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  • Charlotte Bacon Brings Grant Writing to the Humanities – and Beyond

    November 2, 2017
    charlotte bacon

    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.

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  • Science Technology and Engineering Policy Society (STEPS) Mini-Conference

    November 1, 2017
    Professor of Government, Brendan Nyhan, talks to participants

    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.

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  • NSF Funding Implications

    November 1, 2017
    NSF Headquarters Virginia

    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).

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  • My Biggest Science Goof

    November 1, 2017

    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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  • Each One, Teach One: Rhodessa Jones Inspires Storytelling 

    October 27, 2017
    Rhodessa Jones and the Montgomery Fellows House

    Performer, writer, and director of the Medea Project, Rhodessa Jones talked about theater and activism through community work and storytelling at a luncheon with students organized by the Montgomery Fellows Program. Founded in 1989, Jones’ Medea Project: Theater for Incarcerated Women is designed to empower incarcerated women and women with HIV through individual storytelling and theatrical performance. She tells students that her project was founded following some intriguing experiences with people, and her own life experiences.

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