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Posted in AU students, Academics, Auburn, Auburn Faculty, Auburn Life, Faculty, Professors, Residence Life, Student Life, alanawells, student services by Alana | Thursday, November 1st, 2007 | 1 Comment »
The Virginia Tech shootings raised a lot of questions about communication between schools’ administrations and students. Many people assert that the tragedy could have been avoided, or at least lessened, if administration had contacted students or canceled classes after the initial shootings.
In order to increase communication in emergency situations, Auburn University has announced a new emergency communication system called AU Alert that will help keep students, faculty and staff informed with up-to-date information in the event of a crisis, keeping them safer on and off campus. (more…)
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Posted in Academics, Auburn, Auburn Faculty, Education, Professors, Research, Sciences and Mathematics, alanawells by Alana | Thursday, October 25th, 2007 | Comments Off
What is the first thing you think of when you hear the word math? I can almost bet you’re not thinking fun or interesting.
Auburn University’s Dr. Marilyn Strutchens is trying to change that. She has developed a project called “Enhancing Qualitative Understanding in Teachers and Youth via Problem Solving,” or EQUITY via Problem Solving, for short. The goal of the project is to create a fun way to teach and learn mathematics. (more…)
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Posted in Academics, Auburn, Auburn Faculty, Faculty, Professors, Research, Sciences and Mathematics, alanawells, eco-friendly by Alana | Thursday, October 18th, 2007 | Comments Off
You might not know it, but you live The East Gulf Coast Plain region, one of the nation’s hotspots for biodiversity and species endangerment. It is also one of the least documented. Fortunately, Auburn University’s College of Sciences and Mathematics, with the help of Florida State University, Troy University, the University of South Alabama and the University of Southern Mississippi, students and scientists everywhere will be able to access high-resolution digital images of plant specimens found in the East Gulf Coastal Plain.
The Deep South Plant Specimen Project kicked off in spring of 2007 with a $200,000 grant from the National Science Foundation. (more…)
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Posted in Agriculture, Auburn, Auburn Faculty, PR Writing, Professors, olympics by Sarah | Friday, October 12th, 2007 | Comments Off
Recent recalls of Chinese products have caused concern about food safety during the 2008 Summer Olympic Games in Beijing, China. More than 10,500 athletes and 22,000 journalists will be at the Games, and Auburn University’s Yifen Wang is playing a major role in ensuring their safety. (more…)
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Posted in Auburn, Auburn Faculty, PR Writing, Professors by Brett | Tuesday, October 2nd, 2007 | Comments Off
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r. Debra Worthington, an Associate Professor in the Communication and Journalism department, just concluded a research project to answer this question. Dr. Worthington worked with a legal research company named Litigation Insights and the law firm Evert, Weathersby and Hoff to find out if a different camera angle could make a difference in a juror’s verdict in a court case.
Together they made stimulus materials by hiring actors to film two versions of depositions from actual civil trials. In one version the camera was on just the witness, and the other both the attorney and the witness were seen. This was to answer their main research question, “If you can see both or just one, would this affect how the information is perceived?”
Their research showed that there is some difference dependent on the camera angle. It turned out that the people who see both appeared to be more open minded and see all the evidence.
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