ACADEMICS


Particularly within undergraduate curriculum, this aspect is just not offered.” Trowbridge said. Also unique to the psychology


department, Trowbridge is a practicing medical doctor. “It isn’t often that undergraduate students have the opportunity to learn firsthand from someone of this caliber,” said Dr. Jeff Stone, chair of Jessup’s Psychology Department. Trowbridge earned her medical


degree from the Medical College of Ohio and went on to do her Psychiatry residency at UC Davis. In the classroom, Trowbridge is able to share from her years of pro-active experience in medical practice; both running a Sacramento area private practice and in working for medical groups like Sutter Health Center for Psychiatry, UC Davis Medical Center, and the Foster Family Alliance. She is board certified by the Board of Psychiatry and Neurology in the specialty of Psychiatry. “While sitting in Abnormal


Psychology as a college student, I experienced God’s call on my life to pursue a specific field of medicine cal led ‘psychiatry,’” Trowbridge said. “A significant portion of who I am can be credited to my undergraduate Christian education where there existed an intentionality and discipleship of the mind, taught by educators who had first learned this approach themselves and were passing it on to the next generation. I wish to be a part of


this same


process of equipping, encouraging, and discipling others in the academic setting. That contagious enthusiasm I experienced is the same contagious enthusiasm that I wish to pass on to others.


GROWING STRAWBERRIES JESSUP STYLE


With summer comes warmer, sunnier days, vacation, blooming flowers and an abundance of fresh


fruit. What you might not know: The methods behind growing it fungus free could possibly be credited to a group of students right here in our own backyard. Last fall, Jessup students Roy


Davis, Josh Harder, Katelin Tahada and Faith Trowbridge worked on a bioinformatics study that led to the publishing of gene sequences for the National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI) database. As a national resource for


molecular biology information, NCBI’s mission is to develop new information technologies to aid in the understanding of fundamental molecular and genetic processes that control health and disease. Many growers access this information to ensure their crop is fungus free. Jessup students input data later


assembled into phylogeny trees to show the evolutionary history of the various fungi they tested using the Mega 6 program (an integrated tool for conducting automatic and manual sequence alignment and inferring phylogenetic trees.) The project helped to discover a DNA


sequence for Cinerea Botrytis, a fungus affecting strawberries otherwise known as gray mold disease. Senior Josh Harder hopes that


having the experience to participate in this type of research increases his chances of acceptance to the school of his choice. “I jumped at the opportunity to participate in the study because I’m applying to optometry schools and want my application to stand out.” “ In the end, the study


provides epidemiology for better strawberries,” said Jessup Biology Professor Moytri Roy-Chowdhury who oversaw the study. Among the developments and


advances “growing” on the Jessup campus (including new Chem and soon Bio labs), who knew WJU students’ impact includes “how to build a better berry.”


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