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<h3>Enaz Mahmoud<br />Teaching & Learning, PhD<br />Specializing in Instructional Design & Technology</h3>
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<p><strong>What is your hometown and what brought you to the University of North Dakota?</strong></p>
<p>My hometown is Amman, the capital of Jordan, a city of 2.5 million and growing. My decision to come to the University of North Dakota was based on many factors. The first was that I wanted to concentrate on a university in the United States. The University of North Dakota has a very high rank in many majors, including aviation and engineering. To me, that meant that UND is a very respectable university and their education program would also be very good. </p>
<p>Secondly, they offered my major, Instructional Design and Technology. Then I compared tuition rates to other schools in the United States and found that the rate here is very fair and inexpensive. </p>
<p>Once I found out that Grand Forks is a very safe place to live, I told myself “Okay, this is the right place that I should apply and focus my attention on.” Once I arrived here, I realized that the people are very nice. Everybody is smiling and happy to say hello and talk and help.<strong> </strong></p>
<p><strong>What is the biggest adjustment that you have had to make in moving from Amman, Jordan to Grand Forks, North Dakota?</strong></p>
<p>There are two main adjustments that I have had to make. First of all, improving my English language skills. I need to be able to deliver my ideas, my emotions and what I want to say effectively. Since I am a doctoral student the main thing that I have had to focus on is to develop my writing skills.</p>
<p>The second adjustment was the weather. In the summer, Jordan is around 100-120 degrees and the minimum in the winter is 35-40 Fahrenheit. It is possible to receive two or three inches of snow during the year in Amman. It was very nice when I arrived in Grand Forks in August, but the weather can change very rapidly, from 80 degrees to minus two or minus five in a short amount of time.</p>
<p><strong>You are a Graduate Research Assistant with the College of Education and Human Development, what research projects are you currently involved in?</strong></p>
<p>I’m working on a collaboration called The STEM Project which is federally funded. This project calls for the comprehension of science, technology, engineering and mathematics. We are currently helping the students of the Grand Forks schools to develop their way of learning those subjects. The main project helps students design and construct a house that is completely sustainable. The house generates its own electricity and grows its own food. Students have to observe and measure the sunlight and convert it to electricity. Once they have the electricity, they calculate how much energy they will need to use. Essentially, they need to use all of the content that they will learn in science, technology, mathematics, to be able to construct the house.</p>
<p><strong>What can you do with a degree in IDT?</strong></p>
<p>There are two possible career opportunities. The first opportunity is to be a university professor, teaching courses in Instructional Design.</p>
<p>The other possibility, what I'm looking at right now, is to be a specialist in instructional design and technology. The specialist approach is much broader than the first goal because all the companies, all the universities, all the banks need an instructional designer. Amazon, Motorola, Adobe, and other companies, they need instructional designers to develop training courses for their staff as well as consumers to train them how to use their products. </p>
<p><strong>Do you feel that there is a strong international student community on campus?</strong></p>
<p>Yes, strong and cohesive international community here. </p>
<p>The UND Office of International Programs organizes many activities to help international students engage in their own communities and the larger UND community. One of the events that they host is called cultural night, it takes place on Thursday nights at 6:30 at the Loading Dock at the Memorial Union.</p>
<p>All students from all nations are invited to come to the cultural nights. The host students from, for example, India, China, Saudi Arabia, Mexico, Norway, they cook their traditional food and present in traditional clothes. </p>
<p>The Office of International Programs also helps new international students adjust to campus life and life in the United States. I thought that I was going to have to discover all of this on my own but I had a peer mentor, an international student that assists new international students adjust. He picked me up at the airport, gave me rides to where I needed to go and helped me open a bank account. I never imagined the help that I received.</p>
<p><strong>What is your best advice for a graduate student who is looking to obtain a degree in Instructional Design and Technology?</strong> </p>
<p>Research and conducting studies are very important. I plan to conduct one study every year, to be updated with new updates or a new information. The information and the knowledge grow day after day, so this is one of the reasons that I encourage students, after they finish their degree, not to stop doing research, continue. Even one study per year, this is the minimum.</p>
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<p><strong>What is your hometown?</strong> <br />Originally, I’m from Chester, which is in northwest England near Liverpool. When I was about 19, I moved to the south coast to attend the University of Brighton where I did my undergraduate degree. It was a new degree in Forestry and Biological Sciences. It was a split degree meaning you could successfully graduate after 3 years with a Higher National Diploma, which gives students a vocational qualification, or stay on as I did with one other girl for another 18 months to complete a bachelors’ degree.</p>
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<p><strong>Then you came to the United States for a Masters degree at Tulane University in New Orleans. How did that come about?</strong> <br />While I was doing my undergrad, I became extremely passionate about tropical forests, and I worked at a tree nursery during the summer, and saved enough to go on an Earthwatch project in Costa Rica working with caterpillars and their parasitoids. It was a dream come true for me because I’d been reading about explorers and the tropics, and then I had a chance to go there and experience it. It blew me away – the diversity of the insects, the vegetation. While I was there I met a professor who was involved with the Earthwatch project and was also connected to a project I found myself working on the following year in Ecuador. He brought an Earthwatch group to that project and through talking with him, he invited me to get a graduate degree at Tulane University and in 2009 I obtained my Masters degree.</p>
