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Teaching Model Pilot Gets High-tech Lift eBonnie “ty” SHreve ’14 STARTED CARRYING HER APPLE IPAD everywhere she went — even to Wal-Mart — as soon as it arrived in the mail. Ty received the iPad this summer from Sweet Briar, free, but with strings attached. She is one of 30 students in two sections of English 104 who agreed to experiment with the device to examine ways to incorporate it into their learning. Before they even arrived on campus, the students completed creative projects related to reading assignments. Fifteen faculty members are conducting a similar experiment using iPads for teaching. ese were paid for by a Mellon Foundation grant that provides discretionary funds for new presidents to support initiatives important to them. Both groups will share what they learn as part of a strategic effort to ensure that Sweet Briar is providing a digitally sophisticated education to all students. “Of course, what is meaningful in this pilot is not the iPads themselves,” says President Jo Ellen Parker. “ey are simply one opportunity to examine the ways in which digital tools can — or cannot — enhance pedagogy. In other words, this pilot project is about teaching, not about a device.” Ty, a multi-instrument musician and biology major who is eyeing the pre-vet program, has found the highlighting feature a bit tricky to use but doesn’t mind the e-reader. Annotating is fast and easy, she says. She likes the way it organizes her notes by page number — almost like a table of contents — and how easy it is find a notation or passage in the text by searching. And unlike a laptop, the iPad is always ready to go. On-Campus Research CHryStaL CoLLinS ’10 AND professor of environmental studies David Orvos used the environmental sciences lab’s atomic absorption spectrometer to test about 70 samples of human breast milk for mercury. ey used cold-vapor hydride analysis to measure levels of the metal. e samples were collected from women in Belize in response to concerns about environmental contaminants. Collins, of Lusby, Md., graduated summa-cum laude with a B.A. in archaeology and minors in anthropology and environmental science. 8 SWEET BRIAR MAGAZINE | SBC.EDU
2014 Arrives is fall Sweet Briar welcomed the Class of 2014, a group of young women who traveled to campus from 30 different states, the u.S. Virgin Islands, China, Singapore and the united Kingdom. 16 students have alumnae relatives 99 students took at least one AP course in high school 197 total students 179 first-time college students 18 transfer students 57 students were riders before attending Sweet Briar 3.44 was the average high school GPA
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Page 3 and 4: Contents Sweet Briar Magazine | Fal
Page 5 and 6: Homecoming Weekend 2010 Sweet Briar
Page 7 and 8: Sweet Briar in Nice SWEET BRIAR JuN
Page 9: BEL CANTO MEANS BEAuTIFuL SINGING,
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Page 15 and 16: C O V E R S T O R Y a sure sign tha
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Page 19 and 20: A Lens on Wildlife Wildlife economi
Page 21 and 22: Celeste Delgado-Librero THE FIRST E
Page 23 and 24: In 1960, the United States and Japa
Page 25 and 26: “A friend sent me an e-mail about
Page 27 and 28: language, Khmer, to English, and fo
Page 29 and 30: WHEN MANY OF uS THINK OF GLOBALIzAT
Page 31 and 32: BuSY SCHEDuLE, Diverse Interests aL
Page 33 and 34: At Sweet Briar you learned, explore
Page 35 and 36: THE CLASS OF 1985 celebrated its 25
Page 37 and 38: e Private Work of Poetry By CM Burr
Page 39 and 40: Dianna Yaeger Rankin ’66 Directs
Page 41 and 42: late 1880s, will include the work o
Page 43 and 44: CM Burroughs ’04 Pushcart Prize N
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Page 47 and 48: Sidney Turner says this was an amaz
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Page 53 and 54: Angela Scully: Serving as exec. dir
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Page 57 and 58: Ann Sterling Hart is working lots o
Page 59 and 60: Lea Harvey ’90. Dughter Kathleen
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Heather has reunited with Rebecca C
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are chairing our Reunion Giving com
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