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In Touch with Prairie Living, October 2024
(North Dakota State University, 2024-10-01)
October 2024 column for North Dakota and South Dakota newspapers.
On the Feasibility of Machine Learning Algorithms Towards Low-Cost Flow Cytometry
(North Dakota State University, 2023-08-01) Vandal, Noah
Utilization low cost, scalable architectures for detection of specific cells for both mass flow and minute incidence analysis is something that is attractive for the clinical researcher, in order to expand access to otherwise costly devices. We demonstrate the use of a low-cost microfluidics device that performs detection of beads and cells, both for cell counting and for discrete cell type identification. This was accomplished using polymer technology via implementation of polydimethylsiloxane microfluidics, which were created by using a 3-D printed mold, and machine learning technologies with algorithms that can inference and track analyte particles within the microfluidic of interest. Our demonstration of our microfluidics device is proof that creating low cost instruments for analyte detection using current machine learning models and hardware is possible. We foresee the scalability of this design to be immense, in terms of throughput rate, inexpensiveness of product, and multiple
different parameters and classes that can be searched for.
A Curriculum of Tobacco and Nicotine Dependence Treatment for DNP Programs: A Summary of Bhattarai's 2023 Practice-Improvement Project
(North Dakota State University, 2024) Bhattarai, Kanchan; Buettner-Schmidt, Kelly
This tool is a brief summary of Bhattarai’s 2023 practice-
improvement project improving tobacco and nicotine dependence
treatment curriculum in North Dakota State University’s (NDSU)
Doctor of Nursing Practice-Family Nurse Practitioner program. This
tool is intended as a guide for educational institutions or providers to
incorporate into their curriculums to improve provider competencies
and patient outcomes.
Few providers assess, refer, and provide treatment to the patient consistently and effectively. Lack of skills, training, and inadequate knowledge were identified as barriers why providers were not providing regular counseling or pharmacologic intervention. Therefore, incorporating formal tobacco and nicotine treatment education into the curriculum of DNP programs is imperative to curb tobacco epidemic.
After completion of the intervention, significant increases in students’ knowledge, confidence, and comfort were observed in helping patients quit, in providing information about cessation medications, programs and services, and in making referrals for tobacco and nicotine dependence treatment.
In Touch with Prairie Living, September 2024
(North Dakota State University, 2024-09-01)
September 2024 column for North Dakota and South Dakota newspapers.
Curriculum design and assessment: the development of a nonmajor biology course-based undergraduate research experiences and its effects on students and instructors
(North Dakota State University, 2024) Falkner, William
The goals of nonmajor science education are to improve scientific literacy and produce pro-science attitudes. Together, these goals are expected to improve an individual’s ability to make evidence-based decisions based on newer understandings of the natural world as well as developing technologies. In a post-COVID-19 world, public understanding of science was brought to the forefront for public health but were also challenged by a deluge of misinformation to obfuscate these goals. General education science courses represent the last formal experience for our populace. Following a learning-science-by-doing-science approach, this dissertation describes the development, implementation, and assessment of a course-based undergraduate research experience (CURE) for nonmajor science students. The first objective of this dissertation was to review the outcomes and design elements of published CUREs. Through a systematic review of Biology-based CURE literature, several content, skill, and affective-based outcomes are identified resulting from eight proposed design elements. The second objective was to outline and highlight the decision-making process when designing a CURE for nonmajors. Here, historical perspectives on course design, both general and science-specific, are described and applied along with findings from the first objective to design a CURE for nonmajor biology students. The third objective was to survey graduate teaching assistants (GTAs) that instructed this nonmajor CURE to identify GTA benefits and challenges. Findings indicate that GTAs found CUREs to be beneficial to their current and future works and strongly believed this type of approach to nonmajor education is preferable to expository lab design. The final objective was to assess student scientific literacy and science attitudes after engaging with a CURE. Based on two surveys using a pre/post design, there were no significant differences between different laboratory course designs for neither literacy nor attitudes and only found some support between the association of scientific literacy and science attitudes. This dissertation demonstrates the complexity of cradle-to-grave course design, the difficulty in measuring large constructs such as scientific literacy and science attitudes, and implications for future evidence-based course design.