We shall look at how the language of poetry can be an echo to the senses and at how the content of poetry can be an expansion of our experience without our having to leave our comfortable chair by the fire or our blanket at the beach. We shall look at some contemporary poetry and spend some time reading in Shakespeare's sonnets. When we finish, a poem will no longer be cleverly disguised as a dissected frog on a slab, but a piece of art capable of sending a chill up the spine. The goal of tissue engineering is to replace diseased or damaged living tissue with living tissue designed and constructed for the needs of each individual. Biomedical science is moving from transplantation into an era of design and fabrication of tissue and organ replacements.
Several tissue engineered products are already on the market.
We'll discuss some of the reality and promise of tissue engineering, and then work in groups to design, construct, and text models for bone using everyday materials. With the help of a performance by Duquesne University music students, Dr. Kocher will share some experiences and insights about some of the different ways that we know and understand music. In this presentation we will define probability as a measure of expected long-run relative frequency. Thinking of probability in this way is helpful in situations where our intuition about a probability may be absent or misguided. Through hands-on examples we will explore this definition and highlight its usefulness.