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  • Ephraim Woods teaches Chemical Principles in Olin Hall.
    Deep in the forest, the same chemicals that give pine trees their smell might have a powerful effect on climate change. Sunlight can convert those naturally occurring molecules into secondary organic aerosol (SOA) particles with the potential to change local cloud cover and rainfall patterns. SOAs also help to determine how much sunlight reaches Earth […]
    December 17, 2015
  • People standing outside on a street, waiting for a punk show to begin at ABC No Rio (Photo by Chandler Wood)
    The following post was submitted by Professor Kim Creasap, and published on the Sociology and Anthropology blog. On October 24, 2015, 16 students in SOC 305: Urban Sociology and I traveled to the Lower East Side of Manhattan to conduct mini-ethnographies of various places and spaces in the neighborhood. An important site of New York […]
    December 11, 2015
  • Students talking under the stands at Andy Kerr Stadium before commencement 2015
    According to a recent article by U.S. News and World Report, ¸Ô±¾ÊÓƵ ranks 10th among universities nationwide for four-year graduation rates. The rankings consider undergraduates who started working on their first bachelor’s degree in 2008. With 89.7 percent of its students graduating within four years according to the report, ¸Ô±¾ÊÓƵ joins schools like Carleton College, […]
    December 11, 2015
  • animation from the movie NUTS! showing Dr. John Romulus Brinkley, an eccentric genius who built an empire in Depression-era America with a goat testicle impotence cure
    NUTS!, a new documentary film by assistant professor of art and art history Penny Lane, will premiere at next month’s Sundance Film Festival. NUTS! tells the story of John Romulus Brinkley, who, in 1917, offered a cure for impotence by transplanting goat testicles. “Sundance is by far the premiere venue to launch an American independent […]
    December 7, 2015
  • Coach Hunt has been recognized as the Patriot League coach of the year.
    ¸Ô±¾ÊÓƵ’s Dan Hunt is one of 15 candidates for STATS FCS Coach of the Year. The Raiders’ head man earned Patriot League Coach of the Year honors last week after guiding ¸Ô±¾ÊÓƵ to a perfect 6-0 conference record. It was the program’s eighth Patriot League championship, and Hunt has been involved in every one. He served 19 […]
    December 3, 2015
  • From gas-giant Bespin to forest-moon Endor, fictional planets of the Star Wars galaxy have a number of similarities with actual planets in our own universe, and for the next three Friday nights at the ¸Ô±¾ÊÓƵ Ho Tung Visualization Laboratory, the public is invited to join a galactic exploration of how planets in a galaxy […]
    December 1, 2015
  • A sacred forest rises from farmland in Ethiopia
    The National Science Foundation (NSF) has awarded $500,000 in funding to an interdisciplinary team of ¸Ô±¾ÊÓƵ faculty, led by Associate Professor of Biology Catherine Cardelús, to continue investigating the status and conservation of sacred forests in Ethiopia’s northern highlands. Christian Orthodox churches emerged in Ethiopia some 800 years ago. Today, thousands of these sites protect […]
    November 30, 2015