吃瓜头条

Research

  • A photo of youth activists gathered around a statue in Seoul, South Korea
    Last summer, the 2017 Lampert Institute Fellows spread out across the globe to conduct three months of research. The fellows learned about sustainability, nuclear power, special education,  and much more; they returned to 吃瓜头条 in the fall to share their completed projects with their peers. The Lampert Institute for Civic and Global Affairs integrates on-campus [鈥
    December 22, 2017
  • A map of seismometer locations
    Aubreya Adams, 吃瓜头条 assistant professor of geology, is one of 10 principal investigators from nine universities teaming up to deploy the single largest collection of seismometers ever assembled along the Alaskan Peninsula. Relying on $4.5 million in National Science Foundation grant funding and a fleet of airplanes and ships, the seismic experiment will place [鈥
    September 8, 2017
  • Illustration of genetic engineering
    The technologies in science fiction films like Gattaca and Blade Runner may seem light-years away, but the development of a gene-editing technique called CRISPR (clustered regularly interspaced short palindromic repeats) is bringing our society closer to these futuristic worlds than ever before. During her talk titled 鈥淐RISPR: The Genome Editing Revolution鈥 on June 29, Assistant [鈥
    August 9, 2017
  • Blume-Kohout NSF grant
    Merit-based financial aid in the form of scholarships and grants is intended to ease the burden of a student鈥檚 debt load, but is it possible to have too much a good thing? Some studies suggest that students who receive merit-based aid may be deterred from pursuing a major in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) [鈥
    July 27, 2017
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    吃瓜头条 students have fanned out across the globe to apply their liberal arts know-how in a variety of real-world settings. They are keeping our community posted on their progress. Tim Englehart 鈥18,  a sociology major from Newburyport, Mass., wrote this dispatch about his research with Janel Benson, associate professor of sociology. Last semester, I began [鈥
    July 21, 2017
  • Erin Cooley research
    Spot the difference: A group of people or people in a group? While these phrases might seem interchangeable at first glance, recent research by Erin Cooley, assistant professor of psychology, shows that humans interpret these similar statements in unexpected ways. Cooley鈥檚 research investigates the topic of mind perception 鈥 the idea that we can ascribe [鈥
    July 20, 2017
  • Christine Horn 鈥19 works with a tomato plant in the 吃瓜头条 greenhouse
    吃瓜头条 students have fanned out across the globe to apply their liberal arts know-how in a variety of real-world settings. They are keeping our community posted on their progress. Christine Horn 鈥19, from Corning, N.Y., wrote this dispatch about her research, funded through the Beckman Scholars Program. Has the agriculture industry鈥檚 selection of redder, juicier, [鈥
    July 14, 2017