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(in)security and storytelling in sri lanka: negotiating safe spaces to remember, reenact and reconcile violence.

Supervisor: Magowan, F. (Supervisor)

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(Mis)understanding Afghanistan: an ethnographic examination of 'human elements' affecting the nexus between understanding and strategy in population-centric conflict

Supervisor: Donnan, H. (Supervisor) & Sousa, P. (Supervisor)

5-fluorouracil : mechanisms of action (or resistance) in p53-proficient and -deficient colorectal cancer

Supervisor: Longley, D. (Supervisor) & McDade, S. (Supervisor)

A BAME woman's right to rehabilitation: the case study of contemporary England & Wales

Supervisor: Dowds, E. (Supervisor) & Brown, K. (Supervisor)

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Ab initio modelling of photoinduced electron dynamics in nanostructures

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A bioactive peptide, QUB-1813, from the defensive skin secretion of the Chinese Large Odorous Frog, Rana (Odorrana) livida

Supervisor: Wang, L. (Supervisor), Wu, Y. (Supervisor), Chen, T. (Supervisor) & Zhou, M. (Supervisor)

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A bioactive peptide, QUB-2048, from the defensive skin secretion of Phyllomedusa tomopterna

Supervisor: Wu, Y. (Supervisor), Chen, T. (Supervisor), Wang, L. (Supervisor) & Zhou, M. (Supervisor)

A bioactive peptide from the defensive skin secretion of Odorrana versabilis

Supervisor: Shaw, C. (Supervisor), Chen, T. (Supervisor), Wang, L. (Supervisor) & Ma, C. (Supervisor)

A bioactive peptide from the frog skin secretion of Pelophylax nigromaculatus GAPKGCWTKSYPPKPCS-NH2

Supervisor: Shaw, C. (Supervisor), Chen, T. (Supervisor), Wang, L. (Supervisor), Zhou, M. (Supervisor), Xi, X. (Supervisor) & Ma, C. (Supervisor)

A bioactive peptide from the skin of the Chinese Torrent Frog, Amolops wuyiensis

Supervisor: Shaw, C. (Supervisor), Chen, T. (Supervisor), Zhou, M. (Supervisor), Wang, L. (Supervisor), Xi, X. (Supervisor) & Ma, C. (Supervisor)

A bioactive peptide from the skin secretion of the bamboo leaf odorous frog, Odorrana versabilis

Supervisor: Chen, T. (Supervisor), Wang, L. (Supervisor), Xi, X. (Supervisor) & Zhou, M. (Supervisor)

A bioactive peptide from the skin secretion of the Chinese bamboo odorous frog, Odorrana versabilis

Supervisor: Zhou, M. (Supervisor), Wang, L. (Supervisor), Shaw, C. (Supervisor) & Chen, T. (Supervisor)

A bioactive peptide from the skin secretion of the Chinese Torrent Frog, Amolops wuyiensis

Supervisor: Zhou, M. (Supervisor), Wang, L. (Supervisor) & Ma, C. (Supervisor)

A bioactive peptide from the skin secretion of the Red-eyed Leaf Frog, Agalychnis callidryas

Supervisor: Chen, T. (Supervisor), Zhou, M. (Supervisor), Wang, L. (Supervisor) & Ma, C. (Supervisor)

A bioactive peptide QUB-1370 from the frog skin secretion of Pelophylax nigromaculata

Supervisor: Zhou, M. (Supervisor), Wang, L. (Supervisor) & Wu, Y. (Supervisor)

A bioactive peptide QUB2177 from the defensive skin secretion of the frog, Odorrana livida

Supervisor: Wu, Y. (Supervisor), Zhou, M. (Supervisor), Wang, L. (Supervisor) & Chen, T. (Supervisor)

A bioactive peptide QUB2870 from the defensive skin secretion of the Heilongjiang brown frog (Rana amurensis)

Supervisor: Wu, Y. (Supervisor), Wang, L. (Supervisor), Zhou, M. (Supervisor) & Chen, T. (Supervisor)

A bioactive peptide QUB3009 from the defensive skin secretion of the frog, Phyllomedusa tomopterna

Supervisor: Shaw, C. (Supervisor), Chen, T. (Supervisor), Zhou, M. (Supervisor), Wu, Y. (Supervisor) & Wang, L. (Supervisor)

A bioactivity peptide QUB2852 from the frog skin secretion of pelophylax nigromaculata

Supervisor: Wu, Y. (Supervisor), Chen, T. (Supervisor), Shaw, C. (Supervisor), Zhou, M. (Supervisor) & Wang, L. (Supervisor)

A bioinformatics approach to identifying ulcerative colitis patients at-risk of developing colorectal cancer

Supervisor: Kennedy, R. (Supervisor) & Blayney, J. (Supervisor)

