Durham College Research Articles

Assessing the Impact of a Health Education Intervention for Post-secondary International Students in Canada.

Objective The objective is to determine the impact of a health education intervention onself-rated health knowledge, levels of stress and anxiety, and ability to find and access school resources for international students studying at a Canadian University and College. Participants and setting This is a pre- and post-intervention survey. Undergraduate and graduate international students on the shared campus of Durham College and Ontario Tech University in Oshawa, Ontario were included. Interventions International students participating in this study received two structured visits, scheduled two weeks apart.At the start of the first visit, students completed a baseline survey which included questions on self-rated health knowledge, stress levels, and ability to access school resources.At this visit, students received 30 minutes of structured health education from a registered nurse on the topics ofsexual health and adult immunizations. At the second visit,students received 30 minutes of structured teaching from the registered nurse on the topics ofmental health, COVID-19, and campus resources. Upon the completion of this teaching, students completed a post-intervention survey with the same questions as the pre-survey, to gauge for changes related to the intervention. Results T-values were calculated for each survey item from the pre and post-survey. These t-values were used as the outcome measure to determine changes in health knowledge, stress levels, and ability to access resources following the intervention. In total, there were 202 participants. Statistical analysis showed significant t-values for all survey items in the pre- and post-analysis. Following the education intervention, the highest t-values were noted in self-rated sexual health knowledge (t-value 16.80, p < 0.001), ability to find and access school resources (t-value 16.14, p < 0.001), and current level of stress/anxiety in regard to being in a new country (t-value 14.04, p < 0.001). Conclusion Following a structured health education intervention, international students reported significant increases in self-rated health knowledge for specific topics, ability to find and access school resources, ability to get help for a mental health issue, and significant decreases in self-rated stress/anxiety. These results can support further exploration of health education in international student populations to ensure these students are adequately informed and supported when arriving in a new country.

A comparative study of a direct current heating system and a gas furnace heating coil

The objective of this research is to compare the efficiency of a direct current (DC) heating system with an electrical furnace coil. This was done using a house lab as a test bed located on the Durham College Whitby Campus in Canada. The house is approximately 1000 square feet, originally built circa 1950's/1960's, with an existing gas furnace of 60,000 BTUs and an energy efficiency EnerGuide rating of 95.5. Three options were tested during winter 2016 along with the electrical heating element. Weather normalization was taken into consideration using data provided by the weather network. The analysis showed that the direct current heating system option 3 had a higher BTUH/Watt= 3.73 compared to the furnace heating element=2.25 BTUH/Watt which represent a difference of 39.6%. An energy simulation was run using the HOT2000 software to evaluate the direct current technology vs gas, oil, propane and electricity. In each case the direct current technology showed an energy savings better than the comparative technology. From the data collected and analysis, it can be concluded that the direct current system is a valid technology for heating buildings. It is more efficient than the industry standard electrical heating coil with an efficiency of up to 40% better.

Acknowledging the challenges of pedagogical innovation: the case of integrating research, teaching, and the practice of environmental leadership

Providing opportunities for community engagement and research is part of many environmental sciences and studies programs. Because of the constraints of the typical classroom environment, we need to develop innovative pedagogical tools to allow students to do this kind of work thoughtfully. A partnership between Duke University, a major private research university in Durham, NC, and Paul Quinn College, a small HBCU in Dallas, TX, allowed students to collaborate on community-based participatory research projects and a cross-campus semester-long immersive learning experience. This partnership was grounded in our experience in environmental leadership, social entrepreneurship, and ecological restoration and was led primarily by Duke faculty. We share valuable lessons about engaging in communities outside of our home institution and for working across campuses. Cross-campus collaboration, while logistically challenging, offers ways to connect students in different learning environments but with the same goals and passion for community engagement and research.

