Mitchellmemo43

Seed Research

I plan to do quite a bit of seed research next year. First, I am taking Tamar Gordon’s ethnography class…I plan on doing some interviewing with some of the professors in the biology department who work on chimeras (of course not human/animal or even stem cell chimeras…but still a “seed” can’t be the whole plant) during the class. I definitely think I can try out some of the questions on them. I will be doing an independent study with Mike F on something “bio” related…I’m sure I can get a good sense of the ins and outs of the literature and anything I may be (at the moment) overlooking after taking the class. I suppose I could also interview Mike about his Iceland/DeCODE work… I have been following the policy/media debate fairly well…I could definitely do a more detailed content analysis. In addition to Nancy’s discourse analysis course last year, I am taking another course in LLC (or is it just ‘LC’ now?) next semester on “collective memory” that should be productive for analysis.