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<p><strong>It’s quite a journey to UND for your PhD - this is by no means the Tropics!</strong><br />I’d spent a lot of time doing fieldwork in the tropics, and had taken time out to work there –a year in Ecuador and a year in Panama and traveling back and forth to the UK. I’d spent quite a lot of time doing this type of work - studying insects and their natural enemies and I really wanted to delve in and get to the root of these interactions by looking at what was going on at the level of the DNA. I also recognized that, increasingly, Biology jobs were moving very much towards these specializations like molecular biology or chemical ecology. UND had both funding and training in molecular biology. Our department has three main groups – wildlife biology, ecology and molecular biology – so it makes for interesting research across the department.</p>
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<p><strong>Congratulations to you for successfully earned an Adele Lewis Grant Fellowship for Graduate Women in Science earlier this year.</strong> <br />I put the application together over the Christmas break last year and thought, “We’ll just see what happens…<em>maybe</em> I’ll get a <em>little</em> something…” I knew that the decisions were to be announced in July, and in late June I was working on dissecting some butterfly wings and got a call from a representative of the Graduate Women in Science and she congratulated me and told me I was the highest scoring applicant! I couldn’t believe it! I later learned the award is open to all female scientists – graduate, postdocs, faculty etc. There were over 200 applications, so I just couldn’t believe it! And they funded me 100% of my application. It opened so many doors to me in terms of my research, and also participating in committee meetings for the Graduate Women in Science – I was really honored and extremely grateful.</p>
<p>I’ve been lucky this year with funding, getting this award, an APSAC and Wheeler award from the Biology Department, an EPSCoR Doctoral Dissertation Award and I’m preparing another for the Doctoral Dissertation Improvement Grant for NSF (National Science Foundation). I’m always thinking ahead – the thing about molecular biology is that it’s expensive. You need equipment, reagents… so I’m constantly thinking about how to fund my research. I’ve written lots of grants - it takes a long time to learn how to write a good grant.</p>
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<p><strong>I imagine that the further you get into your research project, the clearer you are able to determine and articulate your funding needs?</strong><br /> Yes, and when I’m writing a grant I always try to imagine the reviewer and ask myself whether, “Is it clear? Is the story logical? “And hopefully make their decision to fund an easy one!</p>
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<p><strong>So you have a couple of pools of funding for your dissertation research?</strong> <br />Yes, and this has allowed me to present my research at the Entomological Society of America conference in Austin, Texas and the EPSCoR funding really helped along with travel funding from the Graduate School and an intercollegiate academic award.</p>
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<p><strong>Tell me about your dissertation research.</strong> <br />Broadly speaking, my research seeks to understand how animals develop – what are the genes involved, and how do the genes function to produce all of the diversity of animals that we see in nature. My study organisms are butterflies as they exhibit a lot of morphological variation in their wing color patterns, and plus they are stunningly beautiful animals to work with. So my goal is to identify some of the genes that are involved in wing color pattern development but also to examine how the environment can alter gene expression leading to differences in wing color patterns.</p>
<p>Specifically what I am interested in is the question whether epigenetic mechanisms are involved in regulating wing color patterns. Epigenetics literally means “above the genes” and it refers to the molecular mechanisms that alter gene expression without actually changing the underlying DNA sequence. During development there are molecular tags that get added on either to the DNA or the proteins that DNA wraps around. And when these tags get added on, they can result in genes being switched on or switched off. It’s a dynamic process, and these tags can be influenced by development cues – and what we’re learning more about now is that they can also be influenced by environmental cues. These tags are heritable, and can be transmitted from parent to offspring.</p>
<p>Even though epigenetics has been around for a while, recently there’s been a surge of interest in this area. For a long time, biologists thought that an organism’s genotype was determined strictly by the genes it inherits. But we now know it is a lot more complicated than that – for example twins can have different susceptibilities to disease even though they inherited an identical genome due to environmental influences on epigenetic mechanisms. So epigenetics has profound implications for our health and determining an organisms’ phenotype. We’re really only just scratching the surface in understanding how these interactions work.</p>
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<p><strong>You mentioned earlier that you’re always thinking ahead. What is down the road for you in 5 – 10 years?</strong> <br />My passion is in research – I live and breathe my work. Ideally, I’d like to do some postdoc work, which could be 2-5 years. I’d really like to use my research in molecular and developmental biology to understand why there is so much diversity in the tropics. Although my research is with butterflies, the great thing about molecular biology is that once you learn how to study what’s happening at the level of the DNA, you can study any organism.</p>
