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YEAR BUILT: 1999
SQUARE FEET: 320
LOT SIZE: .32 acre
BEDROOMS: Loft bedroom
BATHROOMS: 1
AMENITIES: washer/dryer
TINY PLACES IN
LARGE SPACES
RENT: $500-600
ing between 100 and 400 square
feet, although the tiny house
featured on Fixer Upper was 700
square feet.
Shawn and Jessica Taylor of
If you watch Home and Garden
Television odds are you may have Cottonwood Falls are the owners
of a tiny home in
watched one of their
tiny house televi- “It’s okay, there is not a Elmdale. Although
they chose to rent
sion shows. HGTV
currently has six lot to clean but there are the home instead of
different shows run- two of us and two dogs live in it, the home
has been a good inning that celebrate
and it’s cramped.”
vestment for them.
people downsizing
The Taylor’s tiny
their living space.
JENNIFER BLOCK,
house is only 320
While different
current tenant
square feet. It has
people have differa loft bedroom and
ent ideas of what a
tiny house is, some are on wheels one bathroom. It also has a small,
while some are built on solid land, RV-size stackable washer and
the concept is the same across the dryer.
The Taylors purchased the
board — living small. The Tiny
Life, a social movement of people
trying to downsize their living
Please see Spaces, Page 3
space, defines a tiny house as beBy Cathryne Scharton
[email protected]
ALDERMAN’S UNDERGRAD RESEARCH SELECTED FOR AWARD
Special to the Gazette
A paper on cancer research
done by Emporia State University
junior Christopher Alderman has
been chosen to receive a Great
Plains Honors Council Dennis Boe
Award next month at the group’s
annual conference.
He also will present his paper,
“The in vitro and in vivo effects of
MicroRNA-15a on human malignant melanoma and the newly discovered target gene of microRNA15a,” during the conference. The
Great Plains region includes Nebraska, Missouri, Arkansas, Texas,
Oklahoma and Kansas.
He is one of six students who
will receive cash prizes and plaques
that accompany the award.
Alderman, who is from Emporia
majoring in biochemistry and molecular biology, is a student in the
Honors College that replaced the
honors program at Emporia State
in 2014. He is the second Emporia
State student to receive the Dennis
Boe Award, established in 2008 by
the Great Plains Honors Council.
“Chris is an absolutely outstanding student,” said Gary Wyatt, associate provost and Honors
College director. “The award is
very, very competitive, very difficult to win. ... His paper was phenomenal, so he’s very deserving of
this award. Kudos to him and the
faculty members that worked with
him.”
The shift from a program to a
formal College division has enabled undergraduate students to
work one-on-one with professors
and to conduct research at a level
traditionally reserved for graduate
PHOTO COURTESY OF DUSTIN MICHELSON/EMPORIA STATE UNIVERSITY
Emporia State University junior Christopher Alderman, right, presents his research poster to U.S. Sen.
Pat Roberts (R-Kansas) and ESU President Allison Garrett during the senator’s visit to campus March 22.
students, Alderman said.
“It’s really top-notch, and we’re
really riding the same wave as
some of the other big research
institutions,” he said, explaining
that the Honors College has equipment, resources and materials the
honors program could not provide.
“We have 24/7 access with really
nice facilities.”
The university made a conscious decision, based on research,
to upgrade the honors program to
Honors College status as an investment in students’ education and to
provide resources and experiences
they otherwise would not have.
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“To be blunt, we are allocating
resources to make that possible,
and we have dedicated faculty
enabling that to happen,” Wyatt
said. “If a university really wants
students to reach their potential, it
really needs to provide those kinds
of opportunities.”
Unlike the honors program, the
Honors College also offers more
enhanced honors courses, small
scholarships and increased opportunities for travel for professional
meetings and additional studies,
plus to civic leadership training
through faculty and the Kansas
Leadership Center.
Research has shown that those
types of high-impact practices also
contribute to greater retention of
students and greater graduation
rates and success afterwards, Wyatt said.
For Alderman, being part of the
Honors College coupled with winning the Boe competition strengthens his ability to reach a dual doctoral degree goal he set when as
a teen he learned his grandfather
had been diagnosed with terminal
cancer.
He had been overwhelmed by
the certainty of his grandfather’s
outcome, while simultaneously
realizing that modern medicine
had allowed his glassblowing
teacher at Emporia High School,
Alan Keck, to survive lung cancer.
That awareness, and another EHS
teacher who piqued his interest in
biology, anatomy and physiology,
made him determined to become
both an M.D. and a Ph.D.
“I was fascinated by it because
it saved one of my favorite teachers and allowed him to teach these
kids in the high school,” Alderman
said.
With Dr. Eric Yang, chair of the
ESU biological sciences department, as lead mentor, Alderman
plunged into research a few weeks
into his freshman year at Emporia
State.
“He’s highly motivated and selfinitiating,” Yang said.
Alderman explored options
beyond traditional chemotherapy
that, in the past, has killed too
many cells in addition to the cancerous ones, and carried side effects that sometimes were worse
than the cancer itself. “Targeted
therapy” 6VV