UVU Review, 2011-10-31

              Sneak peek of the new Science building Heaps finding comfort zone in leadership role 300 perform in 'Carmina Buranna' SFGHTSBl LIFE B5 r a i&- 1 i ! i SPORTS: Volleyball beats :.V fans stiow their support lor volleyball and breast cancer Teaching outside the box BY LINDSEY NELSON News Writer Some students spent Fall Break basking in the sun on a southern beach. Others spent it studying for midterm exams. Teachers of educational technology and instructional design from around the state, however, gathered to share ideas, troubleshoot problems and get to the heart of the issue of innovative teaching. The second Instructional Design Summit, a conference hosted by UVU's Distance Education Program, was held Friday, Oct. 21. Jared Stein, director of Innovation, Instruction and Technology, spent his final day as a UVU employee as the keynote speaker of the conference. "Higher education needs to begin building bridges from the classroom to the real world," Stein said. "We need to move from formal to informal earning; we need to move from universal schooling to lifelong learning." Mark Hugentobler, works in The Innovation Center. Hugentobler and Stein have done invaluable work at The Innovation Center. The function of The Innovation Center is to help faculty find ways to engage students. The traditional isolated classroom model is outdated and technology seems to be the answer. The Innovation Center is there to help faculty use technology to enhance UVU's goal of learning Outside A6 -9 -1 WT- M iJme H v Houston Baptist 3-1 in annual pink game at Uiursdays game. -li r t I L Students learn about consumer behavior by posting health Living off BY YVETTE CRUZ The UVU Community and Public Health department has recently been working on a campus vending machine research project. It's designed to measure the effects of clearer nutritional health information on items sold in vending machines and the impact that has on choice. Assistant Professor Mary Brown said it all started a year and a half ago during a discussion with students in one of her classes. The class was discussing the New York law stating fast food restaurants had to inform their customers the amount of calories each of their items and meals contained. Brown asked her class if they thought it would make a difference to the consumers, half of them said yes and the other said no; and that was where the research project was born. The research group decided that vending machines were the best option to use in the study because the cafeteria staff at UVU do not know exactly how many calories the meals contain. The study is being observed in five vending machines on campus: one in the library, two in the Liberal '" "Ji EEVIEW p'U it' it C IIHJ C n .- r y information on vending matchines. A-'.: J v vending machines Arts building (one upstairs and one downstairs) and two in the Physical Education building. The group is using the traffic light system to inform the consumers of the nutritional content in the items. Foods that have a green sticker are the healthiest of all the options containing less than 250 calories. The foods with a yellow sticker are in the middle and a red sticker indicates it should be avoided. Brown feels that it would be a good idea to have one r You can eat a 600 calorie cookie or you can go upstairs to the cafeteria and have a 600 calorie meal. " -Mary Brown "all green" vending machine in every building so students would be more aware of their healthy options when the stickers come down. Of all of the choices in the vending machines, Brown said the "Granny B" pink frosting sugar cookie is one of the worst. "You can eat a 600 calorie cookie or you can go upstairs 11 I (I'll U Oinstm WUVD (mew MiduclSMIf UVU hilar to the cafeteria and have a 600 calorie meal," Brown said. Brown also teaches a Concepts of Stress Management class and advises students to stay active and to remember that caffeine raises anxiety levels. "When I see students walking into the testing center with a Mountain Dew and a Snickers I think 'oh dear, that's the wrong choice,'" Brown said. Brown said she is very grateful and proud of the students who chose to participate in this research project. Jimmy Fuqua, James Fowler and Syndee Seeley are among the students who have been the most dedicated, according to Brown. The stickers will be up on campus vending machines for two more weeks. Once the data is collected, the research group will analyze it and compose a manuscript to submit to national committees in hopes they can present their project at national conferences. The project is intended to help students learn more about nutrition. As Brown says it, "it's easy to gain weight in college but not so easy to lose it when you leave." (MHI oraese u UVU trades green in for pink to raise cancer awareness BY MATT PETERSEN i Editor Count Utah Valley among the countless sports programs that care about cancer. The volleyball and women's soccer teams both hosted "pink games" in the month of October, including Thursday's volleyball match against Houston Baptist. Like their professional counterparts, UVU athletes sported pink accessories in addition to their uniforms, including hair ties and arm bands. Fans were given pink t-shirts by the team and the Green is Recycling matters: Frcm past to present BY SIERRA WILSON Plastic bottles peak out from two different bins. One, a large trash can. The other, a bright blue recycling bin. From the beginning, the success of recycling at UVU had started with students. Recycling at UVU began over a decade ago as a student initiative. Since then, it has grown a lot and there is much going on behind the recycling scenes on campus. However, UVU's recycling program also faces its share of challenges. The solution to these challenges may be the same group that gave recycling its birth at UVU: the students. According to Kenneth Mathews, Senior Director of Auxiliary Services & the Sorenson Student Center, the department which runs UVU's recycling, UVU's How do you dispose at UVU? (PoH " " ' - Do you think recycling is important? (Poll results tram UVU 2011) ( n, in dirk Mighty Athletic Wolverine League (MAWL) in support of cancer awareness month, marking a visible color change among the normally green-clad fans. Sporting a pink tie Thursday, volleyball head coach Sam Atoa smiled at thesimilarly-colored crowd, which ended up providing one of the biggest home turnouts of the season. "It's a great cause," Atoa said. It is also a cause that starts at the top of the athletic program. Director of athlet-; ics Michael Jacobsen was diagnosed and treated for cancer 22 years ago. Incredibly, the treatments worked and the disease has remained dormant since. Jacobsenex--pressed appreciation for the athletic program's focus on Pink B3 Wolverine recycling program truly began as a grassroots initiative. More than ten years ago students banded together to bring recycling to UVU. They went to the Dean of Students at that time and presented their goals. From their united voices, UVU's recycling program was born. UVU's recycling program has humble beginnings and started with almost no equipment. Since then, the program has grown bit by bit on what Mathews describes as a "minimal" budget. The program now employs a handful of students and continues to buy new bins and needed equipment with the money it earns from recycling. UVU also recently began collecting plastic for recycling. Even though UVU doesn't yet have the resources to make its recycling program self-sustainable or profitable economically, Mathews says UVU recycles to help save the environment, to support the green initiative and to keep materials out of landfills and going Green A4 of your recyclable items mutts from UVU 2011) " AKays in UVU rtcydlr tons Almost Hojyi Hi UVU nKycHnf bins Sometimas in UVU rtcydinf Mill Usually In trash cam Always In tmh cant Wry important Somewhat Important t Oont cart tfthtK way Not my Important Not Important at ail J