The key to leadership is controlling yourself rather than influencing other people. Ethical leaders are self-differentiated: they can make deliberate choices as opposed to reacting. They define themselves while staying in touch...
Presented in the Online Learning track. and I will be sharing a few examples of assignments and exercises that I have done or have students do in the courses I teach at Marian. They allow students to get to know myself, so they...
GnRHR signaling has been demonstrated to affect cancer cell proliferation. The expression of GnRH binding sites in leukemias and lymphomas provides a potential target for chemotherapeutic drugs. Analyzing the effect of GnRHR...
Research suggests that providing students with a rubric increases scientific writing skills; however, we have found that the quality of scientific writing in a course-based undergraduate research experience (CURE) is poor even...
Efforts to reduce health disparities and increase access to underserved populations may be outpaced as populations diversify further. Early exposure of Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, Accessibility, and Belonging (DEIAB)...
The history and use of virtual and augmented reality dates back to the early 19th Century, Charles Wheatstone an English scientist, and inventor discovered that the brain interrupts stereoscopic photos and paintings differently...
Three libraries in Indianapolis provide a unique example of collaboration by hosting a National Library of Medicine traveling exhibit at three locations within the city. Hosting the exhibit, “Harry Potter’s World,” will provide...
The COVID-19 pandemic has accelerated the adoption of online learning across various academic disciplines, including medical education. This study aims to investigate how medical students' perceptions of online learning change...
•Waiting for Course Evaluations does not help the students currently in the class
• Using in-semester assessments allows instructors to make adjustments quickly and best serve their students
--> Shows the students that the...
In recent medical history, vaccinations have facilitated the reduction/eradication of many transmissible diseases (Olusanya et al., 2021). Recently, a growing reluctance of parents to vaccinate their children is a pertinent...
Presented in the Active/Collaborative Learning track. and The study evaluates the outcome of integrating narrative podcasts of virtual Histology Slides into teaching Histology discipline to the medical students at Marian...
Epilepsy is one of the most common brain disorders and is characterized by the recurrence of unprovoked seizures. It affects over 70 million people worldwide, 3.4 million in the U.S. alone, and it is estimated 1 in 26 people in...
Presented in the Online Learning track. and Student engagement in learning is important to all courses and is especially challenging in online education. This poster shares my journey to increase student engagement and...
Accurate scientific communication is of chief importance. The ability to understand complex biomedical content and describe it in accurate simplistic terms is a skill that needs practice and refinement. The Kindergarten...
Kisspeptin together with its receptor, GPR54 (Kiss1R), are known for their function as the principal regulators of the onset of mammalian puberty. Given the characteristic growth spurt and bone development that occurs during...
Introduction: Kisspeptin together with its receptor, GPR54 (Kiss1 R), are known for their function as the principal regulators of the onset of mammalian puberty. Given the characteristic growth spurt and bone development that...
Klotho is a regulatory anti-aging protein that is significantly expressed
in the choroid plexus, plays an important role in regulating the immune
response in the CNS, and diminishes with age. Klotho deficiency is...
We will provide a mini experience of the Case in Point teaching method used in the core Adaptive Leadership and Transformational Leadership courses in the Masters of Educational Leadership and the EdD in Organizational...
Marian University has a small but mighty staff that thrives on the power of our student workers. In order to successfully manage them, we created an online space in our LMS and started to incorporate project management...
This project was an attempt to better integrate library resources within the campus LMS (Canvas), specifically through the application of the LibGuides widget tool linking feature. With content directly discovered in the LMS,...
Traditional medical education has recently seen major changes due to the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic. New pedagogical methods, including augmented reality (AR} and virtual reality (VR), arc on the rise as alternatives to...
Efforts to increase the diversity among healthcare providers may help close the gap of health disparities, combat inequities, and address medical access in underserved populations. In response to the need for more healthcare...
Engineering is about understanding how things work, and exploring the ways to engineer them for the benefit of society. A solid foundation of STEM knowledge can open a student endless opportunity in various fields. An...
Pediatric cancer is the leading cause of non-accidental childhood death in the United States[34]. 80% of children experience malnutrition during cancer treatment[34]. Malnutrition effects with cancer treatment: increases...
