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Editor’s note: Wondering what’s happening in the classroom at ������? 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 […]

������’s Off-Campus Study Committee and Dean’s Advisory Council have approved an extended study trip to Patagonia for January 2018.

“For most mammals,” writes Science Magazine’s Elizabeth Pennisi, “size matters: Large ones, such as elephants and whales, live far longer than small ones like rodents. But among dogs, that rule is reversed. Tiny Chihuahuas, for example, can live up to 15 years—8 years longer than their much larger cousins, Great Danes. Now, a team of […]

Five years ago, on the cusp of a Major League Baseball (MLB) players’ strike, two ������ students, Harry Raymond ’11 and Ethan Levitt ’11, along with Professor Ken Segall, explored what they determined to be a broken MLB free agency system. That work was published by the Baseball Hall of Fame and was presented at […]

When confronted with government warnings and media headlines about a new global health threat, it’s best to speak directly to those in the know. Before heading home for Thanksgiving break, students and faculty had the chance to discuss the Zika virus outbreak with biology professors Geoff Holm and Bineyam Taye. During the November 14 conference, […]

With a grant from the National Park Service, Elizabeth Arnold ’82 reports on stories of people in the Arctic.

Six members of the ������ computer science department recently traveled to Houston, TX, to participate in the 2016 Grace Hopper Celebration of Women in Computing. Students Lauren Henske ’20, Zoila Rodriguez ’18, Stephanie Tortora ’17, and Bria Vicenti ’17 and professors Aaron Gember-Jacobson and Madeline E. Smith were among nearly 15,000 attendees at the […]

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 ������ Engineering Club designed and built. The club launched the balloon on October 5, and they tracked […]

It turns out that everyone may have been measuring carbon emissions incorrectly all along. But not in a good way. New research led by ������ 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 […]

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 […]