scholarly journals Veterinary Professions Advising Center: An innovative approach to pre-veterinary advising for Animal Science students

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Shweta Trivedi ◽  
Jessica C Clark ◽  
M Todd See
Keyword(s):  
Large Scale ◽  
State University ◽  
Science Students ◽  
Animal Science ◽  
Veterinary Students ◽  
North Carolina State University ◽  
Veterinary Student ◽  
Undergraduate Advising ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Academic Year

Abstract Veterinary Professions Advising Center (VetPAC) is a unique undergraduate advising center that combines Career Center services with pre-professional advising for pre-veterinary students at North Carolina State University (NCSU). During the past 10 years, VetPAC has created five distinct internships, three annual study abroad courses, a competitive annual high school summer camp, provided holistic advising, and hosted large-scale advising events that consistently provide resources to more than 800 students annually. The VetPAC provided outreach to an average of 13 local high schools per academic year, and educated over 300 visiting students about VetPAC and pre-veterinary life at NCSU since 2015. NCSU College of Veterinary Medicine has had a minimum of 26% and a maximum of 45% DVM students in the incoming classes who accessed VetPAC resources and advising. This article presents the impact VetPAC has had on pre-veterinary student success at NCSU, and provides an outline of VetPAC’s first 10 years of development as a model of combined career services and pre-professional advising for peer institutions.

The Impact of COVID-19 on Pre-Veterinary Opportunities and Recommendations for DVM Admissions

2021 ◽  
pp. e20200145
Author(s):  
Shweta Trivedi ◽  
Jessica C. Clark ◽  
Kenneth D. Royal
Keyword(s):  
State University ◽  
Veterinary Students ◽  
Academic Credit ◽  
North Carolina State University ◽  
Credit Hours ◽  
College Application ◽  
Medical College ◽  
Application Service ◽  
Holistic Review ◽  
The Impact

During the summer of 2020, a survey-based study was conducted at North Carolina State University, a land-grant university, to evaluate the impact of COVID-19 on pre-veterinary students’ ability to gain experience hours for Doctor of Veterinary Medicine (DVM) admissions. Of the 286 respondents (47% of the respondent pool), 92% reported losing at least one animal, veterinary, research, extracurricular, or work opportunity due to COVID-19, and 59% were not able to find a replacement. Of the lost experiences, 74 (20.8%) were for academic credit, resulting in 131 total academic credit hours lost, while only 12 credit hours were gained via alternative experiences. Of respondents, 30% (29.7%) identified as applicants of the 2020–2021 Veterinary Medical College Application Service (VMCAS) cycle. More than half (52.6%) of the sample identified being concerned about the strength of their VMCAS experiences due to these lost opportunities. Many respondents reported considering delaying application submissions by taking a gap year (17.5%) or have had their intended graduation timeline affected (14.8%). Since the majority of veterinary colleges utilize a holistic review process, this study provides a basis for understanding the effects of COVID-19 on the duration, depth, and diversity of experiences gained by future DVM applicants. This article also provides recommendations for DVM admissions adaptations based on the outcomes of the data.

scholarly journals The impact of maths support tutorials on mathematics confidence and academic performance in a cohort of HE Animal Science students

2014 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nieky van Veggel ◽  
Jonathan Amory
Keyword(s):  
Academic Performance ◽  
Student Experiences ◽  
First Year ◽  
Science Students ◽  
Group Discussions ◽  
Animal Science ◽  
Mathematics Confidence ◽  
Management Students ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Insight Into

Students embarking on a bioscience degree course, such as Animal Science, often do not have sufficient experience in mathematics. However, mathematics form an essential and integral part of any bioscience degree and are essential to enhance employability. This paper presents the findings of a project looking at the effect of mathematics tutorials on a cohort of first year animal science and management students. The results of a questionnaire, focus group discussions and academic performance analysis indicate that small group tutorials enhance students’ confidence in maths and improve students’ academic performance. Furthermore, student feedback on the tutorial programme provides a deeper insight into student experiences and the value students assign to the tutorials.

scholarly journals The impact of maths support tutorials on mathematics confidence and academic performance in a cohort of HE Animal Science students

2014 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nieky van Veggel ◽  
Jonathan Amory
Keyword(s):  
Academic Performance ◽  
Student Experiences ◽  
First Year ◽  
Science Students ◽  
Group Discussions ◽  
Animal Science ◽  
Mathematics Confidence ◽  
Management Students ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Insight Into

Students embarking on a bioscience degree course, such as Animal Science, often do not have sufficient experience in mathematics. However, mathematics form an essential and integral part of any bioscience degree and are essential to enhance employability. This paper presents the findings of a project looking at the effect of mathematics tutorials on a cohort of first year animal science and management students. The results of a questionnaire, focus group discussions and academic performance analysis indicate that small group tutorials enhance students’ confidence in maths and improve students’ academic performance. Furthermore, student feedback on the tutorial programme provides a deeper insight into student experiences and the value students assign to the tutorials.

