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...Quite the contrary. According to a new Mason-Dixon poll released on May 31, more than half of the population who live within 50 miles of the coast do not believe they are vulnerable to hurricanes, tornados or flooding. Of the 1,100 adults polled, 52% said they have no family disaster plan, nearly a third have no hurricane survival kit and nearly 90% said they have done nothing to make their homes stronger. Nearly half of those with insurance polices have not reviewed them within the last year; 47% of policy owners said that they are not covered...
Amanda R. Mason ’09, a facilitator for Life Sciences 1b, “An Integrated Introduction to the Life Sciences: Genetics, Genomics, and Evolution,” says she participated in role-playing scenarios designed to teach mentoring skills at these initial sessions...
...semester proceeds, teaching assistants continue to receive guidance from higher-ranking instructors. “After that,” Mason says, “facilitators continue to have bimonthly meetings with course heads throughout the semester and have discussions such as on how to best teach concepts that may be especially difficult...
...Mason calls her interaction with students as a life sciences facilitator “almost like having a personal tutor provided by the course for free...
...though she is not enamored with rising for 10 a.m. lectures, Mason says that her work as a facilitator gives her a chance to review material that she missed during her first time through the class as a student...