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Show UNIVERSITY JOURNAL CAMPUS NEWS !MONDAY, JUNEA, 2001 I PAGE $ Counting toads time wrell spent 2 for Buy 1 get 1 Free! the price of 1 ! Half price for two! NQ matter how you say it, youve got a great deal at Life Phase Fitness Add a friend al no extra Charge with your new FULL-SERVICE. ALL- HOURS. STUOENT MEMBERSHIP. Racquetball , Aerobics, Circuit Weights, Free Life Phase Fitness - · Weights, Kickboxing, Treadmills, Stair Steppers, Weight-loss 246 E. Fiddler's Canyon Road (behind Fiddler's Cinema) Systems. 7(/e ~atte tk 586-7447 e~ ~ ·.t.~ 7tJ 7(/Wt,f 0 P -C N I N Do~ wNTOWN L·-n T -C C{ D~ ~ CITV ~gc_q7qq • WWW. UHI Y{LI NGTO GLCO m I Mark Twain said, "Don't let your schooling get . the amphibian. Then, back in the UU Lab , the in the way of your education,· so surely Twain protein is scrutinized via an electric current would advocate such frivolous folly as spending pr ocesli which migrates and reforms the protein the evening counting toads o n a hillside. lbat 's into band patterns, similar to tha t of DNA what Katrina Weaver, an SUU ophomore, has patterns. Weaver explains that the design and been doing lately, but it's hardly been tri.Oe number of patterns indicates if the toad from which the tissue came is one of the pecies or, in activity. Indeed, she's been counting toads, but only as part of some serious genetic re earch she fact, a combination of both species. is engaged in ac SUU. Her reward for many hours Terry chwaner, SUU associate professor of biology, notes that a similar ·tudy was done in of work is not only the experience of undergraduate research , but also a summer central Arizona by Dr. Brian Sullivan, and that the fellowship at a biomedical research unit in efforts at SUU are being compared to the re ults Galveston, Texas. of that study. He explains that Weaver's in-depth As a student at Bingham High chool in uth involvement in die toad project definitely Jordan. Weaver earned enough college credits contributed to her being chosen to participate through her coUege-bound ~ -- - -- - - - - -- ---. chis summer in a biomedical honors cJas e to enter in research progr.un at the medical the fa.1.1 or2000 as a cencer at the niversicy onexas sophomore. he cho e U at Galveston. Only 32 studenlS becau e ofit · high rate of were chosen fr macros - (he undergraduate v,,ho are n.ited State ·. "Personally a cepted omedicaJ chool. acquainted with Katrina ' pon her arrival , she dove intelligence and potential, Eric Freden ( U assistant professor into intensive and advanced cientific research which will of math) and I encouraged po ition her as a prime Katrina to appl at Texas. We candidate for a career in weren 't ure he would get it biomedical or bioinformatics because h i a freshman-aged re earch. Katrina is one of several udents ophomor . Bue when he did receive it, we accepted to the toad genetic research project at weren 't urprised. She is cenainly qualified and uu. de erving. n In this curiou project, Weaver explains, he · Weaver will be studying controlled ubstance studying two different pecie of toads that dwell at T a and their efli cts on ch female body, in on the Virgin River in ouchem tah and northern particular. he is excited about the subject, as ont: Arizona, in attempt to decipher whether they are of her interests lies in obstetrics and gynecology. However, a student in its pure · t form, Weaver is cross-breeding with one another, and if they are, if another hybridization is developing, or if one mo t enthralled by how each of her new species is facing dissipation. "We 're trying to exp rien es presents more po ibilities. Moreover, she is comfortable in her first year of understand how to pr vent extinction of one of the species," Weaver states. he adds that these ., college not knowing for sure what career she two species of toads usually have distinctly want to pur ue . "Each program I b come separate mating · ~on , but flooding in the area involved in just open my eye to the many ha · overlapped their mating rituals. different opponunities and jobs there are in this . - The process by which Weaver is analyLing this one particular field . Maybe I don 't want co be a ituation i a complex and intriguing o~e. First, doctor, maybe I want to be a re earcher. she goes t ad-hunting at night on the Virgin "When people hear I am 'studying toads ,'" the River. he catches the toads , rags them and ( co11ti1iued o,i page 9) extr.1cts a tissue ample containing protein from Katrina Weaver's local hillside observations are part Of SeriOLJS genefiC resea rch. V_OUll W.ANT TO lftV OU~ -DU++.A WING~ (U . ., ~~~~..._ I' " ~""" \. LESS , OF COURSE , YOU'RE A CHICKE ) Wmger's, home of World Famous Buffalo Wings Ribs • Oricken • Sizzling Fajitas • Sensational Salads Gourmet Sandwiches and Burgers Tra eling 'TOGS Clottllag & Accesso ries Kids Menu & More. ® OW SERVING BREAKFAST! An Am erican Dine r 1555 West Regency Road • Cedar City• 867-1700 l\l A N W A S ;\I E .\ /'\ T TO 11 A V E W I N G S |