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Sawtooth 2013: An Expedition into the Idaho Wilderness
(2013)This proposal will give you a detailed understanding of my planned expedition to the Sawtooth wilderness in March of 2013. Within these pages you will find a brief history of the area, some geological background, a glimpse ... -
Sea Kayaking North Carolina's Outer Banks
(2010)EXP 436: Senior Expedition may appear at first glance to be just one of the many courses listed on an expeditionary studies student's Curriculum Advising & Program Planning (CAPP) Report. However, an expeditionary studies ... -
Seen, But Now Heard: How Increased LGBT Visibility Contributed to Cultural Acceptance of Gay Marriage
(2016-04-30)With the Supreme Court's ruling in Oberfegell v. Hodges on June 26 of this past year, the long-standing fight for gay rights finally reached its peak with the national legalization of gay marriage. In comparison to the ... -
Sensorimotor Intervention for Feeding Management in the Preterm Population
(2016)Oral feeding difficulty is a common complication facing infants born preterm. Preterm infants are not fully developed; therefore the coordination and function needed to perform the suck and swallow become disrupted. Studies ... -
Service Learning as a Pedagogical Tool for Citizen Stewards
(The Common Good: A SUNY Plattsburgh Journal on Teaching and Learning, 2014)Service-Learning is an effective pedagogical tool in which students apply their classroom learning to help communities in need. Six service-learning projects were conducted in an introductory environmental engineering ... -
Shake This Square World and Blast Off for Kicksville: Teaching History with Post-WWII Prescriptive Classroom Films
(The History Teacher, 2010-11)The article discusses using social adjustment films from the late 1940s to the 1960s to teach students about U.S. history. It examines several films' themes including sexuality, manners, and drug use. Other films concerned ... -
Shine On! Shine True!
(2017)In their feature project, Hannah LaPlante and Imani Burroughs examined the Shine On! Program for young girls, which is organized and run by public relations students under the supervision of Associate Professor Colleen Lemza. -
A short proof and generalization of Lagrange's theorem on continued fractions
(American Mathematical Monthly, 2011)We present a short new proof that the continued fraction of a quadratic irrational eventually repeats. The proof easily generalizes; we construct a large class of functions which, when iterated, must eventually repeat when ... -
Should Malingering Matter to Speech Language Pathologists?
(2009)Malingering, or the intentional feigning of illnesses or disorders for secondary gain, is a financial and legal burden to society. Documented malingered disorders that are of particular interest to speech-language pathologists ... -
The Sierra: Discovering the Backcountry
(2012)In recent years I have rediscovered my own passion for skiing. After overcoming multiple injuries that have kept me out of the backcountry it is finally my time to explore. For the last few years of my life I have been ... -
The Sins of the Father: Generational Conflict, Vergangeheitsbewältigung, and the Creation of a Militant Generation
(2013)This research paper has developed in conjunction with my academic development. I first became acquainted with the topic of vergangenheitsbewaltigung during my freshman year at SUNY Plattsburgh. Since then, I have done much ... -
Social Communication Training for Adults with Traumatic Brain Injury and Quality of Life Improvements
(2015)Traumatic brain injury (TBI) can cause a variety of communicative deficits. These deficits impact on an individual’s social interactions and quality of life. This poster outlines the social communication problems that often ... -
Social Justify Your Lesson Plan: How to Use Social Media to Make Pop Culture Scholarly
(Critical Library Pedagogy Handbook, 2016)In this chapter, we describe a lesson plan rooted in feminist pedagogy -- a teaching/learning that actively engages with the material being studied by embracing social media as a viable platform for scholarship. This lesson ... -
Social Media as Game Strategy: Twitter in the #infolit Instruction Session
(2015-06-04)The lure of distractions can entice even the strongest of student wills in a computer classroom. Research requires strategic thinking and ordered planning to drown out the noise of online distractions. This poster demonstrates ... -
Sonnets for Remembrance
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Spatial and Temporal Distribution and Abundance Microplastics in Lake Champlain Long-Term Monitoring Samples
(2017)Microplastics are particles less than 5mm in size, characterized as fibers, fragments, beads, foams, and pellets. Microplastics (MP) arise from four main processes: environmental degradation (UV exposure, mechanical and/or ... -
Species Verification of Peromyscus spp. through Salivary Amylase Gel Electrophoresis
(2014)Often field identification of sympatric organisms becomes difficult when species are morphologically and behaviorally similar. Additionally, regional traits unique to subspecies further confound typical field marking ... -
Square Roots of 2x2 Matrices
(2010)This paper is designed to pique the interest of undergraduate students who are familiar with the concepts of linear algebra. We investigate five methods of computing square roots of two-by-two matrices. Each method gives ...
