May 23, 2013
My vast (yet slightly limited) knowledge of microbial life has led me to one basic conclusion: Microbes rule, people drool. It is a simple concept of Darwin’s survival of the fittest, and let’s face it — people aren’t the fittest. If our core body temperature moves outside of the normal 97.1-100.0 body range, we are not doing [...]
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Weber State University students from the College of Science’s microbiology department attended the American Society of Microbiology meeting in Pocatello, Idaho, on Saturday. Many students from the department presented undergraduate research through poster presentations to peers and society leaders. Alessia Banning, a senior in microbiology, said presenting research at the meeting has been an eye-opening [...]
Continue reading …To say I had an exciting spring break would be a lie. While most of my friends went off to magical places like San Diego, Mexico or Disneyland, I sat in a laboratory like the nerd that I am. I do take comfort in the fact that the chances of me being the only one [...]
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Robotic hands, coin-flippers and light-up yo-yos are three items not usually found within the same sentence. But for 40 girls, 40 parents and a team of engineers, they are all part of a Saturday spent at Weber State University. These parent-daughter teams worked to build a prosthetic hand, construct a coin-flipper and design a yo-yo [...]
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The undergraduate research series started on Wednesday for all students interested in undergraduate research opportunities at Weber State University. Barbara Trask of the zoology department and Kathryn MacKay of the history department were the first speakers in the seminar series. This student research seminar series is designed to help students become more involved and educated [...]
Continue reading …A line formed as children and parents waited for a session in the Lind Lecture Hall’s Ott Planetarium on Saturday afternoon. The Science Saturday program features showings every 30 minutes of different shows and presenters on space-related science. The science departments at Weber State University host the program, with different activities on the second Saturday [...]
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