<p>Ideally I’d be based in the UK so I could be closer to my family, but have a fieldwork project somewhere in the tropics. My dream job would be as a staff scientist at the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute in Panama where I worked previously. It is an amazing facility, and you’re surrounded by tropical biologists who are all equally passionate about their work. You never take it for granted because you are always learning and discovering something new - a new insect or new bird. I love being around that intellectual excitement. There are always seminars going on, and mentorship opportunities.</p>
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<p><strong>We highlight the role that mentorship plays in graduate education, but you play a part in both mentoring undergraduate students and being mentored by your own faculty.</strong> <br />Yes, it is critical. In our department there is a lot of opportunity to work with undergraduates and they have all been fantastic. I couldn’t get through my current research without help from my undergraduate student. It is important to me that they feel like they are collaborators and are not just there to do grunt work. I love taking on a new student who knows nothing about my project and watching them grow and develop to the point where they can work independently. It’s so rewarding to see.</p>
<p>But I also learn so much from the faculty whom I assist. I’m working with Dr Carmichael as a teaching assistant in the new SCALE-up room. I love working with him, he’s really organized and has been doing it a long time. I’ve learned so much and will be able to adopt some of that style in my future teaching.</p>
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<p><strong>What advice do you have for a student who is considering a graduate degree in Biology?</strong><br />Finding someone that you feel comfortable working with, because you need to work closely with that person for 5 years. My advisor, Dr Rebecca Simmons, is so wonderful, and fun and positive. She gives me freedom to do what I want with my research but is always right behind me encouraging me and many times has gone out of her way to help me.</p>
<p>I have a wonderful committee, actually. I have learned a tremendous amount from Dr Turk Rhen. He has spent many hours teaching me how to do micro dissections and transcriptomics, and we’ve had many interesting conversations about epigenetics – he’s one of the most patient people I’ve ever met! Dr Diane Darland is a fountain of wisdom. She’s helped me prepare my cv as well as grant writing. Dr Brian Darby paid for me to attend the Ecological Genomics conference last year and is very generous letting me borrow things from his lab! I’m lucky to have a really great committee. I get to work and learn from faculty with a variety of strengths and expertise.</p>
<p>Secondly, you <em>have</em> to be passionate. Doing a PhD, you need to be very self motivated, which is easy if you are passionate about what you do. It is very stressful and there are immensely long hours, so you have to be doing something you love. I feel like a PhD is what you make it. I’m also very ambitious so I set the bar high for myself, which also puts me under a lot of stress! I know where I want my research to go and I recognize that there is a lot of work to do to get there. I think I’ll always be very driven to do my work, but who knows? Maybe when I get to do post doctoral work I can find more of that work-life balance. I might take up playing the violin again!</p>
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<p><strong>Where you are from? </strong></p>
<p>I was born and raised in Pakistan where I did my undergraduate degree and my first Masters degree in Computer Sciences at the University of Karachi. That was focused on software engineering . I then moved to Canada in 2001 to explore what the world has to offer, and after a number of years I realized I had become legacy - everything was changed in the computer world.</p>
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<p>In 2006, I decided to go back to school and I did a Masters degree focused on Database Management Systems. That was at Queen’s University in Kingston, Ontario. I also had a chance to do a full semester load course at MIT at Cambridge, MA in Systems Architecture Design, to be a certified Systems Architect from MIT, by itself is a great deal for me as well.</p>
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<p><strong>Can you describe the research you undertook for that degree?</strong></p>
<p>I was working with Pervasive computing which is embedded in our daily environment: everything from our phones, computers, to even our cars and stoves, which we can program. I created a personal information environment for an individual who is dealing with multiple devices. This was before the idea of Dropbox was even conceived by a student at MIT. I designed in 2007 an environment where an individual could access their information by logging into one of the services I designed, over the Internet.</p>
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<p><strong>So a single sign-on for all my devices?</strong></p>
<p>Yes, whether it is your phone, your iPad, desktop, laptop etc. Google, iCloud, Dropbox can all do this and there are other variations – my version was much more controlled. Due to privacy and security, some environments cannot allow you to access others, for example – a school or library computer with my work computer. It meant that on my personal computer I was able to have all the data syncing back. My office work was agnostic with my school work and vice versa.</p>
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<p><strong>How does this differ from the other cloud environments where I can access any of the information I put there from anywhere?</strong></p>
<p>The difference is that my environment belongs only to me and is done purely in my own domain. Whatever you put in the cloud, whether it be Dropbox, Google Drive or something similar, it is no longer owned by you, the user, and it can even be used against you as we see in some current lawsuits.</p>
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<p><strong>Is this what you are working on for your PhD?</strong></p>
<p>This is one part and I have converted that to a larger version I have called DOMBA (Distributed Objects Management Based Articulation). It’s an enhancement of my Personal Information Environment work however it has now gone beyond the individual, it now a NOSQL word – a Not Only Structure Query Language.</p>
