- The technologies in science fiction films like Gattaca and Blade Runner may seem light-years away, but the development of a gene-editing technique called CRISPR (clustered regularly interspaced short palindromic repeats) is bringing our society closer to these futuristic worlds than ever before. During her talk titled 鈥淐RISPR: The Genome Editing Revolution鈥 on June 29, Assistant [鈥August 9, 2017
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- There will be a Celebration of Life for Bruce Selleck 鈥71 in the 冈本视频 Memorial Chapel on Saturday, October 14, beginning at 3:30 p.m. A reception will immediately follow the celebration in the Ho Atrium, Robert H.N. Ho Science Center. In addition, the geology department will be holding a reception at the 冈本视频 Inn in [鈥August 7, 2017
- Ten minutes before totality 鈥 astronomer Anthony Aveni sets the stage for readers who have not seen a total solar eclipse 鈥 the light will be almost fifty thousand times brighter than a full moonlit sky. Read about Aveni in the 冈本视频 SceneJuly 28, 2017
- Michele Klein-Solomon 鈥83, a senior policy adviser at the United Nation鈥檚 International Organization for Migration (IOM), addressed a hearing of the U.N. General Assembly on July 26, in preparation for an upcoming international conference to adopt a global compact for safe, orderly, and regular migration. While the group talked about ways the U.N. can help [鈥July 27, 2017
- Merit-based financial aid in the form of scholarships and grants is intended to ease the burden of a student鈥檚 debt load, but is it possible to have too much a good thing? Some studies suggest that students who receive merit-based aid may be deterred from pursuing a major in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) [鈥July 27, 2017
- 冈本视频 students have fanned out across the globe to apply their liberal arts know-how in a variety of real-world settings. They are keeping our community posted on their progress. Tim Englehart 鈥18, a sociology major from Newburyport, Mass., wrote this dispatch about his research with Janel Benson, associate professor of sociology. Last semester, I began [鈥July 21, 2017
- Spot the difference: A group of people or people in a group? While these phrases might seem interchangeable at first glance, recent research by Erin Cooley, assistant professor of psychology, shows that humans interpret these similar statements in unexpected ways. Cooley鈥檚 research investigates the topic of mind perception 鈥 the idea that we can ascribe [鈥July 20, 2017