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The University Daily Kansan
Tuesday, March 13, 2001
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'Hope' one focus of exhibition
Students show fruits of study today at JRP
By Sara Bouska
writer@kansan.com
Special to the Kansan
Graduate students Kerry Connellly, Tapeka, and Matt Wachel, St. Louis, use a sensor that graphs a subject's distance in relation to time. Both undergraduate and graduate students are displaying research in the field of education collectively titled "Innovation Celebration" today in Joseph R. Pearson Hall. Photo by Thad Allender/KANSAN
Innovation Celebration 2001 — a showcase of innovative research by students and faculty — continues to focus on cultural diversity and technology today at Joseph R. Pearson Hall.
The display began yesterday and includes about 25 research projects. It is open to the public from 1 to 5 p.m. today.
"One of the challenges for education in the future will be to do a better job working with people of diverse cultures," said Mike Neal, coordinator of field experience for the school of education and coordinator of the innovation celebration
A topic at the event is anti-violence among youth, and one display details the Youth Antiviolence Movement program. The display features a video used in the program and brochures explaining its goals.
Many of the displays at the celebration are the results of students' action research projects, which students work on during the first year of the school's graduate program. Students are placed in student-teaching internships, and their research is drawn from field experience, Neal said.
The program is aimed at junior and senior high school students, said graduate students Mandy Goodnight and Mandy Henry, researchers for the antiviolence movement.
Katie Keel, Lawrence graduate student, is displaying a project on teaching a foreign language, which is based on her experience teaching German at Sumner Academy in Kansas City, Kansas.
"My research focused on learning strategies that I could teach students and then see how those strategies helped them learn," she said.
Another display features the "Making Hope Happen" program, which teaches students about hope and setting goals. Lisa Edwards, Gainesville, Fla., graduate student, administers and coordinates the program in area schools.
"We really believe that children have natural strengths inside them, and we're teaching them how to use them," Edwards said.
Edwards and the others involved with "Making Hope Happen" are in the counseling psychology prost Joseph R. Pearson Hall commons
INNOVATION DISPLAY
- What: 25 research projects in edu-
cation will be displayed
- When: Today 1 to 5 p.m.
- Where: Joseph R. Pearson Hall com-
gram. Edwards said they used a model developed by Rick Snyder, professor of psychology, to implement the program.
"We can measure a child's level of hope before and after the program and evaluate how effective it is." Edwards said.
than a year. The program is currently administered at high schools in Kansas City and junior high and elementary schools in Lawrence.
The hour-per-week program runs for about five weeks. Edwards said.
Neal said researchers would be on hand to explain research logs, Web sites, photos and portfolios presented with their research.
Edwards said "Making Hope Happen" had been used for more
"We're hoping to attract people into the new technology areas we have now," Neal said.
Animal care require hard work
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and the center's mascot.
"They do the work," she said. "They're not just here to clean cages."
KU students who once worked for Johnson have gone on to assist animals through many fields, from veterinary science to the Peace Corps.
"We want to help them achieve their goals," Johnson said. "This is my life, so I get to live vicariously through these kids."
"It's not a glamorous job. It's a little dirty," Dewoody said. "You clean up a lot of poop, which isn't fun."
Erin Jackson, Overland Park junior, has worked at the center since her cat brought home a baby rabbit last summer. She agreed the job was not for any
Rebecca Dewoody Independence sophomore, started working at Operation WildLife less than a month ago. She said it took a while to get comfortable with the job. Some of the large birds of prey are intimidating. Dewoody said. She added that the hard work went beyond working directly with animals.
"It's very fulfilling. You can see big progress in each of the animals when you come back every week" Rebecca Dewoody Operation WildLife volunteer
one with a weak stomach.
Dewoody said the opportunity to be around animals and witness their recovery outweighed the challenges of the job.
"It's very fulfilling," she said. "You can see big progress in each of the animals when you come back every week."
That progress is due in part to the facility's state-of-the-art equipment, Johnson said.
"People don't understand the level at which we do things," she said. Johnson said the center used equipment that some veterinary clinics didn't have.
The 4,000-square-foot facility includes treatment areas, a surgical suite, lots of cages and flight pens for physical therapy. Operation WildLife also has an education facility, used to teach
VOLUNTEER
Operation WildLife is looking for:
Volunteers. Diane Johnson, OWL founder and director, encourages anyone interested in working with animals to contact the center. Students from all areas of study are welcome.
Summer interns. Six positions are available.
- Donations. OWL is supported by contributions from the general public and does not receive government funds.
Contact Johnson at 542-3625
environmental classes to youth organizations, school classes or anyone interested. The operation has a receiving center in Overland Park, as well.
The center is currently receiving animals in large numbers, now that "baby season" is nearing full swing. Johnson said they were receiving 20 to 50 animals each day.
Even in this season of new births, Wunder said the most difficult part of the job was watching an animal die.
"It's hard," Wunder said. "But you just have to realize that it's the cycle of life."
- Edited by Jennifer Valadez
Students worried after spam episode
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should apologize to all students who got the e-mail message.
"But apparently they are not doing it," he said.
Proffitt said he feared about the security of the system because it couldn't prevent someone from getting Simons' e-mail and sending spam.
"What if it were a virus?" Profitt said.
Simons said that since the episode, the University had taken steps to prevent people from outside the system from posting to the list.
Catlin said Academic Computing Services had tried to make sure it wouldn't happen again.
"Academic computing realizes, that this is an inconvenience," she said.
Catlin said the University was talking to other universities that had similar problems to analyze other, possible solutions to the problem.
She also said she had talked to Microsoft and other vendors that provide software to the University to see what they could do about preventing spamming from happening again.
Edited by Jay Pilgreen
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