Summer Fellowship Program Research Articles

Undergraduate Research Summer Fellowships Undergo Change

At the 22nd Annual Council Meeting of Council on Undergraduate Research (CUR), held this past June at the College of Wooster, the general council voted to make fundamental changes to the Undergraduate Research Summer Fellowship Program. The most important change is that awards will no longer be made to individual students. Instead, awards will be made to individual faculty member on the basis of applications written by faculty members comprised of a curriculum vitae, a description of the proposed research project, and the role of undergraduate collaborators in the proposed research activities. This change brings the program more in line with the overall CUR objective to support faculty in their efforts to provide research experiences for undergraduate students. Faculty members selected for awards will be asked to designate a student recipient at the time the funds are awarded, a key change to the fellowship program.

A Geriatric Summer Research Fellowship Program with Preceptors and Undergraduate Medical Students

This article describes the incorporation of aging-related research into a medical school curriculum through a summer fellowship program. The geriatric office at a medical school designed the program to increase the research orientation and skills of undergraduate medical students and provide them with a mentoring experience in the field of geriatrics. A survey of students and preceptors participating in the program over an eleven-year period indicated a high level of acceptance of the program by both students and faculty. Students perceived applications from their fellowship experience for both their practice with the elderly and their critical thinking about issues related to older patients. The program served to stimulate interest in research and introduced undergraduate medical students to the research/scholar role of the physician.

Energy flux vector field in an ensonified elastodynamic sphere

Recent interest has been shown in the energy flux density inside an ensonified elastodynamic scatterer. A spherical model was chosen as the simplest and most general geometry to analyze. To properly model the energy flow in an elastodynamic medium, it is necessary to employ the elastodynamic equivalent of the Poynting vector. Plots of the vector field of the elastodynamic intensity are presented with an eye toward the classification of the type of resonance behavior displayed. Analogies with other resonance phenomena in related geometries suggest the possibility of fruitful comparison with resonance modes in shells and plates. [Work in this area supported by ONR/NRL and by ASEE/ONT Summer Fellowship Program.]

A post-sophomore summer fellowship program in community pathology

A post-sophomore summer fellowship program in community pathology

The Endocrine Society's Student Summer Fellowship Program Announcement

Journal Article The Endocrine Society's Student Summer Fellowship Program Announcement Get access The Journal of Clinical Endocrinology & Metabolism, Volume 69, Issue 5, 1 November 1989, Page 977, https://doi.org/10.1210/jcem-69-5-977 Published: 01 November 1989

The Endocrine Society's Student Summer Fellowship Program Announcement

The Endocrine Society's Student Summer Fellowship Program Announcement

The Endocrine Society's Student Summer Fellowship Program Announcement

Journal Article The Endocrine Society's Student Summer Fellowship Program Announcement Get access Endocrinology, Volume 125, Issue 5, 1 November 1989, Page 2593, https://doi.org/10.1210/endo-125-5-2593 Published: 01 November 1989

Student Summer Fellowship Program Announcement

Journal Article Student Summer Fellowship Program Announcement Get access Endocrinology, Volume 124, Issue 2, 1 February 1989, Page 719, https://doi.org/10.1210/endo-124-2-719 Published: 01 February 1989

Student Summer Fellowship Program Announcement

Journal Article Student Summer Fellowship Program Announcement Get access Endocrinology, Volume 124, Issue 1, 1 January 1989, Page 396, https://doi.org/10.1210/endo-124-1-396 Published: 01 January 1989

Student Summer Fellowship Program Announcement

Student Summer Fellowship Program Announcement

Student Summer Fellowship Program Announcement

Student Summer Fellowship Program Announcement

Student Summer Fellowship Program Announcement

Student Summer Fellowship Program Announcement

Student Summer Fellowship Program Announcement

Student Summer Fellowship Program Announcement

Student Summer Fellowship Program Announcement

Student Summer Fellowship Program Announcement

Student Summer Fellowship Program Announcement

Student Summer Fellowship Program Announcement

Student Summer Fellowship Program Announcement

Student Summer Fellowship Program Announcement

Student Summer Fellowship Program Announcement

Student Summer Fellowship Program Announcement

Student Summer Fellowship Program Announcement

Student Summer Fellowship Program Announcement

Analyzing the Tax Deductibility of Premiums Paid to Captive Insurers

This paper analyzes the issue of the tax deductibility of insurance premiums paid to captive insurers. The Internal Revenue Service has obstensibly taken a very hard line in restricting tax deductibility of premiums, as evidenced by such highly publicized court cases as the Carnation case. Documents now public under the Freedom of Information Act show that this approach is not always followed in individually negotiated cases that are not litigated and therefore unpublicized. A review and summary of these documents is presented. In the second half of the paper, the first attempt at quantitative analysis of the tax deductibility issue is shown. An analysis of how and when risk shifting occurs when the captive insurer writes insurance on unrelated risks is shown. The paper examines why the pooling of unrelated risks may lead to positive or negative financial results. Since the middle part of the seventies the use of captive insurers has become common among the nation's largest corporations. Many have been formed out of necessity during the time when products liability insurance and medical malpractice liability coverage were unavailable in the market to many busi- nesses. Others have been formed as a reaction to significant price increases put into effect during the 1976-79 period. The growth exhibited by the captive insurance industry during the seventies and early eighties has slowed considerably. For example, in each of the past two years the number of new captives registered in Bermuda has equalled 89, down from 118 in 1981, 119 in 1980, and 117 in 1979 [8, 12]. In addition, 26 captives have been liquidated in 1983 compared to 22 liquidations in 1982, and at this time it is believed that 1983 premium volume held steady with the 1982 volume [8]. Barry D. Smith is an Assistant Professor of Insurance at the Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania. He earned his Ph.D. as a Huebner Fellow at that institution. Dr. Smith also holds the CPCU, CLU, and FLMI designations. He is the author of How Insurance Works: An Introduction to Property and Liability Insurance and a co-author of Risk Classification in Life Insurance. He has published articles in this Journal and the CPCU Journal. The author acknowledges the support he received from the Wharton School's Junior Faculty Summer Fellowship Program and thanks Robert Liles of the Silverstein and Mullens law firm for his help and support. This content downloaded from 157.55.39.110 on Sun, 04 Dec 2016 04:52:59 UTC All use subject to http://about.jstor.org/terms 86 The Journal of Risk and Insurance While certain segments of the industry, such as association captives, joint venture captives, rent-a-captives, and the trading of controlled business among captives have grown, two primary reasons the overall growth has slowed are as follows [9, 10, 11, 131. First the foremost is the continuation of the soft market for commercial insurance. With insurance prices at rock bottom levels, a major incentive for using a captive insurer, cost savings, is

A Summer Fellowship Program in Gerontological Social Work in Health Care

Social work education has always been concerned with the melding of theory and practice, the skills for collaborative work and now the need to utilize all these in working with special population groups. As one way of addressing the need, a stipended summer fellowship program in gerontological social work in Health Care was developed at Mount Sinai Medical Center in New York City. The following will provide the rationale for this new program and a description of the setting at which it took place. The process of planning and initial steps will be discussed as important forerunners of actual program implementation. Reported here, as well, will be evaluation of this summer experience.