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Make water your number one beverage of choice. Staying hydrated without sugar or caffeine will increase energy and keep unwanted pounds away. Don't skip breakfast. Always eat a nutritious morning meal that includes fresh fruit, protein and whole grain. You will last longer while on the run and actually eat less by the end of the day. Always carry a banana or nourishing hi-protein bar in your purse for a quick pick me up any time of day.
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Always get plenty of sleep and nap if you can. Even a 20 minute power nap after lunch can extend your productivity for hours at the end of the day. Try to get to bed as far before midnight as you can since those hours are often considered the best sleep time. Make time for a relaxing bath whenever possible since even a few minutes spent alone can recharge your depleted batteries and lift your mood.
Surround yourself with great smells. Our noses can have an effect on how we feel, so always keep a scented candle handy or bake something wonderful with cinnamon for a fast mood elevator and a ready smile. Some peppermint will help energize you while lavender will have a calming touch. You can also carry a tiny vial of essential oils in your preferred scent for an instant feel good sniff no matter where you happen to be. Even if you are tired inhaling a favorite fragrance can reawaken you and keep you going for that extra hour or two. Happy, healthy moms are good for everyone.
Now no one said being a mom is easy, on the contrary, I think it's one of the tougher jobs out there. It's being on call 24 hours a day, so I understand that it's often hard finding time to yourself. But remember, taking care of your health will help you be a better mother to your kids. You will have more energy and feel better all around and able to better enjoy your time with them.


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Whenever I look at an estimation equation like this:
from this paper, I wonder what's in that dangling epsilon term. In this equation we have Y's on the left hand side. And I think to myself, "what kinds of things produce Y's (or changes in Y's)". Now, Y is GDP and from my intro macro class I remember things like K's and L's produce Y's. So given there's no L's and K's in the equation, they must be in the dangling epsilon.
Changes in labor and capital are in the error term, but this is only a problem if changes in these factors of production are correlated with the other variables on the right hand side that aren't in the error term.
It seems to me changes in labor and capital are correlated with changes in government expenditures (and military expenditures in particular… after all, the military is the worlds biggest employer). So while this paper claims to show the effect of military expenditures on output, it really shows that military expenditures create jobs and attract capital (they have an IV but as far as I can tell it doesn't address this issue).
But can we salvage the overall message of the paper? Isn't creating jobs and attracting capital exactly what we're trying to do with fiscal stimulus? Yes, but not if it means that labor and capital is coming from other States. GDP is increasing in the States that have more military expenditures but is necessarily decreasing in the States that are losing workers and capital. Because these two effects cancel each other out, the "true" fiscal multiplier is less than the 1.5 estimated by this paper.
As I, fingers crossed, wind down my graduate work in economics, I am looking for new hobbies. I was thinking about getting back into baseball. I loved baseball when I was a kid and now, thanks to Moneyball and Baseball Prospectus, there is a "scientific" sub-culture where I would fit nicely. Plus, I'd finally have a reason to get cable.
Or maybe the stock market. Lots of easily accessible data. Check. Interesting theory. Check. Lots of amateurish dabbling. Double check. The only problem is I can't get excited about trading stocks. The data crunching has moved analysis so far away from the fundamentals that unless you think winning at zero-sum games is fun it's hard to maintain excitement about it. I'll probably dabble.
Then there's social psychology. There's some data and amateurs abound. Methodologically, the field is familiar to economists but they have done what economists are only starting to do; they've dropped the assumption of context independent behavior. The field is young enough that it still has a multi-disciplinary feel and every new finding seems revolutionary. Will Wilkinson is teaching an introductory course in it at his new blog (partial syllabus here). I've signed up.
In a paper on the "selection" of Mexican immigrants where we find that Mexican immigrants to the US are about the same as non-migrant Mexicans in terms of observable skills like education and age but, as it turns out, they have lower unobserved skills:
It may be the case that because many border crossings occur without documentation, there may be selection on certain unobserved characteristics (e.g. risk-taking, underestimating dangers, low respect for authority) that may have a negative correlation with productivity.
Man, I feel like running down the street with a black bandanna covering my face, breaking windows and burning cars!
My google-fu failed me on this one, so for the next person googling "stupid fast library for solving a system of equations in R such that the trade off between speed and 'robustness' is way on the speed side", you're welcome.
I'm on the final leg of my dissertation and I have some code that loops through a discreet state-space with about 300k points. Each of these iterations requires a two-equation non-linear system to be solved. Because all of this is contained in a loop that is (supposed to be) converging on a pair of value functions, its not super critical that the solutions to this system are "correct" every time. I want speed, baby.
Here's the R libraries I tried:
I was kind of excited about particle swarm optimization but it was waaaaaay slow (at least with the default settings). The best was optim (available with the R core installation) using the quadratic trick. The quadratic trick is just defining all your functions in the system with the right hand side equal to zero and then having the algorithm minimize the sum of squares of those equations. Interestingly the nleqslv library, which is built for solving "medium-sized" systems, did almost as well on average but had had a much better variance. I'm not sure if this is because nleqslv gives up earlier or if it does a better job staying out of pathological parts of the parameter space relative to optim.
Anyway, there you go. If you find your self solving a small system of equations lots and lots of times over and over again, optim should do the trick for you in terms of speed.
PS – R seems to be the wrong environment for this task. Fortran code that does a very similar thing runs about 10 times faster.
I'm watching the re-re-renewed debate about academic bias against conservatives with a little more skin in the game this time around. Two facts about me: for some strange reason I'm considered conservative by my academic friends, especially by non-economists, and I have decided to take a job outside of academics. So clearly there's bias in the academy! (Where do I pick up my check.)
Megan McArdle has a great post up where she makes the standard analogy between racial and political bias and she points out that, in true fashion for partisans, the table and arguments used have done a 180. Conservatives are arguing against subtle biases inherent in the the system and liberals are calling the game because there's no explicit rules against hiring conservatives in the academy or they are otherwise blaming the out-group.
The analogy may be apt but you would be upset with me if I said so and I also said, "who cares"! So, I'll do just that. The academy and places of employment, say, are free associations of individual people. If these places want to exclude interesting people because of arbitrary differences, then its their loss. In the long-run Beckerian forces prevail and the non-discriminating universities and firms win.
Well, except, I care. The long-run could be a very long time! Life consists of the transitions between steady states. Without a model of how fast those transitions are and, importantly, what shapes they take, analyses of the properties of steady states is next to useless. I want to help progress along a little even to just make it visible within my lifetime. I'm selfish like that.
But there are also standard externality arguments. The academy produces non-rival and non-excludable ideas that are used to produce innovations that drive economic growth. By excluding conservatives, the academy makes the idea generating process less efficient and we all lose out. We need to subsidize Rush!
What's upsetting about these reasons to care about discrimination is that they don't apply to racial discrimination or other types of discrimination that I care about much more than bias in the academy. First, I'm not creative enough to make the externality argument for blacks or women. Why does discrimination against them harm me, a white male?
Second: of course the long-run is undetermined with regards to racial discrimination too, but it is not clear that the long-run transition to equality is being driven by the dynamics of discrimination. While there's significant evidence that anti-discrimination laws had an effect on closing wage gaps, there's much less certainty about the size of that effect. One estimate has the black-white male wage gap in the South BEFORE the CRA halving every generation or so. The CRA sped up this transition, but only in the South and only for a decade or so. The half-life reduced to about one half a generation in the decade or so after the CRA but there has been no improvement in the black-white southern male wage gap since. This sweeping legislation appears to have had minimal long-run effects, at least with regards to wage gaps. (PS – these stats are from memory, look up the . Donahue and Heckman paper if you don't believe me)
One option, at this point, is to throw up my arms and to insist discrimination is no big deal. It will fix itself in the long-run and there doesn't appear to be anything that we can do to speed up the transition to that long-run. But there's a larger argument about externalities, ones at the foundational level of institutions and the structure of rules.
Tyler Cowen linked to a new paper from Buchanan that points out that the "rules of the game" are endogenous, they are not given, and more importantly non-rival and non-excludable. There is a "market" failure in the production of rules. The rules of the game are inefficiently produced; there is some marginal change to the set of rules that could make everyone better off and there needs to be some meta process that ensures these Pareto improvements can be made (Buchanan cites Coasean political entrepreneurs). The argument against discrimination: if the rules of the game are arbitrarily deficient for some large group of people then its possible they could evolve to be arbitrarily deficient for a group of people that I belong to. I have interest in making sure there exists a process that removes these sorts of deficiencies.
Milton Friedman's complaints about rent control and the minimum wage are cliche. These programs hurt the people they're intended to help. Unintended negative consequences are the first things I look for when I think about a policy intended to help the poor. I just took their existence as an empirical fact.
But I never really thought about the structure of these unintended consequences. So I second Karl Smith's recommendation to read Beaulier and Caplan's paper on the subject.
Poverty policy might hurt the poor because:
The point of the paper is to show that the third possibility is untenable in the neoclassical framework (where expanding a person's choice set can only make them better off) but it becomes tenable if results from behavioral economics are taken seriously. Plus, deviations from rational expectations may be especially pronounced among the poor.
… and I'm boring. There's no traces of Indian in me (a now debunked family story) and the white in me isn't that interesting either:
This chart was produced using EURO-DNA-CALC (h/t Volokh). I'm 1/4 Italian-Swiss (hence the name) and the rest Anglo-French mix so the tool did a pretty good job pin-pointing my genetic origins.
Next, I think, I'll do this. I have no clue why one would want to phase one's genes but, you know, "because it's there".
UPDATE: Here's one reason why you'd want to phase your genome… Did mom or dad give you your Neanderthal genes?
(PS – NBER has some good working papers out this week… stuff by Hall on the "Long Slump" and Chetty on micro/macro elasticities and then there's this look at poverty over the business cycle.)


