Applied Plant Systems 2018–2019

Fran Benne Author

06/03/2019 Added

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The University of Nebraska seeks to enhance the education of students in and out of the classroom. The Applied Plant Systems experiential learning program, or APS, brings students from across the United States to Nebraska to participate in a unique opportunity to explore research and extension opportunities in the agriculture industry.

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[00:00:06.559]The University of Nebraska seeks
[00:00:09.060]to enhance the education of students
[00:00:11.170]in and out of the classroom.
[00:00:13.240]The Applied Plant System's experiential learning program,
[00:00:16.154]or APS, brings students from across the United States
[00:00:19.893]to Nebraska to participate in a unique opportunity
[00:00:23.190]to explore research and extension opportunities
[00:00:26.241]in the agriculture industry.
[00:00:28.909]Led by Dr. Martha Mamo, department head
[00:00:31.601]of Agronomy and Horticulture,
[00:00:33.480]students gain a better understanding
[00:00:35.440]of our changing agricultural landscapes,
[00:00:38.090]while enhancing their abilities
[00:00:39.670]and systems thinking, decision making,
[00:00:42.010]and communicating science to the general public.
[00:00:45.590]The applied plant systems program has three components.
[00:00:49.320]Independent research, leadership development,
[00:00:52.090]and science literacy.
[00:00:53.750]Our work on science literacy is unique
[00:00:56.120]to our program, and ties together
[00:00:58.148]every aspect of APS.
[00:01:00.550]Science literacy can be simply defined
[00:01:02.780]as helping people better understand science concepts
[00:01:05.443]and removing the mystery behind science research.
[00:01:08.684]Leah Sandall and Dr. Jennifer Keshwani
[00:01:12.247]lead the Science Literacy Extension component
[00:01:15.600]of the APS program.
[00:01:17.390]Participants receive training and communication skills
[00:01:20.950]to share science with diverse audiences.
[00:01:23.810]Mentees then develop their own science literacy projects
[00:01:27.100]to communicate their summer research to the general public.
[00:01:31.740]Development of the Science Literacy projects
[00:01:33.859]requires APS interns to learn how
[00:01:36.610]to ask good questions about science.
[00:01:38.665]Questions like why is this research important?
[00:01:42.200]Why are we collecting this data?
[00:01:44.120]What does the data tell us about the science?
[00:01:47.006]Discovering answers to these questions
[00:01:49.204]and then creating a project to share this information
[00:01:52.640]with the public increases science literacy
[00:01:55.360]for both the interns and the audience.
[00:01:58.630]Creative work in science literacy has flexibility.
[00:02:02.030]Videos, infographics, lesson plans, information pamphlets
[00:02:06.570]and more, have been created
[00:02:07.940]through APS science literacy projects.
[00:02:10.437]The impact of science literacy
[00:02:12.717]on APS interns is more than just discovery research.
[00:02:16.500]Science literacy training leads to the discovery
[00:02:19.300]of how research impacts society
[00:02:20.887]and how to share scientific information
[00:02:23.760]with the general public.
[00:02:25.251]As prospective researchers and scientists,
[00:02:28.017]APS interns receive significant training
[00:02:31.070]and improvement of their science communication skills.
[00:02:34.067]These skills will greatly benefit them
[00:02:36.470]in their future research careers.
[00:02:38.198]Another component of increasing science communication skills
[00:02:41.847]include the creation of research posters.
[00:02:44.537]APS interns participate
[00:02:46.338]in two research poster symposiums
[00:02:48.598]to practice presenting their research
[00:02:50.960]to faculty, graduate students, and the public.
[00:02:54.213]APS mentees grow from their summer experience.
[00:02:57.760]Here are some thoughts from a few
[00:02:59.560]of the past summer interns.
[00:03:01.640]So my favorite part of this program has been
[00:03:04.610]basically getting a mini grad school experience
[00:03:07.200]just together in one summer.
[00:03:08.720]So I got to learn all about grad school,
[00:03:11.010]which I knew nothing before.
[00:03:12.430]I got to learn about the GRE,
[00:03:13.890]I got to work under a world-class mentor
[00:03:16.354]and a grad student who helped me
[00:03:18.580]with everything that I wouldn't have gotten anywhere else.
[00:03:21.220]So that was awesome.
[00:03:23.037]I really didn't know what to expect prior
[00:03:25.340]to coming to Lincoln for this research program.
[00:03:27.850]It has been a very interesting journey for me here.
[00:03:30.349]I have been getting a great support
[00:03:32.760]from my mentor Lisa Durso,
[00:03:34.733]and I learned a lot about every part
[00:03:38.910]of the research through repeating a lot
[00:03:41.640]of experiments in the lab.
[00:03:44.030]I thought it was really interesting
[00:03:45.330]how there's this diverse group
[00:03:48.270]of people here that are from everywhere,
[00:03:51.154]all the way from California to other places
[00:03:54.267]like North Carolina, and also the major age different
[00:03:59.605]that's there, also, me personally,
[00:04:03.850]being the youngest of our program,
[00:04:05.934]it definitely was interesting how
[00:04:08.950]to interact with my fellow peers.
[00:04:12.177]The most impactful thing
[00:04:14.230]about the Applied Plant System summer research program
[00:04:16.710]has been the one-on-one time I've done with my mentor.
[00:04:20.130]We've spent a lot of time together
[00:04:21.300]in the field collecting data, looking at plants,
[00:04:24.470]analyzing results, and flying drones.
[00:04:26.620]And that one-on-one time has really been beneficial
[00:04:28.740]for me getting to know him, and then being interested
[00:04:30.144]in the subject matter that he was teaching me about.
[00:04:33.014]He's an agronomist, and we've been learning a lot
[00:04:35.230]about corn, soy beans, and winter wheat.
[00:04:38.826]Applied Plant Systems is made possible
[00:04:41.390]by funding from the USDA National Institute
[00:04:44.560]of Food and Agriculture.
[00:04:46.130]We would like to thank the University
[00:04:47.630]of Nebraska-Lincoln and Casey Coleman and Justina Clark
[00:04:50.779]with the Office of Graduate Studies for their aid.
[00:04:54.170]Special thanks to those who served as mentors for APS.
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