About a third of the students here double major. Every single one of our undergraduate students, though, gives back. We were the first research university to require community service in the curriculum. Last year alone, our students logged mo...
As part of the post-Hurricane Katrina Renewal Plan, the university initiated an extensive university-wide core curriculum. Three major elements of the university core are (1) TIDES classes which is a freshmen seminar, (2) a two-class sequence for public service, and (3) a capstone experience...
Children of both of the major religions, Christian and Muslim, play and live together. Children of various tribes know and respect each others’ languages. Sierra Leoneans respect many differences that have divided other countries. There are problems in Sierra Leone. But the problems should not ...
Surprisingly, unlike the variable regions of several other major proteins, which are not antigenic in natural infections, the most conserved of the IRs, IR6, is immunodominant in Lyme disease patients and in animals infected with B. burgdorferi. IR6 is exposed on the surface of VlsE, as ...