Oct 29, 2010
Students Use $10,000 Projects for Peace Grant to Run Summer Youth Program in Colombia
Four students used a $10,000 Davis Foundation “Projects for Peace” grant this summer to spend five weeks in Bogotá, Colombia, and run a youth program…
Engineering
Oct 28, 2010
Students Will Tackle Grand Challenges Facing Society
The people who will solve the challenges currently facing our society are most likely sitting in classrooms right now. And the National Academy of Engineering…
Oct 26, 2010
New Interim-Abroad Course Merges the Art and Technology of Ancient Egypt
Standing for 5,000 years in the Egyptian desert, the pyramids and other grand monuments constructed by the ancient Egyptians are marvels of art, archaeology…
Oct 25, 2010
Spotted on Campus With…Erik Adolfsson ’11
After wrapping up a successful fall golf season, Erik Adolfsson ’11 (Hampton, N.J.) sat down and discussed what he likes about electrical and computer…
Oct 15, 2010
Students Bring Honduran Coffee Project Full Circle
For the past several years, members of the College’s Economic Empowerment and Global Learning Project (EEGLP) have collaborated with rural villages in…
Oct 15, 2010
Professor Polly Piergiovanni Brings the Conceptual to Life
When Polly Piergiovanni, associate professor of chemical and biomolecular engineering, was in high school, the track coach recruited her to run the 100-yard-dash…
Oct 14, 2010
Ritesh Maharjan ’13 Has a Passion for Engineering and Art
Ritesh Maharjan ’13 (Kathmandu, Nepal) spent a good part of his summer designing and building a waterfall, picking mushrooms, framing drawings, figuring…
Oct 1, 2010
Getting Their Hands Dirty: Students Work to Build a Sustainable Future in Honduras
Before he traveled to Honduras and began the grueling work of digging into the earth and lugging wood and rocks to build latrines, even before he had learned…
Oct 1, 2010
Smithsonian Lecturer Colonel Scott Willey Will Discuss WWI Advances in Airpower Oct. 5
In keeping with the theme for the Class of 2014 Orientation, Colonel Scott Willey, a guide and lecturer with the Smithsonian Institute, will discuss World…
Oct 1, 2010
Professor David Brandes Analyzes the Threat Wind Turbines Pose to Migrating Raptors
As energy-producing wind turbines rise in ever greater numbers throughout the world, scientists have become increasingly concerned with their effects on…