Emails to large numbers must be approved based upon the organizational hierarchy. If the message is addressed to all faculty, staff and students, then a Provost/President level approval is required. Deans can approve for their school, VP for Student Affairs can send to all students, etc.
- Sending to recipient addresses that are not in the phonebook is problematic, and may cause complaints and/or outside mail services to block email from UAB. If this is required, special approval will be needed.
- Date and Time: Date and time to send the message (off hours if possible), at least 7 days before the mailing is to be sent.
- From: A valid From: address must be provided (usually a Resources or other non-personal departmental account); if none is provided, the requestor's address will be used.
- Subject: Requestor must provide a Subject: line for the message.
- Format: The preferred format is text-only; any additional formatting may be lost or altered.
- Links: If the message has clickable links embedded in it, the visible URL must match the "real" URL, or the message will most likely be flagged as a phishing attempt and rejected by some mail systems.
- Recipients: Recipient email addresses (to request a subset of Faculty/Students/Employees, the ticket must be assigned to both TUCC: Bill Laughlin and UNIX Group: Ed Harris)
- BlazerID (preferred)
- firstname.lastname@example.com
- Banner ID #
- Oracle ID #
Please note:
A report will be sent to the requestor containing the number of emails sent, and the number and addresses not sent with reason. If time permits, this info will be provided before the email is sent.
If a major discrepancy is found, the email will not be sent until the requestor is consulted. If necessary approvals are not submitted within this timeframe, the email will be delayed. A copy of the approval must be attached to the Footprints ticket before sending the email.


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Escobar Gets On Base, Keeps Opponents Off It
During the 2008 West Coast League season, Kitsap BlueJackets manager Matt Acker became a fan of Chris Escobar.
And that was when Escobar was playing for the Wenatchee AppleSox.
"We couldn't get him out," Acker said.
So when it came time to put together the 2009 team, Acker checked into his availability. The AppleSox had first dibs, but when they passed...
Escobar, who was playing at San Francisco, got a call from his college coach and was surprised when he found out that Acker personally asked for him.
And it's worked out well for both parties.
The Jackets have had a versatile infielder with standout defense who is constantly on base.
Escobar is third on the team with a .406 on-base percentage. He's hitting .275, but he has a team-high 16 walks.
"It's because he doesn't give up at-bats," Acker said.
Escobar will eat up pitch counts.
"Pitchers get upset and they give in," Acker said. "They know he's not going away."
And Acker said opposing pitchers aren't worried about giving up homers to the 163-pound infielder, who is generally listed at 6-feet tall.
And while he's a boon offensively, Escobar takes even more pride on his defense. When he was younger, that was what he liked to work on more than anything else.
"One of the things I love to do is take ground balls," Escobar said. "That definitely was a big thing for me. That was the aspect I loved the most."
Escobar grew up taking ground balls in Stockton, Calif. He was a pretty decent pitcher, too. He was the pitcher of the year for his league in high school as a junior, but injury has kept him from taking the mound since high school. That, and he's always been a much better infielder.
Escobar went to San Francisco his first two college seasons, but before his junior year he transferred to Delta State in Cleveland, Miss.
If you had no idea there was a Cleveland in Mississippi, you weren't the only one.
"Neither did I until I went there," Escobar said.
Escobar transferred to get more playing time. He was the starting shortstop for the Statesman.
But it's a long way from San Francisco to Cleveland, Miss.
"There's definitely a culture shock," Escobar said. "I'm definitely able to see another part of the world I haven't seen before."
Escobar, an international business major, has another year of college ball. As any college baseball player, he's hoping to get a shot in the minor leagues.
He has a fall back in place. He plans to go back to school and become a fire fighter.
"I've wanted to be a fire fighter since I was 2 years old," Escobar said.
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Gambling is to be the 'scourge de jour' for the next week or two? Just arranged my next trip to Vegas. Now you've got me wanting to go sooner.
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controlled by riverboats. The boat would take on passengers, then take up the
ramp and float ten feet from shore for two hours. The passengers would
disembark and a new batch of gamblers would come aboard.
Well, that was silly. So the boats just stayed at the riverbank.
Then they allowed land-based casinos.
Now, they've allowed a few more.
The sites used to be reserved for blighted communities as a source of local tax revenue. A sort of welfare or boost to older towns.
But a few licenses became a few more, which caused the early towns to lose revenue share. Towns are now competing for finite gambling dollars.
And a Chicago casino looms in the future.
To be fair, these casinos in blighted areas have NOT contributed to the decay. They've brought in money and supported local groups with grants. The pawn shops and cat houses never came.
But in the end they didn't save the towns either.
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Gaming is the most regressive tax in America. That it is "honored" is a strange inversion of political philosophy.
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People should be free to gamble. someone call Beck this sounds like a nanny State idea.
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Gaming is a sad business.
Supported by Big Money and Big Gov't alike. It gains support from some Republicans and some Democrats. As this article claims, people with less money spend a lot at the casinos and even more likely at the gas stations lottery tickets. If true, it is is systematically keeping these people in poverty. THus a need for more welfare and more gov't support. Needing more revenue our gov'ts rely more and more on the taxes and other revenue sources (including the lottery $ which makes it even harder and harder to get rid of it, like an addictive drug, they more you use it, the more negative side effects and the more you need it). The casino even employs workers at marginal wages and even many of their employees are kept in the system as they live from paycheck to paycheck.
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Any addiction negatively affects the families of the addicted. But most addictions are not state supported or advertised. Watched my brother-in-law gamble away his paycheck and leave his wife and children without grocery or rent money. He never has quit gambling and the family suffers still. Gambling should be recognized as a major financial and social drain on our society and all state support stopped.
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