“A Community College with Ivory Tower Pretensions”: Perceptions of a New University

The ways in which a new university, the University of Ontario Institute of Technology (UOIT), was represented in local, regional, and national newspapers highlight the difficulties of identity creation for organizations. Drawing on theories of organizational identity and supplemented by interviews with UOIT’s founding members, a qualitative analysis of newspaper articles about UOIT published between 2001 and 2004 demonstrates that the words and phrases used in these articles played an important role in establishing an image of UOIT that continues to impact its identity. These news reports also illustrate the complex relationships that existed between UOIT and its geographical, educational, and political contexts. Although UOIT was founded as a four-year baccalaureate degree-granting university, it was linked with its well-established neighbour, Durham College, with which it shared land and services. As a result, UOIT was viewed by some as no more than a “community college with ivory tower pretensions.”&#x0D;

'Nature and Nurture' Researchers Win Prize

Husband-and-wife team Avshalom Caspi and Terrie Moffitt's research on how biology influences behavior has often raised controversy ( Science , 26 June 2009, p. [1628][1]). Now it has earned them 1 million Swiss francs: At a ceremony in Zurich last Friday, the pair took home the Klaus J. Jacobs Research Prize. Caspi and Moffitt, who both have joint appointments at Duke University in Durham, North Carolina, and King's College London, have used a longitudinal study of New Zealanders to link genetic mutations with violence and depression while showing that environmental factors, such as childhood abuse or stress, come crucially into play ( Science , 2 August 2002, p. [851][2]). That research opened up “whole new lines of work” in how genetics and environment interact, says Anne Petersen, a biobehavioral researcher at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, who headed the jury for the prize. “Too often people say we can't really show [that relationship],” she says. Caspi and Moffitt “keep demonstrating that you can.” [1]: /lookup/doi/10.1126/science.324_1628 [2]: /lookup/doi/10.1126/science.1072290

My American Uncle, America Cries Uncle, and Other Fantastic Tales from France: Iegor Gran's Jeanne d'Arc fait tic-tac

Ella Shohat and Robert Stam's proposal that beliefs about nations often crystallize in the form of stories could serve as both summary and generative matrix for Jeanne d'Arc fait tic-tac. In keeping with a number of recent fictional works united by the attempt to understand French and American cultures in a comparative context, the first part of Iegor Gran's clever 2005 novel consists of eleven stories whose common focus on the danger represented by American culture for French national identity makes the second part of the novel, in which France declares war and invades the United States, almost inevitable. In the opening section of Jeanne d'Arc, Gran both rewrites the traditional folktale for a self-reflective postmodern age and revises and satirizes the conventions of fantastic literature. The primary comic strategy of the second half of the novel, constructed as a parody of the current American conflict in Iraq, pays homage to the most recent source of tension between the United States and France. Throughout the novel Gran caricatures French chauvinism and insularity as much as he mocks American arrogance and consumerism, and the metaphorical demise of the oncle d’Amerique,” the specifically French version of the American dream, continually reminds us of the sheer power and pleasure of narrative. This article is available in Studies in 20th & 21st Century Literature: http://newprairiepress.org/sttcl/vol32/iss1/2 My American Uncle, America Cries Uncle, and Other Fantastic Tales from France: Iegor Gran’s Jeanne d’Arc fait tic-tac Carolyn A. Durham College of Wooster Dis-moi qui te hante, je te dirais qui tu es. Tell me who haunts you and I’ll tell you who

The Library of Durham College, Oxford

IN 1290 THE MONKS of Durham Cathedral erected their locum Oxonie on a site which they had owned -since 1286, lying to the north of Broad Street, Oxford. The early years of the house's existence saw a considerable amount of academic activity, but against a background of financial instability. This was alleviated, at least partially, by the refounding of the College in the late 1370s by Thomas Hatfield, bishop of Durham, still as a cell of the Priory, but with a greater degree of independence than it had previously enjoyed. It was not until the beginning of the fifteenth century that the financial position of the College became stable enough to allow large-scale building, including a new chapel, begun in 1405 and dedicated in 1409,· and the library. The College was finally dissolved in 1540, along with Durham Priory. The buildings and land were eventually purchased by an Oxfordshire landowner and courtier, Sir Thomas Pope of Wroxton, who founded Trinity College on the site.l Of the many Durham monks who received a university education at the Oxford college during the later Middle Ages, few remained more than six years; indeed for the majority the College seems to have been little more than a finishing school before they returned north to take up administrative positions in the hierarchy of the mother house or one of its other cells. One or two monks did establish themselves permanently in the College, although fewer examples of this are to be found at Durham College than at Canterbury College, the Oxford college founded by the Benedictine monks of Canterbury.2 During their time in Oxford, the Durham monks would

