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.
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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
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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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Display shows active role
of research at the University
By ADAM BOONE
researchers were doing," he said. "I
think it went very well."
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.
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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
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tures present issues that concerned
the 13th president of the University,
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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.
The seminars are sponsored by the Center for
Education in STS in cooperation with the Science
through STS program, a project funded by the
National Science Foundation to study STS curric
ulum in pre-college education, Bell said. The
seminars are also sponsored by the Pennsylva
nia School Study Council, he said.
dency there, as well as at the New
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