The ODE Undergraduate Research Award Competition Sponsored by Omicron Delta Epsilon International Honor Society in Economics

2021 ◽  
pp. 056943452110393
Keyword(s):  
Undergraduate Research ◽  
Research Award ◽  
Honor Society ◽  
Award Competition

scholarly journals Learning through Peer Reviewing and Publishing in the Pi Sigma Alpha Undergraduate Journal of Politics: Twenty Years Later

2021 ◽  
Vol 54 (2) ◽  
pp. 346-352
Author(s):  
Christina P. Walker ◽  
Terri L. Towner ◽  
Rosalee A. Clawson ◽  
Zoe M. Oxley ◽  
Christine L. Nemacheck ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Undergraduate Research ◽  
College Classroom ◽  
Board Members ◽  
Peer Reviewing ◽  
Purdue University ◽  
Upper Level ◽  
Honor Society

ABSTRACTThe Pi Sigma Alpha Undergraduate Journal of Politics (PSAJ), sponsored by the Pi Sigma Alpha National Honor Society, was founded in 2001 at Purdue University. After 20 years, much has changed in undergraduate research and publishing, but the benefits of producing a peer-reviewed journal remain the same. Undergraduate research has increased in prominence, and the journal has modernized to meet these transformations. This article describes the history, purpose, and operations of the PSAJ. Most important, a survey of former Editorial Board members, Pi Sigma Alpha Faculty Chapter Advisors, and published authors in the journal reveal attitudes toward operating an undergraduate journal, using undergraduate research in the college classroom, and publishing in a peer-reviewed journal, respectively. We conclude with calls to continue to encourage undergraduate research and to assign published undergraduate research in upper-level courses.

The Effects of Acute Stress on the Neural Correlates of Decision-Making

2020 ◽  
Vol 11 (2) ◽  
pp. 62-90
Author(s):  
Jillian Lauren Toppings ◽  
Thomas Ferguson ◽  
Olave Krigolson
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Positive Affect ◽  
Stress Condition ◽  
Acute Stress ◽  
Undergraduate Research ◽  
Neural Correlates ◽  
P300 Component ◽  
Reward Positivity ◽  
Research Award ◽  
Keywords Stress

Abstract Stress has been defined in many ways and is typically induced as a response to a threat to homeostasis. Stress affects decision-making, and the effects of stress on subcomponents of decision-making can be indirectly measured through EEG. The purpose of this study was to investigate the effects of acute stress on the neural correlates of decision-making. We hypothesized that acute stress would decrease the reward and attentional sensitivity, seen through reduced P300 and reward positivity component activity. The results were that the mean percent change from baseline for heart rate was higher for the stress condition during the TSST. The stress group also had decreased positive affect scores and increased negative affect scores for the STAI questionnaire and decreased positive affect scores for the PANAS questionnaire. Additionally, while not significant, there was a trend towards reduced P300 component activity in the stress condition, potentially indicative of reduced attentional sensitivity. Further research is needed to explore the implications for reward sensitivity, utilizing multiple tasks, and including cortisol measurement. Stress is common to everyday life and has been implicated chronically in numerous health conditions. Understanding how stress affects executive function, particularly decision-making, is therefore crucial in both the short- and long-term.             Keywords: stress; decision-making; ERPs; P300 component; reward positivity component               *This research was supported by a Jamie Cassels Undergraduate Research Award, University of Victoria.

SOME CONCEPTS OF PLASMA PROTEIN METABOLISM, A.D. 1956

PEDIATRICS ◽  
1957 ◽  
Vol 19 (4) ◽  
pp. 657-671
Author(s):  
David Gitlin
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
Undergraduate Research ◽  
Medical Center ◽  
City Hospital ◽  
New York University ◽  
University Of Puerto Rico ◽  
Research Award ◽  
American Academy Of Pediatrics ◽  
Assistant Physician ◽  
The University

[In presenting the First E. Mead Johnson Award for 1956 to Dr. Gitlin, Dr. Bakwin, President of the Academy, made the following remarks: ["Dr. David Gitlin was born in New York, in 1921. He received the M.D. degree from New York University College of Medicine in 1947. Prior to this he was honored by being the Naumberg Scholar to the University of Puerto Rico in 1940-41, and was awarded the Borden Undergraduate Research Award in Medicine in 1947. ["Dr. Gitlin had his internship at Morrisiana City Hospital; from there he went to Harvard as a Research Fellow in Pediatrics and later served as a Fellow in Medicine; an intern on the Medical Service, an Instructor in Pediatrics, Assistant Physician, and an Associate in Pediatrics, all at the Children's Medical Center and Harvard Medical School. ["Dr. Gitlin is certified by the American Board of Pediatrics and is a Fellow of the American Academy of Pediatrics. During his short career Dr. Gitlin has been an energetic, tenacious, imaginative worker. He has accomplished much in investigation and has published over 30 papers. ["To quote his Chief, Dr. Charles Janeway, `Dr. Gitlin's researches represent a coherent, progressing series of studies in which, by the use of chemical, immunochemical, and histochemical methods, with good physiologic reasoning, he is gradually elucidating some basic problems of the physiology of human plasma and structural proteins and the derangements in disease.' It is for these works that the Academy's Committee on Awards has selected Dr. Gitlin as the recipient of the First E. Mead Johnson Award for 1956. Dr. Gitlin will honor us by giving a résumé of what he considers to be his important works."]

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