Lost &amp; Found: 51. Specimens collected by H.M.S. Challenger

I am currently, with Dr. I. D. Wallace of Merseyside County Museums, investigating the fate of specimens collected by H.M.S. "Challenger (1872-1876). This pioneer circumnavigating expedition collected numerous marine organisms and sediment samples as well as occasional terrestrial, biological and ethnographical specimens. Most material was eventually deposited at the British Museum where some 'duplicates' were later (1899-1900) redistributed to other institutions including the following: Aberdeen, University Aberystwyth, University College Birmingham, Mason College Bristol, University Cambridge, University Museum Cardiff, University College Dundee, University College Dublin, Museum of Science and Art Edinburgh, Museum of Science and Art Leeds, University College Liverpool, Museums London, Royal College of Surgeons Manchester, Owens College Museum Newcastle, Museum Newcastle, Durham College of Science Perth, Perthshire Natural History Museum Sheffield, University...

Samuel Phillips Bedson, 1886-1969

Samuel Phillips Bedson was born on 1 December 1886 in Newcastle upon Tyne. His father, Peter Phillips Bedson, was born in Manchester, educated at Manchester Grammar School and studied chemistry under Sir Henry Roscoe at Owens College, later Manchester University. After a period of postgraduate study at the University of Bonn, Peter Bedson returned to this country and was appointed to the Chair of Chemistry in the University of Durham (Durham College of Science, Newcastle upon Tyne). He held this Chair for 37 years until his retirement in 1921. His wife was the daughter of Samuel Hodgkinson, cotton spinner (Hollins Mill Co.) of Marple, Cheshire. There were three children of this marriage, Sam being the second. Along with his elder brother and four other boys he was educated privately until the age of ten. Then after one year at Newcastle Preparatory School he went to Abbotsholme School in Derbyshire where he spent the next six years. This school had been founded by Cecil Reddie as an experiment in secondary education because of his dissatisfaction with the narrowness of the curriculum in most Public Schools. Reddie planned ‘a programme of general education catering for physical and manual skills, for artistic and imaginative development, for literary and intellectual growth and for moral and religious training’.

Richard of Saint Victor and the Anonymous of Bridlington

Only since 1932 has the existence been known of the Bridlington Dialogue — or, more properly, Colloquium magistri et discipuli in regulam beati Au- gustini de uita clericorum — a conversation between master and student on the Augustinian Rule. In that year the Bodleian Library of Oxford acquired from the bookdealer E. P. Goldschmidt what is now Bodleian MS. Lat. th. d. 17, a codex which was executed about 1200 and contains the Dialogue on folios 1 to 97v. Nearly twenty years later J. C. Dickinson published some excerpts from the work and discussed it in his The Origins of the Austin Canons and their Introduction into England. Later, Sister Penelope, C.S.M.V., under-took to edit the complete Dialogue. Her edition was well advanced when, in 1955, she learned from Winfrid Hümpfner, Ο.S.A., of another medieval manuscript of the text: Durham College Library MS. Β III 8, folios 222v to 253v, written about 1300. In 1960, she published an edition based upon a study of both manuscripts.

Prof. Alexander Meek

AIEXAISTDEB MEEK who died on November 2, was born at Broughty Eroughty Eorry in 1865. He was for many years, until his letirement in 1932, professor of zoology at Armstrong College (University of Durham) and directoret the Dove Marine Laboratory. After leaving school, he studied art and then determined to become a scientific worker. He spent a year at the Royal College of Science and then entered University College, Dundee, as a student under Prof. D'Arcy Thompson. For two years after graduating in 1889 he worked at the Gatty Marine Laboratory under Prof. W. C. M'Intosh. He was then appointed county council lecturer in agricultural zoology in Aberdeenshire. He held this post until 1894 when he obtained a lectureship in veterinary anatomy and farm hygiene at what was then the University of Durham College of Science, later to become Armstrong College and, still later, although not in his time, to be merged in the present King's College.

