Fall 2013
November 3, 2013
S a n ta C l a ra U n i v e r si ty
Special Points of Interest:
New course offering
Eating sustainably
B i o l o g y D ep a r t m en t New sl et t er
Discovery Day
Summer Internship
Reminders
Winter Course Listing
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New Course Offering: “Health Consequences of a Western Lifestyle”
This course will investigate lifestyle-related diseases common in the Western world as well as the pathophysiology, prevention and treatment of diseases such as cardiovascular disease, obesity, diabetes, cancer, and more. The course offers fun class projects including podcasts, debates, and a poster session!
An elective in Biology AND Public Health
BIOL 106/PHSC 124
TR 12:10-1:50
Instructor: Michele T. Parker, Ph.D.
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Tips on How to Eat Sustainably This Winter 1.
Eating Sustainably
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Discovery Day
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The stems of broccoli and cauliflower, the greens of beets, and the stems of herbs are edible. 2.
High School Summer 2 Internship Program Reminders
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Winter Course Listing 5
Use the whole vegetable
Find a local farmers market
fiber, and has zero fat. It can be made into chips, put into soups, sautéed, and eaten on sandwiches. The fall climate here makes it the perfect time to grow kale. It’s very resilient
Shop at a local farmers market to purchase produce that is in season and to support our local farmers 3.
Learn to love kale!
Kale is low in calorie, high in
and can even grow in the snow.
4. Join a CSA CSA’s or Community Supported Agriculture allow a consumer to purchase a number of shares from a farmer. Each week, they will deliver fresh, local produce that is in season. This also lets you learn new recipes and develop a taste for different foods! For resources for finding farmer’s markets and CSA’s visit www.localharvest.org
Biology Department
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Discovery Day with Santa Clara Students Students from Dr. Katy Korsmeyer's BIOL188 STEM Education & Social Justice course hit the AT&T ballpark November 2nd for the culminating Discovery Day at the 3rd annual Bay Area Science Festival. It was a beautiful day in San Francisco, scattered clouds and sunny—a bit too sunny for the Glow Stick Chemistry activity! Leaders had to have participants duck under the black tablecloth to see the "glow" from the
“mini chemistry in a stick” experiment. Four hands-on booths of non-stop activity also had Speed Gowning, Pipet Art and GAK Attack. Booths with take-home materials were sponsored by Boehringer Ingelheim and the Association for Women in Science. As you can see from the photos, our SCU students had their hands full showing the general public how much fun science can be. Pipet Art and GAK Attack had lines by the end of the afternoon! Stay tuned
for the 2014 BASF where you can "unleash your inner scientist" at the free Discovery Days and many other events throughout the Bay Area.
Young kids participate in fun hands-on science activities at the 3rd annual Bay Area Science Festival.
For students interested in
High School Summer Internship Program Santa Clara University was both the host and organizer this summer for the Silicon Valley STEM Internship Program for high school students in the Bay Area. With the financial support of LifeScan, Inc., a Johnson & Johnson company, Dr. Michel Parker arranged for 18 high school students to experience real work and research at
and LifeScan for a video interactive open heart surgery through the Liberty Science Center. The summer went by fast! The internship wrapped up with a poster session supported by the Applied Bioscience Intiative from the Provost Office. Students, families, mentors and teachers were all invited to toast their accomplishments. The interns were thanked with speeches and certificates. We hope to see some of these young adults wearing SCU red with pride in the future!
getting a summer internship or full-time job, log on to Broncolink to search for jobs and internships in the sciences or go directly to the company’s website and search for available careers. Here are some of the leading biotech companies in the Bay Area:
Genentech
Affymetrix
LifeScan, Cordis, CSU East Bay, San Jose State and Santa Clara University. Students were mentored and had exposure to basic lab bench research or the engineering and business side of science. During the six week program, students also took trips to local companies like Intuitive Surgical for robotic surgery
Amgen
Novartis Vaccines and Diagnostics Inc.
Onyx Pharmaceuticals
Gilead Sciences Inc. Life Technologies Corp.
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REMINDERS Students: Winter Quarter Registration period is from November 11th to November 22nd! Check your ecampus to see when you register. “Biology occupies a position among the sciences both marginal and central. Marginal because, the living world, constituting only a tiny and very “special” part of the universe, it does not seem likely that the study of living beings will ever uncover general laws applicable outside the biosphere. But if the ultimate aim of the whole of science is indeed, as I believe, to clarify man's relationship to the universe, then biology must be accorded a central position, since of all the disciplines it is the one that endeavours to go most directly to the heart of the problems that must be resolved before that of “human nature” can even be framed in other than metaphysical terms.” -Jacques Monod In Jacques Monod and Austryn Wainhouse (trans.), Chance and Necessity: An Essay on the Natural Philosophy of Modern Biology (1971), xi
WINTER 2014 COURSE LISTINGS
Course
Course Name
Instructor
BIOL 104
Human Anatomy L&L
Bjernkes, Lisa
BIOL 106
Medical Consequences of West Lifestyle
Parker, Michele
BIOL 117
Epidemiology L&L
Saxton, Katherine
BIOL 123
Nutrition
Oppezzo, Marily
BIOL 124
Physiology L&L
Tauck, David
BIOL 145
Virology
Murray, William
BIOL 153
Conservation Science
Staff
BIOL 156
General Ecology L&L
McMillan, David
BIOL 174 L&L
Cell Biology L&L
Grainger, James
BIOL 178 L&L
Bioinformatics L&L
Hess, David
BIOL 186 L&L
Transgene Construction Lucas, Jessica and Expression L&L