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It was a lot of fun talking at Steam Developer Days; the whole event was a blast, the virtual reality talks drew a large, enthusiastic crowd, and everyone I talked to had good questions and observations. Here are the slides from my talk, in PDF form. They include the text of the talk as the per-slide notes; I don't ad-lib when I give talks, so the notes match what I said almost exactly.
Here are some of my previous posts that discuss points from the talk in more detail.
- Resolution
- Latency
- Global and rolling display
- Smearing and other artifacts of eye motion relative to the display: this, this, and this
You may also find the slides from my Game Developers Conference talk in 2013 to be useful.
Joe Ludwig's slides from his talk about Steam VR are here, and related links can be found here, here, and here
As I said at the end of my talk, I look forward to continuing the conversation with you in the comments!
Videos of Steam Dev Day talks are now posted here. There are four talks about VR: mine, Joe Ludwig's, Palmer Luckey's, and one by the Owlchemy guys.


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Favourite Fiorente has delivered Australia's queen of the turf, Gai Waterhouse, her first Melbourne Cup victory.
The horse, ridden by Damien Oliver, won from Red Cadeaux in second and Mount Athos in third.
Waterhouse was full of praise for Oliver, who added a third Cup to his collection.
"Didn't he ride him a treat? Honestly and truly," she said.
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"It's a race that stops the nation. Isn't it nice to have a favourite that can do that?"
The 24-horse field was one of the strongest in recent memory.
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As residents of the West End gathered this week to celebrate Human Rights Day, a spirit of defiance was in the air. Even though members of the Alexandria City Council have already approved the controversial Beauregard small-area plan, residents here are hoping that elected officials will hold off on rezoning the land until safeguards can be put into place to ensure low-income residents aren't displaced by redevelopment.
"We're frustrated and angry about what's going on," said Hector Pineda, president of the Beauregard Tenants Association. "And we're still in this fight."
Residents are calling on city leaders and JBG Companies to roll back rents to 2010 rates and freeze them in place, which would prevent low-income residents from being priced out of Alexandria. They're also asking that city leaders increase the number of dedicated affordable housing units from 800 to 2,473 — the number of existing market rate units that will be demolished under the current plan. The day after the protest, JBG flatly rejected those requests.
"That is completely impractical if we are to continue to maintain this property to satisfy resident needs and meet city of Alexandria standards," said Charles Maier, spokesman for the JBG Companies. "Most residents living in Mark Center know and understand that."
THE DEBATE ABOUT what should happen on the West End was at the center of the recent City Council election, and the issue was raised at every candidates forum. The vote on the small-area plan happened during the heat of the Democratic primary, and one candidates forum at Cora Kelly Elementary School featured a heated exchange between audience members who were opposed to the plan and candidates who supported it. A political action committee known as Democrats for a Better Alexandria selected candidates who were willing to speak out against the plan.
"In many ways, this is an even worse plan than the waterfront plan," the group said in a written statement announcing its slate of endorsements. "We believe that any candidate who says he or she supports diversity and affordable housing and does not speak out against the Beauregard plan is not credible."
With one exception, Allison Silberberg, all the candidates that opposed the plan lost the election — providing supporters with a mandate for action when zoning is on the agenda this spring. Supporters say it creates a historic number of dedicated affordable-housing units — more than have every been created for any single plan in the history of Alexandria But opponents say that's not enough. They would like to see a one-for-one ratio of replacement, ensuring that the janitors, cooks and taxi drivers who live in the low-income garden apartments won't have to leave Alexandria.
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"This is one of the most significant transit-oriented smart growth plans the city has ever done," said then-Councilman Rob Krupicka shortly before casting a vote in favor of the proposal.
If the zoning is approved, the plan will more than double the density of what's there now — increasing the area from a low-slung 6 million square feet of existing development to 12.4 million square feet of new development. Upzoning the properties will significantly increase the value of the land, benefiting the land owners and developers. In exchange, city officials are getting $154 million to build a new fire station, pay for transit infrastructure and create dedicated affordable housing units.
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In shedding tears or wrestling down my grief?Tren-Lament 1
Kochanowski wrote his Treny (Laments) as a way of coming to
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Valentin Silvestrov's wife, and Bruce Adams, my oldest friend in Las Vegas.
Treny-Laments are dedicated to their memory. By the time the three versions
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only completed in 2002. The first performance of Treny-Laments II was given by
bassoonist Janis McKay at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas.
"...a trois" is a fragment. In 1968 the Ukrainian composer
Boris Lyatoshynsky died. I wanted to write a small piece to honor him and at
the same time honor one of his pupils and my dear friend, Valentin Silvestrov,
who turned 60 in 1997, the year this piece was written. "...a trois" is the result.
At the same time I was working on my Symphony No. 1, Sacred Monuments, and the fourth
movement was to be a musical portrait of Lyatoshynsky. "...a trois" became a
study for that movement, an independent piece that was also soon to be
integrated into the much larger symphonic structure. "...a trois" begins near
the end of some imaginary piece, perhaps a trio sonata, and most likely a very
dramatic and turbulent one that has been going on for some time. We only catch
a fragment of it the final 8 minutes. What we hear is the last reflection on
a work that no longer exists and is not capable of being completely
deciphered. This is the domain of the coda a specialty of Valentin
Silvestrov. The melodic material is made up of melismas that I now love and
whose stylistic and emotional content seem to share with those of certain
traits of Lyatoshynsky: a certain nostalgia for unrealized events, imagined
journeys and wishes grounded in both tonal longings and sequences. The
little motive that the piano reiterates throughout the piece many times,
beginning with measure 6, acts as a Proustian madeleine, triggering a chain of
associations. At the very end, the oboe and bassoon play a melody that I
composed when I was 13 years old, the only fragment left of a terribly inept
beginning of trying to write a symphony (!).
The older I become the more I become convinced that music is
too polymorphously perverse to ever reach the stable ultimate urtext state of
the final ideal version (smacks too much of the preordained solution). I
believe that a work can exist in a number of different versions, assume
different characteristics, accents and still tell the same basic tale, but
from a different perspective (the Rashomon effect). This not only can happen
within one composer's ouvre, but even among a group of composers (think of
Paganini's Caprice No. 24). To a large extent, all the works on this CD share
the material with other works not on the CD; they belong to a family of works,
some closely related and others more like distant cousins. The first three
Songs Without Words began as a transcription of songs from my Emily Dickinson
Songbook, Book 1. The poetry of Emily Dickinson has become increasingly
important to me over the years. I am particularly struck by their tonal
intricacies and complex juxtaposition of opposed or perhaps even irreconcilable
feelings. I strongly believed that many of the songs would make equally strong
instrumental pieces. These instrumental transcriptions follow the original
songs quite faithfully. After completing the first 3, I then began to add to
the list with transcriptions of other songs as well as completely original
instrumental songs. All together there are now eight such pieces composed for a
variety of instruments: flute, clarinet, bassoon, horn, trombone, violin,
viola, cello and the list will continue to grow. For bassoon I've selected a
