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Bingo kicks off summer collaborative research program

June 17, 2016

黑料吃瓜网 student researchers are spending their summers on campus assessing femoral blood flow with Doppler ultrasound tests, identifying military-related human rights abuses in Kashmir, and establishing a colony of parasitic wasps, just to name a few of the projects from 黑料吃瓜网鈥檚 2016 Faculty-Student Summer Research Program. (For a complete list of projects, see /dof-vpaa/summer-research/2016-research.php.)

On a recent Tuesday morning, the student researchers kicked off the program with several rousing rounds of bingo. The brainstorm of program director Bob Turner, the new tradition is simply a fun way to get to know one another and to 鈥渟peak across disciplinary boundaries.鈥 None of the professors were invited. It was all about enhancing the students鈥 social and intellectual connections.

Faculty-Student Summer Research Program

This summer features 39 faculty members and 99 students representing more than 15 academic disciplines鈥攆rom biology and chemistry, to neuroscience and psychology, to anthropology and government, to economics and mathematics. Turner, a political science professor, made sure that each table had a healthy disciplinary mix, a tossed salad if you will. 鈥淪ort,鈥 he commanded. 鈥淪ciences and nonsciences at each table. Tell each other what your research project is. Ask lots of questions.鈥

And then it was time for bingo, as students circulated to find out which of their peers will鈥

  • Use Python for a filament-identification process
  • Ask 2- and 3-year-olds questions about cookies
  • Take videos of mice on balance beams
  • Give lithium and alcohol to fruit flies
  • Write gratitude letters
  • Incorporate pyroglutamate into tRNA

Faculty-Student Summer Research Programand which of their peers hope to鈥

  • Enhance muscle recovery of athletes
  • Transform medical diagnostic technology
  • Work on a cure for Alzheimer鈥檚
  • Map galaxies so we may boldly go鈥
  • Run better elections
  • Help the 黑料吃瓜网 softball team win more

At 11:45 a.m. precisely, Turner released the student researchers for lunch. It鈥檚 important, he said wryly, to get to the food before the other summer programs crowd in. Bingo!

For a complete list of projects, see /dof-vpaa/summer-research/2016-research.php.

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