The Southern Oregon Arts & Research conference invites you to be a part of our 10th anniversary, celebrating our journey through the decade. Visit sou.edu/soar for more information.
The purpose of this panel is to discuss the role the media plays in how we make decisions, specifically for millennials. Every day we are exposed to massive amounts of digital information through social media channels. This panel will deal with the various forms of media we are exposed to, and what we can do to use it as a tool to empower a society of peace, rather than be used by it.
This presentation will analyze previous research done on soldiers during WWI (Shell Shock), WWII (Battle Fatigue), and into Vietnam (PTSD) moving forward. This presentation will focus on the effects that these combat disorders had on military training, battles, and operating procedures throughout the 20th century. The 20th century brought, with its technological progress, deadly new tactical and psychological problems into warfare, and it deserves to be analyzed for its historical context.
Mental health is a topic often not talked about until tragedy strikes, and is indeed a public health concern. In the spirit of prevention, how can we engage children and youth in activities that promote their mental, emotional, and physical well-being? Physical activity interventions for mental health are a promising frontier in modern research.
This research will describe how the child's neurological development is impacted from multiple kinds of abuse experienced by the child. Furthermore, it explains how various types of maltreatment can lead into adulthood, affecting the individual in many ways.
A lecture on studies regarding the benefits of choral and communal singing. Myers will present findings from his own research of two different singing groups, as well as discuss the psychological and social benefits of group singing. He will touch on his future research, which will be concerned with educational components of learning music in public schools and the impact that musical study has on students, from social behaviors to scholastic aptitude in other subjects.
Come by this open house preview of presentation posters representing a wide variety of disciplines and topics. Please click here to see descriptions of all the poster presentations and the names of all the presenters.
Using data from a campus needs and readiness assessment, a strong grounding in best practices, and evidence-based programming, this group presents a strategy for the prevention of sexual assault at SOU.
Come by this open house preview of presentation posters representing a wide variety of disciplines and topics. Please click here to see descriptions of all the poster presentations and the names of all the presenters.
Enjoy grilled burgers, brats, and more (while supplies last) and support the Community of Recovery in Education at SOU. CORE supports and promotes the academic success, recovery, and well-being of SOU students recovering from addiction by providing an authentic student-centered community and robust support services.
SOU students and employees display and discuss projects from a variety of academic disciplines and extracurricular topics. Please click here to see descriptions of all the poster presentations and the names of all the presenters.
Should youth contact sports be banned due to the rise of concussions? Around 45 million kids participate in a sport; with a high level of youth athletes comes an equally high chance of injury. In the research, evidence from peer edited journals about concussions and sports related head trauma in youth are used. The preliminary conclusion is that youth contact sports should be banned for children under the age of 12, because of the short term and long term effects on the brain from concussions.
Using Stephen Crane's Maggie: A Girl of the Streets, along with multiple contemporary and modern sources from a variety of fields, this presentation will showcase the argument of Meador’s final research paper for winter term's ENG 301 class. The paper is a conversation about the importance of the development and expression of sexual desire as it relates to the formation of individual identity. It presents a feminist discourse regarding Crane's novella that is challenging, engaging, and unique.
What is the lingering damage of sexual secrets? Can shame be inherited? Using Family Systems and Attachment Theories, this presentation will focus on cultural stigma, family shame, and challenges to love. The presenter's new memoir about her father's secret gay life will be used as a heuristic case study. The presentation will appeal to anyone who is keeping a sexual secret or grew up with one. The presenter has written five books on the subject of sexual shame and offers healing strategies.
A science-based exploration of the entheogenic experience of ayahuasca, a concoction brewed from two plants native to South America that shamans have used for thousands of years for healing and spiritual insight. Forbidden in the U.S., except when used under religious license, ayahuasca is a psychoactive tea with many biomedical and psychological health benefits.
This presentation takes a look at whether victim-blaming biases play a role in the recollection of words in a fictional story depicting sexual assault. The presentation uses student responses to a word list with victim-blaming trigger words such as "alcohol" or "short skirt" to assess the impact on memory and analyze our societies tendencies to blame victims of sexual assault. The presentation will break down the responses by gender.
Relaxation time as a measurement tool has not been explored as an indicator of life satisfaction in parents. Camdon Engelbach wrote a multiple regression analysis survey to further explore life satisfaction. It's important for parents to maintain positive life satisfaction, as a large part is transferred to children; children absorb behavior.
