{"id":540,"date":"2013-05-09T17:44:04","date_gmt":"2013-05-09T17:44:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.augsburg.edu\/alumni\/?p=540"},"modified":"2021-09-13T19:54:39","modified_gmt":"2021-09-13T19:54:39","slug":"students-begin-summer-research","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/alumni\/2013\/05\/09\/students-begin-summer-research\/","title":{"rendered":"Augsburg Student Research Program Grows to 65 Participants"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A distinctive feature of an Augsburg education is our focus on linking classroom theory with off-campus learning experiences. Augsburg College is one of the few colleges or universities in the United States that intentionally includes an experiential element in our general education program required of all students.<\/p>\n<p>For example, Austin Wagner is\u00a0 a self described &#8220;nerdy&#8221; student researcher excited about\u00a0 finding the beauty in mathematics.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/e-5CB_cjV-I\" title=\"Augsburg College URGO Summer Research: Austin Wagner, Math\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><br \/>\nThis summer 51 student researchers will be gaining hands-on experience while working side-by-side with faculty on-campus this summer.\u00a0 In addition, 14 students will be conducting research off-campus this summer including:<\/p>\n<p>Katherine Aleman, Psychology, Research Intern at the Mayo Clinic<\/p>\n<p>Elianna Bier, Physics, National Institute of Standards and Technology<\/p>\n<p>Eric Bowman (McNair Scholar), Biology &amp; Chemistry, University of Nebraska<\/p>\n<p>Emma Capman, Physics, University of Maryland Robotics Center<\/p>\n<p>Haley Diem, Environmental Studies, Field Research in Tanzania on Sustainable Agriculture<\/p>\n<p>Kirubel Gezehegn, Chemistry, Johns Hopkins University and MIT<\/p>\n<p>Ben Grant, Physics, Colorado School of Mines National Renewable Energy Lab<\/p>\n<p>Anna Herauf, Biology &amp; Chemistry, NDSU Program for Research on the Prairies<\/p>\n<p>Dan Kornbaum, Physics, Department of Atmospheric, Oceanic, and Geospace Sciences REU at the University of Michigan.<\/p>\n<p>Marie-Aimee Ntawkulityayo, International Relations, Research in Belgium on Ethnic Identity and Conflict in the Kivu Region of Eastern Congo<\/p>\n<p>Promise Okeke, Biology, Johns Hopkins University, Malaria Research<\/p>\n<p>Casey Powell, Biology, University of Minnesota Plant Pathology Lab<\/p>\n<p>Ryan Sullivan, Computational Philosophy, Carnegie-Mellon University Summer Workshop on Cognitive Science and Epistemology<\/p>\n<p>Ashley Waters (McNair), Chemistry, Chemistry Research Fellow at the University of Minnesota<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A distinctive feature of an Augsburg education is our focus on linking classroom theory with off-campus learning experiences. Augsburg College &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":212,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-540","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/alumni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/540","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/alumni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/alumni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/alumni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/212"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/alumni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=540"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/alumni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/540\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":51045,"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/alumni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/540\/revisions\/51045"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/alumni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=540"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/alumni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=540"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/alumni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=540"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}