Emotions, Play and Graduate Student Writing

Graduate Writing Advice – Peter Southern

You might try to argue that if the instructor is the target audience for your paper then you can omit facts because it is reasonable to assume that the person setting the assignment should be very familiar with all of the facts underlying their own questions. In reality, you are writing to convince the instructor that you have a clear understanding of the complexities of the question and that y...

Graduate Student Paper Competition

Graduate Student Appreciation Week

Graduate Student Seminar Day

This project concerns the most effective dimension reduction (EDR) space in functional regression settings. Our investigation is motivated by finding a smaller set of derived variables that contains just as much predictive power as the original set. The main idea originated from cumulative slicing for multivariate data in Zhu et al. (2010 JASA), which assesses the EDR space by cumulatively pool...

Graduate Student Poster Competition

The purpose of this study was to investigate the effect of cimaterol, a p-adrenergic agonist, on muscle Calcium Dependent Proteinase (CDP) activity and the possible relationships between proteolytic activity, cimaterol-induced muscle hypertrophy and meat tenderness. Cimaterol was administrated at 0 or 10 ppm in a complete mixed diet to 28 ram lambs for 3 or 6 weeks. Dietary administration of ci...