Disciplinary Formation, Faculty Pleasures, and Student Risks

Risks deter but pleasures allure: Is pleasure more important?

The pursuit of unhealthy behaviors, such as smoking or binge drinking, not only carries various downside risks, but also provides pleasure. A parsimonious model, used in the literature to explain the decision to pursue an unhealthy activity, represents that decision as a tradeoff between risks and benefits. We build on this literature by surveying a rural population in South Africa to elicit th...

Determining student-faculty ratios and faculty scholarship levels/rates.

Faculty and student perceptions of the feasibility of individual student–faculty meetings

The extent to which students feel involved in their education positively influences academic achievement. Individual student-faculty meetings can foster student involvement. To be effective, faculty acknowledgement of the benefit of these meetings is a prerequisite. The aim of this study was to explore faculty perceptions of individual student-faculty meetings. In addition we investigated stude...

Michigan Student Symposium for Inter - disciplinary Statistical

The problem of active diagnosis arises in several applications such as medical diagnosis, fault diagnosis in nuclear plants, power-delivery systems, communication networks, and computer networks. In these problems, the goal is to rapidly identify the binary states of a set of objects (e.g., faulty/working states of components) by sequentially selecting, and observing, (noisy) responses to binar...

Disciplinary differences in faculty research data management practices and perspectives

Academic librarians are increasingly engaging in data curation by providing infrastructure (e.g., institutional repositories) and offering services (e.g., data management plan consultation) to support the management of research data on their campuses. Efforts to develop these resources may benefit from a greater understanding of disciplinary differences in research data management needs. After ...