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What Financial Wellness Resources Are Included In Financial Wellness Websites In Higher Education?
(Higher Education Financial Wellness Alliance (HEFWA), 2024-12-02) Taylor, ZW; Marx, Andrew; Ray, Sara; Simonds, Richard; Becker, Jenny; Mesa, Joseph; Smith, Mallorie; Miller, Amanda; Nixon, Dez; Blakeney, Aly; Glass, Sophie; Cerebe, Tim; Enlow, Justin; Hughes, Steven; Colby, Helen; Kayser, Tristia; Smith, Becky; Wheeler, Brandan
In the past two decades, both technology and financial wellness programming has changed the landscape of higher education in the United States. As financial wellness continues to grow as a student service in higher education (Taylor & Ray, 2023), it is critical to understand what financial wellness resources are being made available on institutional (.edu) websites.
At the 2024 HEFWA Summit in Pittsburgh, PA, the HEFWA Research Committee first presented on financial wellness websites in higher education (Ray et al., 2024). In September 2024, the HEFWA Research Committee published its first brief on financial wellness websites in higher education (Taylor et al., 2024a), followed shortly thereafter by a webinar in November 2024 focused on financial wellness websites in higher education (Taylor et al., 2024b). This brief and webinar reported data on how many institutions published financial wellness content and resources on a webpage within their .edu institutional website, in addition to many examples and exemplars in the field.
This brief focuses specifically on the resources included on financial wellness websites in higher education. It is important to note that the data contained in this brief does not report on programmatic information--this brief and the HEFWA Research Committee project on financial wellness websites in higher education focuses specifically on what financial wellness information is being published by institutions somewhere on their .edu website. As a result, just because an institution publishes a financial wellness resource (ex: an external link to an online budgeting tool or the FAFSA), it does not mean that institution has a fully-staffed financial wellness program.
Quantitative Reasoning
(2024) Feldman, Steven; BrckaLorenz, Allison
The Quantitative Reasoning scale (fQR) includes questions pertaining to faculty perceptions of the importance of students' engagement with numerical information. This document provides basic findings for the FSSE Quantitative Reasoning scale and its individual component items.
UNDERSTANDING AND TEACHING STUDENTS WITH AUTISM
(Indiana University, 2024-11-20) Chen, Rachel
Identification of Fusarium and Trichoderma species associated with Alliaria petiolata and native species of Hydrophyllum
(Indiana University South Bend Undergraduate Research Conference, 2016-03-25) Nascimento, Adriene; Rice, Angela; Marr, Deborah L.
The focus of our study was to identify the strains of Fusarium and Trichoderma associated with a non-native plant host Alliaria petiolate (garlic mustard) and a native plant host Hydrophyllum appendiculatum.
Early Development of a Glyphosate Biosensor
(Indiana University South Bend Undergraduate Research Conference, 2016-03-25) Black, Voleta; Rogers, Amanda; Krista, Schilling; Tobias, Sell; Vrydaghs, Andrea; Kemmerling, Kourtney; Stinnett, Austin; Rizk, Shahir Samir, 1978-
Glyphosate is a member of the class of molecules known as phosphonates and is the active ingredient in the herbicide “Roundup”. As the use of “Roundup Ready” crops increases across the globe, growing concerns regarding environmental contamination create demand for an effective method to detect glyphosate. The aim of our project was to convert a bacterial protein into a biosensor for glyphosate. We used phosphonate binding protein (PhnD), which naturally binds to phosphonates, but has a low affinity for glyphosate ((Kd ≈ 650μM). Our goal was to increase the affinity of PhnD for glyphosate. To accomplish this, we designed and then tested three mutants of PhnD for their ability to bind glyphosate. The mutant proteins were expressed recombinantly in bacteria, isolated, and tagged with the fluorescent reporter Alexa 488 for analysis of binding via fluorescence spectroscopy. We found that introducing asparagine or serine mutations at position 205 had no significant effect on affinity. However, an asparagine mutation at position 177 improved binding affinity for glyphosate by approximately 100-fold (Kd ≈ 8μM). While improvements need to be made in the future, this mutant in particular represents a significant step toward the creation of a useful biosensor and a reliable way to test glyphosate concentrations in soil.