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Ten years in the making

By Guest PostAugust 9, 2013Education, Sciencebenton award winner, company, cows, cows stomachs, dairy cows, digestion by bacteria, doctoral dissertation, doctoral student, good milk, kaylin young, limin kung jr, madison, management practices, michelle windle, premier agricultural feed, professional career, protein matrix, university of delaware, vita plus

UD alumna Windle sets off on professional journey with feed company

After a decade at the University of Delaware, Michelle Windle is beginning her professional career with Vita Plus, a premier agricultural feed company located in Madison, Wis. And to think that it all began with her knocking on the doors of professors in the Department of Animal and Food Sciences during her junior year as an undergraduate looking for a job.

As fate would have it, Windle ended up knocking on the door of Limin Kung Jr., the S. Hallock du Pont Professor of Animal and Food Sciences, and he offered her some hours in his laboratory. “To tell you the truth, at the time I had bright red dreadlocks. I don’t know what he saw in me, but I’m glad that he did,” said Windle. (more…)

Mini golf as art

By Guest PostAugust 2, 2013Educationames room, art, brainstormed words, chris larson, creation of art, geometric, jordan rosenow, mega golf, mini golf, minnesota artists, sara nichol, sculpture course, walker art center

Students in U of M assistant professor Chris Larson’s sculpture course, “Site, Environment, Community,” probably weren’t expecting mathematics and power tools to play such an important role in their creation of art.

But then, it’s not every class that gets to design and build two holes of mini golf for a world-renowned museum like The Walker Art Center.

This year marks the 25th anniversary of the Walker’s outdoor sculpture garden, and the 6th year the museum has hosted its summer treat, the 15-hole Artist-Designed Mini Golf course. (more…)

SMART scholar

By Guest PostJuly 28, 2013Education, Environmentaccretion, brandon boyd, christopher sommerfield, coastal marshes, department of defense, doctoral work, dod, dredging operations data, drone, factors, lake pontchartrain, lidar, louisiana state university, map making technology, new orleans, oceanography graduate student, plant growth, rising sea level, sediment flow, sedimentation, shore erosion, smart scholar, sophisticated, university of delaware, vicksburg, way of life, wetland research

Oceanography graduate student lands scholarship supporting wetland research

Growing up along Lake Pontchartrain in New Orleans, Brandon Boyd spent a lot of time hunting for waterfowl and fishing for speckled trout in marshes and swamps. There, wetlands are a way of life.

“Ever since I was in high school, I knew I really wanted to do something to help protect wetlands,” said Boyd, a graduate student in oceanography in the School of Marine Science and Policy within the University of Delaware’s College of Earth, Ocean, and Environment. (more…)

‘Life as Research Scientist’: Angel Byrd, Cell Biologist

By BlogArenaJuly 10, 2013Education, Interview, Media, Scienceada wallace, african american, angel byrd, ecm, extracellular matrix, fund, fungal pathogens, good times, immune system cells, life, myron smith, nets, neutrophil extracellular traps, neutrophils, tougaloo college, united negro college, willie jean byrd

For years, Brown University M.D./Ph.D. student Angel Byrd had dedicated herself to studying how immune system cells capture invading fungal pathogens. Like those cells, called neutrophils, she had seized on seemingly every opportunity that had come her way. (more…)

‘Sweet Dreams (Are Made of Chemistry)’

By Guest PostJune 27, 2013Education, Sciencechemistry jock, made of chemistry, original Eurhythmics lyrics, rhyme for ozonolysis, solving retrosynthesis problems, sweet dreams, sweet sorrow

Professor Neil Garg’s students turn organic chemistry reactions into song

When Eurythmics recorded their hit song “Sweet Dreams (Are Made of This)” in 1983, they somehow neglected to include chemical equations. Thirty years later, UCLA undergraduates Jessica Lee, Emily Chuang and Christine Nguyen have corrected the omission.
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At home in her environment

By Guest PostJune 20, 2013Educationcitizen member, hometown bubble, kate knuth, outdoors in minnesota, world class university

Kate Knuth blends a love of the outdoors with a life of public service

When Kate Knuth proclaims that she loves Minnesota and is dedicated to living and working here, you can hardly accuse her of living in a hometown bubble. (more…)

UCLA’s undergraduate researchers: ‘We’re going to have an impact on the future’

By Guest PostJune 14, 2013Education, Scienceafrican american studies, amy stuyvesant, arthritis, australia, bouts of depression, change, chronic condition, diabetes, disability, England, fibromyalgia, financial assistance, forest, future, green vegetation, health issues, hurricane activity, influx, invisible disabilities, los angeles, mental illnesses, microbial communities, patricia turner, paul von blum, post concussion syndrome, puerto rican forests, puerto rico, serena lee, skype, ucla, undergraduate researchers, undergraduate scholars program, wasserman, wasserman program

Serena Lee aspires to increase our understanding of people living with “invisible disabilities.” Amy Stuyvesant wants to figure out how changes in hurricane activity are helping or hindering the forests of Puerto Rico.

Although their subjects of their research are unrelated, these two graduating seniors share a key distinction. Thanks to the Wasserman Undergraduate Scholars Program, they are pursuing high-level research that they expect to have an impact far beyond UCLA. (more…)

A truly global course

By Guest PostJune 5, 2013Educationafghanistan, australia, basic knowledge, california, class environment, food, food systems, global course, global life cycle, jason hill, kimberley mullins, mcknight land grant, minnesota, mooc platform, moocs, perspective, population, powerpoint slides, student in zimbabwe, sustainability, university of minnesota, world

Sixteen years ago, Jason Hill stood before some 30 students in one of his first classes as a teaching assistant at the University of Minnesota. This June, more than 14,000 students will log on to take his course, Sustainability of Food Systems: A Global Life Cycle Perspective.

Hill’s class is among the first five massive open online courses (MOOCs) the U of M is offering (for free) through a partnership with Coursera, a leading MOOC platform. (more…)

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