Traveling as a group to see the August 21, 2017 solar eclipse was a once in a lifetime experience for the sixteen members of an eclipse expedition from the University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point. I had the pleasurable ...

Our overall field team dedicated five personnel to observing meteorological and biotic aberrations during the August 2017 total solar eclipse on the high plains of Nebraska and Wyoming. We regularly recorded both visual ...

This research aimed to explore how a community involvement program can meet the needs of Schmeeckle Reserve and address the motivations and barriers to involvement among potential participants. Schmeeckle Reserve, a 280-acre ...

The paper summarizes the theoretical and methodological principles of Ethnomethodology and Conversation Analysis, two approaches which focus on the understanding of social action as it is produced by participants themselves. ...

University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point Library fills nearly half of its interlibrary-loan article requests internally. The library owns the article, but the patron can’t — or won’t — find it. Is this problematic or positive? ...

In this article we focused on two fundamentally different ways that patients’ alcohol usage is described or formulated. Generally doctors work to elicit a standardized rate of use metric (e.g., ‘six drinks per week’). ...

Language and social interaction (LSI) has now come of age as a research strand within Communication. This chapter is about a graduate program in LSI whose home is in a sociology department. We begin with a few notes about ...

This study examined effects of credited peer-led discussion courses on undergraduate student success. The discussion courses, led by near-peers (i.e., other undergraduate students who recently completed the lecture course ...