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<p>I’ve been invited to talk on this at several places including Washington State University at Tacoma, Colorado State University, and Washington Industrial Technology Forum in Seattle. However, since I’m also working towards my own patent, I had to be careful about how much I could discuss. That’s where the secure session (NOSQL) takes place which is platform agnostic. ETL (Extraction Transport Load) is already built in and the size of the file, which is the DOMBA operating system, is only 16MB.</p>
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<p><strong>Cloud secured gateway – when you are working in a cloud, how can you be sure that it is secure enough to bind with your device and no one else can access it. </strong></p>
<p>So, it has a bit of threat intelligence involved so that someone can’t be sneaking in another door.</p>
<p>I have created a three level security protocol– initially you are given a handwritten password – a human is involved in that step. It’s not given to you on a machine. You sign in with that password which is coded back. Because this has never been extracted and sent over the Internet, it is not vulnerable. This will create the third key, which is tied to your device’s physical address, and this device is provided to you for your official use.</p>
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<p><strong>When you are developing this, how are you seeing it applied? Is this for Government offices, educational institutions?</strong></p>
<p>It is not necessarily for everyday use but rather for any restricted domain. For example, if you wanted me to edit a document using your device rather than uploading it to the cloud, you would give me permission to use it within a UND domain, but if I tried to edit it from outside that domain, whatever the domain is that’s approved, I’d be blocked.</p>
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<p>So it is for anyone, any organization or any industry that wants to use it because it is self-administered in-house. It is purchased and therefore owned rather than sharing it with a third party.</p>
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<p>As I mentioned earlier, I went for certification of Systems Architecture at MIT in 2007 and while I was there I created my own methodology, which I named SOA3.0 (Service Oriented Architecture) and that’s a combination of UML, RUP, object process methodology. I brought all the good aspects to one methodology and this is what I have used.</p>
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<p><strong>The Scientific Computing PhD program is designed to be collaborative across disciplines or other departments. How are you using your research to collaborate?</strong></p>
<p> Yes, Information Management Systems in the department of Information Systems and Business Education. They are my second department on my doctoral committee and that’s why it is Distributed Objects Management Based Articulation. So the scientific aspect is working with computer science and algorithms and software engineering, and the collaborative side is finding ways to make it accessible so anyone can use it.</p>
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<p><strong>Why did you choose UND?</strong></p>
<p>Dr. Emanuel Grant suggested I join UND. I started my PhD at Florida Tech, but I could never go there because of my job and my Masters’ degree was lingering on. I met Dr Emanuel Grant at a conference in 2007 where we were co-chairing a panel in a conference. We started collaborating on research and papers, and he invited me to apply to UND since they were starting a new PhD program. It’s been a fantastic experience. We have good faculty.</p>
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<p><strong>Where do you want to be in 5 years?</strong></p>
<p>I’d like to be either running my own technology business, or at level 5 in the executive leadership most likely somewhere on the West Coast as CTO or Vice President Technology. I definitely want to be in the industry, but I might also like to teach a class at a nearby university.</p>
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<h2>Grad Story #32</h2>
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<h3>Changyeon Yoo</h3>
<h3><br /> Physics, PhD</h3>
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<p style="text-align:left;"><strong><br /></strong></p>
<p style="text-align:left;"><strong>What is your hometown?</strong></p>
<p>I’m from JinJu City in South Korea. It’s a small city about the same size as Grand Forks. I lived there until I went to university for my undergraduate degree. I did my bachelor’s degree in Physics at Seoul National University - Seoul is a city of about 10 million, so it was quite a change. I like Grand Forks because it is a similar kind of place to where I’m from – a small town environment – I’m close to everything.</p>
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<p><strong>When did you realize you wanted to pursue Physics as a career?</strong></p>
<p>During high school I took some physics courses and thought I might be good at it, so I chose it for my bachelor’s. I really liked it and wanted to get better and build my career so I came to the US and did my Masters’ degree at the University of Massachusetts-Lowell.</p>
<p>At that time my main field was doing experiments with Femtosecond Lasers. Others in my group were mainly dealing with interactions in silicone but I was mostly interested in glass materials and polymer materials. Once I finished that degree I was looking for a university for my doctoral degree and I learned that Dr. (Kanishka) Marasinghe at UND was working on atomic structure of novel rare earth phosphate glasses using X-ray, which I thought was related to my Masters. So I applied with the hope of joining that research group and was accepted.</p>
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<p><strong>Can you talk about your summer research experience? You attended a rather prestigious program for graduate students.</strong></p>
<p>Yes, it was NXS 2013 (15th National School on Neutron and X-Ray Scattering). The first week was at the Argonne National Laboratory near Chicago, and the second week was at Oak Ridge National Laboratory in Tennessee.</p>