suite of five. The first three Songs Without Words that are transcriptions of the Dickinson settings have the following words:
Love can do all but raise the Dead
I doubt if even that
From such a giant were withheld
Were flesh equivalent
But love is tired and must sleep,
And hungry and must graze
And so abets the shining Fleet
Till it is out of gaze.
Oh honey of an hour,
I never knew thy power,
Prohibit me
Till my minutest dower,
My unfrequented flower,
Deserving be.
There is a solitude of space
A solitude of sea
A solitude of death, but these
Society shall be
Compared with that profounder site
That polar privacy
A soul admitted to itself -
Finite infinity.
4. L'Allegro is about an imaginary
"wake." Its source is the coda in the "Hour of the Wolf" movement from my
composition Dreamtime. The actual title, of course, is borrowed from John
Milton's poem L'Allegro. The actual quote cited in the heading of the music is
from the poem:
Hence, loathed Melancholy...
Mirth with thee, I mean to live.
I composed this transcription originally for bassoon, but
have also made a version for horn and trombone.
5. Der Abschied In Memoriam was
composed in memory of the wonderful Ukrainian composer Valentin Bibik, who died
from a brain tumor. He was a very good friend of mine and I miss him. Near the
end, the bassoon quotes a lovely series of melodic melismas from a piece for
strings by Bibik. His music had both emotional direction and technical
Most of the material in this Partita was also used in my
large scale septet Dreamtime, completed in 1996. The revisions, which were
ongoing, consisted mainly in reducing the number of movements from seven to six
and completely rewriting the Tango section. The original version was written
for the bassoon and piano duo of Yoshi and Brenda Ishikawa and was commissioned
by Dr. Robert Meger. The dedication remains the same with gratitude.
The work is made up of 3 diptychs. The diptychs are sort of
musical panels that act as mirrors of each other. The Intrada is for bassoon
solo and is linked at the hip to Scherzo I: Kozak Mamai.
1. Intrada is a fierce piece or rather a
fierce dance (all the pieces are in reality dances, think of the title Partita,
of what it means in the cultural history of Western music; even the balladic
Duma is a pas de deux). The intervalic lexicon is D-Eb-F#-G-A-Bb-C#-(D). In
other words, near-Eastern. But also, Carpathian (Western Ukraine). It
suggests the mountains, the solo dance, the circular motions on a limited
space; wild gestures, linked to danger, because all around the dancer is a
precipice. 2. Scherzo I: Kozak Mamai is a duet the piano more lyrical, the
bassoon more coquettish, turning the fierceness into something more forgiving,
less intense, more jocular (the piano here quotes a Ukrainian folk song). But
the piano cannot tame it in the end it joins in the dance, tripping into the
dangerous mood dominating the diptych. Kozak Mamai is a Ukranian folk-hero, one
of the most popular characters in Ukrainian folk art, and usually depicted as a
troubadour. He was also a sorcerer, a poet, a pied-piper, a seducer and a bit
of a charlatan not unlike Till Eulenspiegel or Háry János.
3. Aria: Tears and 4. Scherzo II: West Wind
(Feux follets) make the second diptych. The Aria intones the death bells
(knells) of extreme unction, made immortal by Chopin's funeral march from his
second piano sonata. The interval of a minor second was a common sound in the
hospitals of the 19th century Catholic countries. This is a pas de deux of
death. West Wind grows out of the Aria, exploring further the closely related
bell tones. 5. Duma: Variations and 6. Tango is the third diptych, but now the
image of one distorts the other. Duma is the longest and the principal
emotional center of the work. The piano is turned into a sort of urban
lute/bandura. It is in seven free form verses, each verse introduced by a new
pitch-drone. They are minor thirds built on the following succession of tones
(D-F-G-Bb-C#-Eb-E). In a sense, Duma is related (mirror-like) to Intrada:
Intrada was solo, aggressive, full of confidence, risking everything; Duma is
an accompanied solo; but the solo pays no attention to the accompanist, as if
deaf and blind, groping, only being aggressive in its persistence of trying to
recollect a memory of events long gone. Tango, from my first exposure to it as
a very young boy, suggested to me something extraordinarily erotic. It also
suggested something fleeting, a chance meeting, a forbidden zone: close
embrace, chests together, legs invading each other's space It soon became a
metaphor for exquisite temptation, the kind that St. Anthony must have
experienced: bodily ecstasy masquerading as a spiritual awakening. The dance
is a vertical sexual act no question about it, but so highly formalized that
the partners can pretend it is otherwise. As its melodic basic, the Tango
parodies the tune-tango "Hutsulka Ksenia" [The Hutsul-girl Ksenia], popular in
Western Ukraine in the 20s and 30s.
"I have thoroughly enjoyed exploring the emotional depths
of Virko Baley's pieces on this CD. The vivid characters he creates, and the
great passions he injects are unrivaled in the existing bassoon repertoire,
contributing a riveting body of works for bassoonists and listeners alike, from
the powerful and large Partita No. 2 (Dreamtime Suite No. 3), the emotionally
riveting Treny-Laments II, the colorful "...a trois", to the lyrical and varied
Songs Without Words." Kristin Wolfe Jensen
[1] Treny-Laments II (1996) for bassoon solo 14:13
Kristin Wolfe Jensen, bassoon
[2] "...a trois" for oboe, bassoon and piano (1997)
Rebecca Henderson, oboe
Virko Baley, piano
Five Songs Without Words (1993-2003)
[3] 1. Love can do all but raise the Dead 2:41
[4] 2. Oh honey of an hour 1:04
[5] 3. There is a solitude of space 4:33
[6] 4. L'Allegro 1:47
[7] 5. Der Abschied - In Memoriam 8:53
Michelle Schumann, piano
Partita No. 2 for bassoon and piano (1991-92, rev. 2003) (Dreamtime
Suite No. 3)
[8] 1. Intrada 4:20
[9] 2. Scherzo I: Kozak Mamai 2:03
[10] 3. Aria: Tears 3:54
[11] 4. Scherzo II: West Wind (Feux follets) 2:22
[12] 5. Duma: Variations 7:11
[13] 6. Tango 5:11
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We got off to a bad start with the Duettas. Ricardo Franassovici, of UK importer Absolute Sounds, thoughtfully decided to help me unpack and set them up, but on doing so discovered that the screws for mounting the rear of the baseplate were missing. impatient to hear what they sounded like, he stood them up on their vestigial fixed stands, and the inevitable happened: one of them keeled over, taking a bite out of a windowsill and doing some internal damage to the frame of the speaker in the process. They nevertheless continued to work.
That was the only snag, however, and the Duettas have subsequently proceeded to charm everyone who's heard them, with the single exception of the Man Who Doesn't Like Loudspeakers (Keith Howard, editor of Hi-Fi Answers).
I think I understand why he doesn't like them, but it does nothing to diminish my admiration for a loudspeaker which, how ever uncomfortable it can feel at times, is the single most extraordinarily lucid and colorful transducer I have ever heard, with the possible exception of the Koetsu Rosewood Signature (which also has a telephone number instead of a price tag).
The bass end, despite being slightly OTT, has real depth and power combined with pitch, bounce, and an unmistakably tactile quality. Bass instruments have an unbounded, in-the-room quality that for once makes sense of that old cliche about reaching out and touching the instrument. At times, that's almost exactly how it was. The speaker has near-perfect integration and uniformity from the lowest to the highest notes, and a wonderfully vivid sense of tonal color and instrumental separation.
But they stretched my Krell KSA-50 up to and frequently beyond its limits. It took an all-too-brief spell with a new KSA-100 (and a prototype 300-watt class-A monster from Musical Fidelity I'll tell you more about in the future) to show that it was the amplifier, not the loudspeakers, putting the lid on that final 10%.
All this makes the Duetta a very expensive animal in more senses than one. Right now, though, it is my sincere desire to be marooned on a desert island with a pair of these for company (footnote 1).—Alvin Gold
Footnote 1: Though I have no desire to be marooned on a desert island, I have to concur in AG's assessment of the potential wonders of the Duetta. I was privileged to hear an a recent demonstration of them at Audio Vision in Arlington, MA. The problems that J. Gordon Holt and I heard at Apogee's CES room in the summer of 1985 were totally absent, and the remarkable coherence that I've heard from every Apogee speaker was quite stunning. I can't say whether they'll pass JGH's "raise the hackles" test, but most listeners will find them wonderful to listen to—but only with absolutely the best source material and drive electronics.—Larry Archibald


