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U.S. Rep. Richard Hanna, R-Barneveld, connected with the �Ա���Ƶ community Monday, meeting with faculty, administrators, and students, discussing issues ranging from natural-gas fracking to political gridlock and the federal budget sequester. After hearing Michael Hayes, professor of political science, describe �Ա���Ƶ’s Washington D.C. Study Group, Hanna immediately handed Hayes a business card and said […]

Several faculty members recently were awarded a major National Science Foundation (NSF) grant that will allow for interdisciplinary cooperation between the Department of Psychology and Neuroscience Program and provide students access to equipment usually not found in undergraduate research facilities. Professors Bruce Hansen, Arnold Ho, Spencer Kelly, Carrie Keating, and Doug Johnson jointly applied for […]

Forty seven new faculty members have joined �Ա���Ƶ this year, adding to the university’s robust intellectual community and joining other professors and students in the vigorous pursuit of learning. “We are fortunate to have such a dynamic group of colleagues join us and enrich our curriculum,” said Douglas Hicks, provost and dean of the faculty.

�Ա���Ƶ students, who interned this summer at companies such as NBCUniversal, Hukkster, Nike, and Facebook, are sharing their experiences. This post is written by Joseph Spina ’14, who spent his summer with MedLabs Diagnostics. This summer, I had the pleasure of interning as a lab assistant and technician in the Department of Genetics and Molecular […]

�Ա���Ƶ students working with professor Jason Meyers for the past four years have been searching for the answer to why stem cells in certain parts of zebrafish, the same fish you might find at a local aquarium shop, regenerate when their sensory cells are damaged. Because similar human cells do not regenerate, and their loss […]

�Ա���Ƶ students are sharing their experiences conducting research with faculty members on campus and in the field. This post is by computer science major Michael McConville ’16, of Hingham, Mass. I spent this summer researching the Bitcoin protocol with computer science professor Vijay Ramachandran. Bitcoin is an electronic cryptocurrency that has recently exploded in popularity. […]

  �Ա���Ƶ students, interning this summer at companies such as NBCUniversal, Hukkster, Nike, and Facebook, are sharing their experiences. This post is written by Malin Lilley ’15 at Dolphins Plus. This summer, I am an animal care and training intern at Dolphins Plus, a research and education facility in Key Largo, Fla., that offers dolphin […]

�Ա���Ƶ students are sharing their experiences conducting research with faculty members on campus and in the field. This post is by Emily Rundlet ’14, a biochemistry major from Watchung, N.J. This summer I have been working in the chemistry department with Professor Roger Rowlett in determining the 3-D structure of two different enzymatic proteins using […]

Digistar Users Group members from around the world are now gathered at �Ա���Ƶ’s Ho Tung Visualization Lab for their 26th annual conference. Hamilton, N.Y., joins sites in Germany, Japan, Canada, India, and the Netherlands as a conference host for users of the Digistar projection system, the technological heart of �Ա���Ƶ’s unique visualization lab.

Summer certainly means pool parties, lazy afternoons, and hot dogs on the grill. At �Ա���Ƶ, summer also means time for some serious research. A sampling of about 150 students conducting summer research on campus presented their findings at the Robert H.N. Ho Science Center last week. The research on display spanned a wide range of […]