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Tidal pool returns to Spring
Fest
 By
Charise Pettit
Staff Writer
The departments of biology and food science intend
to provide people of all ages with interesting educational opportunities
as part of Spring Fest on Saturday and Sunday.
Food Science's "Fun Fair" tent will include cotton
candy making with the Food Science Club and making can banks to show
kids how to use a sealer. For the older crowd, someone will be explaining
how food is made for the astronauts in a NASA display.
"The display will include samples of freeze-dried
ice cream, which is something not many people have heard of or tried
before," said Stacey Dunderman, schedule deputy for the food science
department.
The Food Science Graduate School Association will
also be providing chili under the Fun Fair tent, to be located outside
of the Food Sciences building.
More than 60 people are involved with this year's
biology department activities, from freshmen students and the biology
club all the way up to professors and deans.
"It's really great how far up the ladder we have
people getting involved. For example, Associate Dean Chris Sahley is
doing an exhibit on how leeches learn," said Clark Gedney, director
of the Biomedia Center for Instructional Design.
The most popular event each year is the hands-on
tidal pool, where participants can pick up marine animals such as sea
urchins, sandstars and sea dollars. They can also learn about sea urchin
embryology with freshmen biology students.
Professors in the department of biological sciences
Laurie Iten and Donna Fekete, along with others, will run a chicken
embryology exhibit.
"The last few years, we've run a video camera with
this, and it's surprising — while little kids with magnifying glasses
tear holes into the eggs, 50 percent of the people trying to get in
on the activities are adults," said Gedney.
Other activities include DNA extraction with John
Anderson and human electrocardiograms with Dave Bridges, both of the
biological sciences department. All biology events will take place in
the main lobby of Lilly Hall of Sciences.
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