A blueprint for food fraud mitigation and prevention for the beef industry

Supervisor: Dean, M. (Supervisor) & Elliott, C. (Supervisor)

A Bourdieusean perspective on the genesis and development of the science fiction translation field in China (1891–1949) with special reference to translations of H.G. Wells’s science fiction

Supervisor: Sadler, N. (Supervisor) & Harding, S. (Supervisor)

Absence and presence: Investigating the cinematic representation of Northern Irish unionists (1981-2020)

Supervisor: McLaughlin, C. (Supervisor), Barber, S. (Supervisor) & Bryan, D. (Supervisor)

Academic achievement of adolescents with chronic pain: the mediating role of sleep

Supervisor: Percy, A. (Supervisor) & Graham, A. (Supervisor)

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Academic self-efficacy in undergraduate student nurses in Northern Ireland

Supervisor: Dunne, L. (Supervisor) & O'Hare, L. (Supervisor)

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‘Let us in!' Howard U. nursing graduation cut off after venue reaches capacity

“i didn’t get to walk. i graduated magna cum laude and i didn’t even get to walk. i’m the class of 2020. i didn’t get to walk for my high school graduation and i didn’t get to walk for my college graduation", by walter morris, news4 reporter • published may 10, 2024 • updated on may 10, 2024 at 3:34 pm.

A graduation ceremony for nursing students at Howard University ended abruptly Thursday after the auditorium reached capacity.

Families filled Cramton Auditorium to watch students in the College of Nursing and Allied Health Sciences walk across the stage. But as they walked, dozens of loved ones were locked out, with some trying to push their way in.

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“Let us in! Let us in!” some chanted.

“While they were doing the keynote speaker, there was, like, loud banging, even before that, for like 10 minutes straight,” graduate Bria Flowers said. “Just like boom, boom, boom, boom, boom.”

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“Because of the size of the room and because our relatives sometimes do not know how to act, the fire department is now here to shut us down,” Dr. Gina S. Brown, dean of the College of Nursing and Allied Health Sciences, told the crowd to a chorus of boos.

But D.C. Fire and EMS denied shutting down the ceremony.

"D.C. Fire and EMS did not shut down tonight’s event,” the department said in a statement. “At 6:42 p.m., we responded to the Cramton Auditorium for a medical local at the request of campus police. The patient was evaluated and refused transport, and D.C. Fire and EMS departed."

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“I’m confused why it got so crazy, how it got so quick, so bad so fast,” graduate Kiana Hamilton said.

A glass door broke during the commotion.

“Glass started getting broken,” graduate Halle Ragoonanan. “One of my classmate’s hands got cut.”

Howard said security removed someone from the building prior to the ceremony. That person returned and broke a window.

"This incident led to a disturbance among guests outside of the facility, resulting in a disruption of the program,” Howard’s statement said. “Guests in attendance were immediately dispersed following this incident."

One student was treated for a cut.

Ragoonanan said her heart was broken as she and her family looked to make up for moments they missed because of the pandemic.

“I didn’t even get to walk,” she lamented. “I didn’t get to walk. I graduated magna cum laude and I didn’t even get to walk. I’m the class of 2020. I didn’t get to walk for my high school graduation and I didn’t get to walk for my college graduation.”

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“All the money we spent,” another graduate said. “My father and grandmother came down from North Carolina.”

Some of those students will get to walk this weekend. The university’s main commencement ceremony is scheduled for Saturday.

The school plans to give individual awards to students Friday.

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Father and son set to receive doctoral degrees May 17

College of Engineering will graduate Jay and Nathan Thom with Ph.Ds in Computer Science & Engineering

Interest in computer science runs in the family.

There’s nothing like 700-level computer science classes to bring on the father-son bonding: just ask Jay and Nathan Thom.

Jay will be receiving a doctorate in Computer Science & Engineering at the May 17 Engineering graduation ceremony, and so will his son, Nathan.

“Graduating with a Ph.D. is a really satisfying accomplishment for me, but graduating with one of my sons will make it one of the most memorable experiences of my life,” said Jay, who also works in the College of Engineering’s Computer Science & Engineering Department as a senior information security engineer.

The two studied together, supported each other and maybe once or twice Jay kept Nathan on track.

“He was a good influence,” Nathan, who goes by Nate, said. “He was the friend you needed to have.”

When Nate joined the University of Nevada, Reno in 2015, Jay helped him with calculus. Years later, Nate would return the favor when Jay needed help with the math in a game theory class. The two have shared lab space and even co-authored two conference papers about Internet of Things (IoT) device identification.

Additional co-authors on those papers were Professor Shamik Sengupta and Assistant Professor Emily Hand, each of whom served as Ph.D. advisors for Jay and Nate, respectively.

