MSUM Physics & Astronomy Seminar Series Presents Senior Project Proposals: Introduction to Research Students on Friday, Feb. 26 from 3-3:50 p.m. in Hagen 325. Students in Professor Cabanela’s Introduction to Research class will present their proposals for senior projects. These senior projects will be completed Fall 2016. The student presenters and their project titles are: • Jared Saunders, “Observing How the K-Absorption Edge of a […]
Four MSUM undergraduates (Bioscience majors Vincent Anani, Bennen Bierman, and Gabe Pankonin and Computer Science major Jake Humphrey) submitted a proposal to the IMPACT competition held by the Mayo Clinic earlier this month. The proposal detailed their hypothesis explaining what may be the underlying cause of hypoplastic left heart syndrome (HLHS). Earlier this week, their proposal was named one of eight […]
On Friday, February 19 from 3 – 3:50 p.m. the MSUM Physics & Astronomy Seminar Series presents Senior Project Proposals: Introduction to Research Students Students in Professor Cabanela’s Introduction to Research class will present their proposals for senior projects. These senior projects will be completed Fall 2016. The student presenters and their project titles are: Dana Koczur, “Measuring the Accuracy of […]
Adam Stocker, Biosciences, had a paper published in the peer-reviewed journal eLife titled: “Genetic mechanisms control the linear scaling between related cortical primary and higher order sensory areas.” The published findings reveal a previously unknown relationship between the size of primary sensory areas and higher order areas controlled by gene expression during embryonic development.
On Friday, Feb. 12 from 3-3:50 pm, Dr. Matt Craig, Department of Physics and Astronomy will present images from the New Horizons spacecraft in the MSUM Planetarium. The New Horizons spacecraft continues to send back images from its close encounter last summer with Pluto and its moon Charon. After a quick introduction to the Pluto-Charon system and how it differs from real planets we […]