The following (emails) were written by members of the Medicine and Biosciences during the third day of the program. Some elements may have been removed for various reasons, but the text that remains is in the student's own words.
Today we have a great time learning about science. We were given a brief synopsis about three areas of science: genetics; computational chemistry; data analysis. After we were given this information we had the opportunity to choose the project that we were going to work on for the next two days. I decided to do a project on drugs (morphine and codiene to be exact). Just beginning the project was quite a challenge. After we were able to model the structure, with a little help, we began to work on our STELLA® model that we will use to compare our data. Tomorrow will be a day full of hard work, effort, and little time for fun. I hope that my presentation will reflect the work that I will put into it.
Monte
Projects were really fun and not as complicated as I thought they would thusfar. Nwakaego has been a real help on our Bubonic Plague chart on Stella. Although we covered special topics this morning (genetics, computational chemistry, linear regression, Hardy-Weinberg theory), we had time to joke about... Monte's feet! I hope we create a really stellar project and that I invest enough hard work and determination to actually make a halfway decent presentation happen.
Margaux
Today I accomplished a lot. Margaux and I decided to do a project on the Black Plague. So far we have made the model and we also wrote down our assumptions. This morning before we started our projects we did special topics and we did linear regressions and computational science. Wendy also taught us about Hardy Weinderg and his theory. After starting our project they didn't seem as hard as I thought. Yesterday I asked if it would be possible for me to get a copy of STELLA. I would also like a copy of MacSpartan if it's possible. If you forgot my e-mail address it is Appolonia24@yahoo.com Don't be a strange write me with info please. I have to go now. Later gator
Nwakaego
Today we worked with special topics. We did linear regression, computational chemistry and genetics. We worked with a new program called Macspartan. We looked at how traits are decided in genetics and the chances of certain things showing up. We started our projects today. We chose a topic and began our work on it. I worked with the STELLA model for colon cancer and analyzed it. We ran into some complications with the stella model of cancer, but worked to fix it. We didnt get it totally figured out, but we'll continue to work on it tomorrow. It would be great to have STELLA and macspartan on my home computer. These programs are extremely helpful with explaining and analyzing different things. Hopefully I'll be able to get a copy to work with at home!!!!
Ashmi
Today was great fun as usual at Medicine and Biosciences Workshop. I was not here for the morning lesson, but I did get here on time to start our partner project. It was a lot of fun. Bob2 suggested to us ideas to use in order to do our projects. My partner and I decided to do our project on colon rectal cancer which is under the cateogory Epidemiology. I am very excited about that. Unfortunately, we discovered that our model for our project was incorrectly done. We had Bob2, Wendy, and Erin help us. Thank goodness our mentors could help. My partner and I will be working on our presentation tomorrow. Stella is fun. I like Stella. I still want a Stella t-shirt. I can't wait to finish up our project. That will be good.
Paula
Today, Bob2, Erin, and Wendy each gave a special topics. We used STELLA again to model genetics and computational science. We used Excell to do data analyisis on statistics. We also chose our project for the rest of the week. We decided to study codine and the way it works in the body. It was quite a challenge to model codeine, but with help we finally secured the model.We ran a electrostatic potential on codine, and tomorrow we'll collect data on morphine.
Aimee
Today was exciting.We did some computational chemistry and more Stella models.We also got our project ideas today. In the compchem, we made gylcine models. In Stella we learned about Hardee Weinberg. Class was fun.
Dyumonwledeh
Hola. Como estas? ¡Yo estoy bien! Well, we learned information on genetics, computational chemistry, and linear regression. I decided to do my report on the dosage of codeine in the body. It is very difficult to find some of the information, but quite interesting.That's all for now. Choa!
Kismit