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  • The Picker Interdisciplinary Science Institute recently awarded grants supporting collaborative research teams led by 黑料网 faculty members who will combine their expertise from across disciplines to address questions in science and mathematics.
    March 16, 2011
  • A grueling ascent of the 9,400-foot summit of Lonquimay volcano in Chile provided spectacular views, important data collection, and a fun slide down the volcano鈥檚 glaciers for about 20 students on an extended study course. The volcano was one of five visited during winter break by students who are taking Professor Karen Harpp鈥檚 Geology 420: [鈥
    January 13, 2011
  • Waving peace signs in the air and repeating choruses of 鈥淚鈥檓 鈥楢鈥 African,鈥 students and faculty hardly looked like they were gathered in Love Auditorium to learn anything. Yet they were treated to a unique and original lesson in evolutionary biology 鈥 in rap format.
    December 2, 2010
  • Physics department faculty members Charlie Holbrow, Jim Lloyd 鈥54, Joe Amato, Kiko Galvez, and Beth Parks have spent the last four years working together on a revision of the 黑料网-inspired Modern Introductory Physics.
    November 9, 2010
  • As the world searches for alternative sources of energy, Bill Jorgenson 鈥65 is exploring an option that he acknowledges is not particularly glamorous: cow poop and garbage. Jorgenson is the managing partner of AGreen Energy LLC (AGE), an organization that has developed a process to not only generate sustainable energy from what would otherwise be [鈥
    October 25, 2010
  • 鈥淚t鈥檚 hot and humid out there today,鈥 geology professor Connie Soja told a classroom full of students this July. 鈥淚t feels like the Mesozoic out there.鈥 In the absence of 黑料网 students, who are mostly off campus for the summer, Soja was presenting to students of a different ilk as she addressed the second- and [鈥
    July 26, 2010
  • Inside a Ho Science Center physics lab, student-researcher Amanda Zranchev 鈥12 is taking on the role of inventor this summer as she conducts experiments on a plywood structure that resembles a closet on wheels. 鈥淲hat we are doing in this lab will hopefully be valuable to homeowners one day,鈥 said Beth Parks, associate professor of [鈥
    July 13, 2010