Alumni Profiles: Shannon Hinsa-Leasure - '04 PhD in Molecular and Cellular Biology
Associate Professor of Biology at Grinnell College, Iowa. https://www.grinnell.edu/users/hinsa
[more]Associate Professor of Biology at Grinnell College, Iowa. https://www.grinnell.edu/users/hinsa
[more]Allison Henrich is Associate Professor of Mathematics at Seattle University. http://fac-staff.seattleu.edu/henricha/web/
[more]Technical Evangelist, Microsoft https://blogs.microsoft.com/jobs/rising-tech-stars-advice-younger-self/
[more]The GRAD Office Externship Program, or “take a grad student to work day,” gives active graduate students an opportunity to shadow a Dartmouth graduate alumni and live a day in the life at their occupation. In late February, I had the pleasure of observing Dr. Jeff Byers (PhD Chemistry ’84), a faculty member at Middlebury College.
[more]The Dartmouth Graduate Alumni Research Award has been instrumental in my graduate research this year. In the Guerinot lab, we study how essential nutrients are “eaten” by and stored in plants. For many of the nutrients that we study the only way to visualize their localization in the plant is to use a giant X-ray to conduct Synchrotron X-ray Fluorescence Spectroscopy (SXRF) microanalysis, which allows non-destructive multi-elemental imaging of plant tissues. The support of this award allowed me access to collaborating synchrotron beam lines.
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