<p>At the time I was submitting my application I didn’t realize it was that good, because others from our group had been there before. But when I went there, it was a really, really great experience. Everything was provided and there was a tight scheduled from 8.30 – 6PM each day for the two weeks. The mornings were lectures and in the afternoons we’d work on small experiments related to the morning lectures.</p>
<p>There were only 60 students representing 47 US states – all graduate students from Physics, Chemistry and Engineering department. I didn’t realize it at the time, but I think it is really difficult to get accepted so I feel we were all so lucky to be there.</p>
<p>The Argonne National Laboratory does mostly X-ray related experiments and we talked with researchers and professors there, learned about the equipment and conducted three different experiments. The Oak Ridge National Laboratory does research using neutrons and we did four different experiments. We got to choose three main experiments we want and usually we got to do two of them and five chosen from the school due to scheduling issues. Before I went, I didn’t have much knowledge of or background related with neutrons but I learned that X-ray is good for some experiments, neutrons are better for others, and by comparing the two, we get a much better picture.</p>
<p>It was such a privilege to be able to go to these labs – the researchers gave their time to us and allowed us to take over their laboratories for a week while helping us with lectures and experiments. I feel so lucky.</p>
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<p><strong>What was it that you learned at the NXS 2013 School that you brought back to UND and applied to your own research?</strong></p>
<p>My main research is EXAFS (Extended X-Ray Absorption Fine Structure) technique. Our group did a couple of experiments at Argonne for X-Ray diffraction and X-Ray absorption. But we only had a week to conduct and we do most of our analysis at UND afterward. I would love to have had more time to get a deeper knowledge on that subject. There is so much to learn, and it’s not possible to get all of that from the books or the lectures. Seeing and doing the experiments related to it helps to understand the knowledge. There are several techniques that are not learned from books or lectures. I am still going through all the lecture notes, videos and files so I am still learning! I hope to go back to the Oak Ridge National Laboratory and take some of the new knowledge with me to do some new experiments.</p>
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<p><strong>Can you describe your research?</strong></p>
<p>It’s related to x-ray absorption – we are trying to find the complex atomic structure of zirconium-doped silicate glass-ceramics. In this glass, the main component is zirconium since zirconium distribution within the glass plays a major role in determining the properties of the glass ceramics. This is a very expensive glass ceramics that is used in high-precision opto-electronic devices, next-generation of mega telescopes, and instrumentation for satellites and spacecraft.- it doesn’t expand much, because the temperature doesn’t effect the glass so it is very good for mirrors designed to work in space telescopes to name only one of the uses. We’re interested in finding the main role of the zirconium in the glass ceramics. You could add a different amount of zirconium and then examine to understand the different roles in designing glass for different purposes.</p>
<p>Samples were prepared by Dr. (Richard) Brow’s group at the Missouri University of Science and Technology and sent here so we could do the X-ray absorption studies. This technique (EXAFS) sends X-ray with certain energy to interact with the zirconium atoms. After the absorption, the left over energy will be turned into an electron wave outward from the zirconium. Then atoms surrounding the zirconium will reflect it back to the source, the zirconium, in a pattern. By analyzing that pattern we can determine the interference and measure the amount of oxygen atoms, or silicones etc are around the zirconium. From that we can learn what will affect the glass in different ways. We could try to find which temperature or environment is good for certain purposes.</p>
<p>Other research we are interested in is the Rare Earth doped Phosphate Glasses which Dr. Marasinghe and some of the other graduate students have done a lot of experiments. We’re also using the EXAFS technique for certain rare earth materials – the main interest here is to find whether certain environments have very high efficiency lasing properties.</p>
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<p><strong>Where would you like to be in 5 years? </strong></p>
<p>I would like to teach. I like working in the lab, but I also enjoy interacting with students. My plan after getting my PhD will be to work as a researcher or a postdoc for a couple of years and then after that, become a professor. Currently, I’m teaching Physics labs for undergraduates which I really like. It’s a really good experience and I get joy from helping students understand the application side and the theoretical side of Physics.</p>
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<p><strong>What advice would you give to a student considering a graduate degree in Physics?</strong></p>
<p>It’s a broad subject so you have many paths. If you are interested more in the application and experiments, you can go down the path related to the chemistry or engineering side, or you could go more into the theory or explanation of the phenomena related to the mathematics and computer programming.</p>
<p>Our department’s main focus in the experimental side is general areas of condensed matter Physics and Astrophysics so if you are interested in space, dark energy, galaxy clusters and Supernovae Explosions there’s also that path.</p>
<p>Also we have very good faculty members (professors). All very kind, friendly, and listen to what you want to do and they will advise, guide and provide if you need help. So if you are interested in fields mentioned I strongly recommend our department.</p>
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<h3>Clayton Miranda</h3>
<h3>Master of Music</h3>
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<p><strong>Where are you from?</strong></p>
<p>I am from the state of Minas Gerais in Brazil, a town called Juiz de Fora, which is about one hour from Rio de Janiero.</p>
<p><strong>Is that where you did your undergraduate degree?</strong></p>
<p>Juiz de Fora is about 4 hours from my state’s capital Belo Horizonte and I went to Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais.</p>
