The Undergraduate Research Initiative for Scientific Enhancement (RISE) Program at the University of Texas at San Antonio

The University of Texas at San Antonio (UTSA) has implemented a number of academic support systems to address obstacles to student success and to improve student retention. This paper describes the student demographics at UTSA, provides tracking data on student enrollment and retention, and includes discussion of the underlying causes of student attrition. It will describe some of the programs that are implemented to improve student success. Data is provided to measure the level of success of some of the programs that have implemented for the student success.

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The assessment of an HIV seropositive student at the University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio Dental School

Journal of Dental Education ◽

10.1002/j.0022-0337.1992.56.8.tb02663.x ◽

1992 ◽

Vol 56 (8) ◽

pp. 536-539

Author(s):

JA Cottone ◽

KL Kalkwarf ◽

WA Kuebker

Keyword(s):

San Antonio ◽

Health Science ◽

Dental School ◽

Science Center ◽

University Of Texas ◽

Texas Health ◽

Health Science Center ◽

The University ◽

Hiv Seropositive

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Community Through Constructive Learning

Handbook of Research on ePortfolios ◽

10.4018/978-1-59140-890-1.ch040 ◽

2011 ◽

pp. 447-459

Author(s):

Patricia McGee ◽

Misty Sailors ◽

Lucretia Fraga

Keyword(s):

Student Engagement ◽

San Antonio ◽

Faculty Engagement ◽

Learning Approach ◽

Community Based ◽

Constructive Learning ◽

University Of Texas ◽

Initial Implementation ◽

The University

This case study illustrates a community-based constructive learning approach to ePortfolio development, and the subsequent phenomena and outcomes that came from the initial implementation. The authors discuss why and how an ePortfolio system was chosen, as well as faculty engagement, student engagement, and recommendations to others based on the University of Texas at San Antonio experience.

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Organocatalyzed C–C Ring Construction: The Bradshaw/Bonjoch Synthesis of (−)-Cermizine B

Organic Synthesis ◽

10.1093/oso/9780190646165.003.0071 ◽

2017 ◽

Author(s):

Douglass F. Taber

Keyword(s):

San Antonio ◽

Bond Formation ◽

Bryn Mawr ◽

National Chemical Laboratory ◽

Chemical Laboratory ◽

Enantiomerically Pure ◽

University Of Texas ◽

National University ◽

Institute Of Technology ◽

The University

In a continuation of his studies (OHL20141229, OHL20140811) of organocatalyzed 2+2 photocycloaddition, Thorsten Bach of the Technische Universität München assembled (Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 2014, 53, 7661) 3 by adding 2 to 1. Li-Xin Wang of the Chengdu Institute of Organic Chemistry also used (Org. Lett. 2014, 16, 6436) an organocatalyst to effect the addition of 5 to 4 to give 6. Shuichi Nakamura of the Nagoya Institute of Technology devised (Org. Lett. 2014, 16, 4452) an organocatalyst that mediated the enantioselective opening of the aziridine 7 to 8. Zhi Li of the National University of Singapore cloned (Chem. Commun. 2014, 50, 9729) an enzyme from Acinetobacter sp. RS1 that reduced 9 to 10. Gregory C. Fu of Caltech developed (Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 2014, 53, 13183) a phosphine catalyst that directed the addition of 12 to 11 to give 13. Armido Studer of the Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität Münster showed (Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 2014, 53, 9622) that 15 could be added to 14 to give 16 in high ee. Akkattu T. Biju of CSIR-National Chemical Laboratory described (Chem. Commun. 2014, 50, 14539) related results. The photostimulated enantioselective ketone alkylation developed (Chem. Sci. 2014, 5, 2438) by Paolo Melchiorre of ICIQ was powerful enough to enable the alkylation of 17 with 18 to give 19, overcoming the stereoelectronic preference for axial bond formation. David W. Lupton of Monash University established (J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2014, 136, 14397) the organocatalyzed transformation of the dienyl ester 20 to 21. James McNulty of McMaster University added (Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 2014, 53, 8450) azido acetone 23 to 22 to give 24 in high ee. There are sixteen enantiomerically-pure diastereomers of the product 27. John C.-G. Zhao of the University of Texas at San Antonio showed (Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 2014, 53, 7619) that with the proper choice of organocatalyst, with or without subsequent epimerization, it was possible to selectively prepare any one of eight of those diastereomers by the addition of 26 to 25. William P. Malachowski of Bryn Mawr College showed (Tetrahedron Lett. 2014, 55, 4616) that 28, readily prepared by a Birch reduction protocol, was converted by heating followed by exposure to catalytic Me3P to the angularly-substituted octalone 29.

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