{"id":11206,"date":"2022-08-10T16:32:12","date_gmt":"2022-08-10T20:32:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hollins.edu\/magazine\/?p=11206"},"modified":"2022-08-29T17:34:10","modified_gmt":"2022-08-29T21:34:10","slug":"hollins-students-conduct-research-through-virginia-techs-global-change-center","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hollins.edu\/magazine\/hollins-students-conduct-research-through-virginia-techs-global-change-center\/","title":{"rendered":"Hollins Students Conduct Research Through Virginia Tech\u2019s Global Change Center"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-11649\" src=\"https:\/\/www.hollins.edu\/magazine\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/StudentResearch.jpg\" alt=\"Hollins student in lab\" width=\"300\" height=\"325\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.hollins.edu\/magazine\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/StudentResearch.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.hollins.edu\/magazine\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/StudentResearch-231x250.jpg 231w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>\n<span class=\"edgtf-dropcaps edgtf-normal\" style=\"color: #7acfe1\">\n\tL<\/span>aunched in 2017, the Hollins Partnership program gives select Hollins undergraduates the opportunity to identify possible mentor-mentee connections\/relationships for their future graduate training. This summer, Aqsa Fazal \u201923, Olivia Sacci \u201924, and Jessica Willebeek-LeMair \u201923 enjoyed close collaborations with faculty from the Global Change Center at Virginia Tech, partnerships that enhanced their research experience portfolios.<\/p>\n<p>Fazal, who is majoring in chemistry with a concentration in biochemistry and minors in biology and physics, researched mosquito-borne diseases. Building on her experience working with amphibians in both a clinical and zoological setting, Sacci studied the symbiotic microbial communities that reside on amphibian skin as well as the microbiome-parasite interactions in honeybees. She is a biology major and chemistry minor on the pre-veterinary track at Hollins. Willebeek-LeMair, an environmental science major, assisted in using data from wildlife viewer surveys to write scientific reports. The experience enhanced her data analysis and scientific writing skills and provided her with a new social perspective on environmental conservation issues in the Appalachian region.<\/p>\n<p>Fazal, Sacci, and Willebeek-LeMair participated in the Fralin Life Science Institute\u2019s Summer Undergraduate Research Fellowship program in conjunction with activities organized by the Virginia Tech Office of Undergraduate Research.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Hollins Partnership program gives select Hollins undergraduates the opportunity to identify possible mentor-mentee connections\/relationships for their future graduate training.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,130],"tags":[133],"class_list":["post-11206","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-in_the_loop","category-homepage-side","tag-summer-2022"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hollins.edu\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11206","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hollins.edu\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hollins.edu\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hollins.edu\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hollins.edu\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11206"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.hollins.edu\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11206\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11650,"href":"https:\/\/www.hollins.edu\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11206\/revisions\/11650"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hollins.edu\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11206"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hollins.edu\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11206"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hollins.edu\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11206"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}