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Marine Biology Class Samples Seaweed

Friday, February 6, 2004

Biology professor Jeffrey Carrier treated students in his Marine Biology class to an unusual breakfast yesterday -- a salad of various kinds of seaweed.

Carrier says this palate-stretching exercise underscores the importance of marine research and study. "The students all say they've never eaten seaweed before, "explains Carrier, "and then I point that that a lot of foods, including ice cream, are made with ingredients from seaweed."

"The "seaweed experience" was awesome," says Ty Rubin (above). "I mean, where else in Albion can you sit back and enjoy a bowl of seaweed salad and learn about it too? That's the way to teach class! Photo by Yen Thieu, '06.

Carrier prepares the salad for his 9 a.m. class Photo by Yen Thieu, '06.

While fresh seaweed was an exotic dish for most students, Carrier also served a more common form of seaweed -- as a standard ingredient in commercial ice cream.
Photo by Yen Thieu, '06.

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