That honey crisp apple you ate today was thousands of years in the making. If we suddenly abandoned our corn fields, corn as we know it would cease to exist. This course is designed for students intrigued by the science that produced our modern fruit and vegetable crops, as well as those generally interested in plant biology and evolution. We will explore the intricate relationship between humans and plants, focusing on how humans have re-shaped plant biology for their own benefit.

This course engages students in the practice of Community Service Learning, including consideration of what constitutes appropriate and effective community service, and how to learn deeply from this experience. Each time it is offered, it is organized around a topic of public concern that draws on a variety of perspectives, and it places students with community organizations in service that relates directly to the course topic. Students therefore integrate academic learning with experiential learning.

Through millions of years of evolution, nature has developed ways to perform amazing tasks like flying, sticking, shooting, jumping, and converting solar energy. Often nature achieves these functions in a unique way, with materials that range from strong and tough to soft and flexible. This seminar will introduce some underlying themes of bioinspiration: where solutions to societal and technological challenges are developed by finding inspiration in nature.

Through millions of years of evolution, nature has developed ways to perform amazing tasks like flying, sticking, shooting, jumping, and converting solar energy. Often nature achieves these functions in a unique way, with materials that range from strong and tough to soft and flexible. This seminar will introduce some underlying themes of bioinspiration: where solutions to societal and technological challenges are developed by finding inspiration in nature.

It was estimated that one third of cancer cases might be preventable by dietary modification. Food acts as medicine to prevent and treat disease. On the other hand, 1 in 6 Americans gets sick from foodborne illness each year. What we eat is central to our health. Let's find out how food impacts health!

That honey crisp apple you ate today was thousands of years in the making. If we suddenly abandoned our corn fields, corn as we know it would cease to exist. This course is designed for students intrigued by the science that produced our modern fruit and vegetable crops, as well as those generally interested in plant biology and evolution. We will explore the intricate relationship between humans and plants, focusing on how humans have re-shaped plant biology for their own benefit.

It was estimated that one third of cancer cases might be preventable by dietary modification. Food acts as medicine to prevent and treat disease. On the other hand, 1 in 6 Americans gets sick from foodborne illness each year. What we eat is central to our health. Let's find out how food impacts health!

We will explore the context of Brazil and Southern Cone of Latin America Dictatorships, mainly of the 1970s and 1980s including Argentina, Bolivia, Chile, Paraguay and Uruguay, focusing on how resistance and guerrilla movements strategically used gender and emotions. We will use bibliography as well some other resources - films and documents - to explore this context and to have a comprehensive view of gender, sexuality and emotions at this period.

This course is intended to provide beginning engineering students with a clear overview of the field of biomedical engineering so they can confidently decide if they want to pursue biomedical engineering as a profession. Throughout the semester, students will develop basic skills in problem-solving, computation, design, and communication that will help them in all future engineering courses.