9:30-10:00
Exhibition
Zero Degrees Resort: International Business Plan
Kiersten Bellar,
Rachel DesRuisseaux, Narissa Lumbra, Cheyenne Routhier, Elizabeth Saucier
This presentation will provide a detailed summary of a semester-long international business plan proposal for Zero Degrees Resort, a start-up business in Vancouver, Canada. Zero Degrees is marketed as a cost-effective luxury vacation alternative for college-aged students across the globe to enjoy during school breaks. The mission statement of Zero Degrees Resort is to provide college students with a safe and enjoyable school vacation option. In addition to this, the mission of any international business is to achieve economic success in a foreign business environment. To build the foundation for continued success, Zero Degrees will require start-up funds of over $25 million. To convince investors that Zero Degrees is a worthy business venture, the intricacies of Canadian business law, macro and microeconomic factors, cost-effective international marketing techniques, and start-up fund requirements will be discussed throughout this business plan proposal.
11:00-12:00
Roundtable
Digging-In and Looking- Out
Molly Badraway, Sarah Dengler, Zan Walker-Goncalves
“Digging-in”, the thematic GLE120 Composition course, is part-metaphor, part-double entendre, as it not only seeks to tackle the learning outcomes of the course with enthusiasm (written and oral communication), but also strives to create an understanding of sustainable practices, particularly in relationship to food. During the past four years, the content of “Digging-in” has focused primarily on three aspects of sustainability, which include environmental, economic, and social, in particular, the impact of sustainability on human health. This year, in addition to “Digging-in”, the students are also looking-out, not just for themselves but for others as well by expanding their vision of the “social” to include the relationship of food to social justice; students will examine the issue of food access and consider social engagement by looking-out there in the world. Students will present: What they’ve learned about food and social sustainability; how this information might impact the food choices they make; how they might advocate for food justice by digging-in and looking out. This PowerPoint, created by and for students, will showcase the research and presentation skills as applied to research posters, stories, and social engagement.
12:00-1:00
Roundtable
Making History: Faculty Student Collaboration on Research Projects
Mary Kelly, Christian Barbosa, Melinda Jette
The teaching-centered academic culture of Franklin Pierce University offers multiple opportunities for faculty-student collaboration in scholarly activities. In this Roundtable, Prof. Mary C. Kelly, Prof. Melinda M. Jette and Senior History and Secondary Education Major Christian R. Barbosa discuss collaborative approaches to researching primary material and developing public history projects with student involvement. Prof. Kelly and Christian Barbosa will provide insight into their research work on Irish-American political culture in the 1916/Irish Revolution era, with particular attention to the convolutions of the post-Easter Rising years and turbulent Irish Free State transition-point, while Prof. Jette will discuss the process of working with students on a range of levels to shape historical exhibitions, documentaries and other forms by which history is made public and historical episodes are marked. We will also confront the challenges inherent in working toward and achieving these objectives in a busy academic semester.
1:00-2:00
Roundtable
Public History Internship Panel
Melinda Jette
Public History students Amy Driscoll, Kathryn Mathews, Gabriel Norwood, and Kathryn Mathews will outline the process by which they gained professional internships in the summer of 2016 and they will share their observations on the value of the positions. They will also provide advice to their FPU peers on how the internships have contributed their professional development. Internship sites include the Paul Revere House (MA), Abbe Museum (ME), Springfield Armory National Historic Site (MA), Longfellow Historic Site (MA).
2:00-3:00
Performance
Shakespeare Live!
Jessica Landis, Dominque Bethea, Sarah Crispell, Mary Decker, Sarah Flynn, Gabbi Gleiman, Bridget Harrington, Benjamin Kibit, Macklin Lang, Joseph Lehmann, Jessica Marcure, Kaitlyn McCarthy, Caitlyn Mulcahy, Troy Nikander, Jayce Ringwald
"Shakespeare Live!" will feature students from the current EN313 Shakespeare course. Participants will choose a poem or dramatic passage by Shakespeare to recite and interpret for the Showcase audience. The recitations will be influenced by the students' understanding of Shakespeare's words and the historical contexts of the chosen pieces. After each recitation, participants will provide a brief explanation of their text and performance choices. Each presentation will take about 5 minutes, and there will be a brief introduction before the presentations. This panel allows students to display their textual analysis skills in a way that differs from conventional in-class discussions. They will use close reading skills to create a compelling and meaningful performance. They will also showcase historical and literary knowledge gained from the course in the explanations of their interpretations. Perhaps most importantly, this panel provides participants and viewers alike an opportunity to share Shakespeare publicly and orally, as much of his work was intended to be experienced.
3:00-3:30
Paper
Radiative Properties of Aerosols (Air Pollution) Observed Over Nepal during Pre- to Post Monsoon Season
Rudra Aryal, Michael Cappucci
Long term air pollution optical data obtained from AERONET sites of different cities of Nepal and India are analyzed to evaluate the patterns of air pollution in Nepal and India. The major optical components such as aerosol optical depth (AOD) and single scattering albedo (SSA) vary among pre monsoon, monsoon and post monsoon seasons. The analysis of air mass trajectory and comparison of optical properties of particulate matters over the different cities of Nepal and India shows that the atmospheric pollutants transported from India have significant contribution on the air pollution of Nepal.
3:30-4:00
Paper
Spiritually, Self-Reflection, and Community Service: Creating and Eco-village Model for Student Retention
Verna Delauer
The goal of this research was to understand retention and emotional connection to place among residents at an intentional community in Scotland. Residents are intentionally committed to environmental sustainability, i.e. an eco-village. Preliminary findings suggest three drivers of community retention. 1. Intentional self-reflection. Residents were given time during work within the community to reflect on their feelings and share them with one another. Residents found that open and encouraged communication was critical to their well-being and the progress of their work. 2. Intuitive communication. Residents believed that through a spiritual practice, one's emotional and physical purpose becomes clearer, thus enabling them to better serve the community with honest self-awareness. 3. Community service. All residents devoted their professional time to the development and functioning of the community and believed this work was as or more important than one's personal achievements/self-fulfillment. These findings, in part, were what enabled and motivated eco-village residents to practice more sustainable living. The research results were used to create a model of FPU student retention focused on promoting a sustainable, community-oriented college lifestyle.
4:00-4:30
Paper
Are Vascular Conductance and Muscle Blood Flow During Exercise Affected by Hypoxia and Arterial Perfusion Pressure?
Rodrigo Villar
To investigate the combined effect of hypoxia and altered arterial perfusion pressure on vascular conductance (VC), muscle blood flow (MBF), and O2 delivery (DO2est) during exercise. Ten healthy volunteers repeated plantar flexion contractions at 20% (low power output = LPO) and 30% (higher power output = HPO) of their maximal voluntary contraction in 35° head down tilt (HDT) and 45° head up tilt (HUT) to modify muscle perfusion pressure (MPP) while breathing normoxic and then hypoxic air. Popliteal diameter and muscle blood flow velocity were measured by ultrasound to determine MBF. VC was estimated by dividing MBF flow by MPP, and DO2est was estimated from MBF and saturation. In hypoxia, VC reached its upper functional limit and the consequence was revealed by increased muscle activation. During HPOHDT in hypoxia, a functional limitation for the recruitment of VC constrained MBF and DO2est, which contribute to a greater metabolic stress and advance of muscle fatigue. During LPOHDT, LPOHUT and HPOHUT in hypoxia, changes in VC compensated for the alterations in O2 availability and MPP with no apparent functional limitation in the VC recruitment, which would allow further rises in MBF to maintain DO2est.
