{"id":17967,"date":"2014-05-22T08:00:26","date_gmt":"2014-05-22T13:00:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.discoverclarksville.com\/articles\/?p=17967"},"modified":"2014-05-21T22:35:05","modified_gmt":"2014-05-22T03:35:05","slug":"austin-peay-state-university-student-to-conduct-research-at-cornell-this-summer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.discoverclarksville.com\/articles\/2014\/05\/22\/austin-peay-state-university-student-to-conduct-research-at-cornell-this-summer\/","title":{"rendered":"Austin Peay State University student to conduct research at Cornell this summer"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"AustinClarksville, TN<\/strong> – This summer, Matthew Martin\u2019s budding interest in plants will send him to the Ivy League campus of Cornell University where he\u2019ll conduct advanced research in the field of plant pathology.<\/p>\n

The Austin Peay State University student is getting this rare opportunity thanks to Cornell\u2019s competitive Microbial Friends and Foes Research Experience for Undergraduates (REU) program.\u201cYou\u2019re studying basically diseases in plants,\u201d Martin said. \u201cThe lab I\u2019m going to be working with deals a lot with plant viruses.\u201d<\/p>\n

Martin will spend about two months at the Ithaca, NY, campus, working closely with professional researchers in the plant pathology field.<\/p>\n

\u201cI found it really interesting, and I don\u2019t think anyone does that type of research here,\u201d he said. \u201cThat\u2019s why I applied for that specific one (REU). It uses a lot of techniques I\u2019ve been working on with Dr. (Chad) Brooks (APSU professor of biology), but it\u2019s still a different field, so I\u2019m going to be able to leverage what I\u2019ve already been working on for the last few years and apply that to new research.\u201d<\/p>\n

For the last several years, APSU professors have encouraged students to spend their summers participating in REUs to gain research experience in fields not offered at the University. APSU students have scattered across the globe each year, from France to the Czech Republic, in search of these opportunities.<\/p>\n

\u201cIf the students don\u2019t want to do one of those things (offered at APSU), the idea is they should find what they might be interested in doing for graduate school or for a career, find a school that does exactly that thing and go try it for the summer,\u201d Dr. Alex King, interim dean of the APSU College of Science and Mathematics, said a few years ago.<\/p>\n

Martin, a double major in German and biology, plans to attend graduate school when he graduates from APSU, and this REU might guide him in a new direction.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt will help me decide what field I want to go into when I go to graduate school,\u201d he said. \u201cIf there\u2019s something I can experience first hand here, that I\u2019m kind of interested in, then this is a great opportunity for me to decide what I would like to pursue later.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Clarksville, TN – This summer, Matthew Martin\u2019s budding interest in plants will send him to the Ivy League campus of Cornell University where he\u2019ll conduct advanced research in the field of plant pathology. The Austin Peay State University student is getting this rare opportunity thanks to Cornell\u2019s competitive Microbial Friends and Foes Research Experience for […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[5],"tags":[7925,23,3448,262,15716,512,825,22957,22959,9797,22958,22956],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4xGYI-4FN","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.discoverclarksville.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17967"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.discoverclarksville.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.discoverclarksville.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.discoverclarksville.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.discoverclarksville.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17967"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.discoverclarksville.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17967\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17968,"href":"https:\/\/www.discoverclarksville.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17967\/revisions\/17968"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.discoverclarksville.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17967"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.discoverclarksville.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17967"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.discoverclarksville.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17967"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}