David Kotz ’86 Is Appointed Interim Provost
Professor Deborah Nichols will chair a search committee to find the permanent provost.
[more]Professor Deborah Nichols will chair a search committee to find the permanent provost.
[more]This past Wednesday, October 26th, graduate students and post-docs in fields ranging from public health to classics to epidemiology met over lunch with Charlotte Bacon, Associate Director of Humanities Grant Support at the Leslie Center for the Humanities. Bacon joined the College six months ago and is an award-winning fiction author whose professional experience includes leadership roles in the non-profit sector and an eight-year tenure as an associate professor of English at the University of New Hampshire.
[more]The Science Technology and Engineering Policy Society (STEPS) held their 2nd annual mini-conference on October 14, 2017. The event advocated for the understanding of science issues impacting our society, namely childhood vaccinations. The conference strategically chose three distinct speakers who focused the issue of vaccinations from three different viewpoints: fundamental vaccine knowledge, effective communication of scientific knowledge, and science policy knowledge.
[more]Several times a year I travel with my advisor, Dr. John Thorstensen, to the Michigan Dartmouth MIT (MDM) Observatory outside of Tucson, AZ, where we study a specific type of binary star system called a cataclysmic variable (CV). These star systems are similar to our solar system, but instead have two stars, one orbiting around the other like the Earth around the Sun. The orbiting star is similar to the Sun, but considerably less massive (meaning it has less matter).
[more]It’s three o’clock in the morning and I’m wide awake. I started my “day” roughly twelve hours ago, had breakfast at dinner time, and I just ate “night lunch.” This is the inverted life of an astronomer: work all night, squinting at a computer screen, and try to catch some sleep at dawn. I’ve been told humans will adapt to almost anything, which must be true because this now seems normal. Regular, even. However, tonight is not a normal night and I’m alert, excited, and nervous.
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