Steve Lindaas, Physics and Astronomy, attended HI-TEC (High Impact Technology Exchange Conference) held in Denver July 23-26. He attended the pre-workshop “What’s in Your Genes?” on the nano-technology behind DNA microarrays and similar technology. He also presented a touch-screen pedagogical module he developed with Carrie Leopold, NDSCS, that is being adopted by the Southwest Center for Microsystems Education at the […]
Faculty from the Biosciences Department: Shireen Alemadi, Becky Andres, Sara Anderson, Tamara Mans and Alison Wallace were accepted into a yearlong functional genomics residency. The residency kicked off with participation in the 2012 ASM/JGI Functional Genomics Institute: Connecting Bioinformatics-Driven Hypotheses to Wet Lab Projects. The Institute was held June 24 – 28 at Hiram College in Hiram, Ohio.
Dr. Lisa H. Stewart, School Psychology, trained Americorps Minnesota Reading Corps members and their internal coach teacher partners at the St. Paul River Centre August 13-17. This year 1,187 MRC members will provide early literacy and reading research-based interventions to children from age three to 3rd grade in over 600 schools and preschools throughout the state. MRC is the largest […]
Professor Dr. Peter Geib, Management, and Associate Professor Tracy Gompf, JD, Paralegal, recently co-authored an article which was accepted for publication in the fall 2012 issue of the International Journal of China Marketing, “Chinese Legal and Economic Reforms: Reflection of the Economy and Marketing Strategies.”
Steve Lindaas, Physics and Astronomy, attended the summer AAPT (American Association of Physics Teachers) conference in Philadelphia from July 28 to August 1. He attended a workshop on “Using FPGAs in the Digital Lab” and gave an invited talk “Elementary Electronics: From Simple to Sophisticated Circuits” in the session on Labs at Many Levels. As vice-chair of the Committee on […]