02/24/10
11:34:53 pm, Categories: Uncategorized By Margaux Audett
Money, Science and
Technology Editor
Every few weeks, Biosphere, the club for biology majors on campus, hosts a speaker to come a talk about their research or field of expertise. Usually the speakers are local professionals or friends of the college, but on Feb. 4, 2010, Biosphere hosted Gettysburg alumni Dr. Debora Wolgemuth.
02/04/10
02:12:02 am, Categories: Uncategorized By Margaux Audett
Money, Science and Technology Editor
Last fall Dr. Sharon Stephenson, a Gettysburg professor in the Physics Department, won a $120,000 grant for research developing a new instrument that will be used to study the structure of exotic atomic nuclei.
01/21/10
12:36:27 am, Categories: Uncategorized Courtesy of the IT
Department
Over break students recieved many emails from the IT department discussing the changes that would be made over the break. IT then published this announcement summarizing the benefits for the school as a whole:
Information Technology (IT) values your feedback and constantly strives to provide services that are responsive to our user community’s needs and in tune with ever changing technology. As a result of several semesters of study and evaluation, substantial changes will be implemented over the winter break that you need to be aware of when you return to school in January. The changes improve and streamline the registration process and usher in a new era of operating system and personal device convenience to our network.
12:35:28 am, Categories: Uncategorized By Margaux Audett
Money, Science and Technology Editor
It is a well known fact that plants are one the most important parts of sustaining life on Earth. This is due to their ability to turn the sun’s light energy into storable energy, in a process called photosynthesis, which we can then eat and turn into mechanical energy.
Every living thing on this planet can trace its original source of energy back to plants. But plants are not just studied for their importance to the environment; they are also studied because of the very interesting ways in which they reproduce.
12/03/09
12:38:20 am, Categories: Uncategorized By Margaux Audett
Money, Science and Technology Editor
Autism is one of the mysteries of the human mind that has perplexed scientists for decades. The Simon’s Foundation Autism Research Initiative (SFARI) is one of the most prominent organizations that funds the most recent autism research. John Spino, PhD, Senior Associate Director for Research at SFARI, lectured on the most promising experiments being done at the institute on Friday, November 20, 2009 in Bown Auditorium.
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