UWL Student Research Projects - WXOW News 19 La Crosse, WI – News, Weather and Sports |

UWL Student Research Projects

Posted:

La Crosse, Wisconsin (WXOW) - Undergrad students at UW La Crosse presented their research to the school on Thursday. 

The symposium for the presentations highlighted the work of undergrads working with faculty. The research is supported by the Dean's Distinguished Fellowship Program, UWL faculty research grants and other external grants.

One project focused on how ground squirrels could help treat issues of excessive blood clotting. The research is designed to determine how ground squirrels avoid blood clots while in hibernation. As one student found out, lab research can be time consuming.

UWL Senior Spencer Hoostal said, "Originally, before doing research, I thought things would progress rather quickly. But as you get down into it and all the details, for each experiment you learn that there's a lot of things you can tweak for an experiment."

Spencer has already been working on this project for 7 months and plans to continue the research during this school year.

Powered by WorldNow
All content © Copyright 2000 - 2013 WorldNow and WXOW. All Rights Reserved.
For more information on this site, please read our Privacy Policy and Terms of Service.

Persons with disabilities who need assistance with issues relating to the content of this station's public inspection file should contact Administrative Assistant Theresa Wopat at 507-895-9969. Questions or concerns relating to the accessibility of the FCC's online public file system should be directed to the FCC at 888-225-5322, at 888-835-5322 (TTY) or at fccinfo@fcc.gov.