Regeneration is an extraordinary process shared across a diverse range of organisms. However, for most organisms, including humans, the range of regenerative capacity is lost after embryonic development and declines as development progresses. The mechanisms responsible behind the decline in regenerative capacity still need to be better understood. Some vertebrates, such as newts, have remarkable […]
BIII-01: Power in the Myths of Medusa and Persephone: Case-Studies in Classical Reception
Classical Reception is the process by which, “individuals and societies continually reappropriate and redefine classical antiquity in an effort to assert (or, at times, to challenge) continuity with a privileged past,” (Broder 505). It encourages classicists to examine the impacts ancient texts have made on those who have interacted with them and reveals the values […]
BIII-03: Composting On a Large Scale
For our research we wanted to examine the issues with the nitrogen cycle and how that was related to chemical fertilizers. This ended up turning into a closer look at composting and how this can be used to combat both environmental issues and food waste. We conducted our work through some basic field work and […]