The African trypanosome, Trypanosoma brucei, is the single-celled parasite that causes the devastating diseases African sleeping sickness in man and nagana in cattle.  Because of the lack of suitable anti-trypanosomal treatments, these diseases impact the health and nutritional well-being of millions of people in sub-Saharan Africa. Trypanosomiasis causes greater mortality than HIV/AIDS in.....

Our graduate students spend many long hours developing and performing their research projects but the Department usually only gets to hear about their research twice -  during a 20 minute 851 presentation and at their final thesis defense.  To offer more opportunities for polishing public presentation skills and to allow the graduate faculty a chance to assess progress, we are starting....