By Andrew Darien Department of History Many students view the research and scholarship of their professors as a mysterious and nebulous world, far removed from the more familiar classroom experience of lecture and discussion. The History Department at Salem State College removes that mystique by asking its majors to take themselves seriously as scholars. Our [...]

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By Scott Nowka English Department “So why does every letter ‘s’ look like a lower-case ‘f’?” This is the question that always precedes one of the most exciting types of discussions we have in my undergraduate or graduate classes. What does it mean? That my students have ventured out beyond the annotated, comfortably modernized, and [...]

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By David Gow Psychology Department Undergraduates Heidi Kien and Sarah Luong have been editing digital sound files—a lot of digital sound files. It is not particularly glamorous work. These files will serve as stimuli for an NIH-funded study into the biological and psychological mechanisms that allow listeners to adapt to and understand accented speech. Like [...]

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  By Martin Krugman Department of Psychology Each year, the Department of Psychology at Salem State College, in cooperation with Psi Chi, the National Honor Society in Psychology, offers a seminar on “applying to graduate school.” This 90-minute seminar provides psychology majors with critical information about graduate training in psychology and related fields, and practical information [...]

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by Marcos Luna Geography Department The theme of this edition of ASpect is undergraduate research. In addition to soliciting the contributions of faculty members of the School of Arts and Sciences (SOAS), the SOAS Communications Team endeavored to learn about undergraduate research activities amongst our various departments. The survey that the SOAS Communications Team put [...]

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By Jon Aske Foreign Languages Introduction In order to get a better idea of the degree to which research is an important part of the academic programs of the School of Arts and Sciences, the communications team sent a survey to the chairs of the twenty SOAS academic departments with the following five questions: Does [...]

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Research in the School of Arts and Sciences by Jon Aske In order to get a better idea of the degree to which research is an important part of the academic programs of the School of Arts and Sciences, the communications team sent a survey to the chairs of the twenty SOAS academic departments. Undergraduate [...]

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By Hollis Pyatt Department of Geography  When I first heard about teaching online, I was skeptical. I had visions of taped lectures, impersonal interactions, and the hassle of getting students all together for a chat session. After doing some research into the subject  including talking to those who had successfully taught online, I realized that [...]

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By Peter Oehlkers Communications Department “What have you learned this semester from your classmates? Not from me, or the text–your classmates?” I ask this question at the end of every semester in my online global communications class. I am usually heartened and sometimes humbled by the responses. Students will not only praise the open-mindedness and [...]

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By Mark Morgan Music Department, Eastern Nazarene College Artistic Director, New England Light Opera “Mark, meet David Alan George.” Karen Gahagan, staff assistant in the Center for the Creative and Performing Arts did the introductions at our performance of our new show The Gilbert and Sullivan Radio Hour back in the winter of 2007. By connecting [...]

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