Mr. Philip Lake

PHILIP LAKE, who died in Cambridge on June 12, was born on April 9, 1865, at Morpeth, where his father, George Lake, was headmaster of the Grammar School. On leaving school he became a student at the Durham College of Science, Newcastle upon Tyne, where his interest in geology was aroused by the teaching of Prof. G. A. L. Lebour. He gained a scholarship at St. John's College, Cambridge, in 1883 and was placed in the first class of both parts of the Natural Sciences Tripos (1886 and 1887) and was the first recipient of the newly founded Harkness Scholarship for geology. After taking his degree, Lake was appointed to the Geological Survey of India ; but for reasons of health resigned after three years and returned to Cambridge. In spite of his short period of service he was able to make some contributions to the geology of India.

Prof. P. P. Bedson

IT was a shock to learn of the death of Prof. P. P. Bedson, emeritus professor of chemistry of the former Durham College of Science, on April 4 at Hove, two days after his ninetieth birthday and our sending him a congratulatory letter thinking he was enjoying reasonably good health at four score years and ten.

John Cadman, Baron Cadman, 1877 - 1941

The Right Hon. Sir John Cadman, first Baron Cadman of Silverdale, in the County of Stafford, was born in the north Staffordshire mining village of Silverdale on 7 September 1877. He was christened and confirmed in the village church there, and in a grave near its entrance he decided that his ashes should rest. It is there’, he said, ‘that I belong.’ The writer, who was present at his funeral, was much struck by the attachment of the villagers to their old friend ‘Jack’. Throughout his life he never forgot them, and when the end came they showed that they had not forgotten him. Cadman was educated at the High School, Newcastle-under-Lyme, and studied mining under his father, Mr James Cope Cadman, M.I.C.E. When in 1922 he was elected President of the Institution of Mining Engineers he reminded the members that, eighteen years before, his father occupied the same presidential chair. He won a Staffordshire County Council Scholarship for mining which he held at the Durham College of Science, now Armstrong College; there he took his B.Sc. degree with honours and subsequently took the M.Sc. and the D.Sc. At twenty-two he worked as assistant manager at the Silverdale Collieries, and at twenty-three was appointed manager of the Collieries of Trindon Grange. A few years later he was made one of H.M. Inspectors of Mines, and among the districts he covered was one containing Scottish Shale. Thus it was that Cadman made his first contact with oil.

Prof. Robert Howden

THE death of Robert Howden, emeritus professor of anatomy in the University of Durham, on December 7, removes one of the great anatomists of the Edinburgh School and a figure noteworthy in the history of the University of Durham College of Medicine, Newcastle-upon-Tyne.

Sir Thomas Middleton, K.C.I.E., F.R.S

THE Committee of the Privy Council for the Organization and Development of Agricultural Research, after consultation with the members of the Agricultural Research Council and the president of the Royal Society, has appointed Sir Thomas H. Middleton to be chairman of the Agricultural Research Council as from July 1. On that date the Right Hon. Lord Richard Cavendish, who has been chairman of the Council since its inception in June 1931, retires from membership of the Council. Sir Thomas Middleton, who is vice-chairman of the Development Commission, an office which he has held since 1929, has been a member of the Agricultural Research Council since its establishment. He is chairman of one Standing Committee of the Council on Soils and Plant Nutrition and of the Committee on the Estimates of Research Institutions. Sir Thomas has been successively professor of agriculture in Baroda College, India, lecturer in agriculture in the University College of Wales, Aberystwyth, professor of agriculture in Durham College of Science, and professor of agriculture at Cambridge. In 1906 he joined the staff of the Board of Agriculture and Fisheries as assistant secretary, and in 1917–19 was deputy director-general of the Food Production Department. He was a member of the Royal Commission on Agriculture in India, which sat in 1926–28. He was the first recipient of the Gold Medal of the Royal Agricultural Society of England, awarded for services to agriculture.

