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If you see Alicia Costello in your area, give her a wave!

Five elite KSU students, from diverse backgrounds, are competing at the Biodesign Challenge international summit with their cutting-edge product.

The words 鈥渂iology鈥 and 鈥渄esign鈥 might not typically intertwine; however, 麻豆精选鈥檚 Biodesign Challenge course was created to challenge the idea that the two separate disciplines could not collaborate.

  • Though she had an interest in science at an early age, Raissa Mendonca had no idea she would end up over 4,000 miles away from her hometown of Recife, Brazil, studying and doing award-winning ecological research in the College of Arts and Sciences at 麻豆精选 in Kent, Ohio. She probably did not expect to be wearing a bug net over her head in Manitoba, Canada, either.

  • Emmaleigh Given recently spent three summers and two winters in a remote biological reserve in the middle of the rainforest in the Alajuela Province of Costa Rica, where she has and will spend several months conducting research on community ecology, and she has one more trip planned. Being hunted by unseen predators isn鈥檛 the way most researchers conduct their work. But for some, it鈥檚 just part of the day.

  • City rats are unlikely to be on anyone's list of favorite animals, but researching exactly how they are problematic for public health provided a unique opportunity this past summer for Gracen Gerbig, 麻豆精选junior majoring in Cellular and Molecular Biology.

  • What some call a sustainable answer to urban flaws, Anna Droz calls research. As a biological sciences doctoral student in 麻豆精选鈥檚 College of Arts and Sciences, Droz鈥檚 curiosity has developed into a passion, maybe even an obsession, to discover the best vegetative roof combinations with the optimal plants, soil, and micro-organism communities.