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Visitors to Laurel Woods Elementary School have noticed something different as they prepared to enter the front door — they needed permission.
The North Laurel school was one of many Howard County elementary schools to have a new buzzer system installed during the summer. Visitors must push a buzzer at the front door and identify themselves before being allowed into the building, and then must sign in at the front office before proceeding farther. Office staff monitor 16 camera feeds, including one above the main entrance so they can see who is buzzing in.
It's a security measure recommended by the Joint Task Force on School Safety established days after the elementary school shooting in Newtown, Conn., that left more than two dozen dead and shocked educational institutions across the country.
"It's not that people aren't welcome; it's just that there has to be accountability for knowing who is in the building at any given time," said Laurel Woods Principal Susan Brown. "Everyone gets it. Parents want to know that their children are safe in our school. We have a huge responsibility to keep every child in this building safe."
Buzzer systems have become a common sight at many of the 41 county elementary schools. New schools are built with the buzzer systems and double-door vestibules that direct visitors directly into the front office, and older schools that have gone through renovations now have those safety features as well. Last year, 21 elementary schools were without buzzer systems, but now most of the elementary schools have the system used at North Laurel.
Ken Roey, the school system's chief facilities officer, said the 13 elementary schools still without a buzzer system will have them within two months.
All Anne Arundel County Public Schools (even high schools) have buzzer systems in place, and all visitors upon signing in are asked to present identification and are checked against names in a sex offender registry.
In Prince George's County, Laurel-area schools that have buzzer systems include Laurel and Eleanor Roosevelt high schools and Dwight D. Eisenhower and Martin Luther King Jr. middle schools.
Quon Wilson, a PGCPS spokeswoman, said there are 17 other schools in various stages of the buzzer system installation process, and by the end of the school year, all county schools will have buzzer systems.
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Principal Susan Brown said security protocols at Laurel Woods always included signing into the front office, but "there were times we had to jump out of our seat and bring people who walked by back to sign in.
"Now, it's no different than if you're at the airport," she said. "The building is not closed off — you just have to go through a checkpoint and once you're in, you're fine and everything's normal. Everything's the same. Parents want to walk their kids into their classrooms, and that's great, they can still do that. We just have them sign in first."
Seeing the buzzer system installed at Laurel Woods was cause for excitement and relief, said kindergarten team leader Stephanie Geddie.
"My children's school in Anne Arundel County has the buzzer, and it gives me a great sense of a security," she said. "Now, being in an environment where we have access to that for our students, I love it. I feel much more secure in the building."
The buzzer systems were the first, most immediate step the Howard County Public School System took to implement the safety task force's recommendations. After the elementary schools are outfitted with buzzer systems, middle schools will be next. Currently, three of the county's 19 middle schools have buzzer systems.
The work, however, doesn't stop there, Roey said. Next summer, the county will construct partitions to further secure the open pod classrooms common in schools built between six and 25 years ago, Roey said.
"We're going back into those schools and, while we're not partitioning every wall, we'll have enough secured areas so we can get the kids into a lockdown situation that works," he said.
During some renovations and additions, the main office has been reconfigured to be in front of the building, Roey said. That was the case at Thunder Hill Elementary in 2012, and Laurel Woods is getting a new vestibule next summer as part of a renovation and addition. It's more complicated, Roey said, when a school has its main office in the center of the building, or even on the second floor as Burleigh Manor and Patuxent Valley middle schools do. In those cases, he said, "we have to live with" a buzzer system and vigilantly monitored camera feeds until major renovations come due.
The work to keep school buildings safe is never really done, but rather, evolves, Roey said.
"Ten years ago we were never worried about this," he said "Now it's mandatory that with every renovation, we think of features to improve safety. As threats evolve and we come up with different ideas to prevent those threats, things will change."
While there are no plans to install buzzer systems at the 12 Howard County high schools, those schools have their own security measures in place. Each high school has an armed school resource officer, and three SROs split time among six middle schools: Wilde Lake, Harper's Choice, Oakland Mills, Lake Elkhorn, Patuxent Valley and Mayfield Woods.


