ScholarWorks @ CWU, the institutional repository for Central Washington University, is administered by the James E. Brooks Library. ScholarWorks showcases the research and scholarly and creative output of members of the university community, and also features archival material documenting the history of the region. Any member of the university community may contribute to this repository. If you are interested in doing so, please see the Guidelines for Contributing to ScholarWorks for more information.
Included in ScholarWorks are:
1.) Faculty Scholarship and Creative Works: Including journal articles, conference presentations, primary source material, datasets, supporting documentation. Included here are abstracts and links to research that cannot be posted full-text for copyright reasons or due to author's preference.
2.) Student Scholarship and Creative Works: Including master's theses, senior capstone projects, and student conference presentations.
3.) Community Projects and Archival Collections: Including collections of images, audio/video recordings, and documents of historical value to the CWU community or greater Kittitas area.
4.) Journals, Conferences and Events: Including journals, conference schedules and presentations created or administered by students or faculty at Central Washington University.
This year represents the twelfth year of annual multidisciplinary conferences dedicated to student scholarship at Central Washington University. In 1996, CWU sponsored the 1st Undergraduate Research Symposium, a showcase of faculty-mentored undergraduate student research. This event was an innovative forum for developing student scholarship that gained attention far beyond CWU. Since 1996, the undergraduate symposium expanded to include other student scholarly activity, and the broader scope was reflected in a new name in 1998, the Symposium on Undergraduate Research and Creative Expression, commonly referred to as SOURCE.
Library Advisory Council 2023-2024 End of Academic Year Report
Rats were trained in a passive avoidance task. Twenty-four hours later they were given a noncontingent footshock (FS) followed by electroconvulsive shock (ECS). ECS followed FS by different intervals ranging from .5 to 300 seconds in different groups. Subjects were tested 24 and 96 hours after the FS-ECS treatments for retention of the avoidance response. There were no statistical differences between the groups. This finding could not be taken as evidence that FS-ECS failed to produce amnesia since no evidence of passive avoidance conditioning in trained subjects not receiving FS-ECS.
This paper presents an original musical composition, in a contemporary style, written specifically for the modern brass ensemble. In addition to its purely aesthetic value, the piece may serve as an educational tool, to be used in developing the brass ensemble at the high school and college levels.
The covering paper includes a history of the family of brass instruments and an analysis of the composition. Research supports the argument that the bass ensemble is a viable, musical medium.
To study emotional problems of dysphasia and the resultant effect on rate and extent of language recovery, two subjects (one male and one female) were interviewed. Interviews and data were also obtained from therapists and hospital records. The results showed that emotionality and some personality factors adversely affected language recovery. This would suggest the importance of alleviating stress immediately following the lesion, during the therapy period, and throughout the home situation.
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