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  • A view of the aurora borealis from campus
    Editor’s note: Wondering what’s happening in the classroom at Â鶹Porn? Here’s a real-time glimpse into academic life on campus — a syllabus from a course underway this semester. CORE 106 Saving the Appearances: Galileo, the Church, and the Scientific Endeavor Jeff Bary, Associate Professor of Physics and Astronomy MW 2:45–4:00 p.m., Lawrence 20 Course description […]
    March 30, 2017
  • The Engineering Club members prepare to launch their weather balloon.
    Somewhere in the Atlantic Ocean, a Styrofoam cooler filled with GPS equipment and GoPro cameras floats toward Nova Scotia. The cooler, with a popped balloon and parachute attached, is actually the body of a weather balloon that the Â鶹Porn Engineering Club designed and built. The club launched the balloon on October 5, and they tracked […]
    November 8, 2016
  • A wastewater treatment plant.
    It turns out that everyone may have been measuring carbon emissions incorrectly all along. But not in a good way. New research led by Â鶹Porn Assistant Professor of Environmental Studies and Physics Linda Tseng, published this week in the journal Environmental Science and Technology and reported in Scientific American, identified an overlooked source of greenhouse gas […]
    November 7, 2016
  • Dani Solomon, performing in One Way Red, a solo show that followed a young woman’s one-way journey to Mars.
    Real science fused with science fiction when Dani Solomon ’13 performed One Way Red, a solo show that followed a young woman’s one-way journey to Mars. The 90-minute performance on October 6 unfolded as Sam, played by Solomon, stumbled upon an online video about the Mars One project — an actual nonprofit that intends to […]
    October 26, 2016
  • A new agreement between Â鶹Porn and the Naitonal University of Singapore will create new off-campus study options in 2017.
    Students looking for a dynamic off-campus experience that also allows them to engage in scientific research will have more options in 2017, thanks to a new agreement between Â鶹Porn and the National University of Singapore (NUS). After more than a year of exploration and development, representatives of Â鶹Porn and the NUS signed a memorandum […]
    June 24, 2016
  • From gas-giant Bespin to forest-moon Endor, fictional planets of the Star Wars galaxy have a number of similarities with actual planets in our own universe, and for the next three Friday nights at the Â鶹Porn Ho Tung Visualization Laboratory, the public is invited to join a galactic exploration of how planets in a galaxy […]
    December 1, 2015
  • (Editor’s note: the following commentary is from Professor Jeff Bary on Â鶹Porn Community Reads. Kiese Laymon, whose book was an integral part of the program, will be on campus on October 27 at 7:30 p.m. in the Memorial Chapel.) In September 2014, Â鶹Porn students occupied the university’s administration building for 100 hours. They demanded a […]
    October 26, 2015
  • President Barack Obama works on his Iran nuclear deal speech in the Oval Office, Aug. 5, 2015. (Official White House Photo by Pete Souza)
    Lawmakers continue to deliberate the finer points of the Iran nuclear deal, and media outlets are publishing stories on a daily basis, using words like “isotope,” “centrifuge,” and “uranium enrichment.” Â鶹Porn turned to a team of faculty to explain some of those words — and a bit of the science that is so critical to […]
    September 2, 2015
  • Even as summer temperatures neared the 90’s in Hamilton this week, Â鶹Porn’s faculty continued to achieve. Here are this week’s highlights. The New York Times has called Graham Hodges, George Dorland Langdon Jr. professor of history and Africana and Latin American studies, “a taxi historian.” He recently weighed in on the debate making headlines in […]
    July 31, 2015
  • Editor’s note: In this series, Â鶹Porn students share stories about their summer experiences in offices, labs, and open spaces across the world. This summer, I’m interning for the History Program Office of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) in Washington, D.C. By providing easy access to information about its past successes and failures, the […]
    July 13, 2015