This project examines types of comments which tutees using the Trumbull Online Writing Lab (OWL) are receiving from tutors and why tutors are providing these types of comments. Two tutors analyzed 10 submissions to create an instrument which is used to examine the entire data set consisting of 20 OWL submissions. The majority of comments focus on mechanical errors. This finding suggests two things: Firstly, tutors frequently focus on mechanical mistakes; and secondly, tutors are failing to provide comments regarding content. This second finding is problematic because content is critical to the production of an effective paper. This project postulates that the lack of content-related comments is due to the fact that providing such feedback via email does not enable the type of direct and instantaneous communication which occurs during face-to-face tutoring. This project not only highlights a deficiency in email-facilitated tutor feedback but also suggests a possible solution to this issue: the use of collaborative, real-time software which would provide an opportunity to communicate instantly and directly with students.

Service learning is a meaningful way to combine classroom instruction with community service. By applying course content to community activities, service learning projects engage students with the community and heighten public awareness of the subject matter. Advantages of service learning projects reach four populations: benefiting not only the student, faculty, and university but members of the local community as well. General Chemistry Laboratory students from KSU Trumbull Campus recently partnered with Book Buddies at the Warren-Trumbull County Public Library to include a science literature night. For this special event, children (grades 1-4) selected from a list of science themed books to read with their assigned tutor and then subsequently participated in hands-on science experiments highlighting topics presented in the books. KSU Trumbull chemistry students designed all of the safe, fun, and entertaining experiments to excite young children and foster a positive learning experience with science.

There are many strategies to accessing and treating the criminogenic needs of offenders to help them rehabilitate and reintegrate back into society successfully. However criminals are often labeled and stigmatized by society as deviant outcast; viewed as irredeemable and irreparable lost causes. Can criminals be rehabilitated? Not just rehabilitated in the sense of the legal system’s view, but in the views of their peers, families, and communities. It’s important to realize the affects that societal views and attitudes about criminals have on offenders when they’re trying to rehabilitate and reintegrate back into society. Rehabilitation of criminal offenders is a complicated and multifaceted issue that has many different approaches. For the purposes of this project the Punishment, Rehabilitation and Prevention Ideologies will be examined as well as the Restorative Justice model; while also evaluating social stigmas placed on offenders.

Pymatuning Lake State Park is located on the wetlands surrounding the Shenango River in Ashtabula County, Ohio and Crawford County, Pennsylvania. In 1933, the Pymatuning Lake Reservoir was completed on the river for flood control, water supply, recreation, and fish and wildlife management. In addition to the dam, the Espyville-Andover Highway was completed to cross the lake. However, detailed geologic information of the park is lacking for the public to understand its ancient history. A detailed investigation was conducted to better constrain the geologic history of Pymatuning Lake State Park.

Detailed information of the park was gathered through extensive fieldwork and published data. Bedrock and glacial geologic maps were constructed this data. Thickness of glacial material and bedrock formations were determined using ground water well data. A cross section through the park was produced, showing the geology in the third dimension.

Pymatuning Lake State Park is situated on the glaciated plateau of northeastern Ohio and northwestern Pennsylvania border where Pleistocene glaciers advanced over the gentle hills and stream valleys of the land formerly uplifted as part of the Appalachian Mountain building process. The subsurface bedrock units in the park consist of Devonian shales. The bedrock was covered by several ice advances of the Wisconsinan Glacier that left behind glacial features consisting of the Hiram, Lavery, and Kent ground moraines, and the Defiance end moraine north of the park. These glacial units completely cover the bedrock, leaving minimum exposures in the area.