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Presenters & Abstracts: 2022
Students’ Experiences with Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion in Research Methods Courses
- Brandilynn VillarrealPsychologyFaculty
- Maria I. IturbidePsychologyFaculty
- Edgar Jimenez-MadoraPsychologyGraduate Student
- Shelley MagallanesPsychology
- Luis LaraPsychologyGraduate Student
- Leti Armenta VillaPsychologyUndergraduate Student
College of Professional Studies
Researchers have noted a historical lack of coverage of diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) topics in Psychology Research Methods courses (RMCs). We hypothesize that Psychology RMCs’ coverage of DEI will be positively correlated with indicators of academic integration and negatively correlated with minority stress, especially for marginalized students (e.g., students of color). DEI in RMCs were associated with greater science identities and networking in white students and perceptions of positive campus climate for all students. However, for students of color, DEI in RMCs were associated with a greater number of social climate stresses. Given the small sample, more research is needed.
Supporting Military Women and Families Through Policy
- Cassidy GordonChild DevelopmentUndergraduate Student
College of Professional Studies
This presentation highlights my time as a Fall 2021 Panetta Congressional Intern for Cal Poly Humboldt. Also covered, is a policy research paper I completed as an internship requirement discussing ways to support military women and families through policy. In this presentation, I also cover the impacts of gender discrimination in the Military.
Sustainable Learning For Student Success
- Jesse MendezPhysicsUndergraduate Student
- Kyle MorganLibraryFaculty
- Kimberly StelterLibraryFaculty
Library
Rising textbook costs and the shift to the subscription model licensing has negatively impacted student success across the nation. The CSU Affordable Learning Solutions (AL$) program was created to support CSU campus initiatives for implementing strategies to reduce the cost of materials and foster more equitable student access to required course materials. This poster highlights the results of our outreach since the Cal Poly Humboldt Library joined the AL$ program. Our department has saved Cal Poly Humboldt students over $1M in course materials costs. Our primary methods are researching free OER material for possible adoption and supporting Cal Poly Humboldt faculty who publish new content.
Talking to Yourself: Let's Talk About Intrapersonal Communication!
- Kasandra Marguerite ColwellCommunicationUndergraduate Student
College of Arts, Humanities & Social Sciences
Intrapersonal communication consists of the internal communication that occurs within each of us, where we send and receive messages within ourselves. Intrapersonal communication highly impacts the more well-known concept of interpersonal communication, which occurs between two or more people. Yet, intrapersonal communication isn't listed as an interest group under the National Communication Association! Consequently, student exposure to this concept is often limited to a small section in introduction to communication courses. In this presentation, I argue that California Polytechnic Humboldt should offer a course in intrapersonal communication and I share a potential syllabus I've created.
Targeted Education and Monitoring to Reduce Diabetes Complications in Spanish-Speaking Patients on the North Coast
- Basilia LopezNursingUndergraduate Student
College of Professional Studies
Inconsistent follow-up care for Spanish-speaking patients with type 2 diabetes leads to unfavorable health outcomes and inequities for this population due to various socioeconomic barriers. With proper diabetes self-management, many patients can keep their A1C below 7%. Diabetes education incorporating culturally humility can improve patients’ health outcomes. Interventions at multiple levels are evaluated to address this practice disparity. The objective for Spanish-speaking low-income patients is diabetes care continuity so they can self-manage their illness and reduce complications. Process and impact evaluation strategies were analyzed to find the effectiveness of these implementations.
The Alien Movie Project: studying the narrative, affective, and production politics of alien cinema via podcast
- Dr. Aaron DonaldsonCommunicationFaculty
College of Arts, Humanities & Social Sciences
The Alien Movie Project is a 91-part podcast series about alienhood rhetoric in cinema. Dr. Donaldson will overview and summarize podcasting as a form of education as well as the lessons learned from critically interrogating nearly 100 alien movies from throughout history and across the globe.
The Art of Script: Humanity's Creative Abilities to Give Sound and Thought a Body
- Starsong BrittainNative American Studies and AnthropologyUndergraduate Student
College of Arts, Humanities & Social Sciences
Script is an overlooked art form in our society today. This project puts a spotlight on the creative bandwidth humanity has had in developing script. Along with the work done to revive forms of script and the language it takes shape from. Script extends throughout human time. Shifts from the realm of the sacred to that of mundane. Script gains its shape from the culture that develops it. At the end the viewers concepts of; what script is, how it functions, and what it can be, should be shifted. As well as causing for a reevaluation of how script is looked at by our society.
The Benefits of Smiling & Laughing
- Krysteanna CabanasCollege of Arts Humanities and Social SciencesUndergraduate Student
College of Arts, Humanities & Social Sciences
There were many different ideas that popped into my head when I first heard the idea of Ideafest, the idea that made me the most excited was the Benefits of Smiling and Laughing. I believe that this is a good Ideafest contribution for two reasons, one being that we are two years into a worldwide pandemic, where we have had to cover out beautiful smiles, and it has removed the normalization of smiling with one another, and secondly we are all adults and college students who tend be stressed out and forget to take a second for ourselves. There were many articles that I used to do the research for my poster and the pictures I used were to make me people smile while they are reading my poster.
The Effect of Grazing on Frog Abundance
- Abigail SimonWildlifeUndergraduate Student
College of Natural Resources & Sciences
This study compares the abundance of frogs in landscapes that are grazed by livestock to lands that are non-grazed. This study found no influence of grazing activity on frog abundance. This information will be an important consideration for the conservation efforts of frog species as development of lands for urbanization and agriculture continue to increase as well as for conservation managers as they work to restore and maintain quality frog habitat by reverting agricultural lands back to native landscapes.
The Effect of Salinity on the Concentration of Various Trace Metals in The Little River Estuary
- Shelby C BishopOceanography and ChemistryUndergraduate Student
College of Natural Resources & Sciences
Trace metals are crucial to many biological processes in marine environments. In estuaries linear relationships between salinity and concentration indicate that mixing is the main determinant of concentration, while exponential relationships indicate active removal. In this study it was expected that scandium would have an exponential relationship with salinity due to its similar ionic size to iron, however, Sc displayed a linear relationship while elements that were expected to be linear were exponential. To the author’s knowledge, this data represents the first river and estuary measurements of Sc, Ce, Zr, and La, and the reasons for these surprising relationships are not fully known.