“Jay and Nate have been extremely helpful, cooperative and hardworking people,” Sengupta said. “They are extremely friendly and always ready to help on a moment’s notice.”

Sengupta added that Jay will be his 10 th   Ph.D. student to graduate; for Hand, the experience of mentoring a Ph.D. student through graduation is new.

“Nate has been wonderful to work with,” she said. “He and Jay both have been an asset to the (CSE) department and college. They serve as our resident IT guys, helping with anything and everything in our labs.”

Anomaly in the data set

Parent-child graduations are somewhat unusual, but not for Jay. In 2015, he received his Bachelor of Science degree alongside his son Ben. 

Also out of the ordinary: Jay was a teaching assistant for a class in which his two other sons, Max and Nick, were students.

Nate, the youngest, remembers hanging out with his brothers on the University campus even before he enrolled as a student. When he was 13, Nate was homeschooled by Jay, and would tag along with his father to the University and study on campus. His three older brothers also were students at that time, and as Nate remembers, “Mom had just graduated.”

“Mom” is Shendry Thom, who earned bachelor’s, master’s and doctoral degrees in nursing from the University.

And of course, the University is where Shendry met Jay, back in the 1980s.

The campus has been somewhat of a stomping ground for the Thom family.

“It feels like home,” Nate said.

Family affair

If campus feels like home, computer science is where everyone seems to gather: Nate’s older brothers Ben, Max and Nick are software engineers in the Reno area; Nate’s wife Kathleen currently studies computer science at the University; and Nick’s fiancé, Maddy, is pursuing a master’s degree in computer science, also at the University. Jay might be responsible for this family trend, according to Nate.

Jay originally studied electrical engineering in the 1980s, but when he returned to the University to study computer science, Nate said, “that was the same year Max had started college. That influenced him and me. We’re all in computer science.”

Their areas of expertise vary, however. Jay’s dissertation, “AI Enabled IOT Network Traffic Fingerprinting with Locality Sensitive Hashing,” deals with training smart devices to communicate with each other securely. Nate’s dissertation, “Attributes in Face Processing: Novel Methods for Explanation, Training and Representation,” is about improving AI systems that recognize faces.

What they have in common — besides genetics — is a strong interest in advancing the field of computer science.

“We’re really good at coming up with big ideas,” Nate said. “One of the things we say is ‘create value.’ Every time we show up somewhere, we try to create value.”

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Local News | Cal State Fullerton’s degree programs open career doors for nursing students

Education beyond clinical training a plus.

Now celebrating its 50th year, CSUF offers a range of nursing program options, including a variety of bachelor’s, master’s and doctoral degree paths. And with a strong reputation for local job placement, those looking for a career in nursing will find the support they need at CSUF to achieve their goals.

“We take pride in that most of our students get employed within three months of graduation,” said CSUF School of Nursing Director Penny Weismuller. “Our local hospitals, where they have been going to clinical, say they like Cal State Fullerton nurses. And we have traditionally been in that 95% to 100% pass rate on the first take (of the NCLEX nursing licensure exam). Hospitals want to hire our students.”

One of the more popular bachelor’s degree programs in the School of Nursing is the RN-BSN pathway, a track that is specifically for those students who have completed a nursing associate’s degree at a local community college and have already taken and passed the nursing licensure exam. The RN-BSN option partners with local community colleges to provide a streamlined path for students to earn their bachelor’s degree without having to repeat any of the curriculum they have already completed.

“It’s been shown that as hospitals get a higher percentage of baccalaureate-prepared nurses, patient safety increases,” Weismuller said. “American Nursing Association, American Hospital Association, they are looking for hospitals that primarily have those nurses with a baccalaureate.”

Titan alumnus Jose Llanas took advantage of this pathway, and after completing his associate’s degree from Pasadena City College and passing the nursing licensure exam in 2018, he enrolled in CSUF’s RN-BSN program. Llanas found a setting that helped him develop in other aspects of nursing beyond the clinical training.

“Nursing is a very unique discipline where the public only sees a nurse as a clinical person,” Llanas said. “But Fullerton did such a good job with the students at distinguishing that we are clinical, but we are also scholarly, we are also academic, we are also professional, we are also leaders. For me personally, in my education, that was the biggest benefit.”

The clinical hours that Llanas logged in the RN-BSN program were in public health, a setting that offered him a different perspective on being a nurse.

“It really illustrated to me that nonclinical professional aspect of being a nurse where you’re running the meetings and you’re meeting with patients who are not in a gown attached to an IV pole,” Llanas said.

Llanas also saw significant growth in his writing skills, another aspect of the nursing career path he feels is often overlooked.

“Because the core of nursing is so clinical, writing is not something that a lot of us as students pay attention to,” Llanas said. “If you’re a good, prolific writer, that makes you just that much more strong of a nurse because you’re able to communicate much more effectively. Fullerton was able to help me refine my writing and give me a solid foundation.”