<p><strong>So how did you come to UND?</strong></p>
<p>I came here because I had a friend who was studying at UND. When I started to look towards my international education and career my friend told me about Dr. Ingle (my trumpet professor) and said he would help me to be successful.</p>
<p>At first, I sent Dr. Ingle an email using Google Translator because at the time I didn’t speak one word of English! So I sent an introductory email and told him I wanted to come to study with him. Within one hour, he replied! He told me either I would need to come to audition for him, or put some videos on YouTube of my performances.</p>
<p>I worked hard to find someone in Brazil who could take my old videos from VHS to DVD and that took more than a month. But I finally got them up on the web and sent them to Dr. Ingle. He told me he’d help me, and then it took me about another year to be able to come to the United States. I moved back home to save money, I sold everything and I asked people for help – finally I was able to come. All I had was my airline ticket and $300 in my pocket.</p>
<p>I remember arriving at the airport expecting to see my friend, and when I greeted him he introduced me to Dr. Ingle who had also come to the airport to collect me! Wow! I was so surprised. I asked someone on my flight who spoke Portuguese to write on a piece of paper “I don’t speak English, but if you believe in me, I can learn.” So I started my schooling here at UND in the ELS (ELS Language Centers) program. After a few months there I received a scholarship and then after a year I graduated from the program. I worked really hard.</p>
<p>When I was done, I went to the chair of Music, Dr. Wittgraf, and told him I was ready to begin my graduate program. The Music Department gave me some financial assistance with a tuition waiver and graduate teaching assistant position. So, in one year after arriving with only $300 and speaking no English, I was accepted into the music graduate program and given an assistantship in Music and one in Anthropology, AND I had learned English. I didn’t know that was possible.</p>
<p>It was hard at times. For a year I ate only one meal a day and there was a period of 6 months when I didn’t collect a paycheck. But everyday, my will carried me through. When I was young, a trumpet player who I really admired once told me that when he was at school, he didn’t have money to eat, so he would go to the practice room and study more. This is what I did, too. I love to play, so I would go to the practice room and do my homework. I am there everyday.</p>
<p>When I left Brazil, my mother gave me a small vial of gold and told me that when things seem difficult, to look at that gold as a reminder of what I am doing in life. I carry it with me always.</p>
<p><strong>You are a trumpet performer. Do you also compose?</strong></p>
<p>Yes, a little bit, but first I am a performer. I love to play and I especially love to play new music. I love to have friends compose for me and even though I can’t pay them money, I can promise that their music will be played.</p>
<p><strong>Who inspires you?</strong></p>
<p>My father and my mother, my advisor Dr. Ingle, and my brother all inspire me. And people who come from nothing and are doing great.Lots of people inspire me.</p>
<p><strong>What are some of the opportunities you have as a graduate student?</strong></p>
<p>I have learned a lot being a GTA in the Music Department and having an opportunity to interact with students from many other departments on campus and my position with Anthropology has also been very valuable.</p>
<p>Last year I had an opportunity to attend the International Trumpeters Guild in Minneapolis, where I met or sat next to every trumpet player I grew up listening to and studying. It was great. I also went to Moorehead (MN) to T.R.U.M.P.E.T.S. (The Regional Upper Midwest Performance and Education Trumpet Summit), and I started to get to know other professors and trumpet players from this area, which was a really good experience.</p>
<p>And I presented my first paper in English at The UND Graduate School Scholarly Forum. I was excited and I worked really hard to do a nice job there! And I have been accepted to present my paper at the International Trumpeters Guild in May of this year in Columbus, Georgia.</p>
<p>I’ve also been given a chance to play one of the hardest pieces of music for the trumpet, Bach’s<em> Brandenburg Concerto No. 2</em>, taking the place of my trumpet professor since he was scheduled to be out of the country. I’ve had many opportunities at UND. For a person who came to UND without speaking English to be placed in this position is incredible, and I am very grateful for this.</p>
<p><strong>Tell me about your research.</strong></p>
<p>The title of my paper is <em>“Uncovering New Solo Trumpet Music from Minas Gerais, Brazil”</em>. My research started when I was an undergraduate student. I went to a school that was 100% performance and where there was much collaboration between performers and composers. Towards the end of my undergraduate studies, I came to realize how great the music from Minas Gerais is, and realized that there is nothing written about it. I decided this will be my life’s research, and have remained very passionate about it.</p>
<p><strong>Where do you see yourself in 5 years?</strong></p>
<p>I’m now in the middle of my second semester and beginning to think about what I’ll do next. I see that I will still be researching the composers from Minas Gerais and studying trumpet. I would like to think about doing a DMA or a PhD, but I am not sure yet. I am just so happy here and I don’t feel like I am done with UND yet. There is still so much I want to do, so we’ll see.</p>
<p>A friend once asked why I would come to the United States to research Brazilian music. But actually, I came to UND to develop my trumpet skills and musical ability to be able to play Brazilian music much better. And while my topic is Minas Gerais music, what I am doing here is so much more than that.</p>
<p><strong>What is one of the funniest memories you have of being here?</strong></p>
<p><strong></strong> We had a guest trumpeter from Yale University - one of the biggest trumpet players ever. After his concert, a group of us went to a local restaurant to continue our conversation and I ended up sitting next to him. We ordered some drinks and the first second that the waitress put the drinks on the table, the professor, who wasn’t paying attention, knocked the full glass into my lap. I said, “I will never wash my pants again!” It was very funny.</p>
