This course, and concurrent registration in the associated lab course, ANIMLSCI 455VL, provides basic instruction in laboratory animal anatomy and physiology, restraint and handling, nutrition and management ? with emphasis on the laboratory rat, mouse, hamster, rabbit and gerbil. Lectures include material on principles of disease, research use and therapeutic techniques and well as regulations applicable to research facility operation.

This lecture course provides the theoretical knowledge necessary to perform surgical nursing duties, to anesthetize small animal patients and monitor anesthesia, and to perform veterinary dentistry in small animals.

This course presents the basic concepts of veterinary radiology including x-ray generation, image recording, film handling, film processing (manual, automatic and digital), positioning and restraint, special procedures, and radiation safety. Alternative imaging techniques including ultrasonograhy, MRI, and CT will be discussed.

This course provides an overview of the core design principles used in the holistic design of low power embedded computing systems. The topics for the course will include wireless and ambient energy harvesting, alternative energy storage technologies, low power radio design, efficient sensor data processing, and low power AI accelerators. The course will include a survey of papers from recent top-tier conferences and journals. Students will have the opportunity to design a low power embedded system for IoT, mobile health, or other HCI application and empirically evaluate its performance.

From the advent of agriculture to modern day, what have humans been eating and why? Grocery stores and restaurants provide us with an abundance of options, but should we be eating what they provide? In this class, we will go over how the human diet has changed over the past 20,000 years and how this has impacted science, society, and technology. We will focus on historical and modern topics related to the intersection of food systems, culture, food policy, and social justice.

Have you ever wondered how plant based burgers can look, smell, and taste just like real burgers? Are you concerned about your gut health and what probiotics can or maybe can?t do for your health? Or maybe you are worried about GMOs and the potential harm or benefit they can have for society. In this seminar we will explore many of these topics, ranging from plant based foods, lab grown meat, nano technologies in foods, 3-D printed foods, and many more! How do these technologies benefit our society? Why are there some hesitations about these new technologies?