Dr. Sarah Codd
College of Engineering
Describe your lab
Electronics/Mechanics
MRI Spectrometers
People
Chemistry/Chemicals
Describe the kinds of data you collect
Images inside objects
How Fluids Move
Transport Phenomena in Complex
Fluids
No bacteria
Day 1
Day 3
Day 5
Day 7
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3200
3800
Describe the kinds of analysis you perform
Comparisons to Simulations
Comparisons to Theory
What are some of the broader impacts of your
research?
Human resources
Outreach
-Biomedical
-Environmental
-Energy Applications
Publications/Presentations
-Physics of Fluids
-New Materials
Dr. Cathy Cripps
Plant Sciences & Plant Pathology Dept
Describe your lab
Arctic-alpine
Biologist
Field biologist
Mycologist
systematics
ecology
application
Greenhouse-plant growth center
Field & forests
Fungal herbarium
Plant Biosciences Facility Lab
Describe the kinds of data you collect
Collecting fungi - diversity
Ecological data
Experimental
data
Mushroom data
Greenhouse data
Tissue cultures
spores
Describe the kinds of analysis you perform
Physiological parameters
Classical taxonomy
DNA analysis
treatments
Phylogenetic analysis
survival,
growth
Comparative identification
Colonization rates
ANOVA
Regression analysis
Principal component analysis
Dried herbarium specimens
Evolutionary
history
What are some of the broader impacts of your
research?
People!
The discipline
ecological
colleagues students mushroomers citizens
Forays
edible mushrooms
poison cases
Diversity – discovering life
on earth
Climate Change Hitting Entire Arctic and
alpine Ecosystems-monitoring needed
Dr. Lisa Davis
Dept. of Mathematical Sciences
Describe your lab
Mathematics is "the
queen of sciences.“
- Gauss
Mathematics is both
a language and a tool
that scientists use to
better understand and
“know” our world.
- Lisa Davis
Describe the kinds of data you collect
Spherical Cows and
Cylindrical Crickets
ut  au x  0
u (t ,0)  g (t )
u (0, x)  f ( x)
(Courtesy of Tomas Gedeon)
Describe the kinds of analysis you perform
What works well? – Software, Numerical Approximation Techniques
DGFEM: Central Flux
DGFEM: Upwinding Flux
Finally, can we relate this information back to our original problem?
Do the results of the numerical experiments make sense? Do they agree
with 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 to
communicate the reality of our world.
It provides a building block for analysis,
design and optimization of many
physical systems. – Lisa Davis
Big scientific contributions are made by those who speak many languages
– Math, Engineering, Physics, Biology, Chemistry, Economics, Ecology, etc.
Kristin Ruppel
Describe your lab
Native American Studies,
College of Letters & Science
Kristin Ruppel
Native American Studies,
College of Letters & Science
Describe the kinds of data you collect
Stories
Histories
http://thomas.loc.gov/
Describe the kinds of analysis you perform
Firstness
Secondness
Thirdness
[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?
Education & Awareness
Unearthing Indian Land: Living
with the Legacies of Allotment
(U. Arizona Press 2008)
Outreach & Activism
“Inheriting Indian Land
Symposium” (2007)
“High Jinx”
Indian Affairs in the Era of
Indian Self-Determination
(current book project)
AIPRA Factsheets
with Dr. Marsha Goetting,
MSU Extension Economics