ITGP Awards: Fall, 2005
Creation of a web site to accompany the Sargent Choice Program
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| Principal Investigator |
Roberta Durschlag
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| Department |
Department of Health Sciences
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| School/College |
Sargent College of Health and Rehabilitation Sciences
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| Investigators |
Stacey Stimets, Ali Books, Richard Mendez,Pamela Powell, Edward Ramos |
| Project Description | |
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The purpose of the proposed project is to enhance the effectiveness of the Sargent
Choice Program.
Sargent Choice is a collaborative effort between Sargent College and BU Dining
Services whose purpose is to increase the number of healthy food options available at BU
as well as to educate the BU community about good nutrition. Currently Sargent Choice
items are available at all residential dining halls. By January 2006 they should be available
at the George Sherman Union and other retail dining locations. As the program develops
educational material will be available at these locations as well.
The proposed project will create a web site to accompany the Program where students,
faculty and staff can:
- Calculate their nutritional requirements.
- Determine how to use Sargent Choice foods to meet their nutritional requirements.
- View educational material that will help them make better food choices.
Currently, the program provides healthy foods but cannot give personal recommendations
about what to consume. Further, educational information will only be available at the point-of-purchase.
This Web-based system will provide individualized nutrition
recommendations and will provide these recommendations as well as educational
material in an easily accessed manner.
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Digital Access to Primary Sources for the Study of Modernity
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| Principal Investigator |
Liah Greenfeld
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| Department |
Institute for the Advancement of the Social Sciences
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| School/College |
The University Professors
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| Investigators |
David Barron |
| Project Description | |
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The intention of this project is to construct a web-based database of textual sources (from
the public domain) to be used for the study of modernity. The database will serve as both
a research tool and as an interactive learning-guide/teaching-aid. It will offer a non-linear
approach to texts crucial in the understanding of modernity, nationalism, focusing in the
first place on nationalism as its cultural framework, and using empirical, specifically
comparative and historical methods. Students will be able to use the tool to better
understand the context in which interpretations emerge and change, as well as to replicate
the context of the teacher's/author's argument. Also, teachers will be able to
assign more engaging, creative, and self-guided homework, which will ultimately lead to
enhanced learning and group discussions.
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Visual Sensor Network Testbed
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| Principal Investigator |
Janusz Konrad
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| Department |
Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
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| School/College |
College of Engineering
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| Investigators |
Clem Karl,Thomas Little,Venkatesh Saligrama,Wei Qin |
| Project Description | |
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A wide range of courses related to information processing and transmission is currently
offered at the ECE Department. These courses are broadly related to each other as they
cover various aspects of information capture, processing, communication and
exploitation. Although the theoretical material covered in those courses is mutually
complementary, the practical aspect is narrowly selected to suit each course's
specific goals. Therefore, practical examples selected in individual courses rarely overlap,
and thus usually do not reinforce concepts introduced in other courses.
We believe many such concepts could be efficiently reinforced had a unifying application
been developed and exploited in various courses. Therefore, we propose to build visual
sensor network, a group of connected, CPU-enabled, video cameras, as a unifying
application for teaching curriculum related to information processing and transmission.
Such a network can offer a wide range of challenges at both undergraduate and graduate
level. We propose three levels of camera network use, in order of increasing challenge:
passive, active and collaborative. As we gain experience using this network, we expect to
widen its applications to other courses, outside of the department as well.
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Remediation and Redevelopment of The South Weymouth Naval Air Station: An
interdisciplinary case study for public health
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| Principal Investigator |
Wayne LaMorte
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| Department |
Epidemiology Department
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| School/College |
School of Public Health
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| Investigators |
Richard Clapp,Wendy Heiger-Bernays, Rob Schadt |
| Project Description | |
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Despite growing interest in case-based, interdisciplinary teaching, curriculum reform in
public health has been impeded by department-based teaching curricula and a reliance
on traditional teaching models. In this project the environmental cleanup and
redevelopment of South Weymouth Naval Air Station will serve as a focus for building
interdisciplinary faculty collaboration to develop a realistic and engaging case-based
learning module that invites students to explore concepts and information enabling them to
work through the problems involved in health risk assessment, environmental
remediation, and urban planning. This interactive module will be constructed as an on-line
problem that students can work through at their own pace.
