Strategic Growth Areas (SGAs)
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Similar to Destination Areas in structure, Strategic Growth Areas are smaller and aim for regional or national leadership. Strategic Growth Areas represent additional areas of strength, identified by a faculty survey conducted in January 2016. SGAs may mature into Destination Areas.
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- Adult Day Services Participation and Client Depressive Symptoms: A Longitudinal AnalysisBivens, Rebecca; Norouzi, Neda; Jarrott, Shannon E. (Virginia Tech, 2013-04-04)Our study explores whether adult day service (ADS) use is associated with the reduction of Geriatric Depression Scale (GDS) scores of older adults who participated in ADS for at least six months.
- Advancing the Human Condition: Equity, Disparity, and Identity in the Curriculum and ScholarshipGraves, Ellington T. (Virginia Tech, 2017-08-15)This area explores the ways social identities related to race, ethnicity, gender, gender identity, gender expression, class, disability status, sexual orientation, religion, veteran status, economic status, age, and other socially salient categories and statuses, influence the human condition and experience, with focus on the United States in particular or in comparative perspective.
- “All the World’s a Stage” – Bridging the Generational Gap through TheatreNorouzi, Neda; Lyon-Hill, Sarah (Virginia Tech, 2014-11-05)This research arose from a shared interest and collaboration between two colleagues in different academic fields. Neda Norouzi is a doctoral student in Architecture and Human Development, interested in how the physical environment affects intergenerational collaboration. Sarah Lyon-Hill is a doctoral student in Urban Planning, studying community-based theatre as an alternative approach to community and economic development. Both authors have theatre backgrounds due to their fathers’ professorial careers in script writing and set design. Understanding their common background and interest in building collaborative relationships among diverse groups, these authors turned to the growing presence and effects of intergenerational theatre programs (IG theatre). IG theatre emerged from the community-based theatre movement, which focuses on building the capacity and voice of different and often marginalized groups within communities through intergroup collaboration and helping diverse groups find a shared community identity (Strimling 2004).
- Artivention 1King, Christine; Cumbie, Matthew (Virginia Tech, 2018-11-27)Led by Dance Exchange performers Matthew Cumbie and Christine King, these performances are integrated throughout the Symposium as a way to reflect upon and synthesize our work together.
- Artivention 2King, Christine; Cumbie, Matthew (Virginia Tech, 2018-11-27)Led by Dance Exchange performers Matthew Cumbie and Christine King, these performances are integrated throughout the Symposium as a way to reflect upon and synthesize our work together.
- Artivention 3King, Christine; Cumbie, Matthew (Virginia Tech, 2018-11-27)Led by Dance Exchange performers Matthew Cumbie and Christine King, these performances are integrated throughout the Symposium as a way to reflect upon and synthesize our work together.
- Artivention 4King, Christine; Cumbie, Matthew (Virginia Tech, 2018-11-27)Led by Dance Exchange performers Matthew Cumbie and Christine King, these performances are integrated throughout the Symposium as a way to reflect upon and synthesize our work together.
- Assessing Student Needs Through DiscoveryHall, Monena; Lancaster, Charla; Mathews, Brian (2013-04-23)Discovery Teams were created to boost the Library’s R&D effort. Annually, University Libraries at Virginia Tech will collectively explore a theme through hands-on experience. For Spring 2012 the topic was: The Learning Process. This poster combines and presents the findings and potential directions based on the feedback from this research.
- Assuring Quality Care: Exploring Strategies of Medicaid E&D Waiver ProvidersBrossoie, Nancy; Roberto, Karen A.; Teaster, Pamela B.; Glass, Anne (Virginia Tech, 2004)Implementing quality assurance (QA) programs in unregulated noninstitutional settings remains a challenge for home and community-based service providers. A sample of 65 Elderly & Disabled (E&D) Waiver providers in Virginia were presented with eight problem scenarios commonly found in home-care services. Each of the respondents was able to identify strategies they would use to recognize and address each problem. Findings suggest providers currently use multiple mechanisms as part of their overall QA program. Discussion focuses on the strengths of using multiple approaches and on increasing provider awareness of complementary QA strategies and reducing the reliance on staff report as a major QA strategy.