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Mr. Speaker, Venant Cauchy, a great Quebecker, a man of the world, an internationally renowned philosopher and an apostle of Quebec sovereignty, died last week at the venerable age of 83.
For many years, we were privileged to be part of his entourage, and to benefit from his friendship, his teachings and his wisdom.
Even when he knew his days were numbered, he kept thinking of the country of which he had always dreamed. I would like to read the last thing he wrote in Laval on March 8: "We would like to extend a cordial invitation to you to be part of Quebec's society, which welcomes all communities that are open to our country. May you find it to be a society that lives and breathes freedom and education. Long live a free Quebec!"
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BRIN BRIN http://brin.usd.edu/chemistry/-/blogs/rss 2020-02-27T12:07:26Z 2020-02-27T12:07:26Z NIH Training Funding Opportunities Workshop at Augustana University Luci Drapeau http://brin.usd.edu/chemistry/-/blogs/nih-training-funding-opportunities-workshop-at-augustana-university 2020-01-13T22:22:30Z 2020-01-13T21:55:00Z
Sioux Falls, SD - Join NIGMS and NHGRI staff for a workshop on NIH NIGMS and NHGRI Training Funding Opportunities at Augustana University on Tuesday, August 4, 2020 from 8:00am-3:30pm. This workshop will be of interest to faculty who are engaged in student research training. Funding opportunities for community colleges, and bachelor's, master's, and Ph.D. degree awarding institutions will be discussed. Program officers from the National Institute of General Medical Sciences and the National Human Genome Research Institute will cover:

Overview of NIH

Research training, career development programs and other funding opportunities
 Determining which programs to apply for
 Before you start writing: Things to consider / FOA
 Writing and submitting the application / Budgets
 Peer review / ASSIST
 Training tables
 After the award: RPPR / Budget management

This workshop is hosted in partnership with Augustana University and the South Dakota Biomedical Research Infrastructure Network (SD BRIN), an IDeA Networks of Biomedical Research Excellence program.

For more information on the workshop and to register, click here.

If you would like a workshop poster, click here.

If you have questions about this workshop at Augustana University, please contact Dr. Cecelia Miles at email@example.com.

 Luci Drapeau 2020-01-13T21:55:00Z Proteomics Core Facility Staff Visit South America Luci Drapeau http://brin.usd.edu/chemistry/-/blogs/proteomics-core-facility-visits-south-america 2019-12-17T21:23:37Z 2019-12-17T20:29:00Z
South America - The Proteomics Core Facility (PCF) staff, Dr. Eduardo Callegari and Maria Daniela Paez, B.S., were invited to teach two international Proteomics courses ("Proteomics techniques: applications and bioinformatics analysis of data" and "Proteomics analysis and potential applications" respectively) for masters and Ph.D. students as well as faculty and other professionals at two universities in South America. Each course was a great success according to the feedback and surveys provided by the attendees which had more than 30 students in each course. The topics covered were not only related with concepts in Proteomics and Bioinformatics tools, but also extended to experimental design, protocols, data generation, and handling, analysis and statistics, organization, visualization, as well as consulting and advice in preparation for either peer-reviewed journals and/or grant applications. The travel was sponsored by an international grant related to Bioremediation, National Scientific and Technology Council Research from Argentina (Dr. Callegari is Co-PI responsible for the international part) and SD BRIN. The PCF staff has taught six international Proteomics courses outside of the USA over the last 10 years.

 Luci Drapeau 2019-12-17T20:29:00Z 2019 Undergraduate Research Symposium Luci Drapeau http://brin.usd.edu/chemistry/-/blogs/2019-undergraduate-research-symposium 2019-07-25T18:43:59Z 2019-05-21T20:57:00Z
Sioux Falls, SD - You are invited to attend the 2019 Undergraduate Research Symposium in Sioux Falls, SD on July 29 - 30, 2019 at the Ramkota Hotel. The symposium brings together undergraduate students involved in the NSF EPSCoR RII Track-1 project, the South Dakota Biomedical Research Infrastructure Network (SD BRIN) and the other Research Experiences for Undergraduates programs in South Dakota. This annual event provides students the experience of participating in a real scientific meeting that includes a poster session, professional development and numerous opportunities for networking. The symposium also promotes South Dakota's graduate programs and STEM employment opportunities.