Prof. R. A. Sampson, F.R.S

THE retirement of Prof. R. A. Sampson from the position of Astronomer Royal for Scotland has been recently announced, and will shortly take effect. He has held this office, which is associated with the professorship of astronomy in the University of Edinburgh, since 1910 when he succeeded Sir Frank Dyson on the appointment of the latter as Astronomer Royal at Greenwich. Prof. Sampson's career has been long, varied and distinguished. His earlier years were spent in posts mainly mathematical, and it was only comparatively late in life that he was able to devote all his time, during the twenty-seven years at Edinburgh, to the pursuit of astronomy. But much of his astronomical work had already been done in the earlier period. Happily, this is not the occasion—may it be long distant—when it is necessary to give biographical details or to assess the value of scientific achievements. But it is interesting to recall that Prof. Sampson was the first product of the Isaac Newton studentships (1891–3), then lately founded by Mr. F. McClean, for he gained this prize a year after his election to a fellowship at St. John's College, Cambridge, where his mathematical career had been eminently successful. Between 1893 and 1910 he held a mathematical professorship first at the Durham College of Science, Newcastle-upon-Tyne, and after 1896 at the University of Durham, where (after 1908) he was also professor of astronomy.

Sir Robert Greig

SIR ROBERT GREIG, Secretary of the Department of Agriculture for Scotland, is about to retire from that position, as he attains his sixtieth year on March 23. He has only held the post for about five years, but that has been long enough for him to prove himself an excellent chief who has backed all scientific development in his Department. After lea ving the University of Edinburgh, Sir Robert was for a time a ranch manager in north-west Canada. After returning to England he was for two years lecturer at the Cheshire Agricultural College, passing on for four years to the Durham College of Science. In 1903-10 he was the Fordyce lecturer in agriculture at the University of Aberdeen. In 1911 he returned south to become staff inspector in agriculture at the Board of Education, but not for long, for in the same year he became a commissioner at the Board of Agriculture, Scotland, of which body he was chairman in 1921?28. The combination of technical knowledge and administrative ability exemplified by Sir Robert goes far to explain his success; and general regret is expressed at his impending retirement.

The recovery of guanidine from the blood-stream after injection

Research Article| January 01 1934 The recovery of guanidine from the blood-stream after injection John Adamson Saunders John Adamson Saunders 1The Department of Physiology and Biochemistry, University of Durham College of Medicine, Newcastle-on-Tyne Search for other works by this author on: This Site PubMed Google Scholar Biochem J (1934) 28 (4): 1157–1159. https://doi.org/10.1042/bj0281157 Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementary Data Peer Review Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Cite Icon Cite Get Permissions Citation John Adamson Saunders; The recovery of guanidine from the blood-stream after injection. Biochem J 1 January 1934; 28 (4): 1157–1159. doi: https://doi.org/10.1042/bj0281157 Download citation file: Ris (Zotero) Reference Manager EasyBib Bookends Mendeley Papers EndNote RefWorks BibTex toolbar search Search Dropdown Menu toolbar search search input Search input auto suggest filter your search All ContentAll JournalsBiochemical Journal Search Advanced Search This content is only available as a PDF. © 1934 CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY PRESS1934 Article PDF first page preview Close Modal You do not currently have access to this content.

The calcium of whole blood, serum and plasma in human diseases, including tetany

Research Article| January 01 1933 The calcium of whole blood, serum and plasma in human diseases, including tetany Freda Katharine Herbert Freda Katharine Herbert 1The Pathological Department of the University of Durham College of Medicine and the Royal Victoria Infirmary, Newcastle-upon-Tyne Search for other works by this author on: This Site PubMed Google Scholar Biochem J (1933) 27 (6): 1975–1977. https://doi.org/10.1042/bj0271975 Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementary Data Peer Review Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Cite Icon Cite Get Permissions Citation Freda Katharine Herbert; The calcium of whole blood, serum and plasma in human diseases, including tetany. Biochem J 1 January 1933; 27 (6): 1975–1977. doi: https://doi.org/10.1042/bj0271975 Download citation file: Ris (Zotero) Reference Manager EasyBib Bookends Mendeley Papers EndNote RefWorks BibTex toolbar search Search Dropdown Menu toolbar search search input Search input auto suggest filter your search All ContentAll JournalsBiochemical Journal Search Advanced Search This content is only available as a PDF. © 1933 CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY PRESS1933 Article PDF first page preview Close Modal You do not currently have access to this content.