- Biodiversity conservation, project planning, and gender: Experiences from the fieldMaldonado, Oscar (Virginia Tech. University Libraries, 2017-04-20)Biodiversity conservation paradigms have considerably evolved during the last 20 years. A better understanding of the complexities that conservation entails has allowed reconsidering strict conservation strategies and adopting more inclusive and comprehensive approaches. Although cultural and gender aspects are increasingly deemed to be conditions for conservation success, many issues still remain to be fully included in the conservation practice. Oscar Maldonado shares his experiences in incorporating gender, culture and other sensitive social aspects in sound conservation planning, and explains how he has methodologically overcame methodological challenges and limitations.
- Building Community Resilience and Supporting Vulnerable Populations: Social Networks and Community CapacityMancini, Jay A. (Institute for Society, Culture, and Environment, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, Blacksburg, VA, 2009-06-23)
- Caregivers of Persons with Mild Cognitive Impairment: Information and Support NeedsWilcox, Karen L.; Roberto, Karen A.; Blieszner, Rosemary; Winston, Brianne L. (Virginia Tech, 2004-11)One of the newer concepts of age-related memory deficit is mild cognitive impairment (MCI). MCI reflects self-reported changes in cognitive function that do not necessarily interfere with work or social relations; it is viewed as a transitional phase between normal cognitive aging and dementia. Researchers and practitioners lack a comprehensive understanding of what relatives of persons with MCI are actually experiencing and what they realistically believe would be helpful to manage their situation now and in the future. In a multi-method, mini-longitudinal design that incorporated quantitative and qualitative approaches, we collected information from patient charts and semi-structured family interviews to investigate the information and support needs of 20 (out of 100 to be interviewed) family members of older adults with MCI. We found that, apart from information available about potential later diagnoses such as dementia or Alzheimer’s disease, families reported having little information available to them to assist in decision making and caregiving for early stages of memory loss. Family members were hesitant to think about and plan very far into the future and were more likely to take things a day at a time. Past experiences with family members or friends with memory difficulties or other serious health conditions enabled some family members to feel more at ease and knowledgeable with the process of seeking help for themselves and the older adult they were supporting. Findings suggest that earlier identification of memory loss has implications for clinical practice and the delivery of health care and social services to older individuals and their relatives.
- Caregiving Stress, Coping Strategies, and Health Outcomes: Results from the REACH II StudyButner-Kozimor, L. Michelle (Virginia Tech, 2015-11-21)The objective of this study was to understand CGs of PwD use of social support and religious and spiritual coping as coping mechanisms and potential impacts on physical and psychological outcomes, in line with the Stress Process Model (Pearlin, Menaghan, Lieberman, & Mullan, 1981).
- Change in Reports of Unmet Need For Help with ADL or Mobility DisabilitiesSands, Laura P.; Yuan, Miao; Xie, Yimeng; Hong, Yili (Virginia Tech, 2015)Self-care (SC) and Mobility (MO) disabled older adults require the help of others to successfully complete daily tasks. Thirty percent of respondents to the 2011 NHATS survey reported unmet need for one or more SC or MO disabilities. Reports of unmet need for disabilities is associated with: Future hospitalization¹ Readmission² Emergency Department use³ Mortality⁴ Little is known about patterns of unmet need over time, especially the degree to which unmet need resolves, varies, or begins. Determination of predictors of change in unmet need status would inform the development of interventions to reduce unmet need.
- Choosing the Right Liquid Feed for Your CalvesYohe, Taylor (Virginia Tech. Department of Dairy Science, 2017-02-16)The primary messages of this presentation are that there are any good options for liquid diets to feed calves. One should stay away from unpasteurized waste milk! Pasteurized waste milk is a decent option, and it is, at the moment, unaffected by VFD. Feeding as close to whole milk with lower fat is the best option, and MR with high protein (25-28%) and low to mid fat (10-20% depending on season) with digestible nutrients is also a good option.
