In the United States, science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM) disciplines typically have lower rates of retention than other fields, such as the social sciences. Retention rates in some STEM disciplines are even lower for groups that are underrepresented and marginalized in academia and STEM. Office hours are the primary vector for interaction between most students and their instructors. To address both the challenges of teaching across different classroom sizes and building equitable and effective learning experiences for all students, this project will examine the role that pedagogical practices, student and instructor perceptions and attitudes, course structures, and campus environments have on student outcomes and retention in STEM. Specifically, we seek to understand faculty and student usage and perceptions of STEM course office hours.

The purpose of this study is to understand the perspectives of Denver Museum of Nature and Science staff who have participated in repatriation of cultural materials to their community of origin.

Examine the consumer journey of enlisting in the U.S. Army through the eyes of recruits and recruiters with a focus on the use of paid, owned, and earned digital content marketing effects. The study aims to understand how recruits consumer and process information with regards to decision-making for the "purchase" to join the Army through in-depth interviews that follow the recruits' consumer journeys. This project should provide the Army Recruiting Command and academia with a fresh analysis of how digital content marketing is used and effects job-seeking decision making for signing a lengthy (3-6 years) contract to be an employee of an well-known organizations. Further, it provides co-orientation analysis of how recruits and recruiters both used and experienced digital content marketing efforts.

To increase communication between provider and adolescent/parent about ADHD in order to improve ADHD symptoms, school and social performance, and quality of life.

Tobacco use is not only the leading preventable cause of disease, disability, and death in North Carolina and the United States, but it also has uniquely damaging impacts on oral health. All forms of tobacco are well known to cause oral cancer, gum disease, and other oral health issues. The purposes of this study are to: 1) measure educational outcomes of dental students and providers from implementing a pilot interprofessional tobacco cessation resource program in the dental setting and 2) explore the impact of such a program on associated patient outcomes.

The purpose of this study is to adapt GO-NAPSACC for children with Down syndrome. GO-NAPSACC helps families improve nutrition and physical activity for their preschoolers. We aim to adapt the program for families with children with Down syndrome.

The purpose of this study is to (1) Document how clinicians and clinical investigators define and understand the risks and benefits of current food allergy therapeutic options and (2) Develop a framework for how the risks and benefits of clinical and research options should be communicated to caregivers of children with food allergies as well as to adolescents with food allergies.

We are adapting a universal mindfulness-based social-emotional learning program for delivery by middle school counselors to students with high levels of stress.

I will be interviewing people who work at uncommon, special types of archives, wanting to understand how they define and interact with "context," as a term and concept, on a daily basis. Their unique collections interest different types of users and visitors, and so the archivists may need to approach those conversations and descriptions differently too. I am interested to see how broad or specific they approach "context."

K-12 teachers are facing an extraordinarily challenging time as our schools recover from the COVID-19 pandemic. To lend support to teachers in this difficult professional environment, this study aims to discover how archives and special collections can make online materials maximally accessible and useful for K-12 teachers. Using semi-structured interviews with ten K-12 teachers and website usage data from the "On the Books" library guide, this study will gather data about how teachers find, interact with, and teach with the online resources for primary source instruction developed by Wilson Library at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. The findings will be considered to make recommendations for some ways that special collections librarians can better serve this group of patrons with online teaching resources.