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Sarah Garza (Environmental Science Major) - As an undergraduate, Sarah Garza has already been able to participate in two different types of field research. The first was an ecological study at Baylor, in which Sarah and other researchers attempted to quantify the impact that the Ligustrum Lucidium, or the Japanese privet, was having on the local White Trout Lilly population. The results of the study were published in the scientific version of the Baylor Pulse Magazine in Fall 2008. |
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Kevin Hermesch (Environmental Science Major) - Kevin recently interned with the Environmental Health and Safety Department at the University of Texas Health Science Center in San Antonio. Kevin was able to try his hand at numerous tasks, including inspecting waterlines to ensure that they were clear and keeping labs at correct pressures. His favorite part, however, was dealing with radioactive, biological, and chemical waste. |
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Austin Cook Lindsay (Environmental Science Major) - Austin's favorite part of Baylor is the friendly and supportive environment. He loves the fact that he gets help from both professors and peers, and that his professors take the extra step to get to know him. "The willingness of professors to assist undergraduates has blown me away," he says. "The faculty at Baylor have far surpassed [my] expectation and truly make the difference in the lives of students here." |
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Laura Dobbins (Graduate Student) - After completing undergraduate studies in biology and animal sciences at Berry College in Georgia, Laura Dobbins worked for year as a research technician a the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's Gulf Ecology Division Laboratory in Pensacola, FL. She came to Baylor University to pursue a MS with Dr. Bryan Brooks focusing on aquatic toxicology and risk assessment of endocrine active substances. |
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Ted Valenti (Doctoral Candidate) - "I am excited about potentially helping society by facilitating the development of younger scientists," Ted said. "I have already taken an active role in this pursuit while at Baylor by serving as a teaching assistant, mentoring high school, undergraduate, and Master's students in Dr. Brooks' lab." |
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Bowen Du (Doctoral Candidate) - "The environmental science program at Baylor always looks for effective schemes to solve practical environmental problems, which was the most attractive incentive bringing me here." |
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Trey Crumpton (Graduate Student) - "One reason that I think the Graduate School and the university as a whole is unique, is its commitment to historic Christian values and its pursuit of excellence in scholarship," Trey says. "There are very few institutions of higher learning remaining in the world that so successfully defend the Christian faith, and foster proper scholarship and a quest for truth." |
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Eleanor Robinson (Graduate Student) - "Research does not involve only instrument techniques and science," says Eleanor Robinson of her first semester as a graduate student. "It includes working with tools, drilling into sampling instruments to make it work for different situations and sometimes taking apart an instrument to find the cause of incessant beeping!" |
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