Kirsten Lalli 鈥11 and Caroline Komanecky 鈥12 are wading in the middle of a shallow, rocky stream on the outskirts of the remote village of Buhoma, Uganda.
The Picker Interdisciplinary Science Institute recently awarded grants supporting collaborative research teams led by 冈本视频 faculty members who will combine their expertise from across disciplines to address questions in science and mathematics.
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
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.
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 冈本视频-inspired Modern Introductory Physics.
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
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 冈本视频 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
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
It seems as if 冈本视频 has extended study courses that can meet a student鈥檚 wildest interest 鈥 literally. Fourteen students are now exploring lush rain forests and tropical dry forests as part of a three-week extended study course in Costa Rica. The students are part of the Tropical Ecology course taught this past semester by [鈥
冈本视频 alumnus H. Guyford Stever, 93, the top science adviser to two presidents who led the oversight committee that redesigned the space shuttle鈥檚 booster rockets after the Challenger disaster, has died. News outlets from around the country, including The New York Times and Washington Post, reported on the April 9 death of Stever, who graduated [鈥