CSUF will be able to support more students like Llanas as the School of Nursing recently received a $5 million grant from CalOptima Health that will specifically support the university’s RN-BSN pathway. The five-year initiative includes a commitment to increased collaboration with community college partners, as well as the funding of stipends to CSUF nursing students in their last two semesters of study.

“A large portion of our program is to bring these nurses to a more complex level of practice and provide additional skills and ways of looking at their role as a professional nurse,” Weismuller said. “We wanted to attract more students and provide them the opportunity to get their baccalaureate more quickly.”

Llanas, who is a first-generation college student, graduated from CSUF with his BSN in 2020 and will finish his master’s of science in nursing from UCLA next month. All the while, he has worked as an oncology nurse at City of Hope, and he credits his time at CSUF for giving him the skill set to take on new roles at the hospital, including teaching a discharge class for caregivers and patients who receive bone marrow transplants and undertaking a quality improvement program on early discharge for patients admitted for chemotherapy.

“Having direct access to the faculty (at CSUF) and the fact that they spend time with you one-on-one really helped me grow academically,” Llanas said. “I have a big sense of pride and confidence in being able to undertake more than direct care nursing, A nurse can be in any setting. They can be in scrubs. They can be in a suit. They can be in a boardroom. They can be in a lab. And I feel like it was Fullerton that showed me that this is possible.”

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The fourth-year nursing student, who is about to graduate and start work in a cardiac intensive care unit, has been heavily involved in the minorities in nursing organization all four years at penn..

Oulaya Louaddi, a fourth-year School of Nursing student with minors in global health and East Asian languages and civilizations, is preparing to begin a graduate nurse position in a cardiac intensive care unit at Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston, near her hometown of Revere.

She says that being a daughter of immigrants from Morocco is a big part of who she is, that she felt her parents had given her so many opportunities, and that it was up to her to decide what to pursue. Her parents, Louaddi says, have been supportive but their lack of higher education, coupled with her attendance at a public school with limited resources, meant she had to be resourceful in navigating the college landscape.

In her second year of high school, she took a dual-enrollment course at Salem State University on health care in the U.S., and the instructor talked about health care workforce shortages and how nurses could fill the gaps in rural communities. Louaddi says this stuck with her, and she knew she wanted to go into medicine, but she didn’t yet know what. Participating in the Agress Summer Health Corps Program at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center convinced Louaddi that nursing was the best path for her.

“There’s a lot of flexibility, a lot of options with what you want to do. You’re never pigeonholed into a certain specialty, which is great,” she says. “There’s also a lot of opportunities to take leadership positions in the hospital and to go back to school to become an advanced practice registered nurse.”

After arriving at Penn, her first research experience was through the Penn Undergraduate Research Mentoring Program , working in the Annenberg School for Communication ’s Health Communication & Equity Lab on projects about a tobacco flavor ban in Massachusetts and anti-tobacco marketing to LGBTQ teens. As a research assistant at Penn Nursing, she helped create motivational interviewing workshops to address COVID-19 vaccine hesitancy among health care providers. Louaddi has also been involved in the Arab Student Society and Muslim Students’ Association.

Four years ago, shortly after coming to Penn, Louaddi became a liaison to the Minorities in Nursing Organization (MNO), letting the board know where first-year students could use the help of third- and fourth-year students, such as with a vital signs assessment or microbiology exam.

She became vice president for half a year and then president for two years. Transitioning to the top job, Louaddi picked up the work of her predecessor in planning the Red and White Ball, a semi-formal charity event bringing together Penn Nursing faculty and students. She thus helped revive an event halted during the COVID-19 pandemic.

Louaddi also worked to eliminate barriers to involvement in MNO and says she slowly started seeing more attendance at events. That includes study breaks, panel discussions for difficult classes such as anatomy and physiology, Christmas card writing for nursing home residents, and an event with the ReAwakening Agency to create self-care packets for formerly incarcerated people reacclimating to society.

Nurses are “the first person that a patient sees and the person that spends the most time with the patient,” Louaddi says, “so beyond the science a lot of it is making people feel safe, making people feel that they’re heard and that they’re seen and that their worries and concerns and stresses are valid, seeing a person for who they are as a whole and not just one illness or one symptom.” She has learned this from MNO and hopes others are, too.

Louaddi says she never had a lecture class before coming to Penn or the pressure of a course grade relying on one test, but in MNO she found people from similar backgrounds. They helped each other, and she says amid the most difficult classes the group provided stress relief.

As president of MNO, Louaddi says she also wanted to advocate for fellow Middle Eastern and North African students, having not always felt seen in a group that hasn’t even had a census designation , but also to build a space that was welcoming and provided support to everybody.

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