Greenberg on Vilsack
Tom Vilsack, President-Elect Biden’s choice for Ag Secretary, has been a presence in Colorado since his first tenure as Ag Secretary during the Obama administration. He has served as Advisor to Denver Water and along with his wife Christie Vilsack, a Strategic Advisor of Food & Water Initiatives at Colorado State University’s new Spur Complex.
Their son Doug, is assistant director for parks, wildlife, and lands at the Colorado Department of Natural Resources.
Colorado’s Commissioner of Agriculture says while her office was ready to work with whoever takes the job, Vilsack’s ties to the state have advantages.
Maximum Impact: Professor-student team uncovers engineering applications in bighorn sheep horns standard-journal.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from standard-journal.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
December 16, 2020
by Matt Hughes
Professor Benjamin Wheatley, mechanical engineering, subjected models of a bighorn sheep s inner horn structures to stress tests in his latest study. Photo by Emily Paine, Communications
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It s one of the most violent spectacles in the natural world: Two bighorn sheep square off at 10 paces, rear up on their hind legs and rush, dropping their heads at the last moment to crash their horns together with maximum impact. And then they do it again, sometimes for hours on end, before walking away apparently no worse for the wear.
Bucknell Professor Benjamin Wheatley, mechanical engineering, occasionally witnessed these clashes in Estes Park, Colo., while he was studying for his doctorate at nearby Colorado State University. It sparked his curiosity. If such similarly violent head-to-head collisions result in concussions and even life-threatening injuries for football players, he wondered, how can these sheep avoid such trauma? What might we learn