Blog 23: Helping 2013

Interview 5

Who did you interview: Jada Hall
What day and time: Thursday, April 26, 2012 Location: Denny's 12:40-13:38

1. What ideas do you have for your senior project and why?

• Her answer: I want it to be on Psychiatry specifically on patients who have Autism. I want it to be my senior project because I always enjoyed watching films of people with Autism and I would love to interact and help them out through the field of Psychiatry. 
• Feedback offered: It's excellent that you have a solid senior topic, the fact that you pin-pointed it to a specific type of Psychiatry and not let it be general is a great idea! The fact that you have been so interested in Psychiatry regardless of how many years of school it would require suggests that you are really interested in the topic and will be able to create a superb product.

2. What do you plan to do to complete the 10 hours of service learning (working with an expert) which is due prior to senior year starting? Note: They also have to complete the 50 hours during the school year.

• Her answer: I haven't started looking for a place on Psychiatry, although I do know that I either want to shadow a Psychiatrist or be able to observe group sessions with people with Autism or other mental disorders. 
• Feedback offered: Make sure to find a place to conduct your service learning as soon as you can, and make sure you have the ability to commute there: either make it near I-Poly or near your home so that it wouldn't be such a hassle. Most importantly, don't give up looking for places because you want to continue to have service learning in a point of interest and not just because you didn't look hard enough. You have a great idea of shadowing one-on-ones and group sessions, although I am not specifically sure if my peers had trouble finding service learning, I know that your interest will allow Psychiatrist to let you into their facility with open arms.

3. What do you hope to see or expect to see when watching the class of 2012 present their two hour presentations?

• Her answer: I have high expectations on the Seniors; they have been working on this project for eight months and I expect it to be engaging, interesting, and not boring! Since the dedication and projects and presentations have been happening for a long time I expect to see a great presentation and most importantly learn from the projects and being able to get little pits and pieces to use on my presentation.
• Suggestions regarding how they should approach watching the 2 hour presentation: I suggest that Jada would try her best on going to senior projects in the fields of Psychiatry, Psychology, and other mental forms of therapy. Keep all of the hand-outs, take mental or actual notes of how they executed their presentation and method of engaging the students and being able to use it on her own.

4. What questions do they have about senior project? What additional recommendations would you give the 2013 student about senior project? Be specific and note what you told them.

• Questions she asked:

1. Do you get half-days off? Yes! The half-days are designed to allow you to take Young Scholars courses which you should take advantage of and use for an independent component since you are eligible. Also, it allows you to go to service learning and be able to complete your hours with an expert in your field.
2. Why do I have to start looking for places to interview at and volunteer right now? Although you can't start anything in this current type except the summer component, it is great to start getting involved in service learning in order to get multiple contacts, have access to resources that will be extremely helpful in your senior project?
3. How many presentations do you have to do? A 5 minute on the reason you want to do your senior project, three 5 minute presentations on your answers for your essential question, a 20 minute presentation with a foundation on your essential question with an activity included, and the beloved 2 hour presentation.
4. If I have more questions can I ask you later? Sure!

• Additional recommendations given:

1. Prepare your summer in managing your time wisely, don't leave anything last minute or procrastinate. You don't want due dates of core-related projects and homework snowballing down on you when you have to also work on senior project.
2. Try your best to complete all the work on time, the Senior Team follow the NC rule and if you are unable to complete a component you will have to do it as soon as possible or suffer from not walking during graduation, going to prom, or Grad Nite.
3. Take your time on projects, work on them little by little each day and you will be able to go above-and-beyond the said expectations in order to get the AE. Don't be the person in class who moans and groans when they are told a due date and have not worked on it! 
4. Don't stress yourself out too much, since senior project is something you chose then you should be so engaging on the topic and be able to have a flawless project. I am sure everyone who has said, "and that concludes my final presentation!" will feel extremely accomplished. Make senior year count!

Blog 17: Fourth Interview Questions

For my fourth interview I plan on interviewing Kristina Killgrove, a biological anthropologists who has expertise in the fields of archaeology, bio-anthropology, and the classical world. Having a doctorate in the field of anthropology will allow me to have a better, more professional aspect towards my senior project.

