Sarah Dairiki

Recently there has been a new, and very impressive, health trend popping up in Brazil. Doctors in Fortaleza, Brazil, are turning away from treating burned patients with gauze and cream and are turning to treating them with sterilized tilapia fish skin. This treatment with tilapia skin has mainly been directed towards patients suffering from second and third degree burns, and has been very successful so far. Before this introduction of sterilized tilapia skin as a treatment for burned patients, doctors in Brazil relied on using gauze and silver sulfadizine cream. This silver sulfadizine cream was used specifically because it contained silver, which helped prevent infection and any other complications that could arise for a patient. Although this method was the traditional way of treating burns and was used for a long period of time, it is unclear as to how successful it was. It was unknown if the silver sulfadizine cream really helped heal a burn faster, and the gauze and cream dres...

When attending college, it can be easy or difficult to choose a major that suits you. Some people know straight off the bat what major they want to pursue and the future career they desire, while others come in undeclared and have to test out classes from different disciplines to figure out what they are interested in. Despite this variance in decision making along with the vast diversity of majors offered at colleges today, students decide what major they want to pursue in different ways. Here is my story of how I chose my major and minor. When I first got accepted into the college I am attending, I was accepted as a Business Management Economics major. However, I knew this was not a major I would be willing to pursue for all four years of my undergraduate career, so I switched to Human Biology. However, after looking at the curriculum for this major (which is an intense, heavily loaded course of science courses), I scared myself out of pursuing this major, and settled on Anthropolo...