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Joe D Beckmann, Ph.D.

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Directed Student Presentations and Achievements

Experimental Biology/ASBMB 2008

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David Lapham and Jane Macdonald presented their research projects at the annual ASBMB Undergraduate Poster Competition in San Diego in early April. Remarkably, they both received Honorable Mentions from the judging committee for their section. Their presentations were:

Lapham, D.E. and Beckmann, J.D. “Zinc Inhibition of Bovine Phenol Sulfotransferase (bSULT1A1)”

Macdonald, J.A., Sawin, A., Lapham, D., White, J., Turk, J.A., Beckmann, J.D. “Characterization of Trinitrophenylated Adenosine Nucleotide Binding to Bovine Phenol Sulfotransferase (bSULT1A1)”

 

Alma’s innovative PRISM project—Positive Routes Into Science and Mathematics—gets more students excited about science. It engages students in research opportunities not only in their first, second, third and fourth years of college but also in the summer prior to taking their first college course. PRISM is funded by a $500,000 grant from the National Science Foundation.

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30 Hour Famine

30 Hour Famine

Students at Alma College are starving to make a difference. They organized the 30 Hour Famine, an international youth movement sponsored by World Vision International, to raise money for food, clean water and other resources for impoverished people in developing countries. The students fasted for 30 hours to experience the hunger that a billion people in the world experience daily.

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