6—The Daily Collegian Monday, April 14, 1986 xhibition participants exemplify PSU's diversity By VICTORIA PETTIES Collegian Staff Writer A poster featuring photographs of 1,000-year-old bones from the Mayan civilization located in the near Yuc tan Peninsula in southern Mexico placed first at the Graduate Research Exhibition held Friday and Saturday. Stephen Whittington (graduate-an thropology) said the bones show signs of nutritional stress such as vitamin and mineral deficiencies. The bones are evidence that environmental de cline may have caused the collapse of the Mayan civilization about 1,086 years ago. Anthropologists believe environ mental decline and lack of foresight in agricultural management stressed the civilization. To test the theory, Mayan bones were studied to discov er whether Mayan individuals suf fered nutritional deficiencies. Whittington unearthed some of the Mayan bones used for his nine-month graduate research in Honduras. Dave Sanderson (graduate-physi cal education) also was a first-place winner with his exhibit titled, "The Use of Augmented Feedback for the Modification of the Pedalling Me chanics of Inexperienced Riders." First-place winners received $l,- 000, and their academic adviser $3OO for research expenses. The first annual research exhibit, sponsored by the Graduate Council, attracted over 70 exhibits with $lO,OOO in prize money awarded to the win ners. CONGRATULATIONS 1985 AND 1986 INITIATES! 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College Ave. i DRIVERS NEEDED DRIVERS NEEDED DRIVERS NEEDED DRIVERS NEEDED Charles Hosier, University vice president for research and dean of the graduate school, said the exhibi tion exemplified the high quality as well as diversity of University grad uate research. Though all 11• University colleges exhibited their graduate reseach, Hosier said he hopes for a more balanced representaton next year. Engineering had the most exhibits while the foreign languages had only a few. Second-place winners are: Haldun Direskeneli (graduate-engineering); Kristen Geer (graduate-geochemis try and mineralogy); Charles Kaiser (graduate-geochemistry and miner alogy); Steven McLean (graduate theater); Elizabeth Oldham (grad uate-veterinary science); Derso Ben edek (graduate-comparative literature) and Masaki Mori (grad uate-comparative literature); John Costello (graduate-anthropology); Kenneth Gish (graduate-psychology) and Charles Goebel (graduate-psy chology). Second-place winners were awarded $5OO, and their academic advisers $2OO for research expenses. Honorable mentions recipients re ceived $lOO for research also. Second-place winner Benedek said, he recorded 60 tapes of similar folk tales from societies on Ivatan, a highly-civilized island, and Irala, a primitive island. The islands are 100 miles apart 25 miles off the southeast coast of Taiwan. Both groups are descended from • the same culture. Steve J. McLean (graduate-theater) explains his display on his research in modem Shakespearean scene design: a case study of an original scenic solution for Hamlet. Benedek, who lived in both Irala development) in her exhibit titled, and Ivatan during his research, ex- "Judicial Attitudes Toward Media plained that the cultures had lost tion in Child Custody," said that the contact for 300 years but their opinions of Pennsylvania judges are folklore remained similar. reflective of the views of their juris- When he recorded the Ivatan dictions. myths, Benedek said he could pick Her study on 75 Pennsylvania out names that corresponded to judges indicated that a judge's view names in the Irala legends. on mediation for child custody cases Benedek also worked with both depends mostly on the jurisdiction island natives to help them discover the judge is working. This theory is their common descent. relativley new and is now being ex- Jennifer Mastrofski (graduate- amined by other researchers, Mas community systems planning and trofoski said. 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The graduate research exhibition He said the University's graduate held in Kern Building Friday and school encompasses one of the largest Saturday emphasized the highly ac- research programs in the state, add tive role of graduate research at the ing that only the University of Penn- University, said the dean of the grad- sylvania exceeds Penn State's annual uate school. research budget. This emphasis on Collegian Science Writer Charles L. Hosier Jr. said because research is vital to the University's research fosters active involvement academic well-being, Hosler said. in education, University graduate ~A s someone once said 'teaching students may be more informed, up- without research is like confession to-date, and enthusiastic than is pos- without sin,' " Hosler said. sible in a non-research environment. "(Research) is an integral part of "It motivates students to have en- the whole University," he added. thusiasm in the field," he said. "It is a much more fool-proof system (of He said the importance of graduate teaching) if the professor is greatly research must be recognized by the involved in that research." University, adding that a responsible Valerie J. Nisbet, administrative educational institution cannot afford assistant to Hosier, said the exhibi- to ignore its research program. In the tion brought together the graduate future, the University will continue to students from all 11 University col- stress these research aspects, he leges and allowed them to display said, adding that he believes more their individual research efforts. universities across the nation will do The exhibition, with over 70 grad- the same. uates participating, stressed the Uni- "(Higher education) of the future versity-wide scope of research, with will look more like " the research uni- presentations ranging from engi- versity (of today), he said. neering to art to medicine, she said. Hosler said the University's past Hosler said the University-wide research efforts have had an impres atmosphere of the exhibition helped sive impact on many fields. to breed new ideas and further devel- "The reason the free world is as op enthusiasm for research. secure as it is today is due largely to "Exhibitors were interested and the research that is done here at the excited in what they were doing and Applied Research Lab," he said. SINGLE s2o®® off BIFOCALS A complete pair of VISION prescription eyeglasses RS LOW RS RS LOW RS $2775► $4375 Offer expires 4/30/86 125 S. Fraser St. Mon.