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School Assistant

Location:
Millersville, MD
Posted:
June 22, 2014

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Felicia Kulp

**** ********* ****** #*** 410-***-**** (day and evening)

Austin, TX 78752 aceocf@r.postjobfree.com

EDUCATION

M.S. – Geological Sciences, Paleontology August/2012 May/2014

The University of Texas at Austin

Thesis: Examination of Color Production in Penguin Feathers

Advisor: Dr. Julia Clarke Cumulative GPA: 3.86/4.00

B.S. – Biochemistry, cum laude August/2008 May/2012

B.S. – Biology, Ecology & Evolution, cum laude

University of Maryland, College Park

Thesis: Agronomic and economic viability of Miscanthus x giganteus as a novel biofuel in the Maryland climate

Advisor: Dr. Gary Felton Cumulative GPA: 3.95/4.00

SKILLS

Bomb calorimetry

HPLC, GC, Capillary electrophoresis

GC MS, Q ICP MS, LA ICP MS, IRMS

AAS, UV Vis spectrophotometry, Fluorospectrophotometry

Ultramicrotomy

Scanning electron microscopy, Transmission electron microscopy

Microsoft Office, R programming language

WORK EXPERIENCE

Jackson School of Geosciences, UT Austin January/2013 May/2013

Austin, TX

Graduate Teaching Assistant

• Taught 40 students in three 2 hour weekly lab sections of GEO 404C: Plate Tectonics and Earth History

• Wrote weekly quizzes, midterm, and final with one other graduate teaching assistant

• Updated previous in class labs and lecture presentations

Division of Birds, National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution June August, 2010 and 2011

Washington, D.C.

Curator, Intern

• Curated more than 2500 bones from a collection of subfossil bones of extinct, flightless Hawaiian birds

• Inputted bone details into database, including type of bone, species and side of body it belonged to, and parts

present and absent

• Supervisor: Dr. Helen James

Biotechnology Institute, University of Maryland June/2009 December/2009

College Park, MD

DNA Sequence Analyst

• Analyzed DNA sequences from 19 genes from lepidopterans (moths and butterflies) for presence of

polymorphisms using Unix programs gap4 and pregap4

• Constructed consensus sequences to be submitted to GenBank

• Supervisor: Dr. Jerome Regier

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RESEARCH EXPERIENCE

Jackson School of Geosciences, University of Texas at Austin August/2012 current

Thesis: Examination of Color Production in Penguin Feathers

• Using scanning and transmission electron microscopy techniques to examine the ordering of keratin bundles inside

feather barbs in several penguin species

• Obtaining reflectance spectra of feathers using spectrophotometers in order to quantify color

Gemstone Honors Program, University of Maryland August/2008 May/2012

Thesis: Agronomic and economic viability of Miscanthus x giganteus as a novel biofuel in the Maryland climate

• Obtained energy content measurements of Miscanthus x giganteus grown on two different soil types using bomb

calorimetry

• Harvested Miscanthus x giganteus from two sites yearly and obtained plant height and mass measurements at time

of harvest

HONORS AND AWARDS

3rd Annual Jackson School Student Research Symposium, UT Austin 2014

• 1 place poster in the Later Career Masters category

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Phi Lambda Upsilon, Membership at large, UMD 2012

• National chemistry honors society

Alpha Chi Sigma Award, Dept. of Chemistry & Biochemistry, UMD 2012

• Awarded to graduating senior who has demonstrated outstanding undergraduate academic achievement

American Chemical Society Undergraduate Award in Analytical Chemistry, Dept. of Chemistry & 2011

Biochemistry, UMD

• Awarded to rising senior who has shown interest and excellence in analytical chemistry

Nathan Drake Award, Dept. of Chemistry and Biochemistry, UMD 2009

• Awarded to rising junior who has shown excellence in chemistry and liberal arts studies

FELLOWSHIPS AND GRANTS

Eastern Star Scholarship Award, UT Austin 2013

Summer Analytical Funds, UT Austin 2013

Ernest L. and Judith W. Lundelius Endowment in Vertebrate Paleontology, UT Austin 2013

Off Campus Research Funds, UT Austin 2013

Jackson School of Geosciences Fellowship, UT Austin 2012 2013

Dorothy Ogden Carsey Memorial Scholarship, UT Austin 2012 2013

JHU APL Scholarship, UMD 2008 2012

Eastern Star Scholarship Award, UMD 2008 2012

Maryland Distinguished Scholar, UMD 2008 2012

PROFESSIONAL ORGANIZATIONS

American Chemical Society

American Ornithological Union

Society of Vertebrate Paleontology

Wilson Ornithological Society

PRESENTED ABSTRACTS

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Kulp, F.B., J.A. Clarke, and M.D. Shawkey. Examination of Gentoo Penguin (Pygoscelis papua) feather

microstructure. (Poster presentation) 3rd Annual Jackson School Student Research Symposium. January 25, 2014.

Kulp, F., V. Ambalavanar, M. Kang, T. Michaels, A. Muroyama, S. Rehman, O. Sokoya, A. Trivedi, K. Xie, and G. Felton.

Agronomic and economic viability of Miscanthus x giganteus as a novel biofuel in the Maryland climate. (Poster

presentation) 2nd Annual Jackson School Student Research Symposium. February 2, 2013.

PUBLICATIONS

Ksepka, D.T., J.A. Clarke, S.J. Nesbitt, F.B. Kulp, and L. Grande. Fossil evidence of wing shape in a stem relative of swifts

and hummingbirds (Aves, Pan Apodiformes). Proceedings of the Royal Society B 280:20130580. 2013.

Kulp, F., Z. Knudson, K. Mersinger, D. Sayre, and A. Sharova. Translocation as a conservation strategy: the birds of

mainlands and islands. Scientific Terrapin 3:25 31. 2012.

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