<p><strong>How was your first winter? Was it a shock?</strong></p>
<p>(Laughs) Yes. The problem with that first winter wasn’t December. The problem was October! It started to get cold, and then it just kept getting colder! By December I had my clothes sorted. I remember going to class one morning and it was beautiful, the sun was shining – perfect day. By the time I left class it was so cold, and I didn’t have a jacket. I thought I would die!</p>
<p>Something I will always remember is being invited to spend Christmas Day with my advisor's family. They didn’t have any obligation to me, but it was so special. So my journey is not only professional, but it’s personal too. And you can’t put a price on that.</p>
<p><strong>What advice would you give to a graduate student coming to UND? </strong></p>
<p>Get to know your professors, because they know what they are doing. If our goal is to become a professor some day, something I have learned here at UND is how to look at my students as people, not as numbers.</p>
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<h2><span style="font-weight:normal;"> Grad Story #26</span></h2>
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<h3><strong>Irin Njuakom <br />MS, Nursing</strong></h3>
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<p><strong>Irin, you are originally from Cameroon and now based in the US. What drew you to the Nursing program at UND?</strong></p>
<p>As a nurse I have always been interested in a Master’s degree in Public Health with a nursing specialty and offered online. The University of North Dakota is the only university that offered me this unique opportunity at the time.</p>
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<p><strong>What is it about the program that you most enjoy?</strong></p>
<p>It is very organized, well designed and structured. The instructors are readily available and would go an extra mile to assist students. The virtual classroom setting accords me the flexibility to travel, engage in my projects across the globe and study all at the same time. It is a wonderful experience.</p>
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<p><strong>Recently you returned to Cameroon as the sponsor of the Sanitation and Hygiene in Njinikom project. Can you describe the project and its impact on people in the town?</strong></p>
<p>It is a two phase project with the overall goal to provide improved access to basic sanitation and hygiene practices in the Njinikom rural community. The first phase of the project is currently in progress with the construction of the first public toilet in the Njinikom area and ongoing education seminars on disease transmission through fecal-oral contact, benefits of adequate sanitation and hygiene, and techniques in hand washing. The second phase of the project involves the construction of residential pit latrines. The eligibility requirement for a residential pit latrine is attendance and participation in education seminars. There is a lot of enthusiasm and hope in the community. During my stay in the community I encountered people daily who would walk up to me and say thank you for saving our community. Others lamented the poor state of sanitation practices and I have been offered pieces of land from neighborhood chiefs to construct public toilets. My hope is that the enthusiasm will translate into actual usage of the public and residential toilets once constructed.</p>
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<p><strong>Will you be returning for the project's completion?</strong></p>
<p>Absolutely. This is just the first phase of the project and I hope to be there to cut the ribbon. The goal is to complete the first public toilet by summer. I will need to be there to put in place a managerial team to ensure sustainability of the facility. The biggest challenge in a project such as this is sustainability. I will also need to train janitors prior to opening the facility and also ensure that the plan was closely followed.</p>
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<p><strong>How has your experience in the nursing program helped with that project?</strong></p>
<p>It has helped tremendously. I have gained a wealth of knowledge being in the program. This has helped shape my vision and propelled me to make numerous revisions in the project. I initiated the project prior to getting into UND and since being in the program I have become proficient in my leadership, collaborative and communication skills. I have also developed proficiency in program assessment, implementation and evaluation.</p>
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<p><strong>While you are studying in the United States, you are also busy traveling for work. Can you talk a little about what you are doing?</strong></p>
<p>I am a travel nurse with the VA travel nurse corps. I am required to do one thirteen week assignment a year and have a maximum of 9 months to be in one location. I am currently in Des Moines, IA where I work with VA (Veteran Affairs) and HUD (Housing and urban development) to provide housing to homeless Veterans.</p>
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<p><strong>How do you manage your coursework while you are on the road?</strong></p>
<p>I am a very disciplined and organized person and therefore able to structure my time appropriately around my work and school.</p>
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<p><strong>What advice do you have for a student considering the graduate program in Nursing?</strong></p>
<p>It is a very rewarding program. It is well organized and structured. Individuals considering the program have to cultivate a culture of self-discipline to be successful.</p>
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<p><strong>What would you like to be doing 5 years from now?</strong></p>
<p>Obtain my Ph.D. degree in international or global health and continue working to promote health and prevent the spread of diseases in impoverished communities in Cameroon, the continent of Africa and beyond.</p>
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Grad Stories from the University of North Dakota
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Past and present stories about graduate life at the University of North Dakota. Current and past graduate students, historic photographs and archive information.This collection is in development and will continue to grow.