1. What is the most important factor of a skeletal remain in a criminal investigation?
2. How do you understand the urban development and collapse through the analysis of human remains?
3. What is osteological and biochemical analysis? How do you learn more about the daily lives of individuals by applying these methods?
4. What technology or software facilitates anthropologists when identifying an individual?
5. Why are clear, precise record-keeping skills considered to be important attributes when being tentative to skeletal remain details?
6. How do anthropologists tell apart social and cultural context through skeletal variation?
7. Why are forensic anthropologists so widely used in mass fatality incidents? Can you name examples?
8. How do forensic anthropologists work with other experts in criminal investigations?
9. What are archaeological expertise that a forensic anthropologist utilizes during an investigation?
10. If a significant period of time elapse is between time of burial and time of death, will the remains be damaged?

11. What are the difficulties with aerated grave soil? What can be done to prevent from occurring?
12. How do the rural and suburban areas affect the analytic points of the burial of remains?
13. How can degenerative changes and striations in the bones suggest an elderly individual is the owner?
14. What is the method in order to create a facial reconstruction approximation?
15. What is the importance of photographic superimposition for a forensic anthropologist?
16. How can anthropologists analyze the mechanical forces and disease process in skeletal remains?
17. What are you most proud of as your career as a forensic anthropologist?
18. What method can be used in order to remove soft tissue from the bones without damaging evidence?
19. What kinds of research have you conducted in order to better understand time since death?
20. What happens to the skeletal remains after the criminal investigations come to a conclusion in trials?
21. How much information is initially released to a forensic anthropologists at the beginning of a forensic case?
22. What would you say is the most difficult or intriguing forensic case you have worked on?
23. How does the field of forensic anthropology compare with when you have started and today?
24. Why is the positioning of the remains to necessary to understand or analyse? 

25. How do you differ the trauma presented in the remains are post or ante-mortem to analysize if it was done before or after time of death.
26. How is the time of exposure to the outside environment in which insects and animals may have access to,  affect skeletal remains?

Blog 11: Third Interview Questions

I am planning on interviewing a forensic anthropologist Ms. Wolcott who is a rather helpful alumni of the Forensic Science Academy Club and has a masters degree in Forensic Anthropology from UCLA. As a practicing individual of my field I know that she will be able to give me a lot of helpful input into answering my essential question.

1. What is the most important factor of a skeletal remain in a criminal investigation? Why?
2. How accurate is the skull in determining the sex of an individual?
3. What can cause confusion of human skeletal remains with those of non-human remains? Why?
4. Can the preservation of the bone be used in order to determine the time of death? Why?
5. Why is Carbon-14 not commonly used when determining the age of the skeletal remains?
6. How will the scientific analysis obtained from studying the remains assist a criminal investigation?
7. How can you analysize ancestral background by only using the skull?
8. What is the number one rule to follow when identifying skeletal remains in a criminal investigation? Why?
9. How can the presence of bone deformation or abnormal bone tissue growth effect the analysis that will be obtained?
10. Under what environmental conditions do the skeletal remains get damaged? How so?

Blog 5: Second Interview Questions

I will be interviewing Ashlee Enriquez for my second interview. She is one of the people to get a hold of if you are interested in joining the Forensic Science Academy Club. The only background information I know of Ms. Enriquez is that she was recently in #26 and will be joining the newcomers for assistance.

The five questions that I will be asking Ms. Enriquez include:

1. When was the Forensic Science Academy Club created? Why? 
2. What skills will be acquired by students who take part of the academy? How is it taught? 
3. Why did you join the Forensic Science Academy Club instead of another program? 
4. What forensic opportunities will be acquired upon the completion of the FSAC program? 
5. How will the FSAC benefit someone who is interested working in the criminal justice field?

Blog 2: Interview 1 Preperation

1. Who are you interviewing and why?



I  plan on interviewing Ashlee Enriquez, the current president of the Forensic Science Academy. Ashlee has recently graduated from the FSA with the class #26 who is meeting the required skills necessary to work in the forensic field. Emphasizing on criminal investigation law in the university, Ashlee continues to share her knowledge of forensic anthropology with me. Since Ashlee is the president, she will be able to provide me the necessary guidance and will be able to connect with me instructors, guest speakers, as well as workshop opportunities that I will be able to use for my senior project.


2. What additional questions will you ask them (in addition to the 5 we require).


The additional question that I will ask Ashlee include:

1. What interested you the most in the field of anthropology?
2. What was the most interesting thing you have come across in your field?
3. How high is the demand for practicing anthropologists?
4. What is the most difficult part of this career path?