- Climate Change and Agrobiodiversity in Nepal: A Gendered PerspectiveBhattarai, Basundhara (Virginia Tech. University Libraries, 2018-04-04)The WGD program at CIRED has conducted a monthly discussion series for over a decade. Students, faculty, staff and members of the community are encouraged to attend the discussions and bring their ideas and questions. The series offers an opportunity for scholars and development practitioners to share their research and knowledge surrounding gender and international development with the Virginia Tech community and beyond.
- Co-located Collaborative Play in Virtual Environments for Group Learning in MuseumsApostolellis, Panagiotis (ACM, 2014-06)Having witnessed the unexplored potential of co-located group collaboration in contemporary museums, the proposed research aims to identify which elements of collaborative virtual environments and serious games can be leveraged for an enhanced learning experience. Our hypothesis is that synchronous, co-located, group collaboration will afford greater learning compared to the conventional approaches. We developed C-OLiVE, an interactive virtual learning environment supporting tripartite group collaboration, which we are using as a test bed to respond to our research questions. In this paper, we discuss the proposed research which involves building and testing a conceptual framework and also suggesting a list of design guidelines for anyone interested in developing virtual environments for informal learning spaces.
- Code Switch: Rethinking Computer Expertise as EmpowermentAbbate, Janet E. (Virginia Tech, 2016-05-06)Claims that technical mastery of computing and new media will provide a route to economic success for oppressed groups have become ubiquitous in American public discourse. From commercial enterprises like Codecademy, to grassroots nonprofits like Black Girls Code, to state mandates for computer science in public schools, learning to code has been positioned as a quick fix for structural disadvantage. But such claims fail to locate coding within larger discourses about race, gender, and capitalism that constrain its liberatory potential. This paper unpacks “code” as a keyword: a socially powerful term with multiple, contested, historically contingent uses. I will ask: How does the discourse around coding construct competence and authority—and does it tend to preserve or challenge technical expertise as a white male preserve? How is the current meaning of “code” derived in part from related keywords such as “STEM,” “diversity,” “innovation,” or “computational thinking”? What are the historical roots of the coding movement, and how do computer education projects of the 1960s reveal alternate possibilities for programming as an empowering practice? To what extent have women and minorities involved in coding efforts been able to define their own goals, priorities, and definitions of expertise and success?
- Community Connections and Sense of Community among Older AdultsBrossoie, Nancy; Mancini, Jay A.; Roberto, Karen A.; Blieszner, Rosemary (Virginia Tech, 2003)The goal of this exploratory study is to identify what factors predict sense of community in older adult community members.
- Conservation agriculture in urban desertsEdralin, Don Immanuel A.; Hok, Lyda; LeNgoc, K.; Williams, Mark A.; Gayle, G.; Raczkowski, Charles W.; Reyes, Manuel R. (2012)Limited access to nutritious and affordable food is experienced by 23 million people in the US as they live in 'food desserts' making them food and health insecure. Resources such as land, water, labor and capital are used not in the context of sustainability making the problem more severe. Urban conservation agriculture will be an ‘oasis’ or a sustainable solution to this problem on food desserts and unsustainable resource use. A part of a human disturbed landscape, a turf grass lawn, was converted into ‘oasis sofas’, a 3’ by 6’ vegetable production area outlined by wood, following conservation agriculture principles of minimum soil disturbance, continuous mulch and diverse species at North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University. Rainwater was used for irrigation and leguminous cover crops used to increase soil fertility. The cost of maintaining oasis sofas’ were seen to be lower than maintaining an equal amount of turf lawn. Oasis sofas’ adds beauty and diversity to the lawn while it gives nutritious food to the household. Fall yield of unfertilized vegetables; broccoli, collard greens, kale and lettuce were 4.5, 2.8, 1.7 and 2.6 kilograms, respectively, per ‘oasis sofa’. Part of the capital and hired labor to maintain turf grass lawns may be used to maintain oasis sofa’s which would lead to greater benefits as it brings nutritious food to the household. Oasis sofas ease access to homegrown healthy food which would likely improve the household’s food and health security.