To see the symposium agenda, CLICK HERE.

Important Deadlines:

Exhibitor Registration May 20 (Registration Opens) - July 23 (Registration Closes)

Participant Registration May 20 (Registration Opens) - July 23 (Registration Closes)

Poster Registration May 20 (Registartion Opens) - July 23 (Registration Closes)

 **Tuesday, July 30 Poster Sessions note: Poster boards can accomodate posters that are 48x36 inches.

CLICK HERE to register for the 2019 Undergraduate Research Symposium
 Luci Drapeau 2019-05-21T20:57:00Z 2019 IDeA Central Region Conference Luci Drapeau http://brin.usd.edu/chemistry/-/blogs/2019-idea-central-region-conferen-1 2019-03-15T21:28:00Z 2019-03-15T21:10:00Z
Oklahoma City, OK - You are invited to attend the 2019 IDeA Central Region Conference in Oklahoma City, OK from June 12 - 14, 2019 at the Sheraton Oklahoma City Downtown Hotel. The conference will feature a poster session for both facuty and students, thematic break out sessions, student presentations, NIH program officers and opportunities for networking and collaboration.

 Important Deadlines:

 Registration - May 15, 2019
 Hotel Reservations - May 17, 2019
 Abstract Submission - May 3, 2019

CLICK HERE to visit the conference website.
 Luci Drapeau 2019-03-15T21:10:00Z SD BRIN Undergraduate Research Fellowship Networking Event & Faculty Meeting Luci Drapeau http://brin.usd.edu/chemistry/-/blogs/sd-brin-undergraduate-research-fellowship-networking-event-faculty-meeti-1 2019-01-22T14:16:15Z 2018-12-13T16:51:00Z
Mitchell, SD - Dakota Wesleyan University is hosting the 2019 SD BRIN Undergraduate Research Fellowship Networking Event & Faculty Meeting on Saturday, January 19, 2019 in Mitchell, SD. Students interested in applying for the Summer 2019 SD BRIN Undergraduate Research Fellowship are encouraged to attend this networking event as there will be many research mentors in attendance discussing their research with prospective undergraduate fellows. SD BRIN faculty will also be attending a faculty meeting. ---- POSTPONED TO SATURDAY, JANUARY 26, 2019

Student Networking Event Agenda

Faculty Networking Event Agenda

 Luci Drapeau 2018-12-13T16:51:00Z USD Researcher Patents Potential Universal Influenza Vaccine Luci Drapeau http://brin.usd.edu/chemistry/-/blogs/usd-researcher-patents-potential-universal-influenza-vaccine 2018-10-26T15:27:55Z 2018-10-26T15:22:00Z Vermillion, SD - To read an article about Dr. Victor Huber's patent, please click here. Luci Drapeau 2018-10-26T15:22:00Z 2019 IDeA Central Region Conference Luci Drapeau http://brin.usd.edu/chemistry/-/blogs/2019-idea-central-region-conference 2019-03-15T21:25:03Z 2018-10-16T20:46:00Z
SAVE THE DATE (June 12-14, 2019)

 Oklahoma City, OK - All IDeA investigators, core directors and students in the central region (Oklahoma, Kansas, Nebraska, North Dakota, South Dakota) are invited to the IDeA Central Region Conference, a scientific symposium featuring speakers from IDeA programs throughout the region, as well as representatives from the National Institutes of Health. There will be opportunities for networking, an open poster session and breakout sessions.

 Registration now open, CLICK HERE.

 Luci Drapeau 2018-10-16T20:46:00Z 2018 Undergraduate Research Fellowship Luci Drapeau http://brin.usd.edu/chemistry/-/blogs/2018-undergraduate-research-fellowship 2018-10-12T15:54:54Z 2018-10-12T14:30:00Z
Vermillion, SD - Forty-nine students were selected out of ninty-one applications to the 2018 SD BRIN Summer Undergraduate Research Fellows Program. SD BRIN funded 19 students from Augustana University, 6 students from the University of Sioux Falls, 11 students from Black Hills State University, 3 students from Mount Marty College, 4 students from Dakota Wesleyan University, and 6 students from the University of South Dakota into the bioinformatics program. The undergraduate researchers worked for 10 weeks at Augustana University, the University of Sioux Falls, Black Hills State University, Mount Marty College, Dakota Wesleyan University, the University of South Dakota, Sanford Research, Fernson Brewing, and OmegaQuant. To end their summer, the students attended the 2018 EPSCoR/SD BRIN Undergraduate Research Symposium in Pierre, SD from July 25-26. The symposium included presentations about medical and health professional schools and improving science communication. The students also had the opportunity to listen to Sioux Falls native science writer, Sam Kean (The Disappearing Spoon, The Violinist's Thumb, etc.). The undergraduate researchers concluded the symposium with a poster presentation of their research.

If you are interested in applying to the 2019 SD BRIN Undergraduate Research Fellowship, click here.
 Luci Drapeau 2018-10-12T14:30:00Z 2018 Research Apprentice Program Luci Drapeau http://brin.usd.edu/chemistry/-/blogs/2018-research-apprentice-program 2018-10-12T14:18:44Z 2018-10-12T10:00:00Z
Vermillion, SD - SD BRIN's Research Apprentice Program (RAP) began its 34th year providing research experiences in working labs to first generation, low-income high school students in 2018. The program began with orientation on May 29, 2018. Other than working in laboratories and attending study sessions, the students also participated in a BRIN/SPURA sponsored Responsible Conduct of Research Training presented by Dr. Barbara Goodman, a SPURA sponsored Career Fair, and a SD BRIN sponsored presentation from Dr. Kathleen Eyster entitled "101+ Things You Can Do With A Science Degree". The Research Apprentice Program accepted three students this summer. Two students from Wagner Community School, Margaret Barnett and Amari Weston participated this year. One student from Red Cloud High School was also accepted, Chloe Richards. The students completed their research experience in labs in the chemistry department, basic biomedical sciences, and the physical therapy department. The students ended their RAP summer experience with final presentations of their research on Friday, June 29. Below are the titles of the 2018 Research Apprentice Program Final Presentations:

"Affinity of Mechanochemically Functionalized Graphene to Industrial Carbon Fiber" by Margaret Barnett (Mentor: Dr. Grigoriy Sereda)

"Stretococcus Pyogenes" by Amari Weston (Mentor: Dr. Michael Chaussee)

"Comparing Foot Strike Patterns in Midfoot Runners Between Overground and Treadmill Running" by Chloe Richards (Mentor: Dr. Hanz Tao)

