{"id":1249,"date":"2012-10-22T14:37:09","date_gmt":"2012-10-22T18:37:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kzoo.edu\/news\/?p=1249"},"modified":"2024-09-17T15:10:30","modified_gmt":"2024-09-17T19:10:30","slug":"i-went-to-kalamazoo-college","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kzoo.edu\/news\/i-went-to-kalamazoo-college\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;I Went to Kalamazoo College!&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Dan Blustein<\/strong>, <strong>Joel Haas<\/strong>, and <strong>Tess Killpack<\/strong> have a great deal in common. They\u2019re classmates (2006); they\u2019re working on their doctorates; and they\u2019re finalists in a video contest! \u201cDan entered us in an NSF fellows video contest (of course he did\u2026),\u201d wrote Tess to Professor of Biology <strong>Paul Sotherland<\/strong>, \u201cand we made it to the finals.\u201d The contest celebrates the 60th anniversary of the National Science Foundation\u2019s Graduate Research Fellowship Program. Dan, Joel, and Tess share that too; each is an NSF GRF. The title of their <strong>video<\/strong> is \u201cSharing Our NSF GRF Skills With the World.\u201d \u201cWe took a little different approach from most of the other entries and did a collaborative entry filming on our own and working over the Internet,\u201d said Dan. \u201cJudges pick winners, and there is one People\u2019s Choice award determined by online votes.\u201d There\u2019s great variety in their research work and geographic dispersion\u2014robot lobsters, cellular energy balance, and avian immune system development, in Boston, San Francisco, and Madison (Wis.) for Dan, Joel, and Tess, respectively. In true K fashion, they do much more than their research. Each works on issues important to science and society, including effective teaching, diversity in the sciences, and scientific policy. Congratulations, Dan, Joel, and Tess. 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The title of their <strong>video<\/strong> is \u201cSharing Our NSF GRF Skills With the World.\u201d \u201cWe took a little different approach from most of the other entries and did a collaborative entry filming on our own and working over the Internet,\u201d said Dan. \u201cJudges pick winners, and there is one People\u2019s Choice award determined by online votes.\u201d There\u2019s great variety in their research work and geographic dispersion\u2014robot lobsters, cellular energy balance, and avian immune system development, in Boston, San Francisco, and Madison (Wis.) for Dan, Joel, and Tess, respectively. In true K fashion, they do much more than their research. Each works on issues important to science and society, including effective teaching, diversity in the sciences, and scientific policy. Congratulations, Dan, Joel, and Tess. 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