The Search for Bt Click on the link to see our lab in action! We extracted DNA from tortillias, fritos, gummy bears, chicken feed, popcorn,cheerios, polenta and jam. We used PCR to amplify the corn invertase gene (to show we … Continue reading →
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SCC: Happy Holiday Shopping Season!
Happy Thanksgiving Vassar! While on Thursday many will be digging into large portions of Turkey (or possibly some Tofurky for those vegetarians and vegans among us), the day after then kicks off the nonstop shopping extravaganza that is the Holiday season.
For this week’s Sustainable Community Challenge – and for this holiday season more generally – we ask you to think more locally with your holiday spending.
Joanne King: The Mother of the Queens
Many would call Joanne King a legend of the Honey Queen Program. Serving as chair for seventeen years of a program that’s only been alive for fifty three is certainly a memorable accomplishment.
The “Evidence” of Pseudoscience
Kelly Klick (Tjepkes)
Kelly Klick (formerly Tjepkes) is from the suburbs of Minneapolis, Minnesota. She had no prior experience with beekeeping (except an appreciation for honey), but one of her teachers at North Hennepin Community College suggested she look into the competition though she’d never considered doing anything like the honey queen program but thought, “why not?” In order to prepare she studied a lot of books that her teacher lent her and she took an introductory course in beekeeping at the University of Minnesota.