SOAR@SU: Recent submissions
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Soviet Counterculture, Poison Girls, and Glue Sticks: Teaching Information Literacy with Do-It-Yourself Zines
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Wrestling with Writer's Block: Pedagogical Interventions that Work and Why
(2022-05)"Wrestling with Writer's Block: Pedagogical Interventions that Work and Why" presents a study about first year composition students' experiences with writer's block and how understanding one's writer identity and writing ... -
The Walking Icelanders: Revenants in the Íslendingasögur
(2022-05-20)This study analyzes the revenants found in six different sagas from the Íslendingasögur, or Icelandic Family Sagas. Revenants are those people who die and then reanimate post-mortem to haunt the living, or pre-mortem. This ... -
Student-Generated Local Candidate Voter Guides: Teaching Information Literacy through Partnering Librarians and Faculty
(Association of College and Research Libraries, 2022)Each semester the Dean of Libraries offers a course enhancement grant to encourage faculty and librarians to develop in-depth assignments to teach advanced research skills. This chapter describes a collaboration resulting ... -
Developing the Student Reader: An Investigation into the Practices and Perceptions of Stakeholders Within the Context of 100 Book Challenge
(2022-04-19)This qualitative case study explores the practices and perceptions of key stakeholders (administrators, educators, parents, and students) in the development of the elementary reader within the context of 100 Book Challenge. ... -
Understanding Medical Laboratory Science (MLS) Disciplinary Reading Practices Using Collaborative Retrospective Miscue Analysis (CRMA)
(2021-12)This qualitative, exploratory, single case study of one Medical Laboratory Science (MLS) academic program sought to better understand how members actively engaged and transacted with their disciplinary readings. Using ... -
Snack-Sized Turtles? Investigating Size Class Distributions and Predation of the Endangered Spotted Turtle (Clemmys guttata)
(2021-11)Reptiles are experiencing decreased population sizes and declines in number of populations. Despite this overall pattern, for many species, there remains insufficient data to understand population trends, let alone the ... -
Reading in the Secondary World Language Classroom: How High School Students Enact Their Emerging Literacy with Authentic Text
(2021-12)This qualitative case study of a high school world language (WL) classroom with flexible language boundaries (Cummins, 2012; Creese & Blackledge, 2010; Garcia & Li Wei, 2014; Turnbull & Daily-O’Cain, 2009) examines how ... -
Biology Newsletter, October 2021
(2021-10)Created in October 2021, the Henson School of Science and Technology's Department of Biological Sciences' newsletter provides readers with announcements, events, alumni updates, undergraduate publications, and other news ... -
Biology Newsletter, March 2021
(2021-03)Created in March 2021, the Henson School of Science and Technology's Department of Biological Sciences' newsletter provides readers with announcements, events, alumni updates, undergraduate publications, and other news ... -
Laridae, Volume 3, Fall 2021
(Salisbury University, 2021)Laridae features outstanding works from undergraduate students from across SU's programs and disciplines. -
Impact of a Nurse-Led Virtual Asthma Education Program on Middle School-Aged Children's Asthma Self-Management
(2021-08-05)Asthma is a leading chronic disease among school-aged children and adolescents. In one rural Maryland public school system, asthma accounts for many school health visits, missed school days, and emergency room (ER) visits, ... -
Decreasing Preventable Emergency Department Visits Using the Patient Activation Measure
(2021-08)Problem: Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) and congestive heart failure (CHF) are chronic conditions and common causes of death and disability in the United States that lead to emergency department (ED) ... -
Increasing Exclusive Breastfeeding Rates Through the Implementation of Nursing Education and a Checklist
(2021)Exclusively breastfeeding a newborn by providing no other form of nutrition other than breastmilk has been shown to provide a substantial number of benefits to both mom and baby. In the hospital setting, exclusively ... -
The Systematic Utilization of a Depression Screening Tool for Patients with Type 2 Diabetes: A Quality Improvement Project
(2021-05)Depression seen in individuals with diabetes mellitus (DM) is associated with DM complications and increased healthcare costs. To mitigate these complications, the American Diabetes Association recommends that providers ... -
Increasing Patient Engagement in Primary Care following Transitional Care
(2021-05)Overutilization of emergent care for primary health needs in the United States leads to poor utilization of resources, avoidable hospital readmissions, and costs an estimated 17 billion dollars annually. Issues impacting ... -
From elephant memory to conservation action: using chili oil to mitigate conflict one elephant at a time
(Wiley, 2021-07-05)Short Communication: Here we present a case study of an alternate method, disruptive darting, that can be deployed quickly on elephants visiting a location where they are not desired. This method deters an elephant from a ... -
"A Conductor's Approach to Brahms' First Symphony," 2021
(2021-04-14)Program for "A Conductor's Approach to Brahms' First Symphony" by Elijah James Patrick Fallon, on April 14, 2021. -
Senior Recital by Olivia Davidson, 2021
(2021-04-10)Program for the senior recital of Olivia Davidson, messo-soprano, on April 10, 2021. -
Jazz Ensemble Program, 2020
(2020-12-10)Program for the Jazz Ensemble concert, on December 10, 2020.