-Fri. 9.5, Sat. 9.1 234.1040 HARNESS YOUR TIME When you take courses through Penn State's Department of Independent Learning, you set the timetable. More than 190 credit courses, including many baccalaureate degree requirements, are available for registration at any time. So, if you want to control your time rather than let time control you, drop by the Independent Learning office at 128 Mitchell Building and pick up a free catalog with course descriptions and costs, or call 1-800-252-3592 . anywhere in Pennsylvania were interested in what the other 865-5403 University Park campus or toll free Seminars educate the educators on STS By KATHI DODSON Collegian Science Writer About 102 teachers and adrninistiators from public schools throughout the state attended a seminar last week aimed at increasing the scope of science education in elementary and high schools, said, the co-director of the University's Science through Science, Technology, and Socie ty Program. Paul Bell said Thursday's was the second of three seminars designed to help teachers explain the impact of science on decisions made in politics, economics and other areas of society. The seminars are designed to improve science understanding among students not planning to pursue higher education the "man and woman on the street," said Bell, a University associate professor of education. Conference participants are working together to help develop new curricula that will make science easier to understand in the context of the real world, instead of presenting science as a set of theoretical concepts in a textbook, Bell said. The way to improve understanding is through STS, Bell said. However, he added, many of the teachers and administrators who attended the conference had never heard of STS. Bell said that Rustum Roy, director of the The second of the John W. Oswald Lectures in Higher Education will be presented at 8 tonight in 112 Walker Oswald lecture when Dr. Charles A. LeMaistre will speak on "Medical Education and held tonight on Society." Deborah A. Benedetti, University medical ed spokeswoman, said the Oswald Lee . tures present issues that concerned the 13th president of the University, John W. Oswald, who served from 25% OFF SPRING FORMALS! FRATERNITIES ONLY Save 25% on Tuxedo rentals for your Spring Formal! Nothing held back choose from over 40 styles. The Classic Black was $49 NOW $36.75 The Dynasty (as shown) was $6l The Pierre Cardin was $62 NOW $46.50 Shoes were $7.50 NOW $5.50 The Young Mens Shop has 5 in house Tailors P.S. Orders must be taken at least ' one week prior to formal. DOWNTOWN STATE COLLEGE...CALDER SQUARE II Shop daily 10 to 5:30 Thurs. to 8:30 Sat. to 5 Some popular examples: NOW $45.75 to insure a perfect fit. E7►►►~ FOR HIM AND HER University's STS program, introduced the teach ers to STS during the first seminar by using metaphors. Roy compared science and math education in the United States to a flagpole, while in other countries, like the Soviet Union, science and math education is like a pyramid, Bell said. The Soviet Union builds a pyramid of strength and understanding by having even its lowest workers well-trained in math and science. How ever, Roy explained, in the United States only a few people are well-trained in these areas like a flagpole, Bell said. National studies show that science education is not adequate because average American citizens cannot compete with citizens of other countries in science-related fields Bell said. But he added STS can help make average Americans more aware of the changing needs of their society. Joe Lewis, a fourth grade teacher from Chest nut Ridge School District in Bedford County, said students must be educated in science and tech nology because these issues will shape future work possibilities and will affect decisions the students will make daily. Robert Rocco, an eighth and 10th grade, life science teacher from West Branch School Dis trict near Snow Shoe, added that students must be taught not to fear technology and science, like computers. 1970 to 1983 LeMaistre is president of the Uni- York Hospital, she said. versity of Texas System Cancer Cen- LeMaistre's research focuses on ter and the 1986 president of the the ill effects of smoking, both as a American Cancer Society, Benedetti cancer-causing agent and as a gener said. al health hazard, she said, adding He has been involved in medical that he is a former member of the and university administration for U.S. Surgeon General's Advisory nearly 30 years. LeMaistre is a 1947 Committee on Smoking and Health. graduate of Cornell University Medi- cal College and completed his resi- Charles Hoover, a ninth grade physical science teacher from Philipsburg Osceola School Dis trict, said science education is like the Titanic headed for an iceberg. Science educators only see the tip of the iceberg the students who are educated in science and technology and not the largest part of the iceberg those students without science training. Citizens must learn to live with their environ ment, said Shirley McElravy, a fifth grade teacher from Clarion Area School District. "As educators it becomes our prime concern to prepare young people for their entry into a society that has the ability to destroy all life," she added. Both public school administrators and teach ers were asked to attend the seminars, Bell said, because both groups have an impact on on STS curriculum. Administrators make policy deci sions that help organize programs focusing on STS and teachers help spread the information throughout school districts. 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