Last Week at LIHREC
Last Friday was my final day at the research station and boy was it a crazy week! As the berries began to rapidly change color they intrinsically invited the birds to feast at their expense. We spent most of the week putting up bird netting. It was a really good experience because in previous years [...]
Presentation and New Search
I have finished updating the Annual Report for the Parenting Education programs. I have also mostly completed my article on Parents Apart. I am supposed to meet with the advisory committee for Parents Apart in mid-September. I still need to figure out what I am going to present then. Anna has suggested that I focus [...]
Week 11: August 8th – August 12th
This week the team continued our recruitment efforts, mostly for Lehman Alternative and BOCES Community School. Lab member Julie Avrutine contacted the principal of Lehman, who was very receptive of the idea of implementing our health curricula into the school’s program offerings. We sent him a description of our intervention to include in the Lehman [...]
Week 8- Graduation!
Week 8 August 1st – August 7th Since I had no class to prepare this week, it gave me more time to look over the evaluations and other data collection documents I got throughout the program. I was really happy to see that many of the participants wished the sessions had been longer and wished [...]
Fish Oil, Just What The PhD Ordered.
The latest craze in the health industry has been Omega-3 Fatty Acids, most commonly found in Fish Oil pills. Even though the nutritional benefits of these supplements have been researched, little is know about the affects of Hydrolyzed Fish Oil as a foliar fertilizer for soybeans. One of my current task is to help with [...]
Week Eleven (July 25-29)
Monday: Waited for my call from Mike this morning. He sent me out to collect some products for the soybean foliar feeding trial that we had pulled samples for last week. I headed north to meet the Grump family, where I was to pick up 30 gallons of fish oil. When I arrived, we went [...]
Week 10
August 8th – 12th The survey data report is finally finished! I conducted a final series of edits on the report after communicating with Shorna, and completed changes to the draft. This report draft was then sent to all members of the planning committee for review before our meeting at the end of August. I also finalized [...]
Week 7-Food Groups and Portion Sizes
Week 7 July 25 to 31 This week was very hectic. I overestimated how much information I could pack into an hour and a half and I had to save some time to give them an evaluation form (evaluating the program so that I would know what they thought about it), which reduced the amount [...]
Week 10: August 1st – August 5th
At the beginning of this week, the other lab members and I made plans for the next two weeks of August, most of which focus on our continued recruitment efforts at local high schools in the Ithaca area. The schools that we’d like to teach at during this fall semester are Ithaca High School, Lehman [...]
Annual Report
This week I’ve been updating the annual report for the Parenting Education Workshops. I have been looking at the amount of participants, the demographics of the participants, and the results seen after each workshop. There are so many different parenting workshops that it is slightly confusing to distinguish between them. However, reading and updating the [...]
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