Archive for July, 2014

By Jean Andrews Physics & Astronomy From observing ozone phenomena to building micro-scale devices, senior Helen Cothrel ’15 HTC Physics, explores her environment to the extreme. This summer she is working at the David Skaggs Research Center in Boulder, CO, to study the Earth’s ozone layer. She received funding through […]

It’s not every day you learn an asteroid bears your name. This month, Dr. Thomas Statler, Professor of Physics & Astronomy, attended the triennial “Asteroids, Comets, Meteors” conference in Helsinki, Finland, the leading international gathering in the field of small Solar System bodies, where it’s a tradition to announce new […]

Ben Chamberlain Internship at Bernheim Arboretum & Research Forest Maintaining the Holly Collection is an integral part of the arboretum.  The Holly collection contains over 160 different  cultivars of American hollies. In order to keep the hollies in pristine conditions the staff and interns weed and prune the hollies.

By Evan Apt ’15 Summer intern at Fairchild Botanic Garden This past weekend, Fairchild Tropical Botanical Garden hosted the 22nd annual International Mango Festival in Miami, Florida. Over 8,000 guests attended this years festival, which featured the mangos of Columbia. “Over the two days of the festivities we will celebrate the […]

By Katie Conlon ’16 History HTC and Law, Justice &  Culture Research Externship in Cambodia After my first experience working with the Siem Reap Muslim Community Development Organization (SRMCDO), I returned to Phnom Penh to resume research there. After only a few days, I found myself missing the friends I […]

Dr. Martin Mohlenkamp, Associate Professor of Mathematics, presented “Dynamical Systems Analysis of Swamps in ALS” at a mini-symposium at the 2014 Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics annual meeting on July 7. The symposium was on Tensor Analysis, Computation and Application. Abstract: The Alternating Least Squares (ALS) algorithm for approximating […]

Dr. G. Daniel Lassiter, Professor of Psychology, was referenced in a July 13 New York Times op-ed piece by Jennifer L. Mnookin  on “Can a Jury Believe What It Sees?” LOS ANGELES — LAST week the F.B.I., the Drug Enforcement Administration and other federal law enforcement agencies instituted a policy […]