Dec 7, 2017
What Turtles Can Teach Us About the Winter Blues
By Katie Neitz If the dark days of winter make you feel blue, low-level signaling by melanopsin may be to blame. Melanopsin, a light-sensitive protein…
Academic News
Academic News
Dec 6, 2017
Outcasts of Empire
By Katie Neitz When it comes to the history of the Japanese Empire, one event—Pearl Harbor—overshadows all others. (A day that lives in infamy, indeed…
Dec 5, 2017
Futures for the Jet Set
By Bill Landauer Maybe your future job is thousands of miles away, working in education in a third-world nation or dealing with clients who don’t speak…
Dec 4, 2017
Helping Moms of Multiples
By Katie Neitz Sue Wenze, assistant professor of psychology, has received a fellowship from the American Association of University Women (AAUW) to research…
Dec 1, 2017
Traveling in Geology’s Time Machine
By Katie Neitz The razor-thin nearly transparent slide that’s under Justine Perrotti’s microscope lens used to be a hunk of rock. That used to be a…
Nov 30, 2017
Ending the Entrepreneurial Stigma
By Stephen Wilson It’s a common sight on a campus: a mentor with a whiteboard marker jotting down discussion ideas as students sit around a table with…
Nov 29, 2017
Shorter is Better
By Bill Landauer In a letter written in the mid 17th century, the French writer and physicist Blaise Pascal said, “I’m sorry I wrote you such a long…
Nov 25, 2017
A Tale of Two Countries
By Katie Neitz Continuing debates over health care reform in the U.S. and National Health Service funding in the U.K. made the focus of a short-term study…
Nov 24, 2017
Lessons of the Russian Revolution: 100 Years Later
By Katie Neitz Nov. 7 marked the 100th anniversary of the Russian Revolution. And Lafayette did something the Kremlin did not: We commemorated it. Josh…
Nov 20, 2017
A Summer on the Town
By Stephen Wilson On conference tables in municipal offices throughout Pennsylvania at some point in 2017 is an outline for a Pollutant Reduction Plan…