THE CAAV 2017 Immersive Scholar Presentation: Visualizing Digital Scholarship Across Institutions

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Shelby Hallman ◽  
Mike Nutt
Keyword(s):  
Community Of Practice ◽  
Large Scale ◽  
Annual Conference ◽  
State University ◽  
Scholarly Work ◽  
University Libraries ◽  
Learning Spaces ◽  
Immersive Environments ◽  
Digital Scholarship ◽  
The Impact

NC State University Libraries has been awarded a three-year, $414,000 grant from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation to develop extensible models and programs for the creation and sharing of digital scholarship in large-scale and immersive environments. Entitled “Visualizing Digital Scholarship in Libraries and Learning Spaces,” or Immersive Scholar for short, the grant aims to 1) build a community of practice of scholars and librarians to help visually immersive scholarly work enter the research lifecycle; and 2) overcome technical and resource barriers that limit the number of scholars and libraries who use visualization environments and the impact of generated knowledge. This presentation introduced the grant and it's components to The Higher Education Campus Alliance of Advanced Visualization (THE CAAV) at THE CAAV's 2017 annual conference.

The National Weather Service-North Carolina State University Internship Course: Impacts and Success over a Generation

2021 ◽  
pp. 1-20
Author(s):  
Thomas A. Green ◽  
Daniel Leins ◽  
Gary M. Lackmann ◽  
James Morrow ◽  
Jonathan Blaes
Keyword(s):  
North Carolina ◽  
State University ◽  
National Weather Service ◽  
North Carolina State University ◽  
Career Trajectories ◽  
Student Volunteer ◽  
Volunteer Programs ◽  
Selling Point ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Weather Service

AbstractNearly 100 North Carolina State University students have participated in a unique, highly structured internship course conducted by the National Weather Service Forecast Office in Raleigh, NC. Here, we explore the impact that this course has had on their professional development and career trajectories. The course has now been running for 17 years, and this paper provides an update on how the course has changed over time, including an evolution of the interview process to participate in the course, the number of students enrolled each semester has systematically been lowered to allow for more individual attention, and additional experiences outside of the WFO have been added. There are benefits for the students, with about half of the students now employed by the NWS, and nearly universal praise for how the course impacted their career progression. The university benefits from the course because the course serves as a compelling selling point for the MEAS department when recruiting students and the department also ensures that the curriculum is adequately preparing potential students for the job market. Finally, the NWS gains by creating a pool of potential employees that will require less spin-up time if hired, and graduates of the NCSU program have gone on to be involved with similar student volunteer programs at their respective offices once hired.

scholarly journals The Time Has Come... To Move Many Things: Inventorying and Preparing a Collection for Offsite Storage

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Rachelle M. McLain ◽  
Hannah McKelvey
Keyword(s):  
Large Scale ◽  
Poster Session ◽  
Project Manager ◽  
Third Party ◽  
State University ◽  
Library Administration ◽  
Montana State University ◽  
Student Employees ◽  
Subject Areas ◽  
The Impact

In the spring of 2019, the Montana State University (MSU) Library embarked on a large-scale inventory project that involved weeding and moving portions of their collection to an offsite storage facility within six months in order to create more student study space in the Library. The department primarily responsible for leading the project, Collections Access & Technical Services, the result of two departments merging, was also simultaneously navigating their new structure and a remodel of their workspace thus adding further challenges to the project. This poster session demonstrated how MSU Library approached and completed this project by advocating to their Library Administration for additional resources, including hiring a project manager and third-party companies to assist with the inventory and moving of the collection. It also discussed the types of work groups formed to identify new workflows (i.e., retrieval of offsite items) and modify existing ones, involving student employees in the project, and internal and external collaborations that took place. Additionally, presenters shared strategies used to communicate to their campus community, and the impact this project has had on our patrons. They also included statistics that were gathered during the project including deselection figures, the number of materials that did not have barcodes and were not accounted for in the Library’s catalog and discovery layer (Ex Libris’ Alma and Primo), and what subject areas currently remain in the main library building.

scholarly journals The Impact of dental wear on the analysis of morphological affinities based on dental non-metric traits

2021 ◽  
Vol 34 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Daniel Fidalgo ◽  
Veronica Wesolowski ◽  
Mark Hubbe
Keyword(s):  
Large Scale ◽  
Principal Component ◽  
Ordinal Scale ◽  
State University ◽  
Arizona State University ◽  
Dental Wear ◽  
Severe Wear ◽  
Morphological Studies ◽  
Individual Trait ◽  
The Impact

Dental wear is described as a limitation to dental morphological studies, as it obscures important crown trait features, resulting in significant differences on trait frequencies, an essential component for estimating biodistances. However, the actual impact of dental wear on biological distances still requires further characterization. We explore the impact of dental wear on morphological affinities for Brazilian pre-colonial series in the context of worldwide reference series. Twenty crown traits were scored using the Arizona State University Dental Anthropological System, and dental wear was quantified as an ordinal scale between 1 (no wear) and 8 (crown eroded). Seven crown trait frequencies are significantly associated with dental wear (p<0.05), demonstrating its impact on their analysis. To explore this impact on biodistances, data was divided by wear categories (all teeth, low-wear, moderate/severe wear) and morphological affinities among series was compared through Euclidean distances, Mean Measure of Divergence, and Principal Component Analysis. Results show the impact of wear is only meaningful when a sample contains many wear-biased traits with only moderate/severe wear. We conclude despite the impact of wear on individual trait frequencies, its impact on morphological affinities can be mitigated by including other variables or when comparisons focus only on large-scale biological differences.

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