Episode 33: Bethany Backes: Championing Against Violence

Season three of Knights Do That, UCF’s official podcast, returns with its sixth guest, Bethany Backes, an assistant professor in the Violence Against Women faculty cluster and holds a joint appointment in the Department of Criminal Justice and School of Social Work. Backes worked for more than 10 years as a social science analyst for the U.S. Department of Justice and joined UCF in 2019. Here she shares her research with the cluster, what it means to be a champion both against violence and for social justice, and how she has succeeded in academia

The Cowl - v.30 - Sep 21, 1977

The Cowl - student newspaper of Providence College. Volume 30 - September 21, 1977. 12 pages. Note: The volume number printed on the banner page of this issue (XXX) duplicates the volume number for the 1967-68 academic year. There is no issue number for this issue

Use of DNA-based genetic markers in plant breeding

Genetic markers have been used since the beginnings of plant breeding, but the concept of linkage and recently the availability of molecular markers have offered new and powerful tools that can help to perform the traditional tasks of selection or that can change the traditional breeding process. Markers can either be used in a descriptive manner to identify varieties, to study the ‘micro-evolution’ of composite crosses or variety mixtures or to analyse the breeding progress retrospectively in order to learn from the past. The operative use of markers in plant breeding is connected to the selection of parental lines and progeny lines. The possible implementation of these processes stretches from the introgression of specific chromosome fragments to ‘marker-based idiotype breeding’