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High-Fidelity Angiographic Model Simulation for Radiology Training
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| Principal Investigator |
Alexander Norbash
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| Department |
Department of Radiology
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| School/College |
School of Medicine
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| Project Description | |
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Despite Radiology losing nearly all arteriography in turf battles at Boston Medical Center,
Radiology trainees are still expected to possess arteriographic expertise as they
matriculate, take specialty board examinations, and practice. Ultimately, untrained
individuals may perform life-threatening procedures on patients. We propose to create a
high-fidelity arteriographic simulator for radiology training, incorporating a commercially
available silicone model of the vessels. Features will include positioning of the model in a
recumbent position, and a fabricated camera system that will permit projection of the
training images on a display facing the proceduralist, as is standard in actual
arteriography.
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Visualizing human anatomy through imaging in the gross anatomy dissection laboratory: a
pilot study
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| Principal Investigator |
Priscilla Slanetz
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| Department |
Department of Radiology
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| School/College |
School of Medicine
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| Investigators |
Todd Hoagland, Donald Siwek, Patricia McArdle, Richard Hoyt, Mark Moss, Kalidas
Nandy |
| Project Description | |
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Over the past few decades, technological advances in imaging have led to the field of
radiology being at the forefront of detection, diagnosis, and treatment of many medical
diseases. Effective utilization of imaging is essential for graduates to provide high-
quality and cost-efficient care to patients. Accomplishing this goal relies on exposure to
imaging during the preclinical years and subsequent synthesis of this knowledge into
evidence-based imaging strategies during the clinical years. This project represents one
of the first steps in this process by introducing imaging to first year students in the
dissection laboratory. Early exposure to cross-sectional imaging with direct anatomic
correlates should enhance mastery of gross anatomy.
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Teaching and Educating Children through Health & How to Exercise And Reach Target
Scores in Physical Education
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| Principal Investigator |
Eileen Sullivan
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| Department |
Department of Curriculum and Teaching
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| School/College |
School of Education
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| Investigators |
Emily Clapham |
| Project Description | |
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In the past, it was acceptable to talk about the need to validate physical activity level but
now we can objectively assess student and class performance while also motivating our
students in the gymnasium. Preparing today's physical education, health education,
and classroom teacher must include the use of technology for this critical need of data-
driven assessment measures. Students in the School of Education Physical Education,
Health Education, and Elementary Education Programs will learn how to use heart rate
monitors (HRM's) as a reliable means of assessing exercise levels. ITGP funding
will allow us to teach future teachers how to authentically assess fitness levels with
HRM's, develop lesson plans, design interdisciplinary activities, teach fourth and fifth
graders how to use HRM's as part of a pre-practicum experience on campus, and
become involved with a technology research project.
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A digital image life science library for curriculum development and instruction enhancement
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| Principal Investigator |
Douglas Zook
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| Department |
Department of Curriculum and Teaching
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| School/College |
School of Education
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| Investigators |
Swapna Kumar, Steve Dahill |
| Project Description | |
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The proposed project will collect images from life science researchers and produce
original digital video clips. This ongoing, expanding digital library will serve as a valuable,
accessible, up-to-date curriculum/course resource exclusively for Boston University life
science instructors for the direct benefit of our students.
The first year focus will be on digital images and video interviews that are applicable for
on-campus and on-line versions of CAS Bi503 Symbiosis and CAS Bi117 Global
Ecology. My biology leadership roles, including President of the International Symbiosis
Society, afford me extensive world-wide contacts with many highly-regarded life science
researchers. Support from ITGP would allow for a process to request, collect, categorize,
store, and use submitted digital images and original produced video clips from these
accomplished researchers.
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Document last updated 5/22/2006
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