Following Andrew Wiles' announcement of his work, in June 1993, and in view of the immense interest it met with, I felt it reasonable to give a two semester graduate course 1 covering topics that might be helpful to people who want to understand, and possibly pursue, the ~. / subject. In the Fall semester I covered the basic deformation theory of Galois representations (in detail) and Fontaine'...

Double blind peer review is a standard practice in the scientific community. It acts as a means of validating work as well as of getting feedback to improve it. As such, it seems prudent to also use it as a learning tool in large lectures to provide students with personalized feedback on their work. The general process can be directly adopted for the lecture context, but details need to be modi...

Introduction: The ability to function as an effective member of the healthcare team is essential for graduate nurses upon entry into practice. Team training is therefore, an important element of nursing education. A convenient and cost-effective approach to providing team training to nursing students is through the TeamSTEPPS R © curriculum. The purpose of the study was to determine if an inten...

Studies on depression risk emphasize the importance of both cognitive and genetic vulnerability factors. The present study has provided the first examination of whether working memory capacity, the BDNF Val66Met polymorphism, and their interaction predict changes in symptoms of depression during the transition to university. Early in the semester, students completed a self-report measure of dep...

Calls for undergraduate biology reform share similar goals: to produce people who can organize, use, connect, and communicate about biological knowledge. Achieving these goals requires students to gain disciplinary expertise. Experts organize, access, and apply disciplinary knowledge differently than novices, and expertise is measurable. By asking introductory biology students to sort biologica...

The early Fe team envisioned creating an energy efficient robot that was able to achieve reliable long distance walking by using passive dynamic principles. In spring 2005, the Fe team designed and constructed a bipedal walker with a telescoping leg [1] [2]. The final prototype at the end of the semester was able to walk a few steps; however, the prototype was unable to achieve this with every ...

In this paper we discuss using a case study to demonstrate the software engineering process from requirements, specification, preliminary user manual, prototyping, design, implementation and testing as well as some postimplementation details such as maintenance and extendibility/reusability. Each semester a case is developed that is pivotal to a final year Software Engineering course. Groups, u...

Academic self-efficacy encompasses judgments regarding one's ability to perform academic tasks and is correlated with achievement and persistence. This study describes changes in biology self-efficacy during a first-year course. Students (n = 614) were given the Biology Self-Efficacy Scale at the beginning and end of the semester. The instrument consisted of 21 questions ranking confidence in p...

People strongly differ in their emotional reactions to potentially stressing and challenging environmental circumstances. Two classes of individual differences have independently been reported to contribute to such emotional vulnerability: an attentional bias to negative information and a variation in the serotonin transporter gene (5-HTTLPR). The present study was conducted to investigate the ...

This is the first study to empirically identify distinct acculturative adjustment patterns of new international students over their first 3 semesters in the United States. The sample consisted of 507 Chinese international students studying in the United States. Using psychological distress as an indicator of acculturative adjustment, measured over 4 time points (prearrival, first semester, seco...