Fulbright Opportunities for Faculty presented by Mike Luthy and Fred Rhodes.
Have you ever considered applying for a Fulbright Scholar grant? Have you ever wondered what opportunities are out there? Have you thought, "where do I start?" Boy - you have a lot of questions. Fortunately, on April 15th Bellarmine faculty and administrators who have participated in Fulbright programs were on hand to share their experiences with us.
April 3, 2008
SMARTBoard Technology: An Interactive Tool Designed To Meet the Diverse Learning Styles of Students presented by Susan Lancaster/School of Education.
Faculty members were invited to a ‘hands-on’ introduction to the innovative technology of the SmartBoard. Bellarmine School of Education pre-service teachers are using this tool to present content information to K-12 students.
Colleges and universities around the country continue to see increasing numbers of students with emotional and mental health concerns. Do you know how to help a distressed student? We’ve invited Dr. Gary Petiprin, Director of the BU Counseling Center, to talk with us on this timely topic. He will advise us on understanding common mental health concerns among college students, recognizing signs of potential problems, effective responses to emotional distress, and when and how to refer a student for help
Feb 4, 2008
Lara Osborne
University of Chicago
Marriage & School Enrollment: Lessons from the NLSY
Marriage and divorce is a widely studied filed in social work, but the relationship between schooling and marriage has not. One event that can strain a relationship is the desire of the woman to return to school, either to complete a degree or learn a new subject. Here we present the findings of examining a 25-year longitudinal study of enrollment and marital status. As someone once asked, “So, if my wife says that she wants to return to school, should I be worried?” The answer is, “perhaps.”
Jan 11, 2008
Tony Lentz
Do Caterpillars Talk and Why Should We Care?
Some caterpillars can be cute but also ferocious, at least to other caterpillars and predators. Results will be presented from ongoing exploratory studies to examine caterpillar communication and the role of a particular gland recently observed in velvetbean caterpillars.
Jan 11, 2008
Kyle S. Barnett
The Recording Industry and Its Place in Media History
How do we account for the absence of the recording industry in media history? I will discuss some contextual reasons for lack of research and argue for the recording industry's importance, both as a discrete institution and one that is crucial to so many other cultural industries.
Nov 30, 2007
Ann Bucalos and
Claire Hughes
Why Are These Kids So Spoiled? or Generations: Teaching the Millennials
Do you realize that the freshmen entering college today have no memory of the Berlin Wall?
And that Nelson Mandela has always been free?
And they have no knowledge that U2 was anything more than a rock group…
This session will focus on the “Millennials”- this generation that is coming of age at the turn of the Millennium- the most highly technological, wealthy and safest group of students in decades.
We will examine how this generation looks very much like the generation of the 1950s, how communication patterns have changed, how understanding of time and expectations for information has changed and how iconic figures and concepts repeat themselves generation after generation.
We will focus the discussion on educational implications, since educators and learners may find themselves being baffled by each other’s expectations.
July 25, 2007
Chuck Hatton
Angst in the Marketplace: Arthur Miller's "Death of a Salesman" and the Critique of American Capitalism
Arthur Miller’s classic play “Death of a Salesman” (1949) has generated diverse critical opinions, some which see it as criticizing the effects of the business world on individuals, while others deny that the play has such critical intentions. Though there is much evidence that Miller intended the play as a criticism of American capitalism, the disagreement about the play’s meaning responds to an ambiguity in the text itself, which addresses the power of market forces indirectly through depicting their influence on a family conflict. The play centers on a family conflict between father and son, in which the son’s desire to free himself from the phoniness of the father’s ideals and his failure as a role model for his son ultimately lead to the death of the father, freeing the son to live an independent life.
June 5, 2007
Dr. Bergstrans, Dr. Wilbon, and Edward Manassah
Newspaper Coverage of the 'Downing Street Memo.' A Comparison of the US and Britain
The Downing Street Memo, a secret British intelligence memo leaked to the press in 2003, is considered by anti-war activists to be a ‘smoking gun’ which proves the Bush administration lied about the reasons for invading Iraq. While controversy continues to surround the accuracy and meaning of the memo, knowledge of its existence could have had a significant impact upon public opinion in the early phases of the war and the US press has been accused of ignoring or ‘under-reporting’ this information compared to the foreign press. This research uses a content analysis of newspapers to determine: 1) whether US newspapers did in fact under-report the DSM and 2) which newspapers in the US were most likely to under-report it.
