Smoking leads to the death of approximately 440,000 Americans per year. Smoking deaths would be prevented if smoking cessation could be embraced. The Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) updated its guidelines on ...

Rock inhabiting lichens are important pioneer species in the aquatic-terrestial transition zone of lakeshore habitats. To investigate how substrate type, slope and aspect influenced lichen communities, we surveyed the ...

In the past decade, states and postsecondary institutions have implemented a variety of policy measures designed to create a university environment that encourages persistence of undergraduate minority students. The types ...

Today's heavily automated cartographic production calls for the need to ask the question: How does one combine objectivity, empirics, science, and aesthetics into design decisions to create a map product with a distinct ...

The purpose of this research project is to find the constituents and other outside factors that made the 2016 race for the 2nd Congressional District of Minnesota the closest contest in recent memory.

The United States has an aging and unhealthy population, and the world faces a continuous threat of emerging infectious diseases. Given these challenges, it is critical undergraduates continue to pursue careers in health ...

The purpose of this mixed methods study was to investigate international student's pursuit of an associate or undergraduate degree at selected public higher education institutions (HEI's) in the upper Midwest. Through ...