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Sometimes science requires that we get a little wet and a little dirty in the spirit of discovery. Nowhere is that more evident than at The Ohio State University’s Stone Lab, the nation’s oldest freshwater biological field station, located on Gibraltar Island in Lake Erie. Students and researchers use the unique space to explore problems facing Lake Erie, its wildlife and the region in order to better preserve and protect the vital ecosystem.
Music therapists at the University of Michigan’s C.S. Mott Children’s Hospital are making very special songs for some of their most vulnerable patients: those receiving a heart transplant. Recording their original and post-operative donor heartbeat, they are able to create a unique suite of songs that both preserves a memory and celebrates the future.
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A simple, but profound gesture gives strength untold to the tiniest patients.
First-year students get a chance to explore their passion through a unique, hands-on learning experience.