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Sexed Semen is changing the Face of Cattle Reproduction Worldwide Sexed Sorted Semen is still a relatively new reproductive technology that is impacting cattle producers and semen marketers worldwide. Using flow cytometry, purified sperm is sex sorted into X-bearing chromosome and Y-bearing chromosome populations. These subpopulations can then be frozen and stored for future use in artificial breeding. This technology works well in a well-managed artificial insemination or embryo transfer…

Minority Serving Institutions: Educating All Students By: Marybeth Gasman, University of Pennsylvania & Clifton F. Conrad, University of Wisconsin, Madison & Associates • The purpose of the Minority Serving Institutions (MSIs) Models of Success study, was to understand the work and contributions of MSIs by analyzing 12 MSIs throughout the United States. • Minority Serving Institutions (MSIs) Overview o MSIs emerged in response to a history of inequity, lack of minority people’s access to…

and the Coyote is also important because it shows representation of the latino community, and representation is important especially to children who are considered minorities, “ A report by the Cooperative Children 's Book Center at the University of Wisconsin-Madison found that only 3 percent of children 's books are by or about Latinos — even though nearly a quarter of all public school children today are Latino.” this representation lets children who are latino be proud of who they are and be…

Imagism was a literary movement that began in the early 20th century. This movement has its roots in the artistic world where its main aim was to avoid the old conventions and find new ways of creativity. Poets such as Ezra Pound, H.D. and William Carlos Williams tried to create a way of expressing the imagism in painting through words in poetry. This movement as contemporary art repudiates ‘beauty’ standards, and the Romanticism of the 19th-century while it admires the quotidian, the perceptual…

Dr. Amber G Luhn is a pediatric sports medicine specialist at the Knoxville Orthopedic Center who got her degree from the Medical College of Georgia. She is married and has children of her own. Her job entails seeing children and teens with sports related injuries that are nonsurgical. She sees patients who have injuries ranging from their toe to their head. Additionally, Dr. Luhn sees patients who have concussions. When Dr. Luhn has a new patient, she makes sure to go out of her way to…

In this new age driven by technology everything around us seems to be changing. Technology nowadays has influenced many aspects of our lives from the way we get an education, apply for a job, and even how we find love. It is now possible to meet your future spouse through a computer screen, or at least that is what websites like Match, and eHarmony are claiming to be able to do. Can finding love really be that simple? Is answering a few questions like how much you make, or how tall you are…

On the Run: Fugitive Life in an American City is a book written by a University of Wisconsin-Madison professor named Alice Goffman. Goffman’s book is written after her completion of a six-year ethnographic observation of a poor black community in Philadephia. This observation allowed Goffman to really understand the sudden prison boom and the hidden practices and surveillance practices lying in this one community. The completion of Goffman’s observation assignment also points out her main…

Competency means "capability." Although we use it to mean someone have enough qualification, it comes from word compete, meaning that somebody with competency is good enough to compete with other candidates. If you pass the examination of the medical board, so you have medical competency. Most of the jobs require that you show competency, through the authentication, or on-the-job performance. If you keep pretending injuries to get out of saving people, somebody will ultimately question your…

Americans are often associated with the idea of a ruthless brute, but in actuality, without them, agriculture as we know it, and possibly even America itself, may have never existed. Eve Emshwiller, an assistant professor of botany at University of Wisconsin-Madison, stands to say, “We have always talked about hunter-gatherers as if one day they were gathering food and noticed a plant growing from a seed and thought, ‘We could gather seeds and start farming,’ as if this brilliant idea happened…

Blair Hooks. She thought that by going by “bell hooks” that the people would recognize her more of her work, rather than her name. hooks obtained her B.A. in English from Stanford University and then M.A. in English from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Soon after, she taught English and Ethnic Studies at the University of Southern California. After[ML1] a few years of teaching at numerous institutions, hooks began to write books and journals. Her work primarily focused on the…