According to the CDC, 29.7 million people in the U.S. population had diagnosed diabetes in 2021. In addition, 352,000 children under 20 years had diagnosed diabetes as well. (Center for Disease Control and Prevention, 2023)....
Marian partnered with the Bard Women's Collaboration Project at the Indiana Women's Prison beginning in 2019. Classes continued to be offered through COVID with distance learning and returned to in-person sessions this past...
El marianismo is a cultural ideology that affects the physical health, mental health and emotional well-being of a number of Latina women that live in the United States.
Hispanic population is one of the fastest growing...
Inclusive excellence is important for student learning. To learn, it is important to be engaged, be welcomed, and be considered during instructional design and assessment. Here, I share activities at Marian University as part...
Objecti ve: Soft tissue manual therapies are commonly utilized by osteopathic physicians, chiropractors, physical therapists and massage therapists. These techniques are predicated on subjecting tissues to biophysical...
Osteoporosis is a disease of low bone mass that places individuals at enhanced risk for fracture, disability, and death. Hospitalizations for osteoporotic fractures exceeds those for heart attack, stroke, and breast cancer...
The unique conditions of microgravity and radiation exposure in space have a substantial impact on human tissue function, resulting in extreme bone loss. The goal of this project is to synthesize the current knowledge on bone...
Multiple osteochondromas (MO) is a rare genetic disorder characterized by accessory bone growths usually stemming from the epiphyseal plate oflong bones. MO affects about l in 50,000 lirn births. Complications of MO include...
Organ transplantation is a surgical procedure in which a failing organ is replaced by a healthy organ .The healthy organ can come from a deceased or living donation
Each Saint Joseph's College student is encouraged to pursue an Earn and Learn internship. Students prepare for these paid, long-term internships with a series of workforce development activities, such as resume development and...
Osteoporosis is a silent, dangerous pathology frequently undiagnosed until patients experience a major fracture. About 1 in 2 women and 1 in 4 men ages 50 and above will experience bone fractures due to osteoporosis. Fractures...
Numerous surgical approaches have been proposed to treat aortic arch hypoplasia (Figures 1&2). These repairs can vary based upon patient age (i.e. neonatal vs larger child), and therefore the mobility of the aorta. Most repairs...
Students in my sections of THL 105 Introduction to Theology learn actively toward several course outcomes through a field trip to the colonnade near the Allison Mansion. Overlooking the natural landscape of the Ecolab, the...
My innovative land acknowledgement project asks students to engage with Native American pasts, presents, and futures. In this multi-step research assignment, students expand their historical and cultural awareness by...
Presented in the Online Learning track. and NSG 493 'Transition to Practice’ is a final semester course within the LSON BSN Curriculum in the traditional, on campus accelerated, and online accelerated programs. The team of 4...
Presented in the Active/Collaborative Learning track. and According to researchers, Thiele et al. (2014), technology can enhance learning by making the classroom more active and student-centered. In EDU 307 and EDU 419, I have...
Chemotherapeutic agents, such as vincristine, are well known
antineoplastic and cytotoxic drugs, affecting patients broadly during
treatment of cancer. Well known side effects, such as constipation
and neuropathic pain,...
Due to the availability of information on the internet, patients are well informed of the several types of hernia repair available to them. They are also increasingly made aware of the litigious environment surrounding...
Papillary glioneuronal tumors (PGNTs) are rare, benign neoplasms that are typically solid or solid/cystic, well-circumscribed, parenchymal, solitary, and calcify. While intraventricular location, tumoral hemorrhage, and/or...
Rubella was first described in the 1750s but took until 1941 when Congenital Rubella Syndrome was characterized to become medically significant. Similarly, zika virus was discovered in 1947 but only made headlines in 2016 when...
Eccrine sweating glands are divided into functional units: I) a bulbous secretory coil that generates precursor fluid, and 2) a reabsorptive duct that transports the fluid to the skin surface. The secretory coils reside in the...
The ability to communicate with patients effectively continues to be a major hindrance for physicians and physician offices. Coordinating care via conventional telecommunication, involving making calls to a healthcare facility...