 Luci Drapeau 2018-10-12T10:00:00Z 2018 Lawrence Brothers Science Camp Luci Drapeau http://brin.usd.edu/chemistry/-/blogs/2018-lawrence-brothers-science-camp 2018-10-12T13:45:23Z 2018-10-11T19:53:00Z
Vermillion, SD - SD BRIN hosted the 17th Annual Lawrence Brothers Science Camp from July 8-13, 2018 on the University of South Dakota campus. This year's theme was, "The Science of Sports". Throughout the week, the students attended the following sessions; Gels for Medicine Delivery and Wound Healing, The Science Behind a Perfect Football Kick, The Flight of Baseball, Concussions, Exercise and Heart Rate, Energy Demands in Sports: How Do We Move, and Vision in Sports and Splinting Hand Injuries. The students also participated in a scavenger hunt, campus tour, and a Lego robot challenge. In the evenings, the students played basketball at the wellness center, went swimming at the new Vermillion pool, saw a movie at the Coyote Twin Theatre, and enjoyed a Party and Movie night at the residence hall. The week ended with a closing brunch and group presentations that families were welcomed to attend. Thanks to all of the USD faculty and staff who volunteered to facilitate activities for the campers and to the USD students and Ms. Job who led the campers thoughout the week.

To apply to the 2019 Lawrence Brothers Science Camp "Crime Scene Investigation", please click here.
 Luci Drapeau 2018-10-11T19:53:00Z FREE! Grant Writing Workshop on July 25, 2018 Luci Drapeau http://brin.usd.edu/chemistry/-/blogs/free-grant-writing-workshop 2018-10-10T21:00:48Z 2018-05-16T12:00:00Z
FREE! Grant Writing Workshop to be held July 25, 2018 in Pierre, SD.

Presented by Lucy Deckard of Academic Research Funding Strategies, LLC.

A grant writing workshop will be held on July 25, 2018 from 8:00AM to 3:00PM during the South Dakota Biomedical Research Infrastructure Network (SD BRIN) and South Dakota Established Program to Stimulate Competitive Research (EPSCoR) annual Summer Undergraduate Research Symposium and Faculty Research Meetings at the Ramkota River Centre in Pierre, SD. The workshop, sponsored by SD BRIN, will be free to all STEM faculty in South Dakota who wish to improve their grant writing skills.

Workshop Leader: Lucy Deckard is President of Academic Research Funding Strategies, LLC, a consulting firm that works with universities and faculty to help them compete more successfully for research funding.

Participants: Participants are encouraged to bring a laptop, electronic notebook, or pad for exercises that require writing and accessing funding agency websites.

Materials: Electronic versions of the presentation slides as well as additional materials and resources will be provided to each participant on a flash drive (and downloadable from the cloud). These will include additional background materials, resources, and example sections of successful proposals.

 Luci Drapeau 2018-05-16T12:00:00Z Networking & Information Event for Summer 2018 Undergraduate Research Fellowship Luci Drapeau http://brin.usd.edu/chemistry/-/blogs/networking-and-information-event-for-summer-2018-undergraduate-research-fellowship 2018-10-12T13:46:25Z 2017-12-20T16:00:00Z
Mitchell, SD - The SD BRIN Undergraduate Research Fellowship program is hosting a Networking & Information Event for Summer 2018 on Saturday, January 20, 2018 from 9:30AM to 1:30PM at Dakota Wesleyan University in Mitchell, SD. Students interested in applying for the Summer 2018 SD BRIN Undergraduate Research Fellowship are encouraged to attend this networking event as there will be many researchers in attendance discussing their research interests with prospective undergraduate fellows. In the morning, students will have an opportunity to attend some great informational sessions. While students are meeting, there will also be faculty sessions for visioning discussions about the future SD BRIN renewal application. The day will end with a poster session by faculty so students can learn more about the research of potential mentors. Click on the links below to see agendas for the event:

Faculty Agenda

Student Agenda

 Luci Drapeau 2017-12-20T16:00:00Z University of South Dakota Undergraduate Research Excellence Award Luci Drapeau http://brin.usd.edu/chemistry/-/blogs/university-of-south-dakota-undergraduate-research-excellence-award 2018-10-10T21:41:25Z 2017-11-07T16:00:00Z
Vermillion, SD - 2017 SD BRIN Undergraduate Research Fellow, Blaine Nelson, was awarded the University of South Dakota Undergraduate Research Excellence Award. Forty eight students were selected out of eighty nine applications to the 2017 SD BRIN Undergraduate Research Fellows Program. Blaine was selected from the University of South Dakota for the bioinformatics training research program.

Blaine is originally from Sioux Falls, SD, where he graduated from Washington High School in 2015. He is now a junior at the University of South Dakota where he is majoring in Medical Biology and German and minoring in Chemistry. In the future, Blaine plans to attend medical school to become a surgeon, specializing in cardiothoracic surgery.

Blaine completed his first summer of conducting research with Dr. Erliang Zeng at the University of South Dakota. His research project was entitled, "Functional Genomics of Medulloblastoma among Mus musculus Models: An integrative Analysis of the Transcriptome and Targetome". Blaine first became interested in research when he saw his brother participate in undergraduate research. Also, during high school biology, he found himself intrigued by the genetics section and he knew that he wanted to do research about something related to that field. Bioinformatics introduced him to the opportunity for a combination of what he wanted to research. He could obtain biological data pertaining to a severe neurodevelopmental condition and analyze/interpret this biological data to understand what genes may be affected to cause the cancer.

Of his SD BRIN undergraduate research experience, Blaine said, "The most rewarding part of my research was working with Sanford Research and Dr. Erliang Zeng to obtain the data consisting of the gene expression within different mice models in the entire mouse genome. We compared mice models where the brain tumor was induced in the primary stage, induced in the metastatic stage, and the control group where the mice had not developed the tumor. Using the expression data, I was able to run it through biological programs in order to find differentially expressed genes in the transcriptome. My project also involved adding the differentially expressed genes from the targetome. So overall, it was rewarding to be able to contribute to the progress of finding a linkage between genetics and medulloblastoma: like what genes may be playing the most significant roles in cancer." The most challenging part of Blaine's research was the coding. Of this challenge, he said, "I had to use code in order to run the data so that it could be analyzed later in the project. However, code is really picky so there would be a moment where I thought I had everything correct in the code, but there was one tiny detail that was off so it would result in an error message".

On being awarded the University of South Dakota Undergraduate Research Excellence Award, Blaine would like to thank all of the people who have supported him at the University of South Dakota and express his gratitude for the summer research experience.

If you are interested in applying to the SD BRIN Undergraduate Research Fellowship, please click here.

