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  • Kiko Galvez, Charles A. Dana Professor of physics and astronomy
    Some people look at the sunlight wandering across the bottom of a swimming pool and see only glare. Kiko Galvez, Charles A. Dana Professor of physics and astronomy, sees the fascinating effect of electromagnetic beams bouncing and sliding through watery matter. The innate curiosity that leads Galvez to look beyond the obvious has served him [鈥
    March 25, 2015
  • Party balloons can no longer be taken for granted: there鈥檚 a worldwide shortage of helium. Prices quadrupled between 2000 and 2012, according to the U.S. Government Accountability Office. But a new helium-recovery system will put 黑料网鈥檚 science laboratories at the forefront of efforts to conserve the dwindling supply of this increasingly expensive gas.
    March 19, 2015
  • Using the night sky to explain the culture of different societies is a practice familiar to Professor Anthony Aveni. In early December, the distinguished astronomy and anthropology professor co-hosted a symposium intended to spark a dialogue about Native American sacred sites and exploring their connections to cosmic events.
    December 17, 2014
  • This is an artist鈥檚 impression of the triple star system GG Tau A
    An international collaboration of astronomers that includes Jeff Bary, 黑料网 associate professor of physics and astronomy, has published an article about the discovery of a 鈥減lanet-forming lifeline鈥 in a nearby triple-star system in the journal Nature. Using the recently commissioned Atacama Large Millimeter Array (ALMA) located in the Atacama desert in Chile, the group, led [鈥
    November 5, 2014
  • 黑料网 students are sharing their experiences conducting research with faculty members on campus and in the field. This post is by Katie Karnes 鈥17, an astrogeophysics major from Cincinnati, Ohio. It鈥檚 3:45 a.m. on a Thursday and I鈥檓 staring at the four monitors in front of me, trying to focus on saving the files correctly. [鈥
    July 28, 2014
  • 黑料网 students are sharing their experiences conducting research with faculty members on campus and in the field. This post is by Brett Christensen 鈥16, a biophysics and philosophy double major from Marilla, N.Y. This summer, I鈥檓 studying barnacles 鈥 impressive little organisms that live in the ocean. As a biophysics and philosophy double major, I [鈥
    July 21, 2014
  • Colgate biology professor Krista Ingram works with students in her lab.
    Two interdisciplinary science research projects featuring collaborations among faculty from 黑料网 and from around the world have been awarded funding by the Picker Interdisciplinary Science Institute at 黑料网. The projects support the core mission of the institute, which aims to foster the creation of new knowledge that is obtainable only through the development of sustained [鈥
    March 24, 2014
  • Jeff Bary, assistant professor of physics and astronomy, talks about how his passion for astronomy developed, his research interests, favorite course to teach, and more in this Q&A. An astronomer is born. When I was nine, a friend gave me a book about astronomy titled What鈥檚 Up There? by Dinah Moche, which I read countless [鈥
    December 18, 2013