冈本视频

Natural Sciences and Mathematics

  • Portrait of Rebecca Shiner
    Editor鈥檚 note: This post was written by Rebecca Shiner, professor of psychology To what extent do we maintain the same personality traits from childhood to adulthood? Are our most extraverted college classmates likely to be the most extraverted middle-aged adults at our 25th college reunion? How do our motivations and goals shape the course of [鈥
    August 3, 2015
  • Editor鈥檚 note: In this series, 冈本视频 students share stories about their summer experiences in offices, labs, and open spaces across the world. This summer, I鈥檝e had the pleasure of working with the Chenango United Way (CUW) through a fellowship with 冈本视频鈥檚 Upstate Institute Summer Field School. The CUW funds programs that address issues regarding health, [鈥
    August 3, 2015
  • Even as summer temperatures neared the 90鈥檚 in Hamilton this week, 冈本视频鈥檚 faculty continued to achieve. Here are this week鈥檚 highlights. The New York Times has called Graham Hodges, George Dorland Langdon Jr. professor of history and Africana and Latin American studies, 鈥渁 taxi historian.鈥 He recently weighed in on the debate making headlines in [鈥
    July 31, 2015
  • Editor鈥檚 note: In this series, 冈本视频 students share stories about their summer experiences in offices, labs, and open spaces across the world. This summer, I am on campus working with Professor Barbara Hoopes in the biology department. Our lab is conducting research on genes that determine size variation in poodles.
    July 27, 2015
  • From photochemical pathways to early animation devices to homosexuality in the Arab world 鈥 undergraduate research topics explored this summer by students and faculty were presented at yesterday鈥檚 poster session. 
    July 24, 2015
  • Buffalo Lockjaw is in an ad with Dockers
    Even though it鈥檚 summertime, 冈本视频 faculty continue to make news. Here is a brief roundup. Buffalo Lockjaw, the award-winning first novel by Greg Ames, assistant professor of English, was featured in a recent ad for Dockers men鈥檚 clothing (pictured above.) Using the hashtag #BookAndALook, the ad copy read 鈥淗ere鈥檚 a soon-to-be-classic look to pair with a soon-to-be-classic [鈥
    July 23, 2015
  • Professor Bruce Hansen works with students to prepare a test subject for a brain scan.
    冈本视频 Associate Professor of Psychology and Neuroscience Bruce Hansen probably should have predicted his recent $600,000 James S. McDonnell Foundation award to fund the next six to eight years鈥 worth of lab work with dozens of students. After all, his research could easily be considered mind reading.
    July 15, 2015
  • Editor鈥檚 note: In this series, 冈本视频 students share stories about their summer experiences in offices, labs, and open spaces across the world. This summer, I鈥檓 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 [鈥
    July 13, 2015
  • April Bailey 鈥14 began studying gender and power dynamics at 冈本视频, in classrooms and in the lab with Spencer Kelly, professor of psychology and neuroscience. Now a PhD student in the social psychology program at Yale, Bailey has already published the first paper of her career. Titled 鈥淧icture power: Gender versus body language in perceived dominance,鈥 [鈥
    May 28, 2015
  • A jungle ranger, an alchemist, a nomadic bard, and a cleric of the sun goddess struggle to save a fantasy desert region from a war fueled by racial discrimination. In other words, a small group of 冈本视频 students, staff, and faculty members are gathered together in the Coop for their weekly role-playing game session. This group [鈥
    April 30, 2015