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Huntington's disease (HD) is a progressive and fatal genetic disorder characterized by severe motor and cognitive defects. The disease is caused by an expansion of CAG repeats in the Huntingtin gene. As a result, the disease symptoms are caused by some combination of the mutated huntingtin protein, toxic huntingtin RNA, and the extra glutamines encoded by the CAG repeats. Most studies of HD have focused on the central nervous system and the motor defects are widely considered to be the...
Dr. Shawn Devlin, an alumnus of our Environmental Sciences Ph.D. Program, was recently recognized by the Association for the Sciences of Limnology and Oceanography for an outstanding peer-reviewed paper in the aquatic sciences. To read more about Shawn's work, please visit the ASLO website where the complete article is published.
After 19 years of service, Science and Mathematics' Librarian, Mary Lou Baker Jones is retiring. She has presented posters or panels at local, state, national and international conferences and co-authored articles on teaching chemical literature and on the challenges of filling academic science librarian positions. She was instrumental in expanding the library’s involvement with the Exploring STEMM program (among her many other efforts). Over the years she has team-taught a Chemistry course...
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