About Me
Hello, my name is Logan Van Hoof and I am
currently a student at
the University of Wisconsin LaCrosse. I am majoring in
biomedical sciences with a goal to some day become a dentist. I
expect to graduate in the year 2014 and then move on the dental
school to finish my schooling. I know that it will be a lot of
work but I am up to the challenge!
During my free time in LaCrosse I enjoy hunting, fishing, and
hanging out with friends. Although free time is hard to
come by, I still manage to
fit some fun in my schedule every now and then. I am the type
of person that would rather be outside enjoying nature than inside
playing video games. I just love
looking at everything in nature and thinking about how it all works
together and how it originated. Nature is really fascinating once you
think about how all the organisms in the world relate to each other
in some way.
Back
home in Appleton, Wisconsin I live with my mom, dad, and two
younger sisters. I can imagine things are pretty quiet at home
now that I am away not “teasing my sisters” anymore. During
the summer my family and I enjoy spending time up north at our
cottage in northern Wisconsin. It is a great place to get away
from it all and just relax every weekend. I also enjoy fishing
at my cottage during the summer for large and
small mouth bass. During my summers I
participated in some lake studies for the Department of Natural
Resources in testing my lake for phosphorus and chlorophyll levels.
I continue to maintain this active roll because of by interest on
the subject and the state of our lake. Some other hobbies that I enjoy doing
include: snowmobiling, snowboarding, ice fishing, dirt biking, four
wheeling, archery, shooting, water sports, and pretty much anything
you can think of outdoors.
I decided to choose the topic of tobacco because I wanted to educate
myself about the herb and its various effects on the mind and body.
Tobacco is a very widely used drug by about 1 in 3 adults and I
wanted to explore both the medicinal uses of this drug and the
lasting effects it can have on people seeing that I do not mind
enjoying an occasional cigar every once and a while.
I hope that you enjoyed reading about the herb
tobacco (Nicotiana
tabacum) and learned a thing or two that you may not have already
known. If you would like to view other web pages of
various organisms just like mine, check out
Multipleorganisms.net and you will be amazed at the stuff you
will find!
You can contact me at:
vanhoof.loga@uwlax.edu
You can also contact Dr. Sandland at:
sandland.greg@uwlax.edu
And Dr. Volk at:
volk.thom@uwlax.edu
Some great images of both the plant (Nicotiana tabacum) and its diseases, varieties, habitats, and predators can be found at ipmimages.org.
Logan Van Hoof, April 2011