By KIM HACHIYA UNK Communications Like many artists, Victoria Goro-Rapoport’s world is wrapped up in journey, process and discovery. This print maker has experimented with a number of ways to make prints, with each method containing technical limitations that ultimately proved unsatisfying as a medium. But as she has experimented and refined techniques, she may have landed, through serendipity, on a new printmaking method that combines technology and materials in different and fulfilling … [Read more...]
Framing the Future of Fuel: Tenkorang studies ethanol’s reputation, impact on world food prices
By JAN TREFFER THOMPSON Frank Tenkorang was still a graduate assistant at Purdue University when his officemate mentioned some exciting news: the school had started powering its trucks with soy biodiesel. It was 2005, and the United States was jumping on the biofuels bandwagon. In the years since, Tenkorang has seen biofuels – corn-based ethanol in particular – evolve from a budding industry into an established part of the Midwest economy, and now into a controversial commodity with a … [Read more...]
Muscular Architecture: Akehi studies neuromuscular changes in college athletes
By Sara Giboney, UNK Communications Growing up in Asahikawa, Japan, Kazuma Akehi spent summers playing basketball, soccer and baseball and winters skiing and snowboarding. He was always moving his body. “Obviously we didn’t have smartphones when I was growing up, so outside was our playground,” he said. “I loved running around and chasing the ball with my friends. I simply loved to move. I wanted to be moving all of the time.” His love for physical activity eventually led him to his … [Read more...]
Embracing Scholarship: Hodge adapts, learns to love case study research
By KIM HACHIYA, UNK Communications Consider this situation: You are the boss of a highly educated, dedicated professional who is good at her job, and in whom you have invested time and resources. But a recent culture shift in your organization has upset her apple cart in ways that make it hard for her to succeed like she once did. She was a happy, early-career professor who worked to earn her master’s and doctoral degrees to teach principles of management, business ethics, business … [Read more...]
Superheroes Collide: Palmer examines comic book industry from business perspective
By SARA GIBONEY UNK Communications Seventy-two long cardboard storage boxes contain the fantastical narratives of superheroes, spies and other fictional characters. David Palmer’s collection of comic books has grown to 20,000 in the 50 years that he’s been reading and collecting. Palmer’s love for comic books began as a child. He remembers being captivated by Captain America, Thor, Iron Man and the Wasp as he read the Avengers in the early 1960s. “Comic books are fun and full of … [Read more...]