 Luci Drapeau 2017-11-07T16:00:00Z 2017 Lawrence Brothers Science Camp Luci Drapeau http://brin.usd.edu/chemistry/-/blogs/2017-lawrence-brothers-science-camp 2017-10-16T18:17:39Z 2017-10-13T14:00:00Z
Vermillion, SD - SD BRIN hosted the 16th Annual Lawrence Brothers Science Camp from July 9-14, 2017 on the University of South Dakota campus. This year's theme was, "Light and Vision". There were many applications, unfortunately, there were only forty eight spots open for 7th, 8th, and 9th grade students. Throughout the week, the students learned about subjects like; Shaping Materials with Light, Physiology of Vision, Birds Eyes and Binoculars, the Pulfrich Effect, Eye Health, and Dark Matter. The students also participated in a scavenger hunt, cow eye dissection, Lego challenge, and a photo lab creating photograms. In the evenings, the students went to the wellness center, swimming at the new Vermillion pool, and a movie. The week ended with a closing brunch and group presentations that the families were invited to attend.

To apply to the 2018 Lawrence Brothers Science Camp "The Science of Sports", please click here.
 Luci Drapeau 2017-10-13T14:00:00Z 2017 Research Apprentice Program Luci Drapeau http://brin.usd.edu/chemistry/-/blogs/2017-research-apprentice-program 2017-10-13T19:47:30Z 2017-10-12T14:00:00Z
Vermillion, SD - SD BRIN's Research Apprentice Progrm (RAP) began its 33rd year providing research experiences in working labs to first-generation, low-income students on June 5, 2017. The program began with a SD BRIN/SPURA sponsored Responsible Conduct of Research Training presented by Dr. Barbara Goodman. Three students from Wagner Community High School were accepted to the program: Margaret Barnett, Madison Mora, and Joi Zephier. Cobe Siedschlaw was the one student accepted from White River High School. Two of the students worked in Basic Biomedical Sciences labs, one student worked in a Chemistry lab, and one student worked in both a Basic Biomedical Science lab and a Biology lab. The students ended their RAP summer experience with final presentations of their research on Friday, July 7. Below are the titles of the 2017 Research Apprentice Program Final Presentations:

"Fluorescent Spectrometry" by Cobe Siedschlaw
 "Measuring the amount of Ovalbumin in Vaccines" by Madison Mora

"Investigating Insect Microbiomes: The Wolbachia Story" by Margaret Barnett

"Role of Ø in RGG Mediated Protein/Toxin Production" by Joi Zephier

 Luci Drapeau 2017-10-12T14:00:00Z 2017 Undergraduate Research Fellowship Luci Drapeau http://brin.usd.edu/chemistry/-/blogs/2017-undergraduate-research-fellowship 2017-10-16T18:29:57Z 2017-10-02T16:20:00Z
Vermillion, SD - Forty eight students were selected out of eighty nine applications to the 2017 SD BRIN Undergraduate Research Fellows Program. SD BRIN funded 16 students from Augustana University, 3 students from the University of Sioux Falls, 7 students from Black Hills State University, 7 students from Mount Marty College, 5 students from Dakota Wesleyan University, 4 students interested in University of South Dakota bioinformatics training, 5 students from the University of South Dakota American Indian Science & Engineering Society (AISES) program, and 1 Native American student from a University of South Dakota Research Experience for Undergraduates (REU). The undergraduate researchers worked with their faculty mentors on biomedical research projects for 10 weeks at Augustana University, the University of Sioux Falls, Black Hills State University, Mount Marty College, Dakota Wesleyan University, the University of South Dakota, and Sanford Research. To end their summer, the students attended the 2017 EPSCoR/SD BRIN Undergraduate Research Symposium in Pierre, SD on August 2 and 3. The symposium included presentations on medical and health professional schools, graduate schools, and improving science communication. The undergraduate researchers concluded the symposium with a poster presentation about their research.

 For more information about the SD BRIN Undergraduate Research Fellowship, please click here.

 Luci Drapeau 2017-10-02T16:20:00Z 2017 Central Region IDeA Conference Luci Drapeau http://brin.usd.edu/chemistry/-/blogs/2017-central-region-idea-conference 2017-10-16T18:31:28Z 2017-09-01T15:26:00Z
Sioux Falls, SD - From June 7-9, 2017, SD BRIN hosted the 2017 Central Region IDeA Conference at the Denny Sanford Premier Center in Sioux Falls, South Dakota. Approximately 250 people registered from the IDeA Central Region states of South Dakota, North Dakota, Kansas, Nebraska, and Oklahoma. Over the next three days, poster sessions were held for students, faculty, and core facilities. There were many interesting presentations, including speakers from the National Institute of General Medical Sciences (NIGMS). Registrants also participated in Invited 10-Minute Talks from students and faculty, Affinity Groups, and Scientific Sessions. For a a full conference agenda, please click here.

The next Central Region IDeA Conference will be hosted by Oklahoma INBRE in Oklahoma City in 2019.

 Luci Drapeau 2017-09-01T15:26:00Z IDeA Central Regional Conference 2017 Website Bill Conn http://brin.usd.edu/chemistry/-/blogs/idea-central-regional-meeting-2017 2017-10-12T15:44:56Z 2017-03-21T20:09:00Z
The website for the IDeA Central Regional Meeting 2017 is now available. It allows you to register to attend or to submit your Abstract.

Please note that the deadline for early registration is May 17th, 2017.

http://brin.usd.edu/web/idea-cr2017/
 Bill Conn 2017-03-21T20:09:00Z 2016 Student Research Poster Session Bill Conn http://brin.usd.edu/chemistry/-/blogs/2016-student-research-poster-session 2016-05-11T16:32:11Z 2016-05-11T16:13:00Z
Pierre, S.D. - Mount Marty College undergraduate research student, William Lawrence, represented SD BRIN at the 2016 Student Research Poster Session on Tuesday, March 1 in the Capitol Rotunda. The poster session is an annual event where undergraduate students from South Dakota's public, private, and tribal colleges and universities can showcase their research.

William Lawrence is a junior Biology and Pre-Professional studies major at Mount Marty College. William is a member of the Cross Country and Track teams, as well as a member of the Ambassadors. He also volunteers in the Emergency Department at Avera Sacred Heart Hospital. Upon graduating, William plans to enlist in the military and go on to become a surgeon for the armed forces. He participated in the SD BRIN Undergraduate Research Fellows Program where he worked in the Department of Chemistry at Mount Marty College with Dr. Chun Wu. William presented his research, "Kinetic Evaluation of Novel Inhibitor of Acetate Kinase from Methicillin-Restrain Staphylococcus aureus MU 50 Strain".

For a full description of William Lawrence's research, click here.

 Bill Conn 2016-05-11T16:13:00Z