🎄 Holiday Science
Earth's axial tilt is primarily responsible for this annual phenomenon.
What are the seasons?
This caffeinated beverage has practically become the unofficial fuel of graduate school.
What is coffee?
This scientist developed the three laws of motion commonly taught in physics.
Who is Isaac Newton?
MBD stands for this.
What is Molecular Basis of Disease?
Kevin McCallister is accidentally left behind in this holiday movie.
What is Home Alone?
Snowflakes are primarily composed of this compound.
What is H₂O?
These 2 letters identify the person who oversees and guides a doctoral student's research.
What is a PI?
This branch of mathematics focuses on rates of change and accumulation.
What is calculus?
The MBD program brings together this many interdisciplinary departments at Georgia State University.
What is six?
This green character tries to steal Christmas from Whoville.
Who is the Grinch?
This process describes a solid changing directly into a gas without first becoming a liquid.
What is sublimation?
This academic document presents original research and is typically defended near the completion of a Ph.D.
What is a dissertation?
The acronym PCR stands for this widely used laboratory technique.
What is polymerase chain reaction?
MBD Ph.D. Fellows can request up to this amount in travel funding each fiscal year to attend or present at academic or professional conferences.
What is $800?
Buddy travels to New York City to find his biological father in this movie.
What is Elf?
This molecule contains the genetic instructions used in the development and functioning of most living organisms.
What is DNA?
Researchers typically submit this document when requesting funding for a research project.
What is a grant proposal?
This force keeps planets in orbit around the Sun.
What is gravity?
This annual MBD event brings our fellows together for research presentations, networking, and a little fun.
What is the Annual MBD Retreat?
Tom Hanks voices multiple characters in this animated movie about a magical train ride to the North Pole.
What is The Polar Express?
Salt can help melt ice because it causes this change in water's freezing point.
This element has the chemical symbol Na.
What is freezing-point depression?
What is sodium?
This process allows other experts in a field to evaluate research before publication
What is peer review?
This organelle is often called the powerhouse of the cell.
What is the mitochondrion?
You see an MBD seminar announcement in your inbox. As an MBD Fellow, what should you assume about attendance? 😂
It’s mandatory!
George Bailey is shown what the world might have been like without him in this classic holiday movie.
What is It’s a Wonderful Life?