- University News Archive - 糖心Vlog传媒 Little Rock /news-archive/tag/tyler-maxwell/ 糖心Vlog传媒 Little Rock Mon, 06 May 2019 22:12:02 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 Donaghey Scholars to present final projects May 7-9 /news-archive/2019/05/06/donaghey-scholars-projects/ Mon, 06 May 2019 22:12:02 +0000 /news/?p=74231 ... Donaghey Scholars to present final projects May 7-9]]> 糖心Vlog传媒 Little Rock鈥檚 Donaghey Scholars spring graduates will present their final project presentations May 7-9. The 45-minute presentations will take place in Dickinson Hall Room 209 and will showcase the projects the honors students have worked on the past year.聽The final projects are an integral part of the Donaghey Scholars curriculum. 鈥淭hey must be a substantial piece of individual work, and as such are a crucial component to Scholars life after college. They aren鈥檛 just learning about how to do things; they are doing them, and that makes them competitive to employers and graduate schools,鈥 said Simon Hawkins, director of the Donaghey Scholars program. 鈥The range is always staggering, from chemistry research to novel drafts to political analyses to important work for community groups. It is particularly pleasing to see so many projects have a community focus.鈥 Historically, about a third of the projects have been centered on the community. Many projects are research-oriented, such as examining the water quality in Fourche Creek or studying the soil in different enclosures at the Little Rock Zoo, while other students have gathered data specifically for community organizations, such as the Historic Arkansas Museum. Still others provide direct services for community groups, designing web pages for schools and developing fundraising programs for nonprofits. Over the years, several 聽entrepreneurial students have turned their final projects into thriving businesses, Hawkins said. The presentation schedule is as follows: Tuesday, May 7 10-10:45 聽Luke Tyhurst – Rykos: Interactive Problem Solving for the Modern World 11-11:45 聽Julie O’Hara – The Effects of Elite Discourses on Secessionist Movements 12-12:45 聽Ingrid Helgestad – The Evolution of a Novel Medical Device: Solving the Problem of Unplanned Extubations in ICUs 1-1:45 p.m. 聽Jessica Morris – Evaluating Variations in Soil Composition Among Enclosures at the Little Rock Zoo 2-2:45 p.m. 聽Nicole Ursin – Understanding Museum Demographics: Historic Arkansas Museum Wednesday, May 8 12-12:45 聽Willow Moyer – Gibbs Elementary Website Project and Web Portfolio 1-1:45 聽Alex Palmer – Medical Marijuana and Federalism 3-3:45 聽Grishma KC – Characterization of a Novel Multi-Copper Cyanobacterial Laccase 4-4:45 聽Taemora Williams – Grassroots Fundraising: A Sustainable Development Plan for Partners in Knowledge Thursday, May 9 9-9:45 a.m. 聽Mirah Dievernich – Cell Phone Use in the Neonatal 聽Intensive Care Unit 10-10:45 a.m. Abigail Resendiz – Vascugenix Business Plan: Bringing a Medical Device to Market 11-11:45 a.m. Maxwell Campbell – Potential Impacts of Endocrine Disrupting Compounds on the Fourche Creek Ecosystem 12-12:45 p.m. 聽Arooba Ilyas – Purification of Water Using Different Adsorbents 3-3:45 p.m. 聽Tyler Maxwell – De Novo Biosynthesis of Resveratrol in Metabolically-Engineered Synechocystis sp. PCC 6803  ]]> 糖心Vlog传媒 Little Rock students use wits to beat escape room challenge /news-archive/2018/12/07/chemistry-escape-room-challenge/ Fri, 07 Dec 2018 16:11:40 +0000 /news/?p=72915 ... 糖心Vlog传媒 Little Rock students use wits to beat escape room challenge]]> A group of chemistry students at the University of Arkansas at Little Rock found out that book smarts alone were not enough to overcome an escape room final project.聽 Inspired to build teamwork amongst his students and to make class more exciting, Dr. Anindya Ghosh devised a unique escape room group project to challenge the students in his Intro to Inorganic Chemistry class. 鈥淚 was inspired by Dr. Kedar Jambhekar, radiologist and diagnostic radiology residency director at 糖心Vlog传媒MS, who recently did this for his residents to encourage teamwork,鈥 Ghosh said. 鈥淚 think that homework needs to be fun to help teach the students. No one has ever done this in the Chemistry Department. I hope that the students learn teamwork. This helps them to think outside the box and to think critically.鈥 Students in the class include Cecilia Cayll, Samantha Crosby, Robert Hill, Akeia Joyner, Arsalan Karimi, Caroline Kornelsen, Thuy Le, Tyler Maxwell, Victoria Mchargue, November Palmer, David Standridge, and Caleb Stein. The class divided into groups of four, and each group was responsible for creating puzzles involving chemistry lessons from class. The groups also had to use images from popular culture to give the teams additional clues. One group determined their number was eight after noticing that their clues contained a picture of a brown recluse spider with eight legs and a picture of a piano player whose hand spanned eight keys. 鈥淵ou would have to be a musician to figure it out, and I鈥檓 glad I am,鈥 said Akeia Joyner, a senior chemistry major. A second group figured out their number was five after having an image from the movie 鈥淭he Fifth Element,鈥 an image from a Cinco de Mayo celebration. Additionally, one of the answers to their chemistry problems was Boron, which has an Atomic Number of five on the periodic table.
Chemistry students Akeia Joyner and Victoria Mchargue had to solve a series of science problems to get clues to unlock their classroom door during an escape room challenge. Photo by Benjamin Krain.

Chemistry students Akeia Joyner and Victoria Mchargue had to solve a series of science problems to get clues to unlock their classroom door during an escape room challenge. Photo by Benjamin Krain.

鈥淚 think this is fun,鈥 said Cecilia Cayll, a junior chemistry major. 鈥淚t鈥檚 better than sitting in the classroom listening to a lecture or taking an exam.鈥 Each group needed to come up with one number as their answer. The combination of the numbers from all four groups would provide the answer to escaping the room. Even after all four groups worked together to escape the room, Ghosh put one more roadblock in the road to victory. The combination needed to open the chain that locked the classroom door only used three numbers, so students were also tasked with figuring out which number was left out and what order to put the remaining three numbers. It turns out that the most difficult part of the escape room challenge was putting the correct combination into the lock. Fellow classmates commented that it was 鈥渉ilarious鈥 to watch their classmates unsuccessfully try to figure out the combination. 鈥淲e鈥檙e book smart, not street smart,鈥 Cayll said. Students finally reached the correct combination, before the end of the class period, after they realized the lock was backward, and they had been inputting the combinations the wrong way. 鈥淚t was freaking awesome!鈥 Victoria Mchargue, a senior chemistry major, said. 鈥淚f every homework problem could be like this, where we have to find a way to get out of the room, it would be a lot of fun.鈥 In the upper right photo, chemistry students (L to R) Arsalan Karimi, Victoria Mchargue, and Caleb Stein celebrate their victory in escaping from their chemistry classroom after solving a series of puzzles. Photo by Benjamin Krain.聽]]>