For more information visit http://graduateschool.und.edu
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<br /><br /><h3>Vishnu Reddy PhD </h3>
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"Why UND? I always wanted to do astronomy and solar system science. The way it worked was asteroids and I did that in India and wanted to pursue that further as an education. I found out that there were a lot of people discovering asteroids but there were very few studying what they are made of. There are 2 places in the world I could go to do this, MIT and UND. And UND was the first to give me a scholarship. <br /><br />UND has several advantages…While the program is rigorous, there's less pressure than at a place like MIT or Harvard, so you can grow on your own. Secondly, there are a lot more opportunities to learn. My advisor Mike Gaffey is one of the top people in the field for what I work in." <br /><br /> "Students should also take advantage of the Scholarly Forum. I would insist all grad students present their research as a poster or a talk. I always take advantage of any opportunity to talk about my research, especially with the public." <br /><br />While a graduate student at UND, Vishnu had the honor of naming an asteroid that he had discovered after years of monitoring and research. He named the asteroid "North Dakota" making it one just a handful of asteroids named after a State in the US. <br /><br /> More recently he was awarded the Pellas Ryder Award from the Meteoritical Society and the Planetary Sciences Division of the Geological Society of America for the best student paper published in 2009. <br /><br /> "Graduate students need to realize that they need to do something they absolutely love. I always tell people not to compromise on their topic or area of expertise because this is your one opportunity to thrive. You have to be disciplined."<br /><br />
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Grad Stories from the University of North Dakota
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For more information visit http://graduateschool.und.edu
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<br /><br /><h3>Josef Beranek </h3>
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<em>Degree: Ph.D. in Chemistry, graduated '10 </em>
<div><em>Josef is from the Czech Republic. </em></div>
<br /><br /><div><strong>Research interest</strong>: to discover a new analytical approach for the determination of oligomeric structures in air particulate matter. <br /><br /><strong>Recognition:</strong> awarded the Dr. Roland Severson Graduate Research Scholarship in 2008. <br /><br /><strong> Most valuable new skills</strong>: critical thinking, and scientific writing. <br /><br /><strong>Best opportunities:</strong> presenting research to peers at professional conferences; working with recognized faculty; hands-on experience with the instruments. "At UND. I have been able to conduct aIl of the research I need. We have state-of-the-art equipment and we learn to use it. It's a wonderful experience....students have the opportunity to work directly with the instruments rather than have technicians do the work for them."</div>
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Past and present stories about graduate life at the University of North Dakota. Current and past graduate students, historic photographs and archive information.This collection is in development and will continue to grow.
For more information visit http://graduateschool.und.edu
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<br /><br /><h3>Mei Lan Lo </h3>
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<em>Currently working on a Ph.D. in Teaching & Learning </em><br /><br /><div><em>Inaugural recipient of the Hui-Mei Chen Hung Memorial Scholarship which provides students from the National Taiwan Normal University with the opportunity to attend the University of North Dakota for graduate study. </em></div>
<br /><br /><div><strong>On what the scholarship means...</strong> "This means a lot to me. If I didn't have this fellowship I could never have made my dream come true to study in a foreign country. And because it's based on goodwill of other people, I am always reminded that, later on, I'll use any opportunity to help others too. I have to pass this on to others." <br /><br /><strong> On coming from Taiwan to study in North Dakota...</strong> "The international center does on excellent job. They organize all kinds of activities so that we can meet other intemational students. I always have something to do!" <br /><br /><strong>On UND...</strong> "The Department of Teaching and Learning, has a very nice, generous faculty. It's a very good learning environment here. This is a nice place to study, to spend time."</div>
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