The annual increase on price of pharmaceuticals are becoming a growing health concern in the United States for patients, prescribers, and policy makers.
Why is this an issue?
• Prices of newly marketed and pre-existing...
This research project investigates lead exposure in urban areas, focusing on community gardens with lead-contaminated soils. Lead exposure causes brain damage, IQ decrease, and behavioral problems. Lead is one of the health...
Practicing empathy and listening skills are not traditionally components of a graduate-level biomedical science curriculum, however incorporating an opportunity for students to refine both can be given using “patient” podcast...
Presented in the Active/Collaborative Learning track. and The value of introducing graphic design majors to the process of co-design, designing with stakeholders rather than for them, is essential to the education of today's...
In the United States, one of the biggest issues that every state is experiencing is the shortage in doctors. Primary Care Physicians make up a huge percentage of the shortage in doctors. The Midwest took a huge hit by this...
Children with acute lymphoblastic leukemia
(ALL) suffer a litany of therapy induced side
effects. Methotrexate is a common chemotherapy agent
administered for the treatment of ALL. Failure to clear methotrexate from the body...
Presented in the Innovative Assessment of Learning track. and MAT250 transitions students to advanced mathematics. Objectives include learning to justify mathematical statements using standard methods of proof and communicate...
Healthcare disparities among different racial and ethnic groups are prevalent across the United States and worldwide. Healthcare provision may differ among racial and ethnic minorities, socioeconomic statuses, and insurance...
Recent studies describe racial and socioeconomic
(SES) disparities with mechanical thrombectomy
(MT) for acute ischemic stroke (AIS). Our study
investigated whether such disparities are present at
our institution and...
Over 1.25 million people reside in nursing facilities in the United States. Nursing facilities have reported 268,707 confirmed cases of COVID-19 and 61,765 COVID-19 deaths as of the week of November 2, 2020. Indiana was one of...
Presented in the Active/Collaborative Learning track. and Student engagement and collaborative learning is enhanced by following the customized Internship Playbook. A large population of the students in the School of Business...
There is a need for anabolic therapies to treat degenerative bone
diseases. Mechanical loading stimulates anabolic and inhibits
catabolic pathways of bone leading to increased bone formation.
Osteocytes are the bone cell...
Obesity and metabolic dysfunction negatively impacts many tissues, including the skeleton. Calcium/calmodulin-dependent protein kinase kinase 2 (CaMKK2) is a serine/threonine protein kinase and key regulator of whole-body...
Head and neck squamous cell carcinomas (HNSCCs) have remained one of the common and lethal cancers around the world. HNSCC rapidly spread via the lymphatics system, leading to a higher percentage of initial late-stage diagnoses...
Why do neurocognitive disorders persist in people living with HIV while taking combination antiretroviral therapy
(cART)?
• The brain is a known reservoir for HIV.
• HIV can act on myeloid cell populations like...
Mental illness treatment in the United States has developed and changed drastically in the past century. Where in the early 1900s,one with a severe mental illness would be institutionalized, today, the same person could be...
Highlighting a teaching collaboration between Nursing and Library. Using health/research cases, this team classroom activity and “lightning presentation” allows students to engage and appraise unfamiliar research papers, using...
The US Department of Labor cites that while the United States has over 4 million registered nurses, many of them are no longer practicing. This statistic existed pre-pandemic, yet, is augmented in this current pandemic climate....
How do can we make our research methods courses more impactful, inclusive, and integrated? How can we engage students more effectively in a course many dread? My answer is to transform our Historical Research Methods course...
Presented in the Active/Collaborative Learning track. and This is a class activity on the construction of sex. I ask the class for all the terms and expressions they have for having sex. We collect them and put them on the...
The enzyme lactase reacts with lactose, creating glucose as a product. For some members of the human population, their body does not produce the lactase enzyme, making it difficult to digest dairy products. Environmental...
Reported cases of isolated fetal ascites determined to be idiopathic have been shown to carry a favorable prognosis with frequent spontaneous resolution in utero (1,2,3). These cases generally reported better fetal outcomes...
Ambulances are a target for theft and reportings of ambulance thefts has been increasing in the past several years. There is a paucity of research in this area, as a PubMed search of the terms ambulance theft yields only one...