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Dr. Sarah Codd College of Engineering

MRI Spectrometers

People

Chemistry/Chemicals

Electronics/Mechanics

Describe the kinds of data you collect

Images inside objects How Fluids Move

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No bacteriaDay 1

Day 3Day 5

Day 7

Transport Phenomena in Complex Fluids

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Comparisons to Simulations Comparisons to Theory

What are some of the broader impacts of your research?

- Biomedical- Environmental- Energy Applications- Physics of Fluids- New Materials

Human resourcesOutreach

Publications/Presentations

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Dr. Cathy Cripps Plant Sciences & Plant Pathology Dept

Biologist Field biologist

Mycologist systematicsecologyapplication

Field & forests

Greenhouse-plant growth center

Arctic-alpine

Fungal herbarium

Plant Biosciences Facility Lab

Describe the kinds of data you collectCollecting fungi - diversity

Ecological data

spores

Experimental data

Tissue cultures

Greenhouse data

Mushroom data

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Dried herbarium specimens

DNA analysis Classical taxonomy

Physiological parameters

survival, growth

ANOVA Regression analysis Principal component analysis

Phylogenetic analysis

Colonization rates

treatments

Comparative identification

Evolutionary history

What are some of the broader impacts of your research? People!

The discipline ecological

Diversity – discovering life on earth

colleagues students mushroomers citizens

Forays edible mushrooms poison cases

Climate Change Hitting Entire Arctic and alpine Ecosystems-monitoring needed

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Dr. Lisa Davis

Dept. of Mathematical Sciences

Mathematics is "the queen of sciences.“- Gauss

Mathematics is botha language and a toolthat scientists use to better understand and “know” our world. - Lisa Davis

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Spherical Cows andCylindrical Crickets

(Courtesy of Tomas Gedeon)

Describe the kinds of analysis you perform

DGFEM: Central Flux DGFEM: Upwinding Flux

What works well? – Software, Numerical Approximation Techniques

Finally, can we relate this information back to our original problem? Do the results of the numerical experiments make sense? Do they agreewith what we believe should happen mathematically and/or physically?

What are some of the broader impacts of your research?

“As far as the laws of mathematics refer to reality, they are not certain; and as far as they are certain, they do not refer to reality” - Einstein

Mathematics is a fundamental tool that scientists use to understand as well as tocommunicate the reality of our world. It provides a building block for analysis, design and optimization of manyphysical systems. – Lisa Davis

Big scientific contributions are made by those who speak many languages – Math, Engineering, Physics, Biology, Chemistry, Economics, Ecology, etc.

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Kristin Ruppel

Native American Studies, College of Letters & Science

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Kristin Ruppel

Native American Studies, College of Letters & Science

StoriesHistories

http://thomas.loc.gov/

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Firstness

ThirdnessSecondness

[W]hy do many American Indians insist on appropriating—and maintaining—a “trust relationship” with the United States? Situated historically and pragmatically, this turns out to be a question of astonishing gravity.13

13“Pragmatically” is meant here in the dialectical sense of interpreting the relationship, and the maintenance of it, in light of its bearing on conduct, whether that conduct be in the day-to-day praxis of land ownership, the avenues of resistance, or the development of new policies. New policies, of course, affect and effect new perceptions and enactments of the trust relationship, which, in turn, may serve to generate new policy, and so on and so forth (Ruppel 2008: 40, 182).

What are some of the broader impacts of your research?

“High Jinx” Indian Affairs in the Era of Indian Self-Determination

(current book project)

Education & AwarenessAIPRA Factsheets

with Dr. Marsha Goetting, MSU Extension Economics

“Inheriting Indian Land Symposium” (2007)

Unearthing Indian Land: Living with the Legacies of Allotment (U. Arizona Press 2008)

Outreach & Activism