Maths institute planned to meet multiplying demand

Redesigning photosynthesis to sustainably meet global food and bioenergy demand.

The world's crop productivity is stagnating whereas population growth, rising affluence, and mandates for biofuels put increasing demands on agriculture. Meanwhile, demand for increasing cropland competes with equally crucial global sustainability and environmental protection needs. Addressing this looming agricultural crisis will be one of our greatest scientific challenges in the coming decad...

CLAP maintains demand for living wage Group to meet with

W ith in j u s t tw o w e e k s of re tu rn ing to South Bend, one s tudent has been assaulted in h e r Turtle Creek a p a r tm e n t , another robbed on Notre Dame Ave., a few b u rg la r iz e d , two a rres ted and at least 86 cited for underage drinking. The series of events has some students questioning the deci­ sion to move o ff -cam pus , or even to pop outside the bubble of Notre Dame o...

Maths for Plants and Plants for Maths. Mathematics applied to Agronomy and Crop Protection

What's maths got to do with it?

I. ABSTRACT This fifth grade unit utilizes practical applications of mathematics in the “real world.” During this interactive approach to learning “math wisdom,” students will gain knowledge of number sense, computation, ratios and proportions, probabilities and statistics, and money. The students will experience various critical thinking scenarios that build upon the Core Knowledge Math Curric...

Multiplying madly

Dna2 was first characterized in yeast as an essential gene encoding a protein with both helicase and endonuclease activities involved in maturation of Okazaki fragments during DNA replication. Dna2 also plays a role in double-strand break (DSB) repair by homolo-gous recombination. The respective contributions of its replication and/or repair functions toward cell viability and resistance to gen...