The work of institute members spans the fields of life science, engineering, physics and chemistry and is focused in bioengineering and biomedical projects involving smart materials, development and disease, and cell form and function.Īs the first in-person conference the institute has been able to host, the event represented the diversity of projects being undertaken by undergraduate and graduate students and postdoctoral researchers, along with faculty from dozens of interdisciplinary research labs. In celebration of academic excellence and institutional collaboration, nearly 140 attendees overflowed the Life Sciences Building atrium, where 57 undergraduate and graduate students and postdoctoral fellows presented posters illustrating their interdisciplinary research projects. Those words convey the atmosphere evident at last week’s inaugural BioInspired Institute symposium and the sentiments of students, faculty, staff, University leaders and external stakeholders attending the event to describe the research cluster’s efforts of the past three-plus years. Anchorage and Papeete were on my “places to discover”-list for a very long time. Whenever I got a new book about Nancy, I’d check up all the information about the place where she was solving her mysteries. Nancy and her friends were probably the first ones to teach me about exotic places all around the world. Yes, Nancy Drew, or Kitty as she is named in Swedish. Let’s write a word or two about Nancy Drew. That first chapter is aptly named «Никогда не разговаривайте с неизвестными – Never talk with strangers»… Welcome to the magic worlds of Bulgakov and Russia! Īt the hour of the hot spring sunset at Patriarch’s Ponds two citizens appeared. Actually, I think that whoever translated the book into Finnish came up with a wonderful title: Saatana saapuu Moskovaan (in English: The Devil Arrives in Moscow”)”. One novel that is very closely connected to its surroundings is Mikhail Bulgakov’s The Master and Margarita. This dark satire tells us a lot about a certain time of Soviet history, but it also invites us to one of the most amazing cities in the world, Moscow. Russian literature is one of those examples – read Dostoevsky and you might like it, read Dostoevsky while learning about Russian society and history, and you enter a new world. The physical surroundings and all the characters that form part of the story leave their traces in the reader. Thursday Inspiration – Famous Places In LiteratureĮvery book, every story, is told within a context. His books changed the way many of us think about nonfiction and made many of us want to travel for ourselves and see for ourselves. Few have had his courage, almost none his talent.
Few have written more beautifully of unspeakable things. Kapuscinski saw more, and more clearly, if not always perfectly, than nearly any writer one can think to name. It teaches the reader about places and people – it ignites a will to go and see for oneself. Many of his works are translated into English, my personal favourite being Imperium. His writing grabs the reader’s attention, holds it, keeps it. The first name that comes to my mind when thinking of travellers is Ryszard Kapuściński (1932-2007), a Polish historian and journalist known for his reporting from all around the world. Who has inspired you? Thursday Inspiration – Famous Travellers
They are the writers, the linguists, the philosophers. In my book, the most inspiring people are those who have shown a wide array of other skills than just being in the right place. These days a lot of people can take sunny pics on the beaches of Thailand, but there are some travellers who are more inspiring than others.
Let’s talk about inspiring people and places – real and fictional. Maybe we should make more of an effort to be happy with what we have (ie cold and dark Nordic winters), but it’s extremely difficult when Facebook os filled with sunshine selfies. The cold continues and we keep dreaming ourselves to faraway lands and the sunsine. Let’s think of some Thursday inspiration.
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